WTF? Question #1, WTF wants to use Microsoft software? Every damned thing that I want to do, there is *nix software available for. If not - well, I can write my own script to do it. Games? WTF does gaming have to do with computers? The basement dweller plays games 22 hours per day - and he can't set his console aside to log into a real computer to do his online banking?
"also, at least some time ago"
WTF does that even mean? WTF does it have to do with anything? "some time ago" people thought the sun revolved around the earth. Get with the times, you neanderthal - this isn't 1258, nor is this 1998, or even 2010. Today, it's 2015, and for the most part, Linux just works, out of the box. Windows? Yeah, Windows always works - except when it doesn't, right?
Clearly we need the US government to build a better consumer, because you punk ass Microsoft bitches still haven't come up with anybody who wants to use a real operating system.
As already stated - you are not the norm. SJW is a valid description for a lot of activists running around the country making noise. Not only are they self appointed Social Justice Warriors, but they get to DEFINE SJW themselves. They get to define Social, they get to define Justice, they get it all.
I say, "Fuck 'em all". They aren't putting bread and butter on anyone's tables.
All kinds of forums, from Facebook on down to unheard of boards with a dozen members, have their rules. Some of them really piss me off, because they want only language, thoughts, and images that would be acceptable in kindergarden, or Sunday School. They REALLY piss me off.
On the other hand - "/r/WatchNiggersDie" - WTF? Hey - you don't have to like black people. You don't have to love them. You don't have to live with a black person. You don't have to talk to them. If you're so bigoted that you can't abide a black person in your life, well, it's your loss. Hate, all you want. You have no right to expect normal people to accept, or even tolerate, the kind of shit I would expect on that forum.
If you're that hateful, go post on Stormfront. You'll be welcome over there, I believe. But, they DO have some rules that you'll have to abide by.
Funny - every community has rules to live by. Even a community of haters. Don't like the rules, go elsewhere, or make your own board.
Not a bad answer at all. I actually kinda like Win7, and when I use a Windows VM, that is my choice. It clearly has it's roots in Win2k, it clearly has the best security features of any Win OS, and it remains pretty unobtrusive with updates and such.
I simply refuse to use the more "Metro" OS's. I jumped ship when Canonical decided to go with Unity, and to hide access to the workings of the OS. I jumped ship when Gnome started doing silly crap with Gnome3. I'll jump ship again if/when software I use does things that I don't like.
The day may come when I simply refuse to load any Windows OS - but for now, Win7 really isn't a terribly bad choice for someone who understands how to make the OS work for him.
Point taken. The thought actually crossed my mind that the pellet(s) need not have any velocity to damage a blade. It's still a bit hard to credit the shooter with getting those pellets on target at that height - I suspect that the drone was considerably lower than 200 feet.
Thirty yards, or 150 feet. And, I used the term "maximum effective range", rather than "extreme range". Yeah - the pellets might break that 200 foot ceiling, but what are they doing? Moving slow, and decelerating, thanks to gravity. They'll bounce off a goose, or a duck. Hunters in the know generally don't take shots over 40 yards, as evidenced by the posts I linked to. That is, shooting at ducks and geese more than 120 feet away usually means no kill. Or, if they get a kill, they generally chalk it up to luck, rather than skill.
I might add that 50 meters STRAIGHT UP does not equate to a 50 meter horizontal shot. If the shot I'm shooting has a maximum effective range of 50 meters (or yards), I can expect that firing straight up into the air, my shot will only reach about 30 meters (or yards). Maybe 40. No matter how you cut it, shotguns are not long range weapons.
Duck hunters don't take those long shots into the sky for that very reason. They use decoys to bring the ducks down to landing approach height - 20 to 100 feet - then shoot them as they pass overhead. Even extra length, extra high powered "goose guns" can't reach much higher than 150 feet.
Why do you really want to upgrade to Windows 10? Can Win10 do anything useful, that other Windows OS's can't do? Can any Windows OS's do anything useful that other OS's cannot?
It's good that you reject the invasive nature of Win10 - but apparently you accept everything else that Win10 represents. The exorbitant fees for using the operating system(s). The Microsoft tax. The monoculture that has led to almost ubiquitous exploits. The Microsoft lobby/extortion taking place in the world's capitals.
When people begin migrating away from Microsoft en masse, the world will become a somewhat better place.
Bill Gates is a damned smart man. He effectively promoted the piracy of his OS's in past decades, because he KNEW that once hooked on Windows, few would make the effort to learn another way of doing things. Today's marketing scheme for Win10 meshes well with Bill's attitude toward pirates.
