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MinceRhttp://dilbert.com/1989-12-12/Nov 05 07:27
TechrightsBot-scTitle: The official Dilbert website with Scott Adams' color comic strips, animation, mashups and more! .::. Size~: 20.49 KBNov 05 07:27
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schestowitz-TRIdentica/#techrights-[agentsmith/@agentsmith] Adolf Jobler http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/adolf-hitler-with-a-mac.jpg Think DifferentNov 05 13:07
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Not a web page! Aborting image/jpeg type .::. Size~: 0 KBNov 05 13:07
schestowitzTHat's just kind of wrongNov 05 13:07
MinceRi don't think it's wrongNov 05 13:08
MinceRblow is a fascist prickNov 05 13:08
schestowitz"**Nov 05 14:06
schestowitzwill appreciate receiving your message for her recovery. Thanks fromNov 05 14:06
schestowitzboth of us.Nov 05 14:06
schestowitzI had a coronary artery bypass of 4 arteries back in September of 1998.Nov 05 14:06
schestowitzFortunately, I have not had a pain or any symptoms since. My blood pressureNov 05 14:07
schestowitzis always 120/60 and heart my rate is in the low 50.Nov 05 14:07
schestowitzAfter the surgery I started reading about the heart and coronary disease andNov 05 14:07
schestowitzI believe I am much more knowledgeable than most people in that area.  INov 05 14:07
schestowitzhave learned that the best outcomes result from an informed patient and aNov 05 14:07
schestowitzskilled doctor. It all comes down to two factors, exercise and diet. INov 05 14:07
schestowitzbecame a vegetarian, but lately, my diet is not as disciplined as it was,Nov 05 14:07
schestowitzand unfortunately, on my power walk or even walking on a treadmill I getNov 05 14:07
schestowitzpain in the area of the belt line. I haven't checked it out with a doctorNov 05 14:07
schestowitzyet, but I am going to see a sports medicine specialist soon as I have hadNov 05 14:07
schestowitzto reduce the distance I walk from at least 4 miles to just 2 miles daily.Nov 05 14:07
schestowitzIt's probably some form of arthritis.Nov 05 14:07
schestowitz"Nov 05 14:07
schestowitzToday I tried scanning some stuff at 1200 DPINov 05 14:46
schestowitzDrove my machine insaneNov 05 14:46
schestowitzI could rescan with better lighting. The original is 7000 pixels high... 20MB.Nov 05 14:46
schestowitzFor 600 DPINov 05 14:46
schestowitzI ran out of memory almost... at high colour depth... and it's a crappy old scanner really... does well with kde s/wNov 05 14:46
FurnaceBoywhy 1200Nov 05 14:52
schestowitzjust for the heck of itNov 05 14:57
schestowitzLike 14000 pixels acrossNov 05 14:57
schestowitzMy whole office spaceNov 05 14:57
FurnaceBoyyou pretty soon find your data swamped with noise, etc. :)Nov 05 15:04
FurnaceBoyalso, the sensor may not be doing 1200Nov 05 15:07
FurnaceBoyit may be less, then resampledNov 05 15:08
MinceRmayNov 05 15:11
FurnaceBoyMAYNov 05 15:11
FurnaceBoyemm ay whyNov 05 15:11
schestowitz"what is NoScript?"Nov 05 15:27
schestowitzSome people don't knowNov 05 15:27
schestowitzNoScript is something that blocks just about everything that's wrong about the Web :)Nov 05 15:27
schestowitz"u mean turning off javascript?"Nov 05 15:38
schestowitz;-)Nov 05 15:38
FurnaceBoy:)Nov 05 15:38
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abeNd-orgwhy not just use lynx?Nov 05 15:53
MinceRso that images are visibleNov 05 15:53
MinceRand javascript the user wants to run can be enabledNov 05 15:53
schestowitzFurnaceBoy: watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjnpHZwhtZcNov 05 15:54
