Random randomness

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:25 pm

You're ugly too.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 3:18 pm

Man dissolves in acidic hot spring at Yellowstone.

Sometimes I wanna punch nature right in the face.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 4:17 pm

Not only is my shoulder and arm being weird but with all this pain Ive been in my blood pressure was 157 / 97

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 4:20 pm

hepcat wrote:Man dissolves in acidic hot spring at Yellowstone.

Sometimes I wanna punch nature right in the face.

And apparently his sister has a cell phone video of it.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:43 am

hepcat wrote:Man dissolves in acidic hot spring at Yellowstone.

Sometimes I wanna punch nature right in the face.

Oh, CNN. I do love your misleading headlines.

Man drowns in boiling water. Corpse dissolves after being boiled for a full day. I'm sure the acid sped up the process, but there aren't many animals you can boil that long an not have them turn into broth.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:53 am

hepcat wrote:Man dissolves in acidic hot spring at Yellowstone.

Sometimes I wanna punch nature right in the face.

Mrs. Skinypupy was considering a Yellowstone trip next summer with all the kids. This story has changed her mind...and will give me nightmares for weeks.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:58 am

Skinypupy wrote:
hepcat wrote:Man dissolves in acidic hot spring at Yellowstone.

Sometimes I wanna punch nature right in the face.
Mrs. Skinypupy was considering a Yellowstone trip next summer with all the kids. This story has changed her mind...and will give me nightmares for weeks.

Stay on the boardwalks and you'll be fine.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:50 am

I slipped and lost my leg when I was there.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:38 am

I bet that ended your career as an adventurer.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:50 am

No, I still had my Indian guide, Pentecostal, to help me thru the rest of my adventures.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:15 am

Just had to "renegotiate" POTS line charges with ATT. $59 for a month for a vanilla POTS line with no frills before all of the fees are levied? So really, like $85 a month? Seriously? People are paying that for house phones? Praise pancake I only have two POTS lines left in my office.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:29 am

Up until a few years ago, my parents were still *leasing* a touch-tone phone from the phone company. My dad set it up that way when they purchased the house (why??) and just never changed it. It was like 30 years later when he was looking at the bill and realized he was still paying a monthly fee to rent a phone from 1985 in the kitchen.

So yes, there are people that still pay $85 a month for a house line. I know at least one person.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:34 am

Kraken wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:
hepcat wrote:Man dissolves in acidic hot spring at Yellowstone.

Sometimes I wanna punch nature right in the face.
Mrs. Skinypupy was considering a Yellowstone trip next summer with all the kids. This story has changed her mind...and will give me nightmares for weeks.
Stay on the boardwalks and you'll be fine.

I have three year old twins. Getting them to stay anywhere I want is damn near impossible, and I have nightmares about what could happen in a place like this if they happen to escape my orbit for a split second.

Definitely need to wait until they're older.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:36 am

LordMortis wrote:Just had to "renegotiate" POTS line charges with ATT. $59 for a month for a vanilla POTS line with no frills before all of the fees are levied? So really, like $85 a month? Seriously? People are paying that for house phones? Praise pancake I only have two POTS lines left in my office.

That's why the cost goes up. Fewer subscribers, less money to maintain the poles and lines, more charges for existing customers - eventually they'll all get driven out. Or just corporate greed. Your choice.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:37 am

Guy takes pictures on the streets in England in the 1970's. Finds the same people 40 years later to recreate the shots.

Cool project.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:56 am

Paingod wrote:
LordMortis wrote:Just had to "renegotiate" POTS line charges with ATT. $59 for a month for a vanilla POTS line with no frills before all of the fees are levied? So really, like $85 a month? Seriously? People are paying that for house phones? Praise pancake I only have two POTS lines left in my office.
That's why the cost goes up. Fewer subscribers, less money to maintain the poles and lines, more charges for existing customers - eventually they'll all get driven out. Or just corporate greed. Your choice.

