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Ones written in cuneiform and baked in clay.

Because that's the oldest recorded repeat of this complaint.

Do you have a citation of that? Because that's pretty cool.

I'm not sure if KiloByte is referencing the same source, but there is at least one Sumerian cuneiform tablet that contains an example of a pupil making fun of their instructor (apologies for the quality, it was the best I could find). There is also an example of what is claimed to be the world's oldest Yo Momma joke. People of all generations are not so dissimilar.

Looking at the Care-O-Meter..

That means you do care...
At least a little...

Gotta love Weird Al:)
https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc

I know your joking, just plugging Weird Al.

"especially since the media became operating arms of weapons manufacturers."
AND, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, which is a shell corporation for the Communist Party.
https://youtu.be/PblVo9y735k?t...

Yea, no.

The price has dropped quite a bit.

$1,318.45 for PC + oculus + touch controllers -
https://www.amazon.com/A80CJ-D...

The oculus headset and touch package is currently $399 on the summer of rift sale - https://www.oculus.com/blog/ri...

The problem with content is being addressed -
Current higher budget games e.g.
Robo Recall - https://youtu.be/shiKcsjZnH0
Lone Echo - https://youtu.be/2pmV2mwAV9k
The Mages Tale - https://youtu.be/MKIr9-zrkI8

Upcoming examples -
Arktika.1 - https://youtu.be/KLkvbAFIOJc
Killing Floor: Incursion - https://youtu.be/i3SinWPbXnw
MARVEL Powers United VR - https://youtu.be/qcUbC1aQpeY

To help fund developers the following steps are being taken.

Facebook has spent $250 million on VR content last year and will spend another $250 million this year (Source : https://www.roadtovr.com/faceb... )

Oculus will pay Unreal Engine royalty fees for titles on their store.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/1...

There are quite a few mediocre titles out there, however you could say that about most platforms/ formats.

The price has dropped quite a bit.

$1,318.45 for PC + oculus + touch controllers -
https://www.amazon.com/A80CJ-D...

The oculus headset and touch package is currently $399 on the summer of rift sale - https://www.oculus.com/blog/ri...

The problem with content is being addressed -
Current higher budget games e.g.
Robo Recall - https://youtu.be/shiKcsjZnH0
Lone Echo - https://youtu.be/2pmV2mwAV9k
The Mages Tale - https://youtu.be/MKIr9-zrkI8

Upcoming examples -
Arktika.1 - https://youtu.be/KLkvbAFIOJc
Killing Floor: Incursion - https://youtu.be/i3SinWPbXnw
MARVEL Powers United VR - https://youtu.be/qcUbC1aQpeY

To help fund developers the following steps are being taken.

Facebook has spent $250 million on VR content last year and will spend another $250 million this year (Source : https://www.roadtovr.com/faceb... )

Oculus will pay Unreal Engine royalty fees for titles on their store.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/1...

There are quite a few mediocre titles out there, however you could say that about most platforms/ formats.

The price has dropped quite a bit.

$1,318.45 for PC + oculus + touch controllers -
https://www.amazon.com/A80CJ-D...

The oculus headset and touch package is currently $399 on the summer of rift sale - https://www.oculus.com/blog/ri...

The problem with content is being addressed -
Current higher budget games e.g.
Robo Recall - https://youtu.be/shiKcsjZnH0
Lone Echo - https://youtu.be/2pmV2mwAV9k
The Mages Tale - https://youtu.be/MKIr9-zrkI8

Upcoming examples -
Arktika.1 - https://youtu.be/KLkvbAFIOJc
Killing Floor: Incursion - https://youtu.be/i3SinWPbXnw
MARVEL Powers United VR - https://youtu.be/qcUbC1aQpeY

To help fund developers the following steps are being taken.

Facebook has spent $250 million on VR content last year and will spend another $250 million this year (Source : https://www.roadtovr.com/faceb... )

Oculus will pay Unreal Engine royalty fees for titles on their store.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/1...

There are quite a few mediocre titles out there, however you could say that about most platforms/ formats.

The price has dropped quite a bit.

$1,318.45 for PC + oculus + touch controllers -
https://www.amazon.com/A80CJ-D...

