You DO realize you just made my point for me by posting a pile of worthless nothing, yes? Please feel free to post lots and lots of worthless nothing, maybe if you and the rest of the ACs clog up enough posts the new owners will do something or we'll start a new website without the bullshit.
And again your argument boils down to "Its okay that they raped me because if it would have been the other bunch they would have fisted me as well"...and you HONESTLY can't see the fault with that logic? this isn't a popularity contest, how many around the world have DIED by direct involvement of the US government since 1960?
And as for the other guy...who in the fuck would think I'm from Boston? that ain't even in the same timezone first off, and second if you are too God damned lazy to even spend the 3 whole minutes registering why in the hell should we give a shit what you think? With all the trolls and shills hiding behind AC so nobody can see their past posts frankly the opinions of most ACs are worth a bucket of piss as far as I'm concerned, get off your lazy ass and spend less time than it took to spew the bullshit and post as a user as sFurbo at least had the balls to do. I may not agree with a word he says, just as me and Crosshair have had some pretty heated arguments over issues I can AT LEAST respect the fact that unlike the AC spewing bullshit he has the balls to stand by his comment history for all to see.,
This doesn't "oppose" shit anymore than 150 year plus copyrights "protect artists", its about making sure the corps can datamine like crazy and then thanks to those being private businesses the PTBs can simply buy any intel on you they want without any of those pesky warrants.
Lets be honest folks, what we have now isn't even Coke VS Pepsi anymore, what we have is Coke in a bottle VS Coke in a can, because its the same corporate masters buying both sides. this is why you see the supposedly "ultra leftist" (to hear the right tell it) Obama embracing frankly the worst abuses of power of Bush and even expanding them, this is why supposed right wingers like Bush spent like a drunken sailor while in office, its because what we have now is bullshit spectacle for the masses, its as kayfabe as pro wrestling. I mean how can anybody even say we have a left and a right when the left POTUS is as pro big brother as the right or say we have a right when their POTUS blows through as much cash as any left winger.
This is why frankly its up to the geeks to save us, they need to make encryption as simple and easy as pushing a button so all these big brother wannabes get is a big old pile of static.And we nerds need to throw the biggest bitchfits ever, just fucking spam the entire web with messages about this kind of bullshit like we did with SOPA/PIPA because that is the ONLY way we can get this kind of bullshit stopped, voting left or right won't do jack,only by doing what we did with SOPA/PIPA and making sure every politician knows that supporting this shit is a career killer will shit like this die. they are counting on us to get tired, on us to give up and roll over, we need to show them that nerd-rage can last for a VERY long time and get Joe and Jane Average to listen. This is VERY doable as i can tell you I had countless "normals" in my shop asking me about SOPA/PIPA when all the bloggers and web personalities jumped on board, we really need to do that again with this garbage.
Uhhh...that was my whole damned POINT with the previous post MS AC, we don't know jack monkey squat about what is actually going on, its a "dude that has a cousin that works there" kinda third hand bullshit and just plain ass pull speculation so making assumptions is not only wrong its fricking pointless.
But considering we all got first Dev then consumer previews of their last three OSes there really isn't any point in speculating as we'll get the dev preview close to a year before release if they do as they did previously. Now once THAT is out THEN we can debate whether its just an SP or if its a change or what, until then its pointless.
Actually many of their services are quite nice, Mail, News, and Games are all very nice IMHO. Ironically I've seen their messenger usage go up at the shop as all the old Live Messenger users when given a choice of being forced into MSFT's new "Skype/OfficeMail" or whatever the hell they are calling it end up switching to Yahoo Mail and Messenger. Hell I talked to my dad tonight when I got one of those automated "Hey I've got a Yahoo Mail!" emails and asked WTH and got a 30 minute "&*&^%*^% MSFT &^^@##$ Piece of shit #$%#%$#%" bitch fest and that man had been on Hotmail and Windows Messenger since the days of fricking geocities.
So I think its ironic that Ballmer didn't buy anything but Yahoo Search as it seems Yahoo is gonna end up getting a LOT of former loyal MSFT users. I mean you have NO idea how many times i have sat there in the shop saying "No sir, I can't make your Hotmail work. because I didn't build it, you'll have to talk to MSFT as they are pulling the plug, no its not your PC, its on there end...yes if you bring it in I can set up Yahoo Messenger and show you how to use it, no I can't make Hotmail the way it was" and so on.
so I'm really not surprised to see Yahoo gaining, there is a LOT of folks out there that are SERIOUSLY PISSED at MSFT right now but they just don't like the Google way of doing things, can't say as i blame 'em as I like the Yahoo layout over Gmail, but there is a LOT of people that were loyal as hell to MSFT that are jumping ship. I honestly never thought I'd see the day as some of these folks have been on Hotmail and Messenger since they started, but that is what happens when you give your customers the finger, they go somewhere else.
