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Thanks for those clarifications, it makes much more sense now
Some video footage of the whole mess for people needing some more clarifications about the subtleties of this trial

whaaa..whaaaaa I don't like heat whaaa.

http://youtu.be/vN2WzQzxuoA

Bob Murphy does a good job in this video explaining how the market would work better than the price controls the AG is enforcing.

Your parent was clearly in a hurry
(S)He meant ROFLYSST

I wish there was a .gif file of that guy in the commercial that makes a "fireworks" gesture when mentioning that the new iPhone has a headphone jack on the bottom.

I also wish I could post it here.

In lieu of this, I will just post a Youtube link pointing to that: http://youtu.be/QR8A3T6sPzU?t=7s

the eerie looking eye socket which resembles the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings movies

Nowhere in the article did they say that. In fact, if you watch this Slate video there's not much physically related between the extrapolated skeleton and the film adaptation of the Eye of Sauron -- however they did name the dinosaur after that deity/character. The reason they named it after Sauron is that all we know of this predator now is its eye (really just a piece of the socket) and the idea of a large predator being known only for its eye reminded the archeologists of Sauron in the Lord of the Rings.

I think the submitter was confused by the hyperlink in the article that was designed to generate more page clicks for NatGeo:

"The idea of a predator that is physically known only as its fierce eye reminded me of Sauron, in particular as depicted in Peter Jackson's movies," Cau explained. (See a picture of an alien planet that resembles the Eye of Sauron.)

(emphasis mine)

Video: http://youtu.be/QdpGd74DrBM

shows electronic voting machines are rigged and broke

This product doesn't quite add up.
I've watched the video of their presentation at DEMO and the concept is basically a 4U box containing 120 hard drives and has three fans on the front. They claim it takes 45% less power, 66% less space and 38% less heat output.

I can see that requiring less power for cooling would reduce the overall power consumption, but can't see how pumping the same heat out of three fans would achieve that. They also don't say how these drives are interfaced. Presumably there is some kind of controller in the box since there aren't 120 SAS connections coming out of it, but somewhere you have to have a server in charge of those disks and a connection with enough bandwidth to run them all. And then we need to know if there is any RAID intelligence in the boxes or if the server gets them as JBOD.

There should never be a profit motive to keep people in prison. That conflict of interest is completely unconscionable.

And yet there is a well documented "profit" motive for government run prisons. http://youtu.be/Zq7heLS2ydQ. Isn't that a pickle?

First American carrier to use an american-built plane made mostly of composite materials.

Don't get me wrong, Carbon Fiber is absurdly strong, and computer models help negate design flaws.... but CF's failure mode tends to be sudden and...explosive. Steel bends long before it breaks, and Aluminum is somewhere in the middle, but CF just.... goes when it fails. I think Airbus has been including CF on their tail fins for a while (with some failures) and the technology is supposedly mature... but it's hard to ignore Aluminum's nearly 100 year reputation. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Well, they do test these things, with built prototypes, not just computer models. For every plane Boeing builds, they do a wing break test where they bend the wings until they break. The wings on the 787 could be bent more than the wings on any of their aluminum built frames.

787's wing break test and regular wing testing.

First American carrier to use an american-built plane made mostly of composite materials.

Don't get me wrong, Carbon Fiber is absurdly strong, and computer models help negate design flaws.... but CF's failure mode tends to be sudden and...explosive. Steel bends long before it breaks, and Aluminum is somewhere in the middle, but CF just.... goes when it fails. I think Airbus has been including CF on their tail fins for a while (with some failures) and the technology is supposedly mature... but it's hard to ignore Aluminum's nearly 100 year reputation. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Well, they do test these things, with built prototypes, not just computer models. For every plane Boeing builds, they do a wing break test where they bend the wings until they break. The wings on the 787 could be bent more than the wings on any of their aluminum built frames.

787's wing break test and regular wing testing.

One could also say the far left has also lost all touch with reality. Goes both ways.

