Listening to Americans talk about government makes me think the frontier-philosophy is way past its due date. I'm not saying it wasn't necessary, as frontier immigrants in a land the super powers of Europe was fighting over and a hostile native population. But that doesn't make it a good philosophy to build a society upon.
That Americans today seem to think they're waging a war against their government is perhaps a symptom..? And killing for freedom is inherently self-contradicting. You're taking away freedom by killing not protecting it.
That's how they get you IMO: create a hypothetical scenario in which you would be better off having a gun. So you buy a gun and shoot your sleepwalking spouse.
Some people can't separate the what-ifs from reality, but take it as advice, without evaluating the validity, probability of the hypothesis in casu. Not to mention alternative courses of action more beneficial to all parties.
Some go on to live in their scenario, like preppers.
Is _Wine_ in there? I use Wine in XP mode to play L4D2 on Fedora 64-bit. I know Steam knows who plays in Wine, but is it part of the stats?
I also have the Fedora client from OpenSUSE, but I usually just play L4D2. Viz. It's the best quick-game for me atm; but before Wine I played a lot of AssaultCube, which is brilliant on older hw and laptops on older connections.
Say person X is not even a computer user. He doesn't have a smart phone nor cable TV, but he's sociable and has a group of friends that are internet users.
At a party a friend of one of X's friend takes a lot of pictures. X asks the photographer not to photograph him, but there's still a chance he'll be in the background of the photos.
The day after the photographer has forgotten what he promised, and even tags his photos as he uploads them to the net.
At what point did X opt-in for this single case of information gathering?
You are seriously naive if you think it's an opt-in. If you have a web browser, you have a signature. Some of those sites you see? They'll be running Adwords or the equivalent. Heck, I can't control what other people write about me on [social webservice]. Yes, I try to make it harder for them, but it isn't just information we give or someone else gives, but the aggregate and their consequences.
We have rights. Not as consumers, but as citizens. That's my point.
You seem to indicate that Islamic fundamentalists are historically and socioeconomically detached from the world and evil to the tune of evil for evil's sake?
You know the Bible and the Qu'uran are more or less the same, but that followers of the first just happened to colonize the latter first with great financial gain which we still reap the benefits of? While they pay?
Don't get me wrong, extremists are insane. But they were not born extreme, so explain the interlude before going all judgmental.
We all know the latter part of the statement is obsolete and untrue.
The American lives saved will be well spent elsewhere in the world where there is oil to liberate.
Also, didn't BBC report that most drone attacks kill civilians? The report was from Pakistan.
So essentially, you have emotionally detached "pilots" shooting down people on the other side of the world. Unless the "pilot" works pro-bono methinks both sides have a net loss, no?
We're just a breath away from: "Hmm.. you must be one of those _Internet Users_. TAKE HIM AWAY!"
Seriously though, when will homotized cable TV Internet bring the Internet back to the beginning, where only geeks and hackers knew what to do, and the rest surf the Accepted Sites with their touch remotes?
I used to log into unsecured Wifi network routers and change the SSID to "You need to protect your network" all caps.
It was probably illegal but the number of unprotected networks dropped to nil. Today routers are usually protected out of the box, and the owner is legally responsible for encrypting it.
There's always one person making a riot because his pirated, Russian XP isn't working "as advertised" and want a genuine version free of charge, because he "knows" IT people gets it for free. Usually screaming at the top of his lungs.
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But if you're an ornithologist, you just need tits.
Killing and fighting are two different things.
Listening to Americans talk about government makes me think the frontier-philosophy is way past its due date. I'm not saying it wasn't necessary, as frontier immigrants in a land the super powers of Europe was fighting over and a hostile native population. But that doesn't make it a good philosophy to build a society upon.
That Americans today seem to think they're waging a war against their government is perhaps a symptom..?
And killing for freedom is inherently self-contradicting. You're taking away freedom by killing not protecting it.
That's how they get you IMO: create a hypothetical scenario in which you would be better off having a gun. So you buy a gun and shoot your sleepwalking spouse.
