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- mg333
My wife just texted me to ask if flash player works on her phone. Giving her the benefit of the doubt I politely said no. Then she said that talent tracking software on her computer at work uses FlashPlayer and I really need to know... what year is this? People are still making and using serious database-based applications that use Flash? And if not, how old must something be that it was built to use FlashPlayer?!?!
- duckseason3
Got home late last night from a work trip after multiple flight delays and a terrible, non-sleep filled night the evening before. I didn't eat anything on the plane so my wife asked if I wanted her to whip something up. I said yes, so she asked me to turn on the oven, but to first make sure nothing was inside. I open the oven and, confused, proceed to ask why there's a hamburger bun inside.
*wooooooosh*
- BusterBoy7
The post above has just reminded me of a story about my mother. She was a chain smoker and loved a drink. I remember just sitting and watching TV one night when I was a kid...I hear this god almighty voooom noise come from the kitchen.
Our old oven needed to be manually lit...and Mum normally did it with a cigarette...this time she lit the gas with the door closed...went to turn on the kettle and then she opened the oven door with the ciggie in her mouth. The gas inside pretty much exploded in her face.
She comes staggering into the TV room, half pissed, hair singed...her nighty smoking...eyebrows missing, cigarette still in her mouth...laughing her head off!
One of the funniest moments of my life.
- autoflavour2
this is such bullshit. explain to me how they could possibly be running out of space given there is a 30km exclusion zone around the plant. people arent coming back.. just fucking store them there.
- ********0
This is one sexy dark mode for chrome ;)
- mg330
Any of you guys deal with acne as an adult? It's been the bane of my existence for years now. Countless attempts at new topical products, avoiding things like whey, dairy, and coffee, trying to avoid sugar, going through stretches of perfectly clear skin, then a round of breakouts on my forehead, trying to figure out why, etc. Discovered that BCAA drinks contain an ingredient that exacerbates acne. I try to avoid stuff that raises cortisol because I'm susceptible to stress anyways and when cortisol spikes, skin breaks out. I spent the tail end of 2018 and well into early spring with perfectly clear skin, then off and on, and lately constantly.
I research the hell out of body issues and ailments and started looking around for info on all the supplements I take lately. Started seeing warnings of Vitamin B12 pop up. And wouldn't you know... the nootropic brain boosting supplement I'm taking - and that I think works pretty well - contains 8,333% of recommended B12 for the day. On top of that I take a B Complex supplement as well, and probably get some in a multivitamin.
At least I figure this stuff out but damn is it frustrating to rely on so much trial and error. Most dermatologists just want to prescribe topical treatments, and rarely talk about holistic approaches or diet, stress, etc. It's ridiculous to have to deal with this at 41 years old but hopefully the massive amounts of B12 I was getting are the current culprit. It's funny how I can pinpoint when I bought a new supplement to when skin gets bad. I'm terribly envious of people who have never had to deal with this, especially as an adult.
- Damn, that sucks dude.DRIFTMONKEY
- Wife uses rodan and fields, Unblemished. I know it is a cream but it seems to keep it in check regardless of diet.eryx
- Get new bedding and pillows and always rotate clean sheets. Apply morning urine to help w/redness & keep skin crazy soft. Lastly you need 7-10 day fast to fix.robotron3k
- You'll need to slowly work your way to the longer fast, 24 hour, 3 day, then 7-10. They key is learning to come down from a fast, as a jar of baby food will berobotron3k
- To much for you, it will take 4-5 days to even get close to eating close to a full meal. BTW, by the 5th day if fasting you're actually high on natural hghrobotron3k
- I'm doing intermittent fasting now, 16:8 and enjoying it. Not the same thing but thought I'd mention that.mg33
- wait wait wait....
robot said "Apply morning urine..."
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....wut?pango - ^ yeah, I've never heard of that and looks pretty inconclusive, but I get the claims behind it.mg33
- And Madonna pisses on her feet and look at her, she's MADONNA. :Dmg33
- When's the last time you replaced your bed pillows?i_monk
- Mg33, I'm doing about 18/6 and chill more on the weekend. You should try urine application, redness will subside and it's sterile. I also need cleaner beddingrobotron3k
- I sneeze like a mofo in the am, I know it's time to change.robotron3k
- Also try cortizone when skin is drycannonball1978
- Or an air bath?? https://66.media.tum…robotron3k
- there no way robo's not trolling with the urine application. or the person invented it must be trolling.pango
- "hey guys! put piss on your face! it's good for you!"
