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Anybody who doubts his ability to improvise brilliant dialogue out of thin air watch his Parks and Rec Star Wars rant:

https://youtu.be/5BBhNkywMJY

As an American elementary school student in the 1970's, I was exposed to these kinds of "educational films" in school:

https://youtu.be/E1Eld2OqJBM?t...
https://youtu.be/g_DaMKUP3Og?t...

Demonizing socialism has been a well-funded effort within the United States for as long as I've been alive. Apparently it makes the Overlords feel safer.

As an American elementary school student in the 1970's, I was exposed to these kinds of "educational films" in school:

https://youtu.be/E1Eld2OqJBM?t...
https://youtu.be/g_DaMKUP3Og?t...

Demonizing socialism has been a well-funded effort within the United States for as long as I've been alive. Apparently it makes the Overlords feel safer.

I think I prefer George Carlin's take on prayer...

A few things...

An AC is just that, advisory... not regulatory... it is the FAA trying to make life easier for RC pilots, by giving them suggestions on how to operate so as to AVOID regulation in the first place.

There is also a key point in that AC:

"The aircraft is flown strictly for hobby or recreational use"

Amazon is neither, so the whole thing doesn't even apply to them.

Amazon's drones are going to be regulated, and soon, any other commercial drone is going to be as well. They have to be, their numbers will just keep growing.

General aviation didn't require a whole lot of rules either in the early days, there were so few people doing it. Even today there aren't THAT many planes, but there are enough that rules are required.

The time for regulations for drones has arrived.

As a side note: Yes, we all know that the $50 quad copter that you fly in your yard is not the issue here, even the FAA knows that. No one, anywhere, really cares about those.

It is the ones that go above the tree line, the ones that can fly to 200ft or more, the ones that you can fly beyond visual range, and the ones that you fly over OTHER people, that are the concern.

This:
http://www.amazon.com/UDI-U818...
Is not a concern

This:
https://youtu.be/Q4RRYiLItww?t...
Is... Watch how high it goes and how far it goes...

Those are going to end up regulated, they have to be, thousands of them will end up in the skies and we can either choose to regulate them now, or after they kill people.

The smart answer is now.

No. The two sides are not moral equals.

Sam Harris isn't right about everything, but his thoughts on Israel seem reasonable, and there's not much point me parotting them at length. See this talk.

The short version: the Israelis want peace. Hamas want to slaughter all the Jews. The Israelis have the military power to obliterate every last soul in Palestine... but they don't. The only thing stopping Hamas committing a massacre of Israeli Jews is that they physically can't.

Live coverage: https://youtu.be/SuRLZUXupCk

I heard they tried to get Fetty Wap to headline, but they didn't want to meet his price.

https://youtu.be/wxMZkhWum64

Is there a form for declaring war? A special hand shake, a ritual dance?

Yes. This is how we do it:

https://youtu.be/YRKhTvUUYMI

Pah. Doctor Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker were decades ahead of them - gold into foam? Useless! Try gold into cottage cheese - low in cholesterol, high in vitamins...

Their contention that do-it yourself repairmen are better for the environment it is completely unsupported. iFixit does not recover the broken parts that their clients are replacing and old parts are typically tossed in the trash. Manufacturer repair shops like Apple's have recycling policies that do recycle broken parts as well as old devices that people turn in when upgrading.

You are missing the point. When faced with a broken device and a very high Apple repair bill (have you see how much they charge for things like new keyboards, screens and batteries?) many people will just throw the device away and buy a new one. In fact that was Apple's original policy on iPod batteries that died after 18 months. Buy a new iPod.

Repairing is almost always better for the environment than making a new one.

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Was thinking the same thing - I wouldn't want to be in that capsule, check out the dust-ball when it smacks down!

- Walking the Walk -

Watch the Soyuz capsules when the land on the steppes of Mongolia. They do pretty much the same things.

Big badda boom.

