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Hell, it's not even "safe" to defend the freedom of speech anymore.
https://youtu.be/68NHUV5me7Q?t...

Yes, Prof. Peterson's got some seriously flawed views on gender. He's also got some great knowledge on social psychology, fascism, the role of speech and violence in society, and the harm of excessive compassion. He's got some great thoughts on how the current social policies towards gender actually can exacerbate the problems facing LBGTQ people and send society into authoritarianism, fascism, and violence.

Prof. Peterson says that the point of free speech is to get the boneheaded ideas and opinions out in the open so they can be corrected through dialogue and conversation. But his opponents boycott debate and play noise during a rally about free speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When this attitude is taken towards a large group of people, most go into the closet. Their views simmer and become anger. And then, they go out and vote--and everyone wonders where the "crazy Trump supporters" came from.

By being so sure that we're right and harassing those who disagree with us (see: Brendan Eich), you activate authoritarianism:
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11...

You don't want authoritarian leaders. It can get very ugly very fast. Stop persecuting those who disagree with you, even if you know they're wrong. Engage them in conversation and show them how they're wrong. Don't silence them. Don't harass them. Haven't we learned anything from Martin Luther King Jr.?

Personally, I agree with the parent. The definition of bigot is "a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions." When I watch the rallies between Prof. Peterson (trying to engage in conversation) and those who oppose him (silencing him and working to get him fired)... it's pretty clear who is intolerant.


Other sources:
https://www.youtube.com/user/J...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

True enough. Scientists have been fighting fake news for decades. Peter Sinclare documents the birth of a climate denial meme here: https://youtu.be/khikoh3sJg8 . The meme was picked up and echoed by the supposedly legitimate media despite the fact a cursory review of the source material would quickly dispel the myth.

It's no wonder there is such a disparity between the public perception of the scientific consensus and the actual scientific consensus.. How could the general public be expected to understand the basic science when the media isn't even bothered to perform a quick source check.

Trump's policy can be summed up as "If they're outside our borders, F**K 'em all!"

I believe the exact quote is, "Fuck 'em all to death".

https://youtu.be/p1xiAXMqJIQ

https://youtu.be/7xX_KaStFT8

IOW: absent emergencies, governments should adjust incentives, and gently.

I agree completely. Governments are currently taking a top down approach where they pick the winners (feed in tariffs for solar/government investment in emerging technologies/etc) and losers (efficiency standards/banning coal/etc). Government actions will never be as efficient as market driven solutions. Surprisingly even most of the candidates running for the Canadian federal Conservative Party leadership are advocating "big government" solutions.

Only the Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong is advocating for a market driven solution: "We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to both lower income taxes and clean up our environment through the pricing of carbon," Chong said Wednesday at a news conference on Parliament Hill.

"It works. BC implemented and now has the fastest growing economy, the lowest income taxes in Canada, and they have reduced emissions"

The right answer is 'because they've been caught and the others haven't'.

The wrong answer starts with the Dad's Army tune...

https://youtu.be/xfQwHb1pWPE

looks like the most delicious roast chicken a dog could ever want.

LOL. Dogs are bred from wolves, which chase their prey down - sometimes for miles - until it tires or stumbles and they're able to make the kill. So they're genetically predisposed to chase after things that move - squirrels, cars, tennis balls, thrown sticks. A boat in the water is a moving (chase-able) object with no distracting background, so triggers this chase instinct.

Cats likewise are stealth pouncers, so turning your back on them (so you can no longer see the cat) triggers an instinctive attack response.

Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie
Link directly to 3:05 for a likely source to your quoate

Here's your proof. CNN News Now what Sparky?

You've got mail!

The guy behind the voice...Now An Uber Driver In Ohio
https://youtu.be/7fChTDzxcWI

Curiously, the tracker went down only a couple hours after the new Metallica album showed up on the site.
Coincidence?
LAAAAAAAARS!

