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Congratulations on kicking ISIL out of Mosul! You've taken another step towards making the middle east a beacon of democracy and freedom!

Click here to collect your reward.

Edited, Jul 18th 2017 8:18am by someproteinguy

I'm sure we'll find more democracy in the castle.

In related thoughts, I've often found it odd just how much of a barren wasteland so many of these areas are. This isn't like rich farm land, or anything, it's a non-stop stretch of barely habitable sand and rock. Like why are people even living there in the first place? Why not just leave a few people to work the oil pumps and move elsewhere? Would probably be a better use of our tax dollars. Suppose Europe wouldn't be on-board with that though. Besides I say the same things about Vegas, so whatever. At least Vegas has tempting vices.

In the case of Mosul, it's situated along a river and has a major airport. There's also a big university there and a medical college. Or "was" with the war but a couple decades ago, I imagine it had a decent economy and reasons to live there. Apparently the locally produced goods are oil and marble. Since it's along a river, I'll assume it is or was suitable for farming at some point.

Next on "Fixer Upper" Chip and Joanna nag their way through restoring a charming, post-civil war neighborhood in lovely downtown Mosul.

It's the thing with the spinning sharp bit, right?

Best to quarantine for Beiber Fever while searching for a cure.

Does using plus size models on the catwalk promote positive self-image and embrace body-type diversity or does it glorify obesity and normalize unhealthy lifestyles? Apparently there are people in Australia that think about these kinds of things while watching women in swimsuits parade around stage.

Australia is weird.

Edited, Aug 3rd 2017 9:10am by someproteinguy

Hopefully helping young impressionable aliens be happy with the body Zakn'ar has given them.

Animated smiley faces has to be a tough kink to have. You see the darn things everywhere, and obviously Rule 34 hasn't yielded enough material to keep a person satisfied yet. Can't be an easy life.

I don't know if any of you watched, but last night was the 600th and final episode of @midnight.

I loved that show, gonna miss it.

Now that you mention it, where the hell was Doug Benson. I believe that him and Ron Funches won more shows than anyone.

Hah! What I love about this is the silly familiar inability of most people working in what are supposed to be technical careers, but who have zero (or less if that's even possible) basic debugging skills. Silly me, but if I plug something in, and then the power stops working on something else plugged in nearby, my very first assumption is that one action caused the other reaction. At the very least "what did you do right before it broke" is always a good starting point when trying to figure out why something isn't working. You'd be shocked (actually, you probably wouldn't, but other folks maybe would be) how often the initial story is "I didn't do anything! It just stopped working on its own.", and after spending a ridiculous amount of time, finally wresting out of them that they did something very obvious and clear that caused the problem. And it's not even that they're trying to conceal what they did. They honestly didn't see the correlation. Which is scary.

Now I might dismiss this kind of thing because it's an operator and not an engineer, but um... many engineers are just as bad: "Hey! I was running this command yesterday and it worked, and now it tells me 'command not found'". "Did you change anything between yesterday and today?". "No. Nothing". <I spend time figuring out that there's a syntax error in one of their source files>. "Here's the problem. This file has a syntax error, which is causing the source to fail, which prevents your environment from loading. Do you know how that error got there". "Oh. Yeah. I was editing that file to add a new alias to my environment this morning." <facepalm>.

Or: "This command isn't working". "Does it output any errors or warnings?". "No. I get nothing". "Nothing at all? Just a blank screen? Blinking cursor? Does it crash the software? The entire environment? Your login session?" "Nope. Nothing at all" (ps: There's always "something" that happens, so this is always a false statement). <spends time replicating users environment to duplicate problem> "Um... You didn't notice the line of text immediately after the command you typed that said "Error: no read/wriite permission for <path to important file that needs to be opened rw>". "Oh. That? I didn't think it was important". <facepalm>



Well, clearly you shouldn't have been on that ladder where the forklift needed to operate. Also, if your bosses paid their operators better, they'd be able to have better radios.

Also: Who listens to a portable radio these days? I can't remember the last time I saw such a thing. Where they heck is this plant you're working at anyway?

Huh... If only there was a position, perhaps one with some authority, in which one might find as part of their duties the task of, and I know this is crazy... writing a procedure? Or, if that's too difficult for him, assigning someone to do such a thing? Did he get his manager title as a prize out of a snack box or something?



Yup. Fortunately, where I work, at least most of the management folks are reasonably competent and capable. Their first response would have been "I need to make sure there's a procedure for this". If anything, we have the opposite problem. Too much bureaucracy and procedures to follow. Some of this (a lot of it I believe) is regulatory though. I literally have to go through about a half dozen different "follow this series of web pages, answer the questions, and show you are sufficiently informed about <diversity policy/insider trading policy/intellectual property policy/foreign government gift policy/federal trade policy/trademark policy/safe workspace policy/patent policy/etc/etc/etc>, so we can show we're meeting some regulatory/legislative/contractual/whatever requirement" every single year. It's like: Um... I didn't forget this stuff after the last 10 times I went through it. Can't I just click "I agree" or something?