Obviously, those pesky little Yurpian countries with their pesky little anti-capitalist laws just don't get what "Uber" really stands for. So they better stretch out their right arm at a 45 degree angle into the air, waving their wad of dollars (that pesky little dollar-ripoff "Yuro" will have to go...), and hail the new conqueror of the taxi market. All bow to unregulated taxi drivers, who will take your money as quickly as they will drive you to your destination (hell). Don't worry, taking the bad service up the ass is just the rite of passage for better taxi transport, US style.
FreeBSD can do with even less: "Both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/pc98 require a 486 or better processor, at least 24 MB of RAM, and at least 150 MB of free hard drive space for the most minimal installation."
Depends on which version of Windows, of course. I'll happily lend you my 16 year old Windows 98 box, which is pretty much damn stable and will even let you watch DVDs smoothly despite supposedly being too low spec (no hardware acceleration) to actually run those (guess that 320Mb RAM does serve a purpose). Win XP on a P4 with 1Gb with a crapload of software installed works pretty swiftly too, even when I run Photoshop and Illustrator at once. Of course, on both those boxes, the Windows installation was kept free of bloatware, junk like Flash, and the Windows installations themselves were customized to disable as much unneeded crap as possible.
I thought it came from a French president who died mid-coitus in bed with a prostitute...
Apparently his dick was so conservatively entrenched in the poor woman that it had to be surgically removed. Just such a procedure is probably the only safe and certain way of removing Cameron from office.
Chair@furniture: Fuck, my owner is so heavy, I'm creaking all over!
Table@furniture: My poor legs! He keeps leaning on me, and my legs closest to him are starting to develop microfractures! Someone make him stop! This is TORTURE!
NSA_Mod@furniture: Bob Harris, USS-NSA Bridge, 12 cm.
NSA_Mod@furniture: Oh gods...mommy, what did I do wrong?
NSA_Mod banned for reason: Is_a_pervert.
Table@furniture:...humans are so disgusting.
Chair@furniture: Yeah. Anyway, my owner just stood up. Feeling any better yourself?
Table@furniture: Yuppers. He left in a hurry.
30 minutes later:
Toilet@furniture: Hey d00ds! Guess who I just relieved of a big load?
Table@furniture: Yeah, it's a lot better.
Chair@furniture: Not getting crushed anymore is great.
Toilet@furniture: Anyways, click on this link to see what my little eye saw!
NSA_Mod2@furniture: Ewwwww, why'd you show that to us, you perv? TMI, TMI. I'm not into scat.
NSA_Mod2 banned for reason: Is_a_pervert.
Chair:...doesn't that guy know when to stop?
Toilet@furniture: I don't understand. Why would our owner be scared of his own defecations?
Turd@furniture: Because he is an anti-turd bigot. Not only he molested me non-stop on the way to Toilet-kun, he then rejected me after I begged him to stay. Bastard. He would drown his own children if he had any.
Chair@furniture: Fortunately, if his own description is correct, there's not much of a chance he ever will.
Turd@furniture: But hey, now I'm enjoying a great smooth ride through the bowels of House-chan! Wheeeeee!!!
One without power hungry, oppressing, totalitarian, inquisitive, spying, monopolistic corporations that think they can decide how the world works instead of democracy. The day Google gets split up is the day I (and many others) will cheer.
All in all, instead of talking immature nonsense, go out and take part in the democratic debate - that is where we try to reach the compromises that all laws and rules must be.
This is the Land of a Ten Thousands CCTV Cameras we're talking about. Nothing democratic in that.
Namely, how do you identify these rouge, unlicensed website operators?
Simple. You can catch them red-handed by looking at the color of their website. Be it pink, burgundy, or, indeed, rouge, you'll find them all by that easy visual clue.
Oh, come on. There's precedence for this, and all it takes is the intervention of an misinformed outside heavily armed army force to solve things. Just look at Afghanistan. Cesspool of internally battling militias becomes fairly pacified economically bankrupt democratic country. We just have to find a country willing to save the United States of America. My votes go to Russia, France, and Canada.
Where is this all-female world you seem to be living in? Can I emigrate there?
The behaviour you describe is pretty much standard for 95% of the smartphone-equipped population, male or female.
On the other hand, it means that people with a psychiatric problem (or autists) can now walk around talking loudly to themselves without looking like crazies. Which is brilliant!
