I'm not him but I'll be happy to list why its fucked up..1.- A VERY large portion of the viruses out there end up through infected ads, block ads? Virus infections drop off the map. 2.- Destructoid does NOT sere the ads, like everybody else that pass it off to third parties. See #1 as to why that is a problem, it lets you pass the buck and you end up giving your users infections. 3.- The advertisers have gone from simple txt and jpgs to shitting out ads that take over the sound and maxes out the volume, its like inviting someone into your home and on the second or third visit they scream in your face..would you invite them back? 4.- They have taken ad revenues to the extreme, an article that would be 3 paragraphs is now shit all over a dozen pages...why should I care about you when you are trying to milk me for more revenue while making things worse for me?
I'll be happy to unblock a site if they ask nicely...IF they ONLY use txt ads, no risky Flash or Java ads, NO taking over my speakers, NO blasting commercials..they do that? I have NO problem with unblocking. The problem is all these sites are frankly lazy bastards that just want to make money without having to do the work so they just sell their ad space to any company that offers them cash without giving a fuck if its ads are rude, if they assault our senses, hell they don't even seem to give a fuck if they end up serving malware to their users, just as long as they get paid. Well I have to clean up their messes so fuck them, I install adblock as SOP to ALL PCs that come through my door.
So in other words its like MSFT's "Get the facts" in that its total marketing BS based on carefully controlled conditions?
Frankly other than Pwn2own I haven't seen any of these tests where they didn't put it with so many stipulations that it was worthless, like how Starforce used to offer a million bucks if you could prove that Starforce bricked drives (which I can tell you YES it did, I threw away enough Starforced bricked drives in my day to know) but they had so many conditions that there was no way anybody would actually bother, the tests were too rigged in favor of Starforce.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they set up a bunch of bullshit conditions like "it has to be a local attack" (no MITM or luring the user to click on a malicious link, which is how you would attack a thin client) so there really wasn't any possibility that anybody would pass this "test" of their thin client OS.
And at the time the Jewish Zombie was supposedly running around we still sacrificed people on the American continent to get good harvests...your point? Science gets better every year, if anything more and more comes out to discredit the Jewish Zombie theory every year. I can provide just as much proof in Ra or Odin as you can the Jewish Zombie, you have NO proof of ANY kind that the Jewish Zombie doesn't belong alongside the Jewish legend of the Golem or vampires in the myths section, yet with each new discovery the science gets better.
The flaw in your thinking is that because science had mistakes in the past it somehow "proves" that the Jewish Zombie is valid when all it proves is that science works. To quote Dr Neil Tyson "If you think you know what is going on then you are not being a scientist because we are always at the cutting edge of ignorance". Meanwhile you are supporting a book that says slaves are okay, beating your wife is cool as long as you use the rule of thumb, and kids can be executed if they talk back. ironically if Christians actually followed their own damned book they would have more in common with the Taliban than they would with western society, the fact that they ignore a good 80% of their own book just shows how full of crap it is.
No less than 2 guys, including the one that the whole nutty thing is built on, rose from their graves...sorry but that is a zombie. With the second you even have a ritual where you eat his body and drink his blood and are given gifts for doing so in the form of blessing, so yeah....its a zombie dude. Whether you like the term or not if the corpse fits...
Except ironically the crazy science actually has evidence to back it up, whereas the Jewish Zombie doesn't even have concrete evidence that he even drew a single breath. The Romans frankly made the Nazis look lazy when it came to record keeping, we can tell you all kinds of things about what was going on back then because of how anal retentive Romans were at keeping tabs...yet a guy that walked on water, raised no less than 2 people counting himself from the dead, even re-attached a soldiers severed ear gets NO writeup, if nothing else a "WTF is this then?" kind of write up?
Thanks to how good the modern telescopes are getting we can actually look pretty far back into the past there are even plausible theories on how nothing exploded, IE the possibility that one of the other dimensions leaked into ours, but other than a single book, a book that has more errors and contradictions than you can shake a stick at BTW, which means that God was worse than your average fan fic writer when it comes to telling a cohesive narrative, there is frankly jack and squat to prove the Zombie Jew even lived.
Hell even his birthplace is a fricking mis-print, there WAS NO NAZARETH, he was supposed to have been a NAZARENE which was a subset of Judaism, like being a Baptist or Catholic would be now. They can't even get the most basic details right yet we are supposed to accept this as "evidence"? Well I have just as much proof that Zeus throws lightning bolts and rules from a cloud city, in other words other than a few writings there isn't anything by way of proof with either.
Hell any old southerner could have told you THAT one, its the same reason why every person comes out the woodwork when you have a baby to make those little cooing noises at them, its an instinct as old as time. When the boys were little I'd take them to the store and everybody from the little old ladies in the aisle to the checkout girl HAD to make the little cute faces and cooing sounds, it was like mandatory or something.
I'll get hate for saying it but since its not on the front page maybe the crazies won't see, who knows, but its what I've seen and believe to be truth, the current feminist rabble rousers? They do NOT want equality, they want SUPERIORITY and the world to be forced to bend to THEIR will. Its like when it came out that the new Aliens game wouldn't have female marines like in the movie and I pointed out a simple fact: Men are disposable and women are to be protected, that is as old as time. I said "There are games out now that give you achievements for blowing a guy's balls off...if the devs put females in the game and gave out an "instant boob job" achievement would you be okay with that? You ARE being treated 100% equally to the men"...know what I heard? That there should be NO achievements and while you are at it get rid of the gore because that isn't politically correct, so they didn't want to be EQUAL, they wanted to dictate what a genre of game that most admitted they had NEVER played and most likely never will play could have and not have.
