Fuchs wrote:Could simply be a case of "I never use the oven, so I'll be using it as storage". Some people simply are that stupid.
My parents used to store their extra pots and pans in it. Some had wooden handles, including their old-school popcorn maker. One day, my mom absent-mindedly pre-heated the oven without taking them out and ruined them.
Ever since that incident, I always check the oven before turning it on. We don't put anything in it, but still...
One time we had a bit of food left on a chopping board and put it in the oven temporarily to take out and nibble at over the next day. Then, we forgot it was there and turned the oven on to heat up, ready to cook.
It was an... interesting shape, to say the least. Probably still better than the time we forgot to remove the plastic tray from the bottom of a microwave pizza before cooking it, if only because we didn't notice the plastic until we'd already partly eaten the pizza. Mmm... sharp plasticy bits scraping our throats, and a harsh disgusting taste. I wouldn't recommend it.
We used to put leftover pizza in our oven. Typically we were pretty good about remembering to check for the pizza box before or right after turning on the oven, but it happened often enough that to this day, I still check the oven if I smell something odd after turning it on, even though we don't put boxes of leftover pizza in it anymore.
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Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
I haven't... we've never... why would... Cabinets!
I mean, sometimes we leave cookies in there to cool for complex thermal reasons, but seriously, why would you do that?
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If anyone uses a Torrent program in the US, today the Six Strikes system went online. Chances are good that you are one of the participating ISPs and that you might get cut off from your ISP.
Since most ISPs are monopolies in local markets, it's the same as an Internet death sentence.
Chamomile wrote:The list of things I would not put in an oven due to storage problems would probably be topped with "live ammunition."
@K: That article doesn't mention killing your internet. The worst it promises is speed-throttling for 48 hours once, ever.
The ISPs are deliberately not mentioning any real details about this program, but considering that it's called "Six Strikes," I think we can assume that they cut you off or permanently throttle you to a crawl. They've wanted a way to throttle or remove high-use users for a while.
They might just hand your name and records to the RIAA for litigation.
no idea why they want to get rid of high usage users.
without them, nobody would need thier big lines at all.
and they don't cost them more money then the smaller users either.
it is quite the opposite actually
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
Probably because if they refuse to take appropriate measures they would get sued for negligently accessorizing the theft, you know, like torrent sites.
Except they aren't in Sweden, so they would be in US courts, and fucked.
Because high usage users actually do use enough to tax their infrastructure. They make money from users who use their expensive connection intermittantly; constant use can force them to sink more costs.
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As far as i know, ISP's pay Bulk-Rates and not for traffic in their own nets but for the exchange points between the different nets.
And taxing the infrastructure is not an argument either, because there are still reserves they ain't using anyway. If it were different, you'd have brownouts or blackouts in the internet very often.
and if it's the shared medium part, then everybody limits everybody elses usage, not some people the usage of everybody else.
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Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
Hardly a surprise. We've always known we were being gouged.
Just speculation on my part, but doesn't this harken back to when the Canadian dollar was half the value of the US dollar?
I mean, why would US corporations lower prices just because the exchange rate reaches near-parity, but the consumers are still willing to pay the same Canadian dollar rate that they've always paid? That's not how capitalism works.
I mean, the idea of fair pricing for goods and services is not capitalism at all. Not even a little bit.
Indeed, you'd think Australia's strong dollar and economy would mean stuff would be cheaper here, at least insofar as imports are concerned. Nope. Actually, it's the opposite: because we have a strong economy, everyone thinks all the actual people are rich and can afford to be gouged ("the economy" and "the strength of the dollar" don't have much to do with how wealthy your average household is).
And then they wonder why we literally order stuff from overseas that can be bought locally, pirate all software, and basically do all we can to avoid spending money locally.
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AT&T will block users access to some of the most visited sites of the interweb.
Verizon will slow down connection speeds of pirates
time Warner Cable will temporarily interrups peoples ability to browse the web at all http://torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-ant ... ts-130225/
now it's all a matter of tick tock, untill these measures are used for censoring stuff certain people don't like i guess . .
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Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
Man shot by his dog
I wonder if there was animal abuse involved. Maybe should pass a law that in the case of suspected animal abuse all animals can apply for a weapon permit?
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ishy wrote:Man shot by his dog
I wonder if there was animal abuse involved. Maybe should pass a law that in the case of suspected animal abuse all animals can apply for a weapon permit?
I have to say, there is an amusing upside to the media finally paying attention to shootings.
It's weird how often people are shot by dogs. Seriously. Especially with hunting dogs, since they associate the gun with fun noises and good times. "OH BOY OH BOY," paw goes into trigger in excitement, gun goes off.
My firearms instructor talked about exactly this sort of thing in the section about negligent discharges. *reads again* Wait, a handgun? Even more of an idiot.
There were like two instances in the same week, late last year. Dogs love shooting people.
Now I'm not going to say which country it was, because I think we all know.
Incidentally, I'd like to bring up an old thing linked on this thread a while ago: the dentist who removed all of her ex-boyfriend's teeth. It's bollocks.
No, I don't mean she removed his bollocks. The entire story was made up by the Daily Mail. And believing it is what you deserve for reading the daily fucking mail. New proposed rule: if it's from the UK, but not the BBC, it does not count.
And of course, it ticked all of the Daily Mail's favourite things:
[*]Made up (so they covered it first)
[*]Bitches be crazy, bro
[*]Look what those crazy foreigners do over in Poland, we need to tighten up on immigration
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Koumei wrote:
Incidentally, I'd like to bring up an old thing linked on this thread a while ago: the dentist who removed all of her ex-boyfriend's teeth. It's bollocks.
No, I don't mean she removed his bollocks. The entire story was made up by the Daily Mail. And believing it is what you deserve for reading the daily fucking mail. New proposed rule: if it's from the UK, but not the BBC, it does not count.
Ha! Cracked just said this exact same thing a day or two ago (#4 on the list).
