Valsuelm
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Gromnir needs to use correct English, as well as quote properly. Then he might contribute in a constructive fashion. Half his posts are illegible as they are right now. He seems to be too caught up in his forum persona though. I'm not sure if that's sadder than a troll or not.
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GDP means near poop. It's a fabricated number that doesn't take into consideration a *ton* of variables. Poland does just fine. I've many many friends there. In many ways I'd say it's one of the better nations in Europe to live in these days.
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Nor does any other state. You are not obligated to even carry an identification card in the U.S.. If you are carrying one, you don't have to show it or identify yourself unless you've been arrested for a crime, or in some cases ticketed for a violation. -
Because someone who is a communist that might or might not consider themselves a 'socialist', but more likely considers themselves 'on the left' says so. That's why! How dare you be so selfish anyways!! 'Socialism' makes sense in the minds of the socialist. You just need to ignore all sorts of reality, think you know better than someone else what is good for them, and/or have some kind of god complex to think this way. Or, the more popular way is to be one of Lenin's 'useful idiots'. Oh.. and whether you're a useful idiot or a true evil demigod bringing fairness and 'equality' to the masses you have to be cool with lots of government power and force so your way can be forced upon the lesser peoples who don't know better, but you do of course. Socialism = Communism practiced on a national level or just communism rebranded as the word 'communism' got a bad rap in the west, and deservedly so. It wasn't the USCR it was the USSR. The reality is that communist ideology is alive and well. Very arguably it's never been healthier given the political state of most nations in the west, who are increasingly socialist oppressive societies, sadly and scarily. Tis a Brave New World upon us!!!
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Scanned this. Name of game isn't mentioned so far as I can see. Until it is: baseless unsubstantiated accusations. Don't be vague, be direct and to the point.
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Petrodollar: Grand Unified Theory of Geopolitics
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The world is a crazy place run by super crazy people. Or is it a super sane place run by no one? If you think the world is super sane, you're one of the crazies. -
Petrodollar: Grand Unified Theory of Geopolitics
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People come and go, very few will be here for more then a few months. Though if PoE turns out to be a major success, Biowares forum is something we can look forward to. Are you being sarcastic? Why on earth would we want to look forward to that?
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Oh.. and how can we forget the Smooth McGroove He outdid himself with this new one methinks.
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The GREATEST murder mystery finally solved, who was Jack the Ripper
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Who Jack the Ripper was will never be known definitively at this point. One can posit various scenarios, make accusations, and surmise whatever, but at the end of the day all of the people involved are dead and a trial where defendant X has the opportunity to clear his/her name cannot be had. Without such a trial we will never know without a doubt if person X committed the crime. -
Oh.. and here's soundboard quality of my personal favorite Dead show that I never got to see but wished I had. I played the hell out of this cassette, and still have it somewhere around here. These days there's such a treasure trove of live shows on the web to be found if you know where to look, hence my cassette collection gets a rest. https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-08.sbd.hicks.4982.sbeok.shnf Enjoy!
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Hard to believe it's been almost 20 years without Jerry.... I sadly never got to see him live, though I've got a few dozen great bootlegs. Saw the rest of them a few times after he passed, and Phish about half a dozen times and in their prime. The Great Went was the best concert experience I've ever had (and having worked in the industry I've seen hundreds of shows, most good). Pure happiness with ~70k true fans (you didn't drive all the way to Loring for that first show up there unless you really liked Phish or were a lost Deadhead. The vibe was like no other I've seen. The following song especially, was beyond magical. It was the highlight of the show for me (and I imagine most other people who were there), and it turned out to be the Hood that started the tradition of the 'glow stick war'. Words really don't describe the electricity, the view, the euphoria in the crowd that night. Phish was at their best and on fire. You can hear the crowd and can probably guess when the sticks began to fly. I've seen other glow stick wars since, but that first one.... whoa that first one.... If you dig em, I recommend actually watching this video and not just listening. It's mostly not of the show (sadly most of that footage has never been released though they did film it professionally), but of various scenes at the show and the drive in on route 1. That itself was the most fun I ever had going to or from a show. It was pouring on the way in, but it turned out to be a beautiful sunny weekend. If I could go back in time to any weekend ever, the weekend of this show might be it. And if there's one concert I know that's been filmed that I'd buy in a heartbeat if it was available. This one is it.
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A different kind of groove all together, yet also awesome:
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And then of course there's Deee-lite. Fronted by one of the most delicious females ever to walk on a stage.
