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Living Room / Re: How will the Earth end?

« on: December 16, 2008, 10:58 PM »

It will always seems "far out there" to me, much like PETA and other animal rights activists who are more humane to animals than humans, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it become more widely adopted as the social norm in the not-too-distant future.

Yup, humanity will die out eventually but it won't be some dramatic event where we have a chance to show our nobility (and we are a noble species, contrary to what the naysayers want us to believe), we'll go out on a pathetic little whimper....all for the sake of the "planet".

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Living Room / Re: How will the Earth end?

« on: December 16, 2008, 09:46 PM »

Here's the answer.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.

-the website

-Cpilot (December 16, 2008, 04:12 PM)

 

-Deozaan (December 16, 2008, 08:48 PM)

Hehe 
Sounds funny don't it?
I'm old enough to remember when "animal rights" and "PETA" were considered fringe, nutty, out there ideas.
Now they're pretty much mainstream, nearly all states have laws on the books defining animal cruelty with penalties for the transgressors.
Cock fighting and dog fights (remember Michael Vick?) haven't always been illegal........hard to fathom isn't it?
There are already some people out there who won't have children because of the "environment".
Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly

"Having children is selfish. It's all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet," says Toni, 35.

Consider that, then reread this thread.
It may take a few decades but The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement doesn't seem so far out there, does it?

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Living Room / Re: How will the Earth end?

« on: December 16, 2008, 04:12 PM »

Here's the answer.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.

-the website

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Living Room / Re: How will the Earth end?

« on: December 14, 2008, 08:39 PM »

You know I kind of agree with Carol Haynes here, although I don't think it will be quite as dramatic as she does.
I think the human species will breed itself into stupidity and one day while it is raining all the humans will look into the sky with their mouths open and drown.
If you doubt it then check this out:
Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy
I'd say we're well on our way.

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Living Room / Re: What Sports Do You Participate In?

« on: September 22, 2008, 09:20 PM »

Beer drinking, weight class: lager.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« on: September 10, 2008, 10:04 PM »

There's a huge pin outside in my backyard? 

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Living Room / Re: Evil, evil trojans and virii

« on: August 22, 2008, 12:21 AM »

SmitFraudFix is quite good at removing these malware-types. as soon as you realize that you're infected, restart in safe mode and let the program clean your PC.
 (see attachment in previous post)• http://siri.urz.free.../SmitfraudFix_En.php

-lanux128 (August 22, 2008, 12:14 AM)

Might be an idea, and I hate to be presumptuous, that DC might need a forum to discuss these concerns.
There are new threats out there every day and a repository of what they are and possible methods to elimate them would come in handy.
I know I could have used it.

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Living Room / Evil, evil trojans and virii

« on: August 21, 2008, 11:55 PM »

This week I've had the pleasure of fighting with a persistent and evil Trojan/virus on my system that finally required a wipe of my hard drive and installation of Windows XP.
No anti-virus software that I tried wouldn't even recognize that I had a Trojan/virus.
What it would do is execute an instance of IE and display various advertising webpages and slow my system down. The offending executable would show up in the task manager as dEmE3H1V.exe.
A search of the system would show dEmE3H1V.exe_pf in the windows pref etch folder and dEmE3H1V.exe with dEmE3H1V._a_a in the system32 folder.
Deleting them of course was futile as they would replicate themselves at a later time.
After they were deleted IE would close due to an error in D6M3t6p7.dll, Of course I have no idea what this browser "helper" was supposed to do. Disabling it had no effect.
Googling these items showed no results.
The result of these "items" running was multiple crashes and a slowing of my system, I believe that this virus/Trojan was picked up through my sons My Space account.

It's already too late to save myself from the damage caused by these but I wanted to post a warning and maybe get some input on protecting systems from possible unknown threats that others may have encountered, and start a thread on real time little known threats that are out there and how to fix or avoid them.

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Living Room / Re: U.K. growing more peculiar by the day. What's happening in your area?

