record sales figures from the past year or so disagree with your decline idea
shortages everywhere, and manufacturers / distributors can't keep up with the demand level to the point that they are now unable to build their annual stockpile for the hunting seasons ahead (they usually start stockpiling in the spring/summer months to meet the fall demand) so there will be more shortages later this year
let's try some equivalency treatments...
"There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 4 cylinders in their car's engine" "There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 3 pairs of shoes" "There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 2 children" "There's no reason for any civilian to have more than a $50,000 salary" "There's no reason for any civilian to have [anything that can't be justified by a specific need]" ETC
It's called Freedom, people. It's what America is supposed to be about.
And before douchebags start dragging all the political bullshit in, I support the firing of pretty much every politician currently in office. Scrap the 2 parties completely for all I care. Let the womerns have all the birth control and abortions and the men have all the liquor and dope they want. Whatever. Freedom is the only way forward.
Also for the record, I can disprove that suggested penile association with photos.
There are better cell carriers now most places offering more competitive plans with no contract required. Time for all the slaves to break their chains and jump ship. Don't worry about the sharks, they are already full from eating moose turds.
All you need is an unlocked phone (or an unlock code for your AT&T phone) and you can move to a no-contract carrier with the same GSM radios with no up-front fees. I deliberately moved to another carrier with less coverage than AT&T and I still like it better, because I get unlimited data and everything with no dumbass "smartphone" fees added onto the bill. Whenever I find someplace that the coverage is gone, I just think back to my days in high school when I would have to call a girl on her house phone, or be at home when I was expecting a call because none of us had cell phones. Not such a big deal.
They can have a go at mandating whatever, but they can't take away people's property, and the corporate lobby wouldn't let them incinerate manufacturers' / retailers' existing stock..... so then the public will hold the final vote with the power of their money.
Who wants to buy this new machine which used to be simple and reliable but now has complex electronic hobbles installed that add no performance increase?
I don't generally allow anything to automatically download and install anything without my permission.
It's the old-fashioned philosophy that the user controls the computer, instead of the new-fangled Microsoft philosophy of "We Tell You What You Do Now"
Plus I have a few things here and there that don't work after certain things get updated, etc. Some things are never updated, and when they are more important than a browser update that breaks compatibility with the aforementioned mission-critical-dinosaur-app, the former takes precedent.
Surely I can't be the only one who goes "SHUT UP NOT NOW" every time the last new version of Firefox goes to hollerin' "HEY FUCK THAT PAGE YOU WERE LOOKING AT A SUPER-CRUCIAL NEW UPDATE IS OUT"
You ask, did [the big rich corporations] bribe Senators to [make them get richer] ???
OF COURSE THEY DID! DUH.
This is exactly what's wrong with the size of these corporations and the corruption of our government system in the USA - the amount of influence they can buy over our "Representatives"
No, mine has all caches disabled. I desoldered the L2 and L3 caches from my CPU to make it overclock better, and I rerouted the memory controllers to only process newly created data. All other data is read/written in real-time directly from the drives.
This is stupid shit for people who don't want to learn how to control their own computers.
In my computer, I have a Crucial M4 SSD for the boot drive and the more speed fasterness "crucial" apps. Then I have a WD Black terabyte drive for all the shit that doesn't need to be maximum possible speed.
Sometimes, I change my mind what needs to be faster than what is not at the forefront of my mission anymore. That's when I move my files around manually. Mind you, these are usually 8 - 20 GB of files or whatnot. This type of operation I do not want an un-brained background process to be performing at random times. If it picked the wrong time, I might drop FPS in an online match that was worth so many imaginary dollars to nobody at that precise moment...
You claimed in a roundabout fashion that the Mexican Drug Cartels are assisting Hezbollah terrorists to make their way into the USA with a bunch of deadly poison, possibly tons of ricin. If this is true and not another distraction technique, then what are they planning to do with all that nasty shit? Are they planning bio-attacks on US citizens? If they are planning attacks with ricin in the USA, why do you not tell more people and get the word out to save lives?
