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Well they tried C4 and the neighbors bitched about the noise. you just can't make anyone happy these days.

OB: Caddyshack

Someone makes a talk about IMSI catchers, then all the cops have IMSI catchers. Everything you need to know has been public since before the police had them. Don't ask the cops, go to the source.

God wants dollars
God wants cents
God wants pounds shillings and pence
God wants guilders
God wants kroner
God wants Swiss francs
God wants French francs
God wants escudos
God wants pesetas
Don't send lira
God don't want small potatoes ...

Roger Waters - What God Wants, Part II

https://youtu.be/r95a3p8Os-w?t...

...it's called probing. Not to engage, but to evaluate.

or Parkinson's / Subcortical Vascular Dementia

Have you ever seen the "community" over at YouTube?

https://youtu.be/n8M6m5UiDaI

Enjoy the comments over there, but don't blame me if you end up drinking rat poison.

A much funnier way of explaining it

a number of them are reporting it's putting the phone into recovery mode, forcing them to go back to wipe the memory, re-install 9.3.5 and then try upgrading again.

After that punishment, why would you try again? Is it a case of Homer? https://youtu.be/3W1OrcMPMb0?t...

https://youtu.be/fo45o69HaKI?t...

There's a perception that black people have no chance to reach the elite because nobody wants to hire an unevolved ape to handle important, respectable business decisions.

The long and short of it is opportunity. You have the opportunity for promotion, and it instead goes to someone else based on your manager's emotional responses to the person. Those of us with developed technical sense about business understand this is mediated by things like rapport: it pays to be social with people who are promoting you, because they get that feeling of comfort and confidence looking at your name, contrasted to a feeling of uncertainty looking at someone else's (better!) performance record.

Nobody likes hoodrats and idiot women. These people can't be trusted with power. You cringe when you think about putting them in charge of anything, despite their historical high performance. You *quickly* skip over their name and promote the next guy, because he's a man, and white, and thus has his shit together and is more-trustworthy.

People perceive this problem, and they don't understand it. They think it's solved by forcing people to put these people into power. In part, a more normalized impression of powerful people--a society in which you can readily identify blacks and women and whatever else who have become well-known for their success--reduces the automatic discriminatory reaction. In another part, *forcing* the issue trains people to be comfortable around white men, and fearful and distrusting of anyone who might claim discrimination--blacks, women, gays, the lot.

Without understanding this, people who perceive themselves as grouped for discrimination will cry about fairness and look for someone to protect them. They do this because they don't understand that others perceive them as bringing attack dogs and a short temperament everywhere they go. The technical concept of social rapport and subconscious emotional influence is not intuitive, and people don't realize the damage they do with this behavior, nor the power they gain by being both sociable and unintrusive. It's an incredible engineering exercise most people aren't knowledgeable about.

Currently, the topic has become so popular it seeps into everything. People perceive a new concept in everything--especially a feared concept, or any highly-emotional concept. This is what witch hunts are.

I subscribe to the ideal that fairness isn't a thing. Anything you define as fair is patently discriminatory against someone else through no fault of their own, and is thus unfair. There are problems, and solutions to problems; and we can address that while understanding that fairness isn't a thing. The concept of fairness is what drives things like people trying to drag more women into programming, imagining that women are brilliant and driven programmers cowering at the edge of the software development world in fear of being made fun of for being programmers. Nobody imagines that maybe more men like that particular task than women, hence why you get 10% female programmers showing up instead of 50%. Then they start compensating for everything by putting the few women in charge of things to balance it all out.

If your thought process starts with, "Hey, we should get a {woman,black,gay} to do this, because they've been underrepresented lately," something is wrong. First off, you don't seem to have a sense that some group is being harassed or otherwise discriminated against; you've just decided X event hasn't happened frequently, so there must be a social problem here. Second, if you *do* see day-to-day harassment creating an unfair disadvantage for a group, YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT, and don't seem to care. You're either causing a problem or ignoring it, and making a token gesture at the same time to cover your ego.

That's how fairness-driven social activism works. Ignore problems, complain about things.

After watching the collapse of Building 7 I have my doubts: https://youtu.be/Mamvq7LWqRU

Nope. You need to look at this:

NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report

https://youtu.be/3LKQ3eX9pEg?t...

