--- Log opened Fri Mar 18 00:00:03 2016 00:00 <@RangerZ> poor oddball 00:01 <@RangerZ> he'd appreciate my answers to the 'customer survey' I got from comcast... 00:01 <@RangerZ> what can they do to make the site better... 'Make it not load like its running on a tandy BBS cluster' 00:14 <@Dagmar> "Add a flash applet that re-implements support for the BLINK tag 00:15 <@Dagmar> Add a counter for how many man-years the site has taken from humanity's collective productivity. 00:32 -!- kamikazejoe [~kamikazej@24-207-222-83.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 00:32 -!- kamikazejoe [~kamikazej@24-207-222-83.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com] has joined #se2600 01:25 < aestetix> https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4av6m8/comcast_failed_to_install_internet_for_10_months/ 01:25 < PigBot> Title: Comcast failed to install Internet for 10 months then demanded $60,000 in fees : news (at www.reddit.com) http://tinyurl.com/zas4zkb 01:36 < aestetix> It seems that comcast keeps getting worse and worse 02:07 < aestetix> donald trump 05:52 -!- LastChild [~Android@DHCP-129-59-122-53.n1.vanderbilt.edu] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 07:49 <@Evilpig> anyone see workaholics last night? 07:49 <@Evilpig> I'm curious if the red head was "Lynsey Bartilson" but I didn't see her credited 08:41 <@RangerZ> ohh yeah... daredevil s2 came out today 08:48 <@Evilpig> yeah. sonarr has been adding a little bit at a time on that --- Log closed Fri Mar 18 09:20:20 2016 --- Log opened Fri Mar 18 09:20:30 2016 09:20 -!- Evilpig [~wilpig@wilpig.org] has joined #se2600 09:20 -!- Irssi: #se2600: Total of 40 nicks [18 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 22 normal] 09:20 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Evilpig] by ChanServ 09:20 -!- Irssi: Join to #se2600 was synced in 10 secs 09:20 -!- Shadow404 [~shadow404@wilpig.org] has joined #se2600 09:21 -!- NotLarry [~NotLarry@wilpig.org] has joined #se2600 09:21 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o NotLarry] by ChanServ 10:18 <@dasunt> "For example, the study found that ballistic fingerprint laws that require bullets to be able to be traced by guns had the third biggest effect on reducing overall firearm deaths and the strongest effect on preventing suicide death." 10:18 <@dasunt> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/10/why-this-gun-control-study-might-be-too-good-to-be-true/ 10:18 < PigBot> Title: Why this gun control study might be too good to be true - The Washington Post (at www.washingtonpost.com) http://tinyurl.com/h8xv9ln 10:21 <@dasunt> I really hope they are misreporting that study. I don't wish that some researchers are so dumb that they don't question things when their research gives wild predictions. 10:22 <@dasunt> And I'm all for "that's weird" or "that's unusual". But usually one tries to build a plausible mechanism. Ballistic fingerprinting preventing suicides seems unlikely. 11:32 <@Dagmar> Once again, fuck Buzzfeed 11:40 < aestetix> Ok so 11:40 < aestetix> How is it that I keep hearing that "white" population in the US is shrinking, and yet all these places are having issues because of white gentrification? 11:44 -!- oddball [a6b1b829@gateway/web/freenode/ip.166.177.184.41] has joined #se2600 11:44 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o oddball] by ChanServ 11:44 <@oddball> fucking comcast 11:46 <@Dagmar> Hah 11:46 <@Dagmar> ...and as quickly as that, common sense reigns and the Buzzfeed article is flushed back off the front page of news.ycomb 11:47 <@Dagmar> The article in question deliberately conflates cause and effect to claim that the weed legalization industry is racist as fuck 11:59 <@oddball> Oh is this the bullshit logic of "we shouldn't legalize pot because black men have gone to jail for sellling it?" 11:59 <@dasunt> I thought one of the problems (and no, I'm not giving Buzzfeed the web hit) was that weed legalization disqualified any growers that had a criminal record. So due to disparities with race and criminal records, there was in effect some racism. (Now the solution would be to fix the racist legal system, but...) 11:59 <@oddball> Comcast is now trying to blame my cable modem for not recieving a signal. Nevermind that OnDemand also doesn't work. 12:00 <@oddball> dasunt: You forgot "now white people are going to sell pot legally!!!!" 