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General / How to piss off the muslims.
« on: April 07, 2011, 09:13:48 AM »
OK, we all know my days here are numbered, and I wanna go out with a bang.  A person who values Truth above human relations cannot have any friends left.  No one gets spared!

I've done "truthed off" the statists of a million different varieties, the pot-heads, the peacetards, the extinctionists (ex. gays), the Objectivists (though I respect them the most), the conspiracytards, the there-ain't-no-conspiracytards, the Jesustards, the ethnocentric assholes (ex. KKK or the Jews), the nationalists, the magic-wandists (like Ian), hypocritical "skeptics", the open-source-tards, the closed-source-tards, the "animal rights" tards, and even the tax-paying little rich kids who think spending a tiny fraction of what they pay in taxes to "promote liberty" is their salvation...  Who's left?

Now I've always thought that a mock conversion to Islam, done as convincingly as I've done it, and then a few jokes would check off the Muslims on my list.  Wrong!  When it comes to the rug beaters, I'm not even fit to carry this guy's jockstrap!  Terry Jones has gotten over 400 death threats!  I've received a lot less over all those years...  Serious ones - less than a dozen ...

Of course there are only so many things that I can do without a pig farm and a catapult that can reach Mecca, but I'm going to John Galt out a super-engine of some sort soon enough.  Live pigs, flying through the air, oinking hysterically, and smashing up against the Masjid al-Haram...  Mmmm, beautiful!  I'm not gonna call it my own personal vengeance for 9/11, since I don't take the official story on faith and don't even buy into that over-romanticized hype about "skyscrapers as monuments to human achievement"...  I'm just gonna do this independently of any nationalist or (anti)religious hype, just Alex Libman vs the Kaaba, one on one.  And the place belongs to a tyrannical government, so no issues of Property Rights apply.  I'd like to see that Saudi air force trying to shoot flying pigs out of their sky!  And they most certainly don't have a space program, so they can't outflank me!

But, you know, anyone with a few billion dollars can drop a whole lot of pigs on Mecca.  I can go a step further, because I know where the bodies are buried.  Al-Masjid al-Nabawi.  But piling some bacon on top of good ol Moe is just silly, it probably won't land within 30 yards.  A smarter approach - dig a tunnel.  Then you can have his corpse all for yourself for all sorts of possible amusements - puppetry, sodomy, play around with his DNA...  I wonder how much some of them Republican secret gay pedophiles would pay for a night with Prophet Muhammad's clone?  It's not just about Islam anymore, it's a darn good business plan to boot!

:twisted:

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General / Dalebert And My Anus
« on: April 06, 2011, 12:03:31 AM »
I survived!

After the horrible bone-shattering ordeal I just went through, that's all that seems important anymore...

My life was flashing before my eyes, I fully realistically thought I was gonna die...

But I survived!

I survived!

Survived!

I will be suffering post-traumatic stress disorder for the rest of my life, but I must, I simply must tell the tale...

I owe it to humanity and future generations.

Now bowel movements are not something you post about on a forum...

Not even this one...

But what happened to me today was a transcendent experience that changed my whole view of the universe!

I mean, what's so complicated about taking a dump?

Well, you see, I've recently came across a blog post by Dale Everett that touched me in a very profound way...

So I decided to quit my 1.5-year experiment with Veganism and go low-carb instead...

I had no idea what I was in for...

At first everything was a-OK...  I guess it was just momentum...

But then things started to move a little differently...

And tonight, well...  Only paranormal could explain this!

I mean I never believed in ghosts or UFO's, but what my anus just went through could have no earthly logical explanation...

There I was, sitting down with a nice new Perl book, and then...

OH HORRRROR!!!!

I knew I was in for the fight of my life!

Now I know someone coined the term "terdzilla" before, but that's several orders of magnitude different from what I was up against.

The South Park episode wasn't far off...

I mean, WTF!  I'm a human being, right?  How could this even be anatomically possible?!

The pain was so bad I actually hoped I would die like this and end my suffering...

And then the pain got worse!

And worse!

And worse!

You really need to believe in God to understand how big this turd was...

