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Can you give an example of NLP working as well as Google or Siri in the 1980s? I'd be especially interesting if you could show me a 1980s computer doing something like this demo:

https://youtu.be/M1ONXea0mXg

Tom Lehrer on the subject of sociology as a science: https://youtu.be/gfZWyUXn3So?t...

I thought this sounded promising. If you feel like you're on fire, it is a strong incentive to stop/drop/roll. https://youtu.be/dmuyLIrSjxI

We just need to get this into a handheld size.

... they fear us, that's why they are trying to lock down everything. They are trying to strip us of our rights and control us, via the payment and information channels we engage each other with because they are at their weakest.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others 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://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=10

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

Science on reasoning:

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

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

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

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

... they fear us, that's why they are trying to lock down everything. They are trying to strip us of our rights and control us, via the payment and information channels we engage each other with because they are at their weakest.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others 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://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=10

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

Science on reasoning:

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

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

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

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

I still get laughs over this self-righteous Prius owner ragging on a truck driver.

Sensitive Joss Whedon.

You should watch this: https://youtu.be/pUVhF3jDG08

If you can hold back your instinctive ad-hominem, reserve your judgement until the end and try let let go of your SJW permanently offended attitude it's actually quite insightful and enlightening.

It's not about you. Because you don't experience it or care doesn't mean it can be ignored or dismissed. If I didn't have karma to burn or cared about the inevitable -1 troll mods I'll get for merely arguing that women's experiences might not all be lies, this whole discussion would just be a bunch of SJW bros getting offended and feeling oppressed because someone dared to criticise a decision made by a guy. Basically everything you accuse women of, you are guilty of yourself.

" Now I completely understand. Globalization is more and more just bullying on a national scale."

Not quite... This is a project of empire.

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465027261

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2NVX3KKHJONPW/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0465027261&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books

Speech by former National security Advisor of the US about Global domination of the atlantic powers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usbR_kKCDs&feature=youtu.be&t=406

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They also are using it to try to lockdown the internet because they fear us politically waking up...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others 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://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

Science on reasoning:

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

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Must be a common core student, eh?

There is a vast difference between overfitting engine management algorithms to limited-scope tests and coding in hard switches to game tests.

The real kicker was using the wheel speed sensors for the switch. Only tray drifters love the environment, apparently.

Technically LDA or STA produces 1-bit sound. Interestingly enough 22 years later Sony copied the same idea with their Super Audio CD -- 1 bit @ 2.8224 MHz

And while 1-bit audio was all the Apple had one _could_ playback digitized speech as Castle Wolfenstien and Sea Dragon proved.

i.e.

• ACHTUNG
• HALT
• EEYAGH
• YIEEE
• CHWEINHUND
• SS
• PHOLGE
• KAMERAD
• WASISTLOS
• FEUER
• DAPUT
• UFWIEDERSEN

Along with the famous "You're caught"

See this CW disassembly thread for more details.

It was predicted!!!

https://youtu.be/ZAZhtT-dUyo

>and you were getting music out of the internal speaker usually known for just going "beep", then you've got something impressive.

Nah, just need to dedicate CPU cycles to the task.

  we had digitized speech (SeaDragon) on the Apple ][ and music (Goonies), even classical. (Not linking to the obvious Castle Wolfenstein)

At 1 MHz you can get fake 2-voice music. (Karateka)

1-bit sampling can produce anything (albeit at low quality) when you dedicate even 1 MHz to the process.

Similarly on the PC @ 4.77 Mhz, you can get fake mutl-voice music (8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE)

On the PC, since you had ~8 MHz you could get fake 3 voice music. (Sorry, can't find a demo)

8-bit DAC at 16MHz sounds SO much better.

So yeah, this is old news.

Still impressive for a calc. :-)

>and you were getting music out of the internal speaker usually known for just going "beep", then you've got something impressive.

Nah, just need to dedicate CPU cycles to the task.

  we had digitized speech (SeaDragon) on the Apple ][ and music (Goonies), even classical. (Not linking to the obvious Castle Wolfenstein)

At 1 MHz you can get fake 2-voice music. (Karateka)

1-bit sampling can produce anything (albeit at low quality) when you dedicate even 1 MHz to the process.

