Or he could be referring to income taxes. There were all kinds of government expansions during that period. Even Prohibition, the start of the war on drugs, began not too long after. Whether you believe that laissez-faire is good or bad we lost any claim to it early in the 20th century.
I think the best 3 reasons to upgrade to win7 64 bit from xp 64 bit are that it is a lot easier to run as non-admin all the time, Sandboxie runs on it, and TRIM support for SSDs. Those security advantages are significant and TRIM is nearly a necessity for SSDs.
It actually is possible to run XP as non-admin with the help of SuRun and other apps, but it can be a PITA since a significant percentage of apps need full admin rights to even run.
Compatibility issues are a mixed bag. My sound card won't run on Win 7 x64 due to a lack of driver support, but Adobe Premiere won't run on XP x64. So either way I can't run my favorite video editing software until/unless I buy new sound hardware which otherwise I just don't need and can't justify spending money on.
I triple boot XP x64, Win7 x64 Embedded and TinyCore-64 Linux. Once you tweak the win7 UI so that it is not as much of an OSX clone with that dock-like ribbon at the bottom and use a decent third party search tool and turn on the 'classic' theme, it's really not so bad, but I still find it takes me longer to do most things than in XP. Except for a faster boot time with win7 I haven't noticed a speed difference either way. At least not with the embedded version. 90% of the time I just boot to XP x64.
Although Win7 does have some security enhancements from WinXP, it is important to remember that both OSes are still from Microsoft and the security is abysmal. For online banking or any credit card purchases or email log-ins you should be using either Linux or OSX. Period.
If you use Windows for financial stuff you will get screwed eventually. It's just inevitable. It happened to me and I am uber-paranoid about security and use many of the best third party security apps. Now I only use Linux for anything financial. If I had a Mac or Hackentosh box I wouldn't be afraid to use that either.
Will your method work even with indexing turned off? My computer has 12 hard drives and something like 26 TB of space. Indexing turns my overclocked 4 Ghz E6700 into an emulation of a 486-33. When I tried turning off indexing in Windows 7, the way I normally run in XP, it turned off search as well. I don't consider this loss of search in Win 7 a deal breaker though. There are decent and free third party replacements which have fast searching without indexing. It's a lot of the other 'features' of Win 7 that annoy me, and I'm not talking about UAC, which I actually kind of like.
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Also if there's one reason to go to Windows 7, security. XP is a hell hole of admin rights and exploits. Windows 7 is much better protected.
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From what I have seen this is only true to a minor extent. Most of the additional security features have unpatched holes in them big enough to drive a truck through. Some of them intentional and barely documented. UAC may be the only security feature that actually works as intended, but a lot of people turn it off. For 64 bit, win 7 does have one big security advantage though. Sandboxie doesn't run on XP x64. And when it comes to security it doesn't get much better than sandboxie.
Yes it did. In fact I have games that are more stable on Win 2000 than on XP. That's the main reason I dual booted 2k and xp for so long. Under the hood, 2k and xp were nearly the same.
I am writing this on XP x64. What is this max memory you speak of? And the limit is more like 3.3 gigs, and 32 bit Win7 has the same problem only more so because it uses more RAM leaving less for your programs. Let's be fair and compare apples to apples.
What if someone dressed up like a monkey and went to a Halloween party? You would advocate putting them in prison? So you want to outlaw Halloween and any sort of costumes. Could you and all of your like minded friends please move to North Korea where you belong?
Scaring someone is not against the law, and for good reason. Who would get to decide what is 'scary' and what is not anyway? You? Are black people scary? People with facial burns? Ugly people in general? The Commandant of the Ministry of Fear may have different ideas about what is scary than you do. I have an idea. Why don't we just make it illegal to be afraid? Nip the problem in the bud.
Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to test this hypothesis
To test the nature of an entire universe from a frame of reference outside of that universe? No, I should think not.
I was under the impression that not all black holes rotated, at least at speeds great enough to flatten a singularity into a disk. Are you sure you are not thinking of a wormhole?