O___Opango - Maybe just stop with all the supplements and research and obsessing and just enjoy life?monospaced
- mg33 you doing advertising research? or goin all influencer?********
- i_monk's got it - i've read this a few times over the years - clean bed clothing, replaced very frequently, if not nightly.Nairn
- Roaccutane will permanently get rid of it.spunji
- Haha. Robos advice went so Alex Jones so fast. I think changing pillow cases is good advice. Maybe wash your pillows too.monNom
- i wouldn't say stop researching all together. the more you know right.pango
- I heard applying natural honey is a good organic alternative.BonSeff
- Do the Tub Girl every full moon and let it harden to a crust™BonSeff
- Diet stress def a part of it, but also been using this since a teenager, (currently with cetaphil bar soap) » https://www.amazon.c…BrokenHD
- HijoDMaite0
Just dropped my new Nikon dslr (D610) and broke it. Also had telephoto lens on it which I think is also busted. Camera works but focus is way off. I only have rental insurance. Any ideas?
- Some home insurance policies can cover that — if you assert that it wasn’t ‘work’ related.Gnash
- That sucks! :( I was just missing my D610 the other day. I sold it to buy my Fuji gear back in 2017.mg33
- Buy your wife flowers, she gonna be pissedNairn
- Wait till you travel then claim it on travel insurance.Hayzilla
- autoflavour0
Just dug this up.. she was one of my best friends in high school..
Murder duo sentenced to 24 years Gaol in the Launceston Supreme Court of Tasmania today. Nathan Thomas Smith pleaded Guilty while Belinda Leone Colbran was found Guilty by a jury trial. Smith will be eligible to apply for Parole after serving 14 years and Colbran 13 years. The Murder victim Aaron Matthew Monaco was stabbed six times at a Parua Road, Newnham address in November of 2016. Sentencing comments below:
STATE OF TASMANIA v NATHAN THOMAS SMITH AND BELINDA LEONE COLBRAN
COMMENTS ON PASSING SENTENCE 13 DECEMBER 2018
Nathan Thomas Smith and Belinda Leone Colbran, you are before the Court for sentence for the murder of Mr Aaron Matthew Robertson Monaco for which each of you is convicted: Mr Smith on your plea of guilty and, Ms Colbran having been found guilty by jury.
You both arrived in this State from New South Wales, living first in Burnie before moving to Launceston. You appear to have spent most of your time together residing with one another either at Parua Road or at Lambert Street.
The facts as I find them are these. On 4 November 2016 you travelled together to 38 Parua Road in Newnham. Smith, it was your evidence on Colbran’s trial that you went there because you had been away for a few days, residing with her, and you wanted a change of clothes. It was very late in the day to be going there just for that reason. I am satisfied that each of you, after a long drinking session, went there at least in part, to confront Mr Monaco with whom you were both angry for out-staying his welcome and failing to look after your flat. Before you left, Colbran retrieved a knife belonging to Smith which was kept in a case in her address at Lambert Street. You purchased alcohol on the way, which I infer was intended to be consumed at Parua Road.
Smith your evidence at the trial was that upon your arrival at that address the deceased emerged from the bedroom area of the flat whereupon the assault that led to his death began. You said that the deceased emerged from the bedroom with a knife. I do not accept that version of events and I note that you do not maintain it in the sentencing submissions. I find that Mr Monaco showed no aggression towards you or Colbran. After a verbal exchange between you and the deceased, you attacked him inflicting a series of wounds which caused his death. To the extent that there is uncertainty as to who wielded the knife, based upon the dying declaration of the deceased, I am satisfied that it was you. I find that you used the knife which had been brought to Parua Road by Colbran, that she assisted you by giving you that knife and effectively restricting Mr Monaco's movement whereupon you were able to stab him. I observe that the only person to sustain injury during the course of this episode was the deceased and that is consistent with my findings as to the way events unfolded. I do not accept that Colbran remained on the couch as Smith claimed in his evidence at the trial. Colbran then removed the weapon from the scene. Colbran's admissions at interview with police were intended to protect Smith and were willingly made by her because of her own involvement in the violence which occurred. Mr Monaco stood no chance in the face of the wanton aggression which was exhibited by Smith, enabled and supported by Colbran.