Similarly on the PC @ 4.77 Mhz, you can get fake mutl-voice music (8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE)

On the PC, since you had ~8 MHz you could get fake 3 voice music. (Sorry, can't find a demo)

8-bit DAC at 16MHz sounds SO much better.

So yeah, this is old news.

Still impressive for a calc. :-)

>and you were getting music out of the internal speaker usually known for just going "beep", then you've got something impressive.

Nah, just need to dedicate CPU cycles to the task.

  we had digitized speech (SeaDragon) on the Apple ][ and music (Goonies), even classical. (Not linking to the obvious Castle Wolfenstein)

At 1 MHz you can get fake 2-voice music. (Karateka)

1-bit sampling can produce anything (albeit at low quality) when you dedicate even 1 MHz to the process.

Similarly on the PC @ 4.77 Mhz, you can get fake mutl-voice music (8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE)

On the PC, since you had ~8 MHz you could get fake 3 voice music. (Sorry, can't find a demo)

8-bit DAC at 16MHz sounds SO much better.

So yeah, this is old news.

Still impressive for a calc. :-)

Ok. So the oceanian slashdotters here in their majority believe the following:

- Renewable energy, despite the fact that solar and wind plants became more and more effective since the 80s (when being "green" became popular over voters from the far left to the far right) and batteries and other means of energy storage became more and more effecient, is doomed from the get go. You are shure of that.
- Germany will not be able to turn it's energy production around. It is doomed!

You know what? We have a lot of denates here on how (!) to change energy production from fossils and nuclear power to renewable energy. We are quite confident it can be done. It won't be cheap, there will be heated debates. But the goal in itself is not really challenged. We want our hippie energy, period. If a nuclear power plant blows up in the highly populated Germany, the results to us are not acceptable.

We will see in 20 years time who was right. But might I suggest that I am quite shure there will be a way.

It will be more expensive than neccessary, because there will be compensations for the nuckear and fossil power plants that are going out of business (lobbying) and the needed additional energy lines buried into the ground because of local governments being egocentric assholes.

There will be debate. But the goal that we want nuclear power plants to go out of business and renewables to be the main energy source is mostly undisputed because - gasp - there was a grass root movement starting in the 80s that was so popular that every party here has to be environmental friendly to some extend (the conservatives struggling to keep up, but if politicians actally start to lose poltical power they tend to get the message eventually).

And 20 years from now we might meet again at whatever slashdot has become and maybe we will concede it was such a bad idea and that we suddenly suck at engeneering and organising and that the oceanean slashdotters were right from the get go. But maybe... not. Maybe we will look back at the struggles and agree it was worth it.

I know that american people have a problem with health insurance, working public transport and a infrastructure that is not rotten from the core because that is socialism. But despite the permanent lobbying from neo liberals the basic fact remains that the constitution states we are a social and federal state and that most people here would not touch your unsolidaric society and wasteful lifestyle with a ten foot pole.

I know it's not accurate, but this preety much sums up how we see the USA http://youtu.be/VMqcLUqYqrs . Unfair, I know. But then again - I am not so super punctual and I never wear lederhosen, so go figure.

Call me when it can do the Hallelujah Chorus

my post was borked. https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?t...

Way to completely (deliberately, of course) miss the point. You're (deliberately) confusing tactics and specific weapon use blah blah blah

Reality has a well known anti right-wing, anti-neocon, anti butthurt-American-Exceptionalist butthurt bias.

Oh, please. The Taliban had brutally taken over Afghanistan

After Reagan had given them money, arms and training to provoke the Soviets into an invasion. Not only was it a feature, not a bug, that they were violent fundies, it was the whole damn point.

and was harboring the group that had just killed thousands of Americans ... and refused to turn them over.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong! Taliban offered to expell Osama bin Laddin if Bush had bothered to provide evidence that Osama was guilty. Bush didn't bother, because he wanted his illegal war.

And, Iraq? The UN authorized the use of force because

The UN didn't authorize force against Afghanistan, much less Iraq. This little alternative universe you guys live really is complete with it's own alternate history, isn't it?

among other things, Saddam never even TRIED to honor the agreements he made

You mean with his non-existent WMD's and non-existent yellow cake? Besides, if you're going to wave around the boogyman of Saddam, years after his death, you're going to have to do it to the people who put him in power in the first place. The people who put him in power in the first place and gave him weapons and intel to use in the Iran-Iraq war, which he started. The intel that allowed Saddam to use those gas warheads that caused much bedwetting amongst American Exceptionalists.

