Hmm... Now I really wonder where the “flamebait” part of my comment is supposed to be.:) Or is this some special agent? If so: Hello there. I can see you.;P
Disclaimer: I am not pro- or contra- anything. I just think that some idiot should stop beating their heads (and especially those of others) in over pointless shit.:) If that means you hate me, then I’m proud of it. ^^
Sure. Install eMule, configure it, and enter “cia” or “army” and you got half of it. The other half is found by searching for “bbs anarchy” on Google. Don’t expect me to send it to you directly though, for obvious reasons.:)
Oh, and of course I forgot, that the “illegal” cookbook (yes, THE cookbook) is also easily available. My father, being a bit of a collector, also once acquired the original 70s paper version of that book. Even back then you could go straight to jail for “terrorism” just for owning it. It was an interesting read for someone going to 4rth class. ^^ I don’t know if he still has it though. Haven’t seen him for 10 years now. He also told me, that back then, a “cookbook” often just was a book with a grenade in it. ^^
You can let the IBM Roadrunner render full-scale global illumination in real-time for that game, you stil will get about 14 FPS because your CPU only has two cores and a low clock rate, instead of four.
(Yep, it’s a total piece of shit in programming. You’re lucky it even runs, instead of crashing and having tons of bugs, when bought off the shelf. San Andreas also literally was only playable after pulling a patch from gamecopyworld.com. Rockstar had nothing to offer. It was the first time I heard the term “EPIC FAIL”.)
It’s not particularly hard to find. Amongst the things that I found on eDonkey, some old anarchy sites, etc, are tons of CIA and army manuals about questionable topics. The one I found particularly nice was a guide that explained to you how to get a major or other politician off his post, or even killed, trough small nudges here and there in the town. Talk to someone here, do this there, and let the event cascade roll into a avalanche that breaks his neck. Then of course torture and interrogation manuals, building bombs and healing yourself in emergency situations or covert operations, etc. etc. etc. Everything from TNT over Napalm, termite, picking locks, spying on people, spy protection, and ten years ago I found a complete technical description of how to build a nuclear bomb. With a text file attached, saying to ask there and there when you’d find yourself in need for the “materials” to build it. ^^ Luckily I was only angry at my dad, and not at any country, back then. ^^ Hmm... I wonder if I still have them somewhere... probably locked away in a archive with military-grade encryption that I forgot the password to.;)
Yeah, because that makes pointless criticism by dumb idiots somehow better then.
You know what I think? It’s more you interpreting everything as racism. You wouldn’t have though about the racism if you weren’t searching for it.
I bet Michelle Obama actually stands over such irrelevant shit.
I mean we’re grown ups. Let people draw a towel on my head and a bomb on my chest. That says something about them. Not something about me. Since they don’t know shit about me, and everybody knows it. What is the best way to handle the drunk asshole at the club who want to beat you? Make him your friend! Look at his motivations and feelings, and channel them where you want them to be. Laugh! Respect him. And before you know it, he will be your friend too and greet you ever time he sees you again. Been there, done it. If it works it’s beautiful! (And a frightening power to have.:D)
I don’t get who came up with the idea, that using “billion billion” was somehow easier than “quintillion” alone.
If you go by that standard, you should follow it to the end, and say “eight ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten moneys”.
“billion billion”. The “Clippy” way of assistance to the understanding of big numbers. ^^
Exactly. The thing here is. I use the way I learned in school. You use what you learned. Since it’s arbitraty (and backwards reasoning will not change that), it really does not matter.
I will let you do your way and be happy, and you let me do my way and be happy too. If I go to a country that has other rules, just like I then talk the language of that country (or at least try), I change the way I write decimal separators, dates, etc. It’s a matter of politeness and respect. And I won’t break a leg over something that unimportant anyway.
Now the typical American on the other hand is very proud of his country (for no reason, from our p.o.v., but hey, why not), so he gets a little arrogant, by coming to your country, and expecting you to speak his language and use his dates and decimal systems when communicating with you. Even on price signs and hotel calendars. He assumes to be better at everything. He also assumes that Americans invented everything (just like the Greeks ^^). Light bulbs, electricity, the telephone, the car, whatever...:D (Yes, partially they have, but you get my point.)
