...and it turns out it only takes 1-3 percent of victims to pay up to make it seriously worth the fraudsters' while
You mean to say that if I demand that a hundred people each send me a lot of money, and one to three of them do... those one to three people are going to... send me a lot of money?? (Is this that "math" thing I've heard so much about?!:p)
One could say the same thing about MANY things that our lives depend on. Oxygen, water, amino acids, etc.
So... you're comparing these essential, necessary things to a toxic (and no doubt highy carcinogenic) man-made substance... and let me guess: you don't see the flaw in your line of reasoning?:p
I would locate to the Northeast along the I-95 corridor since there are tons & tons of jobs there.
Hmm, the same exact place I left years ago for reasons which have only grown exponentially since then; needless to say I haven't looked back...
Anyway, if you don't mind an insanely high cost of living for everything other than broadcast television and internet access, a high percentage of unhappy and often angry people (albeit generally honest ones, unlike a lot of these Bible Belt dimwits who've been indoctrinated since birth to say what they think people want to hear) and you're not adverse to horrible traffic jams and the concrete jungle in general, then that shithole might just be up your alley.;)
a government which is making the same mistakes which resulted in the European crisis
Isn't it great how we've been conditioned to assume that these are mistakes, when all the evidence (including history) clearly demonstrates otherwise? (Sorry-ass bunch of fucking Teckla, aren't we...)
So with a limited number of boards, then Linux devs will only have a worry about a very narrow amount of drivers to support, which will be a huge improvement over the situation right now.
And Linux will suddenly no longer be a PC operating system but only run on proprietary, boutique stuff...
I was five when the TRS-80 came out; all I remember is that it looked thirty years old after only a decade and it may have been the slowest computer I ever used until Vista... but the Tandy 1000EX my dad made the mistake of buying when I was in middle school: holy shit, what a piece of dung!
both Amazon and Google have irrevocably harmed the tablet market by creating unrealistic price expectations
Sure, dude... not only that, watch as tablet prices continue to "unrealistically" drop even farther while your "gravely-injured tablet market" continues to evolve and innovate at the same breakneck pace as ever... serious harm, for sure. Decades from now, we'll be pulling our clunky, "green" desktop pc's around behind us (in radio flyer wagons or shopping carts, perhaps) and we'll think back on the "tablet future" that could have been, had not google and amazon fucked it up for the rest of us by "dumping" their cheap devices on a vulnerable market...
Former cops, gang-bangers, and mixed military all forming into ad-hoc combat units and working together against a common threat.
You can be sure that the plan is to never give them that chance. The government will impose martial law (under one pretense or another: the false-flag nuking of a mid-sized city, an epidemic, perhaps the collapse of the dollar) and you'll quickly see the Powers That Be utilize the same approach they did during Katrina (albeit on a nationwide scale), including sending National Guard units house to house through afluent neighborhoods to confiscate firearms from rich rednecks (trial runs to determine see how easily citizens will capitulate?).
Because of the fact that the vast majority of Americans depend on the "just in time" nature of our supply chain and the low price of oil in order to be able to afford to eat, it won't take much for Uncle Same to call all the shots. Hhow many rednecks have we all heard boast that they can survive in the woods indefintely when the truth is they're far more likely to be completely dependent on the frozen foods section at Walmart)...
I grew up on military bases. I know a lot of military personnel, even up to a couple of full-bird colonels and two generals. We've actually had this discussion. I've yet to find any that would fire on US citizens, unless they were like radical Islamic types or similar.
If it came down to the government ordering the US military to "occupy" US cities and towns, round people up into camps, and basically carry out a "government takeover" and provide armed pacification and suppression against civilians, they would refuse, arrest the ones issuing the orders, and even launch an assault on government-loyalist positions if need be if things were that bad.
My family has a military background as well (I also have many friends who are former enlisted or officers) and I share a similar perspective... Unfortunately, I know in my gut that there was a time when ethical, honor-bound even compasionate Germans were having this same exact discussion - and apparently they couldn't (or wouldn't) see it coming, either (I guess I might not want to, either!).
