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But he still doesn't have dozens of former bodyguards, investors, and business partners' ghosts trudging behind him with accusing fingers. Make Donald Trump mad, and he'll mock you openly. Make a Clinton mad, and you'll fall down an elevator shaft onto six bullets from two different guns with a suicide note written in Chinese stuffed in your mouth.
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Business loan, or float the idea to potential wealthy investors.
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Buy a house so I don't have to live in a crumbling rented shack.
Buy a recent car so I don't have to worry about the engine falling into the driveway every time I start the car.
Get eye surgery.
Get a broken wisdom tooth removed.
Buy houses and cars for people who have helped me in life, or pay off their debts if they're already otherwise doing well.
Build an estate somewhere on the periphery of nowhere (don't want to have to drive 90 miles to get groceries).
Give the house I had previously bought, to somebody else.
Invest, invest, invest.
Increase my arsenal.
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Being required to validate with SMS to simply log into an account, or to change a password, with no alternate validation options, is idiotic. I don't mind filling out a half-dozen question:response pairs in advance to avoid that. That is, until space and hyphens aren't allowed in the answers.

"What was the make and model of your first car?"
"Toyota Corolla"
"INCORRECT"
"ToyotaCorolla"
"CORRECT"
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Work for any large company in a customer (or idiot management) facing position, and lying will be the order of the day. But not necessarily in the way you may imagine. You will lie and blame system issues for what was clearly caused by another person's stupidity, especially when you can get fired for identifying a consistent -up who works for the company in a position that appears to be a company-sanctioned saboteur.
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I have like five SoundBlaster cards floating around. I took the newest one out of my primary system because CL's stupid drivers broke all of the inputs, making audio from stereo mix, line in, and mic all stutter. The Chinese Realtek BS on my motherboard works well enough.
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Pretty much every show Cartoon Network killed in the 2000s. Sym-Bionic Titan, Korgoth of Barbaria, Megas XLR, Teen Titans, and so many more.
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Don't forget that Equifax breach a while back let people raid their databases and get the credit information including full SSNs of millions of people, so your credit could be completely destroyed before you even get out of school, and you would have no recourse.
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My XEGS crashes when you press RETURN while in BASIC, for any reason, even if only to run a basic PRINT "HELLO" command. I have an Atari tape drive, but no use for it. Only game I have for the XE is the built-in Missile Command; no carts at all.
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Let's conveniently forget how much of Battletech was cribbed from Macross and other productions.
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Because I have no debt, and lived within my disturbingly meager means, my credit is useless. I am not a suitable target for usury, so I can't get loans.
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Soyny thinks that mecha combat isn't for the west. Feh.




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Solid Sonic posted...

redline65 posted...

You can set yourself on fire, just don't injure anyone else (or destroy someone else's property).

You mean singeing someone else's lawn because you had to stop, drop, and roll is not okay?!

I'll beat the flames out with a crowbar.
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Mid to late twenties is optimal. All of the strengths, none of the weaknesses.If this comes with practical immortality (as in, won't die from anything but severe bodily injury), cool, but without enhanced durability and regenerative abilities, you'd become a mass of arthritic scar tissue inside of 20 years.
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It was until very recently. Now that Sony has gone full censorship to appease their new Chinese masters, they're garbage, and everyone is reluctantly switching to Nintendo of all companies.
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None. Pretty much the same as Steroids'
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DoubleOSnake posted...

how often? and not counting like putting coins in those salvation army kettles or donating clothes either

Those are about the only times that charity even matters. It's not going directly into the coffers of those who have six figure salaries for moving free money around.
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Something has the flush the drugs out when the pre-announced urine tests are coming up.
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Having to rough people up for $12 was idiotic when I had thousands of dollars stuffed in my vest, and thousands more in the lockbox in camp. Well, John makes everything right, and then Jack has the last laugh.
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Well, the northern girls reportedly do some pretty hot stuff with their tongues.
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These days, I suppose adventure games with RPG elements. Alas, too many are full of political BS instead of compelling stories and thrilling gameplay.
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Why even care about awards? It's just an example of how direct democracy is tyranny of the idiot majority. How many people in your life do you feel have taste, or common sense? Not many, right? Now think about the many billions of people you don't even want to get to know.
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Read FBI violent crime statistics by race, and you'll be "racist" in no time.
Read child homicide statistics by sex of the perpetrator, and you'll be "sexist" in no time.
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Nothing was deleted from the account (certainly not 40,000 messages), and nothing secret was transmitted. Keep reaching.
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Been dead. Absolute oblivion. Nothing to be afraid of. It's just like before you were born. You will only have awareness up to the point where your brain switches off.
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All of the jobs that paid well in my area moved to areas where they could get away with paying less, or were bought out by companies that slashed benefits so that the tenured employees would get fed up and quit, to be replaced with people who would work half as well, for a third of the pay.
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Technically, everyone's loved ones are dying.
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Put a gun against his head. Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
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Low and unskilled labor positions are near impossible to get if you have an IQ above 70, because who wants to hire someone with the potential to leave for better things than a deadend job? The market is saturated with people seeking such work, and employers can and will reject anyone for even the most trivial of reasons. Getting a degree won't help. You'll overqualify yourself out of even more jobs, and anything in your field will be full of lifers, or outsourced to somewhere you wouldn't even visit with an armed entourage in most cases.

