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Living Room / Re: Disney to shut LucasArts games studio, lay off workers

« Last post by Renegade on April 06, 2013, 07:53 AM »

Please remind me why copyright laws are broken?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Renegade on April 06, 2013, 07:52 AM »

^^ @Iain - those were good!

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on April 06, 2013, 05:54 AM »

Adam Kokesh rails on a CNBC hit piece on bitcoin:

He can be very entertaining. I don't remember him swearing in there. He can have a real potty-mouth sometimes, which makes him AOK in my books~! 

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Living Room / Re: Bigger than Wikileaks - ICIJ obtains 200GB of data on offshore money havens

« Last post by Renegade on April 06, 2013, 05:24 AM »

tl;dr - summary

This will be used by the media to brainwash people further into believing that it is their moral and civic duty to STFU when the government forcibly takes their money from them, aka steals from them.

Just watch... People will scream about how it's not fair that other people don't get raped as badly as them...

Crabs in a bucket... Just the way the system was intended to be...

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Living Room / Re: Who's Going To Buy The Facebook Phone?

« Last post by Renegade on April 06, 2013, 04:58 AM »

I barely use Facebook at all anymore. And I certainly wouldn't buy a phone from them.

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Living Room / Re: Bigger than Wikileaks - ICIJ obtains 200GB of data on offshore money havens

« Last post by Renegade on April 06, 2013, 04:54 AM »

Ren? You gonna comment? 

-kyrathaba (April 05, 2013, 07:42 AM)

Been a bit busy lately, but yes. (And don't say nobody asked for it~! )

And I sorta posted this for Renny so he'd have something to chew on. It gets too quiet when he's not around because he's too busy market timing his bitcoin portfolio.

-40hz (April 04, 2013, 06:39 PM)

Chew? That requires molars. Get ready for fangs...

And yes - been a bit busy with BTC. Woohoo~! It's a thrilling ride~! 


The entire premise here is simply hosed. Completely off-base and only exposing a small symptom of the disease that has infected business, commerce, finance, and the bitch lackeys... government.

This is a symptom of a collectivist system where the middle class is attacked and destroyed with demonic fury. The poor are made poorer, and the rich are made richer.

Small and medium sized businesses are nothing but cattle for the vampires to feed on. The large enterprises purchase legislation to allow them to suck the life out of their "human resources" (note the dehumanizing use of "resource" -- you are NOT human, you are just a slave, a resource to be used and discarded) as they consolidate power into mega-enterprises. e.g. There are now only about 5 banks in the US worth mentioning.

By destroying the middle class and installing a system of dependency, the poor are forced to vote for ever increasingly "socialist" tyrants that strive to control every facet of life. The irony is that for the large mega-enterprises, they get all the wonderful pork of fascism to feed off of, while when they screw up in gargantuan ways, they flip to the other tit and suck on socialism for the rich in the form of bailouts and corporate welfare as they award their CEOs and executives obscene bonuses that would make Mammon blush.

What does this have to do with off-shore wealth? Everything.

The system is vampiric. It siphons the blood of the working poor and the diminishing middle class into the voracious and insatiable greed of the rich and elite. However, with all that money, what is one to do? Create a trust and funnel money out of the country into a safe haven so that it is safe from the very vampiric system that they have created.

Is it any surprise to see? Of course not. Why put your sheep in the same pen that you plan to unleash your pack of wolves into? That would be idiotic. Of course you move your money out of reach of the very corruption that you created to gain your wealth.

What can the little guy do?

BUY SILVER & GOLD

Silver and gold are excellent stores of wealth. However, they are being artificially depressed.

JP Morgan shorts silver on paper to drive the price down. They have orders of magnitude more silver on paper than exist on the planet, both above and below ground.

The Fed is now shorting gold to prop up the value of the US dollar. This is a symptom of a system on the verge of collapse. BRICs and other countries are abandoning the US petro dollar. The USD will no longer be the world reserve currency. It's effectively dead right now.

BUY BITCOINS

I know that a lot of people don't really think much of bitcoin, but it is a better system than having a monopolized currency that is regularly manipulated for the benefit of the elite.

If you don't know what quantitative easing is, it's a fancy word for "theft". The current rounds (that's PLURAL) of QE haven't really hit the markets yet. They are massive and perpetual. They will destroy what is left of the USD, driving real wealth into the hands of the elite, bankrupting the middle class, and forcing the working poor into working abject poverty.

