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And I can point to billions who don't own anything VR. You could find people saying the same thing about 3DTV yet that's a dead technology. The market has clearly spoken.

Check out this graph for the adoption of the cell phone... LOL. It took decades to happen and then it took off like wildfire.

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Jane Q. Public misleadingly stated:

At least a couple of federal courts have ruled that Customs needs a warrant to search your computer or phone.

First off, you're conflating Customs and Immigration with the TSA. They are two different agencies, and rulings that apply to the former don't necessarily bind the latter, either theoretically or practically.

By "a couple of federal courts," I presume you're talking about California vs Riley, the unanimous 2014 SCOTUS decision that Federal (and all local government bodies) agencies in general are prohibited from searching cell phones without a warrant, on the principle that they contain, in the words of Chief Justice Roberts, "the privacies of life," and are thus protected under the 4th Amendment? Because the problem with that argument is that the border search exemption, for the legitimacy of which there is a host of supportive court rulings at all levels, says, "Nuh-uh!"

Among those is the relatively recent 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in United States vs Vergara, where the majority held that Riley simply "does not apply at the border," (Judge William Pryor, writing for the majority), and the 2013 9th Circuit Court ruling in United States vs Howard Wesley Cotterman, which held that Riley did not apply in the case of a suspected pedophile whose laptop was siezed at the border and searched with neither his permission nor a warrant, on the grounds that the pattern of precedent established that Riley - and, indeed, 4th Amendment protections in general - did not apply to "routine" searches at the border. (Note that the 6th Circuit Court is generally (and accurately) perceived as the most liberal of the Appeals Courts, and that it heard the case en banc, with every member participating, rather than delegating it to a panel of 3 judges.)

Given that, in the latter case, Cotterman was on the Feds' radar for at least 6 months prior to him crossing the Mexican border - which prompted the U.S. Attorney in the appeal to argue that they had had sufficient "reasonable suspicion" to seize his computer (which one would presume would have prompted them to obtain a warrant beforehand, unless they felt they didn't have enough solid evidence to convince a judge to issue one, and didn't want to risk an on-the-record application for it having been denied for cause) - and the Court ruled that existing investigation was irrelevant, on the grounds that the seizure and search of his laptop was "routine," I see little support for your contention. Cotterman faced decades of prison time, but SCOTUS declined to review that 11th Circuit decsion, nonetheless.

There's still a chance that the 11th's decision in Vergara will be taken up for review by SCOTUS, (frankly, Cotterman was a thicket of complications I doubt they wanted to have to wade through, whereas Vergara seems a great deal simpler to me), but there's no guarantee that they will. In the meantime, the 11th's ruling in Vergara (especially in light of Cotterman) is the existing precedent.

So, no. Sadly, the Federal Court system has come down hard on the side of security theater vs Constitutional guarantees. From my perspective, that's a mistake - but I, personally, wouldn't cross the border with my phone, unless it was encrypted, protected by a strong passphrase, and fully and securely backed-up ahead of time. Not in this legal climate, I wouldn't ...

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Now you can save it wherever you want.

Cars are more expensive because fewer and fewer people can afford them. That means fewer used cars. That means higher used car prices, which the car manufacturers see as cue to raise prices.

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Used car sales appear flat but not plummeting as well: https://www.thoughtco.com/used...

A headphone jack takes up a neglible amount of space compared to its use

Maybe for you but that's not universally true.

Nope, he's right, the space it takes up is negligible compared to its use. In fact I'd go as far to say it takes up no space what so ever in a device with a 4" screen. Here's a teardown of a Nexus 5x... the "massive" headphone jack is right next to the guy's thumb... and the guy isn't gigantrathor, that's a normal sized thumb. That big thing he's taking out it he battery (which still lasts a day or 2 on my 2 yr old Nexus 5x)

I'm flying LHR to LAX (11 hours) next week. LHR-SIN (14 hours) next month, LHR-BOG (12 hours) in November and I'm thinking about a jaunt to Boston over the Christmas break (LHR-BOS 7.5 hours). No set of bluetooth headphones could last the duration considering that they'd also end up getting an hour or so use at LHR because security there is so bleeding efficient and customer focused. Add to this that a set of normal plug-in headphones will work on any 3.5mm jack. No worrying about bluetooth versions, compatibility, setup or any other bollocks, they just plug in and work.