Yes I believe the earth is getting warmer.
Yes I believe humans have help the earth get warmer.
No I don't believe the warming is all from humans. I personally believe it's a small part but we're helping nonetheless.
Yes the earth has had warmer spans in it's past history before humans. Ice cores from Greenland prove this.
No the far left won't acknowledge the earth was warmer in the past even though their dear scientist confirmed it.
No the far left won't include weather history before the year 1900.

We need oil and always will. We still don't have a good technology for long term eco friendly travel at an affordable price that doesn't rely on oil. Middle ground needs to be found in the meantime till we have that technology.

I, sadly, will not be voting for either. In my mind they are both exactly the same. They are after all politicians. They are both professionals at speaking out both sides of their mouths.

Not in a public place it isn't, no.

However, what *is* happening, is police officers are behaving badly, getting caught on film/tape/video/cellphones, and then *charging* the person with wiretapping.

A cop can charge you with sexually assaulting the pope with a glow-in-the-dark dildo, even though you were at home in bed, while the pope was on the other side of the planet at the time. Logic and legality do not apply to charges.

However, *IF* you have:

1. The money...
2. The time...
3. And a lawyer,

Then you can have the charges expunged. But if you don't have at least two of those three things, then even if the charges are dropped, you will now and forever more have aggravated sexual assault charges on your criminal record.

You might get lucky, and the case might go to a judge, who would take one look at it and wipe the charges off your record for free.

However, it's much more likely that you'll be charged with resisting arrest, assaulting an officer and a host of other, much more probable charges that aren't likely to be dropped, or even challenged.

Unless there's video, of course?

Try this: http://youtu.be/YxHcJTs2Sxk

"In the US, the police occasionally pile in the squad car with IR shit and drive around X-raying houses to see what's going on inside."

They'd better not, because the Supreme Court has pretty solidly ruled that this is unconstitutional.

Ex-Texas State Trooper Barry Cooper, and his team of "Kop Busters", caught some Odessa, TX police doing this very thing. They knew the police were illegally using infrared imagers. So they rented an apartment, put a bunch of small fir trees (little Christmas trees) in it, with grow lights... along with a whole bunch of surveillance cameras. Hardly a week passed when the door was broken down and the police rushed in. Only to find a note that said, "Police: Nothing illegal is going on here. Except for you." Or something very much like that.

Guess what? While the cops fought like hooked fish, not only did Cooper walk away from it all, the woman who was unjustly imprisoned (the reason they targeted Odessa) also ended up walking free.

did someone say flying car? http://youtu.be/IsFfBB2W7IA

Dashboard cammeras are fairly common in Russia from what I'm told and you see things like Lightning hits the SUV

This is why the Wii U is interesting. It marries classic controls with a tablet.

Worst of both worlds: bulky like a tablet, but not portable! There are controller add-ons for tablets and smartphones, and actual tablets with built-in game controllers; personally, I'm thinking of getting an Archos Gamepad.

In the "Babylon 5" tv show, Captain John Sheridan is ordered to apologize for firing on a ship that had attacked Babylon 5. You have to watch the series to understand the politics of what was going on. If you haven't seen it, it is not a typical apology.

Here is a clip of Sheridan practicing the apology he plans to give:

Sheridans_apology

Apple's apology reminds me of this one even if it is different.

The feature I was referring to was demo'd here, where the presenter forwards a window from one display to the other, ending up with the same window on two displays. This is local in the demo, but he says that it's transferring graphics data over the network and I have no reason to not believe him. This presentation is from last month, almost a year after the blog post you linked.

Also, X can move windows from screen to another without a problem. Most toolkits don't support it, but there has been extensions/patches around for a while.

I was not aware that this was a feature of X, but I would like to point out that this is not an *extension* of Wayland doing this, it's just a normal use of the Wayland protocol. It doesn't need special support in window managers or applications. This might also be true of X window forwarding, but you mentioned extensions/patches so it doesn't sound like it.