As for the rest of your speculation. I admit that the idea of the entire universe being one supermassive black whole is tantalizing in a way. After all, we believe that every galaxy has a massive black whole at its center. If we choose to believe that a group of galaxies also has a center it would seem natural for a supermassive black hole to be at the center of that as well. The problem is that a black hole is a theoretical beast and I don't think the theory really allows for what you are describing. Any matter inside of a black hole would be of the exotic variety. It wouldn't be matter as we know it. It would be matter that was crushed out of all recognition by gravity. Even subatomic particles as we know them would cease to exist. You would be left with a 'naked singularity', a theoretical particle of infinite density. If a particle truly had infinite density then there would certainly be no empty space inside of it for things like tiny stars and planets and galaxies. After all, our observable universe is mostly empty space.
Exactly. The right hand rule of the Cartesian coordinate system does not justify the idea of an absolute left-handed spin regardless of the frame of reference of the observer. If you observe the rotation of a galaxy from one side of the galactic plane it will seem like a clockwise spin and from the other side it will seem counter-clockwise. You can say, for instance, that all galaxies are rotating in the same direction but you cannot say which direction that is.
Since when do physicists care about observation? Observations are so 19th century. The new scientific method is to: 1. Assume that mathematics = reality. Assume that the map is the same as the territory. 2. Look for symmetry and beauty in your systems of equations. 3. Describe every system or theory in terms of an n-dimensional Cartesian graph where n is always greater than 3. 4. Patent your ideas. Not every country will let you get a patent on an idea, but the USPTO will be only too happy to do so. If you cannot get a patent on the idea then do your best to keep it secret. Make certain that no one can even read your papers without paying a hefty fee that scientists in third world countries cannot afford. Do not share knowledge or ideas unless you are getting paid well for them. What are you a Commie or something? Sharing knowledge is so 19th century. We have moved beyond that now. 6. ??? 7. Profit.
I've always felt that one of the best ways to judge a country and a culture is by how they treat their prisoners. Sweden is definitely one of the more civilized countries in the world. Too bad about these silly US bought laws.
And you think there is copyright legislation in Cambodia? Obviously you've never been to the Russian Market in Phnom Penh. Cambodia is actually a pretty nice place. I wouldn't mind living there. And is there any other place where you can see 2 adults, 3 children, and a dog all riding on the same motorbike? Frankly I envy him. With that kind of money you could live like a king there until the end of your days. The language is hard though. No tones, but lots of difficult phonemes.
c) Actually they are quite friendly, but only in a shallow, looking-for-a-chance-to-rip-you-off friendly. Many people don't see through the false surface friendliness however until they get burned. Of course once you actually live there you can make real friendly like anywhere else. Just never talk to anyone who approaches you first.
d) Agreed. There is nothing special about the weather. It's the culture that is special, or rather, unique. Not in a good or bad way. Just different. Especially from the places you mention.
BTW, Fidel has been out of office for years now. His brother Raul has been at the helm. Not that much has changed.
depends on your perspective, the US prison cells look like upscale college dorms compared to the ones in North Korea
Actually I'm willing to bet that North Korean prisons are nicer than American ones. Remember that guy who had so much fun torturing innocent iraqis in Abu Ghraib? He used to be a US prison guard. Also North Korean prisoners probably don't rape each other. Even in American prisons sexual assaults are usually a racial thing (black on white or hispanic on white). I've also heard that Swedish jails are actually pretty nice. And rape-free.
Why go to Cuba when you can go to The Dominican, Jamaica, or for that matter pretty much any other Caribbean island?
But if he did go to one of those places you'd be asking him the same question. There's no particular reason *not* to go to Cuba. It's a big Caribbean island with its own unique culture. For an American it also has the extra plus of being forbidden by our insane government. Forbidden fruit is always sweeter. It's also the only place in the world that I know of where an ugly geek can rent/lease a girlfriend. At least you used to be able to. You can't even do that in Thailand. There are also not many better places to drink rum and dance, if you are into that sort of thing. Although I think Cuban rum is overrated. It also used to be very safe. Over the past decade it has become less and less safe as the younger generation, weaned on violent American films, has come of age.
