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The system clock can also interfere with using the Internet, since it uses it to evaluate whether or not security certificates have expired. I had one instance where I was setting up a computer for the first time, and I couldn't access google for that reason. It was weird, but it also does kind of make sense.
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Judgmenl posted...

There is absolutely no credible evidence to support the contrary, after over a year of witch hunting for it.

If challenged on his point, I bet he's going to launch into a series of arguments that mostly boil down to "I haven't seen it with my own eyes therefore it's not credible evidence."
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t3h_m45k3d_G4R0 posted...

Yellow posted...

You are now ignoring this user's topics, posts, and PMs.

I will sue you.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

I'm pretty sure he laughed at you first, and then ignored you when you got boring, which means he probably won't end up fighting you because you effectively no longer exist to him.
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Pros:
-Privacy
-No need to rely on others to get things done
-No risk of mooching
-No need to maintain any sort of relationship
-Greater control over the place

Cons:
-More expensive
-Nobody else to rely on to get things done
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Typing in the sense of being able to type reasonably quickly and accurately? That's pretty vital for many fields. Typing in the sense of formal homerow technique? Not so much.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

adjl posted...

I like how you're being pretentious about use of the word pretentious.

I don't think describing exactly what a word means is being pretentious. Pedantic, perhaps. But necessary

It does if you're using that pedantry as a basis to look down on people.
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I like how you're being pretentious about use of the word pretentious.
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Hotmail's caught me on a couple of occasions to say "it looks like you should have an attachment, did you forget it?" Really handy for avoiding the embarrassment of sending an "I've attached ____" email without an attachment, but it's also a little unnerving.
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I bottled a batch of mead tonight. It's pretty tasty already.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

adjl posted...

That sounds like a very good way to end up dead.

Not really, just invest in an extinguisher.

For small enough fires? Sure. Trying to rely on a fire extinguisher for a real fire, though, is a very good way to end up dead.
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Don't go outside.
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Orangutans kissing horses have great trouble urinating.
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

Lokarin posted...

I received no such alert

Aren't you in Ontario now? That might be why...

Ontario's happened on Monday. At least, it was supposed to. I know they ran into issues in Quebec, which was supposed to come before Ontario, but then Ontario's went comparatively smoothly.
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I would not order delivery pizza from such an establishment late at night. I may patronize them earlier, however, depending on whether or not I enjoy the food.
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XL.
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Sahuagin posted...

my phone's too old I think.

The signal was only sent on LTE networks, so I'm in the same boat with my 7-year-old flip phone.
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That sounds like a very good way to end up dead.
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Zeus posted...

YahooPoster posted...

FatalAccident posted...

... Israelis say.

lol

Israel has been spoiling for a confrontation with Iran since I can remember. Theyre probably the last people I would believe. If anybody is goading Iran into WW3 its them.

Yeah, I don't side with Israel on this. Iran is just defending themselves.

...by launching a strike first?

Possibly. The best defense is sometimes a good offense. Who shot first isn't necessarily a good indicator of who the aggressor is.
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Golden Road posted...

adjl posted...

Golden Road posted...

College classes are normally in the "appropriate" category.

What kind of weird college did you go to? College classes are normally in the "if the sweatpants are clean then it must be a special occasion" category, at least once you get past the first year and everyone realizes that there's no point in being a tryhard.

...it sounds like you're agreeing with me? I don't get your reply.

I think I am, upon rereading your post. I thought you were saying college classes warranted "appropriate" attire, when in actuality it seems you were saying that shorts are appropriate for college classes. My mistake, sorry for the confusion.

GanglyKhan posted...

It's called having self-respect. No wonder people are having a hell of a time, can't even be bothered with some decent threads these days...

Self-respect entails spending more money on clothes than is necessary and wearing something less comfortable? That sounds more like respect for arbitrary social norms than for oneself.
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Golden Road posted...

College classes are normally in the "appropriate" category.

What kind of weird college did you go to? College classes are normally in the "if the sweatpants are clean then it must be a special occasion" category, at least once you get past the first year and everyone realizes that there's no point in being a tryhard.
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wolfy42 posted...

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Teach that fish Karate, and watch it beat the man up!!

New TV show coming this fall. Karate Fish, The Deadly Tail.

This fall, the fisherman isn't the only one on the lake with a wicked hook...
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Titan Quest is currently on sale on Steam for less than half of that price, FYI.
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It really was just the PSWii60 generation that standardized prices at $60. Prior to that, you'd get variations pretty commonly.
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LinkPizza posted...

adjl posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Not necessarily. If he survives, one of the major risks he'll face as a consequence of the widespread burns is hypothermia, since he won't have the nervous function left to regulate his temperature.

That's why you have to make sure you do it right. If you do it right, he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Sometimes, a little push off a cliff or stabbing is needed...

In that case, building a man a fire can also keep him warm for the rest of his life.

GanglyKhan posted...

