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it would be like a carpenter spending hours to make a chest of drawers open more neatly

Carpenters don't make chests of drawers. Carpenters build houses, stores and banks; furniture makers make furniture, it's an entirely different profession.

And if you think "coders" don't follow established procedures you don't know anything about writing software.

According to Wikipedia Monsanto took over manufacturing of PCBs in 1935. Also during the 1930s the toxicity of PCBs became well known. The first well documented medical cases were in the late 30s and warnings continued to be issued through the 1940s.

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

It also mentions that Monsanto knew about the problems in the 1960s, despite their efforts to remain ignorant, yet carried on making PCBs anyway.

They are not much better these days. Just listen to this bullshit: https://youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM

https://youtu.be/GEpJdHS1pV0

Seventy comments and no one has thought to post this? What's happened to Slashdot?

https://youtu.be/N-_mHedypEU

Many FCA vehicles come with uConnect, the newer versions of which will actually read your incoming texts, and has speech-to-text to allow you to send texts as well. Most newer Jeeps, Ram Trucks, Dodge/Chrysler cars and minivans, etc can do this. Here's a quickie video on how that works.

So if someone gets in a wreck while using the hands-free texting but did not cause said wreck? That person would either end up eating a massive fine/ticket (and fault), or would have to pay someone a shit-ton of money (that is, the dealership) to go out to the wrecked vehicle, then pull records from his vehicle's computers proving that he was using the hands-free feature at that exact time... if it even keeps such records stored internally (I believe uConnect does, but not sure about other brands...)

foiled!

It's said there are two kinds of Wells Fargo customers - those who have been fucked over by Wells Fargo and those who haven't yet been.

You have to handle the big banks like this:

https://youtu.be/3ctLEGrOmf4

(and buy your next meal with crypto)

Quite inaccurate, in fact the Jews in the 1930s were armed and it didn't really help them.

https://youtu.be/gfHXJRqq-qo

"but if they ever do make it work, they have realized that they need significantly more computing power than is available in the current system."

Yeah, and in the mean time you have to drive keeping your hands positioned on the steering wheel fully ready to take over from the so called self driving mode. Which is clearly not what the driver in the video is doing by placing both hands on the bottom of steering, placed close together and holding it lightly from underneath :

https://youtu.be/knaskUXb12A?t...

I sort of laugh at the savings of $30 when I look at my electric bill being $38. I could lower that by using less electricity, a single monitor instead of two. Certainly using my own solar system I could save up to $38. I live in Portland, OR, so it's pretty mild year round. In a green certified building I don't use A/C in the Summer, a window fan is enough, and occasionally need to open the window in the Winter as it gets too warm. We've been here for two winters and have never turned on the heater.

Compressed Earth Blocks: Why and How, Here and There... Warm in winter, cool in summer... https://youtu.be/IuQB3x4ZNeA?t...

The Model 3 is much smaller than the Kona though. The Kona is 1570mm tall, where as the Model 3 is just 1443mm. And even so, under the worst possible conditions it's only 14% worse.

And of course you selected the most favourable conditions for your favourite car, where as if you use the headline figure of 120MPGe for the Kona and 130MPGe for the M3 (from your own link) it's down to about 7%.

Also if we are talking about rear space, because of that sloping roof the rear seats in the Model Y are only really suitable for children. They may have difficulty getting them type approved in the EU because they need to have headrests, and as you can see in the prototype doesn't and there isn't much room for them.

Also don't forget that for the same price the Kona has a 35% larger battery, resulting in considerably better range than the similarly priced Model 3. I'll take that over the greenhouse roof.

That's what gutters are for

Yes, shame they don't work very well.

https://youtu.be/hCv_Ha0oWjE
https://youtu.be/E8aUUmybjEg

That's why other manufacturers mostly stay away from that design for anything that is supposed to be practical.

The Model 3 is much smaller than the Kona though. The Kona is 1570mm tall, where as the Model 3 is just 1443mm. And even so, under the worst possible conditions it's only 14% worse.

And of course you selected the most favourable conditions for your favourite car, where as if you use the headline figure of 120MPGe for the Kona and 130MPGe for the M3 (from your own link) it's down to about 7%.

Also if we are talking about rear space, because of that sloping roof the rear seats in the Model Y are only really suitable for children. They may have difficulty getting them type approved in the EU because they need to have headrests, and as you can see in the prototype doesn't and there isn't much room for them.

Also don't forget that for the same price the Kona has a 35% larger battery, resulting in considerably better range than the similarly priced Model 3. I'll take that over the greenhouse roof.

