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ajax333221
ajax333221
5:02 AM
two 'm' is unacceptable, a good 'h+m' must contain at last 3 'm's
unless of course, it is just a not very important or special 'hmm'
those are my 0.02 dollars
 
 
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animuson
animuson
6:27 AM
@TimStone: The Earth is rumbling... I... I... passed you in Meta rep... O.O
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
We better get those Data Explorer updates out then, so all those shiny status-completeds can bump my answers :o
I have been a bit Meta-lazy recently, although there hasn't been too many exciting bugs or feature requests.
 
animuson
animuson
Meta has been a bit slow lately, it seems.
 
BenjaLim
BenjaLim
Hey guys
I really need some help please.
You see I have been logging on to Math.SE using my facebook account always
Now one day I accidentally clicked on the google logo when logging in and then that created a new account using the google email
The name of this account created using the google email is david-benjamin lim
the next day I woke up to find that my old benjalim account had its username changed to david-benjamin lim
apparently these two accounts were merged
now my old user ID was something like 5783
and it's now gone
Can this be recovered/i.e. this process undone?
 
Tim Yi Jiang
Tim Yi Jiang
7:08 AM
Eh, your reps, post history etc. are all fine after the merge, right?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
7:25 AM
-2
Q: Some people if you must wear sunglasses?

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support
That's true, you gotta look good for the ladies people women.
...Someone up voted it.
 
 
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Tim Yi Jiang
Tim Yi Jiang
8:50 AM
> 6-8 Weeks Until Bitcoin Debit/Credit Card, says BitInstant
Hey look, it's catching on
 
 
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amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
1:41 PM
Rrrrg... I keep getting the human verification thing... over and over again....
 
Bart
Bart
 
Tim Yi Jiang
Tim Yi Jiang
Flight of the Concords?
 
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
@Bart yea... It is getting very very annoying... did they change something?
 
Bart
Bart
@amanaP They corrected it. Let me find the Meta discussion
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A: I am not a robot!

balpha Some days ago, the spam protection was turned up a notch. Well, actually, it was repaired. Two weeks ago, we found a bug that for a long time prevented edits from being throttled at all (except for very narrow exceptions). For the record, I posted this in our internal chat room: Thanks f...

 
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
@Bart when did they correct it? Ive hit the captcha abt 3 times already today in the past hr...
@Bart seriously? hebrew recaptchas?
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A: The reCAPTCHA has become too difficult for humans to solve

Aaron BertrandSaw these today at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/captcha/. If you can solve even one of these, maybe there is no issue? Note that for some of these it would be difficult if not impossible to solve even one of the two words - and how many new users (you know, the ones that are more likely to trigg...

LOL
 
Bart
Bart
1:58 PM
Yeah, saw that one as well. Though that's not something SO/SE can do a lot about if I'm not mistaken. 3rd party solution
 
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
@Bart well reCaptcha is google. so it is their fault :-P
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
2:23 PM
Hey, I cast 687 votes total on EL&U SE, 614 on questions and 713 on answers. I haven't gotten electorate badge yet and its's already been 16 minutes. Can someone please tell me why I didn't fit the criteria? — J. Walker 2 days ago
I tried to reply to that but I don't think I understood what the OP meant; anyone?
 
Bart
Bart
Hmm, not even sure how he got to that total. Not even where a typo might explain it...
Though he does seem to have the badge now @pop english.stackexchange.com/users/19159/j-walker?tab=badges
Ah, 73 on answers instead of 713
So I guess this is just a "please be patient" case. 16 minutes is not a whole lot after all.
 
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
Great I have been suspended on chat on SO due to having fun with chat inception...
 
 
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Anonymous
3:48 PM
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA > Page not found
 
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
4:06 PM
@TheElementofMagic its chat history... I thought everyone could see that?
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
Anybody in here knows the status of the f*&ked up captchas?
ah I should read before asking questions :)
hmmmm so still not handled??
 