Headache inducing? Let's not forget people who are subject to epileptic seizures. I remember some of those pages that stabbed into my brain painfully. If I were an epileptic, I'm sure that some of them would have triggered a seizure. Think of MySpace as a prime example of the crap I'm talking about.
One thing about advertising - all of my efforts to block advertising still allow some ads to come through. I do see an occassional advertisement.
Every single advertisement that I DO SEE is hosted on the server which is serving up the content that I am looking at. If you are hosting your own blog, on your own hardware, and you serve up an advertisement with each page, I WILL SEE that advertisement. I may or may not LOOK AT the ad, but it will load, and I will see it, at least peripherally.
I'm not even going to attempt to guess what percentage of us refuse to accept it. But, there are those of us who simply DO NOT accept that we must watch meaningless advertisements before we can get to the page contents.
If the advertisers COULD successfully target my interests, I might actually look at an ad now and then - before I did a search for that product, to compare it to other similar products. Then, when I've compared them, I often go to Ebay to see if the item is available at some huge markdown. I'm in the market for a megger, for instance. I don't SEE advertisements for meggers, despite the fact that I've already done a number of searches. Let's SUPPOSE that an advertiser were shrewd enough to catch on to my megger searches. He starts serving up megger advertisements, starting with Fluke. The prices in the ads start at over $1000, because the vendors who pay for advertising need to recoup their advertising costs. More reasonable prices are available directly from Fluke and Fluke approved vendors around $500 to $600. But, suppose that I don't NEED new and/or calibrated equipment - I just need a semi-reliable meter. I can go to those vendors who aren't advertising, and sell the same equipment at less than $500. If I'm willing to settle for a used piece of equipment, I can find my fluke megger multi-meter for AS LITTLE AS $200.
Keep in mind that I've researched and purchased a number of meters over the past few years. Not one time have I ever seen an advertisement for electric/electronic testing equipment anywhere other than Ebay, and a very select number of industrial sales sites.
In short - the advertisers are utter failures. Despite all their attempts at "targeted advertising", they have completely FAILED to identify my interests and needs. Utter failures.
Now - why should I tolerate their in-your-face advertising bullshit, when they so completely fail to offer things that I actually need?
Notice that I'm not even really bitching here that the items advertised are to high. That's just a peripheral consideration to the fact that they've not merely missed the target. The damned fools aren't even hitting the range! They are standing at the east end of the range, the targets are on the west end, but their bullets are flying out north, east, south, and west.
We should reward such gross incompetence? Why?
And, no, meg testers are not the only items I've needed, and searched for. Try it yourself - do a search for industrial grade fuse pullers. There are a small number of different brands on the market, with Ideal being the standard. Do several searches over a few days, and sit back to see how many advertisements you get. I have Ideal fuse pullers in three different sizes in my toolboxes. A couple years ago, I purchased a lot-sale off of Ebay, and got 18 of the smallest for a couple dollars each. I gave them to my work-mates for Christmas. Despite the fact that I have an established history of searching for, and purchasing these things, I've NEVER SEEN AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR THEM!
And - how does that differ from life in the US? Most people . . . niche talents . . . few doing nothing but leading. Especially now that young adults find it necessary to work two or more part time jobs to support themselves, most people do spend most of their time working their niche talents.
I have some generic passwords that I use for non-critical accounts. For critical accounts, I have some pretty tough password-generated things. I have a list of them encrypted on my hard disk, so that I can throw some away if/when the need arises, and grab another. But - I can't copy paste them everywhere. How the hell am I supposed to EVER memorize those damned passwords? Just let me copy paste them, FFS.
A real "Password Manager" would be even better - if I find one that I trust, and I'm comfortable using. I haven't found it yet . . .
Idiot. Alright - WTF is in that suit that people haven't been preserving for hundreds of years already? Seriously - why is the suit so much more complicated and expensive? Half a million dollars. WTF is going on here?
You tell me - what is in that suit that is so very difficult to preserve? Mostly, it's composed of various kinds of plastic. Preservation for plastic? Avoid direct sunlight - and ???? You might go over them with something like Armorall now and then. The early suits had cotton linings in them - which probably wouldn't like to be Armorall'd very much. Hmmm - zip out the linings, and clean them separately?
Agreed. How do you propose that we convince the majority of Americans to agree? I've often said that I'm willing to vote for people of all parties. I'm even willing to see a member of the Communist Party in congress, if it breaks the grip of the two parties who share a chokehold on the US. It was ONE OF the things that made Obama look good, when he crawled out of the woodwork - he APPEARED to be more independent than other candidates.
