Posts by Lanny

2015-08-31 at 3:08 AM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Soph, old boy, you're not so bad for a wingnut

2015-08-31 at 3:01 AM UTC in how the govt shud b ran

Lanny Bird of Courage

off with their heads, of course

So then if the head of state is highly trained and certain that a given piece of policy is appropriate then you support them using coercive force via the state to enforce that policy? Because I'm pretty sure there's a lot of policy you don't support that fits that description.

2015-08-30 at 10:50 PM UTC in Someday we may see a woman king, sword in, hand swing at some evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

fuck that bitch

Mother fuck that nigger!
Mother fuck that bitch!

2015-08-30 at 10:48 PM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

I think you are mistaking me with someone else. I never used, nor ever would use, a term like 'unfair'. life is unfair, and that is how it should be. its unfair that niggers can never and have never had actual civilization, and that is a good thing, in my book. that is just one example. my position is that government is mostly unneccessary, wasteful, and parasitical. My main concern is what is good for America and americans, that is all.

So then you would support socialistic policy such as: strict gun control, universal health care, and basic wage if we had good evidence that these policies were good for america and americans?

And malice makes a good point, the increase in prices that tariffs represent are as likely to reduce quality of life and economic opportunity as the greater local employment is to improve the situation. You're really damned if you do and damned if you don't here, you have an uphill battle if you want to make an argument from utility and an ideological support for tariffs is an obvious non-starter.

2015-08-30 at 10:31 PM UTC in ATTN: Lanny

Lanny Bird of Courage

So the immediate answer is that it was the extension. If you happen to have a copy of vB5 you can see where it errors out in `VB_ROOT/core/includes/class_upload.php`, line 176. But you could just pick a different extension of course, this early error-out is just there to save transferring a large file just to reject it later. The larger security approach here is that only files with appropriate extensions can be uploaded and any file with one of those extensions is flagged to be served as a static (that is directly transmitted to the client, without invoking the PHP interpreter) so even if you get some custom script uploaded it will only be transferred as a literal file without ever running on the server. Two things I would think a blackhat would need to look out for is a mismatch between the upload whitelist and the "serve as static list". The former is encoded in that file I mentioned before, in the `is_valid_extension` method and the latter in the .htaccess files. A dev could add something to the former but not that latter and that could be a vulnerability. Alternatively some files like javascript are transferred as statics (the server never executes them) but can still be damaging if a client loads them, it's a possible vector for XSS. You have to weasel as `<script src="yourscript.bla">` into a page somehow and that may be possible with a script hosted by me rather than remotely but I can't think of a way to do it (it's possible url construction is non-unique, I've seen that used before, like user files are hosted from `/` so if a user uploads like "index.html" requests to `/index.html` could be routed to the statics first and allow for XSS. Building urls like that would be considered a fairly novice mistake but it still happens). But then maybe that's why I'm not a security professional.

2015-08-30 at 10 PM UTC in how the govt shud b ran

Lanny Bird of Courage

So what happens with popular opinion deviates from science or the philosophy of philosopher kings or what have you? Is a philosopher king justified in using the powers of state to enforce their well considered rule?

2015-08-30 at 6:10 AM UTC in Someday we may see a woman king, sword in, hand swing at some evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

2015-08-30 at 6:07 AM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

you say arbitrarily selected but I would prefer that domestic merchants gain advantage, not foreigners located outside of the US.

you basically want to outsource all our production, so people can sit around with their thumb up their ass, getting free government healthcare, rather than working and paying doctors to take care of them?

No, I actually support carefully considered tariff policy. The difference is that I have an ideological framework that supports that sort of action by the state. You on the other hand crusade against all sorts of things calling them unfair or unjustified government action. When I offer evidence that greater state power could produce a better quality of life you appeal to some idea of "fairness" that for some reason involves state non-intervention. But here you 180 on that, it undermines all your other positions if you think "the ends justify the means" works in this particular case.

2015-08-30 at 6:01 AM UTC in Someday we may see a woman king, sword in, hand swing at some evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

nigger my heart bleeds for you and you don't even care.

I'll show you, I'll show you all. You wouldn't know novelty if a woman in chainmail hit you in the face with it.

p.s. chuck is good

2015-08-30 at 5:50 AM UTC in Someday we may see a woman king, sword in, hand swing at some evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

Garden worm,
cigarette,
Ash on the window sill~~~

Battlestar Galactica (reimagined) was ahead of its time niggers. Like some HBO shit but cooler and without all the pretense

2015-08-30 at 5:38 AM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Tarrifs are necessary to ensure the market's viability. If nations had no tarrifs richer more developed nation's markets would be destroyed by cheap foreign labor. Simply put if an item can be made for $1.00 in your market by your labor force but can be made for $.10 in a foreign market economic security for the people whom the government is responsible for dictates that a fair tariff be imposed upon the goods imported from the nation with the cheaper labor source. A fair tariff in this scenario would be one that that raised the retail price by $.90 cents. That way both the domestically produced goods and the foreign produced goods will be sold at prices which are competitive with one another. Without fair tarrifs corporations would rape both nations by under paying workers in developing markets and decimating the manufacturing sectors of developed markets all for their own profit.

