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If you didn't see any attacks on gamers, you are willingly blinding yourself to the issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://imgur.com/gallery/FzbfI...
http://www.reaxxion.com/10765/...
http://sjwar.blogspot.com/2014...

It appears that this tumblr collects information about people being harassed for supporting gamergate.
http://gamergateharassment.tum...

And here is a site that explains what happened from the gamergate perspective. Since your post above is so wildly accusatory, it might be good for you to read it as it goes into quite a bit of detail about the ethics issues being brought up, and how it was the gaming journalists themselves that were talking about it being a harassment campaign when they didn't want to defend themselves for the clear ethics violations being brought up.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-h...

Fortunately, there was a lawsuit, and a lot of the internal emails related to Vista were released for public viewing. You can see for yourself.

Of course, the OEMs also released hardware that they knew wasn't ready. So plenty of people were to blame for that one.

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The really sad thing here is that it is likely that all of the original Apollo astronauts will be dead before anyone else goes to any non-Earth body.

While I agree that this is sad in a philosophical sense, we should also consider that while we haven't sent people to a non-Earth body, we *have*:

1) Landed on a comet
2) Got up-close-and-personal images of Pluto
3) Also Charon
4) Discovered over 5000 exoplanets
5) Send a probe out of the solar system (*)
6) Maintained a manned space station for the last 18 years
7) Sent several robots wandering around mars and taking pictures
8) (And occasionally vaporizing the miniature martian town centers with its "heat ray")

And a bunch of other things, such as mapping the CMB, finding strong evidence for dark matter, imaged an exoplanet, gotten spectrometer readings of the atmosphere in an exoplanet, found an asteroid with rings, and many minor things.

I'm not sure what the utility of sending a human into space is at the present time. Unless there's an obvious use case, it *seems* like the extra effort of sending a human isn't worth the risk, except as a political statement.

Oh, and we're seriously considering mining asteroids. How cool is that?

(*) Depending on the definition of the boundary, and the current definition is "cloudy" at that point, so that the probe seems to be going into and out of the boundary that defines the solar system edge.

Yes, I'm sure I'll be modded as a troll but the fact is the democrat party is bought and paid for by the big cable lobby http://www.nationalreview.com/... It's no wonder that Comcast (CNBC, MSNBC, NBC, etc. etc) all endorsed Clinton. Follow the money. http://stopthecap.com/2015/06/... http://bud-meyers.blogspot.com... http://www.fiercecable.com/sto...

Yes, but 15% of handgun shootings are lethal. Compare that to being shot with a hunting caliber rifle; that was my comparison.

Handguns are used in over 80% of all gun murders. Besides, The .22 is plenty deadly. (I linked that particular page to forestall anyone linking pages about how the .22 supposedly does the most killin'.)

That's interesting, because Russia itself announced they were postponing their lunar ambitions for a long time due to the economic crisis they are facing due to low oil prices, costs of fighting in Syria and Ukraine and the fact they abolished/reformed ROSCOSMOS into a state corporation with an emphasis on profit making. Besides, in aerospace circles, going back to the 1990s, being profiled in PM was considered the 'kiss of death.'

That's interesting, because Russia itself announced they were postponing their lunar ambitions for a long time due to the economic crisis they are facing due to low oil prices, costs of fighting in Syria and Ukraine and the fact they abolished/reformed ROSCOSMOS into a state corporation with an emphasis on profit making. Besides, in aerospace circles, going back to the 1990s, being profiled in PM was considered the 'kiss of death.'

Penyakit kanker payudara bisa isembuhkan jika ditangani sejak dini dengan Obat herbal kanker payudara . Anda harus mengetahui gejala-gejala kanker payudara agar anda dapat mengobatinya sebelum terlambat silahkan baca selengkapnya . Tapi jika anda sudah terlanjur terkena penyakit ini, maka pengobatan yang harus dilakukan dengan Obat kutil di alat vital , lebih lengkapnya silahkan baca selengkapnya . Sebelum membicarakan tentang Obat kutil di daerah alat vital , sebenarnya ada hal lain yang lebih penting dari hal itu, yakni tindakan pencegahan silahkan baca selengkapnya . proses pencegahan sebagai Obat alat vital sakit ini juga perlu dibantu dari orang-orang yang ahli di dalamnya sehingga pencegahan tersebut efektif dan bisa sesuai dengan sasaran, silahkan baca selengkapnya . bila kita melihat lebih jauh dan meneliti beberapa kasus yang ada Obat keluar nanah di kelamin yang paling manjur adalah pencegahan sejak dini, silahkan baca selengkapnya . Dan ternyata ada Obat herbal wasir yang secara alami masih bisa dikonsumsi, silahkan silahkan baca selengkapnya .

