TIL After Rat-Packer Sammy Davis Jr died in 1990, his Widow soon discovered that he was nearly broke and owed back taxes. She then had his body exhumed to strip him of the $70,000 worth of jewelry he had been buried with.

TheCannon · 10 days

This source seems untrustworthy. Has anyone got a better one.

alllie · 23 days

I agree that male genital mutilation is an important issue aswell but lets not derail a post about a culture of FGM in Africa . It's not a competition, we can address both issues.

thefunkygorilla · 1 month

If anyone ever finds this thread in the distant future it turned out that the problem was the motherboard. Replaced that and it all works fine!

thefunkygorilla · 1 month

I don't disagree that on the whole people tend to act responsibly on alcohol more than not, although I'm not sure the cost of alcohol is worth the benefits, although that's probably a different discussion.

I still think that the irresponsible act is drinking in the first place. Sure in day to day life you could have a mental incident that would similarly wreck ones judgment and cause irresponsible behavior but the difference with booze is we're choosing to artificially up that risk. I think a good analogy would be if you were to give a child a toy that you know for a fact has a reasonable chance that it could spontaneously explode and blind the child. Say they have it an hour and then you take it away and the child is unharmed. We would still consider that to give the child the toy in the first place is irresponsible, despite the fact that in this case there was no harm done. If you drink you can't know that during the time your judgment is impaired that you wont do someone harm by acting irresponsibly, the fact that up to now you've not done so doesn't diffuse the irresponsibility of the original act.

I does occur to me though I must sound like a proper kill-joy ಠ_ಠ . I'm still trying to work this one out myself!

thefunkygorilla · 1 month

I'm not sure it is possible to drink responsible. I think people get lucky a lot of the time but no one can know they are being responsible when they drink. I'm making a few assumptions;

Alcohol always affects ones judgment in some degree as soon as you start drinking
It's impossible to consistently judge the effect of a quantity of alcohol on ones judgment due to other factors such as food consumed, medication, strength of the drink, body weight, tolerance etc etc.
If ones judgment is affected it may cause one to act irresponsible and do think which may risk the safety and comfort of others when they would not otherwise do so.

If those are right then I see no way one can know when you have your first drink that you will stop when you think you will, or act responsibly if you drink too much. If you can't know you're going to act responsible, i.e. you're taking a chance, then to me it doesn't seem like a responsible act.

thefunkygorilla · 1 month

Definitely A1 and A2 that are funky. I've actually got a stick in both B1 and B2 so I can get all 4 sticks I bought in.

thefunkygorilla · 1 month

It is meant to run at 1.650 but what I don't get is why it works fine in all the other slots if its just incompatibility. Plus would it permenantly screw the CPU if thats the case, since I've tried with a 1600Mhz 1.5V stick of DDR3 memory alone in that slot to no avail.

thefunkygorilla · 1 month

Oh and in anyone is interested in all other respects the Sabertooth X79 is a lovely mobo. I would recommend it outright if I knew for sure it wasn't it's fault. Has some seriously snazzy features.

JohnAdamZiolkowski · 1 month

I had a bit of a rant about this in another post (well more about the ethics of punishing those who are intoxicated) if anyone is interested.

JohnAdamZiolkowski · 1 month

I was thinking about the ethics of drinking the other day. We kinda have a crazy attitude to drink in the west. We basically encourage it as the perfectly healthy, responsible, only way to socialise, certainly in the UK anyway. Being drunk is practically celebrated in most forms of media.

So we have this substance which we know reduces your inhabitions and screws your judgement and we say go on have a drink.

Then when people's inhabitions drop, having one more seems like a great idea, and one more, and one more, and before you know it you're pissed.

So then you do something stupid like drink driving or worse, because you've throughly kicked the shit out of the sane decision making bit of your brain that would normally tell you not to. Then as soon as you do that, the same society that encouraged you to drink in the first place pulls you over, either metaphorically or otherwise, and starts treating you like a sane adult who made all those decisions sober. Intoxication is sometimes considered as a defence but for the most part we still treat people like they did all that shit sober. Something about this seems broken to me. (kinda reminds me of this https://imgur.com/Vv4g2 )

Sure you could say that we should all have a responsibility to be aware of how alchohol affects us personally but that is hardly an exact science. To me it seems logical that we should treat those who do socially immoral things on alchohol should be treated the same as those with mental illness. Often when someone is mentally ill instead of incarcerating them as a criminal we treat their illness instead, only with alcohol once they're clean they're back to a sane responsible person. I guess that seems crazy too, I don't want to live in a society where people get drunk, act like idiots and have no repurcusions, but it does seem to make more sense to make the immoral act be that first drink, and as a society be less tolerant of the decision to purposely affect ones judgement and remove the inhabitions which keep us sane.

Anyway I reckons it's an interesting thing to consider because booze doesn't just increase the risk of you becoming a victim, it can also increase the risk of you becoming a criminal.

thefunkygorilla · 3 months

Really glad to see Cisco do this. When I joined the video conferencing industry four years ago I thought really it all came down to Skype. I was stupid; don't get me wrong they've nailed making it easy to use, but when it comes to call quality, features and most importantly openness they are a terrible thing for the industry and for anyone who makes video calls.

I use a Cisco ex90 on my desk at work, an e20 at home and movi on the go and I could never got back to using Skype, let alone archaic video-less phones. I can work from home as well as I can from working in the office, and communicate with my colleagues as well as I can in person. *It sound's tacky but I honestly thing telepresence can set us free; no more being tied down to where you work, or even the country you work. No more expensive, depressing commutes. No more grey dull offices. Work in damn field! Work underwater! *

While video solutions live in closed islands video conferencing will never become ubiquitous and we'll still be trapped in our damn cubicles. Skype's only advantage is it's userbase and so they have no incentive to innovate, to become open or to standardise. We need to make sure they do!

thefunkygorilla · 3 months

If you enjoyed this post check out http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/. It's a great blog with awesome artwork of women in sensible armor. OK it sounds lame when I put it like that but seriously check it out.

bature · 3 months

I've already got baconreader premium but I would buy it again just for this feature alone! Without being greedy can I ask if this is in development already?

ForMisogynistRights · 4 months

What the hell? How is it OK to imply that MRA are equivalent to rapists or racists? I'm not denying there's a log of misogynistic tosspots in the MRA movement, but even the feminist movement hasn't been without the occasional hatefilled mascot. It's not like there's some central authority with a party line, surely anyone that cares about mens rights, as well as women's, could be tarred with the same brush.

It's just as bad, if not worse than MRAs saying that all feminists are man-hating, sex-starved loners. How will both sides ever find common ground if we just mudsling all day.

mdmakk · 4 months

Don't feed the trolls.

mdmakk · 4 months

Translation is posted below

Put_it_in_my_mouth · 4 months

I've got a pair of these and they're great. All the comfort and style of Doc Martens but all vegan-y. Also the shop has an awesome slogan; "The treat for your feet for those who don't eat meat!"

http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/ if anyone is interested.

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