I wouldn't want my children exposed to a game that normalized homosexual marriage, personally. I'm disappointed in Nintendo for not having the moral compass to stand up to these deviant's. They make games for children, for Christ's sake.
Except that the advice was not to "power it off" when not in use. The advice was to unplug them from the wall.
Are you aware that if you take an old television apart and go poking your fingers around in there, you'll very likely be killed, even if the television has been unplugged for over a year. They contain capacitors that will hold a deadly charge for a very long time after you unplug them.
You really think something they designed in these types of capabilities for espionage, but are going to be stymied by you unplugging the thing?
The US government controls what hardware is contained in those televisions. They forced the issue when they were moving away from free-to-air television. If you've been coming to slashdot for a long time, you read all about it.
Never attribute to stupidity what is easily explained by malice. The enemy is active, intelligent, malicious and not easily pinned down.
For example, there's a whole host of conversation going on these days about "Why does the NSA fail to implement basic security measures that could have prevented Snowden from doing what he did."
The answer is to act just as they do, and look at the metadata. Don't try to put your finger on who exactly did this or that, but try to understand their nature, goals and motivations... to define them in the abstract, and act against them in the abstract.
Who is served by an easily compromised NSA? Organized crime? Multinational corporations? Israeli intelligence? Doesn't matter exactly who, if you understand their nature, you can fuck with their agenda without ever knowing who they are.
No, idiot, I can't even tell what his argument is because he never states it in his fucking post. Just a link to info wars, which no sane person will bother clicking. The intel video is meaningless without knowing what his fucking point is.
Perhaps you should Read His Last Fucking Sentence then, dipshit.
Pretty goddamn pathetic when he summarized his point mere words later and you couldn't even be bothered to finish reading it.
You get that he's being paid to pollute this forum with this type of confusion, right? This is his 9-5 job.
But you can't just take what's on infowars without a grain of salt, so here's a video on intel's website where they substantiate everything, but with a positive spin
We need open hardware. The hardware being made in the factories is not trustworthy.
For the majority who won't click links and read articles, the gist is, there's a 3G radio antenna and a special dedicated processor inside of your CPU, and it can be used to either take complete control of your device, or to destroy it. All the details are there in Intel's marketing material.
In the old days, people who played at war died on the battlefield. That was a good thing, because we're better off with such men dead. The problem with modern warfare is that they come home alive. In an ideal war, both sides slaughter each other and the last man standing dies of his wounds before he makes it home.
Thank you for sharing your shallow knowledge of history with us. You haven't bothered to present any evidence to support your claim. Presumably this post was modded up by your buddies?
In reality, many terrible rulers "played at war" and didn't die on the battlefield. Even those nobles that were physically present on a battlefield tended to have many retainers to protect them. Further, systems of ransom developed in many places and during many periods, making it far more beneficial to capture an opposing noble than to kill them.
Your homework is to pick a region of the world, list the notable nobles that participated in war over the history of that region, determine a criteria for whether they "played" at war, then determine what percentage of those died on the battlefield. Doubtless your report will be fascinating.
Fuck you, arsehole. I'm not one of the submissive little fucks who hangs out in universities. If you wish to alleviate your ignorance, go do your own legwork.
Entertainment is a shit industry to be in. It's never about taking an upfront approach and bringing value, it's always about manipulating your audience to earn a buck. Find something practical to do with that pocket computer we call a phone and people will probably be interested in giving you their money.
Stop trivializing the suffering of women that get beaten within a inch of their lives by brutal husbands.
Psychological abuse is the first step. Why do you think a woman continues to stay with a man who beats her? And who said that their only concern is psychological abuse? They also need to make sure there isn't a way that the abuser can't track and/or figure out where the victim is going to be in real life.
She stays with a man who beats her because she knows herself. She knows that any man who spends a great deal of time with her is inevitably going to beat her just like the last one, she either cannot or does not wish to change her behavior, and she doesn't want to be alone.
