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00:26 < ware> nowai
01:48 < Mercster> my pits smell
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02:53 < Mercster> "Your king Osama Bin Laden looks like a dirty wizard or homeless Santa"
03:21 < fie> ...
03:27 < Mercster> fie: havent seen 'Bruno', eh
03:28 < fie> Saw it in theatres
03:28 < fie> with my gay cousin and his boyfriend
03:28 < fie> it was epicly gay
03:28 < Mercster> so what's with "..."
03:28 < fie> I don't remember that part
03:28 < fie> Blocked it out
03:29 < Mercster> it's probably the funniest line
04:54 < Mercster> ugh
04:54  * Mercster sneezes
05:44 < Mercster> Britons call for iodine tablets in Japanese radiation panic
05:44 < Mercster> welcome to crack cocaine
05:44 < Mercster> YOU ARE ON CRACK
05:47 < Mercster> you literally have to smoke crack cocaine on a daily basis to want potassium iodide pills in the UK
05:59 < Mercster>  ah well, they dont have flouride
06:00 < Mercster> must explain it
06:01 < Mercster> this one's a bit better http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/03/18/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage
06:03 < Mercster> meanwhile, we are now orbiting mercury
06:04 < Mercster> TRIPOLI, LIBYA . Forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi entered the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi Saturday after air strikes and fierce fighting, a fresh act of defiance even as the United States and its allies prepared to launch military attacks on Libya.
06:04 < Mercster> meanwhile, north africa is blowing up
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09:18 <@sdodson> aestetix: no, what do you need?
09:33 <@aestetix> Hey
09:35 <@sdodson> Evilpig: you coming to Carolinacon?
10:09 <@brimstone> yay outerz0ne
10:09 <@brimstone> !!!
10:17 <@ShadowHntr> French fighter jets are now flying over Libya
10:17 <@sdodson> Freedom Fries!
10:18 <@ShadowHntr> oh god another nutcase :P
10:18 <@sdodson> "drop cordless a line" is funny and I never noticed it before.
10:18 <@ShadowHntr> well gotta get back to work
10:19 <@sdodson> ShadowHntr: whatchoodon?
10:19  * Mercster stares
10:22 <@ShadowHntr> workin' at the datacenter
10:22 <@ShadowHntr> for Amazon.com up in northern Virginia near DC
10:23 < Mercster> sdodson: im enjoying reading e-books on my droid :)
10:23 < Mercster> in landscape mode, the sentences are a perfect length
10:25 <@ShadowHntr> i got a velocity micro cruz reader
10:25 <@ShadowHntr> it's an e-reader that happens to run android
10:25 < Mercster> cool, what size screen?
10:25 <@ShadowHntr> it's not the beefiest processor so from what i've heard it can't go any higher than android 2.0
10:26 <@ShadowHntr> 7"
10:26 < Mercster> cool, it reads most formats i suppose?
10:26 <@ShadowHntr> yeah
10:26 <@ShadowHntr> currently i have apps for borders and kindle
10:26 < Mercster> cool
10:26 <@ShadowHntr> unfortunately i don't have access directly to the android market
10:26 < Mercster> on the droid X i use aldiko
10:27 <@ShadowHntr> but i have access to velocity micro's "cruz market" which has a lot of cool apps anyway
10:27 < Mercster> yeah, i can download much of what i want directly
10:27 <@sdodson> Mercster: By perfect length you mean short and simple for your mind?
10:27 < Mercster> if not i find a torrent and then convert to .epub
10:27 <@ShadowHntr> i bought this so i could have an e-reader
10:27 <@ShadowHntr> and still play a little bit with android
10:27 <@sdodson> I have the Nook e-ink. I really like it.
10:27 <@ShadowHntr> i may buy an actual android table later
10:27 <@ShadowHntr> s/table/tablet
10:27 <@ShadowHntr> :]
10:27 <@sdodson> you fail at sed
10:27 < Mercster> sdodson: mmm, no, i mean it's been proven that there is a certain line length associated with the written word that is optimal for reading
10:28 <@sdodson> Mercster: I know.
10:28 < Mercster> shorter or longer makes it harder to read
10:28 < Mercster> my e-book reader on android, in landscape mode, it just about perfect
10:29 < Mercster> sure i wish the screen was bigger, but then i'd be looking at a tablet
10:29 < Mercster> and i dont want a tablet
10:29 <@sdodson> It's not e-ink.
