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[Faust]

Customer demo tomorrow morning (after being flown back to Ireland) and visual studio decides to go tits up on me.

I am banging my head off the desk here.

To put it in context, a tool I've been using for the last thee months that has worked fine until now breaks while I was changing the last few bits for configuration with the customers machines.

If I cant get it working before I leave for my flight I think I'm going to have to cancel on them which will make me look like a fool.

[Junkenstein]

I'm just saying that this:

Quote from: Junkenstein on Today at 06:34:19 pm
There's a growing school of thought that claims you're not really an adult until you've successfully dealt with 6 months worth of bills with no fuckups.

can really only be applied to the middle-class and above demographic.

Aha, now we're back on the same line. Further to that, I'm suggesting that this school of thought is generally fed by tabloids and such that idealise and pretend that everyone is firmly upper-lower middle class with the ability to buy all manner of luxury goods on the never-never. They've got a decent credit rating and they own their own house. Maybe two or three. Remember when "buy to let" was the craze in the UK? Well, it still is. I've met far too many fuckers who are "Aspiring landlords".

It's a subtly nasty part of the UK, and I suspect the US. A certain level of lifestyle is consistently portrayed and normalised with the understanding that you've failed if you haven't fufilled the requirements.

There's a decent thread lurking in this somewhere, I think.  I'm just not sure of the angle in.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm just saying that this:

Quote from: Junkenstein on Today at 06:34:19 pm
There's a growing school of thought that claims you're not really an adult until you've successfully dealt with 6 months worth of bills with no fuckups.

can really only be applied to the middle-class and above demographic.

Aha, now we're back on the same line. Further to that, I'm suggesting that this school of thought is generally fed by tabloids and such that idealise and pretend that everyone is firmly upper-lower middle class with the ability to buy all manner of luxury goods on the never-never. They've got a decent credit rating and they own their own house. Maybe two or three. Remember when "buy to let" was the craze in the UK? Well, it still is. I've met far too many fuckers who are "Aspiring landlords".

It's a subtly nasty part of the UK, and I suspect the US. A certain level of lifestyle is consistently portrayed and normalised with the understanding that you've failed if you haven't fufilled the requirements.

There's a decent thread lurking in this somewhere, I think.  I'm just not sure of the angle in.

Yes, we are totally on the same page with this. I think it ties into that paternalistic way a lot of people view "those poors" and consider them unable to run their own lives... the underlying thought being that if they could run their own lives, of course they wouldn't be poor.

[Junkenstein]

I'm just saying that this:

Quote from: Junkenstein on Today at 06:34:19 pm
There's a growing school of thought that claims you're not really an adult until you've successfully dealt with 6 months worth of bills with no fuckups.

can really only be applied to the middle-class and above demographic.

Aha, now we're back on the same line. Further to that, I'm suggesting that this school of thought is generally fed by tabloids and such that idealise and pretend that everyone is firmly upper-lower middle class with the ability to buy all manner of luxury goods on the never-never. They've got a decent credit rating and they own their own house. Maybe two or three. Remember when "buy to let" was the craze in the UK? Well, it still is. I've met far too many fuckers who are "Aspiring landlords".

It's a subtly nasty part of the UK, and I suspect the US. A certain level of lifestyle is consistently portrayed and normalised with the understanding that you've failed if you haven't fufilled the requirements.

There's a decent thread lurking in this somewhere, I think.  I'm just not sure of the angle in.

Yes, we are totally on the same page with this. I think it ties into that paternalistic way a lot of people view "those poors" and consider them unable to run their own lives... the underlying thought being that if they could run their own lives, of course they wouldn't be poor.

I'm going to have a bit of a think on this. There's a bunch of shit that bleeds into this as well, it's kind of the personal level of financial fuckery thread in AE, and there's all kind of relevant shit. Payday loans, sub-Prime mortgages and such, there's countless systematic things built around debt and the individuals in society related to it, and why people push themselves into it. Other shit immediately to mind - Various media outlets and the aspirations they set. Daily Heil has a very obvious obsession with house prices/home ownership etc. Chunks from that neuroscience thread will probably end up being relevant too.

[Ben Shapiro]

I've been working my way out of that. Been trying everyday.

I was afraid to come back, post here and there, because I was afraid you'd do this. I really hoped you would not.

I am not the best friend to have, but I thought I'd found a way to be here. Wanted that back really badly. Wanted to contribute again.

I've been recovering from a year of abuse. If I've been a mean Bastard, sorry to any and every one.

Just keep punching through.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm just saying that this:

Quote from: Junkenstein on Today at 06:34:19 pm
There's a growing school of thought that claims you're not really an adult until you've successfully dealt with 6 months worth of bills with no fuckups.

can really only be applied to the middle-class and above demographic.

Aha, now we're back on the same line. Further to that, I'm suggesting that this school of thought is generally fed by tabloids and such that idealise and pretend that everyone is firmly upper-lower middle class with the ability to buy all manner of luxury goods on the never-never. They've got a decent credit rating and they own their own house. Maybe two or three. Remember when "buy to let" was the craze in the UK? Well, it still is. I've met far too many fuckers who are "Aspiring landlords".

