Those were great because it was easy to change the installation message. Mine was saying "Please sit down and relax while we're installing your illegal copy of MS-DOS."
I understand that, but do a bit of research to see who the two victims were (one was a local politician) and how this basically destroyed their lives. And I don't mean just the rape, but also the death threats and rape threats they received from countless Assange apologists accusing them of being CIA shills and whatnot. This is an ugly affair.
Not that it's above the CIA to do this kind of dirty trick, but if you take the time to fully understand the context and the aftermath you'll see that it's truly a shame.
You are right, so to reduce the rape stats, we should look at the countries with the lowest amount of rapes per capita, and learn from them. The bottom three are Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt.
Maybe. Saudi Arabia has 10 murders per million people; the USA has 42. They have 3 robberies per 100,000 people; the USA has 146.
You may not like their religion or political system, but "Saudi Arabia" is not an insult. The world is a mosaic, pal.
Don't see how this counts as an Assange apology. I consider him an asswipe but not much of a rapist.
It's not a simple case of "condom disappearance".
He insisted a lot (apparently it's a thing with him) but the girl said she didn't want sex without a condom. A couple hours later she wakes up with him inside her, fucking her and not wearing a condom. Of course the Assange apologists focus on the condom thing to spin it as some kind of pathetic argument. But can you please explain how someone can give consent in their sleep?
When it comes to determining if something is rape or not, here's a simple test: ask yourself how you'd feel about it if it was your daughter or sister. If your daughter had woken up with that guy's dick inside her, would you chalk it off as skewed statistics and give her a stern talk about making wild accusations?
We're not talking about switch rape, or mental rape, or some other bullshit rape. We're talking about non-consensual sex with a sleeping partner, and going at it without a condom to add insult to injury.
By "far right shit", you mean what, people saying that Trump was a better choice than Clinton? Or that taking in boatloads of Syrian refugees is a bad idea? Nowadays that's what pass as "far right" because the leftist activists have moved the axis with their constant SJW crap.
Do like me: opt out of moderation. That way you can thank people or tell them to go fuck themselves without worrying about your mod points. It's the zen thing to do.
“Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision." - Hsi Tang
Absolutely this. Manuals that included a section on programming the computer are a gateway drug. Of course I also miss computers that came with a programming environment, even if it was as simple as ROM BASIC.
Totally agree. I remember copying lines of sample BASIC code included in the TRS-80 user manual and trying to change things ever so slightly. Never achieved something as cool as those racing horses but to this day I can still remember the feeling of pressing those tiny keyboard keys and hoping for the best when I would type CLOAD.
That's the other thing I miss: just being able to kill the power without an OS shutdown phase (like with MS-DOS).
And deprive yourself of the joy of seeing "Installing updates (6 of 239)"? Always a joyful experience, especially on a laptop while the cab is waiting for you.
That works where? On an original Commodore Green-Screen? An Apple-II? A TRS-80? A Commodore 64? A VIC-20? An Atari? One of those Sinclairs with the hex keypad?
I hear ya, but remember that back then it was just a given that software worked only in one environment. The ultimate walled garden. The notion that software would run on anything else beside what it was written for was all but science fiction.
I agree with you, but that model kinda worked. I've been involved in three different projects replacing legacy software that had worked for 15, 20 years, and in all three instances the bleeding-edge upgrade left the companies with less value, and two of them went through a full rewrite within 2-3 years.
For instance, take an "obsolete" inventory management system running on HP3000 PowerHouse and replace it with a state-of-the-art J2EE marvel running on WebLogic and Oracle. A few millions later champagne was flowing during the Go Live, but users could no longer search the inventory by packing slip number or get daily list of slow moving SKUs so they could optimize the floor layout. Or take a shop floor data collection system based on COPICS and running on S/370, and replace it with a fantastic ASP web app running on IIS and Access (no shit), later replaced with a XML-powered piece of shit WebMethods implementation that was so slow that foremen could get their numbers faster by walking around and counting stuff with a handheld mechanical clicker like some fucking doormen.
In enterprise world at least, hardware has improved a lot but software has gone downhill. I'm not saying an ember screen is sexier than an iPhone app, but ERP/MRP used to work and now they don't. Geez, for 30+ years Readers' Digest has successfully managed the most amazing CRM in history - so advanced and reliable that USPS was contracting them to double-check their postal data - on an old mainframe running a piece of software created before a man set foot on the moon; then they tried to "upgrade" to a stinking pile of garbage based on Affinium (now NetInsight) and Ab Initio, and after ten years the migration was still not completed.
