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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

Spongebob

The trail attempt was a good try. If I recall correctly, you went with the low cost mostly sane setup,
Shimazu was the guy who went fullbore "lightweight for life" and spent thousands of dollars on his gear.

A gip internet detective who is infinitely more skilled than me(and knows how to repost Shim's pictures to instagram) should definitely create a new gip thread archiving ALL the posts about the trail attempts. And it should be forever sticked by Shimazu as a bonus.


I said mostly sane setup for Spongebob's gear because Spongebob's deerskin legging boots still make me laugh and laugh.

I still have those moccasin boots. They still look loving hilarious. And I went the cheap route because I was poor, retarded and a half-step from eating a bullet. I even bought that .357 right before going, but never bothered carrying it along because, guns or drugs. One or the other, but never carry both at once.

I was really on wits' end before going (divorce a year prior, in the middle of a foreclosure because of the divorce, poo poo jobs, failed miserably out of school), but our bullshit week of traipsing around in the woods was enough of an experience to start focusing on learning from the disasters I was putting myself through.

I do want to go back and take another stab at it, but most of all, I just needed the break to realize what was important. The fresh air, Frank, the poo poo rainy days that made me bust my rear end (because of those drat boots).

And that goddamn pop-up tent. gently caress that thing. I was always set up first at the camp site, but no way in hell would I buy that tent for that trip again. Walking through the woods with a 3 foot disc on the back of your pack is 11 levels of misery and stupidity.

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Shim went a little nuts on the lightweight stuff, but he picked up spares of a few things I needed. I still have the extra thermal bivy sack he got somehow, used it on the eclipse trip, even squeezed Frank in just a little at Dinosaur (my little furnace).

milk milk lemonade
Jul 29, 2016

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

With all the police hate especially amongst the motorcycle community I try to give cops the benefit of the doubt. Then poo poo like this happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSNb6NPoCy0

Motorcycle rider probably deserved it lol

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
STOP THE PRESSES, there's a halal place downtown that recently opened up. It's the one thing I've been dying to have in this lovely town and now it's a reality. I am ordering so much chicken and lamb over rice.

OK, back to copchat.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

milk milk lemonade posted:

Motorcycle rider probably deserved it lol

Maybe he did. But that cop went about it in all the wrong ways and should be facing charges.

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Yeah if that cop thinks that that's a normal way to approach a traffic stop then he should not be a cop.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

The "cop" basically handles his weapon like this robber here: https://youtu.be/Iudb0amH0sY , and doesn't show a badge. I really have no sympathy for rear end in a top hat motorcyclists but this basically looks like an armed robbery up until the point you can see the flashers. And you figure a detective would have just tailed the guy, called in the plate and had uniformed officers deal with it. Since when do detectives care about traffic laws?

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av
If I see someone doing something dangerous I'd go ahead and stop them, but I wouldn't wait for a marked car. I do make sure my badge is visible and I don't point my gun at anyone until I need to, but hey that's just me what do I know 🤷🏻‍♂️

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?

suboptimal posted:

The "cop" basically handles his weapon like this robber here: https://youtu.be/Iudb0amH0sY , and doesn't show a badge. I really have no sympathy for rear end in a top hat motorcyclists but this basically looks like an armed robbery up until the point you can see the flashers. And you figure a detective would have just tailed the guy, called in the plate and had uniformed officers deal with it. Since when do detectives care about traffic laws?

One who likes to throw his weight around?

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Apparently porky pig is in a bit of trouble for it

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/shoreline-motorcyclists-terrifying-traffic-stop-threatened-at-gunpoint-but-he-wasnt-ticketed/

quantumfoam
Dec 25, 2003

LITERALLY SHAKING posted:

I still have those moccasin boots. They still look loving hilarious.

It is good that your Ren-fair sex worker boots survive to this day.
True comedy is hard to kill.


In that vein of that thought, Shim
SHIM
SHIMAZU.

I didn't think it was possible to top this
http://imgur.com/a/9AvtX
...but it is.

You need to start reading the CYPHERNOMICON, a deadly serious 1994 FAQ-slash-manifesto about computer privacy, cyber activism, cryptology, and free speech.
In 2017 it reads like high comedy + mega-nerd phrase dropping, with the added bonus of stuff like this...

code:
4.11.5. I have a moral outlook that many will find unacceptable or repugnant. 
To cut to the chase: I support the killing of those who break contracts, who steal in serious enough ways, and who otherwise commit what I think of as crimes.

+ I don’t mean this abstractly. Here’s an example: – Someone is carrying drugs. He knows what he’s involved in. He knows that theft is punishable by death. 
And yet he steals some of the merchandise. – Dealers understand that they cannot tolerate this, that an example must be made, else all of their employees will steal. 
– Understand that I’m not talking about the state doing the killing, nor would I do the killing. I’m just saying such things are the natural enforcement mechanism 
for such markets. Realpolitik. – (A meta point: the drug laws makes things this way. Legalize all drugs and the businesses would be more like “ordinary” businesses.) 
– In my highly personal opinion, many people, including most Congressrodents, have committed crimes that earn them the death penalty; I will not be sorry to see 
anonymous assassination markets used to deal with them.