The Sea Aye Fucking Eh. Sensing a pattern yet? America creates a force to fight someone they don't like, only to become the new someone they don't like a few years later, someone who needs a good bombing. First it was the Taliban, then it was Saddam, now it's ISIS - who are still "freedum fighters", as long as they're fighting Assad and not Chevron.

the illegal war against Libya

You're deliberately pretending you can't tell the difference between "illegal" and "done poorly by an administration that doesn't know how to do such things."

No, as in fucking illegal, you incompetent boob. Constitution, heard of it? Declaring war is the exclusive purview of Congress, not the President. No, you can't weasel out of this with the War Powers Act or NATO treaties, as Libya was no threat to the U.S. or any NATO member, and the war went long past the time limit set by the WPA. If you were dropped on the head as a child, repeatedly, and need a picture drawn for you as to why the president is not free to take the country to war without consulting the legislative branch:

Imagine that Obama decides to resolve his spat with Putin by ordering the Russian President's plane be shot down on its way back from the recent summit. This naturally leads to reprisals, and nuclear war, and most Americans ending up fucking dead from the ICBM strikes or the nuclear fallout. Should one person be able to make that call, and one person alone - or should the representative branch have a say?

the bombing of even more countries that have never been a threat to us

Ah, the ol' hand-waving vagueness tactic. Again, how do you think this helping you to sound credible?

Are you naturally a complete idiot, or does this take practice? The United States has bombed Yemen, Syria and Libya, among other countries. What threat have the people of Yemen, Syria, or Libya posed to the United States? Hint: the answer is "None".

Maybe MK-Ultra brought into the digital age?

drrobertduncan.com

obamasweapon.com

Modern day mkultra is already here. They never shut any of it down, it was all a shell game according to cia operative mark phillips.

Whistleblowers exist. The modern methods use acoustic waves and electromagnetic waves to target humans. They use interferometry to scan you even through the walls of your home, and send in signals to your body and nervous system or environment. Its holographic, 3D, used for surveillance and torture. It works because the radiowaves broadcast into your atoms, your homes atoms, and resonate atoms and atoms broadcast radiowaves back to space based sensors. They can cause your atoms to broadcast signals to override your brain function, nervous systm function, implant memories, ideas, images, sound, thoughts. Interferometry can also map out whole brain electrical activity by measuting the emitted radiowaves, and radiowaves from interferometers can heterodyne into brainwaves. They can also vibrate yoir molecules to create soundwaves only you can hear. Or create a hologram in the air, by vibrating air molecules, or causing air molecules to broadcast lightwaves (holograms can be sound or light based, or even invisible made of non visible frequencies). They call it electronic warfare. Its deployed globally today in space, and over the horizon radar systems. Read the site especially Dr. Robert Duncan's, who is a grad from Harvard who worked on this technology for the CIA/DOD/US DOJ, etc for more details. Fully vetted by psychiatrists and insiders from the NSA/CIA/DOD/US DOJ/USIS. Patents available on the site for analysis.

Here is a video clip my friend made, "What about mk-ultra" .. https://youtu.be/qXHzBtwRCcU

Just like the old days of mkultra no one is ever prosecuted and the victims are hurt, with no follow up, no consent required, unwittingly, against their will, no way to get help or shut it down, etc bull crap.

There were just a huge group of modern day victims protesting at the White House October 3rd 2015. Two video clips, it was Live Streamed by Pete Santilli radio show: https://youtu.be/M0ii7UWrDG4 https://youtu.be/h02Nh4tlg7s

Maybe MK-Ultra brought into the digital age?

drrobertduncan.com

obamasweapon.com

Modern day mkultra is already here. They never shut any of it down, it was all a shell game according to cia operative mark phillips.

