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Sludig

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Oh yeah. When I worked with inmates my view of the penal system changed forever. Granted this was jail and not prison, but it's not filled with elite super soldiers like TV has one imagine. No these are children in adult bodies who never developed coping skills and thus did something moronic and got themselves in jail. The dribble that they spoke was like a second language and if said anything complex at all, anything at all they got lost. They were perpetually confused and peacocking and ready to defend their honor but for what? nothing. They'd stomp their feet and whine. Literally like children.
TV never shows that. It's always shanking and buttsecs.
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My experience is jail. In prison I almost imagine a higher caliber of person in some cases. IE a little smarter, well off that commited more serious crimes. Plenty of dumbs too though. Jail, is mostly people to stupid/poor/no connections to get out on $100 bonds. Have a 2:1 red tag right now that could be out if their mom would answer and bring $100.

I just want to scream at the straight copied from Alexandrio Cortez quotes and posts by folk under the local sheriffs facebook, but don't want to get hemmed up for making social media posts unbecoming the agency etc even if I don't have anything on my profile LE.


Regarding peacocking, just this week had a guy who was inmate worker. Gets reduced time if they stay employed. Somehow was hired after being taken to booking uncoop a couple times including over missing a single ramen package after a shakedown of the pod for a shank. Bitch was throwing hot water pots under another inmates door messing with them. Old deputy goes over and notices the water asking about it. Guy gets in his face to "leave them" alone etc. Devolves into him calling the old white man N-Word a whole bunch refusing to lockdown so we march the 6 or so of us in and drag him to booking and fired of course.

Maybe not best example but most recent. But they will get all worked up and pissed over nothing and get themselves locked down a week or even catch charges since we do press them unlike some jails over inmate fights. I think I might try starting a journal of the best examples of retardation.
 
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Sludig said:
My experience is jail. In prison I almost imagine a higher caliber of person in some cases. IE a little smarter, well off that commited more serious crimes. Plenty of dumbs too though. Jail, is mostly people to stupid/poor/no connections to get out on $100 bonds. Have a 2:1 red tag right now that could be out if their mom would answer and bring $100.

I just want to scream at the straight copied from Alexandrio Cortez quotes and posts by folk under the local sheriffs facebook, but don't want to get hemmed up for making social media posts unbecoming the agency etc even if I don't have anything on my profile LE.


Regarding peacocking, just this week had a guy who was inmate worker. Gets reduced time if they stay employed. Somehow was hired after being taken to booking uncoop a couple times including over missing a single ramen package after a shakedown of the pod for a shank. Bitch was throwing hot water pots under another inmates door messing with them. Old deputy goes over and notices the water asking about it. Guy gets in his face to "leave them" alone etc. Devolves into him calling the old white man N-Word a whole bunch refusing to lockdown so we march the 6 or so of us in and drag him to booking and fired of course.

Maybe not best example but most recent. But they will get all worked up and pissed over nothing and get themselves locked down a week or even catch charges since we do press them unlike some jails over inmate fights. I think I might try starting a journal of the best examples of retardation.
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No that's a great example. the thing about jail is not the constant fear of butsecs. it's the constant mundanity and stupidity. It just drips with wrongness.
 
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i spent three weeks in jail back when i was in college. was on probation for a Disorderly Conduct charge i deservedly got while drunk one night, was non-reporting probation, no testing or anything, but had 40 hours of community service that i didn't finish in time. i should have finished it, my only excuse is that i was living outside of city limits and my car died, middle of February in Michigan, but i could have taken the bus, not a very good excuse. anyway, Isabella County is notoriously strict when it comes to probation violations, so i ended up getting those three weeks. and god DAMN what an eye opener. some of the most fucked up people i've ever met. and yeah, incredibly stupid too.

the one kid was in there on purpose. hated his group home he was forced to live in so he attacked someone, purposely hoping to end up in jail. actually felt kind of bad for him in a way, even tho many of his problems were obviously fixable.

everyone's laundry in the cell gets all thrown together, i was wearing commissary socks, so to make sure i got mine back i used a pen to poke holes in the ankles. another guy in the cell saw me doing it, he was confused so he asked what i was doing. i explained it to him. he said that was a good idea, and proceeded to start doing the same thing himself. he got REALLY confused when i tried to explain to him that if he marked them in the same way as me it would be impossible to tell my socks apart from his.

jail overall wasn't so bad tho. i didn't have cable at home at the time, and every cell there had a 28inch flat screen TV. the library was decently stocked too, i made it through 4 or 5 Kurt Vonnegut books in those three weeks. according to the stamps inside the cover, i was the first person to ever check them out, all except for his book Jailbird which had been checked out several times.

most of the people in my cell were there for very short sentences. by the time my three weeks was up, everyone that had been in there when i got there was out. was pretty funny the last week, whenever a new guy would come in they'd all turn to me with their questions. like my two weeks made me the chiseled veteran of the jail.

not proud of it, but in a way it was a worthwhile experience, just for the understanding it gave me of that part of our social system. and the realization that there are some people in this world that are wayyyyy stupider than i had ever realized before.
 
