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Someone made a reasonable claim a while back that we can blame the hysteria over pedophiles that has been building for the last few decades on Rupert Murdoch. This is an apolitical criticism: he gets a lot of crap for his politics, and for the politics of the media outlets that he owns, but apparently this was just about making money. People buy newspapers and watch the news more when they're scared, and scaring people about their children turns out to be very effective.

Also, responding to the article: No, no brand would ever want to be associated with scantily clad children. Never.

A most insightful view of Meg Whitman.

This was thought of a long time ago

In 1991, to be exact.

This is what American food looks like: https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-m...

Here is another example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Another: https://static1.squarespace.co...

Here is what American Food looks like in a big city: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/...

Here is what the regional cuisine looks like in the part of America that I live in: (this is the most popular restaurant in my neighborhood, though not the most expensive) https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.c...

Here is what American food looks like in a "red state": https://ncstatecommuters.files...

Yeah sure: https://seanduke.files.wordpre...

'The governments of 30 countries around the globe are using armies of so called opinion shapers to meddle in elections, advance anti-democratic agendas and repress their citizens' ..

... and water is wet ..

"It’s only a matter of time before the new behavioural economics and so-called science of nudging decision-making is applied to influencing the population’s voting behaviour as well." ref

You look at this church window and tell me it isn't so!

Here's your sign... *sigh*

Not true. When I was in Austria back in '09, I saw an advertisement for a zoo/park that expressly stated they had kangaroos. So it would be more correct to say there are no naturally occurring kangaroos in Austria. Also ate at a restaurant that served kangaroo burgers.

Here's your sign... *sigh*

I agree that C was a good language in the 1980s, but it doesn't matter now what was the best language in the 1980s. People making language choices today need to consider what is their most suitable language today, and unfortunately the baggage from C's history is still holding it back.

It's funny you mention strncpy. That is also broken! See https://randomascii.wordpress.... for example.

We sort of know already that that isn't the case, at least it isn't the case for generic states. We know that because we can construct Bose-Einstein condensates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate which are in a certain sense coherent states of lots of things together. That said, Gil Kalai has made more technical claims and conjectures which seem to follow from a similar intuition https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/why-quantum-computers-cannot-work-the-movie/. Note that this isn't really like the thermodynamic situation of perpetual motion; there's no intrinsic law of physics that appears to be being violated by quantum computers, they just don't match our intuitions well.

AUUUUUUUUUUUUGH....[WHUMP].

Repeat after me, don't buy devices that need to phone home, EVER.

"essentially driven by Hannity of Fox News" - got a source for this?

"simply sponsored propaganda of a dying coal industry" - got a source for this?

If the industry is dying - how can they afford Hannity on the payroll? BTW - Natural gas is killing coal for economic reasons - not environmental conspiracy reasons.

  "the Russian cyber attacks against USA" - got a source for this? All evidence that has been presented so far indicates that most of these hacks were not hacks but intentional leaks.

They have been wrong for the last 20 and it didn't falsify it then...

How have they been wrong specifically? Even during the so called "pause" there was no statistically significant* change in the increasing temperature trend and the oceans where over 90% of the heat goes continued to get warmer.

* Statistical analysis of temperature trends

Your addition of a condition even "informed" isn't democracy.

Obfuscant is completely correct, as evidenced by "A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate", attributed to Thomas Jefferson. The founders of the United States understood what aspects were important for a representative democracy. In addition to the informed electorate, voluntary association "plays a vital, although sometimes not very visible, role in American society as engines of innovation in political and civic life".

Your choice to travel during vote means you choose to pay the fine.

What if I choose not to vote, and choose not to pay the fine? Then what?

You are an autocrat in denial, which is the most dangerous type. Examine your faulty beliefs for your own benefit.

I am informed, but I don't vote because I think voting encourages them. You wish to compel me to do something I don't want to do, in order to give legitimacy to those in power. You, sir, are the autocrat in denial.

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Heck we are already in a runaway warming situation, GISS temp data already proves it.

https://suyts.files.wordpress....

I agree.
You can add this one too. Its just basically the light blue line on the Nasa graph.

You can thank me later.

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he seems to be referring to reporting like this: https://wattsupwiththat.files..... Note "changing" rather than "will change", that implies a level of urgency that does not exist while demonstrating an impact that is literally impossible.

maximum 6ft of sea rise by 2100 seems fairly manageable. By that time, unless we have a major reduction in population, we will probably need to start colonising the oceans anyway.

