@raphjd said in Once again, Biden can't stop lying:

Biden's latest blatant lie of the day is that during the 6 Days War, he went to Israel as a liaison, at the request of (then) PM Golda Meir.

Biden was still in law school (his 2nd year) during the 6 Days War, but don't let facts get in the way of a good lie. Golda Meir was not the PM during the 6 Days War. Golda Meir did not become PM until 2 years later.

Liberals are quick to claim that he is actually referring to the Yom Kippur War, but he had only been a Senator for 9 days when it started.

Biden is a pathological liar and the left loves him for it.

Yes, he got the name of the war wrong, but the rest is accurate [source: Times of Israel]

He's a dottering old man, and his memory isn't what it once was - but what the hell should we expect from a guy who will turn 80 next year! (For those not paying attention, Trump is only 4 years younger! We were going to set a record for oldest President ever after the 2020 election, no matter WHO won!)

I have no issue with you reporting that he got the name of the war wrong - that's valid and true... had you left it at that, I likely wouldn't have even replied! But no - you had to add all the bullshit... your own lies.... THAT part I object to, and felt the need to set the record straight.

By the way: the Times of Israel article about Biden meeting with Meir in 1973 dates to 2020 - just before the election here. So, unless they were prescient, the article had nothing to do with Biden's claims during the hanukkah celebrations at the White House...

Still: It's time for their generation (octogenarians) to "pass the torch"...

@georgeval820 said in You shouldnt use NORDVPN for torrenting anymore.:

@bi4smooth
From summer I cann´t upload and download ! Nothing! And of course that I had used P2P servers from start, and try with proxy as Nord say at their help pages but NOTHING.
So, I do not believe to you!

Well, fortunately I'm not Tinker Bell, so I don't need for you to believe in me... but I will say that my NordVPN subscription is 7+ years old now, and I've successfully seeded over 25TB of data thru this tracker.

I originally used the SOCKS-5 Proxy setup directly on my torrent client (vs. the Windows Client), but they stopped supporting that at all... so now I use a Windows VM (that I wind up throwing away periodically - for virus infections, as I do not install AV or MalwareBytes on the VM) with the NordVPN Windows client and qBitTorrent... the VM stores the downloads onto a NAS device...

I do nothing to the NordVPN setup (other than bouncing around the globe), and very little to the qBitTorrent setup (beyond what the tutorial here suggested).

I just dl'd a FreeLeech torrent today - 9.3 GB - it downloaded with an average speed of 14 MBps and is currently seeding at a rate of 1.5 MBps (only 2 leechers are connected to me, out of 18 - too bad for the others because I can seed at over 50 MBps for whose who have the bandwidth!)

Look - I'm not saying you aren't having an issue... I'm sure you are! (I recommend re-installing the NordVPN AND torrent clients from scratch and trying again)...

What I am saying is that I'm using it as described above and not having an issue.

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

@bi4smooth

"Fair and balanced" doesn't have to ALWAYS support my worldview, BUT when it never, ever supports my worldview on any topic that shows extreme bias.

For you, or the news organization?

@raphjd said in Biden has no interest in meeting with the families of the dead in Waukesha:

@bi4smooth

But your BFF is the President.

True, only the "crimes" that can be racialized need a Presidential visit, according to liberals.

You can't imagine any part of life or existence separate from your polarized, politicized glasses, can you?

This didn't rise to the level of a Presidential response... and you're upset by that?

If it HAD received a Presidential response, what would your reaction have been then?

You're like the obese woman who asks her boyfriend "do I look fat in this dress?" - there is NO good answer to that question! It's a trap! LOL

@raphjd said in Biden has no interest in meeting with the families of the dead in Waukesha:

Jen Psaki has said that Biden won't be visiting with the families of those killed in the Waukesha terrorist attack.

Biden has met with Jacob Blake and others.

Clearly, Biden loves black criminals (just like BLM admits they support) but doesn't give a fuck about the victims of black criminals.

I don't see Trump lining up to go visit them!

Not EVERY crime victim needs to get a visit from the President (or ex-President) for the crime to be important! (All crime matters - all crime victims are... well, victims!) But not all crime (or their victims) are "created equally"...