I find in accordance with the evidence of the State pathologist that Mr Monaco died as a result of a series of knife wounds.
I conclude that I should sentence you on the basis that you are both guilty of murder under s 157(1)(b) of the Criminal Code as I note all counsel have submitted to me in sentencing submissions. In my view, there is not basis on the facts as I find them, for differentiating the degree of culpability attaching to the conduct of either of you. Your actions are inextricably related, one of you performing the act of stabbing the deceased, the other enabling it. I recognise that an intention to kill is a material consideration in the sentencing exercise for murder, and that murder under s 157(1)(b) of the Criminal Code does not require such an intention, only that there is an intention to cause bodily harm which you knew to be likely to cause death. But, murder committed on that basis is not necessarily less grave than an intentional murder. I apply the law as summarised in Dobson v Tasmania [2017] TASCCA 19. I consider this to be a very serious example of the crime of murder. It was callous and brutal, with nothing to mitigate it. No submission advanced to the Court has suggested otherwise.
Smith, your plea of guilty is referred to by your counsel. I afford it little weight. It was a qualified admission. Within it a significant lie was buried, through which you sought to portray your victim as an aggressor by asserting that he was carrying a knife when he came into the room that night. He was not. Your decision to abandon that version now raises a question as to why you put that version at Colbran’s trial, on your oath in front of the jury. I must assume that you believed it assisted Colbran if you lied in that way. That undermines your claim that your plea of guilty can be received by the Court as demonstrating contrition. In fact, you were willing to present a false impression of the deceased and of his conduct in the lead up to his death, in order to obfuscate the truth. I am left then with the barest of utilitarian benefit flowing from your very late plea, and it is therefore a matter attracting only the barest concession from the Court which I have applied in determining the appropriate non-parole period.
Smith, you present with a poor record of prior convictions including offences involving violence. Your prior convictions are relevant to sentence though the gravity of this offending overwhelms those matters in its own right to a significant extent. I note your personal history. It suggests a loveless upbringing and the effects of that are not ignored. I have listened carefully to your counsel's submissions about your past and your alcohol and drug use and I have regard to those matters. I accept that you have exhibited a pattern of offending followed by improvement in your overall behaviour before you fall back into your ways. Rehabilitation is a relevant sentencing consideration and I accept that since this crime you have taken some steps towards your rehabilitation but they are not significant in my view, though in part, that is because you do not have access to programs. I will regard those as tentative steps in the right direction. I also note your past efforts to address your drug and alcohol use as outlined to me in submissions made by your counsel in Court today.
It is well established that the non-parole period is the minimum time that a judge determines justice requires, having regard to all the circumstances of the offence. I remain of the view that the minimum non-parole period which is required in your case is greater than the minimum which is prescribed. That conclusion emerges from my taking into account all of the circumstances of the offence and the sentencing goals of condemnation, prevention, punishment and deterrence.
Colbran, you present without relevant prior convictions. Your personal history is characterised by significant emotional hardship and family violence and your repeated and excessive resort to alcohol and drugs to escape those things. I do not ignore the effect of those upon you, but the solution has become the problem. I am told that you now suffer cirrhosis of the liver and that your health is poor. No mental health issues are cited to explain your conduct on this evening.
Your rehabilitation should not be considered a forlorn hope, but at this time there is nothing to see which evidences to my mind that you have taken significant steps in that direction. In your case too, the gravity of your offending militates against my fixing the minimum non-parole period, and I will not. In your case too, I repeat, that the circumstances of the offence and the goals of condemnation, prevention, punishment and deterrence are decisive factors in my reasoning as to that.
I have heard a victim impact statement. The impact of this crime cannot be under-estimated. It will endure as Ms Mason-White told me. I commend her bravery in speaking publically about her grief. All of the victim impact statements have been read by me and they are moving. I have regard to what I have been told as evidence of the consequences of this crime.