- Walking the Walk -

Sigh...you REALLY don't know how this shit works, do you? Let old Hairy break it down for ya, mmkay?

1.-Corp A MBA (Master of Being an Asshole) gets hired, he fires everybody and replaces them with outsourcing. 2.- Because you have a broken stock market thanks to the billions pumped in by the feds thanks to 401Ks and 403Bs you have a market filled with gamblers so the second they see Corp A profits went up? Stock bounces, MBA gets credit for his "aggressive cost cutting measures". 3.- MBA cashes out, gets hired by new corp based on his "stellar cost cutting skills" at Corp A. 4.- Corp A goes belly up but by that time MBA has moved on and so gets none of the blame! Lather rinse repeat.

If you want a couple examples of this in action just look at Circuit City, where the MBA fired all the high paid employees (who were making that much because they were highly knowledgeable and good at making sales) and replaced them with any kid they could get off the street. Stock bounced, cash out, company went to shit because the kids didn't know shit and just wandered the store. Or AMD, who is just now beginning to struggle back from the horrible blow dealt to them by their MBA, which at a critical juncture fired all the chip designers and replaced them with automated layouts, which give you more than 10% wasted space and more power usage than hand design. Stock bounced, he cashed out, lather rinse repeat.

So I hate to break the news to ya, but logic and sanity? Really have no place in this arena, we're talking about an arena run by sociopaths that have NO problem burning a place to the ground and costing thousands of their fellow Americans everything they own if it'll give them a 10% stock bounce and a golden parachute. Remember the words of Thomas Jefferson "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

I thought silencers were a hollywood invention

In USA, at least, "silencer" is the legal term for the device, as used in the National Firearms Act that sets up the regulatory framework.

As to how much relation the Hollywood type has to the real thing, it depends on the specific depiction and the specific real thing. Modern efficient suppressor designs combined with subsonic ammunition that is specifically designed to be suppressed can be pretty damn quiet, especially out of longer barrels where pressure is lower at the muzzle, and in bolt-action or other manual action firearms where the action itself doesn't make any noise during firing.

visible laser beams

You can actually kinda sorta get that IRL sometimes, with a sufficiently powerful laser (which rifle laser sights often are), because it will light up the dust in the air, or particles of water when it's humid (esp. outside).

It's a Weird Al reference.

I think he was referring to Gary Oldman since he had already played Dr. Smith in the 1998 movie.

https://youtu.be/s1qiDrNHjXI?t...

https://youtu.be/B-I9d9MuSuY

> but Jackson is too in love with his creation to edit objectively.

At least Jackson has the balls to admit he screwed up.

In contradistinction to George Lucas who was completely oblivious to how bad his writing was for ages. He is/was surrounded by far too many "yes men" to tell him the Emperor had no Clothes. Lucas finally admitted he is the king of wooden dialogue.

I didn't know there was more than one. The Hobbit ones have the guy who plays Dr Watson alongside Cumberbatch's Sherlock, right? Yeah, the one I saw wasn't so horrible. It had dwarves who found some big basement filled with gold and then the head dwarf didn't want to give it up and then the badass elves came and said "You've got to give up that gold" and the dwarf said, "Nuh-uh!" and then Gandalf came and said some shit and then the orcs came (love the orcs) and then Billy Connolly as one of the dwarves comes riding up whipping orc ass and them some more shit happened and then...I don't remember the rest. But I love Billy Connolly because I find Scottish accents to be funny as hell. I like to imagine Begbie from Trainspotting riding the Caragor, yelling, " 'CUSE I FOOCKING TOLD YA SO, YA DOSS CUNT!

It wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible. I'm pretty sure I was high as fuck when I saw it though.

So, there were more Hobbitses after that, and did they have anyone with Scottish accents? I'm gonna go watch a little Begbie to tide me over.

https://youtu.be/vc3E7UkIzt4

This delightful lander will arrive on Europa in 2028. How fascinating it will be for the human race to know--two years before we ourselves become extinct in 2030 ( that is, in 15 years ) because of Methane released from Arctic permafrost --what has been going on in Europa all these billions of years.

