I'm not saying the CIA didn't have any involvement, but Assange clearly is a selfish narcissist, so it wouldn't really take much work to advance that narrative.
Has anyone put together a solid debunking of the idea that Anna Ardin was working on behalf of the US government? It would be really helpful to know if such a thing exist, thanks/.
And what a bizarre honeypot, send a couple of women that agree to have sex with him, with the only stipulation that he use a condom, which he somehow couldn't stick to.
Maybe Assange has a history of sneaky raw-doggin' it. Or maybe they were just looking for any pretext. Or maybe it's all just what it looks like up front, who knows? I need more information to decide.
Does anyone ever think if there are farms of foreign twitter bots pushing dumbass maga teen videos, there might be people gaming sites like this one too?
Absolutely. Maybe even this one, although why bother? It's not like it's important anymore.
Or maybe the moderators all got lead poisoning, also possible.
No, those are two reasons why converting to the other gender won't fix all their problems. And the fact that they still kill themselves at about the same rate whether they have gender reassignment surgery or not is a strong indication that it wasn't what they really needed. But both the people who have had the surgery and the people who perform the surgery have a strong vested interest in convincing them that it is what they need, so they keep doing it even though the statistics show that it isn't.
In societies with less strictly enforced gender roles, there is less gender dysphoria. I'm all for people having the right to get a sex change, though I am absolutely against being asked to help them pay for it since the statistics show it doesn't improve outcomes. But it's clearly not what these people need, since it isn't even the most effective means of reducing their suicide rate. Not being assholes to them is. Granted, it's very hard to make people not be assholes to other people, but what they are doing now isn't working either.
Around 1.8% of people are born with some intersex characteristics. It's more common than red hair. By your standard people with red hair are abnormal.
People with red hair are abnormal by definition. The problem comes when we assign negativity to abnormality, which every person who clamors against the correct use of the word "abnormal" (including yourself) is contributing to, simply by acting as if the word should have a stigma.
the unfortunate plain truth
Is that there is no biological standard for male and female in humans.
You can look at what is most common, and say that anything outside this is abnormal, without considering it a problem to be corrected. The idea that everyone should be normal is toxic.
"The Swedish women asked for only one thing - that he's IS prosecuted for rape." is a true statement as well considering they were instrumental in initiating the rape charge.
That's a lie, and you are a liar. They explicitly wanted him to be forced to take an STD test, not prosecuted for rape. That was attempted at the discretion of the government, and over their explicit wishes. Whether he should be prosecuted for rape is orthogonal to the point of whether the women wanted him prosecuted for rape, so let's try to keep that to a separate thread, so that you're not a goalpost-moving liar as well.
I destroyed a Mac IIci so I don't consider myself to have a ROM problem. And you can download the classic MacOS directly from Apple, so I don't have an OS problem either. So what's the problem?
No, the news used to be that a Planet X about 10 times the mass of Earth could explain the strange orbits of some of these Trans Neptunian Objects.
Yes, but that was an idiotic idea because we could actually find it if it were that large. And it was an idiotic idea to report that idiotic idea, because it led to the surge of dipshits who believe in Nibiru, etc. The same guy I can't just avoid has told me three times now about how this planet is actually passing through Earth's orbit, how NASA has orbited a "sun simulator" that hides the actual sun, blah blah fucking blah. And you tell him that even amateur astronomers would notice the effects that would have on our solar system and he doubles down on crazy. People like that have been spurred on by this kind of unfounded horse shit.
Now the news is that a ring of smaller objects could also explain the strange orbits of these same TNOs.
Yeah, and unlike something larger than Earth, we would actually have trouble finding those smaller objects. That makes it a plausible theory which passes a basic sniff test, unlike the idea that there's some larger-than-earth body wandering around our solar system that neither we nor ancient astronomers have twigged to.
I don't why Boeing is doing this but I don't believe that "Boeing believes the vehicles, more commonly referred to as air taxis or flying cars, will be a solution to traffic congestion."
Especially since air taxis and flying cars are two different things. This is clearly an airplane, and what's more, it's not even roadable. There's absolutely nothing "car" about it. What a shit show.