10:29 < Mercster> no it is certainly not e-ink
10:29 <@sdodson> I really really like e-ink.
10:29 < Mercster> ive never really seen it
10:29 < Mercster> im sure its cool
10:29 <@sdodson> Well, more importantly my retinas like it
10:30 < Mercster> on my droid X, in landscape mode, about 8"-10" is a perfect distance
10:30 < Mercster> i have to change pages quite often (small screen) but it's totally readable
10:30 <@sdodson> I used to like MGMT, now I find it to be unsufferable noise.
10:32 < Mercster> what's MGMT?
10:33 <@brimstone> a hipster band, you've probably never heard of them
10:33 < Mercster> nope
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10:34 <@brimstone> man, i'm in the topic again
10:35 < Mercster> it happens
10:49 < ware> epeen
10:49  * Mercster touches ware
10:49 < ware> :O
10:52 < Mercster> ;-)
10:58 <@sdodson> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxJMDzNZWsE
11:03 < Mercster> :|
11:06 <@sdodson> http://www.npr.org/2011/03/19/134673008/attacks-reported-despite-gadhafis-cease-fire-vow?sc=fb&cc=fp  that's our allied aircraft?
12:33 < Mercster> i got a little woman and she wont be true
12:44 < Mercster> dachau blues, dem poor jews...
12:45 < Mercster> goes to show you, what a
12:45 < Mercster> moon can do :-)
12:45 < Mercster> moonlight
12:45 < Mercster> on
12:45 < Mercster> vermont
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13:04 < Mercster> French military jet opens fire in Libya
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13:05 <@ShadowHntr> i said that already :)
13:05 <@ShadowHntr> oh wait
13:05 <@ShadowHntr> didn't say anything about firing on libya yet
13:05 < Mercster> well you said they were flying
13:05 < Mercster> yeah
13:05 < Mercster> now it's "fire"
13:05 <@ShadowHntr> yeap
13:05 <@ShadowHntr> now war is inevitable :/
13:06 < Mercster> #3
13:06 < Mercster> w00p
13:06 < Mercster> im not happy about this one
13:06 < Mercster> im glad france is there first
13:06 < Mercster> or, doing something first, anyway
13:06 < Mercster> i read some article, sounds liek we may be doing a lot of the logistics
13:07 < Mercster> maybe other countries will be doing the actual actions
13:07 <@ShadowHntr> that may be cheaper for us
13:07 < Mercster> cheaper in more ways than one
13:07 <@ShadowHntr> yeah
13:07 <@ShadowHntr> in life and in monetary cost
13:07 < Mercster> cheaper in money, and cheaper in sentiment
13:07 < Mercster> well, lives isnt really an issue with this kinda thing
13:08 < Mercster> they cant touch us, if we're just in the air
13:08 < Mercster> of course it's being debated what a strictly air campaign could do
13:08 < Mercster> not much, is what ive heard
13:12 < Mercster> most of the civil war is being fought on the ground; sometimes helicopters will be involved. the kind of NFZ we would enforce couldnt effectively target the helicopters. on top of that, establishing a NFZ means heavy bombing of military infrastructure on the ground
13:12 < Mercster> it's essentially an act of war
13:13 < Mercster> and it's not even gonna be decisive
13:13 < Mercster> USA has said it's not putting troops on the ground...someone else is gonna have to
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13:17 < Mercster> but we'll probably end up doing the heavy lifting, and everyone will moan about how much of an asshole we are
13:17 < Mercster> as usual
13:18 < Mercster> USA saves the world, what else is new
13:27 < Mercster> steal softly through sunshine...
13:27 < Mercster> steal softly through snow
14:18 < Mercster> something in the way...
14:18 < Mercster> oooooooooooooh
14:18 < Mercster> something in the way
14:18 < Mercster> YEAH
14:18 < Mercster> oooooooooooooh
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14:47 <@Corydon76-home> http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20110319
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16:28 < Mercster> time is runnin an passin, an passin an runnin, an runnin an PASSIN
16:28 < Mercster> so yall betta get right at DIS time
16:28 < Mercster> cuz they might not be no next time, yall...
