>> You are clueless and shoot off your mouth No, I simply asked a question.
>> and the person pointing it out is an "arrogant dick"? exactly. See the way you did it, both originally and just then.
>> Are you campaigning for equal credibility for idiots and morons or what? Thanks for just further confirming my assertion that you are, in fact, an arrogant dick.
I'm fairly sure that I read somewhere quite a while back that Tor was already broken by one or other of the organs of the US government, and some people doing something illegal via Tor got caught and prosecuted. No?
I guess my question actually is do you really believe that anyone can accurately predict what concrete or anything else man-made would actually be like after 100,000 years, especially after all the unknown future external forces/effects on it.
I can't wait for the next time that they try and claim in court that 1 illegal music download is worth hundreds of thousands in damages at the same time that this is true.
Great... lets just make it our kids and their kids problem for 5000 generations, just so we dont have to face the real responsibility/cost of dealing with our own waste right now.
I often wonder how far a government of a so-called "free" first world country with access to armies, tanks, cruise missiles and even nuclear weapons would go just to maintain power over its own people in the event of a civil war. I mean when the going gets tough for political leaders, you usually find out that they actually share a lot in common with Assad's insane addiction to power and the desire to keep it at literally any price.
Given the anti-gun laws and the problem that even the police are becoming a paramilitary organization, do you think that a successful revolution in a first-world country is even possible any more?
>> I feel ashamed that the law in the UK has come so far away from protecting people
I agree with your sentiment but I don't think the UK government arbitrarily awarding themselves inappropriate levels of power is any different to what's actually happening in every other country.
I don't think the internet is in any way causing this phenomenon, it's just allowing normal people to more easily see the truth of whats actually been going on for centuries.
I get your point. I have a device programmer that I would love to have a Linux driver for, since its pretty much the only thing left, other than a few AAA games, that I need to keep a Windows partition around for.... but i really can't blame Linux for the choice of some comapny's short-sighted product developers to only provide Windows drivers for their harware. I already make a point of checking first and only buying devices that are supported under Linux, unless there really is no alternative (such as with my device programmer), So in my own small "vote with my wallet" way I am adding my tiny weight to the effort to get companies that think PC===Windows to see enough missing sales that even they finally get a clue. I just wish more end-users would even think to do the same thing, rather than just mindlessly blame Linux because their favourite windows-only device doesnt just work with it.
I use the official nVidia Linux driversrather than nouveau only because the official drivers are very noticably better for both performance and stabilty/compatability, at last on my hardware, than nouveau is currently. If nouveau ever gets to be fully as good as nVidia's own Linux drivers, I will happily switch.
Yeah thats what I do. I use Linux for everything but AAA gaming, then dual-boot into windows just for games that dont also run under Linux. Its by far the best strategy I've found for an easy life.
I disgree. I think Windows is both seriously crap for usability and inherently very insecure when compared to most Linux distros, and who knows what info Microsoft (and therefore the US gov) can/is using Windows to collect/phone home with. Factor in that Linux is free (in both senses), has inspectable source code, is more standards-compliant and supports more hardware, and has more free professional-grade apps, and the decision is (or should be) a complete no-brainer, especially for governments. In fact it boggles my mind why anyone is still choosing to use Windows for anything at all, except maybe gaming, and then only because many games devs still dont make Linux versions of AAA games, although tthat seems to be (too slowly for me) changing too.
Heck I dont even trust Windows/Microsoft for home use. If I was Russia or any Government (including the US) I wouldnâ(TM)t allow any PC with Windows on it at all. Who knows what information Windows (especially 10) is collecting and phoning home with, or how many NSA back doors and just plain stupid security holes it has.
I would probably have never found out about this app, but since you're coming down so hard and fast on it I figured it must be good, so I've now downloaded and installed it.
It isn't only about money. Due to the insane blame culture is US society, there is a LOT of parents that think whenever their little darlings do something bad it must always be someone elses fault, and video games have always been an easy target.
Interesting. For me the most blatantly obviously unelectable person is Clinton, but the bottom line is that all career politicians are as corrupt as hell and are all untrustworthy. They need to be to even get where they are. At least Trump isn't a career politician and I think thats what is actually attracting most of his supporters to him. in Iowa, a state that is a very bad fit for Trump, he won second place and only a couple of percentage points behind Cruz who got caught putting a fix in, so I think your claim that Trump is so unelectable it hurts is very naieve, especially this early on.
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>> You are clueless and shoot off your mouth
No, I simply asked a question.
>> and the person pointing it out is an "arrogant dick"?
exactly. See the way you did it, both originally and just then.
>> Are you campaigning for equal credibility for idiots and morons or what?
Thanks for just further confirming my assertion that you are, in fact, an arrogant dick.
I may not be totally correct about Tor but at least I'm not an arrogant dick like you.
