spauldo @ spauldo @lemmy.ml

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I had a partner when I opened a computer shop back in the day. Closest I've come to having sex with him was the time I saw his wife topless through the window.

Significant Other is much more specific.

Look, it's simple:

Can the PRC arrest me if I run down the streets of Taipei naked? No? Then they don't own Taiwan.

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• vi/vim
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• C, C++, Perl, Common Lisp, Scheme programming tools
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• git
• ksh (on *BSD)
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For a desktop:

• Emacs
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The bank teller thing is exactly what I was saying. Priests are down toward the bottom of the pyramid. Assuming every priest you meet is a pedo is pretty disturbing.

As far as the similarity to cops, the difference there is that the cops all abuse their authority from time to time. Almost every single one of them. Even if it's just fucking with someone for the fun of it, they've all done it. And they've got support from the more authoritative-minded people like the "back the blue" folks. It's definitely an attractive career for people who like to hold power over others - that's not even in question.

No one supports pedophiles. The church covers them up out of embarrassment, not because they condone that sort of behavior.

Yeesh, I never knew about that. Probably because I normally only worry about SIGHUP on *BSD.

What kind of arrogance does it take to just decide to change how signals work?

That's an off-the-cuff remark that his spokespeople refuted. Essentially the equivalent of a political gaff. Think about it: how would he know, and if he did know, why would he tell a reporter? He likely just pulled what he thought was a small number (2%) out of his hat as a way of saying "very few" before he realized how many people that would actually be. Politicians make that kind of mistake all the time, and the pope definitely falls into the category of politician.

And the "everyone in the organization is a pedo" is just plain unfair. Is a bank teller responsible because the company she works for is making shady investment deals? Is a forest ranger responsible because the president decided to sell off a bunch of national parks? There are specific people who are guilty and should be held responsible, and the organization as a whole should be viewed with suspicion, but the majority of the people there - especially at the bottom levels - are just doing their jobs. The majority of them are even more pissed off at pedophiles ruining the reputation of the church they're dedicated to than you are.

As far as the "attractive to pedophiles" bit, I'm not sure how that computes. Attractive to gay religious men who would prefer celibacy over sin, sure - that's an old argument. I've even known a couple priests that I suspect went into the priesthood because they couldn't express their sexuality. But pedophiles? What does "no women" and "celibacy" have to do with pedophilia? Few pedophiles are exclusive to kids. Most of them are perfectly capable of having a wife and family.

It seems to me like you're treating the church like a storybook organization of villains. Things in the real world rarely work like that.

Every post on a chan-style imageboard has a number. If the last two digits are the same, it's "dubs."

Now imagine a million threads full of nothing but people trying to get dubs on their comment. Yeah, it's really that stupid.

The creator of 4chan (moot) turned them off at some point (as in, it would skip any number with dubs, but not trips or above), but right before he sold 4chan he turned them back on.

I rather enjoyed “My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!,” but I feel like it should have ended shortly after the graduation event instead of going into the "sequel." Her continuing not to have a clue that everyone is in love with her is straining credibility a bit too much.

Could be worse. At least we don't have "dubs" threads like 4chan does.

Turning dubs back on right before he left was the final middle finger from moot, I suspect.

They didn't have those when I went through basic in '98, but then again we only had two days of FTX and basic was 6 weeks long total.

What they did have was arctic sleeping bags. You don't need a heated tent with one of those things. Sleep more than 30 minutes (which was about how long they gave us that night) and you're sweating, even in the cold.

Yeah, I saw that. My brain keeps telling me Selectric though. I'll never know for sure - Mrs. Tipton¹ (my typing teacher) retired the year after she taught me. I'm sure she's long dead by now.

Either way, they were cool and I loved typing on them.

¹ I grew up in rural white Oklahoma. Mrs. Tipton was my first encounter with an old black lady. We loved her to death, because she took no shit. My favorite memory of her was when one of the kids was switching a typewriter on and off over and over again and she yelled out, "stop masturbating the typewriter!" Peak humor in the 1990s bible belt.

Some kind of Pong game. I was really little and it was my grandmother's, so I don't even remember what the actual unit looked like.

Then the Atari 2600 (my aunt's), then the Atari 5200 (my grandmother's - she was unstoppable at Pac-Man and could start from Cherry and work all the way up to nine keys without dying once).

Then there was the day we rented an NES. That day changed my life.

