Is this really "the lowest point in our nation’s history that they can remember"?
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Quote:I never lost posts with Opera.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meh... take your time. I'm going to be getting ready for my job orientation and won't be around till tonight. :)
I used to have a lot of problems losing posts here. I've noticed it hasn't happened for a very long time. I think it's because Firefox does a great job of keeping post data these days.
What browser do you use?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
When forced to use Firefox or the Windows Virus, lose posts all the time.
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Meh... everybody has their own favorite. I've been using Firefox now for probably at least 15 years now and I love it. I never saw the need to change. There might be things I'm missing out on, but if Firefox can't do it I've yet to find something I wanted to make it do that I couldn't find an add-on for.
I never liked Internet Explorer, and Edge doesn't seem to be any better.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Opera is the Free high speed browser on a data diet. Fastest, most durable and resilient, very small file size, and wastes the least RAM.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meh... everybody has their own favorite. I've been using Firefox now for probably at least 15 years now and I love it. I never saw the need to change. There might be things I'm missing out on, but if Firefox can't do it I've yet to find something I wanted to make it do that I couldn't find an add-on for.
I never liked Internet Explorer, and Edge doesn't seem to be any better.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Here's a test for you:
Open new tabs by selecting threads, but "open in a new tab"
Like 20 or 50 tabs all at once. Then close all but one.
Open another 20 to 50 threads, in new tabs.
Repeat this until your browser crashes, noting how many you could do.
Windows Virus would normally crash on the first 20-50. Firefox/Mozilla would oft last for 1 or 2 hundred.
Opera went for thousands, I never can make it crash.
If text thread don't crash your browser, go for graphics. Like a photo album, with links not on the same server. Or else pron, there are often lots of linkys to other videos/images.
I never needed an "add-on". Opera just works.
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Quote:While you are attempting to crash a browser to determine its functionality, Senators are worried that Trump's brain might crash at a critical moment. Who will reboot Trump? :
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Here's a test for you:
Open new tabs by selecting threads, but "open in a new tab"
Like 20 or 50 tabs all at once. Then close all but one.
Open another 20 to 50 threads, in new tabs.
Repeat this until your browser crashes, noting how many you could do.
Windows Virus would normally crash on n the first 20-50. Firefox/Mozilla would you oft last for 1 or 2 hundred.
Opera went for thousands, I never can make it crash.
If text thread don't crash your browser, go for graphics. Like a photo album, with links not on the same server. Or else pron, there are often lots of linkys to other videos/images.
I never needed an "add-on". Opera just works.
“We are concerned that the president of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U.S. national security interests,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said at the hearing.
Similarly, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said if the United States were ever threatened and the president had to act, she would want Trump “to act in a way that acknowledges input from a lot of experts, and not to act based on a Twitter post.” Trump’s behavior “contributes to the concern about whether we’re in a situation where we need to look at, in Congress, a first nuclear strike policy and banning that,” she added.
These concerns are not new. In January, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., introduced S.200 and H.R. 669, the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017, to prohibit the president from launching a nuclear strike without a declaration of war by Congress.
Kehler, the former head of U.S. Strategic Command, on Tuesday said the U.S. military is “obligated” to prevent Trump from launching a nuclear strike against North Korea if it deems the order to be illegal.
But Kehler admitted it’s unclear how the military would determine if an order is illegal. If he were in a position in which he had questions about the legality of an order from the president, he would say “I have a question about this” and “I’m not ready to proceed,” he told the senators.
https://theintercept.com/2017/11/14/nuclear-war-donald-trump-nuclear-a
uthority/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Just FYI I run the Debian distribution of Firefox, on a Debian Linux OS. I also have NoScript and SecurityBadger running on top of that.
Generally speaking, the problems that I have are either with the windowing GUI or with NoScript clobbering certain scripts running on the page; but in THIS case it was Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable/ TWC) which stopped being able to find the fff.net server. So what I got was an error from their DNS whem I tried to post my reply, giving me a series of options asking me WHICH website was I looking for?
Not a computer expert here, but it seems to me that Haken's server took too long to reply and the DNS didn't know what to do next. Anyway, it looks like the error overwrote what I had written and I couldn't just backspace to the page. What I really should do, if I want to write something long, is just write it out in gedit (text editor) and copy-paste it here. Just my uninformed $0.02.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Opera is the Free high speed browser on a data diet. Fastest, most durable and resilient, very small file size, and wastes the least RAM.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meh... everybody has their own favorite. I've been using Firefox now for probably at least 15 years now and I love it. I never saw the need to change. There might be things I'm missing out on, but if Firefox can't do it I've yet to find something I wanted to make it do that I couldn't find an add-on for.
