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Good introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/result...

Ah, the old Cliffhanger game.

Doom 2016 in Wine

So don't buy the books, download them.

That's what this is all about anyway, teaching kids that copying is not wrong, copyright law is wrong.

And of course show the kid that copying is not theft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And here ReactOS is running Need For Speed: Carbon in a VM.

You want to spout this lie again? After it's been debunked over and over and over? The biological stuff is still there, the pink dolls and cars are still there, the maths and engineering stuff is still there.

Here is the same video as always, the one put forth when you make these debunked claims again and again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

it does! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, they were taken out of a B-17. See, video proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here it is then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

My guess the weapon they deployed was this one, after the US started complaining initially https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and the Cubans decided to troll them and imagine all sorts of shit.

You have to talk to their in their own language.

I do think this is most interesting if we don't allow the AI to adjust the game clock at all: if there's too large a delay between input and output, it will simply fail.

There have been AI's designed explicitly to play Super Mario World (see here, for instance). Where this becomes cool is with an AI that doesn't get an abstract representation of the level, but has to interpret the pixels that are displayed. That's a far more complicated problem, as the information displayed on even a simple game like Super Mario World is orders of magnitude richer than the information used to specify the state of a game of chess or go.

As for cars, I may be off, but I believe that they don't attempt to do this sort of "from scratch" learning, but rather break the problem up into pieces: train the neural net to detect things like cars or people or lines on the road, and then determine whether or not it expects those things to move and how. I imagine it's particularly difficult to train the neural net to deal with rare obstacles (such as bouncing debris from a wreck or a falling tree).

... about how his brain doesn't reason correctly. You can tell people the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion:

Science on reasoning

The reality is IP law is so out of control you need to sit down and get a good reason as to why it's bullshit.

Teach him about the theft of PC games and show him most wanted 2005 and NFS world online - same game but just rebranded for corporations to take control of the files on their servers. The reality is the corporate world has been stealing everything that isn't nailed down because they know the public is tech illiterate and indoctrinated. There is no such thing as balanced capitalism if you look at the last 200 years of copyright law. Go pick up a copy of Most wanted 2005 and download NFS World online, and show him how corporations trick people.

I'll use the example of need for speed for the PC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Most_Wanted_(2005_video_game)

Same game forked and modified to be held hostage and rebranded "MMO".

NFSWORLD homepage with years the game has been shut down

Against intellectual monopoly

Against intellectual monopoly

Watch this episode of The Brittas Empire (which is itself illegally offered for free viewing on Youtube, incidentally - oh the irony) and your son will learn all there is to know about copyright.

As so eloquently explained in Screw You, Taxpayer!

The third... I was prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I lost it at the "Destroy the enemy using 20th Century Popular Music" part. The entire thing felt like it was written by that teacher you had when you were a kid that was always trying to be hip and cool and "down with" the kids. It was embarrassing.

I don't know, I always thought it was a little amusing that Star Trek writers believed only pre-20th century classical music would survive the test of time and is all that folks in Star Fleet would listen to. At least Sisko liked Jazz, but why wouldn't they listen to, say, 20th century rock/rap/etc? The whole thing smacks of super-old guys saying "in my day we didn't listen to this rock and roll nonsense. Smart people in the future won't either. Humbug!"

Though my favorite musical anachronism was the TNG parody edit where Data and Chief O'Brien set down to present a selection of Earth music for visiting vulcan ambassador Sarak. Their choices were... interesting..

Who would be called a racist misogynist Republican in todays politics. Especially in light of his tax plan ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Trump 2020!

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." - from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

These were very cold words from a very cold character that has come to epitomize callousness and indifference in the popular mind. Ebenezer Scrooge the money-lending, usury-gouging skinflint stands for everything that is wrong with your kind of comment, but there it is modded up to +3. Shame, Slashdot, shame. If endorsing the villian of a Dickens book doesn't grab you as shameful, rest assured that the "decrease the surplus population" comment is today most frequently applied to Republicans.

