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I assume you are trolling, but the plan is to send 4 to mars, to provide a base load of 40kW, and presumably some redundancy. See the video at: https://youtu.be/DcdfMcjUy_U

...if you don't like it leave.

Thanks, Blake.

There's always this: https://youtu.be/MTY1Kje0yLg

Why yes, soon creimer will have views in the low two digits.

Creimer's top five videos by view count:

• Batman, Robin and Riddler Play "Johnny Be Goode" (5,653 views)
• William Shatner Stole Leonard Nimoy's Bicycle (581 views)
• Godzilla (Cosplayer) Dances to Blue Oyster Cult (440 views)
• Black Friday 2017 @ Apple Park Visitor Center (286 views)
• Ming Na Wen @ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Panel (104 views)

Why yes, soon creimer will have views in the low two digits.

Creimer's top five videos by view count:

• Batman, Robin and Riddler Play "Johnny Be Goode" (5,653 views)
• William Shatner Stole Leonard Nimoy's Bicycle (581 views)
• Godzilla (Cosplayer) Dances to Blue Oyster Cult (440 views)
• Black Friday 2017 @ Apple Park Visitor Center (286 views)
• Ming Na Wen @ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Panel (104 views)

Why yes, soon creimer will have views in the low two digits.

Creimer's top five videos by view count:

• Batman, Robin and Riddler Play "Johnny Be Goode" (5,653 views)
• William Shatner Stole Leonard Nimoy's Bicycle (581 views)
• Godzilla (Cosplayer) Dances to Blue Oyster Cult (440 views)
• Black Friday 2017 @ Apple Park Visitor Center (286 views)
• Ming Na Wen @ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Panel (104 views)

Why yes, soon creimer will have views in the low two digits.

Creimer's top five videos by view count:

• Batman, Robin and Riddler Play "Johnny Be Goode" (5,653 views)
• William Shatner Stole Leonard Nimoy's Bicycle (581 views)
• Godzilla (Cosplayer) Dances to Blue Oyster Cult (440 views)
• Black Friday 2017 @ Apple Park Visitor Center (286 views)
• Ming Na Wen @ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Panel (104 views)

Why yes, soon creimer will have views in the low two digits.

Creimer's top five videos by view count:

• Batman, Robin and Riddler Play "Johnny Be Goode" (5,653 views)
• William Shatner Stole Leonard Nimoy's Bicycle (581 views)
• Godzilla (Cosplayer) Dances to Blue Oyster Cult (440 views)
• Black Friday 2017 @ Apple Park Visitor Center (286 views)
• Ming Na Wen @ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Panel (104 views)

But in that article is said those getting laid off are getting a "$1000 supplemental payment." So, basically they are getting the $1,000 bonus too.

"As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Get the picture? You laughing now?"

https://youtu.be/elrnAl6ygeM

That was BitCoin, going out in a flashbang blaze of glory. Turn out the lights, the party's over.

That meteor over Michigan last night? That was the BitCoin flashbang. Turn out the lights, the party's over....

I am pretty sure he is referencing Canadian Bacon.

Take only the highest notes in each chord and remove all the rest. What do you have? A melody. Now repeat with the 2nd highest. Now you have another melody. You can do this several times and end up with 4 or 5 melodies. The fact that they can be combined together as harmonies is the genius of Bach.

That's known as counterpoint.

But Bach was a master of also using polyphonic chords. His Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is a good example. While you may remember the lead-in melody that is played multiple times in diminishing octaves, what you really remember is the massive chord progression after that.
https://youtu.be/ipzR9bhei_o?t...

Modern music has pretty much forgotten how deeply emotional and satisfying polyphony without a basis in rhythm or melody can be.

==This into that==

Funny this topic came up today. My first waking thought was a desire to insert this into that. Sleep is amazing. True story.

This = Mel Brooks voice-alike from Springtime for Hitler in Germany with the line "don't be stupid, be a smarty, come on join the Nazi party".

That = the first skinhead refrain in Aqua's Barbie Girl with the line "come on Barbie, let's go party". You'd need to find a slightly longer version of this refrain to make the splice, but that's far enough for me for now.

I had only ever listened to Barbie Girl once (about six months ago), but it was enough to trigger some form of pattern recognition while I slept after another Producers micro-binge yesterday.