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Ooooooooh yeaaaa. Sade. Excellent choice. Groove runs the gambit and is a very subjective genre, though it opens the doors to sooooooo much good music. Here's another powerful aphrodisiac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDo-Z0DQ00Q And here's one of my all time favorite instrumental grooves, which also happens to hail from an awesome movie, that also happened to be the first partnership between Silvestri and Zemeckis on a film:
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So? What language is your first language that doesn't use punctuation, proper spacing, capitalization, etc. These things are generally not language specific. I can appreciate some syntax, definition, or 'lost in translation' errors in anyone posting in a second language, but basic paragraph formation errors on the scale you subject us to I have no patience for. **** me? Grow up. Stop making piss poor excuses that really have no relevance to your failure and type/write legibly if you want people to read your posts or to not have Weird Al's video follow your illegible drivel. Learn from it. Dance.
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One person's crazy is another person's normal. Most people are crazy, so yea... crazy is normal.
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82 guest users reading this thread as of this posting. I'll wager near 80 of them got here by searching for "Nude Photos: Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Yvonne Strahovski", or some similar term.
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So... does this mean the very act of me simply seeing a naked woman without her explicit consent (say her top pops off at a pool) I am immediately a sex offender who molested her? Yes, you filthy Sub-Human. Repent for the sin of being male. In the minds of folks such as Bruce, other modern feminists, and the manginas who apologize for them, yes. Really, equating the theft and proliferation of nude photos to sexual abuse or rape is abhorrently despicable. and either a warped mind incapable of true differentiation is required or a sinister mind with an evil agenda. Saying that doing so belittles those who actually have suffered abuse or rape is a polite understatement. One of the major problems in western society is that as a culture we've come to tolerate this destructive nonsense, even though in many places the majority still fortunately does not (so there's hope of a return to sanity).
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A different mind indeed.... a special mind...
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Those aren't the guys who start the wars.... just the ones who do the fighting. Surely they'd rather take part in the circus that is this than hang out under a hail of gun or rocket fire. The people who start the wars wear 3 piece suits, often own/run corporations/banks, and are actually considered innocuous by much of the public who prefer to believe some cartoon character frothing at the mouth caused them.
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How do you know how many times it was written over? Please provide proof. The answer to the first question is sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. It's usually a matter of inquiring of the user what they did. The answer to the second question is on you. Go look it up. It's not exactly uncommon knowledge either. A matter of basic physics and the properties of magnetism to a large extent.
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Do you have a superstition or something? Rewriting once is enough as it is. Also, smashing might not help, most data will be recoverable. Superstition? Seriously? No, experienced and knowledgeable. Perhaps for you storage technology is some magical mystery as it seems to be for so many (though it's certainly not rocket science), but I've personally successfully recovered data that was written over, many times. It's possible with magnetic drives to do so, often with means easily available to anyone in the form of recovery software. If the easy method (recovery software) doesn't work, and if you have the proper equipment, along with the knowledge to use it (as the FBI or many professional studios do, for example), it's often possible to recover data that's been written over, even sometimes after it's been written over more than once. Most storage is on magnetic drives. And if you properly smash a drive, thereby destroying it... no, it is not recoverable. Perhaps when you smash things you smash like a toddler with a nerfbat, but most people, even toddlers, are adept at crushing things to goo if they so desire.
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Apple is not remotely the only company that stores deleted data in what's essentially perpetuity. I'm no fan of Apple at all, they basically make inferior products with nice packaging, excellent marketing, at a higher price than you can get a similar and better product for (Jobs' genius was marketing, not tech). But any cloud service is just as susceptible. Apple was likely targeted as it's customers tend to be more naive of technology (hence more likely to believe Apple's BS that the 'cloud' is safe and secure so more apt to put personal things in it) than other service's customers, and it's very popular. If you're a hacker, thief, or anyone else out for some kind of booty (pun intended) which house, service, etc are you going to plunder when they all basically have the same kind of security? If you're a smart one, you're going to go for the most bang for your efforts. Hence, Apple. This whole thing is an example of how naive most people are when it comes to technology, and if you read this thread, the law too. Two exampless: You have people in this thread who can't find the pics: Naive to a huge portion of the web, and not even the underbelly of it. Oh how I miss the days before the Eternal September, when such folks were not on the interwebs. You have people who actually think when you delete something, it's deleted: Newsflash, that's not even the case on your computer unless you specifically go out of your way to overwrite the HDD sectors multiple times (or smash the drive), and it's most certainly not the case with any storage service. Why on earth do you think many cloud services and email are free? You think these companies offer these services out of the goodness of their heart? No, they datamine you, and not just for metadata if you're a person of interest (such as a celebrity). You think because it's illegal (maybe) or just because they tell you they don't that they really don't? Ubernaive you are then. But rest assured, you're in the majority. Hopefully, something good comes out of all of this: That a lot more than currently do realize that Apple and others are lying to you when they say 'clouds' are secure (they aren't and never will be). That's likely just wishful thinking on my part though.