Plus when it comes to hands free, anyone on bluetooth sounds like their in a lavatory at best. Some are down right shocking.

Let's not forget that only 13% of cardiologist are female. This may have a dramatic influence on the statistics.

This is about ER docs. You won't often find a cardiologist working in the ER. Almost never.

Let's not forget that only 13% of cardiologist are female. This may have a dramatic influence on the statistics.

Who ever put together that diagram about "Four Special Number Systems" was completely clueless about Mathematical Singularities

When you add, subtract, multiply or divide the "real numbers" used in everyday life, you always get another real number

*facepalm*

NO, you do not. 0/0 is a singularity because it does NOT produce another real number. You get TWO numbers: +Infnity, and -Infinity and thus Mathematicians say the operation is "undefined".

Mueller is a professional liar and propagandist.

Former head of the FBI for 12 years, appointed by the Trump DOJ, endorsed by Republicans back when this whole process started.

I totally believe you...

The fact that the came out with the latest faux indictments immediately before the summit tells anyone with a couple of functioning neurons that this was done to maintain the Russiagate narrative. Nothing more, nothing less.

Preach brother! You've disproven the indictment by timing and irrelevant hyperbole alone! All who disagree with you have less than a couple of functioning neurons!

I totally believe that too...

And note that Putin immediately called Mueller's bluff by offering to hand over the indicted Russian officials if the FBI provides evidence to back up their claims, which everyone knows Mueller isn't going to do.

Link please. Because the tale is that Putin offered to allow Mueller to observe interviews conducted by Russian officials in Russia if the Russians could question "U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and 10 other 'U.S. officials and intelligence agents.'" Trump refused.

I mean, you've only totally gotten that one wrong... so I totally believe that other stuff.

You let us know when you have something related to the collusion or election hacking we hear so much about.

Memory problems [nytimes.com]? Or did your attempts to forget Helsinki merely work too well?

Not that I expect people like you to be able to follow the conversation, but my statement was in reference to guilty pleas and convictions.

Anybody can charge 12 random Russians. You let me know when you have a guilty plea or conviction related to collusion or election hacking or anything even close.

Moving the goalposts I see... from "something" to "convictions." Too bad. I've let you know of the something.

Again, after 2 years banging on about this garbage you have absolutely nothing . . .

And not even moving them consistently. An extremely detailed indictment is hardly "absolutely nothing."

But when they issued the alert, other telescopes started looking at that 1.6 by 0.8 degrees. Some telescopes detected high energy gamma rays in the area, and those telescopes had much better accuracy. And there was a previously detected gamma ray source, located with even higher spacial accuracy, within that error ellipse. And the galaxy in turn was within this smallest error ellipse.

Here is the picture.

Even the smallest error ellipse probably contains a bunch of galaxies. I presume that just one of them looked 'weird' in some way, and so was assumed to have interesting activity at its core. I haven't taken the time to drill down that far into their identification process.

I've just quickly looked at the Science article. Here is the plot you want. (I hope that doesn't need institutional access to view.)

The 90% confidence contour for arrival direction of the neutrino is roughly elliptical with length/width (major/minor axis) about 1.5 degrees and 1 degree - so you are right, the direction of the neutrino has quite large uncertainty.

The high energy gamma rays detected by the MAGIC telescopes (in response to the neutrino triggered alert) have 95% confidence ellipse about 0.1 degree diameter. A previously identified gamma ray source has 95% confidence ellipse about 0.03 degrees in diameter. All are consistent with the location of TXS 0506+056.

The car has ultrasonic imaging for close-in work

Those sensors are doing a real bangup job.

