Okay, my problem here is related to English not being my primary language.
Imagine Legos. What happens if you build a house out of 2x4s that are all stacked on top of each other, not alternating? Each little 'tower' of 2x4s has nothing to actually attach it to the other little towers on either side of it. Eventually you lean on it wrong and the wall crumbles.
They got rid of their only real construction worker when he pointed this out, since apparently the project leader (an astrophysicist? At least I think that's what I was told his real education was) knows a lot more about how to do this than someone who's built things for a living. So yeah, I'm just waiting for it to fall apart.
Knowing someone who was involved in that project I'm just sitting back and waiting for the place to crumble. Apparently they're trying to build it by simply stacking blocks on top of each other instead of following any known good practice of house construction.
So it really boils down to what you find most important - the right to protest what you feel needs to be protested, or the convenience of getting to work easily.
As someone far more eloquent than I once said, "I disapprove of what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Considering only the information readily available via. summary and article, how is this any different from what the DHS are/were doing with ICE, taking out... was it 86,000 sites to hit one target? When that happened Slashdot was up in arms about the insanity, was that just because DHS is loathed and Spamhaus generally isn't? Am I missing some important detail (other than DHS = Government, Spamhaus = vigilante freelancers) that puts this all in perspective?
Which is why you get banned if you use a pseudonym or otherwise fake name. Heaven forbid you might be one of MANY who lead two lives for whatever reason, like someone who hasn't come out of the closet yet and keeps his official life very separate from his online life.
For the record, no, my real name isn't Calydor - but when I'm online I can assure you that's the name I respond to, and I'm not going to risk losing my GMail account in this name by trying to go to G+.
So in other words those of us with abysmally low bandwidth connections still being touted as 'broadband' would ruin our net experiences completely (as in, worse than not being able to stream even the lowest resolution videos) if we signed up to prove that our connections are really this horrid.
Avast is no better, I'm afraid, so may as well be mentioned here.
On my old, clunky laptop I decided to uninstall Avast in the hopes of getting just a bit more power out of it. Oops. Avast won't uninstall, kills its own uninstaller as if it's malware trying to disable the antivirus. Won't let me disable it manually. Won't let me friggin' boot to safe mode.
End result: Turned off as much of the program as I could, but it's still sitting there with wide, paranoid eyes about being put to sleep.
One of the big problems that caused the Start Menu to seem daunting to some people, I suspect, is the way every single publisher of anything wants to advertise their name everywhere.
Back in the old days Sierra was known for not letting you choose exactly where to install something, it HAD to be in a \Sierra\ subdirectory. Same thing happened in the start menu, so you ended up clicking Start, Programs, Publisher, Developer, Program Name, maybe version, Program. And usually the Publisher and Developer folders would only have a single entry since Heaven forbid companies actually keep the same exact name for more than a year at a time.
Can't really blame Microsoft entirely, though the majority of the blame does fall on their shoulders. Stupid greedy marketing departments have their share of it, too.
Being two miles from the nearest town is too far from civilization now? Sure, I live two miles to the wrong side, towards the coast, but come on, it's not like you drive for hours through Nothing to get here. Can make a round trip to the nearest McD's in under half an hour on a busy day.
Where I live, I can use landline DSL that's too far from the DSLAM so I'm capped at 384/384 on a perfect day, often less.
Or I can pay through the nose for a 7.2 mbps mobile connection with a 5GB cap that throttles to 40 kbps after the cap is reached, effectively making any modern website time out.
Considering that nothing seems to get cached anymore, ie. Youtube videos, videos on newspaper and TV websites etc. those 5 GB are spent awfully fast through normal surfing and gaming.
Those are my options. Short of paying for a company to come out and lay fiberoptic cables all the way to the nearest large city I'm screwed. Tell me again how I have options to play by other rules?
That being said, by decriminalizing sexting by minors it's likely to have the side effect of opening up an entire realm of photos to pedophiles that were previously harder to come by.
I sat thinking about this for a bit, and you know what?
I think that's actually a good thing.
Hell, if there were any nude pics of me from when I was 13, 14 years old, and the fact that a pedophile used them for wanking material instead of going out and actually hurting a child, even better.
There is a line between fantasy and action. I'm sure a lot of us have at times, in the dark of our own bedrooms, momentarily thought about what something would be like, something you wouldn't normally do - and not just because it's illegal. The thrill of the forbidden, the ability to let something play out inside your head. It doesn't mean that the next day you go out and actually DO that for real.
It could also be a case of being given a mission to go cover some op or another, but with 'hidden' objectives such as what you described, like exploding depots, mortar shells coming down near you etc.
Fill each little rubber ball with some unstable nitroglycerine or other explode-on-impact chemical and I assure you it's a weapon. Get shot in the face by one as-is and you'll call it a weapon, too.
A few years ago I had the flu and ran out of Kleenex. Went with a roll of otherwise pleasantly soft toilet paper instead. After a couple of hours my eyes started watering just THINKING about touching my nose again.
For a single wipe of the nose, use whatever. For extended to constant wiping during illness, and this isn't to endorse anyone, but I will never use anything other than Kleenex. The mint-scented ones are nice.
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Okay, my problem here is related to English not being my primary language.
Imagine Legos. What happens if you build a house out of 2x4s that are all stacked on top of each other, not alternating? Each little 'tower' of 2x4s has nothing to actually attach it to the other little towers on either side of it. Eventually you lean on it wrong and the wall crumbles.
They got rid of their only real construction worker when he pointed this out, since apparently the project leader (an astrophysicist? At least I think that's what I was told his real education was) knows a lot more about how to do this than someone who's built things for a living. So yeah, I'm just waiting for it to fall apart.