You know X may have some outdated APIs which are not used anymore, but it is actually a nice and extensible. Everthing Wayland can do could also be added to X as an extension (see Wayland FAQ). So giving up more than a decade of backwards compatibility for *less* features stupid.

You will still be able to run X programs with Wayland. It's just a matter of running an X server that speaks the Wayland protocol as well. That's not giving up backwards compatibility. In fact, the demo uses an X11 program (IIRC).

Just because it can be added to X doesn't mean that's the best solution. X badly needs a cleanup, there is a lot of dead weight there and using Xlib is a pain in the ass. That's a breaking change no matter how you look at it. Most of what X used to do has been pushed into other libraries that do it better (like freetype, cairo, opengl, and kernel mode setting), and it no longer makes sense for there to be a central proxy server sitting in the middle and managing it all. If you get rid of X entirely, the only thing missing is a little bit of glue for applications to talk to window managers, and the Wayland protocol provides that. It's a much simpler model that provides the same features.

Chuck "Walker" Norris himself will watch over this and will roundhouse-kick you until you learn to respect democracy!

He's just doing his part to prevent "1000 years of darkness".

My friend from the future sent me this exclusive footage from tonight's debate.

from the friendly people who pioneered educational drag and drop programming (AgentSheets) comes AgentCubes, the first 3D creativity tool integrating the creation and programming of 3D shapes with advanced end-user development tools.

Watch this movie and tell me if you think this could have been done with any other tool (in 3 minutes) http://youtu.be/jgiGoLYFA0A

Build one like my brother-in-law is doing. http://youtu.be/HXZTkXBw3TU

Hmm yes, good point. So I could try to do some basic physics and figure out the equivalent volume at ground level, but given my track record thus far, maybe I'll just get me coat.

Hah, I couldn't blame him. ;)

For anyone who missed the live stream, here is the video of the jump.

http://youtu.be/g4nJF9JFleI

Yeah, no kidding...going up higher than anyone has ever gone in a balloon, past the maximum height of any plane...and then opening this huge hatch in front of you to look outside into an environment with .03 PSI where you can actually see the curvature of the Earth a bit.

And THEN, to climb OUT THAT HOLE and stand on a step the size of a skateboard, holding onto two handrails...and then just jump. Absolutely incredible.

Hah, I couldn't blame him. ;) For anyone who missed the live stream, here is the video of the jump. http://youtu.be/g4nJF9JFleI

I don't know this "first post" book, but I have to agree with the Orwell recommendation. Both 1984 and Animal Farm should be read by everyone.

I also recommend this podcast of Christopher Hitchens discussing Orwell (oh, and Econtalk is nice overall too): http://youtu.be/QSNKP33ph_Q
I haven't had a chance to read Why Orwell Matters, though.

The project demo video for this...

Yeah, 10k that would SUCK! Of course the "people" that make up the backbone of this country have part-time jobs at office supply stores these days (because they no longer offer full time positions, benefits and scheduling flexibility, full-time staff have too much leverage) and make 8-12k TOTAL per year.

But, those people sell their vote for a cell phone subsidy. So, it would appear that everyone is selling their vote, it's just a question of how cheap the sluts are.

Apparently you've never met a Scientologist... there are so many religions that inspire an out loud WTF!!!??? Momonism (sounds like something that requires a person end up in institutional care...) Personally I like Dana Carvey's "Cult of the Golden Orb!".

Yup, everything looked good! Set to dock with ISS on Wednesday. For anyone that missed the launch, here is a video from T-minus 60 seconds through main engine cutoff. http://youtu.be/jAq-Ic5SzfY

After reading the warnings I tried to evaluate for myself American Third Position by visiting the link in the parent's signature: american3rdposition [dot] com

I was lost, the site does look amenable to white supremacist conservatives but there wasn't a clear statement of their position that didn't require investing much more time than I care to waste on this. What I did find is a youtube video http://youtu.be/CZ-4gnNz0vc let's give that a try...

