2017 Chuff thread

[dkersten]

Keep taking online surveys. Sooner or later you'll earn enough internet points to buy a voucher to heaven...

Is that like Carbon Credits?

[Howard_Casto]

Nope.  Reducing your carbon emissions is scientifically proven to save lives..... carbon is a greenhouse gas, it's bad...for everyone and everything, you learn that in 4th grade.  Heaven is a fictitious place created by people that are terrified of death.   

[pbj]

Hmm, ok. Good talk, guys.

Anyway, was pretty damn easy to get the Firepower out and set up.  Plugged it in and it booted right up.



 

[dkersten]

Nope.  Reducing your carbon emissions is scientifically proven to save lives..... carbon is a greenhouse gas, it's bad...for everyone and everything, you learn that in 4th grade.  Heaven is a fictitious place created by people that are terrified of death.

So... buying Carbon Credits from Al Gore reduces greenhouse gasses how exactly? I must have missed this class in the 4th grade. 

Damn, why don't we just start a Go Fund Me page to buy millions of Carbon Credits and the global warming crisis will be solved!  There is no possible way that Carbon Credits are a scam, because we all know that Gore is a genius.  I mean, first he invents the internet, then he comes up with a way to buy ourselves out of our waste creating too much cloud cover.

So if you keep following that logic, using credits from online surveys to buy your way into Heaven seems perfectly legit.  And I bet Gore is behind that one too...

[Mike A]

This conversation will be productive.

[thomas_surles]

This reminds me of that king of the hill episode where dale was selling carbon offsets.

[ChadTower]

What we really need are stupidity credits.  When will the gov't be offering those for sale?

[pbj]

If you are unemployed and were offended by my theological reasoning that implies God hates you as a consequence, I apologize.

 

[Nephasth]

If you are unemployed and were offended by my theological reasoning that implies God hates you as a consequence, I apologize.

 

The fact that you used that word as pronoun would suggest you lack theological reasoning...

...and it's off to Post Hell we go!

[harveybirdman]

If their is a god Kersten won't get into a wall of text war with Mr I bowl 300s Howard.

[Howard_Casto]

I said my peace.  You can't pretend scientifically sound facts aren't a reality and then defend blind faith, was my point. 

[opt2not]

Blah blah, fairytale talk, earth is burning, and dumpster diving since 15 is not really a job. The conversation has gone lamer than a trash novel with a bad photoshop cover art directed by internet peons. 

[dkersten]

I figured even liberals laughed at Carbon Credits, but I guess not.  Sorry.

I made a note:
Paying Al Gore for a Credit to Allow me to Burn More Natural Resources without Hurting the Environment
is NOT EQUAL to
Filling out Internet Surveys for Credit to Allow me to Get into Heaven.

Got it. Clearly one is completely legitimate and the other is just a joke.  My bad.

[pbj]

Albeit it far from perfect, the idea incentivizes reducing carbon emissions.

 

Anyway, I'm thoroughly confused at the direction this thread has taken.

[dkersten]

Albeit it far from perfect, the idea incentivizes reducing carbon emissions.

Well then sign me up so I can up my electrical service to 400 amp for that 23,000 watt home theater I'm installing, and while you're at it, give me a few more credits so I can get a bigger truck with big ass tires.  I want the one that runs on owls. 

Those credits will help me sleep better at night knowing I am saving the environment.

Now, where are those internet surveys?  I haven't been to church in a while, so I need to beef up my chances.  These days, the way my heart starts jumping around in my chest, I might need it at any time...

[Mike A]

 

[CCM]

Hmm.. this is an interesting thread.   To me it looks like dkersten made a joke about carbon credits and typical Howard came in and got all preachy...

[Howard_Casto]

No atheists don't get all preachy, that's the whole point. 

Carbon credits aren't a joke, the entire earth's population is on the verge of death due to unpredictable weather spurned by just a very slight increase in the average global temperature and half of the US thinks that a magical man in the sky that grants wishes is real while "scientists" and their "facts" are a made up conspiracy by the democrats. 

Since corporations only care about money, carbon credits are a perfect deterrent as it hurts polluting businesses the only place it counts for them.   Yes trading credits is somewhat questionable, but then again some polluters sell them to people that intentionally aren't going to use them, thus keeping another ton of carbon out of the atmosphere.  So anyone who buys these credits to not use them, even if it's just to make themselves feel high and mighty, are genuine super heroes in my book and they should be to every single solitary person on planet earth.  I mean, you all like breathing right?

