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[alfonso_rd_30]

So, yesterday sucked. Well, it was nice until after I got back from break; as I was forced to deal with a customer who could barely comprehend anything I was saying or understand that the 1-year warranty on her son's 3DS expired over a year ago or even explain what wasn't working on it (Also, said 3DS looks like it was run over with a semitruck), and the manager I was working with (Some guy from a Longview store) refused to do anything about it when I feel like I'm about to fucking snap because I'm tired of repeating the same bit of info every 5 fucking seconds to the same exact customer >_<;

I hope I don't have to deal with more of that before I leave.

And that's why Parents and tech rarely mix... parents' OS is not forwards compatible...

EDIT: ...and now I want to stab mom. It would have been useful if she had, I don't know, told me she was wanting to put gas in the Ramcharger for me so I can pay car insurance? Now, I have to wait for my next paycheck to pay it because I just put gas in it a few days ago, and she's yelling at me about driving it uninsured when I just put insurance on it again and that was the entire reason I got out this morning in the first place >_<;;;
(Also, apparently she was "only going to pay insurance and get lunch", which I know is bullshit; as whenever I go anywhere with her, it's a bar minimum of 6 hours as she has to waste as much of my time as possible so all I can do when I get home is go straight to work)

Oh, and I have to figure out how to keep the damn thing running for longer than 5 minutes, because it's completely undrivable in temperatures below 60F :\

but Mothers usually waste 75.99% of their time, so it's an unavoidable drama

"That sucks :<"

>on chat
>talk about how awesome old version of Firefox is
>regular comes on and calls me ignorant for it
>I tell him I'm using it because "it works"
>he says "that's not an excuse, but what do you know? You're not a developer."

>being this much of a smartyfag

Asshole, I was only using it because SoundCloud doesn't work on Opera.

in all honesty, he was the ignoramus on there

oh good fucking god lord. so to make things short, my girlfriend is being thrown in military prison over a botched discharge (on their end!) that they cannot stop hounding her over. my baby...

well, that's Military Justice fer ya

Guys, I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight.

The Second Crimean War is about to go full out hot and everything is as tense as a guitar string about to snap. And meanwhile, the markets are going batshit chaos everywhere in response. The ruble is dead. Poland is marching, and calling the NATO members to an official council meeting on the Crimean situation. That, and I just bought a whole kilogram of candy and 6 liters of soda, among with lots of other snacks. I'm fucking ready for the all-nighter, but I have important classes tomorrow.

What the hell am I supposed to do?

a bit on spanish wisdoom: Aguante banda!!! (hang in there peep)

Implying developers are the ones that envision design, the features and how stuff works.

but only displaying his lack of common sense

[NejinOniwa]

http://www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?mount=hf_usaf

http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/

Orders being broadcast and lots of chatter on Skyking channel. Meanwhile, UN Security Council holds a special meeting on the situation. At one point I had the representative of Jordan, his translator AND the Skyking channel chatter going on at the same time. It was rather confusing.

[LeaflameSD]

guys i'm really scared what's going on here
is Nejin going to die?

[NejinOniwa]

Not yet at least lol. Europe isn't exactly small, whatever you peeps may believe sometimes The conflict itself is, at present, very much contained to the Crimean peninsula and to some extent the rest of Ukraine. The Russians ARE holding an extensive military exercise out of Kaliningrad in the baltic sea, however, and Poland rushing their military to ready for what is assumed to be the first step in the plan they're taking to the NATO meeting tomorrow that they called for. Russia's economy is in freefall and the ruble is becoming trash worth. The hostility of the West and the threat of sanctions and isolation toward Russia may well force Putin into action, and that's besides whatever plan for the endgame of all this he had to begin with. Depending on how the conflict pans out, we may see little more than saber rattling, an extensive local conflict that will vastly reshape the political landscape of eastern europe, or an all-out global conflict involving Russia, China and the US alongside all their respective allies.

I mean, as far as "getting nuked" goes, I'm not in the worst danger in the world. But I'm considering preparing some innawoods measures now.

It feels strange, watching all this unfold.
It truly is Happening.

