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Living Room / Re: 10 signs you may have OCD
« Last post by wraith808 on July 02, 2013, 11:40 AM »It would have been totally epic if there were only 9 signs on the list... 
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Besides, if at some point I have to move to Linux because I simply refuse to use Windows for whatever reason, then I'll just have to learn to deal. That said it would probably be in my best interest to do what I posted above: Keep my current main box on Windows 7 Pro and setup my previous "main box" with Linux. That way I can take my time and become accustomed to Linux on the other machine; learn what software is available, which ones I prefer, etc. Then if/when the time comes for a complete switch to Linux I would at least be well aware and hopefully as comfortable as I can be with it. As opposed to just committing fully all at once.
Plus this way I can go at a more comfortable pace with Linux.-J-Mac (July 02, 2013, 09:26 AM)
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
Monday July 1, 21:40 UTC
One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.
On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.
This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.
For decades the United States of America has been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.
I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.
Edward Joseph Snowden
Monday 1st July 2013
"I think there needs to be a balance, and as the president explained, there is a proper balance."
I wish DoCo could put something like this (plus some other web services) together for its members. Especially as paid services to get a steady revenue stream in. Because I'd rather drop my plastic here than elsewhere if I'm spending money.-40hz (July 01, 2013, 01:35 PM)
Then maybe we can persuade Mouser to make it a project!Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Non serviam.-40hz (July 01, 2013, 07:34 AM)
At the same time, Correa rebuked the Obama administration for hypocrisy, invoking the case of two bankers, brothers Roberto and William Isaias, whom Ecuador is seeking to extradite from the U.S.
The difference with DVD and BluRay with downloadable content is that I think the license says it is for the owner of the DVD or BD - it would therefore not be the same thing. Also to get the download codes you have to open the package to you can't really sell it as new (esp. since the code, advertised on the pack, has been removed or already claimed).-Carol Haynes (June 28, 2013, 07:01 PM)
To be perfectly blunt, I haven't seen where any of the so-called "Western Democracies" have behaved in any manner so exemplary that they are now in a position to honestly point fingers at anyone other than themselves.-40hz (June 28, 2013, 09:22 PM)
So, you are saying that the US is not a big bully that will do anything to get its way?
I never said the US would consider using nuclear weapons today.-app103 (June 28, 2013, 04:41 PM)
A country that would use nukes against an enemy is a country that will do anything to get their way, with no regard for the lives of innocent civilians. Does a small country with not much in the way of defense really want to find out what "anything" means?-app103 (June 28, 2013, 03:44 PM)
Strange he's staying so long in that airport... (that is if he is still there)-tomos (June 28, 2013, 02:43 AM)
And that was based on the true story of an Iranian man that lived in the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, for 17 years.-app103 (June 27, 2013, 11:44 AM)
So... The US is expecting to get favors from people...(directly)...after getting caught red-handed shitting in their hats.
Dear god, how stupid are these people?!?-Stoic Joker (June 27, 2013, 11:20 AM)
Cool, grabbed a copy as I've been pondering the possibility of attempting a Metro app.
..So is this a standalone IDE, or an add-on for MSVS, or both?-Stoic Joker (June 27, 2013, 11:38 AM)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say today's Supreme Court rulings tangentially bear on all this. If we play with Venn diagrams, some fragment of the overlap is about "opression". So if the topic of Marriage just became "medium less" oppressive, despite people specifically calling for the Good ol' Boys club, then that's a small step towards transparency in all those other agency areas.-TaoPhoenix (June 26, 2013, 05:52 PM)
That's not fearing the people...that's viewing them with contempt.-Stoic Joker (June 26, 2013, 01:34 PM)
Smith wanted Beech killed before he could do anything- but Schiano, who had compiled the Spartacus File, wanted to see how far Beech could get, and what, if anything, he'd do about the apparent conflict in his programming between pro-Americanism and the need to overthrow the government.
Schiano was beginning to suspect it wasn't that much of a conflict, actually. After all, sending assassins after him hardly reflected the highest ideals of American society, or any great respect for Constitutional rights.
Not that he'd never say anything like that to Smith. If Smith had any ideals, Schiano doubted they resembled anything in the Constitution. The entire Covert Operations Group didn't much resemble anything in the Constitution.