Whistleblowers exist. The modern methods use acoustic waves and electromagnetic waves to target humans. They use interferometry to scan you even through the walls of your home, and send in signals to your body and nervous system or environment. Its holographic, 3D, used for surveillance and torture. It works because the radiowaves broadcast into your atoms, your homes atoms, and resonate atoms and atoms broadcast radiowaves back to space based sensors. They can cause your atoms to broadcast signals to override your brain function, nervous systm function, implant memories, ideas, images, sound, thoughts. Interferometry can also map out whole brain electrical activity by measuting the emitted radiowaves, and radiowaves from interferometers can heterodyne into brainwaves. They can also vibrate yoir molecules to create soundwaves only you can hear. Or create a hologram in the air, by vibrating air molecules, or causing air molecules to broadcast lightwaves (holograms can be sound or light based, or even invisible made of non visible frequencies). They call it electronic warfare. Its deployed globally today in space, and over the horizon radar systems. Read the site especially Dr. Robert Duncan's, who is a grad from Harvard who worked on this technology for the CIA/DOD/US DOJ, etc for more details. Fully vetted by psychiatrists and insiders from the NSA/CIA/DOD/US DOJ/USIS. Patents available on the site for analysis.

Here is a video clip my friend made, "What about mk-ultra" .. https://youtu.be/qXHzBtwRCcU

Just like the old days of mkultra no one is ever prosecuted and the victims are hurt, with no follow up, no consent required, unwittingly, against their will, no way to get help or shut it down, etc bull crap.

There were just a huge group of modern day victims protesting at the White House October 3rd 2015. Two video clips, it was Live Streamed by Pete Santilli radio show: https://youtu.be/M0ii7UWrDG4 https://youtu.be/h02Nh4tlg7s

Maybe MK-Ultra brought into the digital age?

drrobertduncan.com

obamasweapon.com

Modern day mkultra is already here. They never shut any of it down, it was all a shell game according to cia operative mark phillips.

Whistleblowers exist. The modern methods use acoustic waves and electromagnetic waves to target humans. They use interferometry to scan you even through the walls of your home, and send in signals to your body and nervous system or environment. Its holographic, 3D, used for surveillance and torture. It works because the radiowaves broadcast into your atoms, your homes atoms, and resonate atoms and atoms broadcast radiowaves back to space based sensors. They can cause your atoms to broadcast signals to override your brain function, nervous systm function, implant memories, ideas, images, sound, thoughts. Interferometry can also map out whole brain electrical activity by measuting the emitted radiowaves, and radiowaves from interferometers can heterodyne into brainwaves. They can also vibrate yoir molecules to create soundwaves only you can hear. Or create a hologram in the air, by vibrating air molecules, or causing air molecules to broadcast lightwaves (holograms can be sound or light based, or even invisible made of non visible frequencies). They call it electronic warfare. Its deployed globally today in space, and over the horizon radar systems. Read the site especially Dr. Robert Duncan's, who is a grad from Harvard who worked on this technology for the CIA/DOD/US DOJ, etc for more details. Fully vetted by psychiatrists and insiders from the NSA/CIA/DOD/US DOJ/USIS. Patents available on the site for analysis.

Here is a video clip my friend made, "What about mk-ultra" .. https://youtu.be/qXHzBtwRCcU

Just like the old days of mkultra no one is ever prosecuted and the victims are hurt, with no follow up, no consent required, unwittingly, against their will, no way to get help or shut it down, etc bull crap.

There were just a huge group of modern day victims protesting at the White House October 3rd 2015. Two video clips, it was Live Streamed by Pete Santilli radio show: https://youtu.be/M0ii7UWrDG4 https://youtu.be/h02Nh4tlg7s

Regardless of duty cycling, and/or other forms of "mitigation" I fail to see how occupying the same frequencies as our Wi-Fi routers can do anything other than steal capacity.

You are right - occupying the same frequency as an incumbent Wi-Fi router would reduce its throughput. No one is saying otherwise. But that would be true if you were adding another Wi-Fi access point, or any other radiator on the same frequency. The question becomes: for those operators that want to use unlicensed spectrum to increase the capacity of their networks, should they use Wi-Fi, or should they use LTE-U? Does LTE-U have any more of an impact on incumbent Wi-Fi than adding Wi-Fi instead?

