I don't get adverts on Facebook? Nor do I get game requests, pokes or any other annoying thing that intrudes upon my idle time.
I installed the Facebook Purity browser extension, and all of that went away.
I now browse FB with no trouble, no bugging, none of the "Eat this and never diet again!" adverts that look like some kind of tropical disease. I also get a lot of hand customizations that give *me* far more control of Facebook than they're really happy with, which is why they had to change their page from "Facebook Purity", to "Fluff Busting" Purity.
I have noticed that it also blocks Facebook's third-party cookie system, meaning I can't comment on LiveFyre, Discus and other commenting systems on other sites. Annoying, but probably just a configuration issue I haven't figured out yet.
It's not that Google thinks that people are that insane?
They know for a fact that people are that ignorant of the danger. And they aren't going to do anything to dissuade people of that fact. Keeping the masses ignorant of the danger is how they've made so much money, and will continue to make so much money.
Because at the end of the day, if people have to choose between getting shiny new toys that will give them the delusion of being cool, or living without them, the majority will choose the shiny new toys. They can't help it, after all? It's actually a function of evolution: bird with the prettiest feathers gets the most mates and all that.
While I detest what they've done, I have to commend Google for subverting both common sense *and* evolution at the same time.
1. What you plant. 2. Where you plant it. 3. Who your neighbors are, and your current relationship with them.
Plant the wrong kind, or plant it without a 3' deep root barrier, and you will quickly have a neighborhood war on your hands. Expand this to commercial levels of production, and you could make a lot of people very angry with you.
One thing is certain, though? Once you plant it, it is THERE for 15 years, at the very least. And you'll be exceptionally busy for every bit of those 15 years.
Blackberries can be controlled, you just have to invest a little time. Basically? When you pick, tie a small ribbon on the branch you got it from. At the end of the growing season, cut out anything with a ribbon on it, because that vine will never produce fruit again, it will only become a "stringer", which spreads to produce more vines.
This way, the plant can be controlled and kept to one area. But again, you have to invest time, which not many people have a lot of these days.
I bought a LCD projector, and high-end computer speakers, years ago when I was on a ship. Everyone else on board bought nice LCD screens, and the moment we hit heavy weather, I could hear all those nice LCD screens falling all over the place.
My projector was strapped down, and never moved. By using a bed sheet, I had the largest "TV" of anyone on the ship. All with the footprint of two boxes of Ritz crackers.
It migrated with me to my current home, and it works perfectly against the wall, again, giving me the largest screen for the money. If I were to paint a silver-backed white screen and edge it with molding, I'd have a proper movie screen.
I can use it with my Linux box, my Windoze box, my laptop, a guest's laptop, their iPad, the DVD player, Boxee, X-Box 360...pretty much anything out there. The only thing I *can't* use with it, is the Kinect or similar devices.
Pepper the list with plenty of "industries" that the vast majority of people would dearly love to see destroyed, such as pyramid schemes, racist trash and payday loans, but shut down plenty of useful-but-intimidating-to-those-in-power businesses as well.
This sort of thing has happened before, and it will happen again. An even better example was when the MV Cougar Ace almost sank, and 4700 brand new Mazda cars hung at a 60 degree angle for several months. They never moved, and they were all in seemingly perfect condition.
With waivers not being worth the paper they're printed on, it's simply not worth the risk of getting sued.
And finally, there's the "soft damage" to take into consideration? Remember the kid in preschool who "had cooties"? That kid KEPT those cooties, right up until graduation day in high school. Costco might never allow a single jar to hit their normal distribution system, but just the simple fact that the peanut butter even exists at all, is a risk that someone, somewhere, will say, "Whoa, Costco peanut butter might have salmonella."
Play "Telephone" with that for a while, and suddenly Costco can't pay someone to take a jar of peanut butter. This is actually a very safe, very beneficial tactic for Costco.
Now consumers can be absolutely guaranteed that they will never have to think about whether Costco peanut butter is safe.
If you're talking shit in the lounge or common area, then you deserve a banhammer right to the forehead. And if you're playing a non-violent or otherwise cooperative game, then nasty epithets really aren't cool.
But combat games? Actually shooting at other player opponents? Nuh-uh. Anything goes, jungle rules and survival of the fittest. If you're hunting other humans, then you should not only expect such nasty talk, but you should desire hearing it. When you've just flung a knife halfway across the map and skewered some n00b in the eyeball, then hearing them call you a bitch faggot is just icing on the pwncake.
There's also something else to consider? Being a nasty little troll can come with some really horrible, but incredibly spectacular consequences.
Weev is whale turds. He's the lowest of the low, he knows it, and he relishes it. He's like a wolverine, pissing and shitting on the carcass he found, so nobody else will try to eat it, even though he can't stand his own stench.
