The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

Dei

Dei

At my last DnD session, we were discussing cosplay options for Denver Comic Con, and the subject of sexy female Elcor came up. Then we started discussing having the sexy female Elcor performing Hamlet. Now I desperately want to convince all of my friends that we should dress up as an Elcor theater troupe, and just randomly perform Hamlet on the cosplay photo stage.
 
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Necronic

Necronic

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God I hate the financial advising world.

Seeking Alpha: Exxon stock is in trouble! Buffet and Soros just divested billions!

Insider Monkey: Exxon stock, why billionaires are betting on this hot energy stock!

I don't normally listen to these guys that closely, as it's mostly garbage, but sometimes it just...blerg. Gets to me.
 
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Necronic said:
God I hate the financial advising world.

Seeking Alpha: Exxon stock is in trouble! Buffet and Soros just divested billions!

Insider Monkey: Exxon stock, why billionaires are betting on this hot energy stock!

I don't normally listen to these guys that closely, as it's mostly garbage, but sometimes it just...blerg. Gets to me.
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And the thing of it is, stock market experts often under-perform the average index. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/indexes-beat-most-actively-managed
Investors in actively managed mutual funds the last five years have reason to wonder what they've been paying for: A new study from Standard & Poor's finds that 70% of large-cap fund managers who use the S&P 500 as a benchmark for comparison have failed to match the performance of the index over that time.
That's double bad news, given that the index was down 19% in the five years that ended Dec. 31.
The failure of active management is replicated across almost all categories, not only U.S. stock funds but also bond funds and even emerging-markets funds. What's more, those numbers are similar to the previous five-year cycle.
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I guess if you were looking for a short term, high risk payoff, maybe. The 5 year is very flat, and it's mostly unaffected by this dip, because the general feeling is that it's temporary at worst. Overall, it's expensive, and not increasing much.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Terrik said:
So, Jun comes up to me and and says that I ought to wash the dishes today. Its the day after Chinese New Year, you see.

A traditional way to greet someone for the new year is to say "恭喜发财“ （Gong Xi Fa Cai) Essentially wishing someone to be happy and prosperous.

Jun says, that day after Chinese New Year is especially important, and the husband should wash the dishes so that we can be prosperous for the rest of the year, essentially changing 恭喜发财 to 公洗发财 （ also pronounced Gong Xi Fa Cai)---except this time, the meaning is "(A) husband washing (dishes) for great prosperity."

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For what it's worth, I've never heard of this tradition, but it does sound like the kind of thing that would be done during CNY, akin to having to have fish (年年有魚/餘) and affixing your 春聯 upside down.
 
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fade

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Yeah, I asked my Taiwanese friend about it, and he hadn't heard of it either. But he also said there's a lot of highly regional new year's traditions.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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School was stupidly cancelled today. The weather is fine. I'm not really complaining about a day off. I was productive all morning, but now I'm in kind of a "what do I do now" loop. You ever have that happen? There's plenty to do, but you weren't expecting the free time so you just kind of float in limbo for a while?
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Cajungal said:
School was stupidly cancelled today. The weather is fine. I'm not really complaining about a day off. I was productive all morning, but now I'm in kind of a "what do I do now" loop. You ever have that happen? There's plenty to do, but you weren't expecting the free time so you just kind of float in limbo for a while?
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Whenever you feel that way make a roux.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

See, I don't think I could ever be comfortable being picked up like that by a robot. I've worked on electronics before, I know how easy it is for them to bug out. I'd be constantly picturing the robot clamping its arms together and folding me in half.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

When the robot uprising comes, it will be adorable and terrifying. Beware the Furby foot soldiers you may have already let into your house.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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I sense Tumblr getting an increase in users very soon.

http://techraptor.net/content/googles-blogger-service-to-ban-nudity-and-sex

Google’s Blogger blogging service previously allowed X-rated content on their sites so long as they were marked appropriately. Butstarting on March 23rd. 2015, Blogger will forcefully privatize all blogs with sexually explicit content or nude photo’s in a mass 30-day eviction notice to everyone who uses them services to post pornographic pictures. According to Google you have two options: 1. Make your blog private so that the only person who can see the content are blog owners, or 2. Remove all sexually explicit content from you blog before the specified date.

For a blogging site that dedicated itself to the premise of freedom of expression, it sure doesn’t want you to express your freedom. As of yet it is unclear why Google had the sudden change of heart in its puritanical efforts to cleanse the blogging network any wayward spooge. Although Blogger will still be allowing nudity for anything that benefits the public, such as education, art, scientific, or documentary in context.

It seems like a very sex-negative thing to do to forcefully exclude pornographic images on Blogger all of a sudden. It is not as if Blogger suddenly had a lot of porn bloggers, some of the sex blogs that will be forcefully privatized have been members of this site for over a decade. Some of these blogs probably use Blogger as a form of steady income, as Blogger is one of the only free blogging services that allows Adsense and other third party advertising sites. This has prompted Internet Archives owner Jason Scott to scramble to archive the blogs before they are gone for good.

It seems that the only possible option for established porn blogs on Blogger is to export their content and head on over to sites like WordPress or Tumblr. But for blogs that have had their content monetized by third party programs like Adsense are out of luck, as neither Tumblr nor WordPress allows third party advertising methods on their sites, or at least not an easy way to implement it in the way of Tumblr.
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HFA2 is hosted on blogger. Guess it's a good thing I've been editing out anything explicit all along.
 
Gruebeard

Gruebeard

Hey, now we havea test forpornography other than "I know it when I see it". Post it to blogger. If it sticks around, it ain't porn. Google knows everything.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

Why do savings accounts still exist? Like, is making your money harder to get at really worth the extra < $100 a year you get from interest?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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blotsfan said:
Why do savings accounts still exist? Like, is making your money harder to get at really worth the extra < $100 a year you get from interest?
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If and when the fed actually starts raising interest rates again, they might once again be relevant. Back in the 80s, a savings account wasn't such a joke.



One can only hope that when the fed finally does raise the federal interest rate up from "de facto zero" that our economy doesn't suddenly implode under the weight of the runaway inflation from the bajillions of fake dollars they've spent the last 7 years pumping into the stock market so that we can pretend we're in a recovery.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
If and when the fed actually starts raising interest rates again, they might once again be relevant. Back in the 80s, a savings account wasn't such a joke.
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I am reminded of this every time I play Starflight. I think any money you left in the bank accumulated 10% or 12% interest, I can't remember which.

--Patrick
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

I remember when my savings account, just a basic no-frills account, hit 11 or 12% interest. I was only 14 or so, but it made me so happy that my little bit of summer job money was actually growing when I wasn't working.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I thought something seemed just a little off when watching reruns of Seinfeld. A quick google search informs me that some networks are now slightly speeding up some programs in order to fit in more commercials.

 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

GasBandit said:
I sense Tumblr getting an increase in users very soon.

http://techraptor.net/content/googles-blogger-service-to-ban-nudity-and-sex

HFA2 is hosted on blogger. Guess it's a good thing I've been editing out anything explicit all along.
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Actually, there's talk from Tumblr's owner, Yahoo, that they want to make the site more family-friendly. Not sure what the proposed method is, but I don't like it.

I'm surprised anyone's been using a Google-owned service for porn in the last few years since Google started tracking everything a person does.
 
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