Install WITHOUT a key. Every 30 days reboot into safe mode and reset the timer by DELETING the WPA registry keys. You can run Win7 Ultimate *indefinitely* this way, along with MS Security Essentials, etc.
> should we setup a separate email address at google for each vendor account we create?
You don't already use an alias? username+vendor@gmail.com
I have a personal domain name and create a separate email for every company I do business with. Along with KeePass it is trivial to remember passwords.
Hipsters are the ones pretending / being delusional thinking that they are setting the trend. Meanwhile everyone else is laughing their asses off at them.
--- Big Bang^H^H^H^H Sham Theory Noun: popular Pseudo-Science-Fiction where no experimental results can be duplicated.
That is a VERY interesting line of thinking! The lawyers no doubt would be against it but that might be one way to covertly change the current corrupt system. The bigger problem is finding an honest judge who is aware of the problems corporations create. The other problem is that corporations want to play the pseudo-person card: They are a person when it suits them, and not a person when it doesn't.
There definitely needs to be a re-balancing of corporations. I don't see that happening until the system implodes upon itself.:-/ However, In the mean time what we CAN do is educate people and try to come to a BALANCED approach between zero corporations and corporations usurping power. e.g. Since politics dictates the rules, and money corrupts politics, money needs to be removed from politics. One way to do that would be to make a new rule: "Donations" MUST be split / shared amongst ALL parties so they all have a "voice" instead of companies providing kickbacks to certain politicians who want to push their agenda.
Secondly, Corporations pay no death tax (estate tax) because corporations NEVER die. That fact right there is a HUGE problem. It slowly strips the wealth (power) out of individuals and consolidates it -- that is total anathema to the original intent of State and Federal separation and balance of power.
Thirdly, Corporations at one time were PROHIBITED from owning another corporations; again to PREVENT consolidation of power.
Fourth, Corporations can effectively print their own currency via stocks.
Fifth, the value of a Company's stock is IMAGINARY worth. The fact that a company's value can fluctuate wildly over night means the value is a total sham.
âoeCorporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.â
Sound like a protester railing against the World Trade Organization? Think again. These are the words of a successful corporate lawyer who represented railroads before becoming president of the United States. They resonate for many people in this Era of Enron, when huge hot-stock corporations have cooked deals with the aid of their auditors and Wall Street bankers to enrich executives at the expense of their employees and shareholders, when corporate lobbyists and campaign donors so often have their way despite the interests of the voters, and when Federal Reserve figures show that the top 1 percent of U.S. households controls 38 percent of the nationâ(TM)s wealth. But these words were [purportedly] written in an 1864 letter, by Abraham Lincoln.*
Today, Lincolnâ(TM)s prophetic letter turns up more than 1,100 times in an Internet search, largely in writing that provides evidence that concern about corporate power is spreading rapidlyâ"even though the issue is far from popular in our corporate-owned news media. The number of books on the topic is growing in number and quality. And a new breed of activists is winning converts to the idea that while vast corporations have helped fuel unprecedented prosperity they have also overpowered âoegovernment of the people, by the people, and for the people,â to quote another memorable Lincoln phrase. Corporationsâ(TM) power over the government is at the root of a wide array of issues of deep concern to Unitarian Universalists, including campaign finance reform, the growing gap between rich and poor, environmental degradation, globalization, and whether democracy itself has been reduced to a mere charade or a sideshow in a global bazaar.
-- The best thing about America? Capitalism! The worst thing about America? Capitalism!
> They are treated as legal persons for very good reasons that go back hundreds of years for certain purpose.
Total nonsense. Corporations became legal persons OVER time based on greed TO LIMIT LIABILITY. Corporations want all the benefits and do everything in their power to avoid having to pay for them.
Date Decision, Legal Right Affirmed 1889 "Minneapolis and St. L. R. Co. v. Beckwith", Right for judicial review on state legislation 1893 "Noble v. Union River Logging R. Col", Right for judicial review for rights infringement by federal legislation 1906 "Hale v. Henkel", Protection "against unreasonable searches and seizures (4th) 1908 "Armour Packing C. v. United States", Right to trial by jury (6th) 1922 "Pennsylvania Coal Co. V. Mahon", Right to compensation for government takings 1962 "Fong Foo v. United States", Right to freedom from double jeopardy (5th) 1970 "Ross v. Bernhard", Right to trial by jury in civil case (7th) 1976 "Virginia Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Consumer Council)", Right to free speech for purely commercial speech (1st) 1978 "First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti", Right to corporate political speech (1st) 1986 "Pacific Gas and Electric Company v. Public Utility Commn of California", Right against coerced speech (1st)
> Then you get ridiculous requirements on some websites, like can't use special characters, can't be longer than 10 chars.