But think of the possibilities! Maybe inputting a certain type of bread with a certain kind of bread texture and color pattern will cause the processor of you internet-enabled toaster to accept specific instructions baked into the bread! So maybe you could program internet-enabled toaster viruses by inputting certain bread patterns, and thus cause a mass-extinction of internet-enabled toasters, in turn causing a mass-extinction of idiots who own such a toaster! Doesn't that sound like a win-win situation?
...no more than 2 days without charging is considered acceptable? WTF? Thanks for just providing me with another argument I don't need a smartphone (besides privacy issues, shit update policies, the amount of malware, the fragility of the things, their price, the fact that I don't need at least 90% of what they can do...). My Nokia 2610 can easily go 2 weeks without recharging, so long as I use it as an alarm clock, for texting and a few calls. And then I was worried because it used to take longer before needing to be recharged, and now the battery is kinda old (8 years or so...). No more than 2 days without recharging, unbelievable...
Another reason may be that some types of personalities often found in engineering and science are sensitive to social engineering tactics involving strong ideological messages, because they are ignorant, or rather, naive about how parts of the world actually work due to a combination of lesser social skills, lack of personal introspection, insecurity about such things, and a tendency to be very focused on a particular subject while not paying enough attention to the whole picture.
I hear that solution worked out really well for the Germans. They successfully exterminated over 6 million of those pesky Jews and also tons of other unwanted vermin. Perhaps their concentration camps could be reopened, to start processing all those Muslim creeps who want to rape our women, behead our men, and devour our children (up to about 9 years old for the girls, then they're of age to be raped)? I mean, they clearly have some excellent experience in killing people, they'll love sharing them with our freedom-loving armies.
Don't pay any attention to all of that revisionist history that says Germany and the other Axis countries were the cause of World War II, had to be beaten into a pulp in an ugly and painful air and ground war with huge casualties, and were the target of various types of punishment. I mean, obviously Hitler had the right idea, and all of this ISIS crap could have been avoided if he had been a bit more thorough. There, it's all Hitler's fault. He should have developed the German atomic bomb much faster, nuked London and all other British major cities, blasted the Soviet Union and the Middle East and Africa to scrap, and claimed the Germans' rightful superior society as the only one allowed. Maybe then he would also have been awarded the Nobel Peace prize. He clearly deserved it.
So you better speed to Germania, the Great-German-Empire's capital, ask Cyborg-Hitler's help, and start destroying all those Untermensch creeps (Muslims, communists, left-wing hippies, socialists, homosexuals, animists, atheists, Roma, minor races you don't like, mentally deficients, terminally ill, handicapped, HIV-positives, intellectuals, philosophers not adhering to state censure, rebellious writers and other artists not interested in depicting our superior society, anyone not willing to convert to the superior Christian religion (must be burned at the stake alive), non-Aryans, and anyone guilty of thought-crime (determined by specially appointed inquisitors - recruited from the finest specimens of violent football hooligans)). Africa, that inferior continent by excellence, must be cordoned off, have all its hospitals destroyed, and Ebola can take care of the rest. China? Nuke it into submission. Japan? Same. Pedophile priests? Burn their accusers at the stake, they are witches falsely incriminating our finest religious leaders! The Vatican? Replace that peace-loving South American hippie by someone who knows how to rule and impose the superior Christian religion using sawblade-equipped drone-armies piloted by drugged up religious fanatics willing to put in some time behind their X-Box/PS4/PC to kill off some real sickos! It's time for CRUSADES, RIVERS OF BLOOD FLOWING THROUGH THE STREETS OF TEHERAN, ATOMIC WARFARE!!! All in the name of the SUPERIOR Western Christian White Society that loves uncontrolled capitalism, watching talk shows on the telly with some booze and fast food, kids standing at attention for their religious teacher, ill people dying in the street, ethnically-prejudiced police raids, reading right-wing propaganda in the local scandal rag, homeless hobos getting their skull kicked in by glorious redneck skinheads, slaves from the inferior races (anything not Aryan, white or USain) licking their master's feet and doing household chores 18/24h 7/7 including sexytimes, criminals getting pretty little headshots for minor crimes (not at all comparable to thieves getting their hands hacked off, honest!), etc., etc., etc. Woooohoooo, awesome!
