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Joogle hides truth above here & @ InfoWars cutting off ad gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but JOOGLE allows violent jihadist videos to get ad GOLD + JOOgle infects users w/ their ads https://blog.malwarebytes.org/...

Joogle hides truth above here & @ InfoWars cutting off ad gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but JOOGLE allows violent jihadist videos to get ad GOLD + JOOgle infects users w/ their ads https://blog.malwarebytes.org/...

First, have high child mortality rate then no need for so many public schools and have to deal with too many adults entering work force.

The high child mortality rate was high in 1913 because the live saving technologies of 2017 did not exist then.

Second, have people die an early age so Medicare and Social Security programs are moot.

Why are you saying people would die at an early age without Medicare and Social Security? If they didn't have to spend so much money in taxes/social security, and if we had a free market for healthcare, then maybe people could actually afford healthcare and they would have a hell of a lot more money in their retirement account. If I could opt out of social security and invest that money how I see fit, then I would do MUCH better off.

Someone gets disabled (lose a leg, arm, or paralyzed as result of unsafe working conditions) then dump them to unknown state hospital with no means of recuperating.

Disability insurance. Its cheap. There should be no government run hospitals. If you think government hospitals are so great, then just ask any veteran who relies on the VA. VA hospitals are abysmal. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm afraid you have an overly optimistic view of Islamic conquest. Let me give you a link to help you open your eyes a bit: http://www1.cbn.com/churchandm...

One sees there a plethora of massacres, genocides and mass killings done by Muslims. Where they alone in that? No, Christians did their share (Buddhists far less, if one is honest), however, far LESS than Muslim conquest has done.And mostly, in regard to the crusades and other fights against Muslims, it was *in response* to the conquest of Christian grounds and land. Meaning, if the Muslims hadn't INVADED and CONQUERED Christian lands and countries, they wouldn't have had such a reaction neither. I couldn't find any specifics on the conquest of Spain to demonstrate unambigiously that the killings done by Muslims there is 'less' than those of Christians, but in any case it seems rather overly naive to think Muslims didn't kill off civilians and innocents at all, when they clearly had no problem doing it everywhere else.

But, regardless, I'm willing to gleen over all that, since it's in the far history, and during those times violence was rampant everywhere. It's of little use trying to convince whomever was 'the bloodiest' hundreds of years ago. Of far more concern is, how Muslims react NOW, in current times. And in this respect, it does not bode well.

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/0...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As one can see, a majority of Muslims in Muslim-countries, and even a significant large proportion of Muslims in Western countries have ideas and beliefs that are antithetic with the mores, rules, and values of Western democracies. We're not talking about terrorists here, we're talking about *radical views* hold *by* Muslims, which is much broader then straight out terrorism, but still - even more so, I would claim - a danger to the continuation of Western democracies with their values derived from the Enlightenment.

It is THAT which is *really* worrying, though less visible and less openly violent than beheadings of ISIS. Unless there is a drastic reformation of Islam, such as has happened to Christianity, I claim the following: Islam is unreconcilable with, and a danger to, Western, democratic values based on the enlightenment, and, if we do not (re)act against this, it will - in the long term - mean the end of our era. It's clear as daylight, you can not have or maintain our Western system if Muslims continue to flood in (or breed and propagate faster and more in the Western countries than the original populace) while remaining as insensitive to integration and incorporation of our values as they are today (and ever have been).

Note that I'm not talking about race. Race is not the problem. I'm also no racist. Raise Blacks, Berbers, whatever, up from infancy in ones' own culture, and they ARE and BEHAVE like one of us. I'm saying it's the culture and mentality that is the problem. 40% of British Muslims want the Sharia to be the supreme law, trumping any other laws. 40%!! That's HUGE. That's like, a thousand times more and higher than when you would ask an original, born-and-raised Brit. I find it peculiar that the danger of this is not more than apparent to the left. If you take in a million refugees, as German did, and 40% of them wants to introduce sharia-law, one has to be blind and stupid not to see how this will create tensions and huge societal problems for your own civilisation and society. Yet, the West turns a blind eye. It's incomprehensible. It's like cultural suicide, and we're doing it to ourselves, like a bunch of lemmings.

Even the 'moderate Muslim' should be worried, in fact. At least those who wanted to escape from sharia law and the oppression of their home countries. If this keeps up, I foresee the end of our current Western model by the end of the 21ste century, if not sooner. This is not Islamophobia, it's just an observation and logically deduced analysis.