@raphjd said in Smokers and coffee drinkers are healthier, sorta:

According to a new (but small) study, smokers and coffee drinkers have a much higher step count than those who do not partake in either.

I'm not sure why we needed this study, as the results should be obvious.

Coffee drinkers walk back and forth to get coffee. Likewise, smokers go outside to have a cigarette.

Some of you may remember the study I posted a few years ago that showed that smokers and coffee drinkers spent more time working than those who didn't partake. According to the study, smokers and coffee drinkers felt guilty about going away from their desks for their vice, while non-smokers and non-coffee drinkers felt they were owed time away from their desks for "equality" sake. The non-vice people falsely believed that they spent the same amount of time away from their desks as those who engaged in smoking and coffee drinking. The study showed that the non-vicers spent as much as 3 times as much time away from their desks as the vicers.

Interesting... completely believable, although I would say the results are more akin to:

Smokers and coffee drinkers exercise more

I understand the correlation of "healthier" with "take more steps", but that's clearly not the overall case.

For example: caffeine itself is a diuretic (it takes water to process in your body) - BUT the amount of water needed to process a shot of espresso (much less regular coffee) is a fraction of the water in the drink itself! Thus, when you drink a cup of coffee (or espresso), the net intake of water is POSITIVE, not negative.

Similarly, the health benefits walking outside to get a smoke, in my mind, are likely more than offset by the detrimental effects of the nicotine (albeit, perhaps less so if you go outside to put on a patch, vs actually smoking!)

Kind of a "prove the obvious" study - which, as the 2nd half of your post reveals, sometimes is surprising, as the "obvious" isn't really the truth in all cases! SCIENCE!

@geobear40 said in Co-founder of Christian TV network that railed against vaccines dies of Covid-19:

@eobox91103 A man died show some respect.
He took a risk based on his beliefs, FREEDOM to weigh the risks and to make your own decisions is the AMERICAN WAY

If the guy was just my next-door-neighbor and had these goofball beliefs (you would need to have watched him on his network to get the full breadth of his wacko-ness), I would agree completely: he had and lived his beliefs, and he died because of them - his right, his life, his freedom.

But this ain't that...

This guy didn't just evangelize for his beliefs, he attempted to sway others to his beliefs - not by convincing them with facts or proof, but by conflating his anti-science beliefs with Christian faith, and insisting that anyone who didn't believe HIS version of things - things having nothing to do with Bible teachings, God, or Jesus Christ - that you were not a "good christian.... and he all-but-extorted money out of his "followers" to boot.

Sorry, I have to agree with the scorecard:
Science:1
Dumbass: 0
Evil caused by dumbass: still uncountable, but not climbing so fast anymore!

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

@bi4smooth

Even in the UK where they have a legal requirement to be "fair and balanced" (especially true for the BBC due to its royal charter), there are massive liberal leanings in the news.

The various media outlets in the US and UK claim that their news is non-biased, but admit they do editorial programing as well.

Well, if your idea of "fair and balanced" is "supports my point of view", then - especially in your case - the mainstream media is all biased - against you (as-if you didn't think you were persecuted enough already! - Poor white man!)

As for "editorial bias" - I think my comment about their always being some bias in the decisions on what to air, vs what not to air... you can't escape that! There is only so much air time!

If your claim is that the mainstream (broadcast, not so much cable) media has always had some bias, that's probably true (whether liberal or conservative might be up for debate, if you look back)... but if your claim is that the mainstream media is no more biased now than it ever was... well, then you just never paid attention more than 10 years ago!

@harakendo said in all gaytorrent.ru trackers not working:

I'm having this problem still

Is there something I need to reconfigure in my client?

Start by restarting your client program. (Make sure the program really exits! For example, if you "quit" qBitTorrent, it usually still runs in the background... when you "restart" it, you just open a new window - to the same background process that was running before).

@kima112 said in You shouldnt use NORDVPN for torrenting anymore.:

I just found out, that NORDVPN, that has been promoting free data and privacy like crazy over the years has gone over to the dark side.

They say that they don't have anything against P2P, but they throttle the upload speed to 0 INCASE you do something illegal, Privacy is "a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people." that is something they no longer adhere to.