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Rathar

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Sludig said.. " I often have to help them alert them into something that is understandable. "

I love it when people bag on others illiteracy and in the process make a totally should have been noticed with .01% bothering to pay attention auto correct error. The above is an especially delicious example of said. :p
 
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Sludig

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Sludig said.. " I often have to help them alert them into something that is understandable. "

I love it when people bag on others illiteracy and in the process make a totally should have been noticed with .01% bothering to pay attention auto correct error. The above is an especially delicious example of said. :p
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There's some difference between faggy auto correct fails when swiping on a phone vs taking 20 minutes handwriting something worse than doctor scribble. I do miss physical keyboard. Found this new keyboard version much more accurate but easier to miss when it does potato one.
 
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My mom has been doing the whole "Ancestry" thing and so far shes found more than a few murderers, thieves and grifters in the bloodline.

I asked her if I could officially say i come from a long line of rogues and vagabonds.
 
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There's some difference between faggy auto correct fails when swiping on a phone vs taking 20 minutes handwriting something worse than doctor scribble. I do miss physical keyboard. Found this new keyboard version much more accurate but easier to miss when it does potato one.
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Yeah I totally get it and am glad you didn't think I was bagging on you in any way.
I really do love errors whether accidental or not in this type of case. There's something about correcting others grammar or spelling or general pointing out how stupid folks are stupid (and man are folks in Jail/Prison stupid. I did my dui day and proved myself to be one of them..) that produces a Murphy's Law effect and introduces errors in their wording etc.

We all come from rogues and vagabonds Cabbit!
 
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Suddenlink cable provider now offers 1gig internet in my area. Time Warner/Spectrum cap at 400mbps at the same price. Just ordered a new modem and will be upgrading at the end of the month! We're also canceling cable TV... FINALLY. Fuckin' woohoo!
 
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Gamma Rays

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Well . . .

Yesterday afternoon a close by lightning strike killed my loungeroom PC. It sounded like a whip crack. It took a while to discover that it was the PC.

I spent the evening trying to work out what was my options as buying a replacement. A bunch of various options and conflicting ideas running through my head. The biggest concern was not just that, but the question of was the SSD okay??? If it is, then I need to buy an enclosure or something to have it as an external drive and get all my sweet sweet porn back - cough - I mean my important info and files. And in truth all the other things, my internet bookmarks / saved passwords / etc. A ton of work to get it kinda back to how it used to be.

I go to bed late and wake up at 3:00 am. My gaming PC! . . . that has a bunch of expansion slots etc. Plug the SSD into that and see if the files work. I get up and find the motherboard manual. The SSD drive is a M.2 drive = very small. The old PC is a Intel NUC skull canyon. The gaming PC can take a M.2 drive, I think "Fuck it, it's not like I'll go back to sleep until I know"

So the gaming PC is easy to open, I put the SSD in. Hoping that it will read it as an additional drive that I will be able to access. When I start it up . . . the SSD now is the priority drive and it loads and starts up as the old loungeroom PC. What??? Really?? It's all there and working fine. It was the simpliest thing I just had dropped the 'brain' into the different system.

So then from seeing how easily it loaded and worked, it gave me the confidence to straight up order a new Intel NUC, I was at the computer supplies store 1/2 hour after they opened. Took it home and just transfered the ram and the SSD in.

And it was that easy, everything is working just like nothing had gone wrong.

= Happy Gamma Rays.

Edit: A late thing I have found out, the installed version of windows isn't linked to this new machine, so it's looking like I need to purchase another copy to allow me to Activate windows. Still I'm way better off than having to buy a brand new machine.
 
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Edit: A late thing I have found out, the installed version of windows isn't linked to this new machine, so it's looking like I need to purchase another copy to allow me to Activate windows. Still I'm way better off than having to buy a brand new machine.
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You should be able to fix that. Somehow. Unfortunately I don't know how. We had our IT department fix it on some machines we sent out to customers. But when it happened to one of my machines, I just left it. The only downside I've seen so far is that I get nagged every time I boot up and I can't load a background wallpaper.
 
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Or you can use a program like 'ShowKeyPlus'.

Download and it and put it on a thumb drive. Boot from the old hard drive. Run it. Use the Save feature (save key to the thumb drive). Then boot from the current disk and register windows on the same machine with the key that belongs on it.

I keep this on thumb drive and use it on all the computers I interact with (repairs for friends, etc) and save the key with a meaningful filename.

You may also want to investigate some clone software such as Macrium Reflect. It could allow you to move an older drive onto newer and larger space with relative ease.
 
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You should be able to fix that. Somehow. Unfortunately I don't know how. We had our IT department fix it on some machines we sent out to customers. But when it happened to one of my machines, I just left it. The only downside I've seen so far is that I get nagged every time I boot up and I can't load a background wallpaper.
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You also won't receive windows updates. You can buy a key for Win 10 x64 Pro for ~$5 off ebay. Wanna say I paid $1.90 for my last copy. Built several machines for folks with those keys.

Your Windows license is tied to the motherboard. Motherboard has a unique "key" that Microsoft locks to your Windows license unless it's a volume or open license that can be used on any system, but only usable by one unique system at a time (transferable between devices when you swap out the motherboard).

Microsoft will also transfer your OEM license if you call them. Though expect to sit on the phone for 60-90 minutes. A fresh $2 license is a lot cheaper than my time.
 
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