So Samsung has been making mobile phones for a while. What the hell does that have to do with anything? I remember the original Samsung smartphones. They were so similar to the 1-3G iPhones I inadvertently walked off with a Samsung phone a couple of times when I mistook one for my iPhone 3G. Here's a graphic that kind of says it all: http://allthingsd.com/files/20... I saw one of the first Android prototypes too. It was a half screen and half keyboard affair that was clearly meant to be a Blackberry killer. Nobody took Apple seriously as a phone manufacturer, they all figured Apple would bring out some kind of glorified iPod with a keypad. When the iPhone hit the market everybody went back to the drawing board and the next thing you know they're all, by some cosmic coincidence, selling phones that look like more or less exactly like the iPhone. But of course none of them copied what Apple was doing ... perish the thought.

No they weren't... If you cant tell the difference between a Samsung Galaxy and Iphone, that really says a lot about how daft you are. Here's a non-photoshoped picture for reference. Its a different size, colour and has the word "Samsung" prominently displayed in large letters.

I cant imagine how many Android phones you walk off with now IOS has changed into Android.

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Thanks. Unfortunately that councilman's is as vague in this letter as in his previous declarations. It would have been nice to know what "new traffic signage" they tried, for how long, what reasons, if any, Waze and others gave to not take it into account, etc. As it is this councilman seems like all he wants is show the people he's trying to garner votes by flailing uselessly.

It's in the PDF of the lawsuit
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It wouldn't have helped the pedestrian see the car coming given that it was painted in a dark colour (grey), and was coming out from under a bridge.

I think all self-driving cars under test should be white or brightly-coloured. In fact I'd like to see accident statistics for black vs. white cars.

$313 every paycheck (313 * 26) is about $8k, not $7,500.

How did you get "The Universal Dividend is structured as a Social Security benefit with a twice-monthly payment and its own FICA on all income. It pays on, say, the 1st and 15th of every month" to equate to $8k, when $313 * 24 = $7,512? (I'd seriously consider disbursing weekly, but that creates month-to-month variations where a month has 5 Fridays. Accounting sucks unless you use a 13-month year.)

So yeah, taxes will be cut. Along with whatever my $4,000 in taxes is actually paying for, like roads and schools.

Nope, it's revenue-neutral: the Federal government actually ends up with the same balance at the end of it all. The Dividend's funding source, in 2016, would have brought in and paid out $1.8 trillion, restructuring about $1.07 trillion. (I only have preliminary data for 2017.)

As I said: the basis of that includes restructuring Social Security's existing benefits (retirement, disability) to meet the same total benefit when paid in addition to the Dividend (a retiree getting $1,500 gets $1,500), rather than paying the Dividend in addition to those benefits (a retiree getting $1,500 instead gets $2,100). That restructure is revenue-neutral because Social Security is self-funded.

The payment in total is revenue-neutral because it's fed by an income tax from which it pays out: it's a new FICA benefit which is self-funded.

The whole mucking about with the tax system happens because I restructured FICA in its entirety. I rolled FICA into the general income tax, then rebuilt it out of there. I also reclaimed the EITC as a Social Security service (the Dividend is effectively an unearned income, and pays more than the maximum EITC), along with SSI (nobody's really poor enough to be eligible for SSI with the Dividend in place--it would have zero program participation). Those are just small dollars, though, around a hundred billion and some change.

In the end, that means all receiving non-income-determinant benefits (retirement, disability) are receiving the same or more benefits than they started; those receiving income-determinant benefits (EITC, HUD, SNAP, SSI, etc.) have an increase in income, and thus a decrease in eligibility, so receive less from those systems. Nothing gets cut, although some welfare gets less participation.

$7,500 is a crappy dividend. Welfare is about $12,000 per year.

It's more like $9,000, until you start counting things like Pell grants and healthcare; and that's at the absolute maximum. There might be a few thousand families in the entire country receiving that--and likely not much more than 10,000, if that many.

The Dividend doesn't actually cut welfare. It simply pays out. Food stamps, HUD, and TANF don't pay you all-or-nothing, but rather scale with your distance from the poverty guideline. If you're closer, they pay less. More income puts you closer--or over, in which case they pay you nothing.

In other words: making people less-poor in any way (by jobs or by handing them a cash benefit) reduces the dollar amount of legally-claimable welfare.

