pet peeve thread
#141
Posted 2012-March-14, 07:22
George Carlin
#142
Posted 2012-March-14, 07:36
gwnn, on 2012-March-14, 07:22, said:
Never tell the same lie twice. - Elim Garek on the real moral of "The boy who cried wolf"
#143
Posted 2012-March-14, 11:09
(but, on the gripping hand, I run linux, so most things that would infect me, don't. It's so much fun to see the "windows virus checker" running its little heart out).
#144
Posted 2012-March-14, 18:15
gwnn, on 2012-January-17, 07:26, said:
(...)
please do not use intelligible words, any variations thereof, date of birth, passwords from other sites, anything that has anything to do with you.
DO NOT WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORD ANYWHERE.
isn't this getting out of control?
http://xkcd.com/936/
#145
Posted 2012-March-15, 09:26
broze, on 2012-March-14, 07:09, said:
I've been using chrome and firefox with Adblock for years now and I've never seen a pre-video ad.
I don't think those years of data count, I've only been seeing pre-video ads for about a month.
-- Bertrand Russell
#146
Posted 2012-March-15, 12:55
gwnn, on 2012-January-17, 07:26, said:
(...)
please do not use intelligible words, any variations thereof, date of birth, passwords from other sites, anything that has anything to do with you.
DO NOT WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORD ANYWHERE.
isn't this getting out of control?
anyway, what is your pet peeve?
My middle son told me I needed to download and use KeePass. He was right.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists that is why they invented hell. Bertrand Russell
#147
Posted 2012-March-15, 13:29
Last night at the club the server wasn't working, so we had to use travellers (anyone remember those?) Anyway, we used the kind where you have to write on the line corresponding to the NS pair (and write in the pair number at the bottom for the arrow-switch).
Since matchpointing is rarely done by hand these days, why are these travellers still printed and used? It seems like a recipe for disaster -- it makes a lot more sense to use the kind where you write the score and both pair numbers on the first available line.
#148
Posted 2012-March-15, 14:06
I'm used to it and it's fine but this year it was 12 minutes fast and I rushed out to a REALLY boring job much earlier than necessary. All I want is a heads up and each clock has its own time zone.
What is baby oil made of?
#149
Posted 2012-March-15, 15:07
Vampyr, on 2012-March-15, 13:29, said:
Last night at the club the server wasn't working, so we had to use travellers (anyone remember those?) Anyway, we used the kind where you have to write on the line corresponding to the NS pair (and write in the pair number at the bottom for the arrow-switch).
Since matchpointing is rarely done by hand these days, why are these travellers still printed and used? It seems like a recipe for disaster -- it makes a lot more sense to use the kind where you write the score and both pair numbers on the first available line.
The advantage comes when you are playing a movement with shared boards.
London UK
#150
Posted 2012-March-15, 16:32
Quote
- so this train is late because the previous train was late. Very helpful.
Quote
- congestion? What, trains turning up unexpectedly? I thought there was something called a timetable.
#151
Posted 2012-March-15, 16:45
FrancesHinden, on 2012-March-15, 16:32, said:
- congestion? What, trains turning up unexpectedly? I thought there was something called a timetable.
One big reason for this is suicide by train. I know on the line between Los Angeles and San Diego this is a constant problem.
....Authorities say Juan Manuel Alvarez wanted to kill himself Wednesday when he drove his SUV onto a railroad track in Glendale, Calif., near Los Angeles. But he changed his mind and left the vehicle on the tracks, causing a chain-reaction derailment that killed 11 people and injured nearly 200.....
#152
Posted 2012-March-15, 17:38
mike777, on 2012-March-15, 16:45, said:
It's a problem in the Underground too. I wish they wouldn't announce that the delay is due to a "person under the train". This is more information than I require.
#153
Posted 2012-March-15, 18:01
#154
Posted 2012-March-15, 19:52
Vampyr, on 2012-March-15, 17:38, said:
It's called full disclosure (or full closure)
#155
Posted 2012-March-16, 00:07
It also reminds me of the earlier peeves about ambiguous numbers. When they announce transit delays, they'll say "The Red Line is running 10 minutes delayed." Does this mean that each train is 10 minutes behind schedule, or that it's taking trains 10 minutes longer than normal to get from one end to the other of their line? My assumption is that in the case of subway lines that run a train every few minutes, it must be the latter, since no one would notice the former problem; but for commuter trains that only have 1 or 2 trains an hour, it could be either.
#156
Posted 2012-March-16, 01:02
barmar, on 2012-March-16, 00:07, said:
It also reminds me of the earlier peeves about ambiguous numbers. When they announce transit delays, they'll say "The Red Line is running 10 minutes delayed." Does this mean that each train is 10 minutes behind schedule, or that it's taking trains 10 minutes longer than normal to get from one end to the other of their line? My assumption is that in the case of subway lines that run a train every few minutes, it must be the latter, since no one would notice the former problem; but for commuter trains that only have 1 or 2 trains an hour, it could be either.
suicide by train is a huge delay problem here in the Usa.
you can spend billions for a fast train and suicides slow it down ......often to speeds of cheap old train...
I say this based on real life exp over years on this line.,..people die/hit all the time....
funny enough no one wants to talk about it since it is taxpayer money....
#157
Posted 2012-March-16, 10:16
barmar, on 2012-March-16, 00:07, said:
Here we also have signalling problems. Often. When I lived in Moscow, there were never delays. The signals were apparently always working, and as for the people under the train, well, they probably just carried on.
It seems to me that if you are going to jump under a subway train, you should not expect your remains to de dealt with until the closing time of the line at night. You are not more important than millions of other people. In fact you are not as important as one single other person, because you are dead and they are not.
#158
Posted 2012-March-16, 11:49
#159
Posted 2012-March-16, 14:03
People who harass me for alleged slow play in a KO when our table isn't even behind.
Insane juries and prosecutors.
#160
Posted 2012-March-21, 17:36
-- Bertrand Russell