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by Jeff250
Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:06 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Raptor: Call of the Shadows Remix.
Replies: 8
Views: 3681

Re: Raptor: Call of the Shadows Remix.

If it works with Proton, I might check it out after it is released, but it's not enough for me to invest in the kickstarter.
by Jeff250
Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:05 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Raptor: Call of the Shadows Remix.
Replies: 8
Views: 3681

Re: Raptor: Call of the Shadows Remix.

No linux version. :(
by Jeff250
Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:57 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive
Replies: 10
Views: 3602

Re: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive

It's scary because I used google fonts for django, wordpress, and regular html websites. This also implies any php plugins could theoretically could cause a site to violate the law, even if it's just to support a basic function, not provide ads. Even if GDPR doesn't mind, your visitors might, since...
by Jeff250
Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive
Replies: 10
Views: 3602

Re: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive

I don't know the answer to your question, but not all cookies require consent under GDPR. Specifically, "strictly necessary" cookies do not require consent.
by Jeff250
Tue May 30, 2023 6:46 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: D1 Ray Tracing
Replies: 17
Views: 4985

Re: D1 Ray Tracing

No linux support. :(
by Jeff250
Mon Apr 10, 2023 9:14 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: D1 Ray Tracing
Replies: 17
Views: 4985

Re: D1 Ray Tracing

It looks like their GitHub link is broken. https://github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer :(
by Jeff250
Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:54 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Christians are victims! Time for war!
Replies: 62
Views: 7974

Re: Christians are victims! Time for war!

vision wrote: Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:33 am It's true. If Hollywood stopped making movies that reflect American values they would go broke immediately.
These days it's the intersection of American and Chinese values.
by Jeff250
Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:08 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Baldwin
Replies: 52
Views: 7049

Re: Baldwin

Thanks for opening up about your trauma TC. I'm very sorry about your loss.
by Jeff250
Wed Oct 26, 2022 6:09 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The lies of the left
Replies: 25
Views: 4185

Re: The lies of the left

That reminds me, I'm due for my fourth jab. Got mine two days ago. It was weird, my previous shots all came with some degree of immune response, usually just the sniffles and maybe a slight headache for a few hours. But this time, nothing. My arm wasn't even sore. I started to think maybe I got the...
by Jeff250
Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:58 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Some considerations
Replies: 88
Views: 18937

Re: Some considerations

The right thing to do is.........nothing. Who the hell gave you the right to decide who lives and who dies? Your inaction is killing people all over the world...when is the last time you went to Africa and fed some starving person? Isn't this the argument though? That the same right that you have t...
by Jeff250
Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:26 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Some considerations
Replies: 88
Views: 18937

Re: Some considerations

LightWolf wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:16 pmit's almost universally agreed killing an innocent person is not okay.
Should it be illegal to let someone die from hunger? Should it be illegal to let someone die from lack of healthcare? I don't think your use of the word "killing" is any different.
by Jeff250
Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:28 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Some considerations
Replies: 88
Views: 18937

Re: Some considerations

Here we enter into my lobster ethics example again - since the child is potentially viable, in any other circumstance the ethical imperative would be to treat it as viable and not take any action to harm it. If you found a lobster were parasitically attached to you, you would pluck it off, even if ...
by Jeff250
Tue Jun 14, 2022 5:51 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: If Americans thought our Covid restrictions were draconian...
Replies: 44
Views: 9458

Re: If Americans thought our Covid restrictions were draconian...

Like there is some sort of Big Brother type of environment that is somehow different than the same surveillance we have in the US. Because the censorship and surveillance environment in China is far more extensive than whatever North American examples you might have in mind, and you are falsely equ...
by Jeff250
Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:34 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: If Americans thought our Covid restrictions were draconian...
Replies: 44
Views: 9458

Re: If Americans thought our Covid restrictions were draconian...

