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Something that "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" makes clear when Facebook set up their advertising system.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

Whatever, you lunatic. Just buy your tin foil hat and be as crazy as you like.

The US has far more freedom than Europe, and if you remove a 15% violent, lawless minority that commits 50% of all murders in the US, we have the same or better murder rate than Europe. The most heavily armed states with the highest CCW numbers also have the lowest crime rates, including murder rates. If you actually want to know the truth based on facts (rather than just virtue signaling your liberal friends or feeding your own vanity) check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/More-Gu...

That would mean that almost everyone who does not carry a gun will either get killed or have a loved one killed in front of them. That clearly is not the case.

The incapability and incuriosity of liberals always suprises me, but I guess at this point it should not...

Fallacy 1: The only harm that a person can experience is murder. This is clearly false. The woman who draws her CCW and confronts a rapist following her in a parking garage late at night may not be stopping a murder, but a rape. The man who draws his CCW when he observes a mugging is not stopping a murder. The list goes on. CCW holders can stop most criminal on innocent crime if they are the intended victim, or if the intended victim is nearby. Stopping a rape or mugging or assault is also good and valuable to society.

Most Americans will never ever be threatened by a gun, except by police. Most who are shot are shot by legally purchased guns.

Fallacy 2: Including criminals in "Americans threatened by gun toting police" is not only fallacy conflation, it is downright evil. It is extremely dishonest and irrational to lump criminals into the same category as innocent citizens (unless you are a criminal or planning on becoming one). We as a society want police to threaten criminals with the use of deadly force. Criminals and those suspected of violent crimes should be treated fairly, but if they fail to obey lawful police commands, they should be shot dead, and that is often what happens. I don't want a police officer risking his life for some piece of garbage that does not respect the rule of law. You sure as hell wouldn't be willing to risk your life for some non-compliant stranger who likely just raped or murdered or whatever the crime was. Why should you expect a police officer to? They are people too, who want to make it home to kiss their wives and tuck their kids into bed. Don't want to get shot, don't fight with police.

Fallacy 3: Nearly all guns in the US were legally purchased in the beginning. Outside of crimes of passion, almost all guns used in crimes were stolen or otherwise illegally obtained, for the same reason that criminals steal a car to use as their getaway car. Guns and cars can both be tracked, unless they are already stolen.

Fallacy 4: Exactly no person in the history of the world has ever been shot by a gun. Everyone who has ever been shot has been shot by someone else, using a gun. Guns are a tool. Get your shit straight.

There was very little truth in your statement so far. If you can't see that, I feel sorry for you.

Two things are in common for every mass shooting.
1: A deranged, insane, man or a terrorist. (FTFY)
2: A gun.
Reducing that combination is prudent.

I agree, which is why we need to re-institute involuntary commitment for insane people, see something say something and deport every radical Muslim in the US, bug every radical mosque and not import a single new radical Muslim. Problem solved. (And before you shit a brick, note the differentiation between normal, law abiding Muslim and RADICAL?) Please don't go full retard and say I am for deporting/banning all Muslims...

You want to take away the guns because you see no value in them, but that is because you are ignorant, not because there is no value to an armed citizenry. Tens of thousands of crimes are s

Mod parent up. The U.S. health care industry is extremely badly managed.

One of the many books and stories: Death Grip: A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness.

I thought display port was still a thing specifically because it supports splitters.

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-...

Three ports on a single card means that it can power 12 monitors, meanwhile because it has only 1 HDMI (and no dvi) you're basically fucked if you want to have what is completely normal, which is 2 monitors using HDMI and feeding desktop speakers from a monitor audio jack.

The day they have audio on display ports they can put as many as they want, until then we need HDMI.

I prefer Murderbots...

Y Combinator gave birth to the advertising toolbar company that the author of "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" sold along with his engineer cofounders to Twitter while securing himself a job at Facebook to revamp their advertising system. Thanks to them you all are now being tracked over the Internet.

... keeping the population under control and the corrupt in power is the reason for surveillance, surveillance is not some new thing. That was the elites entire agenda since forever.

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most
personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

Between two ages

The grand chessboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

... keeping the population under control and the corrupt in power is the reason for surveillance, surveillance is not some new thing. That was the elites entire agenda since forever.

