The Bitching Thread

god damnit.....
so irritated....

I get jira tickets, emails, skype messages, and voicemail messages every day about various bugs and issues. Can't they just stick to ONE MEDIUM?? Of course, it figures that the one they feel like contacting me with at any given point in time is the one that I'm not looking at, so I don't catch them until half the day has gone by.

The only thing more annoying is that every single bug/issue they send me are the same damns one they've sent me 3 other times previously.....the ones I've already resolved over a week ago. How inefficient is that??

"And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Eight bosses."
"Eight?"
"Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it."

What always made this quote great was that in almost any workplace, this is true. It happens to everyone with at least one job they've had. If you haven't experienced the joy of redundancy, you will.
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My car is having serious electrical issues. The headlights keep burning out (so far thankfully one at a time), my high-beams dashboard light is on whenever I turn the lights on at all, including parking lights, and sometimes I can get the high-beams stuck on (flipping the switch a few more times takes care of that). I'm sure the problem at least starts with the switch in my driving column, but there's no way I can get to a garage by the time I have to work tomorrow night. I'm gonna be in really deep shit if my other headlight burns out while I'm driving home.

My old workplace apparently moved the server rack again, and so now there's no gotwoot irc because they didn't get everything plugged back in and turned back on.

Also, my new workplace's email is Lotus Notes, and the people who manage it aren't willing to enable IMAP under any circumstances, and also aren't willing to give us the information to download a linux native client. As a unix/linux sysadmin, being stuck with an old version of Notes running in a hacked-up version of wine just to read my damned email.

todays bitching... first off, i'm sick and have had a headache going on 4+ days now that wont go away.

anyhow, the real bitching. I'm having a good night out with my girlfriend, dinner, good movie. and we're leaving the movie good vibes going. When i hear 'there he is' and kinda see a couple people above ( in a mall ) and this guy is all like ' you got a problem? ' i ignored and kept walking although this event would bug me for the next hour or so. Did i have a problem with the guy? no... i may have glanced at him... you know, but so did every single person who walks past him since he is a 300 pound hispanic guy with a green mohawk and alot of tattoos wearing some ratty clothes.

so, no... i did not have a problem with him but it just makes me wonder how ignorant somebody could be to know that they look like that and expect people to not look at them.... he may as well have been walking around like an african bushman with a 12'' dinner plate in his lip.... jesus christ. Ignorant people like this just make me angry.

I just got banned from Pantless Clan's CS:S server. I have no idea why. One minute I was playing, next minute I'm banned. I wasn't even doing ridiculously well or anything. I think I was around 25-6 when I got banned.

Odex, a company that licenses and releases anime is accused of copying from a.f.k's subs for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Damnit those people sue downloaders for downloading licensed anime, and then take subs from a fan group and sell it to people?! This is pissing off lots of Singaporeans. :mad:

Currently: Easy Web Design work.

I'm tired of the redundancy brought down upon me by a Web I teacher who knows less than I and teaches OUT OF A BOOK. The projects are so ridiculously easy, and the codes are simple enough a two-year-old with enough sense could use them. I've said this before in the "Today I Learned..." thread, but yes, I'll say it again. I know more HTML than over 99% of the population of this retard-ridden haven for insane and stupid people. I hate it. I NEED a challenge. Give me something that I don't know, and have to look up.

Instead, I gave myself a challenge. That I still haven't figured out. Which is good, 'cause this teacher isn't going to help me. You know how he checks our work? Dreamweaver MX. You know, the program that, instead of telling you how to fix your code, just yells at you "YOU'RE WRONG!". Anyway, the challenge I gave myself is to create or find a simple login/password field that would link into a members-only portion of a site. Similar to that of a forum, but different (yeah yeah, I know).

So, in closing, please, someone, kill this teacher and take over. I'd gladly take Complich over this guy (and yes, that is a compliment, Complich).

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Originally Posted by Psyke

Odex, a company that licenses and releases anime is accused of copying from a.f.k's subs for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

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Hmm... There didn't seem to be too much evidence (yet). Those two shots somebody posted in the thread might have been coincidental. Although of course if almost every line in the episode matched that well, then it would leave little doubt. However, with only two screenshots I wouldn't make hasty judgements.

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Originally Posted by Kraco

Hmm... There didn't seem to be too much evidence (yet). Those two shots somebody posted in the thread might have been coincidental. Although of course if almost every line in the episode matched that well, then it would leave little doubt. However, with only two screenshots I wouldn't make hasty judgements.

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Well, they've yet to comment on this issue yet, but they don't exactly have a clean record. The CEO admitted that some of their part-time translators took fan-subs and passed them off as their own work back in 2004.