Everyone has a smartphone these days, therefore everyone should have access to at least one mobile payment service -- Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay.
Errm, that article starts with a lie: "Last week, the NRA kept defending gun rights" - not if you aren't white. Or more to the point: not if you aren't a gun maker.
The rights they are defending are available to nonwhites as well. Less available, granted, since the cops are more likely to execute them for exercising them, but they are not preserved for whites and/or corporations only.
With that said, I'd like to see more black people be counted as owning firearms, and see what the NRA thought about that. It would probably be hilarious.
Problem is you can't add your own certificates to many devices, e.g. smart TVs.
You might be able to add your own certs to some smart TVs with enough effort, but the smartest thing is not to buy such devices in the first place. They're less reliable than dumb devices, so that alone should be enough to disqualify them. It's not like an external player is expensive or takes up any noticeable space, so they really offer nothing of value.
PiHole is better than nothing, but DNS based blocking is very limited these days compared to what an in-browser ad blocker can do.
There's a third option, which is to use a proxy. I used to use a filtering [SQUID] proxy to block ads, and it was moderately effective even without much effort spent on it. There are all the usual proxy disadvantages, but it can rewrite pages before they even get to your browser, and it's the only solution which can. I mangled packets to force all identifiable web traffic through the proxy, unless you specifically chose a specific proxy port which permitted unfiltered content.
DNS blocking is more or less worthless today, although I suppose there's no great reason not to do it. But proxy-based blocking still works great, where you have control over where traffic goes. If we could have a proxy with a nice configuration interface, that would probably be the best bet. It's hardest for the googles of the world to defeat. Android users who can't root will still have problems on the road, but people who can't be made to understand why they need a rootable device probably just can't be saved.
It's open source. If enough people don't like it, they'll just fork Chromium and create a new ad-block-friendly browser without this "feature.".
Sure, that will happen, but to see how that will go, just look at Pale Moon. It's usable (I'm using it now) but it is behind in significant ways at the same time. And that's likely just how a wildly divergent fork of Chromium would turn out, too.
On the other hand, I kind of hope Google does this stuff, because it will drive people to spend more effort on alternate browsers, and we need that. It's not okay to only have a couple of rendering engines out there.
Current PCs come with more ram and processing power than you need, unless you're running server daemons (in which case I question the use of a browser at the same time) or games (in which case I don't only question your use of a browser at the same time but you probably already handed your privacy to Origin or Steam anyway).
Speaking of Steam, and not Origin but Bethesda.net, if you're gonna play Bethesda games you'll often need a browser open at the same time so you can search for the information you'll need when you get stuck in a quest bug. Even after games have been multiply patched for years, you still need the console to complete them... or to spend an awful lot of time reloading past saves, at best. I can't imagine how horrible it is to play these games on consoles, and don't want to...
If you were running NoScript as security software to protect yourself from malicious websites, it's no longer a complete solution.
I depend on noscript to protect me from malicious sites, and I depend on scrapbook+ to archive data for posterity because data often goes missing from the web. When I cite something, I scrapbook it. I can't get ScrapbookQ to work on Windows or Linux, and I'm pretty fucking good at following directions and did it three times on each platform so I'm sure it's not me. None of the other scrapbooking extensions actually capture what you're looking at, which is important given the way pages are rendered. All of which is why I'm still using Pale Moon. It might be slow, it might be less secure, but I can actually run [some version of] noscript which functions correctly, and I can still run Scrapbook+.
There is literally no good reason to run the modern Firefox over Chromium. Not one. So why should Firefox continue to exist?
There's probably something wrong with your Word or Windows (or out of memory, etc.). That combination should "just work" - it's really running on Windows on virtualized hardware.
Probably true, but I have always found Virtualbox to be unreliable. Either qemu-kvm or vmware is a far superior solution if you expect things to work. vmware might be a bunch of bastards, but vmware is solid and in my experience always has the best virtual graphics device by a wide margin.
Robots donÃ(TM)t need water and air or paychecks. ThereÃ(TM)s probably more valuable things to mine and ship back to earth like energy and metals. They would only be replaced by computers and robots.
