Hate, contemptible hate.

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  • edited October 2010
    Well shit. That's fucking lame.
  • edited October 2010
    That does suck. Write Microsoft an angry letter using a baseball bat and their office windows.
  • edited October 2010
    Huh. I was expecting some comments about "You should get a Mac/use Linux".

    Mario and Iggy not seen this yet?

    Have you tried doing a system restore on your current install?
  • edited October 2010
    Use a mac.

    Or, in all seriousness, this maybe one of those moral situations where you can justify pirating a windows 7 disc.
  • edited October 2010
    I bought two macintoshes today, and intend to eat them soon
  • edited October 2010
    Apathy wrote: »
    Huh. I was expecting some comments about "You should get a Mac/use Linux".

    Mario and Iggy not seen this yet?
    I figure my recommendation to use Linux is pretty much implied these days, so I don't need to waste precious keystrokes repeating it.
    shakeycat wrote: »
    I bought two macintoshes today, and intend to eat them soon
    That's McIntosh. Apple misspelled the name of their computer.
  • edited October 2010
    Writing Microsoft angry letters because I lost my disk wouldn't make much sense. You also should know that mac/Linux aren't an option for me. I only even care about Windows 7 because it supports my SSD better. OSX/Linux don't.
    If I don't find the disk, I'll just end up building a new computer in a few years and running Windows 8. As long as it doesn't totally piss me off and push me to forsake computers entirely.
  • edited October 2010
    But if you write angry letters using a baseball bat and their office windows, then you will feel better about the problem.
  • edited October 2010
    Then sue them for emotional damage.

    It's the American way.
  • edited October 2010
    And then they sue you for breaking their window.
    And then you sue the Baseball Bat company for selling you a product that's so good at breaking Windows.
    And then the Baseball Bat company sues the Windows company for not making Windows plate glass.
    And then the Windows company sues the makers of Windows for inappropriately placing the Windows (IE: In places where it's possible to break them), and once again for stealing their company name to use as the name for their software.

    And then Microsoft sues the Baseball Bat company for breaking a perfectly good computer, announces to the public that work on "Windows: Plate Glass" will begin immediately, and, being fed up with all the damn Suits, just buys the world and makes it illegal to be a lawyer, thus causing both the clothing variety and the legal variety of Suits to no longer exist.
  • edited November 2010
    wtf Nintendo DSi is region locked? I just bought a DSi in Hong Kong yesterday, but I was sorely disappointed to find out that it did not recognize my Japanese copy of Pokemon White. It recognizes my US copy of Pokemon Soul Silver though. But the thing is a European copy apparently, since the location settings only let me pick places in Europe.

    I have to figure out how to unlock all regions on my DSi. It's going to be a pain in the ass.
  • edited November 2010
    Ryan, don't you already have two Nintedo DS's? How many hands do you have again?
  • edited November 2010
    Won't an Action Replay unregion lock it? Granted you have to boot it with the AR every time, but still. Probably also have to ship it in, which could be expensive and will certainly take a while. Hmm... that is pretty irritating.
  • edited November 2010
    No, I only have one DS, and that's the Lite. My old DS 1.0 died in a hurricane in Japan. But the current DS is over 4 years old with a battery that does not hold a charge like it used to. So I wanted an upgrade.
  • edited November 2010
    So it turns out that the region lock is kind of weird. DSi software will be region locked, but some DS games are only region locked on the DSi, like Pokemon White and Black. So it will play on an American or European DS, but not on a DSi. On the plus side, my other Japanese games will still play. It's just... weird. Why pokemon?
  • edited November 2010
    Probably because of the special downloads and its interaction with the online dream world. They either need to send your pokemon to a different regional specific dream world or allow you to access the dream world in several different languages. And there are no hurricanes in Japan, they have typhoons.
  • edited November 2010
    Hurricanes, geez Ryan. I'm no longer going to believe you when you say you spent a year in Japan.
  • edited November 2010
    Fucking Christians.

    3 Iowa justices removed after gay marriage ruling
    DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa voters have voted to remove three state Supreme Court justices, siding with conservatives angered by a ruling that allowed gay marriage.

    The vote Tuesday was the first time Iowa voters have removed a Supreme Court justice since the current system began in 1962.

    The three who weren't retained were Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and justices David Baker and Michael Streit. They were the only justices up for retention this year.

    They were on the court of seven justices who unanimously decided last year that an Iowa law restricting marriage to one man and one woman violated the state's constitution.

    Gay marriage opponents spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the campaign. A group of former governors, lawyers and judges said the justices' removal would threaten Iowa's independent judiciary.
  • edited November 2010
    This is the exact situation that causes a conflict of interest. Judges are supposed to worry about getting fired for making an unpopular ruling.
  • edited November 2010
    I saw on Carter's facebook today that he's sporting quite a rockin' beard.

    This has filled me with rage, as it beats the shit out of anything I have been able to grow! :hulk:
  • edited November 2010
    I had a test yesterday. That's not so bad, but I was not yet ready for it, forcing me to stay up until 4 (and get up at 7) to study for it. I was already exhausted from having to do the exact same thing for a test on Tuesday and was catching a cold.

    As a result of my studying the night before, I hadn't had time to take the mandatory pre-lab quiz for yesterday's all-afternoon lab class, so I took that during lunch (without studying, as I did not have time). I barely had enough time to shovel down a few mouthfuls of food at the dining hall. This may not seem like much. "Oh, he had to eat a light meal. So tragic. Boo, sarcastic, hoo." But let me remind you that I have hypoglycemia. I have a medical need to eat on a regular basis.

    Well at the lab, I found out that my lab group was behind on a paper that was due that day at 8pm. Once we got out of lab, we spent the entirety of the remaining time on it.

    So there I was at 7:45, typing away, suffering from fatigue, blood sugar that had long since bottomed out (to the point where I was unable to form a sentence without stuttering terribly), and a cold that was rapidly getting worse. All the while it was gnawing at my semi-conscious mind that in just a few minutes, not only was the paper due, but the dining hall would close.

    So, yeah. I now know what hell feels like.
  • edited November 2010
    Do you not realise how easy it is to get out of work through pure bullshittery? Let alone when you actually have a genuine medical problem?

    Seriously, look into how to work the system.
  • edited November 2010
    Wah, wah, school is so hard, boo hoo. Last weekend I worked 17 hours straight with one 15 minutes break.
  • edited November 2010
    I'd like to thank my biology teacher for the trimester final he gave us. It had exactly 2 questions on topics we'd covered. The other 78 questions had to do with topics we'd never heard of. He can go die.
  • edited November 2010
    You weren't paying attention, child.
  • edited November 2010
    Strange, apparently neither did the class syllabus or calender. The subjects on the final are all slated to be taught next tri. A lot of people who've taken his class have told me that he enjoys giving you finals on subjects you haven't learned yet, so I am inclined to believe that its not just me. I'd be fine if he graded on a curve, but alas, he does not. Grr.
  • edited November 2010
    School is hard.

    Life is hard.

    Makes me tired.
  • edited November 2010
    I hate powerpoints. I hate designing them, I hate editing them, I hate trying to organize them in a way to hold the incredibly short attention span of a couple hundred delegates at a conference.

    It's ridiculous. Making a good powerpoint is essentially an exercise in refraining from using most of the functionalities in the software.
  • edited November 2010
    Go nuts! Add transitions and spinning text and that annoying typewriter noise for every goddamn letter!
  • edited November 2010
    Make everything neon green and pink!