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You're probably thinking of the two SR-71B trainer aircraft which had an extra cockpit added above and behind the SRO position. The SR-71A, the standard model, had one cockpit - with two seats. One seat for the pilot and one for the RSO (reconnaissance system officer). You can see the RSO's window in this photo:
http://www.sr-71.org/photogall...

Here's a video of a SR-71 pilot showing the two positions and talking about the roles of the pilot and the RSO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Interestingly, neither person can fly and land the plane by themselves. The RSO did the navigation, telling the plane where to go (auto navigation to specified points is required at mach 3), while the pilot controlled altitude, rudders for landing, etc. If either the pilot or the RSO became incapacitated or the intercom was lost, they would have to bail out.

Perhaps we will need to create âoeswimming lessonsâ to teach us how to be comfortable being open, honest and exposedâ"that we can be ready to float and navigate in these waters of visible thought.

I like Peter Gabriel, probably a lot more than the next guy likes PG. But he is being hopelessly naive. No human will ever be comfortable with that level of exposure. Its the destruction of self, the loss of the last bastion of privacy and thus dignity. It might be OK for short periods of time, like a sort of digital LSD trip. But that's about it.

If this tech ever gets that sophisticated we are going to need lessons in the opposite - how to jam it so that our thoughts can not be surreptitiously (or forcibly) taken from us.

Some retro-techno that is right on the nose:
X-Dream - X-Ray Eyes (album: We Interface)
This is a promise, this is a threat
X-ray eyes

This is a promise, this is a threat
Of a device, capturing your mind
Brain scanning machines, discerning thoughts
Original blueprints, replicating imprints

X-ray eyes are electric
X-ray eyes, x-ray analyze
X-ray eyes, x-ray strike the target
X-ray eyes, x-ray eyes read your mind

And just for good measure:
X-Dream: We Interface

Monitoring devices
Know where you go
Mass media
Total control

Digital delight
Desire in megabyte
Data overflow
Virtual suicide

This information
Is dinformation
Truth is hidden
Knowledge forbidden

Structures, powers
to delegate
To speak is to lie
To lie is to collaborate

Information streams
Simulating dreams
Interactive mind control
Systematic overflow

Perhaps we will need to create âoeswimming lessonsâ to teach us how to be comfortable being open, honest and exposedâ"that we can be ready to float and navigate in these waters of visible thought.

I like Peter Gabriel, probably a lot more than the next guy likes PG. But he is being hopelessly naive. No human will ever be comfortable with that level of exposure. Its the destruction of self, the loss of the last bastion of privacy and thus dignity. It might be OK for short periods of time, like a sort of digital LSD trip. But that's about it.

If this tech ever gets that sophisticated we are going to need lessons in the opposite - how to jam it so that our thoughts can not be surreptitiously (or forcibly) taken from us.

Some retro-techno that is right on the nose:
X-Dream - X-Ray Eyes (album: We Interface)
This is a promise, this is a threat
X-ray eyes

This is a promise, this is a threat
Of a device, capturing your mind
Brain scanning machines, discerning thoughts
Original blueprints, replicating imprints

X-ray eyes are electric
X-ray eyes, x-ray analyze
X-ray eyes, x-ray strike the target
X-ray eyes, x-ray eyes read your mind

And just for good measure:
X-Dream: We Interface

Monitoring devices
Know where you go
Mass media
Total control

Digital delight
Desire in megabyte
Data overflow
Virtual suicide

This information
Is dinformation
Truth is hidden
Knowledge forbidden

Structures, powers
to delegate
To speak is to lie
To lie is to collaborate

Information streams
Simulating dreams
Interactive mind control
Systematic overflow

any one of several excellent channels on game design like Extra Credits or Game history like Kim Justice.

any one of several excellent channels on game design like Extra Credits or Game history like Kim Justice.

Let's follow the example of the Icelanders, who jailed their corrupt bankers, and who come next election will vote in the Pirate Party.

