[Mark]

You're right. Between that show and Honey BooBoo we brought this on ourselves.

[Richard Shead]

Mark., on 07 October 2015 - 03:57 AM, said:

You're right. Between that show and Honey BooBoo we brought this on ourselves.

Wow, I had almost forgotten about Honey Boo Boo. It made me wonder what she was up to these days...and I'll tell you, ignorance sure as hell is bliss.

[Jeff]

Internet is unusually slow for me today. Aren't there laws for such cruel and unusual punishment?

[Wienerhole]

What... you don't think pre-teen girls can consent to the consequences of being on such shows?

I mean c'mon... they can clearly consent to deciding they are actually boys.

But you better not tell them it might be a good idea to wear different clothes than their mothers do when trying to attract their 2nd or 3rd dad you oppressive toxic pervert.

[Fox]

That's quite the non-sequitur rant.

But anyway, these shows have nothing to do with the girls. Like dog shows, it's all about the owners.

[Wienerhole]

I can't out degenerate you there... that point of view stands on its own.

[Kyanos]

Wienerholder, on 07 October 2015 - 12:16 PM, said:

I can't out degenerate you there... that point of view stands on its own.

I've been out of the loop... Are these two different people? (pic related)

Charlie, Hi. Nice rant. I've always been a huge fan of your rants, I saved this not so long ago... weird of me.

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// cw

Hmmm... here's an interesting way to chat into the void...

We generally as a culture right now view the "mind" of a person in many ways to be a sum that is greater than its parts with the parts being the physical body and the electrical/chemical activity associated with it.

We can't point to the mind, we can't touch it, we can't really even "destroy" it except by altering something we can touch/see. Yet despite the complete and total intangible... one dare say non-existent... nature of the mind... nobody who has a mind would deny the existence of the mind. If you wish to use consciousness, or perception instead... suit yourself.

Anyways... as our cells go about their activity based on their local environment... this activity builds up into this sum experience we call "ourself".

We already know that as *we* go about our activity based on our local environment... this activity builds up into a sum *exterior* effect we see reflected in the concepts called companies, nations, clubs, etc.

Now... we can't see our mind despite the exterior effect we call our bodies and the tattoos placed on them.
We can't see the mind of a company, nation, or club despite the exterior effects and the buildings built.

A company would not exist without a shared mindset. Now it's not necessary for there to be a higher point of conscious experiencer for this mindset and the exterior effects to be in all earnestness a "being".... akin to a slime mold which occasionally bands together to move as a unit before splitting back up into individual units.

Now... MOST people don't have any real conscious consideration for the "being" they are investing their efforts into building up. They cheer for a sports team, but they don't view this as ultimately the same thing as being a cell in a body. The sports "being" wouldn't exist without all these contributors.

Now... at some point... some people DO realize they are... by their very actions... contributing to a higher "beingness" via the way they are choosing to organize themselves and how/where they invest their energy. Just as a cell may invest its energy into you or not... due to its own circumstance.

These people are able to create and promote a mindset which requests and guides other people into investing energy into their mindset. They have now *literally* created a being and brought it to life. At this point... it is a being with... A CONSCIOUSNESS. It's not just a shared feeling anymore that everyone "just does" like a slime mold... it now has an active center of awareness guiding it.

THEN some people realize that they can get their "being" to beat up someone else's "being"... especially if that "being" is still in the slime mold state of awareness.

Eventually someone gets really smart and realizes it's actually much easier to get other people to invest their energy into your being without realizing it... by getting their being to be subservient to your being... or at least partner with it.

These "created" beings that would otherwise die in an open forum can only survive by lying about which being is being invested in. Their creators pretend like the one they are really investing in isn't connected to the one they are privately investing in. Now you can control two beings... yours... and your opponent.

Holy deja vu batman.

At one time Zeus was great being. We've revived that fundamental principle of "Zeusness" many times under many names and that "beingness" has had dramatic impacts on tangible human lives. Impacts that wouldn't have happened without the tangible actual existence of the "beingness" created by the people who invested their energy into sustaining it.

Now the beings go by the names of our nations, corporations, etc... and have evolved along with us because they are us... yet still fundamentally are *not* us in the same way we are our cells, but our cells are not "ourselves".

We get to choose to keep them alive or not... knowing that their fundamental self can be revived anytime down the road and will never actually die (so long as we're around).

[Jeff]

This needs a caption of some kind.

[Fox]

"Should have spit the cum earlier."

[Jeff]

Back in 2013, I met Stephen Harper walking down the street. He has a house he stays in during Thanksgiving about two blocks from my dad's place.

[Fox]

My list of things you should avoid when buying a game:

- Games which require persistent Internet connection except for multiplayer. Infamous example: SimCity 2013.
- Games that cut its content for the sake of DLC or expansion packs. If you go to a restaurant, you don't expect to have to pay a second time to use the fork. Infamous example: The Sims 3.
- Games which you can pay to gain advantage. Infamous example: Free-to-play games.
- Games which makes the player addictive to it by exploiting the brain reward-system. Infamous example: MMORPGs.
- Games which progress is affected by real world time. Infamous example: Game Of War.
- Games which requires you to pay or invite other people to progress. Infamous example: Facebook games.