Penyakit kanker payudara bisa isembuhkan jika ditangani sejak dini dengan Obat herbal kanker payudara . Anda harus mengetahui gejala-gejala kanker payudara agar anda dapat mengobatinya sebelum terlambat silahkan baca selengkapnya . Tapi jika anda sudah terlanjur terkena penyakit ini, maka pengobatan yang harus dilakukan dengan Obat kutil di alat vital , lebih lengkapnya silahkan baca selengkapnya . Sebelum membicarakan tentang Obat kutil di daerah alat vital , sebenarnya ada hal lain yang lebih penting dari hal itu, yakni tindakan pencegahan silahkan baca selengkapnya . proses pencegahan sebagai Obat alat vital sakit ini juga perlu dibantu dari orang-orang yang ahli di dalamnya sehingga pencegahan tersebut efektif dan bisa sesuai dengan sasaran, silahkan baca selengkapnya . bila kita melihat lebih jauh dan meneliti beberapa kasus yang ada Obat keluar nanah di kelamin yang paling manjur adalah pencegahan sejak dini, silahkan baca selengkapnya . Dan ternyata ada Obat herbal wasir yang secara alami masih bisa dikonsumsi, silahkan silahkan baca selengkapnya .

Penyakit kanker payudara bisa isembuhkan jika ditangani sejak dini dengan Obat herbal kanker payudara . Anda harus mengetahui gejala-gejala kanker payudara agar anda dapat mengobatinya sebelum terlambat silahkan baca selengkapnya . Tapi jika anda sudah terlanjur terkena penyakit ini, maka pengobatan yang harus dilakukan dengan Obat kutil di alat vital , lebih lengkapnya silahkan baca selengkapnya . Sebelum membicarakan tentang Obat kutil di daerah alat vital , sebenarnya ada hal lain yang lebih penting dari hal itu, yakni tindakan pencegahan silahkan baca selengkapnya . proses pencegahan sebagai Obat alat vital sakit ini juga perlu dibantu dari orang-orang yang ahli di dalamnya sehingga pencegahan tersebut efektif dan bisa sesuai dengan sasaran, silahkan baca selengkapnya . bila kita melihat lebih jauh dan meneliti beberapa kasus yang ada Obat keluar nanah di kelamin yang paling manjur adalah pencegahan sejak dini, silahkan baca selengkapnya . Dan ternyata ada Obat herbal wasir yang secara alami masih bisa dikonsumsi, silahkan silahkan baca selengkapnya .

Penyakit kanker payudara bisa isembuhkan jika ditangani sejak dini dengan Obat herbal kanker payudara . Anda harus mengetahui gejala-gejala kanker payudara agar anda dapat mengobatinya sebelum terlambat silahkan baca selengkapnya . Tapi jika anda sudah terlanjur terkena penyakit ini, maka pengobatan yang harus dilakukan dengan Obat kutil di alat vital , lebih lengkapnya silahkan baca selengkapnya . Sebelum membicarakan tentang Obat kutil di daerah alat vital , sebenarnya ada hal lain yang lebih penting dari hal itu, yakni tindakan pencegahan silahkan baca selengkapnya . proses pencegahan sebagai Obat alat vital sakit ini juga perlu dibantu dari orang-orang yang ahli di dalamnya sehingga pencegahan tersebut efektif dan bisa sesuai dengan sasaran, silahkan baca selengkapnya . bila kita melihat lebih jauh dan meneliti beberapa kasus yang ada Obat keluar nanah di kelamin yang paling manjur adalah pencegahan sejak dini, silahkan baca selengkapnya . Dan ternyata ada Obat herbal wasir yang secara alami masih bisa dikonsumsi, silahkan silahkan baca selengkapnya .

Penyakit kanker payudara bisa isembuhkan jika ditangani sejak dini dengan Obat herbal kanker payudara . Anda harus mengetahui gejala-gejala kanker payudara agar anda dapat mengobatinya sebelum terlambat silahkan baca selengkapnya . Tapi jika anda sudah terlanjur terkena penyakit ini, maka pengobatan yang harus dilakukan dengan Obat kutil di alat vital , lebih lengkapnya silahkan baca selengkapnya . Sebelum membicarakan tentang Obat kutil di daerah alat vital , sebenarnya ada hal lain yang lebih penting dari hal itu, yakni tindakan pencegahan silahkan baca selengkapnya . proses pencegahan sebagai Obat alat vital sakit ini juga perlu dibantu dari orang-orang yang ahli di dalamnya sehingga pencegahan tersebut efektif dan bisa sesuai dengan sasaran, silahkan baca selengkapnya . bila kita melihat lebih jauh dan meneliti beberapa kasus yang ada Obat keluar nanah di kelamin yang paling manjur adalah pencegahan sejak dini, silahkan baca selengkapnya . Dan ternyata ada Obat herbal wasir yang secara alami masih bisa dikonsumsi, silahkan silahkan baca selengkapnya .

