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Six year olds, and pedantic schoolmarms who are in desperate need of some colon blow. Your wankery is a non-response to Google's hypocrisy.

And yet, costs for most manufactured goods are the lowest they have ever been right now when adjusting for inflation. Send. Elizabeth Warren has a nice talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cars are better and cheaper
Clothes are more varied, better, and cheaper
Food is more plentiful, better, and cheaper
Entertainment is more plentiful and accessible
Computer technology has improved in capability exponentially while decreasing in cost.

Only three budget items are more costly now than they were in the 1970s: Housing, Education, and Health Care. All three of them are immune from normal market forces due to regulatory capture/government interference.

Cars are not cheaper. The price of a car has held fairly steady for decades and is starting to edge upwards.

Clothes are certainly more varried, and more cheaply made to the point that most people throw out clothes after a couple of washes rather than holding onto them for years, selling to second hand shops or passing them down to their kids.

Food is plentiful and cheap, and also reprocessed to death with tons of chemical additives, flavorings to replace what was lost in processing and cheap corn syrup. Food is demonstrably not 'better'.

I would argue that health care is better, but it definitely isn't cheaper, although once vastly complex procedures are now out patient surgery so it's probably moot. Pharmaceuticals, however, are definitely more costly than ever.

If you pay close attention, you will notice that the Left does this all the time. In fact, it's quite amazing at how consistent they are at being hypocrites.

* Cry that people aren't being treated with respect, then go on to verbally and physically assault someone..

* Demand that Trump accept the results of the election no matter what, then riot, throw tantrums, and refuse the accept the outcome when they lose the election..

* Demand that all races be treated equal and that people are not to be judged based on the actions of a few, then go on to claim all white people are privileged racists simply because of the color of their skin..

* Demand that people accept Islam or be accused of "Islamophobia", then go on to badmouth Christians and Christianity..

* Claim that voter ID is racist, then ignorantly and racistly go on to say it's because black people aren't capable of getting an ID..

* Claim Hillary has done no wrong because she hasn't yet been charged with crimes that have an obvious trail of evidence behind them, while "knowing" that Trump is definitely guilty of rape even though the accuser filed as Jane Doe, gave a bogus address, and dropped the case.

* Claim that foreign nations and cultures are important and need to be preserved and any attempt of the West to get involved is an evil act of imperialism, then go on to say Western countries should have no borders and allow everyone in no matter what.

* Demand free speech so they can protest and spew hate and lies, then go on to demand opponents be silenced under "hate speech" laws, or punished because "free speech has consequences".

* Demand that guns be taken away from people in a twisted interpretation of the 2nd amendment, then they go on to threaten to shoot Trump and people who voted for him.

* Make claims that past inequalities against a group of people were horrible and should never have happened, then they go on to demand inequalities for another group.

There is NO way these people should be in charge of any form of policy, be it national, state, county, city, or school trustee. They are both the victims and the purveyors of propaganda, working towards subversion and overthrow of all Western nations. Based on who benefits the most from this, I would hazard a guess that it's Saudi Arabia behind this.

You're assuming that image enhancement algorithms are "neutral" solely if they use information already in the photo and don't add missing information to an image. But the very act of choosing which algorithms to use to "enhance" an image is not neutral - it's biased towards enhancements which disproportionately fit our expectations for how the real world works.

For a real example, look at the upscaled photos of the boy's face in TFA. The upscaling algorithms other than bicubic look for edges, and strive to keep them sharp after the upscaling because edges are very important to our visual system. So if the original photo wasn't actually of the boy, but of a billboard which had a blurry photo of the boy, then the bicubic upscaling would actually be accurate. These other upscaling algorithms would actually be making up information by exaggerating the edges (e.g. his eyelashes) even though that information wasn't present in the original. They'd be guessing that the weak lines (eyelashes) in the original photo were in fact very sharp but very thin lines, and upscaling as if they were because that's usually correct. i.e. a probabilistic assumption about how to upscale was encoded in the algorithm itself. In the case of the non-Google algorithms, it was encoded by the programmers of the algorithms. In Google's case, the algorithm just happened to be taught by machine learning. The end result isn't really that different - they all "add" information to the photo by using assumptions about what a higher-resolution original usually actually look like.

