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@boner said in In other news today...:
A B&B owner, who was fined for falsely advertising his property as a four star location
John Dixon Hart had his venue described as ‘Faulty Towers’ after he was fined in July for lying about the B&B.
He said it was four star – despite having bloodstains on the walls, mouse droppings in the beds and mud in the fridge.
Mr Hart has no problem with being compared to Basil Fawlty, the eccentric hotelier played by John Cleese in the classic TV sitcom Fawlty Towers.
He said: ‘I try my best to make it an entertaining experience. Fawlty Towers? That’s no problem for me. I love John Cleese, I think he’s brilliant.
‘I run a lovely place. I try my hardest but I drink a lot in the evenings. I never drink during the day.’
He admits he may have put up the Women Are Not Welcome sign after a few drinks but insists he remains ‘proud’ of the sign.
Oh. Right. Must have misunderstood at some point.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Everybody needs a hobby
Spark was charged with exposure of sexual organs, introduction/possession of contraband into a county detention facility, and soliciting for prostitution.
Since the article doesn't specify what sort of contraband he's been introducing, I'm going to assume they're prosecuting him for smuggling his dick into the women's prison.
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Apple: Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers, so we slow down older phones
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery
This article needs a new type of vote, the "..."-votePaging @fbmac...
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@timebandit Well, yes; battery life is more important than speed for a lot of people.
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@pie_flavor Yeah, my phone last all day.
It's a good thing since it takes all day to open a web page
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@timebandit Yeah, NodeBB speed really is egregious.
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@maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
the article doesn't specify what sort of contraband he's been introducing
A camera, most likely.
I know, I know... to ...
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@timebandit Well, yes; battery life is more important than speed for a lot of people.
It's even more significant than just battery life; they're trying to avoid situations where the phone draws power faster than an old, weak battery is capable of safely providing, causing the phone to abruptly shut down to protect itself. The battery may have hours of charge left, or even be fully charged, but a high current load will cause the supplied voltage to dip; if it dips low enough, the phone will immediately shut down.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
John Dixon Hart had his venue described as ‘Faulty Towers’ after he was fined in July for lying about the B&B.
He said it was four star – despite having bloodstains on the walls, mouse droppings in the beds and mud in the fridge.Mr Hart has no problem with being compared to Basil Fawlty, the eccentric hotelier played by John Cleese in the classic TV sitcom Fawlty Towers.
He said: ‘I try my best to make it an entertaining experience. Fawlty Towers? That’s no problem for me. I love John Cleese, I think he’s brilliant.The British habit of having like ... 4 sitcoms a year with 5 episodes each that they replay for literally decades really is amazing.
Like, you'd never see a US article like, "a Detroit DJ is being called Andy Travis of WKRP after his radio station..."
That's because, despite being a great show, nobody remembers WKRP except people like me who go out of their way to watch old TV. Because every year we have this strange thing the British don't: new TV.
Decide for yourself if that counts as nationalist trolling.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Because every year we have this strange thing the British don't: new TV.
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@timebandit Right; but that's only because you export it.
And let me tell you, US series like Star Trek: The Next Generation pulled off 5 amazing seasons (and 2 so-so ones) each of which had 20+ hour-long episodes a year, most of those with amazing special effects. (And that was back when special effects took a lot more time and money than they do now.) No British production staff could pull that off.
Go back a few decades, and the king of US television, Rod Sterling, produced about 20 hours of some of the best television ever made a year for 5 years straight.
Sure Fawlty Towers is funny, but goddamned there's 12 episodes. And it went off the air in 1979. 1979! 38 years ago! And that British newspaper can just blithely assume every British person is aware of it, because it's been in constant tedious reruns since. Insane.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
Google's newest Doodle celebrates 50 years of kids coding
What I think could be a translation error was responsible for a "muggle" close to me not understanding how loops work.
What I suspect must be "move repetition around the arrow" in the original got translated to "close to" rather than "surrounding".
The game needs some quality-of-life tweaks too.
The block for turning left is to the right of the block for turning right. Intuitive!Here's the English one:
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- Who writes a "year of the Linux desktop" article in 2017?
- Is this the laziest article ever? Yes I think so. To summarize all of his points:
Foo. Was this a factor? I think maybe some people say it was I guess but I don't know for sure. My own opinion is bar. I didn't bother doing any research or even just asking other people what they think.
They seriously all read exactly like that.