Exactly. And the Muslim conquest of India was described as 'probably the bloodiest story in history'

https://themuslimissue.wordpre...

"The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with great glee and pride the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave markets and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800 AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by sword during this period."

Giving the invaders credit for the bits of culture they didn't destroy is obscene.

The "France did it and their rates aren't excessive, so why can't others?" line keeps coming up.

The Messmer Plan, which converted France to a nuclear grid, came at a huge cost. Between 1973 and 1984, EDF's debt rose by 650%. As EDF is largely owned by the state, this has a direct influence on France's total debt standings. By the mid 1980s, EDF's debt standing was 15,4% of France's total foreign debt - a debt which shot up during the Messmer Plan's implementation (not solely due to it, but it certainly didn't help). The fact that ratepayers weren't directly forced to pay this on their power bills is irrelevant; everyone pays indirectly when you fund things through a debt burden borne by the state.

Furthermore, because France didn't account for improvements in efficiency in their power forecasts, so they overbuilt. This led to France desperately seeking ways to use and sell more power, which led to wasteful consumption (such as the conversion of heating to electric, reduced focus on efficiency, insulation, etc). So they took on a debt burden in order to create power generation to use inefficiently.

And the Messmer Plan was really a best case scenario: a unified deployment of identical plants back in the 1970s. Unfortunately, nuclear power has experienced a negative learning curve since then; things have been getting more expensive, not less, as we've learned of problems in previous designs that need to be overcome with future designs. Fixing these means starting over with a new generation of plants, but this restarts the learning curve. The most recent attempt to do this - the so-called "nuclear renaissance" - was a colossal failure, leaving a mess of hugely overbudget / behind schedule plants, debt-saddled / bankrupt utilities, the bankruptcy of Westinghouse and the bailout of Areva in its wake.

France is now putting a new focus on renewables. But they're behind the curve on this front. France has had little incentive to work on renewables compared to other major powers because they were overbuilt on generation capacity. Now it's catch-up time.

It only seems to be America where pork is supposed to be "the other white meat".

This is because the primary white meat in America since World War 2 is chicken.

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Missing this one ?

It doesn't know what a dog or cat is, much less associate a picture of a white kitten with a picture of a tabby cat and establish a commonality between them.

You are not up to date. Neural networks nowadays surpass humans in image recognition. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.018...
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In fact, that technology is now commercially available.
These network do have a concept of dog and cat - in fact, on the output side you'll have a "dog" neuron and a "cat" neuron etc.
Check out Brandon Rohrer's channel on YT for explanations how this technology works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also, see https://finnaarupnielsen.wordp... for a list of other things that computers are better at than humans.

The very wealthy will have "people" to do that sort of thing.

Or andriods!

First of all you, you seem to have missed the primary function of unions which is to make a fair share of the wealth generation go back to the workers, not merely the capitalists. Working conditions, health and safety, working hours and so on have always been secondary struggles where the workers demand some other form of compensation than wages. In that respect unions are failing horribly and apart from the minimum wage - that in real dollars is no higher than in the 1950s - the government is not going to fix.

It's no doubt that if you're a struggling business the unions can be a burden but if they were generally driving companies out of business the richest 15% wouldn't be making more and more money while everyone else loses. What you're seeing is a system where the money is extracted whenever the business is profitable, then makes everyone else take the burden when it's unprofitable. The US has managed to create something worse than social welfare, it's corporate welfare where you take from the tax payers and give to the corporations.

For example, why was your future retirement income to the company's future? Put that money into a pension fund when you do work, if the company goes tits up or you change jobs or lose your job it stops accumulating but it's yours. Or at least a potential share if you make it to retirement age. I mean they're back in business now aren't they? Making money again, which is extracted until the next crisis when the coffers again will be mysteriously empty. And they've done a great frame job when people like you blame the unions for that, nothing like 1%ers making the other 99% blame each other.

First of all you, you seem to have missed the primary function of unions which is to make a fair share of the wealth generation go back to the workers, not merely the capitalists. Working conditions, health and safety, working hours and so on have always been secondary struggles where the workers demand some other form of compensation than wages. In that respect unions are failing horribly and apart from the minimum wage - that in real dollars is no higher than in the 1950s - the government is not going to fix.

