He's right also. I should've said "some of the earlier models (versions 5.0 -> 8.2)".
I would have said "pre-2005" models, but that's not entirely accurate either.
Last time I checked recently, stores mostly had the non-Linux versions in stock or they had the WRT54G"L" side-by-side with the low-memory non-Linux version of the same router. I know NewEgg sells both versions also. Local brick&mortar stores only carried the bad version.
If you read the comments on NewEgg.com for that router model, not everyone mentions DD-WRT. Some use other 3rd party firmwares like Tomato or Open-WRT or custom builds. And believe it or not, some even write a positive review for the default factory firmware. The nice thing about that model ("L" version) is the extra memory headroom. Earlier models were stripped and crippled to run a really crappy default firmware from Linksys. BitTorrent crashes these small memory models often.
far leftists such as William Ayers, author of "Rules for Radicals" (which outlines this very strategy) and a close personal friend of a certain American President,...
As fun as it might be to disparage the USA (and it's perfectly alright when it leads to improvements). I find it hardly believable to equate China's government to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption
If you think the MIIT has that much power over the Chinese people, how much more power does the FCC have over the entire world?
It's funny, there are so many similarities between China and the U.S. Both are huge world powers that use their military and economic power to intimidate neighbors. Both are led by an oligarchy of unremovable political parties. And both have populaces that are brainwashed and fiercely patriotic.
China is a good mirror of ourselves, so when this type of thing comes up, it's a good idea to take note and think about how we ourselves are being manipulated right here at home.
Your nickname is a bit ironic here.
Try to not paint everyone with the same brush who displays a certain characteristic.
Case in point:
Tank Man versus 1999 WTO Protests in Seattle.
Neither was peaceful, but the fact I'm able to read about and discuss these past events instead of being state-censored is a pretty significant difference between the USA and China.
I realize nothing I say will change your mind, so enjoy your stereotypical view of America.
Three dead travelers worth less than one song apparently.
Jammie Thomas' Playlist:
"Welcome to the Jungle"; "November Rain" By Guns ’N Roses
"Let’s What Awhile" By Janet Jackson
"Iris" By Goo Goo Dolls
"Save the Best for Last" By Vanessa Williams
"Cryin" By Aerosmith
"Here We Are"; "Coming Out of the Heart"; "Rhythm is Gonna Get You" By Gloria Estefan
"Basket Case" by Green Day
"Faithfully"; "Don’t Stop Believing" By Journey
"Bills, Bills, Bills" By Destiny’s Child
"Possession"; "Building a Mystery" By Sara McLachlan
"Now and Forever" By Richard Marx
"One Step Closer" By Linkin Park
"Run Baby Run" By Sheryl Crow
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" By Def Leppard
"Bathwater"; "Hella Good"; "Different People" By No Doubt
"One Honest Heart" By Reba McEntire
"Somebody" By Bryan Adams
You have to realize that figure was averaged per song. Three dead travelers don't even come close to the value of "Welcome to the Jungle". They might be worth a Goo Goo Dolls song however.
Clearly you need to impair yourself physically to allow your brain to develop. See, blindness develops your ears, deafnes develops your eyes, and physical disability develops your brain.
Training to develop under-used muscles/skills is what I hope you meant. Disability by itself doesn't provide any such strengths.
I thought the post was insightful. However it leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
I took the overall message as "You reap what you sow."
There's folks who carefully sort and organize their photo albums, print hard copies, and spend a lot of time & money doing so.
And others who don't...
It's the same story for other important data backups and security. The number of times there's a front page story on some huge database theft/loss/etc is scary.
He could've also meant that photography is generally a pointless waste of time.
Well, the demand exists, at least.
However on a personal note, I do enjoy digital cameras simply because I no longer worry about "wasting film". I take more shots (extra angles, playing around) and have the luxury of deleting them later if they turn out poor.
I mean when you want to see a girl shove a live lamprey up her arse, give a blowjob to a dog, and piss on a new born baby all in the same video you look in the Japanese porn section of your local library. You DO NOT look in the American section.
I'm not sure what you mean by "local library" but I'll concede to the lamprey example.
But you underestimate the porn industry as well as the random amateurs in the US.
This is how Microsoft has an identity crisis to trumpet it's "me-tooism" that they're trendy and hip in the world of computing.
Here's some other recursive acronyms to show how dreadfully 'clever & original' the "_________ is not ______" style is.
