Using a Windows machine will always be like this: Trapped face-up, under the urinal in Steve Ballmer's personal piss-dungeon.
Bullshit. Just stop buying PCs and make them yourself. It's faster than fucking around with sales people and its A LOT cheaper. Also, you won't get crapware unless you put it on yourself.
As has been mentioned several times in this thread, most people are afraid of trying to assemble a computer themselves because it's a computer and what happens if they fuck up? Yeah, you can teach somebody how to assemble a computer in under half an hour. Teaching them to get over the fear of assembling something 'as complicated as a computer' will take a helluva lot longer. They tend not to realise that modern computers are designed to be assembled by third-worlders on a shoestring budget to keep profit margins high enough to make selling them cheaply worth it to the rebranding company. After all, every piece is slotted to go in only one way.
I think it took me all of half an hour to assemble the desktop machine I'm using now. Then about 20 minutes to install a bare-bones Ubuntu to the point where I could install all the software I wanted to install over a few days.
It's evidence. You expect the FBI to tell them to destroy the evidence?
Read the summary.
Teh FBI wants to have it both ways.
Of course they do, they're a government agency. They also want to believe 4 impossible things before breakfast. Problem is, I don't think they've got enough dope to smoke to make that happen.
It's academic anyway, because this is a ruling that will get overturned in the EU for being in conflict with basic freedom of speech. Encryption of communications is not illegal in EU.
Doubtful. Remember, we're dealing with people who have a vested interest in declaring copyright infringement as 'theft of ideas'.
That would probably set back a manned Mars landing by years since you would have to worry about infection and contamination.
No, the FROMATEs would protest a manned landing on the grounds that it would 'irreparably damage' the Martian ecosystem. Just more bullshit from the lunatic fringe.
This is at least the 10th response related to food. You guys hungry or something?
No, just pissed off that Twinkies are going the way of the Dodo. Damned things last forever, and if you eat enough of them, the preservatives oughta keep YOU alive forever too.
Zahn's Cobra trilogy comes to mind.
(They laminated the skeleton or something, or at least the long bones.)
The whole bloody skeleton. Downside was, the Cobras started developing arthritis, anemia, & a couple other things that I can't recall off the top of my head, so the enhanced skeleton was a mixed blessing. Add to that the hardwired reflexes in the embedded nanocomputer, and things really went crazy.
I wonder if such a technology could be used in artificially enhancing the muscles of a person to make a super-human, or super-soldier. The chemistry can't be that complex, so I'm sure it's possible through bio-chemical engineering. I'd bet $100 that the US and others have done it before.
I'm thinking they'd have to reinforce the bones and joints as well. 85x stronger muscles are going to do some serious damage if the bones aren't reinforced.
If we don't have to buy oil from the Middle east, we can set back and watch them kill themselves over their petty differences without much intervention from us.
Can we include Israel in that bargain? And neither we or Mexico grow enough poppies to leave Afghanistan/Pakistan yet.
As entanglements in ghastly foreign sandboxes go, opiates are pretty trivial compared to oil. With just a few minor regulatory tweaks, we could have the heroin users of the first world Doing Their Patriotic Duty by switching to synthetics like Fentanyl and away from foreign terrorist-poppies!
They used to say nobody won a land war in Southeast Asia without controlling the opium trade.
The floatingsheep page specifically says, "we are measuring tweets rather than users and so one individual could be responsible for many tweets and in some cases (most notably in North Dakota, Utah and Minnesota) the number of hate tweets is small and the high LQ is driven by the relatively low number of overall tweets." It's not their fault that the author of the Atlantic article left out those details.
It is their fault for publishing crap that they know will be headline grabbing, no matter how many caveats they put in.
Funding. That's how they get it. Post raw data that suggests a problem, apply for funding to monitor and/or fix the problem, rinse and repeat. Academia lives on funding. Without it, those statisticians would have to go get real jobs.
Do you know why we don't have on-going nuclear war? It's because we're all terrified of being the first guy to push the button that ruins everything. It's the same with unions and corporations.
Do you know why we don't have on-going nuclear war? It's because nuclear weapons have spread around so much that if one of the holders decides to go bat-shit crazy and push the button, everybody else on the planet will turn their country into radioactive glass. It's called Mutual Assured Destruction. What do you think keeps the Israelis from glassing Damascus?