Concur 100%! That is by FAR the bigger problem -- noob admins who
a)
i) don't list their password policy (lists which characters are valid) OR
ii) use idiotic password schemas as short maximum-password-length, and b) don't list WHY your password failed.
I wish there was a way for the government to fine online sites when they have too short a maximum password length.
> You're missing out on some good games that way, there are some good games that get lower scores because they are "niche" in some way.
1. RPGs suck up a lot of time: Last year I played Diablo 3 for 1 month (total waste of money), Borderlands 2 for 1 month, Torchlight 2 for 1 month, BF3 for 2 weeks, 1 month on Resident Evil 5 (which was crap); this year I've spent 3 months playing PoE, 1 month on Tomb Raider (which is the epitome of everything with the game industry.) Where am I supposed to find the time to play all these "good" games? when games require HUGE time investments?
Give me a list of the which games I'm missing out on... and I can probably guarantee that I've played it in some form before. What do these "great" games bring to the table that is new ??
Which brings me to my next point...
2. My standards are higher. I don't have time to play shitty games anymore -- I've played enough of them. Like I said, I have ~300+ games in my Steam Library because I play *all* genres (except for RTSes). I make exceptions for Indie games because I want to see what new innovate things people are doing and support them. But the older I get the more I find that I really don't have time for gaming these days as I find more and more of them to be repetitive and a boring grind-for-gear fest. All the games that are rated 95 and below are mostly crap. Notably exceptions being: L4D, TF2, Trine, Limbo, World of Goo, Path of Exile, Dishonored. Stuff like Mirror's Edge for $5 that you beat in a weekend is good value. Total crap like Defiance, Diablo 3, Tomb Raider are a waste of money. I'm tired of wasting money on shitty sequelitis.
3. The more I play other people's games, the more I find I would rather be working on my own game, so no, I'm not really "missing out".
Interesting definition of hypocrite. Thanks for the interesting POV ! (Maybe there is hope for/. after all...)
I concur with your point that people never really have considered the issues. However my point was that there is a typical knee-jerk reaction along the lines of "think of the children" so "we must do SOMETHING" attitude not realizing that Adults themselves are sending mixed messages.
Apparently the ignorant AC didn't get the memo about JC porting Doom from NeXTStep to PC. He was one of the earlier proponents of porting to find bugs in your game AND in the compiler YEARS before the "mainstream" did it.
I concur with your point that the majority of people against drugs are hypocrites. 'Sure, Caffeine, Nicotine, and Alcoho are all "fine" but those OTHER drugs are "bad".'
> When the first Voodoo cards showed up they were expensive as hell and glQuake was the reason to get one.
FTFY.:-)
I used to run glQuake at 512 x 384 to maintain a guaranteed 60+ Hz during intense battles.
The minigl driver of the Voodoo helped motivate nVidia's TNT2 to provide true 24-bit color as opposed to the 16-bit interpolated to 22-bit of the Voodoo.:-)
-- Defiance is a shitty Borderlands MMO without the humor and beautiful "Guardian Angel" (Britanni Johnson.)
> "I only buy games during Steam sales... I paid $5 $X game."
I've paid my dues of buying games at $60 for years... most of them were crap.
I'll wait till a game has a Metacritic score of > 85, and 2 years when the "gold" version comes out with all the patches. Plus I can turn all the details on High and have a nice smooth framerate.
> check out games like Skyrim, Skyrim is STILL $30+. Not buying it until it is $20. I have 300 games in my library to play UNTIL then.
Slashdot Mirror
Sweet. ROT26 here I come, and can sue the pants off anybody who (sic.) "hacks" our system!
> More likely Win7 and Win8 are much harder to pirate, ...
Huh?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=win7+iso
Install WITHOUT a key. Every 30 days reboot into safe mode and reset the timer by DELETING the WPA registry keys. You can run Win7 Ultimate *indefinitely* this way, along with MS Security Essentials, etc.
Reboot /f
Press F8
Repair Computer
Start Command Prompt
D:
reg load HKLM\MY_SYSTEM "\Windows\System32\config\system"
reg delete HKLM\MY_SYSTEM\WPA
reg unload HKLM\MY_SYSTEM
exit
Reboot
P.S.
Never install KB971033
> should we setup a separate email address at google for each vendor account we create?
You don't already use an alias? username+vendor@gmail.com
I have a personal domain name and create a separate email for every company I do business with. Along with KeePass it is trivial to remember passwords.
Concur 100%.
The artist don't want to admit that they need to pay for popularity which is no different from the existing system.