Penyakit kanker payudara bisa isembuhkan jika ditangani sejak dini dengan Obat herbal kanker payudara . Anda harus mengetahui gejala-gejala kanker payudara agar anda dapat mengobatinya sebelum terlambat silahkan baca selengkapnya . Tapi jika anda sudah terlanjur terkena penyakit ini, maka pengobatan yang harus dilakukan dengan Obat kutil di alat vital , lebih lengkapnya silahkan baca selengkapnya . Sebelum membicarakan tentang Obat kutil di daerah alat vital , sebenarnya ada hal lain yang lebih penting dari hal itu, yakni tindakan pencegahan silahkan baca selengkapnya . proses pencegahan sebagai Obat alat vital sakit ini juga perlu dibantu dari orang-orang yang ahli di dalamnya sehingga pencegahan tersebut efektif dan bisa sesuai dengan sasaran, silahkan baca selengkapnya . bila kita melihat lebih jauh dan meneliti beberapa kasus yang ada Obat keluar nanah di kelamin yang paling manjur adalah pencegahan sejak dini, silahkan baca selengkapnya . Dan ternyata ada Obat herbal wasir yang secara alami masih bisa dikonsumsi, silahkan silahkan baca selengkapnya .

This sums up my response: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-en3Q...

It's not discriminating against white men, it's compensating for the fact that other groups have it harder to begin with.

http://www.wattwaybycolas.com/...

What is the price per m2?

Wattway's price per m2 is to be seen in light of the production cost of electricity.
Photovoltaic energy is measured in watt-peak, which takes into account sunlight conditions.
Today, depending on the technology used and the support on which the panels are installed, prices fluctuate between 2 to 8 euros/watt-peak.
The cost with Wattway is estimated at 6 euros/watt-peak.
Furthermore, it is interesting to note that Wattway can turn an existing surface into a money-maker by providing an additional use, which has a positive impact on the final price.
With Wattway, there is no need to rent or purchase farmland to install solar panels, nor do you need to redo your entire roof to produce photovoltaic electricity!

How efficient is Wattway compared to a conventional solar panel?

Wattway panels have a 15% yield, compared to 18-19% for conventional photovoltaic panels.

So... More expensive (per watt) than conventional solar panels, with ~20% lesser yield.
Which would probably decrease by at least 30% per panel, as that is about the area of the panel that would get most tires tracking over it.
Which brings us down to ~10% yield.
While the cost stays in the upper 25%, meaning it's 3 times more expensive than the cheapest panels out there. Per watt.
Combine that with the (optimistic) reduction in yield due to dirt, and they are ~5-6 times more expensive.

Now... considering this article's claim that "4m of solarised road is enough to supply one household's electricity needs, apart from heating, and one kilometre will light a settlement with 5,000 inhabitants"...
And similar claims regarding similar but FAR MORE realistic project in Amsterdam and the claims of "enough energy to power three households" per 100 meters, later readjusted a bit to "provide a single-person household with electricity for a year" for about half a year of work, per 70 meters or road installed (which comes out to not quite but almost 3 homes per 100 meters)...
Those 4 meters of road per household seem to be calculated based on roads some 4-5 lanes wide.
Granted, not the same tech as that Dutch bike lane but that's how wide those bike lanes would have be to to provide that same amount of power.

Which is not the issue of lack of such roads... but that's a lot of potential potholes.
Which does not really sound realistic for regular roads, considering Wattway's "fresh asphalt with no deformations or ruts" policy.

How long does a Wattway panel last?

A Wattway panel lasts as long as conventional pavement, meaning at least 10 years depending on the traffic, which speeds up wear.
If the section is not heavily trafficked - a stadium parking lot for example - then Wattway panels can last roughly 20 years.

Are Wattway panels all-weather?

Wattway panels are rainproof thanks to the fact that the silicon cells are encapsulated and the junction box which provides the connection between the panels complies with IP66 sealing effectiveness standards.
The panels have even passed the snowplow test with flying colors.
Operators do, however, need to operate the machines with a bit more care on Wattway panels than on conventional pavement.