Extending to home lines maybe, but the only businesses without a copper lines are businesses fully on fiber/cell. I rather doubt there are few of these. As far as I know Cable/DSL/ISDN/T1 etc... still rely on the same copper stations they always have relied on. Maybe I am underestimating how with the times most businesses are. When I still see POS and such still driven by XP and shudder, I'm having a hard time reconciling that the mass of business have left copper behind. (Heck Fiber has only been an option in my industrial park for maybe the last year)

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:56 am

Dad got scammed out of 200$ from Supportbuddy. The while time he was speaking to them he knew it was a scam. He still got dinged.

Mom told me but of course said don't tell him I told you. Yeah, no. I love you mom but this shit getting fixed.

My dad was a salesman all his life for Air France. Knows every trick in the book. Still got caught. Too see my father tear up while telling me what happened was not easy at all. Sent me in a fit of rage. Spending time dealing with it on my 3 day vacation in Montréal was not my idea of fun but seeing my dad get screwed even less so.

Charges reversed, laptop cleaned, new set of instructions for dad. Grateful dad, grateful mom. Still angry son.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:03 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:Dad got scammed out of 200$ from Supportbuddy. The while time he was speaking to them he knew it was a scam. He still got dinged.

Mom told me but of course said don't tell him I told you. Yeah, no. I love you mom but this shit getting fixed.

My dad was a salesman all his life for Air France. Knows every truck in the book. Still got caught. Too see my father tear up while telling me what happened was not easy at all. Sent me in a shirt fit of rage. Spending time dealing with it on my 3 day vacation in Montréal was not my idea of fun but seeing my dad get screwed even less so.

Charges reversed, laptop cleaned, new set of instructions for dad. Grateful dad, grateful mom. Still angry son.

My dad has come this >< close to begin scammed about three time. He has been made aware of the dangers of ransomeware (though he still gets fuzzy on it). He now accepts the value of paying $50 a year to keep NOD32 on all of his machines and knows enough to call me before accepting or seeking any external support. It sucks for both of us but it's the best for both of us.

Luck to all of us.

It's a shame. He has so much "common sense" when it comes things. He just knows how things are meant to work. But when it comes to his computer, which is the means to entire financial being, he just can't make the sustained leaps in understanding that are required to keep his computer safe.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:09 pm

Yeah when he said: But the popup said Microsoft and it looked right.

I recoiled. I told him, and yet Microsoft was telling you to call Supportbuddy.

His look of defeat and he said yeah I know.

Ugh.

Go over the rules with your parents people. If they feel they have a problem and don't want to bother you, instruct them that those are the rules. And get teamviewer on there for remote emergency support.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:17 pm

LordMortis wrote:Extending to home lines maybe, but the only businesses without a copper lines are businesses fully on fiber/cell. I rather doubt there are few of these. As far as I know Cable/DSL/ISDN/T1 etc... still rely on the same copper stations they always have relied on. Maybe I am underestimating how with the times most businesses are. When I still see POS and such still driven by XP and shudder, I'm having a hard time reconciling that the mass of business have left copper behind. (Heck Fiber has only been an option in my industrial park for maybe the last year)

The businesses I've worked for have peeled away from POTS. It's an alarm line and little else now. Every phone system I've worked to install in the last 5 years has used fiber connectivity and either data bandwidth or dedicated "fiber lines" in the connection for the phone system. The math is pretty easy to work out. Each time, I've put forth the argument that upgrading the internet service and using that for telephone service not only improves the quality of service on the internet side, it also eliminates expensive copper and those costs offset the phone upgrade. I think that in most cases, it's cheaper to dump 8 copper lines and get a fiber line installed than it is to keep them - especially if you extrapolate those costs out 5, 10, 15 years.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:21 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:And get teamviewer on there for remote emergency support.

LOL, I was going to walk him through installing teamviewer two weeks ago, and then was all screw it. I'll come by and set it up on TurkeyDay (US).

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:52 pm

I've thought about putting TeamViewer on my parents' machines as I've been tech support for three viruses and an obstinate printer now. I've never used it - is there any security risk to adding it? The last thing I need is another vector to worry about.

