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makes perfect sense.

— Janie (@jbr485) January 28, 2019

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https://twitter.com/rob_winch/...

is unfortunately long over: https://twitter.com/search?q=p... :-/ RIP

https://twitter.com/Louis_Alld...

@Louis_Allday
This is too perfect.

Anti-Maduro Venezuelan on 19 January: "I'm living in the cutest apartment in Paris studying fashion... life is good"

24 January: "I live here [Venezuela]. I live this. live with having rationed food, toilet paper, basic human necessities."

You're wrong in so many ways. Let me enumerate them.

First, the military drone use in the article was done in support of Customs and Border Protection . CBP treats anything within 100 miles of the boarder as being under their jurisdiction, so the missions the military drones were assisting with were absolutely on (or, more accurately, over) US soil

Second, what magic drone technology do you think the military has that limits their surveillance to illegal immigrants? The vast majority of people within 100 miles of the border are US citizens. In fact, around 65% of the US population lives within 100 miles of a border.

Third, even with proof that you're not an illegal immigrant, they'll happily lie about your proof being fake in order to keep harassing you. What makes you think they'll pay attention to the non-existent magical circuit that says "not an illegal immigrant" and not track your whereabouts (which, without a warrant, absolutely is warrantless surveillance).

I doubt many people will be cross-shopping a premium-brand SUV with a cheaply built saloon that isn't actually on sale in Europe yet

1. Your "cheaply built saloon" has the highest resale value retention of any car in the US in the US, from a company with the highest owner satisfaction. But don't let facts interfere with a good attack line.

2. Model 3 is on sale in Europe. First customer cars arrive in Europe on a week from now.

Additionally, the e-tron is ready for high-current chargers that will soon be everywhere

1. There are two primary factors that determine how long you're waiting at charging stations on a road trip: A) the charging power, and B) your vehicle's consumption. As described above, E-Tron is such a guzzler that even if it can charge on 175kW stations it still would only charge at 3/5ths the number of miles/kilometers per minute. Of course, most CCS stations are far from 175kW.

2. "Soon be everywhere" is a funny statement. You know that Ionity network that's supposed to be making them in Europe? You may be surprised to know that the vast majority of what they're actually building is only CCS v1 (capped out at 200A, not 500A as in CCS v2). It's not even clear that they support 800-1000V yet either, rather than just 400-500V. The "350kW" moniker is designed to be a "later upgrade"; they're 350kW "design intent".

3. Even if this weren't the case, they're years behind the Supercharger network.

while Tesla has not yet announced what the maximum charging power will be for the Model 3.

They've pointed out that all of their current production can take powers well faster than current superchargers can deliver, which is ~117kW. The onboard computer, when put into factory mode, shows a current limit of 525A, which would be ~180kW, give or take.

The idea that a change in concentration of a minor trace gas like #CO2 could boost the kinetic energy of the lower troposphere to cause 2-mile thick continental ice sheets (like the ones we had 20 Ky ago) to melt is BEYOND LUDICROUS! Its the greatest INSULT to human intelligence pic.twitter.com/JswlQGxeLi

— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) January 18, 2019

The idea that a change in concentration of a minor trace gas like #CO2 could boost the kinetic energy of the lower troposphere to cause 2-mile thick continental ice sheets (like the ones we had 20 Ky ago) to melt is BEYOND LUDICROUS! Its the greatest INSULT to human intelligence pic.twitter.com/JswlQGxeLi

— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) January 18, 2019

I knew I kept a bookmark to this Twitter thread for a reason.

Yeah, because just like the author "Zuck Whitacker", you are owned by Zuck.

I knew I kept a bookmark to this Twitter thread for a reason.

It's simply a list of the privacy debacles that have occurred under Apple's watch.

Since I know people won't bother reading the link (even though it's to Twitter, so it's not going to be that long) it includes things like Accuweather tracking Apple users' locations even with location services disabled, Uber's special exemption that let them spy on every app running on the phone, Apple uploading all your call logs and SMS messages to their servers without permission, and Apple allowing third party apps to upload your contacts to their servers without permission. And those are only some of the more recent privacy violations Apple has been caught either helping or allowing.

She's easy to find. I just translated "black list of doctors" to Dutch and found plastic surgeon Dr Rita Kappel in Zwolle. The black list is published by SIN-NL = "Victims of iatrogenic negligence Netherlands".
There's a lot of relevant background on the website, it's all in Dutch. The original complaints against her are about negligence in post-op care after removal of breast implants.
They also note that the judge who ruled against Google, R.A. Dudok van Heel, is already on the "black list of judges" for his role in denying victims of the PIP breast implant scandal their rights.