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A
@PeeHaa nope....
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
@PeeHaa I like captchas, they are fun and challenging. The only times where I hate them is when I am doing an edit on the minute 4, and because filling the captcha I don't finish within the grace period creating a new edit entry.
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
hmmmm. Well what about @balpha reversing his so called "fix"?
@ajax333221 Trying to take a piss with you eyes closed while driving with your car with the window open inside your house is also a challenge. Doesn't make it a good idea though
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
with the window open :P
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
4:20 PM
Wow that sentence sucks ;) You get what I mean. The current captcha system sucks :D
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
does someone know what it means when you have nightmares about your teeth falling off?
 
Purmou
Purmou
@ajax333221 "To dream that you have rotten or decaying teeth implies that you may have said something that you shouldn't have. You may have uttered some false or foul words and those words are coming back to haunt you."
or "To dream that you your teeth has fallen out and you try to refit them back into the mouth signifies a lack of self-confidence and embarrassment. You are afraid that others will know of your short-comings. If you acted calmly in your dream, then it may point to how can make the best out of any situation. You are able to rise above unfavorable circumstances."
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
@ajax333221 So: are you an asshole or do you lack confidence?
2
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
the second :C
 
Purmou
Purmou
don't be too hard on yourself
it's especially not good for site-wide morale if you're moping all the time
so mope elsewhere!
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
4:31 PM
I don't have confidence in RL, I don't talk to people unless is strictly necessary and I have no friends
 
Purmou
Purmou
well think of it this way
there are plenty of people you could talk to from Stack Overflow
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
well, via internet is very different, idk why
 
Purmou
Purmou
i meant if you met SO peeps in real life, you wouldn't have much of a hard time talking
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
that's impossible, most of them talk in english and I am ashamed of my english accent
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
@ajax333221 Have you tried drinking??? ;-) (I suck at good advices, sue me :-) )
 
Purmou
Purmou
4:35 PM
you're ashamed of an accent when @PeeHaa just used the nonexistent plural form of "advice?"
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
@Purmou :D
@Purmou In my mind it sounded soooo correct ;)
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
let's change of topic n_n, I have really made my choice and it isn't going to change. If something don't make me feel good, I stay away from it/them
 
Purmou
Purmou
not sure if it's a choice, but k
here's a good subject of discussion
what should i eat right now?
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
what ammunition you have in your fridge?
 
Purmou
Purmou
pretty much EVERYTHING
herbs, wiener dogs, shredded cheese
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
4:41 PM
try something that doesn't exist
create something new
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
@ajax333221 Last time I tried that I had to call for a pizza :P
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
@PeeHaa This book says that's okay (assuming you learned from it):
I am not Jeff Potter, nor am I affiliated with that book in any way. To be honest, I didn't get that much out of it, but I think other people might.
 
PeeHaa
PeeHaa
@PopularDemand Might at least be worth a download to find out whether it is nideed useful. Tnx!
 
Purmou
Purmou
i've been stuck at 4,995 rep for three days
it has quite a psychological toll
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
the first words of my cat on the keyboard were:
"888888888888888888888+`¡ds................dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddh..." around x217 more 'h's
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
4:55 PM
@PopularDemand Ah, I own that book.
 
Purmou
Purmou
@ajax333221 Looks like your cat is getting dangerously close to some Javascript there...
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
@Purmou or writing some Shakespeare
"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."
 
Purmou
Purmou
haha
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
I don't see how cats can't do that too
 
Purmou
Purmou
cats don't have opposable thumbs!
and opposable thumbs make all the difference
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
5:02 PM
Life begins at incorporation. #legitimaterape
Tweeted by LegitimateRape on August 20, 2012 at 4:53 AM
 
Purmou
Purmou
i don't even want to know
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
@Purmou It's a USA politics thing.
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Q: Is infinity a number?