Yeah, we now have BDDs and DSLs and BPELs, we have SPARQLs and RDDs, we have ORMs and NoSQLs and microservices, but somehow we can't get enterprise software that work better than decades-old programs punch-carded by people who looked like Marty Mcfly's father. What's up with that.
Me either. I'll take a 2.7GHz i5 with 16GB of RAM over a 4.77 MHz 8088 with 64KB anytime.
Agreed. I remember the days before the ZIF socket. You'd put in a new CPU and either bend a pin, or worse, applied just a tiny bit too much pressure, and the computer wouldn't boot because something had cracked on the motherboard.
Or you'd install a big software package that came on a bunch of floppies; only one of the floppies would be bad and the whole thing would be useless.
Since some projects produce huge profits and others don't, the people involved with the the lucky projects get much more money.
There was a similar management craze in the late 90s: Small Business Units. The idea was to allocate resources (IT, facilities, etc.) according to how much each business unit brought in.
But here's the problem with profit-driven compensation: they give an incentive to take risk, not to manage risk. That's how lots of people lost their pension money and how Uber is burning billions every quarter. It's more gambling than pursuit of a solid business model.
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why wouldn't I ever remember dreaming?
Buy smaller bottles at the liquor store. That's how I got my own blackouts under control.
Do you know who has a truly "high user number"? Your mom's vagina.
a couple of DOS 6.22 (3 floppies)
Those were great because it was easy to change the installation message. Mine was saying "Please sit down and relax while we're installing your illegal copy of MS-DOS."
Maybe you're confusing Mikee Dees and Starbucks.
If you read the article you would realize [...]
You must be new here.
There's a night-and-day difference in the customer experience at a Japanese McDonald's and a US one.
Maybe but your porn sucks with all the blurry pixels over the genitals. You priorities are all wrong.
I admire your persistence.
He said she said, too much on the table to believe what she said.
Yes, let's give a license to rape to famous people. They earned it.
When your wife or daughter gets gang raped in Sweden by some Muslim barbarians
I think the technical term is "temporary marriage".
I understand that, but do a bit of research to see who the two victims were (one was a local politician) and how this basically destroyed their lives. And I don't mean just the rape, but also the death threats and rape threats they received from countless Assange apologists accusing them of being CIA shills and whatnot. This is an ugly affair.
Not that it's above the CIA to do this kind of dirty trick, but if you take the time to fully understand the context and the aftermath you'll see that it's truly a shame.
Suddenly you seem well versed in the details of swedish rape cases
No. Just in this one, which has been amply documented. Use that "google" thing you'll see.
yet only a few posts ago you were parroting the well-trodden shit about the "rape capital" of the world.
This is actually from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Look at the table then click on the small arrows to sort numbers, you will see what country comes third.
But hey, don't let extremely simple google queries stand in the way of your arrogance.
You are right, so to reduce the rape stats, we should look at the countries with the lowest amount of rapes per capita, and learn from them. The bottom three are Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt.
Maybe. Saudi Arabia has 10 murders per million people; the USA has 42. They have 3 robberies per 100,000 people; the USA has 146.
You may not like their religion or political system, but "Saudi Arabia" is not an insult. The world is a mosaic, pal.
Don't see how this counts as an Assange apology. I consider him an asswipe but not much of a rapist.
It's not a simple case of "condom disappearance".
He insisted a lot (apparently it's a thing with him) but the girl said she didn't want sex without a condom. A couple hours later she wakes up with him inside her, fucking her and not wearing a condom. Of course the Assange apologists focus on the condom thing to spin it as some kind of pathetic argument. But can you please explain how someone can give consent in their sleep?
When it comes to determining if something is rape or not, here's a simple test: ask yourself how you'd feel about it if it was your daughter or sister. If your daughter had woken up with that guy's dick inside her, would you chalk it off as skewed statistics and give her a stern talk about making wild accusations?
We're not talking about switch rape, or mental rape, or some other bullshit rape. We're talking about non-consensual sex with a sleeping partner, and going at it without a condom to add insult to injury.
if they were really hacked
Impossible: that website is powered by Joomla.
Sweden is a runner-up for rapes per capita, fighting with Botswana for the second spot (after South Africa).
Really messes with a statistics if you have a country like Sweden classify consensual sex, with non-consensual condom disappearance, as rape.
They should just call it the Assange sexual offense.
