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  1. Eriol

    Rant VIII: The Reckoning

    FTFY
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    [Question] Got a new box (finally) - Wat do?

    From skimming, definitely more than one type of drive (type of memory I mean) in that stress test.
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    Canadian Politics

    Quebec face-covering ban: CBC: 'I should see your face, and you should see mine,' Quebec premier says of new religious neutrality law Toronto Star: Quebec and its niqab legislation should have stayed out of women’s closets Toronto Sun: Men making women hide Her final line is worth quoting on...
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    [Question] Electrical wiring

    It's because when you're connecting the cord to the outlet itself, you're usually putting a junction in (twisting wires together), and every connection has increased risk. It's considered less risk if it's a pre-manufactured (cord into actual product) than somebody doing it in the house itself...
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    [Question] Got a new box (finally) - Wat do?

    Related old link from March 12, 2015: The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead FYI: for hard drive people, 1TB = 1000GB, and 1PB = 1000TB. You are NOT going to write that much to your hard drive. If you are, you know who you are (heavy-duty video editing of 100s of hours of 4k+ raw...
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    Space engineers, re-done? Or what? Kinda looks like that.
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    The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

    I think it depends on HOW not-to-spec they are. If for example it's a piece of metal that is "punched" into the right form, and then just installed, the weight will be the same, and nobody on the line will have any idea, but its strength could be SEVERELY compromised, and especially its...
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Could an extremely rich PAC (or the like) transfer a bundle of money to a specific person at 11:59:59.999999pm on december 31st to assassinate them?
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    The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

    This is really scary for where metals could have ended up: This Japan Metals Scandal Could Impact The Auto Industry And End Catastrophically Reuters: As crisis at Kobe Steel deepens, CEO says cheating engulfs 500 firms I think that last one is amazingly reckless. Tolerances are all the more...
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    [Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread

    Man in the Moon was just a WEIRD movie... but good. WTF is this? Just how disturbed (or not?) is Carrey? Is he a method actor that goes WAY too far? Or... ??? At the least the trailer has intrigued me. That may or may not be a good thing.
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Fair enough, as long as the mods have an idea of what's happening.
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    [News] The USA Police State will never satisfy its lust for beating, gassing, and imprisoning minorities

    The video in the article itself is very revealing... and disturbing. WTF? Why did he have his gun out to begin with? I don't blame the woman for trying to run from an officer who has their gun out, when she has nothing. Was the officer acting deranged or otherwise disturbed before the video...
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    IIRC you guys have said you have the IPs of anon posters. Is this one person being silly with themselves, or more than one person engaging in this type of sillyness?
  14. Eriol

    [Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

    See if you can get more money, assuming you left amicably. Or did they fire you?
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    The Tech Random Crap Thread

    I wasn't sure where to put this one, so here it is: Canada's 'super secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fighting tool to the public Here's the page on CSE's website. TL;DR; CSE is basically the Canadian NSA. I applied for a job at CSE last year. Got through the hiring process to a...
  16. Eriol

    Funny (political, religious) pictures

    See I actually take this somewhere else entirely. Whenever we used to see "mis-matches" between races and jobs, admissions, etc, it was blamed on either economics (which have racial components, ie: all the races youth didn't start in the same economic state), or people being outright...
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    Canadian Politics

    Our Federal Finance Minister is in hot water recently: The sad part is Morneau was supposed to be the adult at the table So that's a thing recently. There's probably interesting Trump parallels with what's necessary for arms-length for businesses and such, though the laws are assuredly different.
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    [Other] The not so funny pic thread (some NSFL or gore)

    If a deliberate mis-spelling, well done. If not... I dunno what to say. And can somebody please do a left-to-right on who those actors are, and what their roles were? I'm getting some of them, but hardly all.
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    The Tech Random Crap Thread

    Oh I absolutely believe they don't intend a reference, but it's the fact that putting something in your headline that reminds people of a negative thing isn't a good thing either, even if it's critical to the description of what you're doing. Similar to what Bubble was referencing, IMO if you...
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    The Tech Random Crap Thread

    Duck and cover time, Skynet has arrived via Intel: Intel Pioneers New Technologies to Advance Artificial Intelligence - Announcing Industry’s First Neural Network Processor We're doomed. Bye bye humanity! OK I'm being far too dramatic, but it's the NAME of the type of processor which gets...
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