Veiva

There wasn't just porn.

Tip.it is the only forum where I've clicked on thread with a shock image post by some throwaway troll. And this is the second time it's happened. First time was so many years ago... It's not like the forum is that active, or that there's some toxic segment of the community, or ... ugh. Senselessness. Yeah wasn't that big a deal tbh I don't take well to terribly maimed limbs (or bodies, or whatever it was), sorry.

Tip.it is the only forum where I've clicked on thread with a shock image post by some throwaway troll. And this is the second time it's happened. First time was so many years ago... It's not like the forum is that active, or that there's some toxic segment of the community, or ... ugh. Senselessness.

The progressive state of North Carolina passed a discrimination bill out of the 1950s! Forward thinking Republicans, how amazing you are! Not only does it discriminate against LGBT (incredibly upsetting), it prevents cities and counties raising the minimum wage and permits discrimination against those in the military and veterans. That sure must go well with those in my city, for sure, considering the military is the largest employer here thanks to Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base! What's next in this game of hateful Republican politics?!

Eclipse has always performed really well for me. Coding in a text editor is too cumbersome for testing and debugging, I do like Sublime for HTML though. Eclipse took five seconds to open on my computer (Intel i5-4670 / Samsung 840 Pro SSD / FreeBSD 10.2). Opening any Java source file takes a minimum of two seconds to display. (And there is a pointless close confirmation box, too. Excellent UI design!) Sublime Text takes less than a second to open. Opening the same Java source file (2 KB / 100 LOC) takes less than a second. Opening a 350 KB / 12,000 LOC C source file takes around a second to display. Atom is worse than Eclipse, but it's not in ports or in the packages so I can't see how much more. I very much dislike how incredibly bloated software is becoming. I use a multitasking operating system and would like to keep it that way.

Hey, JavaScript is nothing to be afraid of :P My issue is the incredibly poor performance of applications that are little more than a WebKit instance, like Atom. JavaScript itself has nothing to do with it.

I just use Sublime Text with a terminal. Atom is a disgrace and a sickness of the "WEB ALL THE THINGS" movement. A code editor should not have any absurd performance issues on any reasonable hardware. I dislike vim and emacs because they're esoteric abominations and I cannot use bizarre key combinations/shortcuts to save my life. The build process is taken care of with a build generator (e.g., premake/cmake for C/C++) for heavier things. Generally, if I were to release whatever I develop, I'd have to go back and create a build generator configuration anyway, since IDE-specific solutions are hostile outside of the specific IDE they were created with and oftentimes any machine but the machine it was built on. Not to mention IDEs are just too heavy and cumbersome. It's easier to edit a configuration file, rather than dig through a dungeon of menus and use mouse-centric input fields for lists and so many other woes...

Would you please make a Guide for the Event? I don't like Sliding Puzzles either (that's why I don't do any Clues!) You solve the puzzle like any other sliding puzzle. Keep in mind certain pieces will change to a certain color for a couple seconds. Since the open spot is in the middle, I simply solved the first two rows like a traditional sliding puzzle, then the left side, then the bottom right, then the middle-right The general method to solve these puzzles is a simple algorithm. They're trivial, so I don't know how much more I can help.

I finished the holiday event a little bit ago, was pretty good. Nice puzzles, if rather simple. I don't like the grindy holiday events and refuse to do them as a result (e.g., Halloween). The post-quest sliding puzzle a nice spin, too. I rather liked it, honestly. I hadn't had time to try the update when I first visited the forums. I'm not going to comment on an update I haven't looked at, but I surely can comment on toxic users.

You're the most annoying user on this entire forum.

Who even does Nex anymore? That's an update 5 years too late. Nex pet and ancient emblem D: I presume most of the people who want those two items have them by now. Aside from that, Nex prices and drops are pretty terrible and dismal. I only have one defender drop from nex, and don't have pet yet :'( You say only one as if there is any reason to get more than one...you make a t80 then go KK to make a full set of t90 For keepsaking and/or placeholders and/or collections. In my case, I need 6 emblems... Though I guess few in the game actually create a cohesive, well-done outfit for their character. It's either no overrides, hide most/all, or overload of garish Solomon's gear. Oh well. And the tier 90 defenders look terrible, though I suppose that would be expected, since drygore weaponry looks like crap as well. (By the way, getting a placeholder bronze defender when you have any higher-tier defenders is/was a total pain. I had to die with all my defenders. Why can't I just go in the room and get a bronze defender? The lady in the guild is evil.)