Australia is a mine and beef farm with a population of 22 million. Not really that significant from a global data centre perspective. Yes the average australian is relatively well-off but you're not going to need that many servers to serve Australia.
Not if they can buy some laws to turn it into a data haven. Doubt that will happen, though. Australia seems to be heading in the same direction toward the same brick wall the US is heading for.
Handy tip: Put your local NeoCon equivilents at the head of the charge, they'll take the most damage and soften up the wall for you...
It would probably fly in the US, where corporations are becoming considered to be more of a 'person' than a flesh and blood, if the law allowed you to sue the government for damages. Unfortunately, you have to sue the government for the right to sue the government, THEN you can sue the government for damages.
That could be, but I'll believe nearly anything bad said about voting machines, regardless of the source. They are pretty much designed to allow massive cheating without any possibility of verification.
Well, what gets me is, Beck claims the machines in Ohio are rigged to move Romney votes to Obama. Interestingly enough, one of Tagg Romney's companies owns the company that provides Ohio with the voting and vote counting machines. But it's not 'direct' owernship, Tagg owns a venture capital firm that funded another venture capital firm that bought the company that makes the machines. But of course with such a long paper trail, there couldn't be any chicanery, now, could there?
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Using a Windows machine will always be like this: Trapped face-up, under the urinal in Steve Ballmer's personal piss-dungeon.
Bullshit. Just stop buying PCs and make them yourself. It's faster than fucking around with sales people and its A LOT cheaper. Also, you won't get crapware unless you put it on yourself.
As has been mentioned several times in this thread, most people are afraid of trying to assemble a computer themselves because it's a computer and what happens if they fuck up? Yeah, you can teach somebody how to assemble a computer in under half an hour. Teaching them to get over the fear of assembling something 'as complicated as a computer' will take a helluva lot longer. They tend not to realise that modern computers are designed to be assembled by third-worlders on a shoestring budget to keep profit margins high enough to make selling them cheaply worth it to the rebranding company. After all, every piece is slotted to go in only one way.
I think it took me all of half an hour to assemble the desktop machine I'm using now. Then about 20 minutes to install a bare-bones Ubuntu to the point where I could install all the software I wanted to install over a few days.
It's evidence. You expect the FBI to tell them to destroy the evidence?
Read the summary.
Teh FBI wants to have it both ways.
Of course they do, they're a government agency. They also want to believe 4 impossible things before breakfast. Problem is, I don't think they've got enough dope to smoke to make that happen.
The goverment bought and paid for by hollywood over the last decade would pull out every illegal dirty trick to get there way once again?
I'm not shocked. That's normal now. Best get used to that kind of shit. This is the path we have chosen. Or someone did...
You bend over and get fucked, me, i'm going to fight it.
I'll save you a spot in the chow line at Gitmo.
Doubtful. Remember, we're dealing with people who have a vested interest in declaring copyright infringement as 'theft of ideas'.
The pot was deliberately overfilled with way too much oil to begin with... to create a rigged demo that would be more "exiting" to watch.
Nobody died, so how could they be 'exiting'? This one doesn't even get a Darwin Award consideration.
It's a harvest festival. The genocide was incidental.
The current term is 'collateral damage'. :D
Great movie.
So when do we light the bonfire and burn the heathen Pilgrims?
Short for "FRiends Of Man And The Earth'. Ecowhackos.
And then watch how fast and quickly they boost NASA's budget.
Only if they discovered oil there, and terrorrorrorrists to shoot at.
That would probably set back a manned Mars landing by years since you would have to worry about infection and contamination.
No, the FROMATEs would protest a manned landing on the grounds that it would 'irreparably damage' the Martian ecosystem. Just more bullshit from the lunatic fringe.
I'm just wondering if they found Hoffa there...
This is at least the 10th response related to food. You guys hungry or something?
No, just pissed off that Twinkies are going the way of the Dodo. Damned things last forever, and if you eat enough of them, the preservatives oughta keep YOU alive forever too.
Zahn's Cobra trilogy comes to mind. (They laminated the skeleton or something, or at least the long bones.)