I used Pale Moon for a long time and even switched people from Firefox over to it regularly. Then more and more of the bill payment portals didn't work properly until I could not justify using it any longer due to having to install Firefox anyway just to be capable of paying the bills. I couldn't even leave product reviews on Newegg. I'd still be using Pale Moon if I could pay my bills with it. I even waited for a version that would work properly, but three updates went by and nothing changed. Sigh, back to Firefox.

Off topic: I've noticed that Chrome has gotten *really* terrible. The memory footprint and poor performance is astonishing. If Chrome is "fast," Firefox is Win98-on-i7 fast.

Yesterday Marco Rubio equates all muslims to nazis and he's cheered for it.

Video: http://youtu.be/RVCip5B8P6c

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, arguing that the United States is "at war with radical Islam," sharply criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton for declining to characterize the perpetrators of the Paris attacks in that way, invoking Nazi Germany to make his point.

"That would be like saying we weren't at war with Nazis, because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi Party but weren't violent themselves," Mr. Rubio said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

http://www.nytimes.com/politic...

The time link that you want is : https://youtu.be/csyL9EC0S0c?t...

One of my primary suspects for the difference is the video card - how well optimized are the Linux drivers?

Actually, it is has been shown that on the same hardware (with NVidia card) for Metrox Redux it is just a question of SSAA being on or off.

DONALD DUCK - Chip and Dale NEW!!! Cartoons Full Episodes! 2015 https://youtu.be/khrTRwzTJFQ

It's a reference to the "god warrior", a hysterical religious nut woman that appeared on the trading spouses show:
https://youtu.be/q3mDLsyn6ns

>anti-drug laws that do no good and make no sense

You must be new here. Follow the money.

https://youtu.be/5_UbAmRGSYw

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Do not touch the trim.

https://youtu.be/uByeEObHaBA

OP mentioned that the screens are just showing browser windows. USB-attached displays perform surprisingly well for that, and have the advantage of working with any Windows PC. Here's a video showing 4 displays: https://youtu.be/KKcMqCAYkpk And one showing 14: https://youtu.be/heB94f6FHd8 Full disclosure: I work for the company that made these videos. One important thing to note is the 14 monitor demo was done with a pure USB 2.0 system. Modern USB 3.0 systems have lower limits in terms of how many USB devices can be connected and you may not be able to replicate this total number (we have a warning about this in the description and in a pop-up in the video). Another option based on 'mushero' mentioning an ideal solution would be "My dream would be a quad-HDMI device in Chromebox form factor" is the Zotac Magnus EN970 with quad HDMI outputs -> https://www.zotac.com/us/produ... More expensive per display of course compared to our products and not quite as small as a Chromebox, but it is an option nonetheless and we want you have the best solution for your needs, even if doesn't necessarily include our products. Thanks, Bob Plugable Technologies

OP mentioned that the screens are just showing browser windows. USB-attached displays perform surprisingly well for that, and have the advantage of working with any Windows PC. Here's a video showing 4 displays: https://youtu.be/KKcMqCAYkpk And one showing 14: https://youtu.be/heB94f6FHd8 Full disclosure: I work for the company that made these videos. One important thing to note is the 14 monitor demo was done with a pure USB 2.0 system. Modern USB 3.0 systems have lower limits in terms of how many USB devices can be connected and you may not be able to replicate this total number (we have a warning about this in the description and in a pop-up in the video). Another option based on 'mushero' mentioning an ideal solution would be "My dream would be a quad-HDMI device in Chromebox form factor" is the Zotac Magnus EN970 with quad HDMI outputs -> https://www.zotac.com/us/produ... More expensive per display of course compared to our products and not quite as small as a Chromebox, but it is an option nonetheless and we want you have the best solution for your needs, even if doesn't necessarily include our products. Thanks, Bob Plugable Technologies

I agree in that System Shock has clumsy controls. But why do you say that about others? From Quake (1996) until recently all FPSs have had standardized and pretty good controls.
Today FPSs are awfully optimized for consoles and are unbearably boring, you'll end up with this: https://youtu.be/W1ZtBCpo0eU

"You have demonstrated yourselves incapable of obeying the laws you profess to uphold."