It was Biblical...  Like the third testament of the miraculous, other-worldly, divinely-revealed gospel was coming out of my ass!

I tried to meditate and think about the cave with my power animal...

Unfortunately my power animal was a whale!

I thought about Ernest Hemingway and The Old Man And The Sea...

I thought about The Titanic - and I swear I could hear little tiny Leonardo DiCraprios running for lifeboats inside my ass!

I tried praying to several gods at once...

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of major anal rippage..

There was no getting away from it, the only thing I could do was scream!

And scream!

And scream!

But it just kept on coming!

And, I swear by everything that's good and decent in the world...

It was actually getting wider!

Oh no no no no no no!!!

Dale Everett, YOU DID THIS TO ME!

Ahhhhhh!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

ARGGGHGHGHGHAAAHAHGHGHTHGHG!

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The Polling Pit / How do you usually enter this forum?
« on: April 01, 2011, 01:48:51 PM »
I think the first one is the only sensible bookmark.  Then, if I'm caught up with new replies, I click the second and see what other threads are active.  That's been my habit on all SMF forums since the paleolithic era.

How do y'all do it?

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General / WrestleMania XXVII
« on: March 27, 2011, 07:39:52 AM »
... is exactly one week away!

Now, I'm only really interested in the Undertaker vs HHH match (I'm too old to really care about any of the new people), but it's still an event to look forward to.


Things to do in the meantime:

  • Read this awesome thread about pro-wrestling (that the silly mods won't let me "necro" for some reason) - The Most Libertarian Sport.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7wZSwGM-dE[/youtube]



  • Get mindlessly excited like a 9-year-old kid.  It's good for you.   :D

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General / John Stossel on "Libertopia", Free State Project!
« on: March 26, 2011, 03:42:42 AM »
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArH65t9wkI[/youtube]


(Also on BitTorrent.)


 :D

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General / Web Browser Benchmarks
« on: March 25, 2011, 04:10:03 PM »
In light of all the other geeky debates we are having on this forum, this is a specific thread to post Web browser benchmark results for your computer.  These days browser performance should be the #1 most important component of any geek-fights on which system is superior.  Results from multiple operating systems on same hardware would be most interesting, though the new browser performance wars are interesting on a single OS as well.

I started with the Futuremark Peacekeeper benchmark, and I'm going to post my own results in a bit.  I wouldn't recommend this benchmark to others, though, because it takes about ~5 minutes per run, and it has a totally retarded bug where it tries but fails to track your performance across sessions, and sometimes, totally at random, it gives you an error message instead of results after wasting your time.  (ex: "Could not find result for key [blah]. If you trying to benchmark another browser please make sure you have copied the url correctly and try again.")  I'll leave it to someone else to recommend which benchmarks are best.


A few general notes on browser benchmarks:

  • Close all non-essential apps on your system except for the browser being tested, with one maximized tab / window running the test.  Don't do anything while the test is running, and even a screensaver coming on could mess up the results.  Move the mouse pointer away from the animation canvas.  Some browser add-ons may theoretically interfere with the results, but I can't think of any that would have a significant impact.

  • Make sure all browsers have roughly the same page zoom level during the benchmark.  This is particularly important for IE9, which defaults to a higher zoom level on larger screens, which is actually a pretty good feature, but having to scale to more pixels means an unfair benchmarking disadvantage.  Press Ctrl together with the Plus or the Minus key (which on some keyboards would also require holding Shift) to zoom in or out.

  • Don't make any significant system changes in between tests.  If testing on multiple operating systems, please post the details, especially which video driver you are using.

  • If you want to get really accurate, run the test 2-3 times on each browser and pick the best time, as the higher times indicate that something random happening on your system interfered with the test.

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General / Animated Comedy Brilliance
« on: March 21, 2011, 03:32:16 AM »
I thought I've had poop jokes mastered to perfection, but then a show came along that raised the bar to a whole new level...  on prime time network TV!

Bob's Burgers  [BT]

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General / Microsoft
« on: March 10, 2011, 01:04:35 AM »
Yup, since I'm not allowed to "necro" the old one - a new Microsoft love thread!   :D

Note that I'm currently running various BSD's, and don't have much use for MS software, but nothing pisses me off more than when some GNUtard makes up shit about a very good software company just out of anti-capitalist political bias.