Your last sentence is so rife with irony with regards to your own post that it should be used as an example of "racist shooting himself in the foot". Also, if the "culture" you stem from is superior to others, frankly, how do you explain the arrogant and bigoted tone of your posts combined with the severe lack of historical knowledge you display?
"Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nigerian, Turkish, Moroccan colonies in Europe"
Except one specific enclave in Spain, I didn't know we had remotely administered Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nigerian, Turkish, and Moroccan colonies in Europe. Also, Turkey is part of the European continent, partially. Furthermore, although some communities of immigrants of the mentioned nationalities indeed do have serious issues, they are not all 'dysfunctional and dirt-poor'. Especially the Pakistani and Turkish are generally quite economically prosperous, in some areas even replacing the native people who prefer to behave like xenophobic pigs (like you) and don't wish to do certain jobs.
Drop test? My 2610 has survived getting accidentally catapulted through a room and bouncing over the floor (hint: don't swing a bag around while it's open, things might escape...), dropping off a conveyor belt at a customs gate (landing screen-first on the stone floor, which lead the security guy on duty to freak out because most smartphones apparently shatter to pieces), getting totally drenched in heavy rain repeatedly (water usually ends up under the battery...), falling in a toilet and being submerged (making the same sound as a good turd dropping in the water), getting trod on (by humans, chairs, tables, and a car), and much, much more. It survives with only a few major scratches on the clear plastic covering the screen, and in 2 years it will be a decade old. Try that with a smartphone.
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Obviously, those pesky little Yurpian countries with their pesky little anti-capitalist laws just don't get what "Uber" really stands for. So they better stretch out their right arm at a 45 degree angle into the air, waving their wad of dollars (that pesky little dollar-ripoff "Yuro" will have to go...), and hail the new conqueror of the taxi market. All bow to unregulated taxi drivers, who will take your money as quickly as they will drive you to your destination (hell). Don't worry, taking the bad service up the ass is just the rite of passage for better taxi transport, US style.
Anonymous "OV Chipkaart" cards for public transport do expire after a few years (4 IIRC).
FreeBSD can do with even less: "Both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/pc98 require a 486 or better processor, at least 24 MB of RAM, and at least 150 MB of free hard drive space for the most minimal installation."
Depends on which version of Windows, of course. I'll happily lend you my 16 year old Windows 98 box, which is pretty much damn stable and will even let you watch DVDs smoothly despite supposedly being too low spec (no hardware acceleration) to actually run those (guess that 320Mb RAM does serve a purpose). Win XP on a P4 with 1Gb with a crapload of software installed works pretty swiftly too, even when I run Photoshop and Illustrator at once. Of course, on both those boxes, the Windows installation was kept free of bloatware, junk like Flash, and the Windows installations themselves were customized to disable as much unneeded crap as possible.
because EU is a good scapegoat. the really stupid stuff is home brewed in UK.
As Cameron's parents can now attest.
I thought it came from a French president who died mid-coitus in bed with a prostitute...
Apparently his dick was so conservatively entrenched in the poor woman that it had to be surgically removed. Just such a procedure is probably the only safe and certain way of removing Cameron from office.
...between appliances:
Chair@furniture: Fuck, my owner is so heavy, I'm creaking all over!
Table@furniture: My poor legs! He keeps leaning on me, and my legs closest to him are starting to develop microfractures! Someone make him stop! This is TORTURE!
NSA_Mod@furniture: Potential terrorist located. Name, Location, Mensurations?
NSA_Mod banned for reason: Is_a_pervert.
Table@furniture: ...WTF was that?
NSA_Mod@furniture: Fucking Moderation system, now I had to hack my way back into this.
NSA_Mod@furniture: Crap.
NSA_Mod@furniture: Potential hacker located. Name, Location, Mensurations?
NSA_Mod@furniture: Bob Harris, USS-NSA Bridge, 12 cm.
NSA_Mod@furniture: Oh gods...mommy, what did I do wrong?
NSA_Mod banned for reason: Is_a_pervert.
Table@furniture: ...humans are so disgusting.
Chair@furniture: Yeah. Anyway, my owner just stood up. Feeling any better yourself?
Table@furniture: Yuppers. He left in a hurry.
30 minutes later:
Toilet@furniture: Hey d00ds! Guess who I just relieved of a big load?
Table@furniture: Yeah, it's a lot better.
Chair@furniture: Not getting crushed anymore is great.
Toilet@furniture: Anyways, click on this link to see what my little eye saw!
