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A lot can be said about the character of the person Guo Wengui if you look into it. Although to call him a bad guy, you have to read too much into it. None of us are all good. At the end of the day, he is a hero among the Chinese for valid reasons. Google\YouTube's pick-and-choose who gets banned, demonetized, or just plain buried because our algorithms aren't good enough so we have our Sjw's on the case mentality is only supported by them being a private company, and a total and complete monopoly. Google, as an extremists ultra far left company is taking advantage of their position in so many disgusting ways.YouTube's great potential has been squandered by Google, a company that somehow manages to maintain an average employee age of 29 and values enforced "diversity" above results and hard word, not to mention above lucid,objective thinking. For fucks sake, at Google, they have a weekly microaggression newsletter that they then have meetings about.

Google is already a bunch of commies. So it's no wonder.

Ironically a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Their biggest problem right now, is how to eliminate all ideology opposed to their ultra far left SJW culture, without losing 3/4 of their subscribers.

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

I can't even find any videos exposing YouTube through Earnest Pettie, and the full length is about as damning as can be.

"Do No Evil" has become highly subjective at Google\YouTube\Alphabet. I predict that within a decade, Alphabet will prove to be the next big company too big to fail. When it happens, it will happen fast.

A lot can be said about the character of the person Guo Wengui if you look into it. Although to call him a bad guy, you have to read too much into it. None of us are all good. At the end of the day, he is a hero among the Chinese for valid reasons. Google\YouTube's pick-and-choose who gets banned, demonetized, or just plain buried because our algorithms aren't good enough so we have our Sjw's on the case mentality is only supported by them being a private company, and a total and complete monopoly. Google, as an extremists ultra far left company is taking advantage of their position in so many disgusting ways.YouTube's great potential has been squandered by Google, a company that somehow manages to maintain an average employee age of 29 and values enforced "diversity" above results and hard word, not to mention above lucid,objective thinking. For fucks sake, at Google, they have a weekly microaggression newsletter that they then have meetings about.

Google is already a bunch of commies. So it's no wonder.

Ironically a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Their biggest problem right now, is how to eliminate all ideology opposed to their ultra far left SJW culture, without losing 3/4 of their subscribers.

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

I can't even find any videos exposing YouTube through Earnest Pettie, and the full length is about as damning as can be.

"Do No Evil" has become highly subjective at Google\YouTube\Alphabet. I predict that within a decade, Alphabet will prove to be the next big company too big to fail. When it happens, it will happen fast.

However there's also the rule of law question as the law was in some sense a form of immigration amnesty to people who broke the immigration laws.

"The law is the law, good, bad, or indifferent" is a hell of a way to run a country. The the Dreamer status is an executive forbearance, rather than amnesty and citizenship, and was undertaken because Congress has been gerrymandered into a rightwing nuthouse unwilling to take yes for an answer. Obama deported more people than any previous President, and they claimed he was committing treason by not enforcing the law strictly enough. In this climate, Obama decided exercise the prosecutorial discretion of the Executive Branch to achieve goals that both GHW Bush and St. Ronnie would approve of https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (and which many Republican congressmen support now that it is threatened).

It doesn't know what a dog or cat is, much less associate a picture of a white kitten with a picture of a tabby cat and establish a commonality between them.

You are not up to date. Neural networks nowadays surpass humans in image recognition. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.018...
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In fact, that technology is now commercially available.
These network do have a concept of dog and cat - in fact, on the output side you'll have a "dog" neuron and a "cat" neuron etc.
Check out Brandon Rohrer's channel on YT for explanations how this technology works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also, see https://finnaarupnielsen.wordp... for a list of other things that computers are better at than humans.

It doesn't know what a dog or cat is, much less associate a picture of a white kitten with a picture of a tabby cat and establish a commonality between them.

You are not up to date. Neural networks nowadays surpass humans in image recognition. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.018...
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In fact, that technology is now commercially available.
These network do have a concept of dog and cat - in fact, on the output side you'll have a "dog" neuron and a "cat" neuron etc.
Check out Brandon Rohrer's channel on YT for explanations how this technology works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also, see https://finnaarupnielsen.wordp... for a list of other things that computers are better at than humans.