I never liked Internet Explorer, and Edge doesn't seem to be any better.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Here's a test for you:
Open new tabs by selecting threads, but "open in a new tab"
Like 20 or 50 tabs all at once. Then close all but one.
Open another 20 to 50 threads, in new tabs.
Repeat this until your browser crashes, noting how many you could do.
Windows Virus would normally crash on n the first 20-50. Firefox/Mozilla would you oft last for 1 or 2 hundred.
Opera went for thousands, I never can make it crash.
If text thread don't crash your browser, go for graphics. Like a photo album, with links not on the same server. Or else pron, there are often lots of linkys to other videos/images.
I never needed an "add-on". Opera just works.
You're probably right. I have had firefox crash on me on occasion when I have a lot of tabs open, usually when my computer has been on for days at a time. I won't say that I've never had more than 50 tabs open at a time, but at that point I was getting a bit carried away and/or lazy and figured I had the crash coming to me.
Can you download videos off of youtube and double click on any image and have the images automatically downloaded to the folder you specify for them? These are the only add-ons that I can think I've ever needed, although there's probably thousands more.
I'm not a fanboy or anything, and I'm not trying to convert you. You're obviously very attached to Opera.
I'm just not big on change myself, unless whatever I'm doing is personally impacting me in a negative way. Windows 10 is making me switch to Linux finally. Maybe the new Firefox Quantum will be even better than it was, or maybe it will force me to try another browser.
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Just FYI I run the Debian distribution of Firefox, on a Debian Linux OS. I also have NoScript and SecurityBadger running on top of that.
Generally speaking, the problems that I have are either with the windowing GUI or with NoScript clobbering certain scripts running on the page; but in THIS case it was Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable/ TMC) which stopped being able to find the fff.net server. So what I got was an error from their DNS whem I tried to post my reply, giving me a series of options asking me WHICH website was I looking for?
Not a computer expert here, but it seems to me that Haken's server took too long to reply and the DNS didn't know what to do next. Anyway, it looks like the error overwrote what I had written and I couldn't just backspace to the page. What I really should do, if I want to write something long, is just write it out in gedit (text editor) and copy-paste it here. Just my uninformed $0.02.
I've never used Firefox on Linux before, so I can't really say anything about it.
It's a good bet to blame it on fff.net's connectivity though, these days. In the last year or two I've had more problems with connectivity to this site than any other site I visit combined. Not complaining, mind you, it's really cool that the site is still up. Just sayin' it how it is.
I hate the solution of backing up things on a text document, but I've done that before even for posts on this site. I used to have a ton of problems with losing posts here and when I got back to the page they were gone. I don't know what changed, but I dont' have those problems anymore.
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Well, here is the response that I had written before. I may not get back to this site for a while; if I'm really good I should be very busy for the next few months (at least six months, but I doubt my good intentions will last that long!)
Quote:Usually, questions in this kind of survey aren't asked like "did you rape someone?" They usually ask about very specific behaviors:
SIX, there IS such as thing as statistical sampling. I know that it can be subject to abuse, and it can only provide an estimate (look at Hillary's polling) but it would be very difficult to conjure up a 13+% value out of near-zero. Rape and sexual assault .... respondents would want to hide those behaviors, don't you think?- SIGNY
Yes. I do think. I've asked Kiki to show me the questions asked. I'm going to go right ahead and assume that the questions in this study were as convoluted as your average ethics test given when applying for a job. Tests that I've stated on several occasions that I am VERY bad at. Which leads me to wonder how many questions were answered "wrong" simply because somebody was overthinking it.- SIX
Did you have sex with someone who was too drunk to stand up?
Did you touch someone's genitals without permission?
That's one of the ways that these surveys get around the problem of vague questions and/or the use of "trigger" words; but it may or may not apply in this case.
Quote:You say this like it's a bad thing. How would YOU feel if some bigger guy grabbed your crotch without permission?