It's also important to realize the human visual system isn't one where simply adding more detail produces a "better" image. We cue off of certain traits, and enhancing those traits disproportionately improves the subjective quality of an image, even when it's actually decreasing the objective quality. A good example is unsharp masking. It actually degrades image quality by distorting the image to exaggerate edges (darkens the dark half of an edge, brightens the bright half). But because our eyes have neurons which fire when they detect edges, it makes this worse-quality image appear sharper and better because the "enhanced" photo triggers those neurons more frequently or heavily. This is also the reason we keep seeing faces on Mars. Our brain has neurons which scream "that's a face!" at us whenever they see anything remotely face-like. An algorithm tailored towards those neurons would enhance face-like qualities in photos and make us see nonexistent faces, even though it didn't "add" anything to the photo.

If all you have is a low-res photo, then that's all you have, period. If you want to upscale it 2x, bicubic is probably the only neutral way to do it. (Nearest neighbor introduces high frequency noise by exaggerating pixel boundaries. Pixels are represented on displays as squares because that's the way to maximize light transmission from the backlight. Theoretically, pixels are points, not squares.)

This is a perfect example of why we have so many problems - people willing to straight-up lie, even when what they're saying can be easily disqualified.

Stern: "Are you for invading Iraq?"

Trump: "Yeah, I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly."

You can say he was reluctant, but "Yeah, I guess so" is a supportive statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - scroll to 1:39

"You want to go out for dinner?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

The sane response would *not* be "Okay, I hear you, you're opposed to going out for dinner."

Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 0:36 in.

He didn't say 'find them in your already hacked files', he just said 'find them'. How does anyone 'find' emails they don't have? I think it's called 'hacking'. Even if he was referring to hacked emails somehow previously obtained by Russia (and how does Trump 'know this'?), isn't it concerning that a presidential candidate wants that information released publicly? He wants to LOCK HER UP because she was using an 'insecure' mail server, but it's okay for him to ENCOURAGE Russia to release that information? Will he then chant 'LOCK RUSSIA UP'? Oh, never mind.

What we need is more honesty and less people spewing lies like this, and less time spent in echo chambers. And the people and organizations who do this should not be tolerated.

This is a perfect example of why we have so many problems - people willing to straight-up lie, even when what they're saying can be easily disqualified.

Stern: "Are you for invading Iraq?"

Trump: "Yeah, I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly."

You can say he was reluctant, but "Yeah, I guess so" is a supportive statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - scroll to 1:39

"You want to go out for dinner?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

The sane response would *not* be "Okay, I hear you, you're opposed to going out for dinner."

Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 0:36 in.

He didn't say 'find them in your already hacked files', he just said 'find them'. How does anyone 'find' emails they don't have? I think it's called 'hacking'. Even if he was referring to hacked emails somehow previously obtained by Russia (and how does Trump 'know this'?), isn't it concerning that a presidential candidate wants that information released publicly? He wants to LOCK HER UP because she was using an 'insecure' mail server, but it's okay for him to ENCOURAGE Russia to release that information? Will he then chant 'LOCK RUSSIA UP'? Oh, never mind.

What we need is more honesty and less people spewing lies like this, and less time spent in echo chambers. And the people and organizations who do this should not be tolerated.

Some drones are safer than others.

looks like the most delicious roast chicken a dog could ever want.

LOL. Dogs are bred from wolves, which chase their prey down - sometimes for miles - until it tires or stumbles and they're able to make the kill. So they're genetically predisposed to chase after things that move - squirrels, cars, tennis balls, thrown sticks. A boat in the water is a moving (chase-able) object with no distracting background, so triggers this chase instinct.

Cats likewise are stealth pouncers, so turning your back on them (so you can no longer see the cat) triggers an instinctive attack response.

looks like the most delicious roast chicken a dog could ever want.

