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Does that differ from Obama talking with Medvedev?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes, there should be an investigation, but we still don't have anything more than smoke as evidence of a fire.

Arseholetechnica = CNN owned & Pres. Trump PWNED (Thank you President Trump) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDFl_EdqwWI/

See my subject: TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN

APK

P.S.=> Arsholetechnica - You gonna try downmod HIDE this again https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10323647&cid=53976801/ ?

Oh yes, I know - UTTERLY PRICELESS + HILARIOUS! apk

Welcome to the post-factual era. It's gonna be awesome!

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

Both Democrats and Republicans selectively use facts to support their views. Both sides are fuckwits.

Welcome to the post-factual era. It's gonna be awesome!

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

"I feel therefore I am": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Damasio presents the "somatic marker hypothesis", a proposed mechanism by which emotions guide (or bias) behavior and decision-making, and positing that rationality requires emotional input. He argues that Rene Descartes' "error" was the dualist separation of mind and body, rationality and emotion."

Also from Albert Einstein: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ao...
"For the scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to, and conditioned by, each other. The aspiration toward such objective knowledge belongs to the highest of which man is capabIe, and you will certainly not suspect me of wishing to belittle the achievements and the heroic efforts of man in this sphere. Yet it is equally clear that knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. One can have the clearest and most complete knowledge of what is, and yet not be able to deduct from that what should be the goal of our human aspirations. Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself and the longing to reach it must come from another source. And it is hardly necessary to argue for the view that our existence and our activity acquire meaning only by the setting up of such a goal and of corresponding values. The knowledge of truth as such is wonderful, but it is so little capable of acting as a guide that it cannot prove even the justification and the value of the aspiration toward that very knowledge of truth. Here we face, therefore, the limits of the purely rational conception of our existence.
But it must not be assumed that intelligent thinking can play no part in the formation of the goal and of ethical judgments. When someone realizes that for the achievement of an end certain means would be useful, the means itself becomes thereby an end. Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelation of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man. And if one asks whence derives the authority of such fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence. They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

Stuff I wrote years ago on putting humane values back into economics given post-scarcity trends:

"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
http://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a...

"The Richest Man in the World: A parable on structural unemployment and a
basic income"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Post-Scarcity Princeton, or, Reading between the lines of PAW for prospective Princeton students, or, the Health Risks of Heart Disease"
http://www.pdfernhout.net/read...
"The PU economics department, of course, should be abolished as part of this transition

"I feel therefore I am": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Damasio presents the "somatic marker hypothesis", a proposed mechanism by which emotions guide (or bias) behavior and decision-making, and positing that rationality requires emotional input. He argues that Rene Descartes' "error" was the dualist separation of mind and body, rationality and emotion."

Also from Albert Einstein: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ao...
"For the scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to, and conditioned by, each other. The aspiration toward such objective knowledge belongs to the highest of which man is capabIe, and you will certainly not suspect me of wishing to belittle the achievements and the heroic efforts of man in this sphere. Yet it is equally clear that knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. One can have the clearest and most complete knowledge of what is, and yet not be able to deduct from that what should be the goal of our human aspirations. Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself and the longing to reach it must come from another source. And it is hardly necessary to argue for the view that our existence and our activity acquire meaning only by the setting up of such a goal and of corresponding values. The knowledge of truth as such is wonderful, but it is so little capable of acting as a guide that it cannot prove even the justification and the value of the aspiration toward that very knowledge of truth. Here we face, therefore, the limits of the purely rational conception of our existence.
But it must not be assumed that intelligent thinking can play no part in the formation of the goal and of ethical judgments. When someone realizes that for the achievement of an end certain means would be useful, the means itself becomes thereby an end. Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelation of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man. And if one asks whence derives the authority of such fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence. They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

Stuff I wrote years ago on putting humane values back into economics given post-scarcity trends:

"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
http://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a...