The answer is: it has no more of an impact than adding another Wi-Fi access point. And in fact, because there is no mandated guidelines in the 802.11 spec for fair sharing of airtime between Wi-Fi access points, some are more aggressive than others. So the irony, and it has been shown in test after test, is that LTE-U's CSAT algorithm is more equitable than some Wi-Fi access points in the market today. So it is a better neighbor to Wi-Fi than some aggressive Wi-Fi access points. Case in point is this demo video of LTE-U in action: https://youtu.be/EalEd7fu_K0?t=20s

Further it is reported that LTE-U is more aggressive than Wi-Fi at grabbing open air time--shorter backoff period--meaning that where there is contention, it won't even play fair.

This is simply false. LTE-U is very deterministic about how much air time it grabs. First, an LTE-U small cell will scan to find unoccupied channels. If one is found, it'll use it. If no free channels are available, it'll pick the least occupied channel. It does that by listening for Wi-Fi beacons and other radiators on that channel. It'll keep listening to determine how many other Wi-Fi APs are already on that channel. Then it'll only take its proportion of the air time. This is akin to two people in a debate. It would be fair to give each side 50% of the time to speak their viewpoint. That's the approach that LTE-U takes.

You can check out the formula for calculating the air time on page 10 here: http://goo.gl/ZyYvQ4

In locations with already high-contention--like apartments, this sounds like a very unpalatable cocktail, enough to make Wi-Fi so slow as to be unusable. What are we missing?

What you're missing is that this is not targeted at apartment buildings or private homes. This is a technology that'll be surgically inserted into high congestion areas - airports, parks, malls, etc. - to add capacity where it's needed most. Because it operates in the 5GHz band with limited power output (because it abides by regulations for unlicensed spectrum), its range is similar to Wi-Fi. That is, if the mall across the street from your apartment has this deployed, the signal wouldn't be able to make it across the street to cause any issues with your own, or your neighbor's, Wi-Fi.

"really our biggest enemy is acceptance and cynicism. "

Indeed, they are at their weakest by their own words.

Here's a bit of inspiration, from former national security advisor of the United states Zbigniew Brzezinski

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=404

"or are we all just going to sit around whining about government, full stop, no further thought on the topic"

Here's a bit of inspiration, from former national security advisor of the United states Zbigniew Brzezinski

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=404

An excellent talk by Andy about his start at writing, his job as a coder, and how the book and movie came to be. Very entertaining viewing. Super down-to-earth guy (heh...)

Thunderf00t, the guy who starts his videos not with a reasoned argument or a conclusion to which he intends to build towards, but with some memes and ad-hominem attacks. The bloke who manages to take 0.1% of her videos out of context and build a profitably industry around it. That guy?

https://youtu.be/8N-tkrxAEWw

By the way, she never said what you claim she did. If I'm wrong you will provide a reliable source, I'm sure.

Bullshit.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH...

http://www.today.com/food/your...

http://www.allaboutwater.org/t...

https://youtu.be/saSgpX186MM

In many cases, bottled water is coming from a municipal water source. It's treated and filtered the same way all municipal water is. About the only thing that happens is that the companies sometimes re-introduce minerals to enhance the flavor.

Bullshit on your bullshit.

It is completely intellectually dishonest to the point of a LIE to assert that water delivered via a sterile, new, plastic container is the equivalent of what runs through the often old, sometimes lead, sometimes infused with bacteria and sediments stuff tossed through underground lines prone to breakage and then on premise, subject to the neglectful landlord's, and cheap ass developer's habits.

You never had the fire department flush their lines and all of a sudden your water is brown for a day? Try shaking a bottle of bottled water, if it becomes brown afterward I'll concede the piped in water is the same as the bottled stuff.

Water from the tap may be "as safe" but it is NOT "as good" most of the time. How come I can go to my neighbor's apartment and the water tastes different? How come the water at the office tastes like there's a goddamn garden hose in the loop somewhere? (Probably because there IS somewhere. ick.)

The water delivery to the tap is completely different, and it's different in a way that's old, broke down, and full of flaws to the point that many consumers routinely filter it to make it semi-palatable again.

That's not "about the only thing that happens". Lie, lie, and then LIE again.

Maybe if you had bottled water, you'd drink it instead of coke and other nasty things.
Despite popular belief, tap water, even with a Britta, is nothing like bottled water which is actually nice to drink.

Bullshit.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH...

http://www.today.com/food/your...

http://www.allaboutwater.org/t...

https://youtu.be/saSgpX186MM

In many cases, bottled water is coming from a municipal water source. It's treated and filtered the same way all municipal water is. About the only thing that happens is that the companies sometimes re-introduce minerals to enhance the flavor.

