Fail Quotes

[MrBogosity]

Plus, I would imagine the speed at any particular moment would be limited to the fastest speed of the slowest modem involved in any specific interchange. For example, if the company hosting the information you want has a 256k modem, your 30g connection isn't going to make it any faster than 256k.

It's really the routers you're concerned about. If both you and the server allow 30Gbps connections, but there's one slow router in the middle running at 512Mbps, then that's the speed you're transferring. Routers are supposed to select other routes if this happens, but 1) they don't always know and 2) they tend to choose the same route for all packets on one TCP connection.

This is why download managers like DownloadThemAll! work so well, even though people towards the bottom of the Dunning-Kruger curve (and even people who should know better) insist it won't make a difference. Since they're making multiple TCP connections, the packets take different routes and so it should be the maximum that the client and server can handle.

This is why UDP is being used more and more, especially for streaming video. Google is also choosing it for its new QUIC protocol. Since it's more important for the packets to get there quickly, and UDP is connectionless, each packet is free to take its own route. This also takes care of round-trip slowdowns due to low latency.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

It's really the routers you're concerned about. If both you and the server allow 30Gbps connections, but there's one slow router in the middle running at 512Mbps, then that's the speed you're transferring. Routers are supposed to select other routes if this happens, but 1) they don't always know and 2) they tend to choose the same route for all packets on one TCP connection.

This is why download managers like DownloadThemAll! work so well, even though people towards the bottom of the Dunning-Kruger curve (and even people who should know better) insist it won't make a difference. Since they're making multiple TCP connections, the packets take different routes and so it should be the maximum that the client and server can handle.

This is why UDP is being used more and more, especially for streaming video. Google is also choosing it for its new QUIC protocol. Since it's more important for the packets to get there quickly, and UDP is connectionless, each packet is free to take its own route. This also takes care of round-trip slowdowns due to low latency.

Wow, this is way over my head.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

[BreadGod]

If socialism works so well, then why did all the former Soviet countries abandon it?

[R.E.H.W.R.]

So Guy Chi the voice of James from Silent Hill 2 just posted this facebook comment on someone's page who shared this.
http://themetapicture.com/angry-scientist-finds-uneducated-internet-comment-and-delivers-badass-response/

The angry scientist is arguing on behalf of his employers. All pro vaccination arguments are based on statistical lies. Vaccines provide no statistical benefits to mankind. Vaccines are a boondoggle for drug makers as they create lifelong sick people that must be cared for with ever more drugs. Those are the statistical facts. Research it for yourself.

Too which someone responded with.

Actually Guy, I'd suggest you leave the research to the trained professionals. Armchair Google searches aren't enough to compete with a decades of of professional education, training and experience.

Alternatively, we can move all the vaccination luddites to an isolated island where they can enjoy being unvaccinated, along with a range of associated diseases, without endangering the rest of us.

Guy responded with.

Hi James Clark, I believe I have something to say on this subject. I co-founded Endeavour. http://www.endeavour.edu.au/about-us/the-college/

Were you aware that there are effective alternatives to petro-chemical vaccines? Unlike petro-chemical vaccines which have never been put into actual long-term testing, natural vaccines have been proven effective through long-term studies. Here is a link to information about the research if your interest in this subject is sincere.
http://www.homstudy.net/Research/

God damn it. Why do people I think are cool have be completely crazy sometimes?

[Travis Retriever]

Funny how it's actually closer to the other way around...

[Travis Retriever]

In the comments of Shane's Part 10 series of Atheism & Libertarianism,

Define your terms.  What do you mean by climate change?  What do you mean by "man made"?

I specifically used the words I used, for a very specific purpose.  People are CONSTANTLY changing the terms used to obfuscate the issue.  The entire debate is multi-layered, and people who deny the upper layers are constantly being accused of denying the lower ones in an attempt to discredit them and dismiss them.

Certainly mankind has an impact on the environment we live in.  All animals impact their environments.  Bears shitting in the woods contributes to bear-caused fecal forest buildup.

But I said CATASTROPHIC for a reason.  The assertion is that we not only impact our environment, but we impact it in an EXTREME way, such that it will cause EXTREME problem, and for that to be prevented, we must do EXTREME things to our cultures and economies.

Man contributes to climate change.  I grant you that.  That's a non-starter.  Your statement, in essence, is like me saying "drowning is bad" and you saying "water makes you wet".  Gee, tell me something I didn't already know... how about next time, you contribute something insightful to the discussion.

After all, what is your argument here?  Are you saying that the man-caused climate change (which is a fact) is a BAD thing?  Are you saying it's something we must act to mitigate?

So........ you got nothing, Tommy?

This guy being his usual douchey self.  This was all for simply being told that, "Man made climate change is a fact." by Tommy Long--which it IS.

[evensgrey]

Nice how cultists can ignore the backstories that go with their images, isn't it?

[R.E.H.W.R.]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-24-2014/denunciation-proclamation

[BreadGod]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-24-2014/denunciation-proclamation

Liberals say that war is bad... except when they're waging war against something they don't like. When that happens, they throw out all common sense and declare that the ends justify the means.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

I'm really hating this Arizona anti bill because its forcing me to defend asshole businesses.

[VectorM]

More tired Net Neutrality garbage: http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/25/5431382/the-internet-is-fucked

[Lord T Hawkeye]

In the comments of Shane's Part 10 series of Atheism & Libertarianism,

This guy being his usual douchey self.  This was all for simply being told that, "Man made climate change is a fact." by Tommy Long--which it IS.

He's kinda right in it's a fact that's far too vague to be of any real use.

I just don't know, I can't see the whole climate change thing as anything but "Just ANOTHER government program."

[Travis Retriever]

He's kinda right in it's a fact that's far too vague to be of any real use.

I just don't know, I can't see the whole climate change thing as anything but "Just ANOTHER government program."

>>Far too vague
What's far too vague?  I'm sorry, but I'm just tired of the bullshit from the denialists AND alarmists alike.  Especially when what science I HAVE been presented supports neither.  For example, Shane pointing out that according to the actual scientists, the *benefits* of the planet warming will be offset by the costs by around 2040 (IIRC).

As for his comment, still douchey imho.  He could have just said, "I said 'catatrophic' manmade climate change not any/all manmade climate change and left it at that."  I'm still remembering him setting even Jacob Spinney off with his asshole and anti-anarchist bullshit, and even acting like a brick wall that back-sasses when you tried dealing with him.  He's like Blackacidlizzard (sp?).  One of these assholes who thinks he's WAY smarter than he actually is.

[Travis Retriever]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/man-blows-0-00-on-breathalyzer--gets-arrested-for-dwi-003450614.html
Fail for the actions of the police.  Good lord guys.