I did an nslookup of thepiratebay.org and got 194.71.107.15 which doesn't work in my browser. I just get a blank page. I can't ping or traceroute to thepiratebay.org either. Could this have something to do with DDOS countermeasures?
I can't decide if it's pre-WW2 Germany or post-WW2 East Germany. Either way we should start speaking German and start hatching escape plans. There was a time when we were the freest country on earth. We are quickly becoming one of the least free.
A significant percentage of our country (over 2 million) is caged and treated like dogs by sadistic, uncaring guards. We are perpetually at war with someone and brutally imprison and torture not only POWs, but the local populace of the occupied country. At home, police brutality is off the charts, with 12 year old girls being taze-tortured and average men being beaten to death for contempt of cop, or shot to death for not obeying, and you can be imprisoned or even shot for videotaping them.
There are security checkpoints on our roads, at bus stations, train stations, and of course airports where we are electronically strip searched, interrogated, humiliated, and then maybe even sexually assaulted. Note even small children are exempt from being treated like prisoners.
You don't have to be a psychic to figure out what where this is headed. I plan to flee the US in the next few years and never look back. Hopefully I can get residency or even citizenship in a more sane country. The trick is to escape before they start requiring exit visas and not granting them.
There has always been the right and power to kill people in a war zone who stand against the United States of America.
And the whole planet, including the US itself, is considered a war zone. And 'standing against the US' really means disagreeing with US policies.
This is the first distributed war, where congress has declared a battlefield that can easily cross into a Sovereign State without actually being a war against that State, if they're not intentionally sheltering.
Actually the Nazis also waged a 'distributed war' against jews and gypsies and the handicapped. So there is precedence.
Taking up arms against your own nation is considered such a heinous act that it disqualifies you from nearly any sort of legal protection.
So would you have advocated extermination camps for all American colonists if the British had won the revolutionary war? I guess the British would have had no choice but to exterminate those early colonist traitors.
In D&D terms, haters should at least realize they are Lawful Evil.
So do you realize it?
But most understand the depth of Evil that it is to take up arms against your countrymen, and consider wacking those pukes to be a Just activity for the Lawful Good.
You advocate the summary execution of anyone even accused of treason and you consider yourself Lawful Good? Good grief. What would you say to those people who consider your support of summary execution without a trial to be treasonous? Is it okay if we were to execute you without a trial?
The first amendment as well as the ninth amendment are supposed to protect freedom of expression. This is why white supremacists are not summarily executed for instance. Someone could say, "Can someone please nuke the USA out of existence? They are the new Nazi Germany." and that should be protected speech.
Just because someone advocates murder does not make them a murderer. To me, someone like you who advocates murder for someone who advocates murder is guilty of the same crime of advocating murder. Because speech is not a crime. Maybe that is the part you are not getting.
That's OK. When the bully comes to your backyard, we'll still have your back.
We are the bully. Who will protect them from us? Generally the people we try to save (like the Iraqis) end up being caged and tortured by us (Abu Ghraib, Gitmo) for their own safety. Yeah, we are definitely the good guys. That is why we advocate torture and laugh at the Geneva convention and have over 2 million of our own citizens caged like animals and abused by sick sadists in uniform even though most of them have actually harmed no one. If the US were a person we would have to be labeled 'one sick fuck'. Maybe our sickness has something to do with the fact that our culture worships violence. And how can you have violence without 'bad guys'? Since there aren't enough genuinely bad people we have to invent them. That's the beauty of systems like this. It automates the process of bad guy creation. If we are so desperate to find terrorists maybe we should look in the mirror.
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Or he could be referring to income taxes. There were all kinds of government expansions during that period. Even Prohibition, the start of the war on drugs, began not too long after. Whether you believe that laissez-faire is good or bad we lost any claim to it early in the 20th century.
I think the best 3 reasons to upgrade to win7 64 bit from xp 64 bit are that it is a lot easier to run as non-admin all the time, Sandboxie runs on it, and TRIM support for SSDs. Those security advantages are significant and TRIM is nearly a necessity for SSDs.