Unless we find that we can cheaply mine He3, there's nothing on the moon that is worth bringing back to earth. It would make more sense to mine asteroids. The common criticism of that plan is that we don't know how to do that yet, but we don't know how to mine the moon yet, either.
No, it works if you can get free energy, but you can't. Alternative energy might be the cheapest energy, but we still have lots of other places to apply it. Also, the first place you'd put it would be reducing carbon release, by shutting down plants which are emitting CO2. That's going to be more efficient than putting the genie back into the bottle.
I hate commercials I'd gladly pay for a service like Netflix that doesn't include any.
I'm happy to pay to not see commercials, but I'm not happy to pay to have my own freedoms taken away — and that's what happens when your money goes to the MPAA.
...that employers can take a glance at and as easily quantify as a stamp of approval on a topic as a college degree.
Stop right there. A college degree does not prove that an applicant can do the job. So arguably, a college degree is actually worthless to recruiters, except that it shows that you are willing to jump through hoops, and it reduces the total number of applications they have to look at. Unfortunately, the non-degreed applications may contain the best candidates, and they're not even going to look at them. It's just another way to get out of actually doing the job for which HR employees were hired. They seem to have loads of them.
People certainly tried a lot harder before internet updates, when most customers wouldn't apply updates at all. To my mind games have actually been hit hardest. The patches often add up to be bigger than the game...
It will be impossible because they won't try. There are probably dozens of users on this site alone who would be willing to do the job, but they only hire by nepotism and those people will never be offered it.
"You have to do it on a per capita basis, or it is meaningless. Here's why: if you have a state with one resident, and another state with two residents, the state with two people will necessarily have more GDP than the state with one."
No, it won't. If those people together make less, then the GDP will still be less. Further, people are not islands. One person's output is predicated upon others' activities. The people producing the output are enabled by those who have less. We are talking about states, not people, so your insistence upon per capita measurements seems a sign of idiocy.
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I'm not saying the CIA didn't have any involvement, but Assange clearly is a selfish narcissist, so it wouldn't really take much work to advance that narrative.
Has anyone put together a solid debunking of the idea that Anna Ardin was working on behalf of the US government? It would be really helpful to know if such a thing exist, thanks /.
And what a bizarre honeypot, send a couple of women that agree to have sex with him, with the only stipulation that he use a condom, which he somehow couldn't stick to.
Maybe Assange has a history of sneaky raw-doggin' it. Or maybe they were just looking for any pretext. Or maybe it's all just what it looks like up front, who knows? I need more information to decide.
Does anyone ever think if there are farms of foreign twitter bots pushing dumbass maga teen videos, there might be people gaming sites like this one too?
Absolutely. Maybe even this one, although why bother? It's not like it's important anymore.
Or maybe the moderators all got lead poisoning, also possible.
That's not an either-or.
Two reasons:
No, those are two reasons why converting to the other gender won't fix all their problems. And the fact that they still kill themselves at about the same rate whether they have gender reassignment surgery or not is a strong indication that it wasn't what they really needed. But both the people who have had the surgery and the people who perform the surgery have a strong vested interest in convincing them that it is what they need, so they keep doing it even though the statistics show that it isn't.
In societies with less strictly enforced gender roles, there is less gender dysphoria. I'm all for people having the right to get a sex change, though I am absolutely against being asked to help them pay for it since the statistics show it doesn't improve outcomes. But it's clearly not what these people need, since it isn't even the most effective means of reducing their suicide rate. Not being assholes to them is. Granted, it's very hard to make people not be assholes to other people, but what they are doing now isn't working either.
Around 1.8% of people are born with some intersex characteristics. It's more common than red hair. By your standard people with red hair are abnormal.
People with red hair are abnormal by definition. The problem comes when we assign negativity to abnormality, which every person who clamors against the correct use of the word "abnormal" (including yourself) is contributing to, simply by acting as if the word should have a stigma.
the unfortunate plain truth
Is that there is no biological standard for male and female in humans.
You can look at what is most common, and say that anything outside this is abnormal, without considering it a problem to be corrected. The idea that everyone should be normal is toxic.
"The Swedish women asked for only one thing - that he's IS prosecuted for rape." is a true statement as well considering they were instrumental in initiating the rape charge.
