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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications
« Last post by wraith808 on July 31, 2013, 09:08 AM »
continued OT discussion

If we have allowed PRISM, et. al., there are naught to blame but ourselves.
-barney (July 31, 2013, 12:00 AM)

I have a *real* problem with that statement.

reagan-responsibility.jpg

The people that are responsible for those actions are solely responsible.  If now that they are visible, we do nothing, then we are responsible for letting it continue.  But they are responsible for their own actions, and should be held accountable.  That statement is one of the problems... we say "we get the government we deserve", and enable their continued transgressions by not holding their individual and several feet to the fire, because it's our fault.

The government is not an entity.  It is a collection of people elected to represent people as a whole.  And if they don't represent the will of the people, and the constitution that they are elected to uphold, then they need to be held accountable.  To do otherwise is insane- you're putting people in power over you that have no responsibility to you, other than to mollify you every two/four years.  That's insanity.

...well, at least in my opinion.  There needs to be a Reckoning, with a capital 'R'.

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Living Room / Re: PLease help superboyac build a server (2013 edition).
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2013, 04:35 PM »
What do you want the server for?  Other than to hold a lot of drives... there's several different applications that require a lot of space...
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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2013, 12:56 PM »
Basement? Nah. It's still all fun & games. Nobody is getting vehement about anything. Besides, it's more fun with 40hz in the discussion.
-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 11:44 AM)

I just meant in terms of this is OT for the thread... and we really couldn't make a non-basement thread that would fit in the living room for the discussion. :)

Let's do the OT again
Your last statements bring to the fore anything that doesn't have to do with the immediate.

I don't have the resources, so I ask someone for them.  If they aren't totally altruistic, the lack of the way to enforce the contract (as that would be aggression) comes into question.

I guess it could work like pure barter, but that's not always going to get you through the spots when what you're producing is either not in season, or not in demand.  How do you enforce such things?

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2013, 11:10 AM »
OT Stuff
-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 08:15 AM)

Getting more off-topic, so maybe we should thread this to the basement?
Doesn't that presume that those ideologies include expansion as a tenet (which none of them necessarily do)

As you said, Anarchism only talks about inflicting on the non-willing. So, and I quote, "Anarchism doesn't preclude people from associating under some set of ideologies, e.g. anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-communism, etc. The only thing it precludes is the initiation of force/violence."

If a group of people got together an formed a democracy, it would be a tyranny of the masses, sure.  But on the masses that want the tyranny.  As long as it remains in the borders and by collusion, then it does work.  And they would have the defensive ability to expel anyone that didn't want to abide by that rule, correct?

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2013, 09:23 AM »
Also relevant quote:

I have 600 subscriptions, can Miniflux handle that?

Your life is cluttered.

IMO, putting that into a FAQ makes it less clear.  Put down what it can handle, and leave the snark for other applications.
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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2013, 08:57 AM »
Miniflux only supports 5 feeds also it appears... unless I'm reading something wrong.
-wraith808 (July 29, 2013, 10:43 PM)

Not sure where you got that? I'm using it on about 100 feeds without any issues.
-johnk (July 30, 2013, 06:22 AM)

That's why I asked.  He said it only supports 5 feeds in parallel... then when someone asked if it would support 600 feeds (surely an arbitrary number) he came back with snark.  So I didn't really get an idea of what it *will* handle.
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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 10:43 PM »
Miniflux only supports 5 feeds also it appears... unless I'm reading something wrong.

It looks like I'm deciding between bq and newsflux... unless something else comes along.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 07:07 PM »
Don't keep your same look and feel... you can even use SCC to copy the header from Wordpress and use that as the banner on you blogger site.  And all you have to do is have a blurb about you moved, and this is the new address.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 06:54 PM »
I only had two members, and they were wife and father, who never looked at the blog :(  Shouldn't inconvenience anyone.