Reminds me of this

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

Its not dead... its just sleeping

What makes you think it will be a 2.54cm (1") thick steel pipe. Have you any idea the tech and subsequent cost that would go into making that type of pipe?

Unlike you, apparently, some people have read at least the original concept document. To quote:

"A tube wall thickness between 0.8 and 0.9 in. (20 to 23 mm) is necessary to provide sufficient strength for the load cases considered such as pressure differential, bending and buckling between pillars, loading due to the capsule weight and acceleration, as well as seismic considerations"

Strangely enough I'm also pretty sure that the guy whose company builds large tubes that they then launch into space has a pretty good idea as to the cost of those tubes. FWIW the original document gives an estimate of about $4 billion for tubes, pumps, pylons, and stations, though I do think it's a shame the costs were not separated out more.

you also have to take into account the thermal expansion coefficient of steel.

Yeah, this is my biggest problem with the proposal, for above ground construction anyway. There are materials and methods that might get around the problem but by my 'uninformed' reckoning they massively increase the cost and complexity of the tubes. Building the tubes in an underground tunnel, however, virtually eliminates the expansion problem, as temperatures below ground are remarkably uniform (as in unaffected by day / night and seasonal cycles). As other posters have mentioned this does hugely increase the construction cost and build time, though much of the tunnel construction could be done using the 'cut and cover' method which would gives substantial gains over boring the tunnel.

Remember that what has been proposed is a very long vacuum tube so there would be normal air pressure outside so even with a slight deformation you are going to have a rupture which would send out a shockwave traveling at the speed of sound and anything in the tube would be pulverized.

Yeah, you probably shouldn't believe everything you see on YouTube, especially stuff which is as disingenuous as some of the videos posted by Thunderfoot. The pressure differential between the atmosphere and an evacuated tube is roughly equivalent to a tube at atmospheric pressure submerged in 10 metres of water. Woah, scary stuff, no? Oh wait, no it's not. Modern engineering solutions turn the miraculous into the mundane on an almost daily basis. You'll also note that, despite numerous micrometeorite hits, the ISS is still in one piece, and that actually is operating in a vacuum, unlike the proposed hyperloop tubes, which are just very low pressure.

Rather than me waffle on here is a Hyperloop debunked video. There are others on the Hyperloop as well as other popular but impractical pseudo science Snake Oil.

Well, he's still as annoyingly smug as when he first started laughing at the idea. I find it slightly amusing that he's seemingly unaware of the irony of pooh-poohing the idea of hyperloop while mocking the Kitty Hawk comparison. He is exactly the sort of person I envisage saying, with patronising smugness, "What a ridiculous idea, wood is heavier than air so it's obvious to anyone who has eyes that it simply will not get off the ground". True, he has raised one or two valid criticisms, but that doesn't mean the problems are insoluble. His mockery, and his apparent assumption that he's smarter than everyone else who's thought about the subject makes it hard to watch anything he posts though.

Predicting things is hard, especially things in the future.

I have to ask, what if the EIA was wrong in the other direction? What if instead of actual capacity being 4000% of the prediction we had a prediction that was 4000% of the actual? Would there still be outrage over this to the point that we'd be reading about it now?

This can't be just a failure of a government agency having difficulty predicting the growth of a new industry, it has to be some sort of conspiracy from "big oil". I'm pretty sure that "big solar" is a thing, as is "big wind". Wind and solar might be a small industry but there are some large companies supporting them, and they have deep pockets. Deep enough to fund a growth of an industry at 4000% of a rate that people thought it might be after ten years.

I also love the part of the conspiracy where EIA and "big oil" had similar numbers predicting growth over the next decade. Well, no shit. Oil is a big industry, and well established. It's going to be much easier to predict. Same thing with most any other commodity. I'd like to see similar predictions on housing, coffee, bananas, cars, bicycles, TV sets, refrigerators, or whatever else you might find about your house. I'll exempt things like smart phones which had similar surprising growth due to being so new to the market.

I also want to ask, how well did EIA predict nuclear power growth? If we are going to take the national carbon footprint seriously then nuclear power will have to be a part of that. Anyone that thinks we can run a modern economy without oil, coal, AND nuclear is ignorant or stupid, possibly both.

