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Re:Also affects normal people
"I distrust ALL modern USA political parties/movements, and evaluate individual politicians instead."
Then you really don't understand your political interest as a non rich person. Big business interests are allayed against the common man.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Also affects normal people
"I distrust ALL modern USA political parties/movements, and evaluate individual politicians instead."
Then you really don't understand your political interest as a non rich person. Big business interests are allayed against the common man.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Wondering what the root cause of that issue was
Sounds like calibration issues to me.
Sing it: Caaalibration time, come on!...
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Re:generates four times the energy of nuclear fiss
You cannot "generate" energy. Not one time, not four times.
Okay, Pedantic Avenger... how about using the utopian word 'liberate'... as if the anthropomorphically infused energy was kicking and screaming to get out? You could even have it breathe a sigh of relief and grin and bow to everyone like a genie.
In addition to pursuing the promise of liberating 4 times the energy that could theoretically but not practically be produced in today's water cooled solid fuel fission reactors... how about finding a way to increase fuel burn efficiency from their abysmal ~0.5-0.7% to something in, say, the high 90%s? Like one hundred times better?
Of course I'm talking about fuel dissolved in molten salts. Uranium burners like ThorCon now with a concerted effort to achieve the dream laid out (and prototyped) by Alvin Weinberg in the '60s, Thorium breeders that actively process salts to remove long-lasting products... to achieve a ~300 year walk-away-safe waste profile. Literally the best idea, ever! And if we do it before China does, we may even jump out in front again and save ourselves from financial ruin. Another plus.
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"DID SOMEONE SAY THORIUM?" TIME ONCE AGAIN FOR CONFESSIONS OF A SLASHDOT ENERGY AND LFTR FANBOI... Updated again! All original unless noted! Browse! Engage! Plagiarize!
My June 2017 letter to Energy Secretary Perry was focused on the vulnerability of US natural gas. It is a great pain to state the obvious, but necessary because utility wind and solar has made faux-environmentalists into useful idiot 'crypto-advocates' of gas grid generation. We are on the cusp where a coordinated attack on the gas distribution network in a few places would trigger cascading grid failure, as distant gas plants operating directly from the pipelines drop offline and stay offline for days or weeks. This sentiment has since taken shape as the Trump Administration proposes ways to protect utilities able to stockpile 90 days of fuel, and encourage them to do so. It comes down to a simple question: Can you supply a compelling reason why the United States electric grid should fail completely within hours of a relatively simple attack?
This letter of mine has been in Donald Trump's possession since May 2, 2016 . If you read it you may discover why I considered Trump the only candidate worthy of such a message. In his pronouncement to pursue energy self-sufficiency in general and consider nuclear an essential part of the mix, there is hope. The others offer nothing but more years of bad road and an obscenely stupid fixation on base load irredeemables (wind and solar). Trump is literally the only one with the courage to stand up to the tripe.
In 2013 I reached out to Senator Inhofe to propose an energy path for Oklahoma and the country.
Also in 2013 I reached out directly to Halliburton Corporate with a very specific idea that just might have laid groundwork for their secure long-term future. At the time their stock was climbing towards $70 and they probably thought they didn't have a care in the world. Not so good now. Not a glimmer from this one either. I had high hopes for it.
Mentioned in these letters is Faulkner's 2005 paper on Electric (HVDC) pipelines, and the two hour Thorium Remix 2011 video presentation (time index below).
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Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings
>"autism or not, reason should override "feelings" "
Common issue nowadays. These two videos explain it better than I can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings
>"autism or not, reason should override "feelings" "
Common issue nowadays. These two videos explain it better than I can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Hate Tesla
"Hell, you can even weld two halves of two salvage vehicles together to make one that works. That's called ownership. " thats sounds more like a accident waiting to happen and "rip off the customer" territory. Knowledge is the thing, if you don;t know what you are doing with ICE, you won't be able to repair it either. You might want to watch this on how to modify a Tesla https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Questionable test
They're asking whether you should buy them or not. That they might work in lab conditions is great, but using (not testing) in a realistic setting to do realistic tasks they're clearly short.
Here's MacRumor's take on them. They pretty much come to the same conclusion - skip the Pixel Buds and if you want this kind of thing, then pick the AirPods. Now yes, it's MacRumors but they've recommended 3rd party above Apple in the past.
For myself I have a set of Jaybird BlueBuds X, the first version pre-Logitech, and use them with some Comply Foam ear tips. Sounds great, and for me whilst I've not actually owned any 'truly wireless' I feel I'd prefer the cord which I links the ear pieces together, purely so I can keep track of of them and not lose anything. Other people's preference my vary of course. -
Re:Just Take Ownership Of Being A God Damn Man
Yes, he say that.