That’s the difference. We don’t go to an US forum and say that our system is better than yours in the first place if the difference is irrelevant because it’s arbitrary.:)
But I must say, it works. It works especially well in Germany, where people live in constant fear of being called Nazis for even thinking about it being thinkable to be proud of their country or something related to it. In Germany, if you have a room of 1000 people, and one person of a foreign country comes in, they instantly all start to speak English. Yeah, even if that person is from Mongolia and knows enough German to understand what they are saying. It’s ridiculous. ^^
Just so you know how we feel about it: You say that the French are arrogant? Well they can’t hold a candle to you. The funny thing is that you don’t need it. I mean who flew on the freakin moon for god’s sake? ^^ It’s not as if we would not know that without you acting all “wow, we’re so cool”. In fact a proper understatement is way cooler. So do you really want to act more “French” than the French themselves? ^^
I was there. New Dehli (back then). 2 directions a 3 lanes. One brown stripe that looked like it once was green between them. But not like here with the cars going in one direction. No, the “cars” (if you can call the mopeds with 3 wheels and a yellow plastic roof that they call “rikshas” cars) stand in all directions. Like a not magnetized piece of iron. With a cow right on the street. A police riksha — with a green roof honking at it. And a dozen normal rikshas behind the police one, honking at it too.
All that under the beautiful sky made of the smog of a million two-stroke engines.
Oh yeah, those were the days! I miss traveling to foreign countries!:(
That’s better anyway. You get to live below a volcano, and yet still own a city or something like that. You get some really hot chicks, and there are no stupid social rules like “you can only have one at the same time”. In fact... well... you get this giant superweapon, and no rules at all. Unlike a superhero who always has to adhere to the social rules (which are just made up anyway). You can have thousands of minions, I cool lab or hightech company to finance the project, and maybe some monsters in the basement. How can anything be better than that?
Superheroes are just hippy superhumans. They may live a thousand years, but have no fun at all. Supervillians may live a short life, but it was damn worth every fuckin’ second!:D
Given the choice, supervillian it is for me.
P.S.: But don’t expect to win as easily as in films. I will follow the list of things not to do. It will be more like in Last Action Hero.:D
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Uuum... What you describe IS counting.
It’s astonishing to what lengths people go, to preserve their arrogant world view of “superiority”. A hundred years ago, common “knowledge” was, that animals don’t “think” and have no “souls” or “emotions”. They thought they simply simulate it and are in fact basic automatons.
Well, nowadays we know, that we are basic automatons too. That thinking and emotions are merely mechanisms. And that there is no “soul”, nor a need for something like that.
Let’s play this game: I say: You simulate thinking too. Including counting! And I will your method of argumentation to defend it. And you will try to prove that you really think and can count. You will notice that as long as you play by my rules, you can’t win. ^^
Spyware on my computer: Not in a million years! A cam in my bathroom? Well, I’d jack off right into it. But who wants to see that, you say? Well... exactly! ^^
Well it’s a fundamentalist god state on the surface, and a economic feudalism in reality (through “lobbying” and revolving doors). Inside the feudalism itself, it now (last 10 years in rough) becomes a fascist police state. (Which in my eyes is the result of the loss of control that the Internet created.)
The “parties” are merely the interface between them. Just as the media and the churches. Oh, and the big corporation’s jobs and products of course.
Even better: Invest in jails. You know, like those prisons that Cheney’s company built and builds. And of course, you can always make money in the weapons industry.
Only stay away from the money.
Because if China lends you a trillion dollars, and then that trillion becomes worth a pack of bubble gum, then you got it for free.
Guantanamo Bay — “Because with enough rules, you can circumvent all common sense!”
You made it a war, so they are prisoners of war. Period. But hey, double standards is what you are famous for, right? (E.g. beeping out “dick” on national television, but having the largest porn industry on the planet.)
Sorry, but you are an egocentric narrow-minded asshole!
And I am not insulting you or trolling, because I’m merely stating facts. Really? Well...