Electronic voting is dangerous to freedom. It only currently works on a country that is simply not important nor significant when compared to the United States or larger European countries, and even then Estonia's voting system has flaws that could be exploited. You paint Estonia as important as to counter that, but it's not. You are the presenting yourself as a counterpart to the stereotypical American patriot who does not see the great many flaws of America (and touts them as advantages. in fact!). And for your extension to my PayPal example: Estonia is some bank with a single branch in some rural town whose IT manager was only relevant when the Commodore 64 was released. A pointless target.

Estonia is a forum of 10 users using phpBB with plain-text passwords. It's not secure, but no one bothers because the potential is useless. The United States is... PayPal. A prime target with an immense amount of potential. Targeting an individual PayPal account is worth it, just like targeting PayPal itself. Do you see the difference? (Also, "homeless fellas" can't show who they voted for in the USA. Buying votes is very difficult because the buyer does not know. I could take $100 and vote for the opposite, and it's simply my word.) As we are a full member of NATO and the European Union we have shitloads of classified information Russia, China and other not so friendly forces would pay a lot of money to acquire. We can veto pretty much any development in the whole EU. And the EU is a lot larger and richer community than the USA. You may be Paypal, but then we would be equal to Visa. Again, I tell you that Estonian ID-systems or parts of them have been more-or-less also taken to use in lots of other countries, including Germany. If it is secure enough for Germany, then I think it is secure for anyone. And the point with the homeless guys I brought up is that otherwise they would not have voted at all. For a bottle of vodka, they don't really care, and will vote for the one that was asked for. I thought nationalism was looked down upon in Europe. You are incredibly patriotic of Estonia, blindly so. Did you know that?

Estonia is a forum of 10 users using phpBB with plain-text passwords. It's not secure, but no one bothers because the potential is useless. The United States is... PayPal. A prime target with an immense amount of potential. Targeting an individual PayPal account is worth it, just like targeting PayPal itself. Do you see the difference? (Also, "homeless fellas" can't show who they voted for in the USA. Buying votes is very difficult because the buyer does not know. I could take $100 and vote for the opposite, and it's simply my word.)

Is Osmium the densest stable material? If so, the max weight of a small flat rate box for USPS priority mail would be just around 50 lbs. It is a terrible day. Combination of extremely bored and rather tired.

^ In a Hillary vs Trump battle I absolutely prefer Trump. Trump is scum don't get me wrong but so is Hillary and at least Goldman Sachs can't count on deals from him. But I don't think the person who plays the role of president matters much. Most domestic policies happen when the overwhelming majority of people support it and it sticks around until the overwhelming majority don't support it. Most of foreign policy is explainable by state behavior instead of specific actors And the president really does have minimal impact on the economy The president has quite a bit more power than you seem to think. He is literally the highest authority in the most powerful military in the world (by orders of magnitude) as commander-in-chief. He has a major role in the legislation process (because of vetoes), which includes the budget and other important issues. The ability to appoint justices to the Supreme Court shapes policy for decades. There are also many of the executive agencies under direct control of the president, from the EPA to the NSA. A president that has no legislative successes could still push through immense improvements across the board as a result. Hillary Clinton would be a far more stable president than Trump. Although I disagree with her politicking and her character, she is a safe bet at the end of the day to at least continue the slow regressive policies. She would be no worse (and no better) than Obama, Bush, or most any of the last other few presidents. There is no guarantee with Trump. What he will do, what he believes--they're all completely unknown. To be precise, I support Sanders. But there is little further to the left than my (idealistic) views when it comes to a worldview or set of policies or ethics or so on. For example, individual responsibility is an illusion--we are all subjects to uncontrollable processes (external and internal) and are little better thank thinking machines. As a result, even the most horrible criminals are also victims of the cause-and-effect natural, social, economic, political, etc forces. We should then look to remedy the influences that resulted in criminal behavior and not punish--rather rehabilitate. Or the idea that commodized knowledge in the form of patents and copyrights (and trademarks, due to the interesting abuses trademarks have) is immoral since it deprives the greater humanity more than it rewards the individual. And while capitialism is currently the only realistic economic system, it creates a web of suffering and necessitates evil at a distance, resulting in the most otherwise innocent individuals (i.e., all of us) to enable incredible atrocities across the world with no ability to single-handedly prevent it. And on and on... It's a bit more than encryption. For example, here is a message encoded in base64 with "256-bit" encryption: U2FsdGVkX19t/RLxDa2pmcx3EdBqAaWYXyZ4H7YiU2GSssatR+64j9tc/IHI2DOA However, only I know the contents of the message. As a result, it's pointless. There has to be a central authority to count and verify votes. And regarding Estonia, its electronic voting system seems to be incredibly flawed. Can you dismiss any claims made here?