12:03 <@dasunt> Of course black people can sell pot legally as well. 12:04 < aestetix> god I hate noise 12:05 <@dasunt> Now I'm at ycomb and reading about the guy who is using LLVM to statically compile NES games. 13:14 -!- rattle [041c8581@tor/regular/rattle] has joined #se2600 13:14 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o rattle] by ChanServ 13:43 -!- oddball [a6b1b829@gateway/web/freenode/ip.166.177.184.41] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 13:45 <@Dagmar> oddball: If OnDemand doesn't work, I'd call up the TV people and work with them. :) 13:47 <@Dagmar> Actually the Buzzfeed article was arguing that the process of forbidding people with felony arrest histories from working at a pot store is by default racist, since black people are "disproportionately" likely to have been arrested for drug offenses 13:47 < aestetix> man 13:47 <@Dagmar> ...which is how they're deliberately conflating cause and effect. 13:47 < aestetix> why do people fall for bill o'reilly's tactics? 13:47 <@Dagmar> Because they're fuckign stupid and lazy, that's why 13:56 <@Dagmar> This is good stuff http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ 13:56 < PigBot> Title: Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex (at slatestarcodex.com) http://tinyurl.com/ljxuclv 14:07 <@RangerZ> dasunt: 'systemic racism' is the term you are looking for 14:09 <@RangerZ> and yes, the country has a lot of it, and cause & effect are still leading to BS outcomes/scenarios for a lot of Blacks and Hispanics, even from things that haven't happened in "supposedly" 20 years+ 14:09 <@RangerZ> such as 'red lining' 14:10 <@Dagmar> Well, according to that rather careful scrutiny... not _nearly_ as much as is being claimed 14:10 <@Dagmar> ...which leads us back around to that this is now mainly a _class_ problem. 14:12 <@RangerZ> the 2008 housing crash hurt Blacks more than any other demographic because they has as a whole invested most of their wealth into their personal property (because they were finally for th first time starting to make gains economically) ... and then they were subjected to the shitty practices that the banks did by giving them BS loans that weren't even legal at the time, let alone now. 14:14 <@RangerZ> its 75% class problem and 25% race problem. Sure... being rich helps... but it doesn't stop the Black Federal Prosecutor from getting stop & frisked in (Washington DC/NYC? I forget which city) 14:15 <@Mirage> lol, on the radio they just said that in an interview with someone at "pornhub" that they are expecting the number of searches for leprechaun porn to increase by 8000% over the weekend 14:15 <@RangerZ> and weed legalization might have a slight advantage right now to whites, because of the non-felon clauses in the laws... but in the end it will benefit those minorities who are being targetted more, so I think its a moot point 14:16 <@RangerZ> and unfortunaely the non-felon parts of the law are likely critical politically to gain support 14:17 <@RangerZ> so as much as it sucks... because those who are able to enter the business early are going to be able to get a leg up on other competitors and gain market share/etc... 14:18 <@RangerZ> even -with- those negatives (and what system doesn't have -some- negatives) weed legalization is still the right thing to do financially, public policy-wise, and morally 14:18 <@RangerZ> and this is from the only person in this room has probably never even smoked pot 14:19 <@Mirage> Of the people who don't get sick from just being around it, that may be true. 14:20 <@RangerZ> thats actually an additional reason why I don't want to fuck with it 14:20 <@RangerZ> meds have fucked up responses to me 14:20 <@RangerZ> so I can only fucking imagine what weed would do 14:21 <@RangerZ> plus its not worth it... murphey was my grandfather... and he was a cop... so his laws would fuck me over if I ever even tried to buy some 14:21 <@RangerZ> lol 14:40 -!