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with accusations of "racist, misogynist, nazi, hitler", etc to anyone who dared to disagree with them? Logical debate was not permitted.

Trump says offensive things and doesn't apologize or even try to clarify the brashness most of the time. Do you really need examples? I find him a Class-A Jerk in that regard, closely approaching Nazi-ism. (I hope his deeds turn out better than his statements.)

They are always demanding more and more power be given to the federal government, not caring about the abuses of power it results in

Letting big corporations and the rich run and control everything also results in abuses of power. Somebody or something runs the show regardless, and that gives them power. Humans being humans, shit happens.

I see the rich buying the laws they want so that they get even richer and buy even more laws, ruining democracy.

Trump may not be a small-government person anyhow. He's a RINO; the GOP may be in for a surprise.

Self promotion, but I published this a bit ago.

You're talking about significantly older consoles, back when RF (or composite if you were lucky) were the only options. In those days, of the Atari 2600 and the Apple II and CGA-equipped IBM PCs, composite color tricks were definitely a thing. And yes, I've seen demos like 8088 MPH and studied the techniques they used, very cool stuff to get over a thousand colors from normally 4-color CGA: http://8088mph.blogspot.com/20...

What's actually happening is that if you send a signal that changes color too fast, the colors get smeared together because the signal bandwidth is too low to keep up. By sending specific patterns of specific colors, you can generate more colors. It's basic analog signal theory, something I've actually studied ;-)

(BTW the NES didn't have artifact colors, because the resolution lined up perfectly with NTSC, so you couldn't send an image that was too high-res for the bandwidth, in order to create artifact colors. It's simply not technically possible due to hardware limitations.)

But artifact colors and related trickery mostly stopped (at least for commercially released games) when consoles started offering higher quality outputs. From the 16-bit SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive generation on, consoles started offering higher quality video outputs such as s-video and even RGB. Simultaneously, the consoles also started supporting native transparency and larger color palettes, rendering a lot of the "old tricks" obsolete. These tricks would not work on the superior connections that quality-minded players were likely to use, so developers stopped using them.

Some tricks did stay, however. Alternating vertical lines or checkerboard patterns were commonly used for transparency, and that persisted for a while. The SNES could do real transparency, but checkerboarding was much less computationally demanding. And of course the Genesis/Mega Drive didn't have real transparency and also had a rather limited color palette, so game developers made extensive use of alternating vertical lines, checkerboarding and dithering for smoother color transitions. It's very noticeable in games like The Lion King, especially when you compare it with the SNES version. The faked transparency is very noticeable in the waterfalls in Sonic games. Shadows were done in the same way, with checkerboards or vertical lines, but sometimes also by flickering the sprite at half the refresh rate of the TV. On a CRT this produces a reasonably convincing 50% gray shadow, due to phosphor persistence.

Another thing is that you're talking about blowing up old games on HDTVs over HDMI and having razor sharp pixels, but we completely agree that it's not optimal at all. I'm talking about hooking up a good quality CRT SDTV using a high-quality analog connection. Effects such as brightness bleed is not exclusive to composite connections, it's a property of CRTs, especially if you crank up the brightness like on an old arcade machine.

Apart from artifact colors (which were phased out around/before the NES generation), all of this stuff works quite well even on an RGB/component-connected CRT TV, because of the nature of a CRT, not the connection you use.

Here's a video showing the horrible artifacts inherent to composite video compared to s-video: https://youtu.be/vGF4PRlIZSo?t...

Most of them aren't obvious on still pictures, but it's painfully obvious in motion that composite is just crap.

A better and far more plausible explanation for what's happening is here.

And this fellow doesn't just do some hand waving. He has a theory, it is coherent, it is testable and falsifiable, and it also explains the galaxy rotation problem and the flyby anomaly accurately. As well as the EmDrive.

He's worth reading.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lKCg...

