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ok i give you guys the right answer the word clima or climate-change is totally missplaced it has its origins in something entire different to norm the first and easier one i will tell you guys what it actually really is the clima word is not the real word - so guess what you have to look what the "climate-debate" actually really wants/suggest and so on and what that is ? yes it are the so called : renewable energies like water power, like solar power, like e-cars, like wind energy (ha - so right to stop climate you have to do these things right ?) - and useally also the nuclear power hate - as you have to know the people who are behind this idea - they dont like nuclear power https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rTAIMTGnAyY so why is that happening ? or what is its real thing that started it up it is multiculture/united world and here is why when they made the mass migration and brought all the products to every place on the planet they found a problem for example the OIL so the right-politicians said something like if all seeking this - the oil will just collapse (aka all going to be west-system) so you can guess what the other side (the lefts) said to this ? they need a different power source - aka away from OIL ha - you guesses right - the so called "renewable energies" are their idea for this thats also why e-cars are highly interesting in a left thinking ... so the left had a problem - they want the e-car so they tryed real hard - many many years ... after some years elon musk suddenly apears (because a main question is also the money) - and guess what elon musk apeared and said something like "i have the money no problem" so it really raise questions of elon musk is even a right - the same also goes for trump - because more or less he actually might legalized marijuana schedule 1 to 3 (from stage 1 to 3 - no stage 2 would be to criminal) (the higher the number the less important the substance) therefore trump de-criminalized marijuana maybe even legalized it - a right politician doing that ? at least that would raise some questions but back to the e-car now a guy is here who suppose to have the money - but for them only that the e-car is happing is important (renewable energies) its not limited to oil by the way it goes for many things like electric current or more efficient houses (so they need less heat power) if the left dont get "renewable energies" they dont get their multiculture/united world (and the demand for more power sources is higher then ever for exactly this reason - and also will keep going up) and again climate talks are not the real thing - weather can be extreme in the us for example there can be a hurricane season either (i do not think even if all use renewable energies just like that - nope that would not stop extreme weather situations) when they had a bad year it suppose to be a climate question ? there are many of such things in the past the next earthquakes very certain will happen , here is one from 1962 (just a long rain period/weather/strong climate year) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3F49XEhFXU but my question is - having the real anwers - what will you guys do ?

For anyone struggling to navigate their way through this long thread and who just want some basic instructions getting the yt-dlp4vlc thing to work... This is with VLC 3.0.23.0 Firstly, I had to install the yt-dlp4vlc script in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist as a basic text file called youtube.luac (renaming the original youtube.luac out of the way). . . there may be a way of configuring VLC to use yt-dlp4vlc[.luac?] but don't ask me how. Next up yt-dlp.exe running on XP. This one from October last year is working for me. . . https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2025.10.29.063241/yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe . . .which goes into C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC renamed to yt-dlp.exe That just leaves hidecon.exe (found in bin.x86-32) which also goes into C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC http://code.kliu.org/misc/hidecon/hidecon-1.2.2-redist.7z With that I was good to go. Ben.

Are Basilisk browser and Palemoon already too old and do not support certain mechanisms to support AI chats like eg: https://chatgpt.com/ https://grok.com/ https://gemini.google.com Gemini AI tries to work for a while, but it immediately "clogs up", it is often impossible to scroll through the contents of the window, everything moves and freezes, stops answering questions further, the circle turns and the further part of the answer no longer shows.

Agreed! Same here! Any "opinion" by anyone on this issue is always, always, ALWAYS *political*. The "topic" is used more as *bait* than anything. Say the slightest "wrong" and you are eternally condemned. It's got to be one of the most *polarizing* of topics ever known to exist. It's somehow *evolved* into something where there's not supposed to be any "middle ground", something where apparently you are supposed to be an EXTREMIST, one side or the other, no middle. Not for me, I'll take the "middle".

Here are some facts about the sizes of SUPERAntiSpyware's virus definition files from 2024 to 2026: SASDEFINITIONS.EXE 210,345,304 bytes 07.07.2024 SASDEFINITIONS.EXE 214,737,232 bytes 27.05.2025 SASDEFINITIONS.EXE 353,800,400 bytes 23.01.2026 The virus definition file SASDEFINITIONS.EXE has increased by 4,391,928 bytes from July 2024 to May 2025, which is a normal increase of approx. 2% within 10 months. From May 2025 to January 2026, however, it increased by 139,063,168 bytes. This is an unbelievable increase of approx. 65% within only 8 months and definitely a no-go. The file has become totally bloated for whatever reason. Now, I finally know why the download takes much longer time than before, apart from the catastrophic download speed on their update server, which is used by the programme.

one possible theory is put forth at https://geoengineeringwatch.org personally I have no political opinion pertaining to this issue

politics, drugs, religion are trouble making things

yes, clear as water, sorry. As I go the default way, I was really missing something

Wasn't able to find anything like that on BetaArchive Database either. I assume such CD, if it ever existed, would not have OEMSETUP.* files. So far only found Retail Upgrade CDs that don't have them. Should we ask Raymond Chen about this?

