What's on your mind today?

[xSilverPhinx]

It's only 20:30, but...

[Tom62]

Just got back from my vacation in Bavaria. Spent some quality time with my wife and managed to relax a lot (no Internet connection )  Yesterday's drive back home however was an ordeal. "Millions" of cars on the road, one traffic jam  and road works after another. Lesson learned: Never drive long distances in Germany on Fridays and in the weekends.

[Tank]

It's only 20:30, but...

My wife finds it odd that I go to bed when I'm tiered. My 'bed time' ranges from 20:30 to 22:30. She seems to see going to bed before midnight as some sort of defeat. I think the root of this is bound up with her relationship with her mother who insisted her bed time was 19:00 whether she was tiered or not.

[Dave]

It's only 20:30, but...

My wife finds it odd that I go to bed when I'm tiered. My 'bed time' ranges from 20:30 to 22:30. She seems to see going to bed before midnight as some sort of defeat. I think the root of this is bound up with her relationship with her mother who insisted her bed time was 19:00 whether she was tiered or not.

How many tiers have you got, Tank?



I also go to bed when I feel like it, but I live alone.

Since I spend a lot of time reading might as well read under the duvet in the winter, saves on energy!

[Bad Penny II]

How many tiers have you got, Tank?

Lots, Onions have layers, Ogres have layers, Tanks have layers,... You get it? They all have layers.

[Asmodean]

Also, Asmos. They too get laid on regular basis.

[Asmodean]

So apparently, WikiLeaks are preparing to leak over one hundred thousand documents related to Turkish power structure...

...I wonder how many of those are supposed to be available to general public? In any case, I consider WikiLeaks a bunch of anarchist assholes, and assholes do what assholes do. Also, those who yell "I have the right to know" loudest, are often the same people who do not, in fact, have that right any more than any other member of the "grey masses." Show me your security clearance and I'll share my secrets with you - but only the ones I have to.

[Dave]

So apparently, WikiLeaks are preparing to leak over one hundred thousand documents related to Turkish power structure...

...I wonder how many of those are supposed to be available to general public? In any case, I consider WikiLeaks a bunch of anarchist assholes, and assholes do what assholes do. Also, those who yell "I have the right to know" loudest, are often the same people who do not, in fact, have that right any more than any other member of the "grey masses." Show me your security clearance and I'll share my secrets with you - but only the ones I have to.

Yup, secrets that aren't any longer can also endanger the innocent.

All for free speech and FoI providing one uses it in a responsible (to humanity as a whole) way.

[Magdalena]

Just got back from my vacation in Bavaria. Spent some quality time with my wife and managed to relax a lot (no Internet connection )  Yesterday's drive back home however was an ordeal. "Millions" of cars on the road, one traffic jam  and road works after another. Lesson learned: Never drive long distances in Germany on Fridays and in the weekends.

It's good to have you back, Tom62. 

[xSilverPhinx]

Just got back from my vacation in Bavaria. Spent some quality time with my wife and managed to relax a lot (no Internet connection )  Yesterday's drive back home however was an ordeal. "Millions" of cars on the road, one traffic jam  and road works after another. Lesson learned: Never drive long distances in Germany on Fridays and in the weekends.

Isn't that part of the fun?

[xSilverPhinx]

It's only 20:30, but...

My wife finds it odd that I go to bed when I'm tiered. My 'bed time' ranges from 20:30 to 22:30. She seems to see going to bed before midnight as some sort of defeat. I think the root of this is bound up with her relationship with her mother who insisted her bed time was 19:00 whether she was tiered or not.

I used to stay up all night when I was in my early twenties but these days I just don't have that kind of energy anymore.  It's like all those hours I spent awake when I should have been asleep have finally caught up with me, and nowadays at 23:00 I'm usually in deep slumber. Now, if I don't have to wake up early the next morning it's a different story.

[Tom62]

Just got back from my vacation in Bavaria. Spent some quality time with my wife and managed to relax a lot (no Internet connection )  Yesterday's drive back home however was an ordeal. "Millions" of cars on the road, one traffic jam  and road works after another. Lesson learned: Never drive long distances in Germany on Fridays and in the weekends.

It's good to have you back, Tom62. 

Thank you  . It is good to be back.

[Tom62]

Just got back from my vacation in Bavaria. Spent some quality time with my wife and managed to relax a lot (no Internet connection )  Yesterday's drive back home however was an ordeal. "Millions" of cars on the road, one traffic jam  and road works after another. Lesson learned: Never drive long distances in Germany on Fridays and in the weekends.

Isn't that part of the fun?

Not when my wife is driving 

[Asmodean]

All for free speech and FoI providing one uses it in a responsible (to humanity as a whole) way.

I am not at all for total freedom of information. Industrial espionage can cost me money. State espionage can cost me a few freedoms. The list of potential consequences of certain kinds of information flowing completely freely at any level is long and nasty.

Free speech in the sense of freedom of self-expression..? Absolutely, go for it! Free speech as in revealing something that relates to my person, directly or indirectly, without my consent? Fuck that.

[Recusant]

Just saw an "authority" on the Science Channel tell all us hoi polloi about this interesting phenomenon called frisson (click the little speaker button next to the word to hear it). OK, that's fine--it doesn't hurt for people to expand their vocabularies. Except this clown repeatedly pronounced it "frizzion." He clearly had never heard of the word let alone having heard it before, and apparently nobody involved in creating the little infoblurb had either. You'd think you'd go to the trouble of finding out how to pronounce this word that you've just learned, and are preparing to tell the public about.