The 2017 preliminary analysis looks like $324/month or $7,790/year, by the way. From 2013 out, that's $6,839, $7,138, $7,361, $7,517, and $7,790. It's $7,537 in 2017 if we begin paying the Dividend at age 16 (my eventual target)--I won't have a more-accurate number for that for a while yet, though, so I may be $5 or $10 off.

I wouldn't actually be recieving a $7,500 dividend, I would be recieving a $4,000 or 100% tax cut.

Right. That's why I said it's the other side of the funding structure: the point wasn't to make everyone $7,500 richer than they are today, and the scaling by inc

First of all, most of McDonald's locations are franchisee owned. Only 18% are corporate owned, 6,444 stores as of 2015.

Secondly, McDonald's does not employ 1.5 million people. They employed more than 375,000 at the end of 2016.

They are.

Not really.

In my Samsung Galaxy S5 you pop off the back, put in a new battery and replace the back. That's "user replaceable."

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If Yelp can be forced to reveal the review, then it ain't really anonymous ..

'Real parties in interest, Gregory M. Montagna and Montagna & Associates, INC.'

Getting at the battery doesn't look so bad. Clearly it's not supposed to be user serviceable, but it *is* serviceable without serious risk of damaging the phone.

Your right. Sometimes one needs to hard boot a phone by removing the battery, it takes me 14 screws just to see it. https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfr... (Pix used by Ifixit.com). I'm not a happy camper.

Britain is leaving the EU precisely so that the wealthy don't have to suffer the effects of the EU initiative to reclaim unpaid taxes.

We're leaving the EU because that's the way we voted. My vote had nothing to do with "unpaid taxes".

Plenty of other reasons and promises, many mutually incompatible, were give to people to encourage them to vote out.

My vote was based on the remainer's argument. There is certainty in the EU. So, I looked at the trends based on their argument and decided I preferred uncertainty instead.

EEC was brought in under the guise of it bringing prosperity, that's what I judged it under when it came time to vote.

Also, the EU is not run by an unelected group.

The EC which has overriding powers and it's members are not under influence of democratic voting mechanisms by the people in the EU.

A group _appointed_ by elected people is responsible for creating the initial wording of legislation

No, that's the EP, the EC can override the EP and even sets the topics that EP can discuss and vote on.

Why? I love fat porn!

You know the auto-industry has huge focus groups (usually done by email) where they present icons to people, like a trunk opening button. But they don't tell the people what it does initially - they ASK them what they think it does.

That's very interesting to hear. A friend called me for help saying "the naked butt light" on her car had turned on. (It's a low tire pressure warning.)

It also took me a while to figure out what the inductor light was. (It has nothing to do with inductors. It's a light to tell you the glow plugs in a diesel engine are still warming up.)

Only the North Atlantic has seen a slight uptick in hurricanes the last 15 years. The eastern North Pacific has been pretty flat. Tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean have been down. As have cyclones in the South Pacific (off Australia). And cyclones in the western North Pacific have been mostly flat with a recent downward trend.

So if you cherry-pick your data from just the one storm basin which fits your preconceived expectations and ignore all the others, yes hurricanes have been increasing in frequency and intensity.

The screen shot you linked is not "flat". The buttons and tabs are shaded to give a raised appearance.

This

The electoral college broke when they decided to limit the total number of Members of the House but still tie the number of electoral college votes to the number of members of Congress each state has. This means that winning one electoral vote in California takes on hell of more votes than winning the same electoral vote in Wyoming or Kansas or Montana.... giving rural states a much larger say in who is elected President of the United States.

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Votes per Electoral College members.
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Actually, 55% of Democrats believe that the Russians modified vote totals to elect Trump, according the most recent YouGov/Economist poll. This is roughly the same response rate that we've seen since December, 2016 - 50%-60% believe it.

Well it now seems that the Russians tried to attack election officials and voting machine manufacturers so there may be some fire to go with that smoke although only time will tell how much luck the Russians had with that approach. I always thought it was kind of stupid to hack the actual voting machines and counting mechanism. Just getting 'kompromat' on the candidate you don't like regarding some US specific hot button issue and releasing it at strategic moments was always much more likely to be effective and still retain some semblance of plausible deniability.

