+1. Seriously though, why does Cresteon have to be so damn complicated?

Nothing personal, but I can't believe I'm about to help an interior designer. I've spent quite a bit of time over the last few years arguing with others in your profession (form vs function stuff). I kid though, I'm sure you're a lovely person.

I worked as a technician and installer for a few years at a large company that did all sorts of A/V work, automation, and security. We wired houses and istalled massive, expensive systems for very wealthy clients, and even those things still kinda suck. Of the brands we used (Control4, ElanG!, Crestron, and Savant)…

WTF? I keep seeing all these pics and vids of Russian kids doing insane shit. Is it that boring over there? Are there no drugs?

I've been saying something similar for years. In my ideal world, we would toss them all out, then start over with mandatory one term limits, and bar them from lobbying for at least a decade. Career politicians shouldn't exist and the revolving door should be slammed shut as fast as possible.

It's so much fun. I recently built a small forge, ground an anvil out of a chunck of railroad track, and have hammered out a few small knives. Check out The Modern Blacksmiths YouTube channel for some ideas on how to get into it. Total blast.

As a fledgling amateur blacksmith, scotch lover, steak enthusiast, and general Bourdain fan, I approve of this video.

Who shit in your cereal? I'll agree that slurs are nasty, but that one didn't make any sense. I'm white; it would be like someone calling me a chink or a nigger. I would probably be more confused than insulted.

Well said.

Lighten up guys. I never said it was a good joke. Just keeping with the theme of the thread.

It looks a lot like a darker version of the Bleeding Edge armor from a couple of years ago. And I don't get all the confusion over the thigh missiles. In the Avengers movie Tony used them against a Leviathan.

I used to think that as well, but it's not necessarily true. Two people I know, neither of them in great shape but not at all fat or obese, and both in their early thirties, got the gout.

I always heard that joke with a French army rifle.

Perhaps I am. I think it more likely that the question was phrased poorly though.

I think he's talking about running SpeedTest from different locations and different ISPs and wanting to use latency (ping) as a sort of network speed indicator. Not that that makes any sense. Latency can be affected by any number of things and is not indicative of the speed of your connection. Sounds like he needs a…

Inconceivable!

What you just described was very different than the two sentences in your initial post. You can absolutely ping any device on your home network from another network to see what the latency between those is. What you are describing is (I think) pinging your ISPs servers, which is not the same as pinging your modem.

Yup, pretty much.

No, pinging your modem's IP from your laptop or other device never leaves your local network.

Coming from a guy that uses the term "iTards" and refers to himself as "the Kid", I'm going to guess that he overheard it somewhere and thought it would make him sound smart or important.