That's what gutters are for

Yes, shame they don't work very well.

https://youtu.be/hCv_Ha0oWjE
https://youtu.be/E8aUUmybjEg

That's why other manufacturers mostly stay away from that design for anything that is supposed to be practical.

Look at the quotes from his speech yesterday. He was off script and sounded exactly like Trump.

Seth Meyer even read his transcript in Trump's voice: https://youtu.be/CuXlBSuQbMo?t...

So you're saying that Beto is eminently electable for 2020?

Look at the quotes from his speech yesterday. He was off script and sounded exactly like Trump.

Seth Meyer even read his transcript in Trump's voice: https://youtu.be/CuXlBSuQbMo?t...

The problem with solar is similar to the problem for most energy sources and that is low energy density. Solar at large scale requires lots of land.

Fortunately we have lots of spaces that we don't know what better thing to do with them.

And while some PV cells are made with toxic materials, others are made with much less environmental impact.

Yes, CdTe panels contain cadmium. Yet they are mostly an American curiosity, courtesy of First Solar, and conventional crystalline silicone panel, which contain no toxic materials, constitute 95% of the current market. So I wouldn't worry about toxicity.

The problem is they are also lower efficiencies.

Efficiency is not a problem if you have space to waste, unless you're talking about cost efficiency. But we've already achieved grid parity in many places. So that should not be an issue anymore.

Solar is nice and makes folks feel good but it does nothing to dent our CO2 production.

It did almost nothing perhaps in Germany for the simple reason that the increase in renewable generation in Germany was only somewhat higher than the closures of nuclear power plants that were possible because of the renewable generation increase. But that is an outlier, and if you're claiming that a generator that has CO2 intensity of 50 g CO2/kWh (and *still* quickly declining) saves nothing over a coal plant with 1000 g CO2/kWh emitted, then I don't understand where is your extra 950 g CO2/kWh coming from.

Without nuclear, nothing does

Great. It would be awesome and I'd absolutely love it, if it weren't for the fact that the price for new nuclear generation is somewhere around 14 cents per kWh - which is around triple the price of new solar in Germany.

Both are cheaper than any new renewable installations.

Not anymore.

Since death metal inspires joy, can we start a little thread of our favorite death metal songs?

I'm not a regular death metal listener, but I have to admit that when I hear it I get unreasonably giddy. Here's Cannibal Corpse, who I like because they remind me of a real live version of Deathklok.

https://youtu.be/482tDopNzoc

I listen to this shit and I'm ready to go put my head through some drywall. In next life, I want to come back as a death metal bass player, but hopefully not Murderface.

A couple of years ago I was driving to work, and was in a particularly foul mood (don't remember why exactly). I was flipping through the SiriusXM stations and when I reached Liquid Metal they were playing Cannibal Corpse's "Kill or Become". It was so cathartic, it just pulled that dark mood right out of me.

Since death metal inspires joy, can we start a little thread of our favorite death metal songs?

I'm not a regular death metal listener, but I have to admit that when I hear it I get unreasonably giddy. Here's Cannibal Corpse, who I like because they remind me of a real live version of Deathklok.

https://youtu.be/482tDopNzoc

I listen to this shit and I'm ready to go put my head through some drywall. In next life, I want to come back as a death metal bass player, but hopefully not Murderface.

Naw, just came here to post this.

Here's a handy video that shows you how to service your muffle bearings.
Best muffler bearings.

https://youtu.be/9pQNYeOEFJc

Even RLM takes offence from Brie Larsen.....

Outrage is big business on YouTube, they will never ban that. People like Carl Benjamin have popular weekly shows that are nothing but outrage. One single tweet expressing mild concern at a trailer spawned nearly 100 outrage videos, and that's pretty normal.

Obligatory parks and rec: I typed your symptoms into the thing up here, and it says you could have ... network con-nec-tivity problems.

After consideration they decided that the big red elbow-activated "Crash NOW!" button was to easily accidentally struck when pilot stretches, or scratching self.

Re-thinking similar function button small button next to light button above each passenger seat, and in bathrooms.

https://youtu.be/LwjP8HCpE4E.

YouTube: Mentour Pilot

by the usual members of the sad and pathetic ass-clown army.

I do think what is even more sad are those people who do not recognize how awful the actress was talking about white men.

If she said the same thing about a black person or a women the world would have been at a standstill until some action was taken. But because it's a white male it's perfectly acceptable.

What's pathetic is posts like yours that promulgate the hypocrisy.