Damn if I couldn't get Mel to rewrite (and dance) that entire Danish disaster.

Mel's got the moves, too: High anxiety

==Slightly off-topic addendum==

Mattel claimed that "Barbie Girl" violated their trademark and turned her into a sex object, referring to her as a "Blonde Bimbo".

In 2002, a Court of Appeals ruled the song was protected as a parody under the trademark doctrine of nominative use and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The judge, Alex Kozinski, also threw out the defamation lawsuit that Aqua's record company filed against Mattel, concluding his ruling: "The parties are advised to chill."

Not that lawsuits have anything to do with the sad state of lyrical insight these days.

Of course she's not a sex pot.

==Geek sex-pot dumpster dive==

What Would Sex-Pot Barbie Look Like in Real Life? by Meagan Tintari

Barbie, at 1/6 scale, would be 175.26 cm in height { 69 inches | 5'9" tall } and have the following measurements ...

91.44 cm bust | 36 inches
45.72 cm waist | 18 inches
83.82 cm hips | 33 inches
55.88 cm head circumference | 22 inches
22.86 cm neck circumference | 9 inches <= insert pencil here

A healthy 19 year old girl, 163.3 cm in height { 64.3 inches | 5'3-1/2" tall } and measurements below, come from CDC.gov and [the] Huffington Post ...

85.4 cm waist | 33.6 inches
35.8 cm upper arm length | 14.1 inches
36.7 cm upper leg length | 14.5 inches
50.8 cm head circumference | 20 inches
38.1 cm neck circumference | 15 inches

Ouch. And I do mean penetrating pencil neck pain. WTF, Meagan?

Arithmetic is hard: The given precision ranges from two to five significant digits (for equivalent values).
Presentation is hard: the tables aren't row equivalent (a healthy girl has different measurements), and aren't column parallel either (that might make it easy to read).
Geometry is hard: "Barbie, at 1/6 scale, ..." should probably be "Barbie, assuming a 1/6 scale, ..."
Sentences are hard: A healthy 19 year old girl [] come from CDC.gov ...
Punctuation is hard: A healthy 19-year-old girl [] come from CDC.gov ...

And—geek drum roll—the two ellipses in the quotation above (standing in for colons after "measurement" and "Post") is from the original.

==Final irony==

As a final irony, the UK measurements in the original were actually rendered using U+2033 : DOUBLE PRIME for the inch symbol, but I had to ditch that small sequin of geek enlightenment to format for Slashdot.

==This into that==

Funny this topic came up today. My first waking thought was a desire to insert this into that. Sleep is amazing. True story.

This = Mel Brooks voice-alike from Springtime for Hitler in Germany with the line "don't be stupid, be a smarty, come on join the Nazi party".

That = the first skinhead refrain in Aqua's Barbie Girl with the line "come on Barbie, let's go party". You'd need to find a slightly longer version of this refrain to make the splice, but that's far enough for me for now.

I had only ever listened to Barbie Girl once (about six months ago), but it was enough to trigger some form of pattern recognition while I slept after another Producers micro-binge yesterday.

Damn if I couldn't get Mel to rewrite (and dance) that entire Danish disaster.

Mel's got the moves, too: High anxiety

==Slightly off-topic addendum==

Mattel claimed that "Barbie Girl" violated their trademark and turned her into a sex object, referring to her as a "Blonde Bimbo".

In 2002, a Court of Appeals ruled the song was protected as a parody under the trademark doctrine of nominative use and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The judge, Alex Kozinski, also threw out the defamation lawsuit that Aqua's record company filed against Mattel, concluding his ruling: "The parties are advised to chill."

Not that lawsuits have anything to do with the sad state of lyrical insight these days.

Of course she's not a sex pot.

==Geek sex-pot dumpster dive==

What Would Sex-Pot Barbie Look Like in Real Life? by Meagan Tintari

Barbie, at 1/6 scale, would be 175.26 cm in height { 69 inches | 5'9" tall } and have the following measurements ...

91.44 cm bust | 36 inches
45.72 cm waist | 18 inches
83.82 cm hips | 33 inches
55.88 cm head circumference | 22 inches
22.86 cm neck circumference | 9 inches <= insert pencil here

A healthy 19 year old girl, 163.3 cm in height { 64.3 inches | 5'3-1/2" tall } and measurements below, come from CDC.gov and [the] Huffington Post ...