16:29 <@sdodson> Mercster: shut it
16:30 < Mercster> YOU PUNK
16:33 < Mercster> sdodson: how are ya
16:35 <@sdodson> Mercster: pay'n bills dawg, some real deep shit yo
16:35 <@sdodson> trying to find a savings account with better than 0.00000001% interest
16:36 < Mercster> payin billz an makin dealz
16:36 < Mercster> i feel you mang
16:37 <@sdodson> 1% at ING
16:38 < Mercster> ive got all my money in a savings account but i have no idea what the terms are
16:38 < Mercster> i really dont care
16:38 < Mercster> im a free spirit like that
16:38 <@sdodson> make your money work
16:38 <@sdodson> If there's no cost to me why on earth wouldn't I transfer my shit to another bank just to get an extra .1% ?
16:39 < Mercster> i give to charity, that's how i make my money work
16:39 < Mercster> apart from that, im glad if i have a roof over my head and food in my belly
16:40 < Mercster> the stress over trying to find something to invest in probably wouldnt be worth the slight percentage i could eke out
16:40 <@sdodson> this is just savings not an investment
16:41 <@sdodson> is it strange that I feel more compassion for the japanese than i did for katrina folks?
16:41 < Mercster> probably
16:41 < Mercster> maybe you hate niggers
16:42 < Mercster> is it strange than you're racist?
16:42 <@sdodson> I think it's more that those folks had warning.
16:43 < Mercster> eh
16:43 < Mercster> new orleans is basically a ghetto
16:43 < Mercster> it was no surprise that they werent prepared/werent educated
16:44 < Mercster> you expected more out of japan, but, at the same time, it was a huge fuckin quake
16:44 < Mercster> and a huge tsunami
16:44 < Mercster> who knows man, noone deserves to end up like that
16:44 <@Bahhumbug> jesus christ.
16:44 <@Bahhumbug> you such a pretentious prick it's simply amazing.
16:45 <@Bahhumbug> s/you/you are/
16:45 < Mercster> ya?
16:45 <@sdodson> who?
16:45 < Mercster> me
16:45 < Mercster> he's got a fetish about trying to make me feel bad
16:45 < Mercster> i dunno why
16:45 <@Bahhumbug> because you're an asshole, perhaps?
16:45 <@Bahhumbug> just a thought.
16:45 < Mercster> i figure he's probably got low self esteem
16:45 < Mercster> so he needs to shit on somebody
16:46 < Mercster> im available
16:49 <@sdodson> Nuclear power is so interesting.
16:50 < Mercster> we should be rolling out nuclear power everywhere
16:50 < Mercster> but yeah, now all the hippies have an excuse
16:50 < Mercster> "see how dangerous it is!"
16:52 < Mercster> sdodson: you ever seen that google talk about thorium reactors?
16:52 <@sdodson> well that any the newest nuclear plant we have is 15 years old
16:52 < Mercster> yeah, there's better tech nowadays
16:53 < Mercster> but that wont stop the eco-weirdos
16:54 <@sdodson> The most modern reactors produce almost no fuel waste
16:59 <@sdodson> http://xkcd.com/radiation/
17:00 < Mercster> sdodson: smoking is some ridiculous number, too
17:01 < Mercster> i dunno how that factors in, but it's there somehow
17:03 <@sdodson> I'm surprised hiroshima and nagasaki aren't there
17:03 < Mercster> well
17:03 < Mercster> nuke plant != nuke bomb
17:03 < Mercster> not even close
17:04 < Mercster> i doubt they'd be able to fit the nuke bombs on the chart
17:04 < Mercster> cuz thst *is* serious
17:04 < Mercster> s/thst/that
17:05 < Mercster> being near the flashpoint of a nuclear bomb would be somewhere on the far end of the scale
17:05 < Mercster> and probably far beyond it
17:06 <@sdodson> Is there much fallout or is it all just heat/steam from weapons?
17:06 < Mercster> what?
17:06 < Mercster> fallout from where?