How is that situation 'fair'? It's the government giving an obvious economic advantage to one group of businesses over another via unequal taxation. That's supposed to be anathema of the right, that's big government deciding what should and shouldn't be sold in the US and for what price and half way to a command economy. It also fucks the "natural state" arguments that folks like mike make.

because 'universal health care' is not essential to the survival of the nation. do you really think that people will just suffer with no heathcare or something? you act like just because I think that 99% of government is unnecessary and parasitic, that we would live like barbarians out in the woods, dying at age 40 or something. No matter what you may think of americans in general, we are the most advanced and ingenius people on the planet. I am sure we can easily balance maintaining our complex modern conveniences with the practice of allowing people to live unmolested by government..

Lol, how does taxation (to support the military you insist on) and giving one arbitrarily selected group of merchants advantage over others constitute "living unmolested by government"? Universal healthcare goes a lot further towards preventing the "living out in the woods, dying at age 40 " scenario than trade tariffs do.

By universal health care do you mean everyone gets the same level of care regardless of what they produce?

No, I mean the state levying taxes necessary to ensure the best quality of life for as many of its citizens as possible. I don't see why that matters though, if you think the state providing equal healthcare to everyone is worse than administering care according to need then you're advocating policy closer to my side of the spectrum than yours.

I'd be interested in what soph has to say about tariffs. He may be on the wrong side of isle but at least he understands the ideology that underpins his position which seems to be more than I can say for you two. I suspect he's going to bite the bullet and admit that economies that need tariffs to survive are market-inefficient and should fail. It's a questionable position if you ask me but at least it's not hypocritical.

2015-08-30 at 4:28 AM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

But why do border enforcement and military have a special status while other things do not? Why isn't universal healthcare a primary concern of the state? If you ask me that's far more important.

2015-08-30 at 4:14 AM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

There is no sentence that can more concisely summarize the history of the US political atmosphere than "Government that governs only as necessary finds more and more to be necessary" (alternatively: "Roosevelt ass raped the supreme court into forming a government that actually worked").

Why exactly are curtailing trade freedoms more important than things like ensuring the safety and longevity of citizens (including polices like universal healthcare, state controlled police forces, prohibition of certain hazardous substances)? Who decides what is and isn't important enough for the government to legislate?

2015-08-30 at 3:19 AM UTC in Get a chat

Lanny Bird of Courage

I haven't logged onto slashnet in many moons but isn't #totse still up? As far as I'm concerned that is and always will be the only channel. If it's not up anymore I can whip up a bot to manage it but if you're talking about a chat box type situation then no dice.

2015-08-30 at 3:15 AM UTC in TTFN I had it.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Yeah, spec be 'tarded as usual but I guess it's worth saying for anyone interested: I'm never going to ask anyone for their password ever. I can trivially reset passwords and with some gymnastics log in as anyone I want (I can't actually see anyone's password since they're hashed and salted, meaning I (or someone with unauthorized access to the database) can't log into other accounts you might have using the same password). I'm pretty sure everyone knows this by now but on the off chance someone doesn't I'll throw it out there.

2015-08-30 at 3:08 AM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Ok, but I would think you would be opposed to tariffs because they are fundamentally government intervention in the free market. Me, I'm perfectly willing to endorse them as a legitimate tool if they're needed but then I don't think there's any issue with restricting freedoms for the greater good. I don't think there's any amount of mental gymnastics you can do where you both endorse tariffs (the government functionally setting prices on imported goods, contrary to the free market) and reduced government control/no government control/anarchy.

2015-08-30 at 2:51 AM UTC in Time difference sucks.

Lanny Bird of Courage

tarrifs. /discussion.

I don't really know what you're trying to say here but it seems like you're proposing tariffs as a solution to outsourcing of work. Assuming we consider outsourcing to be an issue (which is up in the air as far as I'm concerned) it's worth pointing out that tariffs are a classical example of government intervention in the free market which, based on what you've posted so far, is in direct opposition to the economic ideas you've voiced support for so far.

2015-08-30 at 2:46 AM UTC in Is Runescape the most complex MMORPG?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Your brain craves the dopamine. Imagine what you could do stimmed up. Give in and play marathon sessions.

Nah man, it's some tom wolfe shit, can't never go back to runescape again. Runescape had the reward/dopamine mechanism down no doubt but when I'm all stimmed up (or even when I'm not) it's more about the thrill of the chase, the feeling of speed and competence and acceleration. I can't enjoy games that don't have a meaningful element of skill anymore (well I can, but the story has to pay off (ala morrowind, very classical RPG mechanics but atmosphere and story in spades) which certainly isn't the case in runescape). I feel pangs desire for that comfortable grind now and then but in the end that feeling of power that comes from being faster, smarter, better than the next guy (or dying trying) is better, like some kind of carefully planned dance. It's kind of like the "imitation precedes competence" principle in education. First we imitate being skilled with games that basically simulate skill acquisition through XP or other in-game rewards that make the game easier. Then eventually we graduate to actual competence, where we stand on our own feet. Gotta go fast man, gotta go fast.

2015-08-30 at 12:43 AM UTC in ATTN: Sophie

Lanny Bird of Courage

Skipping 4 pages of what I'm sure is off topic flaming to say Sophie is a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

2015-08-30 at 12:41 AM UTC in Work is gay.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lol are you serious? That's intense.

Yeah mang, it was crazy, it was like I lived out most of a life in the ~30 minutes it took to make a salad (I was tripping pretty hard by that point, obviously, so a salad really did take 30 minutes to make, maybe longer, skewed sense of time and all). I have these "memories" of a life longer than I've actually lived that are more vivid than most my memories of my childhood. I don't know if that sounds unpleasant but it was a really transcendent experience. I hesitate to call it "positive" because it's not like the euphoria you get from other drugs but I feel wholistically better for it.

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