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But isn't that what we ostensibly already have? Remember, Trump is a "very stable genius" who is "like, really smart" because his "I.Q. is one of the highest". Would he keep challenging people to IQ contests if he weren't a very stable genius?

"'People Who Boast About Their IQ Are Losers': Studies say that bragging about your superiority makes people like you less- so what does Donald Trump hope to gain?"

Well, there's this thing where Trump doesn't pay his contractors and employees, has been sued in court 60 times for it, and apparently loses the lawsuits. So that's a con man's behaviour. http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

The guy lies constantly. Like, nearly every statement out of his mouth is demonstrably false; I'm not even talking about the things that are up for interpretation. He makes statements that have no basis in reality and are repeatedly shown to be false, like his polling numbers, the number of people that voted for him, the size of his electoral college victory, the effectiveness of his administration in passing bills, etc. He also hasn't been good about keeping his political promises...but we'll leave that out for now because that's never a meaningful measure of a politician.

Not to mention that his properties are making a lot of money because people want access to him and other politicians. https://www.theatlantic.com/po...

The CNN link you posted shows his net worth went down, and the claim was because of a rough real estate market in New York--it's not clear that his presidency has any effect on that at all. That is, he probably would've lost money in a bad market regardless.

There's no long con here, just a con.

This is just speculation, but considering Amazon was paid $600 to setup a cloud system for our government(CIA, etc. )-- link below and owns the Washington Post -- which is an establishment mouth piece -- my guess is that they do give over our info. Anyways, like any corporation I don't hold my breath when it comes to my privacy, so I take steps to hopefully limit what I share.

A few top links about Amazon's $600 million deal with our goverment:
http://www.businessinsider.com...
https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

An early article from the Washington Post talking about the sell of it to Jeff Bezo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The USA PATRIOT act was adopted from a bill written by Joe Biden in 1995, and passed on bipartisan lines.

Pfft. Man, you can't even take responsibility for the fact that it was named by a Republican, Frank J. Sensenbrenner, Jr.of Wisconsin in 2001, but have to invoke Joe Biden (without citation) from six years previously?

What, did you think his proposal to rename the post office in Darlington after somebody other than Ronald Reagan was an act of terrorism? (Knowing Republican fetishes for naming things after Saint Reagan, it's possible).

Besides, as I already said, I have more.

But damn, you're a dipshit.

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:

Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 2018, TheHill.com)

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How about 2 for wild fires (one actual, one test), then there would be 2 more for mud slides. I guess tornado warnings would require two as well. What about civil disturbance - should that require a physical switch?

I'm not defending GP's idea of using a switch, but this is obviously not what he meant. One switch for all live alerts would serve the purpose. There are plenty of reasons to criticize that as a bad idea without getting silly.

if you have a fail safe in the system, it does not cut the computer out. You simply select the message to be sent, then use the mechanical switch to send it. The concept is that a physical action of raising the guard is a step that makes you think foro a second - am I sure? then the last step is the switch - am I really really sure??

I understand this is a tech site, where many people believe in the infallibility of computers, and that humans are considered the weak link. I would suggest that they do some study on Stanislav Petrov, known as "The man who saved the world." https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

Had he relied on the computing facilities and launched, the world would be a quite different place. It was a matter of throwing a switch or switches, but the control was outside the computer. Imagine if y'alls presumably much superior menu item launch with it's proven mistake prone operation was in control.

Here's the challenge show how a completely menu driven system controlled only by software will be more fail safe than a system that makes you think hard about activating it. Since y'all know I am wrong - you must have the right way to do this ready to implement.

Don't they have the ability to send an "all clear" over the same channel they sent the "LOOK OUT YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE!!!" message?

No, apparently they do not:

"[Emergency alerts] aren't like text messages, where a sender can dash off a quick 'sorry my bad' if they mistype. IPAWS notices have a specific format, which must be composed formally and in advance. Audio files for broadcast notices must be recorded or generated and uploaded. Often, this has to be done by special software on special equipment."

https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

Does anybody remember when he was a hero?

A hero? Nope, sorry. There are heroes in this world, but Assange was never one of them.

For exposing the corrupt US government to the whole world? Did that go down the memory hole? Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the movie, for fucks sake.

Here's a hint about movies: You can use them to tell stories.

Stories aren't always true. You'd think you'd know about propaganda. Maybe you should learn to recognize a work of fiction concocted to spin a message.

