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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10350 on: February 11, 2017, 03:31:16 pm »
Trying to get programs to work on Linux...

I knew that it would take some work and that not everything would work at all but finding out that people on the net have succeeded in things that I can't do and that I am not even smart enough to follow their instructions is frustrating.
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10351 on: February 11, 2017, 04:14:08 pm »
Dear news feed,

Alright already! Tom Brady is the GOAT! I get it! Could you please talk about something else?

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Want p*** off the people praising him left and right?  Just say the Pats only won because of an OT coin toss.  I got my own mother to curse me out for that one!
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10352 on: February 18, 2017, 08:32:40 am »
My wife got misgendered three times by random strangers in the last few days, one of whom called her "faggot" and one of whom was some jerkass street preacher type.

GRRRRRR!

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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10353 on: February 18, 2017, 04:06:31 pm »
Can't help you with that buddy.  You've got two choices though.  Learn to live with it and be forever annoyed or CHANGE THE UNIVERSE!

Ironbite-the latter is more satisfying btw.

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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10354 on: February 18, 2017, 05:31:12 pm »
Maybe solving the problem in traditional tyrannosaur fashion by eating the offender is in order next time.

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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10355 on: February 18, 2017, 05:40:52 pm »
Go for it, random!
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10356 on: February 18, 2017, 09:33:07 pm »
Hyper-christian people I live with listening to radio, Ken Ham commercial comes on where he equates allowing gay marriage with allowing poly-marriage (which I only have problems with for the inheritance-type issues it creates), allowing child marriage, and allowing marriage to animals. I objected, saying the words "consenting adults", but was immediately shouted down and told they weren't gonna argue the issue with me.
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10357 on: February 18, 2017, 10:31:18 pm »
Hyper-christian people I live with listening to radio, Ken Ham commercial comes on where he equates allowing gay marriage with allowing poly-marriage (which I only have problems with for the inheritance-type issues it creates), allowing child marriage, and allowing marriage to animals. I objected, saying the words "consenting adults", but was immediately shouted down and told they weren't gonna argue the issue with me.
Which, of course, is a sign they know they'd lose. "Don't confuse us with logic" and all that.
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10358 on: February 18, 2017, 10:44:22 pm »
Its more of a "we're your elders, and you don't have the privilege of sharing your opinions or trying to convince us of them, so shut up and listen to HIS radio at the house and The Patriot on the road."
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10359 on: February 19, 2017, 02:36:20 am »
Can't help you with that buddy.  You've got two choices though.  Learn to live with it and be forever annoyed or CHANGE THE UNIVERSE!

Ironbite-the latter is more satisfying btw.

Change the universe sounds good. BRB, making contact with Dagda.
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10360 on: February 23, 2017, 04:45:04 am »
My continuing arguments over Fallout setting have lead to people claiming to me that the US prison industry making profits is proof that it is economical for the Legion to capture slaves and work them to death...
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10361 on: February 23, 2017, 08:40:23 am »
I"m sorry what?

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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10362 on: February 23, 2017, 02:29:29 pm »
...What the fuck?

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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10363 on: February 23, 2017, 02:51:59 pm »
A power outage managed to find that split-second when my hard drive, despite my not actively using it, was writing, probably to virtual memory, before my UPS kicked in.

As a result my partition table was knocked out of whack, the drive won't boot (or even be recognized by the BIOS) and I have over 3000 bad blocks (of 490 million, but still), rendering one of the partitions unreadable (thankfully not one with anything I'd be particularly sad to lose). So now I have to hope that I can edit the partition table properly (via an external box on another machine) to get the drive bootable again, and then clone it to a new internal hard drive, because if I can't get the drive to boot, I'll have to get a new internal HD and reinstall the OS entirely.

EDIT: Well, after a few reboots, a false start due to a data cable getting in the way of the CPU fan, and some repairs with a Windows install CD, I got my old drive to boot. Now I just have to hope the clone goes off properly so that I won't be booting from a drive with bad sectors.

At least dd apparently won't clone a larger disk onto a smaller one using the command from the website I'm following, and the new internal HD I got is larger than the one I already have, both of which are larger than my laptop's HD, so I should just have to be careful not to overwrite my old HD with my laptop's data, as that would be a Very Bad Thing.

Augh, I hope this works.

EDIT #2: Hurrah! Except for some loss of data on my least critical partition (almost all of which was backed up elsewhere, and what little wasn't backed up isn't a big loss), I've got my desktop back up and running the same as before, except now my HD is twice as big.

Now to hope that another power disruption doesn't fry this drive...
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Re: Things That Annoy You
« Reply #10364 on: February 24, 2017, 09:10:23 pm »
When people mispronounce Latin.  It is skee-oh and wi-tray-uus, not sai-oh and vih-tree-uus.  (Foe 'scio' and 'vitreus,' respectively.)
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