Can Wattway be installed on any type of road? Are there any constraints (road

Aiming for -500 is good, -750 is better.

Proof http://suppversity.blogspot.co...

Actually mussolini never said that. It is widely debunked, here is one of many such debunking articles that came up in google, you can find more if you distrust this particular author:

http://daniel-ruth.blogspot.co...

> It seems that neither side of the left-right dichotomy wants to remember Atlas Shrugged accurately.

Atlas Shrugged was a badly written, juvenile paean to selfishness as virtue. It was a tribute to the idea that might makes right and wealth as a moral virtue. To make matters worse, its characters were wooden and uninspired, and the dialogue was positively petrified.

To quote John Rogers: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

If you are a fiscal conservative the Republicans are not your party either. They like cutting taxes but are too chicken to cut spending in any serious way because they know if they do they'd get kicked out in the next election.

They call that "starving the beast" as if they actually had any plan.

The result is that the rate of change in the national debt goes up during Republican administrations and down during Democratic administrations. Here's a post on it by David Brin: So Do Outcomes Matter More Than Rhetoric?

Brin also notes one of my pet peeves, the dishonest accounting trick of emergency appropriations. Which chickens - or is that chickenhawks? - came home to roost just about the time the great housing swindle and living off credit cards debacle hit. The trifecta of how to mismanage everything.

That we did not descend into a worldwide depression that would have made the thirties look prosperous is nothing short of a well worked miracle. I have a suspicion that history will treat this administration much more kindly than the neocons and teabaggers would have us believe.

Sometimes the adults just have to take over.

If you are a fiscal conservative the Republicans are not your party either. They like cutting taxes but are too chicken to cut spending in any serious way because they know if they do they'd get kicked out in the next election. The result is that the rate of change in the national debt goes up during Republican administrations and down during Democratic administrations. Here's a post on it by David Brin: So Do Outcomes Matter More Than Rhetoric?

The Wikipedia page doesn't say he didn't credit them. In fact, the footnote for that paragraph (footnote four) leads here, which includes scans of the material where the thief was introduced. Once again, in the very first paragraph credit is given. I'll quote: "Recently, I received a telephone call from Gary Schweizter [bits about California removed]. Anyway, during our conversation, he mentioned that his group was developing a new class of character--thieves."

So I'm wondering what constitutes "credit" to you guys. Does it involve bold 72 point font on every D&D product ever released that says, "Dan Wagner created the original thief rules in 1974?"

and record-shattering historical data rerererereadjustments

Actually if you compare the unadjusted record to the adjusted record it's the unadjusted record that shows more warming. Link.

Actually that's not true.

In what way? That sometimes you can do it right? Then I'd say it's no more untrue than the people who eat a vegan diet suffer from malnutrition. Which is to say, it can be true, or it can be somewhat untrue.

http://inhumanexperiment.blogs...

Though if you do it wrong you'll run into problems. The Inuit survived by consuming large amounts of blubber.

IOW, much the same as eating a vegan diet. Do it wrong, and yes, you'll have problems And I have yet to see anybody propose an industrial model for blubber as a main diet.

Certainly not in the Inuit style.

Unless you want to kill off a few billion people.

OTOH, there are models for switching to a vegetable-based diet that would be applicable to society on a very broad scale.

Somebody who goes into complete renal failure however needs to consume LOTS of meat, far more than the typical person in fact, which itself is the result of dialysis leaching protein from your blood. As I mentioned earlier, it's practically impossible for somebody to be vegan while on dialysis (many try, but ultimately don't succeed.)

And somebody with a different problem may not be able to eat meat safely. I've heard there is a tick that causes some sort of reaction to eating meat. A;lergy or something.

Anyway, some people try to avoid vegetables. Many don't succeed. And it's not always because of the First Lady, Chris Christie.

Sometimes their mothers know better.

And do you have any more fascinating-yet-pointless semantic arguments to make? Personally, I define "clearing the neighborhood" as "putting painted tarps over the homeless people" but for some reason that's not the definition the IAU used. However, if you'd like a more precise definition (or set of definitions), you can consult this paper. This graph is also relevant.

And people who don't eat enough vegetables often suffer from malnutrition in other ways.

Actually that's not true:

http://inhumanexperiment.blogs...

Though if you do it wrong you'll run into problems. The Inuit survived by consuming large amounts of blubber.

In fact, gout is on the rise.