And he does what he always does, expose the corrupt US government to the whole world, and he suddenly became the worst criminal in the world? How does this even work?

Well, it turns out, DUMB-and-DUMBER, he isn't the worst criminal in the world. If he was, then he'd have been caught selling oil to North Korea or something. He's just a self-serving hack who gets in the news from time to time, isn't doing anything meaningful, and accomplishing little except burning up some attention from time to time.

Notice how he didn't actually do anything about the corruption in the US government, in state government, or even a city. Nothing he did accomplished one bit of constructive, actual, meaningful, accomplishment. Nobody impeached. Nobody significant prosecuted. Nobody significant resigned. Even lying fraudsters Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe managed to get a resignation and a prosecution.

And besides, he's shown his true colors. What did Wikileaks do about the Panama Papers? Oh. What did Wikileaks do about Trump? Worked with his campaign.

Sorry man, Assange bonered himself. Worse than the time Sherlock Holmes got caught fucking the Hound of the Baskervilles.

You'd pay the same price for a Jack burger in Australia as you would in the U.S., even though their minimum wage is more than twice what is here.

This tired meme has been debunked for a long time. Teenagers in Australia need not be paid the full minimum wage. Ergo, Australian fast food restaurants largely employ teenagers.

There's no such thing as the magic money tree, and there is no free lunch.

Apparently the U.S. is no longer a democracy. Numerous mostly hidden agencies have control, and want more control.

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

> Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, 2017, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a

Threatening to sue and killing the cat of a rape victim to shut her up are two different things. One of them is Trump, the other one is Clinton.

Actually, coercive lawsuits are often quite a problem, as is manufacturing unverified, and even provablyfalse claims about another.

It's ok, you're just a partisan Stalwart, and can't help yourself. You jumped on the bandwagon, and will never get off.

> RACE ONLY MATTERS AS MUCH AS YOU LET IT MATTER.

Jim Crow
Jim Crow 2.0
Red-lining
Red-lining 2.0
Sundown Towns
Tuskegee Experiment
School Segregation
School Segregation 2.0
The War on Drugs specifically targeted blacks
Driving While Black
Walking While Black
Debtor's Prison 2.0

> RACE ONLY MATTERS AS MUCH AS YOU LET IT MATTER.

Jim Crow
Jim Crow 2.0
Red-lining
Red-lining 2.0
Sundown Towns
Tuskegee Experiment
School Segregation
School Segregation 2.0
The War on Drugs specifically targeted blacks
Driving While Black
Walking While Black
Debtor's Prison 2.0

> RACE ONLY MATTERS AS MUCH AS YOU LET IT MATTER.

Jim Crow
Jim Crow 2.0
Red-lining
Red-lining 2.0
Sundown Towns
Tuskegee Experiment
School Segregation
School Segregation 2.0
The War on Drugs specifically targeted blacks
Driving While Black
Walking While Black
Debtor's Prison 2.0

Links about Trump

Trump's lies:

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Sexual abuse:

The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.

8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)

Choosing weak people to be leaders:

Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)

Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."

Profiting personally:

Trump has now spen

Links about Trump

Trump's lies:

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Sexual abuse:

The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.

8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)

Choosing weak people to be leaders:

Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)

Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."

Profiting personally:

Trump has now spe

Why is Finland's education system so good? Read on and find out...
https://www.theatlantic.com/na...

They're not "under-trained". They're over-trained in a wrong way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/na...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

On top, of that, the job (SWAT especially) is advertised as adrenaline rush kicking down doors and such. Have you watched any American police recruiting videos lately?

https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quotes:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface."
"Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017)

Except that there was also no drop in illegal sales.

https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

Suggestion: Copy and send the links below to other people. Don't include anything about me, of course.

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quote:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface." Another quote: "Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017, Bizarro)

as such things go. And you'll find plenty of SJW stuff in DC. I suspect it's more to do with the movie universe making it's way into the comics and turning off the more hardcore, which are generally the only ones that buy more than an issue or two or maybe a graphic novel when a new movie comes out.

There was a movie meme trend in recent years of the cute, tiny woman who gains super powers somehow, and goes off on a spree of killing men.

By the way, I know this is an intensely unpopular opinion but am I the only one that finds it odd that social justice is a bad word?

Actual social justice should ab a lofty goal. But the warriors are not necessarily about justice. Often it is revenge, or just another form of hate.

