Have you found anything worth watching yet? Whenever I hear about something good I check it out, but it just seems like shit to me. Game of thrones? Lord of the rings with tits. Caprica 1? Zzzzz. Walking Dead? Nothing ever happens - there's a strict 5 zombies per episode limit (apart from the last episode - perhaps it's the same 5 zombies over and over, though).
Loads of talk of 3D, google/apple/whatever tv, but if it's just the same old shit then it seems like a waste of a lot of money. Just stick the good stuff on the net so we can watch it whenever.
burn the Tails TOR distro to cd so it's read only. And do basic, common sense stuff like using disposable accounts to post publicly (signing content so people can trust the authenticity of the posts)?
They're valued perfectly. You're just incorrect about the world not being solely capitalistic. You get paid what it makes sense to pay you - enough to satisfy minimum wage (this helps prevent riots/race wars etc) if you do something which doesn't require much in the way of training, and enough to stop you leaving and working elsewhere if you are higher skilled.
Someone who does morally good things doesn't tend to get the rewards a just society would bestow on them because it doesn't benefit the people who'd be paying them. Governments don't pay them because they'll be doing the good deeds anyway, plus doing good doesn't fit into any kind of framework hierarchical systems can understand or deal with. You're supposed to want to be a dick and make your own life better and screw everyone else to get ahead etc - the idea that you might be happy with a low paid job, doing charity work in your part time or working on a free operating system doesn't occur or make much sense to most people.
To be honest, what with the population explosion, global warming, governments being too busy working with the banks to screw everyone over and billions of illiterate people all wanting nice cars and air conditioning means we're all pretty much fucked anyway so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
The checking technology sort of exists - credit cards.
If cash had a random element (a second serial number, for example, with no connection to the first, which would be sequential) then the counterfeiters would have to have the original notes to copy. Otherwise they'd fake it, and when the note was used it would be checked against the database and be shown to be obviously wrong (note 1049242 should have a security number of 194, this one has 188).
Exactly. Idiot goat farmers or whatever can take out the latest US vehicles again and again using cheap, readily available ingredients with innocous legal uses plus a digital watch or walkie talkie. Such a shame the whole miliary/industrial complex is based on attacking Russia or whatever.
Remind me again, which month do I have to work until before I start earning money for me and not just the taxman?
Eh? They were at war with Iraq for years, and the US reduced that country to "barely-armed guerrilla insurgency" in days. It will be exactly like attacking Iraq, only the US probably won't bother invading Iran because there would be no point.
You knock out the rader, military bases, airforce, power, bridges etc in the first few hours and they're fucked - absolutely no way Iran is going to be able to do the same to the US forces in the neighbouring countries, ships, drones controlled from the US etc.
Yeah, brilliant. "More conventional, such as that which has only ever taken place over the last 50 years or so in some countries, usually man-made chemicals, as opposed to what was done everywhere on the planet for thousands of years".
Well, do it then. If you think there's money in it, or it would be fun etc then I'd probably follow the blog or read the book. But I'm not getting up at 7am and travelling to work in the rain so I can be part of the $500,000,000 or whatever it's going to cost.
> However, the reason Mint is so popular is because it has something very important that > a lot of people desire - sensible defaults.
Well, it's seen as (because it IS) a version of Ubuntu but without the dreadful Unity. You just have to look at the adoption stats to see that the are linked. Yes, there's Lubuntu, but I tried that (because I have nothing against Ubuntu, what with it being the first Linux I liked and could just get on with without having to do loads of googling, installing and typing to get basic stuff like sound, wifi etc working) and even the file manager is unstable. You'd be copying files from hard drive to usb key and it would just quit on you without warning. So it's back to Mint. Not sure why there's no 32 bit version of the LXDE flavour but that's a small price for a stable system.
It's got to be worth constantly creating facebook & google+ pages which violate those 'laws', tweet them etc to various politicians, the media and the beardy religious types to perpetuate this sort of ban, endlessly. Either it'll make them stop those retarded laws or it'll keep them busy banning stuff forever. Either way I'll get a laugh out of it.
None of that's going to change. This is another channel. OEM's can do what they like, but I can get:
a new phone (supported properly by the retailer, and not have the network only give me a 6 month warranty)
with proper Android (no trial version of crap games, or no future updates because this network, using that manufacturers phone, can't be bothered to do so even though other networks/manufacturers can),
updates as soon as they come out
unlocked bootloaders so I can put Cyanogenmod (and other ) roms on
more transparent pricing (I can pay £10 per month in the UK for unlimited data/texts and more minutes than I use - why the hell would I want to be locked into a 2 year contract and pay way over the odds for it?)
They've come to the party extremely late, with a slow bloated competitor for the pretty good stock browser and the excellent Dolphin HD. It would be nice if Firefox for Android supported all the desktop add-ons but no. So..why would I install it over Dolphin?
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Have you found anything worth watching yet? Whenever I hear about something good I check it out, but it just seems like shit to me. Game of thrones? Lord of the rings with tits. Caprica 1? Zzzzz. Walking Dead? Nothing ever happens - there's a strict 5 zombies per episode limit (apart from the last episode - perhaps it's the same 5 zombies over and over, though).