Money gooood!

So, Tesla and Solar City join to form Tesla City.

Then in a bizarre twist, Tesla City merges with the relatively unknown Spatula Designs, to form Spatula City!

Someone should inform Trump of this immediately. Kamkar is a foreign sounding name, he should be deported immediately. Put Steve Bannon on it right away!

That'll fix it!

What do you mean, he's already sacked Bannon?? That was quick.

No worries. Trump already hired Steve's brother.

https://youtu.be/diAGexlJtHk

Strat

https://youtu.be/YnKJjxF-n6A

I love Chemex pour overs and I like to experiment with different ratio to ground coffee. Check out James O'Rear

Vent all you want but your words ring hollow when for the last eight years all we've heard is how bad things are, how horrible this president has been, how he should be impeached (for doing his job), and all the other vitriol cast upon him almost solely because of his race

References, please. Who said these things? Random Internet trolls, or what? I haven't seen any major figures in the Republican party cast vitriol on President Obama because of his race.

I can't claim that none of them are racists, but I can claim that none of them were caught saying such things, because the news media has a field day anytime a Republican says something stupid or hateful or embarrassing.

If things are so bad then why suddenly, when not a single thing has changed in the last week, are Republicans suddenly saying the economy is doing well and there are no problems?

Your reference does not support your claim. You said that Republicans are suddenly saying that the economy is doing well, but you linked to a poll about whether the economy will improve or not ("economic confidence"). And surprise surprise, Democrats polled believe that the economy will do worse now that Trump was elected, while Republicans polled believe that the economy will do better.

Because in a Republican's world if you don't bow down to your leader, if you don't blindly follow the leader, if you don't think like the leader, you're an enemy. Wouldn't want to open a Republican's hypocritical and bigoted mind by listening to others who don't agree, now would we?

I'm sure you could find some examples of Republicans like this, if you look. But I can find plenty of examples of Democrats like this, who feel that anyone who isn't a liberal Democrat is an enemy.

President Obama famously said that it's important to vote to "punish your enemies."[1] The Project Veritas videos show multiple Democrat operatives saying that Trump voters are violent and insane, and one referring to Republicans as "you f***ing ****holes".[2] In 2015, Hillary Clinton called Republicans "enemies" and Bill Clinton said she was right to do so. Here's an article detailing a list of Republicans or conservatives who are considered "enemies" by Nancy Pelosi. Harry Reid declared the Koch brothers are "enemies of progress."

Liberals don't like to praise Ronald Reagan, but he was very successful at working with the opposition. He had a famous saying: "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit for it." (It appears that Harry S. Truman said it first... hey, it's bipartisan! And similar quotes have been found from over 150 years ago. source)

[1] Full quote for full context:

"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

[2] Full quote for full context:

"It's a very easy thing for Republicans to say, 'Well, they're busing people in.' Well, you know what? We've been busing people in to deal with you f***ing ***holes for fifty years and we're not going to stop now, we're just going to find a different way to do it."

This is a clip of an Apple representative explaining the changes to the MacBook Pro value proposition.

https://youtu.be/jsW9MlYu31g

Hmm... persuasive, but I'm still not planning to buy the new MacBook Pro.

Already implemented in Japan as an optional extra - here is a video of a Prius emitting a fairly cool whirring noise. I think sampling the Spinners out of Blade Runner is clearly the way to go.
https://youtu.be/3Vy42zphNp4

Personally, I'm a fan of this.

I'd like a continuous version of the sound of the Millenium Falcon malfunctioning while trying to go into hyperspace. ;)

(the core of the sound is a biplane inertia starter motor :) )

I'd like a continuous version of the sound of the Millenium Falcon malfunctioning while trying to go into hyperspace. ;)

(the core of the sound is a biplane inertia starter motor :) )

Racist voter suppression by asking for an ID, I think it's quite racist if you assuming that blacks and Latinos for some reason can't get an ID...

https://youtu.be/rrBxZGWCdgs

Mostly by cutting voting locations and hours. Even with voter ID, the issue is not that it is impossible to get one, but that it is an obstacle, and why the fuck should anyone have jump through hoops? Why don't Republicans want as many eligible people as possible to vote?

