I fail to see how what the government takes from me is in anyway related to how much I donate to help people in other countries.
Posts made by Dragoon
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RE: No phylogenetic trees for you
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RE: Cracked's complete total lack of self awareness
For prog rock they fall into the known category, most definitely.
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RE: Air compressor recommendations?
You have two compressors listed that serve different purposes.
The first is designed as one that you can carry in your car to fill a flat while on the road. A very useful thing to have and one I recommend to anyone that does a lot of travel. Especially, if that travel is at all remote. While it can be used to top off your tires, it is going to take some time (think 5-10 minutes per tire if they need more than 5psi) and its probably easier to just hit up a bigger system at a station. (Some mechanics will allow you to use their air if you are a regular customer as well)
The second is designed for small home use: nail/staple guns, paint sprayers, car cleaning, etc... It will definitely fill your tires and it has other uses as well. I would suggest seeing if you can find a used one (they last a long time under heavy use and most people don't use them at all).
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RE: Mohammed the clock kid cons country to get sneak peek at Obama's penis for TERRORISM!
If he had brought that into my HS and showed it to my physics teacher he would of been asked to show it off to all of his classes. He also would of been invited to the robotics club, on the spot.
Poor kid, just has the misfortune of being in a shit school.
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RE: *sigh*... Why do I even try? A novlet on StackOverflow
The two arn't mutually exclusive.
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RE: *sigh*... Why do I even try? A novlet on StackOverflow
In this case, the moderators are correct. The intent of the post you edited was very clearly: "This is how I solved the problem" and not "this is how you should solve the problem".
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RE: Nitpicky API naming survey
I hate camel case, SomeoneAlwaysDecidesToMakeObnoxiouslyLongNamesInItThatAreJustPlainHardToReadAndProvideNoUsefulInformation.
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RE: Get rid of old technologies!!!!!!!!!! Blakeyrat is an idiot for even attempting to use this forum
I still write checks to pay bills. I find that I pay more attention about my finances when I have to physically write a check and see the numbers.
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RE: I'm a :wtf: but I think Microsoft is, too
I wasn't aware that Hotmail had people still signing up for it.
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RE: I'm a :wtf: but I think Microsoft is, too
Who doesn't have a hotmail account dating back to the 90s?
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RE: Berlin's new airport's fire alarm/suppression system didn't work. The solution? Interns!
The baggage handling system was a monumental waste of money yes. But it was based off a German design. Damn Germans, why must they suck at engineering?
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RE: Making the office "look right"
I (after hours) violated I am not sure how many office safety codes climbing on my desk to unhook the florescent lights above my desk.Best decision I have made.
Took almost 6 months before anyone noticed and the maintenance staff asked if I wanted them "fixed", I politely declined and they have been off since. Haven't had them now for 3 years. -
RE: IMAX lawyers don't understand what trademark is
It has always been my understanding that it was more to do with threats of false advertisement claims than any new found ethics.
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RE: That's below the belt, Apple
Yeah, I still have my 21" ViewSonic behemoth of a monitor. It was a damn good monitor for a long time, and it doubled as a free weight.
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RE: TempleOS and HolyC (Again. I think there's already a thread. Oh well.)
This is true for every editor except Emacs, they have never met a feature they didn't like.
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RE: TempleOS and HolyC (Again. I think there's already a thread. Oh well.)
Holy crap, how does anyone use that interface?
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RE: Windows 10 can-of-worms, Episode II: @Mike_Hunt strikes back
Actually, it has been so long since I didn't run as root, it probably isn't an issue anymore.
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RE: Windows 10 can-of-worms, Episode II: @Mike_Hunt strikes back
Very true, doesn't alter the fact that I don't want to be bothered by it. I fully accept and understand the risks of turning it off.
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RE: Windows 10 can-of-worms, Episode II: @Mike_Hunt strikes back
Well, next time my desktop is being used as an insulin pump I will be sure and secure it. Until that time, I will keep running as root.
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RE: Windows 10 can-of-worms, Episode II: @Mike_Hunt strikes back
I wasn't aware that running as root could kill me.
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RE: Windows 10 can-of-worms, Episode II: @Mike_Hunt strikes back
I fucking hate apps that complain about running as root. It is my choice to run them as root damnit, you fully accept all security implications of doing so. So sod off and just run. Thanks.
Also, I turn off UAC on my Win 7 machine as well. I am the only user on the machine and don't want to be bothered by it.
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RE: SourceForge takes over SF accounts; releases gold-laced installers of questioned monetary value
I also support the use of WinSCP over filezilla.
