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And no one is surprised by this.

What's most absurd is how everyone is raging over Zoom and Zoom only. Especially since ALL apps on all app stores are riddled with this garbage from Google, Facebook and many others. Where is outrage over those? Just because someone pointed out Facebook SDK in Zoom and everyone lost their shit, but the other 99% of apps have all the same things integrated into apps and everyone's just fine with it because they are not aware of it. But it's all the same there, in ALL apps. It's hard to find any that is just an app without some 3rd party tracking garbage integrated. VERY HARD.

China, Russia and Saudi Arabia: three good reasons to know that nothing good can come out of this.

Or... Snowden released all the program files to the internet, so anyone, good or bad could get them. They could have just showed a list of the applications and their capabilities, instead of the actual source files. The NSA and CIA were overstepping their bounds to make these programs, but it doesn't help to release them to the entire internet. 

Ads are a real business model. They have been for literally thousands of years. Ads are what keeps the Internet free.
 
I for one, don't want to deal with individual payment subscriptions for every single website I visit, or every single service I use.
 
Ads aren't the problem. Bad ads are the problem. We need standardization. We also need a vetting process, where ads are verified to be consumer friendly. We need legislation to back this up with consequences.
 
You might be comfortable with paying to use Google, and YouTube, and Facebook, and LTT forums, and whatever other websites you use, but most people aren't.

Correction. 4 worlds. 12 maps total. 4 maps per world, with an overarching theme.
If you are going to shit on the game, at least get your facts right.
Frankly this entire topic seems pointless. This is called an endorsement. It's marketing 101, and is a 100% normal part of marketing a product.
You approach a public figure and ask "hey, would you like to endorse this product?".
They reply with yes or no.
This is not unethical. The band is not part of games journalism or a YouTube channel that could claim bias.

People get offended too easily. They need to quit being little bitches.

Some people would get offended if they were told the sky was blue when they believed it was green. Getting offended at facts is the lowest level you can stoop to in an argument.

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11934411/Russia-tried-to-cut-off-World-Wide-Web.html
 
 

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since I live fairly close to Russia USSR and their involvement in Ukraine, this shit scares me
Putin is preparing his country to return to Soviet Union era where control over the people was paramount - I have 1st hand experience of what communism and totalitarianism does to a nation and to it's people
the number one question is: why aren't the russians reacting ... or, they like to live in ignorance?

you can thank the eu for this

In other news, every flagship phone is still to big for my hands.

You kids these days have it so damn easy in building computers. It's utterly amazing how much has changed when 14 years ago at this time, I was spending hours and hours between my college IT classes figuring out why the hell Intel was getting its ass kicked by this "AMD" company and why spending the money on this new "Geforce 3" was such a big deal compared to previous versions that ran Quake 2 just fine but Unreal squashed that.
 
 
Back when I wanted to build my first computer in late 2000/early 2001 as a  young lad of 20 *God I feel old now* I had to go through a rirtual only other old, get off my lawn farts can understand now 
 
 
1. There was no Youtube, social media, flash art to give you visual refrences on how to put stuff together. You went and got a "Build Your computer Bible " Version 28 book from Barns an Noble and marked pages
 

 
 
 
2. You didn't have price search engines, you opened up multiple WINDOWS of etailers and compared prices side by side
 

 
 
3. You spent SLOWLY modem dialing across  forums for hours on end dealing with "veteran builders" who kept ignoring you
 

 
 
 
4. You had to still learn to use jumpers on your IDE drives correctly, or no booting for you. And God forbid if you bend one of the IDE pins
 

 
 
 
 
5. Make sure you didn't crush your new Athlon GPU die by putting too much pressure on heatsink
 

 
 
 
6.  USB was VERY MUCH "Plug and Pray" back in those days...
 

 

 
 
 
7.  Driver downloads took half an hour on times on dial up modems
 

 
 
 
 
 
8. BIOS'es were still big Blue and white screens of fear.  Good luck configuring boot up devices if you didn't understand with the included manual 
 

 
 
 
 
9. LED lighting? Hah, didn't exist. You spent good money on a cold cathode to show of your pimped rig through the window YOU YOURSELF cut and installed
 

 
 
 
 
10.  Dual CPUs?  On a single die? NO no, they had their own sockets. If you had a dual cpu setup, you were a farking god among men
 

 
 
 
11. Overclocking was a true russian roulette game, with a mis firing gun.  You would spend hours on forums trying to get detailed information on what BIOS settings to tweak and NOT to touch. There was no preset and "forget" oveclocking, let alone Windows versions
 

 
 
 
12. Boot to windows over USB? Whats that? 
 

 
 
 
 
13. If your Windows key didn't take for whatever reason, have fun spending half an our on hold with microsoft. 
 

 
 
 
14. Is your Soundcard or add on NIC card *most mobo's didn' thave onboard LAN* not working or crashing system? You got to play the PCI slot swapping and reinstalling gaming to find which one was the culprit
 

 
 
 
 
15. All in one, prebuilt water cooling kits for $100? Pffffaa bwaa haa!! You had to spend $300 or more from DangerDen on DIY kit with tubing like garden hoses and pray to god your seals held on your waterblocks and self made reserviors. 
 

 

 
 
 
 
16. Downloadable ISO's? Hah, you went to the store and bought your copy of Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 if you were a really rich pimp and prepared for hours long install with the CDROM drive spinning away
 

 
 
 
 
 
17. Pre painted and sweet looking cases with good airflow? HAAA!!! Nope, you broke out the spray paint cans, the dremel and jigsaw and MADE your case look good and cool well. 
 

 

 
 
 
 
18.   24-30 inch flat screen LCDs? Oh no, you were a pimp if you could afford a quality, 20" flatscreen Sony Trinitron that weighed 40 pounds that you lugged to LAN parties. If you were poor, you bought Viewsonic 19'' CRT monitor.
 

 
 
 
 
19. If your dial up 56k modem was getting you downloads speeds of around 33 kbytes a second, God was smiling on you.
 

 
 
 
 
20. Was your case getting to hot with that AGP graphics card and multiple hard drives?  You had to make your own blowhole, jigsaw style!  Or get real creative....
 

 

 
 
 
21. Presleeved power supply cables and SATA cables? Haa!!!  What are those?
 

 
 
 
 
22. If you couldn't afford a $300 CD burner, you got a Iomega Zip drive.
 

 
 
23. You wanna listen to your Blink 182 music CD in full digital? Be sure you have this cable installed
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
So be thankful you little digital rascals of what you have today. Now get off my lawn....   
 
 
And after some googling, I actually found a archieved image of my VERY FIRST computer build back in May of 2001 with my very first case modding project based off the Enlight 7237 case which was vey popular back in the day. Wow....the feels....
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

Silent cases lose quite a bit of their noise suppression capabilities when you get the windowed versions.
 
A good choice would be a non-windowed Fractal Design Define R5 with an air cooler like the NH-D15 or Dark Rock Pro 3 for the CPU.
 
The Be Quiet Silent Base 800 is also worth a look.