If you date a woman whose boyfriend used to beat her, she will mould you into a man who beats her. It's not diplomatic to say it, but it's true, and the more men become aware that it's true, the less domestic violence we will have.
I've dated a woman like that. I've never hit a woman in my entire life, but she brought me so close it scared me. I'd offer to part ways amicably, and she'd cling and insist that she wanted to invest the time and energy to make things good. But that only lasted till I stopped talking about parting ways, then she'd violate my trust again. When it all finally came crashing down, she told me that she'd done it because she loved me but felt our relationship was unhealthy, and didn't have the strength to break things off, so she set out to hurt me as badly as she possibly could, so I would never forgive her.
I found out later that every single serious relationship she had ever been in had ended with her being assaulted and her partner being charged. I was the only one in her entire life that had the strength to pull back and walk away from the situation. And it was unbelievably hard. I really loved her, wanted her to be my wife. And she knew me so well, she knew exactly the precise way to cause me the maximum pain, her execution was flawless, and she'd convinced herself that it needed to be done, so she had no remorse whatsoever.
When you meet a woman who tells you a sympathetic story about how her ex used to abuse her, stay the fuck away from her.
I look forward to claims along the lines of, "It's not abuse unless you physically injure them," and other quasi-religious nonsense which treats the brain as a perfectly rational ideal rather than just another organ subject to external influence.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not abuse unless you can provide evidence that you attempted to stop it. If he doesn't have gouges on his face and you don't have his skin under your fingernails, you clearly didn't mind too terribly much.
Convicted of assaulting a cop doesn't mean she assaulted a cop
No, it does not mean that. It just makes it very likely. Beyond reasonable doubt likely...
It really doesn't mean anything. It's easy to think it does, but the more you learn from real life instead of mass media, the more you realize that a criminal record is something that just happens to people who are unlucky enough to attract the wrong sort of attention, nothing more.
So we're living longer, getting richer, and having fewer children. And some scientists are researching strategies for how to get luxury food (meat) to all the people who recently became rich. That just sounds like good news all around, right?
Personally, I consider having children to carry on my lineage to be the most important thing in life, the thing that makes life worth living, I find things that other people made vaguely distasteful simply because they had their grubby paws all over it, and I have no desire to turn into one of those old men with frail bones that dodder around waiting to die. So... no, on all counts.
Your knowledge of history is poor, but I'll agree that the motives of domestic policy are sincerely suspect. These values are NOT what my ancestors fought for, however, and so this is a change.
We were once tribes and warriors, and now instead of multiple gruesome battlefields, executive play war conquering each other and us on a battlefield called Greed Capitalism.
In the old days, people who played at war died on the battlefield. That was a good thing, because we're better off with such men dead. The problem with modern warfare is that they come home alive. In an ideal war, both sides slaughter each other and the last man standing dies of his wounds before he makes it home.
The US stands for "Free Enterprise", not "Freedom".
"Freedom", generally speaking, means you're not subjected to any non-natural limitations. The need to eat is natural, and therefore, requiring you to work with nature to feed yourself is not an imposition on your freedom.
"Free Enterprise", on the other hand, is the right to conquer in a structured way. It is the right to claim you "won" control over things you have no need for, and dictate terms to other people who rely on those things which they must accept, or deadly force will be brought to bear upon them.
The US, therefore, is the antithesis of real freedom. It is the freedom of feudal lords to go on vacation and not be concerned with a serf uprising while they are away, nothing more.
The USA will someday be remembered as the most destructively amoral group of vicious savages ever to walk the face of the earth.
I don't want my children to starve while my parents eat, and I don't want my parents to starve while a rich old man eats. I don't imagine too many other people want that either, unless their parents abused them. And, of course, if the people working don't eat, the whole game is over. But really, there's no reason for anyone to starve, so lets feed him too if we can. But only because we have compassion, not because he is entitled to the fruit of our labour over our children and the parents who raised us.