The oculus headset and touch package is currently $399 on the summer of rift sale - https://www.oculus.com/blog/ri...

The problem with content is being addressed -
Current higher budget games e.g.
Robo Recall - https://youtu.be/shiKcsjZnH0
Lone Echo - https://youtu.be/2pmV2mwAV9k
The Mages Tale - https://youtu.be/MKIr9-zrkI8

Upcoming examples -
Arktika.1 - https://youtu.be/KLkvbAFIOJc
Killing Floor: Incursion - https://youtu.be/i3SinWPbXnw
MARVEL Powers United VR - https://youtu.be/qcUbC1aQpeY

To help fund developers the following steps are being taken.

Facebook has spent $250 million on VR content last year and will spend another $250 million this year (Source : https://www.roadtovr.com/faceb... )

Oculus will pay Unreal Engine royalty fees for titles on their store.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/1...

There are quite a few mediocre titles out there, however you could say that about most platforms/ formats.

The price has dropped quite a bit.

$1,318.45 for PC + oculus + touch controllers -
https://www.amazon.com/A80CJ-D...

The oculus headset and touch package is currently $399 on the summer of rift sale - https://www.oculus.com/blog/ri...

The problem with content is being addressed -
Current higher budget games e.g.
Robo Recall - https://youtu.be/shiKcsjZnH0
Lone Echo - https://youtu.be/2pmV2mwAV9k
The Mages Tale - https://youtu.be/MKIr9-zrkI8

Upcoming examples -
Arktika.1 - https://youtu.be/KLkvbAFIOJc
Killing Floor: Incursion - https://youtu.be/i3SinWPbXnw
MARVEL Powers United VR - https://youtu.be/qcUbC1aQpeY

To help fund developers the following steps are being taken.

Facebook has spent $250 million on VR content last year and will spend another $250 million this year (Source : https://www.roadtovr.com/faceb... )

Oculus will pay Unreal Engine royalty fees for titles on their store.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/1...

There are quite a few mediocre titles out there, however you could say that about most platforms/ formats.

The price has dropped quite a bit.

$1,318.45 for PC + oculus + touch controllers -
https://www.amazon.com/A80CJ-D...

The oculus headset and touch package is currently $399 on the summer of rift sale - https://www.oculus.com/blog/ri...

The problem with content is being addressed -
Current higher budget games e.g.
Robo Recall - https://youtu.be/shiKcsjZnH0
Lone Echo - https://youtu.be/2pmV2mwAV9k
The Mages Tale - https://youtu.be/MKIr9-zrkI8

Upcoming examples -
Arktika.1 - https://youtu.be/KLkvbAFIOJc
Killing Floor: Incursion - https://youtu.be/i3SinWPbXnw
MARVEL Powers United VR - https://youtu.be/qcUbC1aQpeY

To help fund developers the following steps are being taken.

Facebook has spent $250 million on VR content last year and will spend another $250 million this year (Source : https://www.roadtovr.com/faceb... )

Oculus will pay Unreal Engine royalty fees for titles on their store.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/1...

There are quite a few mediocre titles out there, however you could say that about most platforms/ formats.

It's more like just "political content". Lots of people on the left are getting their videos taken down too, mostly due to people maliciously flagging them. Shaun & Jen, H. Bomberguy, Contrapoints... Some people have lost entire channels.

https://youtu.be/UgNhO8lMINw

In a submission from creimer, our resident Shakespeare and content creator and copyright protector, is providing a way to get around a paywall???

creimer, you fat stupid lying hypocritical sack of fermented horse manure!

And now, the animal kingdom interprets this creimer submission.

PS: Oh, and "new" submitter, slashdot? This digital yeast infection has been around for years!

In fact, the Leave campaign and prominent Leave proponents all said we could stay in the single market, which means retaining freedom of movement. This isn't what was voted for at all.

https://youtu.be/0xGt3QmRSZY

And now, a Rhinocerotidae will attempt to interpret a creimer post in the medium of modern dance.