We need some Libertarians in Washington, along with some Green/Conservative party members, a Worker's or Labor party - in short, we need to borrow from Parliamentary governments. I don't believe that there is another nation on earth that would continue to elect Republicans or Democrats when they continue to relentlessly rape the people.
Why does it cost half a million to "preserve" a suit? If you were to go looking, you could find suits and dresses well preserved from a hundred years ago. What's so special about these suits? Yeah, they're historical, and you don't want just any idiot fumbling around with them. Still, half a million dollars?
Maybe they should have advertised, and taken bids. These folk look qualified to do the job - http://www.coff.com/home.htm
State broadcast means little to nothing. You're paying for it - let other people see it. In return, you get to see all of THEIR stuff. You specifically mention that the BBC is not the only state sponsored broadcast in Europe - you'll get all of their stuff too.
And, I'll point out that despite all the piracy in the world, America's "entertainment" industries continue to post record profits, again and again.
In short - you'll lose nothing. If anything, you stand to gain something. The bigger the audience, the more likely you are to find people WILLING to pay for the content.
The entertainment industries seriously need to change their business models, worldwide. "Entertainement", when done right, makes people WILLING to part with their hard earned money. Sometimes, I see, hear, or watch something that is so good, I actually WANT to give the author a dollar. However, I've never once in my life felt compelled to give some faceless corporation any of my money. Granted, the BBC is somewhat unlike most faceless corporations, but they are still running a scam with their GeoIP blocking.
Not that it's difficult to get around the blocking. There's not a whole lot that I want to see on the BBC entertainment channels, but when something catches my eye, I manage to grab it.
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WTF? Question #1, WTF wants to use Microsoft software? Every damned thing that I want to do, there is *nix software available for. If not - well, I can write my own script to do it. Games? WTF does gaming have to do with computers? The basement dweller plays games 22 hours per day - and he can't set his console aside to log into a real computer to do his online banking?
"also, at least some time ago"
WTF does that even mean? WTF does it have to do with anything? "some time ago" people thought the sun revolved around the earth. Get with the times, you neanderthal - this isn't 1258, nor is this 1998, or even 2010. Today, it's 2015, and for the most part, Linux just works, out of the box. Windows? Yeah, Windows always works - except when it doesn't, right?
Clearly we need the US government to build a better consumer, because you punk ass Microsoft bitches still haven't come up with anybody who wants to use a real operating system.
As already stated - you are not the norm. SJW is a valid description for a lot of activists running around the country making noise. Not only are they self appointed Social Justice Warriors, but they get to DEFINE SJW themselves. They get to define Social, they get to define Justice, they get it all.
I say, "Fuck 'em all". They aren't putting bread and butter on anyone's tables.
So - you're saying "anything allowed anywhere, anytime"?
You're definitely a dick. Are you a member of Westboro?
All kinds of forums, from Facebook on down to unheard of boards with a dozen members, have their rules. Some of them really piss me off, because they want only language, thoughts, and images that would be acceptable in kindergarden, or Sunday School. They REALLY piss me off.
On the other hand - "/r/WatchNiggersDie" - WTF? Hey - you don't have to like black people. You don't have to love them. You don't have to live with a black person. You don't have to talk to them. If you're so bigoted that you can't abide a black person in your life, well, it's your loss. Hate, all you want. You have no right to expect normal people to accept, or even tolerate, the kind of shit I would expect on that forum.
If you're that hateful, go post on Stormfront. You'll be welcome over there, I believe. But, they DO have some rules that you'll have to abide by.
Funny - every community has rules to live by. Even a community of haters. Don't like the rules, go elsewhere, or make your own board.
https://www.enlightenment.org/...
Yes, I know that, and I do use an alternative.
https://www.enlightenment.org/...
Or, is it a matter of shills giving an award to the people they are shilling for?
Visit the world of *nix. There are start menus galore. Take your pick. Someone actually gave Microsoft an award for theirs? Phhhhtt.......
Just how complex is genocide?
Some great stories available here - http://kurdishdailynews.org/fe...
Not a bad answer at all. I actually kinda like Win7, and when I use a Windows VM, that is my choice. It clearly has it's roots in Win2k, it clearly has the best security features of any Win OS, and it remains pretty unobtrusive with updates and such.
I simply refuse to use the more "Metro" OS's. I jumped ship when Canonical decided to go with Unity, and to hide access to the workings of the OS. I jumped ship when Gnome started doing silly crap with Gnome3. I'll jump ship again if/when software I use does things that I don't like.