We've already passed "Peak Child" and the human race is in decline. So, the premise that we need to ramp up food production to cope with a growing population is a false one. If there's not enough meat for everyone in the short term, we feed the young and able bodied first, then the parents of the young and able bodied, then whoever is left, in that order.
Is there any good way to filter sites that offer teasers and paywall additional pages so you don't need to wade through them? Because google top ranks those pages a lot, and it's made it a very inefficient way to find information. It's always high profile sites that used to be big players in the print domain, and I know they're paying google for the exposure. I'd switch to a different search engine if they were uncompromising with those types of teaser-paywall websites. They're just noise, as far as I'm concerned.
And this whole time I thought it was entropy, accelerated with an almost complete lack of forethought on recycling the finite amount of raw materials that exist in the first place that was the problem....
You thought wrong. The earth is vast and we huddle in our cities occupying a tiny portion of it.
This is slashdot. We turn web servers into smouldering ruin.
I'm sure if each of us were to pick up the phone and give Mr Coward a single call and send him a single email, that would probably give him something else to think about...
I'm guessing that most web sites are made by young women who fancy themselves to be graphic designers
Get the fuck out with your stupid techie misogyny.
If your "guessing" involves generalization to the point of an ugly absurdity, you should check yourself. You make it sound like you have a particular beef, maybe with a particular woman (or women) and now you believe that all bad web code is caused by women. It's a bad place to be.
If you want to say, "I have encountered some young women who fancy themselves graphic designers..." you would at least be on more reasonable ground, but then you need to ask yourself, "Does the fact that this group of people were women really have any impact on my statement?"
Now knock it off. People get skeeved out by misogyny and it's pretty easy to pick up on, so the next time you're looking for a job you might just walk away wondering, "That didn't seem to go well, it's probably because of that woman who interviewed me. They're all whores you know".
The bitches have invaded our retreat. There goes the neighborhood...
Go bake someone a cake. You're not wanted here. Seriously. We don't want to hear it. This is not your community. You are not one of us, and you never will be. You bring strife with you in your endless quest for attention, and not a whole fuck of a lot else. You'll never be accepted, you'll never be an asset, and you should just give up and do something else.
We are geeks. If we were vulnerable to your emotional manipulation, we would have given up on being geeks and bought some fashionable clothes a long fucking time ago. We're invulnerable to your crap and find it incredibly tiresome when you get insist on transforming every conversation into a big discussion about whoever you're butthurt about on this particular day. You will never succeed in changing us.
From a practical perspective, yes, they really are. We use property laws, artificial scarcity and built-in obsolescence to create the fiction that they aren't so a few people who were born to power can maintain control over the rest of us. But it's all bullshit.
Insist that you be as well informed as they are, and you might have some luck. Demand that other people put their heads in the sand and increase their own ignorance because you prefer to operate in secrecy? Never going to happen, shouldn't happen.
Sounds like she was trying to keep her employer in the dark to me, probably to protect her right to his money. Not that she'll be working for that money with a new baby on the way, but hey, she's a woman, so she probably doesn't think that's relevant.
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Understand compound interest, or you will pay it to those who do..
History shows that if you "win" with compound interest, you will later be executed by your fellow man. And, rightly so.
I wouldn't want my children exposed to a game that normalized homosexual marriage, personally. I'm disappointed in Nintendo for not having the moral compass to stand up to these deviant's. They make games for children, for Christ's sake.
This is just so very wrong.
Except that the advice was not to "power it off" when not in use. The advice was to unplug them from the wall.
Are you aware that if you take an old television apart and go poking your fingers around in there, you'll very likely be killed, even if the television has been unplugged for over a year. They contain capacitors that will hold a deadly charge for a very long time after you unplug them.
You really think something they designed in these types of capabilities for espionage, but are going to be stymied by you unplugging the thing?