"The Richest Man in the World: A parable on structural unemployment and a
basic income"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Post-Scarcity Princeton, or, Reading between the lines of PAW for prospective Princeton students, or, the Health Risks of Heart Disease"
http://www.pdfernhout.net/read...
"The PU economics department, of course, should be abolished as part of this transition

What you're analogy is getting at sounds more like plasma crystals in dusty plasma, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8WQuz5EO5c

Managed to find this from 2008. Definitely helps, but also raises questions:

What conditions make it so a given atom in the lattice will be affected by the motion or not?
Do the atoms retain their "bonds" (if that even applies), or are they reformed when the motion stops?
Do the atoms "remember" their original place in the lattice, or do they simply re-establish the "bonds" with those nearest them?
What would happen, theoretically, if linear motion is applied, or if there was a gap in the disc (like a slice out of a pie)? Would the atoms hit the "wall" or would they pass through it? Would the effect not work under those conditions? If not, why?

See, now I want you to do more research to answer these questions, if you can't already.

You mean this?

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

Had it dawn on you is that those who are considered living in the bubble and echo chambers are mostly coastal elites, living in their bubble, voting mostly democratic in blue states.

What you call "peasantry" has actually voted overwhelmingly against democrats in the United States, like they always had.

You mean your fellow right wing bourgeois? What about them?

However many many many more workers and peasants were killed, starved and worked to death, later were drowned in the never ending rivers of alcoholism, depression and other fun activities while building the communism.

Boilerplate. Socialism is responsible for all ills, while capitalism is completely blameless. Half the people in the richest nation in the history of the world live in poverty? Blameless! A million people die due to a capitalist famine? Blameless!

If you are that clueless and feel so passionate about Soviet revolution, please ask survivors of soviet regime and ask their opinion.

Have you asked the poor in Russia what it's been like to no longer having the guarantee of a decent job, housing, education and health care?

Vulkan/DX12 etc take a long time to become ubiquitous and were not at that point yet, most games are still on dx9-11 which is largely due to console architecture as developers usually don't go with the latest api just for porting over to PC.

That may be your theory, but it does not correspond to facts on the ground. Every major game engine already has a Vulkan port, and in many cases the results are jaw dropping. Within a year, all tier one publishers will be shipping Vulkan builds. Bottom line: gamers know about Vulkan and gamers know they want Vulkan.

What this means if you are building a game box is simple: if your budget is limited, spend big on the GPU, not the processor.

Vulkan/DX12 etc take a long time to become ubiquitous and were not at that point yet, most games are still on dx9-11 which is largely due to console architecture as developers usually don't go with the latest api just for porting over to PC.

That may be your theory, but it does not correspond to facts on the ground. Every major game engine already has a Vulkan port, and in many cases the results are jaw dropping. Within a year, all tier one publishers will be shipping Vulkan builds. Bottom line: gamers know about Vulkan and gamers know they want Vulkan.

What this means if you are building a game box is simple: if your budget is limited, spend big on the GPU, not the processor.

To be honest Hairy I have not seen 1 positive review for games.

Tomshardware did not totally bash it. It mentioned it as a big improvement and great workhorse CPU.

The Joker did another video here and I made a comment after I noticed something? This was evident in the last game tested but I noticed in Tom Clancy's THe Division cpu utilization was higher on the Intel while lower on the 1st core for Ryzen

"I think I figured out what Ryzen's issue is? Look at the CPU core usage? On the Ryzen the first core has a higher % used while the rest of the cores are less utilized? On the Intel the 1st core has less cpu usage but the rest of Intel;s core are higher utilized? From what I observed:
1. The game is stuck trying to wait for synchronization on the Ryzen or
2. The game has code expecting a previous cpu and over utilizing the threads expecting a slower core IPC and running it like a stream (how the PS3/4 are optimized) Netflix app.
It could also mean AMD has inferior synchronization latency or optimizations too while the INtel doesn't slow down when trying to use it's cores. What do you all think?"

So I think AMD is having a bug with synchronization or the game codes assume AMD sucks and overdoes it's threading and replication and lowers the priority of the main CPU core?

