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2008-04-19 09:47 < Mark_Ryan> ah that worked
2008-04-19 09:47 < Redxx> can someone tell me if/how i register a password for this?
2008-04-19 09:48 < Redxx> Do i need to?
2008-04-19 09:48 < [21655]> this? this what?
2008-04-19 09:48 < [21655]> your nick?
2008-04-19 09:48 < Redxx> Only I saw a message saying I neded to register NickServ
2008-04-19 09:48 < [21655]> of course you do!
2008-04-19 09:48 < [21655]> type /msg nickserv register (password)
2008-04-19 09:48 < Redxx> lol
2008-04-19 09:49 < Redxx> aah#
2008-04-19 09:49 < Redxx> asnd enter chosen password where you typed password?
2008-04-19 09:49 < [21655]> uh...yeh
2008-04-19 09:51 < Redxx> k
2008-04-19 09:51 < Redxx> thank you
2008-04-19 09:51 < Redxx> says im already regeed
2008-04-19 09:52 < Messedrocker> heh
2008-04-19 09:52 < Redxx> unless its a different red
2008-04-19 09:52 < Messedrocker> i didn't know there was still feudalism in europe
2008-04-19 09:52 < Redxx> lol
2008-04-19 09:52 < Messedrocker> a channel island called Sark had a feudal system until recently
2008-04-19 09:54 < Redxx> dunno bout u but i hate being a newbie
2008-04-19 09:54 < Redxx> grrr
2008-04-19 09:54 < Redxx> ok
2008-04-19 09:55 < Redxx> so why do i need to reg if I am able to talk on here anyway..?
2008-04-19 09:55 < Redxx> only someone's nicked my nick it seems
2008-04-19 09:55 < Redxx> and i dont want to change it
2008-04-19 09:56 < Redxx> is ok..that question is open to the room ;)
2008-04-19 10:04 < Mohd1234> Hello
2008-04-19 10:07 < bumm13> hi
2008-04-19 10:09 < Mohd1234> How to check the settings of autoconfirmed users on Wikipedia projects?
2008-04-19 10:09 < Mohd1234> I mean the number of edits/days
2008-04-19 10:10 < Inke> Wow. Man. Saturday mornings kill brain cells. It's like being drunk: everything is funny.
2008-04-19 10:24 * Lubaf watches Raul's user page.
2008-04-19 10:24 < Lubaf> So imagine my annoyance when, on checking my watchlist today, I see a whole bunch about "WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH GRAWP? GIANT DICK MAKE MARK PELLEGRINI HAVE HUGE ORGASMS. WARM, STICKY CUM FOUNTAIN OUT OF GIANT DICK, MAKE MARK HAPPY. "
2008-04-19 10:25 < Messedrocker> ceiling cat actually abstains from all sexual activity
2008-04-19 10:25 < Messedrocker> he just watches
2008-04-19 10:25 < Arwen> lol
2008-04-19 10:26 < Lubaf> Messedrocker: That's neither here nor there.
2008-04-19 10:26 < Lubaf> Some vandal moved Raul's user page to that... thing.
2008-04-19 10:27 < Lubaf> So, when I check my watchlist, I see a whole page of that line.
2008-04-19 10:27 < Messedrocker> My statement was in order to disprove that vandalous page title
2008-04-19 10:28 < Lubaf> Messedrocker: Raul was being propositioned, I think.
2008-04-19 10:28 < ShakespeareFan00> Lubaf: You know who valdisised
2008-04-19 10:28 < ShakespeareFan00> Vandalised
2008-04-19 10:28 < Lubaf> ShakespeareFan00: Some sockpuppeteer.
2008-04-19 10:28 < ShakespeareFan00> because making such advances online (depending on your state) is enough to get you 20 years with bubba ;)
2008-04-19 10:29 < Lubaf> Don't know who it was, I only care that he chose such an ugly title to vandalize with.
2008-04-19 10:29 < ShakespeareFan00> Yeah
2008-04-19 10:29 < ShakespeareFan00> But he still should have known that it could have got him into BIG trouble
2008-04-19 10:29 < ShakespeareFan00> Blocked I assume?
2008-04-19 10:30 < Messedrocker> ShakespeareFan00, it is perfectly legal for sex to be proposed between adults
2008-04-19 10:31 < ShakespeareFan00> Messedrocker: Yes, but it's not permissble to transmit obscenity via a public telecommunications network
2008-04-19 10:32 < ShakespeareFan00> Nor is it permissible (depending on the state) to proposition strangers in a public place...
2008-04-19 10:32 < nsh> wtf
2008-04-19 10:32 < Messedrocker> it's illegal to transmit obscenity via a public telecom network?
2008-04-19 10:32 < Messedrocker> wtf are you snorting
2008-04-19 10:33 < ShakespeareFan00> Messedrocker: I am from the UK remember...
2008-04-19 10:33 < Gazimoff> it's true. Illegal in the UK
2008-04-19 10:34 < ShakespeareFan00> It was intended orignally to deal with 'obscene phone calls' and the breathers...
2008-04-19 10:34 < bumm13> define "obscenity"
2008-04-19 10:34 < ShakespeareFan00> but could potentialy used against all kinds of internet transmissions
2008-04-19 10:35 < ShakespeareFan00> Gazimoff: IIRC Openly propositiong strangers (in respect of sexual matters) was also illegal in the UK
2008-04-19 10:36 < Messedrocker> there
2008-04-19 10:36 < Messedrocker> new profile pic
2008-04-19 10:36 < ShakespeareFan00> under one aspect of laws brought in after a gay-scare in the Mid 19th century
2008-04-19 10:36 < Messedrocker> well i shouldn't be too surprised, i mean y'all still have a monarchy
2008-04-19 10:36 < Leslie_S> "monarchy", heh.
2008-04-19 10:37 < Leslie_S> what power does the queen actually have anyway?
2008-04-19 10:37 < ThePolecat> It might be punishable if uncalled for and objected to by the target, anything else is not credible in a western democracy.