That's a lie, and you are a liar. They explicitly wanted him to be forced to take an STD test, not prosecuted for rape. That was attempted at the discretion of the government, and over their explicit wishes. Whether he should be prosecuted for rape is orthogonal to the point of whether the women wanted him prosecuted for rape, so let's try to keep that to a separate thread, so that you're not a goalpost-moving liar as well.
I destroyed a Mac IIci so I don't consider myself to have a ROM problem. And you can download the classic MacOS directly from Apple, so I don't have an OS problem either. So what's the problem?
No, the news used to be that a Planet X about 10 times the mass of Earth could explain the strange orbits of some of these Trans Neptunian Objects.
Yes, but that was an idiotic idea because we could actually find it if it were that large. And it was an idiotic idea to report that idiotic idea, because it led to the surge of dipshits who believe in Nibiru, etc. The same guy I can't just avoid has told me three times now about how this planet is actually passing through Earth's orbit, how NASA has orbited a "sun simulator" that hides the actual sun, blah blah fucking blah. And you tell him that even amateur astronomers would notice the effects that would have on our solar system and he doubles down on crazy. People like that have been spurred on by this kind of unfounded horse shit.
Now the news is that a ring of smaller objects could also explain the strange orbits of these same TNOs.
Yeah, and unlike something larger than Earth, we would actually have trouble finding those smaller objects. That makes it a plausible theory which passes a basic sniff test, unlike the idea that there's some larger-than-earth body wandering around our solar system that neither we nor ancient astronomers have twigged to.
I don't why Boeing is doing this but I don't believe that "Boeing believes the vehicles, more commonly referred to as air taxis or flying cars, will be a solution to traffic congestion."
Especially since air taxis and flying cars are two different things. This is clearly an airplane, and what's more, it's not even roadable. There's absolutely nothing "car" about it. What a shit show.
Everyone has a smartphone these days, therefore everyone should have access to at least one mobile payment service -- Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay.
Nope. My Android phone doesn't have NFC.
Errm, that article starts with a lie: "Last week, the NRA kept defending gun rights" - not if you aren't white. Or more to the point: not if you aren't a gun maker.
The rights they are defending are available to nonwhites as well. Less available, granted, since the cops are more likely to execute them for exercising them, but they are not preserved for whites and/or corporations only.
With that said, I'd like to see more black people be counted as owning firearms, and see what the NRA thought about that. It would probably be hilarious.
Problem is you can't add your own certificates to many devices, e.g. smart TVs.
You might be able to add your own certs to some smart TVs with enough effort, but the smartest thing is not to buy such devices in the first place. They're less reliable than dumb devices, so that alone should be enough to disqualify them. It's not like an external player is expensive or takes up any noticeable space, so they really offer nothing of value.
PiHole is better than nothing, but DNS based blocking is very limited these days compared to what an in-browser ad blocker can do.
There's a third option, which is to use a proxy. I used to use a filtering [SQUID] proxy to block ads, and it was moderately effective even without much effort spent on it. There are all the usual proxy disadvantages, but it can rewrite pages before they even get to your browser, and it's the only solution which can. I mangled packets to force all identifiable web traffic through the proxy, unless you specifically chose a specific proxy port which permitted unfiltered content.
DNS blocking is more or less worthless today, although I suppose there's no great reason not to do it. But proxy-based blocking still works great, where you have control over where traffic goes. If we could have a proxy with a nice configuration interface, that would probably be the best bet. It's hardest for the googles of the world to defeat. Android users who can't root will still have problems on the road, but people who can't be made to understand why they need a rootable device probably just can't be saved.
For a download manager *IN* Firefox : the necessary API extensions are still being worked on.
We had them, and they took them away before introducing new ones. That is crap by any reasonable measure.
It's open source. If enough people don't like it, they'll just fork Chromium and create a new ad-block-friendly browser without this "feature.".
Sure, that will happen, but to see how that will go, just look at Pale Moon. It's usable (I'm using it now) but it is behind in significant ways at the same time. And that's likely just how a wildly divergent fork of Chromium would turn out, too.