If anyone out there reading this is in possession of knowledge of any impending poison attacks and does nothing to alert people to stop it, they are in effect assisting the attacks, so you should share any knowledge of such dangers with the public. Lack of information-sharing is a key point of failure in the lead-up to every terrorist attack this century, it seems like. Let's use the Internet to stop the terrorist attacks.
Well you usually can find the information to learn if you know where to look, for free... but the real challenge for competing with brick/mortar educational institutions are the Acceptance of Accreditation and (if you are just teaching yourself at the library like Good Will Hunting) then the coherence of the subject matter or trail from one book to the next that leads to a worthwhile education in a relevant field. There has to be someone to lead the learner to the right materials to study in the right order, in order to learn all the necessary stuff in the order that allows the knowledge to build properly to amount to Something Useful.
The accreditation thing is important for the entities you wish to impress for reasons of influencing them to give you the monies later on.
But I sure hope it does work out, so that folks can start avoiding the ridiculous costs of tuition these days. Competition needs to enter the tuition market and disrupt the steady ridiculous increases.
I've played XBox a couple of times. It sucks. The controller is the dumbest one I've ever tried to use (Playstation is the best to me).
But I just don't play consoles anymore. I can run my web browser ETC in my second monitor of my PC while I play games on the other, and the graphical quality and controls are unsurpassed by any console.
Consoles are migrating their way to the variety of things a good gaming PC can do, but haven't made it there yet. Why waste time on a garbage machine from Microsoft anyway?
I concur. All the lame new cars with their nagging BS and recent trends like the "Let Your Insurance Company Monitor Your Driving Habits" modules..... People are too lame to see the potential for enjoying life.
If I get any new cars that have nag features or spy features, I will be rearranging the circuitry to disable them.
Right. I spent a couple of weeks in Oklahoma one time, and was happy to see the 75 MPH speed limit signs on some of their 2-lane highways. I was driving a Japanese sports-car with about 240HP, so it was cool to roll out across the rolling landscape there at 80+ MPH with no worries of tickets.
When you crest one of the rolling hills out there, you can often see the next town even if it's 20 miles away. The overall landscape is flat with lots of bumps to get upon and scout about.
It's all the media's manipulation of what people pay attention to. If you talk to individuals who can process thoughts within their own mind, it isn't unlikely that they can see the rational reality that the Boston Bombings were really not That Big of a Deal in the grand scope of things. More people are killed and injured on a daily basis just driving or riding in their fabulous automobiles.
Yeah I really didn't need any more reasons not to visit New York or even the City itself. Overpopulation leads to overzealous law enforcement leads to less freedom.
If you really want freedom and privacy, you have to get away from places that house millions of douchebags.
Move to Montana, raise a crop of dental floss, etc.
Tetris is cool and all, but it's boring after so long...
What if you took the "one eye doing this, other eye doing that" idea and applied it to a shooter 3D game, maybe with the player's gun/weapon/body and projectiles assigned to one eye, and the world/environment/etc assigned to the other eye (?) .
With regard to the various discussions of corrective therapy for eyeballs, what about astigmatism? Are there any good ways to correct that defect? I would like to ditch my glasses, and I only have astigmatism (no power correction / sphere correction). I have only tried once to put in contacts and it sucked, but I'm still thinking about trying them.
John McAfee made some far-out claims a few months ago about Mexican cartels helping Muslim terrorists smuggle tons of ricin into the USA.
Let's hope to all that's holy that he was just bat-shit crazy and the allegations are not true, because if they are then thousands of people could be killed by the alleged "tons of ricin"
Awhile back, you would see disclaimers here and there saying "the reliability of SMS messaging should not be counted on in emergency situations" or something to that effect.
But the opposite actually appears to be true, when the "emergency" is in an area where a lot of folks are trying to use their cell phones at the same time.
During some weather catastrophes a few years back, I could not get a single call to go through on the biggest carrier in my area, but texts did go through successfully. It's just less data packets to carry the information.
It's also interesting to note that the failures of cell networks illustrates the cell carriers overselling of their networks, or to say it a different way, their failure to invest in their infrastructure to adequately support the number of customers they have.