2008-04-19 10:37 < ThePolecat> The queen rules but does not govern.
2008-04-19 10:37 < Leslie_S> ThePolecat and its been that way since the magna carta basically, hasnt it?
2008-04-19 10:37 < Messedrocker> no
2008-04-19 10:37 < ThePolecat> no
2008-04-19 10:37 < ThePolecat> the Magna Carta concerns other stuff.
2008-04-19 10:37 < ShakespeareFan00> The last major change was in the Early 20thc entury
2008-04-19 10:38 < Messedrocker> i believe parliament had supremacy over the soverign starting in the 18th century
2008-04-19 10:38 < Messedrocker> because king george spoke no eeenglish
2008-04-19 10:38 < ShakespeareFan00> Magna Carta is (by reason of later laws) now largely irrelevant
2008-04-19 10:38 < Messedrocker> the last reap of power from the nobility is the teeth-take-away of the house of lords in 1949
2008-04-19 10:38 < ThePolecat> Yup.
2008-04-19 10:38 < Leslie_S> teeth take away?
2008-04-19 10:38 < Mark_Ryan> wasn't the loss of power of the monarchy more stemming from the time England became a republic, but re-established the monarchy through an Act of Parliament?
2008-04-19 10:38 < ThePolecat> since then, the HoL can only delay laws, not stop 'em.
2008-04-19 10:38 < Messedrocker> Leslie_S, the House of Lords meets but it cannot pass laws
2008-04-19 10:39 < ShakespeareFan00> The House Lords cannot block a law, only delay it, and even then if it's not Budegtary
2008-04-19 10:39 < ThePolecat> Well, Parliament wasn't exactly a big factor with Cromwell.
2008-04-19 10:39 < Leslie_S> LOL
2008-04-19 10:39 < Messedrocker> how many more centuries do you think it will be before the monarchy disintegrates?
2008-04-19 10:39 < ShakespeareFan00> The Monarchy won't
2008-04-19 10:39 < Mark_Ryan> Messedrocker: depends if Camilla becomes queen
2008-04-19 10:39 < Mark_Ryan> or queen consort, whatever you want to call it
2008-04-19 10:39 < ShakespeareFan00> Camila won't
2008-04-19 10:39 < ThePolecat> heh. I think it depends how Charlie does.
2008-04-19 10:40 < Leslie_S> ShakespeareFan00 the magna carta created parliament. thats hardly irrelevant.
2008-04-19 10:40 < ThePolecat> and whether 'Arry continues to dress up in SA costumes
2008-04-19 10:40 < Messedrocker> Arry!
2008-04-19 10:40 < ShakespeareFan00> That was a costume choice, not a political statment
2008-04-19 10:40 < Messedrocker> You English are very French with your refusal to pronounce the H
2008-04-19 10:41 < Messedrocker> interesting, you could dress up as mao zedong with impunity
2008-04-19 10:41 < Messedrocker> or genghis khan
2008-04-19 10:41 < Messedrocker> but dress up as a nazi and SHIT GOES DOWN
2008-04-19 10:41 < ThePolecat> the Magna Carta had little to do with Parliament. It was a charter of liberties.
2008-04-19 10:42 < ShakespeareFan00> Well it's all to do with the Tabloid press ( some of whom are very supportive of some Nazi-like policies at times)
2008-04-19 10:42 < ShakespeareFan00> :(
2008-04-19 10:42 < ThePolecat> yea.
2008-04-19 10:42 < Messedrocker> how many decades do you think it'll be before the holocaust becomes something you could openly joke about?
2008-04-19 10:42 < ThePolecat> there should be a Daily Mail headlines randomizer online somewhere
2008-04-19 10:42 < ThePolecat> Messedrocker: It would always be in terrible taste.
2008-04-19 10:42 < ShakespeareFan00> MessedRocker: Mel Brooks get's away it?
2008-04-19 10:43 < ThePolecat> He hasn't, realy.
2008-04-19 10:43 < ShakespeareFan00> *away with it
2008-04-19 10:43 < ThePolecat> *l
2008-04-19 10:43 < Messedrocker> ThePolecat, if I cracked a joke about Stalin, would you call it poor taste?
2008-04-19 10:43 < ThePolecat> Well, about his victims, probably.
2008-04-19 10:43 < ThePolecat> the gulag stuff
2008-04-19 10:43 < Messedrocker> i'm glad to hear that
2008-04-19 10:43 < ThePolecat> there's loads to make fun of about the Nazis besides the holocaust.
2008-04-19 10:45 * ThePolecat watches German women's cup final on the side
2008-04-19 10:46 < ThePolecat> already one goal for the underdog and one missed penalty after twelve minutes
2008-04-19 10:47 < ThatWikiGuy> why was the db locked twice?
2008-04-19 10:47 < Messedrocker> Time for an absurdist joke
2008-04-19 10:47 < Messedrocker> What do you call seven police officers in an ice cream parlor?
2008-04-19 10:47 < Messedrocker> The Pelican Express.
2008-04-19 10:48 < ThePolecat> in soviet Russia, database locks you.
2008-04-19 10:48 < Messedrocker> What do you call a European once he moves to the United States?
2008-04-19 10:48 < Messedrocker> Carlos Sanchez
2008-04-19 10:48 < ThatWikiGuy> hahahahaha funny NOT
2008-04-19 10:48 < ThatWikiGuy> Why was it locked?
2008-04-19 10:48 < Messedrocker> Why was Planck's Constant invented?
2008-04-19 10:48 < ThePolecat> Messedrocker: Mohammed Atta?
2008-04-19 10:48 < Messedrocker> To measure the amount of times ThatWikiGuy gets sex
2008-04-19 10:49 < ThePolecat> à propos des bad jokes.
2008-04-19 10:49 < ThatWikiGuy> funny!
2008-04-19 10:49 < ThePolecat> (or jokes in poor taste)
2008-04-19 10:49 < arcimboldo_> [23:49] <L7> Joke 27 of 210: All stressed out and no one to choke.