Lord TorgamusIs infinity a number? Why or why not? Some commentary: I've found that this is an incredibly simple question to ask — where I grew up, it was a popular argument starter in elementary school — but a difficult one to answer in an intelligent manner. I'm hoping to see a combination of s...

definition infinity
 
Purmou
Purmou
@PopularDemand I can infer that much
@Bart your avatar reminds me too much of Cody Gray
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
@Purmou Dupe:
Aug 8 at 13:51, by jeremybanks
Aye, I also thought Bart's avatar may have been a parody/homage/etc. of Cody's.
 
Bart
Bart
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
5:14 PM
Aug 16 at 19:32, by mmyers
Hmmm...
Aug 16 at 19:33, by jadarnel27
Aug 8 at 13:28, by jadarnel27
@Bart Didn't you have a different gravatar before? I keep getting confused and thinking you're Cody Gray.
 
Purmou
Purmou
...
that was like an attractive woman asking for a pen in a crowded place...
 
Bart
Bart
@Purmou Downvoted, Closed as dupe, flagged for moderator attention
 
Purmou
Purmou
@Bart I hope social interaction doesn't come to that point.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@PopularDemand still remember Kony 2012?
 
Purmou
Purmou
@jcolebrand HA. good one
 
Bart
Bart
5:17 PM
@Purmou What is this concept you speak of? "Social interaction"?
 
Purmou
Purmou
@Bart it's really an interesting phenomenon--a new trend, if you will. people have actually begun communicating outside of technology again!
 
Bart
Bart
Pff, hipsters
 
Purmou
Purmou
@PopularDemand lol, why did he quote himself? :P
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
I’m reasonably sure that Akin still doesn’t understand why what he said is wrong.
Tweeted by willsmith on August 20, 2012 at 5:16 PM
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
@jcolebrand As a non-social-media-user, I only caught the tiniest edge of that even when it was active.
@Purmou Because even then, mentioning the similar avatars was a dupe.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
5:23 PM
@PopularDemand the sad part is that the goal was noble, and should still be an active conversation.
the reality is that it's a crappy conversation, in part because we're supposed to be non-interventionist
 
Purmou
Purmou
@jcolebrand come on, he's been inactive
and if anything noble were to come of it, it would not have been through Invisible Children
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@Purmou who has been inactive? Kony?
 
Purmou
Purmou
yes sir
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
Is this happening? Politics chat in the Tavern?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
Yeah, ok. I dare you to go on a six week scouting trip by yourself through mid-Africa
@PopularDemand whereelse would you expect to find political chatter?
City Tavern
The City Tavern is a replica of an historic 18th century building located at 138 South 2nd Street, at the intersection of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Called the "most genteel tavern in America" by John Adams, it was the favorite meeting place of many of the Founding Fathers and of many members of the First Continental Congress. The City Tavern was built by subscription in 1773. It was partially destroyed by fire on March 22, 1834 and the structure was demolished in 1854. The entire building was reconstructed in the 1970s and re-opened in 1976 for the Bicentenni...
 
Bart
Bart
5:26 PM
@PopularDemand Just give me a heads-up when I should mention anything related to Hitler
 
Purmou
Purmou
you went on a six-week trip through Africa? how did that turn out for you?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@Purmou No, and I'm smart enough NOT to. I happen to have a cush job and I don't need any strange infections.
 
Purmou
Purmou
then what was that a valid response to? :P
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@Purmou If you were to go on a six-week trip, solo, through mid-Africa, you would find that the gangs that the Kony2012 initiative was trying to stop are not "inactive". Doubly so if you're a blond white female, as you would stick out like a sore thumb to everyone. Suffice to say, there's no reason to go looking for hatred, we have enough of that on Capitol Hill already
 
Purmou
Purmou
um...Kony 2012 was trying to bring infamy to Joseph Kony himself...and bring further attention to his actions, which Invisible Children hoped would get governments more involved in his arrest.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
5:32 PM
And all the other groups like Kony's army.
Apparently you didn't get the message
Which means most people didn't get the message
 
Purmou
Purmou
what's the message i didn't get?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
He's not the only gang-running warlord in mid-Africa. There are literally hundreds of them
 
Purmou
Purmou
i'm well aware of this
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
They are usually stocked with AK-47s because those things are incredibly easy to make, and were salvaged/sold from USSR stockpiles in the 70's, but they hold up really well.
 
