African Americans living in Australia, how does the racial climate make you feel?

liveandletlove · 2012-05-26T20:48:42.258167+00:00

Visit Ipswich. There may not be overt problems, but there are plenty of people who will talk about 'darkies' with a straight face.

thebreadtruck · 1 day

So; breadth first or depth first?

thebreadtruck · 1 day

Can I have your stuff?

Shandsman · 1 day

Cable modems download a config file (containing things like rateshapes, ip filters, resource servers) when they come online. this is dynamically generated by the ISP's provisioning system.

DrJulianBashir · 2 days

yeah - we recently had someone pull the plug on the wrong array while upgrading a SAN... o_O

Clayburn · 2 days

ECW means that England doesn't.

HellinPelican · 2 days

Include some stuff like how to read teams and play accordingly (especially the differences between no-arty, low-arty and high-arty games (for fuck sake, don't suicide scout in no-arty games)).

Clayburn · 2 days

So, they say that everyone is six degrees of separation from everyone else. I'd start by wacking everyone who was more than five steps away from me, and see what that did to the numbers.

If that wasn't enough, we'd start on the five-step people - we probably wouldn't need all of them, so a random sample of them would do (random because, shit, I don't know them, or anyone who knows anyone who knows them, so who cares how we select from amount them).

Clayburn · 2 days

Yep; (some) commonwealth nations get to stay. Ironically, due to the English civil war and the assorted England vs Ireland/Scotland/the channel islands, the UK doesn't.

GoodLuckLetsFuck · 3 days

So the best thing about being bi is being able to say 'I'm totally not gay' while fucking a guy?

rusty_blumpkin · 3 days

Either that or a turnip up the ass

LemonHarangue · 3 days

Personally my mantra/motto is "I do not do this because it is easy; I do this because I am stupid".

CaveWitch · 5 days

I guess I'm lucky in that I'm a carrier engineer, so the only external customers I deal with are technical staff (or people in large organisations who aren't technical staff but have intentionally sought me out for clarification of something, so actually want to talk to me).

CaveWitch · 5 days

And even within the field - we have frequent friendly abuse matches between the IP engineers and the trans techs who look after the layer 1 about whether it's 'you dumb fucking routers' or 'your useless RF'.

edit: I accidently a letter

CaveWitch · 5 days

Don't expect any recognition from customers

I've got some pretty fulsome recognition from customers - generally when they've screwed their connectivity good and hard, blamed us for it loudly and profanely, and I've come in and fixed it really fast and been extremely tactful with it. Doing that has got me some extremely happy emails ccing in 1 & 2-up managers.

I've also got some nice thankyous for pulling customer techs out of situations where they've got in way over their heads.

Mostly though, the thank yous are about helping customers recover face (or avoid looking like idiots) more than actual technical skill.

jason-samfield · 5 days

All I can really do is point you at the wikipedia article. Basically conversion is appropriating a good that you know to belong to someone else and making use of it yourself (e.g., finding lost property and making no attempt to return it to its rightful owner).

Here you have a good that you know you haven't paid for, that you are proposing keeping and using.

Of course if the item in question was a 50c stick of gum, you're pretty unlikely to be prosecuted.

jason-samfield · 5 days

There is a balance in value between the value of the good and the value of the time (petrol, etc.,) that would be required to return to the store to pay for the good.

If the store made an error (without any involvement on your part (i.e. you didn't hide the good or mislabel it)) and the cost to you to rectify the error is greater than the value of the good, then I don't think it's unethical to not return and pay for it.

Regarding assigning blame; it's easy - the store / the clerk is at fault for not charging you, you are at fault for not returning when you realise you haven't been charged.

The repeated scenario doesn't make much difference (other than the store really should notice) as while the cost of the trivial goods is adding up to a significant value, so is the cost of returning to deal with each individual mistake.

jason-samfield · 6 days

Ethical; no.

Interestingly unethical, for trival values of goods? Also no.

jason-samfield · 6 days

I think this example would count as theft by conversion, as opposed to straight out theft. It's definitely in principle actionable - whether it actually is would depend on the value of the item.

rojath · 6 days

This is a New Zealand newspaper; it's mostly ads, with two articles about who got their letterbox knocked over by drunk students.

mad_sleepy · 6 days

For 1), my cue is to make sure the underhooked arm is a) deep and b) winged.

By 'winging' the underhook a bit, I'm forcing their elbow out away from their body, making it harder for them to dig their hand through for the darce.

kmac2121 · 6 days

Ice is less dense than liquid water - the part if the ice cube above the surface accounts for the difference in densities.

Monty_Moose · 6 days

So he signed a legal statement without reading it, after being accused of sexual misconduct?

mamba_79 · 7 days

Anyone die or seriously injured? Less than $100k damage done?

Bored now.

badkarma9924 · 7 days

xbmc does it natively.

I can take a bit of finessing for it to correctly recognise a new show, but once that's done, new episodes Just Work.

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