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  1. Eomer

    The Astronomy Thread

    Ding. I'm amazed that flew over his head. At least I know what I'm dealing with, now.
  2. Eomer

    2015 Blackhawks Salary Dump NHL Offseason Thread

    The only two people who truly know what happened are Kane and the chick. We'll never know what really happened.
  3. Eomer

    Windows 10

    I know for a fact it was activated.
  4. Eomer

    2015 Blackhawks Salary Dump NHL Offseason Thread

    Shit just got real weird with the Kane case. Wow.
  5. Eomer

    The Astronomy Thread

    Do Earth and Jupiter look the same to you?
  6. Eomer

    Windows 10

    In my case nothing even changed hardware wise.
  7. Eomer

    Windows 10

    I don't know if that's just in the US, or if Canada is exempted, or if it had something to do with the Win7 key, but you'll see further up this thread that I had a nightmare getting a clean install to activate on a laptop that had previously been upgraded and activated properly. MS support told...
  8. Eomer

    Tablets

    There's no rhyme or reason to the issues with mine. It seems that the WiFi connection is more or less fucked, so watching streaming videos and the like is painful or just impossible. But if the file is on the device, it plays like a champ using VLC or MX Player. Sometimes when it won't connect...
  9. Eomer

    RIP Yogi Berra

    "Make sure you go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." Or something like that. Man was a genius with a turn of phrase.
  10. Eomer

    Fallout 4

    Fuck me. My queue is like 50 games long. Right now I'm just trying to blast through some quick ones like Portal 2 (that was a great way to spend a Saturday!) to feel like I'm making progress. I haven't even played FO3 or NV. But fine, I'll put FO2 on there. I wonder if I can even install the CD...
  11. Eomer

    Fallout 4

    I finished FO1 probably about 5-6 years ago. When it was originally out I played it, but for whatever reason didn't finish it. It was reasonably enjoyable, although the game even then hadn't aged very well. Right after finishing FO1 I tried to play FO2, but I just couldn't stomach how terrible...
  12. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Did she watch?
  13. Eomer

    The Big Short: Pitt, Bale, Carrell do the subprime crisis

    Neat. Really enjoyed the book, but I don't recall it having an actual functional narrative that would work in movie form, so it'll be interesting to see how they piece one together.
  14. Eomer

    Bio Clean for clogged drains and lavatories

    Yeah, my condo building has been giving people either this or a similar product to pour down their drains/stacks when away for a week or two, as it works best when given a few days to do it's thing without getting flushed. I don't really do any service plumbing work, so I can't really comment on...
  15. Eomer

    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    My oldest grampa passed away last year at 101, and I'm pretty sure he would have no idea if one of his grand kids was gay. It just wouldn't have occurred to him. I don't know how he'd have reacted, exactly. He was a Polish immigrant, so quite Catholic. He might have had a big problem with it. He...
  16. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    That was my experience in NYC, as well. Mostly Eastern European and Latin American chicks, a few of whom just looked sad/depressed. Put a damper on the experience. Two of my buds were in the back for hours though, so I guess they had a good time. I left after my second or third $20 vodka redbull...
  17. Eomer

    Volkswagen gets busted.

    I think it'll likely change the way cars are tested for emissions, requiring more "real world" data, and that could certainly impact other manufacturers. I'm sure they're all gaming the tests to one extent or another.
  18. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I guess it can depend on your definition of "exploit". It can be used fairly neutrally, like "exploiting a business opportunity". But in this context I'd think that more negative connotations are implied.
  19. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    C'mon, the customers aren't being exploited. They're walking in there knowing full well what the proposition is, and they willing choose to participate knowing that. On the other hand, the exotic dancing industries in many large cities around the world are well connected with organized crime and...
  20. Eomer

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    Bring guns, please. I take back my namby pamby support for reasonable gun control in light of the impending cometpocalypse.
  21. Eomer

    Volkswagen gets busted.