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• 0:31 oh, so they are for big oil...

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• 0:45 environmental protection agencies are evil...

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• 1:04 global warming is a lie, how unexpected...

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• 1:30 free market raised to the level of god...

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• 1:40 rich people are getting prosecuted, think of the rich people!

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• 1:57 regulation is bad, small business with big ideas hur hur...

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• 2:00 Edison, Ford, Jobs getting thrown in for good measure...

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• 2:40 gubermint make everything ilegal! the basterds!

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• 2:46 wow the guy actually says "Believe in free market" not a religion at all...

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• 3:35 WTF is he talking about?

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• 4:05 more anti-environmental crap

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• 4:10 LOL he played the Europe is evil card!

These guys are joke, but the usual republican/conservative/clueless/greedy/catholic/mormon/prosperity gospel sheeple as always. I didn't spot that while supremacist thing they mention. Anthough this xenophobic lot does tend to lean that way.

There is more video information available here
It features an interview of a beekeeper, though not a french one but I soppose it doesn't matter this is just in order to get some expert's feedback

I couldn't help but think of this scene when I saw the headline:
http://youtu.be/gz1jcvjPUog

TSA servers the purpose, it was designed to serve, very well. If the TSA were to be put in-charge of nuclear material and made clear of its purpose, I am sure it will do well.

Say what? So you're telling me that they won't steal nuclear material and when caught try to blame it on the wife?

Dont forget you also need AC in the dead of winter. So if you DONT have a dedicated AC unit in the room, you will find it VERY hostile in the room when your shared cooling source goes from cool to heat, and instead of it removing heat from the room, it dumps more in. o_O

Also, dont skimp on a clean agent fire supression system. the last thing you want is a water based sprinkler system in the room flooding the equipment with water when a fire starts. If you have a fire and you have a water based system, the equipment is a total write-off. If its protected by a clean agent system, anything not touched by the fire/heat will be fine. so if you have a trashcan in the room and somebody accidentally puts a cigarette into it, the sprinkler system would destroy the equipment across the room even though it was nowhere near the flames. If a clean agent system fires, you can be in the room again within hours and the equipment is fine.

here is a cool example. Dated, but cool. This shows a real world demo of a fire in a data room and what happens when both types of suppression systems go off.
The fun starts at about the 30 second mark.
http://youtu.be/0WelmCXtsyI

Here's a English-language video from Vesa Linja-aho, the submitter and the main boss guy in this project: http://youtu.be/ThbUiky4AKA

This guy must have Comic Sans all over his dashboard then... and face: http://youtu.be/RcpSGB3odyU

Wow... You gotta loosen up those tinfoil hats every now and then and let some blood in, you'll end up turning your grey matter into cottage cheese. See we know that global climate change is happening because animal migrations are showing signs of shifting latitudes. So this is just about providing north-south corridors through low populated regions to aid those animals who would be endangered by climate change to move someplace more conducive, without ending up road kill. Comprendo? Harrison Ford is spearheading the program to provide north/south corridors throughout the Americas and preserve wild forest. I guess that makes him some kind of commie, eh?

As for taking land that is being farmed unsustainably, The U.S. is currently losing about 3 tons of topsoil, per acre, per year. That's faster than the loss during the 30s dust bowl era. I'm sure Wikipedia is just a commie plot, but the sources on the top soil are pretty good, and since there is plenty of corroboration from different sources, as an American, you should be concerned. This isn't a land grab. Its about protecting resources. Land that is being badly managed is going to be allowed to go fallow until it rebuilds is topsoil through the natural process of wild species intrusion. The did an experiment where they allowed a fenced in region to go wide surrounded by a sea of hungry cattle and sheep, the land went fallow and within weeks grasses and flowers thought to be extinct started showing up. The soil regained its vigor and organic content. New plants and bird species arrived. In short, the land regained its vitality and fecundity.

