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"It's all pipes, what's the difference!!!" - George Costanza

The first video I saw of Inside Amy Schumer was precisely about this kind of 1-cup-and-2-girls stuff. Hilarious!

Would you like spy's addresses or would their full name and social security numbers be enough? To reveal the means is to reveal the sources.

Horseshit. They don't have to reveal the the surveillance protocols to make specific claims. Case in point: you ask an intelligence official to say that Russia hacked Podeta's emails (not how, just to say on the record that they did so) said official goes straight into BS mode.

Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, has an enlarged heart (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and is at risk of suddenly dying (due to a medical condition called "sudden death"). She has no symptoms. She has given a talk about this many times at tech conferences, you should be able to find a copy of her talk online quite easily. She calls herself a "cyborg lawyer running on proprietary software" because she needs to wear a pacemaker/defibrillator device on her heart which keeps her heart beating within a predetermined acceptable range (not too slow, not too fast) by shocking her heart until it beats at an acceptable rhythm. Sandler said she's been shocked before and it's like being kicked in the chest and it takes the wind out of her for a while, requiring her to take some time for recovery.

She knew of software freedom and figured on these weaknesses in these devices, some of which can be controlled remotely at some distance, because all of them run on proprietary software. She tried to get the source code, even offering to sign a non-disclosure agreement to do so, and nobody would share the code with her. She said she was the only one to ask her doctors about what ran on the device. She therefore chose an older model which requires the "programmer" device which sends a signal to the pacemaker/defibrillator be quite close to her body so that she'd probably know if someone were doing things to her device. The lack of software freedom and full user control (ownership) of the device is quite obviously a health risk and possibly lethal. Don't let anyone tell you a lack of software freedom isn't serious.

An interesting thing happened during her pregnancy, which she explained in an update to her talk: She learned that a pregnant woman's heart sometimes naturally races. For most women of childbearing age this isn't a problem as they're unlikely to need a pacemaker/defibrillator, so their heart can occasionally race without serious consequences. For Sandler this racing triggers the device to shock her back into an "acceptable" heart rhythm. It appears that the pacemaker/defibrillator device makers didn't test this device on women young enough to be of childbearing age but they're apparently happy to sell the devices for implanting into users of any age. This lack of testing in combination with the lack of software freedom means the device manufacturers aren't doing due diligence and they're preventing younger women, such as Sandler, from looking out for their own interests—avoiding "sudden death". One can only imagine what horrible multiply lethal outcome could predictably result for a pregnant woman with the same condition Sandler has whose heart races when she was driving while receiving a shock from her non-free pacemaker/defibrillator device. Don't let anyone tell you a lack of software freedom isn't serious.

I find YouTube to be the best fact checker.

Youtube does an often terrible job. You can find almost any video on that place. I would submit it is not a good fact checker at all.

And videos can often be deceptive, take for example, Shirley Sherrod's resignation based on a video that wasn't the whole story.

The media claimed that Trump mocked a disabled reporter, or more to the point, that Trump mocked a reporter for his disability. Trump did in fact mock a reporter who is disabled. However, there are videos on youtube that will show you that those body movements of his are used regularly, not for mocking disabilities but to personify his view of someone who doesn't have an answer.

That's one way to interpret it. Then Trump is mocking somebody without realizing how it will be taken. But ok, you want us to forgive him for that? Then Trump is still mocking somebody. That's not a good thing. It's still uncouth behavior from somebody who wanted to be president. If any liberal politician acted that way towards Fox News or Breitbart, they'd be roasted at the stake.

Just today's actions of Trump towards that reporter, if Obama or his press secretary had done it, I believe you'd be calling for their head.

Trump, himself, also denounced SNL for their mockery of him. But that's a comedy show. They aren't intended to be serious. But Trump is too thin-skinned to tolerate them. Which says a lot about him too.

Most of the mainstream media also claimed that Donald Trump said soldiers that commit suicide are weak. He said no such thing. Go to youtube and watch the actual speech. He was discussing the lack of care available for our veterans, particularly the lack of mental healthcare. He was discussing triggers, and our soldiers being left without the support they deserved. Every soldier and veteran I know who watched that video loved it. In fact, it was the first, and almost the only time I watched Donald Trump and thought to myself that he looked presidential.