LOL. Dogs are bred from wolves, which chase their prey down - sometimes for miles - until it tires or stumbles and they're able to make the kill. So they're genetically predisposed to chase after things that move - squirrels, cars, tennis balls, thrown sticks. A boat in the water is a moving (chase-able) object with no distracting background, so triggers this chase instinct.

Cats likewise are stealth pouncers, so turning your back on them (so you can no longer see the cat) triggers an instinctive attack response.

Really?

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

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Surely that is a coincidence? Oh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Really?

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Surely that is a coincidence? Oh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Really?

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

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Surely that is a coincidence? Oh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The root problem is the cost of the damage.

I would implement a parachute system into the design of the drone.

Parachute systems for drones already exist.

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

Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

lol.. That tripe is stretching it a bit. That is unless you think blowing your nose in the presence of someone who doesn't look just like yourself is bigoted or something. In that case, you are clearly stupid or blinded by some brainwashing of some sorts.

Lets examine this huff post thing a little closer. The first thing they present is the Kahn incident. Who cares, the man used his dead son to politically attack trump and trump commented on the fact that his wife was silent during the entire stench of it. It is somewhat amazing that you would think that it is racist in some way to comment on how a party that claims to be about the rights of women and minorities puts a sharia Muslim who activly oppresses women on stage to make the case that Trump is racist when Trump points that out. Here, watch this and ask yourself why people are laughing. Then go find out more about how Muslims treat women. Hell, they just arrested a female British journalist in UAE for reporting herself being raped to the police. They say she admitted to participating in extramarital sex.

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

The rest is pure tripe from the all blackness have to leave to questioning Obama's natural born citizenship. That does not make someone a racist. The Jewish star over money which I have never heard of and probable neither had trump until someone contrived it to make the claim doesn't make him racist and neither does telling a group of self identified jews that he doesn't want their money because he doesn't want to be controlled. He had said that to most all groups donating to him.

I find it fascinating how much bending of reality needs to happen to maintain this Trump is a racist world view.

Just because there are women on his staff doesn't mean he is not misogynistic.

You are correct. but it does mean that he doesn't use that to discriminate in employment practices.

Well maybe you think about it saying it, but the rest of us never do, because we are not rude and crude.

More people than you realize think about saying it. In fact, I was at a bar just the other night and saw this absolutely gorgeous woman who was way above my league walk through and thought that if I could hit that, I would knock the bottom out of it so hard that she wouldn't ever forget my name. My friend who was right beside me said something to the same effect just before ordering another drink and resuming a game of pool.

That is exactly what people in power thought about Hitler at the time. They tought he could be controlled and would never rise to so much power. All the crazy people start somewhere rising up. Remember Hitler was voted democratically.

Wrong.. I don't know if you are trying to reinvent history yourself or if you are being a useful idiot but no one thought they were going to control Hitler. He pushed himself into power by using violence and threats. He actually told the nazis to put him in the party leadership or he was leaving the party, so they did. He used violence and cunning to being a plurality in the Reichstag which propelled him further. He ran against the Treaty of Versailles and was championed by the people for violating it. The people around him gave him power because they knew he would give them more power. And for those who lived, it was true until the end of WWII. But Hitler was never elected the president of Germany, he lost the only election for president he ran for to the incumbent president Paul von Hindenburg who then appointed Hitler as Chancellor- a position he eventually ended up turning into a supreme dictatorship leading to his reign of power and WWII.

History does not support your worldview in this. Google is your friend if you are afraid to get a paper cut opening a book or something.

I recognised the nouns, verbs and prepositions are in sentence structure.
The actual meaning of what you wrote still eludes me.

AG Loretta Lynch was fired yesterday:
http://yournewswire.com/trump-...
so you don't have to play stupid,
else https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Stupid doesn't unscrew Tahoe, grace period for them to make good on all that was expired with my fathers life, and further aggravated when the mafia was caught fixing to punch my ticket about a month and a half ago.

But, CSI .

Obligatory Futurama

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

The IRS has greater powers because of the 16th Amendment

- actually not because of any amendment, the IRS has its powers because the government decided it wants your money, not due to any amendments.

No, he's a hero of story and song.

I guarantee you they don't use box cutters to cut terra cotta, slate, etc, which are the roofing this appears to be in competition with.

