"Where did they find them?"

after the teenage burst, its really easy to quit porn. when i was a teen porn there was no such thing as too much porn, but the older i got the less interested in it i was. i think my record is 3 years no porn and of course no masturbation. but then again i am not typical and haven't even had sex, despite being 36 years old. and yes i am still living in my parents basement. but i pay rent to them they needed the extra income and they are getting older and it is good to see them once in a while.

without going into details i have been thinking about the same problem since i was 6-7 years old, never quite thinking things through right, and forcing people around me to (including on irc) deal with a prick who had serious issues just trying to figure out who i am and what i am good at. all to realize i was below average at the things i thought i was good at, which was mainly easy video games... and putting people through hell just to be 'friends' with me. after losing about 300 or so friends online i still haven't quite put the last nail in the coffin of who i was in the past.

lucky me i am disabled because there is no way i could ever support myself with my screwed up brain. oh yeah and i really really am bad at maintaining computers despite it being my hobby.

the sad part is there is a huge market for pv and concentrated solar thermal, and we don't need to build pyramids to do it.
'solar roadways' are far fetched yet they exist and we can turn broken beer bottles into them. but more interesting is a omnidirectional solar concentrator that channels all the solar and moon light with a magnification of up to 10,000 times the concentartion of available light. which then makes solar thermal and solar photovotaics that run in moon light and on cloudy days.
in fact there are so many solar concentrator tech available i don't know which one to link to, perhaps the solar roadways also use a concentrator i don't know, but if we can build 10 billion cars why can't we build all the solar concentrators and pv to power our cities and electric vehicles?
i know this doesn't fix a lot of problems with our society, but having energy that doesn't require the production of greenhouse gasses is something every society needs, reguardless of if they are ready for it or not.

" Whereas most families (at least the ones that matter) have 2 or more PCs - one for mom, one for dad, one for the kids, etc. And that model will change to probably one for everyone to use when they need it - e.g., school work."

real life doesn't work that way. i am the tech person for my family there are three people here, and here is what works. 1 office desktop with printer, one game/altcoin miner desktop, 4 laptops one of which is dedicated linux to scan and wipe windows flash memory etc., 1 smartphone 'because it costs too much with Verizon..' 2 dumb cells, 1 ps3, 1 ds and 1 tablet (which i use for mp3 because it sucks and i want to get some use out of it)

that is 12 devices. for 3 people. i person owns 7 of them and the other 2 own 5. i didn't count wifi routers. or broken computers. and while i covered dumbphones i didn't count smart/lcd tvs.

have you ever sat 16 hours in front of a computer with basically 95% of that time trying to type commands and move and click a mouse?

do you have any idea what that does to you?

i do, because i have been playing video games since i was 5.
i am 36 now.
most of the games i played didn't cause lasting harm and only one other game had me playing day and night, until i found warcraft 3, and it's expansion frozen throne.
but just one game was so addictive i'd have jitters trying to sit still and not play.
just one game left me not feeling hungry even if i hadn't ate in 14 hours.
just one game did i wrack my brain over what games i had failed my team at to the tune of sleeping 2 hours a night effectively.
just one game where i smashed the discs to because then i wouldn't play until a week later when i replaced the discs.
just one game had me physically destroy 7 keyboards and cause me to kick a computer case causing a short that powered it down, and i had to hammer at the case to get it to work and not short again.
yup frozen throne had me so hard i couldn't do anything else.
what 5% of gamers find this game? the one they can't play without. it nearly killed me. it is a game so fast paced i literally double my heart rate and double the blood pressure in my veins. i can see how gamers who haven't found the game they can't put down might not get how one game can change the course of ones life, but most gamers just play less addictive ones that are still fun but not 'addictive' enough to cause harm.
anyways games movies books etc. they all affect you but the level and extent of change varies.

three hdmi 1080p monitors in 24" resolution for $130 per screen and a $120 gpu (ati 7770) and two display port mini to hdmi adaptors and a decent computer will do just fine for most people and be a fraction of the price because it's standard screen size. if the 7770 isn't fast enough for gaming then a r9 280x is only $300 and is 4 times faster than the 7770. i still play old games though, so there are many models for me to chose from. technically i don't do multi screen except to play back blurays to a 40" hdtv. but i don't have the room for them, and if i were to game with multiple screens i would likely use 3 40" tv sets ($300-400 on sale compared to $700 per screen for monitors) rather than pay for 'only' monitors. but 24" is plenty big. i use 1080p on my best laptop which has a 17.3" display but if i had room for 3 screens i would definitely go big, on a budget. and i am not sensitive to flicker, from crts, florescent lights and other flickery things have never ever bothered me so latency and refresh rates don't apply to me to be willing to spend more for something that doesn't bother me.