Tunnelcat wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:27 pmJeff250, your Covid death rate I take issue with, especially since I'm older and more vulnerable.
In case my sarcasm/satire/etc. didn't make it through, my point was to demonstrate that edge cases *are* important.
by Jeff250
Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:04 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: If Americans thought our Covid restrictions were draconian...
Replies: 44
Views: 9458

Re: If Americans thought our Covid restrictions were draconian...

I think you can deconstruct virtually all news as being just edge cases. People who die from COVID? Edge cases. Subway shooter? Barely anyone in New York was shot. Russia invading Ukraine? Why aren't we talking more about the countries that Russia hasn't invaded?
by Jeff250
Mon Mar 14, 2022 5:55 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Testing Online Connectivity and Speed
Replies: 47
Views: 73258

Re: Testing Online Connectivity and Speed

Actually it was probably one of the very extensions to block those credit score ads that slowed down the speed test a bit. When I run Firefox in safe mode, it performs as well as Chrome:
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by Jeff250
Sun Mar 13, 2022 5:38 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Testing Online Connectivity and Speed
Replies: 47
Views: 73258

Re: Testing Online Connectivity and Speed

Evidently to improve my results all I had to do was run the test from Chrome instead of Firefox (sigh).

speedtest-chrome.png
Just had to crop out all the ads relating to improving my credit score...
by Jeff250
Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:58 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: I see the SCV has infected Canada
Replies: 84
Views: 14383

Re: I see the SCV has infected Canada

Our drugs utilize exon skipping in order to make the body produce new and working versions of dystrophin, the protein that is made incorrectly in people with Duchene Muscular Dystrophy. But ya that's "qanon" you ignorant fools. I can't wait until the evil precedent that this nonsense has ...
by Jeff250
Sat Feb 12, 2022 3:49 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24712

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

I don't think that our criminal justice system is equipped to handle a scenario like this. I can only hope that there is some justice found via a civil lawsuit. P.S. I agree that the argument about state lines is weak and sounds like something you would hear in a nation with much weaker guarantees o...
by Jeff250
Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:58 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Gain of Function
Replies: 50
Views: 9568

Re: Gain of Function

News flash about bats and cornonavirus: bats are a great place to look for viruses that could infect humans, and they are studied everywhere around the world. When someone says "they studied bat coronaviruses in Wuhan" I think "So? we study bat coronaviruses in dozens of countries.&q...
by Jeff250
Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:18 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

That's true, but I suppose if consciousness is so easy to arise, then in some sense that makes this universe even more lucky to have atoms since we didn't even need them in the first place.
by Jeff250
Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:49 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth, Justice and the American Way
Replies: 43
Views: 9756

Re: Truth, Justice and the American Way

When you switch to it, are you going to keep posting here?
by Jeff250
Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:18 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

One thing that did stick with me that I do want to comment on was when the anthropic principle was raised at some point, because from where I'm sitting at least the weak formulation of it is pretty much just a tautology. "Things would be different if they were different!" Um...thanks for ...
by Jeff250
Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:12 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

No worries. I appreciate that walls of quotes aren't everyone's favorite communication style.
by Jeff250
Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:48 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

Frankly, it's rude to interrupt someone's conversation, to tell them why you think their conversation isn't even worth having, and to conclude with your demands for how the conversation ought to proceed, if it even shall continue. I'm sorry that you didn't find value in a debate that you previously ...
by Jeff250
Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:35 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

I want to respond to one comment quickly that I don't think will be too controversial, and then I will summarize where I am. Actually a multiverse is highly complex, as you not only have to describe the possibilities, but you have to describe every single one of an infinite number. It depends on you...
by Jeff250
Tue Jan 11, 2022 7:50 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

see no problem with evolution resulting in a constant increase in complexity by your own definition Just out of curiosity, do you believe in the common understanding of how galaxies evolved, of how solar systems evolved, etc.? I do agree with you though that one way to look at evolution is as a way...
by Jeff250
Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:26 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