Here's an interesting presentation on how to use nuclear power to make fuels that can replace what we get from petroleum now. It's less than 15 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

About 3 minutes in the presenter goes over how solar power makes the problems of keeping energy cost down worse. Any claims of solar being cheap is bullshit.

Several more than two are now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/result...

Making a huge rupture in a 1" thick steel tube will require a large quantity of explosives. Such a quantity of explosives won't harm a bus full of passengers unless they're right next to it, in which case everyone could be killed. We don't take that as an argument for eliminating buses.

What makes you think it will be a 2.54cm (1") thick steel pipe. Have you any idea the tech and subsequent cost that would go into making that type of pipe? Not only that but you have to join the pipes with "O" rings (it is a vacuum tube after all) and you also have to take into account the thermal expansion coefficient of steel.

Remember that what has been proposed is a very long vacuum tube so there would be normal air pressure outside so even with a slight deformation you are going to have a rupture which would send out a shockwave traveling at the speed of sound and anything in the tube would be pulverized.

Rather than me waffle on here is a Hyperloop debunked video. There are others on the Hyperloop as well as other popular but impractical pseudo science Snake Oil.

Wow so much hype with this project.

Okay, I am an Electrical Engineer with well over 35 years experience so what would I know when there is so much pseudo-science associated with the Hyperloop project. No country and I repeat no country has ever built a vacuum tube that even comes close to the length and diameter that is proposed for the Hyperloop when all you need is one rupture in the tube and you have human jelly jam. Snake Oil sale at it's best especially when you consider that the "laughable" Hyperloop test winner was a 200 mph (320kph) electric car that could not carry any passenger since it was too small and did not depend on the vacuum.

Rather than me go into details why the project is stupid please view (there are others) the following YouTube Hyperloop debunk. In case you think the guy is a crackpot he does have a Ph.D. in science but then again human gullibility knows no bounds especially when something sounds attractive (ie. Solar Freaking Roadways) but can be proven by Science and Engineering that they are impractical.

What next for Elon Musk? A proposal for "Tourist trips to mars using cold-fusion powered flying saucers?"

yeah, I wouldn't deliberately expose lithium to water

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

it had a really nice ride and got decent gas mileage.
Well that's not what a pickup truck is for.

In America, lots of people who don't do any real work still buy pickups. Some of them are just using them for leisure, some of them are occasionally transporting a plant or something, some of them are just buying it because their parents had a truck and they think they should have a truck. The Ridgeline exceeds most people's needs for a pickup truck.

Throw some sheetrock in the back. Fill the bed up with dirt. How well does it clean up with a hose? How do the tiedowns work? Load it up with tools and take it down a logging road.

You can do all that stuff. It's actually better at surviving rough roads than the competition.

You shouldn't buy the Ridgeline if you plan to go rock crawling, or if you want to tow a fifth wheel. For most other purposes, it's fine. Being a Honda, it will probably continue to be fine when most other vehicles have long disintegrated.

What fascism? Any specifics or is fascism for you just a president you don't like?

Here is a vid of the appropriate end for the original fascist, I am sure you will love the comment down from the vid that claims Obama, Hillary, the Zionists and many others deserve this end. If you do not know what fascists are then you cannot see past your fucking nose and are completely ignorant of the reason why our parents were more than willing to kill the whole fucking lot of them including Hitler. I am sure George Patton would have gone straight to Berlin and "put a bullet in that paper hanging Nazi son of a bitch" if he had the gas to do it in the fall of 1945. Twist history all you like, the history books are not going to be re-written by the ignorant Neo-Nazis of today, unless reading them is banned the way Hitler tried to change history.

I actually am looking forward to the days of either 100% self driving cars, or everybody having dash cams.

So you're not happy with the way things currently are here?

There was hacking in Ferris as well: Ferris changed his absentee record from his bedroom while Principal Rooney watched, dumbfounded, in his office. Ferris then complains that his parents gave his sister a car, but all he got was a computer.

