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by bcook 10y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate that the (clinically) paranoid survivalists, that honestly have good information to share from a survival perspective, often have paranoid political beliefs. Just like anything in life, you need to separate the g
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by bcook 10y ago
Ah... my mistake for assuming that. (I edited my post.) Regardless, my focus was not on the legality of dishes, but the amount of people who have them. With 40-70 percent of households owning a satellite dish, even after being illegal for o
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by bcook 10y ago
Did you read the article? The article says "Satellite TV, however, has become common in even small villages, with as many as 70 percent of Iranian households owning a satellite dish." Satellite dishes are not illegal because satel
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by bcook 10y ago
Even if Microsoft was evil, Gates is still an inspiration to me.
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by bcook 10y ago
I disagree. If the judge wanted to make a difference, he would set precedent, not this publicity stunt. Great... he helped 1 person who suffers from a disorder. What about the other millions? I do not mean to dismiss his act of kindness but
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by bcook 10y ago
Eh, I have pretty harsh clinical depression, so I only really see horrible conclusions. but, yeah, I have tried a few things. They only last up to a year before I conclude that it's not worth it. I sincerely apologize for this post (be
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by bcook 10y ago
Your ability to conjure self-interest & confidence seem uncommon (incredible) though. In my life, nothing has been so simple.
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by bcook 10y ago
Can you cite precedent for your assumption?
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by bcook 10y ago
This statement makes me sad... I mean, I adhere to it, but I am not exactly a person who should be emulated.
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by bcook 10y ago
He also had a damn good sense of humor (album cover); https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_Can_Wait
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by bcook 10y ago
I see monitoring and blocking to be part of the same machine. We apparently disagree. :) >And, by the way, the idea that you can trivially evade the GFW using a VPN? That's an extremely dangerous assumption. I think that part of you
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by bcook 10y ago
I guess my criticism is that stopping communication (GFW) and monitoring communication (NSA) are very similar, therefore we do have our own GFW.
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by bcook 10y ago
Unless you are fully aware of NSA activities, you cannot be sure of that statement. Here's an excerpt from Cisco: [0]“Traditionally, a firewall is a routed hop and acts as a default gateway for hosts that connect to one of its screened
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by bcook 10y ago
No, we only have the NSA that can archive days (weeks?) worth of the United States internet traffic, seamlessly MITM 0days, or tons of other frightening things... I guess a transparent firewall is not a firewall?
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by bcook 10y ago
and I am not down-voting you, I am re-structuring your karma. Yes, this may be good for the future of Intel or the employees losing their jobs... but right now, 12000 people are having their lives affected in drastic, unexpected ways.
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by bcook 10y ago
You are being too absolutist. Nothing is "harmless". I agree with you... as with any choice, an individual should try to compare the pros & cons of any decision. My argument would be, if a group happens to be "self-medica
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by bcook 10y ago
I guess you missed the articles that say marijuana has positive effects? There are positive and negative aspects. You ask why people are biased towards the positive and, similarly, I ask why are you focused on the negative? There is much re
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by bcook 10y ago
For me, having an FB account and not actively using it daily (hourly?) was similar to a crack-addict not using free crack that is put in their face. It was like removing the carrot-dangling-from-a-stick when I left Facebook.
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by bcook 10y ago
So, let's make an obvious analogy to the %1 and the 99% in our current capitalist world... it's working out fairly, yeah?
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by bcook 10y ago
I am very likely biased by my love of the sci-fi (dystopia) genre... :) Regardless, if there is something of worth, people will kill to have it.
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by bcook 10y ago
Which country/organization has this so-called abundance? Do they freely share it out of the goodness of their heart?
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by bcook 10y ago
Can you give more insight or other related information? Otherwise, it seems like are you simply name-dropping & complaining about lack of upvotes.
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by bcook 10y ago
I only saw that they were tasked with creating general advertisements, not targetted ads for kids, though, I suppose kids are included if a country allows tobacco advertisements in public. Still, the article implies that they are marketing
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by bcook 10y ago
Learning from past mistakes is much more important than feeling guilt or any other emotional response...
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by bcook 10y ago
I have been using a non-commercial, 8GB CompactFlash card with my pfSense install for 2 years with no problems, and I run the full pfSense rather than the NanoBSD version. I do not run extra services like Squid or Snort, so most of my &quot
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by bcook 10y ago
IPFire is my choice if you prefer Linux.
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by bcook 10y ago
Thank you for eloquently expressing what I was trying to say. I am unsure why fakery, even if said fakery is "good", is encouraged. "Fake it 'til you make it" is an individual endeavor, not a mantra that the leaders
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by bcook 10y ago
He is likely intelligent but he is very ignorant of the subject he speaks, which is where my concern lies.
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by bcook 10y ago
I guess I'm bothered by the fact that he implied that he was more than casually educated on the subject he was talking about...
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by bcook 10y ago
"... you'll learn faster because you skip all the stuff you don't need". Assuming that nobody can predict the future, how can anyone know the usefulness/uselessness of any knowledge?

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