I have gout caused by stage 4 CKD, which itself is from IgA Nephropathy. Or rather, I was stage 4 until a few weeks ago. My albuminuria showed up negative in recent routine blood tests, so my nephrologist had me stop ACEi therapy. As a result, creatinine clearance increased to mid-stage 3 numbers (about 45.) Still though, in order to avoid gout, kidney function needs to be well above 60.

I actually eat very little meat, by the way, which is a stipulation for anybody who is stage 4. The reason why is because a byproduct of protein (any protein, including plant protein) is ammonia, which is otherwise toxic, however your liver converts that into the inert molecule urea. Having more of that in your blood means more work for your kidneys, so you solve that by limiting protein intake. However that still doesn't stop a buildup of blood-urea nitrogen, or uric acid, which causes gout. My last blood work showed my uric acid at 12mg/dl, which is twice the upper normal range, and hence I've begun taking a xanthine oxidase inhibitor.

However now that my filtration is up, I can increase protein intake, and it won't make the medication any less effective.

Somebody who goes into complete renal failure however needs to consume LOTS of meat, far more than the typical person in fact, which itself is the result of dialysis leaching protein from your blood. As I mentioned earlier, it's practically impossible for somebody to be vegan while on dialysis (many try, but ultimately don't succeed.)

I googled this and found this from an OGML discussion going on about this GPU. There are some screenshots and even a youtube video.

Since 2010, Jeff Bush (github, blog) has been working on an Apache-licensed open source GPU (github, home page, wiki), and he has a few other interesting github projects as well (link, link, link). The Nyuzi Processor is a fully functional GPU. It is written in synthesizable Verilog, has a functional compiler toolchain, and comes with test suites, benchmarks, the software component of 3D rendering engine, and more. Its development has been gaining momentum in discussions (link, link, Google Group) and coding projects (gsoc). It has been implemented on an Altera FPGA, and there are some videos online of it animating a rotating teapot and a Phong-shaded torus, along with the results of recently-added mipmap support. Recently, Jeff Bush got together with the founder of the Open Graphics Project, and they co-wrote a peer-reviewed publication about this GPU and some experiments they did, which was recently presented at a well-respected academic CS conference (ISPASS). Although its developer and other hobbyists are doing this for fun, academics and engineers who specialize in GPU architecture are already showing interest in using Nyuzi for their own research (e.g. link, link), which gives them finally an open platform to estimate not just cycle count but also clock frequency, energy, and circuit area effects of GPU design experiments.

How to deal with Forbes:

http://technewsreporter.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-to-bypass-websites-that-block-ad.html

Because the short reply pretty well covered it? As did some others, but lets try again:

The Bible establishes the fundamental tenets of Christianity. No christian will disagree with the statement that literally believing and following everything in the Bible is absolutely fundamental to being a "good" christian.
http://www.1stap.com/en/html/t...

The Bible includes many passages on torture and death to all non-believers, and treating women like chattels.
http://www.whatchristianswantt...
http://othersidereflections.bl...

Many hundreds of thousands of "good" Christians around the world are acting on the Bible and are committing murder and torture of innocent people, and abuse of even their own women on a daily basis. Of the many millions of Christians around the world, a high percentage are clearly in at least quiet agreement with terrorist organizations like IRA's motives and methods.

It boggles my mind how any supposedly intelligent people can still seriously think anyone that voluntarily chooses to follow such a religion deserves to get given the benefit of all doubt, and even be treated like civilized people when they clearly aren't civilized BY THEIR OWN CHOICE.

Have you looked a what "vast quantities" actually is? Here's an example done with soybeans. You're looking at 0.75 pounds per acre. If you take my silly table salt LD50 comparison, we're looking at the LD50 equivalent of about 0.3 pounds of salt per acre. Oh, and glyphosate breaks down in the soil. It's a pretty benign chemical in general if you're a human. And it's really benign if you compare it to other pesticides.

If you get into chronic exposure, there's always the theoretical possibility that there's something there. But there isn't a lot of evidence to support it, and once you start talking about the effects of chronic exposure, just about everything is dangerous.

that's what the US is doing

Not really.

Although there are a lot of total immigrants, the US also has a large population, so it is way down on the list of icountries in terms of the number of immigrants divided by population

• Graph here: http://censusstats.blogspot.co...
• article here http://www.forbes.com/sites/mo...

the design and results of the dac were less that stellar

[citation needed]

I'm not qualified to comment on the design, but NWAVGuy published numbers showing the performance. See the section with the heading "THE REAL NUMBERS" in this page:

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/odac-released.html

Are you saying that these numbers are not correct... i.e. that he was lying?

Or are you saying that -102.8 dB noise and 0.1% THD are "less than stellar"?