You mean this bit?

https://youtu.be/8nyUnWW5Hh0?t=1m25s

Hard to focus on what she's saying with those cock-smoking lips of hers. Wowza!

JOHN FUND: You, at Lucent, and at Hewlett Packard, began at the dawn of the internet era, seeing the possibilities of what that would bring. And here we are, 20 odd years after the World Wide Web, and we've created a marvelous industry, marvelous possibilities. The Obama administration has decided, this can't be left to its own devices, we need Net Neutrality. And even though Congress doesn't want it, and people in both parties in Congress don't want it, and the courts have blocked them consistently, they're moving forward of course with what they call executive action, which I call the divine right of kings. Uh, what do you think about Net Neutrality, and how should we fight it if we should?

CARLY: Well we should- it's ridiculous. We now have an FCC, deciding on a 3-2 vote, that the Internet will be regulated with 400 pages of legislation. Terrible idea. Terrible idea. Of course, the dirty little secret of that regulation, which is the same dirty little secret of Obamacare or Dodd-Frank or all of these other huge complicated pieces of regulation or legislation, is that they don't get written on their own, they get written in part by lobbyists for big companies who want to understand that the rules are going to work for them. And this is part of what people see. Look, crony capitalism is alive and well. Elizabeth Warren, of course, is wrong about what to do about it. She claims that the way to <airquotes>solve</airquotes> crony capitalism is more complexity, more regulation, more legislation. Worse tax codes. And of course the more complicated government gets- and it's really complicated now- the less the small and the powerless can deal with it. And so the big get bigger, the powerful get more powerful, the wealthy and the well-connected get more wealthy and more well-connected. I mean, that's a fact. It's what's happening. And it's partially why people feel so disconnected. So, the dirty little secret of those 400 pages of legislation in Net Neutrality was, who was in the middle of arguing for net neutrality? Verizon, Comcast, Google, I mean, all these companies were playing. They weren't saying "we don't need this," they were saying "we need it." And so, the only way to level the playing field, so that the small, the new, the entrepreneurial, the powerless, have a shot, is to reduce all this complexity. And meanwhile, while, you know, the big are getting bigger, we're crushing the small. So we're now for the first time in history, we are destroying more businesses than we are creating. We are destroying more businesses than we are creating- it's a terrible statistic. And it means that we're never going to get this economy growing and growing again, yes I had the great privilege of playing uh, important roles in Lucent and Hewlett Packard, but like most people I started out at a little company. I started out as a secretary in a nine-person real estate firm. My husband started out driving a tow truck for a family-owned auto body shop. Most Americans start in little humble businesses, which create 2/3 of the new jobs and employ half the people. So when we're crushing those little businesses, as we are every time we roll out a new, complicated piece of legislation or regulation, we're crushing the possibilities of this economy.

JOHN FUND: I grew up in Northern California, and part of the ethos was, reading about Hewlett and Packard starting their business in a garage.

CARLY: A garage. Two guys in a garage. By the way, Google started out that way too, in a dorm room. But they seem to have forgotten that. [audience laughs]

JOHN FUND: Well, uh, they have new friends in Washington.

CARLY: Yes, they do. Yes they do.

The transcript doesn't do it justice at all- her tics and mannerisms while shoveling this horseshit will make you want to smack her upside the head. Carly is a clueless liar- but I have to admit, I can never tell exactly when she's lying and when she's just being clueless.

The US did that once, bomb was about 70 feet underwater, which is nothing for a nuke. It created so much fallout they never did it again.

"Fake capitalism"

I don't think you know much about capitalism's real history in the US.

Book - War is a racket

"The following quotations from the book are intended to summarize it:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home."

Science on reasoning:

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

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

When you allow corporations to own all the media, you get only distorted information.

https://youtu.be/d8D67YiLcOM?t=17

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

The realnews

http://therealnews.com/t2/

I sure as shit don't care what you do in your bedroom (with consenting individuals).

Whew, I was worried there for a moment. ;)

Seriously though, this was all I needed to know about Ron Paul:

Ron Paul gets the answer wrong.

