| 6:58:15 PM | TheFu | My spelling for that thing behind RobbieF
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| 6:58:36 PM | GWG | RobbieF: Yes. It's Dalek
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| 6:58:44 PM | SashaR | TheFu: GWG
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| 6:58:47 PM | GWG | Yes, Tab
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| 6:58:52 PM | SashaR | ABQTKY:
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| 6:58:53 PM | TheFu | tab.
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| 6:59:00 PM | GWG | I just like the gasp
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| 6:59:13 PM | MarshMan | Hello all!!
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| 6:59:25 PM | GWG | Hello, Marshman. How's the weather
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| 6:59:28 PM | SashaR | MarshMan: Hi
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| 6:59:30 PM | TheFu | Just imagine SashaR with a shell?!!!!
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| 6:59:31 PM | ABQTKY | SashaR What?? You rang??
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| 6:59:35 PM | MarshMan | Warm!!
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| 6:59:35 PM | GWG | SashaR: All you had to do was ask
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| 7:00:14 PM | GWG | It is hot here.
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| 7:00:26 PM | Solbu | SashaR: When that happens, hitting Tab 2 times gives a list of possible matches. Then you type a few more chars and try Tab again.
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| 7:00:36 PM | TheFu | You could have a call-in guest like Solbu to fill in.
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| 7:01:06 PM | Solbu | Tab-complete error. heh.
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| 7:01:49 PM | GWG | SashaR: What are you judging?
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| 7:02:43 PM | GWG | Is that Jeff behind RobbieF?
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| 7:03:14 PM | MarshMan | Jeff was exterminated
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| 7:04:53 PM | MarshMan | ACTION!
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| 7:05:03 PM | TheFu | Torchwood is in the DrWho universe, but with a little more action and UK centric.
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| 7:05:04 PM | GWG | You two held those smiles for entirely too long
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| 7:05:16 PM | GWG | TheFu: That's why I said spinoff
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| 7:05:27 PM | TheFu | I'm a little behind.
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| 7:05:55 PM | TheFu | I prefer Torchwood over DrWho.
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| 7:06:53 PM | GWG | I give Category 5 money each month
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| 7:07:02 PM | GWG | But not on Patreon
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| 7:08:00 PM | GWG | I miss This Old Nerd with RobbieF
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| 7:09:15 PM | GWG | I meant when he was fixing up the studio
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| 7:09:20 PM | TheFu | You should!
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| 7:09:44 PM | TheFu | And "our greatest fans" is good too.
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| 7:09:47 PM | ABQTKY | Robbie was great with those drywall episodes!
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| 7:11:50 PM | TheFu | Fake SD cards are hard to avoid - basically, just have to buy from a company that does returns honestly.
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| 7:14:32 PM | GWG | Come on, Americans are supposed to make the CAD jokes
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| 7:14:52 PM | TheFu | Also, before you do anything, copy enough files over on your computer to fill it. If all the files are actually there, great!
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| 7:15:26 PM | TheFu | GWG, I thought it was about US$0.80 to 1CAD?
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| 7:16:43 PM | GWG | 0.77
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| 7:16:59 PM | TheFu | US$ .77 = CAD 1
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| 7:17:16 PM | TheFu | Yep, just pulled up an app, XE.
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| 7:17:48 PM | GWG | The wedding photographer was RobbieF? Plot twist
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| 7:18:11 PM | TheFu | Amazon doesn't usually mis-price anything. But many other stores do and sometimes you can get a crazy good deal from Staples.
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| 7:20:33 PM | TheFu | Aren't any SD cards over 64G always shipped with an exFAT file system?
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| 7:21:46 PM | Solbu | RobbieF: Why would fdisk report the card as bigger than it is? Regardless of filesystem on the card that shouldn't matter.
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| 7:21:47 PM | Garbee | $10 for 256MB now... That must be the *most reliable* 256MB to exist at that size.
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| 7:23:11 PM | TheFu | Never had an Uncle Bob, must be a great guy.
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| 7:24:05 PM | Garbee | Do that even if it is *genuine* looking. Some places take the non-company grade stuff, brand it, and package it to sell as if it were authentic.
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| 7:24:09 PM | TheFu | Many cameras have a 30min video limit.
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| 7:24:18 PM | Garbee | Because manufacturing isn't tightly controlled.
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| 7:24:21 PM | TheFu | and stop.
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| 7:24:24 PM | Solbu | Uncle Bob is Joch Connors mechanical uncle.
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| 7:24:30 PM | Solbu | *John
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| 7:25:14 PM | TheFu | Amazon has a bad habit of mixing products on a single page so the reviews are all mixed too.
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| 7:25:58 PM | Garbee | Jeff carries on, but it is fun.
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| 7:26:44 PM | TheFu | Garbee, you play Jeff tonight.
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| 7:27:38 PM | Garbee | Nah I'm good.