I do understand that people use VPN to illegal things, duh..

If i want to upload something or download in privacy and they spy on what software you use (example) that is no longer privacy. VPN is security for privacy.

That policy makes you a criminal by default even when you actually upload your own stuff.

its sad.

this is not my first language, so im sorry for spelling etc

I'm guessing your mileage is different, but I use NordVPN personally, and have no issues uploading (or downloading) content on their P2P servers (you DO need to use their P2P servers, not the standard ones!)...

There are also issues with their service if you allow too many network connections... I limit my per-torrent connections to 8 (I like powers of 2 in computing!) - but if you think about it, that makes sense: hundreds of users on a single server, only 60K ports to use all-total (a TCP thing, not a config thing)...

Anyway, I just thought I'd chime in with my personal experience... I don't know why you're having issues... and I can't really offer to help you debug... but I (myself) am not having the issue you're reporting... maybe call their customer service?

@maximopoder said in Ratio of not so popular torrents:

Good afternoon,

I have downloaded a few torrents, however such torrents are not very popular, so even though I leave the PC mostly on all day and with the ability to upload, my ratio doesn't go up.

How to improve my ratio in this case? I'm afraid to do some other download, and that download isn't searched often either, thus worsening my ratio.

can you help me?

BY FAR the easiest way to improve your ratio is to catch a FREELEECH torrent shortly after it has been FREELEECHED, download (it's free already), and then seed - at least for the remainder of the FREELEECH time (it should be shown in the torrent).

You should have good luck if you catch the FREELEECH when there are FEW seeders (and absolutely IDEALLY, few leechers so far!)...

The reason this works is that:

• The FREELEECH torrent is free for you to download - and anyone else, too!
• FREELEECH torrents are POPULAR! So there will build up a LARGE number of leechers - usually in a short amount of time!
• If you are one of a FEW SEEDERS and there are hoards of LEECHERS - then it only follows that you will wind up sharing MULTIPLES of the data size as more and more people download the contents.

Again, tho - they KEYS TO SUCCESS are to:

• download a FREELEECH torrent while there are FEW seeders (and preferably, few leechers too!)
• KEEP SEEDING - even past the freeleech time, as some users don't pay attention to the END TIME of the FREELEECH timer, and will still download it -- in the ERRONEOUS belief that if they start downloading it as a FREELEECH, it will stay that way. (It's only free while it's free! and the tracker counts BYTES, not downloads, for ratio!)

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

@bi4smooth

Even before FOX, the news was biased.

Go back and read the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. The Trib was clearly conservative and the Sun was clearly liberal. Fox had nothing to do with this because they were always different.

But yeah, let's blame Fox since they are the liberal boogeyman.

You're confusing print newspapers (which have always had an "editorial slant") with the broadcast (television) news.

In the early days of TELEVISION, the FCC insisted that the new (not news) networks (and, indeed all TV & Radio stations) provide a certain amount of their broadcast time to "public service"... some stations (and both of the original networks: NBC and CBS) did this with "unbiased" news coverage (to the extent that any decision of what to broadcast and what NOT to can be unbiased)...

Because this programming was a "public service" the earliest newscasts didn't even have commercials in them! Names like Walter Cronkite & Edward R Murrow (CBS), and John Chancellor & John Cameron Swayze (remember the Times commercials later - in the 60's and 70's?) for NBC rose to considerable fame. NBC switched to a 2-anchor scheme (Chet Huntley and David Brinkley)... and the new ABC network (originally, nearly all sports boradcasts) joined in the fray in the 1950's with houehold names like Peter Jennings, Howard K Smith, & Harry Reasoner - as did the other network (few have ever heard of, as it didn't survive): DuMont.

It didn't take long for advertisers to want a piece of the action, but the networks limited them (originally) to being a "sponsor" (The Camel News Caravan on NBC, for example) - but there were no commercials INSIDE the newscast (which originally were 10 or 15 minutes long, not the 30 common today!).

These newscasts were modeled after the "newsreels" that were produced and distributed to movie houses in the 30's and 40's - and that used to come before the main show - another thing completely taken over by commercials today!