Actually, 55% of Democrats believe that the Russians modified vote totals to elect Trump, according the most recent YouGov/Economist poll. This is roughly the same response rate that we've seen since December, 2016 - 50%-60% believe it.

Wrong. Actually even FUD:

The EU's standard decision-making procedure is known as 'Ordinary Legislative Procedure' (ex "codecision"). This means that the directly elected European Parliament has to approve EU legislation together with the Council (the governments of the 28 EU countries).

While you are correct as some of these powers were brought about with the Lisbon treaty, you then you forgot THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES. Which can override decisions made regardless using the EC which has been used in great (sarcasm) decision making relating to the Eurozone, Greece and managing internal market competition law.

Saying it's fine because having the final say the vast majority of relatively unimportant legislation goes through the EP like whether we should have mobile phone tariffs across the EU isn't really giving the EP any power to really solve anything.

UK would have less control over EU.

Oh no, less control than before! Like how the UK MEPs were lobbying the Common Fisheries Policy group for 70 years continuously to fix problems that Greenland left over and during the course of 70 years lead to over-fishing and destruction of the environment that original British legislation had protected? With more and more countries coming into the pool further, the influence any single country has becomes further distilled.

Gee, the UK sure had a lot of influence for things that mattered!

Poor Greenland, they're really missing out on the trending opportunities the EU has to offer. If only they had a seat at the European table like they originally had 70 years ago!

There will be next to no change over its control over own laws.

Are you really going to ignore what happened with the European Arrest Warrant with a straight face and say there is "no change" over the UK's control on it's own laws? What happened to David Birkinshaw and Matthew Neale would never have happened if directives weren't binding that end up having to be implemented despite being violations of the UK's concepts of human rights and judicial system.

There's an actual photo of it in TFA:

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It might be unenforcable, but lots of manufacturers still do it and then try to bullshit ignorant customers.

The yellow dots theory is interesting, but The Intercept shared a copy with the government, which I presume was a scan or a photocpy of the original. Maybe their scanners & copiers are much better than mine but those yellow dots are really tiny. Would they survive a scan or photcopy intact?

Check out this copy of the search warrant which discusses a different method of how they identified her:

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Starting on page 11, they describe:

"Government Agency conducted an internal audit to determine who had accessed the intelligence reporting since its publication ... determined that six individuals had printed this reporting"

"A further audit of the six individuals' desk computers revealed that WINNER had e-mail contact with the news outlet."

Sounds like they saw a crease in the copy provided by TI which clued them in that it was a printer & identified her from there.

More than 50% of Democrats believe that Russia hacked the voting machines, changing votes to make Trump win, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll.

It's a lot more than just 'rumors' at this point - the majority of the opposition party believes it. You might wonder HOW these claims became conflated, too...

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You're just jealous because after they banned you from New York, people started getting healthier. Though I'm not quite sure why they did that, my guess is because you had your first initial installed on your back and were cited for indecent exposure, B-B-B-Barbara.

Though in all seriousness, what you have are in fact not genitals, otherwise you may as well define an anus as genitals. Instead what you have is an open wound that, as we sit here, is trying to heal itself, and requires constant intervention to prevent that from happening. Sure, it may be fashioned to look similar to genitals, but it's really only a facsimile.

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Translation to English (not cleaned up, just what the Big Goo spit out):

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Draw your own conclusions about who is really behind Macron.

Barbara Hudson had a new surgery to make sure that people remember her new name. Film at 11.

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Notice the "B" is for Barbara.

In other words, a Finnish twist on Manowar (from the equally bleak, depressing town of Auburn, NY - about a half-hour from Shittycuse).

I have been through Auburn, NY, and you're spot on.

Also, speaking of Syracuse, I've been to the original Syracuse in Sicily. It's a gorgeous ancient city on the sunny and mild Mediterranean. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the founders of Syracuse, New York were thinking when they decided to take that name. I can't think of a city that is less like it's namesake. Except maybe Toledo.