By those numbers, the O2+ODAC is very close to a $1000+ DAC1 Pre. And about $700 less expensive.

I'm honestly curious... if the O2+ODAC isn't good enough for you, then what do you use to listen to music?

The O2 headphone amplifier is an extremely clean amp that can drive almost any headphones. It sounds great. Pair it with a clean DAC, rip all your CDs to FLAC, and you can listen to your music from your computer with the very highest in fidelity.

If you can solder, you can build the O2 amp for $30 to $40 worth of parts.

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/o2-summary.html

The guy who designed the O2 also designed a really good DAC. He wanted to release it as a DIY project but the realities of the DAC chip business mean that it was only practical to sell a complete DAC board. But you could make a project out of building an O2 amp in an enclosure with the DAC board built-in. (I have such a device but I can't solder; I bought mine from JDS Labs, pre-built.)

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/odac-released.html

I am friends with a world-class audio expert, and he agrees that the O2+ODAC is the best way to spend your money. It's as clean as $1000+ solutions.

P.S. Article about the guy who designed the O2 and ODAC: "the audio genius who vanished"

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/nwavguy-the-audio-genius-who-vanished

The O2 headphone amplifier is an extremely clean amp that can drive almost any headphones. It sounds great. Pair it with a clean DAC, rip all your CDs to FLAC, and you can listen to your music from your computer with the very highest in fidelity.

If you can solder, you can build the O2 amp for $30 to $40 worth of parts.

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/o2-summary.html

The guy who designed the O2 also designed a really good DAC. He wanted to release it as a DIY project but the realities of the DAC chip business mean that it was only practical to sell a complete DAC board. But you could make a project out of building an O2 amp in an enclosure with the DAC board built-in. (I have such a device but I can't solder; I bought mine from JDS Labs, pre-built.)

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/odac-released.html

I am friends with a world-class audio expert, and he agrees that the O2+ODAC is the best way to spend your money. It's as clean as $1000+ solutions.

P.S. Article about the guy who designed the O2 and ODAC: "the audio genius who vanished"

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/nwavguy-the-audio-genius-who-vanished

OAuth2 security issues

The baby boom started increasing the supply of entry level labor about 1970.

Women's liberation started increasing the supply of entry level labor about 1970.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 started increasing the supply of labor (not just entry level) about 1970.

The Donor Party liked this because it lowered labor costs. Oh, did I say "Donor"? I meant "Republican".

The Elect A New People Party liked this because 2 of the 3 sources of new labor would vote to Elect A New People. Oh, did I say "Elect A New People"? I meant "Democratic".

So you have a huge influx of labor and this is interpreted as a "labor shortage" by both parties.

Combined with the fact that FDR's "New Deal", in effect, nationalized many of the functions previously performed by the labor unions -- turning the national border into a de facto picket line that, for example, that neoNazi Eisenhower enforced with "Operation Wetback" (deporting most of the illegal immigrants) -- and the labor movement effectively collapsed.

Elizabeth Warren, before she got conned into becoming a politician, was the only mainstream academic to come close to documenting even part of this. See her Jefferson Lecture titled "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class.

Since 1992, I've been advocating replacing taxes on economic activity with what amounts to an insurance premium for the protection of property rights, and distributing the revenue in a citizen's dividend. In that white paper I predicted a lot of what has now come to pass as a result of centralization of wealth and burgeoning welfare state rent seeking.

Here is a link to a recent synopsis of that proposal.

Ignoring the hypothetical scenarios, the question boils down to this: what do we actually gain from all the added complexity that this tech will add to the gun? Is the perceived increase in safety only nominal or is it substantial? Does DRM for a gun make the gun more or less useful? I'd say that that DRM for a gun always makes it less useful, EVEN if it stops a perp from stealing a gun and using it against the owner.

Perhaps we should just start calling a spade a spade here. It's not "smart gun technology", it's DRM for your gun.

Leave us not forget the "gun lobby", in the form of the NRA, won't even permit addition of taggants to gunpowder or other explosives, to allow identification. https://www.nraila.org/article...
Leave us not forget the "gun lobby", in the form of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (the NRA's less reasonable sibling, based most ironically in Newtown, CT) won't even permit microstamping technology to be mandated, wherein the brass casing gets imprinted with the serial number of the gun when fired, to enable tracing after a crime has been committed. Hard to figure exactly how that would make it harder for lawful people to acquire firearms, lead to government confiscating your guns, make using the gun in non-criminal situations more problematic, or even add much to the cost. The guy who has the patent has said anyone could use it free. Apparently it's just way beyond the bounds of current technology. Who knew? http://www.sfgate.com/news/art... Even though it turns out Tasers leave their IDs behind when they're used. (Who knew?) https://news.vice.com/article/... Even though it's been demonstrated. http://microstamp.blogspot.com...

America Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Democrat Problem

America's mass shooting capital isn't somewhere out west where you can get a gun at the corner store. It's in Obama's own hometown.

Chicago is America's mass shooting capital. There were over 400 shootings with more than one victim. In 95 of those shootings, 3 or more people were shot.

2,995 people were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common, they're all run by the party of gun control which somehow can't seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.

The murder rate in Washington, D.C., home of the progressive boys and girls who can solve it all, is up 54%. The capital of the national bureaucracy has also been the country's murder capital.

These cities are the heartland of America's real gun culture. It isn't the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in McCain and Romney territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it's Obama's own voting base.

Gun violence is at its worst in the cities that Obama won in 2012. Places like New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Kansas City and Philly. The Democrats are blaming Republicans for the crimes of their own voters.

Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech, has homicide numbers that match all of Japan and are higher than Spain, Poland and pre-war Syria. If Chicago gets any worse, it will find itself passing the number of murders for the entire country of Canada.

Chicago's murder rate of 15.09 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate, but it does look like the murder rates in failed countries like Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. To achieve Chicago's murder rate, African countries usually have to experience a bloody genocidal civil war.

But Chicago isn't even all that unique. Or the worst case scenario. That would be St. Louis with 50 murders for 100,000 people. If St Louis were a country, it would have the 4th highest murder rate in the world, beating out Jamaica, El Salvador and Rwanda.

Obama won St. Louis 82 to 16 percent. ...

(Go read the whole article, it is worth it)

Science is not majority rule.

Ever read John Lott, "More Guns, Less Crime"? :)

http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/

The fact is that criminals aren't generally stupid - they're rational actors who have made possibly misguided calculations, but will do simple things like, avoid confronting armed victims, in order to improve their chances of success. Those that *don't* make those adjustments in risk/reward ratio end up being shot like Trayvon.

See HD Movei http://hdmovei9.blogspot.com/

I really don't think we need to be giving robots human-like skin and noodley appendages.

It's like one of those Halloween manikins that people put in their yards that are motion activated.... makes me jump every time...

Except that the world is going to head that way.

There is a lot of discussion over so called "sex robots" and it has some folks a litle worried.

http://philosophicaldisquisiti...

http://campaignagainstsexrobot...

There is lots more.

And some folks have a pretty valid reason for worrying. Here in the days of backlash to third wave feminism, there are a lot of men who have pretty much given up on women. But they still have a sex drive. So a very realistic sex doll might have a powerful attraction to many men. And many women, will presumably be further empowered by men ignoring them completely.

Now there are some issues, such as women ted to have a reproduction drive, also present in males, but to a lesser extent. Perhaps men can donate sperm as we do with plasma today.

But without worrying about things like child support, divorce settlements, and all the other messy situations in normal coupling/breakup between real people, a lot of folks might just find a personal robot a easier and cheaper alternative.

There needs to be a tax on network effects to replace taxes on economic activity.

Libertarians need to think more deeply here. The state of nature is one in which a natural person has de facto rights to fight for his survival — which includes not just his own personal survival but the right to sire and raise children to equally viable adulthood. When I use the word “fight” I mean it: Animals will fight for territorial access for the lives of themselves and their progeny. The Austrian and Lockean schools fail to recognize the situation which arises in nature when an animal is without the means of intergenerational sustenance, and the necessity of aggression in some of those situations. Civilization attempts to ignore this by proclaiming “property rights” as “natural” against “aggression”. This foolishness at the heart of these schools of thought renders them forever vulnerable to collectivists. The way out is trivially obvious: Follow Lysander Spooner’s definition of legitimate government as a mutual insurance company into which men voluntarily invest their natural rights in exchange for shares in and dividends from the company. The premiums paid for property rights take the place of taxes. The dividends (sometimes called "universal basic income" or "citizen's dividends") neutralize collectivism's bureaucratically controlled social welfare. The violation of this simple and obvious paleolibertarian construct sacrifices the bedrock principle of liberty upon which civilization is founded for the high purpose of becoming politically impotent against collectivists. Just look at the Presidental campaigns of Ron Paul and his son Rand.

As for socialists, all they need to do is find out who is responsible for ignoring Martin Luther King Jr’s final advice which was quite congruent with this paleolibertarian notion of natural rights investment being compensated by a race-blind dividend, rather than racial preferences such as affirmative action:

Socialists need to find out who is responsible for ignoring MLK’s advice, given just before his assassination, as a part of his "Poor People's Campaign" that attempted to be inclusive of the white working class. Socialists need to find out who -- and do whatever it takes to neutralize their power — and I mean whatever it takes.