You can watch it here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

My first reaction to this story is what will prevent fraud? It has already been proven that editing video and audio is possible to significantly change the story of what has been captured. It might be trivial to add an object to a video such as gun or another bystander that didn't exist. Something to cause confusion or doubt in a court case. Computers can be used to rearrange voice and even learn a voice and be able to make up sounds that didn't exist.

I would hope that appropriate protections exist to prevent this kind of fraud on a body camera. However there is nothing to prevent that from a public video without further expert analysis to somehow prove that the public video is authentic. I think I like the idea, but it will need a lot of authenticity and security considerations.

For plausible deniability purposes, all such videos should be edited to show that it was all the fault of The Ninja

Almost everything you think you know about Antifa is due to trolling. There are extensive troll campaigns out there involving fake Antifa accounts. Each tries to outdo each other with the most outrageous thing they can say to make gullible right wingers take them seriously.

"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders". No little black book. Nothing except "hates and will actively oppose Nazis and other white supremecists", and random people who are of that view describe themselves with the term Antifa. Not all people who identify as "Antifa" support violence as a means to counter Nazi activity (there's been a widespread "Is it okay to punch a Nazi?" debate since Richard Spencer was punched on camera). Of those who would answer that with "Yes", there's a further subset known as "Black Bloc"; which again is not an ideology but more of a style (dressing in black and actively physically engaging when Nazis and aligned groups come to town). The "Don't punch a Nazi" crowd thinks of them as counterproductive. Black Bloc style protesting existed before "Antifa"; before the most recent flareup, it was most commonly associated in the US with WTO protests.

To reiterate: Black Bloc does engage in violence - although you might have been misled about "innocent victims". To pick an example: the most famous viral video of Black Bloc actions was this attack. Who is that poor innocent victim? Why, that's Keith Campbell, known on Twitter as "PatriotWarriorMedia". He's involved in R.A.M. ("Rise Above Movement"), a group built specifically around active training to engage in street brawls with perceived leftists. Rather than all black, their hide-their-face approach is black skeleton masks.

What did Campbell have to say about that protest where he got beaten up beforehand? Why let's look!: "Fuck Antifa! Let them come to Berkeley on August 27th so we can kick their asses AGAIN! @1776RealNews @ProudBoysCA @BasedCops"

How did that work out for you, Keith?

Anyway, this is all secondary to my main point, which was to make you aware of the fact that the vast majority of "Antifa" accounts are just trolling to try to dupe gullible right wingers. My personal take on the whole thing? Black Bloc protesters and R.A.M. deserve each other, and both can go F* themselves as far as I'm concerned.

No matter.

HilLIARy! will never be President.

BWAAA HAAA HAAA!!!!

Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead!

BWAAA HAAA HAAAAA!!!!

Lithium batteries don't really explode in the way a typical bomb does. They combust,
Uh, Oh! Do you know how a Panzerfaust works, or basically any anti tank weapon? The exact same thing happens if a lith ion battery "explodes". It creates a one yard long flame of super heated metal ions that burn through everything.

This is a simple one from a very small cell phone battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This one is "exploding" due to overcharging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You most definitely don't want explosions like this on a plane.

During the 90s exploding plane equipment (navigation stuff that had lithium ion batteries build in) was a serious problem.

Lithium batteries don't really explode in the way a typical bomb does. They combust,
Uh, Oh! Do you know how a Panzerfaust works, or basically any anti tank weapon? The exact same thing happens if a lith ion battery "explodes". It creates a one yard long flame of super heated metal ions that burn through everything.

This is a simple one from a very small cell phone battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This one is "exploding" due to overcharging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You most definitely don't want explosions like this on a plane.

During the 90s exploding plane equipment (navigation stuff that had lithium ion batteries build in) was a serious problem.

Plans can't win an unwinnable battle, so let's talk about the battlefield first.

Elijah Cummings won his last primary against a guy whose campaign was a vertical cell phone video where he rants about Elijah Cummings "has not fixed the issue" and that he's going to "go to Congress and get the money". He got 8.9% of the vote.

It's 25,000 votes to win. That's not a whole hell of a lot of bulk effort. It does mean getting most of the reliable voters (there are only 33,000 registered Democrats who voted in all of the last three primaries, out of around 50,000).