DUDE let's unleash a Hell-Storm of ducks and crabs on those nasty bastards! The ducks and crabs will get fat and slow, and digestively turn that nasty snail meat into delicious duck and crab meat!
I can't wait for the opportunity to use my Biden-mandated shotgun on some fat ass ducks and crabs down yonder in the Sunshine State. Booking my vacation for n+{duckDigestion && crabDigestion}*time days from now...
The current-generation LED bulbs actually have a pretty wide spectrum of RF radiating from them. The band they radiate in is able to interfere with broadcast TV in the VHF and UHF bands.
I read about that awhile back and forgot it, then a month or so later I installed a couple of LED bulbs in a room of my house close to my TV antenna... and I lost a channel in the VHF band.
Later on I remembered about the LED bulb RF emission problem, and I realized that my TV reception was impacted negatively by the LED bulbs I installed near it. So I moved my antenna and got my channel back.
VHF and UHF TV are not that relevant anymore, but some folks still choose the free option rather than pay for crappy limited expensive options from other providers, so this LED bulb interference could be bad as more people install them.
Well since my previous reply apparently vanished, I'm going to re-post the link I posted yesterday. This is a PDF document hosted on the government's webserver, detailing the plan that I "alleged" so you can take their own word for it. See section 19 for the specific mention of the phrase "Bail-Ins"
Resolving Globally Active, Systemically Important, Financial Institutions
A joint paper by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England 10 December 2012
The above is a plan published by the FDIC to save failing banks by "bailing-in" the money in customers' savings accounts, just like they did in Cyprus where lots of people lost their life savings.
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shortages everywhere, and manufacturers / distributors can't keep up with the demand level to the point that they are now unable to build their annual stockpile for the hunting seasons ahead (they usually start stockpiling in the spring/summer months to meet the fall demand) so there will be more shortages later this year
let's try some equivalency treatments...
"There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 4 cylinders in their car's engine" "There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 3 pairs of shoes" "There's no reason for any civilian to have more than 2 children" "There's no reason for any civilian to have more than a $50,000 salary" "There's no reason for any civilian to have [anything that can't be justified by a specific need]" ETC
It's called Freedom, people. It's what America is supposed to be about.
And before douchebags start dragging all the political bullshit in, I support the firing of pretty much every politician currently in office. Scrap the 2 parties completely for all I care. Let the womerns have all the birth control and abortions and the men have all the liquor and dope they want. Whatever. Freedom is the only way forward.
Also for the record, I can disprove that suggested penile association with photos.
All you need is an unlocked phone (or an unlock code for your AT&T phone) and you can move to a no-contract carrier with the same GSM radios with no up-front fees. I deliberately moved to another carrier with less coverage than AT&T and I still like it better, because I get unlimited data and everything with no dumbass "smartphone" fees added onto the bill. Whenever I find someplace that the coverage is gone, I just think back to my days in high school when I would have to call a girl on her house phone, or be at home when I was expecting a call because none of us had cell phones. Not such a big deal.
Who wants to buy this new machine which used to be simple and reliable but now has complex electronic hobbles installed that add no performance increase?
It's the old-fashioned philosophy that the user controls the computer, instead of the new-fangled Microsoft philosophy of "We Tell You What You Do Now"
Plus I have a few things here and there that don't work after certain things get updated, etc. Some things are never updated, and when they are more important than a browser update that breaks compatibility with the aforementioned mission-critical-dinosaur-app, the former takes precedent.
blarg
OF COURSE THEY DID! DUH.
This is exactly what's wrong with the size of these corporations and the corruption of our government system in the USA - the amount of influence they can buy over our "Representatives"
No, mine has all caches disabled. I desoldered the L2 and L3 caches from my CPU to make it overclock better, and I rerouted the memory controllers to only process newly created data. All other data is read/written in real-time directly from the drives.
In my computer, I have a Crucial M4 SSD for the boot drive and the more speed fasterness "crucial" apps. Then I have a WD Black terabyte drive for all the shit that doesn't need to be maximum possible speed.
Sometimes, I change my mind what needs to be faster than what is not at the forefront of my mission anymore. That's when I move my files around manually. Mind you, these are usually 8 - 20 GB of files or whatnot. This type of operation I do not want an un-brained background process to be performing at random times. If it picked the wrong time, I might drop FPS in an online match that was worth so many imaginary dollars to nobody at that precise moment...
