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  1. #3931
    Best shape I've ever been. Have been working out too much lately though, giving myself too little rest, leading to fatigue. Now I've rested and feel great.
    Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?

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  3. #3933
    News is spreading that the PS3 has been blown wide open, LV0 decryption keys have been leaked. The PS4 is still a year out, so this is going to be a very interesting time till then.

    http://www.ps3hax.net/2012/10/ps3-lv...d-and-working/
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...the-final-hack
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  4. #3934
    Yeah, what can make one happier than watching someone's property get vandalized.
    Hope is the denial of reality

  5. #3935
    You've been a vocal proponent of the lamentations of their women
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  6. #3936
    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    Yeah, what can make one happier than watching someone's property get vandalized.
    What?

    I can't tell if you're taking the stance that consumers don't own their PS3s, or shouldn't have more control on how they use their consoles, if you didn't bother to read the article, or if you completely misunderstood it.

    Or if you're talking about something else but forgot to quote it, cause that would make about the same amount of sense.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  7. #3937
    By "more control", you mean by being able to play games they didn't pay for?
    Hope is the denial of reality

  8. #3938
    Tickets to and from sthlm booked, it'll be a shorter stay than I'd counted on but that's what happens when you don't plan ahead

    Also the ginger's photos are up, and though she may try to radiate irony I know for a fact she thought it was hella fun <3





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  9. #3939
    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    By "more control", you mean by being able to play games they didn't pay for?
    "more control" being able to bring back the "Other OS" Sony pulled, and the folding@home app they are about to pull. As well as homebrew and playing from superior hard drive backups (the speed of sony's bluray player is a well established complaint).

    Or are you only going to focus only on the idea that guns kill innocents?
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  10. #3940
    Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
    Tickets to and from sthlm booked, it'll be a shorter stay than I'd counted on but that's what happens when you don't plan ahead

    Also the ginger's photos are up, and though she may try to radiate irony I know for a fact she thought it was hella fun <3
    She's absolutely lovely Minx! Congratulations again.

  11. #3941
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    "more control" being able to bring back the "Other OS" Sony pulled, and the folding@home app they are about to pull. As well as homebrew and playing from superior hard drive backups (the speed of sony's bluray player is a well established complaint).

    Or are you only going to focus only on the idea that guns kill innocents?
    You're supporting the equivalent of giving a gun to every member of the public and will then feign surprise that a decent portion end up using the gun for a non-defensive purpose.
    Hope is the denial of reality

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    "more control" being able to bring back the "Other OS" Sony pulled, and the folding@home app they are about to pull. As well as homebrew and playing from superior hard drive backups (the speed of sony's bluray player is a well established complaint).

    Or are you only going to focus only on the idea that guns kill innocents?
    Eh, let's face it, the majority just wants to play pirated games. Which is besides the point if you ask me - once you've bought it, it's yours, seems to me you should be able to do with it as you please. Of course owning pirated games would still be illegal, anyway.
    Keep on keepin' the beat alive!

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    If everyone actually subscribed to this logic, why would anyone actually make game systems or games?
    Hope is the denial of reality

  14. #3944
    Steve could shoot at them?
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  15. #3945
    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    If everyone actually subscribed to this logic, why would anyone actually make game systems or games?
    Or GMO crops??!
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

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    So about two years ago I was a victim of internet fraud (which was in a big part due to my own stupidity, to be completely honest). Anyway, filed a police report, got a letter from the justice department once that they were investigating it. Now they sent me a letter they are prosecuting and he will be in court, hurray!

    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    If everyone actually subscribed to this logic, why would anyone actually make game systems or games?
    IDK, you tell me - gamer pcs and pc games are still a big market.

    Not to mention that a lot of people simply won't do that because it would probably also void the warranty and support.
    Keep on keepin' the beat alive!

  17. #3947
    Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
    Or GMO crops??!
    The kulaks are ruthless beasts who exploit society
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  18. #3948
    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    If everyone actually subscribed to this logic, why would anyone actually make game systems or games?
    You do realize that there are serious, and popular, systems out there meant solely for homebrew right? Amazon advertised a preorder for one on their facebook page a few weeks ago.