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| 7:27:46 PM | Garbee | Plus, I'm the original Jeff.
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| 7:27:56 PM | Garbee | Oh no, I'm not.
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| 7:28:02 PM | Garbee | Either way, he got on camera first.
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| 7:28:44 PM | Solbu | Pluss the speakers lifted Jeff's hair. :-)
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| 7:30:37 PM | TheFu | h.265 ... they are working on GPU drivers for it on newer Pis. h.264 has GPU driver support, so the GPU does it all, very little CPU needed.
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| 7:31:15 PM | Solbu | THere's always MPEG 2, which is now patent free. (The last patent have expired)
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| 7:31:17 PM | TheFu | Or put a Plex Server on an x86 (intel/AMD) box that can transcode in real-time for the Pi.
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| 7:31:18 PM | alpeck | buy an mpeg license
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| 7:31:18 PM | Solbu | :-)
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| 7:31:40 PM | TheFu | h.264 has world-wide decoding for free.
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| 7:31:55 PM | Skywriter64 | Maybe Joe needs a MPEG 2 license from the PI Foundation.
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| 7:32:11 PM | TheFu | 1G for mpeg2 --
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| 7:33:28 PM | TheFu | Joe is probably "acquiring" the files from "somewhere" ... not from DVDs or broadcasts, I suspect.
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| 7:34:43 PM | Garbee | Reminder on subttiles if you want those, you need to get subtitle files to encode in. It can't pull those out unless you want them burnt into the video permanently.
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| 7:35:00 PM | Solbu | For season 1 episode 3 I use 1x03
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| 7:35:00 PM | TheFu | Garbee, No true.
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| 7:35:34 PM | Garbee | TheFu: what program pulls subtitles in an optional way from a disc when making a video file?
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| 7:35:36 PM | TheFu | Both SRT and SUBS can be pulled out as external files and retained with the correct container, like MKV.
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| 7:35:55 PM | TheFu | handbrake, avidemux, pretty much all of them.
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| 7:36:02 PM | Garbee | Yea, but if you're using something like handbrake to make an MP4. They must be burnt in from that.
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| 7:36:14 PM | TheFu | Stop using an inferior container.
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| 7:36:15 PM | Garbee | You'd have to have an external SRT file to embed as an optional subtitle.
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| 7:36:26 PM | TheFu | DVDs have SRTs.
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| 7:36:45 PM | TheFu | They also have SUBs. Both work effectively the same in handbrake.
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| 7:37:05 PM | TheFu | SUBs and SRT are VERY different formats.
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| 7:37:19 PM | Garbee | I have never found handbrake to pull in optional subtitles from an MKV making it an MP4.
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| 7:37:27 PM | Garbee | I always have to go get SRT files to embed optionally.
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| 7:37:31 PM | TheFu | Don't use inferior containers.
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| 7:37:35 PM | alpeck | Solbu: where can you get free mpeg 2 decoder for pi
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| 7:37:40 PM | Garbee | TheFu: That is arrogant.
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| 7:37:53 PM | Garbee | Seriously, stop calling it inferior just because you happen to have some issue with it.
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| 7:38:04 PM | TheFu | MKV is well supported across all platforms, even Windows.
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| 7:38:12 PM | Solbu | alpeck: It starts to get included in the various distros, as they release new versions. It just takes time.
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| 7:38:15 PM | Garbee | Does not matter.
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| 7:39:23 PM | TheFu | Garbee, but it doesn't do what you claim to want and there is an alternative that is 100% F/OSS which is well supported across all platforms.
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| 7:39:34 PM | Solbu | alpeck: Besides, all mpeg2 decoders on Linux is free software, it just wasn't included in most distros due to patents.
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| 7:40:24 PM | TheFu | I don't have an issue with mp4. Haven't used it in about 8 yrs.
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| 7:41:18 PM | Garbee | TheFu: Great for you. Stop trying to get a point across. I've made the point that MP4 type containers work differently and some care may be needed in using them. It's done. No need to push your preferred choice as "the only superior way to do things". It simply doesn't matter.
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| 7:43:42 PM | TheFu | alpeck, the free mpeg2 decoder for a r-pi requires using the CPU. Most r-pi CPUs aren't fast enough to handle any mpeg2 resolutions over 600p.
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| 7:44:15 PM | alpeck | Solbu: thanx
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| 7:44:41 PM | TheFu | For hidef mpeg2, the paid mpeg2 license which enables the GPU hardware is about US$2.
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| 7:45:02 PM | TheFu | It may have changed, but that's what I paid about 2 yrs ago.
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| 7:45:39 PM | TheFu | alpeck, this is about raspberry pi mpeg2 decoding.
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| 7:46:06 PM | alpeck | TheFu: yes
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| 7:46:34 PM | Garbee | Why is the dalek trying to exterminate SashaR?
