Chat Thread 42: The Answer To Life, The Universe and Everyth

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:52 am

I think it may be a problem that this is what my CPU usage usually looks like...

Yeah, I need a better computer...

Mickey the Luxray · Post by **Mickey the Luxray** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:55 am

JeffCvt wrote:What country do yall's live in and what's unique about your particular area/city?

There's a pretty white UFO floating around here. It's been here a while- I heard it used to be orange at least 50 years ago, then it changed color. I like looking at it.

dtlux1 wrote:Yeah, I need a better computer...

Nah, that looks pretty typical for running Skype, Steam, Firefox and Photoshop at the same time. Especially Photoshop, that's easily the most demanding of all of those.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:04 am

~I come from the land of ice and snow~

I live in Toronto, Ontario, our old mayor was a very naughty man. But at least the new one is a bit better.

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:08 am

Mickey the Luxray wrote:
dtlux1 wrote:Yeah, I need a better computer...
Nah, that looks pretty typical for running Skype, Steam, Firefox and Photoshop at the same time. Especially Photoshop, that's easily the most demanding of all of those.

That may not be the reason I need a better computer, but I do need one. Right now I have a laptop with 4GB of RAM as my main computer, and it isn't even portable. I have to have it hooked up to an external monitor and hard drive, as it has around 300GB of space on it. If nothing else, I need more RAM.

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:58 am

JeffCvt wrote:So here's a question I've been wondering about:

What country do yall's live in and what's unique about your particular area/city?

I pretty much live in Manchester, England.

So yeah, pretty much the birthplace of the world's railways. Football capital of the world. Need I say more?

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:58 am

dtlux1 wrote:
Mickey the Luxray wrote:
dtlux1 wrote:Yeah, I need a better computer...
Nah, that looks pretty typical for running Skype, Steam, Firefox and Photoshop at the same time. Especially Photoshop, that's easily the most demanding of all of those.

That may not be the reason I need a better computer, but I do need one. Right now I have a laptop with 4GB of RAM as my main computer, and it isn't even portable. I have to have it hooked up to an external monitor and hard drive, as it has around 300GB of space on it. If nothing else, I need more RAM.

RAM is expensive and tricky. If you can't find the EXACT chip you currently have, you can't just buy a different brand or something and expect it to work. If you have more than one chip, they must be the same. If you want 8GB, you may end up spending $70 or $80.

You also need to make sure your computer can support more RAM to begin with. I upgraded my laptop to 8GB because I was able to find a matching chip for $30 (used of course) at a local computer repair shop, but that's all mine can support. I have a decent (if somewhat old) laptop, but if I was to try adding more RAM, it just wouldn't use it and it'd be a big waste of money.

ShadowLightning · Post by **ShadowLightning** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:19 am

My computer is complete carp. Having only about 150 GB of memory, and only having less than 10 GB of free space. It's already more or less 7 years old, and not once have we upgraded or did anything to make it better. Hopefully I can somehow talk my dad to either buying a new one or something.

JeffCvt wrote:So here's a question I've been wondering about:

What country do yall's live in and what's unique about your particular area/city?

I live in the Philippines. Can't really say there's anything unique around my area/city, but I do recall a senator approving of an "Anti-Selfie" law or bill kinda thing.

Post by **Render** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:57 am

Deske wrote:Render will you be my Valentine and send me Kinder eggs?

I bought some Kinder Überraschungseier today, which one do you want? Left, right ot the one in the middle? Maybe you're lucky and get a penguin.

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:44 pm

Mitte, bitte! (Middle, please!)

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:05 pm

I think its illegal to import them here.

Post by **Render** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:15 pm

Deske wrote:Mitte, bitte! (Middle, please!)

Here it is, freshly opened

Let's see, what's inside

Oh, that looks complicated... two pieces...

AH, assembling completed!

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:56 pm

Woo! It's a buggy! But....Germany doesn't have any beaches does it?

Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:46 pm

Mickey the Luxray wrote:Nah, that looks pretty typical for running Skype, Steam, Firefox and Photoshop at the same time. Especially Photoshop, that's easily the most demanding of all of those.

really? I run three of those all the time and only use about 15% of my CPU. would photoshop use 85%?

dtlux1 wrote:That may not be the reason I need a better computer, but I do need one. Right now I have a laptop with 4GB of RAM as my main computer, and it isn't even portable. I have to have it hooked up to an external monitor and hard drive, as it has around 300GB of space on it. If nothing else, I need more RAM.

Mine is 4 GB of ram, too

Amazee Dayzee wrote:I think its illegal to import them here.

as I said, I think it's just illegal to import them for sale. sending them to a friend in the mail is fine I think.

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:25 pm

The German for Kinder Surprise sounds a surprise by itself.

On the box it's well visible the 0-3 age prohibition, it isn't enough to sell it in the US?

Deske wrote:Germany doesn't have any beaches does it?

Look better to the north.

JeffCvt wrote:What country do yall's live in and what's unique about your particular area/city?

In the Boot's heel there's lot of history, dating to the Greeks and Romans period. Memorable is a battle where Romans lost.

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:10 am

JeffCvt wrote:So here's a question I've been wondering about:

What country do yall's live in and what's unique about your particular area/city? As most of you probably know, I live in the United States. What you all may not know is that I live right where the Union/Confederacy (North/South) split was during our civil war on the eastern coast. I technically live in the south, and if you go to the right parts of the county, it shows. But if you go North for 20 or 30 minutes, you pretty much lose a lot of the back roads and small(er) towns and all of the rednecks disappear. Now that I'm older and I notice it, it's really quite interesting to see the transition.

I live in America as well, and in Idaho we um...
Well we are known for potatoes, the best fishing spots for steelhead trout, and gems.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:12 am

Reading this thread I'm reminded of a youtuber I used to follow who reviewed food. Apparently kinder eggs were the most popular on this channel.

Funnily enough, since I had forgot the username I had to google around for him, I finally found him with 'food reviewing german youtuber'.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:49 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote:I think its illegal to import them here.

Yeah, they don't meet health standards for the US.

Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:06 am

Sleet wrote:
Amazee Dayzee wrote:I think its illegal to import them here.
Yeah, they don't meet health standards for the US.

oh does that mean mailing them to the US is actually illegal?

Post by **Render** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:56 am

Cesco wrote:The German for Kinder Surprise sounds a surprise by itself. On the box it's well visible the 0-3 age prohibition, it isn't enough to sell it in the US?

And it's as well on the egg itself and the enclosed leaflet together with a warning in 36 languages.

Cesco wrote:
Deske wrote:Germany doesn't have any beaches does it?
Look better to the north.

There are plenty beaches along the North sea and Baltic sea and several lakes. We just don't have palm trees...

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:02 pm

Well, considering that in 2011, when the U.S. Customs and Border Protection threatened a Manitoba resident with a $300 (Canadian dollars) fine for carrying one egg across the U.S. border into Minnesota and in June 2012, they held two Seattle men for two and a half hours after discovering six Kinder Surprise eggs in their car upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to Vancouver with the potential fine being US$2,500 per egg, I'd say that they are illegal to send over here.

There was a petition 2 years ago to end the ban on them, but it was declined for not having enough signatures.

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:44 pm

$2,500 is way to much for me to ever risk brining something like that over. wow is that a lot.

I would never smuggle anything over anyway, just saying

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:28 am

Well whenever I need to type a 1, 2, 3, 4, !, @, # or a $ sign, I need to copy it from another website.

Post by **Obbl** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:55 am

@AmazeeDayzee #1stWorldProbs, Am I right?

How'd you manage that?