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most
personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

Between two ages

The grand chessboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If you're on Facebook, you're already being tracked. Something that "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" makes clear when Facebook had the author set up their advertising system.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak hanged out with Captain Crunch back in the day. Jobs and Woz even made blue boxes to access long distance service. That is until a buyer pulled out a gun to rob them.

Source: "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution " by Stephen Levy

The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order (April 23, 2018). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

Why not just get a bluetooth keyboard? What way you keep it in the pocket and only take it out when you have to type?

https://www.amazon.com/Bluetoo...

Twitter was a company that was born by accident. The technology was a side project that took off on its own. The four founders were more interested in playing musical chair with the CEO spot. The revenue model came years after burning through VC funding. One founder pulled a Steve Jobs by quoting Steve Jobs, listening to the music that Steve Jobs liked, dressing up in a Steve Jobs uniform (same clothes, simple style), and staging a Steve Jobs comeback after starting another company. Mark Zuckerburg called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine.

Source: "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"

Twitter was a company that was born by accident. The technology was a side project that took off on its own. The four founders were more interested in playing musical chair with the CEO spot. The revenue model came years after burning through VC funding. One founder pulled a Steve Jobs by quoting Steve Jobs, listening to the music that Steve Jobs liked, dressing up in a Steve Jobs uniform (same clothes, simple style), and staging a Steve Jobs comeback after starting another company. Mark Zuckerburg called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine.

Source: "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"

Yup, keep name calling to distract people

There is no distraction. You are paranoid.

If you won't see a mental health professional then at least buy yourself a tin foil hat. You'll feel better.

Much of TFA is misleading. Google, Facebook, and Apple all have privacy statements that expressly and unambiguously state that they DO NOT share your data with anyone. Perhaps they are lying, but TFA provides no evidence whatsoever that they are.

Amazon's privacy statement says that they DO share your data, and describes who they share it with, and why.

Microsoft's privacy statement appears to have been drafted by a large team of lawyers, working with their PR department, to say as little as possible about anything. It even has a subsection on "Fitness and Health" ... that says nothing about privacy.

Lumping all these companies together is very misleading and unfair.

... [Watson] is "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really", and I know that this "hot potato" is going to be difficult to address.

These thoughts were a continuation of an important theme in his new book Avoid Boring People:

... there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

Full citation here

thejeffwhite claimed:

Currently, shipping goods to and from Hawaii on those Matson freighters takes a month each way.

You're talking through your hat.

In 1965, I traveled from L.A. to Honolulu on the Matson liner Lurline. It took 5 days.

If you're talking about the amount of time it takes for a given container to be offloaded from a freighter, cleared through customs, loaded onto a semi (or a train), and driven through the gates of the port facility, in addition to travel time from Hawaii to the West Coast, you're still probably wrong. (It depends on a bunch of things, including customs clearance.) If you're talking about strictly domestic goods - pineapples, say, or Kona coffee - you're definitely wrong, because those shipments aren't subject to customs inspection.

Your larger point - the use of "hyperloop" technology as a replacement for trans-oceanic surface shipment being somehow feasible, in addition to its use for transcontinental cargo transportation is also contra-factual. There are these things called "spreading zones" in both the mid-Atlantic and mid-Pacific oceans where crustal plates are separating. The magma from the mantle is quite close to the seafloor in these zones (which stretch north and south for thousands of miles) - far too close to make a hyperloop-style, airtight tunnel either practical or safe. In addition, particularly in the Pacific, there are both strike-slip and thrust faults that will cause the crust to shear catastrophically (which would neatly and disastrously sever an airtight tunnel in the process) and unpredictably, within no more than a few decades. That makes the risk to a hyperloop transportation system uninsurably high.

Such faults exist within continental borders, as well, but they largely can be avoided, with proper planning. It's still going to be problematic, for a variety of reasons, however, including acquistion of rights of passage across vast stretches of privately-owned, and city-, county-, and state-owned property to name only the first of them. (Slant-drilling precedents aside, you've got to know that lawyers are going to line up in brigades to sue over the issue, because profit. To them.)

I'm actually a fan of Elon. Tesla has thus far both proven the car-guy doomsayers wrong and sparked the general conversion of automobile manufacturing to electric vehicles that appears to be inevitable now. That's a Good Thing for everyone except fossil fuel shills. And SpaceX has completely upset the defense-contractor monopoly on launch vehicles, sparked a whole wave of private industry competition in the space launch sector, and breathed incredible new life into the prospect of large-scale space colonization and industrialization in the relatively-near future. For those things alone, future-oriented thinkers already owe him an enormous debt of gratitude - and he's clearly not even close to done, yet.