Real bands just work hard their entire life to expand their fanbase instead of whining about it.
> And all theories are impossible.
Incorrect. If it the SAME photon being effected then that would explain Einstein's "Spooky Action at a Distance"
> (involve FTL travel).
That is a possibility; no one (yet) is able to confirm or deny that.
> This is supposed to be a capitalist democracy.
Citation please.
Wow, will you be in for a rude awakening in 10 years ...
Exactly.
Hipsters are the ones pretending / being delusional thinking that they are setting the trend. Meanwhile everyone else is laughing their asses off at them.
---
Big Bang^H^H^H^H Sham Theory Noun: popular Pseudo-Science-Fiction where no experimental results can be duplicated.
That is a VERY interesting line of thinking! The lawyers no doubt would be against it but that might be one way to covertly change the current corrupt system. The bigger problem is finding an honest judge who is aware of the problems corporations create. The other problem is that corporations want to play the pseudo-person card: They are a person when it suits them, and not a person when it doesn't.
There definitely needs to be a re-balancing of corporations. I don't see that happening until the system implodes upon itself. :-/ However, In the mean time what we CAN do is educate people and try to come to a BALANCED approach between zero corporations and corporations usurping power. e.g. Since politics dictates the rules, and money corrupts politics, money needs to be removed from politics. One way to do that would be to make a new rule: "Donations" MUST be split / shared amongst ALL parties so they all have a "voice" instead of companies providing kickbacks to certain politicians who want to push their agenda.
> animal rights are a contradiction in terms.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
A psychopath doesn't care about the emotions of animals, plants and is to ignorant realize there is nothing BUT consciousness.
To add to my previous point ...
First, a corporation is effectively a psychopath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5hEiANG4Uk
Secondly, Corporations pay no death tax (estate tax) because corporations NEVER die. That fact right there is a HUGE problem. It slowly strips the wealth (power) out of individuals and consolidates it -- that is total anathema to the original intent of State and Federal separation and balance of power.
Thirdly, Corporations at one time were PROHIBITED from owning another corporations; again to PREVENT consolidation of power.
Fourth, Corporations can effectively print their own currency via stocks.
Fifth, the value of a Company's stock is IMAGINARY worth. The fact that a company's value can fluctuate wildly over night means the value is a total sham.
Sixth, quoting http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/157829.shtml
--
The best thing about America? Capitalism! The worst thing about America? Capitalism!
> They are treated as legal persons for very good reasons that go back hundreds of years for certain purpose.
Total nonsense. Corporations became legal persons OVER time based on greed TO LIMIT LIABILITY. Corporations want all the benefits and do everything in their power to avoid having to pay for them.
Date Decision, Legal Right Affirmed
1889 "Minneapolis and St. L. R. Co. v. Beckwith", Right for judicial review on state legislation
1893 "Noble v. Union River Logging R. Col", Right for judicial review for rights infringement by federal legislation
1906 "Hale v. Henkel", Protection "against unreasonable searches and seizures (4th)
1908 "Armour Packing C. v. United States", Right to trial by jury (6th)
1922 "Pennsylvania Coal Co. V. Mahon", Right to compensation for government takings
1962 "Fong Foo v. United States", Right to freedom from double jeopardy (5th)
1970 "Ross v. Bernhard", Right to trial by jury in civil case (7th)
1976 "Virginia Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Consumer Council)", Right to free speech for purely commercial speech (1st)
1978 "First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti", Right to corporate political speech (1st)
1986 "Pacific Gas and Electric Company v. Public Utility Commn of California", Right against coerced speech (1st)
Reference:
* A Short History of the Corporation
http://cnx.org/content/m17314/latest/
Also see:
http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=314
Specifically, "The Corporation complete film transcript (PDF)"
http://hellocoolworld.com/files/TheCorporation/Transcript_finalpt1%20copy.pdf
http://hellocoolworld.com/files/TheCorporation/Transcript_finalpt2%20copy.pdf
> Then you get ridiculous requirements on some websites, like can't use special characters, can't be longer than 10 chars.
Concur 100%! That is by FAR the bigger problem -- noob admins who
a)
i) don't list their password policy (lists which characters are valid) OR
ii) use idiotic password schemas as short maximum-password-length, and
b) don't list WHY your password failed.
I wish there was a way for the government to fine online sites when they have too short a maximum password length.
Skyrim: Legendary Edition (which includes 3 addons) is on sale for $20.39 for a few days.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/28187/
Like I said, $30 is $10 too much. It pays to wait for Steam Summer / Christmas sales.
> You're missing out on some good games that way, there are some good games that get lower scores because they are "niche" in some way.