Silver & bitcoin are great ways to take your money out of the corrupt system and store your money/wealth. They exist out of reach of the thieving grubby paws of governments that have mismanaged and bankrupted cities, states, provinces, prefects, and entire countries.


THE LEAK

For the actual "leak" side of this...

Nothing will happen.

There will be bitching and complaining. A couple minor thugs might be slapped on the wrist, but there will be exactly ZERO consequences meted out.

Sure, the sheeple will bleat their dissatisfaction.

So what? When has public opinion mattered to government? Pot is still illegal in Canada while the majority of Canadians want it decriminalized.

Government is violence.

We'll read opinion pieces about how horrible it is. And all the other news articles will talk about "tax evasion" and how it's not right...

No. They COMPLETELY miss the point.

TAX IS THEFT

It's not "tax evasion", it's "protecting your money from being stolen".

You don't all of a sudden magically get the right to steal from someone simply because you're in a big mob. Tax is theft.

"You can't steal, but *we* can steal." Ahem... please imagine a good deal of profanity, vulgarity, obscenity coming from my foaming mouth.

Complaining about "tax evasion" is like bitching about how you just got raped, everyone else should get raped.

BEING BORN doesn't automatically give other people the right to the fruits of your labour. Being born doesn't indenture you to a monarch (or council or government) who somehow magically claims you as their property by virtue of the lineage of their own birth (or incorporation).

The Queen in (so tempted to type 'F' here) Buckingham Palace has no legitimate authority or moral authority over anyone. Yet, she is the largest land owner in the world.

Government should SERVE people. Not the other way around.

I could go on for pages and pages and megabytes and gigabytes and terabytes about this stuff.


And... I didn't use the F-bomb once. You have no idea how difficult that was...

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Living Room / Re: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)

« Last post by Renegade on April 06, 2013, 03:58 AM »

Damn politicians!

-kyrathaba (April 05, 2013, 09:29 PM)

Is there any other kind?

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Living Room / Re: Data Disclosure

« Last post by Renegade on April 04, 2013, 10:19 AM »

California? 

I'm stunned.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Renegade on April 04, 2013, 05:32 AM »

Removed image... I thought it was pretty good for a laugh, but I guess not...

-wraith808 (April 03, 2013, 10:13 AM)

Too bad. I thought it was quite funny!

But, I guess there's no sense in crying over spilt fresh milk.

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Living Room / Re: Cheap LED torches/flashlights - any good?

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 09:49 PM »

I have a small "fits in the palm of your hand" crank LED flashlight, so it doesn't need batteries. It's good for things like peering into a computer case and the like. Seems pretty decent to me. Better than regular bulb ones anyways.

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Living Room / Re: A Netware server that's been running non-stop for 16+ years

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 12:30 PM »

*cough* *cough* bullshit guys *cough* *cough*

Watch "The Light Bulb Conspiracy". This goes back over 100 years.

Don't try some FUD BS. Because it is total BS. And you darn well know it.

And don't tell me that you haven't bought some product with a 2 year warranty that died at 2 years + 1 month. Be it a toaster or TV or whatever.

C'mon... Stop with the crap. Planned obsolescence is brilliant engineering today. They to a great job of ensuring that you have to replace everything just after the warranty expires.

As for mission critical stuff... that is so far removed from the consumer experience as to be laughable. It's just not affordable at the consumer level.

And for typical IT... average stuff that is... C'mon... It might be available to major corporations, but none of that kind of durability is available for typical IT use by SMEs. Everything fails. I've seen ASP applications just deteriorate after being thoroughly tested. It's like some kind of digital rot sets in. I don't know how, but it happens.

When I was a kid, we had a Motorola TV that was 25 years old. It worked. What's the age of the average TV today?

Please... A little more honesty and not so much total bullshit, please?

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Living Room / Re: A Netware server that's been running non-stop for 16+ years

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 11:23 AM »

These are the good old days.

-CWuestefeld (April 02, 2013, 11:09 AM)

*cough* planned obsolescence *cough*

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Developer's Corner / Re: Developer Discussions

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 09:37 AM »

I think kyrathaba has pretty much nailed it.

The amount of development that I do fluctuates.

And to be honest, I just end up at Stack Exchange most of the time.

There are so many different development experiences here that starting threads is almost tedious as you know that there are only 2 people that might even be interested.

I think more business-oriented threads for dev would go further.

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Living Room / Re: A Netware server that's been running non-stop for 16+ years

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 09:14 AM »

"The Lightbulb Conspiracy"

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 09:12 AM »

^Don't worry. There's every good chance they'll see you on your way back down. 

