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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 5:54 pm
It seems to me that you are noticing "inconsistencies" between what I've said, and some hypothetical scenario which I am not involved in. Until I am actually inconsistent, I don't think you are in any position to "notice" anything.
I also didn't mean "riled up" in a negative sense. She had good reason to get riled up about it; it was a rather sexist thing to put on an item of clothing, and I don't really think it was appropriate. Still, it got her annoyed / irritated, which is what "riled up" means.
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 6:00 pm
(March 6, 2012 at 5:54 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I also didn't mean "riled up" in a negative sense. She had good reason to get riled up about it; it was a rather sexist thing to put on an item of clothing, and I don't really think it was appropriate. Still, it got her annoyed / irritated, which is what "riled up" means.
Of course and accepted.
(March 6, 2012 at 5:54 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It seems to me that you are noticing "inconsistencies" between what I've said, and some hypothetical scenario which I am not involved in. Until I am actually inconsistent, I don't think you are in any position to "notice" anything.
While the scenario is hypothetical, what you did write in the Freeman thread in no way shows similarity to what you wrote in here.
That means we can compare how you reacted in either context, and hence we can argue over the choice of terms.
That said (I've typed this fucking sentence twice and lost it to a fucking forum glitch), you've clarified your position and I agree with it.
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 6:08 pm
(March 6, 2012 at 6:00 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: (March 6, 2012 at 5:54 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It seems to me that you are noticing "inconsistencies" between what I've said, and some hypothetical scenario which I am not involved in. Until I am actually inconsistent, I don't think you are in any position to "notice" anything.
Bullshit. While the scenario is hypothetical, what you did write in the Freeman thread in no way shows similarity to what you wrote in here.
That means we can compare how you reacted in either context, and hence we can argue over the choice of terms.
The difference is, Morgan Freeman didn't say anything that was stereotypical of a black guy, or anything stereotypical at all. This woman did, which was how I found it mildly amusing (although not really amusing enough to think I'd find myself in an argument over semantics about it).
As I said before, you can't say someone is inconsistent when the inconsistency you are talking about wasn't even applicable to the other example. You are asserting I'm being inconsistent and using a hypothetical scenario as an example...that just doesn't hold up.
It would be like me saying "Synackaon says he likes Obama's healthcare plan, but if Santorum came out with the same plan, he'd criticise it.", and then claiming you are being inconsistent. It doesn't hold up because I have no idea how you'd react to an Obamacare-like healthcare plan by Santorum, and until I do, I can't make any (valid) claims of inconsistency.
Apparently I posted this whilst you were editing. I'm glad you agree with me though.
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 6:11 pm
(March 6, 2012 at 6:08 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Apparently I posted this whilst you were editing. I'm glad you agree with me though.
I usually do quick edits to remove unnecessary vitriol and tighten things up.
In this case, having the page reload on me instead of submitting and thus losing my changes turned a 10 second edit into a two minute wait.
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 6:13 pm
I use the Lazurus plugin to get around that 
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March 6, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Lazarus (when I used it in Chrome) would jam my browser and induce rage-worthy GUI latencies.
I've since ditched the garbage Chrome for Firefox, so I might give Lazarus a second chance (No pun intended).
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Odd, I'm using Chrome now and it works fine for me. I just ditched "garbage" Firefox for Chrome; what were your reasons for doing the reverse?
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Chrome apparently does not seperate UI rendering into different processes as it should.
So when one page becomes blocked for a response (the throbber stops), all my tabs return blank pages.
That problem went away when I enabled GPU composition, but then the in-browser PDF reader that Google insists be included freezes and responds at what I estimate is .0001 frames per second. So then I disabled that, only to find that the GPU composition leaves black box artifacts in one of the page windows. So then I disabled that, only to come back to "Chrome-fucking-twiddles-it's-fucking-thumbs-as-it-waits-for-ONE-tab-to-respond".
I like to open twenty to fifty tabs at a time (like when I browse here).
The worst thing an application can do on my system is jam the UI or be slow to respond. I'd rather have a crashing app than one than makes me tear out my hair because Google Chrome can't differentiate display object models from it's ass or provide a UI that doesn't make me wish for the responsiveness of Adobe Flash.
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Fair enough. I've not had that many problems yet, whereas Firefox just became a massive memory hog for me again. In any case, it means I can finally write an article about the best security / privacy extensions for Chrome and actually know what I'm talking about 
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RE: Sexist washing instructions
March 6, 2012 at 7:07 pm
One thing never changes: there are no good browsers, only ones that suck less than the others - until the next update.
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