Some people can't separate the what-ifs from reality, but take it as advice, without evaluating the validity, probability of the hypothesis in casu. Not to mention alternative courses of action more beneficial to all parties.
Some go on to live in their scenario, like preppers.
I suspected that I was off-topic, but forfeit the notion, I just have to be right :D
Arma isn't platinum, but silver in Wine atm. Would be fun to get some DayZ action on my Fedora rig (only play L4D2 atm).
Some of the Flash games, like Lone Survivor, doesn't really work any longer..
Is _Wine_ in there?
I use Wine in XP mode to play L4D2 on Fedora 64-bit. I know Steam knows who plays in Wine, but is it part of the stats?
I also have the Fedora client from OpenSUSE, but I usually just play L4D2. Viz. It's the best quick-game for me atm; but before Wine I played a lot of AssaultCube, which is brilliant on older hw and laptops on older connections.
is Armstrong, of course.
It's the machine that goes BING!
Not repeating history would be like... world peace.
Not waging war saves even more.
They usually *intend* to go through the motions however...
Say person X is not even a computer user. He doesn't have a smart phone nor cable TV, but he's sociable and has a group of friends that are internet users.
At a party a friend of one of X's friend takes a lot of pictures. X asks the photographer not to photograph him, but there's still a chance he'll be in the background of the photos.
The day after the photographer has forgotten what he promised, and even tags his photos as he uploads them to the net.
At what point did X opt-in for this single case of information gathering?
The example above is true, btw.
We listen to nothing more than sums of pure sine waves.
Well I, for one, listen to the radio.
You are seriously naive if you think it's an opt-in. If you have a web browser, you have a signature. Some of those sites you see? They'll be running Adwords or the equivalent. Heck, I can't control what other people write about me on [social webservice].
Yes, I try to make it harder for them, but it isn't just information we give or someone else gives, but the aggregate and their consequences.
We have rights. Not as consumers, but as citizens. That's my point.
You seem to indicate that Islamic fundamentalists are historically and socioeconomically detached from the world and evil to the tune of evil for evil's sake?
You know the Bible and the Qu'uran are more or less the same, but that followers of the first just happened to colonize the latter first with great financial gain which we still reap the benefits of? While they pay?
Don't get me wrong, extremists are insane. But they were not born extreme, so explain the interlude before going all judgmental.
My understanding is less limited, and I think black holes (or African American holes) is more like picking up the phone and it's your mother-in-law.
There is no escape.
While Event Horizon is a great sci-fi/horror from 1997.
But I failed my X-ray exam, you insensitive clod!
Imagine any conventional object up in the sky. A sitting duck for your laser, right?
Well I, for one, welcome our duck-for-laser-trading imaginative overlords!
We all know the latter part of the statement is obsolete and untrue.
The American lives saved will be well spent elsewhere in the world where there is oil to liberate.
Also, didn't BBC report that most drone attacks kill civilians? The report was from Pakistan.
So essentially, you have emotionally detached "pilots" shooting down people on the other side of the world. Unless the "pilot" works pro-bono methinks both sides have a net loss, no?
How about investing in diplomacy?
We're just a breath away from: "Hmm.. you must be one of those _Internet Users_. TAKE HIM AWAY!"
Seriously though, when will homotized cable TV Internet bring the Internet back to the beginning, where only geeks and hackers knew what to do, and the rest surf the Accepted Sites with their touch remotes?
I used to log into unsecured Wifi network routers and change the SSID to "You need to protect your network" all caps.
It was probably illegal but the number of unprotected networks dropped to nil. Today routers are usually protected out of the box, and the owner is legally responsible for encrypting it.
# apt-get remove apt
Problem solved!
They want free stuff, it's not rocket science.
There's always one person making a riot because his pirated, Russian XP isn't working "as advertised" and want a genuine version free of charge, because he "knows" IT people gets it for free.
Usually screaming at the top of his lungs.
But I'm a dog person, you insensitive clod!