FritzyBeat · Post by **FritzyBeat** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:01 am

Man, I haven't had a Kinder Surprise in forever, I need to go get myself one of those sometime soon~

Sleet wrote:
Amazee Dayzee wrote:I think its illegal to import them here.
Yeah, they don't meet health standards for the US.

HAW
and neither does every other tiny toy in the nation of America ;P *shot*

I'm sorry to kid, but I still find it so ridiculous how the US would ban Kinder Surprises because the toy is a chocking hazard or something (or at least that's what I've always heard was the reason) cause there are SOOOO many other chocking hazards that are far worse that are allowed. So I can't imagine why they would ban it at all unless it was some single incident that the media lashed out about enough to scare the health board into banning them. o3o

Last I checked, we still have these on our tables at Christmas:

So I dunno, maybe the states just favor one chocking hazard over another. =P

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:15 am

I don't think those sections of America's government really know what they are doing. Like, at all.

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:05 pm

Deske wrote:I don't think those sections of America's government really know what they are doing. Like, at all.

Well the FDA has been pretty good on some of the pharmacy stuff, they have strict laws for most drugs and are improving as time goes by.
but yeah sometimes they don't... its weird.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:12 pm

I have never seen Christmas crackers on a table at all. The only reason why I know what they are is because I watch "EastEnders".

Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:40 pm

FritzyBeat wrote:I'm sorry to kid, but I still find it so ridiculous how the US would ban Kinder Surprises because the toy is a chocking hazard or something (or at least that's what I've always heard was the reason) cause there are SOOOO many other chocking hazards that are far worse that are allowed. So I can't imagine why they would ban it at all unless it was some single incident that the media lashed out about enough to scare the health board into banning them. o3o

those other choking hazards aren't hidden inside of food marketed to young children.
and I think the logic behind banning them despite the marked age range is that parents see chocolate in brightly colored packaging and assume "good for all ages" even if the packaging clearly states otherwise.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:34 pm

That's the parents' fault - they're probably the same people who leave their children in the car in the summertime; should we ban cars too?

Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:44 pm

Alrighty, I can see this discussion turning into an argument soon, so let's change the subject, shall we?

My school cancelled all classes after four. that means I got out of class 15 minutes early, hooray useless (to me) closing. hopefully it'll cancel class tomorrow too so I actually get something out of it.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:54 pm

The schools got a 2 hour delay here; freezing temperatures + rain = bad driving conditions.

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:59 pm

We're supposed to get up to a foot of snow here tonight.

I hope whatever we get isn't too bad because I have someplace to go tomorrow to finish up a little bit of work and if I can't make it there, I don't know when I'll be able to go back.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:57 am

We just keep on getting snow. I hope they don't cancel any Monday or Wednesday classes because trying to do a lab exercise at home is a PAIN!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:08 pm

Meanwhile I'm getting 31.5C/88.7F in the shade during the day coupled with high humidity.
*melts*
Who wants to sell me some snow?

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:18 pm

I didn't realize quolls could change states of matter.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:21 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:Meanwhile I'm getting 31.5C/88.7F in the shade during the day coupled with high humidity.
*melts*
Who wants to sell me some snow?

You could come stay with me in the Appalachians. Its about -12C/9F with 64kph/40mph winds and about 12.7cm/5in. of snow. Its not exactly Siberia but it will do.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:31 pm

Douglas Collier wrote:I didn't realize quolls could change states of matter.

Quolls can do a lot of things.

Radio Blue Heart wrote: You could come stay with me in the Appalachians. Its about -12C/9F with 64kph/40mph winds and about 12.7cm/5in. of snow. Its not exactly Siberia but it will do.

How soon can you get me a ticket?

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:02 pm

So many

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If you want to visit America, we'd be happy to have you, Hlaoroo!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:06 pm

Heh. It's a bad habit I have.

Geckozy once diagnosed me with terminal XD-itis. I think symptoms extend to other smilies though.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:12 pm

I think we all have that - otherwise we would look like personality-less bots.