Offtopic, but I decided to watch a "documentary" made by those guys on Charles Manson. They made him look like some evil genius instead of some loser that tried to kill people out of spite when things went wrong with his music career, got the wrong ones and was caught by Park Rangers for vandalism.
Toaster: Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
Lister: Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast.
Toaster: How 'bout a muffin?
Lister: Or muffins. Or muffins. We don't like muffins around here. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
Toaster: Aah, so you're a waffle man.
A civilian reactor, to a tried and tested design, with the control systems built by Germans versus a one off secret enrichment plant built by local contractors. I'd back the former as more secure versus the latter just about everywhere, probably even in the USA given some massive fuckups in defence industry electronics at times.
Tyranny is seen as the "easy way out" by the unprincipled in any *ism. As the "gene pool" of any group shrinks you end up with less people that see concentrations of power as dangerous, and whatever values the group is supposed to represent become irrelevant in the face of increasing personal power. In far too many situations "cutting red tape" is code for "I want to be a tyrant", and we need to especially beware of those that know little about how society runs that push simple, blanket solutions. There's one near me whose solution to stopping crime was to lock up all the bikers. Of course that didn't stop crime such as one of his own government attempting to shake down two supermarket chains for money, funny how that one was initially hidden and is still free while the bikers don't get bail for merely meeting.
And do not mistake me for a conservative or a traditionalist, I am neither.
So, do we have here - a whiney little gay woman hater or a whiney little virgin that thinks he should get a free girl without doing anything to make one think he's worthwhile to be with? Or is there some other reason for the sheer poison above that even people in their 70's would think is too fucking medieval?
the only way to get into Offline Mode is to first be online. Apparently you're supposed to know ahead of time when your Internet connection will die for a week.
That is both deliberate misinformation and calling me a liar over my account of how it behaved above.
powdered material could take the same stresses that a drop-forged or milled object can
Among other things the Rolls Royce Trent engines in the Airbus A380 have a turbine disk made from metal powder. Of course the secret is that it's effectively drop-forged metal powder (hot isostatic pressing) which then is cleaned up to the correct tolerances with milling.
But I can guarantee you that there was no way to get into offline mode at that time
Since you called me a liar with your "Apparently you're supposed to know ahead of time when your Internet connection will die for a week" what sort of value do you think I'm going to place on that guarantee? You appear to be scum that take politeness as weakness. I should have just called you out as a liar to start with instead of politely giving a real example to counter your deliberate misinformation.
You most certainly cannot start Steam in this state
Bullshit. You can start the games without any network connectevity at all which IMHO is what they should all fall back too apart from the obvious multiplayer ones where the actual program needs a network to function.
So now I'm getting curious - I know that you are wrong and I'm betting that you know as well, so what is the motivation for you pushing the bullshit? Is this some fanboy thing where you have decided you have to claim that team B suffers from the same problems as team A that you are cheering for?
Apparently you're supposed to know ahead of time when your Internet connection will die for a week.
In my recent experience, nothing like that at all. All it takes is for you to pull your network cable out for a couple of minutes to demonstrate - but of course you are not going to do that becuase it ruins your story.
I really don't care about steam one way or the other but lying pricks deliberately misleading the kiddies here just for the purpose of cheerleading really gets my goat. You really should be ashamed of yourself _xeno_ since this is no innocent mistake, it's deliberate deception.
To get Steam into Offline mode, you must first connect to Steam.
Very wrong.
I was changing between net connections a few months ago - three weeks with no internet, and due to hot weather I had my computer turned off when I wasn't actually sitting in front of it, so no persistent data from a login. Maybe a minute or two after startup in MS Windows a message about Steam being unable to connect would come up. I played Skyrim ten to twelve times offline during that time. I had connection problems last week, once again no internet but I could play Skyrim.
So are you sure Steam was down and it wasn't just an authentication problem? I suggest as a learning exercise that you unplug your network connection and have another try. You'll see then what we are talking about here.
I'll compare that to Sykrim on Steam. No internet connection means just not being able to sync character data with their server and not being able to get updates. So long as it's on the same computer you played it on last time a lack of connectivity is completely ignorable. I think that's a far better approach than needing to log onto the server before you can play.
Where did I do that? Oh it's the strawman in your head.
If you weren't so busy seeing muh soggy knees and rapists everywhere
No mention of rapists and whatever "muh soggy knees" is supposed to mean, so once again strawman in your head.
It appears I don't have very much to do with this discussion so why don't you carry it on with yourself offline instead of the stupid fucking cowardly and childish strawman shit in my name?