Some more shots

And I quote a user from another forum:

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Originally Posted by user from another forum

If you REALLY want to confirm 99% certain that Odex is copying AFK, look for this ONE particular line in episode two, highlighted for convenience:

Haruhi: A lolita face with big breasts. This is an important element of turning people on!
Kyon: News to me.

What Kyon actually said was "Shiran", short for "shiranai" meaning he doesn't know that, but AFK translated the line as "News to me", americanised alright.

So if Odex uses this line, it's pretty much guaranteed that they're using AFK's subs. Why not 100%? Because you have to look for at least one or two more unique lines to hammer the final nail in the coffin.

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Given the unique way that translators and their editing teams produce translational differences (even with much simpler Japanese), I find the evidence even from those two shots to be fairly overwhelming. Not only that, Odex has done this before with Nanoha using Triad's subs, and been forced to publicly apologize for it.

Yeah. A while back I read that they indeed do have a record of stealing from fansubbers. And they already had back then a lame excuse as well in their hip pockets, just in case they get caught.

It would be funny situation, though, if they really used fansubs. Illegal TV transmissions and possibly DVDs by a legit (on paper) company. Well, on the other hand they have no reputation they could lose so in that sense it makes little difference.

In a few hours time, Odex and representatives of four Japanese studios, including TV Tokyo and Toei Animation, will be in court to tesitfy for their appeal for one of the ISPs to reveal illegal downloaders' information.

As bad as Odex's reputation is, if they win, ultimately new laws will be implemented with regards to intellectual property rights of online anime. You can bet that all anime fans here will be crossing our fingers and hope that Odex loses the case....

I'm really getting sick of getting up at 7:00AM every day to make it for 8:30 classes...and driving through all the god-damned traffic. I also can't stand how this is no longer a small town and every fucking asshole on the road can't drive worth shit.

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Originally Posted by fahoumh

I'm really getting sick of getting up at 7:00AM every day to make it for 8:30 classes...and driving through all the god-damned traffic. I also can't stand how this is no longer a small town and every fucking asshole on the road can't drive worth shit.

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i feel ya on that. on thursday when i went to exit the tollway, the 2 cars behind me passed the double white line while i was waiting to let this truck get over in front of me... and they got me stuck out.... omfg, wtf! i was severely road raging, i'm late for work too asshole!!!!! i cant believe they did that.

anyhow, todays bitching:

i'm enrolled in all flex-term classes. we didn't have our first of 8 classes because the teacher had to be out of town. so now it is week 7(tomorrow) i have taken 3 out of 7 tests, done horribly on 2 of them and i dont even think i have read a complete chapter. Further, im trying to catch up and i fell asleep this morning and took a 2 hour nap. I dont know what im going to do in 2 weeks when i have 2 classes instead of just the one. *sigh* i suck at studying. plus, i need to study for my ccna certification that i'm taking on the 24th which every day becomes a day closer with me having not even started to actually study for it.

Haha I know it's been a long time since I've been here but I'm really suprised at how much cursing is allowed now.

Other then that I don't really have anything to bitch about I got kicked out of my dads house about 6 months ago... but that worked out awesomely. I'm now living with my mom in Hawaii. I don't have class, I don't have a car my town is about 5 miles long and I can ride my bike everywhere in it. The next big town over is only 7 miles away. So life is good. ^_^

I tried to voltmod my 7900GS using wires instead of conductive ink for two reasons.

1. It is virtually impossible to find conductive pens (e.g. Circuitwriter) in Canada.
2. All stores are closed today for Thanksgiving.

I spent about an hour preparing two tiny wires. The idea is to tape these wires onto the board, joining specific "points." The wires are very small, and the points are even smaller. It was difficult. In the end, I was able to get those wires on there.

And it doesn't work. Maybe the contact is bad. Maybe the wires have too much resistance. Whatever it is, I just wasted over an hour of my long weekend fiddling with tiny wires only to fail the voltmod.

Damn it...

I am sick... It fucking sucks. My head feels like it is about to split open and reveal the gates to hell while my constipation makes it impossible to well... use the restroom. I had to take a math test today which was an easy 100 that turned into an 88 because I felt like shit and made stupid mistakes because of my lack of concentration. I almost threw up in my 8 am class and had to quickly rush out of the room.

Anyway... general statement, I think I am dehydrated and have the flu now and it sucks ass.

make sure to attend all your classes and get as many of your classmates as sick as possible.

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Originally Posted by AssertnFailure

make sure to attend all your classes and get as many of your classmates as sick as possible.

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Will do my friend. I am sure I can get maybe twenty before I feel better.

"raging diarrhea"

I'm glad my friend canceled the "going out" this morning.