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RE: Parms Anyone? [Rant]
The code base I work with uses parms in place of params.
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RE: As if you needed more reasons to not use it...
IBM
Which despite conveying untold horrors is not enough for discourse, so I must write more.
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RE: And they wonder why people hate them
The axis are not misleading in the slightest, the values are clearly printed on the there, so there is no confusion about when it starts and ends. It is also a continuous graph, any gap in the X-axis is due to how markets work with open and closing times and the fact that values can change after hours.
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RE: Unsubscribe period
Having worked for an email deliverability company (we helped legit emailers avoid the spam folder). I can tell you that
- An email list of any decent size (only takes a few thousand) will take days to send or you risk getting black listed by just about everyone who handles email.
2) Legit mailers will often have a real mail campaign (what you actually requested) and several others (usually pure spam). Trying to differentiate the two is nearly impossible.
3) A lot of companies have idiots working for them who wouldn't know a well formed email blast if it hit them in the head.
The saddest part is that there is a lot of spam that is better written than a lot of legit newsletters.
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RE: Dinosaurs according to Genesis
You and your narrow definition of winning.
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RE: Auto-Restart Calc.exe After Crash
Take two fucking seconds to hit the little box in windows update that says don't update without my permission. Restart problem solved. Wow, that was fucking tough.
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RE: GitHub is fucking broken fucking again
If you want specific quotas, you simply set them up either through fstab if you want it on the dir or with with grpquota (think that's the right command, haven't used it in awhile) if you want it at the user level. This is no less/more complex than Windows.
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RE: I may be TRWTF but Dell really does suck
It is still cheaper (though not as much as it used to be), you get exactly what you want, and if you are good at all it takes very little time. My last build took about 30minutes from unboxing to boot.
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RE: Gmail is the real wtf
The slowness is likely do to how they have their IMAP setup, likely they have it setup in fetch headers only mode. In this you obviously pull down only the headers the first time, it is not until you want to view the message itself that it is pulled down. On a slower connection this can making reading your emails a lot slower. You can change it to fetch all mode, which while will obviously bring down the entire email. The initial download speed will be the same for both clients (or very similar IMAP does have a tiny bit more overhead) but once its down local viewing will be the same.
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RE: Gmail is the real wtf
It really is more fun.
You seem to know very little about mail providers. Please name one that implements POP3 correctly (here is a hint, none of them do). Furthermore, if they implemented the spec correctly, what you want to do would not be possible, as the mail could not be left on the host server.
POP3 is an antiquated protocol that has limited use today. IMAP is a far better protocol and can do exactly what you are describing that you want.
I am afraid you are going to have to explain how a one time per machine setup (changing pop3 to imap) would utterly confuse your coworkers. It is a one-time setup and than everything else would work as it does now (well, not exactly, obviously they would only see the emails that they want to see, not the sent ones).
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RE: Gmail is the real wtf
1) Read POP3 spec.
2) Realize that what you want to do is why IMAP was created
3) Use IMAP
4) delete this stupid post before to many people realize how dumb you are.
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RE: Talking to the code
This to me speaks of someone just out of college with that still beaten in notion that you must "comment your code" with no teaching done on how to do it correctly or even why it is important. They simply understand that code needs comments, so they will put comments in.
TRWTF is clearly that this is readable PERL and last I checked that was against policy.
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RE: We're being sued
@Peraninth said:
... I'm also sure that by now this $35 lawsuit has cost our company at least several thousand dollars.
Thus the problem with our current legal system. Anyone can bring a lawsuit like this, with minimal to no cost to themselves, costing the other party a larger sum of money than the initial cost (in this cast the $35). The only recourse that the company has is to (after they are found non-liable of course) counter-sue in hopes that they can win damages. The worst part is, that even if they company wins and gets all court costs, they are still likely out tens of thousands as the only person who is going to sue over $35 doesn't have any money anyway.
That is TRWTF!
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RE: Constructors must return self
Even if he had worked with PERL, PERL will fail to run if you have strict enabled (which you do right?). His point was less about it requiring the explicit return self, and more about it not failing when something that was required was missing.
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RE: The UK Royal "Maim" service
Leave it to the Scottish to mislabel candy. Those are clearly M&M's, these are smarties
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RE: The Call Logger
Honestly, you were being kind. Unless the contract that you signed listed this as something that needed to be there (or a lwayer could fit it under some other clause) I would have refused to set it up for him again.
All that is assuming that I even bothered to set it aside and not haul it away that day.