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/dev/random / Re: AMC's The Walking Dead - Official Thread

« on: December 02, 2015, 09:31:39 AM »

I can ruin the whole thing for you.


https://youtu.be/jR4lLJu_-wE "La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum"

https://youtu.be/-6BsMzc9mMs "Der der der der der!"

https://youtu.be/I0BnadYbLIU " I hope you're not afraid of owls 'cause I'm getting you one."

 


https://youtu.be/Q9aM9Ch97U8 "la jiggy jar jar doo"

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: December 02, 2015, 09:09:04 AM »

SpaceX wants to land next booster at Cape Canaveral - http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/spacex/2015/12/01/spacex-wants-land-next-booster-cape-canaveral/76576142/

I will be about 4-5 miles away from its landing spot so I will be watching that sucker very closely.   It will be great if they can pull it off, but with any thing that is new, their can be unexpected results.

They've proved they can find the target, now all they have to do is keep it upright.

I don't know how much money reusable boosters are going to save them. Considering the amount of inspection that's going to be needed to prepare the used boosters and engines for another flight, they could have concentrated on making less expensive boosters to begin with. Compare the cost of servicing a reusable shuttle and strapping it back on to a fuel tank and SRBs.

All the private companies have yet to re-launch a used booster. They'll have to prove they can launch, recover, re-launch over many cycles without a great big kaboom before they'll ever get people on board. It will be as exciting as the Redstone days.

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weapons / Re: The Alamo - WoD 7 Hook Solution

« on: November 01, 2015, 01:41:23 AM »

Unless there's a cvar for it the laser hook may not be available. I'll take a look at the mod but don't get your hopes up. Any idea where the source code is available? Lithium uses the laser hook and WoDX has both but that's the only mod that uses both at the same time.

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weapons / Re: The Alamo - WoD 7 Hook Solution

« on: October 30, 2015, 01:50:19 PM »

This the same bind that WOD:LOX uses. This is the slow, parasite-tongue hook. Players using this on a WoD7 server where others are using the Lithium style hook places them at a disadvantage. You would be better to show how to use the Lithium style.

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: October 13, 2015, 08:37:37 PM »

Growing up, we'd steal dad's older issues and hide in the basement reading the articles.

A corprorate exec, he had a membership and would get a free issue at the club after a dinner there. I know he did Chicago and New York a couple of times. After I turned 18 we did Lake Geneva a couple of times.

I worked in Burlington Wisconsin for a few years and the factory was full of women. I was 21-24 and most-eligible bachelor. Several moms were always lobbying me to date their daughters. Knowing their mothers first, I had a view of their futures and that vision didn't appeal. The cutest girl in the place was the gal who cleaned the lunch/break area three times a day. Ida was her name. Rumor was she had a 6 foot, 230 pound boyfriend but she seemed pretty shy around me. I never did try to date her, even in 1978 when it was still ok to fish in the company pond.

I got married in 1979 and as a treat my dad took us all to the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva as a last hurrah before they closed it and sold it off. He wanted my new bride to experience it too since she had no clue. Sure enough, who do you suppose is our bunny waitress but Ida, saying hi to me by name. (Mom's eyes grew big at that one.)

Shit! She was damned perfect in that bunny uniform. Table wiper and mop pusher in a lunch room by day, Playboy bunny by night. I'll always regret not dating her back then. But then, who knows how that might have gone.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2015-2016 Football Season Thread

« on: September 03, 2015, 01:55:28 PM »

There was a strip club near here called Deja Vu. The religionistas picketed it many times to make it go away. Lots of controversy for many years until this year where the economy and internet porn did the job that protests and complaints to city hall couldn't.

Now Deja Vu is no more, closed due to slow business. It's been replaced by a Gay-Straight-Friendly bar that serves alcohol and who knows what else, 7 days a week.

Always interesting to see consequences of actions as history unfolds.

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Jokes / Re: Funny Pictures

« on: September 03, 2015, 01:47:10 PM »

If they can't win they're overpaid underachievers with bad coaching. Fire them all and start over. 

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Science / Re: Could you find "Interview with a vampire" movie ? Mandela effect ?

« on: August 04, 2015, 06:55:07 PM »

It was "Interview with the Vampire". Unless iTunes got it wrong.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/interview-vampire-vampire/id279599100

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Q2 Training Camp / Re: Anticheat for Q2Pro - should I use it?

« on: July 29, 2015, 04:44:23 PM »

Anticheat is not malware. It uses encryption and compression techniques to make it hack-resistant because cheaters would try to circumvent it if the code was open. Anti-malware software considers these techniques to be potential malware. You can safely tell your anti-virus software to allow Anticheat and pull it out of quarantine.

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Quake / Re: Installing Anti-Cheat.

« on: July 22, 2015, 12:57:20 AM »

Hmmmmm... At no time in any of your posts did you identify the client you were using, but this is everyone else's fault, of course.

And it only took how many weeks to discover this?

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Jokes / Re: Pseudoscientific Audiophile Reviews

« on: July 14, 2015, 07:22:23 PM »

HDMI and USB (if used properly) shouldn't have any audible noise. Any interference should merely drop some data being transmitted. Unless you are modulting analog shit through USB (for which it is also used once in a while). Correct me if I'm wrong, that is.

Only when using the tellurium-gold high noise-immunity extra heavy duty error correcting high vinyl content cables. 

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Quake / Re: Installing Anti-Cheat.

« on: June 23, 2015, 07:50:33 PM »

Hi! I'm Th0m@s29, I'm a clueless newb when it comes to Anticheat so I'll start things off by writing a hopeless request for help in such a way as to alienate everyone who has the knowledge to help me. I'll also guarantee my own failure by not reading any documentation on the topic.

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: May 16, 2015, 06:08:29 PM »

I think body cameras are needed for all cops.  This will not only catch if they are doing something wrong, but it can also show when they are doing things right.  Body cameras are expensive and they may not always get the view you need, but I think it is worth the investment.

Body cameras are still problematic. San Diego California just had a fatal shooting of a man, reported to have threatened a store clerk with a knife, by a police officer who failed to turn on his body camera. NO VIDEO of the shooting from a body cam, NO KNIFE found on the dead man or on the scene, just a scabbard.

The camera in this case was a waste of money, time and effort.

There is also nothing preventing an officer from NOT turning on his camera, beating the snot out of you to the point of death.

Four Fullerton California police officers were acquitted of murder by a jury even after the primary perpetrator was heard ON AUDIO RECORDER to have threatened the victim with great bodily harm while putting on his gloves and the four officers were ON SURVEILLANCE VIDEO seen to beat and stomp and kick the victim while the victim was heard to plead for his life. The victim died in the hospital of his injuries with severe head trauma.

Albuquerque PD officers shot a retreating homeless man IN THE BACK six times at close range with an assault rifle and fired beanbag rounds at him after he was dead. ALL OF THE ACTION RECORDED on police body and helmet cameras. The officers were given paid administrative leave.

Technology isn't the remedy. The cure is to hold police accountable for criminal acts committed against people they encounter in the line of duty. Technology might help with evidence but when there is no conviction even when the evidence shows blatant criminality there is a serious problem in our society.

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: April 28, 2015, 03:45:43 AM »

In my college days I could read at 20000 to 25000 wpm for speed and slowed to 5000 or 6000 wpm for technically difficult topics. I guess my speed listening skills are inadequate since I found this totally incomprehensible and a little bit offensive since they're talking over each other. I fail to see how this can be considered productive or conducive to a clear, well-considered and correct conclusion. Are these our future legislators? I hope not.

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: April 02, 2015, 11:11:36 PM »

 

 

LMFAO