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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3748709 times)

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29820 on: November 25, 2013, 01:51:23 pm »

I did some stuff at a complete noob level, just to be able to throw a punch instead of slapping someone with a fist (also a couple of tricks I would only use in an emergency), but not really any training proper. I would actually like to, at some point, but right now I just don't have the time.


Also my Chemistry lectures (mandatory and, for the most part, painfully unrelated to the actual subject I'm studying) are somewhat redeemed by the fact that I learn stuff that could be used to Blow Shit Up.

For example, today I learned that ether is really. Fucking. Dangerous. (Because not only it vaporizes, but the vapors also 'dissolve' well in air, making a big damn fuel-air mix that reacts to as much as static electricity).
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29821 on: November 25, 2013, 03:01:36 pm »

For example, today I learned that ether is really. Fucking. Dangerous. (Because not only it vaporizes, but the vapors also 'dissolve' well in air, making a big damn fuel-air mix that reacts to as much as static electricity).


Several friends of mine huffed ether once. The whole house stank of ether, so they decided to go outside to smoke cigarettes. Turns out that was probably a good idea.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29822 on: November 25, 2013, 03:56:31 pm »

I did some stuff at a complete noob level, just to be able to throw a punch instead of slapping someone with a fist (also a couple of tricks I would only use in an emergency), but not really any training proper. I would actually like to, at some point, but right now I just don't have the time.


Also my Chemistry lectures (mandatory and, for the most part, painfully unrelated to the actual subject I'm studying) are somewhat redeemed by the fact that I learn stuff that could be used to Blow Shit Up.

For example, today I learned that ether is really. Fucking. Dangerous. (Because not only it vaporizes, but the vapors also 'dissolve' well in air, making a big damn fuel-air mix that reacts to as much as static electricity).
High school level is enough for people to make brown gas, thermite explosions, catalytic deprivation of oxygen, list goes on.

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29823 on: November 25, 2013, 05:14:38 pm »

I did some stuff at a complete noob level, just to be able to throw a punch instead of slapping someone with a fist (also a couple of tricks I would only use in an emergency), but not really any training proper. I would actually like to, at some point, but right now I just don't have the time.


Also my Chemistry lectures (mandatory and, for the most part, painfully unrelated to the actual subject I'm studying) are somewhat redeemed by the fact that I learn stuff that could be used to Blow Shit Up.

For example, today I learned that ether is really. Fucking. Dangerous. (Because not only it vaporizes, but the vapors also 'dissolve' well in air, making a big damn fuel-air mix that reacts to as much as static electricity).
High school level is enough for people to make brown gas, thermite explosions, catalytic deprivation of oxygen, list goes on.

Actually, thermite in itself isn't that useful. You need to ignite it with something. Similarly, you could make aspirin, but it won't be as good as the stuff you would buy in a pharmacy.

Also, what do you mean by catalytic deprivation of oxygen? A quick Google found nothing that seemed relevant, and I'm not a product of an Anglophone education system so I'm not 100% familiar with the terminology.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29824 on: November 25, 2013, 05:24:58 pm »

From the sound of it, it's a reaction that does something to oxygen to make it harmful, or not function as oxygen.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29825 on: November 25, 2013, 05:29:50 pm »

From the sound of it, it's a reaction that does something to oxygen to make it harmful, or not function as oxygen.

Well, 'deprivation' implies you take something away, and 'catalytic' means you use a catalyst, i.e. something that makes it easier for the reaction to take place... so, I take it that you mean either deoxidation, i.e. reduction, or oxygen deprivation as in asphyxiation.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29826 on: November 25, 2013, 05:34:04 pm »

Sort of reminded me of a Halon system when he said it, but that's slightly above high school level material in my opinion.

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29827 on: November 25, 2013, 05:36:51 pm »

My secondary hard drive just died, it is makeing a lovey, click sek click sek sound.
and i had just moved loads of stuff over to it.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29828 on: November 25, 2013, 05:37:38 pm »

From the sound of it, it's a reaction that does something to oxygen to make it harmful, or not function as oxygen.

Well, 'deprivation' implies you take something away, and 'catalytic' means you use a catalyst, i.e. something that makes it easier for the reaction to take place... so, I take it that you mean either deoxidation, i.e. reduction, or oxygen deprivation as in asphyxiation.

Yes, it's either getting rid of the oxygen, or converting it into something unsuitable for respiration.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29829 on: November 25, 2013, 05:49:43 pm »

So our business did a new build out for the rest of us to move in to.

My one wish? That we weren't front and center, the middle of the fucking thoroughfare for the building, with noisy ass people on either side of us and a main traffic area going by our office.

We made all this expressly clear to our boss.