We manage over 2,000 devices (about 98% iphone, 2% iPad) and we have none of the problems you describe. I'd recommend looking into DEP which might help with some of your deployment problems. And I don't know what you mean about opening it, you just lift the lid off the box? I certainly won't argue that Apple devices are perfect but if these are the worst problems you can come up with then they're certainly miles ahead of anyone else.

Zoological reconstruction of this creimer post
(Sorry, I couldn't find an animal big enough, and that hippo is not a virgin)

Stunning might be a little bit of an exaggeration.

https://youtu.be/BUxqFlrvkQk?t=15582

(hopefully that is the right match)

HAHA I love the gentle shuffling and hands behind the back, it just seems so...polite. Then when that one kept falling over trying to stand up! Man, I haven't been that entertained watching a game of football in a long while.

Stunning might be a little bit of an exaggeration.

https://youtu.be/BUxqFlrvkQk?t=15582

(hopefully that is the right match)

Why don't we have the IT Gurus who were handling 80 congressional offices investigate it? You know, Imran Awan and family. Oh right...one fled to Pakistan, the leader was arrested this week and barred from the Congressional Network by the police in FEBRUARY along with his family (but Debbie Wasserman Shultz gave him a laptop and made him 'Advisor') and asking about them is ISLAMOPHOBIA. Oh wait -- none of you heard about this? Right...that's cuz the Mainstream Media is in active collusion. Vote me down. Just wait. Easy to remember -- the name rhymes "Imran Awan" or google a few articles from Politico, Daily Caller, Gateway Pundit...for Video Good Mark Steyn summaries on Fox News "Debbie Does Dulles" but for those few following the link below has a SUPER DETAILED roundup. Drunk driving, kidnap threats, fraud, deathbed coercions...all factual. Oh yeah, Imran Awan was photographed with Seth Rich a few hours before the assassination. https://youtu.be/ZKzzyOsvajc But hey -- let's ignore a Pakistani spy/criminal ring OPERATING IN THE HOUSE & DNC FOR A DECADE THEN BUSTED NOT LONG AFTER THE DNC LEAKS. Cuz you know.....RUSSIAN DRESSING!!!!

She is no more credible to analyze documents than Rick Perry is to operate a nuclear reactor as energy secretary.

What are you talking about!? There's film of Rick on the job, at the controls of a nuclear power plant on YT!

https://youtu.be/v5MOatu5-DE

Strat

Jon Blow talks about this -- Why does it take Photoshop about 7 seconds to display your image on a modern computer???

Jonathan Blow "Making Game Programming Less Terrible" Talk at Reboot Develop 2017

> How the fuck did we get here 2017?

Lazy programmers who don't giving a fuck about the user experience. i.e. Bloated C++ and OOP as opposed to DOD (Data Orientated Design.)

Do it with class.

https://youtu.be/L0nuQ5o2DYU

https://youtu.be/m2Ux2PnJe6E

I only read a preview of this book When Computers Can Think: The Artificial Intelligence Singularity. They give a good overview of current accomplishments in the field and the logical prediction of the trend. The AI already beats us in Chess, Starcraft and (the scariest one) Rock Paper Scissors. Why is it scary? Because you cannot defeat robots that are both more intelligent than you and move orders of magnitude faster than you.

Tell that to Tim Pool, because he experienced them first hand. Don't know who he is? He's an independent journalist that flies all over the place to where the stories are. The most recent case where a german journalist decided to dox him, and then handed all of his info to a german antifa group who then tried to attack him and another group of independent journalists.

There were "friends" who told him not to report on those no-go zones because they didn't want him to for ideological reasons. They want to maintain the "happy migrant picture" while burying their head in the sand over the violence, sexual assaults and rape. Others(everything from leftwing groups that support unrestricted migration to antifascist groups) that threatened him to not report on it. You can dig through his twitter feed if you want the names of the people who threatened him to not report on those areas. Yes they do exist, and yes the media is lying to you about them "not really existing."

Tell that to Tim Pool, because he experienced them first hand. Don't know who he is? He's an independent journalist that flies all over the place to where the stories are. The most recent case where a german journalist decided to dox him, and then handed all of his info to a german antifa group who then tried to attack him and another group of independent journalists.