But what he's dubbed "hyperloop" technology faces geotectical, legal, financing, and insurance barriers (not to mention regulatory ones) of daunting dimensions. In fact, I'm certain that those considerations are why Elon has wisely decided to let someone else tackle actually implementing the conceptual technology he proposed.

Boring tunnels, by contrast, is a task area that's already pretty firmly taped down in all of those respects - and has been for donkey's years. Revisiting the technology involved, however, is still squarely within the wheelhouse of an innovator like Elon, and I applaud his efforts there ...

(Posting as AC so as not to undo existing upmods.)

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First off, I'd recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000...

Despite its title ("The No Asshole Rule") It's actually a decent take on the impact of controlling, belittling individuals, balanced against their 'productivity' in an organization, and is documented rather well.

That said, when the tempo of the nation is set by our current set of business and political leadership.... It's hard to set a good example that bullying and general assholery doesn't work for those willing to hurt others.

Also purchased the new Jenny Craig weight loss program at Amazon.com!

The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order (April 23, 2018). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

The wooden pallet is old news. The shipping container is revolutionary. Ninety percent of everything is shipped in a shipping container.

Source: "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George

Which version of American English? There are many regional dialects available.

Source: "The Story of English" by Robert McCrum

The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order (April 23, 2018). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

Something that "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" makes clear when Facebook set up their advertising system. They can track you whether you're logged in or not and associate what little they do know about you with third-party demographic data to create a comprehensive profile. TV advertisers want to do the same.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

1) I agree. The other companies are often worse at communicating.

It is difficult to understand the underlying issues because it is difficult to get basic information. For example, the book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is often useless. I found little evidence in the book that Isaacson knows about technology, or has an interest in knowing.

Steve Jobs was often excellent at communicating. I don't see evidence of that understanding of the need to communicate clearly in the Apple of today.

2) The success of Apple is partly due to an amazingly self- and other-destructive failure by Google. Cell phone companies could use Google Android, but prevent updates! The cell phone company message: Want to avoid newly discovered vulnerabilities? Buy a new phone and throw the original phone away; we want easy money.

Apple didn't do that: Update the iOS on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Another reason for Apple's success is due to social issues. In many countries, if you don't have the latest iPhone, you are considered a poor person, or socially inferior.

Underlying that is the fact that having a cell phone gives many advantages. Part of what has made Apple so rich is that having a cell phone is worth a considerable amount of money because it makes life more efficient.

3) I agree. All the cell phone companies have arranged product confusion for themselves.

Your best viewing experience will be on a Fire HD 10 tablet.

This is echo some of the arguments made in this book - https://www.amazon.com/New-Pro... ... specifically that the fact that there are laws and they favour life is evidence that and advanced civilisation/god exists.

Assuming the ipods are iOS based then you could use an app like iPENG classic to make the ipod into a squeezebox player
Then you just need a computer or raspberry pi equivalent to run the server software on and you should be set to go

This is probably the best way to go.

A big question is whether you have multiple speakers you want to broadcast to at once. Also, I'm assuming you mean "iPod Touch" here and not the classic iPods. Classics cannot broadcast on their own except to whatever they're physically docked into (although that itself can do what it wants with it). However, neither has the ability to AirPlay to multiple devices simultaneously (which is what you want for a whole-house solution). Personally, I have a Windows box running iTunes constantly that serves as the main media repository. From there, any iOS device on your network can run the "Remote" App, which allows you to select and control music, as well as control multi-speaker output and volume. "Retune" I think is the app I was using on the Android side, although it's been a while.

It can be hard to find AirPlay speakers out there nowadays. I was fortunate enough to pick up 7 or 8 XtremeMac Tango Air speakers a while back for about $60/ea and they're great for this. Find something similar, or an AppleTV to interface with a full HDMI to your stereo system, and you should be all set.

It's pronounced "goat-see"

Actually, it's pronounced "Goat C" when printed on a family-friendly shirt.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

Fortunately for us in the USA, we have a constitution that prevents gun grabbers like you from trying to take our guns (and we actually own guns, so even if you abrogate the constitution, you are still stuck trying to confiscate 300,000,000 guns from 50,000,000 gun owners who will fight you if you try confiscation by force.)