Now here is Bob Saget's take on this sort of attitude. -
Re:So fusion power in 20 years, right?
Well, the late Dr. Robert Bussard would have disagreed with you.
He goes into this with several questions in the Q&A section near the end of this talk at about 1:20. I watched the talk before and I'm pretty sure that he made mention of this earlier too, but I'm not going to watch the whole thing again to catch every mention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...He predicts the USA will fund, or even license, this research only after someone in China proves it works. I believe he was right.
Oh, and I'd think that he'd know what he was talking about. He worked for what was then called the Atomic Energy Commission. His last job, before he died, was in private industry trying to get the government to allow him to continue his research. He did as much research on fusion energy as the government would allow in his 50 year career, which wasn't much. If there was more research in the ten years or so since he died, outside of the tokamak, then the government has been real quiet about it.
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Re:60k
***CDREIMER submissions alert!!! please pay attention to the submissions update***
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!
SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!creimer wrote:
I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise
Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost
creimer dumb fuck wrote:
All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."
But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:
https://school.discoveryeducat...Creimy acting in educational resource document, he actually confirmed himself on Slashdot that he was handled by Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education! He is really a king Dumpty!:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu... -
Re:60k
***CDREIMER submissions alert!!! please pay attention to the submissions update***
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!
SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!creimer wrote:
I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise
Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost
creimer dumb fuck wrote:
All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."
But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:
https://school.discoveryeducat...Creimy acting in educational resource document, he actually confirmed himself on Slashdot that he was handled by Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education! He is really a king Dumpty!:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu... -
I'm reminded of this John Oliver bit
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Re:San Bernadino all over again
Yea... I want to graduate to 16 bombs in one month like Sweden has done. This pansy ass gun stuff is too slow!!!
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Re:Explain these goddamn acronyms!
The situation is exactly analogous to this video
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If so, what kinds of robots should take over?
Contrast Samsung's Automated Machine Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With Volvo's City Safety system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...They are essentially the same vision system technology, just embodied in different ways for different purposes by engineering teams with different geo-eco-political concerns and world views.
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If so, what kinds of robots should take over?
Contrast Samsung's Automated Machine Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With Volvo's City Safety system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...They are essentially the same vision system technology, just embodied in different ways for different purposes by engineering teams with different geo-eco-political concerns and world views.
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Re:The system works as intended...
The inventors of the TV also thought it would be used for the average person to see plays
Well, yeah...
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Re:You get what you pay for
There's no need to be upset
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Rich people with too much cash and freetime ...
... buy expensive toy, expensive toy does not make them happy.
They blame the company which made the toy.
Hey it reminds me of a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Extruding lumps
If only they would give us a lumpy sheet of glass.
There was supposed to be a touch screen that would extrude temporary lumps when the virtual keyboard popped up, so that the user could feel whether his thumbs were correctly lined up over each key. (See video: Tactus Morphing Touchscreen Keyboard hands-on (2013, 2:54)) But it never ended up coming to market.
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Re:Hate Tesla
Why do so many people hate Tesla?
Teslas are expensive as hell to repair.
$10,000 for a scratch:
https://forums.tesla.com/forum...$34,000 for a minor bump
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Re:Why the FOSS movement is small and obscure
Stallman doesn't support open source shoes. Now open toes , that's entirely different.
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"Order it to disarm the missiles" disorder
SUBTLE ORIGIN of "Order it to disarm the missiles disorder":
In the final moments of the movie War Games, the protagonist is engaged in a methodical side-channel attack. He successfully completes a step and at the first indication of success Top Brass takes over and issues a blatant over the top direct command, triggering an access alarm and risking total lockout.
HOW THIS APPLIES TO COMMUNITY INTERNET INITIATIVES:
Advocates engage in a methodical effort to provide community Internet access, overcoming on-ramp costs, equipment funding and line of sight terrain until a critical mass is achieved. On ribbon cutting day... as a band plays, a sedate ceremony is performed in which one's ability to load a Wikipedia page, access a Gopher server, check email and access the AP news wire is demonstrated. The current temperature and weather forecast is retrieved, which causes a murmur of excitement in the crowd and a round of applause.
"Order it to disarm the missiles!"
Everyone jumps onto Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube... sets HD exceed-your-screen-resolution video 'on' and binge-watches 'Ow My Balls' type videos. The community network collapses in a shower of sparks, homework remains undone and a new generation of children dangles their useless account-disabled smartphones in front of cats, who play with them.
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Re:1950s technology
And here's a video of a plasma speaker interfering with an AM radio
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Re:Just Come to Canada
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Appropriate timely short film...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Well produced, and worth watching if you have a taste for almost-not-fiction science fiction.