So its no longer about being fair, its about pushing an ultra left agenda filled with political correctness and "those with penises are evil" rhetoric. I mean look at the play I gave as an example earlier...what do you think would happen if I wrote a play where a 13 year old girl thanks a male rapist for "giving it to her good" and actually makes being raped a positive experience? I'd be lucky if I wasn't hanging from a tree by my neck by the end of the week, yet because you gave the rapist and victim vaginas? Totally okay...bullshit NOT okay, that is fucked up.
They can waste mod points modding me down all they want, its still the rape of a little kid and its wrong. And I think you are right, I think she is only 13 which makes it even MORE fucked up, I just remember watching the performance and thinking"Hey....wait a tick, you just said there is this little kid, from an abusive home no less, and what you described happening TO the kid, the friendship, the giving the kid somebody they can relate to....all of this is CLASSIC pedo grooming techniques.....and you have the balls to not only say that is okay, but you actually put the line "it was a good rape" thus ADMITTING you know its fucking rape, but that is okay if the rapist has a vagina? WHAT THE FUCK?"
Like I said it reminds me of MADD and PETA in that the ones that started the whole feminist movement, which I supported completely BTW, has taken the movement right past sensible and into batshit "You have a penis and so are evil" whack a doodle land. I don't give a shit if it a guy, a woman, a fucking trans-whatever, what I saw in that play was classic pedo rape and it was I swear to God being celebrated like it was a GOOD thing...that is beyond fucked up and the fact that so many feminists praised it just shows how far away from mainstream they have taken it from common sense. I mean equal pay and being treated as an equal? I have NO problem with that and support it 100%, but saying pretty much anything is okay as long as there aren't any penises involved including the rape of a child? Sorry, fucked up.
That is why I don't understand why its included....do they include other thin clients? Because that is ALL it is, its a minimal kernel designed to have just enough to launch the browser interface, no different than one of the old Sun Ray thin clients. The ONLY difference between Chrome OS and any other classic thin client is Google provides the infrastructure in return for being able to datamine you for their real customers, which is of course the advertisers.
Now does this mean ChomeOS is "bad"? Of course not, if a thin client is all your company needs I would be happy to set one up, for some jobs a thin client is really all that is needed....BUT, and its a BIG BUT, there are a HELL of a lot of tasks that thin clients just aren't built for which is why I just don't get marketing this to consumers. Hell even my most boring home customers have SOME software they want to run, take the little old lady that was my last customer of the day, I had to load the little software that comes with her wireless printer into her new system because she uses that to make little announcements for her family, calendars made out of pictures of the new grandbaby, anniversary party invites, that kind of stuff. If she couldn't have her little software? The PC might as well be a paperweight for all the good it would do her.
So I really don't get why these rags keep lumping in ChromeOS with Windows and OSX because its really nothing like them at all, those are your classic "fat client" full OS while Chrome is a classic thin client "browser in a box". Hell feature wise its got less going for it than Android, Android you can side load and run third party programs easily and from what I've seen Chrome is strictly web based which is why they can get by with such little space on the drive, everything is supposed to be hosted by Google and run in the browser.
It just makes no sense at all to run a test of fat clients with Chrome, to use a/. car analogy it would be like having a test on which truck gets the best mileage and entering a moped. Sure its gonna get the best mileage but so what? It doesn't actually DO the jobs that you need a truck for in the first place!
But unless they are gonna "train" them for life? the first new mutations they will be right back to square one. Believe me I know, you only get 2 outcomes when you try teaching someone who just wants to use the PC and go the hell home (as opposed to us geeks that actually care for the medium) and that is either only remembers long enough to follow basic instructions, which means like i said if the prince is from Somalia you warned them against Nigeria and that's TOTALLY different, or you get so paranoid they won't turn on the switch without written instructions to do so, which is just as bad IMHO as they'll drive the helpdesk up the fucking wall.
I mean HOW long have we been warning people of the signs of email scams now? 15 fucking years? I've seen stories on shows as non tech as GMA about it yet people STILL fall for the most basic and obvious of scams. You can lead a person to information but you can't make them think.
I'm sorry Ms AC but I saw the original play befored by a damned good cast and...yeah they make it VERY fucking clear the little girl is praising her fucking RAPIST. That is BEYOND fucked up, yet because she is praising her FEMALE rapist that is okay...fuck you, it is NOT okay for a 30 year old woman to have sex with a girl barely 15 (I can't remember if she was about to turn or had just turned 15, either way its fucked up) yet again they make it VERY clear, both in the performance and dialog that it was perfectly fine because it was a woman doing the raping.
I'm sorry but fuck the writers that is NOT OKAY, a 15 year old can easily be manipulated and its made clear in the play that girl came from an abusive home anyway so she was ripe for grooming and that is EXACTLY what the pedo did, but again woman on girl rape is okay because no penises are involved. Fuck you RAPE IS RAPE and fucking a 15 year old girl when you are pushing 30 is clearly RAPE.
Well last I checked so called "chick porn" was the biggest money maker as far as profit per film, hence why we get all the Vivid romance porn and why there are so many porn spoofs right now, everything from the avengers (I don't even wanna know how look it took to paint Chyna green from head to foot) to send ups of classic shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roseanne.
I have noticed that porn seems to reflect the times more than other mediums, which is why classic porn always looks more dated than classic movies as they really do follow trends a lot more closely than regular movies.But if they don't like what they see in current porn they need to work on changing society and not the porn since porn has always been about giving the audience exactly what they want.