Mercury poisoning is a fuckin myth, dudes. Well, okay, it isn't, but you certainly won't get it from eating a pound of salmon weekly.

Depends where that salmon's coming from.
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LinkPizza posted...

Not necessarily. If he survives, one of the major risks he'll face as a consequence of the widespread burns is hypothermia, since he won't have the nervous function left to regulate his temperature.
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You found a stray cat who immediately took a liking to you, got him checked out at the vet, and brought him into a new forever home.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

it's definitely suggestive of a model that implies choice, and therefore is a strongly environmental consequence.

Environmental influences=/=choices.
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LinkPizza posted...

A lot of people would say yes. Those two are very different. Going from liking blondes to redheads is one thing. I think Jump from dick to vag or the other way around are kind of very different...

Is it, though? It affects the actual activity part of sex, obviously, which makes it a bit more significant than a mere aesthetic preference, but it still boils down to a difference in what arouses the person. We just put more weight on sexual orientation because people like making a big deal out of it.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

I think it means that the rest of the class can't write for s***,

This is true of the vast, vast majority of entry-level English classes (particularly the ones that provide the token writing credit that everyone needs).
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There really isn't any reason to believe sexual preferences can't change over time. Pedantically, that suggests that one is really just bisexual, but the whole Kinsey Scale thing suggests that very few people are truly exclusively straight/gay anyway. Even without getting into that, though, one can consider one's own sexual preferences. Are you attracted to the same things as you were when you were a teenager? It's not unusual to answer that question negatively, and is going from being a boob man to a butt man really that different from going from a vag man to a dick man?
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Revelation34 posted...

This never has happened anyway so it's a moot point.

Hasn't happened =/= Can't/Won't happen

It also hasn't happened that a digital platform has revoked access to all of somebody's games for no reason, so it looks like that point's equally moot.
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Blaqthourne posted...

Since they're handy, I just looked through the manuals for Persona 3 Portable (PSP) and Star Wars Arcade (32X) and failed to find any license agreement in either. Please post this license agreement that apparently can be found in all physical releases for any Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, NES, SMS, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, TG-16, Saturn, PS, N64, etc. game that you are referring to.

http://www.sega.com/EULA
https://www.take2games.com/eula/

Two examples, both opening with a clear "this is licensed, not sold." It's mostly modern games that make such claims, since the mechanisms by which the publishers can do anything about them are relatively new. Now, are those enforceable? That's another question, especially where they tend to be hidden behind the point of sale or otherwise not made clear to the customer before the publisher already has your money. That makes it hard to actually paint it as being a legitimate contract, meaning it probably wouldn't hold up in court, but that's still what the publishers push for.

Dr_Kain posted...

No they can't. Even if they could, if you disconnect your machine from the internet, problem solved.

Which wouldn't revert any patches that were downloaded to your system to lock you out of playing the game, plus it would prevent you from ever taking advantage of any features that require an Internet connection, including patches, downloadable content, and multiplayer. It'd work, provided you saw the license revocation coming, but you'd be pretty limited.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

Nade Duck posted...

i think it's different for everybody and applying a 100% black and white scale to it is stupid. i also agree with sahuagin. let people be.

also @JanwayDaahl i wanna see ur opinion tho pls

It's definitely a "choice" in that your environment decides it for the most part, not your genetics. There are various studies that show a link between childhood molestation and homosexuality in both lesbian and gay couples.

It's also worth pointing out that academic research like this is *highly* liberal, so there's not a lot of research being done that would suggest the contrary to what I'm saying.

Remember kids: If science disagrees with me, it's because of underlying political bias at an institutional level. I couldn't possibly be wrong despite having done no science of my own.
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Dr_Kain posted...

adjl posted...

I take it you haven't actually read any of the license agreements that come with your physical games, because none of those things you said are actually true. You own the disc. You don't own the contents of it.

That's cute that you think that. And it's cute that you think a license agreement means anything more than the screen it is written on. If I paid for it, I own it. It's as simple as that.

The only difference with physical copies is that it's practically much harder to revoke your license, though these days online connectivity gives publishers an avenue to do so pretty easily. Legally? They can do so pretty much any time they want, same as digital.
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Rasmoh posted...

Ogurisama posted...

These guys are just proving why there needs to be gun restrictions

How would any sort of gun restriction stop people from making threats?

From making threats? It wouldn't. From making credible threats? Now we're talking.

Rasmoh posted...

Probably because stricter regulations only deter people who would be following the law anyway.

Every illegally-owned gun was legally owned at some point. Every single one.
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Revelation34 posted...

adjl posted...

Reductio ad absurdum, actually. Which you should really have expected, taking such an absurdly extreme stance as "caring about anything cosmetic is laughable."

Nah it's still laughable and yours is still a straw man.

Define "straw man" for me.
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Revelation34 posted...

adjl posted...

Revelation34 posted...

adjl posted...

And that makes cosmetics okay?

Yes since anybody who actually cares about that kind of stuff is laughable.

