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| 2006/2/17 [Uncategorized] UID:41897 Activity:nil |
2/17 Ah, punk rock humor
http://www.nothingnice.com/images/rockcity/20060217b.jpg
(from: http://rainofbastards.livejournal.com |
| 2006/2/17 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack] UID:41898 Activity:nil |
2/17 jblack, what the fuck is wrong with your obsession with
Able Danger? Are you a bipolar? Borderline personality?
OCD is likely. You should see a shrink. Seriously.
\_ In ten years, I'll still be bitter about the Bush presidency, and
I'll still be angry at the fuckers who voted for him and the
bastards who helped him steal the elections. I don't fault jblack
for his passion, only for being on the wrong side.
\_ I dunno, what is wrong with his obession? I'm curious why you
have such an obsession with jblack. Is it love?
\_ Maybe it's a Brokeback Mountain thing?
\_ God, I wish I knew how to quit jblack!
\_ God, I wish I knew how to make jblack quit!
\_ That's it, blame the victim.
\_ He shouldn't have snuck up from behind without
announcing his presence. |
| 2006/2/17 [Recreation/Activities] UID:41899 Activity:kinda low |
2/17 Amazing recovery for double figure skating Zhangs:
http://csua.org/u/f0d (YouTube.com, Olympics footage)
\_ They pulled the video.
\_ hmm, three day old gay Chinese news...is cmlee back?
\_ The only useful thing about your post is that it fit in 80cols.
\_ Chineses are taking over our forum! I hate chineses so much!
\_ Missed it, thanks for posting.
\_ skating to the tune of "Descendants of the Dragon". |
| 2006/2/17-20 [Transportation/Car] UID:41900 Activity:high |
2/17 This week's Powerball is $365M. Is there a CSUA Powerball group-buy?
http://www.slate.com/id/114577
\_ Why, can't CSUA members do math?
\_ Dang, you took my joke.
\_ It depends on the value you put on different amounts of
money. What is $1M worth to you relative to $1? 1Mx?
More? Less?
\_ Agreed. This is the same reason why people want to buy
insurance even though they already know the cost is higher
than the expected value of the return.
\_ Actually most people are forced to have insurance. CA
requires car insurance. My bank requires me to have
home insurance. My company is required to provide me
with health insurnace, etc.
\_ True to some extent. CA only requires liability car
insurance. You can work as a contractor to get
higher wage and no health insurance. I don't know of
anything that requires life insurance, umbrella
insurance, or vacation travel insurance.
\_ Even though sometimes the math vs the odds don't
work out in your favor on insurance, the real
world cost of replacing the item if you're
unlucky is too high to risk not paying for the
insurance which you can actually afford. If the
odds of my house being destroyed by some event
were near zero but the insurance against that
event was $10/year, I'd still pay the $10 to
be protected against an oddball event because the
$10 is nothing but I'd really really really miss
my house if it got hit by a meteor, for example.
OTOH, as an insurance company, it is to their
benefit to allow cheap but not statistically
useful insurance payments because they can play
the odds and come out ahead anyway even if the
event happens, forcing the unlikely payout. An
individual can't afford to lose the meteor
strike bet but can afford to buy the insurance.
(No I don't have meteor insurance). My house is
in a "once per hundred year flood zone" which is
their way of saying I shouldn't ever get flooded
and they won't sell me flood insurance, but if it
was available and $10 a year I'd take it since
Shit Happens and there is a stream/river 25 yards
away.
\_ Flood insurance wouldn't be $10/year, it
would be approximately ((replacement cost
of house)-(value of having your capital
over time)/100)+(profit margin). That is
likely to work out to several hundred dollars
a year at least. They don't offer the
insurance because no one would buy it at
that cost; if they could profitably offer
it for $10/year, they would. -tom
\_ Living in a 1/100 per year flood zone means
that there is about a 26% chance (.99^30)
that it will flood before the house is even
paid off. -ausman
\_ "Once per hundred year flood zone" is
insurance jargon for "it would take an
act of god to flood this place since
there's no place for a flood to come
from". They don't literally mean it
floods every 100 years. It hasn't flooded
in the known history of this region. So,
they actually could make a profit at $10/
year but things go against them because
if there is an act of god, they're stuck
covering it for a lousy 10 bucks. The
profit margin is too low to take the risk,
even though the risk is *essentially* zero,
it isn't truly zero. Anyway, I've got a
bucket and know how to swim if it goes
that way. :-)
\_ You have no idea what you're talking
about. The entire insurance business
is built on amortizing costs over
time and across their entire customer
base. They are *very good* at
computing the probabilities of claims
against their policies and the
cost/benefits thereof.
http://www.fema.gov/fhm/fq_term.shtm#frequt2
-tom
\_ Of course I don't. I'm only telling
you what my insurance guy told me,
but I'm sure you're smarter than he
is and know exactly what the flood
conditions are in my area. YOU ARE
PERFECT! HOW CAN I BE YOU?!
