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The dudes on reddit.com/r/the_donald are having a fucking field day with everything released.

Dont think so? https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D... They have been digging through all of it. Wikileaks pops up once and awhile and says 'hey you missed this too'. It pretty much confirms Trumps narrative that the media is in the tank for her.

You have to go back.

Layoffs eliminate redundancy. They get rid of "dead wood" by pruning branches: your department is no longer necessary, your job role is no longer required. That doesn't mean you aren't damned-good at your job; it means we can't use you. An accounting firm can't make much use of a biochemical engineer, either.

It's good management practice to attempt to retain valuable employees. Layoffs are an unfortunate necessity and, barring a complete sociopath or someone with highly-matured defense mechanisms (yeah, there's a healthy and an unhealthy way to accept the dirty work you have to do), the person in the room who's about to have the worst day the morning the notice goes out is the manager doing the hatchet work. Highly-skilled and effective managers will create profiles of employee skills and competency, and slot them into new positions opening into the company. That usually only captures a small proportion of the staff, but it still lets you retain your most-suitable employees; the ones you let go are a mix of better and worse employees, and all ill-suited for whatever positions you need to fill in the coming months.

Good management practice is hard, though; and many people would have trouble selecting the most-suited employees for upcoming positions and at least retaining them. A lot of people might resort to detachment, temporarily forgetting that these people are human beings, only identifying their relative usefulness, and not letting themselves acknowledge that there aren't just better people who are getting let go for not fitting the few up-and-coming positions you need filled, but also that even the less-skilled workers aren't bad people and don't deserve to be tossed out. Most people simply can't handle it emotionally, and either throw the whole department out so they don't have to look too hard at individual names and faces, or distance themselves.

Most of us engineers get a job in a week. Some of us don't. There are only so many jobs, and someone has to pay salaries; we're all trying to cut someone else's throat and pick someone else's pocket to keep ourselves in the game. I'm not remiss about actively working to improve things to the point that even my own job goes obsolete in the process; I don't worry over who has to sit out and starve because I get to eat and sleep in a real bed.

That doesn't mean I haven't tried to fix it. Unfortunately, most people either talk about the poor and then immediately get mad you didn't hurt the rich, or they have a fantasy about the poor so strong that "you, personally, would have $12,000 more money to spend every year" is responded to with "yeah but only if you can make sure the poor people can't have anything!" The whole job protectionism thing is based on backwards economics, but that I can at least understand--people are scared about their security; they like reaping the benefit of everyone else going through lay-offs and outsourcing, but they're afraid they personally might get hurt one day.

This is irrelevant. Hacked people supposedly got hacked again...
For actual news about the leaks you should go:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/575e37/new_wikileaks_podesta_emails_part_five_673_more/
https://twitter.com/wikileaks

Sample:

Best Podesta leak pair: 1) HRC stating in 2014 that the Saud+Qatar govts fund ISIL and 2) Qatar giving Bill Clinton $1m for 5 minute meeting

ABC Exec Ben Sherwood Pledges "Any and All ABC Platforms" to Help Hillary.

CNN's Donna Brazile, now head of DNC, tipped off Clinton campaign about debate question

Algeria Donated to the Clinton Campaign in order to get off the Terror Watchlist, according to Joe Scarborough

This is irrelevant. Hacked people supposedly got hacked again...
For actual news about the leaks you should go:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/575e37/new_wikileaks_podesta_emails_part_five_673_more/
https://twitter.com/wikileaks

Sample:

Best Podesta leak pair: 1) HRC stating in 2014 that the Saud+Qatar govts fund ISIL and 2) Qatar giving Bill Clinton $1m for 5 minute meeting

ABC Exec Ben Sherwood Pledges "Any and All ABC Platforms" to Help Hillary.

CNN's Donna Brazile, now head of DNC, tipped off Clinton campaign about debate question

Algeria Donated to the Clinton Campaign in order to get off the Terror Watchlist, according to Joe Scarborough

)O_o(

https://www.reddit.com/r/trees

iPhone 7 exploded in transit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

iPhone 6 exploded in user's pocket:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Since duopoly is inherent in First Past The Post voting, why do you then also believe that voting third party will break the duopoly?

Because Gary Johnson supports ranked voting (instead of FPTP) and majority voting (instead of the electoral college).

At least he might have a platform to start the conversation. The major party candidates won't.