2008-04-19 10:49 < ThatWikiGuy> learn to tell jokes that people accually laugh to!
2008-04-19 10:50 < Messedrocker> What does ThePolecat consider to be good humor?
2008-04-19 10:50 < Messedrocker> Buckets of popcorn.
2008-04-19 10:50 < arcimboldo_> besides having the worst political-related discussions I've ever seen, #politics also has the worst jokes.
2008-04-19 10:50 < ThePolecat> muhaha.
2008-04-19 10:50 < ThatWikiGuy> What does Messedrocker consider to be good humor?
2008-04-19 10:50 < ThatWikiGuy> SHIT
2008-04-19 10:50 < ThePolecat> That sounds like a joke I once heard on American Dad
2008-04-19 10:50 < Messedrocker> no, i consider shit jokes to be very smelly
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThatWikiGuy> like you
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThePolecat> "Why do women have such large boobs?" "So men have something to ogle."
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThePolecat> GET IT, GET IT?
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThePolecat> *silence
2008-04-19 10:51 < Messedrocker> to look at*
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThatWikiGuy> (crickets)
2008-04-19 10:51 < Messedrocker> why do women have boobs*
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThePolecat> Oh, fair.
2008-04-19 10:51 < Messedrocker> Why does ThePolecat have boobs?
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThePolecat> I sawr it in German.
2008-04-19 10:51 < ThePolecat> I don't!
2008-04-19 10:52 < ThePolecat> Those are moobs.
2008-04-19 10:52 < arcimboldo_> If you continue the odd jokes I will generate another one on the other channel.
2008-04-19 10:52 < Messedrocker> So Ceiling Cat has something to look at.
2008-04-19 10:52 < arcimboldo_> L7> Joke 19 of 210: A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
2008-04-19 10:52 < Messedrocker> that's not a joke
2008-04-19 10:52 < Messedrocker> that's a statement
2008-04-19 10:52 < ThatWikiGuy> AzaTht: Do you know why the database was locked twice today?
2008-04-19 10:52 < arcimboldo_> that's not a joke, it's a joke.
2008-04-19 10:52 < AzaTht> no
2008-04-19 10:53 < ThatWikiGuy> ok
2008-04-19 10:53 * ThePolecat remembers an Onion feature
2008-04-19 10:53 < arcimboldo_> one more, let's see ...
2008-04-19 10:53 < arcimboldo_> L7> Joke 25 of 210: Admiration - Recognizing another's resemblance to ourselves.
2008-04-19 10:53 * ThatWikiGuy is gunna' kick the shit out of Messedrocker
2008-04-19 10:53 < ThePolecat> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33330
2008-04-19 10:53 < Messedrocker> Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
2008-04-19 10:53 < Messedrocker> To get to the same side.
2008-04-19 10:53 < ThePolecat> I told that one two days ago.
2008-04-19 10:54 < ThatWikiGuy> Möbius strip?????
2008-04-19 10:54 * ThatWikiGuy has a brain
2008-04-19 10:54 < Thehelpfulone2> ThatWikiGuy: what's your wiki again?
2008-04-19 10:54 < ThePolecat> How many Marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
2008-04-19 10:54 * ThatWikiGuy has a small brain
2008-04-19 10:54 < Phonenix-wiki> Polecat, 1 I think
2008-04-19 10:55 < Phonenix-wiki> if marxists are human... :-p
2008-04-19 10:55 < ThePolecat> None. The lightbulb already carries in itself the seed of revolution.
2008-04-19 10:55 < Phonenix-wiki> lol
2008-04-19 10:56 < Messedrocker> let's stop with the jokes
2008-04-19 10:56 < Messedrocker> it is now time for haiku
2008-04-19 10:56 < Messedrocker> purple muffin socks
2008-04-19 10:57 < Messedrocker> scheme is five sev' five
2008-04-19 10:57 < Messedrocker> anything else is a lie
2008-04-19 10:57 < Messedrocker> thatwikiguy, shut.
2008-04-19 10:57 * ThatWikiGuy says "Haiku sucks!" and everybody damn knows it!
2008-04-19 10:58 < ThePolecat> You can do a limerick for extra credit.
2008-04-19 10:58 < Messedrocker> haiku does not suck
2008-04-19 10:58 < Messedrocker> you just do not understand
2008-04-19 10:58 < Messedrocker> haiku is that great
2008-04-19 10:58 < ThatWikiGuy> Ow, and I'm the king of AMERICA
2008-04-19 10:59 < Mark_Ryan> wasn't there a King of Chicago or something/
2008-04-19 10:59 < ThatWikiGuy> (If im the king of America, then Haiku does not suck)
2008-04-19 10:59 < ThatWikiGuy> No thats the king of fat asses
2008-04-19 10:59 < Messedrocker> Mark_Ryan, there was the King of the United States from San Francisco
2008-04-19 10:59 < ThePolecat> There once was a guy in a chatroom/who thought that he was in his bedroom/he looked for his bed/didn't find it, instead/he laid down and thus brought his cat doom
2008-04-19 10:59 < ThatWikiGuy> ow sorry
2008-04-19 11:00 < ThatWikiGuy> Do you pole dance with your cat, Polecat?
2008-04-19 11:00 < ThePolecat> I haven't got a cat.
2008-04-19 11:01 < Messedrocker> polecat likes to watch
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> Did you kill it?
2008-04-19 11:01 < Messedrocker> he watches with ceiling cat
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThePolecat> Like Chuck Norris watches.
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThePolecat> I don't watch.
2008-04-19 11:01 < Messedrocker> polecat is lying
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> Watch this!
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:01 < bumm13> please stop that
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> and so on
2008-04-19 11:01 < ThatWikiGuy> ok
2008-04-19 11:02 < ThePolecat> I don't watch, I sense.
2008-04-19 11:02 < ThatWikiGuy> Err, one more time.
2008-04-19 11:02 < ThatWikiGuy> a
2008-04-19 11:02 < ThatWikiGuy> Spidysense?