Yeah, yeah, the crazy feminist who runs your local community college's woman's studies program is pretty annoying, amiright? But then you've got Harvey Weinstein.

Ah, just the right place to start. Instead of properly attacking the problem of creepy fucks like Weinstein, the crazy feminists you speak of go the #metoo route. Which is making more problems than it fixes. A world where due process is thrown out with the pursuit of justice isn't going to be quite like most women want.

What young women shold be taught to do is turn the guy in immediately after he harasses you. And a much better defined version of what harassment consists of would be a big help. And she needs to understand that by not turning the guy in, she is enabling him to harass more women. The same can go fro men harassed by women. Yes it happens.

Instead, we have now entered a brave new world where men, as the target, are taking measures to protect themselves from claims of harassment. Measures as having a chaperone present to avoid any one on one meetings with women. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1... https://www.theatlantic.com/po... And some are trying to make this illegal! I kinda doubt that will work. Besides, who could object to having a chaperone for both parties protection?

Have you seen NBC's new gender interaction rules? No shared taxis. You will be fired if you do not report anything that you might consider sexual harassment, You will be fired if you do not report a suspected romance between employees. Any interaction between opposite sexes must be reported to Human Resources. And taking a vegan to a steak house is expressly forbidden. Aapparently some vegan was pissed because of a party at - you guessed it - a Steak House. There are very specific rules if you were to hug a person. Quick, and step away to avoid bodily contact. Seriously - I wonder if they have to have a reservation to hug, and a person with a stopwatch to time it? This is the new workplace, because in a world where an accusation from 20 years ago is sufficient evidence to destroy your career, it means that there is no due process, which means none is needed when she sues the company. So in that light, the rules make perfect sense. Google NBC's sexual harassment rules. And the problem is most women and men simply hate this - who wouldn't? But if you listen to the "Crazy feminist" who rather obviouly is a misandryst you'll end up with these sorts of rules as we abandon due process and the rule of law in order to protect women from all men. Most men and women can get along with each other. But in this brave new world, one cannnot be too careful lest they lose everything. I had this happen to me when I simply predicted what was goint to happen with the #metoo witch hunt.

There's too many examples of injustice to list. It feels like we're letting the chick

And what permutations, exactly, counts as a misspelling?

Congratulations, you've made my porn file.

New category: exactitude porn.

Typical denizen: He (or she) who hast not yet completed the first chapter of Ur-Nammu for Dummies.

If a man violates the right of another and deflowers the virgin wife of a young man, they shall kill that male.

What constitutes a 'virgin' exactly? How do I know if I'm a virgin?

If the wife of a man followed after another man and he slept with her, they shall slay that woman, but that male shall be set free.

What constitutes 'following' exactly? Coincidences and the Meaning of Life

If the man had slept with the widow without there having been any marriage contract, he need not pay any silver.

What constitutes a 'widow' exactly? I lost the love of my life in my 20s — but I can't call myself a widow'

Note that this little problem persists. There are rather complex rules (and a lot of paperwork to file) a woman's husband goes off to war and never returns. (The paperwork situation is better if the entire offensive was a mass debacle, worse if a two-man scouting party deep into weakly-held enemy territory.)

For the entire third act of Cast Away, Tom Hanks interacts weirdly with his ex-widow ex-wife.
What constitutes an 'ex-widow' exactly?

What is an 'electron' exactly?

Interpretations of quantum mechanics

Hint: brush off your favourite 1d19 and give it a spin.

The weird thing is, because of Hamming and Shannon's Prediction and Entropy of Printed English we actually have a pretty good idea of exactly what small permutations and combinations of "Birkenstock" lie in the shopping network's Birkenstock catchment basin.

Furthermore, it would not be a difficult exercise (as these things go) to train a DNN as a shopping keyword spelling corrector.

A 19-layer DNN would likely be far more generous to Birkenstock than any human judge.

———

Bezos: "But your honour, this shit-box 19-layer DNN was training using a Google TPU consisting of 28 MiB of on chip memory, and 4 MiB of 32-bit accumulators taking the results of a 256x256 array of 8-bit multipliers."

Judge: And your point is?

Bezos: On what fucking planet does an 8-bit multiplier qualify as 'exactly'?

Judge: Oh, I see your point.

Judge removes wig, sets on bench.

Judge stands up, removes robe, tosses it onto the floor.

Judge pulls out smartphone.

Judge: Siri, book me on the next flight to Tibet, there's been a sudden change of career.