What Matt Drudge said would happen is happening as a beta test on the rest of us starting with InfoWars https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's Trillions less than WWI, WWII, or any number of volcanic eruptions *alone*

Interesting fact, if you look at you tube you will find a guy that likes to go into old abandoned mines. One of them, is thawing, after having been frozen solid within the last 100 years.

Think about that. Sometime around 100 years ago an entire mine *froze* and is only now thawing. In the 70's the hype was over global cooling, for the same reasons the media and politi-farts have listed is causing global warming. If you have been on the Earth more than a decade or two you would recognize the patterns. But since these patterns manifest over a time longer than an appreciable measure of your lifespan you don't see it and buy into the media coverage 'never before has this happened' when in fact it did all the time.

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

Call it anecdotal all you want. It's not going to make the ice vanish.

Saraba Yamato (Japan) is one of my personal favorites, even with the late 70's style animation. It's currently going through a reboot.
The original Yamato, known as Star Blazers in the US, went through a reboot as well a few years ago (Yamato 2199). It's not bad either - arguably better than the original.

Lots of treasure from that era. Leiji Matsumoto made wonderful films/series: Harlock - not the 2013 one, the 1970's one - (standing up for one's beliefs) and Galaxy Express 999 (what is it to be human?) are masterpieces.

Saraba Yamato (Japan) is one of my personal favorites, even with the late 70's style animation. It's currently going through a reboot.
The original Yamato, known as Star Blazers in the US, went through a reboot as well a few years ago (Yamato 2199). It's not bad either - arguably better than the original.

Lots of treasure from that era. Leiji Matsumoto made wonderful films/series: Harlock - not the 2013 one, the 1970's one - (standing up for one's beliefs) and Galaxy Express 999 (what is it to be human?) are masterpieces.

Saraba Yamato (Japan) is one of my personal favorites, even with the late 70's style animation. It's currently going through a reboot.
The original Yamato, known as Star Blazers in the US, went through a reboot as well a few years ago (Yamato 2199). It's not bad either - arguably better than the original.

Lots of treasure from that era. Leiji Matsumoto made wonderful films/series: Harlock - not the 2013 one, the 1970's one - (standing up for one's beliefs) and Galaxy Express 999 (what is it to be human?) are masterpieces.

Has to be Darkstar

Let's have some music in here, Boiler.

One Hundred Percent the Greatest Movie Ever Made. Prove Me Wrong.

hundred underfed pesants was no match for 10 well fed and trained knights

Debunked

This sounds an awful lot like a Bayesian Trap, also called a Base Rate Bias. See here for a decent explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

weylin

The guy literally campaigned on not golfing.
Yet another promise broken.

"Because I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to play golf. Believe me! Believe me. Believe me folks."
08/08/2016

“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”
TheHill.com 06/23/15

Those things look like a Kiva Robot knock off. Amazon bought Kiva a while back but those things look REALLY similar. Just compare the two of them

Also how do they keep the package from falling off?

The "dying IRL" part is modestly plausible, as described by the movie. See for example the nocebo effect (and an entertaining IRL experiment here [Red].)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Especially in Africa. ;)

Technically it may not be "science fiction" and technically it "hasn't been released yet". Just loop that 2 minute preview for two hours and take my $12. I won't complain.

Carpenter's and Piper's DVD commentary is worth going through as well.

If for nothing else, then to get the feel of both of them.
Carpenter being this laid back, down to earth kinda guy, Piper being a really nice guy who had to go through some rough shit in life... but a bit... flaky.
I mean... there you are, listening to two guys talking about the movie they made all those years ago, while watching the said movie... and then out of nowhere Piper hits you up with a conspiracy theory.
And while Carpenter is all "Well I be damned." you google a bit and... oh... OH!

Sadly, though they mention Hulk Hogan and his movies, they never address the PKE-meter situation.

Carpenter's and Piper's DVD commentary is worth going through as well.

If for nothing else, then to get the feel of both of them.
Carpenter being this laid back, down to earth kinda guy, Piper being a really nice guy who had to go through some rough shit in life... but a bit... flaky.
I mean... there you are, listening to two guys talking about the movie they made all those years ago, while watching the said movie... and then out of nowhere Piper hits you up with a conspiracy theory.
And while Carpenter is all "Well I be damned." you google a bit and... oh... OH!

Sadly, though they mention Hulk Hogan and his movies, they never address the PKE-meter situation.

That `ring' from the Death Star explosion has always bothered me. To this day I keep thinking they should have made that a spherical blast effect.

Then watch the *original* or *revisited* version (if you can't find it, here's a clip comparing them). There is no 'ring' explosion in the *original* or *revisited* version, only the "special" edition has that particular abomination...