Citation? start here [lmgtfy.com].

Sorry, that's not evidence of abuse. There is evidence of people — demos (in Greek) — unhappy with the cameras. Proving abuse is much harder.

Moreover, the people receiving fines — and a camera can issue many more tickets than a police officer — would be most unhappy without any abuse whatsoever. A perfectly functional red-light camera, operated in full accordance with rules and laws, would be a source of much unhappiness anyway.

They do not make the observation that the city rigged the yellow lights to be impractically short

A city could do that without a camera. Indeed, there are credible reports of cities rigging speed-limits that way — some more outrageous than others. Small-town governments always had an incentive to prosecute out-of-town folks for every infraction — for such drivers do not vote in local elections — while letting the locals through with a warning or without even being stopped.

Cameras — too stupid (or "impartial") to distinguish — interfered with that approach, fining locals, who represent the majority of drivers, along with out-of-towners and -staters. And that is, most likely, why they've been pulled back... Hence my blaming of Democracy.

Gripping first hand account of a user being hunted like an animal in a shanty town in the California desert (long but worth it)

https://www.reddit.com/r/solot...

"A tiny history lesson on Slab City for those that have no idea what it is. I first became aware of it in the Sean Penn directed movie about the life of Christopher McCandless, "Into the Wild". In Alexander SuperTramp's (A name Chris chose for himself) travels around the US before ultimately dying in an abandoned bus in Alaska, he spends time at Slab City.

It was originally an army base, it looks peaceful and loving, a hippie utopia. He visits Salvation mountain. It is a monument right outside of Slab City that was built over the course of 30 years by Leonard Knight. A crazy old Slabber, but full of love like nobody you've ever seen. He built it out of Hay bails covered in adobe, items he found in the desert and covered it in over 300,000 cans of paint, all donated. Leonard has since died and his mountain is a tourist attraction. Without him to do the constant maintenance on his creation, it will slowly crumble to nothing.

I researched the Slabs a bit just out of curiosity. Even thoughhough it is in the damn Imperial desert in California, it has a water source. What I believe to be the Colorado River is redirected along side the Slabs. There is a natural hot spring where these fuckers bathe in each others filthy body stew. There is a makeshift Library, an internet cafe, a bunch of little social clubs you can join and even a hostel for teenage runaways that takes any sort of miniscule donation. There is a church and they actually feed the Slabbers on Saturday's. And of course, there is "The Range". Saturday night's entertainment. A stage set in front of a hundred of the worst condition couches and chairs you'll ever see. Have you ever seen a stained couch on the sidewalk with holes and springs poking out and a "free" sign on it? Well, I assure you it ended up at The Range. Anyway, it's a talent show of sorts. Possibly the only talent it has ever seen was an acoustic song sung by Kirsten Stuart in the movie.

So that's Slab City. The state of California is trying to sell the land and evict all of the squatters, Snowbirds (retirement age RV'ers) tweakers, criminals, hippies and lowlifes. Had I written this before my actual experience there I would have said they are trying to evict the loving hippie commune that just want a simple life and deserve to have this one forgotten piece of desert. But, I've been there and opinions change. So, I figured if I ever want to check out this place before it is sold or Salvation Mountain crumbles to dust, now is the time.

That's why I went. Just to check it out, camp for a week or so...maybe longer if I liked the vibe. I had enough supplies to last me and my dog for months. Now on with my horror story...

I left on 11/3/15 at 7am with my trusty road dog named Cooper. He is an Italian Greyhound/Pit bull mix. I wanted to get there as fast as possible. New Hampshire to southern California, just over 3000 miles in a Honda Civic with NO radio. I only stayed at 2 Motels long enough to get a full night sleep and took a 3 hour nap at a rest stop. There isn't much to say about the entire length of the US when you're rushing through it. I arrived at Slab City on 11/6/15 at 9:30pm having spent only $300 on gas, not bad at all. Being so late at night and as dark as I've ever seen, I had no idea where to go. I didn't want to infringe on someone's established site. I drove down a dirt road that could shake the bolts loose on your car. I saw a spot I could pull in with nobody around. I got out and looked into the darkness and filled Coopers bowls with food and water. I was expecting to hear people, maybe rowdy people or talking or music, something. It was completely silent, at 9:30pm. NOTHING. I then realized that I am making a lot of noise when A flashlight came on in the distance. I've been opening and

I was hunted at Slab City

https://www.reddit.com/r/solot...