It's amazing the number of posts on Slashdot that do not see this point. My guess is that they are largely ignorant of what happened and bought the media's story of "trolls" when in fact those so called trolls were targeting Brie's misandry. I'm not an MRA but the hypocrisy knows no depths here.

And let's not call it what it's not, and that's a "great" movie. Anyone who has followed the MCU aka fans will be disgusted at the plot holes, bad writing, and missed opportunities. I think this analysis is among the best.

Truth be known, Captain Marvel will end up wrecking the MCU franchise the same way that The Last Jedi wrecked Star Wars.

Some places benefit more from DST than others. Here in Ireland where there's only 7 hours of light in winter, DST moves those hours so those 7 hours occur at the more useful time of day. For summer we get 7 hours of night, so the change allows for better night time hours.

So here DST is very useful.

Location is everything when discussing DST, yet I've never seen a survey that links desire to keep/remove DST linked to location, specifically latitude and distance from your time-zone defining longitude. (i.e. latitude and what time local solar-noon occurs).

I think this will show an obvious correlation, should it be undertaken.

As for the heart attacks nonsense, while it can be shown that the number of heart attacks does increase on that particular day, it can also be shown the they do *not* increase for that particular week. The number of expected heart attacks fire that week is the same as any other week, they just occur earlier -- they would have happened anyway. Watch this video for the maths: https://youtu.be/XZGs5Im9f8Q

You have to remember, there was a time before Wikileaks was just a partisan tool of Russia. It actually exposed real crimes instead of just trying to embarrass a certain party in order to install a puppet president.

There was a time when Democrats didn't fully insert their heads into their asses, and mocked Romney for saying Russia was a threat to the United States. In an election where Putin voiced a preference for the candidate not campaigning on raising tensions with his country. Mind blown?

And the video Manning leaked was deliberately misrepresented by Assange to boost his own ego, as others in WikiLeaks have stated.

What other's - that hack Daniel Dumbshit-Berg? To digress for a moment, I've always been ambivalent on Joe Rogan's standup comedy, days on Fear Factor, fight commentary, and most of his podcast guests....but his interview of Bari Weiss of the New York Times was pure gold. She called Tulsi Gabbard an "Assad toady", but wasn't able to substantiate her accusation. Or define the word. Or even spell it.

Now, you can obviously spell the word "ego". And you might be able to define it. But the rest is reaching your fingers to the back of your mouth to regurgitate some character assassination you heard somewhere. Just like Bari Weiss. If Assange was 'in it for himself', he would have sold the cables given to Wikileaks by Manning to any number of state intelligence agencies around the planet, and be living on his own island in the Bahamas right now. With blackjack. And hookers.

What's particularly bad about this is Manning was leaking information with the specific intent to cause harm to the Army, (possibly leading to the deaths of US soldiers) without being aware of its contents at all. Manning did this purely out of spite; it had nothing to do with whistleblowing. The reason he did this goes back to his early days in the Army.

Pressin those fingers down, hard, on the back of your tongue. Manning was bothered by war crimes and illegal wars, something Manning and Assange haters absolutely DGAF about. And she tried raising her concerns "through the appropriate channels" and was ignored. Which left leaking as her only choice, or stay silent and complicit in an illegal invasion and occupation.

As an Army veteran myself

As a member of the Army, you took an Oath of Enlistment to defend the Constitution of the United States, not neocon war criminals. Manning was upholding that oath, and is an infinitely better soldier and human being than you ever were or will be.

Well, in the case of Guy who Wants a Harrier Jet versus Pepsi, there are limits to such ads being taken seriously.

However, in this case, several elements of the contract are met and it is ostensibly enforceable though there may be some particulars that would change the outcome.

As with anything new, they are pushing the boundaries on what is currently available and moving at a quick pace. Full Self Driving is supposably coming later this year (though I suspect more like later next year) and includes hardware changes. I read they are going to put a second forward-facing radar unit, changing the driving computer out for one with a 10X faster chip that sits behind the glove box, and enabling the technology slowly as reliability increases, regulations allow, and hardware developed. The current chip works by processing 200 FPS of video from the 8 cameras, and the new chip processing 2000FPS.

I have a Tesla ModelX, with enhanced autopilot and I paid for the FSD upgrade when purchasing. I read all of the fine print, the purchase agreement, and made an informed decision to bet that they would deliver on it. Why not? They have delivered (eventuallly) on many of their other goals. Worst case scenario they refund me my purchase of that option. I still think with everything else I got, it was a hell of a purchase and I am very satisfied with it over all. Honestly the worst part of the owner experience is the service timelines.

