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Other / Politics & Society / Re: 'The 'impossible' EmDrive could reach Pluto in 18 months' !!!
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on: July 27, 2015, 06:03:43 AM
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call me skeptical, but I still won't believe it until they put it into action. it's still just a theory.
Well that's the thing, I won't knock it until they build one and send it to space, but there are so called scientists who are debunking it before it even has a chance to be tested, now they're testing it, they're starting to have other ideas the hypocritical fucks. Also, I would like to point out the key is in the name 'EM' it uses electro magnetic waves not negative energy, it's basically a very very efficient engine that seems to be able run in a vacuum, but as usual people who know even less about science than I do are shitting on it or claiming it breaks the laws of physics when they don't even know them. Here's the website of the inventor: http://emdrive.com/Note: It looks like they've actually updated the website to show some real testing videos! nice! Flight Test DEM 188 Results Mean Thrusts 9.8gm Maximum Velocity 2cm/sec Flight Distance 185cm That's not at all a large amount, however if you imagine how much it could be improved and what that would mean for space flight, you get the idea.
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Other / Meta / Re: I wish we could ban buying & selling of accounts.
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on: July 26, 2015, 03:04:15 AM
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I ask because my wife just got scammed, and she says there`s no point doing anything about it, because the scammer will just disappear and start a new account. If she says nothing, she can at least find his posts and stop someone else from buying from him. It doesn`t seem like a good way to build trust in forum members. You're wife was actually on Bitcointalk and trying to use Bitcoin to buy an account? Brb, need to start buying up more Bitcoin and get ready to sell, price spike incoming. But seriously, the mods haven't interfered with personal disputes over at trade with real items, they're not likely to go and do it over some virtual ones just because of some newfound outrage about it.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Russians love Putin so much?
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on: July 25, 2015, 10:50:26 PM
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Flip the question around to why Iran's president is supported or why ISIS is still going in Iraq, it's because of the western powers showing absolutely no restraint in their tactics and watching them use diplomacy is like seeing an arrogant parent lecture their children even though they know it's them not the child that's done wrong.
I'm not surprised in the slighest to see this happening, they just simply don't want an invasion, oh yeah and definitely fuck what any media outlet says about Russia, I'd much rather trust random posters on the internet, at least that way you get different perspectives instead of just propaganda.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Testing out a VPN, the difference to speed and stability is quite dramatic
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on: July 25, 2015, 09:01:54 AM
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$6.99 a month, honestly, considering how much of a difference it makes to me it's worth it though and I don't really consider that to be a huge amount anyway, haven't heard of cyber ghost But yeah, smooth browser when torrenting and very stable ping on my games, they've been fucking with the connection for years like I suspected, if you experience slow speeds despite having 10mb or higher it's probably worth a try even just for a month, just to see if there's a difference. quite good. how much upload is possible? (and by the way: how much upload would you recommend when running a full node?) I honestly have no idea, I only just started testing yesterday so I'd have to ask people about doing some proper diagnostics, the thing is, the standard speed tests out there clearly don't detect any throttling going on so I'm going to have to do some research to check it all out. I can tell you though, when in battlefield my ping varies between 30 - 50 on average depending on what server I connect to I think but it's incredibly stable meaning I get much smoother gameplay than I could before because I'm not getting frequently disconnected or triggering any ping limiters. To put into perspective how much of a problem ping was for me, I was getting anywhere between 100 - 300 even on UK servers and it would erratically change between that, causing lots of warping and such until I finally ended up getting disconnected by the ping limits, either that or it would just get so unplayable I'd have to quit, especially on matchmaking where a smooth connection is a necessity, even on the low resource games like counter strike these ping spikes would happen. All of this was definitely a result of bandwidth throttling I'm sure, just surprised at how much of a difference it makes.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Am I the only girl on here? : (
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on: July 24, 2015, 08:47:29 PM
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That gif has been around since 2002, maybe longer. Not much has changed. That's genius and so very true ROFL! It doesn't matter whether she's a girl or not the fact is, you guys are ridiculous, now watch as this page goes to 100.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Testing out a VPN, the difference to speed and stability is quite dramatic
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on: July 24, 2015, 07:57:58 PM
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$6.99 a month, honestly, considering how much of a difference it makes to me it's worth it though and I don't really consider that to be a huge amount anyway, haven't heard of cyber ghost But yeah, smooth browser when torrenting and very stable ping on my games, they've been fucking with the connection for years like I suspected, if you experience slow speeds despite having 10mb or higher it's probably worth a try even just for a month, just to see if there's a difference.
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Other / Off-topic / Testing out a VPN, the difference to speed and stability is quite dramatic
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on: July 24, 2015, 11:52:58 AM
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So as you probably know now I've been meaning to get a VPN for quite some time and finally got round to testing one that was recommended to me https://www.tunnelbear.com/ , I'm convinced that my ISP virgin media is almost certainly throttling me because the connection tends to overreact a lot to things I do, everything slows down more than it should when I download and so on. They also are rabid in blocking torrent sites and so on as any other customer will tell you. What's surprised me is that the difference in speed is very dramatic, I think they have been deliberately targeting my connection because of how much I use bittorrent, so I fired up TunnelBear and all of a sudden everything is working way smoother than it ever has. I'm definitely paying for one properly now I can afford it because I don't even need to use proxies to get to places which is great and I bet regions won't be restricted either for me because I can switch my location to the US no problem. Holy crap it's ridiculous, but yeah, I was suffering quite a bit this week with my connection and gave a call to tech support which lasted 54 minutes. They were very evasive and the guy was a classic indian tech support who even tried to claim that he wanted remote desktop access, in the end all he wanted to do was change my router firewall settings. He even had the balls to claim that asking something like that of a customer was completely normal. Anyway, what are your experiences with VPNs when it comes to connection speeds? I keep wondering if this will fix the ping spike problems I have in gaming because I'm more and more convinced now it's bandwidth throttling given the boost in performance I've gotten. Turns out by the way, it has basically fixed all the problems with my connection, they were in fact throttling my connection a huge amount, I tried tunnelbear at first but private internet access seems the way to go for torrents and gaming which is what I tend to do most.
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Economy / Goods / Re: The Rabbit And The Moon - Alpha stage screenshots inside
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on: July 21, 2015, 02:43:52 PM
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Fantastic news! My music arrived ( as it turns out last week My own fault for not properly checking ) now it's all down to me to get everything finished, I will also be looking into getting more tracks as both people for music and sound have proven to be reliable. The project is well underway!
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: President Vladimir Putin tells West not to fear Russia
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on: July 19, 2015, 10:38:51 PM
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He is the best actor on the world, he should be reward the Best Actor of Oscar. You can't trust an actor Do you really think there is an honest politician? It sounds ridiculous, because a politician can't get support from his society if he speak truth. Then you should ask yourself, is you president an honest person? And we are talking about a great leader who can lead big country like Russia and never afraid of US or EU. I think it's less of an issue of there being honest politicians and more of an issue that the people aren't honest which is why they never vote for people who will genuinely improve their lives.
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