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Hard recommend. This is one of those stories that just happens to be an anime and those usually are the best anime.

I don't remember mentioning it, but I did watch it a long while ago. It's a pretty unique anime, as far as I remember. Definitely worth a watch. But from that time period I think that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann was the best I watched. On a totally random note, did anyone ever watch Steins;Gate?

Of all the good music we had I can't believe where we ended up...

I'm kind of embarrassed we are in the finals...

It gets shot down with the proverbial slingshot and then gets covered up.

I mean the difference being that corruption in the US is on a scale where it has been legalized, also are you saying that there is no hazing in the US military, no rapes, no killings? I mean you make TV shows and movies about such things... But that Whitehall Report was a treat to read. I just find it funny that the scenarios they imagine Russian and Chinese Aircraft being in is anything other than defensive and in full support of their anti-air defenses. Also the comparison between the aircraft reads like a reddit thread, until there is a real conflict between the mentioned aircraft everything is just guessing and we saw what happens when stealth meets the real world. As for equipment failing readiness I always liked this clip. Joking aside I don't see what equipment has to the with enlisting, you are going to be miserable either way, modern equipment will hardly change that.

Word of caution on the wifi card upgrade, Lenovo and HP (only for a certain time period for HP) laptops have a whitelist in bios that will only let their own cards work. So you would need to install a modified version of the bios to get around that. This goes for LTE modems too and in this case the whitelist exists on newer HP laptops too.

Brandon Sanderson is a PG writer, I can only imagine him doing a scene where a female character masturbates on the sword edge.

I don't know what made me facepalm more...

Tributes from other mangaka are starting to come in. Silver lining and all that... This one is from Shun Saeki the Cooking Wars manga.

Could have told his assistants how the story would go if he had it outlined maybe he even documented the story.

Really doubt anyone will continue it. I don't think there is a single case where the manga was finished after it's author died and there were a few popular ones that went that way.

I kind of had a feeling that he was going to die before it ended. But I didn't expect him to go that young. He died a week ago it seems but it was only announced yesterday/today.

Kentaro Miura, the author of Berserk, has passed away.

Ended up running the Windows 10 upgrade tool as the update that was failing was trying to install every other restart... Seriously MS...

Allegedly it was too sexist and too much boobs...

For my family, currently my sister is using it. But what I haven't mentioned is that it's a heavy ass thing (especially with that battery), so not much for mobility. I suspect it will soon be left to my parents as she gets a sleek aluminum Macbook wannabe.

Free market as long as it's dollar based.

I would think it's more due to the Chip manufacturing that China is doing on it's own and the fear of what would happen when they hit a level that starts to rival that of the US companies. They are doing the smart thing and preparing for the future, I really doubt it has anything to do with supporting the local economy.

An unusual build from me this time around, a laptop. An old Toshiba (now 10 years old), that I got because it wasn't being used. The biggest issue it had was that its battery was borked as it wasn't being used for years and so some of the cells went kaput as they they were completely discharged. I got a new battery double the capacity of the OEM (8800mAh) with the added benefit that it lifts the back of the laptop and provides better cooling. Next on the block was the CPU, it had a i5-2430M (2 cores/4 threads) which I replaced with a i7-2670QM (4 cores/8 threads). There wasn't anything better that was priced reasonably, the extreme versions were too expensive and for the 3xxx series I wasn't sure the MB bios would support it, although the socket was the same. Now came the issue of CPU throttling, it would lock the CPU to its lowest frequency at random times and would not unlock it until a reboot. I could not figure out the reason why apart from the driver support on Win10. I got a new cooler to eliminate thermals (it wasn't it) and searched the whole net to find a solution. What I settled on was installing ThrottleStop and that remedied that issue. Next on the agenda was the cracked plastic on the base around the cooler as is usually the case with laptops, I thought I lucked out with an ebay find of new old stock for the same model, but upon arrival and attempted assembly some of the MB screw holes were in a different position, I would have had to modify it to a point were the old case would be better. I was out of pocket on shipping both ways for that. What caught my eye next was the wifi card. It had an old Qualcomm/Atheros wifi/bluetooth card that couldn't even connect to a 5ghz network (got 30-40mb max), took ages on startup to connect to a network (again old laptop with old drives and Windows 10) and bluetooth that not all my devices could connect to. Upon researcher I found that intel wifi chips AX210 are being sold with the newest wifi 6e and bluetooth 5.2 (there are older intel chip versions available too). I first started looking in the US, but all that was available were AX200 and with the wrong antenna sockets. Looking further I found a reddit thread that said aliexpress had cards that worked, the biggest trouble was finding a mini PCI e card with the right antenna socket as recently aliexpress shipping to my country has become an issue so there aren't that many products that are available anymore. Luckily I found a supplier that had good reviews and a manufacturer that I was looking for. In a couple of weeks I got the card, installed it in the laptop downloaded the drivers from Intel and so far it works perfectly, I can even cast to another display now. So if you guys want the latest wifi/bluetooth standard on your laptop there is an easy and cheap way to do it. One more thing I tried was getting a 1080p display for it, but I figured out that the flat cable connector the MB has doesn't support it. Which sucks as it has a HDMI connector that can do 1080p and many other laptops from that time period had MBs with a connector that could connect to a 1080p display... The only issue the laptop has right now is a sound card that doesn't work due to driver support, thank you Conexant. I was able to find a driver which would install on win10 but the speakers still crackle when over 40% and the sound dies for a short time because the sound card overheats. There is a "solution" where you can install a copper plate over it which stops it from overheating, but I didn't bother with that as laptop speakers suck anyways. I have a good bluetooth speaker and headphone can easily be connected. For now that is pretty much it, still looking (not really) for a plastic base to replace my cracked one (which is really not that cracked) and will maybe get a 4gb ram stick to replace the 2gb that is in there for a total of 8gb. Oh yeah and **** MS, their latest Cumulative update fails to install for some reason so I will more then likely have to reinstall windows unless the next months update fixes it. edit: oh yeah and it has an SSD, but that was done before I got it. edit2: word of caution on the wifi card upgrade, Lenovo and HP (only for a certain time period for HP) laptops have a whitelist in bios that will only let their own cards work. So you would need to install a modified version of the bios to get around that. This goes for LTE modems too and in this case the whitelist exists on newer HP laptops too.

Stupid things happen, don't beat yourself up for it. It's the confidence that gets you, a perfect example being my colleague, regarded as a PC expert, who was in a process of RMAing a PSU because he figured that it was the culprit for his newly built PC not starting up. What ended up being the case was he didn't plug in the CPU power connectors... Still chuckle to this day when I remember that story.

Your company and mine may have done some business if that's the case.

The man doesn't have an ounce of QA in him.

Straight pipe?