Here is a photo of Syracuse, Sicily:

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And here is a photo of Syracuse, New York:

http://image.syracuse.com/home...

That is an exaggeration. In the few hours of closest approach, they made some nice images. But Junocam's images are comparable.
Juno will be able to study Jupiter in much more detail than the Voyagers ever could achieve in their brief flyby.

The Voyagers are still listed as working, but they had their issues. Voyager 2's scan platform seized during the Saturn flyby, causing a loss of some of the planned observations.

That MacBook sure has some widely offset tits! I bet the excessive cleavage is causing the battery drain.

That has nothing to do with OLED. It can be addressed with a simple color profile; but unfortunately Google hasn't yet added color profile support to Android. Samsung has addressed it by hacking color profiles into the version of Android running on their phones. iOS does support color profiles, at least internally (it's how Apple makes their screens so color accurate).

In a nutshell, OLED has completely black blacks, and has a wider color gamut than LED - it can display more saturated colors like in real life. The current TV and web standard for color gamut is sRGB, which unfortunately was a reduction in color gamut from the NTSC standard that was used for CRT TVs. Early LCDs were vastly inferior in color reproduction than CRTs, and manufacturers managed to get the sRGB color standard hobbled to compensate for this. So all images you see designed to sRGB can only display up to about 50% the color saturation of real-life. OLEDs easily cover the Adobe RGB color gamut, which is pretty close to the old NTSC gamut.

When you display an sRGB image on a display which is capable of a wider gamut, it basically stretches the sRGB colors to map them onto the display's gamut. This is what leads to the lurid colors. The green which is supposed to be 50% of the deepest green you can see in real life (maximum green for sRGB) gets mapped to 70% of the deepest green you can see in real life, making it look unnaturally green. But if you calibrate the display with a color profile, the OS sees that the image it's trying to display is sRGB, and correctly maps it to the (roughly) lower 2/3rds of the color range the display is capable of, and the 50% green remains 50%. It's like how a stereo system which can output 200 Watts can also output 100 Watts. But to play music normalized for a 100 Watt stereo system, you have to turn down the volume on a 200 Watt system. Android currently doesn't have a standardized way to turn down the volume. (Meanwhile, the 100 Watt system can never output sound at 200 Watts.)

With proper software support, there's basically no downside to OLED other than burn-in. Color shift and fade can be compensated for by profiling the screen again. Color professionals (photographers, graphics artists, videographers) do this with their own colorimeter they buy. But there's no reason phone stores couldn't have a colorimeter on hand. You could drop by the store once a year, they use their colorimeter to profile your phone in 10 minutes, and you're out the door with a new color profile and accurate colors. But the OS has to support custom color profiles to be able to do this. And the burn-in problem was more or less solved in the CRT days with screen savers. CRTs used phosphors which also suffered burn-in, and a screen saver evened out phosphor use enough to mitigate burn-in. (You younger folks have probably wondered why they're called a screen "saver" - now you know).

> Skeuomorphic design is stupid and childish.

There is a name for myopic people who assumes their religion is "best" for everyone; their immature "my way is the only way" mentality is called a cult.

The *proper* solution is to give users a **choice** -- because good style is subjective.

Naturally, that begs the question, what is good? We'll get to that in a second.

Some people think this bookshelf is absolutely beautiful. Compare and contrast to the "modern" version which is bland and boring. All sense of charm, and uniqueness is flushed down the crapper -- Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft now all look the same. **Yawn**

I'm not the only one who hates the flat button look. All these modern designs look the same -- bland. Skeuomorphism matches what a real calculator looks like -- and you can pry my HP48SX from my cold, dead hands, thank-you very much.

Again, the best decision would be to match what users prefer. Some prefer the former, others prefer the latter. BOTH choices are OK. But designers love to pretend that they know better -- and shove their crap down my throat regardless if I like it or not.

Personally, I find antiskeuomorphism design to be dumb and gaudy -- as there no context for what is foreground and background. Congratulations, you've removed all signal and just made everything noise!. How is completely over-loading the user with noise helping them???

Maybe you prefer the gaudy, boxy design of Windows 1, er, Windows 8, but many people sure don't.