It could also just mean it is still inferior to an Intel on per core performance even if much improved :-(

Sorry Hairy, I own an RX 470 and used to be an AMD fan back in the day. Intel has a better CPU for most users and gamers. An i5 4660K from 2014 is much cheaper and so is a newer i5 7600K and performs better for a much cheaper price than AMD. It may make sense at your shop to switch to Intel as you can save money.

If am paying $500 for a damn CPU you bet I expect it to be a 4 core in EVERY benchmark. I have not seen any games that beat Intel. Not one at 720P or 1080P which stress the CPU and not the GPU. I mean even Dues Ex du Mankind divided which is an AMD optimized title is .3% than a cheaper i7 7700K. I will wait back and see.

Intel will not take this sitting down and you bet 8 core i7's will be here next year creaming AMD unless the next Ryzen finds out what is going on and fixes it. Also the ram not being able to past 2600 mhz, only 16 PCI Express lanes, as well as 30 second boots from UEFI show teething pains.

She's a witch!

But how do you KNOW?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

Shakespeare? How about something with a bit more class.

Searching the Web is not that hard. CSPAN video here.

Let us see if you are mature enough to stop lying, or if you close your eyes and years yelling "nuh uh"

I will never be dependent on a dongle to be able to display sides on AV equipment in the classroom, often old (read HDMI, etc.)

Well, you can always edit your config.sys. :^D

Actually, somebody should do a new ad. "Sorry the presentation is taking so long. I'm trying to find the right dongle." "I have a DVI-to-VGA." "I have a HDMI-to-DVI!" "I have a USB-C-to-DisplayPort!"

"Get a Dell!"

Just so we're clear, we're talking about this Mike Pence, yes?

Just checking.

> Games have notoriously been single threaded for ever, because it's a lot easier to program a linear algorithm and keep memory use clean.

Some things games have to do are fundamentally single threaded, but you are correct: it's easier to program a single thread, and often the gain from another thread doesn't help much. 3D games are a little different, because much of the CPU tasking involves doing stuff so that data can be pushed to the graphics card. Those scale VERY well with extra cores, but only if coded that way.

An example is the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. In any area where there is not many players, the CPU has almost nothing to do. It continuously funnels requests for frames to the graphics card, which goes totally bonkers rendering hundreds of frames per second, and spinning its fan like crazy (there's a vsync option, should you be looking for a solution to this issue, and also be running fullscreen). In an area where there's a ton of players, your frame rate drops below 60 fps, and sometimes even below 30 fps, and the graphics card fan is silent. Check out the processor status, and you see the CPU dance:

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

And a bit of investigation reveals that the process is barely multithreaded at all.

Meanwhile, other games don't have this issue: they divest that logic across the cores, and the graphics card can be fully tasked (ideally intelligently so), giving you a good framerate consistently, with your GPU fan starting up if the game is actually rendering something hard.

But again, that requires those games be programmed that way. And more are being programmed that way today. Mostly, game developers have been happy to take the much simpler single threaded approach, which reduces development costs, and if you have to support a bunch of dual core chips because a decent chunk of your customers have those, why spend your time worrying about the extra cores most chips have? That's not necessarily how all future development will go, however, especially if, as is being made obvious, that adding more cores is a lot more reasonable than adding a little bit of IPC and clock.

Relevant NSFW movie clip

Fake News would imply the content was incorrect, invented or misleading.

I think there are two different definitions of "fake news" running around. In the original "fake news" story it was about a left-wing activist who wanted to "prove" right wingers were dumb and will fall for stupid shit so he created a news blog with completely made up facts, like that protestors were being paid $3500 to protest against Trump. This wasn't true, protestors were being paid around $16 via craigslist posts by people affiliated with Moveon.org, but it's useful disinformation for those who don't pay too much attention. Mention some protestors are being paid, and someone can scream "that was fake news!" And they're half right because they heard about the $3500 fake news and not the $16 real news. Anyway, then he'd post his fake news site in the comments sections of right wing blogs, and immediately someone would say "don't spread this crap, it's fake." The author then goes on NPR and says "hurr durr Trump won because these right wingers are peddling all this fake news I made!" Uh, if the left wing hack weren't making the fake news there wouldn't be fake news, if he weren't spreading it fake news wouldn't spread, and nobody believed him anyway. It's literally the "I was just pretending to be retarded" meme.