But again just look at it from a pure resources standpoint, short of a "do this or die" I honestly don't see us doing this...well ever, so why should we believe that some aliens would find going through space for dozens of generations without even knowing if they are gonna find anything they could live on?
So because Stalin was a dick, the feds are...what? Given a free pass because "Hey they ain't beating me with a tire iron herpa de derpa". That is about the DUMBEST fucking argument I have EVER read, and since we are talking about the net that is a pretty mean feat...congrats. Oh I noticed you didn't have the balls to have a UID, kinda sad when you don't even have the balls to stand behind your bullshit, maybe because even you could see the problems with it?
BTW that was the SAME ARGUMENT used by McCarthy during his red scare which ruined lives and helped lead to the 58,000 that died for nothing in Vietnam...again GREAT company you are keeping there sparky.
Hell did any government official go to jail for the Gulf Of Tonkin false flag which cost 58,000 Americans their lives? How about for Fast & Furious which handed drug cartels weapons by the truckload and killed at least one border agent and countless civilians?
Frankly the US government is just as nasty and corrupt as the rest, read general Butler's "War is a racket" speech sometime. That speech is nearly a century old and could have been taken from the current papers, wars all over the place for the benefit of a few rich people and corps, if the US gov told me it was raining outside? I'd want a second opinion.
But that is even more bullshit unless you are talking about a race that is as cold as the fucking borg or just really fucking HATE each other. I mean sure theoretically we could do that now...if you could find a couple of thousand people willing to NEVER go home, NEVER see their family or friends ever again, and NEVER come back...how many would actually want to do that? Its like that saying Anne Rice used in her books "Immortality is great...until you realize you'll be spending it alone" because we are social creatures and unless you are talking about building city sized ships you are gonna have to give a hell of a lot up.
So I'm sorry but I would argue that is even less likely than FTL, short of a race looking at extinction and doing it because they have no choice I just don't see that happening. More likely you'd do like we are doing now and send robots first to explore, then to mine and bring stuff back to you, but going hundreds or thousands of light years, not even knowing when you get there if there is even gonna be a there that is livable since after all anything could happen to a target planet in the thousand years it takes to get there, I'm sorry but while that makes for great sci-fi I really don't see civilizations wasting the amount of resources to make that happen unless it was literally "do this or die".
I'll just jump in here because the entire thread is now talking about God damned cars, if that was your intent congrats as it worked.
As for Windows NINE, or Blue, calling it "8.1" when we haven't seen how much they did to the guts would be like calling Vista "XP.1" when they had radically changed everything (for the better I might add, even though Vista sucked getting rid of "run as admin" by default had to be done and the idiot that did that with XP, most likely so win9X games could run easier, should have been fired) would be stupid so lets hold off judging whether its a point 1 or another radical shift until we see the thing.
But if they don't bring back the start menu and traditional desktop? I predict MSFT will be EOL before Win 7 is EOL in 2020 and I honestly never thought I'd be able to say that. I mean look at the facts, we have Alienware selling an Ubuntu based gaming rig, you have Chromebooks on the main pages of Tiger and many other web sellers...this is unprecedented folks, it really is. Not even 5 years ago trying to sell a PC without Windows was the kiss of death. Sure dell had a few but they were on the back page and you had warnings like you were walking into the adult section of a video store, now all these companies are openly advertising non windows systems? We haven't seen that since IBM killed OS/2 more than 20 years ago.
But despite what the morons at places like Motley Fool say the PC is NOT dying, its NOT going away, heck PC gaming alone made more than 20 billion dollars last year and PCs still sell hundreds of millions of systems yearly. The entire premises is because PCs don't sell like they used to then its "ZOMFG they are dying, everybody is just buying iPads ZOMFG!" when in reality its just PCs are now INSANELY overpowered for what people have to do. I built a new PC every year from 94-07...why? Because I really didn't have much of a choice, with single core speeds jumping so fast you really couldn't upgrade and a 2 year old PC would be struggling to run the latest software. in one 5 year period I went from a 400MHz to a 2200MHz, that is 5 times the speed in 5 years, it was just nuts. Now that the MHz war is over they switched to cores and quickly ended up with systems much MUCH faster than anybody but a rare few percent can actually max out. Now my nearly 4 year old PC has 6 cores, 8GB of RAM, and 3TB worth of space...why would I build a new one when nothing is maxing out what I got?
So somebody at MSFT had BETTER grow a damned brain, X86 is still a billion dollar business and is here to stay, it will simply move from the insane "OMG I have to throw my 2 year old PC away because its too slow!" to a more sane 5-7 year cycle but that is still hundreds of millions of units every year. if MSFT wants to be Apple that is fine, I don't think it will happen but whatever, but you don't shit all over your existing markets because you want to get into a new market. Look we ALL know what the start screen and TIFKAM was, it was somebody at MSFT that had heard of the EEE strategy but didn't know how to actually do it trying to use the desktop to EEE their way into mobile and of course it flopped, anybody with a drop of common sense saw that it was sticking handlebars on a pickup, tablets and desktops just don't work anything alike and trying to shoehorn a mobile OS onto the desktop was just as dumb as the itty bitty start screen they used on WinCE. But with so many selling OSes other than Windows MSFT better wake the fuck up because we know what that is, that is the OEMs looking at exit strategies. If MSFT doesn't make a desktop people want somebody is gonna take that market and with their shitty numbers they can't afford to just abandon the X86 market.