17:07 <@sdodson> bombs
17:07 < Mercster> a nuclear bomb spreads radiation far and wide, it's explosive
17:08 < Mercster> it's not like something as simple as fuel rods sitting dry for a week
17:08 < Mercster> it's not even comparable
17:09 < Mercster> chernobyl was like a sneeze compared to a nuclear bomb...a nuclear bomb relies on an initial charge that causes multiple chain reactions, causing an immense release of energy and radioactivity blowing out for miles around
17:09 < Mercster> if the physical explosion doesnt kill you, the radiation will
17:09 < Mercster> but something like this...even chernobyl, is mild in comparison
17:10 < Mercster> there is no explosion, it's just a cloud of some radioactive particles...im not saying it's nothing, but it aint a fission bomb
17:11 < Mercster> the worst "nuclear disaster" in the US, three mile island, was a partial meltdown, and it killed 0 people
17:11 < Mercster> i think chernobyl killed under 25 people
17:12 < Mercster> as i said, nuke plant != nuke bomb
17:12 < Mercster> two different animals
17:13 < Mercster> which is why it's sad to watch the hippies grasp on this, and try to convince everyone nuke power is dangerous
17:13 < Mercster> yeah, it's probably dangerous, as dangerous as coal plants are, that kill 2000+ americans each year
17:13 < Mercster> we're just used to the numbers
17:13 < Mercster> so we dont make a big deal out of it
17:14 < Mercster> but when it's a nuke plant, OH BOY, it's a monumental crisis
17:16 <@sdodson> I don't know. Our inability to get situations like fukashima under control aren't re-assuring.
17:17 < Mercster> well, those plants are what, 30 years old?
17:17 < Mercster> they dont rely on the same containment systems that more modern plants do
17:18 < Mercster> plus, hello, japan, it's on the edge of the ring of fire
17:18 < Mercster> or whatever they call it, the huge circle of tectonic plates
17:19 < Mercster> hello, "tsunami" is a japanese word
17:19 < Mercster> you know why? cuz japan has tsunamis
17:20 < Mercster> as well as they thought they were prepared, they werent
17:20 <@sdodson> That's a non argument.
17:20 <@sdodson> Of course people think they're prepared, you don't know that they're not until it's too late.
17:20 < Mercster> and the plants they're having trouble with, had been cited numerous times in the past for regulatory gaffes
17:22 < Mercster> point is, this isnt nuke power's fault
17:23 <@sdodson> Right, I understand that nuclear plants don't just spring out from nature and kill us all.
17:23 <@sdodson> People create them and clearly don't manage them well enough.
17:24 < Mercster> those were old plants with old contingency systems
17:24 < Mercster> we probably have some too, in the same class
17:24 < Mercster> but they also arent on massive fault lines
17:24 < Mercster> and arent likely to be hit with a tsunami
17:25 < Mercster> most countries are reviewing their safety procedures and examining plants built before 1980 or so
17:25 <@sdodson> Our plants are just as old.
17:25 < Mercster> and that's a good thing
17:25 < Mercster> some of them are, yeah
17:25 <@sdodson> http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/nuclear_power_plants_locations/index.html
17:26 < Mercster> i guess i have to say this again
17:26 < Mercster> they arent on major fault lines
17:26 < Mercster> and wont be hit by a tsunami
17:26 <@sdodson> Most of them are 30+ years old in the US.
17:27 < Mercster> yeah well, if the hippies have their way, none of them will get *beyond* 30 years old, because "nuke power is evil!"
17:27 < Mercster> and we'll just buy a whole bunch more oil from cultures who hate us
17:27 <@sdodson> Wait, what do you mean beyond 30 years old? the vast majority of them already are 30 years old.
17:28 < Mercster> do we learn from the lesson, or do we shrink back
17:29 <@sdodson> What does learning from the lesson look like?
17:30 < Mercster> building modern plants, that rely on passive cooling that doesnt rely on external power sources (like the ones in japan did) and continue to develop save nuclear power
17:30 < Mercster> that's what learning from the lesson looks like
17:30 < Mercster> s/save/safe
17:31 <@sdodson> Ya, I'm all for that.
17:31 < Mercster> modern plants dont rely on external elextrical power, like the ones in japan, for cooling
17:31 <@Corydon76-home> That will cost a lot of money at a time when we're trying to make budget cuts
17:31 < Mercster> it's all integrated
17:31 <@sdodson> But these are huge expensive fucking things, do you really think we'll decomission them all when they hit 40 years old or will we just extend their licenses?
17:32 <@sdodson> Mercster: so they require no power?
17:32 < Mercster> sdodson: even many of our older plants rely on better technology than the ones hit in japan
17:32 <@Corydon76-home> Mercster: Not really, no
17:32 <@sdodson> Mercster: i dunno, click around that map dude, a scary number of them are noted as having the same containment as used in Japan.