"A tiny history lesson on Slab City for those that have no idea what it is. I first became aware of it in the Sean Penn directed movie about the life of Christopher McCandless, "Into the Wild". In Alexander SuperTramp's (A name Chris chose for himself) travels around the US before ultimately dying in an abandoned bus in Alaska, he spends time at Slab City.

It was originally an army base, it looks peaceful and loving, a hippie utopia. He visits Salvation mountain. It is a monument right outside of Slab City that was built over the course of 30 years by Leonard Knight. A crazy old Slabber, but full of love like nobody you've ever seen. He built it out of Hay bails covered in adobe, items he found in the desert and covered it in over 300,000 cans of paint, all donated. Leonard has since died and his mountain is a tourist attraction. Without him to do the constant maintenance on his creation, it will slowly crumble to nothing.

I researched the Slabs a bit just out of curiosity. Even thoughhough it is in the damn Imperial desert in California, it has a water source. What I believe to be the Colorado River is redirected along side the Slabs. There is a natural hot spring where these fuckers bathe in each others filthy body stew. There is a makeshift Library, an internet cafe, a bunch of little social clubs you can join and even a hostel for teenage runaways that takes any sort of miniscule donation. There is a church and they actually feed the Slabbers on Saturday's. And of course, there is "The Range". Saturday night's entertainment. A stage set in front of a hundred of the worst condition couches and chairs you'll ever see. Have you ever seen a stained couch on the sidewalk with holes and springs poking out and a "free" sign on it? Well, I assure you it ended up at The Range. Anyway, it's a talent show of sorts. Possibly the only talent it has ever seen was an acoustic song sung by Kirsten Stuart in the movie.

So that's Slab City. The state of California is trying to sell the land and evict all of the squatters, Snowbirds (retirement age RV'ers) tweakers, criminals, hippies and lowlifes. Had I written this before my actual experience there I would have said they are trying to evict the loving hippie commune that just want a simple life and deserve to have this one forgotten piece of desert. But, I've been there and opinions change. So, I figured if I ever want to check out this place before it is sold or Salvation Mountain crumbles to dust, now is the time.

That's why I went. Just to check it out, camp for a week or so...maybe longer if I liked the vibe. I had enough supplies to last me and my dog for months. Now on with my horror story...

I left on 11/3/15 at 7am with my trusty road dog named Cooper. He is an Italian Greyhound/Pit bull mix. I wanted to get there as fast as possible. New Hampshire to southern California, just over 3000 miles in a Honda Civic with NO radio. I only stayed at 2 Motels long enough to get a full night sleep and took a 3 hour nap at a rest stop. There isn't much to say about the entire length of the US when you're rushing through it. I arrived at Slab City on 11/6/15 at 9:30pm having spent only $300 on gas, not bad at all. Being so late at night and as dark as I've ever seen, I had no idea where to go. I didn't want to infringe on someone's established site. I drove down a dirt road that could shake the bolts loose on your car. I saw a spot I could pull in with nobody around. I got out and looked into the darkness and filled Coopers bowls with food and water. I was expecting to hear people, maybe rowdy people or talking or music, something. It was completely silent, at 9:30pm. NOTHING. I then realized that I am making a lot of noise when A flashlight came on in the distance. I've been opening and closing my doors and my dog eating is echoing in the distance. I realize that I'm the asshole.

I was e

Perhaps you can do something where you have the best of both worlds? Linux host with GPU pass through (dedicated hardware for Windows VM to run Steam). 95% performance. I use Apple stuff at work and really dig it for development, homebrew makes it amazing. Got 7 for a workstation at home (copy of 8 just waiting to migrate to when I do another hardware refresh) and a bunch of VMs and VPS for work. Here's one thread on it, there are more guides out there.

Amazon's in-house shipping is terrible. They've already rolled this out to some cities. Horribly untrained people delivering packages. 5 of 6 AMZL_US shipped packages, of mine, were delayed in September alone. If they do this, I will cancel Amazon Prime. https://www.reddit.com/r/amazo...

I already saw Operation Google on internet neckbeard self-stim party Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Google...