This is one of the reasons I think ACs should be banned or at the very least start with a -2 because we have seen so much shilling and its soooo much easier to hide that with AC posts. After all you can look at the posting history and go "Well this poster only seems to post in topics concerning company A and only has glowing things to say about company A" and thus get a pretty good idea they are getting paid whereas for an AC post its impossible to tell if this is a pattern or if the poster merely likes a product.
Anybody can look at my history and see I like and hate a lot of things, often made by the same companies, so unless a company was stupid enough to pay for having some of their products royally slammed its just my opinion. How can I tell with an AC whether they just like something and are being honest in their like or if they are being paid to like it? Not any way that I can tell which is why I'm no fan of ACs. At least in the past ACs were primarily for trolling and bad jokes, your penisbird and other dirty ASCII art as well as old jokes like the "how to care for your nigger" post but now you can get whole articles and not have a dozen legit posts, its ALL ACs which means the entire thread is suspect IMHO.
Why did this get labeled flamebait? what he is describing is a classic "God of the gaps" which other than some who just don't like the idea of gaps or saying gaps must be divine I don't see the problem.
After all you could say "billions of years ago (X) happened which started life" and until we find some sort of evidence (X) could be a giant blue space bunny, who the fuck knows, hell who the fuck cares, (X) is a placeholder for an unknown, nothing more. I really don't see how any scientist could complain about someone saying the big blue space bunny (X) is a deity as long as they aren't trying to quash investigations into (X) or subvert research into (X) because again (X) can really be anything at this point, its just a giant question mark. Its the whole "Adam rides a T-Rex" bit I have a feeling most scientists will have their bullshit-o-meter redlined.
Nice to see I'm not the only one to think that. I mean part of the "paradox" relies on Presumably some of these civilizations will develop interstellar travel, a technology Earth is investigating even now;.....notice the big fat gaping hole in the logic? It automatically assumes that FTL drives are not only possible but that some intelligent races WILL be able to build these. That would be all well and good if it weren't for the theory of relativity which so far nobody has been able to even come close to breaking.
So the whole "paradox" rests on the assumption that Star Trek is not only possible but anybody with a brain will advance to that point when we have seen exactly ZERO evidence that it is even possible. Just because a civilization is older than ours doesn't give them the ability to do real magic or bend reality with their minds yet his paradox all hinges on FTL being as easy to come up with as a toaster if a civilization survives long enough and again no evidence that FTL is even possible, much less reasonably easy to do..
Oh don't get me wrong, while I normally hate fricking libertarians one thing we do agree upon is the idea of personal liberty, i think all the so called "sin laws" need to be abolished, if you want to do dope or booze or hell we have seen people abuse food and even water so whatever, nature will thin out the stupid.
And its not so much the idea of a currency that gets me with BC, its the mining part. The currency itself sounds fine, its the mining part that smells like a pyramid scheme to me. Some compared it to stocks but that is bullshit, anybody can buy into say IBM now and still have a chance to make good money down the road, its just with bitcoin it seems like only those at the top had a chance to really make anything from mining, everybody else simply would never break even.
Holy shit...you went there I take it? Lets just say you are pretty damned close and leave it at that and yes there is a LOT of fucking racism and just general bigotry where I'm talking about which would only be a couple of hours from Heber Springs.
I take it you don't know any dealers then? Most dealers i know have guns, you don't want to have several thousand bucks worth of dope and not have some protection. Hell I once went to a little trailer in the center of the capital and got met at the door by fricking guys with Uzis, turned out I got there when a large load was being split and both sides had brought their muscle. I ended up getting nearly a QP worth of killer weed for free just by volunteering to weigh out the bags and clean out any large stems so it would be ready for sale.
Maybe all you ever deal with is some college kid selling a couple of oz on the side, back when i was a heavy toker my dealers were moving serious product.
Nice to see I'm not the only one that noticed that which was one of the things that made me think pyramid scheme because there really isn't much legit bitcoin usage going on. Oh if you want to buy an 8-ball or that 16 year old hooker? sure but then again dope dealers and pimps aren't exactly Gordon Gecko when it comes to finances, I knew a dealer that hoarded silver because he was just sure it was gonna have a big rise like gold.
Maybe I'm just a poor clueless southern boy but the whole thing just smells iffy to me, it really has that pyramid kind of vibe.