2008-04-19 11:02 < Messedrocker> ergre
2008-04-19 11:03 < ThePolecat> Ergal.
2008-04-19 11:03 < ThatWikiGuy> Ogre
2008-04-19 11:04 < arcimboldo_> Ärger
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> A
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> B
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> C
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> D
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> E
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> F
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> G
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> H
2008-04-19 11:04 < ThatWikiGuy> I
2008-04-19 11:04 < arcimboldo_> wow ...
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mark_Ryan> wow, how stupid. he doesn't know any of the alphabet after "I".
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> j
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> k
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> l
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> m
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> n
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> o
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> p
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> q
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> r
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> s
2008-04-19 11:06 < arcimboldo_> t
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> t
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> u
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> v
2008-04-19 11:06 < arcimboldo_> x
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> w
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> y
2008-04-19 11:06 < Mm40> z
2008-04-19 11:07 < Mark_Ryan> wow, how stupid, Mm40 doesn't know any of the alphabet before "J". or the letter 'x'.
2008-04-19 11:07 < Messedrocker> fg
2008-04-19 11:09 * ThePolecat programs cobalt in COBOL
2008-04-19 11:10 < Mark_Ryan> funny snippet about the show 'The Mole' in the USA: "During its first two seasons, the series was criticized—mostly by critics with small, useless brains—for being complicated and difficult to follow."
2008-04-19 11:14 < ThePolecat> c'est drôle, parce que c'est vrai.
2008-04-19 11:23 < Messedrocker> if(computer.fail==true){
2008-04-19 11:23 < Messedrocker> background.setColor(blue);
2008-04-19 11:23 < Messedrocker> user.frown();
2008-04-19 11:23 < Messedrocker> sys.shutdown();
2008-04-19 11:23 < Messedrocker> user.scream("OH, FUCK YOU");}
2008-04-19 11:24 < R_enwiki|away> OO
2008-04-19 11:24 < R_enwiki|away> O_O
2008-04-19 11:24 < Fennec> ...?
2008-04-19 11:24 < Fennec> nononon.
2008-04-19 11:25 < Messedrocker> it is a limerick
2008-04-19 11:25 < Fennec> try { ...something... } catch ( ComputerFailureException e ) { ... do your thing ... }
2008-04-19 11:29 < Gazimoff> Oh god... Scrapheap Challenge are making a new series and are looking for teams to apply
2008-04-19 11:29 < Gazimoff> ...must...resist...urge...
2008-04-19 11:29 < Cyrius> Gazimoff: seems an interesting coincidence with Battlebots looking to revive their television series
2008-04-19 11:30 < Gazimoff> Was that like Robot Wars in the UK?
2008-04-19 11:30 < Cyrius> only diffferent
2008-04-19 11:40 < ThePolecat> Meh, Frankfurt is winning.
2008-04-19 11:40 < Aqwis> winning what?
2008-04-19 11:40 < ThePolecat> the German womens' cup final
2008-04-19 11:40 < Aqwis> oh.
2008-04-19 11:40 < Aqwis> football?
2008-04-19 11:40 < ThePolecat> yuss.
2008-04-19 11:41 < ThePolecat> ahead 3-1 now in the 54th minute
2008-04-19 11:43 < arcimboldo_> That's the same result as Kassel against Pfullendorf ...
2008-04-19 11:43 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-19 11:43 * ThePolecat didn't even know where Pfullendorf was
2008-04-19 11:43 < ThePolecat> I think near Ravensburg
2008-04-19 11:43 < Cyrius> "According to Comscore, for every page viewed on Brittanica.com, 184 pages are viewed on Wikipedia (3.8 billion v. 21 million pave views per month)."
2008-04-19 11:43 < Cyrius> =O
2008-04-19 11:43 < arcimboldo_> Kassel are on their way to the third league ;)
2008-04-19 11:43 < Phonenix-wiki> lol
2008-04-19 11:44 * ThePolecat remembers a loriot sketch
2008-04-19 11:44 < ThePolecat> involving Kassel
2008-04-19 11:44 < Aqwis> kassel, the most boring city in Germany?
2008-04-19 11:44 < ThePolecat> yes.
2008-04-19 11:44 < ThePolecat> Except possibly Hannover.
2008-04-19 11:44 < Aqwis> been to both
2008-04-19 11:44 < Aqwis> found hannover more interesting
2008-04-19 11:45 < arcimboldo_> Well, Kassel is much more interesting than [[Gießen]] I believe.
2008-04-19 11:45 < ThePolecat> Pouring-on-the-Lahn!
2008-04-19 11:45 < ThePolecat> 4-1
2008-04-19 11:45 < ThePolecat> :-/
2008-04-19 11:45 < arcimboldo_> And it has the world's most famous modern art exhibition (besides Venice perhapes)
2008-04-19 11:45 < ThePolecat> Damn you, Renate Lingor.
2008-04-19 11:46 < ThePolecat> And Basel/Miami.
2008-04-19 11:46 < Aqwis> that exhibition was the reason i was there :p
2008-04-19 11:46 < arcimboldo_> Basel?
2008-04-19 11:46 < ThePolecat> well I think?
2008-04-19 11:46 < arcimboldo_> Not that I'm aware ...
2008-04-19 11:47 < ThePolecat> brb
2008-04-19 11:48 < ThePolecat> Weird.
2008-04-19 11:48 < ThePolecat> I seem to remember a big art event being split between Miami and somewhere in the German-speaking world
2008-04-19 11:49 < arcimboldo_> There's the Art Basel or so ...
2008-04-19 11:49 < ThePolecat> yea
2008-04-19 11:49 < arcimboldo_> But that's no comparison to the documenta
2008-04-19 11:49 < ThePolecat> Art Basel is an international contemporary art exhibition held each year in Basel, Switzerland. Like the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world".[1] The first Art Basel was held in 1970.
2008-04-19 11:49 < ThePolecat> The show is usually held in June. Since 2002, a sister show, Art Basel Miami Beach, has been held in Miami Beach, Florida each December.