The hardest part of space travel is probably fuel economy which is why it makes little sense to see the booster rocket land on its own power. Sure, you can do it, but if you rely on your rocket engines entirely to decelerate (as the video clearly shows), you would need roughly double the fuel. Instead, what NASA and every other space agency has done, is to rely on parachutes and air resistance (yep, all the fire on the bottom of the shuttle, or a mercury capsule means that air resistance is actually slowing the spacecraft down). This is much more efficient. Another alternative would be to use the boosters for the final few seconds.

And yes, I learned this playing Kerbal Space Program and Elon should know better since he plays too;)

You may want to read this before using Ubiquiti.

http://themeparkitect.com/
http://devlog.themeparkitect.c...
https://twitter.com/ParkitectG...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Theme...
http://www.reddit.com/r/trees

If you liked Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 but hated the 3rd release, then you'll love this game.

Available on Ubuntu Linux, OS X, and Windows.

http://themeparkitect.com/
http://devlog.themeparkitect.c...
https://twitter.com/ParkitectG...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Theme...
http://www.reddit.com/r/trees

If you liked Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 but hated the 3rd release, then you'll love this game.

Available on Ubuntu Linux, OS X, and Windows.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

This is the group he is trying to take over. He has been trying to do it since early June. They drop kicked him out.

Here is a link to the live post, not the archived one. There was a huge backlash in the community because of this post, ultimately resulting in the resignation of several mods. You can clearly see that NimbleRichMan whose account has since been deleted is not funding anything. They are on their own.

Here is a link to the live post, not the archived one. There was a huge backlash in the community because of this post, ultimately resulting in the resignation of several mods. You can clearly see that NimbleRichMan whose account has since been deleted is not funding anything. They are on their own.

Reddit's The_Donald has a late night thread where some are talking about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

"This" being the media trying to spin "NimbleRichMan" as a secret funder. He is not. He just begged for money.

The articles really go through a lot of effort to hide this fact, to give a false impression. One interesting thing: the mod that promoted NimbleAmerica was Milo, lol.

Ah so that was the 'secret rich guy'.

Some jackass tried to monetize www.reddit.com/r/the_donald.

It was some 'secret' and 'well vetted' by milo. Shady as fuck. the_donald drop kicked him out. The mods there purged anyone with a hint of a connection to this guy.

So now he is claiming it was all him. Still shady as fuck and a blatant money grab. As come nov9 the whole 'alt-right movement' basically goes away one way or another.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

Dont give this dude a thin dime. If you want to donate there are links on all of the candidates websites to do so.

As explained in the slashdot story from 3.5 hours ago ...

A reddit poster offered this, in his link Lenovo says the dev team is working on it:

""[–]0xFFFFFF 89 points 7 hours ago*
Levono is aware of the issue and fixing it: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/L...
It is on hackernews, where people are being rational and theorizing that this is not microsofts fault. More like best-buy rep doesn't know what he talks about and the SSD doesn't have support drivers in linux kernal.. Or lenova messed up their bios implementation.
Luckily we have the reddit witchhunt in full force, so we can make uninformed rants!
Note: Every single previous similar scenario about linux being locked out has not been microsofts fault, which is why people are sceptical that this is the case this time..
I also have a Signature Edition laptop, it runs linux fine..""
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

The Lenovo link has an official post saying:

"Re: Yoga 900-13ISK2 - BIOS update for setting RAID mode for missing hard drive on linux install Options
07-27-2016 10:04 AM
Thank you for confirming it is still not possible to install Linux on Yoga 900-13ISK2 systems.
This issue has been escalated to the Development team. I am unable to offer a timeframe for fix at this stage in the investigation. With previous cases, BIOS fixes have been delivered anywhere from several weeks to several months.
I will post again when I have more information on the investigation."
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/L...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
and
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
and
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

A reddit poster offered this, in his link Lenovo says the dev team is working on it:

""[–]0xFFFFFF 89 points 7 hours ago*
Levono is aware of the issue and fixing it: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/L...
It is on hackernews, where people are being rational and theorizing that this is not microsofts fault. More like best-buy rep doesn't know what he talks about and the SSD doesn't have support drivers in linux kernal.. Or lenova messed up their bios implementation.
Luckily we have the reddit witchhunt in full force, so we can make uninformed rants!
Note: Every single previous similar scenario about linux being locked out has not been microsofts fault, which is why people are sceptical that this is the case this time..
I also have a Signature Edition laptop, it runs linux fine..""
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

The Lenovo link has an official post saying:

"Re: Yoga 900-13ISK2 - BIOS update for setting RAID mode for missing hard drive on linux install Options
07-27-2016 10:04 AM
Thank you for confirming it is still not possible to install Linux on Yoga 900-13ISK2 systems.
This issue has been escalated to the Development team. I am unable to offer a timeframe for fix at this stage in the investigation. With previous cases, BIOS fixes have been delivered anywhere from several weeks to several months.
I will post again when I have more information on the investigation."
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/L...