First and foremost though, is how the statistics are presented to the general public by the MSM. They constantly throw in Rape with Sexual Assault, and do very little to distinguish the two. You can't deny that whenever these statistics are shown to the public, the emphasis on RAPE is key, and disingenuously inflates the belief that rape is far more prevalent than it actually is.
This is an even larger problem since almost anything these days can be considered sexual assault.- SIX
Quote:Well, if you don't believe that 13+% of men are pigs, what percentage do YOU place it at? And what are your reasons for picking that number?
I don't know what's going on with you two (SIX, JSF). Why is it so hard for you to accept that a significant minority of men are pigs? Is it because YOU'VE never done any such thing in the past? - SIGNY
I don't accept it because I don't believe it's true.- SIX
Quote:So, what level of coverage at what level of crime do you think is appropriate, and why?
Do you feel that women are making too much of a fuss about too little? Or that if women gain protections in this area, that you'll somehow be attacked?- SIGNY
I believe that the government and the MSM are making too much out of too little.- SIX
Quote:I'm awfully sorry SIX, I thought I read your posts with care, but I don't recall that(those) post(s) addressing the "why this is happening" so can you give a quick recap?
I've also given potential reasons why this is happening.- SIX
Quote:Maybe there should be a WOMEN Going Their Own Way (WGTOW) movement. If women were to rely on EACH OTHER for practical support and validation, they wouldn't feel compelled to attach themselves to a man, and any assocation would be
A possible consequence of this...
As I stated above, I believe that a lot of men are going to opt-out of relationships and interactions with women altogether. For this and several of the other reasons I've talked about earlier in this thread.
This is already happening (see the MGTOW movement).
And my question to anybody who doesn't see where I'm coming from here is simple.
When men in large quantities start to opt-out of even attempting relationships with women, who is the more likely group to do so? The super-charged sex-tyrannosaurus types? Or the guys who weren't ever going to do any of this in the first place?- SIX
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
One of the constant features of these cases of alleged (and proven) sexual abuse is the sheer number of women who are being assaulted over years and years with no reports being generated. Look at the nymber of girl Olympic gymnasts who were being raped by the team doctor, or the number of women allegedly abused by Weinstein, or Bill Cosby. In some ways, this is akin to the Sandusky crimes. How many children were abused over how many years? What is wrong with our system that this can go on for so long with nobody noticing? Part of the problem is that if you have a differential in age or power, the victims can be intimidated; part of the problem is that the crime happens in private; part of the problem is that it is being enabled by people close to the criminal. This is like what happened in my workplace (before significant protections were enacted) where there was one supervisor who made my work life an living hell for 5 years; I thought I was the only one but 20-40 years later I learned that he victimized many others. Multiple omplaints come out when one brave person complains first.
Just like Roy Moore - right?
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Enjoying yourself I hope.
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Quote:
One of the constant features of these cases of alleged (and proven) sexual abuse is the sheer number of women who are being assaulted over years and years with no reports being generated. Look at the nymber of girl Olympic gymnasts who were being raped by the team doctor, or the number of women allegedly abused by Weinstein, or Bill Cosby. In some ways, this is akin to the Sandusky crimes. How many children were abused over how many years? What is wrong with our system that this can go on for so long with nobody noticing? Part of the problem is that if you have a differential in age or power, the victims can be intimidated; part of the problem is that the crime happens in private; part of the problem is that it is being enabled by people close to the criminal. This is like what happened in my workplace (before significant protections were enacted) where there was one supervisor who made my work life an living hell for 5 years; I thought I was the only one but 20-40 years later I learned that he victimized many others. Multiple omplaints come out when one brave person complains first.- SIGNY
Just like Roy Moore - right?- GSTRING
You might not have noticed, but I haven't weighed in on the guilt (or not) of Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Jerry Sandusky or Roy Moore, except that I have accepted the verdicts of jury trials. In complex cases where evidence may be equivocal, I feel that I don't have enough time to even find all of the relevant evidence, much less parse all of the available information in an objective way. So I withhold judgment on specific accusations.
In the case of Harvey Weinstein, he left a trail of evidence with a number of NDAs (which should be admissible in trial), a tape recording, and the statements of eyewitnesses.
I don't know at what point the sheer number of allegations itself becomes evidence, even tho the individual cases may be weak. I haven't thought enough about it to figure out a way where complaints can be heard and not create a witch hunt. I'm sure this is an important topic to lawyers, but there are other things that interest me a lot more.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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