\_ 100-year floodplains are set
by FEMA engineers based on
historical and archaeological
data, not by the insurance
companies. Is your insurance
guy a water systems engineer?
-tom
\_ He doesn't have to be. Why
would you think that? Are
the FEMA records top secret?
I still want to always be
right like you no matter how
trivial and meaningless the
point. How can I achieve your
absolute level of perfection?
You have never been wrong about
anything. I admire that.
\_ If the FEMA records say
you're in a 100-year flood
zone, that means they
believe there's about a 1%
chance per year that your
house will be flooded.
It's quite simple. And
your entire argument that
you've spent 25-30 lines
describing is completely
meaningless as long as
that is true. So why don't
you admit *you* are wrong
instead of being both
idiotic and smug? -tom
\_ Why not just admit you're
wrong?
\_ Tom, are you a Bayesian or a
Frequentist?
\_ The Russian River area has had two "100
year" floods in the last decade. -ausman
\_ Don't forget tax.
\_ Well, I do value $1 I have more that $1M I'll never
have.
\_ can californians play? how?
\_ I assume there would be CSUAers in Powerball states.
\_ How do you prevent getting screwed in a group buy?
\- [The state lottery is] a public subsidy of intelligence
[since] it yields public income that is calculated to
lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the
expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
--WVO Quine |
| 2006/2/17 [Uncategorized] UID:41901 Activity:nil |
2/17 Dick Cheney plays counterstrike:
http://www.myextralife.com/archive.php?date=2006-02-17 |
| 2006/2/17-18 [Recreation/Dating] UID:41902 Activity:very high |
2/17 The women reported on average 8.6 lifetime sexual partners.
The men claimed 31.9. How about YOU?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060217/sc_space/whymenreportmoresexpartnersthanwomen
\_ It all depends on what the definition of "is" is.
\_ Yermom breastfeeding you does not count
\_ What about you dickfeeding yermom?
\_ First one she enjoyed me sucking her breasts but no genital sex
(Does she count?); second one being my gf and we had handjobs and
orals but no vaginal or anal penetration; third one I penetrated her
vagina with my fingers on two nights without her knowledge while she
had literally wet dreams; fourth one being my wife and we do
everything. So a total of 4.
\_ Wow. Do you often molest people while they sleep? You == broken
in der kopf.
\_ First one I sucked her breasts but no genital sex (Does she count?);
second one we had handjobs and orals but no vaginal or anal
penetration; third one I penetrated her vagina with my fingers on
two nights without her knowledge while she had literally wet dreams;
fourth one being my wife and we do everything. So a total of 4.
\_ Good enough for that FDA dude bush appointed!
\_ No, just those two times.
\_ That sounds like a total of 2 teen age learning encounters,
1 very creepy and disturbing non consentual act, and 1 wife.
\_ Two in college years, two after college.
\_ creepy is as creepy does. doesnt matter what age.
\_ what's your problem? his gf went to bed naked with him.
what's wrong with a little fingering?
\_ No, #3 was my friend's gf which I had a crush on.
She didn't sleep naked; she's wearing loose shorts.
\_ So you actually did commit a sex crime.... Now
it really truly is creepy in a "not just on the
motd" way.
\_ I stopped counting at 50. It is not that many more than that though.
\_ thou shalt not commit fornication!
\_ I do not like to fornicate!
\_ You can marry and divorce several times.
\_ I do not like divorce.
\_ Become a mormon then.
\_ 1
\_ 1.1 (the .1 was for just making out)
\_ I remember reading a study finding that people with more pre marriage
relationships tend to have more problems maintaining a marriage.
One of the reasons given was that these people are more quick to
want to break up and give up. A more fragile ego?
\_ I remember reading a study finding that people with more pre
marriage relationships tend to have more problems maintaining a
marriage. One of the reasons given was that these people are more
quick to want to break up and give up. A more fragile ego?