Personal story: I'm not a coder but the only place I've heard of XNA was from a frat boy dropout who wanted to be a game programmer that wouldn't shut up about it on our WoW ventrilo.
Yet he didn't know what Blender or C++ are.
Hell he couldn't write any LUA mods or tank worth a darn, so he was useless to us.
All he did was misquote EJ forums into every guild discussion and somehow turning it into an argument to show how smart he was.
The poor and underdeveloped countries want too much, too fast. It's like underaged kids rebelling against parents. The kids see the parents as the source of their problems.
The road to adulthood err, "Nationhood" is obviously sneaking into Dad's gun locker and stealing his rifle while driving drunk with Billy & Katie out in the woods, shooting holes into traffic signs.
"All the big, powerful nations possess nukes and money, so should we! It's all your fault, America, you're holding us down!"
I really don't get China's motivations. Does it not occur to the Chinese govt. that once North Korea has a real nuclear capability, they could aim it anywhere they so wished?
If it really came down to China vs N.Korea, with Soviet nuclear data since the '50s and sheer population size, and a huge trade surplus with the USA, China would easily crush them.
Even if they lost a city to a nuke, their media blackout + thought police would erase away any memories of that from local history.
Think of it as Religion 2.0. One of war's greatest tools.
Old Religion enabled rulers to brainwash young men to fight to the death in the name of their country/tribe.
China has the information-rich antidote to overcome civilian protests while still being a hi-tech society.
Unlike the USA where we are still buried in news discussing torture memos and a particularly brave soldier wearing pink boxers and flip flops.
China's government just doesn't give a shit. When they choose to go to war, there won't be loud dissent or audible mourning for merely losing a few cities here or there...
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He's right also. I should've said "some of the earlier models (versions 5.0 -> 8.2)".
I would have said "pre-2005" models, but that's not entirely accurate either.
Last time I checked recently, stores mostly had the non-Linux versions in stock or they had the WRT54G"L" side-by-side with the low-memory non-Linux version of the same router. I know NewEgg sells both versions also. Local brick&mortar stores only carried the bad version.
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If you read the comments on NewEgg.com for that router model, not everyone mentions DD-WRT. Some use other 3rd party firmwares like Tomato or Open-WRT or custom builds. And believe it or not, some even write a positive review for the default factory firmware. The nice thing about that model ("L" version) is the extra memory headroom. Earlier models were stripped and crippled to run a really crappy default firmware from Linksys. BitTorrent crashes these small memory models often.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series#Hardware_and_revisions
far leftists such as William Ayers, author of "Rules for Radicals" (which outlines this very strategy) and a close personal friend of a certain American President,...
You're a huge tool.
The author is Saul Alinsky. http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134
All the spoon-fed propaganda you read from your right-wing echo chamber has really made you too lazy to check basic facts.
Critical thinking should be a required course in every high school...
Obligatory link.
As fun as it might be to disparage the USA (and it's perfectly alright when it leads to improvements). I find it hardly believable to equate China's government to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption
We can argue about their research methods all day, but at least it's up for discussion. Unless you're looking over your shoulder and checking the window for the Chinese Death Van.
For added fun, I'll include this link because it's from across the pond, and Godwins the thread in one fell stroke.
The FCC is the American version of China's MIIT.
If you think the MIIT has that much power over the Chinese people, how much more power does the FCC have over the entire world?
It's funny, there are so many similarities between China and the U.S. Both are huge world powers that use their military and economic power to intimidate neighbors. Both are led by an oligarchy of unremovable political parties. And both have populaces that are brainwashed and fiercely patriotic.
China is a good mirror of ourselves, so when this type of thing comes up, it's a good idea to take note and think about how we ourselves are being manipulated right here at home.
Your nickname is a bit ironic here.
Try to not paint everyone with the same brush who displays a certain characteristic.
Case in point: Tank Man versus 1999 WTO Protests in Seattle.
Neither was peaceful, but the fact I'm able to read about and discuss these past events instead of being state-censored is a pretty significant difference between the USA and China.
I realize nothing I say will change your mind, so enjoy your stereotypical view of America.
Three dead travelers worth less than one song apparently.
Jammie Thomas' Playlist:
You have to realize that figure was averaged per song. Three dead travelers don't even come close to the value of "Welcome to the Jungle". They might be worth a Goo Goo Dolls song however.