"Are there no prisons? Are there no work farms?"

Thanks to everyone who pointed out Google's developer pages:

* https://developers.google.com/... (developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/)

Their I/O 2017 talk is online:

* Progressive Web Apps: Great Experiences Everywhere (Google I/O '17)

I can hear Marissa laughing now.

So was Mir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's a funnier example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I showed this to three men at work and my wife at home. The guys all noticed the sound playing in their head, my wife did not.

You know I bet we'd get the same effect if we watched a lion roar with no sound. Testing it on the MGM lion... yeah I think it's the same effect. So damned freaky though with that gif, it bugs me still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

... If you're not worth a paycheck?

I don't think people appreciate how politics and power structures interface with economic imperitives. Much of the social and political liberalization in the Western world was a direct result of economic changes that made individuals more relevant to the logistical framework of the society.

The more the society becomes a command economy with top down control... the less the individual matters and thus the less the individual will matter. Your political agency will decline.

What is more, if you're economically and logistically irrelevant to the underlying requirements of the society... what is your leverage? Why should the society give you anything?

UBI = not just serfdom... it equals literal marginalization and eventually... Death.

Careful what you wish for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The rich and powerful don't pay for anything, you don't get rich by writing checks.

The rich and powerful don't pay for anything, you don't get rich by writing checks.

The rich and powerful don't pay for anything, you don't get rich by writing checks.

> Actually he does understand English.

You mean Oettinger English?

But yes, more seriously. This guy shouldn't be where he is.

You can make a case that the subprime mortgage crisis was caused by the government forcing banks to lend money to people who were likely to default

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Several administrations, both Democratic and Republican, advocated affordable housing policies in the years leading up to the crisis. The Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 established, for the first time, an affordable housing loan purchase mandate for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a mandate to be regulated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Initially, the 1992 legislation required that 30 percent or more of Fannie's and Freddie's loan purchases be related to affordable housing. However, HUD was given the power to set future requirements. During the later part of the Clinton Administration, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced "new regulations to provide $2.4 trillion in mortgages for affordable housing for 28.1 million families, which increased the required percentage of mortgage loans for low- and moderate-income families that finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must buy annually from the then current 42 percent of their total purchases to a new high of 50 percent. Eventually (under the Bush Administration) a 56 percent minimum was established. Additionally, in 2003, "The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago."

Fanny and Freddy were encouraged to underwrite loans to people who shouldn't have got them. Banks knew the FDIC would bail them out and that they were 'too big to fail' so if the FDIC ran out of cash the government could either print money and fix things or see the whole economy disappear.

They also knew if they made profits they could keep them.

The whole system had the wrong set of incentives. People got bonuses and social brownie points for lending to people who couldn't afford the interest. Banks privatised profit and knew they could socialise loss.

When it came time to bail the whole system out Hank Paulson, formerly of Goldman Sachs, decided to do QE by buying T bills on the open market, which allowed Goldman Sachs to front run the Fed instead of buying them from the Treasury directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And Paulson had a clear conflict of interest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It has been pointed out that Paulson's plan could potentially have some conflicts of interest, since Paulson was a former CEO of Goldman Sachs, a firm that might benefit largely from the plan. Economic columnists called for more scrutiny of his actions. Questions remain about Paulson's interest, despite having no direct financial interest in Goldman, since he had sold his entire stake in the firm prior to becoming Treasury Secretary, pursuant to ethics law. The Goldman Sachs benefit from the AIG bailout was recently estimated as US$12.9 billion and GS was the largest recipient of the public funds from AIG. Creating the collateralized debt obligations (CDO's) forming the basis of the current crisis was an active part of Goldman Sach's business during Paulson's tenure as CEO. Opponents argued that Paulson remained a Wall Street insider who maintained close friendships with higher-ups of the bailout beneficiaries.

And of course QE only helps very rich people by blowing up asset prices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People like Buffett maneuver the government into policies that make them billions and then write editorials advocating tax increases that would cost them millions as a quid pro quo.