Airbags had to move to software control because sometimes you don't want the airbags going off even though there's an accident. e.g. A child in the front passenger seat - early airbags were designed to cushion and adult head, and were forcing the lower mass of a child's head backwards killing them. Some cars in the 1990s had a manual switch for you to turn the front passenger airbag on/off depending on whether or not a child was sitting there, but of course people forgot to flip the switch. Nowadays pretty much all cars use a weight sensor under the seat to gauge the weight of the occupant, and decide whether or not to deploy the front passenger airbag.

Same goes for side-curtain airbags. They can impede people's ability to get out of the car, so you don't want them deploying if they don't need to(e.g. the side occupants are moving away from will not trigger). And you want them to deploy at the proper time. To early and they start to deflate before the occupant's head hits them. Too late and again they force the occupant's head sideways instead of cushioning it, possibly injuring them more than the accident itself.

Seatbelts have gotten more sophisticated as well. In addition to inertia/angle sensitive latches, many cars now use pre-tensioners. The timing of these have to be coordinated with the dynamic accelerations experienced during an accident, lest they fire too early and you end up released before the main accelerations hit you. The newer ones use an explosive charge, so there are no do-overs if they trigger at the wrong time, and you definitely don't want them to trigger if there isn't an accident and the car is (say) just being towed.

Too many people try to categorize things as "always better" or "always worse" based on a few data points. These safety systems have moved to electronic software control because it makes them more effective in the vast majority of cases, even though in a few cases it may cause them to function worse than older mechanical systems.

Airbags had to move to software control because sometimes you don't want the airbags going off even though there's an accident. e.g. A child in the front passenger seat - early airbags were designed to cushion and adult head, and were forcing the lower mass of a child's head backwards killing them. Some cars in the 1990s had a manual switch for you to turn the front passenger airbag on/off depending on whether or not a child was sitting there, but of course people forgot to flip the switch. Nowadays pretty much all cars use a weight sensor under the seat to gauge the weight of the occupant, and decide whether or not to deploy the front passenger airbag.

Same goes for side-curtain airbags. They can impede people's ability to get out of the car, so you don't want them deploying if they don't need to(e.g. the side occupants are moving away from will not trigger). And you want them to deploy at the proper time. To early and they start to deflate before the occupant's head hits them. Too late and again they force the occupant's head sideways instead of cushioning it, possibly injuring them more than the accident itself.

Seatbelts have gotten more sophisticated as well. In addition to inertia/angle sensitive latches, many cars now use pre-tensioners. The timing of these have to be coordinated with the dynamic accelerations experienced during an accident, lest they fire too early and you end up released before the main accelerations hit you. The newer ones use an explosive charge, so there are no do-overs if they trigger at the wrong time, and you definitely don't want them to trigger if there isn't an accident and the car is (say) just being towed.

Too many people try to categorize things as "always better" or "always worse" based on a few data points. These safety systems have moved to electronic software control because it makes them more effective in the vast majority of cases, even though in a few cases it may cause them to function worse than older mechanical systems.

https://youtu.be/bwvlbJ0h35A

https://youtu.be/npjF032TDDQ

Or a power loss causing the ring of floating objects in orbit to plummet. After the idiotic body surfing from one ship to another.

And then there was the giant wrestling thing with the ships core - which Galaxy Quest Firmly slapped down years earlier because the whole notion was stupid.

My favourite from Galaxy quest was the chompers. After beaming onboard the Enterprise, Scotty is inside the coolant tube heading for the spinning blades of death.

As the review "Everything Wrong With Star Trek" points out, [the spinning blade contraption] is just as useless and stupid as the chompers in Galaxy quest, except *this* star trek movie isn't a parody.

https://youtu.be/GlRG9x0JRMc

Opps, correct time start - https://youtu.be/GlRG9x0JRMc?t...

https://youtu.be/GlRG9x0JRMc

Opps, correct time start - https://youtu.be/GlRG9x0JRMc?t...

https://youtu.be/GlRG9x0JRMc

To explode, of course. https://youtu.be/l8oBZR4Ih-s

https://youtu.be/vflPGqcXJkY

Freddy Mercury was terrific, but he ruined mustaches for straight men everywhere, and so soon after Burt Reynolds made them acceptable again.

