Agreed. You could even hide a bunch of cans of beans (or corn!) in the ground where you know there will be a bonfire in a few hours. Completely innocent stuff to be carrying around.
I've had my own network for a long time. A bunch of us have. The first time I did, it was 1994 and I had bought a bunch of cheap used (obsolete!) 3C501 network cards at a surplus store. I think I paid like $5 each for them. Anyhow, I strung the BNC Ts and all kinds of coax all over my apartment. (with the essential 50ohm stubs, of course. I think one end was a 50 ohm carbon comp on a Pomona BNC-bananna adapter) Then I hooked up a bunch of Linux boxes (cheap 386sx boxes were good for Linux in the early 90's) and had my little internet of my own.
My connection to the outside world was still a 56K modem, but I had a network that was mine.
Paper? That's just weird. I have quite an old house, it actually existed before electric house wiring. Even the oldest tube-and-post wire in this place is silk-wound with rubber or fabric insulation. Paper just doesn't sound practical at all.
It's almost the same thing as what happened to BBSing. I was a sysop in the late 80's to early 90's. We had local communities, everybody knew each other. Hell, for awhile there was a group of social BBSes (including mine) that held Softball Games on Sundays almost every week in the summer.
LAN parties sounds so fun in retrospect. With wifi, it would be much easier, too.
Here, you don't stop at a stop sign (full stop). You just slow down some. Your wheels NEVER stop turning. I have adopted the practice of coming to a full stop, and it really pisses people off.
They really spent weeks pushing the ISPs to update the firmware on the traffic shapers? Why not identify the mechanism (which apparently they did) and once their understanding was good, since the firmware was frozen in place, route around it? Has the Internet ceased to be The Internet?
You need to completely fuck the whole issue up with confusing arguement/counter-arguement, until eventually the mainstream population comes to understand that NN stands for 'ninny nerds.'
Minecraft started as an indy game, and it was single player for quite awhile, then the networking was small-servers. It still has not at all migrated into being a MMO and never will. It isn't even a large download.
They don't care about the quality of your connection -- hell, most multiplayer netcode uses UDP.
They care so much about the quality of your connection that they refuse to trust the integrity of the protocol. They use UDP and wrap it in their own error checking.
I suppose I shouldn't rant at A.C. about something like this.
Is there a place-of-birth requirement that prevents him from running for President in the People's Republic of China? I'm sure he can manage a Party membership without needing to brush up for the test.
On the way to my new job, I drive by a local Middle School just before the school day starts there. There is a huge line of parents' cars that sometimes extends out onto the shoulder, which slowly crawls forward as each pupil is deposited on the sidewalk next to the school door.
I can only imagine the trouble you would get in if you just let your kid out in the parking lot and didn't queue up in the line to deposit them at the prescribed spot on the curb.
I walked to school when I was that age because of the bullies on the bus. But it was several miles.
Teachers now all have degrees from the 'Education Department' of the University. That's a stunted little sub-campus at some Universities where students progress on stunted little degree programs that are heavily laced with ideology.
Really, it's hard to get a teaching job now if you didn't have an 'Education Major' when in college, instead of getting a Liberal Arts or Science education.
But then who pays for a bike before the student is old enough to be employed, particularly if another child in the same neighborhood already snapped up all the lawns to mow and sidewalks to shovel?
How about using the the money that would have been spent on the smartphone? Bikes don't have an additional monthly charge to remain useful, and a kid's bike is very much less expensive than a smartphone in the long run.
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Agreed. You could even hide a bunch of cans of beans (or corn!) in the ground where you know there will be a bonfire in a few hours. Completely innocent stuff to be carrying around.
Dorothy: "I don't think we're in USENET anymore, Toto."
I hang out in blue/yellow Albion Online.
Cuz I'm chicken.
No, he's right. Somebody else's network.