I'll summarize a few very important points from the old thread:

  • Microsoft exists to make money for its stockholders under the present political climate, and not to go bankrupt by going against the tide of current "intellectual property" laws, which its competitors will continue to use as they fill the gap in the market.  Microsoft does benefit from government force, but it is merely playing under the rules the government invented.  Microsoft was unique in staying out of government for the first two decades of its existence, while they earned their market share on the basis of merit, and they paid the price when they found themselves beneath an avalanche of anti-trust bullying - they're only lobbying in self-defense!

  • I think Microsoft would actually be better off without government taxation and regulation, and they'd still make most of their profits in a copyright-free world on the basis of contractual agreements: media, cloud, consumer online services, business service partnerships, deals with hardware vendors, official education / certification partnerships, voluntary IP recognition contracts that a lot of pro-business charter cities would find it in their best interest to join, etc.  Microsoft need not depend on government violence, but GNU does!

  • A large fraction of open source software was funded at tax-victim expense, including government research grants, government-enforced monopolies (ex. AT&T), public universities (ex. the B in BSD - a legacy the current developers continue to cling on to), pro-FLOSS bias in government software use (which often obligates those departments to contribute to it due to viral licenses), etc.  This includes the most innovative contributions that have made FLOSS a success on servers and supercomputers.

  • The importance of servers and supercomputers will decline thanks to the next major trend in Internet technology: more P2P!  I don't just mean for large file transfers, but for everything - Web proliferation and acceleration (ex. HTTP(P2P), Coral, etc), large computation projects (ex. BitCoin), distributed cloud, etc.  More and more Internet traffic is served via P2P, which means more and more of it is served by Microsoft.

  • I am yet to see a home computer on which Linux delivered better performance than Microsoft software.  Aside from games, a genre which Windows obviously dominates, the vast majority of home CPU cycles are used by Web browsers.  Windows offers more browser choices than Linux (ex. IE9 and Safari) and especially other Unixen (in many cases all you get is an old version of Firefox).  More importantly, even the same type and version of a Web browser tends to perform better on the same computer when booted into Windows rather than any UNIX!

  • More and more computing innovations are coming from hardware rather than software, and hardware vendors do have the Right to choose how they distribute their products and what operating systems they support.  Hardware compatibility of Windows is second to none.  (The only downside is that a capitalist operating system cannot bundle everything or provide a single package manager to install all software, so sometimes you do have to install a driver manually.)

  • So, yes, I do believe that Microsoft has achieved its market share largely on merit.  Although they've screwed up many things in their history, they've been moving on a right track for the past few years, with the best innovations being just around the corner.  The purpose of this thread is to document and debate the specifics.

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General / I am NOT turning 30 this year!
« on: March 09, 2011, 12:32:50 AM »
Seriously.

People change their name, their hair color, their gender...  I'm changing my age!

The first 10 years, which I've spent in the Soviet Union, don't count.  I'm gonna be 20 again, wooo!

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General / Locking threads
« on: March 08, 2011, 09:49:31 PM »
I did it!  I got Gene to lock up his Christian Anarchy thread!  What finally did it was mentioning what a hazard that thread was to scraper scripts that loop through recently active threads.  (Though do think that the Jesushomoerotisation and the Satanist threads might have softened him up... a bit.   :lol:)

Then I noticed something interesting - posts on locked threads have a "Delete" button, but no "Modify" button, which means there's no significant reason for a scraper script to download a thread once it's locked!  (Or, even if it follows thread ID enumeration instead of parsing through category indexes, there's no reason to download more than one page - this forum has ~8,000 second or latter pages.)

So - locking big old threads that you don't want necro'd is good for this forum.  Most importantly, it would remove ambiguity about when an attempt to enrich an old thread by appending to it would be unwelcome.