Ryan Fenton
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Re:What a waste!
...read that in the voice from 'Terrible Secret of Space'. It fit.
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Oblg. "Its a trap!"
The skeptical side of my is saying "It's a trap!"
The practical side of me is suspending judgement and waiting to see how this play outs because MS, at this point, has ZERO confidence that they won't hijack this.
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ACs are lying, shilling trolls.
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Re:Are we crossing into Witch Hunt territory here?
/sarcasm Apparently you didn't get the memo. A white male simply saying "Hello!" to a femnazi is now considered "threatening."
It would be funny if weren't so sad.
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Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes
(theory always loses to practice)
Which is why I'm not ruling out we go back to tribalism, feudalism, monarchies, imperialism, authoritarianism, etc. like how we practiced for THOUSANDS of years before the US was founded.
Corruption being bad is just a theory. In practice corruption is a part of the system (paraphrasing CGP grey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...)
All real world flavors of Marxism contain a key unfixable flaw. Excessive concentration of power, which then corrupts. Game over.
That's not a flaw of Marxism. That's a flaw of power itself. Power has a nasty habit of concentrating itself, no matter how you try to design a system to keep it in check. The US Constitution was supposed to keep the government in check. The US now has that huge government that conservatives complain about to no end
In *theory* everybody would follow the Constitution and things would work fine. In *practice* they don't.
The friendly story itself is evidence that even a private company working in a capitalist mostly-free market will become corrupted if it gets a little bit of power (read: twitter got some power over who gets publicity on the Internet, now they're using that power to become gatekeepers)
Hey, I personally don't like those things of course, but I'm just saying if we take an objective look, then things don't look good for liberty and all that nice sounding platitudes.
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Re:OH right...no shifting???
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Re:social engineering
So......there were only elections in 18 countries last year? Is that it?
Seriously, the only reason Trump is president is because he was better at social engineering than Clinton. And I have to hand it to Obama, he pushed that "Hope and Change" meme better than anyone before him ever has. It's all been done before, though.Strange you should mention that.
There are essentially only two ways to lead, all other ways end up being boiled down into these two very broad categories, you can lead through hope or you can lead through fear.
Obama tried to give the US hope when it was in dire need of it, and he succeeded spectacularly.
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Re: Idiots
Because of the idiotic First Past the Goal Post voting system which degenerates into a 2 party system.
The solution is to use an Alternative Vote system but the majority of Americans are too fucking stupid to:
a) understand the problem, and
b) do anything to fix the problem.so they end up with the "best" government money can buy!
Not quite. most countries use Instant Runoff Voting that deal with the issues of FPTP. The problem with the US isn't the FPTP system, its electoral councils and PAC's. What the US needs to do is: 1. Kill the electoral collage and go straight to direct voting. The most votes for congressional candidate John Jackson in the electorate of whatever, Ohio means that Jack Johnson wins it. The most votes for senatorial candidate Jack Johnson in Ohio means he wins and if you want to keep voting directly for your president the most votes for Steve Steveman in the federal election means he's president. This is closer to the French system than the Westminster system we have in the UK and commonwealth mainly because we dont vote directly for the PM/Prez. A federal leader who does not win the popular vote should not be win if you're voting direct for a leader, said leaders power should be limited and balanced by the senate and congress.
2. Kill PACs and limit lobbying. This includes capping party donations for both private individuals and organisations. In fact that should be the first thing done because it'll kill a lot of lobbying in itself.
2.a, limit political advertising and force the organisation who paid for it to be clearly stated at the end.
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Re: Idiots
Because of the idiotic First Past the Goal Post voting system which degenerates into a 2 party system.
The solution is to use an Alternative Vote system but the majority of Americans are too fucking stupid to:
a) understand the problem, and
b) do anything to fix the problem.so they end up with the "best" government money can buy!
Not quite. most countries use Instant Runoff Voting that deal with the issues of FPTP. The problem with the US isn't the FPTP system, its electoral councils and PAC's. What the US needs to do is: 1. Kill the electoral collage and go straight to direct voting. The most votes for congressional candidate John Jackson in the electorate of whatever, Ohio means that Jack Johnson wins it. The most votes for senatorial candidate Jack Johnson in Ohio means he wins and if you want to keep voting directly for your president the most votes for Steve Steveman in the federal election means he's president. This is closer to the French system than the Westminster system we have in the UK and commonwealth mainly because we dont vote directly for the PM/Prez. A federal leader who does not win the popular vote should not be win if you're voting direct for a leader, said leaders power should be limited and balanced by the senate and congress.
2. Kill PACs and limit lobbying. This includes capping party donations for both private individuals and organisations. In fact that should be the first thing done because it'll kill a lot of lobbying in itself.