The whole bloody skeleton. Downside was, the Cobras started developing arthritis, anemia, & a couple other things that I can't recall off the top of my head, so the enhanced skeleton was a mixed blessing. Add to that the hardwired reflexes in the embedded nanocomputer, and things really went crazy.
I wonder if such a technology could be used in artificially enhancing the muscles of a person to make a super-human, or super-soldier. The chemistry can't be that complex, so I'm sure it's possible through bio-chemical engineering. I'd bet $100 that the US and others have done it before.
I'm thinking they'd have to reinforce the bones and joints as well. 85x stronger muscles are going to do some serious damage if the bones aren't reinforced.
If we don't have to buy oil from the Middle east, we can set back and watch them kill themselves over their petty differences without much intervention from us.
Can we include Israel in that bargain? And neither we or Mexico grow enough poppies to leave Afghanistan/Pakistan yet.
As entanglements in ghastly foreign sandboxes go, opiates are pretty trivial compared to oil. With just a few minor regulatory tweaks, we could have the heroin users of the first world Doing Their Patriotic Duty by switching to synthetics like Fentanyl and away from foreign terrorist-poppies!
They used to say nobody won a land war in Southeast Asia without controlling the opium trade.
The floatingsheep page specifically says, "we are measuring tweets rather than users and so one individual could be responsible for many tweets and in some cases (most notably in North Dakota, Utah and Minnesota) the number of hate tweets is small and the high LQ is driven by the relatively low number of overall tweets." It's not their fault that the author of the Atlantic article left out those details.
It is their fault for publishing crap that they know will be headline grabbing, no matter how many caveats they put in.
Funding. That's how they get it. Post raw data that suggests a problem, apply for funding to monitor and/or fix the problem, rinse and repeat. Academia lives on funding. Without it, those statisticians would have to go get real jobs.
racists dont know how to sign up for 100 accounts.
Not just a woofing. This condition is untweetable.
Must be a canarial disease...
Do you know why we don't have on-going nuclear war? It's because nuclear weapons have spread around so much that if one of the holders decides to go bat-shit crazy and push the button, everybody else on the planet will turn their country into radioactive glass. It's called Mutual Assured Destruction. What do you think keeps the Israelis from glassing Damascus?
Laws can change. What makes you think they're permenant?
That site wasn't supposed to launch until Utah secedes.
Somehow, I don't think we'll be going to war over that one.
Well, we did before, back when it was Deseret...
Australia is a mine and beef farm with a population of 22 million. Not really that significant from a global data centre perspective. Yes the average australian is relatively well-off but you're not going to need that many servers to serve Australia.
Not if they can buy some laws to turn it into a data haven. Doubt that will happen, though. Australia seems to be heading in the same direction toward the same brick wall the US is heading for.
Handy tip: Put your local NeoCon equivilents at the head of the charge, they'll take the most damage and soften up the wall for you...
Interesting theory.
It would probably fly in the US, where corporations are becoming considered to be more of a 'person' than a flesh and blood, if the law allowed you to sue the government for damages. Unfortunately, you have to sue the government for the right to sue the government, THEN you can sue the government for damages.
I thought he was only worth 200 million?
Who says crime doesn't pay?
The wages of sin seem to be tax-exempt. Just ask Mittens...
I never understood the American fascination with making things so complicated.
Last time I checked Canada was in America.
Maybe so, but at least Canadians are smart enough to pay their taxes to Ottawa and not Washington.
That could be, but I'll believe nearly anything bad said about voting machines, regardless of the source. They are pretty much designed to allow massive cheating without any possibility of verification.
Well, what gets me is, Beck claims the machines in Ohio are rigged to move Romney votes to Obama. Interestingly enough, one of Tagg Romney's companies owns the company that provides Ohio with the voting and vote counting machines. But it's not 'direct' owernship, Tagg owns a venture capital firm that funded another venture capital firm that bought the company that makes the machines. But of course with such a long paper trail, there couldn't be any chicanery, now, could there?
it's gotta be a large maple walnut cookie in the works, stake out farms they are sure to hit them next
Or, walnut pancakes. Goes perfectly with that missing maple syrup.
Can't find a conspiracy there? Seriously, you're just not trying hard enough!!