Elijah has only a few fanatics--and very few in the district. Most of his Facebook followers are all around the country; he has NINE THOUSAND people in District 7 actually interacting with his page (follow, comment, etc.) or posts about Elijah at all, out of 550,000 Moderate to Liberal democratic voters. He hardly communicates with anyone.

This uphill battle is turning more anti-climactic by the day. Nobody I encounter who isn't a raving Conservative fanatic really dislikes Elijah; he's a great community leader and he really does have the people's best interests at heart--he's just ineffective as all hell, and everybody knows it. The most I get in his favor is a consoling look and the counsel that I have a tough battle ahead of me; usually folks tell me that Elijah just isn't doing anything useful and needs to go, even though they don't think he's a bad guy--just a bad Congressman.

I actually encountered a political discussion group meeting in an elementary school that had replacing Elijah Cummings as a repeatedly-surfacing concern.

Do you know what the strategy is for that kind of playing field?

Name recognition and don't make people hate you.

I've been knocking on doors. I'm having actual campaign materials printed up. I have a Web site (which is getting some traffic at least). I've got a Facebook page that's getting followers, and I engage my followers; Elijah doesn't engage his, and I respond to his (sparse) posts and get people actually following me--I'm actually canvassing his own territory. I do the same on some radio show social media pages, and on some forums for the Democratic party. I have digital marketing campaigns that are giving me returns now at under 50 cents per click, follower, or whatnot.

Elijah loses more than 10% of the primary vote to no-names and unkempt fools--not to disparage anyone in particular, but the folks who have against him in recent elections haven't exactly been hard-hitting candidates. You can't even find out anything about these people, about their plans, their positions, anything. Do you really think he has standing power against a competent campaign?

Sure, he can fight back; the question is: is it too late? Everybody knows who Elijah is. What's he going to do? He can't open his mouth, shout loudly, and hope to get more name recognition; he has to convince people that the Elijah Cummings they know isn't the real Elijah Cummings. He doesn't have anything with which to fight back.

Will I win? I don't know. Can I win? I can crush this guy; but I can't do it without funding.

Why bother with choppy and mass produced VR when you can go to Rekall and get a memory of your vacation? Cheaper, safer, and better than the real thing!

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

... what sort of times can they run at Nürburgring? DHL FTW!

Do they play this song every morning when you show up at work?

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

Check your font drive shafts

That's a good idea, you wouldn't want to end up with a Helvetica scenario.

"You'll go where I go, defile what I defile, eat who I eat"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1_bp8YKUPU/

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

DDT also accumulated in the food chain. And is super dangerous for humans in the end ...

DDT is basically a variation of Dioxin(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I cringe when I see the videos of people being dusted with that stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... And there is a video of San Antonia Texas being swamped with DDT in some kind or weird attempt to combat Polio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Which disease is spread mostly by fecal matter, not bugs.

A nasty poison that has a weird cult following, of it's mythical status. I wonder if these folk would like to go back to using Paris Green, a mixture of Copper II acetate and lead arsenide?

We obviously are tied to our insecticides at this point, but a story about a friend of mine might serve as a warning A great and otherwise brilliant guy, he was a fan of DDT, and was pissed by "those liberals" that got it banned. He used Seven, and sprayed his fruit trees and garden every year with it, and didn't use any protective gear, he just wore a shirt and pants and shoes. Amazing the trees got pollinated, because Sevin is hell on bees. I told him that pesticide toxicity doesn't know politics, and he guffawed at that. He told me the only effect it had on him was "some diarrhea", but that was gone a day or two later.

Well, Sevin is a broad spectrum insecticide, a carbamate that targets nerves and muscle tissues. Today, he has a hella case of Parkinsonism, and is a shell of his former self. They don't even want you de-tasseling corn for the better part of a month after using that, and he was essentially showering in the stuff. That really sucks.

DDT also accumulated in the food chain. And is super dangerous for humans in the end ...

DDT is basically a variation of Dioxin(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I cringe when I see the videos of people being dusted with that stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... And there is a video of San Antonia Texas being swamped with DDT in some kind or weird attempt to combat Polio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Which disease is spread mostly by fecal matter, not bugs.

A nasty poison that has a weird cult following, of it's mythical status. I wonder if these folk would like to go back to using Paris Green, a mixture of Copper II acetate and lead arsenide?

