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My company buys it. No idea what they use it for since I work in IT and I don’t use it for anything.

There’s no consistency to it. It really depends on the individual.

I just love it when they’re talking about a subject that is demonstrably not American, like very clearly it happened in a different country and they still bring their values to it.

Usually any situation involving the police triggers this.

Yes but you see if I close the lid, then it’s off. And that’s why my system has an up time of 208 hours.

There is such a thing as duck tape though, It’s a brand of duct tape

Literally nine tickets like this so far today. Nine.

It’s a good thing for them The purge isn’t real.

I will go and open a ticket and I will put two words in it, and require you to contact me for more any information, and then I won’t answer the phone for 6 weeks. Oh and don’t bother leaving a voicemail message or sending me an email, because I never check them. However despite my complete unresponsiveness, I am nonetheless going to insist that it’s marked as high priority even though I don’t understand what high priority means - Every Employee Ever

Whenever you raise a problem with a process or setup the general answer is “It is what it is”. No! Your laziness can jump, you can fix the damn problem you are not going to get away with inaction with a platitude.

I haven’t really used it because I don’t play any games that require it but my understanding is that it just installs itself as a required program but you can just go into program manage and turn that off because you don’t have to have it and I think if it’s not running starting the game should then cause the program to run.

If not you can just set up a script to do it anyway so I can’t see why it wouldn’t work like that.

It is a bit complicated. Any kernel level program that crashes will cause the entire operating system to crash. But it won’t cause the system to continuously blue screen because it isn’t a required program in the way that crowdstrike was.

Crowdstrike is basically an antivirus program so it has to run when the operating system starts up and if it isn’t running then the operating system should not boot for safety reasons. The problem is that if it must be loaded, and it has a crash, then it loads and kills the system. So you get an infinite loop you cannot get out of.

Vanguard only has to run when you’re playing online though, so it’s not loaded when the system runs, or at least it doesn’t have to be. So it won’t cause a recurring boot loop. It might fail to load and you wouldn’t be able to play online games that require it until they fix it, but it isn’t going to prevent the computer from running.

A lot has been said about that when talking about universal basic income. The idea is that people could work half shifts and make the rest up under UBI

The only problem that I would have with the 3-hour work day is that sometimes they’re generally is more work to do. Average is probably only about 3 hours but occasionally you need more.

Although quite a lot of time could be saved by not having meetings about meetings about when you’re going to have a meeting to book the meeting. But let’s be reasonable that’s not happening.

That assumes that you believe that the world would be a safer place if only one nation had nuclear weapons. I would imagine that would be the least safe of all possible scenarios.

If everyone has nuclear weapons at least there is the possibility they will never be used. If they are used it basically ensures the end of the world so, swings and roundabouts.

This seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really.

How was that weapon supposed to work? “Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces”. It’s not much of a threat is it.

It’s not quite the same since there was no reason to believe CFCs would be dangerous. They checked for toxicity to humans and that was about it. It never occurred to anyone to simulate interactions with atmospheric particles, meteorological science was almost non-existent back then, it was essentially just limited to weather forecasting.

It never occurred anyone to worry to about what might happen 100+ years in the future.

But yeah he had absolutely no excuse for lead in gasoline, as far back as the Romans we knew lead was toxic.

Well yeah they didn’t have Google in 1894

June 11th 1894

Just as long as they don’t to my house

I’m concerned about the on fire bit.

I’m a glorified locksmith for magic wiz boxes. Technically I do other things as well, but mostly it’s just getting past the locks that people have lost the key for.

There are also magical entities that take works from the nether realm and bring them into existence here, only they are all powered by grumpy demons and so I don’t deal with those.