The Bitching Thread

[Ryllharu]

That happens to people talking on cell phones too. They're cruising along below the speed limit in the "express lane" and then suddenly realize they have less than 200 feet (60m) to their exit. They fly across lanes with reckless abandon. They got on the highway, were having a good conversation with someone, and suddenly they're already there!

Sometimes their teleporting powers are really strong, and they have to reverse down the highway (thankfully, I've only witnessed this occur on the shoulders).

edit:
Any accident occurring while the driver of the vehicle is using a cellphone should be treated as a DUI, if not worse, as it is much more easily preventable. It is a lot harder to convince the drunk to not drive in the first place, usually requires peer pressure.

[Animeniax]

I'm all for that. Any impaired driving that results in an accident should carry a higher penalty, though proving what caused the accident would be tough without a toxicology report.

I teleport sometimes just while thinking about stuff while driving. I think your senses go on autopilot to keep you in your lane and at the appropriate distance from other cars, but this has only happened to me on the highway so that's easy to do without focusing on it.

[Ryllharu]

I'm all for that. Any impaired driving that results in an accident should carry a higher penalty, though proving what caused the accident would be tough without a toxicology report.

Pretty easy in the US these days. They just have the phone company pull the records and give them to the police. It's just metadata :P

They don't need to care who they were talking to or the subject of the call. They just need to know that the phone was on making a call or text at the time of the accident or immediately prior to it. I'm also sure that the insurance company would be very interested in knowing if it was willful negligence as well.

[Animeniax]

Pretty easy in the US these days. They just have the phone company pull the records and give them to the police. It's just metadata :P

They don't need to care who they were talking to or the subject of the call. They just need to know that the phone was on making a call or text at the time of the accident or immediately prior to it. I'm also sure that the insurance company would be very interested in knowing if it was willful negligence as well.

It'd be one thing to show you were on your phone, another to prove what you were doing and that it contributed to the accident. Texting would be easy to demonstrate fault, though opponents would say revealing the actual text is an invasion of privacy.

[fahoumh]

You guys understand what I mean by teleport right?

It isn't driving faster. It is basically time/memory skipping. All of a sudden, you are at a place much farther than you think you were supposed to be.

That's the best thing about driving high...

[Buffalobiian]

You guys understand what I mean by teleport right?

It isn't driving faster. It is basically time/memory skipping. All of a sudden, you are at a place much farther than you think you were supposed to be.

Yep, I get ya.

I can also proudly say that it's never happened to me.

[shinta|hikari]

Oriental Roaches.

They are fucking fast, disgusting, and arrogant. I planted roach bait and it significantly reduced the appearances, but I just saw one today crawling on the wall beside my wall clock. I did a jumping shoe slap from a chair ala Jackie Chan to kill it, then I had to wipe the crap oozing out of its body and spray everything with alcohol just to feel cleaner. WTF.

I am so glad I won't be seeing them anymore in a week or so.

[Buffalobiian]

Winamp shuts down next month

I quite like Winamp, even if it's "bloated".

[Kraco]

Winamp shuts down next month

I quite like Winamp, even if it's "bloated".

It must be ten years since I used it. Or maybe a little less. I moved on to other players when Winamp started getting big and forgot it's supposed to be a smooth music player. So, it's termination causes me no grief.

[Buffalobiian]

For some reason I find Winamp's (musical) presentation more airy than Foobar's. I've got both on my system since Foobar lets me do other stuff besides listening.

[Ryllharu]

I'm partial to the flavor notes of Winamp's output. The smoky bouquet of coriander, fresh wintergreen, and hints of pickled water chestnuts really add to the quality of my music. The finish leaves a lot to be desired, but the nose is superb.

[Animeniax]

Fuckin sommelier jokes on gotwoot now. How high brow.

[Ryllharu]

Actually I'm one of the three people in the world who use Zune (and the music pass really is worth it, at least if you live in the US). It does seamless transitions like Winamp was known for, but honestly that hasn't really been a problem for years. 98% of my music has an outro that fades. It took me a good five minutes to find a song that doesn't have one so I could test it.

I'm also one of those people who think that all my music sounds better when the equalizer is zeroed across the board. My music gets to sound exactly the same on whatever it is played from: over my speakers, streamed through whatever is attached to the TV, in my headphones on the portable zune, and in my car.

The car is the weirdest one. Most people move the bass up, move the treble up. Music sounds weird and crappier. Zero it all and turn the volume up two notches instead, sounds great.

[Xelbair]

Keeping equalizer zeroed is great!

[Buffalobiian]

I'm also one of those people who think that all my music sounds better when the equalizer is zeroed across the board. My music gets to sound exactly the same on whatever it is played from: over my speakers, streamed through whatever is attached to the TV, in my headphones on the portable zune, and in my car.

I keep the equalizer zeroed too, but that doesn't mean everything sounds the same. What needs to be flat is the frequency response at the end point (ie listening chair or whatever). If you know the frequency response of your headphones (headroom has some charts), you can theoretically invert that chart and apply that equalisation to get a perfectly flat response*. The proper way would be to actually get a sound meter to measure it all out, but... that's pretty hardcore. I might do it if I ever get a good speaker setup though.

*a flat frequency response may or may not actually be desirable for headphones since high frequency generally loses energy over distance more than low frequencies. A rising base response (there's a graph of it somewhere) may actually sound more lifelike (or rather, speaker-like).

[Buffalobiian]

Did a big, hard shit resembling a medium white radish.
It was ~22cm in length and refused to be flushed.
Dealt with it using knife and fork.

[shinta|hikari]

You ate it.

again..?

[Kraco]

I should ban Bill for making a post that gross...

[Ryllharu]

Buff, you should probably go to a docto...oh wait.

[darkshadow]

I hope you threw away those utensils.