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Trump: "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated" Yeah, that was pretty dumb, go ahead and mock Trump over it.

By the way, do you remember President Obama in 2011?

Obama: "'Shovel-ready' was not as shovel-ready as we expected." Blogs I read mocked Obama over it.

Here's video of President Obama saying the words quoted above:
https://youtu.be/O55aRrvXtio?t=36s

Analysis from New York Times:
Obama Lession: 'Shovel Ready' Not So Ready

It would be more surprising if a candidate didn't promise grand things and have to walk them back.

Simon Phoenix already figured out how to bypass retina locks with nothing but a pen.

  Howto video:
https://youtu.be/CbM--4-z0cs

Be Well

Hell, I had one fall out of my pocket getting into the car and get driven over twice, once when I backed out, and again when I pulled back into the parking spot when I realized it wasn't in my pocket and thought I had left it inside. It was in a puddle when this happened.

Running it over would have applied external pressure, squeezing air out and drawing water in when that pressure was relieved. Twice. And this was well before IP68 compliance was a line item on a phone's feature list, not that IP68 specifications make any mention of that type of potential water ingress in the first place (they don't).

But yeah, these phones are so damn fragile they just explode into hundreds of pieces if you look at them wrong. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...

Sure, some people have bad luck. A friend of mine, for example, had one fall about a foot and a half onto commercial (e.g. thin and unpadded) carpet and shatter. But that is such an exceedingly rare occurrence and likely had more to do with a hairline crack he hadn't noticed, or some other defect in the phone's screen, than it did with how the phone landed. If such breakage were actually a common occurrence, I'm certain I'd have broken at least one of them by now.

I don't know why we are stuck with crappy, single colour, point source lighting in the west. It sucks compared to what is available in other places.

A much better solution is something like this: https://youtu.be/Z9VVIFMN4DA

A dome light that diffuses the illumination so you don't get the kind of harsh shadows that a single bulb gives. You also get a remote control that lets you change the colour temperature and brightness, so you can have 4000k when you need to see clearly and 2700k for evenings and relaxing.

They include other useful stuff too like occupancy sensors, mosquito repellent, air purification etc.

Flash is here to stay

Even Adobe is telling people to convert to HTML5. Look at the steady decline in Flash usage. Flash has lost.

https://youtu.be/d8aUuFsXRjU

The bit about India actually starts a little earlier: https://youtu.be/bW_eGAwnfeI?t...

I thought they were talking about the booby controller.
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like that episode of simpsons where homer is in a life raft and nibbles on peanuts to ration them, but instead of peanuts, its drugs...and you're at work. https://youtu.be/LvXxIOU_8T8?t...

Bach overrated? He's always in the top 3 amongst people who know about that music: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. Even such geniuses as Schubert, Haydn, Mahler and OK, Vivaldi aren't quite in that league. It's like saying Leonhard Euler is overrated.

Here's Vivaldi's unearthly Nisi Dominus.

Socialism is an economic system. That's the whole point of it all.

Nope. It's a political system, meant to manage the aspects of power in all manner of respects, not just the economic.

An economy sorts out how you allocate scarce resources, and that is exactly what socialism intends to do (and it does a very poor job of it, I might add.)

Of course, that you're treating it as some monolithic whole is probably going to make your point hard to prove.

Anyways, I think Russia's issues with capitalism stem from a big government corruption problem (mainly on the part of the oligarchs and Putin) and not necessarily capitalism itself.

Attributing the faults of Russian oligarchy to the government itself, is like blaming the gun used.

Let's put things in perspective for a second here:

1980's soviet grocery store: https://youtu.be/oOBFMMbUFI8?t...
Modern russian supermarket: https://youtu.be/pzmZxiIv8mA?t...

1980s US mall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIx_YM5ER5Q
1980s Times Square: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS7Q3tcnHWM

Gary Indiana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9qwF5MolQ
Centralia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93tAO-98Mo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow4UERykRbg

Videos, they tell you lots of things.