Purmou
Purmou
but the Kony 2012 campaign was doing nothing towards "other gangs"
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
5:33 PM
Because they are such a blight on humanity, it's up to the states with police power to eradicate these thugs
@Purmou no, it was to raise awareness at all that such a thing exists and is ongoing.
 
Purmou
Purmou
people already knew
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@Purmou I assure you they do not, even now, really know.
Some may know
 
Purmou
Purmou
that's usually enough
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
but all people do not know
 
Purmou
Purmou
i think that becomes an issue of whether "one person can make a difference"
i don't think everybody needs to know about the tragedies going on in the world
some audiences simply can't handle it...
but the video itself failed--the footage was outdated
and i don't think more people know much about African warlords than did before the video was released
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
5:37 PM
@Purmou and hence we can mark the campaign itself as a failure
but not the aim of the campaign, which was noble and is still valid, if unmet.
 
Purmou
Purmou
but the aim of the campaign is not a new one
it has existed and been addressed for centuries...human rights violations are nothing new at all
and i think that campaign was aimed in a single direction
you may interpret it differently, but if their aim was to bring attention to the multiple scenarios similar to that of LRA, than they didn't really accomplish that
they put the name "KONY" on everything, and the video was an explicit f-you to Kony
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
Sure
Pick one face and make it the face of evil
just like "pick one face and make it the face you need to save"
 
Purmou
Purmou
while it could have worked
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
If you had been told this was the face of the victim's of the Nazi's, you would've been outraged;
 
Purmou
Purmou
the audience was mostly blindly supportive teens who shared the video to seem active in world politics
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
5:42 PM
@Purmou indoctrination is wonderful
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
that girl seem more worried than sad
 
Purmou
Purmou
really? she looks rather emotionless to me
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@ajax333221 I said "Nazi" didn't I? I would be worried to. Kristallnacht and all that mess
Anyways, who doesn't like propaganda?
 
Purmou
Purmou
@jcolebrand it all comes down to this though: the human rights violations going on in Africa are tragedies, and any cause towards eradicating that can be noble, but the Kony 2012 campaign was an unsuccessful attempt at doing such, and I'm glad it's that way. The organization is a deceptive piece of crap.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@Purmou I'll go with that
 
Purmou
Purmou
5:49 PM
and now i will go eat
be cool, ya'll
 
Almo
Almo
any of you see the fart question on SO?
-14 and closed almost instantly
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
what was the question
 
Almo
Almo
Something along the lines of, "Is it strange I like the smell of my own farts?"
tagged java and C++ as well
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
that has happened to me sometimes, but it is quite rare
 
Almo
Almo
-14 and closed?
or the other
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
5:52 PM
the quote
 
Anonymous
6:19 PM
 
Anonymous
Balphacorns in the ads.
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
6:33 PM
"All that matters in a relationship is that you like the same pizza toppings." -Daria Morgendorffer
it is the wisest quote I have seen in months
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
6:55 PM
 
ajax333221
ajax333221
was that a polite way to say "use reddit instead, SE isn't reddit"? okey sorry, it won't happen again
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@ajax333221 nope, that was a polite way to say Daria is keen
 
mootinator
mootinator
Wait, I thought this was just Reddit without the crap interface.
Now I'm confused.
Which is to say, I still don't understand how/why Reddit is popular.
 
Anonymous
Because for a time it was a pretty decent aggregator or decent content, which got it users initially
 
Anonymous
and then it walked along that more-popular-less-quality gradient for a bunch of years.
 
