Expected user behaviour if you want to maintain your system is review what each and individual update does (KB article) and having identified all Windows 7 upgrade and telemetry updates, unchecking them, and hiding them (right click / hide update).
Works fine with me. Woe be unto he who does not know which exact updates are malicious, because if you allow one, they will be possible to purge only with specialized 3rd party apps (yes there are such apps).
"Visual representation" is a red flag, it always contains less information and detail than good old text (text in the eyes of a proficient reader mind you).
And, well, one property of graphical representation is that it is (more easily) accessible to idiots, aka, "The Management".
I mean sex is very, very good, but I cannot have sex for multiples of 12 hour runs at times, all the while having sustained fun that is purely intellectual. Sex just cannot provide that, it only provides a release from tension, in a metaphysical, and very pleasurable sense.
If sex was best in life, humans (those pesky men actually, damn those sex-less engineers) would never have built cities
1. Most of the worlds evolved more to fantasy-like societies, like special-ability oriented, earthbound. For what we may know, special biological abilities akin to magic are norm, and tech is a deviation. (Total speculation).
2. Societies have space travel, but are very introverted in general and live inside mental macrocosm, rather than (space) macrocosm. (Read: "The Pod and the Barrier", by Theodore Sturgeon for what I'm referencing here)
3. There exists force that is extremerly dominant and prevents any free interstellar travel. May be active, may be passive relics, may be programmed bots/nanobots. (I think this one is highly likely, because it is extremely probable that some societies have say, at least ~10 million year technological headstart over others, and that is, paradigm-changing (pardon the word). We may not even understand such technology, and it unavoidably has, perfect cloaking, because at this point it would be trivial. We may already have invisible aliens among us, and we'd be none the wiser. In this case advertising our presence by use of nuclear weapons / other stupid activities (EM footprint, may be easily identifiable / detectable) may be a very, very bad idea, in case they are hostile / exploiter type.
4. Luck, which I think is totally unlikely.
5. They may already have left footprint (may be likely ?), if you think it's not the case, then explain the artifacts on Earth (pyramids all over the world aligned in certain directions (would require 1 world civilization which organizes building of them all to certain precise measurements, for all we know, they may not have been built by savage natives (pharaohs), but rather claimed by them by scribbling their writ on them), Moon being very peculiar distance from Earth and having very peculiar measurements, various reported phenomena found in coal mines reportedly hundreds of millions of years old (hard to prove, but interesting nonetheless)). DO NOT DISCOUNT WHAT IM SAYING HERE, IT IS NOT ALL CLEAR CUT AND IS NOT ALL"WOO CONSPIRACY". There are too many outliers found for them all to be natural deviations of a single civ (ours).
After all the considerations, same things apply even if light speed barrier is unbroken, because with high automation, you need only max 70K-100K years at lightspeed to totally map the galaxy, so if any civ existed in our galaxy, it is a certainty in statistical sense that it visited Earth either as bots, or living creatures.
All of the above is wild speculation taken with large doses of salt or soy sauce, your preference.
It is political partisanship, political agenda, and new cult of Malthusians.
Statements follow:
1.Climate change exists. Of course, it always existed.
2. We live in mid-low ice age.
3. Ice ages are bad for civilisation, Global warming is good for civilisation. While cold, there is no Civ, only war, while warm, there decreases parts of livable land insignificantly, instead, food-producing and otherwise unlivable land increases significantly (Siberia et al.)
4. Whether GW is Anthropogenic is a discussion, but if yes, we need more of it. Humans are doing very good in burning oil during mini-ice age, lest we lapse again to it (and unavoidable wars and scarcity and death that would follow).
5. For politicians, cold, scarcity and death is good, because it leads to wars and strenghtening of holders of political powers.
> carbohydrates (most of all sugar and wheat) that cause many "Western" diseases
No, it's actually milk, and obscene amounts of saturated fat + calcium.
Point in case, asia. You would find, in most regions, people eat obscene amounts of rice, while still being thin as sticks (Especially Japan, those people eat humungous amounts.. of carbs and lean meat).
Asians do not usually eat any significant amounts of milk or milk products though.
Everything is racist and sexist, because races and sexes obviously, objectivelly exist, and are obviously, objectivelly non-uniform in defining properties.
Or you can buy a reader that supports open formats and is not tied to a store. Which is trivial.
You can find almost any book in DRM-free ebook format. Or if not, you can buy the book, and strip DRM from it, and save it as open format, with no quality loss.
Jews masterminded the plan to invade present day "israel" you see, and that was their pretext, their base of all propaganda of "jew suffering" (except for all those forgotten people who suffered in hands of jews, but history forgets them).