Ya know, I USED to argue against that "feminists are all man haters" stereotypes...until I saw the widely praised Vagina Monologues. Anybody else notice that the plays says quite clearly pedophilia is okay as long as its a woman doing the raping? And yet at the time all I saw from feminists was praise for the play. I mean how fucked up in the head do you got to be to say being a pedo is okay as long as its woman on girl? For those that don't know what I'm talking about look up the original play and the dialog for "little coochie snorcher" which I swear to God even has the line "If it was rape it was a good rape"". I mean can you imagine how crucified an author would be if they came out with a play where a woman praised her male rapist for "giving it to her good"? Feminism got hijacked by the nutbags and passed the exit for sanity a few miles back.
As for TFA this is another trend I've noticed from the militant feminists, that all non lesbian sex is rape. Its kinda funny how much they actually sound like the old Victorians, how women couldn't possibly WANT to have sex or ENJOY sex in any way, the only real spin they put on it is that lesbians are the exception to the rule since there are no dirty rapist men involved. Kinda ironic that they refuse to acknowledge that one of the most profitable genres in porn these days is so called "chick porn" where they use exotic locations and hunky guys to appeal to a mostly female audience.
But of course just like how the founder of MADD don't want anything to do with them anymore and PETA went from treating animals ethically to actually arguing that antibiotics were murder because you are killing germs and fish should be called "sea kittens" so people wouldn't eat them (I swear, look it up) the feminist movement got hijacked by the nutballs awhile back and have gone so militant I doubt the original feminsts, who from what I saw simply wanted equal pay and to be treated equally in the workplace, would scarcely recognize it anymore.
Or hell if you want a classic Model M just go to your local mom & pop PC shop, we usually have a couple stashed and are pretty reasonable about the prices, especially if you BS with us a little while because we love having someone that can talk shop. I got a couple guys that work maintenance in all the local government and small office buildings and they are under strict orders to make sure any "clicky clack" keyboards end up coming my way. Both myself and my boys are all using classic clicky clacks, they are really great for shooters and you just can't beat the feel, they have good throw and reaction time, I swear by my clicky clack.
If you take them out back and shoot them it only costs the state a bullet, does that make it a "better" system or a worse one? We are now right up there with China and some of the third world hellholes when it comes to how many people we destroy per year (and yes its destruction, a felony equals a life of lousy jobs and suspicion in this country) and this isn't really the kind of company we should be keeping, don't you agree?
Except we are talking about not a car but to utterly destroy another person's life. That is the problem in a nutshell with the current system, unless you have a cool quarter million to throw away on a defense you are screwed either way because the state has unlimited resources.
I should know as I had a friend that lost a house that had been in his family 4 generations because of this kind of plea bargaining horseshit. He was in the midst of a REALLY nasty divorce (heard of a midlife crisis? Well it was her and not him that had one, started fucking a 20 year old on the side) when the bitch got pissed and pulled a "tell the cops daddy touched you and you'll get a new car for sweet sixteen" move. Even the cops ended up testifying for him, saying the girl changed her story so many times there was zero credibility but it turned out the local prosecutor was raped in college and from that point on if you had a penis you were a rapist so by the time she got done digging up every possible charge she could come up with he was looking at triple life. The lawyer fees ended up costing him everything and the bitch used this to her advantage by getting sole custody of his son while he was tied up with the fight for his freedom. She took him overseas and he has never seen him since, wouldn't even recognize his own son if he ran into him on the street.
so by piling on the charges not only do they try to force a plea bargain by how much time you are looking at but they know your lawyer fees will cost more with each charge so even if you win? Like my friend you lose. He went from having a great job, 2 rental properties and his son to having nothing but a used car and a rented trailer. Some victory huh?
Except in most major cities the odds of finding a woman who is 100% bug free (remember there are some like genital warts that can remain dormant and still infect a partner) can be as low as a quarter flip so even that isn't safe. Man, remember when all you needed for safe sex was a padded headboard? Those were the days.
In case you haven't figured it out these corps have figured out how to game the hell out of the system.
I USED to LMAO at all the people flinging "shill" around to basically say "You don't agree with me therefor you HAVE to have an agenda because I'm so fucking perfect in every way" but then a few months before Windows "Supergigantic Smartphone" 8 came out suddenly I started noticing all these posts that were EXACTLY alike, using the same buzzwords that normal folks don't use like "user experience" and "vertical integration"...I mean how many times in normal conversations with people who aren't marketing drones has those phrases come up? But not only that but suddenly there was a dozen "new users" who registered JUST to support the buzzword bingo and hammer home the same talking points,its become pretty damned obvious this isn't merely fanboys coming to defend "their team", this is waaay too thought out and organized for that.
So honestly it really wouldn't surprise me if the company who put out the ad pretending to be TFA aren't either sitting here themselves with a sock puppet brigade or even more likely hired one of the pro trolling groups to make sure their message was framed in a positive light.
And at the end of the day what does all this denial get you? Even Jesus didn't get out of here alive folks but let us say, just for the sake of argument they had a new "lets all eat cardboard" diet that made you live to 120....anybody spent any time with someone over 85? That is NOT a good life or a good way to be, most of your family is dead, your friends too, probably your spouse and maybe even a child or two, you're weak, your bones are easily broken, frankly death would probably be a blessing. My grandma lived to 98 and honestly those last 10 years were hell because she lost so many friends as well as her husband and oldest child...why? Why would you want that?
I mean sure if they could give me a cyborg body so i could do everything I could at 30 at 90 that would be one thing but as it is now they just tack on years at the end, which is when it all goes to shit anyway...no thanks.,Give me an extra 10 years of being 20 or something, don't add years to the end.
Not to mention their entire company is based on a STUPID IDEA that has NEVER worked. i've been building and selling PCs to SMB and home users for 25+ fricking years and I can tell you that EDUCATION WILL NEVER WORK when it comes to stopping threats, why? Because like real life viruses they mutate and common sense is not teachable, either you have it or you don't.