2008-04-19 11:49 < ThePolecat> that's it.
2008-04-19 11:49 < arcimboldo_> http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/ss/ - what an elegant colour.
2008-04-19 11:50 < ThePolecat> AAH!
2008-04-19 11:50 < ThePolecat> well, non-frog-green backgrounds are clearly reactionary.
2008-04-19 11:51 < ThePolecat> 4-1... well, TWO underdog victories would be too much for a day
2008-04-19 11:52 < ThePolecat> so maybe that bodes well as per the gamblers fallacy
2008-04-19 11:53 < ThePolecat> "In the 2007-2008 season, the club has lost to many of the smaller clubs in the Bundesliga."
2008-04-19 11:53 < ThePolecat> That's putting it kindly.
2008-04-19 11:54 < Gwern-away> 'Study 1 found that contemporary (post-1959) ethics books were actually 25% more likely to be missing than non-ethics books. When the list was reduced to the relatively obscure books most likely to be borrowed exclusively by professional ethicists, ethics books were almost 50% more likely to be missing. Study 2 found that classic (pre-1900) ethics books were more than twice as likely to be missing as other classic philosophy books.'
2008-04-19 11:54 < ThePolecat> the season has been an unmitigated bloody disaster thus far.
2008-04-19 11:54 * Gwern-away really doesn't know what comment to make on those studies, but a mixture of despair and schadenfreude
2008-04-19 11:54 < ThePolecat> hehe
2008-04-19 11:55 < Gwern-away> 'In the 1940's and 1950's, many people in the United States appear to have thought they dreamed in black and white. For example, Middleton (1942) found 70.7% of college sophomores reported "rarely" or "never" seeing colors in their dreams. The present student replicated Middleton's questionnaire and found that students in 2001 reported a significantly greater rate of colored dreaming than the earlier sample, with only 17.7% saying that they ...
2008-04-19 11:55 < Gwern-away> ... "rarely" or "never" see colors in their dreams.'
2008-04-19 11:56 < ThePolecat> as a kid /me thought people *saw* in black and white then.
2008-04-19 11:56 < Gwern-away> 'Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. '
2008-04-19 11:56 < ThePolecat> lol
2008-04-19 11:57 < ThePolecat> dem fightin' penguins.
2008-04-19 11:58 < Gwern-away> 'Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well. '
2008-04-19 12:02 < Lucifer_Cat> waddaaap
2008-04-19 12:06 < Lucifer_Cat> meow?
2008-04-19 12:24 < Lucifer_Cat> i wanna go to europe
2008-04-19 12:24 < Aqwis> yes please
2008-04-19 12:24 < str4nd> I'm living in Europe :)
2008-04-19 12:25 < Lucifer_Cat> str4nd: where
2008-04-19 12:25 < str4nd> Finland
2008-04-19 12:25 < Lucifer_Cat> well okay, i meant mainland europe :P
2008-04-19 12:25 < Mike5> why wasn't this image automatically tagged as having no license? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:To_find_the_biggest_tree_%28cover%29.JPG
2008-04-19 12:26 < Aqwis> mainland europe sucks to be honest
2008-04-19 12:26 < Lucifer_Cat> str4nd: is finland considered mainland?
2008-04-19 12:26 < Cyrius> Mike5: dunno. report a bug
2008-04-19 12:26 < str4nd> Lucifer_Cat: Yes.
2008-04-19 12:26 < Aqwis> Lucifer_Cat, depends on who you ask
2008-04-19 12:26 < Lucifer_Cat> thought so
2008-04-19 12:27 < Lucifer_Cat> what i meant was the non jutting out parts :P but then that would disqualify italy
2008-04-19 12:27 < Aqwis> and spain/portugal
2008-04-19 12:27 < Lucifer_Cat> yeah i was coming to that.
2008-04-19 12:28 < Lucifer_Cat> lol that kinda only leaves france germany the dutch and the swiss
2008-04-19 12:28 < Aqwis> austria
2008-04-19 12:28 < Lucifer_Cat> well among the notable ones
2008-04-19 12:28 < Aqwis> luxembourg
2008-04-19 12:28 < Aqwis> belgium
2008-04-19 12:28 < Lucifer_Cat> Aqwis: jeez relax
2008-04-19 12:28 < Aqwis> no :p
2008-04-19 12:28 < Aqwis> and then there's eastern europe
2008-04-19 12:28 < Lucifer_Cat> where u from?
2008-04-19 12:28 < Aqwis> norway
2008-04-19 12:28 < Lucifer_Cat> .no
2008-04-19 12:28 < Lucifer_Cat> ok
2008-04-19 12:29 < Lucifer_Cat> remind me again, was Romania communist once?
2008-04-19 12:29 < Lucifer_Cat> (/still is)
2008-04-19 12:29 < rainman-sr> it was
2008-04-19 12:29 < rainman-sr> not it's in EU
2008-04-19 12:29 < Aqwis> most eastern european countries were
2008-04-19 12:29 < Lucifer_Cat> k
2008-04-19 12:30 < Lucifer_Cat> hmmm yeah. bucharest looks quite beautiful... from the pics
2008-04-19 12:31 < Lucifer_Cat> heh, romania is a lot more to east and lot more to south than i thought.
2008-04-19 12:32 < rainman-sr> plan going there?
2008-04-19 12:33 < Lucifer_Cat> well, i love european architecture...
2008-04-19 12:33 < Lucifer_Cat> so given a chance...yeah
2008-04-19 12:34 < rainman-sr> architecture is traditionally different in balkans because it was part of the ottoman empire
2008-04-19 12:34 < rainman-sr> or looong time
2008-04-19 12:34 < rainman-sr> s/or/for a/
2008-04-19 12:35 < ShakespeareFan00> Cyrius: But is Wikipedia anymore acurate >
2008-04-19 12:35 < ShakespeareFan00> ;)
2008-04-19 12:35 < Cyrius> ShakespeareFan00: depends on which revision
2008-04-19 12:36 < Lucifer_Cat> rainman-sr: yeah, thats a +
2008-04-19 12:36 < Lucifer_Cat> though i didnt know that :D
2008-04-19 12:46 < Lucifer_Cat> heh, i was wondering if the parliament building just looked big or was indeed huge
2008-04-19 12:46 < Lucifer_Cat> turns out, it actually is huge
2008-04-19 12:47 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: Hwere?