I.e. t

You can make a case that the subprime mortgage crisis was caused by the government forcing banks to lend money to people who were likely to default

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Several administrations, both Democratic and Republican, advocated affordable housing policies in the years leading up to the crisis. The Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 established, for the first time, an affordable housing loan purchase mandate for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a mandate to be regulated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Initially, the 1992 legislation required that 30 percent or more of Fannie's and Freddie's loan purchases be related to affordable housing. However, HUD was given the power to set future requirements. During the later part of the Clinton Administration, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced "new regulations to provide $2.4 trillion in mortgages for affordable housing for 28.1 million families, which increased the required percentage of mortgage loans for low- and moderate-income families that finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must buy annually from the then current 42 percent of their total purchases to a new high of 50 percent. Eventually (under the Bush Administration) a 56 percent minimum was established. Additionally, in 2003, "The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago."

Fanny and Freddy were encouraged to underwrite loans to people who shouldn't have got them. Banks knew the FDIC would bail them out and that they were 'too big to fail' so if the FDIC ran out of cash the government could either print money and fix things or see the whole economy disappear.

They also knew if they made profits they could keep them.

The whole system had the wrong set of incentives. People got bonuses and social brownie points for lending to people who couldn't afford the interest. Banks privatised profit and knew they could socialise loss.

When it came time to bail the whole system out Hank Paulson, formerly of Goldman Sachs, decided to do QE by buying T bills on the open market, which allowed Goldman Sachs to front run the Fed instead of buying them from the Treasury directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And Paulson had a clear conflict of interest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It has been pointed out that Paulson's plan could potentially have some conflicts of interest, since Paulson was a former CEO of Goldman Sachs, a firm that might benefit largely from the plan. Economic columnists called for more scrutiny of his actions. Questions remain about Paulson's interest, despite having no direct financial interest in Goldman, since he had sold his entire stake in the firm prior to becoming Treasury Secretary, pursuant to ethics law. The Goldman Sachs benefit from the AIG bailout was recently estimated as US$12.9 billion and GS was the largest recipient of the public funds from AIG. Creating the collateralized debt obligations (CDO's) forming the basis of the current crisis was an active part of Goldman Sach's business during Paulson's tenure as CEO. Opponents argued that Paulson remained a Wall Street insider who maintained close friendships with higher-ups of the bailout beneficiaries.

And of course QE only helps very rich people by blowing up asset prices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People like Buffett maneuver the government into policies that make them billions and then write editorials advocating tax increases that would cost them millions as a quid pro quo.

I.e. t

I was under the impression that tampering with telecommunications was illegal in Canada, punishable by imprisionment.

Can someone explain to be how these acts could be legally conducted?

Long story short you don't live in a democracy, what corporations want governments will pass.

Crisis of democracy

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

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

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

Manufacturing consent:

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

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

I was under the impression that tampering with telecommunications was illegal in Canada, punishable by imprisionment.

Can someone explain to be how these acts could be legally conducted?

Long story short you don't live in a democracy, what corporations want governments will pass.

Crisis of democracy

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

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

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

Manufacturing consent:

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

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

I was under the impression that tampering with telecommunications was illegal in Canada, punishable by imprisionment.

Can someone explain to be how these acts could be legally conducted?

Long story short you don't live in a democracy, what corporations want governments will pass.

Crisis of democracy

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

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

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

Manufacturing consent:

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

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

I was under the impression that tampering with telecommunications was illegal in Canada, punishable by imprisionment.

Can someone explain to be how these acts could be legally conducted?

Long story short you don't live in a democracy, what corporations want governments will pass.

Crisis of democracy

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

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

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

Manufacturing consent:

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

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

and yet the actions of Google and Amazon are just as bad.

No, no, no. A thousand fucking times, no.