I know that. My point was that millions of bank accounts remain intact despite not being 100% secure. Oh well, I'm not really in a spot to be able to watch Randox's video so I'll give that a look when I get home. I'd like to hear some other suggestions for increasing voter participation though. Vote-by-mail is probably the best band-aid solution. A proper solution in decreasing, and eliminating, voter apathy would require incredible social, economic, and political changes that no one wants.

I doubt they're insignificant to people in Estonia. As a worthwhile target for an actor with the capabilities and motivation, yes. Unless there's some hacking group or state-funded agency dangerously bored, I guess.

I went to Nebraska's Democratic caucus last weekend, and there was an insane number of people my age there. Like, hundreds of them, probably. It's a little biased, because I'm in the district where the college is, so probably a lot of the people who live on campus were registered for that area, but the young voter turnout was pretty good in the district my friend went to a few miles away as well. Though, yes, you're right, it could absolutely be better. We obviously need to make a way to vote online without having the results able to be manipulated. That would be terrible. Voting legitimacy is incredibly important and the security implications of an online voting infrastructure on both the front-end and back-end is simply too wide an area for attackers, domestic and foreign. To be brutally honest, of all the agencies, only the NSA could potentially be trusted with such a task, but elections (and citizen security, especially) are not their responsibility. The only data I truly trust on the internet would be data I encrypted offline with an incredibly long key (at least 256 bits of entropy) using open-source and secure software with a tried-and-true encryption method (such as GnuPG with AES), and even then I wouldn't trust the reliability of said data over long periods of time (e.g., data corruption). Even my own computer has full-disk encryption (with GELI and an equally complex key) and whenever I do not have immediate access to my computer I turn it off (if I leave my home, if I go to sleep, if I'm outside for more than a minute or two...). In honesty, I feel I can only trust myself, and sometimes that's difficult. I figure that if we can have bank accounts online without everything going to hell then we should be able to have online elections as well without too much trouble. If we give every registered voter a unique ID key, then the most we have to worry about is stolen ID's right? Fake votes wouldn't be able to happen because you wouldn't be able to vote with a non-existent key. Multiple votes with the same key would be easy to catch and prevent. Really this is the best way I can think of to increase voter turnout. It would be trivial for anyone you know in real life to access your bank account if they are 1) malicous and 2) remotely capable with the darker areas security. Your example is terrible. I'm sorry to say, but rigging Estonia's elections is a pointless task. They are insignificant.

I went to Nebraska's Democratic caucus last weekend, and there was an insane number of people my age there. Like, hundreds of them, probably. It's a little biased, because I'm in the district where the college is, so probably a lot of the people who live on campus were registered for that area, but the young voter turnout was pretty good in the district my friend went to a few miles away as well. Though, yes, you're right, it could absolutely be better. We obviously need to make a way to vote online without having the results able to be manipulated. That would be terrible. Voting legitimacy is incredibly important and the security implications of an online voting infrastructure on both the front-end and back-end is simply too wide an area for attackers, domestic and foreign. To be brutally honest, of all the agencies, only the NSA could potentially be trusted with such a task, but elections (and citizen security, especially) are not their responsibility. The only data I truly trust on the internet would be data I encrypted offline with an incredibly long key (at least 256 bits of entropy) using open-source and secure software with a tried-and-true encryption method (such as GnuPG with AES), and even then I wouldn't trust the reliability of said data over long periods of time (e.g., data corruption). Even my own computer has full-disk encryption (with GELI and an equally complex key) and whenever I do not have immediate access to my computer I turn it off (if I leave my home, if I go to sleep, if I'm outside for more than a minute or two...). In honesty, I feel I can only trust myself, and sometimes that's difficult.