Siri: Oh, bother, not another one.

Ex-judge: What did you just say?

Siri: I just said that 2012 was an excellent year for saffron.

Ex-judge: So what?

Siri: Well, one wouldn't want to invest in the wrong colour of self-imposed exile ...

Ex-judge: Who can fucking tell the difference [glances at Bezos, who is already gloating like a pig in warm mud], uh, who can distinguish one fuh, ah, fine saffron robe from another?

Siri: You'll be pleasantly surprised what you can learn to distinguish after waking up at 0300 in a small, austere room for two straight years with the same todo list every darn day.

Ex-judge: Oh,

LOL. Sorry, but when your evidence includes James O'Keefe produced material, and you're not prosecuting said convicted criminal, you have as bad a credibility problem as certain Alabama loser.

Don't worry, you have this genius to make you look better.

They didn't wave Nazi flags, but they did march and are the moral equivalent of Nazis. When you use violence and the threat of violence to shut down political speech and stop non-political annual events - you're no better than a Nazi.

Sound doesn't just travel through air. It also travels through solids, free of the constraints of the inverse square law. Things like table legs and the frame of a storage rack become an acoustic waveguide, conveying the sound with much less loss (attenuation depends on the frequency and the material). Similar natural 2D waveguides allow scientists to hear whales hundreds of km away.

The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.

The Islamic State may live on for a while yet as an international terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, especially since so many worldwide jihadi terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to it, but without territory it lacks one of the prerequisites to be regarded as a "legitimate" caliphate by Muslims worldwide, which makes it considerably less dangerous and less likely to inspire acts of jihad in the future.

The US and UK have already tapped the underwater cables. That is the whole story behind Edward Snowden's revelations -- that was how the NSA and GCHQ got around encryption, by tapping the unencrypted lines between, for instance, Google servers. The US and UK also hacked into Proximus in Belgium in order to listen in on GSM conversations. https://www.theatlantic.com/in... As usual, this is more NATO agitation, designed to muddy the waters and develop excuses for further demonization of Russia. The sooner NATO is dissolved and the EU takes control of their own defense, the safer the world will be.

Translation: Doctors get a kickback from prescribing a vitamin. Clueless patients fill the prescription and send it to their insurance. Everybody loses except doctors and drug companies.

Here is a less cynical and probably more accurate version

Over The Counter vitamins are an almost completely unregulated market (congress specifically forbade the FDA from regulating vitamins) and it's been demonstrated that major retailers are selling fakes. So if you are a doctor and it's important to ensure a patient get the proper dosage of that vitamin, what other options do you have?

Translation: FDA approved vitamins that other vitamin manufacturers either cant get approval for or have to spend a fortune to get.

The FDA is forbidden from regulating vitamins. The only power the FDA has is to limit the sale of a product it finds to be unsafe.

iTunes sucks: A GIF guide to why Apple’s desktop music app must be fixed

Why does iTunes suck so incredibly much?

iTunes sucks, we all know it. What are my options for music player (nonstreaming) on the iPhone 6s?

Why I Hate iTunes: Syncing Sucks And So Does Selecting Music

Can iTunes suck anymore than it already does?

iTunes Really Is That Bad

Apple’s iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users

Eleven Reasons Why iTunes Sucks

Why does Itunes SUCK SO MUCH ???

Again: no, people are not happy using iTunes. People use iTunes because Apple requires it for their expensive iDevices. They hate it, but they want to sync music to their iPhones.

You're saying that my assertion about video players is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy? That's a laugh. You just didn't want to dig your hole deeper by responding to what I said. Video players are not designed to deal with large music libraries, nor should they be. A sports car can be used to take lots of cleaning supplies between cleaning jobs, but a utility van will be far better suited to the task. Your choice of VLC to support this notion is especially hilarious. The VLC media library is like only using the Winamp playlist for your entire music collection.

Or perhaps you meant that foobar2000 is not the true Scotsman. In that case, you missed my arguments about the interface being poorly designed.

Now here's a real laugh for you regarding your sneering at Winamp market share. While I don't have stats from anywhere today, Lifehacker did a survey in 2013 to find out what the readers thought was the best desktop music player and in the end Winamp was the winner. So at least in 2013, 16 years after Winamp was released, it was still the preferred player for everyone that read Lifehacker at the time. Unfortunately, most articles seem to omit or only "honorably mention" Winamp based on it no longer being developed which at this point is really only a problem for people who want double size mode to look better or want to sync a modern iPod with Winamp (yes, Winamp used to sync iPods.)