I'm fairly sure that I read somewhere quite a while back that Tor was already broken by one or other of the organs of the US government, and some people doing something illegal via Tor got caught and prosecuted. No?
I guess my question actually is do you really believe that anyone can accurately predict what concrete or anything else man-made would actually be like after 100,000 years, especially after all the unknown future external forces/effects on it.
>> $50 worth of Bitcoin for "major" sports events
At that price I can imagine there would be a ton of wives and girlfriends trying to put a stop to most football on TV.
I can't wait for the next time that they try and claim in court that 1 illegal music download is worth hundreds of thousands in damages at the same time that this is true.
Lol I wish I had mod points to give you.
Great... lets just make it our kids and their kids problem for 5000 generations, just so we dont have to face the real responsibility/cost of dealing with our own waste right now.
I often wonder how far a government of a so-called "free" first world country with access to armies, tanks, cruise missiles and even nuclear weapons would go just to maintain power over its own people in the event of a civil war.
I mean when the going gets tough for political leaders, you usually find out that they actually share a lot in common with Assad's insane addiction to power and the desire to keep it at literally any price.
Given the anti-gun laws and the problem that even the police are becoming a paramilitary organization, do you think that a successful revolution in a first-world country is even possible any more?
>> I feel ashamed that the law in the UK has come so far away from protecting people
I agree with your sentiment but I don't think the UK government arbitrarily awarding themselves inappropriate levels of power is any different to what's actually happening in every other country.
I don't think the internet is in any way causing this phenomenon, it's just allowing normal people to more easily see the truth of whats actually been going on for centuries.
I get your point. I have a device programmer that I would love to have a Linux driver for, since its pretty much the only thing left, other than a few AAA games, that I need to keep a Windows partition around for .... but i really can't blame Linux for the choice of some comapny's short-sighted product developers to only provide Windows drivers for their harware.
I already make a point of checking first and only buying devices that are supported under Linux, unless there really is no alternative (such as with my device programmer),
So in my own small "vote with my wallet" way I am adding my tiny weight to the effort to get companies that think PC===Windows to see enough missing sales that even they finally get a clue. I just wish more end-users would even think to do the same thing, rather than just mindlessly blame Linux because their favourite windows-only device doesnt just work with it.
>> Binary compatibility going back 20 years
Actually not. I've got a stack of old apps and games that Windows 7 and 10 wont run.
I use the official nVidia Linux driversrather than nouveau only because the official drivers are very noticably better for both performance and stabilty/compatability, at last on my hardware, than nouveau is currently. If nouveau ever gets to be fully as good as nVidia's own Linux drivers, I will happily switch.
Yeah thats what I do. I use Linux for everything but AAA gaming, then dual-boot into windows just for games that dont also run under Linux. Its by far the best strategy I've found for an easy life.
In "free" USA, Microsoft owns you.
I disgree. I think Windows is both seriously crap for usability and inherently very insecure when compared to most Linux distros, and who knows what info Microsoft (and therefore the US gov) can/is using Windows to collect/phone home with.
Factor in that Linux is free (in both senses), has inspectable source code, is more standards-compliant and supports more hardware, and has more free professional-grade apps, and the decision is (or should be) a complete no-brainer, especially for governments.
In fact it boggles my mind why anyone is still choosing to use Windows for anything at all, except maybe gaming, and then only because many games devs still dont make Linux versions of AAA games, although tthat seems to be (too slowly for me) changing too.
Heck I dont even trust Windows/Microsoft for home use. If I was Russia or any Government (including the US) I wouldnâ(TM)t allow any PC with Windows on it at all. Who knows what information Windows (especially 10) is collecting and phoning home with, or how many NSA back doors and just plain stupid security holes it has.
I would probably have never found out about this app, but since you're coming down so hard and fast on it I figured it must be good, so I've now downloaded and installed it.
It isn't only about money.
Due to the insane blame culture is US society, there is a LOT of parents that think whenever their little darlings do something bad it must always be someone elses fault, and video games have always been an easy target.
Do many people still even have residential landlines any more?
What about people that care more about performance (per thread) than power consumption? Will we be stuck on old technology?
>> If that's the case, you don't have any moral right to comment on politics, the judges of the Federal courts, or any US government policies.
Its called "Free Speech" dude.
>> Shit, there may even be one among us.
Yeah. I strongly suspect that "Anonymous Coward" guy.
Interesting. For me the most blatantly obviously unelectable person is Clinton, but the bottom line is that all career politicians are as corrupt as hell and are all untrustworthy. They need to be to even get where they are.
At least Trump isn't a career politician and I think thats what is actually attracting most of his supporters to him. in Iowa, a state that is a very bad fit for Trump, he won second place and only a couple of percentage points behind Cruz who got caught putting a fix in, so I think your claim that Trump is so unelectable it hurts is very naieve, especially this early on.