Posts made by eobox91103

With over 20,000 false or misleading statements by Trump since his inauguration, it's possible that fact-checkers might have done some of them wrong.  It's equally possible that they have missed some.

@ManHandler:

Right. So when Kamala hid evidence that would exonerate an innocent man, and when she held prisoners longer than their sentence for cheap slave labor… (without me calling her what she absolutely is...) You don't have an answer to that. Same with Biden and TONS of things. You just don't have a response, with OR without calling them lying pieces of crap. You have no justification even in your own mind for your ridiculous beliefs, so you just think you can get away with ignoring them, because you have no idea what the hell is going on.

My point is that the forum should be a place for rationally discussing issues, not hurling insults.  That's childish, and suggests that one cannot make a reasonable argument.

That might not be compelling to you, so I will also respond in your idiom:

You are a f*cking moron.  You should stop posting your poison here.

@ManHandler:

At this point, don't know. May just not vote. Biden sucks ass though. He's just an empty vessel and super corrupt. If I do vote, it definitely won't be for him, or Kamala, the supremely corrupt prosecutor. OMG that woman is so evil. The things she did to innocent people in the judicial system is outrageous. If you vote for them you're a piece of shit. She was busted for hiding evidence that would exonerate an innocent man, she held people longer than their sentences because it provided cheap slave labor in prison to her wealthy lobbyist friends. What a piece of human trash, that cunty witch. LOL Yea, I said it. What she did is so egregious that if you honestly think Trump did something worse, you're just not worth the time to even converse with.

This is the problem!!! This subject has been raised, but liberal NEVER RESPOND. They don't have an answer to what Kamala and Biden did. But we independents and conservatives respond to every single attack. That's because we have the Truth on our side, and these extremists just don't.

Using insults suggests that there's no rational content to the argument.

@bearbearbear:

They refused to serve him a third round and kicked him out because he was wearing a MAGA Dunce Cap.  He tried to claim it was an expression of his "spiritual belief".

I'm not sure wearing a political cap is an expression of "spiritual belief," but ordering a third round suggests a belief in spirits (although judging from the photos, he wanted a cheap beer).

We can inform these topics by looking at how airport security works:  Screening/inspection/etc. by airport security is not mandatory–people can refuse it.  But if someone does, they're not allowed into the gate area.

We can extend that concept to vaccination and mask-wearing:  They're not mandatory, but if someone refuses, s/he cannot have contact with other people.  That might not be appealing, though, as others won't be able to admire one's high-fashion tinfoil hat.

@dggalindez:

Hi! As a very new uploader, I have already uploaded files here. I wanna when to continue seeding and when to stop seeding torrents that have been uploaded already.

Any comments or replies are very much appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi, and welcome to the world of uploading.  Other members here appreciate what you're sharing.

The uploading rules say that we should continue seeding a torrent until "three or four" people have downloaded it.  Depending on the size of the torrent, your connection speed, and other mysterious factors, that could happen in less than an hour.  I consider the following factors when deciding how long to keep seeding:
Is it seeded enough that other people will be able to download it?  While the rules say to keep seeding until three or four users have the material, those users could stop seeding, and the torrent would die if I'm not there.  I tend to keep seeding for at least a week or so to make sure that somebody's there to seed the material.

How many users are leeching the material?  If there are still several people downloading through my torrent, I keep the torrent active so they can get the files, and I can get some upload credit.  If the number of leechers falls to zero (which happens to almost every torrent after a month or so), and it stays at zero for a long time, then nobody wants the material and there's no need to keep seeding it.

Do I need to free up space on my computer?  If I'm running low on space, I might delete a torrent sooner (but only after three or four users have it).  If I have plenty of space, it doesn't hurt to keep seeding.
Am I proud of my torrent upload?  This is vanity…but if I really like my torrent, perhaps because it's my own rip of a DVD, or because of my carefully chosen screen shots, or because the description I wrote is worthy of a Nobel prize for literature, I will probably keep seeding the torrent longer.  This doesn't hurt anyone.

Ultimately you will figure out what works for you, but perhaps these things will help you decide.  I didn't mean to write a novel, but with cornoavirus quarantine, it's not like I have lots of places to go.  Thanks again for your uploads.

@ManHandler:

That's what treason is… just FYI

No.  Read the legal definition.

It is refreshing to see Facebook putting principles before profits.  Conspiracy theory posts bring a lot of revenue from the advertising for tinfoil hats.

As a point of order, treason as a federal offence in the US can be defined in one of two ways:

US Constitution Art. 3, Sect. 3:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

United States Code 18 USC 115:2831

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason.

If someone is said to have committed treason, then one of these situations would need to apply.  The prevailing interpretation is that "enemy" refers to an entity against which a war is declared.  This has not been the case in the US since August 1945.

@ManHandler:

There was no collusion with Trump and Russia. You guys had your chance and for over two years you wasted millions of dollars investigating Trump on information that they now admit was a total lie. Clinesmith is the first domino to fall. He ADMITTED that they lied. Let it go. There's nothing there. The only collusion was Hillary and the DNC paying Russian agents for a fake dossier to interfere in the election. It was the DNC that interfered, and that's the only fact in the case. I don't care if you like Trump or not, the Democrats literally and factually committed TREASON. Sore losers need to talk about their plan rather than just Orange Man Bad all the time. You aren't swaying ANYONE with rehashed false crap.