Or you could find the snopes fact check and saved yourself the trouble.

However, whatever credit you want to give to him not mocking veterans, I find Trump's remarks in that regard to be very shallow and lacking in details. Now you may say that is presidential, and I won't necessarily disagree with you that presidents as well as other politicians do tend to produce very superficial remarks.

I personally would prefer less bombastic flutter about fixing it, and more specific references and implementations. I find Trump to follow that tendency, just today, in his press conference, I noticed his effusive claims of better, cheaper, blah-blah-blah, on the F-35, on healthcare reform, on so very much.

I do not esteem it. Far from it.

Watch MSNBC, they'll show you protestors at a Tea Party rally outside one of President Obama's townhall meetings. They'll show you a man carrying an AR-15 on his back. They'll state how this is intimidating and seemingly rather racist. Go to youtube and you'll find the another video of that same rally. Except this video will clearly show the man in question with an AR-15 strapped to his back is in fact a black American.

Black men aren't allowed to join the Tea Party? I thought they made a point of not being racist. Now you're somehow arguing against it. I think.

Were you trying to say something, like it's ok for black men to be armed with an AR-15 and protesting? No, it's not. Black, white, yellow, red, green, or blue, you shouldn't carry around a gun like that. That's wrong. Just like it's also wrong to grow palm trees in Wisconsin.

So ya.....trust me, conservatives are very aware of how fake most of the m

This. I was a caregiver to my ALS-stricken wife for three years, and after she passed away, I was diagnosed with PTSD. It's not just combat that's stressful.

possibly CPTSD? Similar situation here.

Here's an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There's been an updated Mac ad done by Maddox, many years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Aww, come on? Whoever modded that down obviously didn't get either reference.

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

That's why the original leader/founder left.

Are you talking about Bob Hunter? He left when died of prostate cancer in 2005. Possibly you mean David McTaggart? He left when he died in 2001 of a car accident. Dorothy and Irving Stowe are also both dead and supported Greenpeace until their dying days. Or do you mean this guy?

No, not Boston. It has to be Terre Haute

Though getting my money back has been, uh, diffcult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So after book stores, Amazon now wants to push Banana stores out of business?

But, really, the kind of service I get from my local fruit dealer just can't be matched. I mean, Carlos really knows his bananas. He's familiar with all the types: green, slightly green, mostly yellow, spotted, heavily mottled, and brown. I know the ones we mostly get in the U.S. are all clones with exactly the same genetics, but Carlos really knows his stuff. And the service! Once I had sprained my ankle, and Carlos even helped me carry my box of bananas home. Can you get that service from Amazon?

What I really love are the special guests Carlos brings in. He's had growers and pickers who talk about where the bananas come from -- and sometimes they even have special banana signings by these celebrity pickers! I've kept a few of the signed skins... sure they're so black now that it's difficult to make out the signature, but they do have a certain ap-peel, if they know what I mean!

Lately, they tend to have children's time at the banana stand. My neighbor says it's all just propaganda to get kids used to still going to local banana sources, but I think it's good community engagement. From the banana slide to the games of "banana relay," there's a lot of great clean fun! (They did try a game of "hide the banana," but the weird guy Fred who lives next to the stand participated and... well, let's just say that game is no longer deemed appropriate for kids...)

And really, what can rival the browsing experience you get at a physical banana stand? I see banana possibilities there that you'd never get from "banana recommendations" in Amazon! Who knew they could come in bunches with even 7 or 8 bananas? I've even seen bunches that have long ones AND short ones together! Can't get that from a some electronic app for buying bananas.

Seriously. What we need to teach kids today is There's always money in the banana stand!

Exactly. Why do people think they need to be white knights for Uber drivers? Uber drivers know what they are doing.

Your post reminds me of this clip from Airplane.

#PISSGATE CONFORMED!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJI-UeF6HDc

Man admits to giving Trump a golden shower! Back in 2011.

He's probably busy reading the report saying Russian compromised Trump.