Sorry, url to reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

Sorry, you can't use successful and Wu in the same sentence. FYI even her buddies(Quinn, et.al) knew that Wu was so batshit insane that they cut them off from the SJW circle-jerk and even people like K.Cross(you might note from Sarkeesian fame) who was once Sarkeesians handler, washed their hands of Wu after trying to deal with them. The only thing GG did was highlight that Wu paid for awards for their shitty title. Need background reading? Check the CON leaks. Showing that various members were out there while claiming to be anti-harassment, and instead were harassing and/or doxing them. That's the same organization btw that had a member sexually harassing 20+ women who went to them for help. Nice projection as always from the anti-GG side.

Details on cushy ambassadorships via Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

The Android subreddit was discussing this a day ago. In actuality some Android devices have slightly better performance in the multi-core benchmark while their single-core scores are much lower, although take comparing different platform scores with a dash of salt. I don't follow mobile devices but some people attribute some of this performance to come from NVMe storage in newer iPhones. https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro... has one of the benchmarks posted.

The Android subreddit was discussing this a day ago. In actuality some Android devices have slightly better performance in the multi-core benchmark while their single-core scores are much lower, although take comparing different platform scores with a dash of salt. I don't follow mobile devices but some people attribute some of this performance to come from NVMe storage in newer iPhones. https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro... has one of the benchmarks posted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRe... I'm open to further ideas.

I was hunted in Slab City

https://www.reddit.com/r/solot...

Rotor, the tor fork

I was hunted in Slab City

https://www.reddit.com/r/solot...

"A tiny history lesson on Slab City for those that have no idea what it is. I first became aware of it in the Sean Penn directed movie about the life of Christopher McCandless, "Into the Wild". In Alexander SuperTramp's (A name Chris chose for himself) travels around the US before ultimately dying in an abandoned bus in Alaska, he spends time at Slab City.

It was originally an army base, it looks peaceful and loving, a hippie utopia. He visits Salvation mountain. It is a monument right outside of Slab City that was built over the course of 30 years by Leonard Knight. A crazy old Slabber, but full of love like nobody you've ever seen. He built it out of Hay bails covered in adobe, items he found in the desert and covered it in over 300,000 cans of paint, all donated. Leonard has since died and his mountain is a tourist attraction. Without him to do the constant maintenance on his creation, it will slowly crumble to nothing.

I researched the Slabs a bit just out of curiosity. Even thoughhough it is in the damn Imperial desert in California, it has a water source. What I believe to be the Colorado River is redirected along side the Slabs. There is a natural hot spring where these fuckers bathe in each others filthy body stew. There is a makeshift Library, an internet cafe, a bunch of little social clubs you can join and even a hostel for teenage runaways that takes any sort of miniscule donation. There is a church and they actually feed the Slabbers on Saturday's. And of course, there is "The Range". Saturday night's entertainment. A stage set in front of a hundred of the worst condition couches and chairs you'll ever see. Have you ever seen a stained couch on the sidewalk with holes and springs poking out and a "free" sign on it? Well, I assure you it ended up at The Range. Anyway, it's a talent show of sorts. Possibly the only talent it has ever seen was an acoustic song sung by Kirsten Stuart in the movie.

So that's Slab City. The state of California is trying to sell the land and evict all of the squatters, Snowbirds (retirement age RV'ers) tweakers, criminals, hippies and lowlifes. Had I written this before my actual experience there I would have said they are trying to evict the loving hippie commune that just want a simple life and deserve to have this one forgotten piece of desert. But, I've been there and opinions change. So, I figured if I ever want to check out this place before it is sold or Salvation Mountain crumbles to dust, now is the time.

That's why I went. Just to check it out, camp for a week or so...maybe longer if I liked the vibe. I had enough supplies to last me and my dog for months. Now on with my horror story...