If you're considering putting up cheap asphalt shingles, then you're probably not even remotely the target market for these panels.

They make shingles that look like asphalt, slate, terra cotta, and even one that doesn't look traditional but is a smooth surface. The roof needs measured and the computer designs the tile shapes then the facility makes the shingles ships them to you, and I'm not certain of ht einstall process.

But it isn't complicated - just different. Kitchens are made in this fashion all the time, doors and other parts of houses are often custom made.

What it isn't is the old school method of sending a couple noobs up with a tile shovel, renting a dumpster to throw the old hsingles into replace any sheathing that rotted, then piece fitting around the different parts of the roof. Then again, the old school method isn't cheap, and just sits there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Warning, if you hate solar already, the first part is rah rah stuff that might enrage you. Go to around 8:29 and on, and they have some rather sparse details on the roofs. P

TRUMP WON

TrumpWon_FeministsBTFO_KeyboardJamSession2016.ogg https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Fuck all you pro-women's rights faggots. TRUMP WON. He sexually assaults women. Doesn't respect women. And had the hots for his young daughter. That's why I VOTED FOR TRUMP AND DEFEATED YOU PRO-WOMENS RIGHTS FAGGOTS. Remeber Deuteronomy 22, 28-29 in hebrew allows men to have young girls as brides even if they raped the young girl. The WORST THOUGHT UNDER FEMINISM. FUCK YOU. TRUMP WON. I HOPE HE DESTROYS YOUR FEMINIST CIVILIZATION.

...my earlier post.

By their very nature, solar panels are plates of laminated glass or plastic reinforced with wires running through them.

I.e. It's reinforced the same way bulletproof glass is.
Where conventional tiles shatter into pieces, these tiles merely crack and dent.
And the best part is, each solar plate being an array of parallelly connected cells - it will still function both as a roof tile and as a solar cell.
Whereas a conventional tile would at that point be useful only as gravel substitute.

Guy runs a company which puts rockets into space. Let's give him SOME benefit of the doubt on account of the engineering skills of his employees.
You know... let's assume that they are not exactly TOTAL fuckups.

> For example, he wrote a story that someone who was protesting a Donald Trump rally in Arizona was paid $3500 to protest. He thought that was satire.

Not sure which person they're talking about, but Zulema Rodriguez was paid over $30k all told, or $27.5k if you don't count travel expenses, etc. She's on this video starting at about 10:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... as the person blocking the road and lying to the cops about it.

You can verify what she was paid by looking here: https://beta.fec.gov/data/disb...

As for how I know she was paid to be at the protest, etc., there's a full explanation here: https://slashdot.org/firehose....

To be fair, she claimed on video to have been at multiple protests. Anyhow, the broader point--that people should fact check things--is a good one. CNN and others have straight-up lied to us in recent memory. I can (and have) provided sources and video for that previously in my Slashdot comments.

Here's my favorite source of fake news.

Oh yes! So true!

It's not like the MSM invents news at all...

Hey What's this?

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

or this

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

Nothing to see here right?

CNN is an "official" source so it must not be fake....

Oh yes! So true!

It's not like the MSM invents news at all...

Hey What's this?

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

or this

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

Nothing to see here right?

CNN is an "official" source so it must not be fake....

This video makes the round in intergalactic circles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And now it happens, this awful species is on the point to spread out and infect other worlds.

He did:

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

In fact, if you just play along, you will hear his comment an analysis during the video after a few minutes into the video.

Yes, including the PV Cells and excluding the generated electricity.

This Elon Musk video has the full details
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A few things to note:
1) The projected cost is lower, but the numbers are tentative and aren't final yet.
2) Not every tile on an installed roof will be backed by a solar cell (especially not those that are in a permanently shaded spot, so there is strategy with regards to cell placement) but all tiles will be aesthetically uniform. This means a lower cost than having cells on every tile.
3) One of the cited reasons for the lower cost vis-a-vis traditional roofing is the present inefficient supply chain for normal tiles. The major cost component of normal tiles is transportation. Normal tiles weight 3-5 times as much as Tesla tiles and are much more prone to breakage, so the cost has to account for shipping and losses. Elon claims that by "cleaning up" these inefficiencies, they are able to get to a lower cost than normal tiles.