YouTube has proof from 2011 that it's real! It's totally not a 4chan troll fanfic that made the front page of CNN right now. We have really good reasons to believe documents even BuzzFeed won't vouch for!

Mandatory taller change parody

You do understand the Motorola Star-TAC was DIRECTLY influenced by Star Trek right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I know lots of people working on voice recognition that reference the 'Hello Computer' scene from Star Trek IV.

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

No single event can be attributed to climate change with 100% certainty.
But we can look at the trend and say "gee, there's 20x more events now than there used to be".

You say that, however any chaotic system has specific limits. Given a certain energy in the system there may be, for example, a maxiumum size of storm which can occur and any storm bigger than that would be dissipated. In the equivalent, a chaotic pendulum can be moving chaotially, but still never flip over the top (see this video). If you started the same pendulum higher (both sections point up at the start) then it will be able to flip over the top, even though you will never be able to predict when. There are clearly plenty of events going on, such as the melting of the Arctic, which would have been impossible 100 years ago, but the climate scientists are too terrified of being spied on by the oil company PR people and losing their jobs to tell us the full truth.

We're at now-now.

But what happened to then?

We passed it

When?

Just now!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Oblig Southpark reference

Guessing they're referring to this.

Flower Power by Freddie

Cyanide & Happiness has already invented a seed gun.

There are a lot of safety systems in these charging systems where they monitor the temperature of the connectors, the voltage loss between the charger and the car (to detect bad connections) and probably GFCI as well. With my Tesla model S it always starts out slow and ramps up the current draw and monitors the voltage sag and other characteristics to shut down if it detects a problem. No high voltage flows until both the car and charger finish negotiating. If the cable is suddenly unplugged then the power is shut off. It is probably a lot safer than filling a gas car though I did see a case where a Tesla was charging when lightning hit it.. While the car certainly was unhappy I can imagine lightning striking a car filling with gasoline could be much worse.

What ho!

US Military were too late to the game.

On the 4th of January I watched the announcement of a seed gun.

You can see the video here.

Aside from everyday ones:

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

There are the ones that really take it far, like this guy who accused everybody of being racist (if a reporter said they were going out to the field, he implied that it was a reference to slaves in cotton fields) and it ended with him shooting up another reporter who was supposedly victimizing him:

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

If you look on youtube, there are lots of these.

Aside from everyday ones:

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

There are the ones that really take it far, like this guy who accused everybody of being racist (if a reporter said they were going out to the field, he implied that it was a reference to slaves in cotton fields) and it ended with him shooting up another reporter who was supposedly victimizing him:

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

If you look on youtube, there are lots of these.

Really?

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

How can you claim that this is anything other than a professional victim?

Really?

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

How can you claim that this is anything other than a professional victim?

> Contrast ratios get silly and mostly pointless when you have a black that is fully non-emissive.

Even fully-non-emissive blacks can be somewhat reflective. Think about that projector screen in the conference room: with the lights on and projector off, it looks gray, not black.

Now, if you have a black screen that's fully absorptive then you're onto something!

It does sound like somebody in the Army really enjoyed Grim Fandango:

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

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

Captain Planet had this totally beat. . .

Right.

Not to mention obscene contrast ratios (which is implied by your post, I guess) -- some claim 1,000,000:1, others seem to claim infinite.

I have an LCD (backlit) TV and a OLED phone -- in a dark room, displaying a black image on the TV will cause a noticeable amount of bleedthrough light. A black image on my OLED phone, on the other hand, can only be described by Nigel Tufnel.

Highly relevant 30 second clip from a David Lynch interview

This is one of the most annoying thing about today's SJW babies -- and one of the biggest reasons why society is finally fed up and not taking any more of it -- everything to them is about "hate." Anything they don't understand must be because of hate. People expressing opposing ideas or viewpoints are hateful. Must be so sad to live with such a disturbed worldview.

Actually, you bring up an interesting topic. Everything to them is about "hate."

That's because the same kind of thinking that religious belief is based around also allows for this Post-Modernist claptrap.

You see, if you turn the world into a nice black and white, then all you have to do is compare it to your predefined list of bad things and work backwards from there.