1. RPGs suck up a lot of time: Last year I played Diablo 3 for 1 month (total waste of money), Borderlands 2 for 1 month, Torchlight 2 for 1 month, BF3 for 2 weeks, 1 month on Resident Evil 5 (which was crap); this year I've spent 3 months playing PoE, 1 month on Tomb Raider (which is the epitome of everything with the game industry.) Where am I supposed to find the time to play all these "good" games? when games require HUGE time investments?
Give me a list of the which games I'm missing out on ... and I can probably guarantee that I've played it in some form before. What do these "great" games bring to the table that is new ??
Which brings me to my next point ...
2. My standards are higher. I don't have time to play shitty games anymore -- I've played enough of them. Like I said, I have ~300+ games in my Steam Library because I play *all* genres (except for RTSes). I make exceptions for Indie games because I want to see what new innovate things people are doing and support them. But the older I get the more I find that I really don't have time for gaming these days as I find more and more of them to be repetitive and a boring grind-for-gear fest. All the games that are rated 95 and below are mostly crap. Notably exceptions being: L4D, TF2, Trine, Limbo, World of Goo, Path of Exile, Dishonored. Stuff like Mirror's Edge for $5 that you beat in a weekend is good value. Total crap like Defiance, Diablo 3, Tomb Raider are a waste of money. I'm tired of wasting money on shitty sequelitis.
3. The more I play other people's games, the more I find I would rather be working on my own game, so no, I'm not really "missing out".
--
A great example of how bureaucracy stops innovative thinking and new ways of dealing with the pseudo war-on-inanimate-object problems:
"7. The Harvard Man" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-lost-the-war-on-drugs-20110324?print=true
Interesting definition of hypocrite. Thanks for the interesting POV ! (Maybe there is hope for /. after all ...)
I concur with your point that people never really have considered the issues. However my point was that there is a typical knee-jerk reaction along the lines of "think of the children" so "we must do SOMETHING" attitude not realizing that Adults themselves are sending mixed messages.
There ARE different ways to attack the problem as this beautifully written article shows ... see "7. The Harvard Man" of:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-lost-the-war-on-drugs-20110324?print=true
Concur 100%.
Apparently the ignorant AC didn't get the memo about JC porting Doom from NeXTStep to PC. He was one of the earlier proponents of porting to find bugs in your game AND in the compiler YEARS before the "mainstream" did it.
> That is because alcohol isn't a drug.
LOL. Wut??
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Addictive_Properties
I concur with your point that the majority of people against drugs are hypocrites. 'Sure, Caffeine, Nicotine, and Alcoho are all "fine" but those OTHER drugs are "bad".'
So basically you let them win. :-(
Only in America does Form over Function get placed on higher precedence then Justice.
Only an lawyer would argue over form and waste everyone's time and money over bullshit non-issues (as long as it was readable.)
And we wonder why Fundamentalist's who favor the Literal over the Intent get a bad rap ...
--
Defiance is a shitty Borderlands MMO-type grind fest.
The point was that children don't need the fine motor controls to use a touchscreen in contradistinction to a D-pad.
--
Defiance is a shitty Borderlands MMO-like without the humor and beautiful "Guardian Angel" (Britanni Johnson.)
The textures looked absolutely gorgeous from a distance, but looked extremely poor when up close.
Rage was meh. Parts of it were fun (vehicles) but more the most part it was just more of the same-ol that really wasn't engaging.
--
Defiance is a shitty Borderlands MMO-like game without the humor and beautiful "Guardian Angel" (Britanni Johnson.)
> When the first Voodoo cards showed up they were expensive as hell and glQuake was the reason to get one.
FTFY. :-)
I used to run glQuake at 512 x 384 to maintain a guaranteed 60+ Hz during intense battles.
The minigl driver of the Voodoo helped motivate nVidia's TNT2 to provide true 24-bit color as opposed to the 16-bit interpolated to 22-bit of the Voodoo. :-)
--
Defiance is a shitty Borderlands MMO without the humor and beautiful "Guardian Angel" (Britanni Johnson.)
> Yet children manage an iPad, which shares these drawbacks
You DO realize there is a difference between touch screens and D-Pads right?
> "I only buy games during Steam sales... I paid $5 $X game."
I've paid my dues of buying games at $60 for years ... most of them were crap.
I'll wait till a game has a Metacritic score of > 85, and 2 years when the "gold" version comes out with all the patches. Plus I can turn all the details on High and have a nice smooth framerate.
> check out games like Skyrim,
Skyrim is STILL $30+. Not buying it until it is $20. I have 300 games in my library to play UNTIL then.