« on: June 29, 2008, 01:18 PM »

Dinged By A G-String?

-Cpilot (June 20, 2008, 11:03 PM)

If you're too big to wear a, oh say.......a size 3 thong, and put it on anyway then how is any injury anyone elses fault?
I mean damn, you could put someones eye out or something. 

Didn't know stuff like that came in sizes! Hmmmm.... learn something new everyday.

-40hz (June 29, 2008, 11:55 AM)

Get married a few times, it's amazing the stuff you learn. 

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Living Room / Re: U.K. growing more peculiar by the day. What's happening in your area?

« on: June 20, 2008, 11:03 PM »

Dinged By A G-String?

Woman, 52, sues Victoria's Secret, claims injury from defective thong
JUNE 17--As she was attempting to put on a Victoria's Secret thong, a Los Angeles woman claims that a decorative metallic piece flew off the garment and struck her in the eye, causing injuries and a new product liability lawsuit against the underwear giant. Macrida Patterson, 52, alleges that she was hurt last May by a defective "low-rise v-string" from the Victoria's Secret "Sexy Little Thing" line, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court. A copy of her June 9 complaint, which does not specify monetary damages, can be found below. Patterson's lawyer, Jason Buccat, told TSG that a "design problem" caused the decorative piece to come loose and strike Patterson in the eye, causing damage to her cornea. He added that the eye injury, which caused Patterson to miss a few days of work, will be "affecting her the rest of her life." Patterson is a traffic officer with L.A.'s Department of Transportation. Prior to the lawsuit's filing, Victoria's Secret officials asked to examine the garment and the decorative piece, but that request was rejected by Patterson's counsel. For those unfamiliar with "v-strings," the undergarment is the Victoria's Secret variant on the "g-string," which has long been favored in the battle against visible panty lines.~snip~

If you're too big to wear a, oh say.......a size 3 thong, and put it on anyway then how is any injury anyone elses fault?
I mean damn, you could put someones eye out or something. 

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Living Room / Re: U.K. growing more peculiar by the day. What's happening in your area?

« on: June 20, 2008, 08:26 PM »

Seeing the growth of "safety instructions" for simple things makes me worry that the world is getting stupider day after day.

Not stupider just more cautious.....the reason?
Lawyers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mouser's Systray Goodies

« on: June 16, 2008, 09:56 PM »

Damn!!! 

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Living Room / Re: Where else do you go except DonationCoder

« on: June 01, 2008, 12:22 PM »

FBSL
MASM
Coding Monkeys
Autoit

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Living Room / Re: Wireless Internet signal allergy

« on: May 25, 2008, 01:34 AM »

HaHa, too funny....

It can't be proven or disproved.
And you can't prove pain or not.

Hey, if I eat icecream too fast I get a headache.
Commonly called brain-freeze I believe.

Are there warnings on the carton?
hmmmmm..........

-cmpm (May 24, 2008, 11:36 PM)

Aaaah but you see, it's not about facts, it's about how you "feel".
Facts have become irrelevant, opinion is what matters now.

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Living Room / Wireless Internet signal allergy

« on: May 24, 2008, 10:06 PM »

Wow, bet you all didn't know that those wi-fi transmitters were putting you all in danger...did you?
Or that the act of transmission was a form of discrimination.
Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings

A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they're allergic to the wireless Internet signal. And now they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings.

Arthur Firstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones.

"I get chest pain and it doesn't go away right away," he said.

Firstenberg and dozens of other electro-sensitive people in Santa Fe claim that putting up Wi-Fi in public places is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The city attorney is now checking to see if putting up Wi-Fi could be considered discrimination.

But City Councilor Ron Trujillo says the areas are already saturated with wireless Internet.

"It's not 1692, it's 2008. Santa Fe needs to embrace this technology, it's not going away," Trujillo said.

The city attorney hopes to have a legal recommendation by the end of the month.

Looking to sue for the BIG money.

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Living Room / Re: Thread removed

« on: May 22, 2008, 05:13 PM »

It would be nice to know who's spamming also.