Thank you, that's all I'm saying. And to those comparing it to gold? I didn't just magically make gold appear one day by pulling it out of my behind like they did with bitcoin and hashing. The way bitcoin works, with the guys at the front being able to make a ton of them for practically nothing, whereas the guys at the bottom as I said can't break even and you require more and more getting into it to keep its value? Sure as hell sounds like a classic pyramid to me. I mean take the word bitcoin out of it and see if it isn't a classic description of a pyramid.
Because just as corn ethanol is a pointless dead end but has a shitload of lobbyists to keep that crap going so too is the greenies gonna keep throwing money down the pisser on solar panels when there are other things that may turn out to be MUCH better in the long run, tidal generation, molten salt solar, high altitude wind extraction just to name 3.
Again this ALL comes down to scammers using the "ZOMFG we have GOT to do something!" crowd to their own ends, because there is a hell of a big difference between doing something and doing something SMART or effective. I mean you could hear a tornado is coming your way and you can cover yourself in feces and do the Charleston, after all that IS doing something about the situation, but all that will accomplish is making it easier to find your dumb dead ass by the stench. A SMART person would go into a shelter and live to see another day...see the difference? With current tech solar panels are the former, you simply can't make the math work without government tilting the living hell out of the scales, you just can't.
I won't name the name of the school as I sometimes do work for another school in the area and if shit was to start up again it could cost me some work and might cost the assistant principle his job and I actually felt sorry for him, he was a nice guy, wasn't his fault he wasn't allowed to fire her because she had tenure. All I will say is its in AR right smack dab in the middle of the bible belt and talking to others whose kids ended up there later? well lets just say the local private schools just LOVE the bigoted bullshit those old bats there pull because they have waiting lists for openings because of them. We are talking old time holy roller bigots there man.
And I love how I get modded down for pointing out there are legitimate reasons for not going to a school, I mean hasn't anybody even read the headlines lately? about how those scumbags raped a girl and then posted pics and taunted her and neither the cops nor school would do shit? Hell I'm living in the same state where a member of a school board said you should be able to kill queers, and I graduated with straight As in HS and I never actually attended a single class thanks to being able to do math and english so one of the coaches set me up in my own classroom so i could teach jocks for 4 years how to cheat their way through the test required to play football!
Frankly one of those 20/20 style shows really ought to pick a half a dozen small town schools and investigate to see what its really like, you'll find bigotry, apathy, teachers letting bullies do anything they want, honestly the public schools in the small towns really do suck. I wouldn't wish my HS on my worst enemy, I really wouldn't.
Here is what I personally don't get, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe someone can enlighten me, but how EXACTLY is Bitcoins not a pyramid scheme?
I mean the guys could make a mint that got in on the ground floor, because mining was super duper easy, but as more and more enter it becomes harder and harder and now I seriously doubt anyone that isn't stealing the electricity will ever break even.
Now don't get me wrong, I like the IDEA of a completely non traceable currency, because like freedom of speech or a free Internet I believe the good far and away outweighs the bad, I just don't see how this particular system isn't a pyramid scheme. Maybe its the whole "mining" concept that is throwing me, who knows, but I looked at it last year and I just don't see how anybody getting in on the bottom today can even break even, kinda like...well a pyramid scheme.
Except you CAN'T DO THAT on a Worst Buy Special because they don't have a fucking license sticker! I shit you not, no sticker! It ONLY has a restore partition, I even tried copying the key using one of those key grabbers and using a normal disc? Won't fucking work.
So I have to tell anybody that brings in a Worst Buy they either have to 1.- spend hours on the phone with MSFT and hope they will give them a working key, 2.- Buy an OEM copy of Win 7 (because if you have to buy the disc fuck Win 8) or 3.- Put up with their shitty shit.
It may have been Sega CD, I was one of the dumbasses that were first adopters. I thought it would be used to make huge Phantasy Stars, fit all these huge games that would cost a mint to make in a cart, what did we get Marky Mark...yuck.
But the soundtrack caused me more wrecks than the bad guys, it was the kind of music that just makes you want to drive full speed so my bike was full blast, just jamming to the tunes while peeling my butt off a truck...GREAT GAME. Man I hope they don't screw it up by making it GTA on bikes.
Oh no, I wish to fucking God I was exaggerating, she got two weeks suspension and we got a LONG apology from the assitant principle (because even a blind man could see they had let shit get too far) but we were so fucking beat down, my sister was down to 110 pounds, the bones were beginning to get brittle, it was too much. We told them to piss off and took the kids out.
To let ya know how bad they knew they fucked up whenever we needed a bit of paperwork all i had to do was show up and the assistant was meeting me at the car with anything I wanted, they were really worried sick we would change our minds and get nasty. Last I heard though the bitch was still there, they just moved her closer to the principle's office to rope her ass in line. I mean when you have black people self segregating to stay the fuck OUT of the nice school? You should KNOW shit be fucked up.