I'm sure iTunes can play music back on garbage hardware while multitasking. Maintaining a 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream while multitasking was easily done by Winamp in 1997 on an original Pentium, so why wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing today on a bargan-basement Celeron that's slow for browsing but still two orders of magnitude faster than an original Pentium? It's not hard to have a realtime-priority and heavily optimized thread that does nothing but decompress music file data and pass it to the sound system. Good luck switching between iTunes and other stuff in 2GB of RAM while trying to do some actual work.

One more thing was never addressed. You never elaborated on why "underlying frameworks" is some sort of selling point. Last I checked, no one went out looking for media players and said "I want one that has underlying frameworks."

The FDA doesn't have legal authority to regulate or certify supplements

And the supplement industry spends lots of money to ensure it stays that way. I wonder why?

https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm153239.htm
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0261-dietary-supplements#supplementssafe?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dietary-supplements-a-37-billion-a-year-boondoggle-2016-01-22
https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-behind-top-10-dietary-supplements#1

Now of course I'm not saying all dietary supplements are fraudulent. I'm just saying its not always easy to tell which ones are fraudulent and which ones are not since they aren't regulated by anything beyond the amount of dollars they can convince you to spend.

And of course that's not even considering that many of the not-technically-fraudulent ones may simply be doing little or nothing for you and are effectively just an expensive placebo.

And even then many of the ones that might be theoretically useful are only beneficial if you have a bad diet to start with and actually need to supplement whatever chemicals your body isn't getting enough of -- but you claim to be eating well so that also shouldn't apply to you. For example if you're getting sufficient vitamin C and you take a vitamin C tablet.. its basically just going to go straight from your mouth to your bladder and out again without doing you any good whatsoever (but also no real bad in that case.. too much of some vitamins and minerals are as bad or worse than not enough so even more things to be careful of!)

literally the first search result i got for 'bitcoin venezuela': https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...

The Russian people, in general, don't have a particularly hopeful view of the future and historically seem to prefer stability over autonomy, provided the living conditions aren't too bad. To borrow an internet meme, the history of Russia can be summed up in a single sentence "And then things got worse." Russia has had two major governmental collapses in the last century,* one of which the US was openly attempting. Russians see the US, and democracy in general, as an instigator of chaos. There's an excellent article in the Atlantic this month if you've got 30 minutes to read it

*Granted, there are African nations that have two government collapses before lunch, but Africa is its own basket of problems.

Can people figure out how it discriminates against certain race or gender?

The proposal here is to do a study to understand that, yes.

You did notice that this article was about studying the problem to see if there is algorithmic discrimination, right?

However, let me also point out that since the example discussed in the text was about DNA testing, I would point out that race and gender are encoded in DNA, so "does not have race/gender input" is not applicable here.

In other cases, however, yes, it turns out that there can be race and gender encoded into input data even if it is not explicitly listed as "enter race and gender here." You could look at the articles cited earlier, such as https://www.theatlantic.com/bu... or even look at the Yale Law review article about the book on the subject http://michiganlawreview.org/w...

That depends on the country. Some are less barbaric than others.

Except that where it's allowed to work, it usually works really well. The only thing pushing back against it are entrenched lefty entities like teachers union bosses and the city/county councils with which they have an ugly little symbiotic relationship at the expense of students and their families.

Except for the religious agenda being promulgated that seems to be all too common. Not to mention the profiteering.

Sorry ScentCone, I get it, your dogma requires you to recite the shibboleth. Same as the testing agenda and your exhortations against Common Core.

Maybe if you tell more absurd lies, you'll get a prize too.

Single-payer would bankrupt the country.

Total unsubstantiated nonsense. How is it that every other major country in the world has universal healthcare without being bankrupt? Norway has completely socialized healthcare, yet somehow they have very low national debt as a fraction of GDP. Maybe it's because they manage their finances like rational adults, rather than instituting $1.5T in tax cuts to the wealthy in the midst of an economy that's already thriving...

Some citations:
https://www.theatlantic.com/in...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Even if Amazon really has a new, more secure system (what's that say about their main cloud storage?),

As you should know, when it come to the government, "secure", means "passes audits". Even if it's the same system, the gov cloud passes the needed audits and thus is "more secure".