I've had my own network for a long time. A bunch of us have. The first time I did, it was 1994 and I had bought a bunch of cheap used (obsolete!) 3C501 network cards at a surplus store. I think I paid like $5 each for them. Anyhow, I strung the BNC Ts and all kinds of coax all over my apartment. (with the essential 50ohm stubs, of course. I think one end was a 50 ohm carbon comp on a Pomona BNC-bananna adapter) Then I hooked up a bunch of Linux boxes (cheap 386sx boxes were good for Linux in the early 90's) and had my little internet of my own.
My connection to the outside world was still a 56K modem, but I had a network that was mine.
The paper insulated wireline
Paper? That's just weird. I have quite an old house, it actually existed before electric house wiring. Even the oldest tube-and-post wire in this place is silk-wound with rubber or fabric insulation. Paper just doesn't sound practical at all.
It's almost the same thing as what happened to BBSing. I was a sysop in the late 80's to early 90's. We had local communities, everybody knew each other. Hell, for awhile there was a group of social BBSes (including mine) that held Softball Games on Sundays almost every week in the summer.
LAN parties sounds so fun in retrospect. With wifi, it would be much easier, too.
You don't live in my area.
Here, you don't stop at a stop sign (full stop). You just slow down some. Your wheels NEVER stop turning. I have adopted the practice of coming to a full stop, and it really pisses people off.
They really spent weeks pushing the ISPs to update the firmware on the traffic shapers? Why not identify the mechanism (which apparently they did) and once their understanding was good, since the firmware was frozen in place, route around it? Has the Internet ceased to be The Internet?
You need to completely fuck the whole issue up with confusing arguement/counter-arguement, until eventually the mainstream population comes to understand that NN stands for 'ninny nerds.'
End-of-issue.
Minecraft started as an indy game, and it was single player for quite awhile, then the networking was small-servers. It still has not at all migrated into being a MMO and never will. It isn't even a large download.
They don't care about the quality of your connection -- hell, most multiplayer netcode uses UDP.
They care so much about the quality of your connection that they refuse to trust the integrity of the protocol. They use UDP and wrap it in their own error checking.
I suppose I shouldn't rant at A.C. about something like this.
If someone broadcast a "weird" transaction
"...using this one weird old trick."
It's the One True Cryptocurrency.
For now. Anyway.
So long as it's around long enough for the Student Loan Checks to be disbursed, it will serve it's purpose.
Not at all. One old currency was cowry shells.
Anything works as a currency so long as it's not widely available for nothing in the culture it is used within.
Yes, Youtube. Engage in toxic partisan behavior, and you become a target.
This is not to excuse any violence or attacks that occur. Just stating fact.
Is there a place-of-birth requirement that prevents him from running for President in the People's Republic of China? I'm sure he can manage a Party membership without needing to brush up for the test.
The remainers form a demographic, though.
It probably is enough that it's being noticed.
Duh! Throwitaway! Getanudder!
Bong water spills are definitely a bummer, man.
On the way to my new job, I drive by a local Middle School just before the school day starts there. There is a huge line of parents' cars that sometimes extends out onto the shoulder, which slowly crawls forward as each pupil is deposited on the sidewalk next to the school door.
I can only imagine the trouble you would get in if you just let your kid out in the parking lot and didn't queue up in the line to deposit them at the prescribed spot on the curb.
I walked to school when I was that age because of the bullies on the bus. But it was several miles.
Teachers now all have degrees from the 'Education Department' of the University. That's a stunted little sub-campus at some Universities where students progress on stunted little degree programs that are heavily laced with ideology.
Really, it's hard to get a teaching job now if you didn't have an 'Education Major' when in college, instead of getting a Liberal Arts or Science education.
Some of these parents already shun fast food to make ends meet.
A lot of poor and lower-middle-class people are poor specifically because they regularly eat fast food instead of cooking/fixing meals at home.
Which isn't to blame the fast food places. But a lot of poor people are poor at managing money.
But then who pays for a bike before the student is old enough to be employed, particularly if another child in the same neighborhood already snapped up all the lawns to mow and sidewalks to shovel?
How about using the the money that would have been spent on the smartphone? Bikes don't have an additional monthly charge to remain useful, and a kid's bike is very much less expensive than a smartphone in the long run.
And formal education will take you a long way in wallpapering a room, but it's not cheap wallpaper.