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I just assume that anyone who does that poo poo was in, because most people I was in with did that poo poo anyway, so gently caress it. Just makes people that I would not want to associate with easier to spot. Casimir Radon posted:Washed out a few weeks in but loves his Marine BROTHERS soooooo much. Once a Marine, always a rapist of Okinawans, amirite? Noice.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:changed my mind Why the gently caress is ben franklin wearing nods and an altitude mask? I knew OAF was loving retarded but never bothered diving into their site. edit: oh it's a halo mask, looked like an altitude mask from the thumbnail. Well his nods obviously aren't adjusted for his eyes, then 
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so is oaf run by snake eater types or just the people who suck tier 1 dick
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cowboy elvis posted:lol Christ what dipshit wrote their About page? I read it and my brain just saw mindless buzzwords that meant nothing. Also, it was apparently someone named Nico.
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Casimir Radon posted:Washed out a few weeks in but loves his Marine BROTHERS soooooo much. Once a Marine, always a rapist of Okinawans, amirite? What a tremendous rear end in a top hat.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:so is oaf run by snake eater types or just the people who suck tier 1 dick Probably a Ranger or whiteSOF seal or two, then a bunch of 82nd dudes and marines
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Man, getting ghosted on for a second-round interview is weird. Phone interview went great, they were enthusiastic about getting me in for a face-to-face, told them I couldn't make it in until today, then... nothing. Everything with this company has been a last-minute ordeal, though. I'll bet somebody calls me around mid afternoon to see if I can bend some time and space to make it in before quitting time. Glad this place wasn't my top pick.
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LingcodKilla posted:What a tremendous rear end in a top hat.
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I attempted Arabic a few semesters ago (but eventually withdrew from it because gently caress that I'll just take Spanish) and had a guy who was in the marines in there with me. I think I've brought him up before. He began just about every sentence with "when I was in the corps..." When the professor went around and asked us why we were taking Arabic he said "well I was in the marines and we went to Afghanistan and..." When he asked me I said "because a foreign language is required for me to graduate." He was also loud as gently caress when he spoke. boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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tastefully arranged labia posted:so is oaf run by snake eater types or just the people who suck tier 1 dick The later, or guys who went through Ranger school and then cycled back into an infantry unit right after.
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TBeats posted:When the professor went around and asked us why we were taking Arabic he said "well I was in the marines and we went to Afghanistan and..."
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Casimir Radon posted:So I chose a language that isn't widely spoken in Afghanistan... Which I kind of suspected since the only languages we had to learn anything about before deploying were dari and pashto, but I thought maybe where he deployed they spoke Arabic.
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TBeats posted:Which I kind of suspected since the only languages we had to learn anything about before deploying were dari and pashto, but I thought maybe where he deployed they spoke Arabic.
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Casimir Radon posted:I don't know the guy, I just made that up. People like that do exist though. no i think hes calling you the tremendous rear end in a top hat spending 30 bucks on some retarded moto shirt seems lame as gently caress
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That's not very operator of you
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I loving hate that word
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Oper8r as gently caress
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Went and looked at a ridge line today. Seems like the perfect "truck" to mom around in. Gonna check the finances out.
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my xfinity/comcast whateverthefuck service discount is falling off next month so my internet is going up by $25 and that loving sucks  poo poo definitely isn't worth what they charge.
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I don't know how it works with US ISPs but in Canada if you call your ISP and threaten to cancel and go to a competitor's service, they'll usually reinstate your discount for six months.
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Comcast usually does that too but it involves dealing with Comcast customer support so it really is a question of how much you think your time is worth.
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bird food bathtub posted:Comcast usually does that too but it involves dealing with Comcast customer support so it really is a question of how much you think your time is worth. if i get the discount for another year that's $300 i'll be saving. so i'm basically paying myself $300 to call them (if it works), which is worth the time. even if it is just for six months, that's $150. that's two electric bills.
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TBeats posted:if i get the discount for another year that's $300 i'll be saving. so i'm basically paying myself $300 to call them (if it works), which is worth the time. even if it is just for six months, that's $150. that's two electric bills. You could hire that goon in SA-Mart to call for you!