I left on 11/3/15 at 7am with my trusty road dog named Cooper. He is an Italian Greyhound/Pit bull mix. I wanted to get there as fast as possible. New Hampshire to southern California, just over 3000 miles in a Honda Civic with NO radio. I only stayed at 2 Motels long enough to get a full night sleep and took a 3 hour nap at a rest stop. There isn't much to say about the entire length of the US when you're rushing through it. I arrived at Slab City on 11/6/15 at 9:30pm having spent only $300 on gas, not bad at all. Being so late at night and as dark as I've ever seen, I had no idea where to go. I didn't want to infringe on someone's established site. I drove down a dirt road that could shake the bolts loose on your car. I saw a spot I could pull in with nobody around. I got out and looked into the darkness and filled Coopers bowls with food and water. I was expecting to hear people, maybe rowdy people or talking or music, something. It was completely silent, at 9:30pm. NOTHING. I then realized that I am making a lot of noise when A flashlight came on in the distance. I've been opening and closing my doors and my dog eating is echoing in the distance. I realize that I'm the asshole.

I was e

I was hunted in Slab City

https://www.reddit.com/r/solot...

"A tiny history lesson on Slab City for those that have no idea what it is. I first became aware of it in the Sean Penn directed movie about the life of Christopher McCandless, "Into the Wild". In Alexander SuperTramp's (A name Chris chose for himself) travels around the US before ultimately dying in an abandoned bus in Alaska, he spends time at Slab City.

It was originally an army base, it looks peaceful and loving, a hippie utopia. He visits Salvation mountain. It is a monument right outside of Slab City that was built over the course of 30 years by Leonard Knight. A crazy old Slabber, but full of love like nobody you've ever seen. He built it out of Hay bails covered in adobe, items he found in the desert and covered it in over 300,000 cans of paint, all donated. Leonard has since died and his mountain is a tourist attraction. Without him to do the constant maintenance on his creation, it will slowly crumble to nothing.

I researched the Slabs a bit just out of curiosity. Even thoughhough it is in the damn Imperial desert in California, it has a water source. What I believe to be the Colorado River is redirected along side the Slabs. There is a natural hot spring where these fuckers bathe in each others filthy body stew. There is a makeshift Library, an internet cafe, a bunch of little social clubs you can join and even a hostel for teenage runaways that takes any sort of miniscule donation. There is a church and they actually feed the Slabbers on Saturday's. And of course, there is "The Range". Saturday night's entertainment. A stage set in front of a hundred of the worst condition couches and chairs you'll ever see. Have you ever seen a stained couch on the sidewalk with holes and springs poking out and a "free" sign on it? Well, I assure you it ended up at The Range. Anyway, it's a talent show of sorts. Possibly the only talent it has ever seen was an acoustic song sung by Kirsten Stuart in the movie.

So that's Slab City. The state of California is trying to sell the land and evict all of the squatters, Snowbirds (retirement age RV'ers) tweakers, criminals, hippies and lowlifes. Had I written this before my actual experience there I would have said they are trying to evict the loving hippie commune that just want a simple life and deserve to have this one forgotten piece of desert. But, I've been there and opinions change. So, I figured if I ever want to check out this place before it is sold or Salvation Mountain crumbles to dust, now is the time.

That's why I went. Just to check it out, camp for a week or so...maybe longer if I liked the vibe. I had enough supplies to last me and my dog for months. Now on with my horror story...

I left on 11/3/15 at 7am with my trusty road dog named Cooper. He is an Italian Greyhound/Pit bull mix. I wanted to get there as fast as possible. New Hampshire to southern California, just over 3000 miles in a Honda Civic with NO radio. I only stayed at 2 Motels long enough to get a full night sleep and took a 3 hour nap at a rest stop. There isn't much to say about the entire length of the US when you're rushing through it. I arrived at Slab City on 11/6/15 at 9:30pm having spent only $300 on gas, not bad at all. Being so late at night and as dark as I've ever seen, I had no idea where to go. I didn't want to infringe on someone's established site. I drove down a dirt road that could shake the bolts loose on your car. I saw a spot I could pull in with nobody around. I got out and looked into the darkness and filled Coopers bowls with food and water. I was expecting to hear people, maybe rowdy people or talking or music, something. It was completely silent, at 9:30pm. NOTHING. I then realized that I am making a lot of noise when A flashlight came on in the distance. I've been opening and closing my doors and my dog eating is echoing in the distance. I realize that I'm the assh

I was hunted in Slab City

https://www.reddit.com/r/solot...