[Cockleshell]

I highly doubt it. Nejin has the strength of a trillion iceblown vikings. Not even the heat death of the universe could end that man.

[Chocofreak13]

@leaf: maybe 43 bucks where you are, ebay is declaring it free here~
@cockle: considering she was discharged, i doubt she'll stay in jail long, since they have to actually tell her she's discharged, so in effect they're locking her up because they don't understand what they just said. it'll resolve itself. (however, "soon" is a relative term...)
@alphonso: welcome back~
@pent: someday she'll be dead and you can set fire to her grave~
@nej: this has been starting to scare me for about 2 weeks now. considering Russia/Ukraine doesn't exactly have a history of being calm and rational about conflicts (or at least less than us), i am honestly seeing this as Cold War: Round II. people used to call me paranoid for stuff like this, but with nuclear war on the brink, who's the crazy one now?

[alfonso_rd_30]

@alphonso: welcome back~

Thank you

@pent: someday she'll be dead and you can set fire to her grave~

Agreed

@nej: this has been starting to scare me for about 2 weeks now. considering Russia/Ukraine doesn't exactly have a history of being calm and rational about conflicts (or at least less than us), i am honestly seeing this as Cold War: Round II. people used to call me paranoid for stuff like this, but with nuclear war on the brink, who's the crazy one now?

you're still the crazy one, the crazy one on the right side of truth

[NejinOniwa]

The alarming thing however is that with the way things are going, the war has a very high risk of going hot very fast, depending on how Poland and the other Eastern European countries in NATO decide to act. And at the same time we also have the Far East mounting somewhat similar crises; The conflict over the Senkaku islands between Japan and China, the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia, and the conflict between South and North Korea. If military conflict breaks out between Russia and the West at large - or even Russia and Ukraine in open war rather than the slow, soft takeover we've seen in Crimea - there is a very real risk of those other conflicts breaking out into military action as well, with the Russian intervention in Crimea as a precedent.

It's very hard to be the first one to declare war. If the world is already at war, however, the declaration is just a formality.

[Bella]

oh good fucking god lord. so to make things short, my girlfriend is being thrown in military prison over a botched discharge (on their end!) that they cannot stop hounding her over. my baby...

What the bloody fuck? I hope your gf gets out soon, that sounds really scary. :C

Also maybe this is my DERPDEHURP optimism talking but i'm like 99% sure there aren't going to be any nukes. Even if Cold War Part Deux breaks out.

I just hope MURRICA doesn't MURRICA it up and try to get involved in the fighting.

[NejinOniwa]

If anything, nukes are going to be the last measure of a cornered power after a long protracted conventional war; or, a desperate strategic attempt by irrational, unreasonable regents to decisively achieve their goal, whatever it may be.

I don't think we're going to see the ICBM's break out just yet - not today, tomorrow, this month or even this year.

But if the war goes long enough - and remains hot throughout, and someone with enough nukes is getting beaten badly enough - then, yes, there is a risk. Let's hope, for all of our sakes, that it's not a very large one.

[Cockleshell]

i made the mistake of starting to read homestuck again and i've gotten farther than i ever have in my other three attempts at reading it through

[Chocofreak13]

@cockle: *brofist*

@nej, bella: the problem here is, like nej mentioned, we have NK involved. and NK is subtle like a moose. they have been ITCHING to use their newly developed tech against someone, and this could be their opportunity. and everyone knows that once one person uses the nukes, EVERYONE'S gonna use the nukes.

even without nukes, this could get really, REALLY bad. and given America's reputation for being 'MURRICA in everything, i don't see this ending without at least SOME bloodshed.


ps: as usual my mum can't take me or this seriously. all of a sudden this feels like a movie and all the kids are right and planning to save the world while the adults live in ignorant bliss

[Nichi]

TBH I hope it doesn't get bad enough for anything to happen. I'd rather the Fallout series stay within the realms of video games, than become an actual reality

[Chocofreak13]

but it could, man. it could actually happen.

and that's probably what makes games like Fallout and Rainbow Six so compelling. because they could become reality with just the push of a button.

[alfonso_rd_30]

agreed, it's kinda training for those WCS... in which case I'm screwed