No other car gets software upgrades like this, and every time they do, I get excited again to see what new functions they enabled. Drive on Nav is super cool.

No where have I read that you will never be able to summon your car from across the US one day. Tesla have shown videos of the development vehicles driving, both in the city streets and on the highway unaided successfully. What I think they need to do is answer for a high number of so many thousands of edge cases before they can go "unaided" as well as seek regulatory approval.

They demonstrated this two years ago: https://youtu.be/VG68SKoG7vE

Now, we are waiting for the HW 3.0 upgrades and drive-on-nav to work off the freeway.

Also. One final thought: Super charging is going to have to work with that snake thing they use to auto plug in, or Tesla is going to need an attendant at the Super Charger for personless cross-country travel. The new faster SC is nice and all, but I was hoping for self-plugging in.

Scary business!

No such network exists it was individual people expressing their opinions. Facebook is deleting accounts because of legal action being taken against them in the U.S. by Tommy Robinson.
Because the government wanted to delete his webpage and because of the sting on the BBC they had to quickly silence everybody.

If you upload a picture of Tommy or his video they immediately delete your account. Facebook denies its previous statement it alleged that Tommy Robson, was telling people to cut off Muslims heads obviously that never happened that would be incitement to murder a criminal offence in the U.K..

These are very dangerous times in the U.K. I have never seen this before and I have lived in a few countries. This is dangerous.

The BBC are trying to hide this story which was published in the Guardian who tried to frighten Tommy Robson's children with a crackhead and filmed it live.

He has a court case against the police for harassment coming up soon. They are working out legal proceedings against Facebook in the U.S., they have served legal papers against the Guardian and the Socialist workers party. They have also serve legal papers against the Crown Prosecution Service. https://youtu.be/TdWahm2z_R0

He says the government not the Crown Prosecution Service are now charging him https://youtu.be/-RYmnsDeYTg

Tucker Carlson who works for Fox which is owned by Robert Murdoch who owns sky News enemy of Tommy Robertson slipped in an acknowledgement https://youtu.be/P6E1PFt8-a4

Scary business!

No such network exists it was individual people expressing their opinions. Facebook is deleting accounts because of legal action being taken against them in the U.S. by Tommy Robinson.
Because the government wanted to delete his webpage and because of the sting on the BBC they had to quickly silence everybody.

If you upload a picture of Tommy or his video they immediately delete your account. Facebook denies its previous statement it alleged that Tommy Robson, was telling people to cut off Muslims heads obviously that never happened that would be incitement to murder a criminal offence in the U.K..

These are very dangerous times in the U.K. I have never seen this before and I have lived in a few countries. This is dangerous.

The BBC are trying to hide this story which was published in the Guardian who tried to frighten Tommy Robson's children with a crackhead and filmed it live.

He has a court case against the police for harassment coming up soon. They are working out legal proceedings against Facebook in the U.S., they have served legal papers against the Guardian and the Socialist workers party. They have also serve legal papers against the Crown Prosecution Service. https://youtu.be/TdWahm2z_R0

He says the government not the Crown Prosecution Service are now charging him https://youtu.be/-RYmnsDeYTg

Tucker Carlson who works for Fox which is owned by Robert Murdoch who owns sky News enemy of Tommy Robertson slipped in an acknowledgement https://youtu.be/P6E1PFt8-a4

Scary business!

No such network exists it was individual people expressing their opinions. Facebook is deleting accounts because of legal action being taken against them in the U.S. by Tommy Robinson.
Because the government wanted to delete his webpage and because of the sting on the BBC they had to quickly silence everybody.

If you upload a picture of Tommy or his video they immediately delete your account. Facebook denies its previous statement it alleged that Tommy Robson, was telling people to cut off Muslims heads obviously that never happened that would be incitement to murder a criminal offence in the U.K..

These are very dangerous times in the U.K. I have never seen this before and I have lived in a few countries. This is dangerous.

The BBC are trying to hide this story which was published in the Guardian who tried to frighten Tommy Robson's children with a crackhead and filmed it live.

He has a court case against the police for harassment coming up soon. They are working out legal proceedings against Facebook in the U.S., they have served legal papers against the Guardian and the Socialist workers party. They have also serve legal papers against the Crown Prosecution Service. https://youtu.be/TdWahm2z_R0

He says the government not the Crown Prosecution Service are now charging him https://youtu.be/-RYmnsDeYTg

Tucker Carlson who works for Fox which is owned by Robert Murdoch who owns sky News enemy of Tommy Robertson slipped in an acknowledgement https://youtu.be/P6E1PFt8-a4

The JVM (java runtime) is an industrial strength battle tested runtime for serious workloads.