For your review, I hereby submit the sound from The Jetsons flying cars.

https://youtu.be/QdWswvLPdE0

Racist voter suppression by asking for an ID, I think it's quite racist if you assuming that blacks and Latinos for some reason can't get an ID... https://youtu.be/rrBxZGWCdgs

Testing, testing, testing

https://youtu.be/_Cmv58lTWgU

Give him a chance.... https://youtu.be/ao2Q9mYq-0M

> ** Cracking a password one character at a time until all the characters are filled in. Nope, passwords are an all or nothing proposition.

Many attacks against passwords/keys are character-at-a-time.

To clarify, I'm talking about scenes where a password character is *found* by some cracking algorithm, visually represented by randomly flipping characters and digits, which then lock into place one by one. It's essentially a Hollywood-invented password-cracking progress bar. Sort of like this, although they're just decoding screens of text (which is equally silly). You're talking about iteration over all possible combinations, which is of course how brute-forcing passwords works.

In contrast, I present to you, The Most Accurate Hacking Scene Ever. I guarantee you'll actually even learn a thing or two.

And there's a very large overlap between Clinton supporters and people who will believe anything the media says. Case in point: Hillary has a 98.5% chance of winning. The DNC nomination process wasn't rigged. The media weren't doing a cover-up when they didn't make a big thing about Hillary being openly against same-sex marriage while in the senate. Good thing there's video, because with the whitewashing (gaywashing?) that the media has done, nobody would believe it.

Bunch of Butthurt crybabies. Hint: If you're taking your political cues from Miley Cyrus, you might be brain damaged from listening to her old man's Achy Breaky Heart.

And there's a very large overlap between Clinton supporters and people who will believe anything the media says. Case in point: Hillary has a 98.5% chance of winning. The DNC nomination process wasn't rigged. The media weren't doing a cover-up when they didn't make a big thing about Hillary being openly against same-sex marriage while in the senate. Good thing there's video, because with the whitewashing (gaywashing?) that the media has done, nobody would believe it.

Bunch of Butthurt crybabies. Hint: If you're taking your political cues from Miley Cyrus, you might be brain damaged from listening to her old man's Achy Breaky Heart.

And there's a very large overlap between Clinton supporters and people who will believe anything the media says. Case in point: Hillary has a 98.5% chance of winning. The DNC nomination process wasn't rigged. The media weren't doing a cover-up when they didn't make a big thing about Hillary being openly against same-sex marriage while in the senate. Good thing there's video, because with the whitewashing (gaywashing?) that the media has done, nobody would believe it.

Bunch of Butthurt crybabies. Hint: If you're taking your political cues from Miley Cyrus, you might be brain damaged from listening to her old man's Achy Breaky Heart.

And there's a very large overlap between Clinton supporters and people who will believe anything the media says. Case in point: Hillary has a 98.5% chance of winning. The DNC nomination process wasn't rigged. The media weren't doing a cover-up when they didn't make a big thing about Hillary being openly against same-sex marriage while in the senate. Good thing there's video, because with the whitewashing (gaywashing?) that the media has done, nobody would believe it.

Bunch of Butthurt crybabies. Hint: If you're taking your political cues from Miley Cyrus, you might be brain damaged from listening to her old man's Achy Breaky Heart.

I think it was put best by dr. horrible, you're treating a symptom, the disease rages on.

https://youtu.be/Of9kHpCv1ts?t...

Actually pay some fucking attention to the citizens who voted for Bernie and then Trump. Everybody ranting about racism winning needs to watch this video, keeping in mind that the uploader cut off the line "For one day." at the end.