Anonymous
7:03 PM
which seems to lead to a site optimized for lazy teenagers
 
Anonymous
/r/askscience can be good. Reddit still does have some patches of decent content.
 
Anonymous
but they're fewer and fewer and most don't last long.
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand

reddit

Jun 15 at 14:20, 9 minutes total – 12 messages, 3 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 6 secs ago by Popular Demand

 
Anonymous
Yeah, it's not worth the time investment. It might be a decent experience if you select a few high-quality subreddits and only visit once every couple days, but I'm not recommending it.
 
Evan Carroll
Evan Carroll
HALLO
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
7:24 PM
Okay, I am thoroughly convinced that this question is off-topic, but the mods disagree. What am I -- or they -- missing?
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Q: hardware shortcut to take a screenshot

JorgesmashHow can I take a photo of the current screen content, no matters what content could it be? Is there a hardware buttons shortcut to make that? Something like iPhone: Power + Home Thanks in advance. I just found a method for old Android devices here.

android hardware screenshot shortcut
 
Anna Lear
Anna Lear
@PopularDemand I'm with you. That's a "how do I use my Android phone" question.
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
@AnnaLear Nerd rage minor disgruntlement: assuaged!
 
Shog9
Shog9
Funny. Got a quasi-programmatic answer, which was down-voted. Got a total SuperUser answer, and it got up-voted. But no one migrated it.
Of course, I blame Mark Trapp for this.
 
Popular Demand
Popular Demand
Quasi-programmatic?
 
Bart
Bart
7:40 PM
Anything I write is quasi-programmatic
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@Bart anything I write is a questionable-program
 
Bart
Bart
@jcolebrand Right there with ya
 
Moshe
Moshe
8:23 PM
Hi folks
 
mootinator
mootinator
moo
 
Moshe
Moshe
Hey, it's moot.
I'm back from traveling. Fun fun fun.
 
mootinator
mootinator
yaaay
 
Moshe
Moshe
Yup,
what's been happening here?
 
mootinator
mootinator
People ask questions.
We provide Leverage.
Er, answers.
Complain about stuff.
Make fun of things.
Listen to @jcolebrand's sage advice.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
8:41 PM
@mootinator pffft, my advice is at best Thyme
 
Moshe
Moshe
Heh
 
Bart
Bart
@jcolebrand Mind if I call you Rosemary from now on?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
provided I don't have to have any babies
 
mootinator
mootinator
What if we call you Sophie instead?
 
Bart
Bart
That would be his choice...
 
Pekka
Pekka
9:30 PM
Surely there is a female version of "Cole" that we can use.
Cola?
Colene?
Colette?
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
I feel like this became very awkward very slowly
Also, you're overlooking the obvious everyone loves: "Nicole"
But say it like it's a body-part-inspired soda, and leave off the "a" sound
Knee-col
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Knee-col-aaaaa ....wait.
 
mootinator
mootinator
Natalie King Cole
We also overlooked the more obvious.
The "J" stands for "Julie".
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
@mootinator juliette colette brand?
Juliet Natalie King Colette Brandy?
 
mootinator
mootinator
@jcolebrand Perfect.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
9:44 PM
Just for short tho, we should call me: "Her illustrious magnificence, the ruler of the Stack Exchange empire and royal court jester, all at the same time, Madme of privilege, by the grace of God and all things holy, Juliet Natalie King Colette Brandy, the one and only"
2
I assure you, that's shorter
Just pretty sure the ping will hate that
 
mootinator
mootinator
How about just @NatQueenCole for short.
Just in case someone else needs reminding.
Ideas always seem better before they're well thought through.
 
jcolebrand
jcolebrand
I prefer jco
 
Shog9
Shog9
THE DREAD PIRATE, Jco LeBrand!
2
 
mootinator
mootinator
10:00 PM
Not to be confused with JoCo
 

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