UI should be about empowering users -- NOT "let's make everything look bland, sterile, gaudy, lifeless and make me want to gouge my eyes out" because that's what modern UI has become. A clusterfuck of visual vomit.

IMO skeuomorphism is like spice

* Too much and you get indigestion.
* Too little and everything is "flat" and lacking.

I also disagree that "flat design" is skeuomorphic but that is a topic for another day.

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Henry Poincare derived the e=mc^2 Mass-Energy equivalence 5 years earlier before Einstein. Einstein also abbreviated it as a linear equation instead of an infinite series.

That said, 128GB should only be 4 times faster than 32GB, so if these figures are correct then the 32GB units are also using lower spec memory.

This is only if the 128 GB model has 4 times the chips and the 256 GB model 8 times. So if there is a single 32 GB chip in the entry model, how do they fit 8 chips in the 256 GB one? More specifically, where on that picture https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfr... is there room for 7 more chips?
That doesn't make sense, they probably fit higher density chips. And they shouldn't be faster since there isn't more parallelism.

"False flag" is not the word you're looking for, "agents provocateurs" is.

Read the link carefully (and watch the video). Some of the things listed really were "false flag" operations. Such as:

“So the Chicago protest when they shut all that, that was us,” says Black/Minter. “It was more him [Bob Creamer - a convicted fraudster, mi] than me, but none of this is supposed to come back to us, because we want it coming from people, we don’t want it to come from the party. So if we do a protest and it’s a DNC protest, right away the press is going to say partisan. But if I’m in there coordinating with all the troops on the ground and sort of playing the field general but they are the ones talking to the cameras, then it’s actually people. But if we send out press advisories with DNC on them and Clinton campaign it just doesn’t have that same effect.”

See? Their real flag would have the letter "H" on it with the strange "move right" arrow on it. But "it just doesn't have that same effect", so they falsely raised the flag of "grassroots". Hence "false flag".

It's funny that the most damning thing you can say [...]

Not an ounce of shame in you, is there? Nothing like "OMG, I can't believe Hillary Clinton, such a lady it seemed, could possible have approved anything like that!" None... A typical Democrat.

How much of that racism and anti-Semitism is actually real, and how much — "false flag" operations by DNC-operatives like these?

1) CTR explicitly instructs its workers to create and distribute racist Pepes to discredit Pepe and the so-called "alt right".

2) As anyone who spends a good amount of time on 4chan knows, literally anything at all that becomes popular will become nazi-fied at some point. It's just how the internet works, especially when you're dealing with jaded mostly-teenagers with practically total anonymity. Anything that can have swastikas spammed on it will have swastikas spammed on it, whether that 'anything' is a frog meme or a minecraft server.

3) Yes, there is racism on 4chan. Racists (and all other sorts of assholes) will always flock to bastions of anonymity and free speech - just look at any relatively-unmoderated comments section on any site on the internet. And while racism and Pepe may sometimes intersect by chance (see #2), there is no genuine correlation between the two. Much less is Pepe some revered symbol for white supremacists.

4) Also important: Much (most?) of the racism on 4chan is ironic and meant to be humorous. However since a prison shower would seem like an intolerable cesspool of political correctness compared to 4chan, this subtlety is completely lost on virtually everyone else in the world, and those who try to understand often just come to the conclusion that channers are Bad People for being amused by such things.

"It's completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate"

How much of that racism and anti-Semitism is actually real, and how much — "false flag" operations by DNC-operatives like these?

“You remember the Iowa state fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude’s hand and then the dude kind of gets roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera?” Foval asks. “That was all us. The guy that got roughed up is my counterpart who works for Bob.”

Foval also references Shirley Teeter, a sixty-nine-year-old lady who claims that she was assaulted at a Trump rally in North Carolina. “She was one of our activists,” he says while introducing the term bird dogging to the political lexicon.

In addition to these thugs on the ground, Clinton's campaign also employs online trolls (like Putin). If her political consultants aren't directing some of these guys to create fake "hate posts" — as their ethics clearly allow them to do — they aren't earning their pay...