Wait, Assange apologists still exist? I though you guys had given up when he lied about surrendering if Obama granted clemency to Manning.
Some people here are sick of the far right shit
By "far right shit", you mean what, people saying that Trump was a better choice than Clinton? Or that taking in boatloads of Syrian refugees is a bad idea? Nowadays that's what pass as "far right" because the leftist activists have moved the axis with their constant SJW crap.
Long live LibreElec!
Although I heard rumors about a new fork, SueltoElec, which is even more free.
"Comedy is tragedy plus time".
Rust is still a raw wound, don't pour salt in it.
Do like me: opt out of moderation. That way you can thank people or tell them to go fuck themselves without worrying about your mod points. It's the zen thing to do.
“Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision."
- Hsi Tang
Would take a lot of rocks though, since Sweden is a runner-up for rapes per capita, fighting with Botswana for the second spot (after South Africa).
Absolutely this. Manuals that included a section on programming the computer are a gateway drug. Of course I also miss computers that came with a programming environment, even if it was as simple as ROM BASIC.
Totally agree. I remember copying lines of sample BASIC code included in the TRS-80 user manual and trying to change things ever so slightly. Never achieved something as cool as those racing horses but to this day I can still remember the feeling of pressing those tiny keyboard keys and hoping for the best when I would type CLOAD.
That's the other thing I miss: just being able to kill the power without an OS shutdown phase (like with MS-DOS).
And deprive yourself of the joy of seeing "Installing updates (6 of 239)"? Always a joyful experience, especially on a laptop while the cab is waiting for you.
So what do I miss? I miss software that works.
That works where? On an original Commodore Green-Screen? An Apple-II? A TRS-80? A Commodore 64? A VIC-20? An Atari? One of those Sinclairs with the hex keypad?
I hear ya, but remember that back then it was just a given that software worked only in one environment. The ultimate walled garden. The notion that software would run on anything else beside what it was written for was all but science fiction.
I agree with you, but that model kinda worked. I've been involved in three different projects replacing legacy software that had worked for 15, 20 years, and in all three instances the bleeding-edge upgrade left the companies with less value, and two of them went through a full rewrite within 2-3 years.
For instance, take an "obsolete" inventory management system running on HP3000 PowerHouse and replace it with a state-of-the-art J2EE marvel running on WebLogic and Oracle. A few millions later champagne was flowing during the Go Live, but users could no longer search the inventory by packing slip number or get daily list of slow moving SKUs so they could optimize the floor layout. Or take a shop floor data collection system based on COPICS and running on S/370, and replace it with a fantastic ASP web app running on IIS and Access (no shit), later replaced with a XML-powered piece of shit WebMethods implementation that was so slow that foremen could get their numbers faster by walking around and counting stuff with a handheld mechanical clicker like some fucking doormen.
In enterprise world at least, hardware has improved a lot but software has gone downhill. I'm not saying an ember screen is sexier than an iPhone app, but ERP/MRP used to work and now they don't. Geez, for 30+ years Readers' Digest has successfully managed the most amazing CRM in history - so advanced and reliable that USPS was contracting them to double-check their postal data - on an old mainframe running a piece of software created before a man set foot on the moon; then they tried to "upgrade" to a stinking pile of garbage based on Affinium (now NetInsight) and Ab Initio, and after ten years the migration was still not completed.
Yeah, we now have BDDs and DSLs and BPELs, we have SPARQLs and RDDs, we have ORMs and NoSQLs and microservices, but somehow we can't get enterprise software that work better than decades-old programs punch-carded by people who looked like Marty Mcfly's father. What's up with that.
I sure ain't missing those days...
Me either. I'll take a 2.7GHz i5 with 16GB of RAM over a 4.77 MHz 8088 with 64KB anytime.
Agreed. I remember the days before the ZIF socket. You'd put in a new CPU and either bend a pin, or worse, applied just a tiny bit too much pressure, and the computer wouldn't boot because something had cracked on the motherboard.
Or you'd install a big software package that came on a bunch of floppies; only one of the floppies would be bad and the whole thing would be useless.
No I don't miss any of that.
Since some projects produce huge profits and others don't, the people involved with the the lucky projects get much more money.
There was a similar management craze in the late 90s: Small Business Units. The idea was to allocate resources (IT, facilities, etc.) according to how much each business unit brought in.
But here's the problem with profit-driven compensation: they give an incentive to take risk, not to manage risk. That's how lots of people lost their pension money and how Uber is burning billions every quarter. It's more gambling than pursuit of a solid business model.