You still have a choice not to be a customer of Amazon, Google, or the lot of 'em. Apple will be pleased to sell you a phone. Bing or DuckDuckGo will happily take your search queries. I'd be here all night attempting to list every retailer which competes with Amazon.

In my neighborhood, there is one choice of wired broadband provider.

Net Neutrality is necessary because it means no matter how much Amazon, Facebook, or Google decide to wall up their gardens, some upstart can still register their own .com, and be given a fair share at taking them on. That is what we stand to lose. Someone could start a great new competitor to YouTube, but if my broadband provider doesn't come to favorable terms with them, here's South Park saying it better than I ever could.

The Note 7 was the biggest disaster they've had. And why did it happen?

I'd say it's because they knew if they were trying to cram as large a battery in as they could and reduce the charging times as much as possible.

Why did they have to do that? Because they chose a non removable battery and they also knew that concerns about battery life rate pretty highly

http://bgr.com/2014/05/21/best...

It's getting much harder for smartphone companies to really differentiate their products, especially if they don't already have a loyal user base like the ones Apple and Samsung enjoy. In various marketing campaigns, HTC has tried pushing the high quality of its smartphones' hardware, Nokia has tried selling us on its killer camera and LG has tried hyping up buttons that live on the back, and not the front, of the smartphone. However, there's one spec that matters to users more than any other than many smartphone vendors have seemingly overlooked in their ad campaigns: Battery life.

The Guardian directs our attention to a new survey from U.K.-based research firm GMI that asked British smartphone users what features were important to them when it comes to deciding on a new smartphone. Fully 89% of them said that battery life was important to them, more than 20 percentage points higher than the number of people who said buying from a trusted brand was important to them. This suggests that there's a significant chunk of smartphone buyers out there who might conceivably jump at a phone from a relatively unknown vendor if it could give them top-notch battery life.

This new research gels with research released by IDC earlier this month that similarly showed that battery life has become the single most important factor for people who are buying smartphones. In that survey, 56% of Android buyers, 49% of iPhone buyers and 53% of Windows Phone buyers said that battery life was a key reason they bought their particular device, whereas just which 33% of Android users, 39% of iPhone users and 38% of Windows Phone users said ease of use was a key reason.

So here's a free piece of advice to any smartphone vendor that's struggling to gain traction in a market that's dominated by Apple and Samsung: Develop a phone of reasonable thinness that also boasts insanely great battery life and market its battery power to death.

If you can swap the battery with a fresh one off the charger, then charge time is less important. If the battery is non removable then it is important.

Samsung obviously pushed things too far and ended up with a phone that blew up.

Now if they'd have stuck to removable batteries they could have avoided that. Hell, just sell the phone, a spare battery and a charger as a bundle, as they apparently did with S2s for a while in Korea. They used to run ads mocking Apple devices for not having a removable battery too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Unfortunately it seems like they're going to keep pushing thinness, sleek aluminium and glass design, higher resolution displays and non removable batteries as features, even though there's no real evidence that people who actually buy their phones care about that stuff.

I.e. they've made a terrible mistake - their marketing pushed features that they knew people cared about. And then in later models they dropped those features and tried to convince everyone other stuff mattered more.

For starters I'm amused that you've abandon your "Russia is good guy!" rhetoric when I point out its full of shit.

Next, I enjoy the fact that you never acknowledge this point

" I enjoy the idea of you trying to do this in context of the fact that the replacement government has since been democratically elected since the revolution. Seems like a government formed in the context of a foreign led coup wouldn't be very popular."

So let's talk your "evidence".

First Youtube video: Spending money on incouraging democratic institutions in Ukraine does not at all equal US funded coup. The US does this stuff all over the world. Nice try though!
The Nation link: Well if you didn't want to post slanted info you would have sited this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . None of that equals "the US overthrew the government" at all. The US diplomatically pushing for favorites to counter Russian influence, big surprise. None of that equals "US funded a coup". Nice try though!
Guardian link: I didnt bother to read the article because your summary was bullshit. "Immediate" recognizing the new government under any time table doesnt equal "US funded a coup". Nice try though!
Unconstitutional vote! Does't equal US involvement and I'm fucking done with you. I'm not going to wade through your blatantly circumstantial bullshit and false leads any more.