My "upgrade" install of 95 way back in the day *required* a boot disk that you had to have a previous version of Windows already installed in order to create that boot disk. The world is VERY different nowadays (you can download a boot disk [or the entire OS, for that matter]). But yes, "many" in the US and "most" outside the US were using 95 illegally. Mine was legit! :) I'd claim that to be MUCH worse nowadays! Whatever "percentage" of computer users were "illegal" in 1995, it's MILLIONS worse nowadays. *MILLIONS*

You have the right to install a retail version of Windows on your PC regardless of whether you previously had a previous version of Windows or not. The upgrade version is for people who already have a previous version of Windows on their PCs. The OEM version is for computer manufacturers and system builders. OEMs are required to use an OEM preinstall kit (OPK) to prepare the installation with all necessary drivers and/or software and configurations for their PCs. Any other use is a violation of the license terms. Many people in the US and most people in the rest of the world were using Windows 95 illegally, because most people bought upgrade versions because they were cheaper, but only those who already had a previous version of Windows or DOS on their PC were actually entitled to install the Windows 95 upgrade version, and no one except OEMs and System Builders had the right to install the OEM version of Windows. Poor Microsoft. Even so, thanks to Windows 95, Microsoft managed to become the most powerful company at the time.

No. Mine is an *upgrade* that was *NOT* sold "with a pc". It was purchased at my college's/university's campus bookstore. Here in the USA (30yrs ago), that is a *retail* purchase (Microsoft is located in the USA). What the word "retail" (and "oem") means is different today than it was 30yrs ago. 30yrs ago, you had to be HP, Dell, Packard Bell, Gateway, etc in order to buy an "oem" disc of Windows. You could NOT walk into a BOOKSTORE to buy the "oem" version of Windows. In order to obtain an "oem" disk, you had to buy the WHOLE COMPUTER and the disc was in the box that contained that computer. **ONLY** "retail" versions were available as a standalone purchase. **ONLY** "retail" versions were available at BOOKSTORES. I don't doubt that there were "retail" versions that were UPGRADES and there were "retail" versions that did NOT require a PREVIOUS version of Windows to be already present. So there were "retail upgrades" AND "retail standalones".

@johk What you describe is perfectly normal now ; when one a) doesn't pass YT logged-in cookies b) doesn't enable a JS runtime, then ONLY the android_sdkless (ANDR-S) formats are being available; these don't include any HLS (m3u8) formats (BTW, the ANDR-S client doesn't work at all with YT logged-in cookies). OTOH, the web_safari (WEB-S) client formats (of the HLS type, only) were, up until a week ago, also accessible under the above scenario; but now, because Google have put them behind an n/sig JS challenge, they do require a JS runtime (e.g. quickjs) to be enabled for them to become available to yt-dlp. The IOS HLS formats are (at this time at least, can't vouch for how much longer ) accessible without a JS runtime, but they have to be explicitly requested with the --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=ios;formats=missing_pot" argument; this will also yield the https IOS formats, which are inaccessible without also providing a PO Token ... Hope it's clear to you now ...

Back on topic please guys.

@NotHereToPlayGames So, do you have the "Windows 95 for PCs Without Windows" on a CD?? Nobody has it.

I have to think that the answer is technically different from one country to the next. Especially THIRTY YEARS ago. I guarantee that what was *available* to me here in the USA is not the same as what was *available* in other countries THIRTY YEARS AGO. Commerce is more "global" nowadays. But it really wasn't as "global" in the mid-90s when Toyota's and Honda's were still a bit of a rarity in many parts of the US.

No. The retail version of Windows 95 - "Windows 95 for PCs Without Windows" was only available on floppy disks. OEM and upgrade versions were available on CDs.

The Better Business Bureau lists "USTech Support" as located in Pasadena, CA.

You act as if that is "accurate". It isn't. I can do a "whitepages.com" lookup of my parents' phone and it has them listed about 140 miles away. And they have had the same number for 30yrs. A different "lookup" has that phone listed as being TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX miles away. I'm telling you, all 8xy numbers in the US are CALL CENTERS that are networked and rerouted and move all over the place. Call that number. You will be speaking with somebody in INDIA or CHINA, not Washington, USA or Oregon, USA. That's how "800 numbers" are here in the USA. Call centers and you never know what "accent" you will have to listen to.

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Search Assist https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Windows+95+(4.00.950)+Retail+CD-ROM Windows 95 (4.00.950) was the first retail release of Microsoft's operating system, available on CD-ROM starting August 24, 1995. It introduced features like a graphical user interface, support for 32-bit applications, and long filenames, marking a significant upgrade from its predecessor, Windows 3.1. betawiki.net https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_95_build_950_r-6 pcjs.org https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/win95/4.00.950/

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801-523-6766 Phone Number | Laura M Alexander - Whitepages 2033 6th Ave Suite 1100, Seattle, 98121, WA https://www.whitepages.com/phone/1-801-523-6766

Canada forecasts 2026 to be among the hottest years on record! https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2026/01/canada-forecasts-2026-to-be-among-the-hottest-years-on-record.html 2026 could be Canada's hottest recorded year: scientists https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/this-year-is-expected-to-rival-some-of-the-hottest-ever-recorded-canadian-federal-scientists-say/ Why a January Heat Wave Is Breaking Records across - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-a-january-heat-wave-is-breaking-records-across-the-south/ UK's Met Office warns 2026 could be among hottest years https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/12/19/average-global-temperature-to-hit-14c-above-preindustrial-levels-in-2026-warns-uks-met-off

You can not go by "phone number". They can (and always are!) rerouted. ESPECIALLY any 8xy number! 99 times out of 100, when "we Americans" call an AMERICAN company, we are rerouted to "call centers" *NOT* in the US. 60 times out of 100, you have to HANG UP and call again so that you can get somebody whose "English" can be UNDERSTOOD.