Re: >> Nice work with the site, @wraith: thanks!
-kyrathaba (July 29, 2013, 06:49 PM)

Just because you only had two members doesn't mean you only had two visitors.  Never underestimate the power of previous visits to a site.  I'd think even a visit was worth more than maintaining a one page free blog ;)
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 06:34 PM »
Took the Blogger blog down this afternoon. Culled its content and put what I wanted to keep on williambryanmiller.com, as well as some new material.
-kyrathaba (July 29, 2013, 06:21 PM)

You might have wanted to (want to?  Don't know if you can start it up) keep it up for a while to point to the new location.  As a redirect for people who came there (Like 40 :))
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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 04:28 PM »
Oh well... I'm back to looking for a reader.  The Old Reader bites the dust.
5762
Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 04:22 PM »
I guess after seeing your list, I have to add more :)

A Walk In The Clouds

A Room with a View

Howard's End

Green Card

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

50 First Dates

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Thelma and Louse

My Best Friend's Wedding

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Legends of the Fall

The Family Man
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 04:09 PM »
Nice work with the site :)
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 12:16 PM »
And actually, I don't mind any genre if its well done.  It's just that most of the crap they put out now *isn't*.
-wraith808 (July 29, 2013, 11:59 AM)

Pfft! Liar! No guy likes any chick-flick no matter how well it's done! We only tolerate them because of our ladies! :P

Now, add in some aliens or cyborgs or space ships or lasers or zombies or something that's actually cool/interesting, and yeah... they can be done well enough to enjoy. :P

Sleepless in Seattle/Titanic = zzzzzzzzzzzz... :P


-Renegade (July 29, 2013, 12:05 PM)

I'm not afraid to admit that one of my favorite movies is "Somewhere in Time". :)
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2013, 11:59 AM »
I don't mind the Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc films either.  The retreads, not so much.  But a good mindless action flick... definitely.  And I still want to see a King Conan film where he hands the reins over to someone else.

I hate most of the remakes.  There are a few that have been good... but I'm on the fence as to whether that (very) few is worth the pain of the others.

And actually, I don't mind any genre if its well done.  It's just that most of the crap they put out now *isn't*.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 28, 2013, 03:36 PM »
I've installed plug-in Akismet. Any other "must haves" in the plug-ins category?
-kyrathaba (July 28, 2013, 03:24 PM)

I'd get Jetpack (http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/)

Other than that, I've used a few, but nothing indispensable.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 28, 2013, 03:34 PM »
No problem.
If interested, couple of examples of what can be done with Suffusion are my site in my profile and in my sig.
-rgdot (July 28, 2013, 02:59 PM)

Is there supposed to be something other than the landing page and the contact form?  I see the image, but no way to get to other content.
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by wraith808 on July 28, 2013, 02:23 PM »
The hunger games - Waste of time (why it got the high IMDB score is beyond me).
-Shades (July 27, 2013, 12:04 PM)

Did you mean as a movie? Or an adaptation?  Like was it the story that threw you or the adapted movie?
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 28, 2013, 02:22 PM »
thanks for getting him squared RGDot... was going to get on it when I got home, but good to see it already done :)
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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
« Last post by wraith808 on July 28, 2013, 09:40 AM »
So Obooboo now says he's into the whistleblower system
-Tinman57 (July 27, 2013, 08:01 PM)

Next he will be saying he wants Snowden to come home to receive a medal ...
-Carol Haynes (July 28, 2013, 03:45 AM)

No, they want him to come home, and will not seek the death penalty.  Oooh....  :o :huh: :-\
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 28, 2013, 12:47 AM »
yup... rgdot got you squared it seems.  Let me know if you have any more difficulties, and I can take a look.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2013, 04:28 PM »
Didn't get the cPanel email. Checked SPAM folder - not there, either.
-kyrathaba (July 27, 2013, 04:15 PM)

I sent you the relevant information in a PM.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2013, 03:59 PM »
^ That's correct... it's already propagated :)

And not will be assigned... you should have received it in your e-mail.  Did you not receive an e-mail?  I got the admin version, so I just assumed that you had received it.  It would have come from [email protected], and should be entitled "New account on host2.gamera.cc (williambryanmiller.com)"  did you receive that e-mail?
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2013, 12:48 PM »
I am assuming wraith is creating an account on a share space for you not allocating/creating something on a VPS/dedicated setup
-rgdot (July 27, 2013, 11:01 AM)

This would be correct.  I'm just setting up a share space on my dedicated server. :)
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2013, 12:46 PM »
The nameservers were in the e-mail that you received... I'll PM them to you
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