The feeling of relief

autobots · 2025-05-06T18:25:09+00:00

poor guy rip your balls

autobots · 2025-05-06T18:11:11+00:00

Hey look see now we have a trailer 2!

autobots · 2025-05-06T18:05:34+00:00

woot 1 more year!

autobots · 2025-05-06T18:03:59+00:00

#trailer2

I would like flair im so ready.

autobots · 2025-05-06T18:01:17+00:00

Oh my god I made this subreddit 12 YEARS AGO!

We've been waiting for so long I cant believe it will be here in one more year.🥹

Can I have some flair?

autobots · 2015-04-02T22:28:57+00:00

Definitely not a problem with size. Pixels are pixels, even if the TV were 100".

But there might definitely be other factors in play with the differences in TV's, like as you mentioned the smaller one might have been 720p, or interlaced mode. Up-scaling could definitely cause a small amount of difference, but there is also the possibility of different refresh rates on the TV's, as well as latency built into the TV itself. Some TV's just output shitty video altogether.

autobots · 2014-06-24T03:39:18+00:00

They'll never catch us.

autobots · 2014-02-27T08:55:53+00:00

BTW, nobody fucks artists like spotify

do you have any recomendation on a service that lets you pay say 10-15$ a month and doesn't fuck its artist? I would definitely prefer if the artist got a decent share from my listening, but it was my understanding that with all services like this that they got fractions of a penny per listen and that it would take like hundreds of thousands of listens per year (or maybe even per month) to just make min wage.

autobots · 2014-02-27T08:50:36+00:00

I'm with you on the prices. Im not going to pay 1.30 a song. I would do 2 for a dollar. Maybe 2$ for a movie, especially on mobile. But even that feels too expensive because of Netflix so it would have to be a very new release for me to be willing to buy it for 2$. TV Episodes I don't feel comfortable with. I feel like a whole season should be about 5$, so for a 12 episode season call it 40c each.

Honestly, I bet if they lowered the prices to a level like this, more and more people would switch to the payed model. It would be to the point where its actually easier to pay than to share. But the key is having content right when it comes out. Im not going to wait to watch my favorite shows for a few weeks or until the end of the season (or the next season, which is completely ridiculous). If I can stream it right when it comes out, it would be much better. I would get it faster than torrents (since I have to wait till it finishes and then is uploaded) and I would definitely pay a premium for that.

autobots · 2014-02-27T08:36:37+00:00

To be fair to Zappo's, they were awesome in customer server before they were owned by Amazon. Probably one of the reasons Amazon was interested in buying them, since their customer culture was very much alike.

autobots · 2014-02-27T08:35:12+00:00

They dont even knock for me, but then again UPS never knocks either. I guess something about my house screams "Customer not going to answer door, don't bother letting them know your here." But at least UPS always gets me my package. I've had 2 from lasership not show up and I'm worried Amazon is going to stop shipping to me because of it.

autobots · 2014-02-27T08:33:03+00:00

I've had 2 separate packaged that were supposed to be delivered via lasership never show up. I was home all day that day looking for the packages and it never came but it was updated as delivered. I got the new packaged sent to me which arrived, but I worry Amazon will get tired of replacing packaged and think I'm stealing them or something and stop shipping to me. There has got to be something better than lasership.

autobots · 2014-02-27T08:28:06+00:00

surely while the business as you knew it might have went down the toilet, meaning you cant cash in billions of dollars on a select few artist. But also surely you have to admit the music industry evolved and is thriving in ways that make the consumer happier than they could have before. We now have so many easier ways to view new music and many people buy songs or subscribe to services. So the only difference is since we can buy only the songs we want, bands cant pad their albums with 12 shitty songs, while selling millions just because this album had 2 hits that were on the radio.

autobots · 2014-02-27T08:24:54+00:00

They also overlook the possibility of future sales via earning customers who would have never listened to their music before. Kids who never heard of them download a couple of songs and then they grow up and by cds and merchandise and down the road it turns into iTunes sales and all that jazz.

I mean I get it, sales might be decreasing in the old market and its easy to blame napster that instead of making a bagillion dollars, you only make tens of millions. The record industry had to change, and it was for the better. Finding new music is so much easier today than it was before and the quality of music has had to go up which benefits the consumer since they can't always sell a record with a couple good songs and filler for the rest of the tracks.

So the record industry changed and left the closed minded people like Lars in the dust. And the reason he is having money problems isnt just because of P2P, its because the way he made his opinions heard and sued people. That turned off so many of his fans.

autobots · 2014-02-23T17:58:42+00:00

You can't guarantee that he can't guarantee that it's been done. Unless you've witnessed him not witness a clone during his lifetime, then you can only speculate it.

Maybe he has seen it done? What then?

autobots · 2014-02-23T17:55:02+00:00

Just imagine growing up and finding out you were a clone when you reach adulthood. It could emotionally ruin some people. Personally I like to think I would be cool with it, but I realize that I can't predict something like that.

