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Re: Ranking the Total War Games From Worst To Best

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:06:18 -0000

Seriously?!
Working through my Steam library, looking up multiple reviews and video for each, I ended up HIDING "Three Kingdoms" because of what I read. geeesch!
Now I'm twisting in the wind.

Re: 'The Curse Of Oak Island' Season 7 Episode 14 will not air today, here's when it will air next

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:32:53 -0000

Thanks for this page, especially since History Channel's pages is useless.
But ... I just fast forwarded my PVR guide to Feb 25 and /*No Joy*/

Re: Google Again: Sharing IP Addresses For Multiple Sites Is Okay

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:06:31 -0000

I wish someone had written something about if ranking of one site on shared IP affects ranking on another site, and how.

Re: Close range combat | Combat system - Assassin's Creed III Game Guide & Walkthrough | gamepressure.com

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:01:37 -0000

I just grabbed a very nicely done list of Hot Keys.
I see no "counter" button.
People who can think of one system only should notRPTnot write docs.

Re: PC | Controls - Assassin's Creed III Game Guide & Walkthrough | gamepressure.com

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:59:46 -0000

Ace. Thanks for this.
I notice nobody acknowledged your good effort. "Social" media actually ain't all that social!
keep on keepin' on
--Dawks [PIR]

Re: Ask A Fighter Pilot: Hand Signals On The Flight Deck!

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:07:16 -0000

For those who are so inclined, "Hand Signals" (PDF) via https://public.navy.mil/ Documents:
1) https://www.public.navy.mil...
2) https://www.public.navy.mil...
3) https://www.public.navy.mil...

^5
/bdt

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.4 Release

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:39:12 -0000

And there we go. I went back to v24 ... 64 bit required it tells me after it / you wasted my time with yet another download and yet another install and yet another futile Run.

geeeeesch ...

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.4 Release

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:35:20 -0000

And there we go. In SForge, File list, multiple versions ... 32 / 64 not specified.
C'mon guys, really. It means adding a whole 2 digits to the filename.
2018 and we haven't taught you guys a thing. Is why I gave up on Mozilla. (FWIW I was one of the first to dive into Documentation right after NS "released the code".)

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.4 Release

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:32:11 -0000

Well ... DLed and installed. Ran ... no joy. ReBoot; run; no joy.
It doesn't appear in TaskManager Applications ... not even in processes!
Seems it hates Vista.

I'll try to find bespoke 32bit ... it really shouldn't be this difficult.
/bdt

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.4 Release

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:30:34 -0000

Greets! For the cuppa coffee, do I get to kwetch a bit? ;-)
I'm re-invigorating my venerable Dell Inspiron 1525. Vista ... which it ran wonderfully.
I ran install and WF smirked at me. "Must have XP SP4 or newer!" heh

I'm seeing lots of 64 bit versions, so am ignoring those. I'll try Portable ... though not clear / immediately obvious if that's 32 or 62. I'm guessing 32, to run anywhere.

cheers
--ben

p.s. installation defaulted to installing the program as a sub directory to my DownLoad dir ... which is bizarre and absurd. Using Browse I went over to C:\Program Files ... and was told that dir was invalid.
Really ...

Re: CEA Report: The Opportunity Cost of Socialism

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:23:01 -0000

This took like a minute and a half to find:
* "CEA Report: The Opportunity Costs of Socialism"; The White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
** https://www.whitehouse.gov/...

Re: CEA Report: The Opportunity Cost of Socialism

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:18:40 -0000

This isn't //the report// ... it's a commentary. Details matter.

Another "detail": nobody bothered providing a link to the document. (We were talking about hyper dynamics in CS 1978 with "web-weaving". 2018 and folk still don't get it.)

Re: Generation Kill Mini-Series download

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:19:11 -0000

00, 01, 03 ... not right.

Just found: 02 is hidden as Episode 5

Re: New Age Politics

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:21:41 -0000

2018 and Mark's comment is only 2yrs ago? so very, very nice to see!

Re: Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:15:14 -0000

I often point to the dismal state of so much tech (80/20 ... the low hanging fruit having been plucked, the yuppie types are now kicked back enjoying decades of wealth accumulation) as evidence of how innovation is social.

Pete: We're ready to roll with that new camera block.
John: Fully case tested?
[long pause]
[both burst into rib-slapping laughter]

Test using Skype? don't be ridiculous. Mark that EdgeCase.
Test with Logitech C920? that's foolish; see above.
Does it support HD? often enough ... call it 80% of the time with 80% of setups.