AFAIKT, this controversy is probably only second to the han-shot-first controversy...

"Troll. Nazi. Misogynist. Sexist. Racist. White Supremicist. Deplorable. Rape apologist."

That describes Trump's base supporters in a nutshell.

"They used Nazi to describe this person, so I'm pretty sure they're talking about a bad guy!"

No Republican has ever used Nazi imagery without it blowing up in their face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvfzFv3c6Y

Where spacecraft traveling interstellar distances at superluminal speeds. Engage the enemy like WWII fighters (well Steven modeled manuveurs from that war's combat footage), larger ships engaged each other like 18th century navies. And it had flaming fireballs and thunderous explosions in the vacuum of space, yeah!

The light speed was definitely a misnomer, but I remember reading somewhere that they wanted to avoid a lawsuit from Paramount over similarities with the original Star Trek (thus they didn't use warp speed as a term). They still got sued (and won) over similarities with Battlestar Galactica.

The combat style and sounds were adapted primarily for theatrical purposes. However, if you want to see a great, realistic space battle, the expanse has a great one here, but it required a lot more CGI and special effects than were available at the time of Star Wars and though they did a good job with the realism, there is no crowd pleasing explosion, thundering engines or gut wrenching bullet sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Compared to Star Wars space fights like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The BSG reboot sits somewhere in the middle, but their space battles are also great and exciting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Where spacecraft traveling interstellar distances at superluminal speeds. Engage the enemy like WWII fighters (well Steven modeled manuveurs from that war's combat footage), larger ships engaged each other like 18th century navies. And it had flaming fireballs and thunderous explosions in the vacuum of space, yeah!

The light speed was definitely a misnomer, but I remember reading somewhere that they wanted to avoid a lawsuit from Paramount over similarities with the original Star Trek (thus they didn't use warp speed as a term). They still got sued (and won) over similarities with Battlestar Galactica.

The combat style and sounds were adapted primarily for theatrical purposes. However, if you want to see a great, realistic space battle, the expanse has a great one here, but it required a lot more CGI and special effects than were available at the time of Star Wars and though they did a good job with the realism, there is no crowd pleasing explosion, thundering engines or gut wrenching bullet sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Compared to Star Wars space fights like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The BSG reboot sits somewhere in the middle, but their space battles are also great and exciting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Where spacecraft traveling interstellar distances at superluminal speeds. Engage the enemy like WWII fighters (well Steven modeled manuveurs from that war's combat footage), larger ships engaged each other like 18th century navies. And it had flaming fireballs and thunderous explosions in the vacuum of space, yeah!

The light speed was definitely a misnomer, but I remember reading somewhere that they wanted to avoid a lawsuit from Paramount over similarities with the original Star Trek (thus they didn't use warp speed as a term). They still got sued (and won) over similarities with Battlestar Galactica.

The combat style and sounds were adapted primarily for theatrical purposes. However, if you want to see a great, realistic space battle, the expanse has a great one here, but it required a lot more CGI and special effects than were available at the time of Star Wars and though they did a good job with the realism, there is no crowd pleasing explosion, thundering engines or gut wrenching bullet sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Compared to Star Wars space fights like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The BSG reboot sits somewhere in the middle, but their space battles are also great and exciting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Loved the fist Matrix movie. Philosophy, virtual reality, crazy new visual effects. I remember walking out of that movie and there was silence from the audience. Many were still processing the meaning and some were discovering brand-new ideas for the first time.

This series of videos by Flick Floggers does an excellent job of articulating why The Matrix was so good, and why the sequels failed :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayvxSUHAOgc

Deeper Analysis - The Matrix (1/2)
TheFlickFloggers
Published on Jun 9, 2013

In order to understand why the Matrix sequels disappoint, we deeply analyze what made the first Matrix film such a massive success with audiences and critics alike. This segment focuses on the making of the film and how its structure/characters/themes resonate.

Elsewhere In C I would use pointers for linked lists.

Don't use linked lists if you care about performance. If writing a dynamic array is a pain in the ass in C then stop using C. Use C++ instead.

And don't give me that ignorant crap about C++ being bloated in comparison to C and thus unacceptable for embedded uses.
This guy wrote pong for the C64 in under 1KB of compiled code (including sprites!) with ZERO ram usage.

Elsewhere In C I would use pointers for linked lists.

Don't use linked lists if you care about performance. If writing a dynamic array is a pain in the ass in C then stop using C. Use C++ instead.