Oh, aren't we Mr. Fancy-I-Have-A-Long-Name.
Clearly you need to impair yourself physically to allow your brain to develop. See, blindness develops your ears, deafnes develops your eyes, and physical disability develops your brain.
Training to develop under-used muscles/skills is what I hope you meant. Disability by itself doesn't provide any such strengths.
tl;dr version:
http://readable-app.appspot.com
The last thing that I want to do when I get home is stare at a screen for the 40 minute it takes to read an article that is as long as this one.
I found this earlier today: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8uffa/online_journalism_a_few_years_ago_vs_today_pic/
The real gems are the comments on how to improve your online readability with bookmarklets that change font & backgrounds.
if only...
I thought the post was insightful. However it leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
I took the overall message as "You reap what you sow."
There's folks who carefully sort and organize their photo albums, print hard copies, and spend a lot of time & money doing so.
And others who don't...
It's the same story for other important data backups and security. The number of times there's a front page story on some huge database theft/loss/etc is scary.
He could've also meant that photography is generally a pointless waste of time.
Well, the demand exists, at least.
However on a personal note, I do enjoy digital cameras simply because I no longer worry about "wasting film". I take more shots (extra angles, playing around) and have the luxury of deleting them later if they turn out poor.
Making people feel ashamed of themselves for their thoughts and primal urges seems counter-productive, to me.
It's useful for making people feel helpless and unable to cope with real life.
Cults and sects use it to brainwash people.
I mean when you want to see a girl shove a live lamprey up her arse, give a blowjob to a dog, and piss on a new born baby all in the same video you look in the Japanese porn section of your local library. You DO NOT look in the American section.
I'm not sure what you mean by "local library" but I'll concede to the lamprey example.
But you underestimate the porn industry as well as the random amateurs in the US.
It might be a cultural thing too. A lot of conservatives here decry it as evil yet consume more than their share.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/story?id=6977202&page=1
And then we have the spectacularly bad closet cases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_Scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#2007_arrest_and_consequences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases
MOD PARENT UP PLEASE
People read the Bible?
NT
Yea I never understood why .xxx or .sex were rejected.
It would have got rid of the sites like whitehouse.com circa 1997-2004. Or at least easily filtered them with their NetNannies etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA
This is how Microsoft has an identity crisis to trumpet it's "me-tooism" that they're trendy and hip in the world of computing.
Here's some other recursive acronyms to show how dreadfully 'clever & original' the "_________ is not ______" style is.
Personal story: I'm not a coder but the only place I've heard of XNA was from a frat boy dropout who wanted to be a game programmer that wouldn't shut up about it on our WoW ventrilo.
Yet he didn't know what Blender or C++ are.
Hell he couldn't write any LUA mods or tank worth a darn, so he was useless to us.
All he did was misquote EJ forums into every guild discussion and somehow turning it into an argument to show how smart he was.
Yeah we hated that kid.
Are we going to be surprised when the actual output of this search engine prove to be low quality?
Wake me up when they release the Nokia N-Gage HD.
The poor and underdeveloped countries want too much, too fast. It's like underaged kids rebelling against parents. The kids see the parents as the source of their problems.
The road to adulthood err, "Nationhood" is obviously sneaking into Dad's gun locker and stealing his rifle while driving drunk with Billy & Katie out in the woods, shooting holes into traffic signs.
"All the big, powerful nations possess nukes and money, so should we! It's all your fault, America, you're holding us down!"
I really don't get China's motivations. Does it not occur to the Chinese govt. that once North Korea has a real nuclear capability, they could aim it anywhere they so wished?
If it really came down to China vs N.Korea, with Soviet nuclear data since the '50s and sheer population size, and a huge trade surplus with the USA, China would easily crush them.
Even if they lost a city to a nuke, their media blackout + thought police would erase away any memories of that from local history.
Think of it as Religion 2.0. One of war's greatest tools.
Old Religion enabled rulers to brainwash young men to fight to the death in the name of their country/tribe.
China has the information-rich antidote to overcome civilian protests while still being a hi-tech society.
Unlike the USA where we are still buried in news discussing torture memos and a particularly brave soldier wearing pink boxers and flip flops.
China's government just doesn't give a shit. When they choose to go to war, there won't be loud dissent or audible mourning for merely losing a few cities here or there...