(The question was, "If a 5-year old child of illegal immigrants shows up at an emergency room, does he get medical care?")

Considering they use Lightscribe on optical media to manufacture it, I'm already looking forwards to some epic DVD-in-microwave videos to come out of this

https://youtu.be/Fgm0FRN0KbU

These thing in action are amazing!

Reality: you can be fascinated by the technology, but realize that nuclear power is the most expensive technology ever invented by man.

Of course if plants burning fossil fuels (Coal, Gaz, etc.) don't need to be held accountable for the countless respiratory disease that they cause by pumping out tons of pollution in the atmosphere.
(and that's just the direct effect of putting shit into people's lung by polluting the air. I'm not even starting on the impact on global warming/climate change).

much less storing the waste for hundreds of years.

yup, let's panic about a couple of tons of radioactive waste.
it's so much better instead to rely on a method that constantly dumps countless tons of shit, diluted into the atmosphere (hey, no single waste storage place to be bickering about !) and eventually stored into the lungs of the general population.

Nuclear power == corporate pork and fluffing Tom Swift fanboys.

Coal/Gaz/etc. power == using general population's lungs as sewer system.

Yup. Nuclear energy isn't perfect. Indeed it does have its problems. I agree we could do better (hydroelectric, solar, wind, etc.).
But compared to what is currently used in lots of place, nuclear is *definitely less worse*.

You always need to thing about *what other technologie* one specific energy is competing.
What is the alternative.

As much as you would like the alternative to be wind farms, and solar panels, the reality is that the alternative against which nuclear power is competing is mainly burning fossil fuel and filling the atmosphere with its waste. On a scale that is order of magnitude more polluting and problematic than nuclear for a given amount of output energy.

Doesn't work... Ironically even if u do believe in raising from the dead, more people die at these crusades because of the crowds than supposedly raise from the dead... Evangelism in Nigeria - Reinhard Bonnke https://youtu.be/MBtBHZtdU78

That being said, ALL energy sources have downsides and risks. Nuclear power risk/harm is not necessarily greater than the alternatives.

How is it not greater? Dr. Evil could use his Alan Parson's Project to blow up every dam on the planet, and while the loss of live would be tragic, it wouldn't still be effecting the Earth hundreds of years from now. As opposed to a nuclear meltdown, or an earthquake rupturing a waste containment center.

Depends on whether you're looking at the short-run or the long-run. Agree with parent that, in the short run, extreme punishment destroys value. But any punishment has a deterrent effect in the future: when John Q CEO evaluates the gains from cheating against the expected punishment, the larger that punishment, the lower the likelihood that cheating occurs. How you evaluate the long- vs. short-run implications of punishment is tricky, but if one cares at all about the long-run, one would probably want to increase the punishment over what constitutes reasonable reparations.

That sounds very logical, but the real world doesn't appear to work that way.

Enron's CEO was going to prison, was he not? Yet less than 10 years later, we had Goldman Saks doing the same thing, give or take.

John Q CEO doesn't care if VW gets a huge fine in 5 years, or even goes bankrupt, if he gets $100 million today and gets to keep it.

The other issue is that making the punishment larger only does one thing, makes the punishment larger. Certainty of getting caught is the bigger issue. You can make the penalty as large as you want, but if people don't think they will be caught, then it doesn't matter.

https://youtu.be/pDVmldTurqk

I'd like to share that YouTube video with you, about Mandatory Minimums. The TL;DR version is, our prisons are filled with people serving decades long sentences who didn't think they would get caught.

To quote one line in the video, you could make jaywalking carry the death penalty, it isn't going to stop it if people don't think they'll be caught for it.

France TV did a program about it few months ago, they tested random cars and NONE passed limits when tested properly.

https://youtu.be/5JFprj6v37Q

> Game programmers often use C++ (for various reasons).

Performance is the #1 of reason, but yeah, C++ gets the right balance of power, compactness, performance, and multi-paradigm design which builds upon C's foundation.

> What do you typically use to write programs?

Just because I'm vocal, and passionate, doesn't mean I toss the baby out with the bath water.

I would be stupid to ignore the wisdom of Bjarne Stroustrup:

There are only two kinds of languages:

* the ones people complain about and
* the ones nobody uses.

