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ID: 6bd212 No.12632[Reply]

!!!! UPDATE !!!!
TICKET LOTTERY ENDS 24TH https://www.geekevents.org/
TICKET SALE STARTS 1ST DECEMBER
http://www.gathering.org/tg16/page/english/ FOR UPDATES

CREATIVE COMPOS ARE OUT HERE http://www.gathering.org/tg16/article/6/kreative-konkurranser-pa-tg16
TL;DR, THEY HAVE PROGRAMMING, GAMES AND DEMOSCENE COMPOS
!!!! UPDATE !!!!

Alright lains, i've found some people that would be interested in a meetup in Scandinavia, and i'm suggesting a meetup at The Gathering

>What is The Gathering?
The Gathering is the second largest computer party in the world with 5700 attending every year. The party lasts from 23-27th of April
http://www.gathering.org/tg15/

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ID: e7ea63 No.17520

>>12632
UPDATE!!

They have released their website for next year, and more information will be available, so stay updated here : http://www.gathering.org/tg16/page/english/


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ID: 938fec No.4740[Reply]

/r/ is now for high quality topics which don't have a dedicated board. "Shitposting" is no longer allowed. NSFW content should be posted on /???/! meta threads pls go to >>>/q/-----------------------------------------

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ID: 519154 No.18312[Reply]

>hating on Ayn Rand
>not embracing le Atlas man
SHIGGY DIGGY
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ID: c305ba No.18870

>>18843
And I get worried about that transition period. Mao & co. never did establish communism. But they fuarrrked up the transitional period badly. I think that once the technology is there, it could work. But we're not there. There's still issues with scarcity. Right now, the scarcity issue is infrastructure. And I think we're getting better at it, with electric powered vehicles and better communication through the internet, but we're not there. We may get there in our lives though.

In your view, should people be allowed to work and be rewarded with something of physical value in a party scarcity communist society? That is, if I wanted to, could I perform some task, and charge people/the state for it? I like that idea, because it encourages people to do more than they need to and continually advance as people.

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ID: 2f4cff No.18885

>>18843
>>18870
>neurosuggesting communism is at all good
God damn how cucked are you glitterboys?

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ID: c305ba No.18893

>>18885
I'd only be okay with it as a "base income" model. Like enough to be at a you won't die level.

Total income equality screws everyone.

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ID: 450bd6 No.18896

>>18893
There's no income equality in communism. There's no income at all! There's a stockpile of everything, and anyone can take whatever they want.

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ID: 74bc79 No.18909

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>>18843


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ID: 5bf6d1 No.18847[Reply]

Don't go all pol/ keep it to ideas that might help shape such a project.

In time for the end of the next revolution, we need somthing new to put in place, somthing at least half ready to do its job. For if we just follow history we will end up again with rulers of one type or another.

We have had many systems of control and order, each “progression” becoming larger and more complex. We have had many systems of voting and power division.

Until recently there was no realistic way for “the people” to control or dictate the workings of government, only to vote for someone else to control and govern. This is ultimately not allowing “the people” to have a near proportional say in the workings of humanity. We just have a 2 way switch between parties that ultimately are engaged in keeping the interests of PRIVATE businesses and wealth above that of a truly equal and just society. This seems to hold true in many shapes and guises the world over, all be it with variations on voting and ruling systems, but ultimately there is deliberate distancing of the people, for the benefit of the few.

So come the revolution, as we clean the blood off the walls… What then?
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ID: 748dfa No.18871

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> THIS IS NOT COMMUNISM!
Why bother then?

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ID: f3eb64 No.18888

what about law enforcement? as evident by recent events this is pretty important. I actually do think a sizable amount of criminals had poor first impressions or run ins with the law. also many of them feel their life is over after they get the first mark on their record and just devolve further. not saying we should hug and kiss them or anything, but be very efficient and leave personal feelings and morals out when dealing with criminals.

this might be obvious but freedom of expression and speech should be vital, like even more so than the U.S. there is things you can not safely draw or write about or even say. i dont mean if someone threatens to bomb a place we do nothing, obviously there needs to be some investigation otherwise people will just take advantage of it. i mean if someone wants to draw brutal depictions of rape they should be able to and it shouldn't ever be able to be used as evidence against them or even implied to have a connection. this just discourages people to discuss out there topics in art. plus if the government says "you can paint, draw, or talk about anything EXCEPT for this" guess what people now have to paint draw and talk about when they want to stick it to the government.