The US government controls what hardware is contained in those televisions. They forced the issue when they were moving away from free-to-air television. If you've been coming to slashdot for a long time, you read all about it.
Never attribute to stupidity what is easily explained by malice. The enemy is active, intelligent, malicious and not easily pinned down.
For example, there's a whole host of conversation going on these days about "Why does the NSA fail to implement basic security measures that could have prevented Snowden from doing what he did."
The answer is to act just as they do, and look at the metadata. Don't try to put your finger on who exactly did this or that, but try to understand their nature, goals and motivations... to define them in the abstract, and act against them in the abstract.
Who is served by an easily compromised NSA? Organized crime? Multinational corporations? Israeli intelligence? Doesn't matter exactly who, if you understand their nature, you can fuck with their agenda without ever knowing who they are.
No, idiot, I can't even tell what his argument is because he never states it in his fucking post. Just a link to info wars, which no sane person will bother clicking. The intel video is meaningless without knowing what his fucking point is.
Perhaps you should Read His Last Fucking Sentence then, dipshit.
Pretty goddamn pathetic when he summarized his point mere words later and you couldn't even be bothered to finish reading it.
You get that he's being paid to pollute this forum with this type of confusion, right? This is his 9-5 job.
Hey, women are ENTITLED to work! And they're entitled to FOLLOW THEIR DREAMS and get paid to do what MAKES THEM HAPPY!!!
How dare you suggest that employment should be based on what's actually needed? What are you, a communist?
That won't work.
There's a good breakdown on infowars about why it won't work:
http://www.infowars.com/91497/
But you can't just take what's on infowars without a grain of salt, so here's a video on intel's website where they substantiate everything, but with a positive spin
http://www.intel.com/content/w...
We need open hardware. The hardware being made in the factories is not trustworthy.
For the majority who won't click links and read articles, the gist is, there's a 3G radio antenna and a special dedicated processor inside of your CPU, and it can be used to either take complete control of your device, or to destroy it. All the details are there in Intel's marketing material.
In the old days, people who played at war died on the battlefield. That was a good thing, because we're better off with such men dead. The problem with modern warfare is that they come home alive. In an ideal war, both sides slaughter each other and the last man standing dies of his wounds before he makes it home.
Thank you for sharing your shallow knowledge of history with us. You haven't bothered to present any evidence to support your claim. Presumably this post was modded up by your buddies?
In reality, many terrible rulers "played at war" and didn't die on the battlefield. Even those nobles that were physically present on a battlefield tended to have many retainers to protect them. Further, systems of ransom developed in many places and during many periods, making it far more beneficial to capture an opposing noble than to kill them.
Your homework is to pick a region of the world, list the notable nobles that participated in war over the history of that region, determine a criteria for whether they "played" at war, then determine what percentage of those died on the battlefield. Doubtless your report will be fascinating.
Fuck you, arsehole. I'm not one of the submissive little fucks who hangs out in universities. If you wish to alleviate your ignorance, go do your own legwork.
Entertainment is a shit industry to be in. It's never about taking an upfront approach and bringing value, it's always about manipulating your audience to earn a buck. Find something practical to do with that pocket computer we call a phone and people will probably be interested in giving you their money.
Sending a nasty email is not domestic abuse.
Stop trivializing the suffering of women that get beaten within a inch of their lives by brutal husbands.
Psychological abuse is the first step. Why do you think a woman continues to stay with a man who beats her?
And who said that their only concern is psychological abuse? They also need to make sure there isn't a way that
the abuser can't track and/or figure out where the victim is going to be in real life.
She stays with a man who beats her because she knows herself. She knows that any man who spends a great deal of time with her is inevitably going to beat her just like the last one, she either cannot or does not wish to change her behavior, and she doesn't want to be alone.
If you date a woman whose boyfriend used to beat her, she will mould you into a man who beats her. It's not diplomatic to say it, but it's true, and the more men become aware that it's true, the less domestic violence we will have.
