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Why wasn't it first passed out to Samsung employees for real world tests?

It probably was. No amount of in house testing can prepare people for the stupid shit a wider audience will subject your device through. No amount of in house testing will actually subject a device to real world tests either as experts or people who stand to lose something treat their devices differently from a wide audience.

I'm reminded of Sonim showing off the "unbreakable mobile phone" at CES. Sure they demonstrated being unable to hammer a nail into the screen, but the BBC reporter made short work of the phone https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...

Should've consulted with Mel Brooks

Because choosy nerds choose GIF!

For those overseas or under 30, it's a play on the old Choosy mothers choose Jif peanut butter commercial

This got "+5 Informative" for parroting something in the summary? Sheesh.

PS: Does anybody still use GIF now that we have PNG?

Because choosy nerds choose GIF!

For those overseas or under 30, it's a play on the old Choosy mothers choose Jif peanut butter commercial

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Notorious KKK

K K K Fine
Sicker than your average nagger killer
Twist nagger’s heads off
naggers fucking stink naggers and gayers
Chicken wing eating players
Triple K hooligans like Moon Man
Dead right if they head right
Fucking your mom every night
Moon man’s been smooth since days of killing jews
Never lose
Never choose to lynch jews who do something to us

Talk go through us your mom walked to us
Get on a rape bus; screw us, screw us
Yeah, KKK, nagger babies i don’t give a fuck
Stick it up the butt

Dare I not see at your ripe cherry pussy
Bang every porch monkey easily, busily
Recently naggers fronting ain’t saying nothing
My cock nagger
Suck it, Triple K mafia, we’re on it
rs underground without a sound
You minorities can’t step to me
All spics need to go back to Mexico
Never to be stealing money from you and me

Now who’s the real dookie
All you naggers smell like shit
You naggers can ride my dick
Spear chuckers pushing up sticks
Ooga booga, go back to Africa

I don’t know why I hate blacks
Oh yeah, it’s because they look
And smell like ass

Quit throwing your chicken bones on the sidewalk
Spics need to learn some English talk

I don’t give a fuck about your mama
Jizzing on her face ain’t no drama
It’s probably different than the nagger cook she’s used to
Kill a nagger and skullfuck a jew

Hook [2x]
Moon man, Moon man, can’t you see
Spics and naggers need to hang from trees
And I just love your racist ways
I guess that’s why their mom is black and you’re so great

[Sunman]
Everything you be saying is offensive to me
As a proud African American I would have used my right to free speech
Moon Man you need to stop the hate
After all we are one universal race

Fuck off nagger
I don’t give a fuck about people of other colors
Get the fuck out you ain’t my brother
Why don’t you go and fuck a hyena
When it’s dark outside I can’t even see ya

Hook [2x]
Moon man, Moon man, can’t you see
Spics and naggers need to hang from trees
And I just love your racist ways
I guess that’s why their mom is black and you’re so great

This is Moon man here telling you naggers to take a long walk off a short pier
Vote 5, faggots, and I’m out of here


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classic

Couldn't decide between using meters or feet and went with a completely useless unit instead? How big is a kitchen table, they are pretty famous for wildly varying in size. And usually a table denotes a surface, even if you said as big as THAT table it shouldn't be about the volume of an object. Libraries of Congress suddenly makes some sense...
That said, I've been waiting for decades to see Jews in Space, maybe not much longer now?

https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...

At least they didn't have Genuine People Personalities.

The next generation of hotel robots do.

Dang it! Wrong link.
The video advanced before I could copy the URL...

Here you go, take 2:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24cig7

Here you go:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6zkhcy

That's from 20 years ago. It's even worse today.

Chandler: Y'know how people say that Tulsa is the Paris of Oklahoma?
Monica: What? Who says that?
Chandler: People who've never been to Paris.
The One where Emma cries / 12:50

Actually, you're wrong about the tax benefit, or rather, who benefits.

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I see you suffer from artism. Here are a few educational resources about this crippling disease:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...