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 22, 2008, 11:35 AM »

There seems to be a deep disconnect from reality, if you really think things are repressive now google the security measures put in place during WWII. Do any of you realize that the only American president to create internment camps was Franklin Roosevelt, a democrat?

*cough* guantanamo *cough*

-f0dder (May 22, 2008, 07:49 AM)

No offense but as I've stated before, I couldn't really care less what "Denmark", or any of Europe for that matter, think of guantanamo. Not many Americans I've spoken to care either.
Since everyone likes dropping names how about Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Majdanec, Treblinka, Jasenovac, Chelmno and others?
Thanks Europe for giving the world industrial style mass murder and then turning around and lecturing us about Gitmo.......hypocrites.

Do you all realize that it was democratic administrations that over saw the most repressive governmental act in violation of liberty and freedom in the form of involuntary conscription into the armed forces?

If you had involuntary conscription, perhaps your army would have less psychos. Works pretty well for Denmark.

This just shows you're an idiot.
If Denmark's so great why didn't they stop the ethnic cleansing in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian?
Matter of fact I really don't recollect Denmark doing much of anything beyond sniping on internet boards.

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 21, 2008, 09:09 PM »

@Cpilot -- I wonder if some of your posts here are grounded in a practical fear. "The inconvenience is worth the safety?"

What exactly do I have to fear? Being neither a terrorist nor paranoid I really don't have to be afraid of much.
Then again the folks in the twin towers didn't feel that they had anything to fear either on that day.
As I've said before there seems to be a lot of speculation but very few hard facts, I have occasion to surf other forums and boards out there and always find myself amused at the the paranoid rantings of what I refer to as "bunker surfers", people who are so paranoid and afraid that everything around them is a massive conspiracy, that there are groups and individuals that hold all the power in the world and we are all just unwitting pawns in a centuries old conspiracy that culminates with them TAKING OVER THE WORLD!!!!!!.

There seems to be a deep disconnect from reality, if you really think things are repressive now google the security measures put in place during WWII. Do any of you realize that the only American president to create internment camps was Franklin Roosevelt, a democrat?
Do you all realize that it was democratic administrations that over saw the most repressive governmental act in violation of liberty and freedom in the form of involuntary conscription into the armed forces?
This occurred for decades, from WWII to the Vietnam war.
These adjustments were made in a time of great turmoil, both political and practical. Yet after these things subsided so did the alleged "repression", and these things too shall pass. Your all acting like what's going on is a new thing, it's not, it's happened in one form or another countless times in the past.......and the constitution is still in one piece.

After the Vietnam war dragged on and it was determined that we didn't have the will to win it anymore the people of this country demanded that the decades of living on a war footing was enough. And it changed, when we no longer feel threatened then the people will demand that it change again.

And it will, these are the realities.

But the American people will not tolerate terrorists threatening the security of themselves, their families or their country.

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 20, 2008, 11:27 AM »

As you pointed out Deozaan, those rights were put in the constitution as a reaction to a foreign power abusing said rights of the citizens.
And while I hate to use rhetorical phrases, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact".
So here again we find ourselves under threat, but this time from foreign terrorists who, because of our free society, can move into and through the country at will.

The thing that I wonder about, after watching people throw themselves off the twin towers and falling to their deaths, is how many of them were contemplating the abstract concept of constitutional rights on the way down before hitting the pavement?

Their constitutional rights were clearly violated in real time, it was not an exercise in constitutional thought.
It's pretty easy to sit in the comfort of ones home and decry the perceived slights to ones rights, it's another thing to live the moment and consider how did this happen?

