Could be, could also be that there was some additional malware independently from that shell window.

A lot of the time with pirated games, this pop up shell is some kind of batch script applying some kind of hack or crack that disables the game’s copy protection and makes it playable. If you want to know for certain, you will have to carefuly analyze the files you downloaded and figure out what exactly they do in detail.

Personally, I would never run pirated software on the same computer I use for important files or logins.

If it was a real virus, it wouldn’t have to open a cmd window to do its thing.

Well, the blog is literally called “climatehopium”, so, eeeh…

There are certainly some major challenges for a transition to clean energy ahead. The majority still seems to not see the necessity, or at least not don’t see why they should change anything.

Also, as a nitpick, with 8 billion people on the earth, even a scenario where 1 or 2 billion people die, either from lack of food or water or from the resulting struggles for the remaining resources, is technically not “truly apocalyptic”.

Der Artikel hätte ruhig auch noch darauf eingehen können, dass es “die See” heißt, wenn man von einem Meer oder Ozean redet, aber “der See”, wenn man sich auf ein Binnengewässer bezieht.

I can’t tell if the stuff between the yellow cheese and the bacon and chicken nuggets is raisins or coffee beans.

Could be funnier if the resolution was high enough to actually recognize everything. As it is, for some of these, I can only guess.

Steam in particular has some interesting options. They could make it so that, during the first couple of weeks, you need an active Steam account that’s at least a year old to buy a controller, and you get a maximum of two per Steam account.

I keep repeating this every time scalping comes up: The best way to turn a scalper into a bag holder is to not buy what they’re peddling.

That there is not the work of any scientist.

The Trump administration has been known to just randomly, unilaterally withdraw visas on a whim. You’d have to be crazy to accept that bargain when they just might kick you out anyway and keep your money.

Not medieval. Also, wonder why the era of absolutism was followed by the era of the guillotine?

Who said anything about intergalactic? It’s not even inter-quadrant.

I don’t want to be the grumpy old cormudgeon, stuck in the past, who looks at the younger generation reflexively with disdain, dismissing everything about them, antagonizing them even. I really don’t.

But I also cannot look at this and not hate it.

Wasn’t he already long dead by then?

It’s not like open-field battles didn’t happen…

That’s a really weird way to use graphs. The data being presented is really just a timeline, I don’t quite understand the thought process that led to presenting this as a horizontal bar graph. There is no second dimension here, so you don’t need a two-dimensional graph.

Nobody would have believed him anyway.

Christians, please explain to me how this could possibly not be blasphemy.

Interesting that they clearly know that doing that would be undesirable to the laptop owner.

I don’t think he’s right about America’s founding ideas. Free enterprise, maybe. But capitalism is a different beast, and only came to America much later. The young country’s first taste of real capitalism was the East India Company and their tea trading business. And look how they reacted to that.

I don’t think capitalism was what the USA’s founding fathers had in mind at all. I do think the linguistic conflation of “free market” with “capitalism” is an intentional large scale psy-op designed to make people forget that. And it’s working.