Unfortunately, there is no cure. The only treatment option is to have somebody shout "Are you fucking serious?" every time you do or say something incredibly stupid while trying to appear that you're actually sophisticated when you really aren't.

So... Are you fucking serious?

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The "Brain Center at Mr. Whipples"

https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...

She has a bunch of videos up on Daily Motion they haven't pulled yet. Self centered militant vegan whack job.

If you think this is a left/right issue? I have some magic beans you might be interested in, or did you forget all the nasty shit Obama pushed through, the wiretapping, attacking whistleblowers, that the left cheered?

This is about those in power wanting more power PERIOD, the left has been taken over by SJWs that think you should be jailed for wrongthink, the right has been taken over by Neocons that think everyone is a potential terrorist...tomato tomatoe dude. Its why more and more of the actual classical liberals are going to the Green Party while the fiscal conservatives are going to the Libertarian Party, BOTH sides have become hopelessly corrupted so your "choices" today or Coke in a can VS Coke in a bottle, its not even Coke VS Pepsi anymore...surely you don't think Shillary actually gave a flying flipping fuck about curtailing power, did you?

What I see today only shows that Bill Hicks called it 25 years ago that its nothing but a puppet show, designed to keep the paupers arguing while the puppet masters laugh their asses off and take more and more for themselves.

Also "Trump is not my President" is fake news. Well it is if you're American, I'm not, so it's true when I say it.

Mind you it reminds me of a line from an Ozzy Osbourne song

It's been confirmed that Ozzy Osbourne is not the Antichrist. We reached the Devil at his home in Las Vegas. When asked for a comment, Satan said, "No, he's not my boy. But I love him like a son!"

http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... 3m in

And now we find that "Trump is not my President" is something the Russians were pushing. Because their goal is to delegitimize the US political institutions. Also from Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics

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

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements - extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."

African American racists = BLM. Secessionist movements are like the one in California. The left have been the ones encouraging "ethnic, social and racial conflicts". And having Richard Spencer on the news all the time is supporting "extremist, racist, and sectarian groups" too. If the media ignored him he's be in a room with half a dozen people LARPing. The media have built him up as a boogeyman who has seems to have much more influence than he really does.

White Nationalist events struggle to fill a meeting room in a hotel and even then most of the people there are journalists and FBI agents. The Right Stuff organized an event in New York and ten people turned up. I could get more than that by just saying 'Anyone fancy a pint?' on social media.

President Trump said it best when he said

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...

President Trump says, "it is more important than ever before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be successful. It's time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions. We must unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and our elections."

Quite right too. Americans need to reject false, Russian planted narratives that try to divide them based on race and ethnicity and ignore irrelevant fringe loonies like Spencer. And all come together and unite around America's institutions like the Presidency.

Trump will be out of office in two terms. It's not that long to wait.

It's post modernist thinking, that's what it is

No thanks...

But he will have to leave the UK to get that looked at.

Incorrect. If I simply overwrite data, it's gone - it is irreversible. The simplest example is setting a pixel to black; the algorithm is completely lossy - you can never reconstruct the original pixel.

Uncrop.

Two failed pilots. Joel McHale was a TERRIBLE choice for Roy.

You better check with the president first

He could never made a classic movie today. Must be his racist, misogynist, cis-centric, religiously intolerant background...

As exposed in This Film Is Not Yet Rated when an industry "regulates itself" with help of "major" players, they quickly adapt this vehicle to keep the lesser competitors out.

Is that like the Mercury Mistress?

Wow, just sad to see on another site supposedly populated by smart people so many still buy into the DemS vS Reps shell game. Perhaps a few quotes from men more powerful then I will ever be will enlighten you...

Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21 1864 "I see in the near future a crisis approaching; corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

Mayer Amschel Rothschild "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."

> I would also like you to explain to me what a "Social Justice Warrior" is

Replace the words with:

Stupid
Juvenile
Whiner

and you'll start to understand it what it means.