The day may come when I simply refuse to load any Windows OS - but for now, Win7 really isn't a terribly bad choice for someone who understands how to make the OS work for him.
Point taken. The thought actually crossed my mind that the pellet(s) need not have any velocity to damage a blade. It's still a bit hard to credit the shooter with getting those pellets on target at that height - I suspect that the drone was considerably lower than 200 feet.
Oooops - I screwed up, didn't I? I was so busy trying to make my point, I neglected the most basic math. Guess I'll go sit in the corner for awhile.
Thirty yards, or 150 feet. And, I used the term "maximum effective range", rather than "extreme range". Yeah - the pellets might break that 200 foot ceiling, but what are they doing? Moving slow, and decelerating, thanks to gravity. They'll bounce off a goose, or a duck. Hunters in the know generally don't take shots over 40 yards, as evidenced by the posts I linked to. That is, shooting at ducks and geese more than 120 feet away usually means no kill. Or, if they get a kill, they generally chalk it up to luck, rather than skill.
I might add that 50 meters STRAIGHT UP does not equate to a 50 meter horizontal shot. If the shot I'm shooting has a maximum effective range of 50 meters (or yards), I can expect that firing straight up into the air, my shot will only reach about 30 meters (or yards). Maybe 40. No matter how you cut it, shotguns are not long range weapons.
Duck hunters don't take those long shots into the sky for that very reason. They use decoys to bring the ducks down to landing approach height - 20 to 100 feet - then shoot them as they pass overhead. Even extra length, extra high powered "goose guns" can't reach much higher than 150 feet.
http://www.outdoorlife.com/pho...
Here, a collection of anecdotal evidence - http://www.duckhuntingchat.com...
"I really want to upgrade to Windows 10"
Why do you really want to upgrade to Windows 10? Can Win10 do anything useful, that other Windows OS's can't do? Can any Windows OS's do anything useful that other OS's cannot?
It's good that you reject the invasive nature of Win10 - but apparently you accept everything else that Win10 represents. The exorbitant fees for using the operating system(s). The Microsoft tax. The monoculture that has led to almost ubiquitous exploits. The Microsoft lobby/extortion taking place in the world's capitals.
When people begin migrating away from Microsoft en masse, the world will become a somewhat better place.
Bill Gates is a damned smart man. He effectively promoted the piracy of his OS's in past decades, because he KNEW that once hooked on Windows, few would make the effort to learn another way of doing things. Today's marketing scheme for Win10 meshes well with Bill's attitude toward pirates.
Headache inducing? Let's not forget people who are subject to epileptic seizures. I remember some of those pages that stabbed into my brain painfully. If I were an epileptic, I'm sure that some of them would have triggered a seizure. Think of MySpace as a prime example of the crap I'm talking about.
One thing about advertising - all of my efforts to block advertising still allow some ads to come through. I do see an occassional advertisement.
Every single advertisement that I DO SEE is hosted on the server which is serving up the content that I am looking at. If you are hosting your own blog, on your own hardware, and you serve up an advertisement with each page, I WILL SEE that advertisement. I may or may not LOOK AT the ad, but it will load, and I will see it, at least peripherally.
"But, it is an accepted social structure"
Accepted by whom?
I'm not even going to attempt to guess what percentage of us refuse to accept it. But, there are those of us who simply DO NOT accept that we must watch meaningless advertisements before we can get to the page contents.
If the advertisers COULD successfully target my interests, I might actually look at an ad now and then - before I did a search for that product, to compare it to other similar products. Then, when I've compared them, I often go to Ebay to see if the item is available at some huge markdown. I'm in the market for a megger, for instance. I don't SEE advertisements for meggers, despite the fact that I've already done a number of searches. Let's SUPPOSE that an advertiser were shrewd enough to catch on to my megger searches. He starts serving up megger advertisements, starting with Fluke. The prices in the ads start at over $1000, because the vendors who pay for advertising need to recoup their advertising costs. More reasonable prices are available directly from Fluke and Fluke approved vendors around $500 to $600. But, suppose that I don't NEED new and/or calibrated equipment - I just need a semi-reliable meter. I can go to those vendors who aren't advertising, and sell the same equipment at less than $500. If I'm willing to settle for a used piece of equipment, I can find my fluke megger multi-meter for AS LITTLE AS $200.
Keep in mind that I've researched and purchased a number of meters over the past few years. Not one time have I ever seen an advertisement for electric/electronic testing equipment anywhere other than Ebay, and a very select number of industrial sales sites.
