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First, the pictures - http://i.imgur.com/moKxZEU.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/XCtxuqg.jpg

Old, cheap $3 pair of Cube headphones found at Big Lots. Had them for years, cabling finally gave out. Came across a broken Polaroid PBT598 bluetooth speaker set, literally the only thing intact was the gumstick amp/bluetooth board, and even then it had damage, it having fried a couple of SMT capacitors, the battery and speaker trace pads were missing.

So, first order of business, get the SMT caps replaced. Easily done - just salvage components from various boards I've got around the house. Slightly trickier was exposing traces and fresh metal to solder to for battery and speaker connections. Making it fit required Dremel and hot glue work due to the shape of the headphones, and as a result the thing does look like a total hack job on the case itself.

But if I want to drown the world out in its entirety, 2x3w strapped to my head certainly does it. I can't hear my garbage disposal, vacuum cleaner, or even the neighbor's loud rap music. Volume has to be kept at pretty much 25% as anything higher, while clear (up to about 60%, then the poor speakers begin to distort) simply hurts.

"It sounds nice, but it isn't as simple as you make it sound."

They fear us, that's why the NSA and the TPP are trying to lock down everything, they are trying to strip us of our rights and control us and the information channels we communicate on because they are at their weakest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usbR_kKCDs

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They also are using it to try to lockdown the internet because they fear us politically waking up...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

https://i.imgur.com/9YQtetk.pn...

Plus the unholy G-fecta of Google DoubleClick, Google AdWords, and Google Analytics. Slashdot has really started piling on the ads and trackers lately. Ghostery doesn't block the player.ooyala.com junk yet, so I've done that at my edge name server (which handles wildcards and is far better than a h-sts file, lest our resident spamming kook get any ideas).

https://imgur.com/gallery/CLOx...

This covers most of what you'd want to know and look at regarding firearms statistics, both in the US and worldwide. Homicide vs gun ownership, gun assaults vs gun ownership, violent crime vs gun ownership; it compares the states within the US, all the OECD countries, and all countries. It shows what weapon is killing the most people and which people are the ones being killed. It even looks at mass shootings, including per capita rates, and overall number of deaths from mass shootings as a percentage of overall homicides.

Citations are included in most of everything, and numbers are usually taken from government bodies such as the FBI or CDC.

You should try contacting them, they do have international plugs. http://i.imgur.com/A1uYZk2.jpg

http://imgur.com/J16eFWa

"If our grandfathers and great-grandfathers could see just how many of the rights and freedoms they fought to protect have now been lost in the name of "safety" and "security", they'd turn in their graves."

Capitalism produces such things, the whole reason is because the rich fear the masses in a capitalist society. Masters vs slaves. Rich vs the rest. You and most people are going to find out too late what the NSA spying is really about.

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski worried people are waking up to how world works

Brezinski at a press conference

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news

Democracy inc

Shadow government

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Amazon

Look at the following graphs:

Graphs regarding distribution of wealth

Wealth @ UCSC.EDU

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Free trade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64

Empire of illusion

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Link

Link

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As I understand it, this is correct. Imgur does this so that http://i.imgur.com/qP4c9f8.gif and http://i.imgur.com/qP4c9f8.png both point to the same file, despite the difference in filetypes in the urls.

As I understand it, this is correct. Imgur does this so that http://i.imgur.com/qP4c9f8.gif and http://i.imgur.com/qP4c9f8.png both point to the same file, despite the difference in filetypes in the urls.

This was patched yesterday.

I've dealt with dozens of lightning strikes here in lightning prone South Florida.
Direct lightning strikes usually take out a Enet port on the switch and whatever is connected to the other end PC/laptop enet port.

Lost my laptop PCI cardbus bus devices, 1Gb enet, Wifi, memory card reader and a switch port on the other end.
Usually extra grounding, and multiple layers of surge suppressors/chokes protects my electronics.

Note: The ethernet spec, includes isolation requirements in the several Kilo Volt range. Thus something like this won't do much damage. You'll need something more like a HV stun weapon to do some real damage.

