Sunday, July 8, 2018

477 - Unfit For The Planet, Junk Code Of The T-800, We Suppose A Hot Pepper Could Cure Mr. McGreen, Other Old Garbage That Needs Torn Down With The Confederacy, and Just Say "Si"!

[11:49 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Don M used to sing to me
"Shine bright like McGreeeeeeen"
[11:51 AM] 
Hehe
[11:52 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
My friend recently worked with him
Same story "great guy...not so reliable"
[11:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Is he still at Planet Fitness?
[11:54 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Not anymore
[11:56 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
It seems weird that someone so chronically lazy could get through the army
[11:58 AM] 
Moon Flabness
"You work here?"
Don "Not when no one's lookin'."
If I hit the lottery I'm going to open some Moon Flabness clubs right next door to Planet Fitness places.
Party food, big TVs, recliners, bar.



[10:48 AM] 
[10:52 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
"We'd have spent more time on the code if we had known that 30 years later nerds and dweebs would be trying to decipher and source it."
[10:56 AM] 
Heh
[10:57 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
This code here brings up a jpeg of a sail boat 
[11:06 AM] 
(T-800) "I am a human analog...metal endoskeleton covered with organics.  Originally programmed to find and terminate humans as well as other coding for showing Powerpoint slides and checking data is correct."
[11:07 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I suppose Skynet could've just appropriated harmless code to make it do something useful but completely different
[11:08 AM] 
(standing at police counter) "Your duty roster times do not correlate with the schedule on your desk...I'll be back."
[11:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
But why would his vision need to see the code anyway?
[11:08 AM] 
It wouldn't.
Visual depiction of a computer running code for the benefit of mere humans.
[11:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Exactly
[11:08 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Maybe for remoting in?
[11:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
The code would be running in the background, like a computer
And his vision is already so shitty without all the crap overlaid.
[11:09 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
LOL
[11:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
They can perfect organic tissue and human movement but everything is all red?
[11:10 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Stop ruining my childhood, MR. BLUE 
[11:10 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Predator
He got to choose his vision spectrum
But they ran out of budget to give him “regular”. lol
[11:10 AM] 
(hostile asks a question.  Terminator freezes in place...sound of floppy disk spinning and reader arm shifting sectors.  Looks up) "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE.
[11:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Predator's grainy vision made more sense... His tech was pretty wonky
[11:15 AM] 
(hostile asks a question.  Terminator stops moving...sound of floppy disk spinning and reader shifting sectors.  Looks up) "SYNTAX ERROR. AY COLON FORWARD SLASH."
"Whatchu call me, asshole???"
"STACK OVERFLOW."
[11:19 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I'm gonna start calling people I'm angry with a "stack overflow".
I'd rather have a Terminator after me than a Predator.
[11:21 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Maybe the Predator visual equipment is just not suited for certain environments. Maybe something in our atmosphere that's not present in theirs screws up the tech.
Although just because the Terminator vision looked shitty to us doesn't mean it was shitty for it.
Maybe his vision is *so* good that it simply cannot be conveyed in film and what we see as pixellation and lack of color is actually high detail
[11:22 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Or maybe that's all a killer robot needs to see
[11:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yep
[11:23 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
They don't need the visual definition we do
[11:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Maybe he was in a low power mode since he wasn't actually doing anything particularly taxing.
In T2 they show him as having superior night vision, driving at high speeds with no headlights.
[11:24 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
T2 was such a good action movie its almost ridiculous
[11:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah



[12:19 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
My chest really hurts. Mr. Brown, can I use some of your FMLA
[12:20 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Sounds like you need more than that.
Electric shock?
[12:21 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
No no, just to go home and take a nap
Or die. IDK
I could just open a window I suppose.
[12:21 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
For chest pains, you need me to give you a swift punch in the chest while yelling “don't you die on me!”
[12:21 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I'd be wide awake and you'd be trying to give me mouth to mouth
[12:22 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
You need a very spicy pepper
That will wake you up and cure all pains
[12:23 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Suppository pepper
[12:24 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
You could eat one
Or you can crush it up and rub it on the sore muscle
[12:51 PM] 
Suppository always cracks me up. 
"Doctor, he can't take the pill."
"Well he needs to get it in his system."
"Well where do you suppose I can just deposit the thing?"
"Hmmm... Weeeell...  I suppoooose we could...(points)."
"(nurse comprehends) No! ... Wait, really?"
"It should work... There..."
I suppose it could.”
[1:00 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Sometimes you just gotta get that medicine in somehow.
Hehe



[3:18 PM] 
#1.  Yesterday on Facebook in response to monuments to Confederate stuff being torn down.  New contact posts a picture of the pyramids.
"Well, THESE were build by slaves.  Are we going to tear THESE down?" 
(me, reply)  "They weren't built by slaves.  Debunked decades ago."
"Can you document that?"
"Well...a simple google search will give you a dozen...but I'll pick one."
(post)
(5 minutes)
"Thanks...took it down."
"YW"
#2. I watched a full video from an ex-marine history teacher laying out how GWB is criticized for Iraq and Obama lauded, but that GWB won one of the greatest military victories in modern times and Obama screwed it all up and gave it away.
There were some obvious and deliberate omissions of what really happened with Obama...but it wasn't just now before I remembered why the teacher was a moron and a total tool.
Specifically: "You forgot to mention that Saddam was an anchor of stability in the region and was crushing terrorists before GWB and crew fabricated a reason to attack in the first place, thereby destabilizing the entire world and damaging the global economy."
[3:29 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Mr. Silver!
[3:32 PM] 
"So boo hoo about Obama doing what the Iraqis told him to - according to the agreements made before he was elected (which you forgot to mention, professor) - and ISIS coming in.  They'd never have been there if it wasn't for the idiot you're defending."
                                   (next day)
Had a fun time after work tearing apart the “GWB was great, Obama was a villain in Iraq” video.
Didn't get mobbed either.
Just an apology from the original poster - "Yeah, I actually went and looked at a few more videos on that site...I hadn't realized how alt-right it was."
It's unusual enough I said anything...must have been in a mood though.
Right after that I saw the old chestnut: "Well the Democrats were the ones who put up all those racists statues...what do you have to say to that?"
[9:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
The parties pretty much completely swapped platforms post Civil Rights movement
The southern Democrats - Dixiecrats or whatever - were the KKK and segregationists
[9:06 AM] 
Yes.
"Yep, it's true the Democrats were at fault... until about 80 years ago when the Democrats stopped being the conservatives. Do you know anyone who was voting age 100 years ago when this argument stopped being relevant?"
I got approvals and laughs on that.
[9:10 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
D'nish D'souza - or whatever - likes to bring up that Lincoln was a Republican and the KKK were Democrats because he knows idiots eat it up
[9:10 AM]
Might as well be blaming the Federalist Party
"They ripped off native Americans in 1795!"
"Talk about Racists!"
"And we have a FEDERAL government!  It's the SAME WORD!"
:|
...anyway...
People are generally stupid about propaganda and few have any sense of history
I had a slobbering Republican try to school me in the Nazis being "left wing" based solely on the name of the political party.
"It was a name chosen on purpose to make you think that.  Everything they did came from classic 'right wing' principles."
"You're WRONG!"
"Yet I know what I'm talking about, while you're falling for a scam from the 1920s that doesn't hold up to even a cursory examination."



[9:19 AM] 
Client - Ragozine, Sal
"We made our fortune in Italian tabloids before immigrating to the US."
[9:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Eyyy! Sally Ragu! Hiyadoin'?
You ever see the Italian fascist party HQ
"We aren't even going to hide our interest in frightening totalitarianism."
[9:24 AM] 
"We were going to call it 'Big Face', but marketing says 'Big Brother' sounds friendlier...even with the evil scowl. What do you think, Benito?"
"Still unnerving.  Write 'yes' behind it a couple hundred times."