Virtually everyone "trusted" those news anchors - and their departments BENT OVER BACKWARDS to remain "neutral" in their news reporting. NBC and CBS routinely battled for "the most trusted man on television" honors (a precursor to more detailed "ratings wars" to come later)... once established, that was a title Cronkite never relinquished - much to the chagrin of the folks at NBC news.

For what its worth, DuMont also had a news department, but as a network it closed down in 1956.

Some of the older folks may remember the famous sign-off messages:

• Swayze would say: "Well, that's the story, folks. Glad we could get together"
• Cronkite would say: "And that's the way it is, <day of the week>, <calendar date>.

In any case - BACK THEN the news departments were NOT-FOR-PROFIT and the networks paid their reporters from profits that came from the "entertainment" department of the network...

Fox was the first network (they came along in 1986, originally as a purely-cable enterprise) to ask the NEWS division to make a profit... and once they were successful, the other networks were quick to follow... and THAT was the demise of the "trustworthiness" of TV news - in its entirety... CNN and all of the other cable news outlets included! (IMHO)

Honestly, while I think we DESPERATELY NEED a news source that is "in the public interest" (vs. a profit generator), I don't see how we ever get back to that...

Just guessing here: someone hurt themselves, or their car, on someone's mailbox - and they sued the mailbox owner?

Proof that lawyers will sue over ANYTHING!

The lawyers who brought such a suit should probably be sanctioned...

No, if you put an IED under your mailbox, that might be something... LOL Just being a Devil's Advocate!

Proof positive that the Republicans (Q-Anon & Trumpites) DO NOT have a lock on insane extremism! Dems have them too!

@geobear40 said in Here we go again: Fox hosts say Omicron Variant is a Democrat plot!:

@hubrys
What both liberal and conservative media are not following the science. Omicron is very mild and treatable without inpatient care or death. It we allow it to spread around and people get over it and then have natural immunity Covid19 will be a yearly thing like the flu is. If you are high risk you get the shot if not then it is your personal choice.

Brandon & Co don't want to follow the science because that mean they loss control of our personal freedoms granted to us by the Constitution.

Republican won't stand up because they are still afraid of the WOKE mob.

• The only thing Republicans fear right now is their own Right Wing, and therefore Trump.

• The BIGGEST fear the Dems have is their own LEFT Wing (the "Progressives") - but it's not their ONLY fear... because they're "in power" they also have a plethora of other "fears" that go with that... Having the reigns of power is a double-edged sword!

• We don't know much about Omicron yet:
  We don't know its infection rates (Beta's was quite low, while Delta's was much MUCH higher than the original);
  We don't know the "lethality" of it yet;
  And, most importantly, we don't know how well protected we are by the current set of vaccines yet.
  Learning that it exists is a FAR CRY from understanding it! We've really just learned that it exists... Scientists are good and smart, but they're not magic... it'll be Feb (?) before we know the full effects of Omicron!

• While I generally share your optimism that Omicron will be less than the original: less deadly, less communicative, less of the threat in every way; the fact is we can't make those judgments yet.

• COVID-19 is a "force of nature" - anyone who blames Trump for the COVID-19 virus is a political opportunist of the WORST kind, and an idiot on top of that!
  The same goes for Biden and this new variant. These are politicians - not Gods! They can only REACT to the virus - the same as they can only REACT to hurricanes, earthquakes, and the like...

• Blaming Biden for low vaccination rates among Republicans is like blaming the inventor of the seat belt when your loved one is killed in a car crash - while NOT wearing one!
  But, you can't blame Trump for that, either! He has publicly said (multiple times) that he thinks everyone should be vaccinated!
  Sometimes it does make you wonder: between the Q-Anon freaks and Trumpites, which is the dog and which is the tail? LOL

• With all the nicknames, I no longer really know who @raphjd is talking about... c'est la vie...

Read it here: THEN tell me how WORSENING COVID-19 issues HELPS the Dems next fall?

I used to say "You can't make this shit up" - but clearly, I was wrong! Fox (and Friends) CAN (and does)!

Once again, tho - to be clear: the REST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD is conspiring against the Trumpite Conservatives and the Republican party!?!?!?!

Whatever they're smoking, the effects are clearly lingering!