But Anybody that doesn't tell you that the USSR was a corrupt, totalitarian, militarist, oligarchy that harmed its own citizens is as foolish as anybody who doesn't tell you the same about North Korea.

They'd managed to hold on through the years after WW2, but they kept spending too much effort on useless military expansion, rather than internal development. Some of it was rampant paranoia, some of it was too many people with their benefits coming from having the biggest guns.

It was never socialism, any more than it was a Republic, or a Democracy.

Also, somebody from the former eastern block was telling me about how in Russia they like a lot of things that have been imported there from the west and I mentioned "I guess they like capitalism now", and he replied "they love capitalism, they just don't like democracy", and that makes perfect sense.

Who the hell doesn't like nice stuff? The Amish and Mennonites, maybe? But the actual causes and reasons, are often illusory. How many people in your life enjoy the sweat shops in overseas factories? How many want to think about them?

I read the article recently about how Putin banned images depicting him as a gay clown, and I'm having a difficult time believing that he's legitimately elected to that position. Nonetheless, he's abusing his power and many there may confuse this with capitalism, but this has nothing to do with capitalism; it's just government corruption, the same type of corruption that existed before the fall of the USSR, I might add.

Russia never got past the autocracy of the Tsardom, to be honest.

Mikhail Gorbachev might have meant well enough, but the coup took his plans out of it, and the successors weren't even slightly interested past Yeltsin.

Socialism is an economic system. That's the whole point of it all.

Nope. It's a political system, meant to manage the aspects of power in all manner of respects, not just the economic.

An economy sorts out how you allocate scarce resources, and that is exactly what socialism intends to do (and it does a very poor job of it, I might add.)

Of course, that you're treating it as some monolithic whole is probably going to make your point hard to prove.

Anyways, I think Russia's issues with capitalism stem from a big government corruption problem (mainly on the part of the oligarchs and Putin) and not necessarily capitalism itself.

Attributing the faults of Russian oligarchy to the government itself, is like blaming the gun used.

Let's put things in perspective for a second here:

1980's soviet grocery store: https://youtu.be/oOBFMMbUFI8?t...
Modern russian supermarket: https://youtu.be/pzmZxiIv8mA?t...

1980s US mall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIx_YM5ER5Q
1980s Times Square: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS7Q3tcnHWM

Gary Indiana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9qwF5MolQ
Centralia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93tAO-98Mo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow4UERykRbg

Videos, they tell you lots of things.

But Anybody that doesn't tell you that the USSR was a corrupt, totalitarian, militarist, oligarchy that harmed its own citizens is as foolish as anybody who doesn't tell you the same about North Korea.

They'd managed to hold on through the years after WW2, but they kept spending too much effort on useless military expansion, rather than internal development. Some of it was rampant paranoia, some of it was too many people with their benefits coming from having the biggest guns.

It was never socialism, any more than it was a Republic, or a Democracy.

Also, somebody from the former eastern block was telling me about how in Russia they like a lot of things that have been imported there from the west and I mentioned "I guess they like capitalism now", and he replied "they love capitalism, they just don't like democracy", and that makes perfect sense.

Who the hell doesn't like nice stuff? The Amish and Mennonites, maybe? But the actual causes and reasons, are often illusory. How many people in your life enjoy the sweat shops in overseas factories? How many want to think about them?

I read the article recently about how Putin banned images depicting him as a gay clown, and I'm having a difficult time believing that he's legitimately elected to that position. Nonetheless, he's abusing his power and many there may confuse this with capitalism, but this has nothing to do with capitalism; it's just government corruption, the same type of corruption that existed before the fall of the USSR, I might add.

Russia never got past the autocracy of the Tsardom, to be honest.

Mikhail Gorbachev might have meant well enough, but the coup took his plans out of it, and the successors weren't even slightly interested past Yeltsin.