Here is a perfect example...smartphones. think Android is well on its way to a million infections because Google didn't make a good OS? Nope its the simple fact that because its a different medium you have to start from square one just like in Black Sept when we were drowning in noobs because people simply can't or won't equate a link between one medium and another. I've seen emails that have not worked IN YEARS that work like crazy as a smartphone because to Joe and Jane average the smartphone is NOT a general purpose computer, its a toaster and they treat it as such. The thought that it can get viruses and spam never enters their minds, the phone is a magical device that hooks up to cell towers and that's totally different from the net, don't you see?
Believe me, I know of which I speak. I've educated until I'm hoarse but the one thing you can't change is that for the education to actually work you have to have enough common sense to go "Well this is similar enough to what I was educated about so erring on the side of caution would probably be wise" and the simple fact is non geeks? They may as well be Martians, they just don't think like that for the most part. I'd love to see the unbiased results as five would get you ten that their "education" lasts only until new mutations arise and then the users go "Hey this isn't what we were told to watch out for, this prince is from Somalia so he must be legit!"
You try to solve the problem of malware and spear fishing with education and you had better get used to looking like this because the users will make that your natural look.
The problem Ms AC was NOT the very idea of caps at all, it was and is the fact that with zero competition and conflicts of interest they have you by the short hairs which is what pisses everyone off. In my area the cable is pushing their PPV and VoIP and guess what? Those do NOT count against the cap but if I use a competing service they DO count.
Now as for TFA? In my area most of the poor can't afford Internet AT ALL, the minimum cost to get cable or DSL (if you are lucky enough to lie in the 1/3rd of the town they serve) or the local WISP is bare minimum $120 counting hookup and $50+ a month so a deal like this would certainly make it more accessible, too bad it'll never end up here.
"Well I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well i believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy working both puppets!" Bill Hicks.
Hey don't feel bad, i learned the importance of backups when I got burnt by one of the Maxtor Diamondmax drives, with those the heads and motors turned out to be shitty and when it failed it totally trashed the drive. Lost 120GB worth of stuff with that one, replacing all that data was NOT fun, let me tell you.
Artists bring their views into their art. I don't even know how you can be arguing they don't, this is like arguing the sky isn't blue or saying Eddie Van Halen could sound like a perfect Steve Vai clone tomorrow if he just changed his tone. As a musician I can tell you that when you create a part of you is ALWAYS gonna end up in the piece, after all if it didn't why in the fuck would they pay for HIM to write it over any other writer? They were gonna pay him because of his writing style and the things that you feel passionately about WILL end up in your finished products, that is just how it goes. Besides he is one of those writers that isn't known for a "shut up and just do the job" style, the only one I can think of off the top of my head more outspoken would be Harlan Ellison.
But I would say this is a perfect example of democracy in action because thank goodness we don't enjoy or support blatant bigoted bullshit anymore. In the 50s nobody would hardly say boo to those churches pushing racism or sexism but now thanks to the Internet and grass roots if some company like Chik Fil A wants to be bigoted? Go right ahead, enjoy your lack of customers. Card can join the group that includes Mel Gibson and Jeffery Jones in the "nobody buys our stuff anymore" club and frankly that's fine by me, we have enough problems as it is without putting up with bullshit like Card's bigotry. What happened to "judge not"? Or "He who is without sin"? I guess those kind of hippie notions were cast out when we replaced Jesus with Supply Side Jesus in the 80s.
Well you got it HALF right but missed the more insidious part which is there is ZERO penalties for filing false claims so they can just keep you in arbitration for the rest of your days or take your net because somebody out there doesn't like you. It doesn't even have a well defined idea of who or what a copyright holder is so from the looks of it anybody could abuse the living hell out of this system because its so badly tilted in favor of the IP holders over the consumers.
So what we have here is "guilty until paid innocent" with a system that allows anybody to declare you guilty and you have to break out your wallet to even be heard at all. I'm sorry but this is one of the most fucked up, one sided, consumer unfair rules I have ever seen and how anybody could defend such a one sided affair is beyond me. Hell the IP holders don't even have a fee for filing claims so while YOU get dinged $35 they can troll as much as they want for free!
From what I've seen the problem nearly always ends up being the eyes. There is a reason why we have that saying "eyes are the windows to the soul" because if you have seen a real dead body the first thing that catches you is the eyes, they look like a doll's eyes. I think that is gonna be a hard one to fix as so far none of the bots I've seen come anywhere close to having life in the eyes, they just feel corpse like.
Of course if you'll give me a season 2 Alyson Hannigan sexbot with the vamp Willow leather outfit? i'm sure her always having to wear shades wouldn't bother me a bit, especially if she could cook as well. I have a feeling though if we ever DO get the tech to make perfect sexbots? It'll be like this sci-fi review of why Star Trek tech wouldn't work and they pointed out that if we had holodecks what you'd end up with is a world with a bunch of corpses in holodecks, we'd be so damned happy we'd never breed and would die out. Considering that in many countries in the west there are already birthrates that won't sustain the population? I could easily see robots wiping us out NOT with bombs or enslavement but by simply making us so damned happy we wouldn't care about interacting with humans or having offspring anymore. I mean if I have the choice of all the drama and bullshit I went through with my ex, or a perfect Alyson Hannigan that treated me like a king...what are you nuts? Bring on the sexbot already!
BTW if there any "two for one" specials or easy payment plans available? Thinking about it I'd also like Scarlett Johansson in the Black Widow outfit, just make sure she has the Avengers hair and not the IM 2 hair, didn't care for the curls.