\_ My completely non-scientific study of people I've known said
that those who started having sex in HS or earlier were unable
to establish LTRs and their lives were giant messes in other
areas as well. What does this mean? Probably nothing. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Health/Skin] UID:41903 Activity:nil |
2/17 Photo of Whittington. Okay, the holes are from individual pieces of
shot, but what about the dark red on his neck?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060217/480/txpi20402172040
\_ it's called "blood"
\_ so you're saying the shot impacted but did not penetrate
(shirt collar?), thus causing the bruising?
\_ shots that penetrate can cause bruising, too.
\_ okay, I don't know anyone who's been hit with birdshot
before so I wouldn't know. But look at his neck:
I count 3 holes, and for some reason there's a circle
of healthy-looking skin around each hole. As for his face,
I see plenty of holes, but little bruising.
\_ There is substantial bruising. The yellowish
discoloration on his cheek leading to the neck is
evidence of bruising. The "healthy circles" is
blistering where the settled blood from the bruising
has been forced out.
\_ probably suctioned out? I see the yellow now too.
\_ Think more like a pimple or blister. The red
background makes it stand out more. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Recreation/Humor] UID:41904 Activity:nil |
2/17 Cheney cartoon. Pretty damn funny.
http://csua.org/u/f0q
\_ Who are you, far-left poor taste in humor guy?
\_ f0q!
\_ Thanks for the laugh. |
| 2006/2/17-20 [Computer/Networking] UID:41905 Activity:nil |
2/17 I have a weird Firefox/802.11b interaction problem. When I'm
connected via the wire, Firefox works perfectly. But when I'm
connected via 802.11b and submit HTML forms, it hangs and
doesn't go to the next page. I'm suspecting it's buffer not
being flushed or something, or HTTP Keep Alive bug? This
doesn't happen on IE, which works fine on both wire & 802.11b
\_ are you connecting through the same routers when you go via
wireless? One thing you might try is setting your MTU to
something smaller than the default (1500 for ethernet)... like
say try 1300. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Recreation/Sports] UID:41906 Activity:nil |
2/17 Is there a game review site this isn't basically a direct extension of
the industry (a la gamespot and IGN) and aimed at an audience other
than mouthbreathers?
\_ is OLD MAN MURRAY still around?
\_ wow. last update was in jan 2002. i totally forgot about that
site after i graduated from college. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Academia/Berkeley/Ocf] UID:41907 Activity:nil |
2/17 What happened to the WEB in Evans Basement? Where is the OCF now?
\_ The WEB is now EMF, a Windows drop-in facility. The OCF is
in the MLK student union building. -tom
\_ what about 260 evans?
\_ 260 Evans was subdivided; it was split into a computer
training facility and the WSSG office. Now that IST has
moved out, it's probably temporary space for Bancroft
Library stuff. -tom
\_ thanks for the info. tom, are you a fan of race street bikes
or just mountain bikes? The Tour of California is in town.
\_ I'll probably be doing rides to see the Tour of California
on Monday and Tuesday. I'm not really into mountain
biking at all, just mountain unicycling. -tom
\_ Tom, hat do you think about PGCN stock?
\_ I think you should stop looking at "stock tips" which
arrive by email from non-existant addresses. -tom
\_ good one tom.
\_ That's why I am asking you before I invest.
\_ wow, tom has his own #1 Fan. congrats tom!
you've made the big time! I think I'll be
tom's #1 Fan's #1 Fan. ;-)
\_ maybe CSUA should occasionally allow alumni to revisit
Soda and Cory. (it is badge protected, right?)
Does CSUA have (board) gaming nights?
\_ You can get into both those buildings without a card key during
the day. |
| 2006/2/17-20 [Uncategorized] UID:41908 Activity:nil |
2/17 I don't get it, why does the victim of the shooting say he's deeply
sorry for all the hassle that the guy who shot him had to go through?
\_ You think Cheney wouldn't go back to finish the job?
\_ 'Cos Cheney said he didn't mean it, and Whittington knows Cheney
just loves him and wouldn't hurt him, and sometimes Whittington
knows he deserves it.
\_ Ummm.. because they're friends and it was an accident? Are you
an idiot?
\_ Usually when my friend injures me grievously I am mad at
my friend for a while. You must be the Pope.
\_ You seem to have a lot of experiance with your friends
injuring you grievously. Maybe your "friends" are trying
to send you a message. Really, once or twice is an
accident, but...
\_ Because he has no other option?
\_ We can only hope that the next time Cheney shoots someone and puts
him in intensive care, it will be less of a hassle for Cheney.
\_ Let's just say there was some Brokeback action going on the ranch.
\_ And Cheney mis-fired his gun on Whittington's face. Oooh.