We obviously are tied to our insecticides at this point, but a story about a friend of mine might serve as a warning A great and otherwise brilliant guy, he was a fan of DDT, and was pissed by "those liberals" that got it banned. He used Seven, and sprayed his fruit trees and garden every year with it, and didn't use any protective gear, he just wore a shirt and pants and shoes. Amazing the trees got pollinated, because Sevin is hell on bees. I told him that pesticide toxicity doesn't know politics, and he guffawed at that. He told me the only effect it had on him was "some diarrhea", but that was gone a day or two later.

Well, Sevin is a broad spectrum insecticide, a carbamate that targets nerves and muscle tissues. Today, he has a hella case of Parkinsonism, and is a shell of his former self. They don't even want you de-tasseling corn for the better part of a month after using that, and he was essentially showering in the stuff. That really sucks.

Here's the group for you: the A.A.M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBasxQ9Nyc

Actually, this is a common cycle. Post-WWII, Japanese stuff was considered crap. The country was war-torn and rebuilding its industrial base. Most emphasis was put on volume of production and expansion, little on quality. As Japan modernized and "got" how to produce quality consistently, it earned a reputation for making the best stuff in the world. Korea and Taiwan followed the same pattern, about two decades behind Japan. (Most of the world's computer components are currently produced by Korean and Taiwanese companies. Even the stuff that goes into Apple's products.) China is currently in the first stage. The U.S. probably went through the same thing after it broke off from colonial Europe. I suspect however that there's a third stage - complacency and mediocrity. The U.S. went into this in the 1970s and 1980s, which helped Japanese products to gain a fairly sizeable foothold here. Japan seems to be going through this third stage the last couple decades, allowing Korean and Taiwanese products to eclipse Japanese as considered "best" in the world.

The fact that one company got caught doing shitty work somehow translates into the state of quality of Japanese workmanship :/

Actually, this is a common cycle. Post-WWII, Japanese stuff was considered crap. The country was war-torn and rebuilding its industrial base. Most emphasis was put on volume of production and expansion, little on quality.

As Japan modernized and "got" how to produce quality consistently, it earned a reputation for making the best stuff in the world. Korea and Taiwan followed the same pattern, about two decades behind Japan. (Most of the world's computer components are currently produced by Korean and Taiwanese companies. Even the stuff that goes into Apple's products.) China is currently in the first stage. The U.S. probably went through the same thing after it broke off from colonial Europe.

I suspect however that there's a third stage - complacency and mediocrity. The U.S. went into this in the 1970s and 1980s, which helped Japanese products to gain a fairly sizeable foothold here. Japan seems to be going through this third stage the last couple decades, allowing Korean and Taiwanese products to eclipse Japanese as considered "best" in the world.

Compare, Japanese metal

How much do you destroy

A few cm^3.

Per what? Per ton of metal? Can you trust it's all from the same batch, since the company lies? Do you destroy a few cm^3 of every piece? Every first cm of rebar? What if you're selling ball bearings? Do you destroy them all? Where do you stop when you can't trust the company you're buying stuff from? Maybe this means the entire production chain has to be in-house, but who's willing to accept the cost of that?

How much do you destroy

A few cm^3.

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

I agree, except at the point where you are willing to trust Microsoft... Windows 10 shows us that Microsoft does not hold our privacy sacrosanct in the least. The leaked NSA tools further prove that relying on Microsoft is not going to protect you from being spied upon, by our gov't AND foreign entities. Even this whole Kaspersky fiasco shows that further NSA tools are likely being stolen, AS THEY ARE BEING WRITTEN!

At the very least, use Linux. Linux may have backdoors too, but at least it's open source, so you and others can at least attempt to identify and close those security holes. Closed source Microsoft products, forget about it. You're never going to be safe there.

Apple have an advantage here because they make both the software and the hardware and can tune both to improve performance.

E.g. in one of Louis Rossman's videos he found out that the trackpad in a Macbook supports both SPI and USB. It runs in USB mode when you run Windows via Bootcamp or are in the EFI shell but SPI when you run macOS.