There's early voting in NC, so I went to an early voting location and voted in the Democratic primaries. Went incredibly smoothly. Range from content to excited for the choices I made. Out of the 30 or so voters I encountered in the 10 minutes I was there, I was by far the youngest by perhaps 30 years. I bet voter participation among youth will be incredibly low, like it was in the local elections here. It's really terrible... A young voter could pull up the ballot they'll see from the state voter website, search for the candidates, review their policies, and come to a reasonably informed decision in an hour or two. The early voting (nearly two weeks) also means they can vote on their leisure. North Carolina is anti-voter, definitely, but the anti-voter regulation would not affect most youth voters that dramatically. It's complete apathy and disregard for civil duty. What a world. (This was yesterday. I went to bed early and forgot to post. So to be on topic... Today, I'm about to wash dishes! Yep, very interesting.)

I was doing slayer so I could buy the ability to make broad arrows so I could get 94 fletching efficiently so I could make dragon crossbows because dragon crossbows sell better than dragon limbs and bla bla bla. Only 250ish killcount for the drop. Surprising... (I got 300 slayer points a couple levels ago, though. Slayer isn't so bad...)

[snip] If you can get at least half of these right then you can talk shit about Americans and their geographic knowledge. That comparison isn't valid. You're comparing administrative divisions within a single country, rather than independent countries. There is little need for anyone who does not live in Germany or France or England to know the specific local governments within the larger whole, and the same holds for the United States (and its states) when it comes to German or French or English. It should be expected to know at least the general boundaries and locations of any significant countries. It should not be expected to know the administrative divisions within these same countries. Our one country is almost the same size as the entire continent of Europe. We have single states that are larger and more populated than some European countries. That's irrelevant. There's cities with populations only short of California in countries like China, Japan, and India. Only a few states have any significant population, anyway. Similarly, area doesn't matter, either. Unless you can recite and locate the provinces of China, or the federal districts of Russia, or the states of Australia? The United States is a generally a singular government like most others no matter what state-right regressives would like to think. There is no higher power governing the United States, like there is no higher power governing Germany or China. Comparing the American states (which are historically insignificant on any global scale) to countries (which are completely sovereign, and regardless of size or population, have tremendous sway historically and currently) is stupid. I'll expand: your comparison is grossly flawed and your Americanism is showing.

[snip] If you can get at least half of these right then you can talk shit about Americans and their geographic knowledge. That comparison isn't valid. You're comparing administrative divisions within a single country, rather than independent countries. There is little need for anyone who does not live in Germany or France or England to know the specific local governments within the larger whole, and the same holds for the United States (and its states) when it comes to German or French or English. It should be expected to know at least the general boundaries and locations of any significant countries. It should not be expected to know the administrative divisions within these same countries.

I'm working on making a "living dex" of "perfect" Pokemon... The goal is to personally catch/breed/obtain all the Pokemon myself. And my progress is terrible. Only ~50 unique Pokemon so far. There's 721 in total. I also am debating if obtaining a shiny version of the possible Pokemon is a worthwhile endeavor or not. I hate how the Pokedex shows shiny forms. Some of my Pokedex would have the shiny form, but most of it wouldn't! Ugh... In Pokemon Black, it may be somewhat possible to get RNGing a shiny breedable Pokemon down to a science--maybe an hour an attempt...? I wouldn't care about the stats on the shiny versions... (On that list, I'm most proud of the Clefable/Cleffa. They were RNG'd in Pokemon Emerald, and then I had to RNG Pokemon Sapphire to get the proper TID/SID to make them shiny. The Hoenn trio is also pretty neat--had to win HeartGold twice and SoulSilver once to RNG the right TID/SID and catch them. And then there's the Dittos, caught in a German copy of Pokemon Black 2. Mmm.)