And don't give me that ignorant crap about C++ being bloated in comparison to C and thus unacceptable for embedded uses.
This guy wrote pong for the C64 in under 1KB of compiled code (including sprites!) with ZERO ram usage.

Obligatory Little Britain

I think that the ring explosion you're talking about was added in one of the terrible Special Edition releases. See a comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Unless you own a VHS or Laserdisc release, the easiest way you're going to see Han shooting Greedo unprovoked is by torrenting either a the fan made Despecialized Edition (cobbled together from different sources) or the Silver Screen release (based on a recently-discovered 35mm print).

It is a well known and long standing practice for hollywood to remake movies in different settings. This goes way back, but one that springs to mind:

Kurosawa's Yojimbo (Edo Japan Ronin playing two factions against each other for profit) remade as "A Fist Full of Dollars" a western starring Clint Eastwood with the same storyline, but set in the cowboy American mid west.

It happens a lot more often than you think, and these are remakes in the truest sense of the word.

Here are more since I'm lazy and don't want to write out a longer list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Google is your friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When people are worried about changes in "many layers of the stack", it's usually a good time to re-architect the system and build microservices. Basically, you get the entire stack in every microservice and you stop worrying about ripple effects; you upgrade or troubleshoot things at a much smaller scale.

I highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Buildin...

It explains how to achieve this, including how to deal with the tough parts like the database layer.

Just watch the Spotify Engineering Culture videos. What you refer to as "ripple effects" they refer to as "blast radius" which I like much better. The benefit of micro services is that if one micro service blows up, the rest continue to run at least enabling partial functionality as opposed to taking the whole system down or putting the entire system into a funky state.

This. Bad management merges bad code, and there is ni overcoming that.

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say "Ni" at will to old ladies.

I agree, that video looked rigged as hell. I've seen a lot more convincing animatronics in theme parks.

What exactly were the Hollywood-style "explosions" supposed to be anyway? Were we supposed to believe that they were something that that "robotic tank" was shooting, were they supposed to be smoke screens, or were they just added for ambiance?

Seriously, I've seen better robotic gun platforms made by Syrian rebels living in rubble.

This isn't to defend bad doctors -- of which there are many -- or anything, but you are not a doctor, you don't possess medical expertise which even generalists have, and to be frank, your "lived experience," while not totally worthless, is more than likely not nearly as good an indicator for medical diagnoses as you seem to think it is. Much of the time, your recollection of what you lived is going to be incomplete, biased, or straight-up counterfactual (note that I didn't imply lying... you can be quite wrong without intending it) when compared against what actually occurred. That's why objective tests are used so often instead, something that most older patients, who recall more physical examinations and discussions, will often describe as a disconcerting shift in medical practices. To be certain, physicals are still conducted, but I'd suspect that, unless your doctor is quite a bit more seasoned, they're probably ordering more tests than you give them credit for.

So how about those tests?

Well, every test carries with it a false positive (and false negative) rate... I know of no non-trivial diagnostic test that is 100% accurate. Let's say that you test positive for some horrible disease, though. Naturally, you'd get a 2nd opinion (independent, likely different test). What's the chance that the 2nd test will produce a different result? Veritasium recently went over a pretty good explanation of exactly this scenario: if your initial test accurately diagnosed people as having a disease 99% of the time, you'd actually have only a ~9% chance of actually having the disease, given a positive initial test result, so a 2nd, independent test would likely suggest a different outcome. This doesn't mean that the initial test is worthless or bad; it just means that a test useful for screening diseases is still limited in what it can actually say. It also doesn't mean that a differing 2nd opinion is an indication of ineptitude of the first lab, though that is a possibility; again, it means that tests are limited in what they can actually say.

It certainly doesn't mean that you should disregard medical expertise for your own idea of what you think is going on. By all means, though, if that's the fire you want to play with, play with it to your heart's content. Just don't complain when you get burned.

My first home computer was a 286 XT. I have fond memories of playing Alley Cat, Railroad Tycoon, Leisure Suit Larry, Jack Nicholson's Golf, Grand Prix, and Digger (to name a few). We were one of the late comers in my group of friends to get a computer, but that meant that we had VGA, a hard drive, and a 300dpi printer before most other people.

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

This link is great in relation to how Linus deals with a huge distributed codebase. It's actually what convinced me GIT was superior to SVN.

3D-printed mini NES with small NFC cartridges.

Seriously why is this thing article even on Slashdot? It's so common these days that you need something taken to the next step as shown in this video to even get mentioned on hackaday.