TechrightsBot-scTitle:     YouTube        - THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY 8/10   .::. Size~: 123.76 KBNov 05 15:54
schestowitzPilger.. good filmNov 05 15:54
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schestowitzIn the West, politics is like a religionNov 05 16:02
schestowitzit doesn't matter what's trueNov 05 16:02
MinceRonly in the west?Nov 05 16:02
schestowitzWhat matters is what people around you choose to believe inNov 05 16:03
schestowitzMinceR: noNov 05 16:03
schestowitzBut the West tooNov 05 16:03
abeNd-orgi think thats pretty universalNov 05 16:03
schestowitzCountries take over countries territory and then grow the youngsters on their political dogma/'religion'Nov 05 16:03
schestowitzThe Internet hardly helps get to the people the other side of stories cause those who need to watch it have no Internet connectivityNov 05 16:04
abeNd-orgkeep'em stupidNov 05 16:05
abeNd-orgthe greatest thing about that, is if you provide enough entertainment, most people will willingly turn a blind eye to the govt, even if they are smart enough to understandNov 05 16:08
schestowitzor FoxNov 05 16:09
schestowitzOh, cool, my aunt uses Linux now too...Nov 05 16:10
schestowitz"Nov 05 16:10
schestowitzI am atNov 05 16:10
schestowitzworkNov 05 16:10
schestowitzSent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!Nov 05 16:10
schestowitz"Nov 05 16:10
MinceRhow do you know it's not winblows?Nov 05 16:11
MinceRmobile, that isNov 05 16:11
MinceRor even kin7Nov 05 16:11
schestowitzUnlikelyNov 05 16:12
schestowitzthey don't sell them much anymoreNov 05 16:12
schestowitzsee their #sNov 05 16:13
*schestowitz watches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsoVyT9RbG8&NR=1Nov 05 16:13
TechrightsBot-scTitle:     YouTube        - THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY 9/10   .::. Size~: 121.7 KBNov 05 16:13
schestowitz" I like the idea, but the question is whether MS has the funds to bankrupt the competitors with legal fees." https://twitter.com/#!/PMCTechBlog/status/572829720379393Nov 05 16:18
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Twitter .::. Size~: 42.15 KBNov 05 16:18
FurnaceBoyabeNd-org: yep that's how it works.Nov 05 16:27
FurnaceBoyabeNd-org: "bread and circuses"Nov 05 16:27
schestowitz"entertainment" expands to sex, sports, fantasy...Nov 05 16:45
FurnaceBoyof courseNov 05 16:46
FurnaceBoyvideo gamesNov 05 16:46
FurnaceBoy'news'Nov 05 16:46
FurnaceBoywar long ago became the most decadent entertainmentNov 05 16:46
FurnaceBoyi clearly remember from Gulf War I or earlier.Nov 05 16:46
FurnaceBoymany have written about it - Roger WatersNov 05 16:46
FurnaceBoyand Pink FLoyd re FalklandsNov 05 16:46
abeNd-orgwar based video games especiallyNov 05 16:49
FurnaceBoy+1Nov 05 16:50
FurnaceBoyvery useful delivery mechanisms for a total ideologyNov 05 16:50
FurnaceBoynormalises war, torture, identifies the unwanted groupsNov 05 16:50
FurnaceBoyall in a neat packageNov 05 16:50
FurnaceBoynormalises weapons technology as the ultimate product of civilisationNov 05 16:51
MinceRactually no real people are tortured or harmed when someone plays a videogameNov 05 16:52
MinceRsome people like to demonize violent video games, ignoring the factsNov 05 16:52
FurnaceBoy*whoosh*Nov 05 16:52
*MinceR takes down FurnaceBoy's flying vehicle with an AVRiL missileNov 05 16:53
abeNd-orgsame with moviesNov 05 16:53
FurnaceBoyabeNd-org: exactlyNov 05 16:53
FurnaceBoyabeNd-org: i've long watched that one unfold...Nov 05 16:53
abeNd-orgparents who can't control their children, let them watch saving private ryan or other type of war movies, then complain to the studios that they are too violent & that their children watched itNov 05 16:54