I'm not positive, but I think admins could simply lock all "orphaned" threads from users that have "cycled" or deleted their accounts by running:

Code: [Select]
UPDATE smf_topics SET locked=1
WHERE id_member_started=0;


And to lock all threads that haven't been active for a certain number of days (until the thread starter explicitly unlocks them) would be something like:

Code: [Select]
UPDATE smf_topics t, smf_messages m SET t.locked=1
WHERE t.id_last_msg = m.id_msg AND
DATE(FROM_UNIXTIME(m.posterTime)) < '2011-01-01';

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General / Fat Head / The Seasteader Diet
« on: March 04, 2011, 12:07:53 AM »
A few points regarding Fat Head [Hulu] [BT], the movie brought up on Dale's blog and indirectly mentioned on the veganphobia thread.


Things I agree with:

  • Sugar is definitely evil, and starch is evil to some degree.

  • McDonald's isn't evil, it is only responding to consumer demand.

  • Government intervention in what people eat (or anything else) is definitely wrong.

  • Low-carb diets produce very good weight loss results, especially in the first few weeks, and especially if you have a lot of weight to lose.

  • Morgan Spurlock and the vegan lobby are intellectually dishonest emotionalist animal lovers who are full of shit.


However, I still believe that my Tax Resister Diet is superior, for the following reasons:

  • Like I said, starch is evil, but compared to what?  You can't survive on starch-free plant foods alone, so you have to choose between either (A) moderately starchy low-glycemic foods like beans, or (B) animal products - and the latter are a whole lot more evil, especially if you value long-term health above short-term weight loss.  Just look the the Wikipedia article on "medical research related to low-carbohydrate diets" and skip over the parts not dealing with short-term weight loss...  If you have a family history of heart disease, a low-carb diet can cut your life expectancy significantly.

  • Aside from genetics, by far the greatest factor in health, bodily appearance, and physical fitness is exercise.  Diet is a distant second.  If you work out several hours a day and have muscles burning calories even as you rest, you can handle a lot more food and more types of food.  And exercise requires energy which has to come from somewhere, as the energy stored in body-fat can only be utilized in very limited amounts.  Numerous studies show that the body is a lot more effective in using dietary carbs for energy than dietary fat, so no matter how much fat you stuff yourself with your strength and endurance will decline, and your desire to exercise will go with it.  The diet tested in Fat Head isn't as radical as some other low-carb diets, but that also means the weight loss results won't be as significant, and 100 grams (400 calories) would only give you the energy for about an hour of brisk walking.  Performance loss on carb-free diets decreases if you raise fat to as much as 85%, but that's either not enough protein or way, way, way too many calories and stress on the internal organs!  And if you're ever in a survival situation, a diet that drains your energy can kill you on the spot!

  • Beans, veggies, and whole grains are a lot cheaper than animal products, even though animal products get huge subsidies and would be several times more costly in a free capitalist society.  This comes from the obvious biological fact - to get a pound of animal products you have to put in several pounds of feed, several gallons of added water, some chemicals, and of course several government inspections per year.  The whole point of my Tax Resister Diet is for agorists / gulchers to put freedom ahead of everything else, including no sales tax.  A fix-size "gulch" like a seceding micronation can have an order of magnitude more people if they are all vegans, so agricultural independence and efficiency can definitely make the difference between failure and success.

  • Even raw plant-based products are a lot cleaner than animal-based ones, because toxins accumulate in the animal's body, both bacterial hazards as well as harmful minerals like mercury in fish, not to mention the hormones that are fed to most animals these days, greater difficulty identifying and controlling freshness, etc, etc, etc.  If you eat at McDonald's instead of cooking your own meat, then a lot more preservatives, chemical flavors, and possibly disgruntled frycook's bodily fluids are added to your meal.  It's these kinds of things that give you cancer, while some of the antioxidants that help you fight cancer come from fruits and other foods than also contain carbs.

  • There is such a thing as too much protein, and getting more than ~30g of protein per meal (depending on meal frequency and body size) does nothing for your muscles while adding extra strain to the liver and kidneys.  You can easily get that much protein from a vegan meal.

  • Animal products have much greater nutrient density, especially if they're high in fat.  (The only plant-based foods that come anywhere close are fatty avocados and nuts.)  This means the portions you get are significantly smaller - if you're counting your total calories that is, as you most certainly should on a low-carb diet.  You also wolf it down faster, which decreases digestion quality and leaves you still being hungry, so either you're miserable or you cheat and go over the calorie limit, which makes the diet very unhealthy.  It takes ~20 minutes for your body to figure out that it's full so you stop being hungry - if you're eating something like beans that comes naturally, but if you're having meat then you'll tend to overeat.

