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Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 141

Politics in the US are meant to foment division, tribalism. Politicians want the plebeians to fight amongst themselves to keep the masses from realizing some simple truths. The leaders are not smart, they don’t know what they are doing; the ones that are intelligent are simply evil. All politicians are egocentric or else they would be in productive careers. All problems in society that concern the populace were probably caused by politicians. They will promise to fix them, but are not interested in actually doing that, doing so would make them obsolete. There is no real difference between democratic and republican politicians. At least not in the establishment.

There are exceptions, but they are few. They education system is not designed to educate, it is designed to make mostly worker bees that do not question their role. Yes, even professionals. Doctors are not taught how to cure disease, only how to perform surgery or prescribe drugs. The curriculum is created by pharmaceutical industry. Lawyers are taught to follow the system. Not to question it, or the fact that there is no justice in the justice system.

Our food is poisoning us. Farmers are forced to purchase expensive inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, etc) in order to have profitable harvests. Corn, soy wheat are subsidized in order to keep the populace fat. Check the ingredients of the foods you eat. It will inevitably have one of those ingredients or one or several processed versions of those ingredients.

There is a solution. Grow your own food, raise your own animals for meat for yourself and your family. This will solve two major problems. It will make you self sufficient and it will make healthy/strong. You cannot be controlled if you’re self sufficient. It would be best to do this by moving out of large cities, but is still possible to do in the city.

Look into permaculture, restoration agriculture, Korean natural farming. These are methods of agriculture that will fix the soil on your land, returning the nutrients that have been lost.

Comment This is supposed to keep govt bank in check (Score 1) 50

It is my undetstanding that the the purpose of bitcoin is to keep govts in check. It prevents them debasing the currency and stealing value through inflation. If you give the keys to the bank, you are just making it easy for you bitcoin to get confiscated, for reasons. Dont think that will happen? Tell that to the people that rosevelt confisvated gold from in 1933 when they did away from the gold standard. Bitcoin is deventralized and it cant be debased, that is why govts are afraid of it.
Crime

Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) 390

An anonymous reader writes: The city of Los Angeles is considering a new plan to fight prostitution: sending letters to men who solicit prostitutes in the hopes that the letters are seen by family members. Why not just arrest them while they're doing it? Because these letters aren't being sent to the houses of men who were convicted, or even arrested. Instead, automated license plate readers would scan the cars driving down streets known to have a prostitution problem, and the letters would be sent to the address associated with those vehicles. An article about the plan says, "There isn't 'potential' for abuse here, this is a legislated abuse of technology that is already controversial when it's used by police for the purpose of seeking stolen vehicles, tracking down fugitives and solving specific crimes."

Comment Re: XP (Score 1) 527

I stopped updates on my win8 pc soon after the win10 fiasco in the previous weeks. today my install was suddenly not activated. It claimed my serial was used on another pc when I tried to reactivate. I had to call the automated system to reactivate. Im still on the fence as to whether this was related to the updates or if my system was actually infected. Do you have any further insight into the matter for me?

Comment General Purpose/Gaming Rig (Score 1) 558

I use my current setup for everything, watching movies on dvd, streaming netflix/amazon video, web browsing, and of course gaming. My current rig consists of:

Asus z97 Motherboard
i5 4690k
8GB of 2400Mhz SDRAM
EVGA GTX 970 SSC
500GB SSD
LG Bluray burner

I play everything from retro/indie titles to free to play games to current games like witcher 3 wild hunt.

Comment Re:My encryption key is... (Score 1) 1047

You mean srm -rf /

And between journalled filesystems and NAND based storage, it probably still won't erase your data.

WTF is srm? I did "man sm" and "man srm" and my system said there's no man page. All Linux (etc.) software is great, because it's GNU and/or open source. All great software comes with at least minimal adequate documentation telling someone what it does, or what it is, and man could not tell me, so the command srm must not exist. :) Right?

Was this a typo? Or perhaps a Stypo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srm_(Unix)

Comment Re:Imagine... (Score 1) 96

But if you're just playing Flash games on Facebook,

I just upgraded my brothers computer, a six year old economy diy I built him because his hard drive crashed. Built him a new pc because he was thinking of upgrading anyways. He wanted to be able to play his flash games on facebook without his pc slowing to a crawl.

Comment Re:The obvious response... (Score 1) 566

I think you are completely ignoring an important factor in fuel economy, driving style. Here's my example: When travelling from Las Vegas to Los Angeles I go roughly from 0 to 90 miles per hour, depending on road conditions. If I'm going 0 there is traffic, I go 90 no when there is little traffic on the downhills. my wife on the other hand used to try to go 75 the whole way, unless there is heavy traffic. In the same vehicle when she arrives in LA she usually had less than a quarter tank of gas. while I would usually have about half a tank of gas left. Yes, we both start off with a full tank of fuel. I'll leave the fuel efficiency maths to the reader.
Android

Submission + - Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon

adeelarshad82 writes: When you look at the Apple iPad's sales figures, it's not hard to see why every technology company on the planet is jumping on the tablet bandwagon, alot of which are Android tablets. Unfortunatley though, some of these Android tablets were born way too early. They are haunted with a series of problems including flimsy hardware, low-quality resistive touch screens, serious display resolution issues, and old Android versions with limited or non-existent access to apps. Even the Samsung Galaxy Tab came well before it's time. Even though it's fast, well-designed, and comes with a decent Android implementation, it's functionalities are limited to those of an Android smartphone. So here's to hoping that Honeycomb's functionalities make up for the lost ground.
Image

The Fuel Cost of Obesity 285

thecarchik writes "America loves to complain about gas mileage and the cost of gasoline. As it turns out, part of the problem is us. How much does it really matter? A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 1.1 percent increase in self-reported obesity, which translates into extra weight that your vehicle has to haul around. The study estimates that 1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed to compensate for passenger weight gained between 1960 and 2002."

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