It actually is possible to run XP as non-admin with the help of SuRun and other apps, but it can be a PITA since a significant percentage of apps need full admin rights to even run.
Compatibility issues are a mixed bag. My sound card won't run on Win 7 x64 due to a lack of driver support, but Adobe Premiere won't run on XP x64. So either way I can't run my favorite video editing software until/unless I buy new sound hardware which otherwise I just don't need and can't justify spending money on.
I triple boot XP x64, Win7 x64 Embedded and TinyCore-64 Linux. Once you tweak the win7 UI so that it is not as much of an OSX clone with that dock-like ribbon at the bottom and use a decent third party search tool and turn on the 'classic' theme, it's really not so bad, but I still find it takes me longer to do most things than in XP. Except for a faster boot time with win7 I haven't noticed a speed difference either way. At least not with the embedded version. 90% of the time I just boot to XP x64.
Although Win7 does have some security enhancements from WinXP, it is important to remember that both OSes are still from Microsoft and the security is abysmal. For online banking or any credit card purchases or email log-ins you should be using either Linux or OSX. Period.
If you use Windows for financial stuff you will get screwed eventually. It's just inevitable. It happened to me and I am uber-paranoid about security and use many of the best third party security apps. Now I only use Linux for anything financial. If I had a Mac or Hackentosh box I wouldn't be afraid to use that either.
Will your method work even with indexing turned off? My computer has 12 hard drives and something like 26 TB of space. Indexing turns my overclocked 4 Ghz E6700 into an emulation of a 486-33. When I tried turning off indexing in Windows 7, the way I normally run in XP, it turned off search as well. I don't consider this loss of search in Win 7 a deal breaker though. There are decent and free third party replacements which have fast searching without indexing. It's a lot of the other 'features' of Win 7 that annoy me, and I'm not talking about UAC, which I actually kind of like.
Also if there's one reason to go to Windows 7, security. XP is a hell hole of admin rights and exploits. Windows 7 is much better protected.
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From what I have seen this is only true to a minor extent. Most of the additional security features have unpatched holes in them big enough to drive a truck through. Some of them intentional and barely documented. UAC may be the only security feature that actually works as intended, but a lot of people turn it off. For 64 bit, win 7 does have one big security advantage though. Sandboxie doesn't run on XP x64. And when it comes to security it doesn't get much better than sandboxie.
And Windows 2000 didn't play games
Yes it did. In fact I have games that are more stable on Win 2000 than on XP. That's the main reason I dual booted 2k and xp for so long. Under the hood, 2k and xp were nearly the same.
I am writing this on XP x64. What is this max memory you speak of? And the limit is more like 3.3 gigs, and 32 bit Win7 has the same problem only more so because it uses more RAM leaving less for your programs. Let's be fair and compare apples to apples.
What if someone dressed up like a monkey and went to a Halloween party? You would advocate putting them in prison? So you want to outlaw Halloween and any sort of costumes. Could you and all of your like minded friends please move to North Korea where you belong?
Scaring someone is not against the law, and for good reason. Who would get to decide what is 'scary' and what is not anyway? You? Are black people scary? People with facial burns? Ugly people in general? The Commandant of the Ministry of Fear may have different ideas about what is scary than you do. I have an idea. Why don't we just make it illegal to be afraid? Nip the problem in the bud.
Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to test this hypothesis
To test the nature of an entire universe from a frame of reference outside of that universe? No, I should think not.
I was under the impression that not all black holes rotated, at least at speeds great enough to flatten a singularity into a disk. Are you sure you are not thinking of a wormhole?