Productive forum comments stick to issues and facts.  References to other people suggest that the only tactic one has is name-calling, and that's rarely persuasive.

As for facts…it is helpful to know the definition of the word "treason" before using it.

@bearbearbear:

Trudeau is going to have to build a wall to protect Canada's southern border and make the U.S. pay for it!

Snow is a great construction material, and we have lots of it.  Also, you have to admit that Mr Trudeau is easier on the eyes than some other world leaders.

@bearbearbear:

…a mixture of ideologies aligned with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anarchists. They share the same dislike of government and the police...

It would be tragic if this disease spread from our southern neighbour.  There's overlap/underlap with Trump-style neo-fascism:  Both promote white supremacy, but while the militia folk are anti-police, Mr Trump styles himself as pro-police…due to his misunderstanding of some who use the phrase "defund the police."

I don't think Mr Trump will be pro-police when they come to arrest him after he leaves office this coming January.

@raphjd:

Leftist media claiming Russian collusion.

It's important to distinguish between "interference" and "collusion."  All of the US intelligence agencies have evidence that Russian entities interfered with the 2016 election in the US.  The Mueller investigation, and the cited article, say that there isn't sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against Mr Trump for actively conspiring with the interfering Russian entities.

Sarah Jeong isn't a racist according to the NYT.

How is that relevant to this topic?

@raphjd:

I can't read the article without creating an account.   Supposedly you only get 1 article a wee without an account.

If you leave the NYTimes site and then delete any cookies from NYTimes.com, it puts the article counter back to zero and you'll be able to read another piece.

Anyway, as we have seen over the last 4 years is activist liberal judges such as the ones who claimed that non-citizens outside the US have US constitutional protections.

Umm, that doesn't have anything to do with the OP's topic, which regarded rights of transgender people.

Hi–

First off, it's very refreshing to hear questions about "how am I a good contributor to the site?" rather than "how can I get as much out of this as I can?"  Ultimately, of course, you get as much out as you put in, but I digress.

Here's what I do for "no leecher" torrents, and why:  If a torrent has nobody leeching it, I'll keep it for a few days because someone might come along who hasn't checked into the site recently and want the material.  If there are still a large number of other seeders, I might delete it earlier.

If I'm the only person seeding it, I tend to hang on a bit longer, because it I delete the torrent, then it's "dead" on the system and nobody can get it.

As for taxing resources, I don't think having a "no leecher" torrent staying active is a drain on the gt.ru site, but a moderator can weigh in here and correct me as appropriate.  As for whether it's taxing your computer, I tend to think not.  With a Windows machine you can go to the task manager and see how much memory and processor is being used by your torrent client...most likely, it's not very much, and you have  plenty of resources left for other applications.  It might be interesting to do a test, and compare the resources before and after deleting a bunch of unused torrents.

One other consideration is whether a torrent is consuming one of your allocated/limited-by-the-system download slots:  If you have selected only some of the files in a torrent to download (not all of them), even after those files complete and your torrent client shows 100% completed, the system will still show you as downloading this torrent, because you haven't captured all of it.  If you find that you can't start downloading from a new torrent because you've reached your cap, you can fix this by deleting torrents where you've only snatched some of the files.  Note that it can take the tracker up to 30 minutes (I think) to recognise that you've deleted the partial torrent and then let you start the new one.

I hope this helps.  Welcome to the site, and happy viewing  ;D

@ManHandler:

I have some big problems with Trump, but if you voted for Hillary, than you're just a stupid piece of shit. Sorry. In Haiti she raised a billion dollars in charity and promised to build a hospital and then she kept 90% for administrative fees, fucking over all the Haitian people, who now hate her guts. If you think that's ok, there's something seriously wrong with you. And as far as your Putin puppet bullshit, guess what? Mueller did two years and said there was no evidence, whatsoever. In fact, they literally manufactured evidence, it wasn't even an investigation. That's now the facts. In fact, the only Russia collusion was Hillary and the DNC paying for a fake dossier from Russian Intel Operatives who admitted it was just a conversation in a bar… that Trump had Russian hookers pee on him. You should be ashamed of yourself for being a total idiot.

I'm not going to take a position on the political issues here…but I'm disappointed to see a forum comment that has so many references back to a person, rather than to the issues.  A post that makes ad hominem references to another poster is better left off the board.

It might be well to recall a precept followed by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda from 1933 to 1945:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

@bearbearbear:

More alarming, some media outlets publish the same fake stories without checking facts first.

Much of this is, of course, politically motivated:  Someone hears a story that aligns with their worldview, and they regurgitate it.

Another troubling factor, though, is that small news outlets in small media markets find it much easier to broadcast someone else's work rather than doing their own.  These people aren't journalists or reporters; they're simply echo chambers.  As you say, though, they have an obligation to check the truth of what they're saying.  But since the process is motivated by a combination of laziness and comfort with the original message, they aren't doing this.

Perhaps there should be a rule that if you broadcast someone else's copy, one must cite the source.

@ManHandler:

Right, because there's not money in vaccines. Are you for real? Bill Gates wants to vaccinate the entire population. 7 Billion. Do you have any idea how much money he has invested in this? He'd be the world's first trillionaire. Tinfoil hat. Conspiracy. Get real dude.

I am indeed quite real.

Forum comments are valuable when they are about issues.  They are not valuable when they are about other participants.

@ManHandler:

big vax

Oh dear.

I'm glad I have a tinfoil hat to protect me.