"A tiny history lesson on Slab City for those that have no idea what it is. I first became aware of it in the Sean Penn directed movie about the life of Christopher McCandless, "Into the Wild". In Alexander SuperTramp's (A name Chris chose for himself) travels around the US before ultimately dying in an abandoned bus in Alaska, he spends time at Slab City.

It was originally an army base, it looks peaceful and loving, a hippie utopia. He visits Salvation mountain. It is a monument right outside of Slab City that was built over the course of 30 years by Leonard Knight. A crazy old Slabber, but full of love like nobody you've ever seen. He built it out of Hay bails covered in adobe, items he found in the desert and covered it in over 300,000 cans of paint, all donated. Leonard has since died and his mountain is a tourist attraction. Without him to do the constant maintenance on his creation, it will slowly crumble to nothing.

I researched the Slabs a bit just out of curiosity. Even thoughhough it is in the damn Imperial desert in California, it has a water source. What I believe to be the Colorado River is redirected along side the Slabs. There is a natural hot spring where these fuckers bathe in each others filthy body stew. There is a makeshift Library, an internet cafe, a bunch of little social clubs you can join and even a hostel for teenage runaways that takes any sort of miniscule donation. There is a church and they actually feed the Slabbers on Saturday's. And of course, there is "The Range". Saturday night's entertainment. A stage set in front of a hundred of the worst condition couches and chairs you'll ever see. Have you ever seen a stained couch on the sidewalk with holes and springs poking out and a "free" sign on it? Well, I assure you it ended up at The Range. Anyway, it's a talent show of sorts. Possibly the only talent it has ever seen was an acoustic song sung by Kirsten Stuart in the movie.

So that's Slab City. The state of California is trying to sell the land and evict all of the squatters, Snowbirds (retirement age RV'ers) tweakers, criminals, hippies and lowlifes. Had I written this before my actual experience there I would have said they are trying to evict the loving hippie commune that just want a simple life and deserve to have this one forgotten piece of desert. But, I've been there and opinions change. So, I figured if I ever want to check out this place before it is sold or Salvation Mountain crumbles to dust, now is the time.

That's why I went. Just to check it out, camp for a week or so...maybe longer if I liked the vibe. I had enough supplies to last me and my dog for months. Now on with my horror story...

I left on 11/3/15 at 7am with my trusty road dog named Cooper. He is an Italian Greyhound/Pit bull mix. I wanted to get there as fast as possible. New Hampshire to southern California, just over 3000 miles in a Honda Civic with NO radio. I only stayed at 2 Motels long enough to get a full night sleep and took a 3 hour nap at a rest stop. There isn't much to say about the entire length of the US when you're rushing through it. I arrived at Slab City on 11/6/15 at 9:30pm having spent only $300 on gas, not bad at all. Being so late at night and as dark as I've ever seen, I had no idea where to go. I didn't want to infringe on someone's established site. I drove down a dirt road that could shake the bolts loose on your car. I saw a spot I could pull in with nobody around. I got out and looked into the darkness and filled Coopers bowls with food and water. I was expecting to hear people, maybe rowdy people or talking or music, something. It was completely silent, at 9:30pm. NOTHING. I then realized that I am making a lot of noise when A flashlight came on in the distance. I've been opening and closing my doors and my dog eating is echoing in the distance. I realize that I'm the asshole.

Just out of curiosity, how would an air cushion work in a vacuum tube?

All the Hyperloop designs are of course not vacuum, just low pressure, so an air cushion is physically possible.

However, it's a good question, and Hyperloop One answered it thusly:

It does get pretty tricky to find enough air in a vacuum tube to use for air bearings. We ultimately went the maglev route for a variety of reasons but this was a big one.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies also went maglev instead of air cushion.

The paper from Dresden is available in English: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/masc... Of the chinese paper, I only know English reports of the abstract, such as from https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDri...

Hold on, wasn't the EM Drive debunked some months back?

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDri...

One of many guides for it that I've read using a second video card and monitor hookup with the card itself assigned to a VM using IOMMU with something like 97% benchmark performance of bare metal, but I don't have a second video card to try it with, so I'm stuck with playing 2D games in a window.

