tank!

[Eirik]

I... kind of... add information about motorcycle parts into mc-delers database (I dunno shit, I just type in)

www.mc-deler.com



what do you do?

 

[Ziller]

hoho, what a coincidence. I'm building a documentation database for a large paper & forestry corp, and after it's done, I'll be sort of migrating the current documentation to the new db.

It would be cool but it's a fucking lotus notes database. they suck hairy elk balls.

 

[Eirik]

ahhrm...

I see..

my system is userfriendly so I type and put info in quite easily...

 

[Ziller]

Yep, this one will be user friendly too, but _I_ am the one that has to make it that way.. grr... And notes databases are a pain in the ass for programmers, lemme tell ya. But no, big corporations like to use proprietary formats like lotus notes and not open, universal ones like SQL, the fuckers.

arg. sorry. nerd rant of the day, thoho

 

[Eirik]

that's what Off topic is for

if you want to apologize, then do it for your lederhosen...

erk..

 

[Ziller]

No, I mean that I have a tendency to rant about open source, freedom of information, this-programming-language-is-better-than-that and stuff like that to people who usually don't give a horses ass about cyber rights etc... now I'm not saying that you don't, mind you... it's just that you might get the impression that i automatically _assume_ that you care.

 

[Eirik]

I dunno shite about programming but I get the gist of it...
it's a-ok

 

[Eirik]

hmm.. using the phrase "a-ok" on a metalboard..

I'm gonna get beat up

 

[Ziller]

Anything being ok is not black metal! everything must be done so that it is black metal! you shoud've said "that's gay", that would've been black metal!

;->

 

[Eirik]

I ain't black metal... so no harm done...

 

[Ziller]

nor do i consider myself to be. it must have been evil spirits manifesting themselves through me that posted that last remark...

 

[Eirik]

Danish spirits?!

 

[Ziller]

No, it cannot have been danish spirits. I've drunk this wonderful danish akvavit -- can't remember what it's called but supposedly it's matured by storing it aborad a ship and then crossing the equator -- without any ill effects. It _might_ have been danish beer though, that shit is pretty horrible (with a few exceptions)

 

[Eirik]

just noticed your sig.. lovely..

and don't mind me.. kind of rambling..

what was the thread about, again?

 

[Ziller]

Originally posted by Eirik
just noticed your sig.. lovely..

That man knew things others didn't and said things others wouldn't. A remarkable character.

what was the thread about, again?

About? Hmm... Tanks? One can't help but wonder if armored fighting vehicles have a role on the hypothetical battlefield of the future.

Although, of course, this thread can be about something else as well. I don't rightly know...

 

[Eirik]

I don't feel like wondering about it...

I sense ugliness ahead..

so I'm gonna enjoy ignorance and failure to speculate for a while.. while I still can..

 

[Ziller]

Well I'm not saying it's something I would dwell on constantly. I just have a passing interest in military hardware, that's all.

Any military confrontation is always ugly, and thinking that I might one day be forced to take part in one scares the hell out of me. It is a uselful skill, to be able to filter out all the horror from the video clips in the news that show people in pain and agony. I don't know if not sympathizing makes me less human or not...

 

[Eirik]

it makes you stronger.. and some people are more empathetic than others..

and I understand you have an interest.. not knocking that...

 

[Ziller]

But the question is, do I _want_ to be stronger, if ther price I have to pay is that I cannot care about other people? What I want is to know that I'm not on this earth just for myself.

 

[Eirik]

you prolly aren't... not everyone can sympathize via the screen.. when the screen is off I go back home.. bye bye Bosnia, hello refrigerator, TV.. and all that...