85.4 cm waist | 33.6 inches
35.8 cm upper arm length | 14.1 inches
36.7 cm upper leg length | 14.5 inches
50.8 cm head circumference | 20 inches
38.1 cm neck circumference | 15 inches

Ouch. And I do mean penetrating pencil neck pain. WTF, Meagan?

Arithmetic is hard: The given precision ranges from two to five significant digits (for equivalent values).
Presentation is hard: the tables aren't row equivalent (a healthy girl has different measurements), and aren't column parallel either (that might make it easy to read).
Geometry is hard: "Barbie, at 1/6 scale, ..." should probably be "Barbie, assuming a 1/6 scale, ..."
Sentences are hard: A healthy 19 year old girl [] come from CDC.gov ...
Punctuation is hard: A healthy 19-year-old girl [] come from CDC.gov ...

And—geek drum roll—the two ellipses in the quotation above (standing in for colons after "measurement" and "Post") is from the original.

==Final irony==

As a final irony, the UK measurements in the original were actually rendered using U+2033 : DOUBLE PRIME for the inch symbol, but I had to ditch that small sequin of geek enlightenment to format for Slashdot.

Rappers, Dubsteppers and Electronic "artists"* are cheap and require zero talent making them easily replaceable

Pop music has always been designed to be easily replaceable. It has to be for the industry to survive.

In the late-50s/early 60s, the most popular music was something that is now known as "teener". A record label would take a completely forgettable kid like Bobby Vee or Bobby Rydell and give him some insipid tune and put a pouty picture on the record cover and then stand back and watch the sales ring up.

Sometimes, they wouldn't even bother getting a singer to sing the song, but would just find some TV actor who was popular with the kids and put him in front of a microphone. Here's a case in point: Dwayne Hickman, who played Dobie Gillis on TV made a teener record. Thank goodness it didn't do well. Admittedly, this is a somewhat extreme example of the genre.

https://youtu.be/zZ5RRJMl6Io

"Extreme right" aka constitutionalist that believes it's not a "living breathing document", holds "pro-gun" views, doesn't like censorship, and believes that "smaller government" and "state rights" should be the primary drivers.

Ah, the blessed "constitutionalists" like Antonin Scalia, a man who once made the argument that use of torture was not unconstitutional as long as it wasn't done as punishment. Heinousness incarnate.

This is the kind of society you want to live under? Be my guest. Just don't ask the majority of Americans to turn our country into that kind of shithole.

Less dynamic: https://youtu.be/lFqNQna_-sI?t...

More dynamic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That was really cool! But watching that smiling face, and hearing that bubble gum pop voice over a crunchy heavy-metal guitar - talk about cognitive dissonance! It also makes me think about how VERY different that same song would be if sung by Chrissie Hynde or Joan Jett...

Less dynamic:
https://youtu.be/lFqNQna_-sI?t...

More dynamic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I know for a FACT that the elections cannot have been hacked: Obama and Hillary said so!

And now for something completely different .... Working in a Lava Tube, sung to the melody of Devo - Working In a Coal Mine

Workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin' lunar lava tubes
Goin' down down, down
Look out for the icy stuff
Oops, about to slip down

Five o'clock in the morning
That last tube sure was a dud
This one lookin' no better
How long before I get some bud?

Daddies workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin' lunar lava tubes
Goin' down down, down
Look out for the icy stuff
Oops, about to slip down

'Course I paid in Bitcoin
Haulin' ice ain't no fun
But when Saturday come round
No beer, no xbox, no fun

I'm just workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin' ....



thank you.

I put your new video on a DVD and mailed it to some friends.

I'm just biding my time waiting for Steve Sanderson's Blazor to emerge as a supported front end UI framework.

A short video presentation from a demo Steve presented at NDC Olso shows how the possibility of sidestepping what I think is the current javascript framework madness.

If I was more disciplined, I might learn to love javascript and some of the various UI frameworks, but as an experienced .NET developer, Blazor appeals to me.

All of them wearing bowler hats?

  https://youtu.be/RtA_vNrqrCI

Innervisions

Was it, by any chance, called a NOC list?