All in all, I'd trade Burt Reynolds straight up to get Freddie Mercury back. People forget just how great he was. Watch this 1974 live Queen video to be reminded. And he only got better after that.

https://youtu.be/T8Rfb1Jtmic

In 1992 Mercury was posthumously awarded the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, with a tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium, London. As a member of Queen, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004, and the band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002. In 2002, he was placed at number 58 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Consistently voted one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music, Mercury was voted best male singer of all time in a 2005 poll organised by Blender and MTV2;[6] was ranked at 18 on the 2008 Rolling Stone list of the 100 greatest singers ever;[5] was elected in 2009 as the best rock singer of all time by Classic Rock;[7] — and was described by AllMusic as "one of rock's greatest all-time entertainers," with "one of the greatest voices in all of music."[8]

He deserves to have an entire star system named after him.

And he was a Zoroastrian born in Zanzibar, because of course he was. I'm instructing my wife to include, "He was a Zoroastrian born in Zanzibar" in my obituary because it sounds so cool, even though it's not true at all.

I mean, it's a strange world, and sometimes it's hard for various reasons to pick out the idiots. But once they say "I could care less", "anyways", or "acrosst", I know.

You've got to be careful judging people's intelligence based on their use of vernacular.

I've recently moved from "up North" to Houston, Texas. One of my neighbors talks almost exactly like Boomhauer from King of the Hill. I mean, every other sentence begins with, "I tell ya what..." and "man" and "dern old" appear practically every fifth word. When I first heard him, I thought he was Forrest Gump, but it turns out the dude is a biologist from Rice University who grew up out on the bayou and did his grad school at MIT.

This is what Boomhauer sounds like:

https://youtu.be/5Jzvh2IeLmo

I forgot to put Richard Lamm's 2005 leaked speech at liberal think-tank event

https://youtu.be/nFAQNjqH1zA

A "Star Trek" type communist world without the liberal political correctness does sound awesome where all necessities are free. Course they have "replicators", but one if the books mentioned how money was done away with once people realized a faith based currency was meaningless. Now with that said I know "Utopian" society always falls apart.

Multiculturalism always fails and has in every society on Earth.

But here's done Utopian communist examples from an episode of Star Trek excerpt: https://youtu.be/pzqW0YaN2ho

Heres the Democratic Co-Director of liberal think tank "Institute for public policy " discussing how back in 2005 at a dinner secretly taped how to destroy America by using multiculturalism , a completely made up word by political correctness just as the word racist never existed in language until the inventor of political correctness as a weapon Richard Henry Pratt created the word in 1902 for Indian youth to attack older Indian generation as he erased 100s of languages and cultures via political correctness dubbed the largest cultural genocide.
http://www.npr.org/sections/co...

So star trek world would be cool, it only works in fiction :-P

I'm glad they mentioned Dartmouth College. The administration at Dartmouth has long tried to restrict alcohol, while the culture there fully embraces it. There's even an unofficial mascot, Keggy the Keg.

But to fully appreciate Dartmouth drinking, you need to understand Drinking Time: https://youtu.be/avYUL1A-WUM?t...

The eavesdropping algorithm is waiting for the secret command: "warriors, come out to plaaay-aay"

Did anyone check to see if this guy was anywhere near the launch site?

It blew during or shortly after a static firing - that is, a test run of the engine with the rocket restrained. That's a *very* unusual procedure in the modern world, but they used to do it all the time. The reason they don't do it any more is that it tends to reduce overall reliability, and the rocket was designed to work in flight, not necessarily with the back-pressure, or acoustic and thermal reflection from the pad/blast deflector/ground.

            In this case, I expect, that SpaceX brobdingagian hubris figured that they could get away with it, and it was "designed" for reuse, so it will encounter those effects anyway, and in any case, they have lots of fast computers so they know better than those dinosaur idiots back in the late 50's.early 60's.

You know, you could just watch the video and see that the explosion originated in the upper section of the second stage, which isn't firing during a test fire, or particularly affected by a test fire, and that in fact the first stage wasn't firing at the time.

SpaceX performs static firing because, statistically, the primary cause of historical launch failures has been engine-out during flight. That's also why Falcon 9 has 9 engines. The purpose is to improve reliability and reduce hazard to bystanders during a launch. It has succeeded this time. The explosion and fire happened on the pad, instead of downrange. That's precisely what is supposed to happen.

Of course the signal comes from Earth. Where do you think the aliens come from? Don't you guys watch the History Channel?

https://youtu.be/QA_Dw71Satc

OB Feynman.