If you don't provide a link to actual evidence of wrongdoing, any bald claims of wrongdoing are no better than lies. Meanwhile, nothing can change Trump's idiocy, such as his repeated denials of global warming, which reveals both his ignorance and his parochialism (that is, if the USA isn't experiencing excess warming, then it ain't happening anywhere else, right?). And then there are claims by Trump about resources and scarcity, which completely destroy his professed goal of "making America great again" --that is, Trump doesn't seem to realize that abundant resources was exactly what allowed America to become great in the first place. Nowadays anything that hasn't been used up is locked down by wealthy owners --is Trump, who wants wealthy Republicans to support him, going to take those resources away from them, so that the majority of Americans can benefit? Hah!

I applaud you sir! You have, in your mind, defined the problem so narrowly that you are only willing to see evidence that cannot possibly exist. You must've been paying attention in Gaslighting 101.

I assure you that only diehard fanatics like yourself obsess over whatever activity you specifically define as "voter fraud". Most of us humans, however, are gravely concerned about honest and fair elections, and the threats are many, including voter fraud, election fraud, and whatever other forms of fraud could possibly interfere.

Indiana

California

Florida (Note that the response to this was to send out 173,000 more blank ballots.

More Florida

Anyone that cares to spend a little time searching can probably find similar stories from nearly any state. Oh, and of course the Project Veritas Action videos show people discussing the mechanics of successful fraud, clearly from a position of personal knowledge.

Keep in mind that a lot of this fraud is very hard to prove. In nearly every story, the people involved protest their innocence. Bank robbers caught in the act tend to do that too, of course, as do innocent people. A year from now, we'll know the extent of the fraud that was caught and prosecuted, and maybe have an idea of the fraud that was caught, but not prosecuted, and absolutely no idea how much fraud was not caught.

Further info:

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The most insightful view I've seen of the whole sordid matter

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That was actually Wayne Gretzky who said that. But what did he ever do that would suggest he has any clue what he's talking about? It's not like he was anyone Great.

It's a great quote, but now I can't hear it without thinking about Hillary Clinton. She posted a tweet quoting Martin Luther King, and somebody replied with this. :-D

Handy Alt Right Definition:

http://www.amerika.org/politic...

You can also go to the source:

http://alternative-right.blogs...

I, too, once wondered what a simulated song could possibly be .. until I played Dwarf Fortress 0.42.

Sort of like this, by some strange coincidence?

Same with capitalism. There is no abstract ideal, it only exists as its actual realization which turns out to be a man-made hell of 0.1% of the richest enslaving everyone else.

No, sorry, that's false. Free markets and low taxes have existed in many places throughout history, and they have generally resulted in peace and prosperity.

Today, there are many nations economically more free than the US, and economic freedom strongly correlates with prosperity and other positive social indicators.

While some minimal government regulation may be necessary (far less than what we have right now in the US), beyond that, more government interference in the economy makes people increasingly worse off.

Autocracy is universal and cannot be repealed, only concealed.

The distinction between residential and commercial establishment has been a staple for a long time, and it has a lot of value...

...for middle- and upper-class neighborhoods, but not for the inner-city neighborhoods that subsidize them. That's right, single-use zoning is a form of reverse welfare that subsidizes the middle- and upper-classes at the expense of the poor.

Also, what's the value in prohibiting someone from building an apartment building next door to a factory? You'd think it would be good to bring jobs to a city without bringing traffic.

In Japan by contrast, they do things a little smarter than the USA's clumsy approach to zoning. Instead of single-use zoning, they allow anything of a lesser nuisance than the area is zoned for. A grocery store is less of a nuisance than a factory, so they allow grocery stores in industrial zones. An apartment building is less of a nuisance than a grocery store, so they allow apartment buildings in commercial zones. And a single-family house is less of a nuisance than an apartment building, so single-family houses are allowed in multifamily residential zones, but not the reverse.

If every neighborhood in a city had to become self-sufficient in city spending versus property tax revenue, you can be sure that people living in middle-class, single-family residential zones suddenly faced with massive property tax bills would do everything in their power to attract bed-and-breakfasts, corner stores, and the other tax-efficient amenities that existed in our neighborhoods until we legislated our freedoms away in the aftermath of WWII.

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I wrote something similar on my personal blog back in May.

If your mouse occasionally sent an erroneous input to the computer no matter how careful you were, you wouldnt use it so much.

Wrong example. Mouse usability requires constant visual feedback and almost constant human correction. That is the reason why we can't really use a mouse without looking directly at the screen.