As I have said, I regard this as a particularly serious example of the crime of murder. It was utterly senseless, an act of selfishness, of total disregard for another human being. It is quite inexplicable. In my view, the differences between you both are so marginal as to be insignificant. Sentencing is not a mathematical exercise, it is one of instinctive synthesis of relevant considerations. Approaching the matter in that way, I can find no basis for any differentiation in the head sentence which is appropriate.
Smith, having regard to your conduct, the nature of this crime, that it was cruel and violent in its implementation, and having regard to personal and general deterrence, I sentence you to 24 years' imprisonment, backdated to the date you were taken into custody. You will not be eligible for parole until you have served 14 years of that sentence.
Colbran, I sentence you on the factual basis I have outlined. You do not have a record for violence. I have decided for your involvement in this crime the head sentence should however be the same, but I will impose a marginally shorter non-parole period. I sentence you to 24 years' imprisonment. You will not be eligible for parole until you have served 13 years of that sentence. That sentence is to commence on the date you were taken into custody.
- ********7
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- https://youtu.be/4Vv…********
- :) welcome back p.sea_sea
- were you gone?drgs
- haaaaiiisted
- TRUMP?nudes
- Any vaping deaths this year?HijoDMaite
- im out of the industry heh..********
- im out of the industry********
- notes are working again, wheres the feed********
- BabySnakes0
This past week i have been contacted by three places for my availability with dev work. One i really want but not sure if it will happen due to the project still in planning. The other is 200+ hours of work could start very soon. The other was a smaller thing but could have been fun. I will know more at the end of this week.
Funny thing is that a week ago i had nothing else on my plate then a 20hr a week gig that is up at the end of October.
Weird shit.
- not weird, more normal then you realize********
- ^OBBTKN
- People are waiting for the last quarter of the yearrobotron3k
- not weird, more normal then you realize
- PonyBoy0
Anyone familiar with the average cost(s) to set up 3-4 social media outlets for a mom and pop... and then to maintain them monthly?
- Minimum wage position perhaps?monospaced
- could be... I'm just looking to find out what the average upfront and monthly retainer fee for a small agency or indy contractor would cost my client...PonyBoy
- ... but thanks for your guess, mono. :)PonyBoy
- oops... don't want to offend some of you... 'indie'... ... not 'indy'.
https://i.imgur.com/…PonyBoy - There are many social media scheduler apps like loomy that does that, it's kinda effortless nowadays.robotron3k
- Agree with robo in terms of scheduling and monitoring... there's apps for that. If you need brand management, that's a person.ben_
- if it's just management, responding to followers, posting and directing inbounds, it's a min wage job plus incentives. Any strategy or creative? Different storyben_
- ********5
holy shat!
- what. a. fucking. link.
+1000000Bluejam - cool.ben_
- Film & Animation is only getting more complex from here. Can't keep up anymore with the amount of work that goes into this and other motion stuff.NBQ00
- Man, that's my friday night sorted. :-)PhanLo
- Amazing film, too!elahon
- I have and always will revel at the amazing work of art spider verse was and how it will go down in history as an example of art unobstructedmonospaced
- I have and always will revel at the amazing work of art spider verse was and how it will go down in history as an example of art unobstructedmonospaced
- I have and always will revel at the amazing work of art spider verse was and how it will go down in history as an example of art unobstructedmonospaced
- what. a. fucking. link.
- PhanLo0
Do IMGUR image links not work on here any more?
- If it ends in .jpg or .gif it should work.i_monk
- If it ends in .jpg or .gif it should work.i_monk
- I can't even add notes now.PhanLo
- Still doesn't work, says it's against guidelines.PhanLo
- 'Your request has been denied due to the nature of its content.'PhanLo
- Maybe it's setting off one of the filters? Br*tt B*sh? B*hance? C*rgo?i_monk
- i_monk6
Is the side nav missing for anyone else?
- Yep—notes appear to work so farjaylarson
- testdrgs
- testdrgs
- same********
- Yeah, same here. Not letting me log in either on my desktopthumb_screws
- site is borkedernexbcn
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- Probably because of the 5glajj
- The Russians?misterhow
- i_monk0
And now I can't add notes? Or can't see them if they're added.
- renderedred3
qbn right now
- thumb_screws1
End days... it’s been real.
- robotron3k-2
QBN RIP of the day.