It's almost like the majority of players who put up their hard earned cash for this game aren't wisened old neckbeards like yourself...
What sort of percentage of monthly income do you think $60 is for a 17 year old?
I'll give you a hint. It's a significant amount.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMan...
The Distribution of Ages of No Man's Sky Players
Sample Size: 1799
Average Age: 25
Mode (Most popular age): 17
Second most popular age: 18
Third most popular age: 21

No one is stopping you from spewing whatever inane stupidy passes for incitement commentary among your crowd. You'll be just as free to make an idiot of yourself on Twitter once these changes are in effect.

Really? You should pay more attention, because that's exactly what's happening. This is just one case of many, where there is one set of rules for one group of people and another for the "right kind of people."

Or you're missing context, when someone is currently the target of a harassment campaign they're given a little more leeway than someone who tweets something out of the blue.

And even if there was a double standard (which I don't concede) your comment is still wrong, the alt-right would still be free to say whatever it wants, it would just be that only one side would be able to harass.

Keep in mind that Milo never did that

Milo was clearly encouraging his followers to go after Jones and his other targets. Twitter isn't a court of law, "everybody knows" can be a sufficient standard for them to bad someone for persistent harassment.

but Leslie Jones sure did.

Again context, Jones was trying to retaliate and protect herself from a campaign initiated by Milo.

So have several other people who were verified including a rapper, reporter, and a EiC of a magazine ...all of whom sic'd their followers on other people for engaging in wrong think. There's also another case of a person threatening a reporter with rape...for weeks(wish I could remember her name but it escapes me atm). Those are just off the top of my head. You know what the difference between them and Milo is? Milo doesn't carry the same political ideology as them. That reporter? She's a conservative. But in both cases when there are actual threats against them? Twitter has done nothing.

I'm not familiar with all of those cases, certainly not the rape threats, and Twitter may have been inconsistent in the past. If so, they will hopefully fix that in the future. No one should be the target of harassment.

But you're also conflating harassment with with social campaigns, like trying to excerpt pressure against shady businesses, or outing people who have done something bad (these campaigns are very troubling, but different from harassment).

For instance I don't think I'd mind as much if Milo had encouraged his followers to call the producer or studio to complain about the movie. The problem is that he was making Twitter into a place where a black actress couldn't really stay.

Comparing a non-smartphone to a smartphone will obviously bias the case. But the key issue is that smartphone battery capacities have gone dramatically up while their sizes have gone down over the past decade.

No one is stopping you from spewing whatever inane stupidy passes for incitement commentary among your crowd. You'll be just as free to make an idiot of yourself on Twitter once these changes are in effect.

Really? You should pay more attention, because that's exactly what's happening. This is just one case of many, where there is one set of rules for one group of people and another for the "right kind of people."

Keep in mind that Milo never did that, but Leslie Jones sure did. So have several other people who were verified including a rapper, reporter, and a EiC of a magazine ...all of whom sic'd their followers on other people for engaging in wrong think. There's also another case of a person threatening a reporter with rape...for weeks(wish I could remember her name but it escapes me atm). Those are just off the top of my head. You know what the difference between them and Milo is? Milo doesn't carry the same political ideology as them. That reporter? She's a conservative. But in both cases when there are actual threats against them? Twitter has done nothing.

Disagree all you want, but when you cross into harassment then GTFO. No one is under any obligation to stand there while you abuse them.

Sure thing. Let me know when they actually start going after the actual harassers okay? You know people like Zoe Quinn, Kathleen Cross, Randy Harper, Izzy Galvez, Chris Kluwe and so on. You know, the people who claim that they're against harassment...right out there...harassing people, doxing people, and so on.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Ding ding ding! Congratulations, commenter! You're the grand winner of AskReddit's most pretentious quote!

Funny, according to political position analysts, Hillary is actually right of McCain, so she is less of a centerest than anyone ever from the DNC.

http://stop-the-oligarchy.tumb...

This Redditor summed Hillary up quite nicely:

https://www.reddit.com/r/polit...

and no one shops for them

Let's fix this now, PC Master Race.

How well did that whole "no one owns the land" think work out for the Native Americans?

Your ideas are silly and history shows you'll lose...

Your idea is a silly myth, you'd do better to rid yourself of it. try here.

If you want to ask why things worked out poorly for Native Americans, you'll want to start smaller.

That's why.

You clearly don't know how many dogs and cats are put down every year, and yes, when dogs and cats get sick, a lot of owners DO put them down...

Many people want that for themselves, when they get sufficiently sick.

But that's another problem.