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    • nadnerBN
      nadnerB @tiagom
      last edited by nadnerB

      @tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Im impressed it gives you that haha

      Yeah, it's almost 11PM MT+8 (most of AU is GMT +10), everyone's shot through, so they can get that bit back up at least. Heaps of connection time out errors.
      #CensusFail is trending on Twitter

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @nadnerB
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        @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Im impressed it gives you that haha

        Yeah, it's almost 11PM, everyone's shot through, so they can get that bit back up. Heaps of connection time out errors.
        #CensusFail is trending on Twitter

        I think you've government is simply counting the number of failed connections (with a grain of salt) and coming up with a rough number for the population.

        They're probably ecstatic that so many people have even gone to the website.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          Good morning everyone.

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          • nadnerBN
            nadnerB
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            Perhaps, but it would be easier to submit an FOI to the NSA and subpoena Facebook.
            No need for a census in which people do silly things like mark their religion as Jedi.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @tiagom
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              @tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Nothing new. When do governments scale correctly..

              They shouldn't need to scale, they know exactly how many users they will have ahead of time!

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              • nadnerBN
                nadnerB @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                Nothing new. When do governments scale correctly..

                They shouldn't need to scale, they know exactly how many users they will have ahead of time!

                One would expect that, being that voting is also compulsory (unless religious grounds or served more than 5 years jail for a single sentence), the AEC should have been able to provide relatively accurate numbers.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @nadnerB
                  last edited by

                  @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Nothing new. When do governments scale correctly..

                  They shouldn't need to scale, they know exactly how many users they will have ahead of time!

                  One would expect that, being that voting is also compulsory (unless religious grounds or served more than 5 years jail for a single sentence), the AEC should have been able to provide relatively accurate numbers.

                  Isn't it weird that they allow you to get out of a mandatory task if you've done enough jail time? Seems like just allowing people to opt out would be smarter.

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                  • nadnerBN
                    nadnerB
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                    lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @nadnerB
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                      @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.

                      Nah, the government would just have to tally up the Opt Out requests...

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @nadnerB
                        last edited by

                        @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.

                        You do, you just have to be violent about it.

                        I've never understood why making people who don't care vote is a good idea. It's just a way to increase media control. It adds more noise so that those that research and care can't influence the vote.

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                        • nadnerBN
                          nadnerB @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.

                          You do, you just have to be violent about it.

                          Yeah , no thanks. There's already one America in the world.

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                          • RojoLocoR
                            RojoLoco @nadnerB
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                            @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.

                            You do, you just have to be violent about it.

                            Yeah , no thanks. There's already one America in the world.

                            Hey, watch it - that kind of talk might result in getting your ass kicked! 😉

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

                              Regardless of total cost?

                              Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

                                Regardless of total cost?

                                Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

                                That's so weird. It should just be money... do we spend more or less. Who cares how it happens as long as you spend less money?

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                                • coliverC
                                  coliver @Dashrender
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                                  @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

                                  Regardless of total cost?

                                  Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

                                  Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @coliver
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                                    @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

                                    Regardless of total cost?

                                    Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

                                    Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.

                                    Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.

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                                    • dafyreD
                                      dafyre @BRRABill
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                                      @BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      I'm playing with ShareX ... Somebody posted it, and I think I've just found a Greenshot replacement... The irony is that ShareX actually uses the Greenshot Image editor, lol!

                                      I'll have to play with that some.

                                      Step one ... getting it to load automatically. 🙂

                                      Yeah... Step 1 for me was getting Greenshot to not load automatically... I just noticed that I don't see any automatic start stuff for it... Guess I gotta look that up.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

                                        Regardless of total cost?

                                        Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

                                        That's so weird. It should just be money... do we spend more or less. Who cares how it happens as long as you spend less money?

                                        This is how I look at everything I've been doing, is it more or less money for our spend.

                                        Who honestly cares if you spend for maintenance, so long as that maintenance is cheaper than outright buying the equipment plus maintenance.

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                                        • DashrenderD
                                          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

                                          Regardless of total cost?

                                          Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

                                          Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.

                                          Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.

                                          What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.

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                                          • coliverC
                                            coliver @Dashrender
                                            last edited by coliver

                                            @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

                                            Regardless of total cost?

                                            Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

                                            Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.

                                            Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.

                                            What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.

                                            I think Edmunds and another organization did a study, and found that on the basic sedan you would be saving something like $8,000 if you leased the car vs purchased it. Buying used was the least expensive option.

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