Scaling your rhetoric to the actual severity of the problem might help too. Here's a list of people who are literally Hitler, according to the Left on the internet:
1. Donald Trump
2. Little old ladies who don't understand how two dudes can get married.
etc

When people in Ohio counties where the only growth industry is starring in Facebook overdose pictures heard that Trump is evil, they probably just thought "Yeah, yeah, so's everybody."

Keeping private is not "hiding". Are you "hiding" your phone number? No? Post it then.

Sure, they're not required to, but it helps to foster trust. Trump has broken a long standing tradition. Quoting taxhistory.org: "Since the early 1970s, however, most presidents have chosen to release their returns publicly."

That's not what his black employees say, nor just that mesh with him picking Omarissa [vanityfair.com] years ago to win The Apprentice (which also meant he would have to work with her).

There's enough evidence to suggest he's about as racist as the people in the flyover states who voted for him. As in, they'd prefer to live in America where most people look just like them, but they're not quite on the level of donning hoods and start burning crosses to achieve it.

Trump is the most pro-gay GOP candidate [conservativereview.com] there has ever been, far better for the LGBT community than Hillary would have been.

Hillary likely would not have done anything to further the cause of LGBT rights, but she accepted the status quo. Trump has said he wants to appoint supreme court justices who will overturn marriage equality, and leave it up to the states.

As for women, well if Trump hates women so much why did he keep hiring them to lead his campaign [dilbert.com], including the last one that led him to victory?

If Trump "hated" women, he wouldn't be married to one. He disrespects women, which as it turns out, actually appeals to the wifebeater-sporting "bitch, go make me a sammich!" troglodytes who voted for him.

Sorry I'm having trouble seeing the Trump violence over Portland burning, and the fake protestors the DNC hired to mess up Trump rallies.

Trump incites violence in that he alienates and marginalizes significant portion of this country's population, and has the diplomacy skills of a drunken Klingon. People are protesting because they have legitimate concerns about their future and are afraid Trump won't be willing to compromise with them. So what does Trump do? He confirms their fears by dismissing their protests as a conspiracy, organized by the mainstream media. With a tweet, no less.

And yet he still won, so obviously what he does know is how to find and hire the right people who do know how to accomplish things.

He won the system, not the hearts and minds of the majority of Americans voters. Trump lost the popular vote.

Claimed just before the election, and we are supposed to believe that.... meanwhile Hillary was covering for Bill having sex with under-age females for decades. Don't see you very against that you monster.

While the media and the keyboard warriors were incessantly squawking about sex scandals, xenophobia, Benghazi, and emails, the country bumpkins had already decided their disdain for how capitalism is working out for them, had sealed their vote. He's the right's version of Obama from 8 years ago. He's their Hope & Change detergent, "New & Improved with whiter whites and a lower price!"

This says it all about how awesome the Macbook pro and apple are for any use whatsoever, which of course includes video striping:
https://youtu.be/-XSC_UG5_kU

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CGP Gray did a good video on this topic...
https://youtu.be/S92fTz_-kQE

Ok, this is Texas, not California, but the same principle applies...

In short, the US Constitution is mute on the subject, but the US Supreme Court has ruled, "No, there is no secession, you cannot leave".

If you want to go, there are two ways to make it happen.

1. Revolution
2. Constitutional Amendment

Neither of those are likely to happen

Haha, made me think of this.

In short, those of you who support the EC largely are mistaken in your understanding of how it works, or why it exists, and the net effect on it...

Many of you say "but then they'll just campaign in the big cities", but that is false and a knowledge of the facts would inform you on that.

Anyone who wants to discuss this subject needs to watch CGP Grey's video on the subject:

The Trouble with the Electoral College
https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k

Short version - Using the EC, you can become President with less than 22% of the popular vote.

This is not democracy, this is indefensible.