- oddball [~oddball@c-98-240-105-54.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 14:44 <@RangerZ> oddball: congrats 14:44 <@RangerZ> hehe 14:50 < oddball> 'bout fucking time. 14:51 < oddball> So... turned out that there was a filter on the line because the cable on the outside of the house was loose. 14:52 < oddball> According to the tech, it was loose enough that the return channel wasn't clear enough for data/OnDemand to work, but normal TV was crystal clear. 14:59 <@Evilpig> translation. we had a filter go back that was blocking the data channels but we're not gonna admit it 15:01 < oddball> There was also a filter on the line that got put there in the past couple of days. 15:02 < oddball> He tried coming up with the excuse that my line being loose might have actually been causing the wide spread outage that Antioch was seeing... and that's why they put the filter there. 15:02 <@Evilpig> did you laugh in his stupid face? 15:03 < oddball> I was kind of tired at this point, so I just said "really? Gee... that might be helpful info for *everyone* to know." 15:04 < oddball> And he was here to fix the problem, which he did quickly and didn't try to bill me for, so I didn't give a shit. 15:04 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o oddball] by ChanServ 15:06 <@Evilpig> didn't try to bill you, but did try to make you their scape goat 15:07 <@RangerZ> oddball: please stop eating beans then 15:07 <@RangerZ> because your farts are apparently causing hurricanes by the logic 15:07 <@oddball> heh 15:08 <@oddball> I can tell the difference between laying blame and just fixing the damn problem. This guy was just fixing the damn problem. 15:08 <@Evilpig> hurricane oddball has a good ring to it 15:11 <@Evilpig> http://fox17.com/news/local/neighbor-steals-playstation-busted-after-keeping-it-connected-to-victims-wifi 15:11 < PigBot> Title: Neighbor Steals PlayStation, Busted After Keeping it Connected to Victim's WIFI | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WZTV (at fox17.com) http://tinyurl.com/z552bem 15:12 <@oddball> oops 15:12 <@Evilpig> that's just funny as shit right there 15:24 * dasunt is having one of those moments reading a conversation thread and realizing that someone read Atlas Shrugged. 15:25 <@Dagmar> Oh damn 15:26 <@Dagmar> A shame all thieves aren't that stupid 15:27 <@Dagmar> oddball: If the filter was put on the line in the last couple of days then it's pretty clear they fucked up with their auditing again, like they did when we were at Blair House 15:27 <@Dagmar> Key word: again 15:41 <@oddball> yep 15:41 <@oddball> Compounded with the fact that there was an area outage for the past couple days. 15:50 -!- rhia [~rhia@50-47-26-252.evrt.wa.frontiernet.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 16:03 -!- rattle [041c8581@tor/regular/rattle] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 16:04 -!- rhia [~rhia@50-47-26-252.evrt.wa.frontiernet.net] has joined #se2600 16:04 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o rhia] by ChanServ 16:06 <@RangerZ> Dagmar: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441395/ you seen this? this seems like something you'd have seen 16:06 < PigBot> Title: Under the Skin (2013) - IMDb (at www.imdb.com) http://tinyurl.com/6gqy32h 16:07 <@RangerZ> scarlett johanson as a sexy alien who picks up and then absorbs guys 16:14 <@RangerZ> http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/09/matrix-director-lilly-wachowski-comes-out-as-a-transgender-woman 16:14 < PigBot> Title: Film director Lilly Wachowski comes out as transgender woman | Film | The Guardian (at www.theguardian.com) http://tinyurl.com/gksotxo 16:15 <@RangerZ> at least lilly seems to not be going the (rainbow bright/angelina jolie from gone in 60 seconds)-hybrid route 16:26 -!- Mirage [~mirage@static-173-57-28-51.dllstx.fios.verizon.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 16:26 -!- scoob [~scoob@fsf/member/scoob] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 16:26 -!- Mirage [~mirage@static-173-57-28-51.dllstx.fios.verizon.net] has joined #se2600 16:26 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Mirage] by ChanServ 16:26 -!