Labor costs differ by region, so I'm not sure if the TCO is actually lower, but for a Tesla tile to be cheaper than a normal tile? I can buy that.

Since the Ms. Universe pageant in Moscow happens to be a fact, you can really pick and chose what media you want to report on it.

Point is, business took Trump to Moscow, i.e. there was opportunity for the FSB to compromise him.

Here's video of your hero opening the pageant in Moscow.

Obviously, at this time, it is just alleged that the compromising occurred. But it is plausible given everything we know. And this possibility should give any red blooded American pause.

If you want to call these facts stupid, be my guest.

They also try to make people think Nazis were on the right when in fact they are just to the right of communism. They are still leftists. So calling the right fascists is like saying the conservative progressives or the way high lows or the very smart really stupid people. It's a non sequitur. Anyone confused? This will clear it up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's a design flaw. Watch this video, jumps to 2:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJW140kLCY#t=2m27s

Cobra Starship - Good Girls Go Bad

tldr: sorry, good intentions but you're wrong, I'm right, etc.

The way the main SOC (ie the snapdragon SOC) decides to power devices on/off (such as radio) and the efficiency of their regulators does change battery life significantly though when the device is not under active use.

But in addition to that, the way the SOC manages it's own cores, and the way the core are built very significantly changes battery life under active use.

But you don't have to believe me, because Samsung builds the SAME phone with 2 chipsets: the galaxy S7/S7Edge comes with the same specs and either a Snapdragon 802 from Qcom or an Exynos from Samsung themselves.
The Exynos Galaxy S7 Edge lasts 2-3 HOURS more than than the Snapdragon version, under active use.

Random test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (there's plenty more)

Shows what you know.

Donald Trump is the real Deal. It's almost insane to say it, but he's actually the real deal.

They'll then work to ensure women have the vote everywhere, to form Suffragette City!!

Wrong: The worst thing would be a potent gamma-ray burst

Max Headroom got it right on the spot already in the 80's.

The UK has been doing "creative accounting" to lie about the amounts they are putting into defense.
 

Wow, well its in the Daily Mail so it must be true.

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

its all true!

" Are you as pants on head retarded as Matt Damon and actually believe Palin said that or were you attempting, and failing, to use hyperbole?"

She actually said: "You can actually see Russia from Land here in Alaska."

Video below.

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

The same argument was just voiced by the other side:

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

Bernard Wolley, Jim Hackers secretary said, " If they work, the warheads usually dont fit on the end of the rockets"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... 4:00 onwards.

If the propaganda is to be believed, the next-gen LRASM will have some impressive capabilities.
Here's some LockHeed War Porn for you to give you an idea of what they're wanting to do.

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

Too Many Secrets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you have physical access and the computer is on, you can already read the contents of RAM with some specialized hardware. That gives you access to pretty much everything.

The Amiga used Sram for memory. You could play say the game "Blood Money", turn off the system and then boot up with a disk with a program to view the memory.

You could then grab the haunting music of the game or any other sound byte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sram is in just about everywhere now, even Intel CPU's use it for it's speed and ability to maintain it's contents without being refreshed. You really can't tell what's it's being using in anymore.

I always turn off my system(s) for an extended period before I consider all it's memory flushed. Not for security as much as being sure a possible memory problem that showed up is really gone.

Obligatory CGP grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The rioters are what they always are, punks and anarchists wanting to burn things. It has about as much to do with the peaceful protests as the a-holes rioting over WTO meetings in Seattle or the Canucks losing the Stanley Cup. Something like 70% of those arrested were instigators from out of state who didn't even vote. If I were a Trump conspiracy theorist I'd say they were paid to make the protests look bad, but that's stupid - just like those rioting "for fun" (not political statement).

The media loves to report the bad, but there is a lot of good, peaceful protest going on as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I do agree that the alt-right tends to get less media coverage with their actions, since they usually work at night, anonymously or in hoods, when they do their church burning and spray painting swastikas and slurs.