In any case, flawless transcription accuracy of one single human voice out of 7.5 billion voices already happens with Google Voice. The problem occurs when Google Voice is not tuned to the voices of the other 7.49999 billion people. Do you think that's what Microsoft is using in the backend this second time around?

Good questions......this graph suggests that most people were able to find a job within a decade, at least in the last century.

Research led me far afield and I uncovered this gem from PolitiFact in its Pulitzer Prize-winning year of 2008. It rated as TRUE Obama's statement at the October 7, 2008, "If you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it."

Five years later, only after Obama was safely elected and re-elected did PolitiFact name that claim the Lie of the Year of 2013 -- even though it dated back to 2008.

Before and after. Same journalist wrote both and no apology for the earlier, "fact check" or the about face on the claim.

Never trust snopes. They are no better than you are. Just a couple of crazy leftists in California. The people behind the curtain - http://accuracyinpolitics.blog...

Can't say it enough. Let people know. Don't trust them.

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Take off your Apple-blinders! If you think they're any better than those that you mentioned, you've drank way too much Kool-Aid.

But this really comes down more so to the advertisers and inexperienced-web-developers MAKING the adverts, not those serving it up.

And this is what Google is doing to help counter shit advertising:
https://googleblog.blogspot.co...

And Speaking of AutoStart, remember when Apple added that feature to System 8 and then someone released a worm that took advantage of it? I do, I had to go through and clean it off all of the Macs at work.

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>I don't think the alt right-exists. Who are the thought leaders of the alt-right, and is there some website I can read what their ideology is from an actual alt-righter?

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Not sure if he's thinking of ELO, Boston had a lot of UFOs on their album covers, too.

But surely this dude should already know the real truth.
Because teh intarwebs tell me that that the Space People communicate to the great unwashed through the medium of Rock n Roll. David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and dozens of other examples have met the Space Brothers.

The Left has gained such control over media, academia, and government that certain ideas were entirely banished from the public eye. This left us with "cuckservatives," or neoconservatives who believed in Leftist goals through conservative methods, as the only option to the Left. That option was not an alternative, so the Alternative Right arose.

Censorship can occur through many methods. It is not merely a legal term; it means disallowing your ideological opponents from expressing necessary ideas as a way of weakening them. Doxxing people, getting them fired from their jobs, and otherwise destroying their lives is a means of censorship. This is why anonymous internet forums like 4chan came about: people wanted to talk about these taboo things.

Milo is "alt lite," according to most, in that he is from the libertarian tradition of anarchy with free markets more than the Alt Right mainstream of opposing equality. He will be fair as an owner of a free speech site, as there is nothing on record showing him ever supporting censorship or trying to censor others.

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It's a shame the Cisco blog is linked second, because it's a great (yet short) read.

Since the end of last month one of my very low volume email accounts has been on the receiving end of a new spam campaign trying to give me malware. The emails I've received exactly match the emails in Cisco's graph So it's neat to see what's behind it - in this case the Necurs botnet running at full tilt.

Considering this account was receiving virtually zero spam before, it's definitely a major uptick in spam.

Why did you put quotes around natural? What's not natural about natural gas? Do you think the methane is manufactured somewhere?

There are some voices that "natural" gas is not of organic origin, but formed or occurring deep down in the planet at a time long before organic processes existed nor, when they existed, those would not capable of creating such amounts:

http://origeminorganicadopetro...

That's not my point though. The term "natural" implies being OK, renewable, then good to use. While it may be better than crude oil derived fuels or coal, it still is a carbohydrate when oxidized, creates CO2, a greenhouse gas contributing to global warming currently creating climate havoc on this planet.

So, IMHO, it's a hogwash misleading term for the use of large corporations securing their established way of business and continuing creating profits at the cost of others.

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The EV will compete head-to-head with the Tesla Model 3.

Not when the Tesla has a nationwide network of charging stations that dwarves anything the Chevy can use, it won't.

Not when it comes with "Chevy quality" (cough gag), it won't.

Not when the Tesla looks like this, and the Chevy looks like this, it won't.

Not when it costs a few thousand dollars more for an inferior car, it won't.

GM, you keep using this word "compete". I don't think it means what you think it means.

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