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I'm not him but I'll be happy to list why its fucked up..1.- A VERY large portion of the viruses out there end up through infected ads, block ads? Virus infections drop off the map. 2.- Destructoid does NOT sere the ads, like everybody else that pass it off to third parties. See #1 as to why that is a problem, it lets you pass the buck and you end up giving your users infections. 3.- The advertisers have gone from simple txt and jpgs to shitting out ads that take over the sound and maxes out the volume, its like inviting someone into your home and on the second or third visit they scream in your face..would you invite them back? 4.- They have taken ad revenues to the extreme, an article that would be 3 paragraphs is now shit all over a dozen pages...why should I care about you when you are trying to milk me for more revenue while making things worse for me?
I'll be happy to unblock a site if they ask nicely...IF they ONLY use txt ads, no risky Flash or Java ads, NO taking over my speakers, NO blasting commercials..they do that? I have NO problem with unblocking. The problem is all these sites are frankly lazy bastards that just want to make money without having to do the work so they just sell their ad space to any company that offers them cash without giving a fuck if its ads are rude, if they assault our senses, hell they don't even seem to give a fuck if they end up serving malware to their users, just as long as they get paid. Well I have to clean up their messes so fuck them, I install adblock as SOP to ALL PCs that come through my door.
So in other words its like MSFT's "Get the facts" in that its total marketing BS based on carefully controlled conditions?
Frankly other than Pwn2own I haven't seen any of these tests where they didn't put it with so many stipulations that it was worthless, like how Starforce used to offer a million bucks if you could prove that Starforce bricked drives (which I can tell you YES it did, I threw away enough Starforced bricked drives in my day to know) but they had so many conditions that there was no way anybody would actually bother, the tests were too rigged in favor of Starforce.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they set up a bunch of bullshit conditions like "it has to be a local attack" (no MITM or luring the user to click on a malicious link, which is how you would attack a thin client) so there really wasn't any possibility that anybody would pass this "test" of their thin client OS.
And at the time the Jewish Zombie was supposedly running around we still sacrificed people on the American continent to get good harvests...your point? Science gets better every year, if anything more and more comes out to discredit the Jewish Zombie theory every year. I can provide just as much proof in Ra or Odin as you can the Jewish Zombie, you have NO proof of ANY kind that the Jewish Zombie doesn't belong alongside the Jewish legend of the Golem or vampires in the myths section, yet with each new discovery the science gets better.
The flaw in your thinking is that because science had mistakes in the past it somehow "proves" that the Jewish Zombie is valid when all it proves is that science works. To quote Dr Neil Tyson "If you think you know what is going on then you are not being a scientist because we are always at the cutting edge of ignorance". Meanwhile you are supporting a book that says slaves are okay, beating your wife is cool as long as you use the rule of thumb, and kids can be executed if they talk back. ironically if Christians actually followed their own damned book they would have more in common with the Taliban than they would with western society, the fact that they ignore a good 80% of their own book just shows how full of crap it is.
No less than 2 guys, including the one that the whole nutty thing is built on, rose from their graves...sorry but that is a zombie. With the second you even have a ritual where you eat his body and drink his blood and are given gifts for doing so in the form of blessing, so yeah....its a zombie dude. Whether you like the term or not if the corpse fits...
Except ironically the crazy science actually has evidence to back it up, whereas the Jewish Zombie doesn't even have concrete evidence that he even drew a single breath. The Romans frankly made the Nazis look lazy when it came to record keeping, we can tell you all kinds of things about what was going on back then because of how anal retentive Romans were at keeping tabs...yet a guy that walked on water, raised no less than 2 people counting himself from the dead, even re-attached a soldiers severed ear gets NO writeup, if nothing else a "WTF is this then?" kind of write up?
Thanks to how good the modern telescopes are getting we can actually look pretty far back into the past there are even plausible theories on how nothing exploded, IE the possibility that one of the other dimensions leaked into ours, but other than a single book, a book that has more errors and contradictions than you can shake a stick at BTW, which means that God was worse than your average fan fic writer when it comes to telling a cohesive narrative, there is frankly jack and squat to prove the Zombie Jew even lived.
Hell even his birthplace is a fricking mis-print, there WAS NO NAZARETH, he was supposed to have been a NAZARENE which was a subset of Judaism, like being a Baptist or Catholic would be now. They can't even get the most basic details right yet we are supposed to accept this as "evidence"? Well I have just as much proof that Zeus throws lightning bolts and rules from a cloud city, in other words other than a few writings there isn't anything by way of proof with either.
Hell any old southerner could have told you THAT one, its the same reason why every person comes out the woodwork when you have a baby to make those little cooing noises at them, its an instinct as old as time. When the boys were little I'd take them to the store and everybody from the little old ladies in the aisle to the checkout girl HAD to make the little cute faces and cooing sounds, it was like mandatory or something.
I'll get hate for saying it but since its not on the front page maybe the crazies won't see, who knows, but its what I've seen and believe to be truth, the current feminist rabble rousers? They do NOT want equality, they want SUPERIORITY and the world to be forced to bend to THEIR will. Its like when it came out that the new Aliens game wouldn't have female marines like in the movie and I pointed out a simple fact: Men are disposable and women are to be protected, that is as old as time. I said "There are games out now that give you achievements for blowing a guy's balls off...if the devs put females in the game and gave out an "instant boob job" achievement would you be okay with that? You ARE being treated 100% equally to the men"...know what I heard? That there should be NO achievements and while you are at it get rid of the gore because that isn't politically correct, so they didn't want to be EQUAL, they wanted to dictate what a genre of game that most admitted they had NEVER played and most likely never will play could have and not have.
