Really.

(What you're missing is 100,000,000 * (0.5^13) is 12,000 and a bit...)

Pffft, I'm a business decision maker, and I earn 0.5^13 of that.

Quote:I swear if I mistake a toy dog again at the Cat-captcha, it'll be the end of me

You could try emailing Microsoft to complain. I did. I explained that if it's less than 18 inches tall, it's not a real dog, and it's therefore unfair to include them in the captchas, but they ignored me.

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Quote:Just wondering, do you earn anything off 0.75 of a referral, or do you have to wait until they become whole person?

You can stick the pieces together with Blu-tack.

I'm averaging 0.5 referrals a day from Clixsense ads, so folk must pay attention. And, in fact, I joined the program I'm advertising via another Clixsense ad, so...


Edit - actually, that was a brain fart. I used the total length to calculate the average, but the ad isn't finished yet. It's more like 0.75 ref/day. Or 3 refferals every 4 days.

1740 is the bit where the Whigs were in charge, but had stopped with the protectionism, had extended British citizenship to all British citizens regardless of race, and before the war of the Austrian succession started (or at least, didn't start until the end of the year).

And, that's as progressive as politics ever got, and it lasted a year or two before we got back to demonising foreigners, protectionism and war mongering.

Quote: Particularly if you think your government generally looks after your interests and is on your side, because that's not the case

I don't think anyone has thought that since about 1740, have they?

1740 was a good year.

Every generation has it's autumn of nations. The problem is, we keep screwing up the rebuild.

On the plus side, it's looking like we're close to another.

Quote:We are known in the UK for being somewhat reserved.

Don't worry, we're also be allowed to be tall, pale, and slightly eccentric.

A bit before my time, but when my grandparents were kids, James Joyce's Ulysses was still banned, because that was going to poison minds too.

Yes, I definitely suspended my disbelief, as I, the mighty male seal clubber, rescued wise King Ralph from the Naughty Sorceress, then went to Valhalla, bought an Owl reincarnated as an astral bracer, and began my life again as a female pastamancer, with a beard, and her trusty levitating potato side kick, battling possessed cans of tomatoes in the haunted pantry.

Totally.

Quote:Did you know gaming comes with health risks and side effects

Absolutely true. I've been playing Kingdom of Loathing for a while now, and I've had serious side effects, like laughter, and making new friends in real life.

Terrible thing, that.

If a man can't even hold a grudge, how can you expect him to stick at anything else?

You're going to log in with the same IP as somebody else at some point. That's just maths - the world has run out of IP addresses. It's just not a reliable way to detect multiple accounts anymore (and it was never reliable, it just had a lower chance of collisions in the past).

The FAQ says you can do this: Can I access my account from different locations?

Quote:who control your facebook account (profile and other informations)?

Facebook. With a backdoor the NSA and GHCQ.

Quote: is your email system/ protocol private and a direct transfer ( between sender and recipient)?

No - this is why I primarily use Zot. However, it is PGP encrypted, and stored on an encrypted filesytem. You've got to work for it.

Quote: is the agent, protocol and other service (listed below) made by yourself (to make sure no one really watches you)?

Yes. I'm not the project lead, but I am the leading contributor.

Governments have, for every day purposes, an infinite budget, no, we can't protect you from them. What we can do, is make it expensive, and protect you from casual surveillance.

Quote:i assume running a social media site like facebook is not as simple as running a mail server, but who own mail server at their home?

Actually, it's way easier. Anyone who can install WordPress can install Friendica or RedMatrix. But mail isn't all that hard. apt-get install postfix, hit return three times, done. But you don't have to host your own - the point is you have a choice of provider, and aren't limited to a centralised human rights abusing data silo.

It's completely different.

You know who controls my email? Me.

You know where my email is stored? My computer.

You know who has access to my email server? Me.

Anyone can run their own mail server, and it's under their own control. Nobody can install their own Facebook. You're at their whim, and they're in constant breach of European privacy laws, and contrary to the human rights act. Constantly.

ProTip: When a company tells you they think article 8 of the human rights act is optional, they possibly don't have your best interests at heart, and should probably be avoided, even if they did revert recent changes.

Pfft, the moderators say they don't get paid, but where do you think all that money from offers that don't credit goes?

I probably have to add a disclaimer that the contents of this post are entirely false.

You only get paid because they do. If you want to give them a bonus, go play a game or something (a tokenads game, not a mochimedia game, mochimedia is dead now).

Quote: no virgin sacrifices to Cthulhu

That's your problem right there. You need to be sacrificing to Hastur the unspeakable. Problem is, once you've said his name three times, you're in trouble...