There were "friends" who told him not to report on those no-go zones because they didn't want him to for ideological reasons. They want to maintain the "happy migrant picture" while burying their head in the sand over the violence, sexual assaults and rape. Others(everything from leftwing groups that support unrestricted migration to antifascist groups) that threatened him to not report on it. You can dig through his twitter feed if you want the names of the people who threatened him to not report on those areas. Yes they do exist, and yes the media is lying to you about them "not really existing."

Tell that to Tim Pool, because he experienced them first hand. Don't know who he is? He's an independent journalist that flies all over the place to where the stories are. The most recent case where a german journalist decided to dox him, and then handed all of his info to a german antifa group who then tried to attack him and another group of independent journalists.

There were "friends" who told him not to report on those no-go zones because they didn't want him to for ideological reasons. They want to maintain the "happy migrant picture" while burying their head in the sand over the violence, sexual assaults and rape. Others(everything from leftwing groups that support unrestricted migration to antifascist groups) that threatened him to not report on it. You can dig through his twitter feed if you want the names of the people who threatened him to not report on those areas. Yes they do exist, and yes the media is lying to you about them "not really existing."

Tell that to Tim Pool, because he experienced them first hand. Don't know who he is? He's an independent journalist that flies all over the place to where the stories are. The most recent case where a german journalist decided to dox him, and then handed all of his info to a german antifa group who then tried to attack him and another group of independent journalists.

There were "friends" who told him not to report on those no-go zones because they didn't want him to for ideological reasons. They want to maintain the "happy migrant picture" while burying their head in the sand over the violence, sexual assaults and rape. Others(everything from leftwing groups that support unrestricted migration to antifascist groups) that threatened him to not report on it. You can dig through his twitter feed if you want the names of the people who threatened him to not report on those areas. Yes they do exist, and yes the media is lying to you about them "not really existing."

[Autonomous weapons ]

What could possibly go wrong? :-)

"Please put down your weapon!

You have twenty seconds to comply!"

https://youtu.be/A9l9wxGFl4k

Strat

I was reminded of Lindy's Film snobbery on location with Ivanhoe.
Well, this gave me a chuckle at least, but at Nolan's expense.

He's got well-developed shoulder and bicep muscles, which will be useful for shovelling the shit.

And he knows exactly when to stick his pinky in Trump's asshole.

https://youtu.be/DAtM8Hodw7c

About constants...
https://youtu.be/JKHUaNAxsTg?t...

Casey Neistat did a video review of "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. I haven't read it yet but looks like a good read.

We'll soon find out. It's already escaped into the grid.

And now my phone's ringing.

The energy of the "shot" delivered should drop with the square of the distance from the target.

Laser light is coherent and doesn't follow the inverse square law. A perfect laser would maintain its energy density at any range. Real world lasers suffer from slight incoherence causing it to slowly spread with distance, and from atmospheric absorption.

Nevertheless, this one shot cost at least $40 million +. The second will result in a cost of $20 million per shot. And, what's the lifetime of the hardware, replacement of end-of-life parts costs and other maintenance costs? It'll take many more than 40 million shots to get down to $1 per shot.

Typically, costs such as this are analyzed as static and dynamic. So a one-time acquisition cost of $40 million, plus $1 of electricity per shot. That allows you to easily compare to other systems (dunno the acquisition cost of a howitzer-type gun, but I do know the shells cost a few hundred dollars each). A crew of three sounds about the same as a regular small gun (one person to load, one to select and track a target, one to aim and fire), so there's no difference in cost there.

Moving targets can take a circuitous and rapidly change directions.

Irrelevant when the target's speed is much slower than the speed of light. Where you see the target is where it is, is where it will be when your laser beam reaches that location.

The article doesn't say whether this uses a pulse laser or a continuous laser. If pulsed, what's the recycle time? A fast moving target may reach its target during the recycle time if that's the case.

The wiki page says the laser is up to about 15-50 kW. There are efficiency losses, especially for high powered lasers. But that level of power should be trivial for a ship to continuously produce. This is also where a lot of spinoffs are going to come from. The R&D they've done to improve efficiency will probably be applicable to future technologies like laser movie projectors for in-home use.