There is no "exodus of people and companies from California to Texas". Including in this case. Did you forget that you're reading Slashdot, your source for the news of three days ago? ;) Work is not "moving from" California; only prototypes are being built in Texas (because it's impractical to transport prototypes to Texas by ship for testing). Musk notes that in this case that the misinformation wasn't the LA Times's fault, it was SpaceX's fault for giving an unclear press statement.

New published #Science challenges the current #climate theory and all #GlobalWarming projections based on it:https://t.co/eun8bUYEeX

— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) July 15, 2017

New published #Science challenges the current #climate theory and all #GlobalWarming projections based on it:https://t.co/eun8bUYEeX

— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) July 15, 2017

New published #Science challenges the current #climate theory and all #GlobalWarming projections based on it:https://t.co/eun8bUYEeX

— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) July 15, 2017

New published #Science challenges the current #climate theory and all #GlobalWarming projections based on it:https://t.co/eun8bUYEeX

— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) July 15, 2017

Apparently Nathan Phillips is the instigator here and the kids weren't doing anything wrong.

https://twitter.com/AClementsWKRC/status/1086822521012473858

This post is what I still love about Slashdot over Reddit and Facebook. This post exists. Unlike Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, et al. it won't get deleted. [Not sure if the list of owners has changed the policy, but I think the Scientology post through legal action was the only one. Any lurking 2-4 digit users remember?]

AC is hands down the best user on Slashdot and why I keep coming back. I've seen some amazing +5 Informative posts. Laughed at +5 Funny. And thankfully not had to ever deal with [pronoun]'s Troll posts, and most users, especially logged out lurkers, will never know. No one is ranting about Slashdot hosting what ever this rant was (I certainly didn't bother reading it). It'l get modded troll and disappear. Maybe it'll get a legendary -5 Troll from being +5 Interesting but still a Troll post.

Slashdot has persisted, because of the (IMHO) amazing moderation on Slashdot had implemented from the beginning.

• Unlike Reddit, it's not just a up/down bandwagon vote if you agree with the comment.
• Unlike Facebook, it's not a quinary 'reaction' of how I feel about the comment. 'Like, love, laugh, sad, wow, and mad' aren't even worth registering for something like this.
• Unlike Twitter, it's not a numerical count of how many people agree with it or a reply.
• Unlike the former Imzy, it's not a bunch of people trying not to offend a single person in a room of thousands.
• Unlike 4Chan.... I have no clue the appeal of 4Chan. I was in my 20s and didn't get it. Any younger millenials comment?

• Reddit is just a bunch of forums band-aided together with the same userbase. /r/The_Donald, /r/HumansBeingBros, /r/trees and /r/gonewild just all in one place.
• Facebook is just some poorly designed poll about how something makes me feel.
• Twitter is a bunch of idiots standing around shouting. With some idiots giving other idiots megaphones. And a million little side shouting matches.
• Imzy was trying to be an online kumbaya circle. I just commented about "Anonymous Coward" vs their RandomUserName method and got an earful about the 'connotation' of Coward and how it makes others feel. And that was the end of that. The attitude of every user just wanted me to never post. It appears it made others feel the same way.
• 4Chan appeared to be the online version of The Aristocrats. With everyone thinking they were Gilbert Gottfried version after the 9/11 joke.

Slashdot may have its problems and I may not always agree with its registered userbase, but Jesus, have you seen where those people

hangout online?

Whiplash, if you're serious about improving the site and want to attract a huge raft of migrants from Reddit upset over the Facebook-ization of the redesign:

• 
  
• This downtime was just unacceptable for a site targeted towards professionals like Slashdot was.
  
• Can we please use Markdown? When I wrote HTML daily in the late 90s posting here was second nature. Markdown has sort of become lingua fraqua of formats. It's short and descriptive enough.
• You don't even have to force the same front end on users. Register a new domain with a fancy TLD. Do the translation on the backend.
• Fucking Unicode.

Slashdot's killer feature is the moderation. I would pay money for a politics forum with Slashdot's moderation system. Because even at $1/month it'll keep out the most people that don't even value their opinion at that, the ones that will cling to Facebook and Twitter like those that did to MySpace and Imzy.

I'd also pay for a Usenet interface. Hire some people, RFC-5537 is 10 years old and could be improved upon. Have a lessons learned pow-wow at Slashdot and I'll lower your bandwidth bill by a significant factor.

It's also a bit telling that the special counsel's office went so far as to issue a statement that Buzzfeed's story about Cohen's congressional testimony isn't accurate.

Pretty sure that story's not going to pan out.....

Hahahaha this is epic: https://twitter.com/PressSec/s... Leverage is where you find it.

In the eternal quest to keep the moronic UI developer employed, (as seen by most tech companies the past 10 years nearly) Google have recently, entirely stuffed Google maps.

The 'compass' to the right of the screen which you can tap for 'full overhead' or 'rear chase helicopter, video game style' camera has been very "cleverly" removed by yet another moron.