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ID: 3920c8 No.18895

>>18888
>Quads checked

Law and police in this system could easly be voted for - like sim city, just pop another police station where its needed... but the laws will be indervidualy votable - so I guess it would be possible to pass a law to say people are not allowd to use the word "tree" but it would only be enacted if a sizable chunk of the populus voted for it... and if it got in and started to fuarrrk people off too much they can vote it away.

But yes ultimatly freedom is what it is all about - but it is an agreed freedom.

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ID: bb6a78 No.18906

What happens with mob rule? People are stupid and easily fear mongered into voting for things. What happens when 51% think drug use should be criminalized or 51% think we need mass surveillance to fight "terrorism"?

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ID: 3920c8 No.18908

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>>18906
>What happens with mob rule?
What happens now... just mobs with jobs.

Could a mob influence the whole nation private crypto vote much?
Only chance is with propergander...

Seriously tho, if the topic for drug use comes up, and its voted for illegal then it becomes that, and police do what police do... but do you realy think a real 51% of the population would vote to ban it?

I'm guessing you would get a 20% against, 40% for and 40% no vote... but that just judging by what i see/hear!

We have to agree some laws - pure anachary kills any chance of ownership of anything, and wont allow for the protection of the vulnerable! - so we need rules - and what better than rules we all voted for?
Not rules imposed on us by the least dissagreable ruler.


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ID: c844b6 No.18901[Reply]

What do you like to watch/listen to, lainons?

I really like Computerphile, Numberphile and EEVblog.
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ID: a2a69d No.18902

Computerphile is great. Sometimes I watch Daren Kitchens stuff, but usually I find it too grating. I wish there was more out there that's just fun videos about computer security.

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ID: b8e169 No.18905

Is there a news podcast that reads science papers, preferably about CS?
I listen to some twit (twit.tv) podcasts but the interesting news are tangled in facebook/apple/google hype and bullkaf features. Except Security Now, that one's pretty good and more technical.
I got tired of Computerphile, I have a particular thing against non-descriptive titles and they're an example of that, also they're not technical at all.

I was about to make this thread, OP read my mind.


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ID: b5524a No.18903[Reply]

Would you prefer o live all your life in one place or to move a few times? Or live in one place but travel a lot?
I would defnitely want to travel a lot. And I do not imagine myself to live in one place for longer than a decade.

I guess I have moved a few times from schoool to school, and as such I have moved places a few times as well. However now I am back at my parents house for this year, until I find a job and live on my own. I do not want to stay in one place because I do kind of consider myself as a citizen of this world.

There are many wonderful places in this world and I want to experience as much of it as I can until I die.

My dream vacation is to travel for 6 or so months around the northern parts of the world. From Sweden, trough Finland or Norway, trough Russia via the trans-syberian railway to Japan, or vice versa. Maybe include Iceland, Greenland and Canada.
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ID: a6b400 No.18904

It's weird. I have the urge of wandering, but I'm so jaded that I think no matter where I go, everything will be the same.


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ID: 1e14d1 No.18447[Reply]

What are you doing to improve it? What are your methods?
Don't need to improve it? Why so? How so?
Don't know where to begin to improve it? Why not talk about it?

ITT: General mental health. Got stories? Want somewhere to just express your concerns or your problems? Why not here?

Right now, I just started a "head book" or so I like to call it. I have a lot of trouble remembering good advice, or why I choose to change something about myself (external appearance, habits, my internal talk about myself or what I think people think of me, quotes to repeat myself such as "always faithful", etc) or my life (why I wake up early, why I'm going to college).

I'm also reading psychology books such as: Invitation to Psychology by Carole Wade and Carrol Tavris, and Communication in our Lives by Julia T. Wood. If you want something to read in your spare time, I recommend the latter as it deals with communicating with others. Very insightful.

I'm 21. There's a lot that I'd like to improve about myself, like how quiet and unconfident I sound through my speech and my diction, my passivity, my temperament, and my physical being (skin tone, muscle, etc). I also hear that your diet (like caffeine and refined sugar) can really affect your mood and how you think.

Is there any other lain trying to improve their head?
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ID: ac983a No.18755

>>18753

Then I'm fuarrrked. And it's obvious I am. I probably shouldn't have told the boss something along the lines of "if you get rid of him, I'll stay." But I did.