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Does anybody here use an HTC 10 that might be able to give me a quick review, namely how well the camera works? I'm torn between getting a 10 or an S7. I have a Galaxy S6 right now but I'm looking to upgrade as I've got some nagging AMOLED burn-in going, plus I want something with expandable memory.
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Going on 40 minutes with this phone call. I have an old modem on my account that I used for a short time. She said she has to remove it before she can extend my service discount. She removed the modem I'm currently using lol BUT I'm getting upgraded to a higher speed for free because I am going to have to eat a $10/mo charge to lease the modem. Fair trade I suppose. I may invest in my own modem soon but it'll take a while for that to pay itself off. So instead of coming out $300 ahead I'm coming out $180 ahead if you don't factor in the upcharge for giving me faster service. That's two light bills and a water bill!
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You know there's nothing wrong with your existing modem, right? Anyone who says they "need" to upgrade your modem is full of poo poo and pushing an extra charge on you. Your ISP really just wants to keep everyone on the same hardware so they don't have to support multiple devices.
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Naked Bear posted:You know there's nothing wrong with your existing modem, right? Anyone who says they "need" to upgrade your modem is full of poo poo and pushing an extra charge on you. Your ISP really just wants to keep everyone on the same hardware so they don't have to support multiple devices. The modem I bought didn't have enough range to reach upstairs. I don't live in a mansion. I live in your average town house. It was just that bad of a modem (and I should have read reviews on it before buying it because mine wasn't defective, it was just a bad make and model). So I went back to their modem because I was past the return deadline for mine and didn't feel like forking over another $120+.
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TBeats posted:Going on 40 minutes with this phone call. I have an old modem on my account that I used for a short time. She said she has to remove it before she can extend my service discount. If you are looking for top the line consumer cable modems: https://www.amazon.com/Next-Generation-ARRIS-SURFboard-SB8200-DOCSIS/dp/B01N6SKK1G/ Or if you don't need the latest standard: https://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-SB6190-Certified-Cablevision/dp/B016PE1X5K/ You can also typically find used versions for significantly cheaper if you so desire. Both are probably way better than whatever lovely modem/router combo comcast is leasing you. I don't know if it is still the current practice, but most of their old leased modems included a wifi router built in that allowed other people to connect to the internet through your connection. The claim was that it wouldn't affect your connection speed or local network security, but I personally wouldn't trust Comcast with that. Naked Bear posted:You know there's nothing wrong with your existing modem, right? Anyone who says they "need" to upgrade your modem is full of poo poo and pushing an extra charge on you. Your ISP really just wants to keep everyone on the same hardware so they don't have to support multiple devices. Upgrading the modem actually is important for good internet speeds. There are still quite a few modems running around on the very old DOCSIS 2.0 standard which won't let you get the maximum speed off modern cable connections. If your modem is DOCSIS 3.0 you should still be good for awhile thanks to the lovely internet infrastructure in this country. DOCSIS 3.1 is the current standard with significant improvements over the last, but it is only needed if you have more than 1.2 Gbit/s down and 200 Mbit/s up. The other consideration is that since they are combining wifi routers and cable modems into one unit, the Wifi standard needs to be updated periodically too. You'll probably want 802.11ac for current home wifi applications. Delizin fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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If it's Comcast do not not not at all ever use their loving modems. That Xfinity poo poo is piggy backing on your network to give them free coverage and capacity. Even if it had 100% physically isolated hardware I'd still be bugging the gently caress out about security implications but it'll be a cold day in hell before I believe those cheap fuckers would pay extra for that. As far as I'm concerned any network with a router running Xfinity is compromised from the ground up and you're paying for the privilege. gently caress anything Comcast says to the contrary, they don't give a rotting rat's rear end about you or your security.
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Delizin posted:If you are looking for top the line consumer cable modems: https://www.amazon.com/Next-Generation-ARRIS-SURFboard-SB8200-DOCSIS/dp/B01N6SKK1G/ I'll probably get that second one. Right now all of my money is going into a car in late September/early October so I'm not spending on anything I don't have to. That's why I'm so neurotic about an 81 cent increase in my internet bill. I don't really use my internet for more than Netflix and I've never had issues with it so if someone is leeching my connection I can tolerate it for now. I haven't played a video game online in like.... months.