Heh, that reminds me of this piece of work. I don't quite understand why it's so funny when they "eliminate" the Chinese women, but it gets me every time.
 
Also a note to the editor,

found that as much as 99 percent of baby green sea turtles

Much should be many!

Once you've used Oracle they got you. If you try to leave, you can't. ...

Sounds like they're selling drugs. "The first one's free -- here, try it!" OTOH how ELSE do you expect Larry to afford that island?

https://youtu.be/Sm3b4_XLCOU?t...

https://youtu.be/hkFpsILh3pc

Welders, plumbers, electricians, carpenters....

Video killed radio.

No, US carriers killed radio.Calling Verizon to ask for their ROM to not block the FM chip in early Notes was met with "all you have to do is subscribe to our radio streaming service if you want radio!"

Video killed radio.

Cortana -- Not dead yet.

Hasn't anyone here seen Oceans Eleven?


Yea yea yea. Or forgotten it as yet another George Cloney / Brad Pitt / Matt Damon / Andy Garcia / Julia Roberts / Elliot Gould / Casey Affleck / Carl Reiner / Wayne Newton / Eydie Gormé / Angie Dickinson / Steve Lawrence vehicle.

Purposely changing election maps in order to effectively disenfranchise citizens is unconstitutional? You've got to be kidding me.

In all seriousness, I do hope that something like this will be implemented in its stead:

https://www.washingtonpost.com... ...however, I'm not holding my breath.

algos have their own problems. Like they're data prejudiced. And a lot of people don't properly consider data for one. His maps (from my skimming) seem to be based on census data and since the census is under it's own form of attack that just presents it's own type of problem. This just effectively moves the goal from the map itself to the census. the second issue that jumped out was the bloby shape of his districts and one thing I learned when I was reading about districts a year or so ago was that it isn't always best to have blocky districts. I actually saw one of the examples on one of the last night shows once.

Now, some argue that compactness isn't a very good measure of district quality. Districts should also respect "communities of interest" — that is, there should be some common denominator among a district's residents. But defining a "community of interest" is another problem altogether. As Jonathan Bernstein wrote last year, a community of interest could be defined based on rural/urban divides, shared cultural background, economic interest, ethnic background, demographic similarity, political boundaries, geographic boundaries and on and on.

And therein lies the problem: You can define a "community of interest" pretty much however you want. If you're a politician in search of a figleaf justification for putting voters from disparate corners of the state into the same congressional district, you can always find one. Communities of interest are a great ideal, but in practice they're so fuzzy that they open the door to all manner of redistricting shenanigans, as we've seen.

and here we have a baby bathwater thing. Just because it's abused doesn't mean it serves no value. Community of interest can give marginalized people representation. Throwing that out for data based again just assumes the data is fair when it might not be. Just because it's faster doesn't mean it's better.

Found it. The video was a John Oliver video: (12:44) Gerrymandering

You are right. That was not very convincing. https://youtu.be/6NOSD0XK0r8?t... My source was from Damore himself above. The URL was just a location on GoogleDoc that it was posted for the intended audience. I appreciate you attempting to disprove with facts though.

If I could do it, I'd mod you up to 11 for that one.

Watched this and the data presented overwhelmingly shows that the sun drives our temp not man made CO2

The graphs showing temp and sun activity more closely matched than CO2 and temp

The CO2 vs temp graphs actually showed repeatedly that the rise in CO2 in the past happened on the average 800 years after global warming

It was explained that the thermal inertia of the ocean is why it took so long for CO2 levels to rise.

If you want to consider yourself informed on AGW/CC you might come off a bit more intelligent AFTER you watch this video

Of course I found it very useful as it presented many contradictory facts that dispute AGW is being driven by CO2 produced by man

I liked the fact they clarified water vapor makes up 95% of green house gases.

Great discussion on how cosmic rays cause clouds and how solar winds can sweep cosmic rays away from earth .

Also blows a hole in prediction that temps at higher altitude should be higher due to AGW/CC but two different data sets, satellite and ballon dispute that

The graphs of global temps vs solar activity were very closely matched, much more than CO2

Like I said

Watch and be better informed

https://youtu.be/iObmapEm2a4

CLIMATE HYSTERIA - Judith Curry on Climategate, Concensus and Bullying
by Oppenheimer Ranch Project on 2017-08-28 In Video
Regarding the role that human greenhouse gas emissions play in driving the earth's climate Dr. Curry concludes that: âoeOn balance, I don't see any particular dangers from greenhouse warming....