Props to this sentence:
So in summary Microsoft in some sense successfully fended of Linux breaking through as a competitor although it could be said they did so at the cost of fatally wounding the per copy fee business model they built their company around and ensured that the next wave of competitors Microsoft had to deal with like iOS and Android based themselves on business models where the cost of the OS was assumed to be zero, thus contributing to the Windows Phone efforts being doomed.
It's kind of amazing.
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@blakeyrat Holy run-on sentence, Batman! :O
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@masonwheeler It's amazing:
- Incredibly-long run-on sentence
- Not a single mark of punctuation.
- Confusing "too" and "to", something he does multiple times in the full article BTW.
- Filled with ideas that are, frankly, gibberish (Windows Phone effort was doomed because the cost of iOS and Android was assumed to by zero? That... could not be more wrong. Microsoft "wounded" the "per copy fee business model"? Just ignore that they chose to abandon that model with Windows 10 because it made almost zero revenue compared to other lines of business. All the other ways it's wrong.)
Another bonus:
Well Red Hat will continue to support end evolve our current RHEL Workstation product, and we are seeing a steady growth of new customers for it.
"support end evolve"? I'm not sure that sentence says what he intended it to.
With employees like this genius, I'm sure Red Hat will be selling millions of copies of their desktop OS any second now...
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Someone threw a hatchet at him from behind. He turned around, calmly parried it away, and without a word returned to his chopping. I hope they will teach that.
They said there's a safety lecture, so I'm fairly sure they'll be teaching people not to throw axes at people.
I did note they didn't say anything about not drinking and throwing...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
I did note they didn't say anything about not drinking and throwing...
I noticed that, too. If I had to guess I'd imagine a throw-then-drink rule, but eh? Things are different in WV.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Not a single mark of punctuation.
I'll accept that you're not counting the period at the end, but it does have a comma in it.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Apple: Our goal is to
keep customers from demanding in-warranty battery replacementsdeliver the best experience for customers, so we slow down older phones
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@boomzilla Florida Man, Attorney At Law!
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Because every year we have this strange thing the British don't: new TV.
We also make good TV
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Shop makes a joke in bad taste. People try to report it to the police.
The Police in Canterbury Twitter account responded to Connie Nolan's complaint, simply to explain that they were "unable to take reports via social media".
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@jaloopa TRWTF is that the person who made the original tweet thought that video game griefers shop with them, yet didn't stop to wonder if this might not be something they want to celebrate in their advertisements...
Admittedly, given that the story describes Poundland as a 'bargain retailer', it is a safe bet that such assholes do buy in bulk from their website - well, the ones who are savvy enough to swipe their folks' credit cards and not get caught, at least, though with that crowd it isn't a given - but, seriously, that's probably not something you want to admit, never mind spread around.
Nor did it apparently occur to them that anyone who wasn't an FPS gamer wouldn't have any idea of the what the alleged joke was referring to. OTOH, if they did, they would probably have been even more outraged...
(And yeah, I know that 'teabagging' is a real thing, but let's be honest, how many people would know about it if not for fuckwads in online PvP, and how many who do would have thought of the sex act first rather than griefing gag?)
Filed Under: 2007 called, they want their tasteless joke back.
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@jaloopa I don't think making teabagging jokes is a good strategy for a shop like that... next we'll see Walmart tricking people into viewing goatse.
Still, the complainer seems like an insufferable asshole who sees everything sexual as "degrading women" and loudly promises to boycott every single company that ever fails to cater to her.
(also, I just realized this "news story" is literally just 3 people who tweeted something )
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
nobody remembers WKRP except people like me who go out of their way to watch old TV.
I remember it (vaguely), and I don't go out of my way to watch old TV. But I'm , and I remember it from its original run. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember it.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
it does have a comma in it
One. It needs about 10. (Give or take. CBA to actually count the number of places it needs one.)
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@hardwaregeek you aren't wrong.
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Antwerp is the biggest diamond trading city in the world. Most firms are located in a specific street/block: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_diamond_district
After previous heists and a bombing the whole quarter and the various firms are heavily guarded.
Still an Italian/Romanian couple tried to pull a new heist on a diamond of 2.5 million euro. They tried to distract the merchant and switch out the diamond with a replacement stone.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
(And yeah, I know that 'teabagging' is a real thing, but let's be honest, how many people would know about it if not for fuckwads in online PvP, and how many who do would have thought of the sex act first rather than griefing gag?)