MinceRstupid people are stupidNov 05 16:55
MinceRwhen parents let their children watch a movie, they let them watch that movieNov 05 16:56
MinceRastonishing ;)Nov 05 16:56
abeNd-org"oh noes, house of the dead is so violent, you use a gun controller & shoot things on the screen" uhh, yeah soccer mom, you bought your kid that game after the snotnosed bratt kept begging for it & you caved inNov 05 16:56
MinceRat least the kid doesn't get bruised from that gameNov 05 16:56
abeNd-orgwell, with wii/move/kinict it will bruise you ;)Nov 05 16:57
MinceRbetter use the good old keyboard+mouse combo, thenNov 05 16:57
abeNd-orgnow as someone who has hosted many library game days, ive never seen an issue with wii (smash brothers/mariokart/godzilla/tatunasku vs capcom/etc) controller related injuries, but i guess stupid people let it happenNov 05 16:58
abeNd-orglike those who have thrown their wiimotes/sony move controllers into the screenNov 05 16:58
abeNd-orgor the moron who while playing with his kinect hit something & that flew into the screenNov 05 16:58
abeNd-orghttp://kotaku.com/5682343/the-first-moron-to-break-his-tv-with-kinect?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotaku%2Ffull+%28Kotaku%29Nov 05 16:59
TechrightsBot-scTitle: The First Moron To Break His TV With Kinect .::. Size~: 79.33 KBNov 05 16:59
abeNd-orgso parents will say as the games get "more realistic" that it will cause their children to be more violentNov 05 17:03
MinceRand they'll be wrongNov 05 17:03
abeNd-organd bad parents, since they dont police the content their children view, just complain about it afterNov 05 17:04
abeNd-orgor even worse, encourage itNov 05 17:06
schestowitzThere are two separate issues here; 1) the violence in general and 2) war propagandaNov 05 17:10
schestowitzThey choose the team and characters to fit a mindsetNov 05 17:11
schestowitzUnited by languages for exampleNov 05 17:11
schestowitzBut they update every now and thenNov 05 17:11
schestowitzI think they now have a game where CHavez is the "target'Nov 05 17:11
schestowitzAnd he complained about itNov 05 17:11
schestowitzThey took him remark out of contextNov 05 17:11
schestowitzLike he's some anti-games personNov 05 17:12
abeNd-orgheh, im just hoping the storyline from the first mercenaries for xbox/ps2 isnt prophetic :)Nov 05 17:13
FurnaceBoyworse! ODST!Nov 05 17:15
FurnaceBoy;-)Nov 05 17:15
schestowitzbbl (dinner)Nov 05 17:16
abeNd-orglunchtime for meNov 05 17:22
FurnaceBoyschestowitz: you did see this? http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/05/1244236Nov 05 17:35
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Slashdot | Microsoft Open Sources F# .::. Size~: 130.96 KBNov 05 17:35
FurnaceBoyschestowitz: it's probably motivated by disappointing take-up to dateNov 05 17:35
schestowitzhttp://identi.ca/ "NEWS: Ian Murdock has started a new !Ubuntu based distribution called !Debian - http://www.debian.org/"Nov 05 19:27
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Public timeline - Identi.ca .::. Size~: 40.57 KBNov 05 19:27
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Debian -- The Universal Operating System  .::. Size~: 13.25 KBNov 05 19:27
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schestowitzFurnaceBoy: yes, it's deadNov 05 19:27
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MinceRding-dong, the witch is deadNov 05 19:28
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schestowitzit's old and nobody cared itNov 05 19:29
schestowitz"OneShot-OneKill has joined this channel"Nov 05 19:29
