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Everything posted by Thorgi Duke of Frisbee
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You now have the TNG engine idling noise running for 24 hours. You're welcome.
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I guess it's time for Youtube to cap it at 10 min again!

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No, YOU'RE welcome. http://forum.pressxordie.com/index.php?showtopic=88&view=findpost&p=70323
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When it comes to sports, I'm like Moss and Roy from The IT Crowd; throwing around jargon I don't understand to pretend like I'm interested.
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Yeah, I don't. I just tell people I don't like sports and they leave me alone. Quite frankly it annoys the crap out of me that grown men talking about other grown men in homoerotic sports is totally normal and yet being interested in old musicals is somehow gay. :-/
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Why would you pretend to be interested in sport? You'll only encourage them to drone on about it even more.
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I like sports themselves but I don't like the culture or expected obsession that surrounds them. So when someone asks me if I like sports or not, I just say "Yeah, I like sports, but I don't follow them." That always shuts them right up. Seems to surprise them. Because I do genuinely like sports, but know nothing about teams or players or leagues, and don't care. I like watching them for the play.
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New Google layout, new Twitter layout... everything is changing!
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Yes. Since the 90s it's been easy to get free email. I already have 3 active accounts that aren't GMail. Tracking itself isn't unforgivable - it's just the forced login tied to more personal information that Google does. It is literally and demonstrably following my account, as it displays my account name and automatically logs me in. Bing doesn't do this to me - by default, I only accept cookies from the site I'm visiting so that may limit it, but it makes no differen...
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...difference to Google; there's no stopping it without logging out or flushing cookies every time I visit one of their sites.
Bringing ISPs into it is spurious, since that varies and there's no real proving that they track what I do. For one thing, I don't query their DNS servers, and they do not see anything I use SSL for - just the fact I connected to a server address.
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Sounds like Google has the Annie Wilkes thing going on...