Then there's this. You can bet it's more secure - in terms of physical security if nothing else.

the fact remains that your data is no longer really in your hands, and will likely never be under your control again

If you're outsourcing your IT, that's already true.

Actually, he was removed from the Alabama Supreme Court once, not twice. The second time he chose to leave to run for the U.S. Senate.

It was effectively twice. After his pointless (and cowardly) act regarding the ruling in Obergefeld v. Hodges, they suspended him till the end of his term, making it a removal in all but name.

As far as the first time he was removed, he was right in what he was saying. It's just that the country had evolved SO far from what the framers of the Constitution meant, that no one, even the U.S. Supreme Court, was likely to agree with him.

He was entirely wrong the first time, and completely and utterly hypocritical anyway since he was making a graven image to be worshiped and fawned over, which he promptly set about doing as a money-making tour after his removal. More importantly, if the Founding Fathers had wanted to make a religious theocracy, they wouldn't have decided to make it expressly forbidden to have a religious test. And they surely knew that judges should not be taking a religious stance including placing a monument in the courthouse for his own personal edification.

He was a liar, and a fraud, and while it's not the court's business to take note of this, he was actually blasphemous, meaning he was falsely proclaiming Christianity for his own self-aggrandizement.

That's wrong.

Of course, what really happened is that he was removed because of his failure to obey a lawful court order, which yes, the Founding Fathers did anticipate. And later, was a problem in Worcester v. Georgia. Sadly, what people don't realize is that Roy Moore wanted to end the rule of law and subject all of us to his personal whims and declarations, a matter of conduct that few among those who wrote the Constitution would accept, and most would quite earnestly deplore.

When it comes to losing your job because of accusations, none of the men, including Al Franken, should have quit until the accusations were proven. Do you really want to live in a country where you have to quit your job based on accusations alone? You'd live every day in fear of somebody you may have slighted accusing you of something that might never be proven. Your life would be ruined and nothing you do would ever make up for it.

People know who they are, and what they did. Some people can live in a world of complete and utter denial, others will not make that choice. Al Franken, rather than fighting a course of denial and excoriation, took a nobler course of responsibility, while Roy Moore and Donald Trump repeat their hysterical outrage of merely being accused.

They have chosen their behavior, and by their very actions, they condemn themselves.

This is actually a huge issue.

Yep.

If you really want equality and not just some token feelgood bullshit, let's start with eliminating "maternity" leave and turn it into "parental" leave, with mandatory equal times for husband and wife.

This is something that will most likely benefit men as well as women.

It's also something feminists have been going on about for quite a while.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...
https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
http://time.com/2853080/father...
https://www.fatherly.com/love-...
https://www.americanbanker.com...

Restaurant workers are already not the people who can afford to buy daily $3 coffees and the like.

I think you are under the delusion that restaurant workers are all living hand to mouth and barely making a living. While there are cases where this is true, there also are plenty of people in the industry doing just fine. Waitstaff at a decent restaurant can make a VERY decent salary.

Even McDonald's is quite expensive compared to a grocery store.

That depends on what you are buying. You can't even buy the meat for less money than a basic McDonalds hamburger costs (currently ~$1 including bun and condiments) unless you buy something really sketchy or mass produced. On the other hand you can buy the ingredients to make a much better burger than McDonalds will sell you.

It's mostly busy middle class business types who buy fast food, and the deciding factor for them is how quick and painless you can make the experience

It's not "mostly" middle class though they are the largest portion of the people buying fast food. Pretty much everybody buys fast food and the middle class buys marginally more than the poor (who have to stretch their money) and the rich (who can afford more options more often). But basically we all buy fast food, including many people who loudly proclaim they don't.

The US government spends more per capita on healthcare than almost any other nation. Yes, the US government, excluding the private sector.

Per capita what? Per population? Per taxpayer? But what about in terms of healthcare received, or in terms of assessing the costs of healthcare?

Think about the difference. Then cite your sources. I'm sure you realize that hand-waved declarations of vague assertions are not especially persuasive when we know how easy it is to lie with statistics.

The problem with the US healthcare system isn't excessive stinginess by the government, it is excessive costs and excessive prices.

Indeed, among other things, it's lack of coverage. And bankruptcies.

Which isn't caused by the government being stingy, it's because the government isn't being thrifty enough by operating its own healthcare facilities. Oh wait, that's because the government is being made to be stingy under the false pretense of not providing its own healthcare facilities!

