Aran

I use no Desktop icons, but Wine generates some automatically. That results in the paradox that all icons on my Debian desktop are Windows programs.

Also, I've abandoned Gnome in favor of LXDE on enki (the desktop). metis (laptop) still has Ubuntu 11.10 and Gnome 3.

Awww

*hug*

 

I have discovered that SSH can do anything. I imagine ssh --coffee would make coffee for you, and RSA encrypt it so Alice and Bob can't spike it.

I just ran "ssh --coffee", and a few seconds later my mom entered the room with a cup of coffee. IT WORKED O_O

Quick, let me google for 2016 polls.

 

ssh -D 10000 username@server.not.inside.college.net

 

then tell your browser to use a SOCKSv5 proxy at 127.0.0.1 port 10000

Thanks, I had no idea you could use SSH for SOCKS tunneling. Very useful for the reverse - tunneling into college network from home for access to scientific journals. So far I forwarded X, opened Firefox remotely and cursed at the latency.

 

 

I want it on record that Aran compared Republicans to vermin.

To be accurate, I didn't compare. I used a metaphorical allegory.

But seriously, I just like Kafka

The rape comment you refer to was a gaff by one senate candidate, roundly condemned by everyone in the party (they also unsuccessfully tried to get him to bow out of the race after he said it). It makes no sense at all to link that incident to the presidential candidates, which it sounds like you may be doing.

Wait, when you say "one senate candidate" are you referring to Todd Aikin in Missouri, Tom Smith in Pennsylvania or Richard Mourdoch in Indiana?

Though specifically, I admit it was Aikin who said the bit about rape not causing pregnancy. Smith was the one who compared rape pregnancy to having a baby out of wedlock, and Mourdoch was the one who said rape pregnancy was a divine gift. Fairly sure I'm leaving out a few others who may or may not be running for senate.

It's gaffetopia.

I haven't voted yet, but I am tomorrow and it's not like i'm going to wake up a republican so

As Sylae awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, she found herself transformed in her bed into---

(Apologies to Kafka.)

Here in Pennsylvania, we have the option to write the name of anyone we choose in place of the candidates on the ballot. The father of a friend of mine was accidentally elected tax assessor this way.

What happens if John Smith gets elected?

Edit: Well, I suppose politics would get a lot more awesome.

Replacing the electoral system with a popular vote for presidential elections would just mean that the winner will always have at least around 50+ε% of the popular vote as opposed to the occasional 50-ε% (for 0<ε<1). It might make the elections more exciting right up to the end, and cause campaign spending to be more, well, evenly spread, but it won't ultimately do anything against the fact that ~49% of people will still be outvoted on election day, and ~95% will feel inadequately represented by the given options.

Where a national popular vote could really help is in the US Congress. If the state representatives were supplemented by federally elected ones, you could vote for pretty much any party and have your vote influence the outcome (and not harm the major party you consider the lesser evil). Getting smaller parties into the legislature would probably ensure that no single party ever got an absolute majority again, and all issues would have to be multipartisan ones.

Dikiyoba could also derail this thread by complaining about all the decidedly non-friendly stuff in MLP:FIM, but that probably not go over as well.

Only a few episodes in (and leaving out all the deleted ones) I haven't gotten to any decidedly unfriendly stuff. But the heavy-handed "believe in what you don't understand" message in S1E15 was jarring. Respecting people with religious belief does not entail respecting belief, let alone adopting it, in my view.

Hasbro has been remarkably chill about said youtube videos existing.

Many of the links no longer work, though.

So are they all, all honorable men.

You got me!

No, wait.

Okay, okay.

Nate Silver disagrees, and explained how the effect of voter disenfranchisement laws can be overestimated.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/measuring-the-effects-of-voter-identification-laws/

(Worth noting that the HP article you linked is over a year old, and several of the states, like Wisconsin, have since struck down the laws mentioned.)

salvete

Used to add enough sugar to turn it into syrup (also tried all kinds of flavoring from caramel, vanilla, chocolate to irish cream). Now I just add a shot of milk.

I've had pure black coffee in emergencies (eg. "the milk has congealed but I need awake right now"). The first sip is almost electrifying. Maybe I should do that more often.

In any case, either my tastebuds are crud or all our coffee tastes basically the same. I can tell the difference between brew and instant, but all other distinctions are lost.

I will be taking an indefinite leave of absence from Spiderweb effective three months ago.

The Richard White Cult acknowledges your announcement, as of this time last year starting next Tuesday.

As if I needed more reasons to adore Joss.

I know I made an account, and I probably posted once or twice. Never really stuck around, though.

And now that I tried to go there, it seems the forum doesn't load. It's still http://calref.net/ , right? Odd...

I think we're now manely done with the puns, neigh?

(Oh dear, I think I'm infected.)

I don't hear anything either. Is it really at the end of the video, or at the end of the animation before the credits?

It's at the end of the animation before the credits, and it's hard to pick out.

 

Dikiyoba knows that Trine shares several sound effects with Spiderweb games.

On a totally off-topic note, how did you do that? I can't even quote myself without making an HTML mess.

Edit: Oooooh! I see this newfangled and mildly irritating wysiwyg editor is good for something after all.

It's disconcerting to have Sylae doing these things instead of Aran. Next thing you know she'll be manufacturing her own bots.

 

... It occurs to me that the Refuge has grown in influence lately. Perhaps I am too late with my warning. Perhaps I am one of them.

Perhaps I am. You know I'm a bot. Maybe she built me?

But seriously, it's very relieving not to be the coder on call whenever the boards are on fire or something. Four hooves are better than none, or however that goes.

Yeah, plus the memberbase has changed a bit since 2008, as well as the times when people are active. I mean one of those spikes has got to be due to Vergil, and he hasn't forumed in a while. Really, the forums themselves don't get much love since everyone is in the chat.

Ever since SV stagnated and it was CalRef's turn to become the foremost (and now only) satellite, I've felt a little twinge that I didn't get in on it earlier. Now there's all this history and I'd feel like an outsider.

I'll probably archive the old forums in the near future, but I don't know of any immediate plans to remove them.