There's no simple way to have the map always face north when in navigation mode, there's no simple way to make the map always have the above view camera. It's just the behind view thing and the tracking seems suddenly worse to boot.

I'm _intensely_ sick of UI change for the worst, it's been like this for a decade and only getting worse.

See this interesting snippet showing some of the most common themes of modern UI design, IS worse for end users.
https://twitter.com/bob_burrou...

I can't emphasize how sick I am of finding software becoming more difficult to use.

And the best nutritionist is your great-grandmother. https://t.co/43GMbh6fLt

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) January 9, 2018

No no, it totally makes sense that humans are the only life forms in 3.8 billion years that "need money" to live.

— Decivilized (@decivilized) September 20, 2013

It's almost certainly not just the "boobies" thing alone. In 2017, this was posted demanding that several people be disinvited from upcoming Derbycons. As the organizer said in a tweet, "it was a culmination of things we’ve had to deal with over the years."

I don't understand! She even states in one tweet that the word is equal to sexual assault! https://twitter.com/deborahlin... I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS DYSTOPIA WE HAVE SUDDENLY FOUND OURSELVES IN!!

Writing boobies on a white board is now sexual assault

https://twitter.com/deborahlin...

Seemingly so!

https://twitter.com/DerbyCon/s...

https://twitter.com/deborahlin...

Seemingly so!

https://twitter.com/DerbyCon/s...

https://twitter.com/deborahlin...

Don't forget what's important though: he got everyone to stop talking about Mueller.

I'm not sure if that's the motivation. It seems plausible, but Trump himself mentioned Mueller today Also, I'm not sure too many people were talking about Mueller particularly more before, but that's harder to get good data about.

Meh, this one made my 5 o'clock news.

-=BeauHD=-

Is 65 the avg age of the NYT's readership?

NYT Makes Major Correction to Manafort Bombshell... https://t.co/q72R7qp3qm

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) January 9, 2019

That immediately occurred to me.

It's actually the older crowd that tends to think that CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NYT et al are just the gospel.

NYT Makes Major Correction to Manafort Bombshell... https://t.co/q72R7qp3qm

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) January 9, 2019

Academic discoveries are actually made by practitioners. via @nntaleb #antifragile pic.twitter.com/mpL8hNvsbt

— Praveen Vaidyanathan (@v_praveen) November 28, 2017

Academic discoveries are actually made by practitioners. via @nntaleb #antifragile pic.twitter.com/mpL8hNvsbt

— Praveen Vaidyanathan (@v_praveen) November 28, 2017

Academic discoveries are actually made by practitioners. via @nntaleb #antifragile pic.twitter.com/mpL8hNvsbt

— Praveen Vaidyanathan (@v_praveen) November 28, 2017

Someone should go back in time and tell Sean Penn, Jeremy Corbyn, and everyone else who was praising Venezuela or its leaders.

None of the other countries you've listed are socialist. They're all countries with market economies that don't go around nationalizing industries and driving them into the ground, try to implement central economic planning policies that are doomed to failure, or devolve into the types of dictatorships you get when you centralize that much power into the government.

We all want deaths from #cancer to go down, be 0. But todays @AmericanCancer & media coverage of the 27% reduction is misleading. No data for absolute reduction & uses 1991 peak. Actual reduction since 1975 is small (graph) https://t.co/elRgDmJ0cD https://t.co/zPCi7pEy5Y pic.twitter.com/GPePvjS1MM

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 9, 2019

We all want deaths from #cancer to go down, be 0. But todays @AmericanCancer & media coverage of the 27% reduction is misleading. No data for absolute reduction & uses 1991 peak. Actual reduction since 1975 is small (graph) https://t.co/elRgDmJ0cD https://t.co/zPCi7pEy5Y pic.twitter.com/GPePvjS1MM

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 9, 2019

We all want deaths from #cancer to go down, be 0. But todays @AmericanCancer & media coverage of the 27% reduction is misleading. No data for absolute reduction & uses 1991 peak. Actual reduction since 1975 is small (graph) https://t.co/elRgDmJ0cD https://t.co/zPCi7pEy5Y pic.twitter.com/GPePvjS1MM

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 9, 2019

Also, he's more like 19. He was brought on at slashdot when he was in high school and got the "senior" label (nothing more than a label) when he started community college. But he is on his own with his BF and they managed to get a mortgage and a nice starter house.

Shanghai Giga output is just for greater China, not North America. Affordable cars must be made on same continent as customers.

FACT — the reason why Americans have to worry about a government shutdown is because Obama refuses to pass a budget.

—Donald J. Trump, 9 Aug 2013, 11:33 AM

It had been leaked previously that the Shanghai factory would only be producing the Model 3 and Model Y. Model S and X would continue to be built exclusively in California. But earlier this morning Elon tweeted that it would only be producing the least-expensive versions of the 3 and Y. The Performance version of the 3 in particular is apparently going to be made only in California. That was a bit surprising. It looks like the rest of the world is going to have to pay a rather sizable premium for that top versions of the Model 3 compared to the price of the base vehicles.