I've dated a woman like that. I've never hit a woman in my entire life, but she brought me so close it scared me. I'd offer to part ways amicably, and she'd cling and insist that she wanted to invest the time and energy to make things good. But that only lasted till I stopped talking about parting ways, then she'd violate my trust again. When it all finally came crashing down, she told me that she'd done it because she loved me but felt our relationship was unhealthy, and didn't have the strength to break things off, so she set out to hurt me as badly as she possibly could, so I would never forgive her.
I found out later that every single serious relationship she had ever been in had ended with her being assaulted and her partner being charged. I was the only one in her entire life that had the strength to pull back and walk away from the situation. And it was unbelievably hard. I really loved her, wanted her to be my wife. And she knew me so well, she knew exactly the precise way to cause me the maximum pain, her execution was flawless, and she'd convinced herself that it needed to be done, so she had no remorse whatsoever.
When you meet a woman who tells you a sympathetic story about how her ex used to abuse her, stay the fuck away from her.
I look forward to claims along the lines of, "It's not abuse unless you physically injure them," and other quasi-religious nonsense which treats the brain as a perfectly rational ideal rather than just another organ subject to external influence.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not abuse unless you can provide evidence that you attempted to stop it. If he doesn't have gouges on his face and you don't have his skin under your fingernails, you clearly didn't mind too terribly much.
No, it does not mean that. It just makes it very likely. Beyond reasonable doubt likely...
It really doesn't mean anything. It's easy to think it does, but the more you learn from real life instead of mass media, the more you realize that a criminal record is something that just happens to people who are unlucky enough to attract the wrong sort of attention, nothing more.
So we're living longer, getting richer, and having fewer children. And some scientists are researching strategies for how to get luxury food (meat) to all the people who recently became rich. That just sounds like good news all around, right?
Personally, I consider having children to carry on my lineage to be the most important thing in life, the thing that makes life worth living, I find things that other people made vaguely distasteful simply because they had their grubby paws all over it, and I have no desire to turn into one of those old men with frail bones that dodder around waiting to die. So... no, on all counts.
Your knowledge of history is poor, but I'll agree that the motives of domestic policy are sincerely suspect. These values are NOT what my ancestors fought for, however, and so this is a change.
We were once tribes and warriors, and now instead of multiple gruesome battlefields, executive play war conquering each other and us on a battlefield called Greed Capitalism.
In the old days, people who played at war died on the battlefield. That was a good thing, because we're better off with such men dead. The problem with modern warfare is that they come home alive. In an ideal war, both sides slaughter each other and the last man standing dies of his wounds before he makes it home.
The US stands for "Free Enterprise", not "Freedom".
"Freedom", generally speaking, means you're not subjected to any non-natural limitations. The need to eat is natural, and therefore, requiring you to work with nature to feed yourself is not an imposition on your freedom.
"Free Enterprise", on the other hand, is the right to conquer in a structured way. It is the right to claim you "won" control over things you have no need for, and dictate terms to other people who rely on those things which they must accept, or deadly force will be brought to bear upon them.
The US, therefore, is the antithesis of real freedom. It is the freedom of feudal lords to go on vacation and not be concerned with a serf uprising while they are away, nothing more.
The USA will someday be remembered as the most destructively amoral group of vicious savages ever to walk the face of the earth.
Because they are.
I don't want my children to starve while my parents eat, and I don't want my parents to starve while a rich old man eats. I don't imagine too many other people want that either, unless their parents abused them. And, of course, if the people working don't eat, the whole game is over. But really, there's no reason for anyone to starve, so lets feed him too if we can. But only because we have compassion, not because he is entitled to the fruit of our labour over our children and the parents who raised us.
So you are saying that distribution of food is not an economic question but a political one?
That's an excellent way of putting it.
