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- Comment on "Unsubscribe" says my internet's not working 3 hours ago:
Me-wow!
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 6 hours ago:
Muslims have a long and proud history of serving this country with distinction for centuries.
- Comment on People are praising this half-baked cryptocurrency based mix network as a "new internet" to fight against tech giants. 1 day ago:
To be perfectly fair, this was a New Yorker opinion article from 2014
- Comment on People are praising this half-baked cryptocurrency based mix network as a "new internet" to fight against tech giants. 1 day ago:
All of crypto is a scam. That is its entire purpose: to rip people off.
But once, there was a different vision for crypto:
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.” He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
- Comment on Has anyone annotated the Star Trek: Enterprise theme video? e.g. where all the source clips/images came from & so on 1 day ago:
- Comment on Fans (and some Picard cast) won't let the Legacy concept die 2 days ago:
I kind of felt like the role was written for Sedgwick, like the writer had him in mind, and tried to do his whole schtick from the show 12 monkeys, but just didn’t get it right.
- Comment on Fans (and some Picard cast) won't let the Legacy concept die 2 days ago:
Michelle Forbes (Raffi)
WTF
- Comment on I resigned to my last job and now I need to talk to my former boss to get the job back. Any recommendations? 2 days ago:
Yeah: don’t do that. If Bridges have been burned, don’t try to cross them again. Move on.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 3 days ago:
Always good advice with Linux. I have, in the past, compared using the Linux command line to handling a loaded gun. It’s an extremely powerful tool, but you can literally kill your computer if you use it the wrong way.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 3 days ago:
How are you with working in the command line?
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 3 days ago:
If you let us know what operating system you’re using, we can make some recommendations for some apps to use for archiving your CD collection.
As was mentioned in another comment, you can rip the CDs into images (.iso files) which you can store and mount anytime!
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 3 days ago:
Those are used by US government agencies, such as the department of defense for archival purposes. They are rated for 100+ years.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 3 days ago:
How much better medium would be tape back up, or possibly Blu-ray discs. Either one would last a lot longer than a hard drive.
- Comment on Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer 4 days ago:
As long as Kurtzman isn’t involved…
- Comment on OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One 4 days ago:
They have open beta programs for that while also not having to tell hilarious and bold face lies that end up embarrassing them.
- Comment on OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One 4 days ago:
Even claiming such a thing is it’s basically pending a huge target on your own back. Regardless of how long it might have taken for those models to be hacked, that timeline is now much shorter and certainly guaranteed.
- Comment on YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon — here's what's going to change 1 week ago:
Both my YouTube and google accounts are over 20 years old. I don’t think I’ll have a problem, but you never know…
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 1 week ago:
These guys and their drones. It’s crazy how far Ukraine has advanced in such a short time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
First of all, vasectomy can be reversed.
Second, if you’re concerned about future procreation, freeze some of your sperm.
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
Cats also know that you’re there. They just don’t give a fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Does your daughter do a lot of video editing or authoring of motion graphics? Because she could with that rig.
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 2 weeks ago:
And someone else who looks far younger than I am, just be glad for it.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 3 weeks ago:
And nothing of value was lost…
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 3 weeks ago:
What is this ridiculous product?
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
“minimal”
Tell that to my dad’s high blood pressure
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
But, Rubidium is so delicious!
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 4 weeks ago:
Stop using chrome.
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 weeks ago:
Wow. Terrible reading comprehension, too.
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 weeks ago:
That’s some crazy projection you have there. But thank you for confirming that your entire belief system is based off of complete and total bullshit. Lol.
How sad for you?
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 weeks ago:
lol