Java, the code Mutilator! It's a monster truck you can pour in your code!

Java is like refactoring your code with a lawnmower! It's like programming on a 300 foot tall pony covered in chainsaws! Java - it's got what code craves!

underscored the importance of "credible" information.

https://youtu.be/g5vnZec964c?t...>Amen!

Better be careful eating that cake!
https://youtu.be/sK_446ozew0?t...

Sim City really prevented the ability to Min/Max game play and forced a balanced approach.

This fellow disagrees with you, and min/maxed his way to a 9+million person city.

https://youtu.be/NTJQTc-TqpU

You mean creimer who is taking on Wreck It Ralph AND Casey Neistat this week?

You mean creimer who is taking on Wreck It Ralph AND Casey Neistat this week?

You mean creimer who is taking on Wreck It Ralph AND Casey Neistat this week?

" it's been understood that attacking the moral strength of the enemy is just as valuable as attacking the enemy soldiers or logistics." - Yet never demonstrated effectively. Every war was fought physically anyway.

The US won every major battle throughout the war in Vietnam. Then we surrendered and left. That is straight from Clausewitz on how a weaker foe can defeat a stronger, when it's not "total war".

They are two different concepts : influencing people with propaganda to weaken them, and actually attacking their physical resources to make them capitulate.

It was pretty well demonstrated in WWI that attacking the enemy's infrastructure makes little difference. We bombed a shitload of German factories, only to have them back a week later. Only logistical "choke points" help. Bombing the same factories every week didn't help, but cutting off Germany's supply of e.g. tungsten helped a lot.

Attacking civilian resources only causes capitulation if moral strength fails. As long as morale or determination persists, the war continues.

You can kill all the enemy soldiers. You can destroy military logistics so that the soldiers run out of bullets or food. You can destroy the will to fight.

At least, that's "total war". You can of course attack civilian infrastructure of a stronger power in hope they will judge the cost of the conflict to exceed the gains. Seems to have the opposite effect, however, more often than not. People tend to get very pissed at that sort of thing, and form a strong desire to hit back harder.

Cyber warfare is the latter. Information warfare is the former. They are distinct despite your Clausewitz reference. That's why we have different responses to them.

Entirely different types of conflict cannot be readily conflated even by the well-meaning ignorant.

Don't take my work for it, listen to these guys: https://youtu.be/qOTYgcdNrXE?t... The interview with the 4-star General on this topic is enlightening.

I prefer this one of Claude Paillard hand-making triode tubes.

There's also this longer video of making nixie tubes.

It may not be unreasonable to you, but I really don't care about what you find reasonable or not. Really, I don't give a whit. I am not at trial, I am expressing an opinion and therefore am under no obligation to prove or disprove anything, all of which is still legal in the US at this time. I provide no link to any "right-wing blog" yet you make a point of accusing me of such; sounds like you're the one with a prejudice/censorship problem. So perhaps you can absorb that the opinions expressed by the posters are theirs and do not indicate anything other than their opinions; perhaps not. One thing I know for sure, I don't have to "prove" anything to you.

So, where is your proof? Having trouble finding any? Because your entire post contained only this: https://youtu.be/hsPtqjwcMx

I really don't care what accusations you pull out of your rectum and hurl around like an angry chimp until you can prove them ... so pony yup or shut up.

at : -36C : yes.
https://youtu.be/capOgUHPz9Q?t...

Every Chinese corporation (Huawei being a big one) with an internationally-facing department - most especially those that handle information transfer - are part of the government's data-collection system. It's the law there. To think they're not collecting and reporting is the height of naivete.

Maybe they are but the onus is on you to prove it, so where is the proof that Huawei is responsible for this or that is guilty of your accusation that they are fuelling international customer data to the Chinese government? ... and please try to do better than a link to some right-wing blog where some blowhard is expressing an opinion. People keep telling me things like:

"To think they're not collecting and reporting is the height of naivete.

... but when one asks for the proof all one gets is this: https://youtu.be/hsPtqjwcMxc. It seems that if you are going to accuse somebody of something it is not unreasonable for you to provide hard proof.

Yep, here is the link.

And here's another link without the drama, just the launch seen from next to the starting line.

Here's the thing, like. Noone watches television any more.
Brilliant.
Totally.
Yes. Exactly. Yeah.

The Verge did a good job of drawing attention to itself when it copyright striked two channels for reaction videos to their terrible PC build video and prompting the community to donate $7,000 for #SomethingPositive on Twitter.