No; despite all the totally valid points you've made, history has demonstrated repeatedly that there are ways around those obstacles...
Why are mega rich people altruistic? Because they can be. When every conceivable want and desire is met, what is left but to be generous to your fellow man?
With all due respect, that has to be one of the most naive, ignorant and possibly delusional things I've ever read. Power and money now lead to altruism? Be nice if it tended to work out that way, wouldn't it?! I'm guessing that you don't know much history...
In America you have the the Republicans, who are the equivalent of our Conservative party, and the Democrats, who are the equivalent of our Conservative party....
Both are definitely conservative in the European sense (controlled by the elite, preserve the status quo, anti individual freedom) and yet technically both are also extremely liberal in the classic textbook American sense (controlled by the elite, promote big gov't, anti individual freedom)...
I imagine they very much want Muslim students to question their beliefs.
I appreciate your sentiments but if all of the world's Muslims suddenly took up Christianity, these bags of shit would quickly manufacture another conflict for us to slaughter each other over.
Oppenheimer said afterward that on watching a nuclear test he was reminded of a verse from the Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
With a rigid and illogical bureaucratic system that doesn't that basic take basic anthropological and sociological observations into consideration, how else?
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I'm wonder if "Go fuck yourself, you and the mother-fucking camel you rode in on" loses its fine subtlety when translated to Arabic...
Brown Shitstain of Death (the only way to get it out is a complete reinstall)
...I'll be upgrading my girlfriend to Firefox v277.86, her brain having been replaced by Android (no great loss, trust me)...
...and it turns out it only takes 1-3 percent of victims to pay up to make it seriously worth the fraudsters' while
You mean to say that if I demand that a hundred people each send me a lot of money, and one to three of them do... those one to three people are going to... send me a lot of money?? (Is this that "math" thing I've heard so much about?! :p)
One could say the same thing about MANY things that our lives depend on. Oxygen, water, amino acids, etc.
So... you're comparing these essential, necessary things to a toxic (and no doubt highy carcinogenic) man-made substance... and let me guess: you don't see the flaw in your line of reasoning? :p
Given I never said which are the mistakes
That was a real tough one to figure out. :p
I would locate to the Northeast along the I-95 corridor since there are tons & tons of jobs there.
Hmm, the same exact place I left years ago for reasons which have only grown exponentially since then; needless to say I haven't looked back...
Anyway, if you don't mind an insanely high cost of living for everything other than broadcast television and internet access, a high percentage of unhappy and often angry people (albeit generally honest ones, unlike a lot of these Bible Belt dimwits who've been indoctrinated since birth to say what they think people want to hear) and you're not adverse to horrible traffic jams and the concrete jungle in general, then that shithole might just be up your alley. ;)
a government which is making the same mistakes which resulted in the European crisis
Isn't it great how we've been conditioned to assume that these are mistakes, when all the evidence (including history) clearly demonstrates otherwise? (Sorry-ass bunch of fucking Teckla, aren't we...)
To all who modded me down, if you lived in Oklahoma too, you might understand where I'm coming from... :p
So with a limited number of boards, then Linux devs will only have a worry about a very narrow amount of drivers to support, which will be a huge improvement over the situation right now.
And Linux will suddenly no longer be a PC operating system but only run on proprietary, boutique stuff...
That's some solution you've got there!
I was five when the TRS-80 came out; all I remember is that it looked thirty years old after only a decade and it may have been the slowest computer I ever used until Vista... but the Tandy 1000EX my dad made the mistake of buying when I was in middle school: holy shit, what a piece of dung!