Is it a sin? Is it against the noble eightfold path? Is this heresy? If so, it's bad. Find a reason why later, it's bad, that's all you need to know.

They have swapped out this religious thinking for identity politics.

Is this sexist?

Is this racist?

Is this conservative?

Do normal straight men like it?

Is this capitalist?

If so, it's BAD. Find a reason later. That's why you see an ever-expanding bubble of "bad" surrounding them. "You're just a racist sexist Tea Party MRA GamerGate transphobic Alt Right islamophobic CIS WHITE MALE BernieBro benefiting from the capitalist heteronormative PATRIARCHY!"

The word salad doesn't matter. They really mean "bad."

The leader of the Honey Badgers has a great video up on it here. She's incredibly articulate and covers this in excellent detail.

China has had tough-sounding pollution laws for years. The problem with those laws is that nobody was in charge of enforcing them. For example cars and trucks are suppose to have emissions equipment like US cars do, but nobody checks to see that the equipment is actually installed.

Two years ago the Journalist Chai Jing released a blockbuster film about air pollution in China; you can watch it on youtube. The format is Chai presenting data and video segments to an audience in an auditorium. At one point she shows them a video of a routine roadside truck inspection in California, and the audience is just floored. It's as if you were watching a film from a foreign country in which the cops pull over a truck driver and administer a calculus exam. And the driver passes.

Oh F off troll.
The relationship is well documented and well understood.
Just because YOU don't understand the relationship or acknowledge the accuracy of the models, doesn't mean they don't exist.

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

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

Google has published a list of questions you can ask its assistant, they list it right in their commercial!
1. How big is a blue whale?
2. What noise does a whale make?
3. Do whales sleep?

There, now you have it!

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

And before all the cynics start moaning about bad weather performance, let me just remind everyone how well humans drive in the snow.

For this specific example (total loss of traction on 4 wheels) what makes you think self-driving car would do any better?

it's has some overlap with macOS (but systemd does more).

In fact, systemd is completely, and unabashedly inspired by OSX, as can be seen in this blog post. Specifically, this video was inspiration for systemd. That is not necessarily a problem, it's good to share ideas around.

Nice to see even more competition in this space. This has gone from the realm of science fiction to (soon to be) reality.

With LIDAR, these cars should see better than any human possibly can and shouldn't run into the problem of differentiating clouds and trucks, or be blinded by the sun, rain or fog. So all that's left is the software, and Google's been working on that for ages. Of all the self-driving cars around, I think this is the closest to a truly self-driving car, one that doesn't need a driver to babysit it constantly.

And before all the cynics start moaning about bad weather performance, let me just remind everyone how well humans drive in the snow.

There are people who have too much or too little of what makes us one or the other sex. They are _literally_ transgender.

What you are speaking of in this case would be intersex, but besides that, no. They feel their gender is wrong. That's the definition of Gender Dysphoria. They are _literally_ suffering from Gender Dysphoria. That's a mental illness or disorder. One that's treated via therapy as well as transitioning.

Which we have already established because it is covered under insurance.

I know a few members of the LGBT community and the last fucking thing they wanted was attention. They kept their heads as low as they could for most of their lives to avoid having them smashed in by people like yourself. Your B.S. is more of the "They choose to be LGBT" crap. Nobody chooses that life. You get shit on non-stop by everyone; _especially_ your family. You spend most of your childhood getting the shit kicked out of your.

You heard it here ladies and gentlemen (and sorry, those are the only two genders): Calling Gender Dysphoria a mental illness - when it is a mental illness -- somehow means the following:

* You wish to physically assault and / or murder people suffering from this mental illness.
* You believe this mental illness is by choice, like no other mental illness in the history of the world.

If you question anything, even the most tiny part of the doctrine, you're tossed in with the most hateful people imaginable, because when you have an echo chamber you absolutely cannot have any windows in it.

Finally your opinion is bad for you too. Hating on LGBTs, like hating on Blacks, is just yet another way the ruling class gives you an outlet for your frustrations instead of better pay and a better lifestyle. It's a buffer to keep the working class at each other's throats instead of theirs. They've been doing it for centuries. Grow the fuck up, wake the fuck up and realize who your real enemies are. You've got more important things to worry about than whether some dude thinks like a chick.

