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New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet"

SHIT_TALKER — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:12:13 +0000

Don't forget Eisenhower's original wording described it as the military-industrial-congressional complex. The KC-X would be flying if the original contract to EADS had not been scuttled by Congress:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "3D Printed Revolver"

SHIT_TALKER — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:17:33 +0000

Small arms are used to gain large arms. That's how it always works.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle"

SHIT_TALKER — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:13:41 +0000

While perpetuating ignorant propaganda. No one speaking against it helps bullshit spread.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "The Yale Problem Begins in High School"

SHIT_TALKER — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 01:11:02 +0000

Calling something or someone "disappointing" or "problematic" is how these people evade enumerating arguments while still attempting to establish themselves as intellectually superior to those they are criticizing. They assume to have the correct position and condescend to anyone who demurs.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "Blue Origin Makes Historic Rocket Landing"

SHIT_TALKER — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:04:55 +0000

Don't worry - it isn't.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js"

SHIT_TALKER — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:20:52 +0000

Sounds like WordFence. Email notifications are configurable. Turning off most of them is advisable. I've had trouble with users with nominally static IP addresses changing with sufficient frequency to be too much of an annoyance to stay with IP whitelist. Limiting the failed login attempts and maxing out the lockout period cuts down on a lot of the bot activity.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js"

SHIT_TALKER — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:12:42 +0000

Doesn't that break admin-ajax.php access? It sits behind /wp-admin/. WordPress recommends allowing access when using IP whitelists.

Apache:

  # Allow access to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
  
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
      Satisfy any

Nginx:

  location /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php {
    allow all;
  }

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "In Patagonia 2k years ago, it was common for people to modify skulls of babies"

SHIT_TALKER — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 03:53:37 +0000

In case you aren't just playing along: He's making a joke about braces.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "ULA bows out of Pentagon launch competition, paving way for SpaceX"

SHIT_TALKER — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 07:46:25 +0000

ULA's reasoning was pretty straightforward. The main reason they dropped out of the competition is because the bidding was to be decided largely on price,

The reason they had to drop out is because they're a space launch company without any goddamned engines. The chatter about the bid process is just the typical jawing members of the defense cartel engage in when they deign to speak of competitors. Sometimes they're even successful in reopening the bid process. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "The War ISIS Wants"

SHIT_TALKER — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:54:01 +0000

They work but there has to be a commitment to seeing things through no matter the extent of the ensuing carnage, something most western countries have lost their stomach for. See: Chechnya.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say"

SHIT_TALKER — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:21:01 +0000

The slave trade had stopped years ago, and the pirate activity, while not over, was way down.

Thanks to military defeats at the hands of Americans, English, and Dutch.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say"

SHIT_TALKER — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 03:57:34 +0000

One example of an extremely sucessful, multicultural society is Singapore.

So that's one. And one overseen and enforced by an autocrat.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say"

SHIT_TALKER — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 03:51:28 +0000

Context: It was French colonization that put an end to the predations of the Barbary pirates and the Arab slave trade.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions"

SHIT_TALKER — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 23:50:52 +0000

Breed.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money"

SHIT_TALKER — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:33:38 +0000

You will find no dispute from me as to whether banks actually do restrict themselves to limiting their credit creation to a ratio of their deposits. But that is how it is supposed to work.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money"

SHIT_TALKER — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:27:20 +0000

The mechanics are incorrect but he has the general idea of the benefit banks accrue from each additional deposited dollar.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway"

SHIT_TALKER — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:03:44 +0000

What argument is there to be had with someone who will not even admit the elimination of the ritual immolation of widows as a salutary benefit of colonial rule? There's clearly no reason involved in such a stance but simply reflexive chauvinism.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money"

SHIT_TALKER — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:37:03 +0000

We don't determine "poverty" by living conditions but income. As someone who tries to "earn" as little as possible for tax-protest reasons, I can vouch for the parent commenter's statement. By picking the right location and work, I'm able to support a family on $20K (AGI) per year. The used cars I buy in cash get better every time I need to get another one. As people in my area moved to bigger houses in the perimeter of the city, I was able to buy a nice Victorian-era home with plenty of room for just north of the annual median U.S. income. (And I don't have a mortgage.) The home's location is easily walkable to schools, stores, shops, doctors, etc. My "living conditions" are really pretty great just making do with the castoff affluence around me. Yet my income level is considered by the federal government to be below the "poverty level". And compared to my great-grandparents, who were successful subsistence farmers, I'd say I have it pretty damn great as my "living conditions" are far superior to theirs, even though my "relative" poverty is greater.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway"

SHIT_TALKER — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 03:33:18 +0000

The topic was the banning of Sati. It was just one example of the benefits of British rule. That it is such a salutary example is why I mentioned it. You are welcome to keep crying on Twitter that people said things you don't like but I have nothing further to say to you.

New comment by SHIT_TALKER in "WordPress now runs a quarter of the web"

SHIT_TALKER — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:09:21 +0000

On the funny end of the scale, I've seen five page static websites with a landing page, a few info pages and a form done with WP. Unbelievable. Are developers that lazy today that they throw WP at everything? Or is it easier at that level to charge X to do a WP site rather than charging the same for straight-up PHP/HTML/JS?

When the client says they want to be able to update site content themselves.... okay, here's your five page WordPress site with a single form.