In the US, your odds of dying in a mass shooting are minuscule, less than 100 fatalities a year https://thesocietypages.org/so... out of 340,000,000 people. It is sensational and tragic, but dogs and bees combined kill about the same number of people each year. https://www.washingtonpost.com... no one is screaming to ban dog ownership or demanding bee licenses. Your odds of dying from medical mistake (500,000 deaths per year) are orders of magnitude higher. Gun murder rates in most of the US (outside of certain inner cities dominated by minorities) are on par with murder rates in Canada and Northern Europe, and unlike those places, we have the option and capability of defending ourselves. OTOH guns save hundreds of lives every day, usually just with defensive warnings or defensive brandishing, which is enough to deter most assaults, rapes and muggings. Further, our democracy is protected by gun ownership. All the disarmed countries are one charismatic leader away from another Nazi Germany. And there is nothing they can do to stop it if it happens, no fundamental backstop to tyranny of their own government...

The truth about freedom is that there is a cost. As a US citizen, I say 100 deaths per year is reasonable in a country of 340,000,000, If there were more law abiding citizens with concealed carry, the country would be even safer. If you are afraid of guns and a gun grabber, you might want to educate yourself on actual facts instead of the spoon fed propaganda you have been force fed for years. Try something like https://www.amazon.com/More-Gu... sorry, it is a "chapter book" that requires at least 3rd grade reading comprehension.

I'm struggling to understand WHY it required an internet connection.

It sounds like it serves as a remote control for the TV right in front of you and also a bunch of stuff you should be able to use your phone for.

Wiki page: Devices that can be controlled with Harmony include TV's, cable boxes, game consoles, smart lights, smart thermostats, smart locks and other connected devices with Wi-Fi

I guess it can turn a dumb TV into something you can control with your phone, though there are cheaper options
Why would you control your game consoles through something like this? Just seems like it would add latency and an extra step to fail.
Is there a smart thermostat or lock you can't control from your phone without this thing?

None of that seems like it needs an internet connection.

Link, stripped of affiliate tag: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XYMLMBN/

I hate it that this version of Speed Die Monopoly is an Amazon exclusive.

Uh, no. He recommended taking "The" out of "The Facebook" and that is a good thing. Otherwise, Facebook would be known as Doh! Facebook.

Source: "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich

I have to admit I've only investigated it because I just don't have enough devices to justify it. I use a regular remote to turn on my tv and a wireless keyboard that is attached to my media center PC. I used this for a long time though.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
I'd even used it to write code. It eventually broke and I went to the store and bought a cheap logitech wireless that works ok. But if you're like me this remote is probably the best I've used and I've tried about 10 different devices over the years.

I know there was one android app that let you specify your own layout with an gui-builder-lite type thing. But if you go that way, it might be best just to write your own remote.

The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order (April 23, 2018). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order (April 23, 2018). "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

I'd prefer a system for portable devices that required physical contact.

If there's so much data to move you can't hold the devices against each other reliably for long enough... you can probably find the time to sit them on a table.

Since we're talking about PC to PC, here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-...

It is difficult. The problem is that the higher end TVs always have the smart features. It makes a bit of sense, if you had a top of the line dumb TV there's a big chance most of them won't get sold. And the people buying the top of the line TVs usually aren't worried about pinching pennies. So the dumb TVs tend to be the economy TVs, smaller screens, etc. Also better luck looking for older TV models rather than the current year.

Probably that's why Roku partners with some TVs now. Not as good as a dumb TV but a better set of smarts than most smart TVs, and it means Roku gets a sale before the customer decides to upgrade the smarts after a few years.

Checking Amazon, I can see reasonable dumb TVs, even with good sizes. Now finding out which local stores sell them is a bit harder. Probably not any "big box" stores. Ie, https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre...

Do you realize you sound like the kind of guy that keeps his favorite farts in jars and sorts them by diet?

You have obviously never searched for "farts in a jar" on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_7_5?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=farts+in+a+jar&sprefix=farts%2Caps%2C230&crid=1GRILOJVCY4UY

That would be Facebook cofounder, Eduardo Saverin, who got liquidated out of his shares because he thought that the company's attorneys were his attorneys. They weren't.

Source: "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.