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[Urwumpe]

Yes, I thought it was a Lirpa Loof, but seems not.

If I ever get the nerve, may tell the time I took a wrong turn after leaving the bathroom at 2am, and locked myself out of my flat...your worst nightmare.

N.

Its like you never expect a NBC alert because somebody could get the idea that it is smart to dry his wet wool socks with a hair dryer at night resulting in nauseating miasma...

 

[Notebook]

You probably had company though?

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

You probably had company though?

N.

I got a bit pale when it turned out to be my room and feared the worst for my stuff, but luckily, the culprit was my roommate and the worst damage was fixed by opening all windows and buying many air fresheners. :lol:

 

[Notebook]

Could have been worse, could have been a wet dog!

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

Could have been worse, could have been a wet dog!

N.

Especially if its a wet Collie. My old raincoat still starts to smell like a wet dog years after the cause went over the rainbow bridge.

 

[Notebook]

Just watching the Commonwealth Games opening, someone has a sense of humour, managed to get a VW Campervan into the torch relay!.

N.

 

[tl8]

Commonwealth Games are finally here. I'll be honest, I am a little pumped.

 

[Quick_Nick]

"Can't sue us because we don't have any customers. Can't sue our subsidiaries because there's an arbitration agreement somewhere. We can add anything we want to your bill at any time."

U.S. ISPs are truly the incarnation of evil.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...lawsuit-by-claiming-that-it-has-no-customers/

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Yet another reason why consolidation has thoroughly screwed this country. :dry:

 

[Urwumpe]

"Can't sue us because we don't have any customers. Can't sue our subsidiaries because there's an arbitration agreement somewhere. We can add anything we want to your bill at any time."

U.S. ISPs are truly the incarnation of evil.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...lawsuit-by-claiming-that-it-has-no-customers/

Any chance that this can even work? Sounds like pretty rubbish to my ears. If you demand money from somebody as company, who is no other company, a special subset of civil law applies. Yes, you have a customer. And this customer has more rights than you have in all western countries.

 

[jedidia]

Heads up for people that like learning new stuff:

Udemy currently has a sale for, as far I can see, all its courses, with prices being over 90% off. I'm not sure if all courses have lifetime access, but all I've checked out do, so this is a great opportunity to stock up your knowledge resources.

Like, I think I could buy a lot more knowledge for 500 bucks today than I got during my 2 years of "developer school" for 30'000.

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Aaaand the stackoverflow militia has now gone from correcting my typoes long before ever getting an answer to changing the fonts I'm using.
I don't feel insulted or hurt in my pride or anything, it's just... What kind of person has time for such a thing?

 

[Urwumpe]

Aaaand the stackoverflow militia has now gone from correcting my typoes long before ever getting an answer to changing the fonts I'm using.
I don't feel insulted or hurt in my pride or anything, it's just... What kind of person has time for such a thing?

He sure must be anally retentive in Freudian theory.

I know a few "developers" who would be perfectly qualified for this: They would never fix a single bug or write proper software. But they would manually fix indentation, camel-case and document every changed line with their name, date and reason for editing.

 

[steph]

Here's a weird one...I started getting water infiltrations on the ceiling where I live, along the pipes for the kitchen water. Over the last two days, this extended to the light switches so I suppose water is seeping through the electric cable routes. Now I can't switch the light on in my room because there's that electric buzzing noise at the switch whenever it's on. It's on the opposite side of the wall with the filtrations, but has no visible water marks itself. To top it off, the upstairs neighbor, from whom this stuff supposedly originates, is a pretty violent guy (as the almost daily beatings his wife endures can attest,it's very audible) and told me in no uncertain terms that he's not involved and won't cooperate.Being orthodox easter around here, everything's closed until at least Monday. The fuses are old-school. Haven't been able to turn them off. There's a button on each, but it seems seized.
Now I'm sleeping at the gf and the thing that gnaws on my brain is: Should I go home in case something happens, or is it better to stay put in case something does happen. Since I can't turn off the current, water seems a no-no in case of a fire.I'm also a heavy sleeper, so I probably won't wake up if something happens

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Sounds like it's time to find a new apartment! :lol:

 

[Notebook]

Definitely time to go, problem isn't caused by you, and the "neighbour" will never help.
Cut your loses and depart.