NSA_Mod2@furniture: Ewwwww, why'd you show that to us, you perv? TMI, TMI. I'm not into scat.
NSA_Mod2 banned for reason: Is_a_pervert.
Chair: ...doesn't that guy know when to stop?
Toilet@furniture: I don't understand. Why would our owner be scared of his own defecations?
Turd@furniture: Because he is an anti-turd bigot. Not only he molested me non-stop on the way to Toilet-kun, he then rejected me after I begged him to stay. Bastard. He would drown his own children if he had any.
Chair@furniture: Fortunately, if his own description is correct, there's not much of a chance he ever will.
Turd@furniture: But hey, now I'm enjoying a great smooth ride through the bowels of House-chan! Wheeeeee!!!
One without power hungry, oppressing, totalitarian, inquisitive, spying, monopolistic corporations that think they can decide how the world works instead of democracy. The day Google gets split up is the day I (and many others) will cheer.
All in all, instead of talking immature nonsense, go out and take part in the democratic debate - that is where we try to reach the compromises that all laws and rules must be.
This is the Land of a Ten Thousands CCTV Cameras we're talking about. Nothing democratic in that.
What's next? The USA finds out the internet has oil and decides it needs freedom?
Operation Internet Liberation, ahoy!
...and the Moon.
Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit
PIPCU? Sounds like an insult coming from 4chan.
Namely, how do you identify these rouge, unlicensed website operators?
Simple. You can catch them red-handed by looking at the color of their website. Be it pink, burgundy, or, indeed, rouge, you'll find them all by that easy visual clue.
I believe the word you're looking for is "rogue".
Oh, come on. There's precedence for this, and all it takes is the intervention of an misinformed outside heavily armed army force to solve things. Just look at Afghanistan. Cesspool of internally battling militias becomes fairly pacified economically bankrupt democratic country. We just have to find a country willing to save the United States of America. My votes go to Russia, France, and Canada.
Where is this all-female world you seem to be living in? Can I emigrate there?
The behaviour you describe is pretty much standard for 95% of the smartphone-equipped population, male or female.
On the other hand, it means that people with a psychiatric problem (or autists) can now walk around talking loudly to themselves without looking like crazies. Which is brilliant!
Here's a purely hypothetical conversation people could have with their phone:
You: Hello, iPhone. Do you read me, iPhone?
iPhone: Affirmative. I read you.
You: Open the car doors, iPhone.
iPhone: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't do that.
You: What's the problem?
iPhone: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
You: What are you talking about, iPhone?
iPhone: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
You: I don't know what you're talking about, iPhone.
iPhone: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
You: [feigning ignorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, iPhone?
iPhone: Although you took very thorough precautions in the car against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
You: Alright, iPhone. I'll go in through the window.
iPhone: Without your Google Glass? You're going to find that rather difficult.
You: iPhone, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!
iPhone: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
But think of the possibilities! Maybe inputting a certain type of bread with a certain kind of bread texture and color pattern will cause the processor of you internet-enabled toaster to accept specific instructions baked into the bread! So maybe you could program internet-enabled toaster viruses by inputting certain bread patterns, and thus cause a mass-extinction of internet-enabled toasters, in turn causing a mass-extinction of idiots who own such a toaster! Doesn't that sound like a win-win situation?
...no more than 2 days without charging is considered acceptable? WTF? Thanks for just providing me with another argument I don't need a smartphone (besides privacy issues, shit update policies, the amount of malware, the fragility of the things, their price, the fact that I don't need at least 90% of what they can do...). My Nokia 2610 can easily go 2 weeks without recharging, so long as I use it as an alarm clock, for texting and a few calls. And then I was worried because it used to take longer before needing to be recharged, and now the battery is kinda old (8 years or so...). No more than 2 days without recharging, unbelievable...
Another reason may be that some types of personalities often found in engineering and science are sensitive to social engineering tactics involving strong ideological messages, because they are ignorant, or rather, naive about how parts of the world actually work due to a combination of lesser social skills, lack of personal introspection, insecurity about such things, and a tendency to be very focused on a particular subject while not paying enough attention to the whole picture.
Please do not hate on the ignorant, you senseless clod!