Edit: My current method is to Skype them on their Ipad and just point it at their screen as I walk them through the repair steps.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:56 pm

stessier wrote:I've thought about putting TeamViewer on my parents' machines as I've been tech support for three viruses and an obstinate printer now. I've never used it - is there any security risk to adding it? The last thing I need is another vector to worry about.

Edit: My current method is to Skype them on their Ipad and just point it at their screen as I walk them through the repair steps.

The only potential risk is if they leave it up and running for support on demand purposes. It's not like VNC where it insists that you run it in the background all of the time. If you don't have it up and running all of the time, then there is nothing to be at risk when you aren't using it (as far as I know)

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:19 pm

LordMortis wrote:
tjg_marantz wrote:And get teamviewer on there for remote emergency support.
LOL, I was going to walk him through installing teamviewer two weeks ago, and then was all screw it. I'll come by and set it up on TurkeyDay (US).

Yeah, get that on there. It's so much easier than the Skype and point method (which I've done before). Just call, tell him or her to start the program, log in with the current 4 digit password. Then you can have them walk away or talk with them to show them what you're doing. And then close the program. End of interaction. It's been flawless for us so far.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:30 pm

Smoove_B wrote: It was like 30 years later when he was looking at the bill and realized he was still paying a monthly fee to rent a phone from 1985 in the kitchen.

And we just let your dad help pick a President. 'Merica!

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:55 pm

LordMortis wrote:Just had to "renegotiate" POTS line charges with ATT. $59 for a month for a vanilla POTS line with no frills before all of the fees are levied? So really, like $85 a month? Seriously? People are paying that for house phones? Praise pancake I only have two POTS lines left in my office.

Not my area, so I can't say for sure, but traditionally residential lines were cheaper than business lines.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:40 pm

It works by voodoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6YzOwQY_Cw

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 7:45 pm

dbt1949 wrote:I slipped and lost my leg when I was there.

At least it wasn't your third leg...

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:37 pm

Well, two feet of it.

Chaosraven · Post by **Chaosraven** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 12:17 pm

Jaymann wrote:A cool site where you can plug in any name and get stats. Fun fact: There are 18 people named Joe Blow in the US.

My 8th grade Civics teacher was Jim Blow.

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 4:04 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:Yeah when he said: But the popup said Microsoft and it looked right.

I recoiled. I told him, and yet Microsoft was telling you to call Supportbuddy.

His look of defeat and he said yeah I know.

Ugh.

Go over the rules with your parents people. If they feel they have a problem and don't want to bother you, instruct them that those are the rules. And get teamviewer on there for remote emergency support.

In my experience it's typically much more secure and easier on all concerned to just set 'em up with a Chromebox or Chromebook.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 4:30 pm

Hmmm. If the laptop was older that would be a thought. I mean, it's still a thought obviously. Thanks for the idea.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 7:49 pm

So Hot & Spicy Vienna made with Louisiana Hot Sauce are neither hot nor spicy.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:13 pm

I'm guessing they're not even sausage.

Z-Corn · Post by **Z-Corn** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:20 pm

I double-doubt they are even from Vienna...

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:27 pm

And they probably don't work well as armour, either.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:33 pm

Also I nearly choked on that toothpick. Didn't see the picture ahead of time and its not in the ingredient list.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:23 pm

Man, disciplining kids is hard. Caught Little B 7.8 in a whole series of lies today, so her consequence is missing her friend's 8th birthday party at Classic Fun Center on Saturday (roller skating, laser tag, bowling, etc.). She was utterly crushed. Of course, I went and made it even worse by telling her that she still had to take her friend's present over and wish her happy birthday, but she'd have to take it to her house tomorrow instead of to the party on Saturday. You could just see the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" look on her face as I handed down the full verdict. That was nearly 30 minutes ago, and the wracking sobs are still coming in full force from her room.

Being mean dad sucks.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:50 pm

Im proud of you. that must be hard but right. If only all parents raised kids instead of just squirting them out and filling them with hate and stupidity.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:58 pm

If it makes you feel better I would have taken her to the actual birthday party venue and made her hand over the gift at the party...and then leave. So you're not a total ogre.