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You DO realize you just made my point for me by posting a pile of worthless nothing, yes? Please feel free to post lots and lots of worthless nothing, maybe if you and the rest of the ACs clog up enough posts the new owners will do something or we'll start a new website without the bullshit.
And again your argument boils down to "Its okay that they raped me because if it would have been the other bunch they would have fisted me as well"...and you HONESTLY can't see the fault with that logic? this isn't a popularity contest, how many around the world have DIED by direct involvement of the US government since 1960?
And as for the other guy...who in the fuck would think I'm from Boston? that ain't even in the same timezone first off, and second if you are too God damned lazy to even spend the 3 whole minutes registering why in the hell should we give a shit what you think? With all the trolls and shills hiding behind AC so nobody can see their past posts frankly the opinions of most ACs are worth a bucket of piss as far as I'm concerned, get off your lazy ass and spend less time than it took to spew the bullshit and post as a user as sFurbo at least had the balls to do. I may not agree with a word he says, just as me and Crosshair have had some pretty heated arguments over issues I can AT LEAST respect the fact that unlike the AC spewing bullshit he has the balls to stand by his comment history for all to see.,
This doesn't "oppose" shit anymore than 150 year plus copyrights "protect artists", its about making sure the corps can datamine like crazy and then thanks to those being private businesses the PTBs can simply buy any intel on you they want without any of those pesky warrants.
Lets be honest folks, what we have now isn't even Coke VS Pepsi anymore, what we have is Coke in a bottle VS Coke in a can, because its the same corporate masters buying both sides. this is why you see the supposedly "ultra leftist" (to hear the right tell it) Obama embracing frankly the worst abuses of power of Bush and even expanding them, this is why supposed right wingers like Bush spent like a drunken sailor while in office, its because what we have now is bullshit spectacle for the masses, its as kayfabe as pro wrestling. I mean how can anybody even say we have a left and a right when the left POTUS is as pro big brother as the right or say we have a right when their POTUS blows through as much cash as any left winger.
This is why frankly its up to the geeks to save us, they need to make encryption as simple and easy as pushing a button so all these big brother wannabes get is a big old pile of static.And we nerds need to throw the biggest bitchfits ever, just fucking spam the entire web with messages about this kind of bullshit like we did with SOPA/PIPA because that is the ONLY way we can get this kind of bullshit stopped, voting left or right won't do jack,only by doing what we did with SOPA/PIPA and making sure every politician knows that supporting this shit is a career killer will shit like this die. they are counting on us to get tired, on us to give up and roll over, we need to show them that nerd-rage can last for a VERY long time and get Joe and Jane Average to listen. This is VERY doable as i can tell you I had countless "normals" in my shop asking me about SOPA/PIPA when all the bloggers and web personalities jumped on board, we really need to do that again with this garbage.
Uhhh...that was my whole damned POINT with the previous post MS AC, we don't know jack monkey squat about what is actually going on, its a "dude that has a cousin that works there" kinda third hand bullshit and just plain ass pull speculation so making assumptions is not only wrong its fricking pointless.
But considering we all got first Dev then consumer previews of their last three OSes there really isn't any point in speculating as we'll get the dev preview close to a year before release if they do as they did previously. Now once THAT is out THEN we can debate whether its just an SP or if its a change or what, until then its pointless.
Actually many of their services are quite nice, Mail, News, and Games are all very nice IMHO. Ironically I've seen their messenger usage go up at the shop as all the old Live Messenger users when given a choice of being forced into MSFT's new "Skype/OfficeMail" or whatever the hell they are calling it end up switching to Yahoo Mail and Messenger. Hell I talked to my dad tonight when I got one of those automated "Hey I've got a Yahoo Mail!" emails and asked WTH and got a 30 minute "&*&^%*^% MSFT &^^@##$ Piece of shit #$%#%$#%" bitch fest and that man had been on Hotmail and Windows Messenger since the days of fricking geocities.
So I think its ironic that Ballmer didn't buy anything but Yahoo Search as it seems Yahoo is gonna end up getting a LOT of former loyal MSFT users. I mean you have NO idea how many times i have sat there in the shop saying "No sir, I can't make your Hotmail work. because I didn't build it, you'll have to talk to MSFT as they are pulling the plug, no its not your PC, its on there end...yes if you bring it in I can set up Yahoo Messenger and show you how to use it, no I can't make Hotmail the way it was" and so on.
so I'm really not surprised to see Yahoo gaining, there is a LOT of folks out there that are SERIOUSLY PISSED at MSFT right now but they just don't like the Google way of doing things, can't say as i blame 'em as I like the Yahoo layout over Gmail, but there is a LOT of people that were loyal as hell to MSFT that are jumping ship. I honestly never thought I'd see the day as some of these folks have been on Hotmail and Messenger since they started, but that is what happens when you give your customers the finger, they go somewhere else.