17:32 <@Corydon76-home> The better technology is a pebble bed reactor.  We have very few of those today
17:33 <@Corydon76-home> The majority of US reactors today are exactly the same model as the Japanese reactors affected, with a few minor differences in operations
17:34 <@sdodson> "Of the 104 plants now operating in the U.S., ground was broken on all of them in 1974 or earlier."
17:34 <@Corydon76-home> In fact, what makes US reactors unique in the world is that every site is different, which caused some of the problems at Three Mile Island
17:35 < Mercster> Corydon76-home: im no nuclear engineer, neither are you. what i have heard is that many of the plants we operate work on the same system. also, many others work on another that dont rely on external power to cool the fuel, even in the face of a disaster
17:35 <@Corydon76-home> Mercster: Yes, they're called pebble bed reactors.  They are a ton safer
17:35 < Mercster> so a) most of our plants arent on fault lines, in danger of a tsunami and b) if they were, they'd be able to keep the core cool in a situation in which the external power lines were cut
17:36 <@Corydon76-home> It's all covered in "Physics for Future Presidents"
17:36 < Mercster> Corydon76-home: well i asked sdodson, have you seen the google talk about thorium reactors?
17:36 <@Corydon76-home> Mercster: the core has never been the problem in the Japanese reactors
17:36 < Mercster> Corydon76-home: i wish we'd get on that
17:36 <@Corydon76-home> The problem has been the secondary pools, where spent rods are kept underwater
17:37 <@sdodson> Seems Obama is hot for new nuclear projects
17:37 < Mercster> yeah well when the rods start melting, on fire, then the core is suspect
17:37 <@Corydon76-home> Mercster: No, those spent rods are OUTSIDE of the core
17:37 < Mercster> they cant even get close enough to figure out what's melted and what isnt
17:38 <@Corydon76-home> Those spent rods are the problem, because they aren't in the containment vessel, at all.
17:38 < Mercster> yeah but the containment vessel blew up :) partially, anyway
17:38 < Mercster> on #3 i think?
17:39 <@Corydon76-home> Once the water pumps stopped working, the spent rods (which have to be continually cooled) started to evaporate the standing water.  Some of the tops of those rods became exposed, and those tops drew oxygen out of the water, causing the hydrogen bubble to form
17:39 <@sdodson> How on earth do they put construction of these things on hold for 20 years?
17:40 <@sdodson> Watts Bar started in 1973, put on hold in 1988 and restarted in 2007.
17:40 <@Corydon76-home> If those spent rods ever completely boil off the water, they can melt and form a new core, where one was never intended to be.
17:40 < Mercster> nod
17:40 <@sdodson> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000 latest generation design from Westinghouse
17:41 < Mercster> sdodson: my dad worked for TVA for 30+ years, i should pick his brain sometime
17:41 < Mercster> actually
17:41 < Mercster> i think ill call him right now
17:41 < Mercster> anyone have any questions for a TVA exec?
17:41 <@Corydon76-home> Executive or power plant worker?
17:41 < Mercster> exec
17:41 < Mercster> sat at a desk all day
17:41 < Mercster> managed people
17:42 <@sdodson> Does he think Watts Bar will be completed by 2012?
17:42 < Mercster> ok ill ask
17:42 <@Corydon76-home> Yeah, I'd expect an executive to know more about accounting and human resources than operations
17:42 < Mercster> prolly
17:42 < Mercster> but i think he kneew stuff about the plants
17:44 <@Corydon76-home> Even so, most of TVA is coal, not hydro or nuclear power
17:45 <@sdodson> Looks like they're granting 60 year licenses
17:45 <@Corydon76-home> I'd personally be fine with a nuclear reactor in my backyard, more than I'd be okay with hydro or coal
17:46 < Mercster> haha
17:46 <@Corydon76-home> If I could afford solar panels, I'd cover my roof and be mostly self-sufficient for power
17:46 <@sdodson> "In 2008, both reactors were increased in power by 1.7% by an "Appendix K" uprate,[6] also called a Measurement Uncertainty Recapture uprate."  man the names for things here is facinating.
17:46 < Mercster> ok so i talked to my dad
17:46 < Mercster> re: watts bar: "noone knows"
17:47 < Mercster> he says its all politics
17:47 <@sdodson> A co-worker of mine did that. $25k total cost but says he'll recover the costs in approximately 20 years.
17:47 < Mercster> which i probably agree with
17:47 <@sdodson> Recovered after including the rebates and incentives.
