The Off Topic Topic

[Barrister]

I've decided to flee for Argentina during the week of the election and the following week, fearing the civil unrest resulting from either guy winning.

Totally unrelated, my in-laws are having a reunion around that time

Their economy might end up better than ours.

I wouldn't worry about that...

[MadImmortalMan]

Smuggle some dollars, spicy. You can make a huge profit on the down-low there.

[derspiess]

Smuggle some dollars, spicy. You can make a huge profit on the down-low there.

No shit.  That and Apple products.  And apparently Barbie dolls are a hot commodity there

[CountDeMoney]

Smuggle some dollars, spicy. You can make a huge profit on the down-low there.

No shit.  That and Apple products.  And apparently Barbie dolls are a hot commodity there

Damn, really?  Sounds like somebody's hitting Toys R Us and Best Buy on the way to the airport.

[Neil]

Today's Google doodle is a celebration of one of the most overrated books around.  Languish hipsters rejoice!

[CountDeMoney]

Today's Google doodle is a celebration of one of the most overrated books around.  Languish hipsters rejoice!

Bet if it was a novel about clubbing the Great White Seal, you'd be all over it with your dick, Canuckistani.

[derspiess]

Smuggle some dollars, spicy. You can make a huge profit on the down-low there.

No shit.  That and Apple products.  And apparently Barbie dolls are a hot commodity there

Damn, really?  Sounds like somebody's hitting Toys R Us and Best Buy on the way to the airport.

Well yeah, but unfortunately I have a Santa's list of crap I need to buy for her brothers, sisters and cousins.

[Neil]

Today's Google doodle is a celebration of one of the most overrated books around.  Languish hipsters rejoice!

Bet if it was a novel about clubbing the Great White Seal, you'd be all over it with your dick, Canuckistani.

I've never even seen a seal.  I'm neutral on the whole Newfoundlanders clubbing seals, except for the fact that it makes American animal rights retards froth.

[Ed Anger]

I saw that that pm Cameron's cat got into a scrap with the Chancellor's cat.

Meow.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/17/14502283-top-cats-snap-fur-flies-outside-uk-pms-home?lite

[Josquius]

Today's Google doodle is a celebration of one of the most overrated books around.  Languish hipsters rejoice!

I see nothing.

[mongers]

Popped into my local museum in Salisbury, I'd recently filled in a volunteering application as I wanted to help out, and on entering mentioned I had heard anything, so the person took my number and said the personnel person would be in contact.

Maybe phoning my home number 20 miles away, just 40 minutes after I'd entered the museum wasn't such a good idea.

Wacky idea, but if they'd wanted to get in contact with me that soon, oh I don't know walk downstair and find me in their small museum ?   

[Ideologue]

So, as near as I can tell, the CyberLink Power DVD software that came with the blu ray drive I bought when I built my computer refuses to update, possibly as a deliberate measure to force people to upgrade their software for cash; and without said updates/upgrades, newer BDs (e.g., the Star Wars and Indiana Jones sets, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) will not play.  Of course, that's fucking ridiculous.

I mean, I'm not upgrading.  I've got a standalone player--a year older than the computer--that plays them fine (albeit I think there are some scratches on the Indy discs due to that set's packaging scheme, but that's another problem), and this suggests a measure of intent in whether the computer-mounted BDD can play them or not, as you clearly do not need updates other than perhaps what are carried on the discs themselves to get the movie playing.

Anyway, fuck these guys: I'd buy a standalone player rather than buy something from a company that tries to hold my sunk costs hostage.  Vile, if true.

[Ed Anger]

Fight the power

[derspiess]

Fight the power

 

The whole thing of playing blu-ray movies on a PC is way more of a hassle than it ought to be, though.  By this point in the DVD's life cycle it was a built-in feature for Windows. 

[Razgovory]

I saw that that pm Cameron's cat got into a scrap with the Chancellor's cat.

Meow.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/17/14502283-top-cats-snap-fur-flies-outside-uk-pms-home?lite

The cat clawed up a British reporter?  Good cat!  My cats have a hard time catching rodents as well.   There was a mouse in my room this spring and one cat chased after it while a second just sorta watched.  And not an interested watch, just laying down idly watching the scene.  Cat didn't give a damn.