Like the person who posted the first message I saw on this topic (2 days ago):

"I'm not advocating violence but if you see him choking in a restaurant don't intervene. If you see him on fire, don't spit on him."

And another top comment :

"Oh no, immigrants, jobless people and the poors are ruining the country !"

http://i.imgur.com/K634Yg0.gif

"And your thesis that it's all leaders, sorry, it isn't - we elect them,"

Your thesis is incorrect...

World is fucked

American wealth distribution

Research

More on American wealth

Who rules america

Science on reasoning:

Science on reasoning

The real news

Article

" Cohen’s world seems to be one event like this after another: endless soirees for the cross-fertilization of influence between elites and their vassals, under the pious rubric of “civil society.” The received wisdom in advanced capitalist societies is that there still exists an organic “civil society sector” in which institutions form autonomously and come together to manifest the interests and will of citizens. The fable has it that the boundaries of this sector are respected by actors from government and the “private sector,” leaving a safe space for NGOs and nonprofits to advocate for things like human rights, free speech, and accountable government.

                This sounds like a great idea. But if it was ever true, it has not been for decades. Since at least the 1970s, authentic actors like unions and churches have folded under a sustained assault by free-market statism, transforming “civil society” into a buyer’s market for political factions and corporate interests looking to exert influence at arm’s length. The last forty years has seen a huge proliferation of think tanks and political NGOs whose purpose, beneath all the verbiage, is to execute political agendas by proxy.

                It is not just obvious neocon front groups like Foreign Policy Initiative.20 It also includes fatuous Western NGOs like Freedom House, where naïve but well-meaning career nonprofit workers are twisted in knots by political funding streams, denouncing non-Western human rights violations while keeping local abuses firmly in their blind spots. The civil society conference circuit—which flies developing-world activists across the globe hundreds of times a year to bless the unholy union between “government and private stakeholders” at geopoliticized events like the “Stockholm Internet Forum”—simply could not exist if it were not blasted with millions of dollars in political funding annually.

                Scan the memberships of the biggest US think tanks and institutes and the same names keep cropping up. Cohen’s Save Summit went on to seed AVE, or AgainstViolentExtremism.org, a long-term project whose principal backer besides Google Ideas is the Gen Next Foundation. This foundation’s website says it is an “exclusive membership organization and platform for successful individuals” that aims to bring about “social change” driven by venture capital funding.21 Gen Next’s “private sector and non-profit foundation support avoids some of the potential perceived conflicts of interest faced by initiatives funded by governments.”22 Jared Cohen is an executive member."

The relevant GIF

Portal 2 would be nice, but that's more of an ATI/AMD issue where I am currently standing...http://imgur.com/a/2Nd9h

Well would you look at that: http://i.imgur.com/YsNjWCc.png

Thanks for protecting me AVG. /sarcasm

good response. there is indeed obscure, difficult, fleeting, technically sophisticated, damage limited security breaches, and "oh my fucking god how could you screw up so badly" security breaches that any idiot can perform to get full access

getting the home screen after punching in a crazy long password is a really embarrassing fail on google's part

reminds me of "hacking" windows 98 security:

http://imgur.com/gallery/fqjnK

I can't even begin to tell you how much meh that fills me with.

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Majestic as fuck

Here's an example: http://i.imgur.com/0J1OQpI.jpg

http://imgur.com/jAGzqB4 It is NOT about climate or science, sorry.

The apple pencil, innovating as usual. -> http://imgur.com/vvQeJN7

"slide to unlock" innovation-> http://www.geek.com/apple/appl...

You know the list goes on...I wonder if apple truly invented anything at all...why most people buy into this garbage is really just a matter of observing chimps. One has a stick and a can and bangs the stick on the can, makes noise so everyone else wants it. they have no idea what to do with it but if you're a young woman with a slightly posh inclination chances are you have an iPhone. what do you use this magical device for? facebook.

Keep buying iThings and pay iPrices for devices made by exploited masses in China that cost a fraction of what you pay; get vendor lock-in, format-lock in sorry I mean "be part of the experience". Suckers.