It's no doubt that if you're a struggling business the unions can be a burden but if they were generally driving companies out of business the richest 15% wouldn't be making more and more money while everyone else loses. What you're seeing is a system where the money is extracted whenever the business is profitable, then makes everyone else take the burden when it's unprofitable. The US has managed to create something worse than social welfare, it's corporate welfare where you take from the tax payers and give to the corporations.

For example, why was your future retirement income to the company's future? Put that money into a pension fund when you do work, if the company goes tits up or you change jobs or lose your job it stops accumulating but it's yours. Or at least a potential share if you make it to retirement age. I mean they're back in business now aren't they? Making money again, which is extracted until the next crisis when the coffers again will be mysteriously empty. And they've done a great frame job when people like you blame the unions for that, nothing like 1%ers making the other 99% blame each other.

They are not legally skirting anything, they are sovereign nations (although on US soil) and the state cannot regulate them. They are free to do whatever, do not have to pay taxes and have their own legal systems. You can see a 'true' map of the US here: https://nativeheritageproject....

Also makes you shudder when you think that USCS and DHS have designated 100 miles away from every border a constitution-free zone.

never leaked that we know of...
The people who collect such things don't advertise it. It's like the Pre-Columbian Americas. The ones in the know just want to make money.

Can you explain why [a surcharge for an extremely high-end workstation is] justified?

High core counts expose bugs and inefficient algorithms that might be expensive to fix, such as process destruction being serialized. Price discrimination based on core count applies the benefit principle to the Windows tax, allowing those affected by a particular defect associated with high core counts to foot the bill for its correction.

So sure you are... Besides, they may as well be increasing security by planting things with certain backdoors. The actual readable code may just be arcane and hard to read — but innocent. Innocent, until a specially-crafted USB-stick is plugged-in. Or a specially crafted ICMP-packet arrives — its content containing a proper key to open things up for the NSA (but not to anyone actually hostile)... Or until a binary driver for some cool gadget is loaded into kernel...

I'm sure because in contrast with you I am an actual developer and have looked at the very code that I am talking about (would be a hypocrite otherwise). So first it was SELinux that was the problem and now there are hidden backdoors everywhere that you can unlock with ICMP packages, I do think that you should stop looking at shows like The Blacklist.

it's not like they supplied a binary blob

How do you know, when you download the latest nVidia-driver, for example, that it contains no NSA-provided code?

That one is easy because I don't download the latest nVidia driver since I'm using the open AMD drivers at home and the open Intel drivers at work.

Yes but #1 that is code from the part of NSA whose job it is to increase security

So sure you are... Besides, they may as well be increasing security by planting things with certain backdoors. The actual readable code may just be arcane and hard to read — but innocent. Innocent, until a specially-crafted USB-stick is plugged-in. Or a specially crafted ICMP-packet arrives — its content containing a proper key to open things up for the NSA (but not to anyone actually hostile)... Or until a binary driver for some cool gadget is loaded into kernel...

it's not like they supplied a binary blob

How do you know, when you download the latest nVidia-driver, for example, that it contains no NSA-provided code?

How come we only apply this to Musk? How long have we been hearing about the "imminent" Tesla-killers coming from the German automakers? I remember an article in the (hugely anti-Tesla) Daily Kanban in 2015 talking about how Porsche was getting ready to crush Tesla with the super-awesome-stupendulous Mission-E (along with a bunch of other no-show EVs), because the concept looks so double-plus awesome! Guess what? It's 2017 and it's still two years off. But wait, we finally got some spy shots of them finally testing - and guess what? After facing design reality, the concept now looks like nothing more than a glorified Panamera. Just wait for the disappointing stat/price point/production figures!

Anyone who has followed the history of concept cars over the years knew damned well that this was going to happen, because it always does. Concept cars are art pieces, not things that are actually practical from aero / production / functionality designpoints. But far too many people have trouble conceiving of anything but that the only reason Tesla is succeeding is that the big automakers have been "keeping their powder dry" all this time, can crush Tesla at any point in time, and are just about to do so, any day now. The fact that they aren't and can't is inconceivable to them.

(In case any is curious as to why they can't... link)

Drugs are far less common in Taiwan than they are in the US or UK and Taiwan has the death penalty for drug trafficking.

So it clearly works for them.

https://traveloops.files.wordp...