...appearing every 3 or so pages. So far I am only on section 5.4.19, my mind boggles at how much more insaner & hilarious the Cyphernomicon is going to get.

Just to clarify, the CYPHERNOMICON is considered one of the more "balanced" cyber-activist manifestos. There is another crazier manifesto I haven't read yet called
Assassination Politics by Jim Bell. Jim Bell is.....just google him & back the hell away from that level of crazy.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

In that vein of that thought, Shim
SHIM
SHIMAZU.

It's good to have you back man :)

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

quantumfoam
Dec 25, 2003

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

It's good to have you back man :)

Thanks Shim.

I've been reading tons of old scifi & fantasy books in my spare time. So much insanity, so many creepy rear end fetishes.
One 1930s - 1950s scifi writer literally wanted to gently caress cats and/or cat-human hybrids.
Never read Cordwainer Smith.

For non-tech dudes, the zimmermann picture link I posted early is funny because Phil Zimmermann created the PGP software in 1991,
which allowed everyone + their hamster to encrypt personal data securely.
Zimmermann became rich, and geek famous as the poster-person for privacy rights advocates & private encryption in general.
His mantra was always use encryption, never send anything in plain text.
Cut to 2014 and http://imgur.com/a/9AvtX

quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Aug 31, 2017

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Well, props to the county sheriff for the apology instead of the "we're sweeping this under the rugperforming our own investigation into the matter" you usually hear. Take your cowboy poo poo to arizona

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Yeah in all fairness I'll definitely give them props for coming with that outright. I guess the sheriff personally called the dude within hours of him posting the video or whatever

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

Thanks Shim.

I've been reading tons of old scifi & fantasy books in my spare time. So much insanity, so many creepy rear end fetishes.
One 1930s - 1950s scifi writer literally wanted to gently caress cats and/or cat-human hybrids.
Never read Cordwainer Smith.


poo poo... The first time I read through The Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthology, I hit "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" and what the everliving gently caress?

quantumfoam
Dec 25, 2003

Stultus Maximus posted:

poo poo... The first time I read through The Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthology, I hit "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" and what the everliving gently caress?

There is a lot of bad science fiction & fantasy authors out there.
One memorably bad series(the STEN archives) that I remember repackaged 1970s -1980s action movies into scifi adventures for 7+ books with a do-not-steal-please villain.
Generally I can make it through at least one short story or novel before giving up on a author, usually.

Here's my current avoid this author list
post car accident Stephen King
anyone published by Baen Books (ie. David Weber, John Ringo, Eric Flint, etc) excluding Keith Laumer. Laumer was cool.
Neal Stephenson
China Melville
John Ringo -listed twice for a reason
Neal Asher
Philip Jose Farmer
Peter Hamilton
Samuel Delany
Piers Anthony
Robert Heinlein
Cordwainer Smith
Hannu Rajaniemi


So far the only avoid at all costs forever author I have is George RR Martin. I tried reading him/stuff edited by him and bounced off hard.
GRRM style synopsis seems to be: degradation rape porn baked in poo poo.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

There is a lot of bad science fiction & fantasy authors out there.
One memorably bad series(the STEN archives) that I remember repackaged 1970s -1980s action movies into scifi adventures for 7+ books with a do-not-steal-please villain.
Generally I can make it through at least one short story or novel before giving up on a author, usually.

Here's my current avoid this author list
post car accident Stephen King
anyone published by Baen Books (ie. David Weber, John Ringo, Eric Flint, etc) excluding Keith Laumer. Laumer was cool.
Neal Stephenson
China Melville
John Ringo -listed twice for a reason
Neal Asher
Philip Jose Farmer
Peter Hamilton
Samuel Delany
Piers Anthony
Robert Heinlein
Cordwainer Smith
Hannu Rajaniemi


So far the only avoid at all costs forever author I have is George RR Martin. I tried reading him/stuff edited by him and bounced off hard.
GRRM style synopsis seems to be: degradation rape porn baked in poo poo.

I stick to early 90s Forgotten Realm books. It's safer this way.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Piers Anthony is such a weird goober. I read a lot of the early Xanth novels from like age 9-12 and then came back to the series years later and still kinda enjoyed the first stuff but later novels just got bizarre and uninteresting. Don't even remember examples, just that impression.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

I'm changing phone services to verizon as I barely get reception where I live. I've always been on a family plan and never actually shopped for phone service though. What do you guys pay and whats your data plan?

Suntan Boy
May 27, 2005
Stained, dirty, smells like weed, possibly a relic from the sixties.



I jumped on the Google Fi train a couple of years ago. My bill is typically $40/mo, but sometimes I get stupid/can't find wifi for a week or two, then it jumps to a whole $60. I'm not a heavy data user, though.

quantumfoam
Dec 25, 2003

Calling it now, american gip guy born in germany/who recently got a sweet job with a german car company is going to be the official scape-goat for whatever future emissions scandals at that company.
Hope you didn't blindly sign blank paperwork mein herr.