Also if you all dislike my "preaching" so much then just leave.  Been here since the beginning, I'm not going anywhere, you can't wait me out, so quit complaining or just go. 

[harveybirdman]

2017 naff thread...

[pbj]

http://youtu.be/3ohBUYQJflU?t=81

[Slippyblade]

I'm throwing in with Howard on this one.  I'm at a total loss on the antipathy toward the carbon credit concept.  It makes sense to me, it gives a financial incentive to lower emissions, how is that a bad thing?

[harveybirdman]

Oh please bro... We're ants on a donut.  One ant doesn't just say to the other ant, hmmmm I think we better conserve our resources.  They devour it and move on.

We cannot save ourselves, we are doomed.  Perhaps we can seed another world or develop AI to protect our DNA for a universal flight, but we'd rather concern ourselves with hashtags and party politics. So get to building that Arcade cabinet you've been putting off.

[BadMouth]

I sure do wish I could buy some chuff credits.  This thread needs cleaned up.

[Slippyblade]

My chuff...  just picked up a cabinet.   It's a Die Hard cab, I like the look of it.  Probably gonna plug a new monitor into it and make it a multi-fighter 6 button.

[harveybirdman]

STV board intact? Wanna sell it?

[yotsuya]

We need to add BYOAC to the R.I.P. thread.


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[Slippyblade]

STV board intact? Wanna sell it?

Not sure what the STV board is.  There is a board still bolted to the back door, I'll take a closer look tonight and see what it is.

[BadMouth]

We need to add BYOAC to the R.I.P. thread.


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Still chuffed that Everything Else isn't filled with dedicated dead celebrity threads anymore. 

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[BadMouth]

STV board intact? Wanna sell it?

Not sure what the STV board is.  There is a board still bolted to the back door, I'll take a closer look tonight and see what it is.

http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=711

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[dkersten]

Finally got my job offer from the new company, which I will classify as chuff.  Got a big raise to go with it and a different title: Business Analyst II.

The naff is that while the raise covered my old bonuses that I will no longer get, it didn't cover the company car I no longer get.  And my old Title was IT Director, so it is technically a demotion, lol.  But I have a job still, make good money still, and there is room to go up still. 

Balance in life.. always.  Where there is Chuff, there is Naff.

[pbj]

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[dkersten]

Lol!

[CCM]

No atheists don't get all preachy, that's the whole point. 

Carbon credits aren't a joke, the entire earth's population is on the verge of death due to unpredictable weather spurned by just a very slight increase in the average global temperature and half of the US thinks that a magical man in the sky that grants wishes is real while "scientists" and their "facts" are a made up conspiracy by the democrats. 

Since corporations only care about money, carbon credits are a perfect deterrent as it hurts polluting businesses the only place it counts for them.   Yes trading credits is somewhat questionable, but then again some polluters sell them to people that intentionally aren't going to use them, thus keeping another ton of carbon out of the atmosphere.  So anyone who buys these credits to not use them, even if it's just to make themselves feel high and mighty, are genuine super heroes in my book and they should be to every single solitary person on planet earth.  I mean, you all like breathing right?

Also if you all dislike my "preaching" so much then just leave.  Been here since the beginning, I'm not going anywhere, you can't wait me out, so quit complaining or just go.

Haha... I guess you proved me wrong, this doesn't sound preachy at all... 

[jdbailey1206]

We need to add BYOAC to the R.I.P. thread.


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Yots anti chuff makes makes me chuffed.

[ChadTower]

Latest chuff.  Picked up a Tempest to Major Havoc conversion board.  Working on converting my Tempest.  Aw yiss.

[yotsuya]

I made some more cash today working on a guy's arcade machine. The arcade I've been doing repairs for referred him to me, and so I went today and fixed the NBA Jam that he had in the break room. I have an appointment tomorrow to work on a monitor. Another dude wants me to come next week to look at his MAME cabinet. This hobby is paying in more ways than one.


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[pbj]

How much did you charge him to jiggle the connector?

[yotsuya]

How much did you charge him to jiggle the connector?

Bitchlips, I diagnosed it, determined the issue, and hooked him up with a working power supply. All parties were happy.


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[jdbailey1206]

All parties were happy.

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I'll bet.

[pbj]

90% of the time with arcade games, it's the power supply.  10% of the time it's connectors.

90% of the time with pinball machines, it's connectors.  10% of the time it's the power supply.

Congrats, you are now certified arcade technicians.