The problem here is that you are treating socialism as an economical system (which is what the original intent for it was)

Socialism is an economic system. That's the whole point of it all. An economy sorts out how you allocate scarce resources, and that is exactly what socialism intends to do (and it does a very poor job of it, I might add.) Anyways, I think Russia's issues with capitalism stem from a big government corruption problem (mainly on the part of the oligarchs and Putin) and not necessarily capitalism itself.

Let's put things in perspective for a second here:

1980's soviet grocery store: https://youtu.be/oOBFMMbUFI8?t...
Modern russian supermarket: https://youtu.be/pzmZxiIv8mA?t...

Also, somebody from the former eastern block was telling me about how in Russia they like a lot of things that have been imported there from the west and I mentioned "I guess they like capitalism now", and he replied "they love capitalism, they just don't like democracy", and that makes perfect sense. I read the article recently about how Putin banned images depicting him as a gay clown, and I'm having a difficult time believing that he's legitimately elected to that position. Nonetheless, he's abusing his power and many there may confuse this with capitalism, but this has nothing to do with capitalism; it's just government corruption, the same type of corruption that existed before the fall of the USSR, I might add.

The problem here is that you are treating socialism as an economical system (which is what the original intent for it was)

Socialism is an economic system. That's the whole point of it all. An economy sorts out how you allocate scarce resources, and that is exactly what socialism intends to do (and it does a very poor job of it, I might add.) Anyways, I think Russia's issues with capitalism stem from a big government corruption problem (mainly on the part of the oligarchs and Putin) and not necessarily capitalism itself.

Let's put things in perspective for a second here:

1980's soviet grocery store: https://youtu.be/oOBFMMbUFI8?t...
Modern russian supermarket: https://youtu.be/pzmZxiIv8mA?t...

Also, somebody from the former eastern block was telling me about how in Russia they like a lot of things that have been imported there from the west and I mentioned "I guess they like capitalism now", and he replied "they love capitalism, they just don't like democracy", and that makes perfect sense. I read the article recently about how Putin banned images depicting him as a gay clown, and I'm having a difficult time believing that he's legitimately elected to that position. Nonetheless, he's abusing his power and many there may confuse this with capitalism, but this has nothing to do with capitalism; it's just government corruption, the same type of corruption that existed before the fall of the USSR, I might add.

Learn about Maidsafe's SafeNetwork. They don't use IP protocol after the first bootstrap. Network routing is based on XOR distance, and it is completely distributed, not just "decentralized". The real Pied Piper is SafeNetwork. Check the videos. The SAFE Network from First Principles: https://www.youtube.com/playli... GoogleTech talks 2006: https://youtu.be/fLA77zxk-vA

The other projects don't even cover the basics of the vision, only MaidSafe is developing the full scope of a decentralized internet. Completely autonomous, fully distributed, shared resources, anonymous, and secured by design. The security landscape will change forever because they remove the servers from the internet. No servers, only pure peer to peer distributed internet, anonymous with broadband like speed. All files stored in the cloud forever, without any recurrent cost, all communication encrypted by default. Currency-wise: no centralization, instantaneous transactions, no fees (forever, their security model doesn't require it), and anonymous, paid by resource served. And this is possible because it is NOT blockchain based, their consensus system is based on xor based close group consensus. Pied Piper's description on the show is word by word the description of the SafeNetwork. For more information read: Article in TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2014/07... MaidSafe and the safe network explained using bitcoin terminology: https://safe-network-explained... MaidSafe's on Google TechTalks in 2006: https://youtu.be/fLA77zxk-vA About MaidSafe's XOR distance routing: https://youtu.be/Lr9FJRDcNzk?l... Projects like IPFS are not anonymous.

