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So Giantdwarf wasn't intentional.....I did wonder

So......you've got a bite and here it comes.

I used to fix SMT stuff back in the day, I never wore an earth strap, I never took precautions and aside from the odd grab of a capacitor that hadn't discharged (and yes, it hurts), I never fried any components with static. I've built PC's, back in the day when nicked car stereo's and Reebok pump were all the rage, and never had an issue. I vacuum my PC, it's turned off, but I've never, ever had a problem and I really get stuck in with the hose.

Unless you are Captain Sparky, just dust blow it and suck up the expelled mess with a vacuum cleaner.
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Cue a story from someone about the day the fried a CPU with a static discharge.

From what I have seen over my life......Static damage is very person dependant.......I've worked with 3 people who we never let anywhere near anything static sensitive as they blew everything they touched if not fully strapped up and everything done absolutely by the book.......wasn't worth the hassle so we had the "normal" people fix anything sensitive and banished the static freaks to somewhere less sensitive.

Strangely one of them got a shock from a 5v fuse holder one night ...... When I touched it I could feel nothing......we got one of the other oddjobs over and he got a shock also.......we dismounted it and meggered it and compared to a new one and the holder was lower resistance than it should have been - so......if you can feel 5v then you are a freak of nature and shouldn't go near anything sensitive .....if you're normal then just take the basic precautions and discharge yourself regularly to something earthed.

Unplug the PC, take it in the shower, wash it out. Leave it in the airing cupboard. Job done.











*May not work for all PC's. Please check with your PC supplier before using harmful things like soap.

You forgot to add that conditioner is important.....gets the tangles out of the cables

Nizzel - warlock

If the police are not shooting to kill then they should not be shooting.........this is not some John Wayne film where you shoot the dollar coin from someones finger tips - it is aim for the centre of the body and pull the trigger repeatedly until they stop being a threat.

As for deserving to die ? After hacking a man to death in the street ...... they most certainly do - they should be hanging on the end of a rope i'm afraid with the only redemption for them available from a higher power. They gave up their "human rights" the second they killed the poor bloke.

I am equally disgusted at the numerous onlookers who stood aside and watched what was going on ( except the 3 ladies who did step in at great danger to themselves ) .........every single one of them standing and watching to later repeat the drama to their mates or even more sickeningly videoing it to put on Facebook to share with their friends - this society is sick and i'm not sure it is only the extremists that are sick.

Lol. I know what you mean. Happens to me alot.. in the bedroom. Anyhow;

Gz RGT!! Well done indeed.

Is this a solo experience ?.......

Bt Infinity will still be on your phone line from the local street box - they can't put it down the nice fibre that you use for Virgin.

BT's support is awful.....really bad

Plusnet - i know several people using Plusnet....and to date i have heard only good about them.....no idea why.

Thank you Smilodon

Niel

Firstly, although Puja will not see this post, I wish him all the best wherever he goes.

Now I'll throw my tuppence in and call it the way I saw it.

Jas is correct in saying that personal issues should be dealt with privately in the first instance.   That's the dMw way, it's the the way we have always done it and it works for a reason.   If you want to bitch about someone, take it up with them privately in the first instance and try and resolve it.

Re the Council encounter:
I questioned why we lost some people on the previous try and discover that in a fight where there are multiple healing priorities that none had been set and that healers had been freelancing.
I say we need to set priorities to avoid both healers randomly dealing with the same priority and both ignoring another (which is why we lose people).
I'm told in absolute terms that it is impossible to do with a healing assignment and that I don't know what I am talking about.
I respond with "Why?", twice.  

If that approach is wrong and if that is the wrong way to speak to people then I'm afraid you may need to find yourself a new raid leader because I'll not be doing it any more.  I tried to ensure that my personal frustration with the stupidity of the statement was not evident on TS until after Puja left, as I did not want to inflame his obviously elevated stress levels.    Puja's had these fits about once per expansion so far and always at the point where I have challenged or disagreed with a statement he has made, but logging of and quitting is not the way to deal with it.

Prior to his argument with me at Council, Jas had already had to speak to Puja and calm him down during Horridon.
During discussion after the raid we discovered that during the raid and before Council, two other officers both considered giving Puja a private warning for comments made in healer channel about other raid members.  
As Guru put it, Puja seemed to waiting for a 'spark' which I dutifully provided when I challenged his statement that the fight was impossible with healing assignments.

RGT is built on questioning things and understanding why we fail.  That empowers us to succeed.   If we cannot question things we may as well give up.   RGT has worked well for years on the basis that everyone knows everything & everyone is up for discussion.   DMR made significant changes when the BWD tier was launched, one of which was to become very much more organised and focused - we introduced healing assignments for example on every boss and by & large they are still in place on every boss we do (until we LOL them through on farm).   The 'jump' in raid progress showed the results and I stand by the statement I made last night: "do you really think that DREAM Paragon go into a progress fight and freelance it without healing assignments?"

To simply state point blank that a fight is impossible with a healing assignment priority is so contrary to my belief so as to almost be unbelievable.  