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| 7:49:57 PM | TheFu | This story is a reason to reconsider connecting your smartphone with any financial accounts.
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| 7:50:01 PM | Garbee | lol, look forward to presenting.... what?
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| 7:50:47 PM | TheFu | AT&T has a clause that says they aren't responsible for anything in all their cellular contracts.
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| 7:50:48 PM | Solbu | TheFu: It has changed: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/15/world_farewells_the_last_mpeg2_patent/ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_pool
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| 7:50:55 PM | Garbee | Not phone (smart or not.) Phone number for access.
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| 7:50:58 PM | Garbee | Big difference.
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| 7:51:12 PM | TheFu | SIM - cellular.
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| 7:51:28 PM | TheFu | IF it was his POTS line, he definitely has a case.
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| 7:51:30 PM | Garbee | Properly connecting a mobile device with something unique to get access is perfectly fine (and encouraged.) It's the phone network itself being used that is the root problem.
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| 7:53:31 PM | TheFu | Having more than $10K connected to a phone number or email account that is widely know is less than brilliant.
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| 7:54:51 PM | Garbee | SashaR: Not weird. They don't want to pay the people to talk to customers on the weekend.
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| 7:55:59 PM | Garbee | Why did AT&T have a security vulnerability where you could just change the URL number to see someone else's account?
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| 7:56:23 PM | Garbee | They've had repeated issues that are root caused in poor software allowing access being given where it clearly shouldn't have.
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| 7:58:50 PM | TheFu | Garbee, AT&T trains their people, but not all representatives/employees understand it. For every 1 customer like this, there are 1,000 who come in and are yelling for help. Literally.
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| 7:59:24 PM | TheFu | I've never been a CSR for any telecom, thank God.
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| 7:59:37 PM | Garbee | Yup I know. But it shouldn't be the reps issue either. They handle everything through software. if the account *needed* that 6 digit pin. Why were they ever allowed access to make the change without it? Period. The software failed.
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| 7:59:54 PM | Garbee | The rep should literally have no control to bypass security functionality, ever.
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| 8:00:30 PM | TheFu | Garbee, Early features that marketing/management agree to make happen are often initially implemented with notes in the customer file.
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| 8:01:38 PM | TheFu | Management wants to show they are "doing something" ... but the software changes take 8+ months and $1.5M in funding, which wasn't approved for this year.
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| 8:01:42 PM | TheFu | For example.
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| 8:03:04 PM | TheFu | All software has bugs - except perhaps LaTex.;)
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| 8:05:23 PM | Solbu | https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/56810065/trust-me-there-are-no-bugs-in-our-software.jpg
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| 8:07:03 PM | TheFu | More about SIM hijacking: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqax3/hackers-sim-swapping-steal-phone-numbers-instagram-bitcoin
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| 8:07:30 PM | Garbee | SashaR: OMG that's a terrible error phrase for that.
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| 8:09:01 PM | Garbee | Fear sells the stuff they advertise in between segments.
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| 8:09:02 PM | TheFu | RobbieF is correct. 98% of the world is good, nice people. But when it comes to news, 2% bad becomes 98%....
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| 8:09:40 PM | TheFu | People outside the USA think everyone inside the USA have guns and shot anyone over tiny issues.
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| 8:09:56 PM | Garbee | TheFu: Well, the latter part isn't wrong.
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| 8:10:06 PM | Garbee | Many people do start shooting over nothing.
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| 8:10:51 PM | TheFu | Garbee, not true. A few people start shooting over nothing. If many people did, there would be millions of injuries and deaths daily.
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| 8:11:04 PM | MarshMan | RobbieF: It's called Pay it Forward
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| 8:11:15 PM | TheFu | Unless you count target shooting, which I do a few times a week. ;)
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| 8:11:34 PM | Garbee | TheFu: In scale compared to other nations, the US is majorly out of wack in that regard. But we should probably not talk about gun issues too much here. Too politically driven of a topic.
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| 8:12:07 PM | TheFu | I will defend your right to choose.
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| 8:12:44 PM | MarshMan | G'night all
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| 8:12:48 PM | Garbee | No crackling at all this week.
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| 8:12:50 PM | RobbieF | Thanks everyone!!
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| 8:12:51 PM | Garbee | That's good.
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| 8:12:57 PM | RobbieF | glad to hear it Garbee- thanks for the note!
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| 8:13:02 PM | RobbieF | [good news from garbee]
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| 8:13:11 PM | Garbee | Good news, just like the USB Condom.
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| 8:13:16 PM | Garbee | :D
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| 8:13:57 PM | SashaR | Thank you!! I don't get to chat as mch when Jeff isn't here... but I love glancing down and seeing the chatter on my screen :)
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| 8:14:27 PM | Solbu | SashaR: You do a good job.
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| 8:15:00 PM | TheFu | SashaR, you remind me of Gwen Cooper from Torchwood.
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