As for the rest of your speculation. I admit that the idea of the entire universe being one supermassive black whole is tantalizing in a way. After all, we believe that every galaxy has a massive black whole at its center. If we choose to believe that a group of galaxies also has a center it would seem natural for a supermassive black hole to be at the center of that as well. The problem is that a black hole is a theoretical beast and I don't think the theory really allows for what you are describing. Any matter inside of a black hole would be of the exotic variety. It wouldn't be matter as we know it. It would be matter that was crushed out of all recognition by gravity. Even subatomic particles as we know them would cease to exist. You would be left with a 'naked singularity', a theoretical particle of infinite density. If a particle truly had infinite density then there would certainly be no empty space inside of it for things like tiny stars and planets and galaxies. After all, our observable universe is mostly empty space.
I'm no scientist
Yes. The rest of your post makes that abundantly clear.
Exactly. The right hand rule of the Cartesian coordinate system does not justify the idea of an absolute left-handed spin regardless of the frame of reference of the observer. If you observe the rotation of a galaxy from one side of the galactic plane it will seem like a clockwise spin and from the other side it will seem counter-clockwise. You can say, for instance, that all galaxies are rotating in the same direction but you cannot say which direction that is.
Since when do physicists care about observation? Observations are so 19th century. The new scientific method is to:
1. Assume that mathematics = reality. Assume that the map is the same as the territory.
2. Look for symmetry and beauty in your systems of equations.
3. Describe every system or theory in terms of an n-dimensional Cartesian graph where n is always greater than 3.
4. Patent your ideas. Not every country will let you get a patent on an idea, but the USPTO will be only too happy to do so. If you cannot get a patent on the idea then do your best to keep it secret. Make certain that no one can even read your papers without paying a hefty fee that scientists in third world countries cannot afford. Do not share knowledge or ideas unless you are getting paid well for them. What are you a Commie or something? Sharing knowledge is so 19th century. We have moved beyond that now.
6. ???
7. Profit.
Perhaps you'd like to kill them as well?
I've always felt that one of the best ways to judge a country and a culture is by how they treat their prisoners. Sweden is definitely one of the more civilized countries in the world. Too bad about these silly US bought laws.
And you think there is copyright legislation in Cambodia? Obviously you've never been to the Russian Market in Phnom Penh. Cambodia is actually a pretty nice place. I wouldn't mind living there. And is there any other place where you can see 2 adults, 3 children, and a dog all riding on the same motorbike? Frankly I envy him. With that kind of money you could live like a king there until the end of your days. The language is hard though. No tones, but lots of difficult phonemes.
a) demonstrably false
b) true
c) Actually they are quite friendly, but only in a shallow, looking-for-a-chance-to-rip-you-off friendly. Many people don't see through the false surface friendliness however until they get burned. Of course once you actually live there you can make real friendly like anywhere else. Just never talk to anyone who approaches you first.
d) Agreed. There is nothing special about the weather. It's the culture that is special, or rather, unique. Not in a good or bad way. Just different. Especially from the places you mention.
BTW, Fidel has been out of office for years now. His brother Raul has been at the helm. Not that much has changed.
depends on your perspective, the US prison cells look like upscale college dorms compared to the ones in North Korea
Actually I'm willing to bet that North Korean prisons are nicer than American ones. Remember that guy who had so much fun torturing innocent iraqis in Abu Ghraib? He used to be a US prison guard. Also North Korean prisoners probably don't rape each other. Even in American prisons sexual assaults are usually a racial thing (black on white or hispanic on white). I've also heard that Swedish jails are actually pretty nice. And rape-free.
Why would an American get pissed about not being "allowed" to go somewhere that has perfectly acceptable alternatives?
Have you ever been to Cuba? What would you consider an alternative?
Where the hell did you get that from? You are wrong. Very wrong. Someone needs to revoke your medical degree.
Why go to Cuba when you can go to The Dominican, Jamaica, or for that matter pretty much any other Caribbean island?
But if he did go to one of those places you'd be asking him the same question. There's no particular reason *not* to go to Cuba. It's a big Caribbean island with its own unique culture. For an American it also has the extra plus of being forbidden by our insane government. Forbidden fruit is always sweeter. It's also the only place in the world that I know of where an ugly geek can rent/lease a girlfriend. At least you used to be able to. You can't even do that in Thailand. There are also not many better places to drink rum and dance, if you are into that sort of thing. Although I think Cuban rum is overrated. It also used to be very safe. Over the past decade it has become less and less safe as the younger generation, weaned on violent American films, has come of age.