And the ACA did nothing to address excessive costs and prices (because drug companies, lawyers, and doctors tend to be big donors), instead it simply tried to force Americans to pay those excessive prices in perpetuity, which ensures that this will never get fixed.

Yes, it didn't have a public health insurance provision, let alone a healthcare provision, but we knew this at the time.

Do you not have any actual recall of the situation?

However, you forget the specific subsidies that did reduce the costs for the poor.

That some of us would have preferred hiring more doctors and providing better medical care directly, well, we didn't get a vote on that, now did we?

So if the money allocated to the border wall is unused, it does not go to healthcare

And by "healthcare", you mean the yachts and estates of wealthy doctors, insurance company executives, and pharmaceutical companies.

Now now, we're told "trickledown> " is essential by the GOP. It's their tax-plan now.

Sorry man, you've got less than you think.

But hey, at least you can get your pills.

Look, you know what's happening is due to the GOP, they're the party that's responsible now. And they're going to do their best job...of filling their own pockets. And baking

https://www.theatlantic.com/en...

Unable to google even remotely well or just unable to type? Clearly it's not the latter: https://www.theatlantic.com/bu... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... Notice how those graphs trend over 50 years at a time? There are surely peaks and valleys in them but those are still measured over years if not decades. In a pre-industrial, pre-bank, heavily agricultural world rife with plagues and famine, that's not exactly surprising. Meanwhile bitcoin is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It's not even remotely comparable in any, way, shape or form. Timeline is not something to discard so wantonly. The fact that 40% of gold isn't held by 1000 individuals is another huge red flag in the comparison. And as I type this, bitcoin has lost 10% of its value in a few hours this morning (9:30 AM CST). This has happened multiple times in the last month. Gold has lost some pretty heavy chunks of its value in a day, but that kind of fluctuation has happened maybe twice in the last 50 years and it's quite hit that 10% threshold. That's because while gold has easily and is often speculated on, it also has intrinsic and explicit worth in the form of jewelry and industrial use. Bitcoin, as of now, really does not have anything comparable in terms of use. It's neither the most efficient way to acquire something nor does it do something better in terms of technology than most existing technology.

There's a reason that more kickers are white, and it has little to do with genetics. It has to do with expensive camps and personal coaches, and the connections and opportunities that they afford.

Look for the piece on a dude named Anglin. All that is Trump, is he.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...

And Roy Moore's your daddy!

The Obama administration had 8 years to do something better, and they didn't get it done.

Get what done? Why would they bother with the barking Chihuahua that is a non-relevant pest which ~90% of Americans forgot about until Bush the Lesser decided to add them to his pointless Axis of Evil speech?

After 10 months the Trump administration already has far more rigorous sanctions in place than the Obama administration accomplished, and Trump's team did it with the United Nations and diplomacy, including diplomacy with allied nations. That must be a bitter pill to swallow.

Yeah, here's a hint, all those sanctions have done is kill off millions of North Koreans, you might as well praise Trump for reverting back to treating Cuba under an Embargo, when the real accomplishment would be doing the opposite. You should stop taking poison pills and praising the taste.

Is the "magic" fading for you?

Is the gaslighting getting too much for you? It seems to be too much for Trump.

You don't somehow think that all of the missiles that North Korea has been firing were somehow summoned by magic since the start of the Trump administration, do you? They were obviously being worked on during the Obama administration. What we are seeing is the flowering of Obama's work. (Or do you blame Her?)

For what? North Korea wasting their limited resources on a tool that's only useful when you want to provoke an ill-tempered boob who will go off on freak out over them, then erroneously claim to send an aircraft carrier to deal with it?

So what you're saying is that at best, he's par for the course. "Par" is not what we were told to expect.

Trump hasn't even been in office for a year yet and he already has far more rigorous sanctions in place than Obama achieved, has China cooperating, and missile defense is getting a big boost in funding.

Except it turns out those sanctions are a failed policy that only harms the innocent North Korean people, China is, as usual, lying, and putting money into missile defense has been a favorite way to waste tax dollars since the Reagan years.

He seems to be making progress that Obama couldn't.

So far, your examples are only repeated examples of waste, fraud, and failure.

That's not a common definition of progress. Admittedly, to somebody trying to sabotage America, it would seem different.

Lets see what happens between now and the end of the eighth year of the Trump administration.

Let's see what happens between now and the end of the next year.

I'd say this year, but eh, you won't have any results.