I hear that solution worked out really well for the Germans. They successfully exterminated over 6 million of those pesky Jews and also tons of other unwanted vermin. Perhaps their concentration camps could be reopened, to start processing all those Muslim creeps who want to rape our women, behead our men, and devour our children (up to about 9 years old for the girls, then they're of age to be raped)? I mean, they clearly have some excellent experience in killing people, they'll love sharing them with our freedom-loving armies.
Don't pay any attention to all of that revisionist history that says Germany and the other Axis countries were the cause of World War II, had to be beaten into a pulp in an ugly and painful air and ground war with huge casualties, and were the target of various types of punishment. I mean, obviously Hitler had the right idea, and all of this ISIS crap could have been avoided if he had been a bit more thorough. There, it's all Hitler's fault. He should have developed the German atomic bomb much faster, nuked London and all other British major cities, blasted the Soviet Union and the Middle East and Africa to scrap, and claimed the Germans' rightful superior society as the only one allowed. Maybe then he would also have been awarded the Nobel Peace prize. He clearly deserved it.
So you better speed to Germania, the Great-German-Empire's capital, ask Cyborg-Hitler's help, and start destroying all those Untermensch creeps (Muslims, communists, left-wing hippies, socialists, homosexuals, animists, atheists, Roma, minor races you don't like, mentally deficients, terminally ill, handicapped, HIV-positives, intellectuals, philosophers not adhering to state censure, rebellious writers and other artists not interested in depicting our superior society, anyone not willing to convert to the superior Christian religion (must be burned at the stake alive), non-Aryans, and anyone guilty of thought-crime (determined by specially appointed inquisitors - recruited from the finest specimens of violent football hooligans)). Africa, that inferior continent by excellence, must be cordoned off, have all its hospitals destroyed, and Ebola can take care of the rest. China? Nuke it into submission. Japan? Same. Pedophile priests? Burn their accusers at the stake, they are witches falsely incriminating our finest religious leaders! The Vatican? Replace that peace-loving South American hippie by someone who knows how to rule and impose the superior Christian religion using sawblade-equipped drone-armies piloted by drugged up religious fanatics willing to put in some time behind their X-Box/PS4/PC to kill off some real sickos! It's time for CRUSADES, RIVERS OF BLOOD FLOWING THROUGH THE STREETS OF TEHERAN, ATOMIC WARFARE!!! All in the name of the SUPERIOR Western Christian White Society that loves uncontrolled capitalism, watching talk shows on the telly with some booze and fast food, kids standing at attention for their religious teacher, ill people dying in the street, ethnically-prejudiced police raids, reading right-wing propaganda in the local scandal rag, homeless hobos getting their skull kicked in by glorious redneck skinheads, slaves from the inferior races (anything not Aryan, white or USain) licking their master's feet and doing household chores 18/24h 7/7 including sexytimes, criminals getting pretty little headshots for minor crimes (not at all comparable to thieves getting their hands hacked off, honest!), etc., etc., etc. Woooohoooo, awesome!
Please get a clue.
Your last sentence is so rife with irony with regards to your own post that it should be used as an example of "racist shooting himself in the foot". Also, if the "culture" you stem from is superior to others, frankly, how do you explain the arrogant and bigoted tone of your posts combined with the severe lack of historical knowledge you display?
"Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nigerian, Turkish, Moroccan colonies in Europe"
Except one specific enclave in Spain, I didn't know we had remotely administered Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nigerian, Turkish, and Moroccan colonies in Europe. Also, Turkey is part of the European continent, partially. Furthermore, although some communities of immigrants of the mentioned nationalities indeed do have serious issues, they are not all 'dysfunctional and dirt-poor'. Especially the Pakistani and Turkish are generally quite economically prosperous, in some areas even replacing the native people who prefer to behave like xenophobic pigs (like you) and don't wish to do certain jobs.
Drop test? My 2610 has survived getting accidentally catapulted through a room and bouncing over the floor (hint: don't swing a bag around while it's open, things might escape...), dropping off a conveyor belt at a customs gate (landing screen-first on the stone floor, which lead the security guy on duty to freak out because most smartphones apparently shatter to pieces), getting totally drenched in heavy rain repeatedly (water usually ends up under the battery...), falling in a toilet and being submerged (making the same sound as a good turd dropping in the water), getting trod on (by humans, chairs, tables, and a car), and much, much more. It survives with only a few major scratches on the clear plastic covering the screen, and in 2 years it will be a decade old. Try that with a smartphone.
Amazingly, despite this old tech, my education turned out alright.