Knowing someone who was involved in that project I'm just sitting back and waiting for the place to crumble. Apparently they're trying to build it by simply stacking blocks on top of each other instead of following any known good practice of house construction.
Taking someone else's word for what is scientific and what isn't, without stopping to take a look for yourself is not the scientific way.
Wait, I don't get it, what's the name of that new voice assistant again?
So it really boils down to what you find most important - the right to protest what you feel needs to be protested, or the convenience of getting to work easily.
As someone far more eloquent than I once said, "I disapprove of what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Considering only the information readily available via. summary and article, how is this any different from what the DHS are/were doing with ICE, taking out ... was it 86,000 sites to hit one target? When that happened Slashdot was up in arms about the insanity, was that just because DHS is loathed and Spamhaus generally isn't? Am I missing some important detail (other than DHS = Government, Spamhaus = vigilante freelancers) that puts this all in perspective?
If photography is now illegal in malls, how are they gonna film this movie?
Yeah, you didn't think of that, did you?
Google+ is built around privacy.
Which is why you get banned if you use a pseudonym or otherwise fake name. Heaven forbid you might be one of MANY who lead two lives for whatever reason, like someone who hasn't come out of the closet yet and keeps his official life very separate from his online life.
For the record, no, my real name isn't Calydor - but when I'm online I can assure you that's the name I respond to, and I'm not going to risk losing my GMail account in this name by trying to go to G+.
So in other words those of us with abysmally low bandwidth connections still being touted as 'broadband' would ruin our net experiences completely (as in, worse than not being able to stream even the lowest resolution videos) if we signed up to prove that our connections are really this horrid.
I see what you did there, Apple shill. ;-)
Instructions:
Download aswclear.exe on your desktop
Start Windows in Safe Mode
BEEP! No can do, the laptop just shuts itself off mid-boot.
Avast is no better, I'm afraid, so may as well be mentioned here.
On my old, clunky laptop I decided to uninstall Avast in the hopes of getting just a bit more power out of it. Oops. Avast won't uninstall, kills its own uninstaller as if it's malware trying to disable the antivirus. Won't let me disable it manually. Won't let me friggin' boot to safe mode.
End result: Turned off as much of the program as I could, but it's still sitting there with wide, paranoid eyes about being put to sleep.
One of the big problems that caused the Start Menu to seem daunting to some people, I suspect, is the way every single publisher of anything wants to advertise their name everywhere.
Back in the old days Sierra was known for not letting you choose exactly where to install something, it HAD to be in a \Sierra\ subdirectory. Same thing happened in the start menu, so you ended up clicking Start, Programs, Publisher, Developer, Program Name, maybe version, Program. And usually the Publisher and Developer folders would only have a single entry since Heaven forbid companies actually keep the same exact name for more than a year at a time.
Can't really blame Microsoft entirely, though the majority of the blame does fall on their shoulders. Stupid greedy marketing departments have their share of it, too.
Being two miles from the nearest town is too far from civilization now? Sure, I live two miles to the wrong side, towards the coast, but come on, it's not like you drive for hours through Nothing to get here. Can make a round trip to the nearest McD's in under half an hour on a busy day.
I tried, actually. The reply was that there ARE no bigger plans than the 5 GB one. Try again to be condescending, please.
Where I live, I can use landline DSL that's too far from the DSLAM so I'm capped at 384/384 on a perfect day, often less.
Or I can pay through the nose for a 7.2 mbps mobile connection with a 5GB cap that throttles to 40 kbps after the cap is reached, effectively making any modern website time out.
Considering that nothing seems to get cached anymore, ie. Youtube videos, videos on newspaper and TV websites etc. those 5 GB are spent awfully fast through normal surfing and gaming.
Those are my options. Short of paying for a company to come out and lay fiberoptic cables all the way to the nearest large city I'm screwed. Tell me again how I have options to play by other rules?
That being said, by decriminalizing sexting by minors it's likely to have the side effect of opening up an entire realm of photos to pedophiles that were previously harder to come by.
I sat thinking about this for a bit, and you know what?
I think that's actually a good thing.
Hell, if there were any nude pics of me from when I was 13, 14 years old, and the fact that a pedophile used them for wanking material instead of going out and actually hurting a child, even better.
There is a line between fantasy and action. I'm sure a lot of us have at times, in the dark of our own bedrooms, momentarily thought about what something would be like, something you wouldn't normally do - and not just because it's illegal. The thrill of the forbidden, the ability to let something play out inside your head. It doesn't mean that the next day you go out and actually DO that for real.
It's the same with this.
Dude, ignore all the no-life haters replying to this post who clearly don't get it.
Congrats on finding the Meaning of Life - personal happiness.
To paraphrase Krull, "They found that the ability to see the future was but a curse that let them know how and when they would die."
Must be nice to live in a place where the fastest available connection isn't 384 kbps down on a good day.
It could also be a case of being given a mission to go cover some op or another, but with 'hidden' objectives such as what you described, like exploding depots, mortar shells coming down near you etc.
What did you do, exactly, with that Portal gun to make it work?
I fired it. Why?
What do photographers call it when they take pictures or video?
Taking pictures and filming, respectively. Or if you're nitpicking, professional photographers likely call it 'working'.
Fill each little rubber ball with some unstable nitroglycerine or other explode-on-impact chemical and I assure you it's a weapon. Get shot in the face by one as-is and you'll call it a weapon, too.
And yet get that in America?
A few years ago I had the flu and ran out of Kleenex. Went with a roll of otherwise pleasantly soft toilet paper instead. After a couple of hours my eyes started watering just THINKING about touching my nose again.
For a single wipe of the nose, use whatever. For extended to constant wiping during illness, and this isn't to endorse anyone, but I will never use anything other than Kleenex. The mint-scented ones are nice.