So what does he do? Come up with some stupid, poorly designed, dumbass combination of aesthetics. Half hallways. Half rooms. Giant fucking bay glass windows. Half of the build out area promised to another company when we really, really, really needed the fucking space. And where does he stick tech support? Yeah, that's right, RIGHT SMACK FUCKING DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS BULLSHIT.

So now our "office" is really a glorified hallway with a door on one end, that opens into another office with the LOUDEST MOTHERFUCKERS IN OUR COMPANY at the other. It's got a big bay window for one half wall (where a door rationally should be, but nope!) and double glass doors on the other full wall. The company has already dubbed it "the Fish Bowl" for its utter lack of privacy. Imagine a room that was about near completion before someone said "ah fuck it, see-through hallway."

I'm so fucking pissed off right now. For all our "this is a flat company" bullshit I've been told, it's pretty obvious which department gets stuck with the absolute shittiest work place. Never mind we're the ones on the phones all day, never mind we're effectively the public face of this company. Nah, fuck em, they'll do just fine with cloth wall hangings instead of doors, with people constantly walking through our work place.

Oh wait, what was the stated reason for this move? Right, because "The devs are in too small a space and are tired of their office being a thoroughfare." Well, congratulations. You just did to Tech Support what you said was bad for your devs, AND you're sticking your devs in what is ultimately a smaller space. Three of us with full desks fit in that office more or less comfortable. Now he wants to stick 6 people in there. Everyone gets smaller desks. It will be more cramped and uncomfortable than the old dev room.

Yes, well done. Keen fucking social engineering you pulled off there skippy. Maybe the current workplace attitude has fuck-all do with what shapes our desks are in, or whether or not half the company exists on a floor above the other half. Maybe what's really at the root of all this is, I dunno, your fucking haphazard management style.

Christ, we even called him while he was one the road (He left town and then gave us the directive "start moving") to confirm that it was ok for us to move into this office. "Oh sure fine" he said. So we moved all our shit in, and were thinking "hey, we actually got pretty lucky." The first thing he does upon returning to the office? Takes a look around and tells us we're moving out.

So thanks boss. Thanks for thinking this one through, again. Thanks for again cutting off at the edges of your own company for someone else's benefit and leaving a big steaming pile of "deal with it" to your lowest level employees, and in a way, all your employees. And by "it", I mean your lack of preparation or thinking practically about your ideas. Considering 70% of your company exists in three shared rooms, the rational thing would have been to make sure our work space makes any bloody sense first. But no. Do mock up the corner offices for all the individual office holders first, then just roll dice or consult entrails or pray to God that the internal space makes any fucking sense at all. What was supposed to a happy, good thing has kind of turned into a worse work environment for everyone who isn't a product leader. Which, again, is most of the company that actually drives the business.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29830 on: November 25, 2013, 05:51:53 pm »

From the sound of it, it's a reaction that does something to oxygen to make it harmful, or not function as oxygen.

Well, 'deprivation' implies you take something away, and 'catalytic' means you use a catalyst, i.e. something that makes it easier for the reaction to take place... so, I take it that you mean either deoxidation, i.e. reduction, or oxygen deprivation as in asphyxiation.

Yes, it's either getting rid of the oxygen, or converting it into something unsuitable for respiration.

You cannot make oxygen unsuitable for respiration, unless you mean as in CO2 - but by 'Oxygen' people mean the compount, O2

You can however make oxygen unobtainable by the organism. That's how Carbon Monoxide poisoning works - it sticks to the haemoglobin, and you basically cannot rip it out, you just have to wait until the red cell dies. Or you can simply shut the muscles down, which is how... well, a fuckton of poisons work. Notably tetrodotoxin (the fugu fish toxin) and coniine (hemlock) work like that.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Justice Edition
« Reply #29831 on: November 25, 2013, 06:03:27 pm »

Well, I've never taken chemistry, I was just going off what it sounded like.
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« Reply #29832 on: November 25, 2013, 06:08:32 pm »

As far as martial arts, I'm a first degree level 2 black belt in Taekwondo, but I haven't been to practice in a while.

On the chemistry tangent, what high schools did you guys go to? Our chemistry stuff was much more tame. And subsequently, pathetic.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: The Chemistry of RAGE!
« Reply #29833 on: November 25, 2013, 06:13:37 pm »

As far as martial arts, I'm a first degree level 2 black belt in Taekwondo, but I haven't been to practice in a while.

On the chemistry tangent, what high schools did you guys go to? Our chemistry stuff was much more tame. And subsequently, pathetic.

It wasn't really that interesting in high school, but it's the level of knowledge you need for the stuff.

Oh, also: I learned what the smokescreen, at least in the pre-radar times, was composed of.
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« Reply #29834 on: November 25, 2013, 06:54:11 pm »

Watching water dry, if you can believe it.
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