The paper suggests the mechanism towards the end. I'm not a physicist, but here's my summary (I'm sure full of errors, but I think this is roughly what they're proposing):

The paper attributes development of this engine to developments along the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave interpretation of Quantum Mechanics as opposed to the Copenhagen interpretation of Bohr and Heisenberg, which is more generally accepted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory. Einstein, for instance, never accepted Copenhagen.. famously saying God doesn't play dice). Their approach is called the "pilot-wave" hypothesis (nice simulation here https://youtu.be/nmC0ygr08tE), where a wave and a particle are both epiphenomenon of certain resonant frequencies (Chladni patterns/Faraday waves) in a more complex base wave (as in the video). This base wave is a normal acoustic wave in the "medium", but it wasn't understood for a long time what that medium could be. After all, the "ether" of the 1700-1800s had been rejected. Now, they're saying the medium is quantum foam, which is some electron-positron bubbling that it seems just permeates space (also responsible for zero-point energy/casimir effect), and that's what is responding to the photons in the chamber. The chamber reflects microwaves (photons of a certain frequency) back and forth, and in one direction they "push" harder than the other, due to expansion and contraction controlled by the shape of the chamber. By analogy, it's like paddling in water; you put the paddle in the water in one direction, and move it back through the air in the other; in both directions you're moving through a medium, but you control it so that you impart more momentum in one than the other. Except instead of paddle in water and air, here the momentum transfer is from the microwave photons to the electron-positron foam permeating space. That's why no propellent is needed.. it's pushing against something that's really there, in the chamber and all around. So, space isn't empty and we can row our space boats through it.

You're talking about significantly older consoles, back when RF (or composite if you were lucky) were the only options. In those days, of the Atari 2600 and the Apple II and CGA-equipped IBM PCs, composite color tricks were definitely a thing. And yes, I've seen demos like 8088 MPH and studied the techniques they used, very cool stuff to get over a thousand colors from normally 4-color CGA: http://8088mph.blogspot.com/20...

What's actually happening is that if you send a signal that changes color too fast, the colors get smeared together because the signal bandwidth is too low to keep up. By sending specific patterns of specific colors, you can generate more colors. It's basic analog signal theory, something I've actually studied ;-)

(BTW the NES didn't have artifact colors, because the resolution lined up perfectly with NTSC, so you couldn't send an image that was too high-res for the bandwidth, in order to create artifact colors. It's simply not technically possible due to hardware limitations.)

But artifact colors and related trickery mostly stopped (at least for commercially released games) when consoles started offering higher quality outputs. From the 16-bit SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive generation on, consoles started offering higher quality video outputs such as s-video and even RGB. Simultaneously, the consoles also started supporting native transparency and larger color palettes, rendering a lot of the "old tricks" obsolete. These tricks would not work on the superior connections that quality-minded players were likely to use, so developers stopped using them.

Some tricks did stay, however. Alternating vertical lines or checkerboard patterns were commonly used for transparency, and that persisted for a while. The SNES could do real transparency, but checkerboarding was much less computationally demanding. And of course the Genesis/Mega Drive didn't have real transparency and also had a rather limited color palette, so game developers made extensive use of alternating vertical lines, checkerboarding and dithering for smoother color transitions. It's very noticeable in games like The Lion King, especially when you compare it with the SNES version. The faked transparency is very noticeable in the waterfalls in Sonic games. Shadows were done in the same way, with checkerboards or vertical lines, but sometimes also by flickering the sprite at half the refresh rate of the TV. On a CRT this produces a reasonably convincing 50% gray shadow, due to phosphor persistence.

Another thing is that you're talking about blowing up old games on HDTVs over HDMI and having razor sharp pixels, but we completely agree that it's not optimal at all. I'm talking about hooking up a good quality CRT SDTV using a high-quality analog connection. Effects such as brightness bleed is not exclusive to composite connections, it's a property of CRTs, especially if you crank up the brightness like on an old arcade machine.