- scoob [~scoob@fsf/member/scoob] has joined #se2600 16:32 <@dasunt> We've finally hit acceptance of Transgendered in #se2600: Someone transitions, and we judge her not as a transgendered individual, but by the same high standards of beauty we judge all women with. ;) 16:32 < _NSAKEY> a 16:37 -!- rattle [b89950b4@tor/regular/rattle] has joined #se2600 16:37 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o rattle] by ChanServ 16:42 <@RangerZ> dasunt: honestly, I don't give a flying fuck about how others present themselves as, I mean Evilpig pretends to have a soul, and none of us care 16:44 <@RangerZ> also, I'm _entitled_ to be upset at her for that look, it was insulting to rainbow bright. I was doing god's work defending that defenseless show. 16:44 <@RangerZ> lol 16:52 -!- rattle [b89950b4@tor/regular/rattle] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 19:27 -!- sasquatc3 [~sasquatc4@2601:282:700:3df1:a51d:8cf6:671:dae4] has joined #se2600 19:27 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o sasquatc3] by ChanServ 19:27 -!- sasquatc4 [~sasquatc4@c-50-134-209-49.hsd1.co.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 19:58 < aestetix> RangerZ: yep. 19:58 < aestetix> My reaction to someone announcing they are trans: "I don't care. Good for you, what else you got for me?" 19:59 < aestetix> It's the same as I don't care if you're black unless you start trying to play the race card on me. 20:24 <@RangerZ> http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/18/11264108/simon-pegg-cast-ready-player-one-steven-spielberg 20:24 < PigBot> RangerZ: That URL appears to have no HTML title within the first 20480 bytes. 20:51 <@RangerZ> okay... sleeping 16 out of the last 24 hours... 20:52 <@RangerZ> I can say it definately does the body good ;) 20:52 <@RangerZ> (or the mind at least... compared to the days before it without sleep ... :/ ) 21:07 <@RangerZ> oh god.... "Indiana Jones 5 Gets Crystal Skull Writer" 21:33 <@RangerZ> https://www.rt.com/news/336092-erdogan-against-democracy-freedom/ 21:33 < PigBot> Title: ‘Democracy, freedom and the rule of law’ have no value, Erdogan says — RT News (at www.rt.com) http://tinyurl.com/jtgwua5 21:57 < _NSAKEY> RangerZ: At least George Lucas won't be around to shit this one up, maybe. 21:57 < _NSAKEY> He was the one who insisted on crystal skulls being the plot device for the 4th movie, even after they got debunked. 22:13 <@RangerZ> AFAIK the existance of the crystal skulls is still true 22:14 <@RangerZ> just obviously that there is no ties to link them to aliens/etc 22:14 <@RangerZ> but either way... 'good' I guess... Lucas has been on a tear -trying- to ruin movies 22:15 < _NSAKEY> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull 22:15 < PigBot> Title: Crystal skull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (at en.wikipedia.org) http://tinyurl.com/pox54oc 22:18 <@RangerZ> ohh *shrugs* I knew there were fakes, but I thought there were smaller ones that were real, but 'ehh' 22:42 <@RangerZ> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dad-admits-posing-as-daughters-boyfriend-to-get-nude-pics-of-her_us_56eae069e4b03a640a69cd44 22:42 < PigBot> Title: Dad Admits Posing As Daughter's Boyfriend To Get Nude Pics Of Her (at www.huffingtonpost.com) http://tinyurl.com/h2qey7a 22:42 <@RangerZ> jesus fucking christ 22:43 <@RangerZ> and it is NOT a 'good parent' trying to teach her a lesson... he was actually just being a creep ... he's facing 250 years... and I don't know if that is long enough 22:48 -!- robogoat [~robogoat@ec2-54-164-147-50.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 22:55 -!- robogoat [~robogoat@ec2-54-164-147-50.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has joined #se2600 22:57 -!- robogoat [~robogoat@ec2-54-164-147-50.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has quit [Client Quit] 22:57 -!- robogoat [~robogoat@ec2-54-164-147-50.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has joined #se2600 23:35 -!- klixa [~klixa@unaffiliated/klixa] has quit [Quit: ...] 23:55 -!- Catonic [~catonic@adsl-98-83-44-212.bhm.bellsouth.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] --- Log closed Sat Mar 19 00:00:08 2016