The Chat/Spam Thread

[Master Razor]

anon, in regards to the router story, you will find your story in the comments.

They are in romanian so you should use a translator.
This is a new conspiracy I uncovered in this country. Let me know if you ever seen anything like it.

[anon]

They are in romanian so you should use a translator.

I did and it's about a company that sells defective bicycle spare parts, how does that relate to your situation? Do the bikes have gigabit capabilities?

[Master Razor]

I did and it's about a company that sells defective bicycle spare parts, how does that relate to your situation? Do the bikes have gigabit capabilities?

No, no and no. It's a general store, one of the biggest in all of RO. A year ago you could return any product you bought with a given time period (14 days, 30 days, etc.) regardless of store you bought it from. Now, not only that you will not be able to return it but you'll also not be able to turn it for warranty when it breaks.
I'll elaborate with some examples:
- a man buys a printer. he gets home, unpacks the printer, installs the cartridges, and he notices paper jams. He re-packs the printer and goes with it to the store from where he bought it. The man at the store said you cannot get your money back because you unsealed the cartridges and your warranty does not apply because it's your fault the paper jams (i.e. bad paper, .etc)
- I bought an expensive mouse about 1 month ago. I got home, used it about 1 min and I didn't like it (the store's site had bad specifications for it). I took it back within 2 hours after I bought it and they refused because it was unsealed.

Legally they have no grounds to enforce this but the laws here are interpretable and everyone applies what he/she thinks is the law.

There are thousands of these situations at every store in RO. I'm not sure how things are abroad but here this kind of thing is not normal. At first I though it was only one store, but every does this. And top it all, once you buy something you can't even get in touch with the store. They don't answer their phone, nor respond to emails. You have to go down there and complain.

[anon]

https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2018/...uck-complains/

Leaving the specifics of this particular incident aside, I find it the double standard that is alluded to in the article pretty interesting. Most people would be okay with letting their kids play GTA or COD, but a game where with anime boobs? No way.

Make no mistake, I think that in principle both guns/gore and sexual content are inappropriate for children (exactly how inappropriate could be discussed), but society only seems to go apeshit about the latter Okay, with the occasional school shooting where you're just bound to eventually hear the phrase "the killer played violent video games and listened to Marilyn Manson" as an exception.

[slikrapid]

Most people would be okay with letting their kids play GTA or COD, but a game where with anime boobs? No way.

seems people are more sensitive to nudity, while already quite desensitized to violence (available in all kinds of media)


someone noticed another double standard by the author of the article:

I love how y’all are preaching about “triggered snowflakes,” while you throw a tantrum about not being able to play your fuckin’ fetishized underage lesbian porn game.

I think that in principle both guns/gore and sexual content are inappropriate for children

the fact that a society is so interested in producing, buying and experiencing such contents speaks of its corruption

but society only seems to go apeshit about the latter

somehow they (canadian society mentioned in the article) missed the promotion of much larger things of the same category:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3356084/I-ve-gone-child-Husband-father-seven-52-leaves-wife-kids-live-transgender-SIX-YEAR-OLD-girl-named-Stefonknee
http://www.parentscanada.com/family-life/parenting-a-transgender-child
https://arpacanada.ca/news/2017/03/21/five-bills-five-years-gender-ideology-ontario/

Okay, with the occasional school shooting where you're just bound to eventually hear the phrase "the killer played violent video games and listened to Marilyn Manson" as an exception.

seems what these shooters had in common was being a part of psychological experiments/programs/treatments, so i'd say that phrase above is a way to hide such info

[anon]

someone noticed another double standard by the author of the article:

I love how y’all are preaching about “triggered snowflakes,” while you throw a tantrum about not being able to play your fuckin’ fetishized underage lesbian porn game.

He be trollin' The Sono Hanabira series is known for not being fetishized, and this game in particular is still sold through other channels. However, Steam is so big and important that a lot of exposure and potential sales and fans will be lost by suddenly vanishing from its catalog, and Valve refuses to give any explanation whatsoever as to why they did it. That's what's making people upset.

[Master Razor]

I find this to be very accurate:
https://i.imgur.com/y1jSFPq.png
And it's my new wallpaper.

[anon]

I find this to be very accurate:
https://i.imgur.com/y1jSFPq.png
And it's my new wallpaper.

"If you can read this, you are in range."

[anon]

Also, "Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

[Sazzy]

Also, "Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

Haha, i quite love that quote!

[anon]

"Unix is simple, it just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

"Unix is user-friendly, it's just choosy about who its friends are."

"Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant '?' lights up in the center of the dashboard. 'The experienced driver,' says Thompson, 'will usually know what's wrong.'"

[Master Razor]

Let's discuss about linux memorabilia. Say one would like to start a linux collection, something that says GNU/Linux, what can one collect?
I'm thinking something the original work print of the GPL license, or the first source code of the linux kernel.

[anon]

Well, I don't know what you have in mind, but here's something to get things started.

http://dropcanvas.com/zxuou

[Master Razor]

Storry telling time:
You can choose between:
1. how I fixed a laptop with a banana
2. the story of my last job in which the company went bankrupt, got bought up by another company, where 70% of the people left in 1 month, the IT divison splitted in 2 main groups fighting each other, and at the same time the personnel was leaving and stealing everything in their path.

[anon]

You have already told us bits and pieces of point number two, so let's go with the banana.

However, we should all vote on this and decide democratically