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 18, 2008, 11:31 PM »

Still all I'm seeing is a lot of "what ifs" and "what if they do so and so" or "well they could" kind of statements but no real concrete proof of anything.
Look I've read a lot of paranoid stuff over the years and have seen a lot of things. First off it seems that a lot of people regard others who work for the government (and soldiers also.....and I used to be one) as automatons guided by some kind of nameless, faceless "Dr Evil" who's sole purpose in life is to deprive others of their humanity, who are outside of citizenship, community and conscience. The majority of these people are as patriotic and American as anyone else who have families and lives.
The idea that all of them would be pawns in some nefarious plot to usurp the basic dignity of their fellow citizens is a phenomenon that seems to have grown along with the net.
When I was in the service I could still tell the difference between right and wrong, and the civil servants that I've talked to can also.
Potential is always different from reality, and it's easy to create scenarios in your mind that are worse than reality.
I suppose it's the nature of human beings to fret and worry, but until I see proof of actual wrong doing I'm not going to get my panties in a wad.
All of you here want to be considered people of honesty making comments in good faith, it would seem to me that others deserve at least that much until proven otherwise.

And that's all I got.

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 18, 2008, 10:25 PM »

In Australia we have some anti-terrorist laws.  One such beast allows for the arrest and imprisonment of anyone for quite a time, no contact with anyone, not a lawyer, their wife or husband, no one, for all purposes this person just vanishes.  If this person happens to be a minor, then 1 parent is allowed to know, if they tell anyone including the other parent, they can go to jail for 5 yrs i think it is, obviously I have no idea if this has ever been done, and if i did i wouldn't be able to tell you 

-Grorgy (May 18, 2008, 10:21 PM)

Wow, you know that's the first I've heard about that. Now American laws are all the rage to complain about but no one seems to mind that Australian law.
Weird ain't it?

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 18, 2008, 10:23 PM »

So Usa is spreading a system that she does not practice around the world

For the umpteenth time, the United States is not a democracy, it's a representative republic. Hence the reason we have congress critters, senators and the electoral college.

-Cpilot (May 18, 2008, 09:08 PM)

-kartal (May 18, 2008, 10:08 PM)

When most people around the world think of Democracy they think it's this:

majority rule: the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group

When in actuality what America has is this:

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

And you can't "spread" democracy around the world, you can only suggest the concept. Democracy is a type of government that has to be earned, not given.
Even our leaders don't understand that.

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 18, 2008, 10:12 PM »

In that regard, the terrorists have been very successful, because we've been full of nothing but fear since the September 11 attack. Freedoms and liberties have been restricted. Laws are being passed that contradict the constitution this country was built on. I love my country more than I can describe, and it makes me extremely sad (and scared!) to see where it's heading with these laws that disregard the constitution and ignore our "inalienable rights" as human beings.

No offense Deozaan but I've read stuff like this all over the net and yet no one has ever been able to tell me exactly what laws are doing all this damage.
Lots of hysteria but not one person has been able to give me any specific instance where their rights have been violated, and what I mean by that is what rights have you had specifically, that have been violated?

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 18, 2008, 09:36 PM »

Does your hypothetical sovereign nation have the authority to punish an unmarried woman for taking a taxi ride with a man? May that nation protect itself by limiting its citizens' access to information that might be subversive to the government?

Apparently they do.
On the one hand other nations scream bloody murder if we interfere with someone elses internal cultures and conflicts.
On the other hand other nations *cough* the UN *cough* scream bloody murder if "we don't do something to stop these terrible human rights abuses".
Can't have it both ways folks, nations who do these things do it with the obvious consent of their citizens, if they didn't those people would speak out against it wouldn't they?
I mean after all, all of you would....wouldn't you?
Cause you seem to do fine ganging up on America, but then again if we have such horrible human rights violations everyone would be afraid to, wouldn't they?

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« on: May 18, 2008, 09:25 PM »

I think that Deozaan has already answered your second question. On the other hand comparing  confiscation of personal-business financial-project data to confiscation of a bottle of liquor is utter craziness I would say.

Property is property my friend, to me people going all bugshit over rules and regulations that for the most part have been around since nations formed borders is a little silly.

I hope that one day you wont find yourself in an embarrassing situation in another country.

I've already done my traveling around the world and am quite content to stay where I am now. Btw, I never did have any problems.