SJW is (typically) a dumb Gen Z with a pet peeve over some perceived bullshit "injustice" -- basically anything that doesn't agree with THEIR myopic philosophy. Now instead of actually _doing_ something AFTER careful analysis of BOTH sides of the issue, because issues are almost never black and white, they would rather have a knee-jerk reaction and whine about it instead.

For more information see the book:

SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police

There is no reasoning with these irrational people. They believe their POV (point-of-view) is the ONLY right one and blindly ignore facts. The classic attack is the ad hominem using labels as misogynist, trigger, microagression, etc. They are so insecure with their immaturity that they have to attack everyone else who doesn't agree with them. It is the ultimate Political Censorship gone wrong.

South Park poked fun of their stupidity in Season 19 by calling them Pussy Crushers

* Truth and Advertising
* PC Principal or DailyMotion

The only valid tactic is to ignore these whiney cunts -- because they make the classic Internet Trolls look like Saints in comparison -- otherwise you are just wasting your time.

You can fix ignorant.
You can't fix Stupid (Juvenile Whiners.)

Robin Hood? These are both better - Rabbit Hood: http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... Robin Hood Daffy: https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...

Robin Hood? These are both better - Rabbit Hood: http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... Robin Hood Daffy: https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...

So the biplanes in Metropolis (1927) weren't far from reality; in principle if not practice. The Johnny-cab (Total recall, 1990) is a possibility in 20 years but when will we get the sideways-traveling cars of Minority Report (2002)? I'm not even going to think about nuclear-powered flying cars (Back to the future II, 1989).

If it doesn't do uncrop, it's lame.

I think it's a bit excessive to build a whole starliner for one single guy who'll probably never go into space again anyway.

Or maybe they're talking about this space taxi? Or the song that goes with it?

Daily Motion link of the speech

Claude Paillard has a great video showing how it's done (and photos here). He's built not just his own vacuum tubes but also most of the tools needed to do so. So if you want to build your own molecular pump you'll find data here.

Can't read this without thinking of this - doesn't get more applicable:

http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...

07:26 for the direct reference, but the whole episode was a truly fantastic piece of comedy...

Of course they'll have to work it around his (already limited) tournament schedule, but I think this guy would go over really well. He's famous, he likes fast cars, and he's got the necessary mixture of feigned modesty and self-deprecation the job requires.

I tried Livestream with Safari 9.1.1 on OS X and it worked without having Flash installed. They're using HTTP Live Streaming which they can support in browsers which don't support HLS natively with hls.js (thanks to DailyMotion). So Flash is not a requirement for Livestream and they've got a pathway for dropping Flash from their site.

Call me a geek if you like, but I really enjoy watching this video of a guy hand-making triode valves (AKA vacuum tubes), it's somehow very therapeutic. Yep, only vaguely on topic, but what the hell, we're talking about vacuum tubes.

Yeah, you need to watch this, dude.

It was really badly cast and never made it past a pilot.
http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...

Though NBC is trying it again. Don't know if they've filmed a new pilot yet.

I think that someone who doesn't understand the difference between i.e. and e.g. has no business criticising others.

Good catch! ;-)

I call bullshit on Pennycook's characterization of randomly generated nonsense as B.S, which he uses as a pivot of his 'study'. Here we have a generalization and judgement, an i.e. if you will, of something that can only be evaluated on an e.g. basis.

Identifying a scrap of apparent nonsense as profound is NOT a final judgement. It is a declaration that something is worthy to remember and consider, a state of unresolved investigation. We strive to find pattern and meaning and when we glimpse something --- a wordless sense on the level of intuition gives us a tug, saying in effect, file that one for later. Now whether we do in fact remember it and get around to pondering it later... depends on the amount of mental discipline and organization.

Sadly, we know how to write and are surrounded by paper but few of us actually write interesting things down anywhere and ponder on them. The hippies who followed Maharishi around in the 60s hanging on his every word mostly didn't keep journals, they had became addicted to the rush of hearing the words being spoken to them, and were sure that somehow somewhen something would click and it would all magically drop into place. Some pretended it did merely so they could leave and get on with their lives.