2008-04-19 12:47 < quanticle> er, Where?
2008-04-19 12:47 < Lucifer_Cat> Romania
2008-04-19 12:47 < Lucifer_Cat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament
2008-04-19 12:47 < quanticle> That's gigantic
2008-04-19 12:47 < quanticle> 12 stories tall, with 1100 rooms.
2008-04-19 12:48 < Lucifer_Cat> yeah
2008-04-19 12:50 < Cyrius> Lucifer_Cat: egad, it's like if they built a taller office building in The Pentagon's courtyard
2008-04-19 12:50 < Lucifer_Cat> that made no sense
2008-04-19 12:50 < Cyrius> The Pentagon
2008-04-19 12:51 < Cyrius> the US military headquarters
2008-04-19 12:51 < Lucifer_Cat> i know that the pentagon is dammit
2008-04-19 12:51 < Cyrius> it has a huge courtyard in the middle
2008-04-19 12:51 * Lucifer_Cat strangles Cyrius
2008-04-19 12:52 < Lucifer_Cat> its not THAT small
2008-04-19 12:52 < Cyrius> Lucifer_Cat: what?
2008-04-19 12:52 < Lucifer_Cat> the palace
2008-04-19 12:52 < Cyrius> I'm saying that it's bigger
2008-04-19 12:52 < Cyrius> you'd have to add on to the pentagon
2008-04-19 12:52 < Cyrius> to bring it up to parity
2008-04-19 12:52 < Lucifer_Cat> i meant it prolly was broader than the courtyard
2008-04-19 12:52 < Cyrius> the pentagon has longer walls, but isn't as tall and has a hole in the middle
2008-04-19 12:53 < Lucifer_Cat> the pentagon is bigger ofcourse
2008-04-19 12:53 < Lucifer_Cat> the parliament is second biggest after pentagon.
2008-04-19 12:53 < Lucifer_Cat> according to the sum of all human knowledge.
2008-04-19 12:53 < Cyrius> I'm wondering what the floor area is
2008-04-19 12:55 < Cyrius> I see a source that says it's only 330,000 m^2
2008-04-19 12:55 < Cyrius> while the pentagon is 616540 m^2
2008-04-19 12:55 < Cyrius> which doesn't seem right
2008-04-19 12:56 < Cyrius> oh well
2008-04-19 13:05 < Lucifer_Cat> Cyrius: might be right. pentagon is more spreadout right
2008-04-19 13:05 < Cyrius> Lucifer_Cat: I didn't think so, but I didn't realize how far back the long walls are on the palace
2008-04-19 13:11 < Lucifer_Cat> bagels anyone?
2008-04-19 13:11 < Gazimoff> mmmm... bagels
2008-04-19 13:11 < Lucifer_Cat> Gazimoff: ure thinking beavers.
2008-04-19 13:13 < Gazimoff> No, I could go for a toasted bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese, maybe a little black pepper. No mayo though
2008-04-19 13:13 < Lucifer_Cat> make it yourself
2008-04-19 13:13 < Lucifer_Cat> what i have here is a buttered toasted bagel with cream cheese
2008-04-19 13:19 < Lucifer_Cat> did i tell you, epic lulz happened last night
2008-04-19 13:19 < Lucifer_Cat> well not epic, but lulz nonetheless
2008-04-19 13:19 < Gazimoff> Ack, warcraft connotations!
2008-04-19 13:21 < Lucifer_Cat> what?
2008-04-19 13:21 < Cyrius> if I hear "lulz" one more time I'll...
2008-04-19 13:21 < Cyrius> just complain some more
2008-04-19 13:22 < Krimpet> lolz
2008-04-19 13:22 < Lucifer_Cat> lulz
2008-04-19 13:22 * Cyrius complains
2008-04-19 13:27 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: What caused the lulz?
2008-04-19 13:28 < scx> hello
2008-04-19 13:29 < Golbez> hi
2008-04-19 13:32 < scx> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort
2008-04-19 13:34 < scx> in pseudocode: "for each j in length(A) downto i + 1 do" mean "for (int j=n; j>= i; j--", so why there are ( 5 1 4 2 8 ) \to ( 1 5 4 2 8 ) in example?
2008-04-19 13:35 < scx> can anyone check this?
2008-04-19 13:53 < quanticle> Chatkill
2008-04-19 14:05 < Lucifer_Cat> Schrodinger_Cat: you there?
2008-04-19 14:09 < quanticle> Yeah.
2008-04-19 14:09 < quanticle> I'm here
2008-04-19 14:10 < quanticle> For a little while, anyway.
2008-04-19 14:10 < quanticle> Aha! Its AHA!
2008-04-19 14:11 < Lucifer_Cat> take me on?
2008-04-19 14:11 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: In what?
2008-04-19 14:11 < AHA> :D
2008-04-19 14:11 < Lucifer_Cat> AHA! 's only hit?
2008-04-19 14:11 < AHA> ?
2008-04-19 14:11 < quanticle> Netsplit!
2008-04-19 14:12 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: You want me to take you on in what?
2008-04-19 14:12 < Lucifer_Cat> well, apparently, the guy above me thinks that hookers are a good investment option in these days of recession
2008-04-19 14:13 < Messedrocker> web apps can be written in perl can't they?
2008-04-19 14:13 < Lucifer_Cat> quanticle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_On_Me
2008-04-19 14:13 < quanticle> Messedrocker: Yeah.