\_ And as Whittington was caressing Cheney's gun, Cheney mis-fired
it on Whittington's face. Oooh ... |
| 2006/2/17-20 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:41909 Activity:nil |
2/17 BETTER OFF WITHOUT SADDAM! LALALALALLAL!!!!!11!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_060217165312
\_ Weird... you didn't even read your own link. Whatever.
\_ Wow. Sarcasm detectors are in full on failure today...
\_ Weird... Mormons don't get sarcasm. Whatever.
\_ Uh, whatever. 1) not mormon, 2) your headline has nothing
to do with the link. It's non sequiter, not sarcasm.
\_ So... You're saying you're just stupid?
\_ Obviously, yes, that's exactly what I'm saying since
the way I read the English language is nothing like the
much better way you invented. I just read it like most
other people. The way you read things that aren't
there is truly an innovation worthy of a Bill Gates
company. Have you IPO'd yet?
\_ I'm glad your grasp of English is better than your
Latin. You're still an idiot.
\_ Coming from you that makes me an uber genius. If
I was a Mormon would you love me more or less
than you do now? I still want to invest in your
English language reinterpretation company. What
is your stock ticker?
\_ I didn't make the "mormon" comment. You still
seem to have a broken sarcasm detector. I hear
they have pills for that.
\_ U R TEH KEWL D00DE! KAN EYE B U?
\_ I love it when idiots try to "out" people on the motd.-jrleek
\_ Even better when they're wrong. |
| 2006/2/17-20 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:41910 Activity:nil |
2/17 What's the basic technological difference between EEPROM and
flash? Both program and erase using electricity...
\_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
\_ i thought eeprom erases with uv light
\_ ee = eletrically eraseable.
you are thinking of eprom or just plain shitty prom. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Reference/Law/Court] UID:41911 Activity:nil |
2/17 Here's what REALLY happened. After watching Bareback Mountains
Cheney and the attorney dude decided to go get some loving in
the woods. The attorney dude started fondling another man and
that got Cheney jealous, who fired towards them but not directly
at them. Cheney totally forgot that he was using a shotgun instead
of a rifle and a few pellets hit the dude. The above is the
actual event and everything else we see on media is just
peppered up by Carl Rove.
\- is that a cheep sweedish knock off of Karl Rove? |
| 2006/2/17-20 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:41912 Activity:moderate |
2/17 What does you use for bug tracking? Does it suck? We use Bugzilla now,
but we'd like something that's more customizable and that provides
better reports, of a sort we can send to customers. -gm
\_ Siebel 2000
\_ I use Siebel too, it sucks
\_ We use bugzilla. Being open source, it is very customizable. We
pull data out of it to generate some pretty good statistics
and reports. --dim
\_ The problem with Bugzilla is that you can either customize it
or be able to upgrade easily; you can't have both, as far as
I can tell. As to reports, in my experience you have to write a
bunch of code to get customizable reports out of it. That's not
something we can point our sales people at to get what they
need. -gm
\_ Bug tracking? We don't make bugs.
\_ We just switched from Bugzilla to Jira. It is nice. -ausman
\_ We use Devtrack. It's pretty good at reports and summaries, so I
see why our PM loves it. But speaking as a developer, it sucks.
It is based on the idea of the admin setting up a very strict
work flow and you must fill out all the required form fields and
forward it to the next owner before they can then fill out their
fields and yadda yadda. I can see that for a PM with undisciplined
developers and QA staff, this rigidity is quite nice. But if you
just want to enter a quick issue like "Was not checking for a null
pointer in FooClass.barFunc(). Fixed." Devtrack makes it a major
pain in the ass. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Consumer/Audio] UID:41913 Activity:nil |
2/17 This guy and I are on different subnets in the company. How
do I make iPod share music with him? Thanks.
\_ It's called a router. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Uncategorized] UID:41914 Activity:nil |
2/17 You gotta love it. "Shooting Victim Apologizes To Vice President"
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007707.php
Truly we live in strange times. |
| 2006/2/17-19 [Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:41915 Activity:low |
2/17 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4726300.stm Retirement at 85 and 50-year mortgage may be common by 2050. \_ In Japan it takes three generations to pay off a mortgage. \_ And in America, it takes one generation to pay off three mortgages. Just look at Bill gates, the Waltons, the Enron executives, and the Bush Dynasty. \_ And Soros and the Kennedy family and the Heinz family and the.... What do billionaires have to do with anything? \_ Yes, if pigs had wings, they may fly. |
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