I read that as "Tokelau Becomes First Country To Go 100% Sober" - I'm not even a drinker and even I shuddered at how horrible it sounded!
both Amazon and Google have irrevocably harmed the tablet market by creating unrealistic price expectations
Sure, dude... not only that, watch as tablet prices continue to "unrealistically" drop even farther while your "gravely-injured tablet market" continues to evolve and innovate at the same breakneck pace as ever... serious harm, for sure. Decades from now, we'll be pulling our clunky, "green" desktop pc's around behind us (in radio flyer wagons or shopping carts, perhaps) and we'll think back on the "tablet future" that could have been, had not google and amazon fucked it up for the rest of us by "dumping" their cheap devices on a vulnerable market...
...all Korean women aged 18-35 must walk around naked during the summer months...
On a serious note... can't we just require that only the attractive women have to to do that?
Former cops, gang-bangers, and mixed military all forming into ad-hoc combat units and working together against a common threat.
You can be sure that the plan is to never give them that chance. The government will impose martial law (under one pretense or another: the false-flag nuking of a mid-sized city, an epidemic, perhaps the collapse of the dollar) and you'll quickly see the Powers That Be utilize the same approach they did during Katrina (albeit on a nationwide scale), including sending National Guard units house to house through afluent neighborhoods to confiscate firearms from rich rednecks (trial runs to determine see how easily citizens will capitulate?).
Because of the fact that the vast majority of Americans depend on the "just in time" nature of our supply chain and the low price of oil in order to be able to afford to eat, it won't take much for Uncle Same to call all the shots. Hhow many rednecks have we all heard boast that they can survive in the woods indefintely when the truth is they're far more likely to be completely dependent on the frozen foods section at Walmart)...
It'll all be over before it began.
I grew up on military bases. I know a lot of military personnel, even up to a couple of full-bird colonels and two generals. We've actually had this discussion. I've yet to find any that would fire on US citizens, unless they were like radical Islamic types or similar.
If it came down to the government ordering the US military to "occupy" US cities and towns, round people up into camps, and basically carry out a "government takeover" and provide armed pacification and suppression against civilians, they would refuse, arrest the ones issuing the orders, and even launch an assault on government-loyalist positions if need be if things were that bad.
My family has a military background as well (I also have many friends who are former enlisted or officers) and I share a similar perspective... Unfortunately, I know in my gut that there was a time when ethical, honor-bound even compasionate Germans were having this same exact discussion - and apparently they couldn't (or wouldn't) see it coming, either (I guess I might not want to, either!).
No; despite all the totally valid points you've made, history has demonstrated repeatedly that there are ways around those obstacles...
Why are mega rich people altruistic? Because they can be. When every conceivable want and desire is met, what is left but to be generous to your fellow man?
With all due respect, that has to be one of the most naive, ignorant and possibly delusional things I've ever read. Power and money now lead to altruism? Be nice if it tended to work out that way, wouldn't it?! I'm guessing that you don't know much history...
In America you have the the Republicans, who are the equivalent of our Conservative party, and the Democrats, who are the equivalent of our Conservative party....
Both are definitely conservative in the European sense (controlled by the elite, preserve the status quo, anti individual freedom) and yet technically both are also extremely liberal in the classic textbook American sense (controlled by the elite, promote big gov't, anti individual freedom)...
I imagine they very much want Muslim students to question their beliefs.
I appreciate your sentiments but if all of the world's Muslims suddenly took up Christianity, these bags of shit would quickly manufacture another conflict for us to slaughter each other over.
Guess you brainiacs didn't read about the Yale researcher who discovered that a vast number of supposed Alzheimer's deaths are actually due to CJD...
Oppenheimer said afterward that on watching a nuclear test he was reminded of a verse from the Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
You say that like it's a bad thing. :p
but MS radically changed how drivers work in Vista/Win7
That they certainly did...
which has made the systems far more secure and better for the future
I don't know about that... but I can tell you that that's not why they changed it (*cough* DRM *cough*)...
So this tells me that MS does NOT bother to review Metasploit scripts to get a leg up on zero days...
It's far more likely that they do review them and the info finds its way into the hands of a select few (gee, I wonder who that'd be??).
How do you determine healthy food?
With a rigid and illogical bureaucratic system that doesn't that basic take basic anthropological and sociological observations into consideration, how else?