Clearly you started with "the US was responsible" and built your argument from there. When you have actual evidence get back to me. Until then, don't waste my fucking time.

no one know (or will care) who "Jeremy Hunt" is unless his middle name is "Mike"

Well, since you ask, audio from the BBC's premier serious news programme on Radio 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More importantly, this is an issue that is frequently ensored by the MSM which is partly owned and controled by the drug companies.

Samsung had an interesting idea for the Galaxy S2. You had a phone which was slim with the default battery and back. Or you could could have a slightly less slim device with a larger battery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Unfortunately I never managed to get hold of one.

Step 1) Download and install a free fequency meter, like the ones from this website: http://www.winsite.com/frequen...

Step 2) Turn it on.

Step 3) Play video

Step 4) Tell people that if the frequency meter can't detect it, then their speaker can't be making any noise. It is entirely psychological.

Step 5) When they insist, mute your computer secretly and play the video again. Then show that the computer was on MUTE.

This is not something hard to do, nor hard to understand. It's barely interesting. You want to show me something, then show the McGurk effect ( where a fa is heard when ba is said) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How's that going to perform

It performs well. The x86 compatibility layer is fast enough that x86 and ARM binaries run well together.

This is going to be a terrible user experience which will quickly earn a terrible reputation.

Doesn't seem to be. Maybe try it out first.

How's that going to perform

It performs well. The x86 compatibility layer is fast enough that x86 and ARM binaries run well together.

This is going to be a terrible user experience which will quickly earn a terrible reputation.

Doesn't seem to be. Maybe try it out first.

Yes he did! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI

For me, it's about music. We listen (not watch) to tons of music via YouTube through a Roku.

And, having 7 year olds, we watch fucking cat videos. For the record we have two cats and they are pretty awesome.

Shameless self promotion, here's a cool time lapse dash cam video I put together with a basic guitar bit I wrote, sunrise during a rural-to-urban drive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's what I use it for. Also have the videos of a band practice from the early 90s out there, nostalgic. Shotgun against laptop, yeah, did that.

We also used to sponsor MMA fights (over 25 fight nights over 5+ years, it was a serious hobby) and put all of it on YouTube, another perfect use case. Most local promoters don't do that, or at least didn't when we were.

There are tons of uses for YouTube, but not a lot that can be monetized in my opinion. Or that are interesting, but there are some of each. I typically hate video.

Is it really that much different than other optical illusions that cause you to perceive something that isn't there? The only thing interesting about this is that it's more of an aural illusion. It's almost like watching someone getting tackled or hit really hard and your brain sending some of the pain/reaction response to your body.

Here's something else that might interest you as if you do put some stereo headphones on and close your eyes, your brain may similarly use the cues its getting and start sending other signals in expectation of it believes is happening.

No, but the FTC does in certain cases. Video game reviewers, for example, have very specific and strict rules about what they must disclose. For example, if a review copy of the game was provided by a developer/publisher, they must say so at the beginning of the video. It's a fairly recent development, from what I understand.

Here is an example.

And I had thought east germany had joined west germany, not the other way around...

All states are at war with their respective publics, see this comment by former national security advisor. It's the rich vs the rest.

Citizens called a "global menace" here by former national security advisor of the US:

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

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time. Science on reasoning:

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

Crisis of democracy

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

Book:

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

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

Manufacturing consent:

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

https://vimeo.com/39566117

And I had thought east germany had joined west germany, not the other way around...

All states are at war with their respective publics, see this comment by former national security advisor. It's the rich vs the rest.

Citizens called a "global menace" here by former national security advisor of the US:

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

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time. Science on reasoning:

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

Crisis of democracy

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

Book:

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

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

Manufacturing consent:

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

https://vimeo.com/39566117