It's a subtly nasty part of the UK, and I suspect the US. A certain level of lifestyle is consistently portrayed and normalised with the understanding that you've failed if you haven't fufilled the requirements.

There's a decent thread lurking in this somewhere, I think.  I'm just not sure of the angle in.

Yes, we are totally on the same page with this. I think it ties into that paternalistic way a lot of people view "those poors" and consider them unable to run their own lives... the underlying thought being that if they could run their own lives, of course they wouldn't be poor.

...Standing on your neck, yelling "WHY DON'T YOU GET UP?"

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm just saying that this:

Quote from: Junkenstein on Today at 06:34:19 pm
There's a growing school of thought that claims you're not really an adult until you've successfully dealt with 6 months worth of bills with no fuckups.

can really only be applied to the middle-class and above demographic.

Aha, now we're back on the same line. Further to that, I'm suggesting that this school of thought is generally fed by tabloids and such that idealise and pretend that everyone is firmly upper-lower middle class with the ability to buy all manner of luxury goods on the never-never. They've got a decent credit rating and they own their own house. Maybe two or three. Remember when "buy to let" was the craze in the UK? Well, it still is. I've met far too many fuckers who are "Aspiring landlords".

It's a subtly nasty part of the UK, and I suspect the US. A certain level of lifestyle is consistently portrayed and normalised with the understanding that you've failed if you haven't fufilled the requirements.

There's a decent thread lurking in this somewhere, I think.  I'm just not sure of the angle in.

Yes, we are totally on the same page with this. I think it ties into that paternalistic way a lot of people view "those poors" and consider them unable to run their own lives... the underlying thought being that if they could run their own lives, of course they wouldn't be poor.

...Standing on your neck, yelling "WHY DON'T YOU GET UP?"

IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO BE POOR WHY ARE YOU LETTING ME CRUSH YOUR WINDPIPE?

[Dildo Argentino]

AND WHY ARE YOU NOT THANKING ME MORE PROFUSELY FOR NOT CLOSING THE AIRWAY ALTOGETHER???

[Doktor Howl]

This inspires some Holiness™.  Rant forthcoming.

[Cain]

Finally found a position in my room where my computer gets more than 40 kb/s internet speed.  Actually got it up to a respectable 550 here....all those weeks of transferring files by hand, NEVER AGAIN!

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

http://online.wsj.com/articles/pain-in-trains-falls-mainly-on-grain-1414972402

ONIDA, S.D.—The worst rail delays in more than a decade are impeding crop shipments in the Midwest, causing grain-storage facilities to fill up and sending pries for corn, soybean and soybean meal up sharply.

Congestion on railroad networks, now threatening to extend into a second year in the U.S. Farm Belt, is forcing some buyers to purchase additional soybean meal, used mainly in animal feed, to ensure a steady supply, analysts said.

That helped push futures prices up 11% in the past week. And soybeans and corn both jumped by around 7% as livestock and poultry operations in the eastern U.S. rushed to avoid feed shortages and speculators bid up the price of the commodities related to soy meal, analysts said.

The transport problems are caused by several factors: Rail companies are experiencing an overall rise in demand to move goods, including consumer goods, crude oil from the shale fields of the upper Midwest, as well as increased grain from two years of bumper crops. Last year, an unusually harsh winter compounded problems by forcing shippers to run shorter, slower trains.

My boss just recently negotiated some "we're sorry" money from the railroads for the fuck in the ass we're taking not being able to ship by rail near as much as we need.

Even though this article just lists it as one small factor among many, the effect increased oil traffic has had on railroad congestion has been an open secret since much longer than one unusually harsh winter, and a bumper crop of grain-ago.

The delicious, delicious tr;dl of it all: Increased domestic oil production is resulting in drastically increased transportation costs. Hail Eris!

[Doktor Howl]

The delicious, delicious tr;dl of it all: Increased domestic oil production is resulting in drastically increased transportation costs. Hail Eris!

[Doktor Howl]

Just noticing that since the election is over, so is the panic about ebola.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Just noticing that since the election is over, so is the panic about ebola.

SURPRISE!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It's only Tuesday, but I'm going to have to call dumbest argument of the week. The month is still young:

I see a feminist wearing a hijab like a black civil rights worker wearing a KKK hood and robe. It does not make sense. I also think its dangerous to wear a burka as you cannot identify them if they commit a crime.

My response:

Ok, your first point is, what would your reaction be if you did see a black civil rights worker dressed up like a Klansman. Seriously. What would your reaction be? Your second point, what the fuck is this, Fox News? People in burkas might rob a convenience store and we'd never know who they were from the security camera... You'd think that if that was a legitimate concern, we would see that in the news all the goddamn time until they actually did make it illegal.

Afterthought:

Hell, let's tell Pussy Riot not to wear balaclavas just in case someone robs a store near them.