I don't hate LGBTs, nor have I said anything to the effect. Any perceived bigotry is projection on your part. And I love the mention of the "ruling class" and "working class" stuff -- surefire codeword that I'm speaking with a Marxist.

Because that's one of the major takeaways from all the shit mentioned in this thread -- the attempts at "safe spaces," giving "normal" the magic word "cis," the demanding that special classes of people such as Blacks or Transgenders get special rights are the result of people taking the same failed Marxist ideas that have killed hundreds of millions of people and applying it to minorities.

Identity Politics is a scam. We aren't a hivemind and I owe you no apologies for what other people with the same traits as I have done, nor do I owe you or anyone a damned thing because of some superficial trait.

And since fucking when did /. mod trolls up? This guy got up to +4 for God's sake... Can we get some mods in here?

Sounds like you need some muscle over here!

Uber also worked up a slick 60-second video about it...

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

What is Java's JVM written in? C
What is the Python interpret written in? C
What is C# written in? C and C++
What is Perl written in? C
What is Swift written in? Objective C and C++
What is the Linux kernel written in? C

So as you can see, the Roosterman is clearly incorrect on C.

And Yes! Java should die in a fire. Java is not slow once it is running, it just has to load the entire JVM (written in C) and all of the libraries before it can get it's fat ass moving.

See this brilliant video:

Forgetting Java: Why Java Should Die in Flames and Take its Developers Along by Piotr Limanowski
Published September 3, 2015 in Programming

Video available from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Java is old. Java is verbose. Java is ugly. Java is mocked and ridiculed by everyone and their dog. Hell, Java is dead. Well it's not but I'm preaching to the choir. Or am I? However convenient to say so, it's not exclusively Oracle to blame for Java's current state of the art. Java developers are guilty of laziness (the wrong kind), not questioning the tools they use (wrong again), following patterns (pretty much the right kind) they believe are blessed upon them yadda yadda yadda. Yet the communities around languages we find to be even lesser than Java offer world of a difference. The talk shows the tools, experiences and mindset we lack in the Java world. The virtues present elsewhere but needed here for Java to wipe the "enterprise-grade" solutions off the face of the world. Let's do this people. Let's do the right thing and get rid of the "enterprise" Java developers.

I'm a lifelong proponent of nuclear energy, and I've often vented my rage at the mindless knee-jerk reactionary opposition to nuclear energy voiced by "greenies" who over-inflate accidents caused by infamously careless and dysfunctional regimes. I tell you this so you'll understand the significance when I say that your point is not lost on pro-nuke activists.

"We almost Lost Detroit is one of my favorite nonfiction books - especially because I was born and raised in Fermi I's potential fallout shadow. The book does a lovely job of documenting other costly accidents and near misses as well. Nuclear energy scares the hell out of me - and I think any pro-nuke activist should feel the same. I'm also an avid firearms enthusiast, and as any gun owner can tell you the rules of gun safety are based on multi-layered, defense-in-depth paranoia. It is not a question of if you will make a mistake, but when. Failing to apply this same standard to nuclear energy is insane, and we can't expect anyone to take our advocacy seriously if we brush off their concerns as fear-mongering, Luddite hysteria or flat-out ignorance. All three are present in anti-nuke activism, but that doesn't excuse us from the valid fears that need answering.

Those fears are why Americans proof-test our containment buildings to an extremely high standard. It's why our containment domes (Fermi I, shown here) are a damn sight more spacious than those used by other nations, which might explain why ours don't fail and others have. It's not enough to sit around and point out how the Soviet Union was a pack of incompetent bastards, or how Fukushima was the result of breathtakingly corrupt practices in government and industry, with half the employees being Yakuza, terrifyingly slapdash construction (when two major pipes didn't meet up in the middle like they were supposed to, hooking an earthmover to it, bending the pipe a bit and welding it together wasn't unheard of,) and laughable government "oversight" (i.e. "descent from heaven.") To dismiss these incidents is to say "it can't happen here" and most certainly can. And fear of that keeps the sharp edge on the vigilance needed to ensure it never does.