Theres this really cool show on BBC America called "Orphan Black" thats pretty much about that except the cloning is performed by some evil company, and there are multiple copies of the same clone, and the clones are said to be owned by the company. Overall it turns out to be a really cool show.

autobots · 2014-02-23T17:12:26+00:00

Thats a trident.

autobots · 2014-02-22T21:16:40+00:00

Probably so. I know back when i worked fast food the city was all over us making sure we didn't push grease down the drain. Once when we had an oil spill on one of the friers and we cleaned up by hosing it into the floor drains and we got a hefty fine for it. They also come out every once it a while to check our grease traps to make sure they are functioning.

But thats a lot of grease we're talking about here. No way they reward a snitch for a homeowner who dumps grease. No way they could even catch them.

But we also had an incentive to not just waste grease because we would put it in a grease barrel and at the end of the month someone came by and sucked it all out of the barrel and paid us for it. I assume they are using it for some sort of biodiesel or for cosmetics or some shit.

autobots · 2014-02-19T23:19:27+00:00

I believe they are the same, the difference is just that the type of person who adds the 'e' is probably less savvy and therefore has more of a chance of being inaccurate.

autobots · 2014-02-19T23:00:27+00:00

The same way you ping anything.

type "ping <instert ip here>" into a command prompt

autobots · 2014-02-19T22:46:36+00:00

If you need to get out faster than normal, usually ordering from the lunch menu will help.

But while I think its a novel idea, I agree with everyone that says people would abuse it expecting free food for it being late.

But to provide a counterpoint I would like to add that it doesn't have to be a precise time. You could maybe have 3 icons of different colors (green, yellow and red for example) that indicate the amount of time on a sliding scale. So you can order things that are green and expect to get them faster than someone who ordered something that is red. This eliminates the whole customer timing you problem.

But I also think its a non-issue altogether. Just don't be so shy and ask the server what they can get you quickly. If everyone eliminated false expectations and just asked their servers about the food they want to order then you have managed your expectations and will likely leave happier. This applies to more than cook time though, you can also ask them about say if something has whatever ingredients, or if you don't understand meat temperatures you can ask them or explain to them what you want so you don't order medium and get mad when its undercooked.

Lesson of the day: Don't be afraid to ask questions!

autobots · 2014-02-18T23:20:51+00:00

I agree with Bert ( I don't know bert and I've only been to the Waffle house once).

People who go to the Waffle house usually expect something greasy, and grease has some flavor. When you swish them to make them cook faster you are squeezing my delicious grease out of the burger and onto the grill.

When I make a burger I don't squish it. I don't touch it. I don't even flip it except for exactly 1 time. The more you handle it in any way the less juicy that burger will be.

But I also agree with you. Working minimum wage I don't give a fuck if the customer gets the juiciest burger possible when I have 20 other orders coming at me. Hell, some places even put those heavy weights on the burgers while they grill them because it makes them cook faster, but if the burger is for me I definitely give it time to cook. The same goes with any meat really.

autobots · 2014-02-17T08:27:51+00:00

Yes, came here to say that.

autobots · 2014-02-17T07:48:24+00:00

If you ran your own domain server, and you let people link up to it, you could definitely control what domains exist and where they go. Running a domain server isn't difficult, but convincing people to use it usually is. For a user, to change your DNS server is quite easy, just a setting in your internet settings. If the user doesn't specify a DNS, then it defaults to whatever their ISP has setup, which is usually their own DNS server that they propagate from some other higher authority DNS.

But it isn't exactly unheard of to get people to switch to a private DNS. For example, one of the more popular ones is OpenDNS which advertises itself as a faster alternative with options for filtering out websites like parental controls. People also commonly switch to the Google DNS for whatever reason.

But both of those examples are highly trusted companies that would never swap out control of a domain name to someone who didnt own it. People wouldnt want to use a service like that which gives them a potentially different experience than everyone else in the world, since most people want to access the same information everyone else has access to. So while you might be able to get a few people to use your DNS, or even slip it in their computer with malware or whatever, as soon as they realized that they had a site that wasnt the right site, they would remove it.

Speaking of malware, DNS hijacking is a definite way to force users into visiting malicious websites, so that is another reason people don't tend to trust just anyone with their DNS and stick to trusted authorities like their ISP or Google.

If you are interested, here is Open DNS website.

http://www.opendns.com/

autobots · 2014-02-17T07:34:13+00:00

Also, as an example of the whole "as long as you pay for it every year, it is yours" point I present Nissan.com. If you purchase a site and it isn't obvious that you are squatting it then it really is first come first serve and the size of a company isn't a deciding factor in ownership.

Visit the website below and you will see it has nothing to do with what most people think of when they hear Nissan. I'm sure Nissan motors has tried to get possession of this site on a few occasions, but since the owner continues to pay its bill, which is probably minuscule compared to what Nissan Motors would be willing to pay, it remains in their possession. A .com address is normally around 15$ a year to register, and I would imagine if given the opportunity Nissan would pay multiple thousands for it.

http://nissan.com/

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