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File it under "mildly annoying" rather than disaster I wasn't entirely sure you'd know what it meant to brick it, but thought you'd ask if not

The recovery procedure is:

• Download key from master server
• Boot from recovery media
• Recover using downloaded key
• Leave notebook on the network for 2 hours to finish recovery

Had to look up what brick meant. That is the type of shit my nightmares are made of. Hope things are better now.

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Even apart from trying not to over-use the 3g data plan, I managed to brick my notebook... we've been testing a bug in the encryption software, and had it set to brick if you closed the lid without shutting it down first... and guess who forgot about that little booby trap?

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!

Ahhhh, those good old pre-social media days. Had the pleasure of bringing a fat Motorola brick cellphone to my SATs. I remember calling home on this HUGE cellphone, feeling all cool -- people were impressed, man. And I mean, important people like chicks. Yesss, growing up during the transition period from "Internet is for dorks" to "Internet is for everybody" was cool, because my parents were techies and I got to be like, "I used Encarta 95 to do my school report."

And that meant debating teachers over its use as a legitimate source, versus the library. Which lead to me being that kid who won against the teacher. Thus chicks. Nerds win sometimes. Oh yes, they win.

That was a lot of brick weed. I wonder how many of those bales were 'cleaned up' by passing motorists.

57.4 million subscribers x $7 month = $401,800,000 monthly.
Did I compute that right?

Consider that profit against no bricks and mortar stores, or front counter employees - making overhead and expenditures relatively small.

@GaussZ

I've not been to Brick Lane but there are similar areas in Chicago. Chinatown has endless Chinese restaurants on the south side. Devon Avenue on the north has curry place after curry place.

These exist for a few reasons.

First, immigrants often naturally group together in certain areas of a city. This is very true of Chicago if you study the demographic profiles. It is not surprising that people want to open a business in the community they live in and eat food they are familiar with.

Second, these streets become destinations in and of themselves. "Let's go get some curry up on Devon Ave (Chicago) or Brick Lane (London)." You may not even have a particular restaurant in mind - you just go there and see what you find.

I would guess that those restaurants are able to survive because they exist in a community where there is high demand for their goods.

Those businesses are competing with each other but there is enough demand for their product in one area that they can all stay open.

Going back to the beach analogy it is like everyone on the beach wanting a LOT of ice cream AND people travelling to the beach because it is known for its great ice cream (presumably they know how to make the best ice cream, curry etc).

Back to my earlier comment, restaurants do like being next to one another and they would prefer if the product is different. Why?

Imagine there are two retail spaces available in a town that has no restaurants. You want to open a curry restaurant in one of the spaces and sign a lease with the landlord to do so. Ideally you are the ONLY restaurant in town. If people want to eat out they have to come to you. Now the landlord wants to lease out the other space - what would you like to see there most? Another Curry Restaurant, a pizza place, or an ice cream shop?

I can tell you for a fact that fast casual restaurants in the USA love being next to a Starbucks because people got to Starbucks everyday. That means if you sell sandwiches people know exactly where you are. They see you everyday and you are right next door to one of their favorite establishments etc.

Then why does Brick Lane in London have an endless ammount of curry places? They all seem to think "Well this is obviously a good place to open a new curry place, since there are already so many here" instead of "oh no so much competition".

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Not sure I agree in part, what about money leaving the public sector and arriving in the hands of the uber rich is confusing exactly? Russian stuff makes sense though. And nothing makes me say 'oh dear' anymore really.

I also think a lot of the confusion comes from the fact that they're not concealing this stuff like they used to, pimping in the open as it were because we are powerless. Until someone picks up a brick.

That was absolutely fascinating -- great sift!

A few random thoughts:
-If any video has ever better demonstrated the idiom "necessity is the mother of invention", I don't know what it is.
-Castro was very very clever to anticipate the technological needs of his people and have the army print that "field guide" book that spurred on greater independent development.
-Some of the things they came up with remind me of working on my family farm. Every day is an exercise in problem solving -- how to solve problem A given a set of tools/resources B. And often the things in B don't really lend themselves towards A... So you end up hammering in a nail with a brick, or patching a friction hole in a metal pipe with a few layers of plastic from a 2 liter bottle and duct tape.
-That artist Oroza is a great combination of artist, historian, archeologist, and storyteller.
-We (the US) still have sanctions against Cuba, but I can't really say why that is warranted...

Do the same to a brick in the middle and I'll be impressed. This is just the tablecloth trick with jenga blocks.

edit:
Okay, on second thought, considered as a Jenga move in a game it's a good one. I'm just not impressed with it as a pure trick.

If only she picked up a book, or asked someone, instead of asking questions into thin air of nobody. Is it any surprise no one could tell her what tiny organisms were evolving all that time ago when she asked a brick wall?

There is no scientific evidence for God, there never will be and never has been. If there is any type of supreme being, it is almost certainly quite unlike anything any of us could imagine, and i see absolutely no reason to believe a random muslim version of what it is over a random christian, or a random anything else. I may as well make up my own version as adhere to someone else's version, because there's just as much evidence for that as anything else!

I see no reason as to why there shouldn't be some kind of existence after death - we thought we were the only thing that existed until recently... we may have gotten better at understanding the reality we find ourselves in, but it is no less wondrous or magical for all that. Why should there be anything? And if you can't answer that, then why should this be the extent of it?

My childhood question was basically "what comes after death?" - i got my answer after studying a lot, but the answer is "anything could happen." And i quite like that answer as opposed to a more definite one.