Apart from artifact colors (which were phased out around/before the NES generation), all of this stuff works quite well even on an RGB/component-connected CRT TV, because of the nature of a CRT, not the connection you use.

Here's a video showing the horrible artifacts inherent to composite video compared to s-video: https://youtu.be/vGF4PRlIZSo?t...

Most of them aren't obvious on still pictures, but it's painfully obvious in motion that composite is just crap.

Doesn't anyone remember ATTACK WAAAATCH!"

Keeps trying to fix a broken system after the damage has already been done. If he wanted to fix this, he would need to restart the primaries.

Obama has no interest in fixing this, or even enforcing the laws. Hell he came right out the other day telling illegals and non-citizens to vote, and there would be no prosecution on it.

Okay, I'm not going to click on the screwy maybe youtube link. It is hardly a reputable source, even if it is youtube. Who knows what happened to that video. Suffice to say, if Obama was telling telling illegals to vote the right wing would be going nuclear right now over it, so its pretty save to assume they are not.

Now, here is the better question, if those people are working and contributing to society and have been doing so for a long time, why shouldn't they have a say in things?

Hell if we went with your logic, no one but native americans should have a say, since I'm reasonably sure most of our ancestors didn't go through approved immigration channels.

Keeps trying to fix a broken system after the damage has already been done. If he wanted to fix this, he would need to restart the primaries.

Obama has no interest in fixing this, or even enforcing the laws. Hell he came right out the other day telling illegals and non-citizens to vote, and there would be no prosecution on it.

This box won't even run sega genesis games that well.

BTW this video illustrates my last point. The all wheel drive Tesla can deliver energy to the motors in millisecond pulses enabling it to maintain traction in the rain in a way no other car can.

http://youtu.be/iyXSJAICaBc

In the comments, @Somnium Sky sums it up:

"Being able to dynamically shift power from the front to the rear at the millisecond level allows it to adjust torque extremely quickly for the AWD system more than is possible with a mechanically linked system."

Actually, it was 0bama that said (something like) that. https://youtu.be/T1409sXBleg

Isn't it funny that the NSA contributed code to SELinux and SystemD?

A big black box that touches everything would be a government's dream and SystemD does it perfectly. See conspiracy theory

Well maybe you can enjoy what the current president said, you know that being illegal and voting is okay.

Burn Tails to a USB drive. Boot that for anonymous access.

Using a laptop with Libreboot instead of a BIOS with Intel ME etc.

Issues like the lighteater attack mean that Tails can be vulnerable when run on a computer that has the Intel Management Engine.

Also, log on to public wifi and use Tails to randomly assign the MAC address. Tails will generate plausible MAC addresses.

You links are all innuendo and speculation. Not one links to an actual investigation showing proof that fraud took place. That's because...

Voter fraud really isn't a big problem. 31 probable cases out of over 1 billion votes cast.

The precision with which they target African American voters is pretty shocking. For example, they researched various types of ID and then banned the ones most common with African Americans, only allowing the types that white people are more likely to have. They blocked early voting because African Americans were often motivated to vote by their church on a Sunday.

These laws are not about stopping largely imaginary and totally insignificant fraud. Stop believing Trump, he doesn't have any evidence that its rigged against him or he would have requested a formal investigation. They are about stopping Democrats voting, by targeting certain groups, often by race.

You links are all innuendo and speculation. Not one links to an actual investigation showing proof that fraud took place. That's because...

Voter fraud really isn't a big problem. 31 probable cases out of over 1 billion votes cast.

The precision with which they target African American voters is pretty shocking. For example, they researched various types of ID and then banned the ones most common with African Americans, only allowing the types that white people are more likely to have. They blocked early voting because African Americans were often motivated to vote by their church on a Sunday.

These laws are not about stopping largely imaginary and totally insignificant fraud. Stop believing Trump, he doesn't have any evidence that its rigged against him or he would have requested a formal investigation. They are about stopping Democrats voting, by targeting certain groups, often by race.