Very enlightening
Lots of data

I liked the other planets showing global warming and cooling sans mans infkuence

- snruter rotsac

https://youtu.be/V4-Z_nJvGsM Come on Baby, Run Linspire!

Reminds me of the "hope a robot doesn't burn you ****ing house down" thing. https://youtu.be/zkv-_LqTeQA

I wouldn't call videos with hundreds of thousands of views "strawmen from the bottom of the YouTube comment barrel." Here, fast-forward in that video to the part where we hear that you can't be racist towards white people because [redefinition of established terms to suit agenda, then house of cards built on top of bogus new definition]." Videos like that are simultaneously popular and a bunch of steaming bullshit. They're also pretty easy to find. In fact, Vox publishes lots of high production value race-baiting bullshit videos and they get even more views, which sucks because Vox makes good content when they stay away from political opinion-as-fact pieces.

I wouldn't call videos with hundreds of thousands of views "strawmen from the bottom of the YouTube comment barrel." Here, fast-forward in that video to the part where we hear that you can't be racist towards white people because [redefinition of established terms to suit agenda, then house of cards built on top of bogus new definition]." Videos like that are simultaneously popular and a bunch of steaming bullshit. They're also pretty easy to find. In fact, Vox publishes lots of high production value race-baiting bullshit videos and they get even more views, which sucks because Vox makes good content when they stay away from political opinion-as-fact pieces.

If this were implemented in the United States, the Trump Administration would probably block any news about the Russia investigation.

Since there's been no evidence whatsoever in that "investigation", just speculation and theories based on nothing, the whole thing qualifies as fake news.

Look at this interview with the ultimate expert about this subject:
https://youtu.be/9Ikf1uZli4g

The guy has zero facts, only vague accusations, and yet he's on expert panels all the time to discuss this bullshit. There's no evidence, all they say over and over is that Russia would like to control people like Trump. They keep using buzzwords like "transactional relationship" but they don't back it with any information at all.

He made a dime on that video. His most popular video has 4,500+ views and made him $4.50. That's assuming a $1 CPM.

"Just look at all the things they promised in 2014 around their initial autopilot suite, in fact there isn't even a single thing listed from that original presentation that the current cars can do"

Really? See link below for the *October* 2014 event (so the year was almost over) and tell us what was promised & is missing. I gather there's going to be quite a few items on that list.
https://youtu.be/FZ6lZJWL_Xk?t...

A university researcher has just proven in a groundbreaking research study that water is INDEED wet! With this announcement he has been granted five more years of funding from several prominent corporations wishing to be associated with such innovative discoveries.

I see, so now antifa means "wilf fantasies of my fevered mind"?

You mean like this? or do you mean like this? Because it sure isn't a fantasy in their fevered mind, but it sure does look like you're denying reality.

I see, so now antifa means "wilf fantasies of my fevered mind"?

You mean like this? or do you mean like this? Because it sure isn't a fantasy in their fevered mind, but it sure does look like you're denying reality.

35mm film is the "Full HD" of film (still and moving) i.e. not very high resolution.
Much larger formats are in use since the early days of photography when high resolution is needed (as opposed to low cost, which 35mm did provide).

A fair number of movies were shot in high resolution film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For stills "medium format" is about 6cm x 6cm. Implying there is a large format as well: 8" x 10".

For example the photos on the lunar surface were taken on 70mm film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Final note:
As proven in Blade Runner (which was shot on film), film does have infinite resoultion: https://youtu.be/qHepKd38pr0

The scaremongering that "robots are taking all the jobs" started in the 1990s.

At least in the 60s and that's only because I can't find the earlier videos on youtube, but I know they existed.

President Eisenhower warned of this in his farewell address. Skip ahead to around 8:40 in this video to hear Eisenhower discuss the military industrial complex. He warned that the populace must be vigilant to prevent our liberties from being eroded in the name of defense. We've ignored Eisenhower's warning, and allowed the military industrial complex to grow all around us and push into every corner of our lives.