"1) Spend little on R&D for an electric vehicle. Sell it just cheap enough (at a loss if you have to) to meet the minimum requirement. Whine about it.
2) Put some effort and investment in developing an electric car that people will actually want with a manufacturing cost that leads to a price people are willing to pay. Refine the design over time so that it becomes that profit center that saves your bacon when the bottom inevitably drops out of the IC car market as the cost of gas heads toward the stratosphere."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-worlds-unsold-cars-go-die with 10 billion cars and lots where they simply store and refuse to sell 'normal' cars it is crazy. if the resources to build the cars wasn't used building them just to scrap 12 years later because selling them at a loss is unthinkable... and god forbid any auto plants get shutdown because too many car makers are making too many cars world wide. all that iron all that coal to make steel all those factories cranking out cars faster than ever with not one person on the 'sustainable' track of thinking, you know like shutting plants down, or having 4 day weeks and only 2 8 hour shifts instead of those factories. and now every car has a touchscreen tablet built in. and most of them will never be turned on.

what makes you think anyone still uses internet explorer. inflated botnet numbers from microsoft? oh wait windows 8 by default has about 20 automatically refreshing tabs with internet explorer. between win8 and botnets the traffic is skewed.

android is proof that open source and 'free software' are a far cry from each other, and it tracks a lot of data while i have yet to hear of free software containing adware.

soda stream uses chemically altered sugar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose

" It is manufactured by the selective chlorination of sucrose (table sugar), which substitutes three of the hydroxyl groups with chlorine."

supposedly the chlorine doesn't detach as the substance doesn't break down in the digestive system. but they also said aspartame was good for you and it wasn't and i recall saccharine was used for a while until it started giving rats cancer.

instead of cherry picking just one state, why not cherry pick 30 states. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/rprts05p0510pr.cfm sure only 77% repeated within 5 years... but hell i was messed up for 20+ years and nothing worked until i was diagnosed and medicated. sure i didn't 'break' many laws and was only in police care until they could transport me to psychwards etc. and they were trying to help me. i would say they did good, because now i am stable and i'm a heavy streaming media user, rather than a heavy torrent user, now... though sometimes only torrents have things due to stupid unfair approaches to copyright... like licensing movies and tv content from separate parties and thus not having the movies available when the tv series is available... and i need to see the movie to understand how the storyline is from the tv series... (like movie 10 of the anime one piece) and keep in mind one piece has 600+ tv episodes with more to come and it doesn't make sense to just watch the anime without the movies because the movies make more sense (but except movie 10 are all non canaon of the manga or anime) if crunchyroll had the movies i would watch it there of course, but they don't and piracy is something many many people do, from radio mixtapes to vhs copying to dvd ripping most people have circumvented copyright if they had the resources to have a device but not the income to own content. so great i don't have to pirate movies because i can afford to stream them and i don't mind waiting for netflix or amazon or crunchyroll or don't mind hulu ads but when these sites only get partial content i have few options buying the movies off amazon is one possibility but at $20 a movie it then conflicts with my entertainment budget of $100 a month. anyways, i do have quite a backlog of movies to watch, and i easily spend $100 a month on entertainment so i probably sound pretty vain but i was taught that sharing is a good thing. that people are supposed to share the good parts of their life to others in hope they too lead an enjoyable life. copyright shouldn't be seen as a way to make the world a better place because it doesn't. it makes sharing a harder process and i don't always like the 'hyped' content for instance i spent $20 of my entertainment budget on the first 5 books of game of thrones(kindle edition) and have only gotten through the first chapter, so far. and if it doesn't get better it will be not very high on my list of things to do. if i had pirated the books i probably would have deleted them by now. as it is i feel obligated to keep the ebook until i finish the first book, because i know sometimes it takes authors a while to get a good storyline rolling.

yeah and they're more likely to binge drink if their wives aren't drunks too. but i am speculating on that..

the more marriages in KY the more fishing boat drownings! clearly rednecks who cant swim don't go fishing unless they have a wife!

for live events there is this neat thing called 'multicast' where you beam the same stream in one broadcast signal to as many customers as needed. multicast is way underutilized but it does get used for the big live streams. live streams can only be paused if buffering on the client end allows it. streams from non live media use a lot more bandwith as each user needs to hold open a stream can pause it (though with flash the stream will time out) etc. but flash only has a 10 megabyte buffer and defaults to a single megabyte. anyways google seems to be able to do it, as do netflix hulu crunchyroll etc.

so where does noscript fit into this?

where do iceweasel and seamonkey fit in?

oh hey and why the windows bias? i run a small but diverse network with certain devices with certain router ports etc to protect and divide my network from misbehaving software or hardware. and yes i realize google makes something like $500 per year per person with tracked information.

and what if you've pulled the plug on everything electric in your home (including the fridge) and they still have 'coincidence' events? also i never told anyone but had 2 movies on a mental queue and 2 on a written list, and just when you switch from one provider to another you see all 4 movies in 4 days after the install event?

i've been in the hospital for having paranoia.

i wont get into the details but half the time it seems like things are going my way, and the other half it feels like my mind is a quantum spaghetti of useless first world problems.

back to the movies, they are chosen between 30-60 days prior to transmission, so someone has a plan. my plan was to wing it and be honest. tbh i feel like i only do the things i like doing and get depressed and then feel dumb for being depressed when i know so many things are going 'right' for me.

one thing i hate about linux/slashdot is people assume you're a hacker. and i am not. my most impressive hack was taking a boot floppy to a p120 laptop get into an unencrypted drive open the shadow password file and take a user account's password and pasted it into roots hash. essentially giving me root again, sure i forgot the password to root which is why i did it, but it is only technically legal to hack your own computer which might be why bill gates called the computer menu 'my computer'

i wandered off topic ah well