2008-04-19 14:13 * Lucifer_Cat muzzles Messedrocker
2008-04-19 14:13 < quanticle> Messedrocker: Slashdot is written in Perl
2008-04-19 14:13 < quanticle> Messedrocker: Web apps can also be written in Python.
2008-04-19 14:13 < Messedrocker> why did mediawiki have to be written in the visual basic of web languages?
2008-04-19 14:13 < Messedrocker> it's like
2008-04-19 14:13 < quanticle> Messedrocker: Trust me PHP is better than Perl for this sort of thing.
2008-04-19 14:13 < Lucifer_Cat> was it written in Java?
2008-04-19 14:14 < Messedrocker> Lucifer_Cat, PHP
2008-04-19 14:14 < Lucifer_Cat> lol ok PHP
2008-04-19 14:14 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: Java isn't as bad as VB.
2008-04-19 14:14 < Messedrocker> quanticle, how is PHP better than Perl?
2008-04-19 14:14 < Messedrocker> for web applications at least?
2008-04-19 14:14 < quanticle> Messedrocker: At least PHP is easy.
2008-04-19 14:14 < Lucifer_Cat> quanticle: i know!! people still seem to have it somehow :(
2008-04-19 14:14 < Cyrius> because that's what magnus knew
2008-04-19 14:14 < Lucifer_Cat> i like Java
2008-04-19 14:14 < Messedrocker> I wasn't talking about easiness
2008-04-19 14:15 < Lucifer_Cat> anyways, so other than being smart investment options, hookers arent very smart at all...
2008-04-19 14:15 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: I like Java so much I choose to program it for a living.
2008-04-19 14:15 < Messedrocker> If you knew PHP and Perl with equal fluency, and you had to write a web application, which would be better and why?
2008-04-19 14:15 < Lucifer_Cat> quanticle: i wanted to as well. came thissss close to doing it
2008-04-19 14:15 < Lucifer_Cat> dont ask me what i do for a living now :P
2008-04-19 14:15 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: Hookers are especially bad in a down economy, since people have less disposable income to spend.
2008-04-19 14:15 < ThePolecat> F'CK
2008-04-19 14:15 < ThePolecat> Bayern lead.
2008-04-19 14:16 < Lucifer_Cat> quanticle: i meant not BEING a hooker, but doing one.
2008-04-19 14:16 < quanticle> Messedrocker: Well, to be honest, it'd depend on when the project was due.
2008-04-19 14:16 < quanticle> Lucifer_Cat: My point still holds. In a down economy people have less disposable income, and therefore won't spend as much on luxuries like hookers.
2008-04-19 14:16 < Lucifer_Cat> basically, the hooker was barking up my tree yesterday.... and the guy upstairs was trying to tell her that its the wrong tree
2008-04-19 14:16 < Messedrocker> is Perl really nasty at the debug stage or something?
2008-04-19 14:16 * quanticle out for lunch
2008-04-19 14:17 < Lucifer_Cat> quanticle: thats what my point was.
2008-04-19 14:18 < Messedrocker> I like this Perl tutorial
2008-04-19 14:19 < Messedrocker> It doesn't waste your time with pedantry
2008-04-19 14:20 < Krimpet> omg tor! everybody get your torches and pitchforks :o
2008-04-19 14:20 < ThePolecat> Tor chess?
2008-04-19 14:20 < ThePolecat> That makes your opponent anonymous?
2008-04-19 14:21 < Gazimoff> It encrypts all your moves and sends them to your opponent in a random order. You may or may not have a valid game as the end result.
2008-04-19 14:21 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-19 14:22 < ThePolecat> Huh? What do you mean 1.Qxh7#?
2008-04-19 14:22 < Messedrocker> Bishop to 0-A
2008-04-19 14:22 < Messedrocker> Oh dear, I think my game is corrupt
2008-04-19 14:22 < ThePolecat> that's one way to mate in one.
2008-04-19 14:22 < ThePolecat> Yea, Bishop to Knight's Xth.
2008-04-19 14:23 * ThePolecat hates descriptive notation but even Fischer used it
2008-04-19 14:23 < ThePolecat> and everyone knows that if you don't think Fischer was the reborn Jesus, you're a dirty commie
2008-04-19 14:24 < Gazimoff> You may also find that the traffic overhead in setting up a game, error correction and hash/checksums may outweigh the useful content being sent.
2008-04-19 14:24 < ThePolecat> yea.
2008-04-19 14:24 * ThePolecat posts the complete hash table
2008-04-19 14:24 < ThePolecat> (1 GB)
2008-04-19 14:24 < Messedrocker> doooo yooou
2008-04-19 14:24 < Messedrocker> feeel like aaappuuuu
2008-04-19 14:25 < ThePolecat> A poo?
2008-04-19 14:25 < Messedrocker> no, Apu
2008-04-19 14:26 < ThePolecat> "A Jew?" "No. Achoo."
2008-04-19 14:26 < ThePolecat> "Bless you."
2008-04-19 14:28 < Lucifer_Cat> aay blinkin'!
2008-04-19 14:28 < Lucifer_Cat> "Abe Lincoln?"
2008-04-19 14:29 < ThePolecat> "You mean you changed it *to* Latrine?"
2008-04-19 14:30 < Lucifer_Cat> lol
2008-04-19 14:31 < Messedrocker> 2,4,6,8-who-do-we-appreciate-decane-decane-go-decane!
2008-04-19 14:31 * ThePolecat 's dinner too looks like seder at Vincent Price's house
2008-04-19 14:31 * ThePolecat prefers the Deccan
2008-04-19 14:31 < Messedrocker> The Pole Cat is Jewish?
2008-04-19 14:31 < ThePolecat> No, but I do a fair impersonation.
2008-04-19 14:31 < ThePolecat> :-D
2008-04-19 14:32 < Messedrocker> I don't impersonate Jews anymore, ever since the judge told me to stop.
2008-04-19 14:32 < ThePolecat> my language allows me to speak pretty accent-free Hebrew, the little I speak.
2008-04-19 14:32 < ThePolecat> and read fluently Yiddish, of course.