Most of the whining about “deletionism” is from fans who want to blither endlessly about their favorite movie/comic book/Star Trek episode/vampire. That”s what Wikia is for.
What else would make you think, that you are the one who gets to decide what belongs and does not belong somewhere? Or is it that elusive “everybody” guy, that makes you think you know what belongs where, and use him as an excuse?
YOU do NOT have ANY right at ALL to tell ANYONE what is important to HIM. And you DO NOT OWN Wikipedia. So if a person thinks this is important enough to be written down, than it IS. By definition. Period. No discussion. Your problem is, that you don’t fix your end. If you want your Wikipedia, build your own.
Wanna know what normal people do when they don’t think that what YOU say is important/relevant? They TUNE OUT! They simply don’t listen or read it. There. “A simple solution for the non-egocentric man!” Was it that hard?
The problem is, the powers that be over there decided to arbitrarily apply their “noteworthy” filter on everything, and so they’ve collapsed the infinite array of human knowledge down into a decidedly finite set of “relevant” human knowledge. Of course, they alone are the arbiters of what is and isn’t relevant, and wield the delete hammer often. Under these circumstances, yes you’ll eventually come to the end of what is “appropriate” for Wikipedia.
There’s another word for that. Starts with “c”, and ends with “ensorship”. I think they can ask China for it. ^^
Reminds me of the scientific community at the end of the 18th century, stating that “there is nothing to discover anymore” and that “all discoveries are made”.
Your arrogance is stunning. I bet you are a Wikipedia “admin”. The “dummies” in the subject line certainly fits it.
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Hmm... Now I really wonder where the “flamebait” part of my comment is supposed to be. :) ;P
Or is this some special agent? If so: Hello there. I can see you.
Disclaimer: I am not pro- or contra- anything. I just think that some idiot should stop beating their heads (and especially those of others) in over pointless shit. :) If that means you hate me, then I’m proud of it. ^^
Sure. Install eMule, configure it, and enter “cia” or “army” and you got half of it. The other half is found by searching for “bbs anarchy” on Google. Don’t expect me to send it to you directly though, for obvious reasons. :)
Oh, and of course I forgot, that the “illegal” cookbook (yes, THE cookbook) is also easily available.
My father, being a bit of a collector, also once acquired the original 70s paper version of that book. Even back then you could go straight to jail for “terrorism” just for owning it. It was an interesting read for someone going to 4rth class. ^^
I don’t know if he still has it though. Haven’t seen him for 10 years now.
He also told me, that back then, a “cookbook” often just was a book with a grenade in it. ^^
...what could possibly go wrong? ^^
Good luck playing GTA IV with that setup. ^^
You can let the IBM Roadrunner render full-scale global illumination in real-time for that game, you stil will get about 14 FPS because your CPU only has two cores and a low clock rate, instead of four.
(Yep, it’s a total piece of shit in programming. You’re lucky it even runs, instead of crashing and having tons of bugs, when bought off the shelf. San Andreas also literally was only playable after pulling a patch from gamecopyworld.com. Rockstar had nothing to offer. It was the first time I heard the term “EPIC FAIL”.)
[...] but the gap with the Radeon HD 5870 should be 'a bit more slender.' Still, Nvidia may have the fastest consumer GPU ever on its hands
Does not compute...
No the HD 5870 is a bit faster, but still nVidia has the fastest GPU?
Also, let’s see what ATi brings out when the Fermi finally comes out... in 2016 or so. ^^
It’s not particularly hard to find. Amongst the things that I found on eDonkey, some old anarchy sites, etc, are tons of CIA and army manuals about questionable topics. The one I found particularly nice was a guide that explained to you how to get a major or other politician off his post, or even killed, trough small nudges here and there in the town. Talk to someone here, do this there, and let the event cascade roll into a avalanche that breaks his neck. ;)
Then of course torture and interrogation manuals, building bombs and healing yourself in emergency situations or covert operations, etc. etc. etc. Everything from TNT over Napalm, termite, picking locks, spying on people, spy protection, and ten years ago I found a complete technical description of how to build a nuclear bomb. With a text file attached, saying to ask there and there when you’d find yourself in need for the “materials” to build it. ^^
Luckily I was only angry at my dad, and not at any country, back then. ^^
Hmm... I wonder if I still have them somewhere... probably locked away in a archive with military-grade encryption that I forgot the password to.