You truly, really need to get out of where you are hiding, and learn of the ays of the world.
The world is not a nice place, and jews are NOT nice people.
"If you want to find out who is your true master, find out who you are not allowed to criticize".
Parasitic jew bankers and their scam to take over the world and rebuild their scamtopia (Jewsrael) is coming to fruition, what with white people being so naive and stupid, so easily influenced by moving pictured (made by jews) and held down by THEIR OWN WOMEN (brainwashed by jews into submission to transient, fake "qualities", conglomerated into so called "feminism").
you mean like everything in www.bitcoinstore.com, and also gold and other PMs ? Which can then trivially be redeemed for cash ?
Noone will dump 1 Megabuck on a market without rebuying later, because it is NONTRIVIAL getting 1 Megabuck TXed to your bank account; (go on, try it).
What is trivial, is buying a few 100s grams of gold. At a significant markup, but gold is valued much over the "official" rate anyway, on the street.
This is quite real I assure you - and people give other people hundreds of dollars for 1 BTC not because they lack confidence in BTC -- IT IS BECAUSE THEY LACK CONFIDENCE IN DOLLARS.
In case you haven't noticed, we have impending US dollar currency crash, and people are starting to get clued in.
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I'll have you know that /. is still one of the premier tech info forums.
There are no more notable forums of that size, AND paid shills post ON FUCKING 4CHAN. /. >> 4chan when it comes to tech info.
So, all your points are m00t and void.
You speak like a shill.
No, they will not.
Expected user behaviour if you want to maintain your system is review what each and individual update does (KB article) and having identified all Windows 7 upgrade and telemetry updates, unchecking them, and hiding them (right click / hide update).
Works fine with me. Woe be unto he who does not know which exact updates are malicious, because if you allow one, they will be possible to purge only with specialized 3rd party apps (yes there are such apps).
"Visual representation" is a red flag, it always contains less information and detail than good old text (text in the eyes of a proficient reader mind you).
And, well, one property of graphical representation is that it is (more easily) accessible to idiots, aka, "The Management".
So there you have it.
> traditional state issued currency and state regulated banking
Where in the World do you get THAT ?
Syria ? Iceland ? Iran ?
Truly not US if that is what you are implying ?
To me, agming is better than sex.
I mean sex is very, very good, but I cannot have sex for multiples of 12 hour runs at times, all the while having sustained fun that is purely intellectual. Sex just cannot provide that, it only provides a release from tension, in a metaphysical, and very pleasurable sense.
If sex was best in life, humans (those pesky men actually, damn those sex-less engineers) would never have built cities
The recent and more interesting and also quite unique footprint IMO is nuclear explosions.
They should be fairly unique, fairly high-radius, and fairly indicator-of-lifish.
1. Most of the worlds evolved more to fantasy-like societies, like special-ability oriented, earthbound. For what we may know, special biological abilities akin to magic are norm, and tech is a deviation. (Total speculation).
2. Societies have space travel, but are very introverted in general and live inside mental macrocosm, rather than (space) macrocosm. (Read: "The Pod and the Barrier", by Theodore Sturgeon for what I'm referencing here)
3. There exists force that is extremerly dominant and prevents any free interstellar travel. May be active, may be passive relics, may be programmed bots/nanobots. (I think this one is highly likely, because it is extremely probable that some societies have say, at least ~10 million year technological headstart over others, and that is, paradigm-changing (pardon the word). We may not even understand such technology, and it unavoidably has, perfect cloaking, because at this point it would be trivial. We may already have invisible aliens among us, and we'd be none the wiser. In this case advertising our presence by use of nuclear weapons / other stupid activities (EM footprint, may be easily identifiable / detectable) may be a very, very bad idea, in case they are hostile / exploiter type.
4. Luck, which I think is totally unlikely.
5. They may already have left footprint (may be likely ?), if you think it's not the case, then explain the artifacts on Earth (pyramids all over the world aligned in certain directions (would require 1 world civilization which organizes building of them all to certain precise measurements, for all we know, they may not have been built by savage natives (pharaohs), but rather claimed by them by scribbling their writ on them), Moon being very peculiar distance from Earth and having very peculiar measurements, various reported phenomena found in coal mines reportedly hundreds of millions of years old (hard to prove, but interesting nonetheless)). DO NOT DISCOUNT WHAT IM SAYING HERE, IT IS NOT ALL CLEAR CUT AND IS NOT ALL"WOO CONSPIRACY". There are too many outliers found for them all to be natural deviations of a single civ (ours).