[X-Vector]

Mark., on 07 October 2015 - 03:57 AM, said:

You're right. Between that show and Honey BooBoo we brought this on ourselves.

Those are just two examples of the deluge of garbage dumped all over your screens by the likes of MTV, TLC, VH1, E!, Spike, The CW (not that CW), Discovery, National Geographic and probably a boatload of others.
Unfortunately, a sizable lump of this sewage makes its way across the Atlantic and washes up on the beach over here, where we've got more than enough disastrous programming on our own commercial TV stations.

[Fox]

[Jeff]

FSX requires a one time activation to play. The boxed version you can play offline as much as you want as long as it's activated. The Steam version, once activated, you need to launch FSX in Steam's offline mode in order to do that.

[Person of Color]

Jeff, on 06 October 2015 - 10:31 AM, said:

I remember having a Radeon 9000 Pro back in the day. The 9500 and 9700 Pro were the first cards to require an external power connection.

Actually the Voodoo5 was the first.

Also I just bought an Asus DirectCU R9 290 today, open box for $220 after tax at Micro Center. IT'S AMAZING

[OpenMaw]

Anybody here had the stupid "White screen of death" on facebook? The god-damn thing won't load at all, and i've been searching through help pages to try and resolve it. There's gotta be a more tech-savvy answer than what I keep running into which is basically "wait for it to go away. Could be days, or months...Whatevs"

[Lunick]

I have been hearing similar complaints on my Twitter feed, maybe they are doing some maintenance or something.

[Kyanos]

Maybe it's the new IP detection scripts being implemented. ISPs along with Facebook and other sites will soon be on the hook for any copyright violations that go through their systems. All a part of the TPP agreement on Intellectual Property.

The age of piracy is ending. Protect the corporations, or they will crash this economy

[Jeff]

Speaking of crashing into things.

[OpenMaw]

Drek, on 09 October 2015 - 02:50 PM, said:

Maybe it's the new IP detection scripts being implemented. ISPs along with Facebook and other sites will soon be on the hook for any copyright violations that go through their systems. All a part of the TPP agreement on Intellectual Property.

The age of piracy is ending. Protect the corporations, or they will crash this economy

Wait, what?!

[Sixty Four]

Well as long as you know things most likely don't go your way you're good to go. That way when they do it feels good.

[Jeff]

My brother has decided to fly in from Saskatoon for my birthday. Well, our birthday. We're twins.

[Kyanos]

Commando Nukem, on 09 October 2015 - 09:55 PM, said:

Wait, what?!

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legal incentives for Internet Service Providers to cooperate with copyright owners to deter the unauthorized storage and transmission of copyrighted materials or, in the alternative, to take other action to deter the unauthorized storage and transmission of copyrighted materials;

 WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.zip (669.51K)
Number of downloads: 173
^see page 52; Section I: {Internet Service Providers}

[OpenMaw]

Whatever the problem is, it's pissing me off.

Doesn't work on any computer I try. Just a blank page.
My unused account I made for a friend years ago, works just fine.
Flushed my DNS, deleted temp files, cookies. Reset Chrome.

Nada. When I log in to my account, it goes to a blank page.

Every website I've looked at for help on the matter is filled to the brim with a shitload of shoulder shrugging, and it seems to be a very widespread issue.

[Wienerhole]

Drek, on 07 October 2015 - 12:40 PM, said:

Charlie, Hi. Nice rant.

X-Vector, on 08 October 2015 - 01:22 AM, said:

Those are just two examples of the deluge of garbage dumped all over your screens...
Unfortunately, a sizable lump of this sewage makes its way across the Atlantic...

The sewage I spew forth from this asshole account is organically generated fertilizer from natural digestive thought processes which promote inquisitive mental growth and fortify emotional immune systems.

Their sewage is manufactured thoughticide and seeks to drive out awarenesses they perceive as pests via eroding away the native top soul.

X-Vector, on 08 October 2015 - 01:22 AM, said:

The CW (not that CW)...

Creeps me out every time I see it. When I was a kid I used to get a kick out of "Children's Television Workshop" aka CTW on all the Sesame Street signs.

Commando Nukem, on 10 October 2015 - 06:56 AM, said:

Every website I've looked at for help on the matter is filled to the brim with a shitload of shoulder shrugging, and it seems to be a very widespread issue.

You know how people will put dyes/chemicals in bodies, plants, or machines, to track and detect the way it spreads so they can form an image and understanding of the inner structure? Sometimes events like yours remind me of those... but on a human social level.

[OpenMaw]

This is some really asinine bullshit.

http://www.allisayis...ly-for-your-id/

This guy is absolutely right. I tried everything he listed.

[Lunick]

http://www.inflatality.com/ Australian developers are weird.

[Wienerhole]

Commando Nukem, on 10 October 2015 - 03:18 PM, said:

This is some really asinine bullshit.

I think you should take the hint and stop using the service.



Plugged.

[Sixty Four]

Ahh calling off work popping a beer on Sunday. It feels good dood

Edit: arghhhingboo dood

[Jeff]

New X-Files season trailer.