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Delizin posted:Upgrading the modem actually is important for good internet speeds. There are still quite a few modems running around on the very old DOCSIS 2.0 standard which won't let you get the maximum speed off modern cable connections. If your modem is DOCSIS 3.0 you should still be good for awhile thanks to the lovely internet infrastructure in this country. DOCSIS 3.1 is the current standard with significant improvements over the last, but it is only needed if you have more than 1.2 Gbit/s down and 200 Mbit/s up. Seconding the recommendation for the Surfboard line of modems. They may as well be considered the standard. Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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There's no loving way I am ever letting a cable company fully control my modem. Goddamn internet of poo poo is just there to sell ads. I have a 61xx series Surfboard that is doing just fine. I'm not looking forward to buying a smart-gently caress-television. My current 2009-2010 era Sharp is barely used but I'm going to get a second television eventually for my living room, so I can't get around it. gently caress me I sound like a greybeard. Which I guess is accurate since my beard is mostly grey now.
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There's a cable-based ISP in Germany that runs this massive-coverage Wifi service for metropolitan centers where, if you're a customer, you basically have free WiFi in the majority of downtown areas in places like Frankfurt, Cologne, Berlin, etc. I never understood how the company achieved such seamless coverage as I'd heard several of my friends rant about, so I asked if they just place loving stupid amounts of high-capacity/high-range routers all over the place. I was enlightened that there was a moderate amount of routers/repeaters, but the bulk of the coverage was carried by company owned routers in private homes. So I asked how that works, does the company just ask someone to dump another router in their home? "No, no, that's the fascinating part, it's the same router you use that the company supplies you with, that comes with pre-configured public channels/access" Me:  You're saying complete randos on the street use your wifi for free because they're customers of the same company? Them: "No, no, it never affects the performance of your own internet connection, it only makes available idle capacity." Me: "...idle capacity of my personal internet connection?" Them: "No, no, it runs over entirely separate channels set up for this collaborative coverage that are different from your personal connection?" Me: "Channels that run through the same cable in my wall?" Them: "Well..." Me: "Accessed through the router sitting in my room, that uses an internet connection legally registered to my name?" Them: "You're being so negative about this, dude." I threw some hypothetical scenarios at them in the discussion, and they claim it was all totally safe because of separate encryption, no "physical connection" between a guy on the street surfing, and my own surfing, different legal entities, "zero responsibility" of mine and whatnot, but it boiled down to a random passerby on the street being able to access my wifi to pirate poo poo/download childporn/commit fraud over my personal connection from a completely anonymous device, simply because they may have access to the login information of another customer. A counter-argument was "Duh, anyone can do that over free wifi anyway", and my only answer was "I'M NOT A loving PUBLIC BUSINESS THAT OFFERS FREE WIFI".
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Vasudus posted:I'm not looking forward to buying a smart-gently caress-television. My current 2009-2010 era Sharp is barely used but I'm going to get a second television eventually for my living room, so I can't get around it. could just not connect it to the internet 🤔
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:could just not connect it to the internet 🤔 I guess I could connect it to my network and then block access. Or figure out what ports it runs and blocks those, or set up a hostfile redirect. For my loving television. Or they could not make them 
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Stuff Spectrum does something like this too. If you have an account you can access a secure server in a bunch of public areas like shopping and business centers. It may not work the same as what you describe but it sounds the same.
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Vasudus posted:I guess I could connect it to my network and then block access. Or figure out what ports it runs and blocks those, or set up a hostfile redirect. People always look at me like I'm crazy when I try to minimise the number of "smart" devices I have. Newsflash - They're only as smart as they're made to be ie dumb as gently caress
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Smart just means that it connects to a network somehow. Not that it can do your laundry or file your taxes.
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That's what I mean. It connects to a network and then... I can't remember what the article was but it was talking about how huge botnets are built from iot bullshit.
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....and then you watch Netflix without another piece of hardware.
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