The aiming system, presumably RADAR or some such, must be able to follow such a target and likely uses a mechanical motor driven gear system for that. Can the aiming system follow that spot during the target's travels

This problem was licked in the 1960s when they were trying to get film footage of target drones as they tried to shoot them down. They just stuck a camera on a tracking radar to see how much they'd have to modify the system. Turns out they didn't have to do anything - the drone was dead center in the frame.

How does this system work on targets obscured during rain, fog, cloudy weather or dusty conditions? Light beams become scattered under these conditions and the ability to deliver a destructive energy blast could be hampered.

Dunno what wavelength they're using, but infrared and longer wavelengths aren't affected by rain, fog, clouds, or dust.

especially since the demand for fake news is high.

I'm not sure they aimed at producing fake news. Otherwise they would not have designed the tool to require a voice impressionist.

here you go HBO this is how scared i am.
https://youtu.be/qOgT9Ifw6Io?list=PLTZI0lSyXfpMGRzK195GOKEt-aHRB_2Wv

https://youtu.be/vjFG-4Ge668?t...

Making cyber an independent military command will...

For Fuck's Sake: "cyber" is a prefix, it is not a noun all on its own!

I think the first time I heard it used that way was by - no surprise here - then-candidate Donald Trump during a debate. And, as you can hear in that clip, using "cyber" as a noun sounds about as coherent as saying the internet is a series of tubes. Perhaps people have been misusing "cyber" all this time, and I'm only just now noticing. Maybe that moment of idiocy, broadcast to the whole world, just heightened my senses to it, but now I seem to read and hear it all the time. I prefer to think that stupidity is contagious, and Donald Trump is just an index patient.

It's kinda connected.

What Tesla is doing with battery and solar panel production will make it more affordable to "do it yourself".
People already are doing it themselves using Tesla and other gear.

Given that the Master has already appeared as a part-female character, it's just a small step for the Doctor to go all the way... "they're not breasts, they're Dalek bumps!".

Idaho, with the highest proportion of cattle mutalations in the lower 48, 'cept we call it Bar-B-Q. Idaho, protecting Mormons from the ravages of Canadian beer for 153 years. Idaho state pastime: survivalist rumors. State motto: more further wester than Montana. To paraphrase U Utah Phillips who probably wasn't the first to say it: Idaho; where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

Interesting how you talk about free speech but cheer those who want to deny professors the right to teach what science tells them is best. People entering colleges are adults. They can choose not to accept the ideas that are taught to them but denying them the right to hear perspectives outside of mainstream US ideas is censorship.

That's interesting because we have so called "liberal" students from Evergreen State saying, and I quote, "fuck free speech".

https://youtu.be/2cMYfxOFBBM?t...

Sometimes I'll reply to my own AC comments just to give myself a pat on the shoulder especially when people are being ugly. Comment counts be damned. - "Everything is going to be alright." https://youtu.be/UVNZvZvzWak

Casey Neistat did a video review of "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. The Silk Road was the black market of the Internet where you could have gotten anything. I haven't read it yet but looks like a good read.

Does the Australian government know that even if they could compel companies like Apple access to their systems, they won't get access to what their users send especially if users are using end-to-end encryption.

And then there's the issue of once they get access to one thing, another app would soon appear that would thwart their suvelliance

Short summary of the issues

Sure, art is important, but not the modern crap "weird for the sake of weird" art that we see today.

https://youtu.be/jHKW5AWLby0?t...

I just never need it, or never have the right amount. It's more inconvenient.

However, in much of the country I could imagine there being a concern about it being taken. Jon Oliver episode on Civil Forfeiture:
https://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks

Generally, regulations HELP big corporations. I'm also suspect that Google and other big corps are lobbying hard on this front too. I trust neither AT&T, Google, nor the U. S. government. That is why, in general, not regulating things helps small businesses and the individual consumers.

I'm also wondering why the rush on this. The pro net neutrality guy at work says that there was once one such example but, according to slashdot, even that would not have fell within the new rules.

I found this interesting: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: Why He's Rejecting Net Neutrality