Everything posted by Hurlshort
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Dutch documentary (subtitled) about privacy.
I started to watch it. Holy moly, there are a lot of cameras in the Netherlands. Honestly it simply isn't feasible to do that alcohol checking camera in the US.
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Dutch documentary (subtitled) about privacy.
Well no, because with data retention your personal data will remain on their servers until one day it's felt it might be needed. Then if you ever become an undesirable in any way, it's nice and handy. But lets have this discussion when you have watched it. There's another documentary which is about much the same things, called Terms and Conditions may apply. I think that's also a worthwhile watch, especially for laymen. But what are the odds of you becoming an undesirable? And if you do, is a lack of a facebook page really going to stop an agency from gathering information about you? Obviously you need to use common sense. Putting up naked pictures and doing drugs is a dumb idea, but swearing off all social media sounds more like paranoia.
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Dutch documentary (subtitled) about privacy.
I'm not going to watch an hour long thing, but isn't this data fairly useless without a clear targeting system? It is a bulldozer method, based on the pure volume of information coming in we are individually just part of the data mulch. You probably stand out more by being off the grid.
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Movies you've seen recently
Carter - Jason Statham doing Payback. It was going along pretty well until Jennifer Lopez showed up. She just ruined the pacing of the film completely. I don't really have an issue with her as an actress, but this was not good casting.
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Best Police in the World
Oby is just so unfocused. Is he pro-protesters or anti-protesters? Who knows?
- What are you playing now?
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Movies you've seen recently
Dead Man Down - This Colin Farrell revenge movie was pretty good, I enjoyed it. Acting was top-notch. I did occasionally wonder what lawless land this movie was set in, but it is best to ignore that type of thinking.
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What are you playing now?
Played a fantastic mission in Xcom where a whaling ship was infested with Chryssalids, and they kept pouring out of the whale carcass. It was really well set up. The great thing was I had to have one soldier run up to the control room, and I covered her with snipers on the docks while she moved. It was intense.
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Best Police in the World
It's pretty messed up that he receive money at all, but you can blame Anonymous for that since they posted his personal information and made it easy for him to make a case that he was being harassed as a result of his job.
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Movies you've seen recently
I'm really sad about this. I always enjoyed him as an actor.
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Best Police in the World
He was fired, and then sued the department for the money. Oddly enough, each student he pepper sprayed received about the same amount as he did.
- What you did today
- The NHL Thread.
- What you did today
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The NFL 2013 Thread
I'm not too concerned about the call, but I think the fine is ridiculous. Why bother allowing players to tackle QB's at all?
- The Kickstarter Thread
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Thanksgiving Plans
I attended a High School football game that has been held for 71 years. It is usually a pretty lopsided game because one team is in a higher division, but this year my wife's school played hard and kept it competitive, losing by 20 but putting 29 points up on the board. Now the kids are resting and I'm making some brussel sprouts. I cook them in olive oil and salt and pepper. My wife is making sweet potatoes and deviled eggs, and we will be heading to her mom's house for turkey in a little bit. Tonight I'm going to get an Ipad mini from Walmart. It's $299, but you get a $100 gift card with it, so that's a pretty nice deal. Luckily our local Walmart is pretty tame, we don't get the long lines or anything.
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Origin Sales
I have always said Origin is the better portal compared to Steam.
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RAnDoM VidEO GAmE NeWS
Orogun also may be using a lot of vibrating tools.
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The Funny Things Thread.
I like how half of them wrote Borat across Eastern Europe. Honestly they did pretty good, it was clearly an educated group. Maps were a lot easier when we could just write USSR across the East. How do you figure? Each state in the US is very different, with separate constitutions. Size wise they also are more comparative to countries than districts. I would expect most Europeans could label California, Alaska, Texas, and maybe a few of the Eastern seaboard states.
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Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition
I only bought it because I thought it was a sequel to the popular card game Balderdash.