So its no longer about being fair, its about pushing an ultra left agenda filled with political correctness and "those with penises are evil" rhetoric. I mean look at the play I gave as an example earlier...what do you think would happen if I wrote a play where a 13 year old girl thanks a male rapist for "giving it to her good" and actually makes being raped a positive experience? I'd be lucky if I wasn't hanging from a tree by my neck by the end of the week, yet because you gave the rapist and victim vaginas? Totally okay...bullshit NOT okay, that is fucked up.
They can waste mod points modding me down all they want, its still the rape of a little kid and its wrong. And I think you are right, I think she is only 13 which makes it even MORE fucked up, I just remember watching the performance and thinking"Hey....wait a tick, you just said there is this little kid, from an abusive home no less, and what you described happening TO the kid, the friendship, the giving the kid somebody they can relate to....all of this is CLASSIC pedo grooming techniques.....and you have the balls to not only say that is okay, but you actually put the line "it was a good rape" thus ADMITTING you know its fucking rape, but that is okay if the rapist has a vagina? WHAT THE FUCK?"
Like I said it reminds me of MADD and PETA in that the ones that started the whole feminist movement, which I supported completely BTW, has taken the movement right past sensible and into batshit "You have a penis and so are evil" whack a doodle land. I don't give a shit if it a guy, a woman, a fucking trans-whatever, what I saw in that play was classic pedo rape and it was I swear to God being celebrated like it was a GOOD thing...that is beyond fucked up and the fact that so many feminists praised it just shows how far away from mainstream they have taken it from common sense. I mean equal pay and being treated as an equal? I have NO problem with that and support it 100%, but saying pretty much anything is okay as long as there aren't any penises involved including the rape of a child? Sorry, fucked up.
That is why I don't understand why its included....do they include other thin clients? Because that is ALL it is, its a minimal kernel designed to have just enough to launch the browser interface, no different than one of the old Sun Ray thin clients. The ONLY difference between Chrome OS and any other classic thin client is Google provides the infrastructure in return for being able to datamine you for their real customers, which is of course the advertisers.
Now does this mean ChomeOS is "bad"? Of course not, if a thin client is all your company needs I would be happy to set one up, for some jobs a thin client is really all that is needed....BUT, and its a BIG BUT, there are a HELL of a lot of tasks that thin clients just aren't built for which is why I just don't get marketing this to consumers. Hell even my most boring home customers have SOME software they want to run, take the little old lady that was my last customer of the day, I had to load the little software that comes with her wireless printer into her new system because she uses that to make little announcements for her family, calendars made out of pictures of the new grandbaby, anniversary party invites, that kind of stuff. If she couldn't have her little software? The PC might as well be a paperweight for all the good it would do her.
So I really don't get why these rags keep lumping in ChromeOS with Windows and OSX because its really nothing like them at all, those are your classic "fat client" full OS while Chrome is a classic thin client "browser in a box". Hell feature wise its got less going for it than Android, Android you can side load and run third party programs easily and from what I've seen Chrome is strictly web based which is why they can get by with such little space on the drive, everything is supposed to be hosted by Google and run in the browser.
It just makes no sense at all to run a test of fat clients with Chrome, to use a /. car analogy it would be like having a test on which truck gets the best mileage and entering a moped. Sure its gonna get the best mileage but so what? It doesn't actually DO the jobs that you need a truck for in the first place!
But unless they are gonna "train" them for life? the first new mutations they will be right back to square one. Believe me I know, you only get 2 outcomes when you try teaching someone who just wants to use the PC and go the hell home (as opposed to us geeks that actually care for the medium) and that is either only remembers long enough to follow basic instructions, which means like i said if the prince is from Somalia you warned them against Nigeria and that's TOTALLY different, or you get so paranoid they won't turn on the switch without written instructions to do so, which is just as bad IMHO as they'll drive the helpdesk up the fucking wall.
I mean HOW long have we been warning people of the signs of email scams now? 15 fucking years? I've seen stories on shows as non tech as GMA about it yet people STILL fall for the most basic and obvious of scams. You can lead a person to information but you can't make them think.
I'm sorry Ms AC but I saw the original play befored by a damned good cast and...yeah they make it VERY fucking clear the little girl is praising her fucking RAPIST. That is BEYOND fucked up, yet because she is praising her FEMALE rapist that is okay...fuck you, it is NOT okay for a 30 year old woman to have sex with a girl barely 15 (I can't remember if she was about to turn or had just turned 15, either way its fucked up) yet again they make it VERY clear, both in the performance and dialog that it was perfectly fine because it was a woman doing the raping.
I'm sorry but fuck the writers that is NOT OKAY, a 15 year old can easily be manipulated and its made clear in the play that girl came from an abusive home anyway so she was ripe for grooming and that is EXACTLY what the pedo did, but again woman on girl rape is okay because no penises are involved. Fuck you RAPE IS RAPE and fucking a 15 year old girl when you are pushing 30 is clearly RAPE.
Well last I checked so called "chick porn" was the biggest money maker as far as profit per film, hence why we get all the Vivid romance porn and why there are so many porn spoofs right now, everything from the avengers (I don't even wanna know how look it took to paint Chyna green from head to foot) to send ups of classic shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roseanne.
I have noticed that porn seems to reflect the times more than other mediums, which is why classic porn always looks more dated than classic movies as they really do follow trends a lot more closely than regular movies.But if they don't like what they see in current porn they need to work on changing society and not the porn since porn has always been about giving the audience exactly what they want.