To answer your question:

Pragmatic C++. (With some Javascript, since WebGL is my (current) day job)

Which is the balance of the middle ground between basic C and the modern over-engineered clusterfuck of C++. Why do you think there was an "Embedded C++" movement years ago which removed all the Templates, Exception Handling, and RTTI junk? Gee, look, Ubisoft C++ usage does the exact same thing.

To clarify, I use _only_ templates when it makes sense. Most of the time it doesn't. I use #define macro's where it makes sense. Most of the time it doesn't. I don't use Boost because it is over engineered 99% of the time. I uses classes where it makes sense. I use 3rd party libraries only when necessary. I use design patterns only when the model fits - instead of trying to shoehorn the code+data into a broken model.

I've shipped enough games where a full build was 45+ minutes. This is insanity.

Minimal C++ is the mantra. Use the expressive complexity and power of the language when it matters. Most of the time it doesn't.

I just want the insanity of C++ to stop and address the common core issues instead of adding yet-another-flavor-of-the-month concept. Retarded ideas like 2D Graphics Rendering API proposal is the epitome of everything wrong with the committee. Completely out-of-touch with reality and solutions in search of a problem.

When you _even_ have a C++ committee member admitting he writes in a sub-set of C++ himself you know the language has gotten too big. /Oblg. Murphy Computer Law: Inside every large programming language is a smaller one struggling to get out.

*ALL* programming languages suck. Most suck even more.

Want to know someone else who hates C++? Andrei Alexandrescu. *Every* C++ programmer should read until they grok Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied Guess where he works on now? D (All Things D (programming language) - A Conversation with Andrei Alexandrescu.)

When you even have Scott Meyers at a D Conference (DConf 2014: The Last Thing D Needs (Scott Meyers), you know the language has potential. D has its own problems but I would keep my eye on it. :-)

As bad as C++ is, for my needs it is better then the alternatives.

https://youtu.be/wlMwc1c0HRQ

Year after year, the infamous "Science: It's a Girl Thing!" ad looks more and more politically correct. They were misunderstood visionary geniuses :)

FWIW, a quick Google shows they have classes in Spanish, French, Chinese, and Sign Language.

I found a video used in the French class:

https://youtu.be/JEdBndu0YUM

You think a product the government invents out of nothing that the government forces you to buy through a market the government forces you to use at prices the government sets... is a free market?

You mean....like health care reform based around a mandate to buy for-profit insurance, which was the cornerstone of right wing health care plans for 25 years until y'all lost your shit the second it was proposed by a Democrat?

You're a moron. No really. You're actually stupid. Kill yourself.

Awww, did wiidle baby wingnut have his mind blown by an epiphany? You're as much of a brain dead partisan troll as an Obamabot. The centrist way would be to phase out coal over ten years while building nuclear. The leftist way would be to take a cool trillion dollars out of the annual imperial budget, and spend it on wind, solar and mass transit. Which, by the way, would only lead to the greatest economic boom this country has ever seen due to the number of jobs created.

Carbon trading is a conservative, capitalist "solution" to climate change, and that's just a fact you're going to have fucking deal with.

People aren't against anti corruption measures. People isn't what we're talking about here.

We're talking about politicians, special interests, and backroom dealers.

So YOUR question corrected so it actually applies to my point is "why would politicians, special interests, and backroom dealers be against anti corruption measures?"

https://youtu.be/kh9PYtmVybU?t...

The answer is obvious to those capable of spotting the obvious. There is huge money involved in this AGW stuff. Huge government grants to build, to research, to promote, etc. Hundreds of billions of dollars globally. The big corporations LOVE AGW because they haven't had an easier time getting government money since WW2. They get cherry contracts for everything on this topic. Its nothing new.

Normal human beings can get clean with a 5 minute low flow shower. What is your problem that you need a half an hour?

I will give you my finest hour
The one I spent watching you shower

"Picture This", Blondie.
https://youtu.be/QbdCpi4qTNY

This was actually hilariously used in court in the Apple vs Samsung case.

When the iPod was first invented. Long before there was any apple phones, the only new device was their mp3 player to compete with Sandisk

MadTV made fun of the iPod ccommercial, and invented the name iPad many many years before apple created the iPad.

https://youtu.be/lsjU0K8QPhs

Tulips?! No one wants tulips. Now, lupins on the other hand..