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If anyone out there reading this is in possession of knowledge of any impending poison attacks and does nothing to alert people to stop it, they are in effect assisting the attacks, so you should share any knowledge of such dangers with the public. Lack of information-sharing is a key point of failure in the lead-up to every terrorist attack this century, it seems like. Let's use the Internet to stop the terrorist attacks.
The accreditation thing is important for the entities you wish to impress for reasons of influencing them to give you the monies later on.
But I sure hope it does work out, so that folks can start avoiding the ridiculous costs of tuition these days. Competition needs to enter the tuition market and disrupt the steady ridiculous increases.
But I just don't play consoles anymore. I can run my web browser ETC in my second monitor of my PC while I play games on the other, and the graphical quality and controls are unsurpassed by any console.
Consoles are migrating their way to the variety of things a good gaming PC can do, but haven't made it there yet. Why waste time on a garbage machine from Microsoft anyway?
If I get any new cars that have nag features or spy features, I will be rearranging the circuitry to disable them.
When you crest one of the rolling hills out there, you can often see the next town even if it's 20 miles away. The overall landscape is flat with lots of bumps to get upon and scout about.
It's all the media's manipulation of what people pay attention to. If you talk to individuals who can process thoughts within their own mind, it isn't unlikely that they can see the rational reality that the Boston Bombings were really not That Big of a Deal in the grand scope of things. More people are killed and injured on a daily basis just driving or riding in their fabulous automobiles.
If you really want freedom and privacy, you have to get away from places that house millions of douchebags.
Move to Montana, raise a crop of dental floss, etc.
What if you took the "one eye doing this, other eye doing that" idea and applied it to a shooter 3D game, maybe with the player's gun/weapon/body and projectiles assigned to one eye, and the world/environment/etc assigned to the other eye (?) .
With regard to the various discussions of corrective therapy for eyeballs, what about astigmatism? Are there any good ways to correct that defect? I would like to ditch my glasses, and I only have astigmatism (no power correction / sphere correction). I have only tried once to put in contacts and it sucked, but I'm still thinking about trying them.
John McAfee made some far-out claims a few months ago about Mexican cartels helping Muslim terrorists smuggle tons of ricin into the USA.
Let's hope to all that's holy that he was just bat-shit crazy and the allegations are not true, because if they are then thousands of people could be killed by the alleged "tons of ricin"
But the opposite actually appears to be true, when the "emergency" is in an area where a lot of folks are trying to use their cell phones at the same time.
During some weather catastrophes a few years back, I could not get a single call to go through on the biggest carrier in my area, but texts did go through successfully. It's just less data packets to carry the information.
It's also interesting to note that the failures of cell networks illustrates the cell carriers overselling of their networks, or to say it a different way, their failure to invest in their infrastructure to adequately support the number of customers they have.
shit's paywalled man, no good for Freedom Internets
I can't wait for the opportunity to use my Biden-mandated shotgun on some fat ass ducks and crabs down yonder in the Sunshine State. Booking my vacation for n+{duckDigestion && crabDigestion}*time days from now...
I read about that awhile back and forgot it, then a month or so later I installed a couple of LED bulbs in a room of my house close to my TV antenna... and I lost a channel in the VHF band.
Later on I remembered about the LED bulb RF emission problem, and I realized that my TV reception was impacted negatively by the LED bulbs I installed near it. So I moved my antenna and got my channel back.
VHF and UHF TV are not that relevant anymore, but some folks still choose the free option rather than pay for crappy limited expensive options from other providers, so this LED bulb interference could be bad as more people install them.
Yeah, I always use real solder with lead in it if I'm building something or fixing something... unless I can't find any
http://www.fdic.gov/about/srac/2012/gsifi.pdf
Resolving Globally Active, Systemically Important, Financial Institutions
A joint paper by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England 10 December 2012
The above is a plan published by the FDIC to save failing banks by "bailing-in" the money in customers' savings accounts, just like they did in Cyprus where lots of people lost their life savings.