Ya know, I USED to argue against that "feminists are all man haters" stereotypes...until I saw the widely praised Vagina Monologues. Anybody else notice that the plays says quite clearly pedophilia is okay as long as its a woman doing the raping? And yet at the time all I saw from feminists was praise for the play. I mean how fucked up in the head do you got to be to say being a pedo is okay as long as its woman on girl? For those that don't know what I'm talking about look up the original play and the dialog for "little coochie snorcher" which I swear to God even has the line "If it was rape it was a good rape"". I mean can you imagine how crucified an author would be if they came out with a play where a woman praised her male rapist for "giving it to her good"? Feminism got hijacked by the nutbags and passed the exit for sanity a few miles back.
As for TFA this is another trend I've noticed from the militant feminists, that all non lesbian sex is rape. Its kinda funny how much they actually sound like the old Victorians, how women couldn't possibly WANT to have sex or ENJOY sex in any way, the only real spin they put on it is that lesbians are the exception to the rule since there are no dirty rapist men involved. Kinda ironic that they refuse to acknowledge that one of the most profitable genres in porn these days is so called "chick porn" where they use exotic locations and hunky guys to appeal to a mostly female audience.
But of course just like how the founder of MADD don't want anything to do with them anymore and PETA went from treating animals ethically to actually arguing that antibiotics were murder because you are killing germs and fish should be called "sea kittens" so people wouldn't eat them (I swear, look it up) the feminist movement got hijacked by the nutballs awhile back and have gone so militant I doubt the original feminsts, who from what I saw simply wanted equal pay and to be treated equally in the workplace, would scarcely recognize it anymore.
Or hell if you want a classic Model M just go to your local mom & pop PC shop, we usually have a couple stashed and are pretty reasonable about the prices, especially if you BS with us a little while because we love having someone that can talk shop. I got a couple guys that work maintenance in all the local government and small office buildings and they are under strict orders to make sure any "clicky clack" keyboards end up coming my way. Both myself and my boys are all using classic clicky clacks, they are really great for shooters and you just can't beat the feel, they have good throw and reaction time, I swear by my clicky clack.
If you take them out back and shoot them it only costs the state a bullet, does that make it a "better" system or a worse one? We are now right up there with China and some of the third world hellholes when it comes to how many people we destroy per year (and yes its destruction, a felony equals a life of lousy jobs and suspicion in this country) and this isn't really the kind of company we should be keeping, don't you agree?
Except we are talking about not a car but to utterly destroy another person's life. That is the problem in a nutshell with the current system, unless you have a cool quarter million to throw away on a defense you are screwed either way because the state has unlimited resources.
I should know as I had a friend that lost a house that had been in his family 4 generations because of this kind of plea bargaining horseshit. He was in the midst of a REALLY nasty divorce (heard of a midlife crisis? Well it was her and not him that had one, started fucking a 20 year old on the side) when the bitch got pissed and pulled a "tell the cops daddy touched you and you'll get a new car for sweet sixteen" move. Even the cops ended up testifying for him, saying the girl changed her story so many times there was zero credibility but it turned out the local prosecutor was raped in college and from that point on if you had a penis you were a rapist so by the time she got done digging up every possible charge she could come up with he was looking at triple life. The lawyer fees ended up costing him everything and the bitch used this to her advantage by getting sole custody of his son while he was tied up with the fight for his freedom. She took him overseas and he has never seen him since, wouldn't even recognize his own son if he ran into him on the street.
so by piling on the charges not only do they try to force a plea bargain by how much time you are looking at but they know your lawyer fees will cost more with each charge so even if you win? Like my friend you lose. He went from having a great job, 2 rental properties and his son to having nothing but a used car and a rented trailer. Some victory huh?
Except in most major cities the odds of finding a woman who is 100% bug free (remember there are some like genital warts that can remain dormant and still infect a partner) can be as low as a quarter flip so even that isn't safe. Man, remember when all you needed for safe sex was a padded headboard? Those were the days.
In case you haven't figured it out these corps have figured out how to game the hell out of the system.
I USED to LMAO at all the people flinging "shill" around to basically say "You don't agree with me therefor you HAVE to have an agenda because I'm so fucking perfect in every way" but then a few months before Windows "Supergigantic Smartphone" 8 came out suddenly I started noticing all these posts that were EXACTLY alike, using the same buzzwords that normal folks don't use like "user experience" and "vertical integration"...I mean how many times in normal conversations with people who aren't marketing drones has those phrases come up? But not only that but suddenly there was a dozen "new users" who registered JUST to support the buzzword bingo and hammer home the same talking points,its become pretty damned obvious this isn't merely fanboys coming to defend "their team", this is waaay too thought out and organized for that.
So honestly it really wouldn't surprise me if the company who put out the ad pretending to be TFA aren't either sitting here themselves with a sock puppet brigade or even more likely hired one of the pro trolling groups to make sure their message was framed in a positive light.
And at the end of the day what does all this denial get you? Even Jesus didn't get out of here alive folks but let us say, just for the sake of argument they had a new "lets all eat cardboard" diet that made you live to 120....anybody spent any time with someone over 85? That is NOT a good life or a good way to be, most of your family is dead, your friends too, probably your spouse and maybe even a child or two, you're weak, your bones are easily broken, frankly death would probably be a blessing. My grandma lived to 98 and honestly those last 10 years were hell because she lost so many friends as well as her husband and oldest child...why? Why would you want that?
I mean sure if they could give me a cyborg body so i could do everything I could at 30 at 90 that would be one thing but as it is now they just tack on years at the end, which is when it all goes to shit anyway...no thanks.,Give me an extra 10 years of being 20 or something, don't add years to the end.
Not to mention their entire company is based on a STUPID IDEA that has NEVER worked. i've been building and selling PCs to SMB and home users for 25+ fricking years and I can tell you that EDUCATION WILL NEVER WORK when it comes to stopping threats, why? Because like real life viruses they mutate and common sense is not teachable, either you have it or you don't.