In many situations (the interesting ones, in my opinion) there is more to the strengths of C than just maturity and ubiquity.

No. I'd say the opposite https://youtu.be/ufkHt8dgG8I.

I wonder how much extra traffic Paul Joseph Watson just got because of this supposed "hack" that is really only half the size of the supposed "hack" where some of the accounts seem to work ... just sayin

How much are they paying you for this? The lizard people, I mean.

I serve the Lizard King.

https://youtu.be/7ceAK3-7DEM

https://youtu.be/3NjQ9b3pgIg?t...

Prefer Arlo Guthrie. Social commentary with incidental comedy a la Alice's Restaurant.

Free Market, unless you want to buy medicine, then we don't let you. Funny how, in this, like so many other issues, the "conservatives" are against a free market, and the "liberals" are for the free market.

The liberals want to set drug prices in the US, the whole "allow people to buy drugs from foreign nations" is just the whip they're using to pressure the other lawmakers to allow them to set prices to avoid opening the US pharma market.

There are no "Liberals" in Congress (using the original definition of "Liberal" which derived from "Libertarian"). Those that call themselves "liberals" are actually "Progressives" and they exist in both (D) and (R) camps.

George Bernard Shaw was one of the early proponents of Progressivism (now deliberately mislabeled "liberalism").

https://youtu.be/hQvsf2MUKRQ

I highly recommend that all do their own homework and do some digging into the history of the Progressive movement.

Strat

TFA does not make clear whether the women were crossing legally or jaywalking.

Our laws promoting safety have a lot of redundancy built into them. This redundancy allows multiple failures before producing a catastrophic result. Limiting street crossings to crosswalks concentrates pedestrians in locations where additional safety features can be installed (red lights, painted stripes on the road). It also frees up drivers to keep their eyes on the road when away from intersections, instead of having to constantly watch the sides of the road for pedestrians who might suddenly jump into their path. Accidents more frequently happen because of infractions by each party involved which strip away each layer of redundant safety.

While it's probable the driver bears most of the blame, I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions. I have to think even an irresponsible Pokemon player would, as a matter of self-preservation, at least take his eyes off the game long enough to slow when approaching intersections. This may well be a case of two women trying to save some time by crossing in the middle of the street (yes it happens even in Japan), and being struck by a driver who assumed no pedestrian would do such a thing so decided to play the game between intersections. He might even have been unable to avoid hitting the women even if he had been watching the road. Jumping to conclusions makes you no better than the assholes who beat up the driver in the above video.

What is my motivation to make things up? If you weren't lazy, you could verify it yourself, as could anyone.

I usually ignore responses like yours, but I just so happened to be able to easily pull up one source: https://youtu.be/meoETyMA4K0

Precisely. A talking llama from the the UN once told me that they know how to defeat climate change AND poverty, and that everyone has already agreed to the plan. Not sure why we're still talking about this as if it's some sort of issue.

I mean, I was going to install solar panels, but now it seems like there's no point?

Is that you, Malcom?

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

I actually don't thin Bill is saying it's the result of climate change. He is saying it is consistent with what we would expect from climate change. And then I can't tell if Bill or the journoclown is getting it wrong by making the leap that THEREFORE it was the result of climate change. Of course that does not follow logically.

The power of statistics is such that we would need many decades of data before we could theoretically detect that climate change is indeed changing the frequency or intensity of these events. Truth is that things like floods APPEAR to be dropping when measured in meaningful ways.

When people make these statements, they are worse than people who deny science. They are pretending to be scientific when being quite the opposite.

There are sane people out there. They are rare. But they exist. Here is one: https://youtu.be/meoETyMA4K0

Apparently not. https://youtu.be/5ehVIXtWXGk

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein describes the situation with frequent 500 year floods and explosive wild fires as a climate emergency. https://youtu.be/7X_aqEr1vCY

Do you think I can get this "Ludacris" mode retrofitted onto my '95 Mazda Protege?

https://youtu.be/G9ITtVbx-c4

I'm not a Musk-car fan, but knowing it has a Ludacris mode makes me really want one.

https://youtu.be/J33pVRdxWbw?t...

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained

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I understand you think you can fix this, but you don't understand the problem it seems... watch that, well worth your time...

Unless you change the system, nothing will change, it is working as intended...