Ask the Mormon

[Emwok]

Since witches float, and they burn, then they are wooden?

[ArcticFox]

Yes, and therefore weigh the same as a duck.

[Chozon1]

I can't keep it going. -_- I haven't seen that movie for a decade.

There's something strange about bee's wax?

[ArcticFox]

Very strange indeed.

[Chozon1]

Which is a harder concept to swallow:

A) an admittedly, forthrightly, outspokenly Christian news organization would deliberately manufacture or edit information to "prove" their point and "expose" evil in both political and corporate entities?

Or:

B) Mass ignorance and abhorrent apathy of the American populace is truly the only cause of the rampancy of corruption and evil of said political and corporate entities?

[ArcticFox]

I think A. People who are dishonest because they believe the ends justify the means are doing more harm than good. I hate to think you're talking about an actual example or incident.

[Chozon1]

Yes/No/Maybe.

My grandparents subscribe to a number of conservative christian news outlets, and the paper formats get passed hand-to-hand down the line to our bathroom magazine box. I open them up and see articles including excerpts from real government documents which show that Benghazi was known of well in advance by numerous government officials (the article was aimed at Hilary Clinton, by the by), professionals in digital information saying the planned parenthood videos were not "heavily edited", and all manner of other information regarding various world events.

And so after much mental percolating, I feel I am left with those two options. Neither of which I really want to accept as truth.

More importantly, did you know how dangerous it can be to read information and watch videos of wargame you don't play? O_o

[Deepfreeze32]

I think A. People who are dishonest because they believe the ends justify the means are doing more harm than good. I hate to think you're talking about an actual example or incident.

This is why I've been growing disillusioned with "alternative media". Whether it's something like Conservative Tribune or AlterNet, it doesn't exist to further the truth, it furthers an agenda of the right or left. I'm a left-wing person, and I find those practices dishonest at best and outright stupid at worst. I don't like mainstream media, but I don't wholly disbelieve it either. I think it's best to take everything with a grain of salt.

So I hate ClearCase. I think I've told you this before. Today, I was trying to connect Git to ClearCase because we're trying to move away from it. Let me give you some context before I continue.

You clearly know at least sort of how git works. I'll skip that. ClearCase is based on check-in/check-out-style Source Control. To make changes, you need to check files out. If you modify a file without checking the file out, you "hijack" it, which marks the file differently.

The script we use (which was written by a sister team) checks for hijacks before it runs. After this check for hijacks, it pulls changes, checks for hijacks again, checks out hijacked files, and delivers (think git push) the changes. The reverse operation "pulls" from ClearCase, does a "git add --all", and commits changes.

The ideal flow is Rebase (git pull) ClearCase, run the ClearCaseToGit job, and then do any git branch synchronization. To go the other way, merge git changes into Master, run the GitToClearCase job, and deliver the ClearCase stream.

However, there's a problem. If I do the ClearCase-to-git flow, it works fine. But as soon as I try to go the other way, ClearCase sees all files changed in Git AND the files changed in the last ClearCase delivery as "hijacked" so the script fails. What the heck. I want to blame this on ClearCase being stupid, but it works fine for the other team. The only difference is they use Windows as their build/Jenkins slave, whereas we use Linux. And ClearCase on Linux/UNIX apparently sucks.


Am I just screwed either way?

[ArcticFox]

More importantly, did you know how dangerous it can be to read information and watch videos of wargame you don't play? O_o

It can be fatal to the wallet.

Am I just screwed either way?

It sure sounds that way... Git is such a strange animal... I use it every day but I don't really understand it as well as I'd like to, and I DEFINITELY wouldn't want to have to write software to interact with it.

[Chozon1]

I made the mistake of looking up "Star Wars: X-Wing" the other day. -_- Now, I'm pricing the starter set. Since, you know, it technically is a collectible board game, not necessarily a tabletop wargame. It's different, and thus approachable. >_>

There are few more annoying feelings than intense gas bubbles right before you go to sleep? *_*

[ArcticFox]

I've been playing Star Trek: Attack Wing which is basically the same game as X-Wing. It's pretty fun.

And I dunno that rarely happens to me but it sure SOUNDS annoying.

[Emwok]

Pizza sandwich?

[ArcticFox]

Sounds... odd. I guess that might taste good but I think I'll stick to traditional pizza.

[Chozon1]

That's actually doesn't help my wallet much. Because while I like the Star Wars universe more, I like the Star Trek ships better. And I know a few trekkies I might could influence into playing with easier than with Star Wars. I 'spose there's always Christmas.

Sleeveless shirts?

[ArcticFox]

Not for this little brown duck.