17:47 <@Corydon76-home> Mercster: it's unfortunate, because nuclear power is much safer than the public hysteria would have us believe
17:47 < Mercster> Corydon76-home: i agree
17:48 < Mercster> Corydon76-home: i am 220% for nuke power
17:48 < Mercster> you dont have to convince me
17:48 <@Corydon76-home> It's not perfectly safe, but neither is coal or hydro
17:48 < Mercster> yep dad said the same thing
17:48 < Mercster> "every source of power has risks"
17:49 < Mercster> thousands of people die every year from sulpher dioxide
17:49 <@Corydon76-home> Mercster: Well, not exactly.  Solar power has few risks; the problem is that panels are still massively expensive
17:49 < Mercster> a bi-product of coal burning
17:49 < Mercster> but we're used to it
17:49 < Mercster> it's like a given
17:49 < Mercster> so we dont worry about it
17:49 < Mercster> 20 people die in a nuke plant, OH GPD
17:49 < Mercster> SOUND THE ALARM
17:49 < Mercster> NUCLEAR IS EVIL
17:49 <@Corydon76-home> Mercster: well, all at once, yes, that's pretty terrible
17:50 <@sdodson> Mercster: You're bordering on being as much of drama queen as Dagmar.
17:50 < Mercster> sdodson: dont do me like that, dawg
17:50 < Mercster> i cant think of a worse insult than being compared to dagmar
17:50 < Mercster> all im sayin is, nuke power can be safe
17:50 < Mercster> and it is safe
17:51 < Mercster> if it's done right
17:51 <@Corydon76-home> If 20 people die in a nuclear power plant, one or two at a time from accidents, but each separated by a year or two, it's tragic, but not cause for alarm
17:51 <@sdodson> This stuff is facinating, I think I'm going to go back to college for a physics degree.
17:52 < Mercster> Corydon76-home: well anyone dying before their time is tragic. im just saying, most plants built in the last 20 or so years arent going to encounter the same fate as the japan ones that are having problems
17:52 <@Corydon76-home> sdodson: you'd be better off with mechanical or nuclear engineering
17:52 < Mercster> they prepared for quakes, but not tsunamis
17:52 < Mercster> so they're getting fucked
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17:53 < Mercster> sdodson: hope you love math
17:53 < Mercster> im fascinated by physics and have read quite a few armchair-physicist books
17:53 < Mercster> im familiar with the basics
17:53 <@Corydon76-home> I see it as a failure of the public relations people 40 years ago.  They didn't do their best to impress upon the engineers exactly what a nuclear accident would do to each company
17:53 < Mercster> but, if you really wanna get into physics, you gotta know math
17:53 < Mercster> *bigtime* math
17:54 < Mercster> and i do not know math
17:54 < Mercster> im lucky i can add two numbers together
17:54 <@Corydon76-home> All of the risk can be mitigated with better engineering and more redundant systems.  It might be 10% more expensive for the outlay, but you save when you don't have massive PR problems when an accident occurs
17:55 <@sdodson> Mercster: i was a bit shit at calculus
17:55 < Mercster> Corydon76-home: ive been hearing on news shows lately that nuclear isnt economically feasible anyway. i wish that werent true, and i really dont know.
17:55 <@Corydon76-home> The Dutch, for example, planned to have their dikes withstand a 10,000 year flood
17:55 < Mercster> sdodson: yeah, man, im totally fucking math stupid
17:55 <@sdodson> Mercster: ya, gas and coal are too cheap
17:56 < Mercster> i was always better at english, language...and i think thats why i was good as systems administration
17:56 <@Corydon76-home> Coal is less cheap when you add in the costs of scrubbing the plumes
17:56 < Mercster> learning to pwn a system is sort of grammar-like
17:56 < Mercster> no numbers involved, really
17:56 < Mercster> it's about commands (i.e. verbs)
17:56 <@Corydon76-home> and Congress needs to get rid of the exception in the Clean Water Act for natural gas
17:58 < Mercster> ah well
17:59 < Mercster> im willing to wager quite a bit to get us from buying so much oil from so many people who hate us
17:59 < Mercster> so im still for nuke power
17:59 < Mercster> fuck the naysayers
18:03 -!- Bahhumbug changed the topic of #se2600 to: <Mercster> im lucky i can add two numbers together
18:04 < Mercster> :-)
18:06 < Mercster> frankly i woulda gone for <Mercster> sdodson: yeah, man, im totally fucking [...] stupid
18:06 < Mercster> but i understand, you're not as good at chatting as me
18:06 < Mercster> OOH YEAH
18:08 <@Bahhumbug> that goes without saying.  but there is a difference between being a moron (ie. stupid) and not being able to add two small integer quantities.