If you're clever enough and work at it you can eventually find a context where any nonsense makes sense. We see this as a challenge, a game.

In this paragraph imagine that I said something profound about our dreams are a journey along the dividing line between sense and nonsense, and how it is essential for us to do this 'perimeter walk' on a regular basis to shore up the specific neuron pathways along this 'border' and drop breadcrumbs that we use to know when we are crossing the line. Having these marked perimeters being essential to maintaining sanity, something like that. But yet, peoples' reactions to encountering these crumbs in the waking state varies: some may simply turn back, some may feel encouraged to cross over, some may even feel threatened.

Not all Goo Goo Goo Joob is either scripture or blather. That one's purpose was to deliberately confound those who were deeply analyzing Beatles lyrics for hidden meaning. Even Horse ebooks is not 'nonsense'. Though it was mechanically produced it is not the result of monkeys and typewriters. Its coder gathered volumes of text in which people were expressing ideas and sentiment, so the result makes new connections. Like round blue tailights on a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

What this has to do with gullibility I have not a clue.

> Fan edits like the DeZionIzed matrix, the LOST miniseries, and Phantom Edit have been stellar improvements over the official releases.

Agreed! Fans have done an amazing job.

1. Anyone have a link to a high quality version to these? Particularly The Phantom Edit ? (It has been years since I've seen it.)

This is a low quality link :-(
* http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...

2. I would also add:

Star Wars I-III: A Phantom Edit *1080p*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's some porn with plot for you.
Would have been perfect with Morena Baccarin.

Ya, especially since the attackers were communicating on an unencrypted cell network. This is a purely political statement to move their surveillance agenda along.

You're spot on. There's a cadre of retired intel who, like aging Hollywood actors providing voice talent, get 'tapped' to emerge from retirement and give an press interview or two to drop 'venerable old spook' seed quotes that Opinion columns can churn. I really do believe these people are called up and someone says, "We have an assignment for you. Plant this idea."

Retirees can emerge from the fog, drop their seeds and retreat, there is no unscripted follow-up. Politicians could not do this without having to field questions about their remarks at future press conferences. It is a bug in the human psyche that retired politicians are ascribed more credibility than those in power. They also become 'nonpartisan' in retirement and Opinion columnists of either party can pick up their remarks and without appearing to cross the line.

Crisis: Snowden brand is becoming too popular, achieving folk hero status.
Mission: Tie Snowden to Paris attacks, disingenuously if necessary. Be emotional, tactless and tearful.
Target demographic: People who believe a retiree is 'leaking' old secrets for the betterment of man.
Assigned to: R. James Woolsey, Jr., Director CIA under Clinton

Remember the Clinton Administration and his hatchet-man Al Gore, who made the rounds to Congress trying to sell the idea that it was time to outlaw all non-escrow encryption and impose a single government standard? It's that Woolsey, trying to pull the Woolsey over our eyes again.

There are others. Remember in the early days after 9/11, when Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz used practiced 'aggrieved old man scowls' to shut down questions they didn't like to hear at press conferences, leave them unanswered? And how the fawning press stopped asking those questions? The aggrieved old man bit really works, especially with young reporters.

It distresses me to see the bumbling neocon idiots who built their entire careers on the Big Lie, disregarding their own CIA intel and deceiving the public about threat level (Documentary: The Power of Nightmares) are now being 'tapped' for Middle East analyst sound bites. Every time Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Chaney or Pearl are quoted the bile rises in my throat. Likewise do old Democrats like Woolsey whose attempted Orwellian schemes I, for one, will never forget.

The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)

Some times yes, some scepticism is in order. In the case of the downed Russian plane, I'd even agree. But in this case, no. If you can't tell the difference too bad for you. It's obvious the IS claim is genuine, at very least it's a similar islamic group. Who do you want to blame? The Russians?