The other projects don't even cover the basics of the vision, only MaidSafe is developing the full scope of a decentralized internet. Completely autonomous, fully distributed, shared resources, anonymous, and secured by design. The security landscape will change forever because they remove the servers from the internet. No servers, only pure peer to peer distributed internet, anonymous with broadband like speed. All files stored in the cloud forever, without any recurrent cost, all communication encrypted by default. Currency-wise: no centralization, instantaneous transactions, no fees (forever, their security model doesn't require it), and anonymous, paid by resource served. And this is possible because it is NOT blockchain based, their consensus system is based on xor based close group consensus. Pied Piper's description on the show is word by word the description of the SafeNetwork. For more information read: Article in TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2014/07... MaidSafe and the safe network explained using bitcoin terminology: https://safe-network-explained... MaidSafe's on Google TechTalks in 2006: https://youtu.be/fLA77zxk-vA About MaidSafe's XOR distance routing: https://youtu.be/Lr9FJRDcNzk?l... Projects like IPFS are not anonymous.

Are you still going to claim that your "original Motorola RAZR is still going strong"? The original RAZR no longer works on T-Mobile, which has shut down their 2G network.

Are you thinking of the Droid RAZR? This is a Android phone from about 6 years ago that was rebranded as the "Motorola RAZR" for certain SKUs / carriers.

The original Motorola RAZR was a flip phone from 2003 or so. It sold well over 100 million units across its variants. When the remaining RAZRs started going dark a year or two back (due to the legacy networks it's compatible with being shut down) there was a minor bit of interest / nostalgia in them, and that prompted Motorola/Lenovo to release this teaser https://youtu.be/RVzE1YS9UWM . No, they didn't release a new / refreshed RAZR. The date was for their conference where they showed a bunch of shit nobody cared about.

If you work for me and ask me for a raise you will get some feedback but I will also start looking for a replacement.

I already know what kind of people work for you: the kind that are too afraid of change to leave. Anyone good with a modicum of self-confidence has already left, and your office is a soul-sucking place to be. Experienced, skillful people can screen you out a mile away, and don't make it through the job-hiring process.

There's some feedback, and it's free. You didn't even have to pay me.

Casually drop a reference to this song by Joan Armitrading: When I Get It Right (the mtv version) / alternate with lyrics.

Casually drop a reference to this song by Joan Armitrading: When I Get It Right (the mtv version) / alternate with lyrics.

Compare with Chomsky's definition of the term 'Peace Process":
  * https://youtu.be/vmoXze-Higc

Kind of an interesting example. To some degree, Einstein, in his mannerisms and such, reminds me of Stallman, though from a different era. Check out Einstein, and compare with Stallman. They both have the same whiny, high-pitched voice, for example. They both had similar cultural backgrounds, as well (though again, separated by a few generations).

I wonder what Einstein's sense of humor was like.

Are these actual "comic book" comic books, with superheroes and such, or just thinly disguised left-wing ideology written by people bitter that Hillary lost?

Oh, somebody upset that the so-called greatest hero of our time is an illegal alien. Or the one using steroids?

Or maybe you don't like that Batman is a sex-abusing pedophile? That Iron Man is an alcoholic? That Wonder Woman is a bondage queen?

Behold the mighty faggot!

If Alexa is having trouble understanding your "Solar Panels" commands, the voicerec may not be the problem... :-)

It's quite mind-boggling why a third party won't pop up and have 90% votes immediately (ie, anyone with a shred of brain left).

The US electoral system mathematically dictates that the US have a two-party system. This explains why much better than I could.

We desperately need to overall this system.

Welcome to fone mart...

Here you go...
http://electrics10.webs.com/
https://youtu.be/_LV8zqJ9YOQ

If SpaceX gets up to the launch cadence they want, I suspect the locals will start to get mad the sonic booms of landings... (listen here: https://youtu.be/ApH_mRXwpT0?t... or here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...)

I don't see a way out unless we have massive population curbs

Population isn't the problem. The birth rate has has been steadily declining for 30 years, in both per capita and absolute numerical terms. The only reason the global population is growing is because the population distribution skews young. See Hans Rosling's explanation.

It will probably get much worse as people with nothing else to do will spend a lot of time making babies.

Nah. Reproduction is almost completely decoupled from recreational sex in most of the world, and that decoupling is spreading. Sex is fun, but kids are a lot of work. Also, having them is hard and somewhat dangerous for women. When people don't need kids for labor, don't have to worry that their children won't survive and have the ability to have sex without babies, the number of kids they have drops.