This isn't about some project to displace people. This isn't some U.N. clusterfsck. This is a simple process of preserving America's resources for future generation because this generation has no right to use the planet up for its own selfish whims. Its vital that we preserve biodiversity and our natural resources until we have mastered the technologies that will allow us to create the resources we all desire without any longer impacting the environment.

In the US we have our "Red Necks" which come in assorted flavors including "Shit Kickers", "Skin Heads", "Hill Billies" and "Hard Hats". We here actually have a bit of a warm spot for our Protohominid brethren, and though "Red Neck" is a pejorative, its usually said with a smile. For example there is the entire catalog of Red Neck jokes to be enjoyed by our country's favorite Red Neck Comedian, Jeff Foxworthy.

So I guess that makes us alike in one more way, we have our Bogans too.

I think every country has a word for them, Bogan in Australia, Redneck in the US, Chav in England. It's used in the same way.

My comment was mostly in jest though but there's an element of truth to it.

Also, not all Bogans are that bad. In fact I'd say most aren't.

A Greek standup comedian, in a (subtitled) video titled "The limits of religion" talks about the story:

http://youtu.be/Xaa9SWjik-g

In the US we have our "Red Necks" which come in assorted flavors including "Shit Kickers", "Skin Heads", "Hill Billies" and "Hard Hats". We here actually have a bit of a warm spot for our Protohominid brethren, and though "Red Neck" is a pejorative, its usually said with a smile. For example there is the entire catalog of Red Neck jokes to be enjoyed by our country's favorite Red Neck Comedian, Jeff Foxworthy.

Our bigotry has a long and illustrious history. It seems we had many episodes if racial discrimination in our past as well. The most commonly pointed to are obviously Black Slaves, and Slaughtered Native Americans, but even the Irish had their day. During the Potato Famine, the Irish fled to America by the Millions. They were not welcome when they got here. They were put to tasks that you wouldn't humanely put animals to. They were used to drain the swamps of New Orleans, which were infested with mosquitoes carrying malaria and yellow fever. They wouldn't use slaves to do this work because slaves were valuable live stock, whereas Irish men were considered gun fodder. Along the same lines Chinese were used to build be cross continental railroad, and thousand died along some of the more challenging sections, and then upon completion, we deported them back to China. As much as we dislike Irishmen, we despised brown people (and today we bomb them for fun and profit.)

So I guess that makes us alike in one more way, we have our Bogans too.

American citizen..in the mid east, sitting with war criminals. Funny how people leave that whole part out.

Even _ONE_ American Citizen deprived of their rights is too many. And the "one" he killed is the one we know about. Think we're getting 100% free info on this whole program? I don't.

Wrong. IT's not a stronger patriot act

It added no limitations on the warrantless wiretapping of citizens here and abroad. It's stronger.

and? His focus has been on criminals, while trying to get a program so the people brought here forcible can become citizens. Gosh, a rational approach.

It's funny, when the elephant does it... it's a crime against our American roots and spirit of openness. When a donkey does it, it's "a rational approach."

oh, you have no real facts, so an ad hom attack. yeah, a real moron comes from nothing, goes to law school and then gets to be the first black president.

http://youtu.be/T_AAMa_X2dM Sounds like George W. Bush with a different accent. Before you pull the "well those were little mistakes" or whatever, remember that Shrub (who I also thought was an idiot, and I wasn't the only one) did these same things and was lambasted as being a sub-par moron in a suit. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Funny, when you look at the facts and context you ain't got shit for an argument.

Funny indeed.

I didn't see any songs by Leonard Nimoy, how good could it be?

http://youtu.be/XC73PHdQX04

Thank you for a George Carlin moment...

Oh, and I just checked. That movie is NOT blocked in India. Here is its link

http://youtu.be/Lgx1_JVxfZE

It's a 74 minute track. Yeah, one gets a 'viewer discretion advised advisory, but that's just a blah blah blah

http://youtu.be/1RagKWM8ldk

http://youtu.be/1RagKWM8ldk

linky:

http://youtu.be/1RagKWM8ldk