    And there are several ways for games to live in our current market without oppresive DRM or hardware that locks out its owner. The Witcher 2 is a big example, as well as concepts like what Minecraft uses; and dont forget the current trend towards f2p.

    The Wii launched with a software hack, the 360 lasted 6 months, yet somehow neither system has gone belly up. The fact the PS3 lasted this long should be commended. I don't recall a single system in our lifetime that hasn't been cracked by its community, and yet here we are enjoying an industry thats worth something in the neighborhood of $100 billion.


    Sure, there are going to be people that steal games. Doesn't mean they were going to buy the game to begin with, but they did at least acquire the hardware. There is nothing to suggest that as a whole that group wouldn't spend than average on games, just like studies have shown that music pirates spend more than those that don't pirate.
    Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 10-24-2012 at 03:13 AM.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  19. #3949
    Where are all the freckles?

    Methinks pro makeup has covered them ...

  20. #3950
    I love watching what happens when you give meteorologists a once in a lifetime type of "frankenstorm" and only ~48 hours to study it. Its like a contest of who can freak out the most. The guy on Fox looked like he was going to pass out while he was trying to scream about how this storm could become hundreds of miles wide, could cause hurricane force winds in New York, and will be linked to multiple deaths (he hopes not, but knows it will!).

    Congratulations Northeast, you will be providing an untold number of entertainment hours to the South this weekend.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  21. #3951
    Disney's not so scary halloween event was fun. Riding Big Thunder Mountain in the dark, in 50F weather is perhaps the best way I've found to wake up sleepy children.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  22. #3952
    I love their Halloween event! Should have gone this year, I'd be there right now instead of stuck in the house with wind and rain outside. We've been watching YouTube videos of it instead, prepping the kid for a future visit.

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    I've been doing my present job for 9 years now, and I know that I am quite decent at it. Still I feel good about today; first I deducted from incomplete information where our system made a mistake in the calculation of an invalidity pension of somebody, thus making all her financial problems disappear by not sticking to a minimalist approach where her objection probably would have been rejected even though the decision was illogical and very inequitable. Then after I told her 'the best news in the last 3 years' (her words) one of the lawyers that represent us in the highest administrative court walked in with two files that I recognized as cases that were extremely difficult at the time that I dealt with them.

    They involved old european treaties, the EU treaties, a covenant with the Phillippines and a half dozen national laws. My first thought when I saw them was 'oh shit'. But then she told me about some funny detail they had found out about them and then proceeded to compliment me on how well motivated it was. She had been really impressed by it. After she left I was like 'wow'.
    Congratulations America

  24. #3954
    Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
    I've been doing my present job for 9 years now, and I know that I am quite decent at it. Still I feel good about today; first I deducted from incomplete information where our system made a mistake in the calculation of an invalidity pension of somebody, thus making all her financial problems disappear by not sticking to a minimalist approach where her objection probably would have been rejected even though the decision was illogical and very inequitable.
    The world needs more people like you (less curmudgeonly)
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

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    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  26. #3956
    That's some serious trick-or-treating!

    We took the kid for her first time-well, Hubby did while I passed out candy. Lots of kids this year despite half of my block deciding to skip out before the ToT time. He took her around the block and said she did very well, was a bit shy but didn't cry (which is what usually happens when she's overwhelmed). More interested in following other kids than getting candy, but I suppose that isn't a bad thing. Anyway, was a much better year than last year when she scratched her eye and we spent most of ToT time at the doctor's office.

  27. #3957
    Dammit, that Snickers is staring at me. I'm happy (sorta) that my kids don't ToT any more, and that we don't get too many tots on ToT night. Saves me from having tons of "good" candy around the house in Treat Sizes. Just one more, they're small....

  28. #3958
    Aerosmith is playing a free street concert a few blocks from my house. I love my neighborhood.

  29. #3959
    Glad you love your neighborhood.... but it's probably a fundraiser, like their appearance on NBC last Friday for Hurricane Sandy relief. I hope that means more bucks for Red Cross.

  30. #3960
    Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
    Glad you love your neighborhood.... but it's probably a fundraiser, like their appearance on NBC last Friday for Hurricane Sandy relief. I hope that means more bucks for Red Cross.
    Er, no, it's the launch of their new album. They had it in front of their old apartment on Comm Ave where they started out 40 years ago or so.

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