Our real first pc was in 1990 we had an IBM Clone (386) 16MHz 80386SX with DOS operating system.. Learned basic commandline on that machine. Ah the game Bruce Lee still gives me horrid memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In one way, this could help religion by providing people with a religious experience

Please forgive me brother, but i think that you are confused as to what a "religious experience" is - and from my experience, the Provider of a "religious experience" makes sure that it is provided when you do not want it or expected it...

or even a very realistic recreation of religious events, connecting people to the origins and mythology.

A recreation of "religious events" is like pornography, for people you can call... jerks (excuse my language). The most a VR gadget can do maybe slightly better than TV (or a book) is "connect people to the origins and mythology".

In another way, religions could view it as a threat. I've read several times that psychedelic drugs were often suppressed by religions because they provided people with a transcendental experience not controlled by the religion. I can see someone producing a slick VR religion program that's not endorsed or controlled by mainstream religions being seen as a big threat.

As a Greek Orthodox Christian, just few hours ago (since we Greeks are ahead of barbarians!) i celebrated the victory of Christ over death. Almost all Greeks went to church at midnight (yes, we Greeks like to party when barbarians usually sleep...), and most of them had a "transcendental experience" (without any "psychedelic drug"). Yes, the "mainstream religion" in Greece (Greek Orthodox Christian Church) will surely not endorse a "slick VR religion program", and will surely see it as a "big threat", but for a very good reason: for 2 millenniums Greek Orthodox Christians enjoy the Actual Reality... why downgrade to Virtual?
Xristos Anesti

They backstab every part of their base - workers, unions, minorities - except for the donor class. At least Republicans will stab you in front. It's not that Republicans have increased in popularity - its that Obama and the Clintons have driven the party so far into the ground that they've lost at every level around the country. They are completely and utterly incapable of saying what they stand for besides "we're not Republicans."

And no, the other side isn't as bad.

You're right. The Democrats are worse. NAFTA. TPP. Gramm-Leach-Bliley. 1996 Telecom Act which means 6 companies control almost all print and broadcast media. Putting SS and Medicare cuts into federal budget proposals. Printing trillions to bail out fraudulent banks while letting those banks illegally foreclose on millions of homes. Starting a war and explicitly not asking Congress for permission first (Libya). Starting regime change to "protect Arab Spring protestors" in Libya and Syria while at the same time selling weapons to Bahrain, who were violently putting down their Arab Spring protests. Repealing the cornerstone of all civil rights, habeas corpus, with an NDAA that allows the military to detain you without warrant or trial, on American soil.

Trump is an ugly face on an ugly system, but he's going to have to work long and hard just to catch up to the Clinton and Obama freakshows, who were pretty faces on an ugly system. But Stepford Democrats DGAF because they are willfully blind partisan tribalists.

We've known this since the 60's

This is why you need to set a passphrase for authentication. Something like this should keep Google Home and Alexa from accidentally activating:

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

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

Lauren, you're retarded. Let's play a game of hide-and-go-fuck-yourself.

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

> All languages suck in various ways.

Except JavaShit is brain dead.

Any JS programmer worth their salt uses the triple equality test, ===, because JavaShit fucked up the normal equality comparison test, ==, due to unwanted type conversions -- one ends up with this retarded operator comparison table.

if( 0 == "0" ) console.log( "equal" );
if( 1 == "1" ) console.log( "equal" )
console.log( false == "0" );
console.log( "0" == false );
console.log( true == "1" );
console.log( "1" == true );

Which produces this output:

"equal"
"equal"
true
true
true
true

**FACEPALM**

This forces one to do string concatenation with a dummy empty string prefix: var text = '' + x;

Lastly, any language that ENFORCES the K&R Brace Style for "return", because it will silently fail otherwise, is broken by design.

return
{
  ok: false
};

As Douglas Crockford, author of JavaScript: The Good Parts", said at 34:31

"Why am I betting my career on this piece of crap" ??

--
Only a complete and fucking moron defends JavaShit.

there is no such thing as a SJW, it's just a way for you to show a tribal affiliation

Uh huh. So SJW is not a tribal affiliation, but the people who call out their bullshit is. Gotcha.

We've seen the social "justice" warriors for awhile now, and pretending that they don't exist is a brazen lie.

Exhibit 1: The in-group hair tints.

Exhibit 2: A group of people that don't exist visiting Google.

Exhibit 3: Another group of people that don't exist harassing a university professor out of a job because they were upset over Halloween costumes.

I could go on and on. The social "justice" idiots have been very active and well-documented.

The first solution was to stop the learning process and freeze the neural net before it reached this stage, then simply use it in production with the learning capability (ability to modify itself) disabled.

Which works until somebody re-enables it...

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