    They just now did it, and from what I read, that's only to deal with recalls/repairs. It is not for fines or lawsuits, because at this point they have no way of even guessing at how big the bill for that is going to be.
  22. Eomer

    Everest

    Because Everest isn't a fucking amusement park, and the commercialization of the climb there is having very large negative impacts on it in terms of discarded trash, pollution of run off from it being a massive human latrine, and so on. It's turned Everest base camp in to a fucking landfill...
  23. Eomer

    Everest

    Maybe it is. I just think it's horrible what Everest has become: something that a suburban house wife can just up and decide one day to give a shot at. And said suburban house wife is probably lucky that she managed not to kill anyone other than herself through her single-mindedness. I don't...
  24. Eomer

    Gender Integration in the Infantry, and how Robots fight Misogyny

    Yup. You should feel bad.
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    Everest

    At this point, weekend warriors paying 80-100k for the vanity of having climbed Everest are flat out assholes. If it wasn't such a huge money maker for Nepal, they'd have shut down or severely restricted access years ago. When that Canadian chick died on the way down from Everest a couple years...
  26. Eomer

    NHL 16

    Pre-1927 don't count bro.
  27. Eomer

    Tablets

    See my other posts in this thread. My Nexus 10 is now basically a gigantic piece of shit that crashes regularly, often can't connect to WiFi, and is laggy as all fuck. I've done several factory resets that only make the problem better for a few weeks/months. I also do a cache partition clean and...
  28. Eomer

    Car Buying Help

    A grill guard or cow catcher or whatever isn't going to do you a lick of good if that deer jumps or if you hit a taller animal like a moose. It's coming through your windshield whether you like it or not. I don't see how a grill guard protects the passengers in the slightest. It would only...
  29. Eomer

    Lasik Eye Surgery

    Yeah, I can't really compare. Mine was laser cut. And it was weird as fuck because you can literally see them peeling it off and then your vision goes super blurry. It's made even more disconcerting by the fact that you're told to stare as closely as possible at a light point while the lasering...
  30. Eomer

    Lasik Eye Surgery

    No, they still have to cut a flap off. The difference is that cut is now made with lasers instead of a small scalpel. But they still make a cut, pull a flap off, laser blast your eye, clean it up and put some sort of adhesive, and put the flap back. I'd agree that the period where you don't have...
  31. Eomer

    Car Buying Help

    All cars on the road these days, if recently made are very safe as compared to the past. But Cad is right about mass/size. Two pickups getting in to an accident with each other is likely to result in similar injuries to both occupants as two small cars in an accident with each other. But in the...
  32. Eomer

    Watches

    Veblen goods are basically items that are only popular because they're expensive, and are used to flaunt material wealth. Veblen good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carried to an absurdity, it can be applied to damn near anything. "Ooooh, you bought name brand rice instead of the store...
  33. Eomer

    Gender Integration in the Infantry, and how Robots fight Misogyny

    So let me get this straight: Tuco closes a thread on AI because there's another old thread no one had posted in for months. On a board when threads are almost never locked for any reason other than outright gore, porn in SFW forums etc. And then he goes and participates in a huge thread derail...
  34. Eomer

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    I'm on my third projector. First was a Hitachi PJTX-100 or something like that. Second was a Panasonic PTAE2000U. Again model number might be off slightly. The Panny was excellent, the Hitachi was kind of a piece of shit that developed extreme burn-in issues after only a couple years. And I was...
  35. Eomer

    Car Buying Help

    We bought one of our site supers a fully loaded Canyon or Colorado or whatever (the GM one). He loves it. He doesn't really haul much material for work, and for personal use he just got rid of a big trailer so he didn't need a big diesel anymore. Sure the seats in the back aren't as spacious as...
  36. Eomer

    2015 Blackhawks Salary Dump NHL Offseason Thread

    That's hilarious. Jagr is the goddamn man. So is Darnell Nurse:http://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/129729 "Hmmm, tying up doesn't seem to be working against this 6'7" monster. Instead I'll just try punching him as hard and fast in the face as I can while he does the same to me and see how...
  37. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. It definitely hard locks at the American Megatrends boot screen. I've left it sitting there for 10+ minutes a few times. It just sits there and says "hit del or esc to enter settings" or whatever, but nothing happens if you hit keys. Then if I hit reset...
  38. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    Spent an hour this morning fucking around with BIOS settings. Must have booted the thing 100 times. First I wanted to mess around with the BIOS before I start yanking anything out. It would appear that you're likely right, without having pulled the SSD as yet. I messed around with various fast...
  39. Eomer

    Limitless

    Yeah, my recollection of the movie was that it was pretty obvious numerous other unseen people were also using and/or making the drug, and DeNiro's character basically stated as much. I thought the first three quarters of the movie was awesome, but then they Hollywooded the shit out of the ending.
  40. Eomer

    Pot talk friday discussion - Robots.

    Yeah, I wasn't criticizing him really. More I was just pointing out that we are still only scratching the surface in terms of our understanding of consciousness and intelligence in other species. Let alone creating generalized AI that is self improving/propagating. We can't even recreate the...