14 is a kid. He needs a disposable high school laptop, NOT a gaming laptop.
Gaming laptops are expensive, large, heavy, have shit battery life and attract thieves when in the hands of 14 year olds.
An obsolete toughbook might be just the ticket, not disposable, useful as a weapon in case of zombie apocolypse.
Kid likely already has newest console and gameable phone. Let the kid learn to build his own gaming desktop. Cast off desktop parts will be faster than almost any laptop. Find a PC person. You want a Core 2 Duo (or better) motherboard, a Nvidia graphics card, a fist full of RAM and a good power supply (last item to save kid from himself). Let the kid take it from there. (He'll find a better graphics card himself, horse trading etc.)
Software? Nothing will really help. The kid will roast the OS monthly. Obviously avoid the software that comes on it (McAfee/Norton).
Whatever brand you get, run PC decrapifier or similar. All the vendors crapify their machines for profit. None of the demo crapware is worth what you pay for it, much less what it will want in 30 days.
Sit down with him and let the machine get updates, pick your antivirus, install, then image it. Discuss where you can find mostly malware free software, start his mental whitelist.
Consider getting him a portable drive and teaching him to restore windows and backup his data himself.
Never look there. You're happier not knowing. Remember being 14.
The shuttle bus drove right up to the side of a backing semi then stopped right behind the angled front wheel. You wouldn't have done that, because you could understand the truck drivers plan at a glance (and presumably aren't an asshole). Also because you would understand that the fastest way past was to let the truck finish backing up.
The trucker should have stopped and waited for the shuttle to back away. But the shuttle shouldn't have said 'my right of way' until it achieved gridlock. A human that did what the shuttle did is an asshole.
It's about numbers. In the late 60s the lunatic left was 10% of the population, now it's 1%.
In hindsight, it wasn't really a threat in the 60s. The problem is the morons that made up the 10% and make up the 1%. Think building bombs while tripping balls is a good idea. Thank dog for that.
For example: Chinese citizens whose parents are not central committee members are limited to about 50k$US capital moved overseas/year. Bitcoin lets them move some of their assets out from under the current bubble. Which will stabilize the situation when the shit hits the fan.
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14 is a kid. He needs a disposable high school laptop, NOT a gaming laptop.
Gaming laptops are expensive, large, heavy, have shit battery life and attract thieves when in the hands of 14 year olds.
An obsolete toughbook might be just the ticket, not disposable, useful as a weapon in case of zombie apocolypse.
Kid likely already has newest console and gameable phone. Let the kid learn to build his own gaming desktop. Cast off desktop parts will be faster than almost any laptop. Find a PC person. You want a Core 2 Duo (or better) motherboard, a Nvidia graphics card, a fist full of RAM and a good power supply (last item to save kid from himself). Let the kid take it from there. (He'll find a better graphics card himself, horse trading etc.)
Software? Nothing will really help. The kid will roast the OS monthly. Obviously avoid the software that comes on it (McAfee/Norton).
Whatever brand you get, run PC decrapifier or similar. All the vendors crapify their machines for profit. None of the demo crapware is worth what you pay for it, much less what it will want in 30 days.
Sit down with him and let the machine get updates, pick your antivirus, install, then image it. Discuss where you can find mostly malware free software, start his mental whitelist.
Consider getting him a portable drive and teaching him to restore windows and backup his data himself.
Never look there. You're happier not knowing. Remember being 14.
ASCII table tattoos? Z-80 Opcodes?
Not what the pictures show.
The shuttle bus drove right up to the side of a backing semi then stopped right behind the angled front wheel. You wouldn't have done that, because you could understand the truck drivers plan at a glance (and presumably aren't an asshole). Also because you would understand that the fastest way past was to let the truck finish backing up.
The trucker should have stopped and waited for the shuttle to back away. But the shuttle shouldn't have said 'my right of way' until it achieved gridlock. A human that did what the shuttle did is an asshole.
You just pulled 'most' out of your ass and everybody knows it.
Just make shit up. It's what we expect of you.
Treadmills with vodka bottles just out of the users reach are also green energy.
Old discussion, long settled.
WTF are you on about? Are you twelve or do you troll for China professionally?
What % of the new wealth gets sucked up by the corruption?
It's not zero anywhere, but I doubt it's much higher than India anywhere on Earth.
The problem is people don't see bullshit when it comes from someone in their 'tribe'.
For example: Anybody who voted for Hillary or Trump.
I am similarly blind to Vermin's possible flaws...not that he has any.
How many context switches to draw a pixel?
I own a M1 garand you insensitive clod.
Summary of Proost: 'Unanswerable questions are a waste of time. Go out and get drunk and laid.'
Most Chinese real estate is 'bought'* with cash.
Letting them buy that real estate outside the Chinese bubble is a _huge_ benefit to them. Just in terms of risk management.
* 99 year lease is all they get in China.
It's about numbers. In the late 60s the lunatic left was 10% of the population, now it's 1%.
In hindsight, it wasn't really a threat in the 60s. The problem is the morons that made up the 10% and make up the 1%. Think building bombs while tripping balls is a good idea. Thank dog for that.
There is one reason to be on 'social media'. Pussy.
If social media actually increases isolation it is DOOMED!
And the other viable candidates stepped back to give the bitch her turn.
Wouldn't have taken a smear campaign. Just the facts would have done the job.
'You grab them by the pussy and they let you...' also 100% consensual.
LBJ didn't get impeached for doing the exact same thing Nixon did (breaking into opposition offices for information and getting caught).
It was a moment in time. They were worried about revolution. In hindsight they could have relaxed, but that means little.
I don't much care for American cheese. But I'll take it all day long over casu marzu.
They'll just smile and say 'We dodged that bullet! It was a good year.'
TDS people on the other hand, will have put themselves into an early grave with unfocused impotent rage.
Hashing program is named pkzip.
You all laughed at me when I started building my labia shape hash algorithm, modded me funny.
Now you see how serious this issue is.
Ladies, send in your labia prints. Otherwise there can be no guarantee you'll be notified.
Next: Unlock you phone with the new 'snail trails' app.
Defeating capital controls.
For example: Chinese citizens whose parents are not central committee members are limited to about 50k$US capital moved overseas/year. Bitcoin lets them move some of their assets out from under the current bubble. Which will stabilize the situation when the shit hits the fan.