Then we have the way the mainstream media does fake news, which is fake context. People don't think in terms of facts, they think in terms of narratives. CNN does shit like this where you have a true fact (the video of the sister) but a fake narrative ('urged peace;" she did not). Or this story, where they're trying to conflate Pence's legal use of a private email account for state business with Hillary's illegal use of a private email server for classified information. The facts don't really matter. They're working a narrative ("Trump's administration is full of sloppy crooks who are puppets to Russians/Jews/aliens/Lizard Men from the Hollow Earth") using confirmation bias. Put out enough scary-sounding headlines describing legal behavior or wild speculation and confirmation bias takes over until people unironically believe that ultra-nationalist Jeff Sessions is a commie-rooskie agent. This won't work on Republicans or most normal independents, but the left has lost their grip on reality long ago, and Dems are probably checking under their beds for Russians at this point.

I have no idea how to break people out of these hallucinations. I wondered when Trump won the New Hampshire primaries and HuffPo ran their headline, literally in all caps "WAR IN EUROPE" sized that "NEW HAMPSHIRE GOES RACIST SEXIST XENOPHOBIC!!!!!" what would happen when Trump wins the general election? New Hampshire voters went for Trump because he said he'd get the $10 heroin off their streets, not because they're secret nazis. Would their readers snap out of it and realize HuffPo was misleading them? Nope. My FaceBook page is still full of hysterical women who think Russian Hitler is about to gas all non-straight white christian males. And the media just keeps adding fuel to the fire. How does this end?

Amazing when a speech is still extremely relevant some 70 years later

Please view this speech that exposes the international jewish syndicate undermining humanity.

Also, the great NASA was started by, and is still ran by great NAZI engineers, some of the greatest minds to ever grace humanity.

We still have to pick grapes by hand

Nope. Starting at 12:25 you can see machines in action to do this. Also before that they have a tomato picker in action.

Courage's reaction to removing the headphone jack

Peter Jackson is from New Zealand as demonstrated by the presence of sheep in his earlier work.

Just 'get a new skill' will soon be an ineffective solution. I work in technical customer service, so I think I'll last a bit longer than some jobs, but nearly any job has the potential to be on the chopping block. By 2050 I bet an AI system will be able to take calls and assist users with every program under the sun faster and cheaper than I can, 24/7, while always being friendly and never needing a lunch break.

No job is safe.

Commander Data discovered how this might feel.

Yup.

There are even seminars on how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

Obligatory courage video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I want to see mandatory regulation on large social media sites that extend Constitutional protection restrictions to them. Privatizing the public square without extending the protections and rights conferred to people within the public square is a serious concern that needs to be addressed. Moxie Marlinspike's talk that mentions how opting out of technology is opting out of society is a real eye-opener in this regard.

Twitter, Facebook, etc. should not be able to suspend, throttle, or delete the speech of their users. Before you try to say that it's not okay for the government to force private companies to manage their platform a certain way, give that up right now. They chose to be the new public square. They proudly brag about how many billions of accounts they have registered. They can choose to stop doing that if they don't want to be regulated. Facebook is effectively a monopoly; they've managed to replace other options like Craigslist with their Facebook Marketplace, so if you're not on Facebook for whatever reason, you're also unable to access a huge marketplace.

tl;dr: The First Amendment needs to be extended to apply to large private corporations. If you disagree, I dare you to elaborate.

Trump hasn't even hinted at anything like that yet your idiot NSA friend stuck it out through very real morale issues under Obama.

Ah yes, from the "all morale issues are created equal" camp.

Though I agree that there is a germ of truth here. From the military's perspective, there's no morale issue so great it can't be resolved by threatening an even worse outcome.

Joyeux Noel to you too, and many Paths of Glory.