2.a, limit political advertising and force the organisation who paid for it to be clearly stated at the end.
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Overages
Fun fact: if you leave your Tesla parked at a supercharging station for more than five minutes after it has charged, they charge you a $0.40/minute fee. Automatically billed to your credit card on file, which is required for using a supercharger.
But what happens if you own a Tesla that has been rebuilt?
(Car Guru - love this guy)
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Re:How do they figure it's cheaper than Rail
Here's a great video that explains a lot of the cost factors in rail:
tl;dr highlights
Staff - rail has more people involved (on train, at stations, maintenance)
Usage - trains have to accommodate peak usage, but spend a lot of time way below capacity.
Land acquisition - land has to be bought initially
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Re:In the era before the INTERNET
I assumed that you were linking to something original, not some imitation stealing the original work.
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Re:The moral of the story
No, they don't. That the troubling thing - all they care about now is attacking their political enemy. And they do this directly, but also indirectly by promoting an environment that is anathema to them, eg Islamification - the left and progressives will be hurt the most if Sharia law ever gets implemented, but they are the ones screeching the loudest to allow it to happen. Blindly setting an agenda of enablement for some truly horrific things to take place, with impunity.
Watch this, its a history of a UK guy who is vilified, here he talks about what drove him to become like he is. It isn't some innate racism that makes him hate extremists and decide to do something about it - it was that he saw the extremists committing crimes and the police and authorities basically looking the other way (for fear of being called racist themselves).
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"Century of Self" Documentary
If you haven't seen it already, you really need to see it.
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Brilliant
Build a boutique, experimental (dangerous as fuck*) transport system in a country where things like clean water, sanitation, basic education, and electricity are still not a "given" for a billion people.
*Think I'm wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Jesus wept.
A friend worked for large multinational firewall vendor, as the primary tech sales lead for S & SE Asia. He said that he could hardly bear it, slogging into some shitville city to install $100,000+ firewall equipment in some school building, where the power cables were literally lying in the mud in the street, trailing in the door, and running to what looked like a birdnest of a power box.
Oh, and it wasn't infrequent that they were installing firewalls on government contracts WHERE THERE WAS NO SERVER TO PROTECT ("Yet!" said the local government functionary, optimistically). -
Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes
I picked a link at random (#4) and after 10 seconds of Googling, I found a video of the guy explaining that he dressed up as a nazi to see if the people in the rally would disavow him (he claims they did).
So, he says he's not a nazi; he says the people at the rally disavowed him being a part of their group; and he says people like you are taking it out of context. You are doing a wonderful job giving credibility to the very people you seemingly disagree with.
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Re:Depends your status.
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social engineering
So......there were only elections in 18 countries last year? Is that it?
Seriously, the only reason Trump is president is because he was better at social engineering than Clinton. And I have to hand it to Obama, he pushed that "Hope and Change" meme better than anyone before him ever has. It's all been done before, though. -
Re: Idiots
Because of the idiotic First Past the Goal Post voting system which degenerates into a 2 party system.
The solution is to use an Alternative Vote system but the majority of Americans are too fucking stupid to:
a) understand the problem, and
b) do anything to fix the problem.so they end up with the "best" government money can buy!
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Re: Idiots
Because of the idiotic First Past the Goal Post voting system which degenerates into a 2 party system.
The solution is to use an Alternative Vote system but the majority of Americans are too fucking stupid to:
a) understand the problem, and
b) do anything to fix the problem.so they end up with the "best" government money can buy!
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Re:Who cares if the phone companies can block them
Does anyone know of an app which generates the "number has been disconnected" tones
You are looking for the Special Information Tones (SIT) that communicates that information. There are sound files on the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_information_tones). You likely want to use the "Vacant Code" like the old TeleZappers.
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Still missing things... apk
See subject & https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11356847&cid=55564827/ & nice add of curl (wget works too) on my suggestion + you need ping, sudo/su, nice + more (I always end up having to help you rearchitect your errors - don't feel bad - I did that for years for junior programmers).
* Where's your GUI (I could add argc/argv commandlines to mine but seemed like a risk)?
(I'd also say where's your single part multithreaded/multitasking
APK
P.S.=> James Dean (lol) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7guzEuV7j9c/ - that's me. what can I say? The Eagles said it best "You were the low down rebel even IF you had no cause - sockhop, sodapop, basketball & autoshop - the ONLY THING that got you off was BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES!"... apk
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Re:Who cares if the phone companies can block them
Does anyone know of an app which generates the "number has been disconnected" tones in response to an incoming phone call? I'm reluctant to change my voicemail to that because I do occasionally get real voicemails.
Most telemarketers just ignore that SIT tone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_information_tones, so it won't do any good.