schestowitzIt's a troll from COLANov 05 19:29
schestowitzI would have banned that aggressive troll. It's one that bullies people and probably breaks laws, IIRCNov 05 19:30
MinceRyou can still ban it :>Nov 05 19:31
schestowitzI've just convinced my uncle to join http://identi.ca/harvalah without convincingNov 05 19:32
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Harvey Tobkes (harvalah)  - Identi.ca .::. Size~: 14.73 KBNov 05 19:32
schestowitzhe saw my auto-reply urging people to join itNov 05 19:32
schestowitzMinceR: No need nowNov 05 19:32
MinceRit might yet attempt to join againNov 05 19:32
MinceRa ban prevents that :>Nov 05 19:32
*schestowitz gives channel operator status to MinceRNov 05 19:32
*schestowitz gives channel operator status to MinceRNov 05 19:33
schestowitzI was curious to see what at all this gangster would wish to do hereNov 05 19:33
schestowitzYou have to see what this thing does in COLANov 05 19:33
schestowitzIt's like an obscenity machines that just attacks everyone in an unmoderated forumNov 05 19:34
schestowitzhttp://identi.ca/conversation/57510347#notice-58037671 "Thats troubling news that reminds me a bit about MS releasing "Windows Genuine", or turning system updates to auto."Nov 05 19:34
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Conversation - Identi.ca .::. Size~: 9.01 KBNov 05 19:34
gnufreexIs this for real? M$ opensourced F#?Nov 05 19:34
schestowitzOr overriding those user settings.Nov 05 19:34
gnufreexWhat license?Nov 05 19:34
gnufreexApache it seems.Nov 05 19:35
gnufreexThere must be a bug in Apache license.Nov 05 19:35
gnufreexOtherwise they won't use it.Nov 05 19:35
abeNd-orghttp://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=50383Nov 05 19:36
TechrightsBot-scTitle: ActiveWin.com - The Most Activated Windows Resource .::. Size~: 36.32 KBNov 05 19:37
schestowitzI don't need to cover it, gnufreexNov 05 19:38
schestowitzThey want publicityNov 05 19:38
schestowitzJust let F# F* rotNov 05 19:38
schestowitzDarnNov 05 19:38
schestowitzIdentica enabled non-oauth access againNov 05 19:38
schestowitzSo the techrights channel gets hammered until it syncsNov 05 19:39
MinceRdon't you mean twitter?Nov 05 19:42
schestowitzyeah :-)Nov 05 19:44
schestowitzhttp://identi.ca/notice/58044636 "Oh_boy_her_we_go_again.png.gif.exe.jpg"Nov 05 20:09
TechrightsBot-scTitle: Gustav Hartvigsson (gegoxaren)'s status on Friday, 05-Nov-10 20:06:53 UTC - Identi.ca .::. Size~: 8.19 KBNov 05 20:09
MinceRhttp://dilbert.com/1990-02-15/Nov 05 21:02
TechrightsBot-scTitle: The official Dilbert website with Scott Adams' color comic strips, animation, mashups and more! .::. Size~: 20.49 KBNov 05 21:02
schestowitzI think I bring the oldest identica user :-)Nov 05 21:34
schestowitzAbout 80 :-)Nov 05 21:34
schestowitz> I am logged in as a member to dentica and it looks good. I see that INov 05 21:34
schestowitz> can even add a file and make it all private. I took the nickname...Harvalah.Nov 05 21:34
schestowitz>Nov 05 21:34
schestowitz> What I can't figure out is how to direct a message to you "schestowitz."Nov 05 21:34
schestowitz>Nov 05 21:34
schestowitz> Help me out here!Nov 05 21:34
schestowitzIf you put "@schestowitz" in the message, I'll get it. When I put "@Harvalah" in my messages, you'll see them in "Replies" tab.Nov 05 21:34
schestowitzThis will be funnyNov 05 21:34
schestowitzI gave you op in main channel cause the troll sniffed here earlierNov 05 21:50
MinceRi guessed so :)Nov 05 21:50
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MinceRhttp://i.imgur.com/WJ2vU.jpgNov 05 22:49
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