Tell your shit stain friend his candidate lost and to grow some fucking balls and act like an adult. ... Or as my grandpa used to say ...

Condolences about your grandpa. He was an ass, but the twelve crapper salute was worse than he deserved.

Twitter? You mean the internet company that doesn't understand the internet?

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

No Thank You. I don't need a Trust and Safety council anymore than a Ministry of Truth.

Its really fascinating to me to watch this. Twitter like the Democrat party is doubling down on all of the things that are responsible for their decline.

When I was a teenager I was pulled over for speeding and had a list of excuses I decided to work through from top to bottom. After about 5 minutes the officer said to me calmly, "When you find yourself in a ditch the best thing to do is quit digging."

A lesson Liberals desperately need to learn.

Twitter? You mean the internet company that doesn't understand the internet?

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

No Thank You. I don't need a Trust and Safety council anymore than a Ministry of Truth.

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

Arguably there is still good music, you just need to find the right stuff. One that is not too far from classic rock, even if it is usually counted under progressive metal:
"The Light And Shade Of Things" by Fates Warning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeF3IWLEeHE)

Fully agreed. Sadly, the classics truly are gone these days. -PCP

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

I watch YouTube because I can't stand TV (although I do watch a few PBS shows, but they are on YouTube)

There's already more things on YouTube that I'd like to watch than what I have time for: https://www.youtube.com/user/H...

> Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon

I remember seeing the teaser trailer in the theater, and the whole audience was sitting in rapt attention up until the reveal that it was a Transformers movie. A huge groan went up at that point!

Bewildered, I thought they couldn't possibly be suggesting that Neil and Buzz got from the Apollo 11 landing site to the far side of the moon and back in 21 minutes? I had to rent the DVD just to confirm that yes, in fact, that is exactly what the movie was portraying. Stupid.

From Youtube:

Stream ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC & more.

I get all of those stations and 50 more for free using an antenna. Most of them are HD, and I can DVR with Myth TV. Why would I want to spend $35 per month?

Chicken chicken

Islam does not imply Sharia, hence it is just a religion and not a political ideology.

At the core of Islam is a beating, black heart. You think ISIS and Islamic rule in countries like Iran happens in a vacuum? It's there at the roots.

Lern to know your enemy, if you think you have one!

Indeed, here's two links for you to start you on your way:

Dr. Bill Warner - Why Are People Afraid

Islam has bloody borders:

"Nevertheless, there is a problem that goes back to the very beginnings of Muslim history: From the time that the first Muslims established themselves as the rulers of Medina, Islam was a political and increasingly a legal system as well as a faith. In Medina Muhammad continued to be a prophet, but he also became the head of a state and a military leader. With the exception of Southeast Asia (where Islam was spread by traders from the the subcontinent), what we now know as the Muslim world was established by conquest. It is no accident that in traditional Muslim thought the world is divided into two spheres--the realm of Islam (dar ul-Islam) and the realm of war (dar ul-harb). Put simply, it is assumed that the border between Islamic rule and the rest of the world marks a state of war, even if periods of armistice are possible. One should be cognizant of the important fact that there are Muslim thinkers today who are reformulating the nature of Islamic law (sharia) and of Islamic war (jihad) in a much more liberal manner. But one must also recognize that there is a weighty tradition to the contrary and that a large number of Muslims, possibly the majority, does not favor these reformulations."

And how the hell can you say this crap and not be racist:

“And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” O’Donnell recalled Trump saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”

“I think the guy is lazy,” Trump said of a black employee, according to O’Donnell. “And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

Trump is an ignorant white cracker with a dead cat on his head (Dr. Phil on Jimmy Kimmel),

Most stats claimed by 3rd/4th wave of feminists are vastly exaggerated, that's why you don't see a lot of things that are claimed to be oh so common.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We had actually talented artists in the 20th Century.

We sure did! And they got lots of airplay

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

The big buzz about Buzz, the bum-buzzer. Did he fly on a rocket, or fly up a socket?

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

A more appropriate and on-topic reply would have been NERD!

Assuming you're not trolling...

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