-40hz (April 02, 2013, 08:58 AM)

Well, it'll be a long enough fall that I can still cash out and stay ahead.

(P.S. I also very sincerely hope I'm wrong about that and you make a bloody fortune off it. Luck!   )

-40hz (April 02, 2013, 08:58 AM)

Me too! 


Oh, and if anyone has any BTC that they want to sell, I'll trade DC credits for them~!

Just PM me and I'll give you a BTC address and immediately send you DC credits. I'll round up to the nearest $0.50 at the current market price when I send. In other words, the longer it takes me to check PMs, the more you make~! hahahaha

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 08:48 AM »

Ok...
 

-40hz (April 02, 2013, 08:43 AM)

$107.90

Hey, I'm having a great ride here! I wish a few people here could/would join me!

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 08:38 AM »

Don't let them fool you. Bitcoin is SkyNET.

-40hz (April 02, 2013, 07:11 AM)

No...

SkyNET is when MS ports Skype to .NET.

$107.69/BTC now.

But I can see how you'd confuse that... BTC is going sky high on the net!

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Living Room / Re: A Netware server that's been running non-stop for 16+ years

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 08:35 AM »

Cynical comment

Thank god all that is a thing of the past!

Now we have engineered obsolescence to help guarantee consumption and employment!

Damn Netware douches! Good riddance! They would have put people out of jobs and ruined the economy!

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 07:03 AM »

^Fortunately, I think most of the web news crowd was skeptical. Most didn't take the story and run with it since there was no corroborating evidence any seizure took place. (A phone call to the hosting company was all it would have taken to confirm it.)

Had the thing blown up, gotten massive coverage, and prompted the DoJ to make a formal statement of denial, things might have gone very differently. Because kidding aside, putting a fake seizure page up on your site is not much different than telling the news media that the feds showed up with a warrant, kicked your door in, and confiscated all your computers and data files.

At the very least, there's a copyright violation if those logos are the actual logos of the DoJ or DHS. (There's actually a federal reg that points out they're copyrighted and can only be used with permission.) I suppose you could make an argument for "fair use." But I don't think you could make it stick with something like this.

Anyway, it seems to have blown over with little wind damage. So I doubt the government will want to court the Streisand Effect by doing anything about it - even though I'm guessing they could. Down the road things might go differently however. Defense Distributed has fired an opening salvo. Even if it was intended to be taken purely as a joke with no political agenda intended. (Yeah right!) Unfortunately, that's the sort of move that can put you "on the radar screen." Very dumb IMO. (Rule #1 when challenging the Powers That Be: Pick your venues - and have a clear goal in view when confronting your opponent.) But what's done is done.

Onward!

-40hz (April 02, 2013, 06:48 AM)

3 felonies a day.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 06:06 AM »

Good grief! BTC has since broken $107 USC/BTC. (107.12101)

There are HUGE volumes going on with people buying up 1000 BTC at a time. It just won't stop shooting up!

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by Renegade on April 02, 2013, 12:15 AM »

Interesting thing is that although the seizure page was a prank, using an image of a badge, logo or insignia of a federal agency without proper authorization (or doing something which may lead someone to reasonably believe you are representing a federal agency) is illegal in the US.

Hopefully, this gag won't backfire on them.

-40hz (April 01, 2013, 11:51 PM)

Interesting point.

But they didn't represent that they were a part of the govt. They merely represented that the govt. stole their domain and charged them. Not sure that the distinction would matter though. When it's illegal to dig a large ditch on your own property out in the country-side, anything is possible.

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by Renegade on April 01, 2013, 11:31 PM »

They can be fun in person, but on the Internet? They just don't work. Timezones monkey them up badly.

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by Renegade on April 01, 2013, 08:47 PM »

  I'm not a big fan of these things when they don't get the timezones right. For that one, sadly, it was pretty believable.

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by Renegade on April 01, 2013, 12:59 PM »

ONGOMGOMG!!! And on today of all days!!! Who could have possibly dreamed of this!

-40hz (April 01, 2013, 12:49 PM)

A very sick and twisted joke indeed. And all too real. It would be good if it were a joke.

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Living Room / Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by Renegade on April 01, 2013, 12:04 PM »

The US government has stolen the defensedistributed.com domain:

http://defensedistributed.com/



I was going to post this in the Basement, but it's just too important to hide.

Welcome to the new era of Orwellian censorship. Information is a crime. What you think is a crime.

Download what you can now.