There is a big problem coming, but it's not so much about what to do with young people and more about what to do with everyone who doesn't want to work a service sector job, since most other jobs are going away. Actually, young people are better-positioned to adapt to the new economic structure. It's those who aren't in a position to retrain and start a new career who are the bigger problem; people currently in their 30s and 40s. Even if we manage to institute something like a Universal Basic Income quickly enough (I'm pretty sure we'll get there eventually, but it is not going to be quick or easy), current working generations grew up believing that they should support themselves, and living "on the dole" is going to make them very unhappy even if it's adequate. Again, young people are likely to have less trouble with that transition (less, not none).

Here's the launch/landing video if anyone missed it live: https://youtu.be/EzQpkQ1etdA

Just add this soundtrack with a fake mini guns , it would spook most rather well. https://youtu.be/Hzlt7IbTp6M?t...

Tell that to someone whose brakes go out. And furthermore, broken helicopters don't just drop (helicopters being the closest analogy to a VTOL flying car). The props autorotate. I'd much rather be in a helicopter that's lost its engine than an airplane.

And more to the point, "broken helicopters" (to pick the closest analogy to many flying car concepts) don't just "drop"; the props autorotate, braking the vehicle on descent.Check it out for yourself.

Most stuff on youtube isn't worth a dime any way... Hateful or not.

I don't know about most stuff. I find the tutorials on how to do stuff around the house pretty useful when the washing machine won't drain. Also, there are some rare clips of musical performances from years gone by that are impossible to find anywhere else (Bill Evans Quartet playing in someone's living room in Finland comes to mind)

But the videos advertisers are running away from are the ones where some guy in his mom's basement is looking into a camera and telling you his Very Important Opinions on why bitches are ruining video games or something.

If you read some of the AC comments above "The blacks have lower IQs. FACT!" you get an idea of why the entire YouTube jackoff culture might turn off people with money to spend (advertisers). I'm not sure it's fair to blame Google or YouTube for the fact that the advertisers choose to look for other avenues.

By the way, here is an excerpt from the Bill Evans video I referenced. For jazz musicians and fans, this is like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls. Eddie Gomez is especially impressive on bass.

https://youtu.be/wrWQndgX1QU

So tobacco really is grown in Canada. I did not know that.

We used to grow so much tobacco here in Ontario, that folk songs were made of it. Tobacco was the backbone of the entire industry in places like Tillsonburg, Ontario. If you want an example, see Stompin' Tom Connors who's considered a country/western and folk legend here. Funny enough I spent several summers picking tobacco in the same fields he did as a kid, they don't exist anymore though. Good farmland now covered in solar panels instead of crops.

https://youtu.be/HmEtR17A6ck?t...

I'll probably be labeled a shill for this, but it explains why AT&T isn't pushing very hard on FTTH deployment.

In the works is a wireless solution that will provide gigabit speeds to homes that will be MUCH cheaper to deploy than fiber can ever be. It's called Project AirGig.

The designs I've seen sit atop telephone poles and are inductive powered via the power lines.

I want to say they operate in the 39 ghz range.

It is being prepped for 5g deployment so, IF they get the design down, expect to see it in the not too distant future.

Is why they're pushing for regulation changes that would allow them to install these units atop the poles with a minimum of red tape.

Also explains why they don't want to pour billions of dollars into fiber if this is a potential solution instead.

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Democrat run cities seem to be the worst, you can check the stats on that one.

Let's see...San Francisco, median household income: $78,378. Los Angeles, $55,909. Chicago? $63,153. Detroit? $26,095. New York City (Home of the President, Donald Trump), $50,711. Looks like your examples are mostly doing well. The only one that's significantly below average is what, Detroit?

So you've got one. Except Detroit is in Michigan. A state run by Republicans for years. Why haven't they fixed any of that city's problems? Why haven't they done what they did for Flint...oh wait, that wasn't a good thing.

