Random Raves : Tank Goodness

[Civ'ed]

Starcraft is a sport in Korea.

I don't know a thing bout starcraft

 

[classical_hero]

Looks like the SW of WA is gong to be affected by the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn on Saturday. For us it will most probably just mean heavy rain and strong winds, nothing we don't experience in the winter with a strong cold front, but this sort of weather is a rare event. The last time we got impacted by a cyclone or the aftermath of one was by TC Alby which was in 1978, the year I was born. Normally by the time a TC gets this far south, it is taken by the earth rotation and often is too far east to affect us.

 

[Borachio]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31839859

MPs have voted in favour of introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes in the UK.

It means from 2016 every packet will look the same except for the make and brand name, with graphic photos accompanying health warnings if the House of Lords also approves the move.

The Irish Republic passed a similar law earlier this month and Australia has had plain packaging since 2012.

Health campaigners said they were "delighted" with the move.

Some 367 MPs voted in favour of standardised packaging with 113 against it in a free vote.

Yay! Good news!

What I don't understand, though, is why tobacco companies oppose this on the grounds that the packaging doesn't influence whether people smoke or not.

If it doesn't influence behaviour, why do they oppose plain packaging?

Seems like a remarkable case of double-think, to me.

 

[Joecoolyo]

7 years, damn, that must've been a good computer.

I had a laptop since high school and used it for about seven years as well, but it was a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down (father gave it to mother who gave it to me). It was still somewhat functional about a year or two ago, despite it being around a decade old and despite the fact that the screen was literally falling off because it was slowly getting detached from the rest of the laptop. I actually still keep it in my closet, even if I don't use it anymore, just because of sentimental attachment. Guess that's kind of creepy, in a way, like keeping a corpse in your closet, but whatever. It was my first real computer that was my own.

Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to keep the corpse of my current old PC around, it's too big and while it isn't in great shape I'm sure someone might be able to make use of it.

I bought mine with my bar mitzvah money, and having no idea what a computer entailed, I just bought one off the Dell website. It was good for maybe a year at most

It went through three video cards just to try and keep it relevant, didn't mean much since the CPU was junk and internal cooling was awful, overheated constantly.

Though, just like you, I keep its corpse sitting around somewhere in my house. As much as I hated it towards the end of its life, it was still my first computer and it will occupy a special spot because of that

 

[EgonSpengler]

My iPod is beginning to creak and groan like a wooden ship-of-the-line entering the age of the dreadnaught. It's been a good run, 8 or 9 years of near constant podcasts and music. From analyses of current events to foul-mouthed comedians, classical piano to black metal, it's done it all. It's traveled more than some people I know, and has stuck with me longer than any woman ever has.

 

[JohannaK]

I had a Dell that came with this encyclopaedia for kids. It has been continuously used for around a decade. Almost half of that time has been used exclusively by my father. It is still going strong.

My iPod Nano... I think it is 2009? It works just fine and has sustained a lot of (accidental) abuse. Just today it slipped from my hands and fell to the ground. Still works perfectly.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I still have an mp3 player (yes, you know, one of those ancient clunky block things that used to play people's music after we got rid of CD players but before we got all our ipods and modern gizmos). It's over a decade old, and still works more than perfectly. In fact, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was still working for another decade.

 

[Borachio]

Wut?

Who's got rid of their CD player? I've still got mine. I've still got a cassette player. Though neither get much use.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I have an MP3 player from before they realized that, to get you to buy a new one every three years or so, they should make the memory internal. It takes an SD card, so as those increase in capacity, I can update the MP3 player's storage for $8-10.

No fancy screen for navigation, though.

 

[Arakhor]

I recently threw out a bunch of cassette tapes, but then I don't know anyone who's owned a working cassette players for very many years.

 

[JohannaK]

My grandfather died. His cassette-player-equed car passed on to my father, and I kinda treasure moments such as being driven to a Mark Knopfler gig with Alchemy Live playing loud.

 

[Takhisis]

Actually One Day cricket originated in England and so did 20/20 cricket, so that can't be their excuse. But England become bad at things they invent, so it is just history repeating itself.

Can't it? Don't panic, man.

I recently threw out a bunch of cassette tapes, but then I don't know anyone who's owned a working cassette players for very many years.

My grandfather died. His cassette-player-equed car passed on to my father, and I kinda treasure moments such as being driven to a Mark Knopfler gig with Alchemy Live playing loud.

You need a recod player. Y'know, for vinyl LPs.

 

[JohannaK]

I do have one. I got it for my birthday.

 

[Verarde]

best rave of the year so far: I have a date for Saturday night. She's cute. She's funny. And the signals coming from her are off the chart.


yeeeeee

 

[azzaman333]

best rave of the year so far: I have a date for Saturday night. She's cute. She's funny. And the signals coming from her are off the chart.


yeeeeee

glhf use protection.

 

[Civ'ed]

best rave of the year so far: I have a date for Saturday night. She's cute. She's funny. And the signals coming from her are off the chart.


yeeeeee

Lucky man!

 

[Kennigit]

whenever the onion has a bit about joe biden you know it is going to be good!

NSFW language for those that seek it

 

[Borachio]

From The Onion Book Of Known Knowledge:

Biden, Joe(b. Nov. 20, 1942), 47th vice president of the United States. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden spent his formative years in Wilmington, Delaware, where, at the age of 12, he walked in on the mother of a school friend while she was changing and then asked if she really wanted him to leave. Biden graduated high school in 1961, but for three years afterward periodically hung out in the parking lot of his alma mater in his 1957 Ford Del Rio station wagon (the back of which he had converted into a cot and mini bar) in order to, in his words, “check out the fresh crop of sweet peaches.” Following a successful career selling Cutco knives door-to-door, Biden was elected to public office in 1970, when he won a seat on the Wilmington City Council by running on a platform of “gas, grass, or ass [a kind of donkey, noted for eating grass]—no one rides for free.” Political success at the federal level soon followed, and Biden served seven terms as a U.S. senator from Delaware, often saying the highlight of his legislative career came in 1981 during a goodwill trip to West Germany, when he held a closed-door backstage meeting with Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker of the rock band the Scorpions, attended also by at least a half-dozen young women who couldn’t afford tickets to the show. Among Biden’s other accomplishments are the invention of a firework he named the “Tijuana Bumble Bee” (created by twisting together the fuses of two cherry bombs and a large bottle rocket), having at one time been the largest breeder of albino Burmese pythons in Delaware, and acting as the spokesman for Brut aftershave from 1992 to 1995, a contract he lost after referring to Asian-Americans as “Orientals” 39 times during a promotional appearance at a Miami boat show. The vice president, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, was last seen in the vicinity of a decrepit Streamline trailer on a derelict lot in downtown Washington. After the camper mysteriously caught fire, local law enforcement discovered it was filled with counterfeit designer handbags.

What's wrong with it?

(Other articles on Biden are available.)

 

[madviking]

i think you can get to the article kennigit is referring to by googling "joe biden weed"

i also like the one that can be accessed through googling "joe biden copper wire"

 

[Kennigit]

^^ it's on the front page at the moment

but theonion has been consistently great with ol' diamond joe