But again just look at it from a pure resources standpoint, short of a "do this or die" I honestly don't see us doing this...well ever, so why should we believe that some aliens would find going through space for dozens of generations without even knowing if they are gonna find anything they could live on?
So because Stalin was a dick, the feds are...what? Given a free pass because "Hey they ain't beating me with a tire iron herpa de derpa". That is about the DUMBEST fucking argument I have EVER read, and since we are talking about the net that is a pretty mean feat...congrats. Oh I noticed you didn't have the balls to have a UID, kinda sad when you don't even have the balls to stand behind your bullshit, maybe because even you could see the problems with it?
BTW that was the SAME ARGUMENT used by McCarthy during his red scare which ruined lives and helped lead to the 58,000 that died for nothing in Vietnam...again GREAT company you are keeping there sparky.
Hell did any government official go to jail for the Gulf Of Tonkin false flag which cost 58,000 Americans their lives? How about for Fast & Furious which handed drug cartels weapons by the truckload and killed at least one border agent and countless civilians?
Frankly the US government is just as nasty and corrupt as the rest, read general Butler's "War is a racket" speech sometime. That speech is nearly a century old and could have been taken from the current papers, wars all over the place for the benefit of a few rich people and corps, if the US gov told me it was raining outside? I'd want a second opinion.
But that is even more bullshit unless you are talking about a race that is as cold as the fucking borg or just really fucking HATE each other. I mean sure theoretically we could do that now...if you could find a couple of thousand people willing to NEVER go home, NEVER see their family or friends ever again, and NEVER come back...how many would actually want to do that? Its like that saying Anne Rice used in her books "Immortality is great...until you realize you'll be spending it alone" because we are social creatures and unless you are talking about building city sized ships you are gonna have to give a hell of a lot up.
So I'm sorry but I would argue that is even less likely than FTL, short of a race looking at extinction and doing it because they have no choice I just don't see that happening. More likely you'd do like we are doing now and send robots first to explore, then to mine and bring stuff back to you, but going hundreds or thousands of light years, not even knowing when you get there if there is even gonna be a there that is livable since after all anything could happen to a target planet in the thousand years it takes to get there, I'm sorry but while that makes for great sci-fi I really don't see civilizations wasting the amount of resources to make that happen unless it was literally "do this or die".
I'll just jump in here because the entire thread is now talking about God damned cars, if that was your intent congrats as it worked.
As for Windows NINE, or Blue, calling it "8.1" when we haven't seen how much they did to the guts would be like calling Vista "XP.1" when they had radically changed everything (for the better I might add, even though Vista sucked getting rid of "run as admin" by default had to be done and the idiot that did that with XP, most likely so win9X games could run easier, should have been fired) would be stupid so lets hold off judging whether its a point 1 or another radical shift until we see the thing.
But if they don't bring back the start menu and traditional desktop? I predict MSFT will be EOL before Win 7 is EOL in 2020 and I honestly never thought I'd be able to say that. I mean look at the facts, we have Alienware selling an Ubuntu based gaming rig, you have Chromebooks on the main pages of Tiger and many other web sellers...this is unprecedented folks, it really is. Not even 5 years ago trying to sell a PC without Windows was the kiss of death. Sure dell had a few but they were on the back page and you had warnings like you were walking into the adult section of a video store, now all these companies are openly advertising non windows systems? We haven't seen that since IBM killed OS/2 more than 20 years ago.
But despite what the morons at places like Motley Fool say the PC is NOT dying, its NOT going away, heck PC gaming alone made more than 20 billion dollars last year and PCs still sell hundreds of millions of systems yearly. The entire premises is because PCs don't sell like they used to then its "ZOMFG they are dying, everybody is just buying iPads ZOMFG!" when in reality its just PCs are now INSANELY overpowered for what people have to do. I built a new PC every year from 94-07...why? Because I really didn't have much of a choice, with single core speeds jumping so fast you really couldn't upgrade and a 2 year old PC would be struggling to run the latest software. in one 5 year period I went from a 400MHz to a 2200MHz, that is 5 times the speed in 5 years, it was just nuts. Now that the MHz war is over they switched to cores and quickly ended up with systems much MUCH faster than anybody but a rare few percent can actually max out. Now my nearly 4 year old PC has 6 cores, 8GB of RAM, and 3TB worth of space...why would I build a new one when nothing is maxing out what I got?
So somebody at MSFT had BETTER grow a damned brain, X86 is still a billion dollar business and is here to stay, it will simply move from the insane "OMG I have to throw my 2 year old PC away because its too slow!" to a more sane 5-7 year cycle but that is still hundreds of millions of units every year. if MSFT wants to be Apple that is fine, I don't think it will happen but whatever, but you don't shit all over your existing markets because you want to get into a new market. Look we ALL know what the start screen and TIFKAM was, it was somebody at MSFT that had heard of the EEE strategy but didn't know how to actually do it trying to use the desktop to EEE their way into mobile and of course it flopped, anybody with a drop of common sense saw that it was sticking handlebars on a pickup, tablets and desktops just don't work anything alike and trying to shoehorn a mobile OS onto the desktop was just as dumb as the itty bitty start screen they used on WinCE. But with so many selling OSes other than Windows MSFT better wake the fuck up because we know what that is, that is the OEMs looking at exit strategies. If MSFT doesn't make a desktop people want somebody is gonna take that market and with their shitty numbers they can't afford to just abandon the X86 market.