Flikken
Oct 23, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

There is a lot of bad science fiction & fantasy authors out there.
One memorably bad series(the STEN archives) that I remember repackaged 1970s -1980s action movies into scifi adventures for 7+ books with a do-not-steal-please villain.
Generally I can make it through at least one short story or novel before giving up on a author, usually.

Here's my current avoid this author list
post car accident Stephen King
anyone published by Baen Books (ie. David Weber, John Ringo, Eric Flint, etc) excluding Keith Laumer. Laumer was cool.
Neal Stephenson
China Melville
John Ringo -listed twice for a reason
Neal Asher
Philip Jose Farmer
Peter Hamilton
Samuel Delany
Piers Anthony
Robert Heinlein
Cordwainer Smith
Hannu Rajaniemi


So far the only avoid at all costs forever author I have is George RR Martin. I tried reading him/stuff edited by him and bounced off hard.
GRRM style synopsis seems to be: degradation rape porn baked in poo poo.

I like the 1632 Ring of Fire universe though.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
There's some decent Heinlein, but way too much weird Heinlein with author insertion and incest fetishising.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

With all the police hate especially amongst the motorcycle community I try to give cops the benefit of the doubt. Then poo poo like this happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSNb6NPoCy0

this sheriff would have been shot by a lot of people, and it would have been totally justified. He did not identify himself, was likely off duty, and had no clear badge showing. He needs to be fired and lose his gun rights.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Pesticide20 posted:

There's some decent Heinlein, but way too much weird Heinlein with author insertion and incest fetishising.

It sounds like you have a problem with Johnny Rico and his power-armor dropping onto bugs to the "The Ballad of Rodger Young"

If you had said fascism fetishizing I would have agreed with you.

Mind you it also led to Paul Verehoven reading the book, being upset with the way that fascism was being fetishized as he lived under the Nazi Jackboot in the Netherlands, and that is how we got the wonderfully batshit crazy super gory and communal showers Starship Troopers movie.

MA-Horus fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Aug 31, 2017

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

MA-Horus posted:

It sounds like you have a problem with Johnny Rico and his power-armor dropping onto bugs to the "The Ballad of Rodger Young"

If you had said fascism fetishizing I would have agreed with you.

Have you ever read later Heinlein?

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Pesticide20 posted:

Have you ever read later Heinlein?

Stranger in a strange land is the latest I ever read.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
Yeah, really don't read anything past that. It goes off the rails in a big way

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Duzzy Funlop posted:

this sheriff would have been shot by a lot of people, and it would have been totally justified. He did not identify himself, was likely off duty, and had no clear badge showing. He needs to be fired and lose his gun rights.

I mean, you could've shot him and been within your rights, but good luck accomplishing that when he's already got a glock drawn and pointed at you with a finger on the trigger

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

With all the police hate especially amongst the motorcycle community I try to give cops the benefit of the doubt. Then poo poo like this happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSNb6NPoCy0

:stare:

How the gently caress?

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Pesticide20 posted:

Yeah, really don't read anything past that. It goes off the rails in a big way

I've only read a few of his but I really enjoyed The Puppet Masters.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Slim Pickens posted:

I mean, you could've shot him and been within your rights, but good luck accomplishing that when he's already got a glock drawn and pointed at you with a finger on the trigger

I was quoting the top comment under the video :negative:

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
Also, I wrecked 50k in rims and tires today, and one of the shocks on our prototype decided it was not long for this world and failed in a spectacular fashion that took half of the wheel well with it.

I also sustained my first work-related injury, because it turns out brake discs get hot as gently caress when you repeatedly run an SUV over simulated curbs to wreck tires and then run your arm against them while changing tires. The skin sloughed off my arm like on an overcooked chicken drumstick. In a connected twist of fate, it seems that I've already built a reputation as a down-to-earth guy with most of the engineers, mechanics, and test drivers, because it seems that most managers deem themselves above poo poo that gets your hands dirty.

How they do not understand that seeing and interacting with all this tech poo poo is like being in the biggest and most expensive playground for me? Like, I'm trying to maintain my cool around all this poo poo as a marketing major in a STEM-as gently caress STEM field.

Tomorrow's my birthday, so my boss just told me to go to the HQ to shoot the poo poo and chill with the HR folks tomorrow before going out to a beergarden in the afternoon. :unsmith:

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Gonna steal your skin and your job.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
So am I. This can't be reality

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
You're gonna get drafted to fight Nazi America and end up getting shot in an abandoned GM assembly plant

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Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
I mean, I know that the pressure is gonna be turned up in the next couple of months, but I'm actually looking forward to it, and every single thing im picking up now gives me an understanding of what the gently caress im dealing with. And that's kinda important to someone not from the field.

The thing about the company is that fitting in with the team is paramount, to the point where someone a little more qualified might not make the cut because of lovely chemistry with their surroundings.

You kinda need that kind of business atmosphere and freedom of action in an environment where you're expected to overtake responsibilities despite an otherwise really flat hierarchy.

My predecessor was axed after 8 days because he wouldn't mesh with anyone in the office.

I heard most of that before signing, but now, after two weeks here, I see what they mean.

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