18:08 < Mercster> ooh ok bigtime
18:09 < Mercster> throw some more 3-syllable words my way
18:09 < Mercster> you sexy beast, you
18:09 <@Bahhumbug> I'd hate to give you an aneurysm.
18:10 < Mercster> that's 4
18:10 < Mercster> fail
18:10  * Bahhumbug pats Mercster on the head
18:10 <@Bahhumbug> such a good little troll
18:10 < Mercster> mmm
18:10 < Mercster> im not a troll, im just smarter than you
18:10 < Mercster> so stuff i say seems like a troll
18:11 < Mercster> because you have a poor self image
18:11 < Mercster> thanks for the pat tho :-)
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18:16 <@Bahhumbug> http://bbsdocumentary.dreamhost.com/photos/interviews.html - it's scary how many of these folks I know.
18:17 <@Bahhumbug> Corydon76-home: http://bbsdocumentary.dreamhost.com/photos/082phreaknic/index.html - interesting.
18:20 < Mercster> ooh yer famous
18:20 <@Bahhumbug> and how, pray tell, did your genius self get "famous" from that?
18:22 < Mercster> pray tell, huh?
18:23 < Mercster> ooh yer famous AND literary!
18:23 < Mercster> welcome to 2011, noone says "pray tell" anymore
18:24 < Mercster> unless you're trying to impress people on irc
18:24 < Mercster> then you might say it
18:24  * Mercster stares
18:24 <@Bahhumbug> I've no need to impress anyone, Mercster; especially the likes of yourself.
18:24 < Mercster> BURN
18:24 < Mercster> you have shamed me sir
18:27 < Mercster> pray tell, under whose tutelage have you acquired such a witty repartee, incorporating such biting curses upon my person?!
18:27 <@Bahhumbug> yer mom
18:27  * Mercster tries to get all 19th century on Bahhumbug 
18:27 < Mercster> Bahhumbug: HAHAHAHA
18:27 <@Bahhumbug> :)
18:28 < Mercster> you have bested me
18:30 < Mercster> in response, i have nought to say, besides the fact that you can call dis my new shit
18:30 < Mercster> but it aint new though
18:30 < Mercster> i got ridda' my ol' bitch
18:30 < Mercster> now i gotta new ho
18:30 < Mercster> first it wuz tha benzo
18:31 < Mercster> now im in da ENZO
18:31 < Mercster> FERRARI
18:31 < Mercster> IM SORRY!
18:31 < Mercster> I KEEP
18:31 < Mercster> BLOWIN
18:31 < Mercster> UP!
18:31  * ShadowHntr preps the syringe with Thorazine :P
18:31 < Mercster> ShadowHntr: i was on that for awhile
18:32 <@Dagmar> Sadness... http://hardlink.net/
18:32 < Mercster> Dagmar: MUDS!
18:32 <@ShadowHntr> i miss muds :)
18:32 < Mercster> shit, they're still up
18:32 <@ShadowHntr> doesn't ibiblio still host one?
18:33 < Mercster> every year or do i log back into a mud and try to level some
18:33 <@Bahhumbug> there are still a bunch of muds around.
18:33 < Mercster> yeah whats that site where you can browse them
18:33 < Mercster> mud...
18:33 < Mercster> uh
18:33 <@Bahhumbug> it's called "google"
18:33 < Mercster> mudconnect.com
18:33 <@Dagmar> Dunno
18:33 < Mercster> http://www.mudconnect.com/
18:33 <@Dagmar> Check their hosting page
18:33 <@Dagmar> "We have over three years of experience in hosting Virtual Domains. We are connected to the Internet by a Full T1. All of our web servers run on SUN Sparc WorkStations running Solaris 2.5.1. We also have a 200 Mhz Pentium PRO PC running NT 4.0"
18:33 <@Dagmar> That *has* to be a cobweb
18:34 <@ShadowHntr> lol
18:34 <@Bahhumbug> heh, I was doing hosting on 2.5.1 back in those days as well :)
18:34 < Mercster> muds dont take much processing power
18:34 <@ShadowHntr> well you don't exactly need a lot to host a mud
18:34 <@ShadowHntr> :P
18:34 < Mercster> ShadowHntr: riiight
18:34 <@Dagmar> 200Mhz Pentium PRO?