At least with verizon fios in the US http://www.thepiratebay.org/ no longer works for me, but http://thepiratebay.org/ works fine. I wonder if that has something to do with this issue.
I did an nslookup of thepiratebay.org and got 194.71.107.15 which doesn't work in my browser. I just get a blank page. I can't ping or traceroute to thepiratebay.org either. Could this have something to do with DDOS countermeasures?
FFS!, what the hell have you lot become?
I can't decide if it's pre-WW2 Germany or post-WW2 East Germany. Either way we should start speaking German and start hatching escape plans. There was a time when we were the freest country on earth. We are quickly becoming one of the least free.
A significant percentage of our country (over 2 million) is caged and treated like dogs by sadistic, uncaring guards. We are perpetually at war with someone and brutally imprison and torture not only POWs, but the local populace of the occupied country. At home, police brutality is off the charts, with 12 year old girls being taze-tortured and average men being beaten to death for contempt of cop, or shot to death for not obeying, and you can be imprisoned or even shot for videotaping them.
There are security checkpoints on our roads, at bus stations, train stations, and of course airports where we are electronically strip searched, interrogated, humiliated, and then maybe even sexually assaulted. Note even small children are exempt from being treated like prisoners.
You don't have to be a psychic to figure out what where this is headed. I plan to flee the US in the next few years and never look back. Hopefully I can get residency or even citizenship in a more sane country. The trick is to escape before they start requiring exit visas and not granting them.
There has always been the right and power to kill people in a war zone who stand against the United States of America.
And the whole planet, including the US itself, is considered a war zone. And 'standing against the US' really means disagreeing with US policies.
This is the first distributed war, where congress has declared a battlefield that can easily cross into a Sovereign State without actually being a war against that State, if they're not intentionally sheltering.
Actually the Nazis also waged a 'distributed war' against jews and gypsies and the handicapped. So there is precedence.
Taking up arms against your own nation is considered such a heinous act that it disqualifies you from nearly any sort of legal protection.
So would you have advocated extermination camps for all American colonists if the British had won the revolutionary war? I guess the British would have had no choice but to exterminate those early colonist traitors.
In D&D terms, haters should at least realize they are Lawful Evil.
So do you realize it?
But most understand the depth of Evil that it is to take up arms against your countrymen, and consider wacking those pukes to be a Just activity for the Lawful Good.
You advocate the summary execution of anyone even accused of treason and you consider yourself Lawful Good? Good grief. What would you say to those people who consider your support of summary execution without a trial to be treasonous? Is it okay if we were to execute you without a trial?
The first amendment as well as the ninth amendment are supposed to protect freedom of expression. This is why white supremacists are not summarily executed for instance. Someone could say, "Can someone please nuke the USA out of existence? They are the new Nazi Germany." and that should be protected speech.
Just because someone advocates murder does not make them a murderer. To me, someone like you who advocates murder for someone who advocates murder is guilty of the same crime of advocating murder. Because speech is not a crime. Maybe that is the part you are not getting.
Ah. The Power of Nightmares. Another excellent BBC documentary.
That's OK. When the bully comes to your backyard, we'll still have your back.
We are the bully. Who will protect them from us? Generally the people we try to save (like the Iraqis) end up being caged and tortured by us (Abu Ghraib, Gitmo) for their own safety. Yeah, we are definitely the good guys. That is why we advocate torture and laugh at the Geneva convention and have over 2 million of our own citizens caged like animals and abused by sick sadists in uniform even though most of them have actually harmed no one. If the US were a person we would have to be labeled 'one sick fuck'. Maybe our sickness has something to do with the fact that our culture worships violence. And how can you have violence without 'bad guys'? Since there aren't enough genuinely bad people we have to invent them. That's the beauty of systems like this. It automates the process of bad guy creation. If we are so desperate to find terrorists maybe we should look in the mirror.