So... we don't know yet if the existing vaccines protect against Omicron (they said we were lucky that they worked reasonably well against Delta)... but, let's say the protection level gets down to - say 50%... would THAT be better for the DEMS or the Republicans?

How about this...

It'd be BAD for ALL of us!

@panurgic said in For a million dollars would you?…:

@hottie124 Yep, maybe with emote work I would have two income :pig
For a million would you allow cameras to follow every moment of your life 24/7 for the rest of your life?

This chain has nearly died -- so let me restart it...
I would certainly let cameras follow me 24/7 for $1M - but I wouldn't change my behavior either... I'm not ashamed to be a habitual porn watcher and "wanker"... people who watched would certainly see an awful lot of "spilled seed" But for $1M, I'm happy to share!

My real concern for that 24/7 monitoring (aren't we approaching that already?) would be the people around me...

For $1M, would you: be the "secret lover" to:

• Donald Trump if you're a Democrat (or otherwise left-of-true-center)?
• Joe Biden if you're a Republican (or otherwise right-of-true-center)?

In other words: would you "sell your body" to the opposite political view from your own for $1M? (Assuming you HAD to retain the secret, or lose all your money!)

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

Back on topic.

Shane Ferro on social media said that we need to blame the fact that we have SUVs for the attack, not the driver.

Liberal "news" outlets are still calling it an "incident", "crash" and "accident" despite all the evidence showing it was intentional.

Imagine how hysterical they would be if the races were reversed.

If you want to have someone to argue that Liberal media is biased, you'll have to find someone else... I've never claimed that Liberal media isn't biased - only that Conservative media is also!

Virtually ALL media is biased these days - because they went from public service organizations (all-but required by the FCC of old) in the 60's and up even thru the 90's and 2000's... to being required to be "profit centers" for their corporate masters. As "profit centers" they have to draw viewers from other "news" centers - and to do that, they have to sensationalize EVERYTHING!

Fox was the first to recognize that you could cater to a political viewpoint and quickly gain a "loyal following"... they were the first, also, to realize that news wasn't news anymore, it had become entertainment! As such, the old rules of reporting the truth were discarded... it didn't take long for the other news media to follow.

It'd be nice to have some path BACK to where "news" was interested in "public service" and "facts" - but I don't see where that would come from - certainly, it cannot come from the Government! IMHO, the only way we get back to "news you can believe" will be when viewers decide truth is more important than supporting their views...

That's gonna happen the same time children eschew candy for sugar-free granola bars and rice cakes!

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

@bi4smooth said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

To be perfectly clear: Kyle Rittenhouse absolutely DID kill 3 black men.

What he did NOT do, according to the jury, was murder them.

Facts and word choice matters!

I'm quoting this for posterity, in case you try to edit your post claiming you never said this.

Kyle, despite what your liberal "news" outlets want everyone to believe even after the trial, DID NOT kill 3 black men.

He lawfully killed 2 white men and shot another white man.

Either you are a blatant liar, or you are just a tool who listens to liberal "news" and repeats the bullshit lies they spew.

Dude... you've done it again... He did not kill... followed by he did kill -- unless your issue is with 3 vs 2... so he killed 2 and nearly killed the 3rd... again, tho. the point of the trial was NEVER whether he shot at and killed anyone - he did.. the question at trial was: was it legal for him to have done so.

In Illinois, it was perfectly legal for him to do so (and in the same breath, you want to blame the Chicago (IL) mayor for all the homicides in her city! You kill me (jokingly) with the situational ethics!)

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

...
He only killed 2 people, lawfully.

Re-read your own post... he didn't kill... he only killed...
Why... you're Humpty Dumpty!

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
- Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass, ca. 1871

YES! He (Rittenhouse) most certainly DID kill those men. But, YES, he was justified in doing so - according to the jury! Thus, it was not murder (nor manslaughter)... in legal terms, it was "justifiable homicide."

And in our legal system, THEIRS (the jury's, not yours, and not mine) is the decision/opinion that matters!

That he (Rittenhouse) killed them was never in doubt! There was plenty of evidence of that. The trial was about whether it was justified, not whether it ever happened!

If you believe in the jury system (and I do), then you have faith that the Rittenhouse jury got it right, and you equally must have faith that the Arbery jury did so as well!