It's about society. And community. And neighborhood.
/me bites his tongue
At least 1 longish paragraph suppressed.

/bdt

Re: Best of the Bullpups: Top 12 Compact Rifles and Shotguns

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:40:04 -0000

"Best of Bullpups; Top 12 compact"
First: Barrett 95 LOA: 45"
Next, "Moonshiner" LOA: 36".

I don't want you guys anywhere near me when I kit out.

Re: Why this entrepreneur is treating Trump like a schoolyard bully

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:22:03 -0000

I've been beating the "don't indulge or suck up to bullies" drum since grade 3. That was 1963. Obviously my cohort has decided on the opposite tactic.
#Synchronicity - What I tweeted about 3 hours ago, 2 hours before this item aired:
====
The check against yuppie technocracy is conservative thinking.
The guardians of that are red-necks.
Yuppies ascendant; red-necks absent.

p.s. I self-identify as a radical democrat. Yuppies have trashed the ideals of "liberal democracy" and, along with that, the emancipation project.

Re: Mr. Trump Gets Schooled by Imam Ibrahim Rahim

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:22:04 -0000

What racism? Nothing I wrote was anything like racism.
Quote or withdraw ... nutter.

Re: Mr. Trump Gets Schooled by Imam Ibrahim Rahim

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:42:35 -0000

"morality and ethics are situational and have no basis in relevance, just accepted conditioning" ... so I haven't been just paranoid. There is in fact a resurgence of the ratropomorphic view of humanity.
No wonder the cracKKKers are so mobilized.

Re: Mr. Trump Gets Schooled by Imam Ibrahim Rahim

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:40:27 -0000

Hello Darius - W/respect, it looks to me like what you're promoting is a return to the mechanistic reductionism of Skinner and behaviourism.
I'm tempted to say that this signals the death of the emancipation project and even of liberal democracy itself.

When we dehumanize we end up with the sort of technocracy which would move me far to the right.

In contrast I profess what some might identify as Habermas' "discourse ethics" where the person's individual subjective narrative is the main dynamic.

p.s. I actually don't see how your thesis connects to "Group Thinking and the Human Experience of "Community". Perhaps I missed something.

Re: Mr. Trump Gets Schooled by Imam Ibrahim Rahim

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:09:07 -0000

Sadly, the human aspect of truth-telling seems to have somehow been lost in the wash.
A bully can coerce with truth, and mock with truth. What would be the opposite?

"Discourse ethics" is all about "in good faith" discussion, where sharing information trumps convince / compel / coerce.

There's no reason truth-telling has to be offensive. Will the "other" be offended? quite possibly! maybe s/he won't like me because I'm wearing brown shoes with black pants! But that isn't the point.

You example of the traffic stop is a good one.
"Do you know why I pulled you over?" "Actually no. I'm a pretty
conscientious driver. If I did something wrong, I really don't know."
"Do you know why I pulled you over?" "Actually, I realized that I rolled through that Stop Sign. I slowed, but I didn't stop."

That you use the example to evidence the opposite? I call that confabulated thinking. Without a conscious intention to mislead, you were moved by something other than mere logic and reason.

IMNSHO it's epidemic in our society. And getting worse. As folk lose faith in mere reality.

Re: Mr. Trump Gets Schooled by Imam Ibrahim Rahim

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:08:56 -0000

I can know for sure that I think X, or that I feel Y. Not sure we need more than that.
Death of civil society? "Always say what the other person wants to hear". Or "Always say whatever profits you most."
#Technocracy

Re: Mr. Trump Gets Schooled by Imam Ibrahim Rahim

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:00:33 -0000

"you do not speak "truthfully"-your speaking meets the "expectations" of other."
Confabulated thinking. What is sometimes the case you here make necessarily true.
If I speak abusively to a masochist that might be met with gratitude!

Re: Mr. Trump Gets Schooled by Imam Ibrahim Rahim

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:58:50 -0000

"Society depends on accepted truths."
Let me add something: community depends on mutual respect. Truth-telling actually dignifies the other, and invokes reciprocation. #GroupThink isn't part of healthy #GroupDynamics!

Re: Recap: Ottawa 45, Edmonton 37 - Edmonton Eskimos

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 17:02:35 -0000

This alongside Con's recap ... real good of you.
More folk need to know about this!
http://esks.com/2016/06/25/...

--@hfx_ben