Do you know the nightmarish hell that is an Excel...
You could have stopped right there. ^^
Yeah, because that makes pointless criticism by dumb idiots somehow better then.
You know what I think? It’s more you interpreting everything as racism. You wouldn’t have though about the racism if you weren’t searching for it.
I bet Michelle Obama actually stands over such irrelevant shit.
I mean we’re grown ups. Let people draw a towel on my head and a bomb on my chest. That says something about them. Not something about me. Since they don’t know shit about me, and everybody knows it. :D)
What is the best way to handle the drunk asshole at the club who want to beat you? Make him your friend! Look at his motivations and feelings, and channel them where you want them to be. Laugh! Respect him. And before you know it, he will be your friend too and greet you ever time he sees you again.
Been there, done it. If it works it’s beautiful! (And a frightening power to have.
I don’t get who came up with the idea, that using “billion billion” was somehow easier than “quintillion” alone.
If you go by that standard, you should follow it to the end, and say “eight ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten moneys”.
“billion billion”. The “Clippy” way of assistance to the understanding of big numbers. ^^
Exactly. The thing here is. I use the way I learned in school. You use what you learned. Since it’s arbitraty (and backwards reasoning will not change that), it really does not matter.
I will let you do your way and be happy, and you let me do my way and be happy too. If I go to a country that has other rules, just like I then talk the language of that country (or at least try), I change the way I write decimal separators, dates, etc. It’s a matter of politeness and respect. And I won’t break a leg over something that unimportant anyway.
Now the typical American on the other hand is very proud of his country (for no reason, from our p.o.v., but hey, why not), so he gets a little arrogant, by coming to your country, and expecting you to speak his language and use his dates and decimal systems when communicating with you. Even on price signs and hotel calendars. :D (Yes, partially they have, but you get my point.)
He assumes to be better at everything. He also assumes that Americans invented everything (just like the Greeks ^^). Light bulbs, electricity, the telephone, the car, whatever...
That’s the difference. We don’t go to an US forum and say that our system is better than yours in the first place if the difference is irrelevant because it’s arbitrary. :)
But I must say, it works. It works especially well in Germany, where people live in constant fear of being called Nazis for even thinking about it being thinkable to be proud of their country or something related to it.
In Germany, if you have a room of 1000 people, and one person of a foreign country comes in, they instantly all start to speak English. Yeah, even if that person is from Mongolia and knows enough German to understand what they are saying. It’s ridiculous. ^^
Just so you know how we feel about it: You say that the French are arrogant? Well they can’t hold a candle to you. The funny thing is that you don’t need it. I mean who flew on the freakin moon for god’s sake? ^^ It’s not as if we would not know that without you acting all “wow, we’re so cool”. In fact a proper understatement is way cooler. So do you really want to act more “French” than the French themselves? ^^
I was there. New Dehli (back then). 2 directions a 3 lanes. One brown stripe that looked like it once was green between them. But not like here with the cars going in one direction. No, the “cars” (if you can call the mopeds with 3 wheels and a yellow plastic roof that they call “rikshas” cars) stand in all directions. Like a not magnetized piece of iron. With a cow right on the street. A police riksha — with a green roof honking at it. And a dozen normal rikshas behind the police one, honking at it too.
All that under the beautiful sky made of the smog of a million two-stroke engines.
Oh yeah, those were the days! I miss traveling to foreign countries! :(
The error was essentially that a number of Euro cents was interpreted as a number of Euro.
So you’re saying that they went Verizon?
That’s better anyway. You get to live below a volcano, and yet still own a city or something like that. You get some really hot chicks, and there are no stupid social rules like “you can only have one at the same time”. In fact... well... you get this giant superweapon, and no rules at all. Unlike a superhero who always has to adhere to the social rules (which are just made up anyway).
You can have thousands of minions, I cool lab or hightech company to finance the project, and maybe some monsters in the basement.
How can anything be better than that?