18:34 <@Dagmar> ...and a T1!
18:34 <@Dagmar> Oooo
18:35 <@Bahhumbug> I had hundreds of users hanging off of a cluster of 90Mhz Pentiums.
18:35 <@Bahhumbug> from there to SS20's with Ross quad procs
18:35 <@Bahhumbug> (at a whopping 25Mhz each)
18:37 < Mercster> k
18:40 < Mercster> they call me tha cake man
18:40 < Mercster> the strawberry SHAKE MAN
18:40 < Mercster> i spray da AR...
18:40 < Mercster> have ya whole clique BREAKDANCE
18:42 < Mercster> now nigga, why YOU mad?
18:43 < Mercster> oh you caint do that?
18:43 < Mercster> im so forgetfull, they CALLIN ME COCKY
18:43 < Mercster> i come up out the jeweler, THEY CALLIN ME ROCKY
18:43 < Mercster> it's da ICE on my NECK man, da wrist an my LEFT hand
18:43 < Mercster> bling like, BLAOW
18:43 < Mercster> ya like my STYLE
18:43 < Mercster> uh uh
18:43 < Mercster> im headed to tha BANK RIGHT NOW
18:47 < Mercster> lame, SNL is a rerun tonight
19:19 <@Dagmar> Whoops.
19:20 <@Dagmar> Ghadafi got stupid a few days earlier than I thought
19:36 < Mercster> http://i.imgur.com/HfMby.jpg
19:40 < Mercster> <trockij> BOOOOOOOOOM http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ccc_1300563244
19:40 < Mercster> nice video there
19:41 < Mercster> over benhgazi
19:41 < Mercster> libyan jet goes peeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww *crash*
19:42 < Mercster> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3478243/Jet-shot-down-over-Libya.html
19:44 < Mercster> "what part of 'no fly zone' didnt you understand?"
19:51 < Mercster> > The Guardian confirms that it was the rebellion's only jet - shot down by Qaddafi's forces.
19:51 < Mercster> :/
20:11 <@sdodson> "Wow U.S. fires 110 tomahawk missiles, each costs $569,000. That's more than 5 years of NPR federal funding in less than an hour."
20:13 <@sdodson> A co-worker of mine suffers from Jason Scott Syndrome.
20:13 <@sdodson> You know, where you feel you're an expert on anything and everything.
20:13 < Mercster> oh no, no more terry gross and 'prairie home companion'
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20:14 < Mercster> with that dickhead garrison keillor
20:15 <@sdodson> Ya, I don't see the general public value in Praire Home Companion.
20:15 <@sdodson> Most of the other stuff is good though, and i think their reporting is better than most other sources.
20:15 < Mercster> as long as the PBS newshour survives, im cool
20:16 < Mercster> the rest of it can go take a long jump off the short pier
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21:09 < dasunt> M[ou]'?am+[ae]r .*([AEae]l[- ])? [GKQ]h?[aeu]+([dtz][dhz]?)+af[iy]
21:09 < dasunt> ^- Somewhere, there's a news report by a well estabiled agency that breaks that regular expression.
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21:14 < dasunt> Also, isn't the ".*" sloppy?
21:27 <@ShadowHntr> um... wtf was that?
22:15 < Mercster> if the moon was made of barbeque spare ribs, wouldja eat it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x7JYADhWIo
22:16 < Mercster> "id ask for seconds"
22:16 < Mercster> "get back in your van and leave, i dont ever wanna see you again"
22:56 <@sdodson> dasunt: you're a nerd
22:57 < Mercster> sdodson: oh who are you, captain of the football team?
22:57 <@sdodson> Mercster: ya
22:58 < Mercster> ya
22:58 < Mercster> you're so bigtime
22:58 <@sdodson> Mercster: i'm sorta a big deal
22:58 < Mercster> i can tell
23:02 <@sdodson> Mercster: send me a SASE and i'll send you my newsletter
23:25 < Mercster> farted
23:54 < Mercster> alright alright, ill give you that goldman's makes a decent pickle...
23:54 < Mercster> BUT HERTZEL'S IS STILL BETTER FOR GROUPS
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