You don't get why this is happening, the elites fear the masses waking up.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

Pajitnov (and Matt Barton) on Free Software

You gotta love the entitlement and hypocrisy of these two. Free software is what runs YouTube (and much of the internet) and yet they are OK with using it when it benefits them. YouTube video storage and bandwidth are free too, yet they want money from it.

I'm going to bet that they both also use free software or software derived from free software on their PCs too. That could include such commonly used software such as Mac OS, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and more. Also note that at the end of each Matt Chat video, he uses music from the now open source Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters, which he would not legally be able to do if it weren't free.

They claim... no before and after evidence presented.

WTF are you talking about. It's right in the demonstration video

Have you met any Finns?
Their primary form of communication is to not.
Their secondary form of communication is blunt.

And their third form of communication is to drunkenly cry and hug and kiss you.

I'm serious. I have Finnish friends. They drink a lot. Maybe it's because it starts to get dark there at like 10 in the morning. One of the ways you can tell Finns are approaching the point of alcohol poisoning is when they start crying and hugging and kissing you.

Also, for some reason I have not been able to fathom, Finnish people are really crazy about Tango. That's right. tango. There is a long history of Finns singing and dancing tango. All these things make Finland one of my favorite European countries.

https://youtu.be/fw-SmBBwELo

Squirrel!

they have already killed an american overseas with a drone without due process. this seems tame in comparison.

The Americans killed overseas by drones did get the due process they were entitled to. You can see a depiction of similarly appropriate due process here. (Notice that nobody was being read a Miranda rights warning.)

If during time of war you join an enemy and take up arms against the US you are no different than any other enemy, subject to being killed by the same means. That includes bayonet, sword, musket, rifle, canon, mine, rockets, bombs, missiles, grenades, giant rocks, or any other means used. This isn't a question of criminal law due process but of the law of war and the treatment of unsurrendered enemy combatants. Criminal law versus the law of war - different games have different rules. You better be sure you want to play by those rules, or don't go there.

If you want a trial and criminal law due process, then surrender. The local US embassy can probably help you there. Or hop a plane to the US and surrender at customs.

https://youtu.be/n3MKIfXKotg?t...

TOS wasn't pro-hippie in that it recognized the importance of duty and responsibility and the complexities of life, but it was pro-equality, pro-egalitarian, anti-discriminatory.

And ST:TNG could be, um... like this
https://youtu.be/9JqPJBZTsXM?t...

Oh, myyyy.

No the wire vaporizes and provide a conductive Ion trail to the grounded equipment in the house, if a 110 kV power line short circuit does this, imagine what a million volt lightening strike might do.

"The recent approval of CISA .. by the US Congress and Senate is paving the way for yet more surveillance of the civilian population under the pretext of national security."

Correct.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

I did this and more using retroarch more than 9 months ago! And I got the YouTube video to prove it https://youtu.be/DSjo3uV6Dxs

Belongs here https://youtu.be/5ixRWvrkUHo

my second favorite "Taxi" scene https://youtu.be/K_bEXeTwrC8
My first being "What does a yellow light mean?" https://youtu.be/1HvmtbZzA40

my second favorite "Taxi" scene https://youtu.be/K_bEXeTwrC8
My first being "What does a yellow light mean?" https://youtu.be/1HvmtbZzA40

That's why we need to forget about basing our time on the motion of the Earth around the Sun and switch to Coordinated Pulsar Time.

Too complicated.

I'm living on Tulsa Time