Ah yes, everyone who enjoys games differently from you is "laughable." What a pleasant, open-minded attitude you have toward your fellow gamer.

So I take it you'd be okay if games started shipping with Pong graphics and charged you a dollar for each additional colour you wanted? Since, you know, caring about cosmetic stuff is laughable.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2296746757/n37nkkimyns6wr51ud16_400x400.jpeg

Reductio ad absurdum, actually. Which you should really have expected, taking such an absurdly extreme stance as "caring about anything cosmetic is laughable."
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What if traffic is such that the freeway is actually the faster route?
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Because that path has a bigger penis than you.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

adjl posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

botsrule posted...

Born that way, not a choice. Who would choose to be persecuted for their sexuality?

No one chooses to be persecuted, but that doesn't mean sexuality is not a choice.

They don't choose to be persecuted, since that decision falls on the persecutors, but they can choose to do something that they know will result in being persecuted. If avoiding homophobic attacks were as simple as choosing not to be homosexually attracted to anyone, why would anyone be gay?

It is a pitying argument. Oh who would CHOOSE such a horrible fate as to be gay? I mean, maybe people who are gay dont see their sexual orientation as this resentful curse. Just a thought. The persecution says more about the person doing it than it does about them. This also defines all those who engage in gay sex acts to be cowards if only given the opportunity.

And that's why the whole "it is/is not a choice" thing is pretty dumb, since saying "you can't hate them because they don't have a choice" carries the implication that it'd be okay to hate them if it were a choice. it really doesn't matter if it's a choice or not. Hating people for reasons that don't affect you in the slightest is just bad in general.
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Anisoptera posted...

I dislike this "don't talk to me until I have had my coffee" meme

Remember kids: Drug addiction is okay and funny if the drug in question is socially acceptable!
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wah_wah_wah posted...

botsrule posted...

Born that way, not a choice. Who would choose to be persecuted for their sexuality?

No one chooses to be persecuted, but that doesn't mean sexuality is not a choice.

They don't choose to be persecuted, since that decision falls on the persecutors, but they can choose to do something that they know will result in being persecuted. If avoiding homophobic attacks were as simple as choosing not to be homosexually attracted to anyone, why would anyone be gay?
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Zeus posted...

Full Throttle posted...

They searched his home where he lived with his parents and found hate-filled handwritten documents where he IDOLIZED Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz

Which is what happens when you glorify spree killers. Every psycho wants to become a legend. It's not a gun culture problem because you'd just have them doing it with another weapon.

I'm all in favour of anonymizing the culprits of mass shootings. Maybe publish their names once or twice for the sake of being informative, but past that just assign them a prisoner number and use that. I imagine you'd get fewer people looking up to Prisoner 93917.
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Revelation34 posted...

adjl posted...

And that makes cosmetics okay?

Yes since anybody who actually cares about that kind of stuff is laughable.

Ah yes, everyone who enjoys games differently from you is "laughable." What a pleasant, open-minded attitude you have toward your fellow gamer.

So I take it you'd be okay if games started shipping with Pong graphics and charged you a dollar for each additional colour you wanted? Since, you know, caring about cosmetic stuff is laughable.
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Revelation34 posted...

It doesn't mean anything like that since anything more than a cosmetic is s***.

And that makes cosmetics okay?
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Revelation34 posted...

Read the rest of the post.

The rest of the post is a separate point, and not a particularly valid one at that. The fact that publishers have done worse things than putting cosmetics in loot boxes does not make cosmetic loot boxes any better. That you think it does just means publishers have successfully desensitized you to their practices such that you'll let them push the envelope farther.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

A little balance is good, too.

That's the most important thing, really. Don't prioritize socialization to such an extent that you miss golden career opportunities, but also don't prioritize your career so much that you spend all your time miserably alone.
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Revelation34 posted...

Cosmetics don't matter at all.

If that were even remotely true, publishers would never have even tried charging for them, let alone built a wildly successful business model off of doing so. People enjoy cosmetic customization, especially in multiplayer games where other people are going to see how you made you avatar look visually distinctive. The way the game looks is part of what makes the game enjoyable, and no amount of "it's just cosmetic" is going to change that.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

Andromicus posted...

What about when you close this topic TC, oh triggered epic style XD lol

Nah. Never gonna close this.

That's exactly what somebody who was going to close their topic would say.
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Whether or not you practice homosexuality is a choice, obviously (same as heterosexuality), but the underlying preference is obviously going to be some combination of genetic and environmental factors (like any other subjective preference). Also,
Sahuagin posted...

I think it's kind of a false question, shouldn't it not matter? Choice or not, who cares? Be gay, don't be gay, whatever.

Saying "they didn't have a choice" is sort of partial granting that there's something wrong with it, just that they can't fix it, so we all have to live with it.

That. It's entirely a moot point. Whether they chose to be gay or not, it's not like it affects anyone else, so let them be.
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