Also WTF was "Why don't you take it back to jezebel" supposed to mean and WTF did it have to do with either my post or the one above - was it a reply to the strawman in your head again?
you tantrum throwing little poster child
Not the strawman this time, sounds just like you and your rant doesn't it?
It's a pretty sad case when saying something positive about Marie Curie is considered rabid feminism. Would that make me gay if I mentioned Charles Darwin?
Did you get rejected by some girl and now you are foaming at the mouth and seeing feminists everywhere? All I did is wrote about dysfunctional workplaces full of nothing but chestbeating whiney little boys under thirty in response to some really stupid stuff above and you come swinging in to unleash the torrents of childish shit. "Feminist shaming language"? Nowhere near it unless you have the delusion of seeing it everywhere you look. What really appears to have happened is you are took my words personally for some reason and consider yourself a "whiney little boy" like the idiot crossmr above with his "special snowflake" comment. I was not addressing you and do not appreciate your childish action of of kneejerk insult that makes no sense in the context. I suggest applying some effort to growing up instead of insulting anyone that suggests a varied workplace.
You are mixing that up with how many people think the idea is ridiculous on so many levels especially given that the N.K. angle was added so late in the situation. Criminals demanding money apparently was too boring so the story changed.
They may be grade A assholes but they are ones with an abacus. I doubt they had the patience to do such a thing let alone the expertise or the will. The story as told is a convenient way for both the criminals and Sony to deflect blame and a handy situation for the FBI to point to and scream "Cyberterrorism - give us more money to fight it!" Everybody wins apart from N.K. and whoever in S.K. lives where some shells might land if N.K. wants to use artillery again to express their displeasure.
install puppet governments that our government likes
On that topic, that's what China did but the family of puppets went insane. How do we know that our puppets will be any better than their puppets? There is no viable opposition in N.K. so anyone we install will be either somebody associated with the current regime or a complete nobody.
NK regime is keeping its bizarrely oppressed people from flooding into China as refugees
I know someone who lived on the Chinese side of the border. They saw a lot of refugees despite the large number of N.K. troops across the river acting like prison guards trying to keep people in.
His early stuff I'd class as sort of martial arts "porn" - action scenes with a weak or non-existent plot linking them but it didn't matter because of the action.
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Offtopic, but I decided to watch a "documentary" made by those guys on Charles Manson. They made him look like some evil genius instead of some loser that tried to kill people out of spite when things went wrong with his music career, got the wrong ones and was caught by Park Rangers for vandalism.
Toaster: Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
Lister: Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast.
Toaster: How 'bout a muffin?
Lister: Or muffins. Or muffins. We don't like muffins around here. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
Toaster: Aah, so you're a waffle man.
A civilian reactor, to a tried and tested design, with the control systems built by Germans versus a one off secret enrichment plant built by local contractors.
I'd back the former as more secure versus the latter just about everywhere, probably even in the USA given some massive fuckups in defence industry electronics at times.
Tyranny is seen as the "easy way out" by the unprincipled in any *ism. As the "gene pool" of any group shrinks you end up with less people that see concentrations of power as dangerous, and whatever values the group is supposed to represent become irrelevant in the face of increasing personal power.
In far too many situations "cutting red tape" is code for "I want to be a tyrant", and we need to especially beware of those that know little about how society runs that push simple, blanket solutions.
There's one near me whose solution to stopping crime was to lock up all the bikers. Of course that didn't stop crime such as one of his own government attempting to shake down two supermarket chains for money, funny how that one was initially hidden and is still free while the bikers don't get bail for merely meeting.
So, do we have here - a whiney little gay woman hater or a whiney little virgin that thinks he should get a free girl without doing anything to make one think he's worthwhile to be with? Or is there some other reason for the sheer poison above that even people in their 70's would think is too fucking medieval?
That is both deliberate misinformation and calling me a liar over my account of how it behaved above.
That's good to hear and a credit to Sony. Maybe MS should learn from the other examples.
I see the main potential is of having a part library and being able to bring up of of many special use tools designed earlier.
Among other things the Rolls Royce Trent engines in the Airbus A380 have a turbine disk made from metal powder. Of course the secret is that it's effectively drop-forged metal powder (hot isostatic pressing) which then is cleaned up to the correct tolerances with milling.
Since you called me a liar with your "Apparently you're supposed to know ahead of time when your Internet connection will die for a week" what sort of value do you think I'm going to place on that guarantee? You appear to be scum that take politeness as weakness. I should have just called you out as a liar to start with instead of politely giving a real example to counter your deliberate misinformation.
