Here in the middle of nowhere, it depends a lot on what you ask them to handle. They'll only quickly and efficiently handle something they're very familiar with - so if the crime falls in the category of crashes and assault, you're good to go. Anything else, and you're better off talking to a wall. They're too small to have "departments," so you basically just wait until the one patrol car drives by and he's the guy who does everything. 10/10 for not frequently bothering people (I've never seen his car not in motion) and never stopping me before.

Jinping could achieve immortality by spitting on Obama at their next meeting.

Spider freaks, I have captured one of your comrades in a pickle jar after freaking the Hell out because he jumped. He will die a slow and painful(?) death if you do not send BTC.25 to 16exqdBgeEB2W6K5g51dpFWFCnicL8bUPc



Payment in full, and he'll be released outside (with proof).

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a reason I sit with my feet on the chair: I don't want a bunch of hives on my ankles.

Sorry. I forget how incomplete that thread is since I decided not to move qwk's ruleset over. Basically, qwk and Adam at Let's Talk Bitcoin have put together a bounty of .15BTC per episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin transcribed. The episodes are ~1 hour long in audio, but generally take a good bit longer to transcribe well. Once you submit a transcript (preferably in .doc format on Scribd.com), I'll proofread it (usually within a couple days), and then you'll be paid.

A more complete list of rules and guidelines for transcripts is here.

You lot seem pretty cornered into having to work by yourself and creating narrow-scope web services like gambling sites. That and pen-testing.

Coders around here seem to be used mostly to create turn-keys. Why would a dev create a turn-key and then only take 20-40% of any net revenue after? Even designers are sometimes given that kind of deal. Guy at top thinks he's entitled to 40% and executive status because he put together a Skype conversation.

Alt station here plays the same 1 hour playlist over and over and over. -So that's out.
Rock is polluted by Nickleback-likes and I don't have the energy to be flipping the station every other song. -So that's out.
Classic stations are classic, thus heard 100+ times already, also have buffoon radio hosts chattering. -So that's out.
There's really just NPR out here unless you listen to auto-tuned pop country.


About to start route soon. Thanks for reminding me to take another look for SDcard radio transmitter.

I've never been able to sit through LotR. Didn't like the Potter movies, but I enjoyed the books when I was younger, so I'll go with that because I sat through them.

Birds control insects. They're a fine animal. Big, bold colors -- no sneaking around on your walls, wandering on your legs and biting your ankles. I'll take care of the spiders inside, it takes care of everything else outside.

Here, we have three rules:
1) If jumps, it dies.
2) If has visible fangs, it dies.
3) If moves, it dies quickly.

Must be the Glenn Beck endorsement...

Hmmm... I'll make an exception. Feel free to transcribe an LTB episode, OP. It pays .15BTC per episode transcript. Shouldn't take more than a day (probably <5h once you have it down).

Experimented with caffeine binges a good bit. Started with energy drinks, moved to energy shots, then energy "squirts" (no, not diarrhea - name-brand, then generic caffeinated liquid "flavor enhancer).

In the end, gave all the goofy stuff up and went back to a pot of coffee per day. Easy to doctor, tame taste, no need to buy drinks at the store (though I'll admit to buying liquid creamer). Incidentally, creamer makes up, by leaps and bounds, most of my caloric intake (... when there's no fine cheese around, that is -- I'm a bit of a dairy freak). I haven't come up with a decent home-made alternative to it, yet... taking out the fat gives the coffee a "harsh" feeling going down the throat, like horribly sugary canned cake frosting (even if coffee has no sugar in it). Maybe should try lighter roasts.

FPS AI is mostly about impairing the AI after coding, not trying to have the AI kick ass (it's made to mimic a brain-dead player). Most games have you competing against 5-20 AI units at a time, so you'd lose the badass feeling devs strive for if AI were competent. If FPS AI was difficult, multiplayer FPS services wouldn't spend so much in resources trying to get aimbots off their servers.

RTS AI is waaaay more complicated because it has to think about the future of its actions, what actions it can take mid-term, then long-term, and see what he knows about the human's strategy to counter-act his plays. Those lead to the "branching computing crawl" - for every action it considers, there are probably 2,000-20,000 moves it can make after that, then another 2,000-20,000 after that, and after, and after, and after, until it has its "best final build strategy" all figured out. Because of this, it usually only has a few preconfigured strategies it randomly selects and then makes minor adjustments based on what it sees the human and other AI doing. A dev company with loads of resources, however, may take the time to introduce a bunch of off-the-wall sub-strategies to AI's arsenal. Humans are very much the same, as far as how they think, but learn to beat the AI by having a larger set of "preconfigured strategies" -- basically, humans are much more random. AFAIK, there aren't really self-learning games, where it'll do something like have the AI watch a match it lost, then try a bunch of different strategies and sub-strategies to win, then save that strategy if it sees the player later trying to pull the same shit. I'll say that custom AI for Starcraft 2 released soon after its release was pretty difficult to beat.

Hello. Are you currently inside the sun? Post nothing to confirm.

Ability to will people immediately into the sun (no reason to have to remove their bodies on Earth and possibly get my fingerprints on them). I would primarily use this to look into these fellows and start up a web-series making "reality video biographies" of people without their input on it, only their unmolested belongings to analyze.

Just in case you're operating on the premise that you have rights... The DoJ's basically saying they can collect personal data on foreigners, and that if you talk to foreigners, you're making that information "public," even if it was an encrypted email. EFF: "...in the cases the government cites in the passage above, United States v. White and Hoffa v. United States, the Supreme Court found there is no Fourth Amendment violation if you have a private conversation with someone who happens to be a government informant and repeats what you said to the government or even surreptitiously records it. In those instances, individuals’ “misplaced confidence” that people they are communicating with won’t divulge their secrets is not enough to create a Fourth Amendment interest."

I'd be more worried about another application. If a website has administrators, moderators, founders - anyone who could view information on a web server, like forum PMs or emails - you have no privacy if they are not all in that magic protective ring of US citizenship. Effectively, it's not only impossible to expect privacy, but also impossible to expect the gov't not to use whatever they find in court against you unless you find some goofy companies pledging (truthfully!) that all their employees are US citizens.

EFF statement: https://www.eff.org//deeplinks/2014/05/government-explains-away-fourth-amendment-protection-digital-communications

You've caught me off-guard. I get your argument, though. Cops in some areas shoot unarmed, non-resisting civilians. Why even bother with all the dog stories cops seem infamous in the US for?

Hoooooey! Looking at the images on RT, it seems I missed a widescale rebellion in my own country!

Minimum wage laws are only enforceable to a certain extent. Pushed too far, Walmart will eventually just hire "John Doe Cash Handling Services (DBA)" instead of John Doe and bypass the enormous mountain of employee regulations. -And I think that's great, because employee contracts are much more like wage slavery than the much more explicit and meaningful contracts for independent contractors, where your boss, Four-Fingered Jimmy, can't immediately fire you because you told him to go eat dog shit after he asked you to clean out the toilets (unless that's explicitly part of your contract).