It was Super Mario Bros. Start the game. "Oh hey, the screen moves sideways! Good lord, this is a huge game." Dies a bunch. Find pipe shortcut. "Oh wow!" Finally beat level 1-1. "Yay, I beat the game! Oh wait, World 1-2? WTF?!?!?"

It's hard to explain the feeling when the most immersive game you've ever played was Pitfall.

Hottest? No idea. I've never liked the heat and avoid it when I can.

Coldest? Easy. Forty feet (12 meters) up on top of a jet fuel tank in Thule, Greenland helping to change the cover on an automatic tank gauge. It was in the -40s on the ground (doesn't matter which scale) and windy. I don't know how much colder it was on top of the tank, but it was certainly colder than it was on the ground.

My father and my son both can't sleep without a fan. Ceiling fans don't count because they're too quiet.

When we moved from the middle of town (a block from the railroad tracks, no less) out here to the country, my girlfriend had trouble sleeping because it was too quiet. Then she had trouble sleeping because of my snoring. You just can't please some people :)

I can't sleep if I can hear voices. Other noises generally don't bother me, but my brain tries to listen to whatever is being said.

It wasn't a teletype. They were definitely IBM typewriters. They had a little LCD display on them and - if set to the right mode - would display the keys you typed and allow you to make corrections before you hit return (not sure on the name of the return/enter key), which would fire the daisy wheel to type out the line you entered. In regular mode (what we used it in, since it was a keyboarding class after all) it acted like a regular typewriter and typed one letter at a time.

I don't know how old they were. That class was, oh, around 1991 or 1992 I think? They weren't new, and were halfway through the process of being replaced. Half the class was full of 286 computers with typing software on them. We'd trade seats every week between the typewriters and PCs. I assume once the budget allowed they replaced the rest of them, but that would have been after my time.

There were Selectric models that had a built-in memory and supported various word processor functions, but nothing in the Wikipedia article jumped out at me. It might have been a non-Selectric (the memory plays tricks after 30 years), but it was definitely an IBM.

And I've explained several times why Hawaii is irrelevant to the topic, yet you keep yammering on about it and wanting me to "condone" the US' actions in Hawaii. What I condone or not condone has no bearing on the PRC and Taiwan situation. What the US did in Hawaii has no bearing on the PRC and Taiwan situation. You're just trying to deflect the actual argument.

Again, your argument is nonsensical and I explained in detail why it’s nonsensical.

No, you didn't. You sidestepped the topic altogether and tried to turn the discussion into something else.

China will either let people of Taiwan kick US out the way people did in Hong Kong, or they will take action to kick US out. Either way, the end result will be that US is going to lose its unsinkable carrier.

And when that day happens, the PRC will finally own Taiwan. Until then, it's just hand waving and words. Feel free to send me a "I told you so" message when it happens.

I meant quiet compared to when the ball printed your line. I guess I should have specified that I was talking about the ones with the little LCD screen that would take all your text and then print it all at once.

(I'm pretty sure they were Selectrics, anyway. IBM for sure. They're what I learned to type on in school back in the dark ages. We weren't allowed to use that feature, but there's always someone that doesn't follow directions so we go to hear what it sounds like.)

No, I'm not denying anything about Hawaii because it's irrelevant to the topic.

I don't argue that the PRC says it owns Taiwan. My argument is that, in reality, it's just words. I could walk down the main street of Taipei today with my pants down and the PRC could do nothing to stop me. The ROC, on the other hand, can.

Your civil war isn't over yet. You can blame us for that all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that the PRC does not, in fact, control Taiwan. And take this from an evil imperialist: if you don't control it, it's not yours.

Why? I've spent a good deal of time in Hawaii, know quite a few native people personally, and have read up on Hawaii's history. Yet some link from someone that searches out and posts nothing but anti-US articles all the time is supposed to change my mind? I don't think so.

Going back to the actual topic (Remember the topic? About chip availability and Taiwan being the source of chips, and how Taiwan is de facto its own country? Yeah, that one.):

You claim that the US is the reason for Taiwan not being part of the PRC. You also say Taiwan is part of the PRC. So what is it? You can't have it both ways.

Imagine what life was like when people used typewriters.

Those IBM Selectrics, especially. Hit keys (mostly) silently, hit Return, and that little ball goes BBBRRRAAAPPP! across the page all at once.

That said, I've been in offices where they used all IBM equipment (including Type-M keyboards) and after a while you don't hear the typing. That might be because you're going deaf, though.