It's completely false, though. Apple has been caught - repeatedly - violating their own privacy policy and allowing third parties to do it too. From this Twitter thread, we've got: AccuWeather (and now we know the Weather Channel too) tracking your location even with location off in iOS, Uber getting root level access (basically) to iOS, allowing it to record all other apps and act as a keylogger, the revelation that all calls, FaceTime, and text messages are sent to Apple's servers, and then another time third party apps were discovered being allowed to access the contacts list without being granted permission to do so.

So, uh, yeah. Apple may claim they like privacy, but they certainly can't be bothered to follow through.

Show him the site with computational complexityhttps://t.co/QFl1hYKOeV

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) January 4, 2019

... I just can't bring myself to be upset about the shutdown ...

Perhaps if the shutdown involved Congress and the White House -- after all, they actually haven't done anything productive. But regular people, just trying to do their jobs and pay their bills, are now caught up in this -- over partial funding for wall almost no one wants (or cares about) and DHS says we don't actually need. Even Trump tweeted, on Dec 20, 2018 (last fucking week), that the Border is currently "tight":

With so much talk about the Wall, people are losing sight of the great job being done on our Southern Border by Border Patrol, ICE and our great Military. Remember the Caravans? Well, they didn’t get through and none are forming or on their way. Border is tight. Fake News silent!

And, contrary to what he might think (and I use that word generously), the military really had/has nothing to do with this.

Haven't you heard? Mexico is already paying for the wall. They're just doing it with money taken out of US taxpayers' pockets.

Who can tell the difference?

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcG...

Titania McGrath can.

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once you stop having elections to replace leaders, you stop being a democracy.

The point was to show that democracy can be suborned. Oh, and if you hold elections again once dear leader dies, you technically haven't stopped having elections. You've simply changed the period to "whatever this leader's lifetime".

If the barons can be killed on a whim then are not the power, the king is. In your model, there is no check of power on the king.

There are checks on the power of the barons. They might collude and kill the king, too. Meaning that he at least has to have a decent cause to chop off a head, lest he becomes seen as callous and unpredictable and triggers an uprising of barons. I'm sure there are other models possible, that do contain checks on power, yet openly don't involve the vox populi.

Suborned democracy doesn't involve the vox populi either, but it pretends to do so. Like holding referenda until the population gives the "right" answer, as seen several times in EUrope. Or removing the ability to hold a referendum just because "it hasn't brought us what we expected from it" (==the voters gave the wrong answer). Or so many other tricks you can pull. Gerrymandering is a well-known trick, too.

You could contend that the feelings of disenfranchisement that causes is what helped mr. orange into power. Who promptly got sucked into the swamp himself. Or at least, I'm not seeing much swamp draining effort from where I sit. Which is, admittedly, far away.

On US voting, btw: Why not do away with the indirection and do a direct vote? (Vote once for as many candidates as you like might be nice.)

Read: The "progressives" like their labour cheap

If that is true then why are "progressives" also advocating for a higher minimum wage? Do they want cheap labor only to pay them more money?

While they (want to) leave the back door to illegal immigrants wide open? Illegal immigrants who don't work legally and therefore to whom minimum wages don't apply. Meaning that what they say they want to do and what they (would) end up doing are quite different things.

No, I'm talking about people being fed information that is known to be false under the guise of news but legally protected as "entertainment". Which is to say, they disinform people for profit.

You're blaming the victim? What?

Anyway, my take is that the people shouting "disinformation" the loudest typically tend to spread a lot of that themselves. Both wings of the assfant party, though as noted the academic left started it, years ago. Which is to say, instead of complaining that other people are "misinformed", go ahead and inform us, with high-quality sources. Tell and show.

How do you argue with someone who obliquely rejects scientific evidence?

You could start with making sure your "scientific evidence" is actually credible as "scientific" and "evidence". Especially in liberal arts, this is <b><em><blink><marquee>lacking</marquee></blink></em></b>.

See eg. "new real peer review" for a taste. But you can see it elsewhere, too. Eg. the FSM is a reaction to creationism (complete with lots of "scientific" papers full of fluffy bunkum, but very hard to distinguish from the real thing for the uninitiated --why do people put that much effort in "scientific-izing" their ultimately arbitrary beliefs?-- and in fact sometimes well better written than some of the stuff published in "reputable" journals. IOW, science has a serious problem, and creationism preys on that. Not too surprising because "science" has become worshipped as the ultimate arbiter of truth in some (lib arts) circles, thereby becoming a direct competitor to religion. Hence the counter-attack with creationism "scientific papers".