In short - the advertisers are utter failures. Despite all their attempts at "targeted advertising", they have completely FAILED to identify my interests and needs. Utter failures.
Now - why should I tolerate their in-your-face advertising bullshit, when they so completely fail to offer things that I actually need?
Notice that I'm not even really bitching here that the items advertised are to high. That's just a peripheral consideration to the fact that they've not merely missed the target. The damned fools aren't even hitting the range! They are standing at the east end of the range, the targets are on the west end, but their bullets are flying out north, east, south, and west.
We should reward such gross incompetence? Why?
And, no, meg testers are not the only items I've needed, and searched for. Try it yourself - do a search for industrial grade fuse pullers. There are a small number of different brands on the market, with Ideal being the standard. Do several searches over a few days, and sit back to see how many advertisements you get. I have Ideal fuse pullers in three different sizes in my toolboxes. A couple years ago, I purchased a lot-sale off of Ebay, and got 18 of the smallest for a couple dollars each. I gave them to my work-mates for Christmas. Despite the fact that I have an established history of searching for, and purchasing these things, I've NEVER SEEN AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR THEM!
Sample ebay sale, currently priced around ten bucks: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ideal-...
And - how does that differ from life in the US? Most people . . . niche talents . . . few doing nothing but leading. Especially now that young adults find it necessary to work two or more part time jobs to support themselves, most people do spend most of their time working their niche talents.
LMAO - Rolodex sits on your desk, open to any snoop that happens to walk past while you're not at your desk.
I have some generic passwords that I use for non-critical accounts. For critical accounts, I have some pretty tough password-generated things. I have a list of them encrypted on my hard disk, so that I can throw some away if/when the need arises, and grab another. But - I can't copy paste them everywhere. How the hell am I supposed to EVER memorize those damned passwords? Just let me copy paste them, FFS.
A real "Password Manager" would be even better - if I find one that I trust, and I'm comfortable using. I haven't found it yet . . .
Idiot. Alright - WTF is in that suit that people haven't been preserving for hundreds of years already? Seriously - why is the suit so much more complicated and expensive? Half a million dollars. WTF is going on here?
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-...
You tell me - what is in that suit that is so very difficult to preserve? Mostly, it's composed of various kinds of plastic. Preservation for plastic? Avoid direct sunlight - and ???? You might go over them with something like Armorall now and then. The early suits had cotton linings in them - which probably wouldn't like to be Armorall'd very much. Hmmm - zip out the linings, and clean them separately?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Agreed. How do you propose that we convince the majority of Americans to agree? I've often said that I'm willing to vote for people of all parties. I'm even willing to see a member of the Communist Party in congress, if it breaks the grip of the two parties who share a chokehold on the US. It was ONE OF the things that made Obama look good, when he crawled out of the woodwork - he APPEARED to be more independent than other candidates.
We need some Libertarians in Washington, along with some Green/Conservative party members, a Worker's or Labor party - in short, we need to borrow from Parliamentary governments. I don't believe that there is another nation on earth that would continue to elect Republicans or Democrats when they continue to relentlessly rape the people.
Why does it cost half a million to "preserve" a suit? If you were to go looking, you could find suits and dresses well preserved from a hundred years ago. What's so special about these suits? Yeah, they're historical, and you don't want just any idiot fumbling around with them. Still, half a million dollars?
Maybe they should have advertised, and taken bids. These folk look qualified to do the job - http://www.coff.com/home.htm
State broadcast means little to nothing. You're paying for it - let other people see it. In return, you get to see all of THEIR stuff. You specifically mention that the BBC is not the only state sponsored broadcast in Europe - you'll get all of their stuff too.
And, I'll point out that despite all the piracy in the world, America's "entertainment" industries continue to post record profits, again and again.
In short - you'll lose nothing. If anything, you stand to gain something. The bigger the audience, the more likely you are to find people WILLING to pay for the content.
The entertainment industries seriously need to change their business models, worldwide. "Entertainement", when done right, makes people WILLING to part with their hard earned money. Sometimes, I see, hear, or watch something that is so good, I actually WANT to give the author a dollar. However, I've never once in my life felt compelled to give some faceless corporation any of my money. Granted, the BBC is somewhat unlike most faceless corporations, but they are still running a scam with their GeoIP blocking.
Not that it's difficult to get around the blocking. There's not a whole lot that I want to see on the BBC entertainment channels, but when something catches my eye, I manage to grab it.