Owner comes in a few days later, tells me they aren't gonna get rid of him. If that doesn't tell me whats up then I don't know what else will. Plus all the other soykaf going on regarding a new hire.

Maybe I'll cut the bull soykaf and put my 2 weeks in (or just be a dick and quit straight-up.)

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ID: 1e14d1 No.18844

>>18718

I would say that happiness can be or is a conscious effort for sure. When I stop and try to look on the bright side of things and "just chill out", I find that it really helps

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ID: de6175 No.18846

>>18844
I like being happy now and then, but that's what drugs are for. People think it doesn't count but in my experience drug induced happiness is indistinguishable from that of other sources.
I know people like to hate on zizek but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88jj6PSD7w

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ID: b7c175 No.18899

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>>18447
>mental health

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ID: b7eda9 No.18900

don't mind me, just want to bitch about my father. He has Delirium tremens and he's acting psychotic(duh). Hopefully he has broken leg also, so he's not able to move anywhere and destroy more soykaf . Of course hospital is out of question cause nice miss in the phone said that he must sign up by himself(i'm probably going to try to put him into taxicab and go to the hospital but first i want to bitch about it somewhere)


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ID: 3603e0 No.18872[Reply]

Here's a story that happened today, right on lainchan.

One of the guys in irc asked if we wanted to see a picture of a dog, and I said yes. He posted the picture, and to my complete surprise, it was a picture of MY dog. I had posted the picture to reddit about 8 months ago, and had completely forgot about it. It was a freaky expirience.


The wired isn't as big as you thought, lain. We're all connected. You can't ever go invisible on the wired, and everything you post will always be on the wired.

Pic related - a picture of my dog today
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ID: 6af583 No.18881

>>18880
>neurosuggesting Reddit and 8chan weren't cancer from the start
at this point, I'm just fuarrrkin' with ya. Do what you want.

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ID: 0f896c No.18887

>>18872
On the IRC, you can sometimes do a port scan of a newbie's IP address and find some pretty fun stuff :)

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ID: d0be01 No.18889

>>18880
don't think it has much to do with normies taking over to be honest. it has to do with the original values and ideas of the place being lost. all communities have sort of a threshold of new to old members in order to keep together as a community. when suddenly a place explodes with new users it just pushes old users out often and the ones left can't possibly sort of keep the (and i hate to use this term) "board culture" going as they never were a part of it to begin with. they joined with a bunch of other new users who just bring whatever behavior they had before in and that becomes the normal.

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ID: 387195 No.18894

>>18881
8chan had some fun boards before GamerGaters migrated to it.

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ID: 438bf6 No.18898

>>18894
GG wasn't always cancer, either. The first exodus on 8chan had good posters, but then moot sent all the cancerous idiots over and fuarrrked it up.


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ID: 038eda No.18884[Reply]

Fill in the speech bubbles, What is this dragon saying?
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ID: 2962f1 No.17635[Reply]

How wizardly are you, /r/?
http://www.strawpoll.me/5945442/
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ID: 16da65 No.18284

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>>18282

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ID: 087f1b No.18285

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ID: ae5b4b No.18389

>>17669
>>18077

>asexual

I don't know much about that.

I don't think it's impossible for me to find a girl. Some chicks have even asked me why I'm not in one

I think what holds me back most of the time is my conservative morality and just bad experiences. I don't feel like I'm fit for the kinds of relationships most people involve themselves in. There's also the issue of not really being in the right financial position.

But even if I could, I don't know if I could handle the pressure and responsibilities that come with a relationship and the thought of actually having to have sex isn't necessarily motivating. I also tend to just find the majority of sex to be really disgusting. I might just have really high standards, but I feel like I need these standards for some reason, even if I can't explain why I have them.

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ID: d4fee7 No.18728

>Games
No.
>Chinese Cartoons
No. I do not watch anime. If there were enough Werner Herzog to warrant private trackers I might try to get in one (tell me if one exists).
>Physical contact
If you try to hug me I will drop on the ground. If you are my friend and I see decent justification for a hug I may give one out of politness. Please, do not touch me.
>IRC/Chan
I visit a lot but do not always spend much time there.
>Atheist
I would say I am agnostic. But my inclination is to say that there probably is not a God, so I say yes.
>I am a virgin
Yup.
>Thinkpad / Alternate OS
Posted from Parabola Gnu/Linux.
>Out of shape
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