Besides, you want to know what's done about the Homeless? Bus tickets. Out of sight, out of mind.

Of course, this has been a problem for decades problem for decades, but you're too busy blaming Democrats, as usual for yourself, but then...why can you offer no solutions, no miracles in your partisan bastions of prosperity?

Oh wait, you think because you can rail about a few high-profile cities, you think nobody has driven through rural Mississippi and seen the abject poverty there.

And you know what? A lot of those homeless are veterans. Maybe you're just not patriotic enough?

https://youtu.be/e4JuB43oDoA

Here's a video of Greenpeace reporting the death toll for you:

https://youtu.be/uBxMPqxJGqI

Yeah, geosynchronous satellites are way out there at about 6 Earth radii with 700ms ping times.

We're talking about all of the new low earth orbit mesh networks, though, that SpaceX and Facebook and Google and Virgin Atlantic have all expressed interest in launching, either as part of the Iridium 2 constellation or in competition with it.

Here's a visualization I've made of SpaceX's proposed 4000+ node constellation based on mission parameters that Elon Musk has announced publicly:
https://youtu.be/neLPRMrhy80
Imagine trying to clear a comfortable launch window through that!

Not sure if he's really serious about it, or if it's just a bargaining chip to get better negotiations for the Iridium 2 launches. But the factory for these things is just down the road across town, so I suppose I could go check.

I'm yet to see one of their talks where they discuss something actually new or different.

Here you go - a great, informative, and insipring TED talk from a while back.

Having lots of fibre and vitamins in your diet is good. But a juicer is basically a machine for separating the fibre from the juice, and it also separates the skin of the fruit which often contains a lot of vitamins.

Juice by itself is sweet and tasty, but it basically gets all of its calories from carbohydrates, and without any fibre the carbs will hit your system quickly. The glycemic index of carrot juice is very high, while eating carrots will not usually have much effect on your blood sugar. (See the difference between glycemic index and glycemic load: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_load)

If you want to enjoy a tasty beverage that is better for you than juice, I recommend you get a VitaMix. The VitaMix company has been around for decades, and their product is an extremely expensive blender that is IMHO worth the expense. A VitaMix is so much more powerful than a cheap blender that it can do things the cheap blender cannot do.

So a typical fruit smoothie will start with some juice or even water and then throw fruit in, where the 2 horsepower motor at full speed breaks the fibre, skin, and even seeds down to the point where you don't really even know they are there. If you want to add a pleasing orange color to a smoothie, throw in some carrots; the texture will be a bit thicker and the color will be orange but you won't find any carrot chunks.

VitaMix has competitors, and some of the competitors may be as good. BlendTec and Ninja seem to have similar horsepower. I'm only recommending VitaMix since I have had one in my house for like two decades now. We use it so much that, despite the high purchase cost, it has a very low cost per operating minute... our food processor cost less but we hardly use the thing.

My favorite recipe: put a cup of plain yogurt into the blender, and add a spoonful of sugar and a squeeze of lime juice. Then dump a 10-ounce bag of frozen organic strawberries in (still frozen!), and run the blender on "high" while using the "tamper" to push the berries down into the blades. When the texture is smooth, serve. Don't overblend because you don't want to heat up the mixture. It's a tasty sweet dessert, and much healthier than any strawberry frozen yogurt you can buy.

Here's an example of throwing various hunks of vegetables into the thing to make a vegetable smoothie. After that demo the next demo is a sweet fruit smoothie. https://youtu.be/1qemLSu63d0?t=1m36s

P.S. LOL, YouTube appears to have a channel called "Blender Babes" where young females demonstrate blenders. I wonder what would happen if they tried to get a booth at a conference that bans "booth babes"... would they not be allowed at their own booth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXG65NgmrIM

That's actually one of, if not THE, Verhoeven's favorite scene. He just loves how Ironside says that line.

With original score by Fall On Your Sword, makers of Shatner Of The Mount, to boot.

With original score by Fall On Your Sword, makers of Shatner Of The Mount, to boot.