If that level of questioning and challenge is beyond the raid then I will happily step down.   I am more than delighted to see anyone else who wants the raid leader job put their hat in the ring right now in this thread.

@Hubbah: Yes I got frustrated with Slush bringing Jas into the argument, it was not relevant as the issue was Puja not Jas.   At that point (after Puja left TS) I was indeed frustrated so I apologise to you Slush for being short/rude, but I (and others in Council) did not see how Jas was relevant to an issue with Puja so we saw it as a confusing misdirect.   I'm also not sure what you mean by "how he is being treated"?   We've pretty much been spectators as he quit TS, left the raid, logged off from the game.   We've even tried through Jas to reach out to him, but he decided to gquit.   I'm not sure what else you would have us do?

I promised to post no more......my original post has been removed as i assume it was classed as "abusive"......however, this post remains here..........i have complained about it - and it is still here ....so it is going to get the answer that it has needed since you posted it up in a place that you thought i could not see it. Pretty cowardly is the way i see it.........you would never dare say this to me directly. As for the "facts" within it........contrived and twisted at best.

"If you want to bitch about someone, take it up with them privately in the first instance and try and resolve it" - and then you proceed to bitch and tell fibs about me.......live by the same rules as everyone else TL ? Yes, i forgot....you don't have to do you.

"I tried to ensure that my personal frustration with the stupidity of the statement was not evident on TS until after Puja left, as I did not want to inflame his obviously elevated stress levels." - Now, where do i start with this.
Ok :-
 
1. your "personal frustration"  was more than evident, as it is EVERY time ANYONE dare disagree with you - you think yourself above question and above reproach. Try opening your mind and not your mouth.

2. My statement was not "stupid".....maybe to your ears - but so has every other suggestion put forward where you talk it down and then once it is actually adopted you issue a grumbling acknowledgement. Your complete lack of respect for someone who has been with this raid group constantly and has healed us through EVERY single encounter we have ever done ....... and you have not........ you dare to call my opinion stupid on a public forum when actually my knowledge of what we are doing is ahead of and more current than yours - rather than try to understand why an experienced person would say that you try to batter them down with your lesser-informed opinion - the cheek of you is outstanding.....but not surprising.

3. My obviously elevated stress levels ? - my only stress levels at the time were with you and your downright rude approach to anyone saying anything to you.....i am not some unstable weak minded idiot and your insinuation here is pretty disgusting.

"Puja's had these fits about once per expansion so far and always at the point where I have challenged or disagreed with a statement he has made" - Is that so......name the occasions and the reasons. Think about them and i think you'll find that the only "fits" that i have had has been trying to get anything through your stubborn, obstinate thick skin  - you are an incredibly narrow minded person with absolutely no intention of ever listening to anyone but yourself.

"Prior to his argument with me at Council, Jas had already had to speak to Puja and calm him down during Horridon." - Untrue......fabricated twist on some comments made in dmrhealz channel that is nowhere near the truth.

"During discussion after the raid we discovered that during the raid and before Council, two other officers both considered giving Puja a private warning for comments made in healer channel about other raid members." - strange how this is "after the event" because i and others can think of nothing to which you refer.....seems a bit of a pattern here ?

Again - you try to back up your objection to my statement about "THAT" fight based on completely unrelated info - assignments are very lose on that fight - because they have to be....simples......you go heal it and maybe you'd find out. We killed it the week before.....and each attempt improved until the kill.......to your thinking that should never have happened because the healers were "not organised"........as i state above - we've been more than organised the last 2 years and done quite well thanks without you telling us which button to click and when.

"If that level of questioning and challenge" - this one is staggering....coming from you of all people - the one man incapable of dealing with questions and challenges within the raid without going seriously on the attack.

After i left....you then took it out on others in the raid.


Now - i really don't expect this post to last long in the public eye. However, this is the answer you are getting after posting the above twisted version that suits your own mind in a public arena whilst any post i have made that was no more insulting than yours were removed.

So, my advice to you

1. Don't fabricate events to suit how you want them to be
2. Have more respect for the people you are raiding with
3. Speak less
4. Listen more
5. Repeat to yourself 10 times before joining a raid .."I do not know everything"

Do the above and i'm sure you'll improve with time.

Until then you can stick the above post where it don't shine

This is a very harsh post - but reading it through i can see nothing i would want to delete as i think it all relevant.

Adios DMR

Niel

EDIT - More than willing to discuss anything with you and defend everything said here - unlikely i am guessing.

More than willing to discuss it with you directly.

Forum access removal - fine by me.....completely understand it. However comments about me made there that i am aware of will still need to be defended.

I'll be posting nothing more here about this so you can stop worrying about me stirring up trouble on here.

Cheers

Niel

Many thanks for your kind messages in the DMR channel that i can't see.

It seems some clarification is required......so here is some......as politely as i can make it.