Which is why it sucks so God Damned much to have to defend his useless ass!
But then, if you can't defend the worst of the worst from clear injustice, then we don't even have the hope of having a republic.
It goes farther, runs longer, weighs less, uses regenerative braking to charge on the go, and best of all, you can remove it easily for security purposes.
Back in 2002 or so, when people were really starting to rally against the PATRIOT act, the usual faces were all over the media, calling detractors "terrorist sympathizers" and worse. More than a few openly called for such people to be labeled traitors.
Manifestly, there is no civil-liberties crisis in this country. Consequently, people who claim there is must have a different goal in mind. What else can you say of such people but that they are traitors? (source)
And here's Paul Krugman with regards to Rush Limbaugh back in 2002...
As far back as 2002, Rush Limbaugh, in words very close to those used by The Wall Street Journal last week, accused Tom Daschle, then the Senate majority leader, of a partisan "attempt to sabotage the war on terrorism." (source.)
I can't remember where it happened, or who exactly said it, but someone confronted Rush Limbaugh about his words and said, "Imagine if Hillary Clinton were to become president, and she has the power that you want to give President Bush."
Well.
It would appear that has a very good chance of happening. And what was laughed off back in 2002, is now staining underwear in 2014.
Slashdot Mirror
"Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary?"
Reformat the question: "Is TSA Necessary?"
Now you have a question worth asking.
Assuming the existing companies will allow such a network to exist, what will we do with it?
The TPP is going to lock everything down, so our only choices are ultra-high speed access to what we already have on cable TV right now.
Is this alteration specific to self-signed appliances, like a NAS? Or would this bypass for all self-signed certificates?
Also, this sounds like a good thing to keep a record of, with regards to documenting changes in your about:config.
Looks like The Onion got this one wrong.
Experts: Ebola Vaccine At Least 50 White People Away
I suppose it's a commentary on the state of the world that The Onion is so often inadvertently right with their headlines.
I don't get adverts on Facebook? Nor do I get game requests, pokes or any other annoying thing that intrudes upon my idle time.
I installed the Facebook Purity browser extension, and all of that went away.
I now browse FB with no trouble, no bugging, none of the "Eat this and never diet again!" adverts that look like some kind of tropical disease. I also get a lot of hand customizations that give *me* far more control of Facebook than they're really happy with, which is why they had to change their page from "Facebook Purity", to "Fluff Busting" Purity.
I have noticed that it also blocks Facebook's third-party cookie system, meaning I can't comment on LiveFyre, Discus and other commenting systems on other sites. Annoying, but probably just a configuration issue I haven't figured out yet.
Strategic Bullshit, hmmm? I wonder...
*quick Google search*
Yup! It exists!
From Alien: Resurrection:
GEN. PEREZ: Elgyn, these were very, very hard to come by. *slides a stack of cash to Elgyn*
ELGYN: So was our cargo. You're, uh...not about to plead poverty on me, are you, General?
GEN. PEREZ: No. Just saying very few people deal in cash nowadays.
ELGYN: Just the ones don't like to keep business records. Yourself, for example.
Ex post facto ex parte: We think you're guilty of a crime, so we're going to kill you and come up with the justification later.
It's not that Google thinks that people are that insane?
They know for a fact that people are that ignorant of the danger. And they aren't going to do anything to dissuade people of that fact. Keeping the masses ignorant of the danger is how they've made so much money, and will continue to make so much money.
Because at the end of the day, if people have to choose between getting shiny new toys that will give them the delusion of being cool, or living without them, the majority will choose the shiny new toys. They can't help it, after all? It's actually a function of evolution: bird with the prettiest feathers gets the most mates and all that.
While I detest what they've done, I have to commend Google for subverting both common sense *and* evolution at the same time.
Toss those words and phrases around LBGT issues, and the masses flock to your church.
But try to use them around issues like privacy, surveillance and three-letter agencies, and you're as ignored as Richard Stallman.
Well, that depends on a few things?
1. What you plant.
2. Where you plant it.
3. Who your neighbors are, and your current relationship with them.
Plant the wrong kind, or plant it without a 3' deep root barrier, and you will quickly have a neighborhood war on your hands. Expand this to commercial levels of production, and you could make a lot of people very angry with you.
One thing is certain, though? Once you plant it, it is THERE for 15 years, at the very least. And you'll be exceptionally busy for every bit of those 15 years.
The crows have figured out how to deal with cane toads.
They started out by eating them alive, through the mouth, but figured out gutting them was easier.
Blackberries can be controlled, you just have to invest a little time. Basically? When you pick, tie a small ribbon on the branch you got it from. At the end of the growing season, cut out anything with a ribbon on it, because that vine will never produce fruit again, it will only become a "stringer", which spreads to produce more vines.