Apple inventing and innovating, please...oh wait, didn't they invent rounded edges?

This made me laugh more than it probably should have:

Apple Pencil is $99

I just hope they don't start requiring an #2 Apple Pencil for standardized tests.

Why? Have you looked at some of Wacom's prices?

* https://store.wacom.com/us/accessories/pens/

I haven't seen what the capabilities of Apple's pen, so can't say which Wacom model it would best compare to.

This made me laugh more than it probably should have:

Apple Pencil is $99

I just hope they don't start requiring an #2 Apple Pencil for standardized tests.

You see a much different picture overall

https://research.stlouisfed.or...

https://research.stlouisfed.or...

And here's the chart

http://imgur.com/PA4QfSl

What you have is large numbers of guest/H1B workers being hired while the market for American born workers in any sector is dead stagnant since 2007
BTW thanks for the hope and change.

Source, in case anyone was wondering.

In case anyone was wondering...

From a physics standpoint you'll always lose.

http://i.imgur.com/PBpiGK0.jpg

Car from China. Bike from Germany.

I recently compiled this image to give a better indication on what's going on. If you think it's bad now, wait to around 50 years from now.

I've watched the country I loved (UK) slowly deteriorate. It's somewhat subtle at the moment (apart from in some areas such as Luton), but it can only get worse. Ireland too are going down the chute. The whole of Europe has it bad too, particularly Sweden.

Her shoes seem to be capable of outside use and were 3d printed...

Picard's method is the Runge-Kutta method. http://i.imgur.com/eDucjAd.png

Or... http://i.imgur.com/pNKHnk1.png.

in case you were looking for the logo here it is.
https://m.imgur.com/XaIWseY

Sure seems like shit huh? Of course it's not bad for a 2 year old machine now is it. And I am testing the new 15.8 beta drivers, and can't be bothered to install the previous beta. The new ones have an occasional hitching problem. I figure sometime mid next year or late next year I'll have to upgrade, unless the hardware coming out really doesn't strike my fancy.

So yeah, you still want to give me that money?

Even preferring your source's figures to what Netflix tells you when you select your streaming quality, you couldn't be bothered to get it right. The scumball site you're seo'ing for says 5Mbps, which would mean 2.25GB/hr and average video consumption time at that rate would blow Comcast's cap.

You do know that cordcutters who use their streaming subscriptions, HD at 3GB/hr, four hours a day [google.com], already blows that cap, right? That that's just for one person at less than the national average video usage per day? What they're doing is stifling competition that hasn't really gotten traction yet. There's a term for that: monopolizing the market. It makes things scarce, it makes them expensive, and it makes them bad.

I don't pay for a "license to tether", I pay for an unlimited _data_ plan.

Right there in the promotional text, though, it says in bold all-caps "ON-SMARTPHONE ONLY". That's what they advertise, that's what they sell, that's what you pay for. Don't shit on the one carrier who's actually up front with their customers about what they're selling just because they don't sell what you want and threaten to terminate your service when you try to take it anyway.

If somebody says my unlimited data plan has tethering restricted, it's pretty much the same that saying my unlimited data plan can only be used if I use it on a 386 machine, or that I can only use it for certain hours of the day, or that I must use my mobile computer with a blindfold for the unlimited part to kick in.

Do you also bitch at McDonalds that you deserve unlimited Big Macs and fries because the Big Mac meal you bought included a drink with unlimited refills? After all, the drink can't really be unlimited if the burger and fries it was sold with are limited, right?

Can you see the point I'm making?

Yes, I see the point you're trying to make. It's wrong, but I see it.

Because if you can't, I'm sorry but you have a blindfold yourself placed on you by corporate interests.

No, I just read what I'm paying for before I pay for it. Unlimited mobile data, not unlimited tethered data. It's spelled out very clearly in all of the marketing materials I've seen. In fact, here's what's on their website right now. It's not even fine print, it's written larger, and in a higher contrast color scheme, than the promotional text on the button you click to select the plan. I'd say they're doing a shit job of hiding it if that's what they're after.

https://i.imgur.com/94GFNGX.jpg

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