1. My reason for leaving the raid last night - nothing to do with a disagreement, nothing to do with not "being right"........my "blew my top" frustration was prompted 100% not by the response but the tone of the response and the way things are said. The discussion of healing assignments - yes, pretty much a good idea and as a general rule 100% right. However, last week when we did kill it we started out the tries and we defaulted to what we would normally do......Rhoda was on Whytee as focus and Hal was mine with general raid healing. All sorted  ?....NO. It was a nightmare. What we morphed to was BOTH of the healers focussing Whytee and doing what they could elsewhere but the situation is so flexible that we really had to "use the force" to keep it ticking over....and we succeeded. Like it or not you have to rely on the skill of the people to make the decisions on the fly......and you'll find that often people can do it. It is not a "stupid" statement to say for THAT fight that fixed assignments are not flexible enough........to call such a suggestion "stupid" without listening is showing a complete lack of respect.

2. Me being overly dramatic last night/frequently - was my frustration a result of a one-off clash with TL ? No. I'm a big boy and welcome discussion and can also understand the desire not to spend forever talking over points. However, TL you often do condescend to people and talk to them in a way to put them down.......this is not helpful nor conducive to a reasoned conversation.......people too often shut off their mics for the good of the guild. This means that it is very difficult with you to put ANY ideas forward as often your first reaction is to put it down and belittle people on TS .......people including myself inwardly sigh and bottle it up as it's a fight not worth having even though good ideas are put forward that often later get taken up - but its the pain of getting there that is annoying.........i'm afraid my bottle got broken last night and i lost the ability to be as diplomatic with you as normal and my only option was to get out asap before i really said something to regret........it really was best i left the raid at that point.

3. My reason for leaving the guild - just to clarify this- not as a direct result of the "falling out". This was a direct result of my discussion with Jas and as earlier stated all was fine in our long conversation until right at the end when he told me that i should basically apologise for everything and completely dismissing many of the things that we had been discussing that he agreed with.

4. Am i a "loose cannon" looking to cause trouble - In my opinion no. I believe in my and everyone else's right to have an opinion - no need to fall out over things......but i also believe in trying to be diplomatic in doing so. We are all adults and should be treated as such...........i expect to be treated with respect - and if this means you have to bite your tongue a little and choose your words more carefully with me as i might have to do with you...then do it - I do


Did i want to lave dmr ? no. But i felt little option given the circumstances as the following applies.....

1. I do not accept the fault that it was me alone that caused last nights "situation" and as such cannot apologise for it alone. To call my opinion "stupid" in a locked away post after the event merely reinforces this one for me.

2. I have spoken to the "officers" about the way people are spoken to as it has regularly been unacceptable.....nothing changed.

Anyway - thanks for the good times and cheers.

Niel

Hi All,

Apologies for leaving the raid early - very overly dramatic etc etc etc.....but i had ran out of juice i am afraid and i am pretty ok at the job i do in the raid guild as far as healing goes and have an expectation that my opinion on my job in the raid should be listened to properly.
 
As explained to jas my meter had ran out of change as i expect a certain level of respect when being spoken to and do not appreciate being spoken down to repeatedly ( and this is by no means the first occasion and it is something very regular )......this is something many have suffered from and i am afraid it should not be that way.

Now.....after a long discussion with Jas we were at the position of everything being ok....but to be told that i should apologise to all as seemingly i was the one in the wrong and we make allowances for someone else's "special ways" is just not good enough and this unfortunately lead me to leave the guild as i see no way forward with this.

Don't be strangers and see you all around i am sure.

Cheers

Niel

EDIT - TL  - i do appreciate that you do an awful lot of work on behalf of the guild in DMR. It's a thankless task with lots of annoyances. However, you do have a habit of talking down to people that is difficult for people to take as the tone and the message is in way condescending way targetted to put people down whether you mean it that way or not......that's how it comes across.

Wondering how long before this post is deleted

Hi Jason,

Disappointed with the reason given as to why you had to leave Equanimity - there was nothing anti-Scottish about it and why you would state on an app here that it was is odd. The reason for your departure was that the officers of Equa were presented with a situation whereby the majority of the raid team were absolutely unwilling to continue raiding with a small group of people who had set themselves as a mini-guild within the guild as a whole ......what was viewed by many as a small core of selfish,rude and downright belligerent small group caused such problems that it was going to destroy he whole guilds raid team...........a decision had to be made and it was and the group were "invited" to leave one evening ........not a great thing to do but the level of feeling was so high that it was the only decision possible. We all remember things differently don't we ...........but I remember this one pretty well as I was one of the people that took the decision and in the same situation would make the same decision a lot more quickly as it was a major bump in the road of Equa. It was the only time that anything like this was ever done in Equa and removing people even singly was a very rare event.

Cheers

Niel

(Puja,Nizzel,Purplemist,Nixxel )

Likely that i am running a little late and will not make the start......will be happy to log on and help if required once home but as i am still in the office and not likely to leave before 7pm with an eta home @ 8:15pm or so then will be about an hour or so late.

Cheers

Niel

I have 3 shards on my warlock .......count me in