Superheroes are just hippy superhumans. They may live a thousand years, but have no fun at all. :D
Supervillians may live a short life, but it was damn worth every fuckin’ second!
Given the choice, supervillian it is for me.
P.S.: But don’t expect to win as easily as in films. I will follow the list of things not to do. It will be more like in Last Action Hero. :D
Uuum... What you describe IS counting.
It’s astonishing to what lengths people go, to preserve their arrogant world view of “superiority”.
A hundred years ago, common “knowledge” was, that animals don’t “think” and have no “souls” or “emotions”. They thought they simply simulate it and are in fact basic automatons.
Well, nowadays we know, that we are basic automatons too. That thinking and emotions are merely mechanisms. And that there is no “soul”, nor a need for something like that.
Let’s play this game: I say: You simulate thinking too. Including counting! And I will your method of argumentation to defend it.
And you will try to prove that you really think and can count.
You will notice that as long as you play by my rules, you can’t win. ^^
Ooohh... kinky! :D
Spyware on my computer: Not in a million years!
A cam in my bathroom? Well, I’d jack off right into it. But who wants to see that, you say? Well... exactly! ^^
Well it’s a fundamentalist god state on the surface, and a economic feudalism in reality (through “lobbying” and revolving doors). Inside the feudalism itself, it now (last 10 years in rough) becomes a fascist police state. (Which in my eyes is the result of the loss of control that the Internet created.)
The “parties” are merely the interface between them. Just as the media and the churches. Oh, and the big corporation’s jobs and products of course.
Even better: Invest in jails. You know, like those prisons that Cheney’s company built and builds.
And of course, you can always make money in the weapons industry.
Only stay away from the money.
Because if China lends you a trillion dollars, and then that trillion becomes worth a pack of bubble gum, then you got it for free.
Guantanamo Bay — “Because with enough rules, you can circumvent all common sense!”
You made it a war, so they are prisoners of war. Period. But hey, double standards is what you are famous for, right? (E.g. beeping out “dick” on national television, but having the largest porn industry on the planet.)
And I am shocked that you are shocked.
Ask the KDE Kommunity Kommittee (KKK).
Yeah, but only in the verticals of the cloud and similar cyber-chunnels.
Sorry? There were people who didn’t read it as “Magneto”??
As if anybody ever heard about this Magento-whatever-it-is, before this Slashvertisement. ^^
Hell, I comment here, and I still haven’t heard about it. And I most likely never will! :P
Sorry, but you are an egocentric narrow-minded asshole!
And I am not insulting you or trolling, because I’m merely stating facts. Really? Well...
Most of the whining about “deletionism” is from fans who want to blither endlessly about their favorite movie/comic book/Star Trek episode/vampire. That”s what Wikia is for.
What else would make you think, that you are the one who gets to decide what belongs and does not belong somewhere?
Or is it that elusive “everybody” guy, that makes you think you know what belongs where, and use him as an excuse?
YOU do NOT have ANY right at ALL to tell ANYONE what is important to HIM. And you DO NOT OWN Wikipedia.
So if a person thinks this is important enough to be written down, than it IS. By definition. Period. No discussion.
Your problem is, that you don’t fix your end.
If you want your Wikipedia, build your own.
Wanna know what normal people do when they don’t think that what YOU say is important/relevant?
They TUNE OUT! They simply don’t listen or read it.
There. “A simple solution for the non-egocentric man!” Was it that hard?
The problem is, the powers that be over there decided to arbitrarily apply their “noteworthy” filter on everything, and so they’ve collapsed the infinite array of human knowledge down into a decidedly finite set of “relevant” human knowledge. Of course, they alone are the arbiters of what is and isn’t relevant, and wield the delete hammer often. Under these circumstances, yes you’ll eventually come to the end of what is “appropriate” for Wikipedia.
There’s another word for that. Starts with “c”, and ends with “ensorship”. I think they can ask China for it. ^^
Reminds me of the scientific community at the end of the 18th century, stating that “there is nothing to discover anymore” and that “all discoveries are made”.
Your arrogance is stunning. I bet you are a Wikipedia “admin”. The “dummies” in the subject line certainly fits it.