On the other hand, I kind of hope Google does this stuff, because it will drive people to spend more effort on alternate browsers, and we need that. It's not okay to only have a couple of rendering engines out there.
Current PCs come with more ram and processing power than you need, unless you're running server daemons (in which case I question the use of a browser at the same time) or games (in which case I don't only question your use of a browser at the same time but you probably already handed your privacy to Origin or Steam anyway).
Speaking of Steam, and not Origin but Bethesda.net, if you're gonna play Bethesda games you'll often need a browser open at the same time so you can search for the information you'll need when you get stuck in a quest bug. Even after games have been multiply patched for years, you still need the console to complete them... or to spend an awful lot of time reloading past saves, at best. I can't imagine how horrible it is to play these games on consoles, and don't want to...
If you were running NoScript as security software to protect yourself from malicious websites, it's no longer a complete solution.
I depend on noscript to protect me from malicious sites, and I depend on scrapbook+ to archive data for posterity because data often goes missing from the web. When I cite something, I scrapbook it. I can't get ScrapbookQ to work on Windows or Linux, and I'm pretty fucking good at following directions and did it three times on each platform so I'm sure it's not me. None of the other scrapbooking extensions actually capture what you're looking at, which is important given the way pages are rendered. All of which is why I'm still using Pale Moon. It might be slow, it might be less secure, but I can actually run [some version of] noscript which functions correctly, and I can still run Scrapbook+.
There is literally no good reason to run the modern Firefox over Chromium. Not one. So why should Firefox continue to exist?
There's probably something wrong with your Word or Windows (or out of memory, etc.). That combination should "just work" - it's really running on Windows on virtualized hardware.
Probably true, but I have always found Virtualbox to be unreliable. Either qemu-kvm or vmware is a far superior solution if you expect things to work. vmware might be a bunch of bastards, but vmware is solid and in my experience always has the best virtual graphics device by a wide margin.
Robots donÃ(TM)t need water and air or paychecks. ThereÃ(TM)s probably more valuable things to mine and ship back to earth like energy and metals. They would only be replaced by computers and robots.
Unless we find that we can cheaply mine He3, there's nothing on the moon that is worth bringing back to earth. It would make more sense to mine asteroids. The common criticism of that plan is that we don't know how to do that yet, but we don't know how to mine the moon yet, either.
It works if you can get alternative energy.
No, it works if you can get free energy, but you can't. Alternative energy might be the cheapest energy, but we still have lots of other places to apply it. Also, the first place you'd put it would be reducing carbon release, by shutting down plants which are emitting CO2. That's going to be more efficient than putting the genie back into the bottle.
I hate commercials I'd gladly pay for a service like Netflix that doesn't include any.
I'm happy to pay to not see commercials, but I'm not happy to pay to have my own freedoms taken away — and that's what happens when your money goes to the MPAA.
...that employers can take a glance at and as easily quantify as a stamp of approval on a topic as a college degree.
Stop right there. A college degree does not prove that an applicant can do the job. So arguably, a college degree is actually worthless to recruiters, except that it shows that you are willing to jump through hoops, and it reduces the total number of applications they have to look at. Unfortunately, the non-degreed applications may contain the best candidates, and they're not even going to look at them. It's just another way to get out of actually doing the job for which HR employees were hired. They seem to have loads of them.
People certainly tried a lot harder before internet updates, when most customers wouldn't apply updates at all. To my mind games have actually been hit hardest. The patches often add up to be bigger than the game...
It will be impossible because they won't try. There are probably dozens of users on this site alone who would be willing to do the job, but they only hire by nepotism and those people will never be offered it.
"You have to do it on a per capita basis, or it is meaningless. Here's why: if you have a state with one resident, and another state with two residents, the state with two people will necessarily have more GDP than the state with one."
No, it won't. If those people together make less, then the GDP will still be less. Further, people are not islands. One person's output is predicated upon others' activities. The people producing the output are enabled by those who have less. We are talking about states, not people, so your insistence upon per capita measurements seems a sign of idiocy.
"They provide something of benefit to their clients"
Sometimes. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they actually do harm, like when they make commercials that offend existing customers, or prospective ones.