Taiwan only executes small numbers of people - about half a dozen a year since 2010.

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

The process is fucking metal too

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

Executions are carried out by shooting using a handgun aimed at the heart from the back, or aimed at the brain stem under the ear if the prisoner consents to organ donation. The execution time used to be 5:00 a.m., but was changed to 9:00 p.m. in 1995 to reduce officials' workload. It was changed again to 7:30 p.m. in 2010. Executions are performed in secret: nobody is informed beforehand, including the condemned. The execution chamber is located in the prison complex. The condemned is brought to the chamber by car and pays respect to the statue of Ksitigarbha located outside the chamber before entering. Before the execution, the prisoner is brought to a special court next to the execution chamber to have his or her identity confirmed and any last words recorded. The prisoner is then brought to the execution chamber and served a last meal (which includes a bottle of kaoliang). The condemned prisoner is then injected with strong anaesthetic to render him or her completely senseless, laid flat on the ground, face down, and shot. The executioner then burns votive bank notes for the deceased before carrying away the corpse. It is customary for the condemned to place a NT$500 or 1000 banknote in their leg irons as a tip for the executioners.

https://govbanknotes.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/the-united-nations-has-taken-over-all-member-nations/

Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF7. Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF.

40 Outrageous Facts Most People Don't Know

You will discover things that most people don't know. Here are 40 outrageous facts that most people are clueless about.

1. The IRS is not a U.S. Government Agency. It is an Agency of the IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., PDF Public Law 94-564 94th Congress An Act, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)

2. The IMF is an Agency of the UN. (Blacks Law Dictionary 6th Ed. Pg. 816)

3. The U.S. Has not had a Treasury since 1921. (41 Stat. Ch.214 pg. 654)

4. The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF. (Presidential Documents Volume 29-No.4 pg. 113, 22 U.S.C. 285-288)

5. The United States does not have any employees because there is no longer a United States. No more reorganizations. After over 200 years of operating under bankruptcy its finally over. (Executive Order 12803) Do not personate one of the creditors or share holders or you will go to Prison.18 U.S.C. 914

6. The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the United States government. Even though the "US Government" held shares of stock in the various Agencies. (U.S. V. Strang , 254 US 491, Lewis v. US, 680 F.2d, 1239)

Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF7. Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF. The Application for a Social Security Number is the SS5 form. The Department of the Treasury (IMF) issues the SS5 not the Social Security Administration. The new SS5 forms do not state who or what publishes them, the earlier SS5 forms state that they are Department of the Treasury forms. You can get a copy of the SS5 you filled out by sending form SSA-L996 to the SS Administration. (20 CFR chapter 111, subpart B 42 2.103 (b) (2) (2) Read the cites above)

8. There are no Judicial courts in America and there has not been since 1789. Judges do not enforce Statutes and Codes. Executive Administrators enforce Statutes and Codes. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464, Keller v. PE 261 US 428, 1 Stat. 138-178)

9. There have not been any Judges in America since 1789. There have just been Administrators. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464, Keller v. PE 261 US 428 1Stat. 138-178)

10. According to the GATT you must have a Social Security number. House Report (103-826)

11. We have One World Government, One World Law and a One World Monetary System.

No one on this planet has ever been free. This planet is a Slave Colony.

12. The UN is a One World Super Government.

13. No one on this planet has ever been free. This planet is a Slave Colony. There has always been a One World Government. It is just that now it is much better organized and has changed its name as of 1945 to the United Nations.

14. New York City is defined in the Federal Regulations as the United Nations. Rudolph Gulliani stated on C-Span that "New York City was the capital of the World" and he was correct. (20 CFR chapter 111, subpart B 422.103 (b) (2) (2))

15. Social Security is not insurance or a contract, nor is there a Trust Fund. (Helvering v. Davis 301 US 619, Steward Co. V. Davis 301 US 548.)

16. Your Social Security check comes directly from the IMF which is an Agency of the UN. (Look at it if you receive one. It should have written on the top left United States Treasury.)

17. You own no property, slaves can't own property. Read the Deed to the property that you think is yours.The Revolutionary War was a fraud. You are listed as a Tenant. (Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st Session)

18. The most powerful court in America is not the Unit

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>if you track Moore's Law, it hasn't been followed in ages. performance of chips used to double about every year.

This is not the Moore's law. The law is about transistor numbers (or density as here).