This is one of the reasons I think ACs should be banned or at the very least start with a -2 because we have seen so much shilling and its soooo much easier to hide that with AC posts. After all you can look at the posting history and go "Well this poster only seems to post in topics concerning company A and only has glowing things to say about company A" and thus get a pretty good idea they are getting paid whereas for an AC post its impossible to tell if this is a pattern or if the poster merely likes a product.
Anybody can look at my history and see I like and hate a lot of things, often made by the same companies, so unless a company was stupid enough to pay for having some of their products royally slammed its just my opinion. How can I tell with an AC whether they just like something and are being honest in their like or if they are being paid to like it? Not any way that I can tell which is why I'm no fan of ACs. At least in the past ACs were primarily for trolling and bad jokes, your penisbird and other dirty ASCII art as well as old jokes like the "how to care for your nigger" post but now you can get whole articles and not have a dozen legit posts, its ALL ACs which means the entire thread is suspect IMHO.
Why did this get labeled flamebait? what he is describing is a classic "God of the gaps" which other than some who just don't like the idea of gaps or saying gaps must be divine I don't see the problem.
After all you could say "billions of years ago (X) happened which started life" and until we find some sort of evidence (X) could be a giant blue space bunny, who the fuck knows, hell who the fuck cares, (X) is a placeholder for an unknown, nothing more. I really don't see how any scientist could complain about someone saying the big blue space bunny (X) is a deity as long as they aren't trying to quash investigations into (X) or subvert research into (X) because again (X) can really be anything at this point, its just a giant question mark. Its the whole "Adam rides a T-Rex" bit I have a feeling most scientists will have their bullshit-o-meter redlined.
Nice to see I'm not the only one to think that. I mean part of the "paradox" relies on Presumably some of these civilizations will develop interstellar travel, a technology Earth is investigating even now;.....notice the big fat gaping hole in the logic? It automatically assumes that FTL drives are not only possible but that some intelligent races WILL be able to build these. That would be all well and good if it weren't for the theory of relativity which so far nobody has been able to even come close to breaking.
So the whole "paradox" rests on the assumption that Star Trek is not only possible but anybody with a brain will advance to that point when we have seen exactly ZERO evidence that it is even possible. Just because a civilization is older than ours doesn't give them the ability to do real magic or bend reality with their minds yet his paradox all hinges on FTL being as easy to come up with as a toaster if a civilization survives long enough and again no evidence that FTL is even possible, much less reasonably easy to do..
Oh don't get me wrong, while I normally hate fricking libertarians one thing we do agree upon is the idea of personal liberty, i think all the so called "sin laws" need to be abolished, if you want to do dope or booze or hell we have seen people abuse food and even water so whatever, nature will thin out the stupid.
And its not so much the idea of a currency that gets me with BC, its the mining part. The currency itself sounds fine, its the mining part that smells like a pyramid scheme to me. Some compared it to stocks but that is bullshit, anybody can buy into say IBM now and still have a chance to make good money down the road, its just with bitcoin it seems like only those at the top had a chance to really make anything from mining, everybody else simply would never break even.
Holy shit...you went there I take it? Lets just say you are pretty damned close and leave it at that and yes there is a LOT of fucking racism and just general bigotry where I'm talking about which would only be a couple of hours from Heber Springs.
I take it you don't know any dealers then? Most dealers i know have guns, you don't want to have several thousand bucks worth of dope and not have some protection. Hell I once went to a little trailer in the center of the capital and got met at the door by fricking guys with Uzis, turned out I got there when a large load was being split and both sides had brought their muscle. I ended up getting nearly a QP worth of killer weed for free just by volunteering to weigh out the bags and clean out any large stems so it would be ready for sale.
Maybe all you ever deal with is some college kid selling a couple of oz on the side, back when i was a heavy toker my dealers were moving serious product.
Nice to see I'm not the only one that noticed that which was one of the things that made me think pyramid scheme because there really isn't much legit bitcoin usage going on. Oh if you want to buy an 8-ball or that 16 year old hooker? sure but then again dope dealers and pimps aren't exactly Gordon Gecko when it comes to finances, I knew a dealer that hoarded silver because he was just sure it was gonna have a big rise like gold.
Maybe I'm just a poor clueless southern boy but the whole thing just smells iffy to me, it really has that pyramid kind of vibe.