Bullshit. You can start the games without any network connectevity at all which IMHO is what they should all fall back too apart from the obvious multiplayer ones where the actual program needs a network to function.
So now I'm getting curious - I know that you are wrong and I'm betting that you know as well, so what is the motivation for you pushing the bullshit? Is this some fanboy thing where you have decided you have to claim that team B suffers from the same problems as team A that you are cheering for?
In my recent experience, nothing like that at all. All it takes is for you to pull your network cable out for a couple of minutes to demonstrate - but of course you are not going to do that becuase it ruins your story.
I really don't care about steam one way or the other but lying pricks deliberately misleading the kiddies here just for the purpose of cheerleading really gets my goat. You really should be ashamed of yourself _xeno_ since this is no innocent mistake, it's deliberate deception.
It wasn't a reactor. It was a fuel production plant. It's likely that their reactors are walled off to a greater extent.
Very wrong.
I was changing between net connections a few months ago - three weeks with no internet, and due to hot weather I had my computer turned off when I wasn't actually sitting in front of it, so no persistent data from a login. Maybe a minute or two after startup in MS Windows a message about Steam being unable to connect would come up. I played Skyrim ten to twelve times offline during that time.
I had connection problems last week, once again no internet but I could play Skyrim.
So are you sure Steam was down and it wasn't just an authentication problem? I suggest as a learning exercise that you unplug your network connection and have another try. You'll see then what we are talking about here.
I'll compare that to Sykrim on Steam. No internet connection means just not being able to sync character data with their server and not being able to get updates. So long as it's on the same computer you played it on last time a lack of connectivity is completely ignorable.
I think that's a far better approach than needing to log onto the server before you can play.
Where did I do that? Oh it's the strawman in your head.
No mention of rapists and whatever "muh soggy knees" is supposed to mean, so once again strawman in your head.
It appears I don't have very much to do with this discussion so why don't you carry it on with yourself offline instead of the stupid fucking cowardly and childish strawman shit in my name?
Also WTF was "Why don't you take it back to jezebel" supposed to mean and WTF did it have to do with either my post or the one above - was it a reply to the strawman in your head again?
Not the strawman this time, sounds just like you and your rant doesn't it?
It's a pretty sad case when saying something positive about Marie Curie is considered rabid feminism. Would that make me gay if I mentioned Charles Darwin?
Did you get rejected by some girl and now you are foaming at the mouth and seeing feminists everywhere? All I did is wrote about dysfunctional workplaces full of nothing but chestbeating whiney little boys under thirty in response to some really stupid stuff above and you come swinging in to unleash the torrents of childish shit. "Feminist shaming language"? Nowhere near it unless you have the delusion of seeing it everywhere you look. What really appears to have happened is you are took my words personally for some reason and consider yourself a "whiney little boy" like the idiot crossmr above with his "special snowflake" comment. I was not addressing you and do not appreciate your childish action of of kneejerk insult that makes no sense in the context. I suggest applying some effort to growing up instead of insulting anyone that suggests a varied workplace.
You are mixing that up with how many people think the idea is ridiculous on so many levels especially given that the N.K. angle was added so late in the situation. Criminals demanding money apparently was too boring so the story changed.
Sadly it looks like the information was mostly how long they could live as sex slaves before they died.
They may be grade A assholes but they are ones with an abacus. I doubt they had the patience to do such a thing let alone the expertise or the will. The story as told is a convenient way for both the criminals and Sony to deflect blame and a handy situation for the FBI to point to and scream "Cyberterrorism - give us more money to fight it!"
Everybody wins apart from N.K. and whoever in S.K. lives where some shells might land if N.K. wants to use artillery again to express their displeasure.
Did he fall for it or is he getting political advantage out of it? Or of course, there could be the sheer fluke of both.
The weasel loopholes were that it wasn't "America" but instead Reagan for months before the election, and North after.
Now the media is calling them cyberhackers.
That would be some seriously obsessed robot if it made any sense.
On that topic, that's what China did but the family of puppets went insane. How do we know that our puppets will be any better than their puppets? There is no viable opposition in N.K. so anyone we install will be either somebody associated with the current regime or a complete nobody.
I know someone who lived on the Chinese side of the border. They saw a lot of refugees despite the large number of N.K. troops across the river acting like prison guards trying to keep people in.
His early stuff I'd class as sort of martial arts "porn" - action scenes with a weak or non-existent plot linking them but it didn't matter because of the action.