I’d start with the Southern Poverty Law Center as they were an offshoot of the "Poor People's Campaign" and were, after MLK's demise, instrumental in diverting policy away from MLK's race-neutral basic income, and toward waging the war on the white working class's reaction to affirmative action's de facto race-based tax on that demographic group. If Sanders was serious about defeating Trump, he'd take this advice to heart and do it NOW.

An immediate transition to a paleolibertarian mutual insurance company would be too big a leap for existing institutions. An intermediate step would be to replace taxes on economic activity with a tax on the liquidation value of net assets owned by natural persons. This would take the place of Spooner's property insurance premium. By being on "liquidation value", this tax would fall most heavily on network effect profits and would provide the revenue for the unconditional basic income (as the proxy for the dividend payment to members of the mutual insurance company).

This would, by the way, also resolve the old conflict between the gold standard thesis and the central bank fiat antithesis, with a new monetary synthesis.

The liquidation value of legally recognized assets would provide the backing for the money supply. This provides all the counter-cyclical monetary control needed, and can get rid of much if not most of the government's bureaucracies (including much of the military if you follow the Swiss model of national security).

I am not sure I agree with your evidence against. I can argue by some measures the wealth gap is larger than it has ever been.

Over the past 30 years when the wealth gap has exploded, social safety net programs and union power was reduced, not strengthened. If you want to see what wealth inequality looks like under strong social programs, look at the 1960s. In 1963, the top 1% had 35x more wealth than the median family. This is what the social programs after the Great Depression gave us. This disparity grew to 40x by 1983, when our social safety nets started deteriorating. Fast forward to 2013, and the top 1% has 97x more wealth than the median family.

Its really even worse than this, because almost all of the wealth gap has been caused by the top 0.01%. If you look at wealth growth of the top .01%-1%, the growth is pretty flat. It is only the top 0.01%, or about 10,000 families, that are seeing all of this growth.

The great society programs enacted in '64-'65 allowed the US economy to keeping growing after the post-WW2 prosperity faded, and kept inequality from growing significantly for 20 years. Once Reagan started to lower taxes and defeat the unions (without enacting other worker protections) the rise in inequality was inevitable.

We have plenty of evidence that strong social programs help the poor. Just look at Scandinavian countries. All we have evidence of in the US is that social programs can be run poorly. That is a reason to improve and strengthen them, not scuttle them.

Clearly they should take this to the next logical step. Here's some intel from Russia.

American citizens complain a lot of about tyranny and oppression, as if they've lived through it.

I agree that the TSA mostly (not always) falls under the category of "annoying" and not "tyranny". But the trend in the USA is towards less of the guaranteed freedoms and more (and more direct) government control.

Yes, I agree that it would still be possible to reverse that trend if enough voters wanted to, but the farther it goes the more likely it is to be past that point.

I think that would be a bad thing, and I think that each thing that directly contributes to it is a bad thing.

110,000 pounds is equivalent to the weight of 460 Homer Simpsons.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5koC...

So you are correct: "it's a lot".

Pretty much every single modern jet engine installed on current build airliners works this way. The hardware is the same, but the thrust limit is controlled by either the software version loaded in the EEC, or an "identification plug" which plugs into the EEC and acts as a switch to tell it which software limits to use. For example, the CFM56-7B which powers current production Boeing 737NGs is available in thrust ranging from 19,500 lbs to 27,300 lbs. The hardware is the same. The ID plug and the price is what makes them different. Pictures of the rating plug and how it works on a 737 here: http://nandang-smart.blogspot.... http://www.sjap.nl/cfm56-7-hyb...

Spend some time on Zero Hedge, Lew Rockwell's site, or PCR's site if you want to know that is going on economically. Most of us forecasted the upcoming crash four or five years ago. There has NEVER been any recovery from 2008 much less 2000. All the stats that you are forcefed are blatant LIES designed to keep the populace ignorant and therefore pacified so that they continue on thinking that everything is A-OK. When you remove the signals, the end result becomes much, MUCH worse.

On neofeudalism

On rate hikes

Looking realistically at investments

Short post on the Fed

The only way The Economist can be "interesting" is putting camel sex on their cover.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U1Unbf6HVBw/SCGIVVLtVpI/AAAAAAAABOA/jhBPGg_mvbU/s400/camel-hump.jpg

...there is only war.