I started on a 50Mbps plan which was a massive upgrade from what Comcast offered at the time, so I was pretty pleased with that. At one point I noticed something dragging down my connection, and found signs of people attacking my servers. That was easily dealt with, however what surprised me was the speed of the traffic I was seeing. After blocking the attack I pushed up my torrents and realized I had been upgraded to a 100Mbps connection and didn’t realize it (I really do love my local provider!).

So yeah, for general web browsing you probably won’t notice any difference between those two speeds. If you are downloading specific content then of course the downgrade will take twice as long, and as others mentioned it shouldn’t affect your streaming speeds at all.

I used to live further North and I miss the snow. We still get some here, but it typically melts off within a week or two.

That’s an interesting take when the NRA can literally schedule a meeting with Trump or other presidents the next day. And which “dumbest” laws are you referring to? You mean things like not wanting people showing signs of mental instability to be able to run out an buy a gun as soon as they’re released from the hospital? Maybe you don’t like the idea of that short waiting period the first time someone buys a firearm? Perhaps it was the law that didn’t allow children to purchase guns (requiring parental consent)? I mean yeah, I can see how the non pro-gun GOP must have been appalled at those ideas.

Also, for curiosity, can you tell me what gun legislation the GOP has NOT blocked?

22 percent of Democrats said they found the killing acceptable, compared to 16 percent of independents and 12 percent of Republicans.

Funny how the pro-gun party suddenly doesn’t like it when the victim is a CEO rather than school kids.

George Takei

I actually read something this week stating this the gunman’s words were based on some actual thing the insurance companies use. Of course it wouldn’t be any official motto, but behind the scenes we’re all pretty aware that we’re nothing but numbers to these companies.

And remind me again, that was based off of the insurance company’s own motto of “delay, deny, dispose”? After all we’re just a disposable product to them, right?

tl;dr – After ruling out military and commercial sources, they still have no idea who was running the drones.

Sightings include a few interesting details… There appears to have been clusters of 10-30 smaller drones being controlled by a larger stationary drone which was around 6 feet across. All of the drones stayed in the air for 2-3 hours (which seems like an unusually long period?). Observations through night vision goggles described the large drone as having four arms with propellers, and some drones may have been fixed-wing with a 10’ wingspan. The most curious thing is that no sound was ever reported even from the large drone. The sightings stopped almost immediately after a large investigation was announced, but as far as anyone was concerned, no laws were ever broken.

Thanks!

Is there a non-paywalled version?

In a movement that vilifies experts and political elites, having a plan is suspect — perhaps, proof that you’re one of “them.” But having big ideas and just “a concept of a plan?” That’s inspired, baby.

If someone is directly responsible for the deaths of millions of people and the courts hold the position that corporate profits outweigh human life, then yeah eventually someone is going to take matters into their own hands. The real question is, will this become a trend? For example, would anyone really be upset if all the would-be school shooters look at this as an example of how their frustrations could be used to make a real difference in the world? Imagine if CEOs were suddenly afraid of real-world consequences when their greed hurts people?

Naw, just give them an extensive medical procedure where their “time” runs out and they get to feel the rest of the surgery. I mean, fair is fair.

Same here, I was wondering what was going on.

Sorry, I really haven’t a clue. I just know once in awhile it does work, but usually it fails for me.

Shouldn’t this all be handled automatically by the Debian installer though? It seems weird that I would ever have to run other tools just to install a brand new system.

I’m on Debian, they’ve been providing UEFI images for a number of years so everything should “just work”. In fact I have one server where things did just work and that’s the only system using UEFI. Two other servers of the same model and BIOS version completely failed after numerous attempts so I finally said screw it and just did a normal install.

I associate it with the fight I’ve had every single time I tried to use it. It’s never been a smooth process on any server I attempted to use it on. Usually I either run into problems with a system not wanting to properly boot the memory stick even with a full UEFI image flashed to it, or if I do get that to work I go through the whole installation process only to find the system unbootable for whatever reason. Eventually I just give up and do a standard installation because why should I have to work this hard to put an OS on a machine?

Trump keeps using the term “deep state” to refer to anyone that stands in his way, however it should be noted that the term typically refers to a shadow government whose purpose is to enrich or increase the power of its members. So it’s rather ironic to be used derogatively by someone whose primary goal is using the government to enrich and increase the power of himself and anyone who sucks up to him.

Do they? I wouldn’t know, the only racists I’ve ever met were conservatives. Dems at least try to pass laws beneficial to everyone and not just rich white folks. But Liberals? No clue, I don’t pay much attention to them.