Here is a perfect example...smartphones. think Android is well on its way to a million infections because Google didn't make a good OS? Nope its the simple fact that because its a different medium you have to start from square one just like in Black Sept when we were drowning in noobs because people simply can't or won't equate a link between one medium and another. I've seen emails that have not worked IN YEARS that work like crazy as a smartphone because to Joe and Jane average the smartphone is NOT a general purpose computer, its a toaster and they treat it as such. The thought that it can get viruses and spam never enters their minds, the phone is a magical device that hooks up to cell towers and that's totally different from the net, don't you see?
Believe me, I know of which I speak. I've educated until I'm hoarse but the one thing you can't change is that for the education to actually work you have to have enough common sense to go "Well this is similar enough to what I was educated about so erring on the side of caution would probably be wise" and the simple fact is non geeks? They may as well be Martians, they just don't think like that for the most part. I'd love to see the unbiased results as five would get you ten that their "education" lasts only until new mutations arise and then the users go "Hey this isn't what we were told to watch out for, this prince is from Somalia so he must be legit!"
You try to solve the problem of malware and spear fishing with education and you had better get used to looking like this because the users will make that your natural look.
The problem Ms AC was NOT the very idea of caps at all, it was and is the fact that with zero competition and conflicts of interest they have you by the short hairs which is what pisses everyone off. In my area the cable is pushing their PPV and VoIP and guess what? Those do NOT count against the cap but if I use a competing service they DO count.
Now as for TFA? In my area most of the poor can't afford Internet AT ALL, the minimum cost to get cable or DSL (if you are lucky enough to lie in the 1/3rd of the town they serve) or the local WISP is bare minimum $120 counting hookup and $50+ a month so a deal like this would certainly make it more accessible, too bad it'll never end up here.
"Well I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well i believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy working both puppets!" Bill Hicks.
Hey don't feel bad, i learned the importance of backups when I got burnt by one of the Maxtor Diamondmax drives, with those the heads and motors turned out to be shitty and when it failed it totally trashed the drive. Lost 120GB worth of stuff with that one, replacing all that data was NOT fun, let me tell you.
Artists bring their views into their art. I don't even know how you can be arguing they don't, this is like arguing the sky isn't blue or saying Eddie Van Halen could sound like a perfect Steve Vai clone tomorrow if he just changed his tone. As a musician I can tell you that when you create a part of you is ALWAYS gonna end up in the piece, after all if it didn't why in the fuck would they pay for HIM to write it over any other writer? They were gonna pay him because of his writing style and the things that you feel passionately about WILL end up in your finished products, that is just how it goes. Besides he is one of those writers that isn't known for a "shut up and just do the job" style, the only one I can think of off the top of my head more outspoken would be Harlan Ellison.
But I would say this is a perfect example of democracy in action because thank goodness we don't enjoy or support blatant bigoted bullshit anymore. In the 50s nobody would hardly say boo to those churches pushing racism or sexism but now thanks to the Internet and grass roots if some company like Chik Fil A wants to be bigoted? Go right ahead, enjoy your lack of customers. Card can join the group that includes Mel Gibson and Jeffery Jones in the "nobody buys our stuff anymore" club and frankly that's fine by me, we have enough problems as it is without putting up with bullshit like Card's bigotry. What happened to "judge not"? Or "He who is without sin"? I guess those kind of hippie notions were cast out when we replaced Jesus with Supply Side Jesus in the 80s.
Well you got it HALF right but missed the more insidious part which is there is ZERO penalties for filing false claims so they can just keep you in arbitration for the rest of your days or take your net because somebody out there doesn't like you. It doesn't even have a well defined idea of who or what a copyright holder is so from the looks of it anybody could abuse the living hell out of this system because its so badly tilted in favor of the IP holders over the consumers.
So what we have here is "guilty until paid innocent" with a system that allows anybody to declare you guilty and you have to break out your wallet to even be heard at all. I'm sorry but this is one of the most fucked up, one sided, consumer unfair rules I have ever seen and how anybody could defend such a one sided affair is beyond me. Hell the IP holders don't even have a fee for filing claims so while YOU get dinged $35 they can troll as much as they want for free!
From what I've seen the problem nearly always ends up being the eyes. There is a reason why we have that saying "eyes are the windows to the soul" because if you have seen a real dead body the first thing that catches you is the eyes, they look like a doll's eyes. I think that is gonna be a hard one to fix as so far none of the bots I've seen come anywhere close to having life in the eyes, they just feel corpse like.
Of course if you'll give me a season 2 Alyson Hannigan sexbot with the vamp Willow leather outfit? i'm sure her always having to wear shades wouldn't bother me a bit, especially if she could cook as well. I have a feeling though if we ever DO get the tech to make perfect sexbots? It'll be like this sci-fi review of why Star Trek tech wouldn't work and they pointed out that if we had holodecks what you'd end up with is a world with a bunch of corpses in holodecks, we'd be so damned happy we'd never breed and would die out. Considering that in many countries in the west there are already birthrates that won't sustain the population? I could easily see robots wiping us out NOT with bombs or enslavement but by simply making us so damned happy we wouldn't care about interacting with humans or having offspring anymore. I mean if I have the choice of all the drama and bullshit I went through with my ex, or a perfect Alyson Hannigan that treated me like a king...what are you nuts? Bring on the sexbot already!
BTW if there any "two for one" specials or easy payment plans available? Thinking about it I'd also like Scarlett Johansson in the Black Widow outfit, just make sure she has the Avengers hair and not the IM 2 hair, didn't care for the curls.