This way, the plant can be controlled and kept to one area. But again, you have to invest time, which not many people have a lot of these days.
I bought a LCD projector, and high-end computer speakers, years ago when I was on a ship. Everyone else on board bought nice LCD screens, and the moment we hit heavy weather, I could hear all those nice LCD screens falling all over the place.
My projector was strapped down, and never moved. By using a bed sheet, I had the largest "TV" of anyone on the ship. All with the footprint of two boxes of Ritz crackers.
It migrated with me to my current home, and it works perfectly against the wall, again, giving me the largest screen for the money. If I were to paint a silver-backed white screen and edge it with molding, I'd have a proper movie screen.
I can use it with my Linux box, my Windoze box, my laptop, a guest's laptop, their iPad, the DVD player, Boxee, X-Box 360...pretty much anything out there. The only thing I *can't* use with it, is the Kinect or similar devices.
Pepper the list with plenty of "industries" that the vast majority of people would dearly love to see destroyed, such as pyramid schemes, racist trash and payday loans, but shut down plenty of useful-but-intimidating-to-those-in-power businesses as well.
I talk to myself in different voices all the time, and engage in detailed plots to take over the world.
If I haven't been picked up by the Men In White Coats by now, they aren't listening.
This sort of thing has happened before, and it will happen again. An even better example was when the MV Cougar Ace almost sank, and 4700 brand new Mazda cars hung at a 60 degree angle for several months. They never moved, and they were all in seemingly perfect condition.
Mazda chose to err on the side of caution, rather than risk a lawsuit. Or even worse, there was a very valid concern that they would become "Katrina Cars". A coat of paint, and they would be bundled up and sold in some other unsuspecting country. (On a side-note, the destruction process is really cool!.)
With waivers not being worth the paper they're printed on, it's simply not worth the risk of getting sued.
And finally, there's the "soft damage" to take into consideration? Remember the kid in preschool who "had cooties"? That kid KEPT those cooties, right up until graduation day in high school. Costco might never allow a single jar to hit their normal distribution system, but just the simple fact that the peanut butter even exists at all, is a risk that someone, somewhere, will say, "Whoa, Costco peanut butter might have salmonella."
Play "Telephone" with that for a while, and suddenly Costco can't pay someone to take a jar of peanut butter. This is actually a very safe, very beneficial tactic for Costco.
Now consumers can be absolutely guaranteed that they will never have to think about whether Costco peanut butter is safe.
And in retail, that's money in the bank.
If you're talking shit in the lounge or common area, then you deserve a banhammer right to the forehead. And if you're playing a non-violent or otherwise cooperative game, then nasty epithets really aren't cool.
But combat games? Actually shooting at other player opponents? Nuh-uh. Anything goes, jungle rules and survival of the fittest. If you're hunting other humans, then you should not only expect such nasty talk, but you should desire hearing it. When you've just flung a knife halfway across the map and skewered some n00b in the eyeball, then hearing them call you a bitch faggot is just icing on the pwncake.
There's also something else to consider? Being a nasty little troll can come with some really horrible, but incredibly spectacular consequences.
Weev is whale turds. He's the lowest of the low, he knows it, and he relishes it. He's like a wolverine, pissing and shitting on the carcass he found, so nobody else will try to eat it, even though he can't stand his own stench.
Which is why it sucks so God Damned much to have to defend his useless ass!
But then, if you can't defend the worst of the worst from clear injustice, then we don't even have the hope of having a republic.
"...buying bitcoins that did not exist, with cash that was already long gone."
Sssoooo, it's exactly like the US dollar. Or ANY fiat currency.
*coughs and points to jedidiah's UID*
They are most likely making six figures. Might wanna pay attention to your elders, kid. You might learn something.
The law does not apply to the lowly masses, except when it is useful to suppress them or steal from them!
This is not TV Tropes, and you cannot turn the law against the ones who created it!
The Copenhagen Wheel is a much better concept, and cheaper, too.
It goes farther, runs longer, weighs less, uses regenerative braking to charge on the go, and best of all, you can remove it easily for security purposes.
...and several meters deep, with radiators, chemical condensers and heat exchangers.
Back in 2002 or so, when people were really starting to rally against the PATRIOT act, the usual faces were all over the media, calling detractors "terrorist sympathizers" and worse. More than a few openly called for such people to be labeled traitors.
And here's Paul Krugman with regards to Rush Limbaugh back in 2002...
I can't remember where it happened, or who exactly said it, but someone confronted Rush Limbaugh about his words and said, "Imagine if Hillary Clinton were to become president, and she has the power that you want to give President Bush."
Well.
It would appear that has a very good chance of happening. And what was laughed off back in 2002, is now staining underwear in 2014.