N.

 

[Andy44]

Here's a weird one...I started getting water infiltrations on the ceiling where I live, along the pipes for the kitchen water. Over the last two days, this extended to the light switches so I suppose water is seeping through the electric cable routes. Now I can't switch the light on in my room because there's that electric buzzing noise at the switch whenever it's on. It's on the opposite side of the wall with the filtrations, but has no visible water marks itself. To top it off, the upstairs neighbor, from whom this stuff supposedly originates, is a pretty violent guy (as the almost daily beatings his wife endures can attest,it's very audible) and told me in no uncertain terms that he's not involved and won't cooperate.Being orthodox easter around here, everything's closed until at least Monday. The fuses are old-school. Haven't been able to turn them off. There's a button on each, but it seems seized.
Now I'm sleeping at the gf and the thing that gnaws on my brain is: Should I go home in case something happens, or is it better to stay put in case something does happen. Since I can't turn off the current, water seems a no-no in case of a fire.I'm also a heavy sleeper, so I probably won't wake up if something happens

Is this a rental? If so, shouldn't the landlord be on the hook for taking care of this?

I would definitely try to get out as soon as possible. Get your stuff out before a fire starts or you get water damage to your belongings.

As for your wife-beating neighbor, there's no way I could stand by while that goes on. I'd be calling the cops on him every time I hear it. And prepared to defend myself from the inevitable retaliation.

 

[jedidia]

As for your wife-beating neighbor, there's no way I could stand by while that goes on. I'd be calling the cops on him every time I hear it.

He's living in Romania. From my experience in the Balkans, sadly wife beating is not necessarily something the cops will do anything about.
On the other hand, I've also seen them look the other way after a violent husband suddenly "emigrated to germany" and was never heard of again, at least in rural areas... :shifty:

 

[steph]

Yup, it's a rental. I was planning to move out anyway, so I guess I'll expedite it :lol: . Talked to the landlord, so apparently he'll send a plumber. When, we'll see. I'm not sticking around for now.
As for that guy...the police came several times, and afaik the worst he got was that kind of ' disturbing the public peace' notice. Yup, it's nasty since he knows it's one of the neighbors who called them ). I actually got questioned about him a while back, since apparently he's a suspect in some sort of hit-and-run accident (police came, unrelated to the beatings, and started asking around ). Not sure if anything came out of that either
I'm moving out anyway. No sense in having more of the drama

 

[Urwumpe]

Yeah, the neigbours... I would move out ASAP in that case as well. Clearly, this is just one episode out of many in the past and more will come. Hardly a good place to call home.

My girlfriends neighbour is also such a case. Loud music or sudden drug-induced shouts at night, showering nude in the garden and urinating out of the front door. His junkyard like premises looks like only a strategic bombardment could help there now. Police fails there as well, in the worst case, the guy simply locks himself in his house and pretends to be not at home.

I still have an experiment running here which event happens first: My balcony is finally usable again (I was unable to use it for almost three years now because it had head sized holes in it, and its completely demolitished since last year, waiting for the replacement) or the announced FTTB arrives.

I suspect I will move out of this place and to my girlfriend before both happens.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

So glad I don't live in an apartment any longer.
The house I'm living in now was built in 1954 (I thought it was later, but not much). Basement is suitable as a bomb shelter in accordance with conventional wisdom at the time, it is well over and above what the current code calls for. Great place to ride out storms.

And it's also the first place I ever spent the night in. My first night out of the hospital was spent here, when this place belonged to my grandparents.