I'm off to Convergence, which has a steampunk theme: I've got lots of leather for a sorta costume, just to blend in, and my wife looks very hot in a bit of jungle explorer garb. The place will be swarming with Skepchicks, too! Also, you may recall, there was a little bet involving my daughter, so there may be some photography going on, and maybe even a bit of shaving. It will be a busy weekend!
Here's a homage to GirlGenius, the wonderful steampunk webcomic:
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#12 Benjamin Geiger
Been meaning to ask, what's the relation between the board and the channel? I stopped by a few times, but all the names were different and topics didn't reflect any (recent) posts.
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#15 Brother Ogvorbis
It seems more like two organizations that don't talk to each others' separate policies, although I certainly agree with your premise as stated.
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#80 Rob
Reminds me of Anathem.
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#86 ibyea
I've gotten this more than once on work machines and the longer it stays, the harder it is to clean out. MalwayreBytes Antimalware is a good starting place. There are also a number of threads on bleepingcomputer.com that might give useful information (major respect for the techs who give support there). I will admit to using combofix without supervision, but I'm also no Mäuseschubser (new goal: add this word to English vocabulary). If the status bar is displayed at the bottom, you can see if a link is going to redirect you. The longcut is to copy/paste the url itself into the address bar.
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#87 theophontes
I use GIMP for manipulation, but if it just needs transforming (or viewing) IrfanView is a lot lighter. They go well together.
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#106 unknownymous via Feynmaniac
Strangely, that makes me feel better.
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I wish Set gave a list of time per set identified, total today was a little over 5 minutes.
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Steampunk always reminds me of Regretsy, one of his recurring themes is Not Steampunk.
(To be clear, I'm a fan of Etsy and what it allows. Where else can you commission a 3-D clay portrait of a couple sipping from penis straws?)
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#196 Dr Audley Darkheart
If you have two devices that are not always working in a similar manner, it might not be the hardware (at least, not those devices).