Two best tips I can give:
LEARN A TRADE.
DO NOT LEARN CHINESE.
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Eating harder, tougher foods as a child stimulates growth that lengthens the jaws, making room for wisdom teeth.Alas, kids eat nothing but ice cream, pudding, and butter now, so they have that dull, mouth-breathing appearance with a pronounced overbite. My wisdom teeth came in just fine, but due to years of starvation as a kid, they all broke.
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This is your cut after the lawyers' law firms get theirs off the top.
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Hey. Buy a used PS4, and rent the games from Redbox or something.
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Maybe everyone else is too incompetent to prepare your dish, and putting it on the menu would underline their lacking skills?
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Tool Time, with Tim "The Toolman" Taylor.
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Police are trained to believe that every random jagoff is a trained assassin, waiting for them to slip up. Fear of reprimand for NOT shooting first has caused more than a few officers to be murdered at vehicle stops involving headcases, and those incidents are utilized to further impress upon officers the idea that everyone is out to kill them at all times of day. If the only people you ran into on a daily basis outside of your family, friends, and maybe a few coworkers, was violent or otherwise criminal garbage, wouldn't you believe the training? Confirmation bias is powerful. Not that most people aren't horrible at their core.
SWATters should be charged like anyone else who solicits murder for hire.
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One may hold fast to his or her personal faith and beliefs, so long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others, but religion in and of itself is but an arbitrary means of dividing people when race, class, and literacy aren't working well enough.
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Typical male feminist behavior.
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The only time cash shouldn't be given as a gift is when the person giving the gift has access to discounts not available to the public, like employee discounts that don't extend to family or something.
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Microsoft unintentionally (?) broke Windows 95 by including a defective DLL with IE 5, but with some fishing around, you can replace that DLL with one that was in a beta of IE 5, that retains compatibility without freaking the system out.
Just look for win95comctlfix.zip online, if you still use Win95 to screw around. The issue is not present in Win98 or later versions of Win9X.

If you want to get some history on computers, I recommend watching episodes of The Computer Chronicles, in chronological order. Amazing how some of the predictions made in the eighties came true.
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Separate tabs, history for each tab going back possibly dozens of clicks.

Want to save some RAM, processor life, battery power, and your whole computer? Install uBlock Origin and uMatrix. They block everything by default, so it takes a bit of shimmying to make sites like Youtube work, or youtube embeds on forums or other sites, but once you get it set up, you're largely safe from BS like compromised ad servers full of malware and crypto-currency miners.
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If humans were intelligently designed, we would have more than two middle fingers. No intelligent and social creature can reasonably function with just two. We need extra arms.
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I have a TG-16 I lucked across at a yardsale about 15 years ago for $10. Got Bonk's Adventure at a local game shop for $15 or so, and the multitap thing for another $20 on ebay. Then a Turbo Everdrive. The system has been in a box next to my chair for about 6 years now.
If you're pining for a TG-16, you're going to be at least $400 into it if you want to have any fun. You NEED the CD system, so unless you're buying a PC Engine Duo R and an Everdrive, you can skate with a TG-16 or PC Engine, and the Super SD System 3. HuCards cost a mint, and so do CD games. Don't even think about getting the arcade card.
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Apple has been like that since the early 1990s. They've come to define the concept of Veblen goods.
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Zeus posted...

Well, for starters, it enriches those at the top while devastating the most vulnerable in a society. It's not even necessarily good for the nations where the labor goes, considering that it can introduce a slew of issues into the society while giving foreign interests the power to challenge the national sovereignty (not to mention increased pollution). There are benefits as well, though, such as cheaper goods and opening up new markets. However, nations with abundant natural resources tend to do better under nationalism because the lowest rungs of their society are supported whereas globalism is terrible for low-skill and moderate-skill labor.

Granted, in the super-long run, we may *eventually* hit a stage when living standards are much closer among nations at which point it won't merely be pricing out labor.

Absolutely correct. People want cheap everything, and they're going to need it, when they can't make more than minimum wage, with their part time job, due to the job market being over-saturated. When McDonalds can round-file applications on whims unrelated to qualifications and still choose to hire idiot drug addicts, you know something is wrong. Thanks to globalization, if I want a job in my field, I would have to move to India (and make $2200 US per year), but I'd better hurry before China out-prices the Indian companies with their throngs of slave laborers working for pseudofood and living in cages.
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Why in the hell would you even consider getting a gift for someone you don't like, and who cannot aid you in your professional life? Also, the only gift you should give an adult is cash, unless you have specific access to discounts that cannot be easily shared (like 25% off of the price of a car, for working for the manufacturer or something).
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The only time I've ever cracked a screen was when I put a sword through a Game Boy Pocket. My current phone is five and a half years old. It's on its second battery and second camera CCD, but otherwise fine. I treat it like it's worth the seven hundred dollars it cost when it was new, even if I didn't pay that much due to subsidies.
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I'd be more concerned about the times they still won't admit it, by telling their customers that their computers are beyond repair, when often all that is needed is to open it up and re-solder one or two disconnected pins. Or when their crap engineering wrecks their computers through normal or even minimal use.
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My original Xbox still works fine, as well as my 360. I'm on my seventh PS2, and my PS3 is on its second Bluray drive. Oh wait, Foxconn makes everything, so it doesn't matter which brand is on the casing.
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Now even more people are just going to pirate their entire libraries and softmod/chip their consoles out of spite.
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How about Chili & Cheese Oreos?
Jalepeo Cheddar?
Peanut Butter & Jelly?
Ketchup & Mustard?
Maple & Bacon?
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