After all the considerations, same things apply even if light speed barrier is unbroken, because with high automation, you need only max 70K-100K years at lightspeed to totally map the galaxy, so if any civ existed in our galaxy, it is a certainty in statistical sense that it visited Earth either as bots, or living creatures.
All of the above is wild speculation taken with large doses of salt or soy sauce, your preference.
Casuals now infect Golf too.
There will need to be a purging.
Of casuals.
You seem to be forgetting about battery life, and game library, 2 factors which were decisive in case of Game Boy. Nothing else compared.
It is political partisanship, political agenda, and new cult of Malthusians.
Statements follow:
1.Climate change exists. Of course, it always existed.
2. We live in mid-low ice age.
3. Ice ages are bad for civilisation, Global warming is good for civilisation. While cold, there is no Civ, only war, while warm, there decreases parts of livable land insignificantly, instead, food-producing and otherwise unlivable land increases significantly (Siberia et al.)
4. Whether GW is Anthropogenic is a discussion, but if yes, we need more of it. Humans are doing very good in burning oil during mini-ice age, lest we lapse again to it (and unavoidable wars and scarcity and death that would follow).
5. For politicians, cold, scarcity and death is good, because it leads to wars and strenghtening of holders of political powers.
You forgot the crucial "banks destroy peoples wealth".
the fact that the average common denominator for intelligent discussion dropped markedly and measurably in the mentioned span of time.
Now you have to WORK to find a good, intelligent circle, and then work doubly hard to protect it from casuals..
This has to do with the fact that before, only academics and at least computer enthusiasts and hardcore geeks used the internet.
Now, Biff "uses" it too.
UI is sometimes good.
UX is ALWAYS bad.
Are dwarfed by Medical Malpractice.
Why are not the so called doctors (and nurses) who routinelly kill mass amounts of people considered terrorists ?
> carbohydrates (most of all sugar and wheat) that cause many "Western" diseases
No, it's actually milk, and obscene amounts of saturated fat + calcium.
Point in case, asia. You would find, in most regions, people eat obscene amounts of rice, while still being thin as sticks (Especially Japan, those people eat humungous amounts.. of carbs and lean meat).
Asians do not usually eat any significant amounts of milk or milk products though.
YES.
Everything is racist and sexist, because races and sexes obviously, objectivelly exist, and are obviously, objectivelly non-uniform in defining properties.
Or you can buy a reader that supports open formats and is not tied to a store. Which is trivial.
You can find almost any book in DRM-free ebook format. Or if not, you can buy the book, and strip DRM from it, and save it as open format, with no quality loss.
To illustrate the position of "democrats" or "liberals" well, i present the following image:
http://www.political-humor.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/want-govt.jpg
Too bad these people never see the irony of their affiliation.
The holohoax is a hoax tho.
Jews masterminded the plan to invade present day "israel" you see, and that was their pretext, their base of all propaganda of "jew suffering" (except for all those forgotten people who suffered in hands of jews, but history forgets them).
You truly, really need to get out of where you are hiding, and learn of the ays of the world.
The world is not a nice place, and jews are NOT nice people.
"If you want to find out who is your true master, find out who you are not allowed to criticize".
Parasitic jew bankers and their scam to take over the world and rebuild their scamtopia (Jewsrael) is coming to fruition, what with white people being so naive and stupid, so easily influenced by moving pictured (made by jews) and held down by THEIR OWN WOMEN (brainwashed by jews into submission to transient, fake "qualities", conglomerated into so called "feminism").
Yeah, jews are just peachy.
I have news to you buddy.
Archive this message, and look at it in one year.
1 BTC will have passed 2500 USD mark at that point. If there will be a USD.
> not a great deal
you mean like everything in www.bitcoinstore.com, and also gold and other PMs ? Which can then trivially be redeemed for cash ?
Noone will dump 1 Megabuck on a market without rebuying later, because it is NONTRIVIAL getting 1 Megabuck TXed to your bank account; (go on, try it).
What is trivial, is buying a few 100s grams of gold. At a significant markup, but gold is valued much over the "official" rate anyway, on the street.
This is quite real I assure you - and people give other people hundreds of dollars for 1 BTC not because they lack confidence in BTC -- IT IS BECAUSE THEY LACK CONFIDENCE IN DOLLARS.
In case you haven't noticed, we have impending US dollar currency crash, and people are starting to get clued in.
What ? So you mean these things I buy with BTC are imaginary, and gold cannot be trivially redeemed for cash in street gold stores ? Oh, ok.
See ya later.
Be creative. Buy tech. Or gold. Cash that out - some banks are iffy about associating TXes where BTC was involved.
The whoosh is in the ear of the listener.