2008-04-19 14:33 < Lucifer_Cat> german is close to hebrew?
2008-04-19 14:33 < ThePolecat> yea, pronounciation is very similar.
2008-04-19 14:33 < Lucifer_Cat> or did you all have to learn it so that you could know when they were plotting against you
2008-04-19 14:33 < ThePolecat> Hebrew sounds like sloppily-pronounced German
2008-04-19 14:33 < ThePolecat> I had to learn it because it was there :-P
2008-04-19 14:34 < ThePolecat> (at least the Ashkenazi-High-Hebrew if you like)
2008-04-19 14:34 < Messedrocker> erik moeller is a windbag
2008-04-19 14:34 < ThePolecat> I read an interview with him, he sounded sane there, but you have more experience there.
2008-04-19 14:35 < Messedrocker> i was in a podcast with him last night
2008-04-19 14:35 < ThePolecat> dealing with him I mean.
2008-04-19 14:35 < Messedrocker> he did 97% of the talking
2008-04-19 14:35 < ThePolecat> oh, right
2008-04-19 14:35 < Messedrocker> i understand he was being interviewed
2008-04-19 14:35 < Messedrocker> but he kept going on and on
2008-04-19 14:35 < ThePolecat> haha
2008-04-19 14:35 < ThePolecat> Dortmund play shit.
2008-04-19 14:35 < Messedrocker> we had 8 or so grand questions
2008-04-19 14:36 < Messedrocker> and the interview took about 1 hour 45 minutes
2008-04-19 14:36 < ThePolecat> ...and shit is an adjective in BE
2008-04-19 14:36 < ThePolecat> oh okay
2008-04-19 14:36 < ThePolecat> blabber
2008-04-19 14:36 * ThePolecat yells at the teevee
2008-04-19 14:37 < ThePolecat> NO PENALTY?
2008-04-19 14:37 < ThePolecat> WTF
2008-04-19 14:37 < Lucifer_Cat> iii wannnt myyyy aaaammm teeee veee
2008-04-19 14:37 < ThePolecat> oh, offside.
2008-04-19 14:37 < ThePolecat> shite.
2008-04-19 14:37 < Lucifer_Cat> ze poal kat, whos playing?
2008-04-19 14:37 < ThePolecat> Borussia Dortmund and Bavaria Munich
2008-04-19 14:38 < Lucifer_Cat> k
2008-04-19 14:38 < ThePolecat> cupfinal in Berlin
2008-04-19 14:38 < Lucifer_Cat> lol for a moment there i was like "wtf how the hell does Messedrocker know bout moeller"
2008-04-19 14:38 < Lucifer_Cat> then i realized i AM in #wikipedia :P
2008-04-19 14:38 < ThePolecat> not to be confused with [[Andreas Möller]]
2008-04-19 14:38 < Lucifer_Cat> who you supporting ThePolecat
2008-04-19 14:39 < ThePolecat> Dortmund
2008-04-19 14:39 < Lucifer_Cat> why
2008-04-19 14:39 < ThePolecat> Bayern is a love-it-or-hate it side
2008-04-19 14:39 < ThePolecat> and I'm the latter
2008-04-19 14:39 < ThePolecat> always been a fan
2008-04-19 14:39 < ThePolecat> since something like 1992.
2008-04-19 14:40 < Lucifer_Cat> Bavaria Munich =/ != Bayern Munick?
2008-04-19 14:40 < ThePolecat> Bavaria Munich = Bayern München
2008-04-19 14:41 < Lucifer_Cat> i mean "equals or not equals" and *Munich
2008-04-19 14:41 < gwern> '}...that [[England|English]] [[clergyman]] '''[[Ralph Tollemache]]''' gave his many children increasingly [[eccentric]] names, such as that of [[British Army]] officer Captain '''[[Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache]]''''
2008-04-19 14:41 < Lucifer_Cat> gwern: some dedicated xrefer
2008-04-19 14:41 < ThePolecat> They do equal.
2008-04-19 14:42 < ThePolecat> just sans Umlaute
2008-04-19 14:43 < Lucifer_Cat> ok then im on side of Bayern Munich
2008-04-19 14:43 < ThePolecat> Why?
2008-04-19 14:43 < ThePolecat> Just for controversy (tm)?
2008-04-19 14:43 < ThePolecat> :-D
2008-04-19 14:43 < Lucifer_Cat> i've heard of them more
2008-04-19 14:44 < Lucifer_Cat> lol
2008-04-19 14:44 < ThePolecat> You're on the side that's winning, btw.
2008-04-19 14:44 < ThePolecat> yea, that's the problem.
2008-04-19 14:44 < ThePolecat> they have the most money of all teams here, they win almost everything
2008-04-19 14:45 < Lycurgus> yeah, I was thinking BM was the Yankees of futbol.de
2008-04-19 14:45 < ThePolecat> Precisely.
2008-04-19 14:45 < ThePolecat> and so most people hate them.
2008-04-19 14:45 < ThePolecat> (including yours truly)
2008-04-19 14:46 < ThePolecat> DAMN
2008-04-19 14:46 < ThePolecat> almost the equalizer.
2008-04-19 14:46 < Lucifer_Cat> you said you hated it... and then you said you were a fan since '92 :S
2008-04-19 14:47 < ThePolecat> No, of Dortmund
2008-04-19 14:47 < ThePolecat> the other side.
2008-04-19 14:48 < Alkivar> http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2768/liveleakdotcom769263924ja0.jpg
2008-04-19 14:48 < Alkivar> someone was bored with their tesla coil it seems
2008-04-19 14:49 < Lucifer_Cat> how much electricity does it take to do that?
2008-04-19 14:51 < Alkivar> not a clue
2008-04-19 14:51 < Alkivar> cant be an insignificant amount
2008-04-19 14:51 < Alkivar> since that is basically static lightning
2008-04-19 14:52 < ThePolecat> So if you give your contractor friend permission to build a power station and don't know what to do with it
2008-04-19 14:52 < ThePolecat> that's an option