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Other / Off-topic / Re: THE MADNESS OF A LOST SOCIETY
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on: January 13, 2011, 07:15:38 PM
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the world is MUCH better than the past. racism, small-town mentality, religion + dogma, work one job til you die, lack of travel, ... the world is going up and up. people are slowly realising what a free society we can build in the future.
you see the world through rose tinted nostalgic glasses. the past was horrible.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Recommend a Linux distro for home use?
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on: January 13, 2011, 06:41:29 PM
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ok so I installed arch linux in virtualbox.
first i made 4 partitions then decided i didn't need a /boot one so i went back and deleted it. arch linux didnt recognise i had 3 and kept giving errors so i had to reboot and start over.. everything went fine and effortless.
however come first boot up and i try to install awesome window manager. find out i need to MANUALLY download tarballs, unpack them and run:
makepkg -s --asroot
pacman -U /path/to/package.tar.gz
did that for awesome then it wanted dependency X. downloaded dependency X. it wants dependency Y .etc... I gave up on the 5th dependency... what is the point of a centralised package manager if I'm forced to do this?? why not just have a user repo if you don't want to add some packages to core.
and why is it so hard to provide a package for awesome- there's 10 user contributed packages. pacman is also weird as hell to use. why not have:
pacman -Qi X => pacman showinfo X
pacman -Sy => pacman update
pacman -Ss X => pacman search X
why these people always have to contrive things?
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Dare to be Rich!
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on: January 10, 2011, 09:25:26 AM
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Hey, Lighten up a little. threads of this nature ought to be simply locked when it gets to this level of silliness. This sounds very authoritarian. Just ignore a thread if you don't like it. Don't try limit others free speech. It's not easy to take you soapbox elsewhere as this forum is the major bitcoin conduit. When your speech crosses the line of being at the expense of somebody else, you have crossed the line. Yes, I realize this is a small thing, but small things become big things. I'm just asking you to grow up a bit, but perhaps I'm hanging around a bunch of kids here who don't give a damn. So be it. BTW, this is a personal attack, regardless of how you are trying to disguise this as a joke. It is also a relatively new participant on this forum who is the blunt end of the joke, which only makes this worse. If you are so clueless as to not notice that, you and those on this forum are simply in a hopeless situation. It isn't about silencing speech here in terms of stopping the spread of an idea, it is about showing some respect to others... something I'm not seeing on this thread. The fact that you are now (admittedly lightly) turning your attack against me only goes to show that is an issue. What I'm attacking is that this humor has gone past the point of simply a crude joke which isn't really discussing anything of substance at all. I was trying to be polite and friendly, but you lashed out aggressively. You do this because you feel frustrated (your aggressive tone) and you care more than I do (hence your multiple long replies). Not sure why you're attacking me when I was trying to mediate. If you had a clear winning point then you wouldn't feel the need to attack others (calling me a kid) or defend yourself. And yes, you don't get to pick and choose what you censor. Censorship is restricting free speech. Don't try to twist it any other way than you don't like the speech that you're reading and so want to impose your force onto others. I've called you out. Any further response from you (to what I've said here) shows you're invested in this convo more than I am (I don't care enough to post further in this thread). cya |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Recommend a Linux distro for home use?
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on: January 08, 2011, 10:05:44 PM
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+1 for Arch Linux. Initial installation and config might be a hassle but after that you'll love it. OK, I keep hearing about Arch Linux and I'm **this** close to wiping my hard-drive and installing it. The terminal is my mandala, and I'm wabi-sabi with it. BUT (and this may sound churlish) everytime I open the Arch Linux website and see the install page, I'm reminded of my gentoo days. Then I click close after muttering "ugh". Rolling updates is a big plus. However I want my system to work. Work out the box and stay out of my way. I don't like pissing away my precious days configuring my box and kernel flags (like I did years and years ago)... Honestly: how unstable/non-automated is the system? I don't like spending hours configuring upgrades. I've got my delicate balance of vim/irssi/mutt/bash/desktop/whatever configs that I get thrown off if they need fixing (like Ubuntu when we have major breaking releases rather than small incremental rolling updates  ). Please advise. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: I have nowhere else to turn..
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on: January 08, 2011, 08:49:39 AM
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What can I do? The whole point of couchsurfing is that you setup a profile and dialog with people. It's not a free hotel service in people's houses where I can just go online, find him a bed and paste here for him to turn up 7pm tomorrow. He has to arrange it himself with the guests & establish trust, especially since I'm on the other side of the planet. I did a quick search of Denver and found 1300 people, 529 offering places for the night. There's this group he can post in: http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=3750Additionally as I said before, you should find squatters and anarchists to crash with. If I was homeless tomorrow, I'd break into an abandoned building rather than blowing my cash on cheap crappy hotels. I'd pay a small motel $5 or so just to wash everyday and look presentable. |
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Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: UK Exchange - advise me
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on: January 08, 2011, 07:11:23 AM
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Does Nationwide classify your account as a "business" account? I thought Nationwide only offered personal and charity accounts, in which case they may object to you using it for a business (if the business grows large enough for them to notice).
If it does, how will they react? Send me a formal notice asking me to cease operations, or seize all my funds? |
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