We've already passed "Peak Child" and the human race is in decline. So, the premise that we need to ramp up food production to cope with a growing population is a false one. If there's not enough meat for everyone in the short term, we feed the young and able bodied first, then the parents of the young and able bodied, then whoever is left, in that order.
Is there any good way to filter sites that offer teasers and paywall additional pages so you don't need to wade through them? Because google top ranks those pages a lot, and it's made it a very inefficient way to find information. It's always high profile sites that used to be big players in the print domain, and I know they're paying google for the exposure. I'd switch to a different search engine if they were uncompromising with those types of teaser-paywall websites. They're just noise, as far as I'm concerned.
And this whole time I thought it was entropy, accelerated with an almost complete lack of forethought on recycling the finite amount of raw materials that exist in the first place that was the problem....
You thought wrong. The earth is vast and we huddle in our cities occupying a tiny portion of it.
This is slashdot. We turn web servers into smouldering ruin.
I'm sure if each of us were to pick up the phone and give Mr Coward a single call and send him a single email, that would probably give him something else to think about...
http://website.informer.com/Pa...
Company: Panisz Peter
Address: Kossuth Lajos u. 51 Dunabogdany 2023 HU
Phone: +36.203367173
Fax: +36.203367173
2 most popular domains of this owner:
start64.com
android-x86.info
info@start64.com
Get the fuck out with your stupid techie misogyny.
If your "guessing" involves generalization to the point of an ugly absurdity, you should check yourself. You make it sound like you have a particular beef, maybe with a particular woman (or women) and now you believe that all bad web code is caused by women. It's a bad place to be.
If you want to say, "I have encountered some young women who fancy themselves graphic designers..." you would at least be on more reasonable ground, but then you need to ask yourself, "Does the fact that this group of people were women really have any impact on my statement?"
Now knock it off. People get skeeved out by misogyny and it's pretty easy to pick up on, so the next time you're looking for a job you might just walk away wondering, "That didn't seem to go well, it's probably because of that woman who interviewed me. They're all whores you know".
The bitches have invaded our retreat. There goes the neighborhood...
Go bake someone a cake. You're not wanted here. Seriously. We don't want to hear it. This is not your community. You are not one of us, and you never will be. You bring strife with you in your endless quest for attention, and not a whole fuck of a lot else. You'll never be accepted, you'll never be an asset, and you should just give up and do something else.
We are geeks. If we were vulnerable to your emotional manipulation, we would have given up on being geeks and bought some fashionable clothes a long fucking time ago. We're invulnerable to your crap and find it incredibly tiresome when you get insist on transforming every conversation into a big discussion about whoever you're butthurt about on this particular day. You will never succeed in changing us.
Yeah 'cuz resources are infinite, right?
From a practical perspective, yes, they really are. We use property laws, artificial scarcity and built-in obsolescence to create the fiction that they aren't so a few people who were born to power can maintain control over the rest of us. But it's all bullshit.
Won't you please just go away?
No. you're trolls and scum that need to be adjusted to getting a bit of what you dish out and can't take.
Could always file your complaints here:
info@start64.com
Or give him a call and ask him to fuck off... is it Peter Panisz, or Panisz Peter? Anyway, I'm guessing this is him...
http://website.informer.com/Pa...
Company: Panisz Peter
Address: Kossuth Lajos u. 51 Dunabogdany 2023 HU
Phone: +36.203367173
Fax: +36.203367173
2 most popular domains of this owner:
start64.com
android-x86.info
Fighting for the wrooooong thing.
Insist that you be as well informed as they are, and you might have some luck. Demand that other people put their heads in the sand and increase their own ignorance because you prefer to operate in secrecy? Never going to happen, shouldn't happen.
Sounds like she was trying to keep her employer in the dark to me, probably to protect her right to his money. Not that she'll be working for that money with a new baby on the way, but hey, she's a woman, so she probably doesn't think that's relevant.