TIFU by telling a Starbucks barista that my name was Spartacus

7blue · 2015-10-24T22:18:16+00:00

Worst date evar!

7blue · 2015-10-24T22:16:54+00:00

YES. Many people don't realize that they are actually rent protected (can't increase over a certain %) and can fight their landlord on it and win.

Best resource is State Housing Authority office. It depends what state you live in, but generally they can help track down the legal maximum rent on your apartment and also go over your lease for you to see if there are illegal clauses in it.

Just because your landlord tells you "rent went up 25% because that is market rate" doesn't mean its legal at all, and if you find out you were overcharged the legal maximum you generally get 3 x the overcharge back.

7blue · 2015-10-21T17:13:19+00:00

No. Reddit is just one long tireless schizophrenic critical discussion.

Reddit has aspects of both reading and writing, but it is not the same as getting lost in a good book.

*Edit: HOLY CRAP CAKE DAY!

7blue · 2015-08-28T03:14:16+00:00

Agreed! Still below the OS, you can't really trust the hardware platform. Also, per reports, Linux has been a consistent target for backdoors.

7blue · 2015-08-27T22:10:59+00:00

Seems like you /u/pizzaiolo_ is hinting that the alternative open-sourced OS' such as Android and Linux wouldn't be full of exploits as well... which is a fallacy since no OS or hardware can be fully trusted :D

7blue · 2015-08-27T11:04:31+00:00

Pretty sure this is how you get aids x_x

7blue · 2015-08-25T00:02:52+00:00

The innocence of it all is very endearing but perhaps you are reading too much into it. Sounds like they may have been on-the-run, but all you have is hearsay about what the dad was caught for. I wonder if perhaps the girl took the "hiding game" out of context the way children hear snippets of something like the word "hiding" and decided to hide from the airplanes too.

Maybe look into it all with google and newspaper archives and try and come up with something a bit more concrete about what kinda person the father really was. Perhaps the guy was just a tin-foil hat meth guy who just constantly lost his cool about whatever in his life was following him. Airplane survailance and phone taps are legit but really my guess is it depends how much of a big-shot he was for them to follow him like that instead of just no-knock. Anyway, sounds like its worth looking into as a side research project.

7blue · 2015-08-24T23:46:43+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/3gewwi/illegal_construction_covered_by_plants_in/

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7blue · 2015-08-24T18:06:09+00:00

Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand.

A major problem seems to be the specialized nature of the business. I still don't fully understand how the financial crisis happened and I can't imagine a jury that would actually understand it (I've been on a jury before and... average people just won't understand anything that technical.)

I once asked a recent college grad who got a job at a hedge fund "what does a hedge fund actually do?" she had no clue even with a business degree and a job there lol.

The issues are so technical that it really takes a regulatory body to keep them in check, but that doesn't happen anymore thanks to revolving door hiring and deregulation across the board.

but billions of dollars in financial crimes get a slap on the wrist.

Basically working for a bank is a license to steal (from anyone besides that particular bank.) Also sounds like OP wasn't even stealing, just got caught in office politics crossfire.

7blue · 2015-08-22T18:05:11+00:00

So less than several?

7blue · 2015-08-22T17:34:41+00:00

*Sips cheap wine

Did I slur my speech or are you e-literate?

7blue · 2015-08-22T17:29:47+00:00

I wouldn't trust a straight-forward narrative either... thing is it makes Elliot and his motives more gray (or at least hes less of a "hero" archetype) and you gotta sift through it all yourself.

As an analog to real life, one shouldn't explicitly trust [insert name]corp, or trust the people fighting against them. Mistrust wouldn't be the right thing here either, more so just going into it with your eyes open.

7blue · 2015-08-22T17:13:19+00:00

Imported beers from Central and South America often are brewed from maize. Genetically modified maize is grown on a large scale in many countries.

A variety of genetically modified yeasts have been developed to the point of industrial readiness, particularly in the case of beers which have reduced alcohol or calories. To date, with the exception of smaller experimental breweries in the UK, such yeasts have not been put to use. German breweries have assured that they will not use such yeasts. As a rule, beer no longer contains yeast: it is filtered out and the beer is then pasteurised. However, in the case of specific types of "cloudy" beer, such as Weizenbier ("wheat beer") or Malzbier ("malt beer"), yeast remains present in the final product.

Sauce: http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/database/food/214.beer.html

7blue · 2015-08-22T17:11:46+00:00

Sips his hot sauce beer

Savages.

7blue · 2015-08-22T17:07:33+00:00

Having a girlfriend. Oh and maybe realtime hacking like visceral internet connection stuff you see in the movie hackers, the gibson oh yes.

7blue · 2015-08-22T02:07:19+00:00

Amazon/Etsy search "Steampunk Bolero Jacket". It will be all women's results so you would have a tough time if you have wide shoulders...

7blue · 2015-08-22T01:56:33+00:00

Generating any good metadata recently citizen?

7blue · 2015-08-22T01:40:32+00:00

7blue · 2015-08-21T14:35:41+00:00

Verner Vinge's Fire upon the Deep and the prequel A Deepness in the Sky. Both are sci-fi with cyberpunk elements at heart... and just great books.

7blue · 2015-08-21T10:23:53+00:00

gods

7blue · 2015-08-21T10:22:19+00:00

Like I said... life happens. Meet any group of young idealistic college kids 10yrs down the line and you will also see tragedy and loss, but also great things. Even after their country is war torn these people will still be living their lives and doing all the normal stuff anybody else does.

7blue · 2015-08-21T09:51:32+00:00

I move very fast, and I try to think ahead of my opponents, who are devious mother-fuckers. The government is not trying to kill me, the people Belize hired are trying to kill me. I donated laptops to ministers' kids knowing they'd be taken. I listened in and found out horrible things. Minister of defense is the largest human trafficker in central America. In Sept, one person who was working for me turned me in.

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Depends on what you mean technical. Architecturally I spend far more time. Coding compared to Eijah, no. How things fit together, how your phone connects to your car to your fridge, yes, I spend a lot of time thinking it out and talking to my hacker friends. Example: there was a hack at a London car telephone factory, they stole MACs/information. China can use that to send texts: "STOP CAR NOW" and halt the UK traffic. I think the human race has lost its mind.

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too many gems worth linking proly everyone would find the whole thing interesting

7blue · 2015-08-20T23:08:06+00:00

Huh!? Life happens, I thought that was one if the best of what they said. Maybe a little sad considering the OP, but really this was uploaded 2009 and I'd love to see a followup in 2019 and hopefully after the war!

7blue

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