Everything posted by Malcador
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31535464 Somewhat relevant (and may result in amusement for myself, we shall see). One thing Twitter has given us is a much enhanced outrage machine, people called to slacktivist jihad over lots of minor things these days.
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Only have come across active racists in my time, or just people that buy into certain stereotypes (those don't come from nothing, but still).
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Those fit people being able to run for more than 30 seconds or being attractive is a micro aggression, man. But really, people have something against fit people? I can understand that if the fit guy is some muscle bro preaching about lifting every opportunity, but just some non fatso? Odd.
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Sounds like that will be a hard search, at least here.
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http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/time-warner-cable-calls-customer-ct-after-she-reports-cable-box-problem/ NSFW image...well language in the image anyway.
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Pft, I do that AND beat my wife.
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Fair enough, not as if the entire friendship is war (though, my mate and I that routinely had near violent arguments was a good one) but in the instance where someone's essentially telling you to not say or do something, it is a contest.
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Yep. I'm not above changing my behaviour. I do it all the time at work - just tell people what they want to hear so they will shut up and leave me alone.
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Well, it is a contest - they are requiring a modification of your behaviour, so either you yield (rolling over, so to speak) or they do (and probably end the friendship if there was one, or just flounce *snort*). It is a calculation, in any case, but was not really seeing much of a benefit to it, especially when approaching this as a stranger taking offense and having sore feelings, which is more likely.
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Irritated by Lenovo's behaviour, got my sister one of their laptops last year. So am going to check hers out to see if has the Superfish malware on it. Lenovo's response to this is golden by the way - "The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant," the statement says. "Our goal was to enhance the experience for users. We recognize that the software did not meet that goal and have acted quickly and decisively." Hm, surprised not hearing alarmist posts about Chinese intelligence being behind this all. Other than that a pretty ho-hum day.
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What benefits are there to that ? Other than I guess the people liking you more from just rolling over for them, so to speak.
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Good time to invest the security sector.
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2016 is optimistic, think 2018. It'll be on a sale then.
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I've no idea. Hopefully this one will be less boring, Chapter 1 was an intro so it's not that bad.
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Fun game trying to figure out who broke it first, though.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey/posts/1140594 Dreamfall Chapters 2 out on March 10th
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Ah okay, I shall update Obsidian_stalking.txt.Huh, I had thought Shady's wife was Russian proper rather than from Baltics. Odd segue, anyway.Heh, figures. But don't really see him saying that, just that it was safer in smaller towns. Security is just one factor, right ?Well, it would be the truest sign - in that there'd be little debate on it. But having never experienced that kind of state (back home is just crime ridden), I'll yield to you guys on that.Well, thinking about that it's not that hard - you have to trust a lot of people any given day. I've had to trust the elevator guy to have done a good job, the girl at the coffee shop to not poison me. Hm, though I suppose the "not murder me" standard might be holding the bar too low - it's actually interesting to think on the many ways you can die from some nutjob - poisoning your food, push you in the road or on subway tracks, just stab you in a crowded sidewalk, etc.I thought it was the armed guards everywhere.You did a lot more than that in the GG thread, heh, but whatever - that's Bruce for you.
