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Comment Re:Indeed (Score 1) 385

As an outsider and, I think, unbiased let me say this...

The whole thing is a cesspool. It is leaking out onto the rest of the 'net. Let them do what they will and build a community of your own if you do not like it - that goes for any/all sides. While it is done on private property you have no control. If one is being censored on one platform your recourse is not to whinge but to do something constructive about it. Make your own site, make it popular, and maybe make some money on the side. Keep it open (or closed) as you see fit.

Now, about it leaking to the rest of the internet. Let me also point out that I am not helping prevent this. I am giving my eyeballs and my random pixels to the cause. I am aware of this. However... Really? Hang your dirty laundry up in the house. Have you no shame? The rest of us are proverbial perverts (and real perverts) so we will watch (and speculate) much like we would watch the results of a spectacular car wreck.

Comment Start a hot dog fire with booster cables (Score 1) 210

My brother and his friend found themselves without any matches recently, but needing to start a fire to roast hot dogs and marsh mellows over. Using a paperclip and jumper cables they got the fire going quite quickly so they didn't have to eat raw hot dogs. They did have to carefully lay the fire though with lots of tinder as the paperclip only lasted a few seconds. But it was enough.

Comment Re:Converted wifi hub into network bridge (Score 2) 210

A pair of ubiquiti NanoStationMs work well enough you may never have needed to implement the cable, though the NanoStationM is limited to 100 Mbit/s. I use it to get a solid network connection between two houses 400 feet apart and it works great. I actually get the full 100 Mbit/s out of it which is pretty impressive. The low-end units can work up to a kilometer away. I had been planning to trench in fiber optic, but this works so well for me that I've abandoned the idea of running the fiber for now. At least until I really need Gigabit across the link (or more).

Comment Re:Terrifying. (Score 1) 68

This is the most terrifying and ridiculous thing I've seen in my entire life.

No, the most terrifying and ridiculous thing would be if it was rewritten in JavaScript which outputted Java source that piped C# source that then, when compiled and executed, outputted as an x86 ASM program that produced a PHP script.

Comment Re:Slippery slope (Score 1) 270

I think I may help shed some light on this. I am not sure how good it will be but I will try.

Some say that atheists do not believe in a god. Others say that atheists believe there is no god. In both it requires a belief, believing that there is no god. The verbiage just brings that aspect to the forefront. So, if one actively believes there is no god then that is a belief system ergo a religion by some definitions.

I offer no opinion other than the above. What you believe is entirely up to you as is how you opt to identify yourself.

Comment Re:No, it ISN'T free speech. (Score 1) 270

Your post is mostly gibberish but to reply...

A company can restrict your ability to use their property as your platform for speech. The government can also do so, we call them "free speech zones."

You should also read my post. I make it quite clear that this is applicable to the United States and that other nations can and have different laws and that some include no right to free speech at all. This is not a complicated subject but your incorrect ranting is cute. What is also amusing is that someone actually noticed your capitalization and punctuation and thought you were saying something pertinent. They absolutely could not have read it before moderating it or, alternatively, they just are inept.

Comment Re: Basically, you can only spend so much (Score 1) 188

Investments are the money doing work. You do not invest in a company so that the company can just sit on the money. They take that money and spend it doing things like growing their business, hiring new people, buying supplies, investing in growth, creating new products, and other things. When you put money in a bank it does not just sit idle in a bank. That money is also invested, it is used to loan other people money, it pays salaries and works. Unless you are storing it in a shoe box, or a proverbial shoe box, it is working. Obviously you should have some in a shoe box so that you have access to it.

So, after you take someone else's money what are you going to do when that money is gone? If you stole all the money from the 1% you could run the federal government on that money alone for a grand total of a little over four days (using someone else's math but checking it indicated that it was the correct sum) and then they will have the same situation they were in before (and fewer investments in short or long-term growth) and, worse, because of all the money being exchanged and the wealth removed the deflated dollar will have even less buying power than it had before that.

YTMND! So, what is next? You have no more wealthy people but you do have a bunch of new people who collected those lowered-value dollars. Are you going to take it from them next? How many times are you going to do this? Are you going to drive the country into the ground as quickly as you can or are you going to make it slow and painful?

Comment Re:It's the end of the world as we know it! (Score 1) 307

What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.

I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.

This is where I meant to post this response. Somehow I ended up posting it in a different thread. I can only assume that stupidity was involved. My own involvement is the reason that I suspect stupidity. With this reply, though, that has been taken care of.

Comment Re:Bad science? (Score 1) 184

Ignore that. I had several tabs open and I am functionally retarded.

What I meant to say, to you, was along the lines of; Yeah. I found it a bit odd that they were "seeing" things in the other person's post. It was remarkable how much insight they could gather from those limited sentences. Their ability to grasp a person's mental health status with so limited information should be lauded and investigated as they truly can change the psychiatric medical field. I suspect they will get a Nobel Prize and be featured on the cover of both Time and Rolling Stone magazines. Also, the ladies will be impressed so they will further their genetic profile far and wide.

Comment Re:Bad science? (Score 1) 184

What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.

I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.

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