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Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 11:49 pm
by Flagg
Yet c02 levels are at the highest in record, the climate is warming rapidly, and oceans will rise.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 11:53 pm
by magic princess
Yes, Flagg. It's just intensely likely that this will bring about a planetary response in a completely unpredicted fashion.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 11:55 pm
by magic princess
My favourite one would be uncontrollable endless peat bog fires in Russia and Canada which fill the atmosphere with so much choking soot that it drives temperature down. Fires in those bogs were long expected to be the closest thing to actual nuclear winter the world would get in a nuclear exchange, and as that part of the world starts to dry and warm, there is a real potential there for wildfires on an unfathomably vast scale which would serve to cool the globe down with a vast injection of particular matter into the atmosphere -- and condemn the industrial northern hemisphere to a perpetual mud of London 1880s industrial smog, but fed by nature.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 12:09 am
by Flagg
You know what would be funny? If Marshal Applewhite was totally right about everything but the castration.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 12:13 am
by evilsoup
Flagg wrote:You know what would be funny? If Marshal Applewhite was totally right about everything but the castration.
???
who?

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 12:27 am
by Flagg
Cult leader who led a mass suicide in the nineties. They thought a spaceship was in the tail of comet hale bop and if they killed themselves they would be beamed aboard. Hilarious.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 1:35 am
by Oxymoron
magic princess wrote:My favourite one would be uncontrollable endless peat bog fires in Russia and Canada which fill the atmosphere with so much choking soot that it drives temperature down. Fires in those bogs were long expected to be the closest thing to actual nuclear winter the world would get in a nuclear exchange, and as that part of the world starts to dry and warm, there is a real potential there for wildfires on an unfathomably vast scale which would serve to cool the globe down with a vast injection of particular matter into the atmosphere -- and condemn the industrial northern hemisphere to a perpetual mud of London 1880s industrial smog, but fed by nature.
Well, you know what ?

It's time to invest in gasmask companies ! #CapitalistPig

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 1:36 am
by Oxymoron
Also, I leave you guys for a days, and you write me two fucking pages of philosphical essays ?

...

*wipe tears away* I'm so proud of y'all...

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:49 am
by RogueIce
Darksi4190 wrote:
RogueIce wrote: You got some details on those Jaina Solo books you mentioned? I've always liked the character so I'm curious. Hopefully they don't fuck it up. For all that it matters as the new movies may or may not render her non-canon anyway.
The series is called "Sword of the Jedi," and is supposed to be Jaina-centric, but i'm not hopeful. The author, Christie Golden, was the worst of the three authors involved in the "Fate of the Jedi" series. Alliston and Denning's books were at least entertaining to read, even if they were saddled by the overall "the galaxy is once again in peril" plot mandated by the editors. Alliston and Denning were able to do decent characterization, good action, and Alliston had his trademark humor. Golden's books had none of this. Maybe they just suffered because she was the middle writer, but her books are also noticeably shorter than the others. It just doesn't seem like she put much effort into writing them. According to Wookiepedia, FotJ is also the first thing she's ever done for the Star Wars franchise. I like Jaina as a character as well, and I really wish they were giving this series to a more veteran author.
Reading UA's analysis of Warcraft lore it seems she's not a whole lot better over there, either. Which is sad. :(

I mean if they wanted a female author for some reason, go get A. C. Crispin. Otherwise yeah, I'd go for Allston (no I in his name you know), Zahn, Denning or any of the other vets.

I wouldn't even be adverse to them finding some other author but I don't read much SF outside of Star Wars so I couldn't name any names.
Oxymoron wrote:Also, I leave you guys for a days, and you write me two fucking pages of philosphical essays ?

...

*wipe tears away* I'm so proud of y'all...
Oh go shave your smelly neck beard already. :v

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:13 pm
by Flagg
Is SDN down for everyone or is it just me?

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:13 pm
by Gands
Down for me too.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:19 pm
by Flagg
Gands wrote:Down for me too.
Thanks.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:56 pm
by evilsoup

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:21 pm
by Darksi4190
that's the second time in like a month. Maybe the server's getting ready to shit the bed again?

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:22 pm
by Flagg
I think Mike is off doing something out of town too.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:26 pm
by Oxymoron
I suppose having a consumer-grade computer running 24/7 might do bad things for its life expectancy.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 5:06 pm
by Losonti Tokash
pretty sure the last downtime was due to someone attacking the server so

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 5:08 pm
by Oxymoron
The time before that was hardware failure. Dead hard disk drive, IIRC.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:43 pm
by Oxymoron

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vlcaJMBP4fE


http://youtube.com/watch?v=RQrYN5u6pSk

The Femen pissing off the French far-right during their annual celebration of Jeanne d'Arc.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 7:41 am
by Bounty
Oxymoron wrote:I suppose having a consumer-grade computer running 24/7 might do bad things for its life expectancy.
Running 24/7 is actually easier on the hardware than frequent restarts from cold.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:46 pm
by Oxymoron
For a consumer grade SATA hdd too ?

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:08 pm
by xon
It's change in temperature which have the biggest impact on hard drive livespan, doesn't matter if it is fancy enterprise stuff or consumer grade.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:52 pm
by Civil War Man
The main thing that differentiates the enterprise and consumer grade computers is that the consumer stuff tends to use cheaper hardware. The hardware still functions by the same rules, but the consumer grade stuff tends to fail faster because it wasn't built with longevity in mind.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 4:24 pm
by Darksi4190
Grades for the semester are in. A- in English, B+ in history. Not my best school semester, but it's certainly in the top ten.

Re: Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 4:29 pm
by Darksi4190
Question for Straha. As a Vegan, would you be opposed to eating This stuff? I mean it's technically meat and technically alive, but it's entirely lab-grown and possesses no consciousness whatsoever.