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

SPI is obviously a lower power bus, but of course it's easier to add support for HID over SPI to an OS you control than it to one you don't.

So Apple have a special mode to save power by running the trackpad in SPI mode rather than USB.

No that is the problem IT supposed to be part of the organization. Only last decade had this changed as IT was involved with business processing and critical operations. If IT is not qualified to handle security then who is??

IT NEEDS to be advised to and part of the process or you end up with a nightmare like this. How much money do you think that airhead marketing manager makes in that video and how successful do you think that new website in that video linked above will be?

Hell the poor IT web developer can't even email the VP about the requirements without being fired. The VP could have saved alot of money by firing the 6 figure airhead and work with the web developer to get it done with a proper budget.

If you treat them like janitors you risk disaster. I for one worked for companies where they wanted 1 months worth of work in 3 weeks or else we will get an Indian etc. Guess what? Projects failed.

If IT is respected again and not freaking outsourced for pennies on the dollar and part of the organization just like HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc then you will get a CIO who is qualified to handle security.

Smoke weed Everyday

Whosh.

My point is not about MS vs non MS people in I.T. making decisions.

Rather it is moronic nightmarish scenario of non-IT folks making requirements with 0 input from IT on a shoestring budget. On the link above I loved the phrase "...if you email the Vice President on the requirements your contract will be reviewed .."

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

The Vantage Robotics UAV. Pretty light and safe.

If some idiot throws sticks at it, there's more danger from the sticks that knocked it down than the drone itself.

Having said all that.. this... Wowsers, it's more like how MacOS had an embedded M68k emulator when running on PowerPC. Looks like x86 code runs fine. Wonder what the battery life is like..

Toby Zeigler is my hero.

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

Destiny 2 already does this, apparently.

It has no difficulty settings and is super easy to make player feel like they are good when they aren't.

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

You have obviously never worked with Asian people. If you want to hear racism, learn a bit of Chinese or Hindi.

I know some Mandarin, and the worst I have heard is "heiren" which just means "black person". But what is often surprising to Americans is the total lack of "political correctness" in China. They will come right out and say "I don't like black people" even to strangers. I remember seeing this commercial when I lived in Shanghai. I thought it was hilariously offensive, but Chinese people didn't see anything wrong with it.

I would agree that I found the plot lackluster. But the visuals and atmosphere were amazing. Such a cool world.

Leto's performance as Wallace was awful. Not sure how that kind of nutjob could have ever run a company.

Haven't seen it yet, but saw a spoiler that confirmed some of my predictions from 2015 (in short, a more evil corporate bad guy than Dr.Tyrell who wants something from Deckard, new and improved replicants, and of course, what would you expect to happen between Deckard and Rachael that might inspire a sequel?) Sigh. I can hear the pitch in my head at a Hollywood donut shop: "Okay, there's a new bad guy, and he hears that Deckard and a replicant..." It's the first idea you'd get from any first-year writing student for a sequel. Un In Spired, and everything else is just window-dressing.

Sorry, but this is why I hate sequels. The story-writing just goes down the drain; but worse, the writers so often miss what was so good about the original. In the original, Tyrell was ostensibly a bad guy, but he was great. You couldn't help but like him. Wallace, OTOH, even from the previews, is a psycho nut-job from frame one. In the original, J.F. Sebastian was an even more inspired character. Again, morally ambiguous... he creates little people as pets! but utterly sympathetic, kind, generous, and himself suffering from a degenerative disease, a death sentence not unlike the "fail-safe device" of the replicants. Anything like THAT in the new story?

And that DIALOG!

"It's not every day one meets his maker."
"...and what can he do for you?"
"Can the maker repair what he has made?"
"What seems to be the problem?"
"Death. Death is the problem."

F U C K !
Dialog, visuals, soundtrack, combining to create an atmosphere around characters you really can't know what they're going to do next. Is Roy going to be reasonable and calculating, or go bat-shit berzerk? Is Pris going to kiss little Sebastian or snap his head clean off his neck? What the FUCK is with that owl? and how can Deckard be so sure he's never retired a human by mistake?

All this is why this sleeper movie 80's movie became a movie you wanted to see again and again.
Does the new movie come even close to this?
Burn Hollywood, burn.