Loads of talk of 3D, google/apple/whatever tv, but if it's just the same old shit then it seems like a waste of a lot of money. Just stick the good stuff on the net so we can watch it whenever.
I'm going to keep safe a copy of wget just in case...
burn the Tails TOR distro to cd so it's read only. And do basic, common sense stuff like using disposable accounts to post publicly (signing content so people can trust the authenticity of the posts)?
Or use a VPN.
Pretty soon and for 14 years (if it's a design patent, else 20).
Presumably because you persist in running Ad-block! Bastard!
LOL! If only they could put aside all their differences!
They're valued perfectly. You're just incorrect about the world not being solely capitalistic. You get paid what it makes sense to pay you - enough to satisfy minimum wage (this helps prevent riots/race wars etc) if you do something which doesn't require much in the way of training, and enough to stop you leaving and working elsewhere if you are higher skilled.
Someone who does morally good things doesn't tend to get the rewards a just society would bestow on them because it doesn't benefit the people who'd be paying them. Governments don't pay them because they'll be doing the good deeds anyway, plus doing good doesn't fit into any kind of framework hierarchical systems can understand or deal with. You're supposed to want to be a dick and make your own life better and screw everyone else to get ahead etc - the idea that you might be happy with a low paid job, doing charity work in your part time or working on a free operating system doesn't occur or make much sense to most people.
To be honest, what with the population explosion, global warming, governments being too busy working with the banks to screw everyone over and billions of illiterate people all wanting nice cars and air conditioning means we're all pretty much fucked anyway so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
> Question: What are most IEDs made from?
> Answer: Artillery shells.
Close, but the answer is fertilizer.
The checking technology sort of exists - credit cards.
If cash had a random element (a second serial number, for example, with no connection to the first, which would be sequential) then the counterfeiters would have to have the original notes to copy. Otherwise they'd fake it, and when the note was used it would be checked against the database and be shown to be obviously wrong (note 1049242 should have a security number of 194, this one has 188).
> Except for IEDs
Exactly. Idiot goat farmers or whatever can take out the latest US vehicles again and again using cheap, readily available ingredients with innocous legal uses plus a digital watch or walkie talkie. Such a shame the whole miliary/industrial complex is based on attacking Russia or whatever.
Remind me again, which month do I have to work until before I start earning money for me and not just the taxman?
Eh? They were at war with Iraq for years, and the US reduced that country to "barely-armed guerrilla insurgency" in days. It will be exactly like attacking Iraq, only the US probably won't bother invading Iran because there would be no point.
You knock out the rader, military bases, airforce, power, bridges etc in the first few hours and they're fucked - absolutely no way Iran is going to be able to do the same to the US forces in the neighbouring countries, ships, drones controlled from the US etc.
Yeah, brilliant. "More conventional, such as that which has only ever taken place over the last 50 years or so in some countries, usually man-made chemicals, as opposed to what was done everywhere on the planet for thousands of years".
Well, do it then. If you think there's money in it, or it would be fun etc then I'd probably follow the blog or read the book. But I'm not getting up at 7am and travelling to work in the rain so I can be part of the $500,000,000 or whatever it's going to cost.
> However, the reason Mint is so popular is because it has something very important that
> a lot of people desire - sensible defaults.
Well, it's seen as (because it IS) a version of Ubuntu but without the dreadful Unity. You just have to look at the adoption stats to see that the are linked. Yes, there's Lubuntu, but I tried that (because I have nothing against Ubuntu, what with it being the first Linux I liked and could just get on with without having to do loads of googling, installing and typing to get basic stuff like sound, wifi etc working) and even the file manager is unstable. You'd be copying files from hard drive to usb key and it would just quit on you without warning. So it's back to Mint. Not sure why there's no 32 bit version of the LXDE flavour but that's a small price for a stable system.
Why a live USB, when you can use a full USB install?
When people say that it usually reads as "you are smarter than me".
It's got to be worth constantly creating facebook & google+ pages which violate those 'laws', tweet them etc to various politicians, the media and the beardy religious types to perpetuate this sort of ban, endlessly. Either it'll make them stop those retarded laws or it'll keep them busy banning stuff forever. Either way I'll get a laugh out of it.
None of that's going to change. This is another channel. OEM's can do what they like, but I can get:
a new phone (supported properly by the retailer, and not have the network only give me a 6 month warranty)
with proper Android (no trial version of crap games, or no future updates because this network, using that manufacturers phone, can't be bothered to do so even though other networks/manufacturers can),
updates as soon as they come out
unlocked bootloaders so I can put Cyanogenmod (and other ) roms on
more transparent pricing (I can pay £10 per month in the UK for unlimited data/texts and more minutes than I use - why the hell would I want to be locked into a 2 year contract and pay way over the odds for it?)
...and now, at last, it's going to be addressed!
They've come to the party extremely late, with a slow bloated competitor for the pretty good stock browser and the excellent Dolphin HD. It would be nice if Firefox for Android supported all the desktop add-ons but no. So..why would I install it over Dolphin?
She's rich and white and stuff - good laywers, and she's pregnant. Also, she probably has stuff on everyone. She's not going to prison.
No, I'm LostCluster. See the problem?
Sure, blame it on the Eskimos - as if they don't suffer enough...
Crime in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
http://www.economist.com/node/18775436
etc