So far Half-Life 2 has been really fun so far, but the long load times even with a beefy computer are pretty disappointing.

That shouldn't be happening if true.

It's <5 seconds (might be even <3) with an i7, 16GB RAM and a 950m for comparison.

HL1 is more Platforms>Fighting>Puzzles while HL2 is Fighting>Puzzles>Platforms. Both have sick music; the sorta techno-noughties stuff that you can instantly date.

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but they already mass collect data how does even more spy laws help?

It doesn't.

It'll drive extremists who are determined enough to go further underground, use more ip-hiding networks/whatever other methods there are to plan their acts without alerting the authorities.

That in turn means the government will be more intrusive and suspicious of anyone otherwise innocent for using similar tools for other purposes, e.g. Tor, VPN's, Proxies and whatever other tools I don't know about.

So the end result is the general public will have a lot less privacy (not that we had much left online what with GCHQ,NSA, and whatever laws that have now been brought in to legalise heightened internal security), and terrorists will have initially a harder time organising without being caught, but rogue lonewolf acts will still pass through the net regardless, and will likely increase as it becomes harder (these attacks highlighting this point - "three recent terror attacks in the UK were not linked by common networks" - so one group/individual goes ahead with his plan, and then other groups mobilise at the same time for maximum effect).

This kinda sums it up;

The attack last night doesn't exactly need huge deep web forums and encrypted servers to plan. Three nutjobs rented a by-the-hour van, grabbed some knives and caused chaos.

It's also fucking great that the Tories have tried to quickly sweep in pornography as part of the deal because everyone's too shocked about terrorism to make a fuss.

My uni setup, horribly wired but compact enough for a notepad for revision and notetaking, and headphones to block out the noise of nextdoors' houseparties and the fans of the laptop when it's at full spin.



Rounds up to about £900 if you count the Laptop, the speakers, the headset and a cheapy mouse. Oh, and a $1 mousepad.

Quote from: Karjala takaisin on June 02, 2017, 02:30:17 AM

Global warming is fake, climate change isn't. Guess what, climate changes even if humans didn't exist.

Yes, its natural. But the rate of change has been accelerated faster than sonic on chaos emeralds. Species around us do not have time to adapt to the changes and die off. Your grandchildren may never see certain fish or mammals.

It doesn't even have to be the warming part of CO2 that fucks up the environment.

Carbon gets regulated on Earth in the Carbon Cycle. Long story short, it goes in the atmosphere (naturally via volcanoes or artificially by us), gets absorbed by the ocean, deposits on the seabed and then gets shoved back in the Earth's crust to be eventually erupted again. Now that's all fine when you have steady state (Influx into Earth = Outflux to atmosphere), but when we add to it in such a short space of time when this process takes millions of years, is when we fuck over the system and clog up the processes.

First, we fuck up the atmosphere. Currently we're at [/url=https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2]half the CO2 ppm levels[/url] as the Cretaceous period, back when glaciers were limited to mountains only, sea temperatures were a consistent 42 Celsius (y'know, Hurricane/Tornado/Cyclone weather), and the temperate climates at the Cretaceous Poles (i.e. about halfway up Greenland for comparison). Oh, and the seas were high. But we're nowhere near that, so that's great, right?

Well, we're already fucking up the oceans too. Short of just warming the oceans which kills off corals, there's also the increased acidification as the oceans take in more Carbon, make more acid, etc, etc, which kills off anything that's sensitive to pH, fucks up reactions in the oceans, and generally makes things more shitty.

I put those links up more for general reference rather than straight fact-checking, but the information's all there in journals if you can access them. Throughout my course in Geology, there's always a topic regarding this shit every year, and the data available supports more towards us fucking shit up than not (and in the cases of the opposite being supported, it's down to a reliability issues/lack of data for palaeoclimates).

Usually it's work related, so I keep at it. The stress is coming from not knowing or understanding something, so the only remedy is to work at it until I do, or accept that it isn't my expertise, like maths. If it's a looming deadline, working will solve it, because doing something else to "remove" the stress doesn't actually do the job, it's making the deadline closer and the stress higher.

What I do doesn't really remove the stress, it just keeps me focused enough to work through it rather than freak out about it, get nothing done, and then have a bigger problem to solve later.

For bigger things like planning for my future and jobs and all that depressing stuff, I follow the age-old plan of "I can't stress about it if I don't think about it".

Hahahaha, a like that I promptly forgot about has left poor SC in tatters.

How on Earth will he cope?

Fire Rock and Water

So I'm Lava and Steam, I guess?

Nope.

>Haven't even ascended to swallow the Walpill

Does Wales exist? Now, hear me out here.

The UK has no nuclear dumping facilities except Sellafield, which only holds 80% of the UK's nuclear waste. There's no where to dump it, or so we're led to believe.

Since the 50's most of the waste was dumped in the [/url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea#Radioactivity]Irish Sea, but protests have meant they can't just "lose" barrels there anymore. So what does the UK do?

Invents Wales, which only appeared in later maps, first as a joke by one cartographer, and then copied and spouted as fact (Here's a surviving copy of a real UK map from the 1300's showing Cornwall and the South East - note the LACK of Wales North of it!).

The UK continue to purport this lie so they can continue to dump their waste in the "Welsh Sea" (East Irish Sea), which explains where the waste goes and why the Irish Sea still gets spikes of plutonium in the water.

And there we have it, the "Wales" is in fact an extension of the Irish Sea to the East, with everyone living in Wales actually just behind a river and some big hills in West England. The culture and people are all real of course as the isolation brought on by these natural barriers kept the culture alive, it's just the maps are wrong.

Source

Aye

Police are swarming around Cardiff in prep. for the UEFA league match here on the 3rd. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/police-say-no-changes-security-13080158
Apparently no security updates, though this was released before the levels went up and soldiers were to be patrolling around.

Friends have even considered cancelling a visit up after exams they're so worried. This fucking sucks, but fuck if I'm going to be bored at home because some prick decided to blow up a concert.

I'm not dead!

I feel happy!

I liked Prometheus. Wasn't an Alien-type film, but it wasn't trying to be. Only gripe is the crappy "Prometheus school of running away" meme.

 Covenant was good. A bit rushed for time near the end though. The woman went from...
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