I don't even know what the words "griefing gag" mean.
Anywho, in my day, you just put your balls on their forehead and you called it "calf brains."
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
(also, I just realized this "news story" is literally just 3 people who tweeted something )
Journalism!
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@boomzilla 'Griefing' is when you troll people in an online game. For instance, finding ways to kill your teammates, killing opponents in really stupid ways, using game mechanics to display your smugness over killing your opponents, etc.
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@pie_flavor I thought a griefing gag was when you were crying over a lost loved one and got so sad you started puking
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@hungrier I mean, if we're going down that road, it could be when you were sad over a lost loved one and needed some 'comfort' from one of your guy friends.
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@pie_flavor griefing often takes the form of taking pleasure in denying others the ability to have fun. Camping in a low level area and killing the spawns (or quest givers) so the new characters can't level, intentionally sabotaging group activities like dungeons or raids, joining a low-skill level match and repeatedly killing low-rank players even though it has you nothing, etc.
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@benjamin-hall Yes, I know. Basically just boils down to trolling through game mechanics.
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@benjamin-hall The main reason I don't play online games is a crappy internet connection, but this is another really good reason.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall Yes, I know. Basically just boils down to trolling through game mechanics.
I was expanding (giving examples), not contradicting. Sorry if that got missed.
It is a particular sub-type of trolling though. Trolling is basically getting amusement by making people angry. Griefing is doing so by denying them mechanical opportunities to have fun. Taunts, verbal abuse, these are both trolling that (to me) isn't griefing.
But this is just
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
Taunts, verbal abuse, these are both trolling that (to me) isn't griefing.
And those aren't game mechanics. See?
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@pie_flavor You can troll through game mechanics but not be outright griefing. For example, purposefully wasting ammo in view of your teammates, but not enough that it outright prevents your team from accomplishing their objectives.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Trolling is basically getting amusement by making people angry. Griefing is doing so by denying them mechanical opportunities to have fun. Taunts, verbal abuse, these are both trolling that (to me) isn't griefing.But this is just
So this is a different definition than I had originally heard. I had thought that trolling required an element of deception, e.g. the troll was pretending to hold a view different than what they actually did. It came from the Usenet phrase, "trolling for newbies". So, for example, a regular on a technical group would ask a question far simpler than the regulars would ever ask. The regulars would know the person. But a newbie would take the question as a straight-forward question, and would come out of lurking to answer the simple question, much to the amusement of sadistic regulars. I suspect that the word trolling in that definition comes from the word "trawling".
So TopCoder was an artful troll; he would pretend to hold views different than he actually did, and the regulars would recognize the facetiousness. He was banned, I believe, because newcomers might not realize this. He did not appear to be trying to make people angry.
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@chozang trolling in its more generalized form just means intentionally baiting people into making impassioned responses (usually of anger) so that they look comical and/or foolish. Griefing is a subset of trolling which usually involves interfering with someone else's gameplay in a deliberately unfair (exploiting game mechanisms in a way that isn't expected or appropriate) or taunting way to make them mad.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@chozang trolling in
its more generalizeda different definition just means intentionally baiting people into making impassioned responses (usually of anger) so that they look comical and/or foolish. Griefing is a subset of trolling which usually involves interfering with someone else's gameplay in a deliberately unfair (exploiting game mechanisms in a way that isn't expected or appropriate) or taunting way to make them mad.FTFY
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@chozang trolling in
its more generalizeda different definition just means intentionally baiting people into making impassioned responses (usually of anger) so that they look comical and/or foolish. Griefing is a subset of trolling which usually involves interfering with someone else's gameplay in a deliberately unfair (exploiting game mechanisms in a way that isn't expected or appropriate) or taunting way to make them mad.FTFY
Those aren't mutually exclusive. Both are correct.
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@polygeekery He's got it! He's got Andromeda!
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@anotherusername Layne's Law for the... uh, win?
Filed Under: Not win.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@chozang trolling in
its more generalizeda different definition just means intentionally baiting people into making impassioned responses (usually of anger) so that they look comical and/or foolish. Griefing is a subset of trolling which usually involves interfering with someone else's gameplay in a deliberately unfair (exploiting game mechanisms in a way that isn't expected or appropriate) or taunting way to make them mad.FTFY
Those aren't mutually exclusive. Both are correct.
No. "More generalized" would imply that it included the other definition, which it did not.