  • Animal products are a whole lot more acidic, which causes all sorts of health issues in the long-term.  (I wish I had the time to dig up more specific studies on the long-term harm done to the human body from added animal fat, acidity, natural hormones, added hormones, mineral toxins, bacteria, artificial sweeteners, MSG, etc, etc, etc...)


The most healthy diet would mainly consist of raw low-starch vegetables (i.e. leafy greens), protein supplements (or egg whites), some high-quality raw fish, and everything else in extreme moderation.


(EDIT:  Added a few pro-TRD points, changed the thread title to mention "The Seasteader Diet" - (see below).  As always, edited changes are identified in brown.)

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General / Libmanian Satanism is the Only Sensible Answer
« on: February 28, 2011, 05:23:35 PM »
(For backstory see God R Us - don't worry, libricided threads will soon be... resurrected, eHeHeHeHeHeHeHe.)


The "age of reason" was stillborn, and its rotting remnants are starting to stink real bad.  Virtually all people who claim to be atheists are actually worshipers of the gods of statism, primitivism, romanticism (ex. Ayn Rand), pacifism, etc.  I am the only true atheist I know - and I'm fucking miserable!  This is because all other human beings are weak and stupid, and I am having some serious doubts about whether they can fulfill their Manifest Destiny of spawning off new, more capable civilizations of digital Rational Economic Actors to spread life and wisdom out into the universe!

What human people lack, that is the root of all their problems, is greed - there is insufficient greed to make money, to overthrow evil dictators, to fight for a rational form of government (which of course is no government), to defend Property Rights, to advance science and medicine, to live forever, to build gigantic spaceships... heck, even to reproduce!  Humans can't be rational enough to be greedy enough - whenever we rip off one set of chains they build themselves a new one!  We have to talk down to them on their level.  We have to make up a fairy tale that will get their fat lazy asses off the couch and to try to accomplish something - and I have just the thing.  Behold, world -- I present --

Your own personal Satan!

Me!

With some automation and robotization, of course, cause I can't be everywhere at once.

You can pray to me for free, but priority support and dominatrix services are extra.

Pray for greed, world.  Pray real real hard!  Chastise yourself for failure to be greedy - greedy in material acquisition, in egoboo, in knowledge, in creative trolltributions, in reproduction, in longevity, in rational self-esteem.  Go ahead and fill the void inside your souls with faith, since nothing else will, and I will provide the aesthetic to inspire it.  Satan is the missing link between a Randian hero and yourself!

I shall build a hell to motivate you, to burn you in when you fail - inside of your own mind!

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General / Copyfree Software
« on: February 26, 2011, 11:39:24 PM »
This is gonna be a continuation of my "Software Freedom Scale" thread, since I am no longer allowed to "necro" the old one.  I'll post another one of my "news roundups" shortly.  But first - a simple poll to get things started.

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The Polling Pit / Vendor-Specific IT Certifications
« on: February 26, 2011, 11:07:49 PM »
Don't vote if your ideal choice is missing - let me know and I'll add it.  But keep in mind that this is just for vendor / product -specific certifications, so things like CompTIA don't apply.  Ya know how I feel about them standards committees...  :roll:

(Yes, I was biased to include BSD Certification, but it probably doesn't fit the criteria.)

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General / Yet Another Firefly Thread
« on: February 20, 2011, 09:09:13 PM »
(I'm not allowed to "necro" old threads, so, well, here we are...)


From Slashdot -- Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly --

Quote
The Science Channel has purchased the rights to Firefly and plans to air all episodes in order and in high definition.  In addition, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku will appear to explain the theoretical science behind the show's sci-fi concepts.  There's a brief interview in the article as well with Nathan Fillion, who chimes in with his thoughts on Firefly and playing Mal.


Also, there's a fan documentary that I've missed, called Done The Impossible, now available on BitTorrent; but Browncoats still isn't.

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