How can science be done as easily if cause and effect do not exist? Exactly the way it is done now, except with an asterisk saying that science is the study of humans' experience of the universe and not necessarily to the universe itself. To help motivate this some more, there are similar reservati...
by Jeff250
Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:42 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

In any case, you are throwing a lot of time in the mix, so why can't something like this happen at a larger scale given that much time and the sheer number of events occuring? It's not a priori impossible, but I think it would be practically impossible for this reason: although I cannot personally ...
by Jeff250
Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:15 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

Let me put it this way: Your 'edge cases', such as the skunk example, should be happening with high frequency. They should be so normal that you can't call them edge cases. It's an edge case in that it is exactly what you were asking for -- a species on the edge of another family, not an edge case ...
by Jeff250
Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:37 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

If there's only edge cases, then it shows the theory is non-comprehensive. I'm saying the lines should be blurred a lot more frequently. Weren't you asking for edge cases? I asked if you could be "clear what are the exact criteria for the example you're looking for", and your response is ...
by Jeff250
Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:25 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

Given the sheer improbabilities and impossibilities involved, it makes far more sense, and takes a lot less faith, to believe something else is responsible for life. No, because, even by your own metric, your theory is worse. You seem to have trouble imagining how, given enough time, somewhere in t...
by Jeff250
Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:38 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 44
Views: 17911

Re: Evolution

Also how would you tell if some species is in a transitional state? Every species is in a transitional state unless it is extinct. Where are the things we can't tell what family it's in? Could be a cat (felidae) or something else entirely, depending what angle you look at it? Evolution requires tha...
by Jeff250
Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:05 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: If you're so healthy, would you have sex with someone with syphilis?
Replies: 6
Views: 1995

Re: If you're so healthy, would you have sex with someone with syphilis?

I don't know if this is the best argument, since it would have been easy for a more quick-witted antivaxer to argue that STDs aren't a great analogy here and show some statistics on how, unlike many STDs, almost everyone clears COVID with zero lasting consequences to themselves. The argument for vac...
by Jeff250
Mon Dec 20, 2021 3:24 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: wave-particle duality
Replies: 18
Views: 5414

Re: wave-particle duality

An early human who possessed innate intuition for wave-particle duality wouldn't have any survival advantage over one that didn't, so we don't have that.
by Jeff250
Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:30 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: upgrade to windows 11?
Replies: 17
Views: 8711

Re: upgrade to windows 11?

Can anyone explain the motivation for requiring TPM 2.0? I can't find any explanation that doesn't conflate TPM with secure boot or that isn't just a bunch of enterprise marketing word salad. The only thing I can think of is that Microsoft wants to encrypt your hard drive with a TPM key so that you ...
by Jeff250
Wed Dec 08, 2021 4:50 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Are you a moral person
Replies: 14
Views: 3170

Re: Are you a moral person

China is corrupt as hell. The imminent downfall of the Chinese economy has been predicted for decades now. It's always just right about to happen. I'm sure it will some day hit a recession, like any economy, but these predictions of imminent downfall typically come from those who want to see it fall.
by Jeff250
Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:17 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Can we talk about money?
Replies: 13
Views: 5746

Re: Can we talk about money?

Tunnelcat wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:13 pmadds to the humongous debt that Trump saddled us with after HIS nice unfunded giveaway to the elite with those large tax cuts
Yeah it's funny how some people weren't concerned about inflation then.
by Jeff250
Sat Dec 04, 2021 5:15 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Can we talk about money?
Replies: 13
Views: 5746

Re: Can we talk about money?

Well do you mention the trillions passed by congress , most of which goes into socialist spending plans Then have absolutely clueless admin mouthpiece tell us it is not going to cost us anything? Do you think pay people generous unemployment checks helped or hurt the economy, inflation. Still glad ...
by Jeff250
Mon Nov 22, 2021 5:55 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Facebook in Android.
Replies: 5
Views: 3155

Re: Facebook in Android.

Did you try "pm uninstall" without "--user 0"?