I understand your "at the very least" gist but it covers a lot of ground these days. You should check out Adam Curtis' 2004 documentary The Power of Nightmares . It describes the rise of the American neo-conservative movement in the United States and the rise of radical Islam in the Middle East, and dares to compare them, finding some striking similarities. Curtis' documentary describes how Sayyid Qutb was scandalized by what he experienced in America and what was happening in Egyptian society at the time, and was instrumental in re-planting the ancient seeds of ultra-orthodox Islam 'Wahhabism' in modern times.

What we call "radical Islam" these days would be more appropriately described as "radical action to promote ultra-conservative Islam". In the 1950s, many places in the Middle East were becoming 'Westernized' as they were becoming 'modernized' --- two terms one cannot always use interchangeably --- in places very similar to the urbanization occurring in the US. Nothing communicates this more clearly than these photographs taken in Kabul. Ironically it was the US and USSR way by proxy starting in 1979 that set the country back, handing control to the victorious CIA-ISI-supported mujahideen.

Those who engage in such acts are murderous fucks, and if they claim they are Muslim they should be fed to hogs.

To identify them directly with any religion, even if they are completely enthralled by it, is no favor to you. It elevates them and the religion more than either deserve. Yes some Muslims are assholes. Certainly not the family running the grocery store next door who gave me food and electricity when I had none. State sponsors of these terror groups, including our own CIA (through the Pakistani ISI) should also be held accountable for their actions --- not just by people who remember certain periods in history --- but everyone with the courage to stand up and demand answers to questions today. Like where exactly are the modern weapons and training support coming from? If our allies are involved, what is the true extent of the involvement? And how is Russia's involvement in Syria today similar to what happened in Afghanistan in 1980?

There are no easy answers. If you reach back far enough in time there aren't even any good guys.

Why do I fail to equate the tenets of any sect of Islam with any Middle Eastern country, including the newest one --- Europe?
Because I am an American and I believe in the separation of Church and State.

Why do I believe States should be held more accountable than Religions in sponsoring terrorism?
Because I am an American and I do not believe in the establishment of an official religion for anything at all.

Take a moment to review NERC EOP-005-2: System Restoration from Blackstart Resources. If you live in North America, plans described in this document are your only real line of defense from the chaos and harm that may arise from grid-down disaster. Here is a peek at some software tools used by the industry and Black Start specific enhancements in progress [2013].

Note that NERC's Compliance and Enforcement process is voluntary. This means no one's going to jail for failure to implement these measures... and there are many in the industry who prefer it that way. We have witnessed the growth of the Department of Homeland Security way past its original mandate. Indeed there is a slow motion power grab in progress.

If you distrust large corporations and the consortiums they form then you're already suspicious. But few can argue that the grid is not resilient or well designed. In most cases frequency and voltage give operators all the feedback they need. But it has not ever been shut off completely, and the electrical equivalent of post-9/11 'ground stop' is neither practical nor possible to test black start capability... NERC does do regular computer simulations of country-wide restarts.

So if you are fortunate to live near one of the ~7,304 operational power plants in the United States (for example) and know some people who work there, you might pose these questions:

Has your plant participated in EOP-005 drills?
Has there ever been a country or region-wide drill where procedures are acted out in real time?
Do you feel the time presently devoted to this scenario is adequate, and plans are in place?
Do you have confidence that the grid could be restarted successfully?
Are there any 'old school' approaches to this problem you feel are not addressed or trained adequately?
To what extent are these black start procedures reliant on computers and functional computer networks?
What kinds of grid-wide inter-plant communications are in place for coordination when the grid is down?
Would any coordination efforts rely on carrier networks (telephone, cell, Internet) being up?

The very first BBC episode of Connections The Trigger Effect explores how we have become reliant on modern technology without needing to understand its intricacies, and uses the Northeast Blackout on November 9, 1965 and peoples' reactions to illustrate this.

If Black Start should fail or become delayed indefinitely, National Geographic: American Blackout is a documentary that dramatically explores effects of an extended grid outage. It is a tame outage -- no Winter freeze or volcanic ash --- with cyberattack as its rather specious scenario. At present the operational controls of power plants are diverse and there is a great deal of manual control, and a coordinated attack could only target the grid monitoring systems and communications between plants.