The Testing Chat III: The Time of Great Chatting

[timmy]

Thanks. But I don't even know why. I started the day carrying a bit of sadness and it built until mid afternoon when I was overwhelmed by it.

[weemadando]

Answer: DEPRESSION.

It fucking sucks.

[timmy]

Tru dat

[Phantasee]

Just helped host an event at the UofA yesterday. 550+ students came out to hear the Premier speak.

I think we are doing good.

[RogueIce]

Yo Oxy, as a Certified French Person can you give any details on what's the deal with France's "Three-Strikes" copyright policy? Because that shit sounds pretty damn harsh.

[Oxymoron]

What I can tell you is that what's actually in place has been severely nerfed compared to the original law proposition, which would have given power to HADOPI, an administrative body, the power to cut someone's internet connection as the Third Strike, without any judiciary control.

You can easily understand it's been controversial from its inception.

I'll give you more details when I won't be at work.

[adr]

i just read a thing about hubble tracking an object on earth and it occurred to me that orbital laser bombardment would face some of the same difficulties. now of course spy satellites take pictures of the ground so It can be done, and they allegedly use similar tech to the space telescopes.

the space to ground lasers and the space to space lasers prolly vary not only in wavelength (to better get through the atmosphere) but also in their tracking equipment - the space to ground ones being made to rotate relatively fast like spy satellites while the space to space ones going for extreme precision instead like space telescopes

hell perhaps a hybrid ship could even be the same apparatus operating in a different gear. edit: actually you'd want a coarse gear anyway in the sts weapon perhaps to get to the initial area so cool.

vibrations might not be a big deal in the orbital bombardment. smaller distance (hundreds of kilometers prolly for this) means you can be off a fraction of a degree but still be on target, unlike the thousands or more km of the space to space engagement

though i'd still want to minimize it of course for the surgical precision of my beloved space medical strikes

[Questor]

Did ADR just milwank?

Or did we just see proof that either ADR or Skimmer or Shep is the greatest troll in history?

[Agent Bert Macklin]

Thanks. But I don't even know why. I started the day carrying a bit of sadness and it built until mid afternoon when I was overwhelmed by it.

Would you like me to cheer you up by recording me playing guitar? How about some Sunshine of Your Love?

[Straha]

Were you reading XKCD, adr?

[Flagg]

Were you reading XKCD, adr?

He probably read it on a bathroom stall as he was servicing the glory hole.

[Crazedwraith]

Were you reading XKCD, adr?

goodammit you made me visit xkcd.

now i wonder why it defaults to being massively zoomed in? optimised for mobiles or something.


eta; also i saw nothing of laser death sateilites there. false advertising straha. false advertising

[evilsoup]

Were you reading XKCD, adr?

He probably read it on a bathroom stall as he was servicing the glory hole.

[Darksi4190]

Ok, I give it about five minutes before Mr. Coffee get's dogpiled in N&P.

[Flagg]

Mods will give him a pass because he's drunk or on drugs.

[timmy]

Would you like me to cheer you up by recording me playing guitar? How about some Sunshine of Your Love?

Thanks bro, feeling better today. Love that soung though.

[RyanThunder]

Remind me again why people use anything produced by Apple?

jesus christ what a mess this computer is

[Darksi4190]

Mods will give him a pass because he's drunk or on drugs.

Does he actually have a meth problem? I always thought he was just drunk and you guys were exaggerating.

[timmy]

He doesn't have a meth problem; a few years back he was on medication for a workplace injury that kickstarted his online persona.

[Flagg]

I was jokingly suggesting his drug use could have escalated to methamphetamines. He's probably just drunk and high. As usual.

[Darksi4190]

also color me confused as fuck about this whole Breanna Manning thing since literally none of the sources i'd seen ever acknowledged that he/she was transgendered.

[Aaron]

I don't recall ever hearing it but if it's true, then we ought to give her the courtesy due another human being.

[Darksi4190]

Right now she's owed the courtesy of a fair trial at least. How long did they Keep Manning in prison without charges?

[Oxymoron]

apparently it's been more than a thousand days if the article Straha posted is right.

[Flagg]

Yeah, Manning was charged some time ago.