Thank you, that's all I'm saying. And to those comparing it to gold? I didn't just magically make gold appear one day by pulling it out of my behind like they did with bitcoin and hashing. The way bitcoin works, with the guys at the front being able to make a ton of them for practically nothing, whereas the guys at the bottom as I said can't break even and you require more and more getting into it to keep its value? Sure as hell sounds like a classic pyramid to me. I mean take the word bitcoin out of it and see if it isn't a classic description of a pyramid.
Nope it was bombs as they found two that didn't blow at the scene so the question now is who, because knowing every whacko with a cause is gonna claim it.
Because just as corn ethanol is a pointless dead end but has a shitload of lobbyists to keep that crap going so too is the greenies gonna keep throwing money down the pisser on solar panels when there are other things that may turn out to be MUCH better in the long run, tidal generation, molten salt solar, high altitude wind extraction just to name 3.
Again this ALL comes down to scammers using the "ZOMFG we have GOT to do something!" crowd to their own ends, because there is a hell of a big difference between doing something and doing something SMART or effective. I mean you could hear a tornado is coming your way and you can cover yourself in feces and do the Charleston, after all that IS doing something about the situation, but all that will accomplish is making it easier to find your dumb dead ass by the stench. A SMART person would go into a shelter and live to see another day...see the difference? With current tech solar panels are the former, you simply can't make the math work without government tilting the living hell out of the scales, you just can't.
I won't name the name of the school as I sometimes do work for another school in the area and if shit was to start up again it could cost me some work and might cost the assistant principle his job and I actually felt sorry for him, he was a nice guy, wasn't his fault he wasn't allowed to fire her because she had tenure. All I will say is its in AR right smack dab in the middle of the bible belt and talking to others whose kids ended up there later? well lets just say the local private schools just LOVE the bigoted bullshit those old bats there pull because they have waiting lists for openings because of them. We are talking old time holy roller bigots there man.
And I love how I get modded down for pointing out there are legitimate reasons for not going to a school, I mean hasn't anybody even read the headlines lately? about how those scumbags raped a girl and then posted pics and taunted her and neither the cops nor school would do shit? Hell I'm living in the same state where a member of a school board said you should be able to kill queers, and I graduated with straight As in HS and I never actually attended a single class thanks to being able to do math and english so one of the coaches set me up in my own classroom so i could teach jocks for 4 years how to cheat their way through the test required to play football!
Frankly one of those 20/20 style shows really ought to pick a half a dozen small town schools and investigate to see what its really like, you'll find bigotry, apathy, teachers letting bullies do anything they want, honestly the public schools in the small towns really do suck. I wouldn't wish my HS on my worst enemy, I really wouldn't.
Here is what I personally don't get, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe someone can enlighten me, but how EXACTLY is Bitcoins not a pyramid scheme?
I mean the guys could make a mint that got in on the ground floor, because mining was super duper easy, but as more and more enter it becomes harder and harder and now I seriously doubt anyone that isn't stealing the electricity will ever break even.
Now don't get me wrong, I like the IDEA of a completely non traceable currency, because like freedom of speech or a free Internet I believe the good far and away outweighs the bad, I just don't see how this particular system isn't a pyramid scheme. Maybe its the whole "mining" concept that is throwing me, who knows, but I looked at it last year and I just don't see how anybody getting in on the bottom today can even break even, kinda like...well a pyramid scheme.
Except you CAN'T DO THAT on a Worst Buy Special because they don't have a fucking license sticker! I shit you not, no sticker! It ONLY has a restore partition, I even tried copying the key using one of those key grabbers and using a normal disc? Won't fucking work.
So I have to tell anybody that brings in a Worst Buy they either have to 1.- spend hours on the phone with MSFT and hope they will give them a working key, 2.- Buy an OEM copy of Win 7 (because if you have to buy the disc fuck Win 8) or 3.- Put up with their shitty shit.
It may have been Sega CD, I was one of the dumbasses that were first adopters. I thought it would be used to make huge Phantasy Stars, fit all these huge games that would cost a mint to make in a cart, what did we get Marky Mark...yuck.
But the soundtrack caused me more wrecks than the bad guys, it was the kind of music that just makes you want to drive full speed so my bike was full blast, just jamming to the tunes while peeling my butt off a truck...GREAT GAME. Man I hope they don't screw it up by making it GTA on bikes.
Oh no, I wish to fucking God I was exaggerating, she got two weeks suspension and we got a LONG apology from the assitant principle (because even a blind man could see they had let shit get too far) but we were so fucking beat down, my sister was down to 110 pounds, the bones were beginning to get brittle, it was too much. We told them to piss off and took the kids out.
To let ya know how bad they knew they fucked up whenever we needed a bit of paperwork all i had to do was show up and the assistant was meeting me at the car with anything I wanted, they were really worried sick we would change our minds and get nasty. Last I heard though the bitch was still there, they just moved her closer to the principle's office to rope her ass in line. I mean when you have black people self segregating to stay the fuck OUT of the nice school? You should KNOW shit be fucked up.