Bay 12 Games Forum

... well, if that's your response, russia's sudden decision to shit on non-proliferation makes more sense. Being able to commit suicide must be pretty important to the national character...

Our own computers have the (potential, if they're assembled from home-made parts) advantage of 100% certainly not having foreign hardware spy-thingies (like programs or backdoors or whatnot) inserted into them.

Can see how that'd be a concern for military or whatev', but for civilian machines... shouldn't you guys be more worried about domestic hardware tampering?

From what I understand, that's more likely to be a thing just in general. Foreign powers are usually only really interested in spying on a few specific targets -- do sometimes try a sort of wide-net thing, but logistics wise it's pretty iffy for 'em -- but domestic ones are a lot more likely to be interested in and capable of spying on people in general. And considering the background of who's at the head over there...

... which would make the next step enthusiastic arboreal discourse, I guess?

Maybe not the best at that part, though. You get a few stories every year of someone deciding it get up and go hit someone with a stick because of internet stuff. The true stickless experiment will only be able to begin after we have a method of enforcing blanket anonymity for a discussion.

The internet's the prototype, I guess. Experiment to see what happens when it's fairly difficult for the folks involved to hit each other with a stick.

E: Though I guess the experimental results falls along the lines of even less people hitting each other with a stick than in normal discourse, but some particularly obsessive few still figuring out a way to whack someone. Humans are very possessive of their ability to inflict violence on one another, sometimes...

No, just the 10. There's not going to be any Windows after that, apparently. 10's the last. All praise the holy rebranding!

Can't help but wonder how him and that boss nass guy over in europe would get along...

... would they share tips on how to best consume smaller political entities?

That... that's more or less what PoH said, Ree.

Or both. Ichigo's father gets around, don't question the logistics, it's magic.