Hitler did the same thing. That's the real reason WWII happened. Bankers couldn't have "The German Miracle" spread to the whole world, and so they had to be taught a lessen. :ll wars are bankers wars.

Look what happened to Syria. They had a Social Nationalist party. They gave benefits of the oil industry to civilians, paid for families to have children and go to college, etc. Syria, like the National Socialist Germany (or the politicized slang term, "Nazis"), was freed from usury of the private centralized banking cartel. So, like Libya and Germany before them the strong arm of the bankers (USA) went to war with them.

Next on the list is Iran. Turn Arab countries into rubble to benefit Jewish bankers and Israeli interests, then use the fleeing Muslim refugees and economic migrants against the west. Stir up shit via cultural differences and isolationism of Islam and we'll have a "migrant crisis" that manufactures consent to go to war with Iran.

Let's just let Iceland enjoy its freedom from corrupt bankers. If we instead begin to say, "Hey, that economic miracle is working out, let's copy Iceland" (like back when Sweden copied the National Socialist ideals from Germany), then Iceland or whomever is the poster child for reform will get utterly crushed under false pretenses. Note that you can't have successful Capitalism or Socialism without Nationalism. Sweden worked great with its mirror of the National Socialist ideals until they threw away the Nationalism and let their country get overrun with economic migrants, now they're the rape capital of Europe. The USA worked great until it threw away their Nationalism and let their country get gutted by economic migrants and H1B / migrant workers -- This all benefits the Globalists who are beholden to no country.

Globalism allows international elites to profit from selling to rich countries without contributing to the country. Meanwhile they benefit from the 3rd world laborers -- and promote more of those low income migrants to reduce wages in otherwise successful countries. But won't they kill the geese laying the golden eggs? Yes! That's the whole point. They're not beholden to a single country so an economic collapse allows them buy up property and riches for pennies on the dollar. So long as there are a few nice places to be, it doesn't matter if most of the world is going through perpetual boom and bust cycles. Stability is bad for globalists.

The real battle is between Globalists and Nationalists. All the other politic is tangential distractions. If your nation is crippled by globalism then it doesn't matter if you're left or right, green or red, black or white. This is why "conservatism" is on the rise. The pendulum must swing back towards nationalism or there will be no turning back -- the whole world will be a 3rd world shithole exploited by elites.

Protip: Even the Panama Papers are part of a banker's war. USA is a huge tax haven. The US bankers are unscathed and can say, "See, the other banks can't protect you. Come to our US / UK banks if you don't want that happening to you." Just look at who is financing the "journalists" who have access to the Panama Papers -- Rothschilds and Rockefellers.

Let's follow the example of the Icelanders, who jailed their corrupt bankers, and who come next election will vote in the Pirate Party.

Hitler did the same thing. That's the real reason WWII happened. Bankers couldn't have "The German Miracle" spread to the whole world, and so they had to be taught a lessen. :ll wars are bankers wars.

Look what happened to Syria. They had a Social Nationalist party. They gave benefits of the oil industry to civilians, paid for families to have children and go to college, etc. Syria, like the National Socialist Germany (or the politicized slang term, "Nazis"), was freed from usury of the private centralized banking cartel. So, like Libya and Germany before them the strong arm of the bankers (USA) went to war with them.

Next on the list is Iran. Turn Arab countries into rubble to benefit Jewish bankers and Israeli interests, then use the fleeing Muslim refugees and economic migrants against the west. Stir up shit via cultural differences and isolationism of Islam and we'll have a "migrant crisis" that manufactures consent to go to war with Iran.

Let's just let Iceland enjoy its freedom from corrupt bankers. If we instead begin to say, "Hey, that economic miracle is working out, let's copy Iceland" (like back when Sweden copied the National Socialist ideals from Germany), then Iceland or whomever is the poster child for reform will get utterly crushed under false pretenses. Note that you can't have successful Capitalism or Socialism without Nationalism. Sweden worked great with its mirror of the National Socialist ideals until they threw away the Nationalism and let their country get overrun with economic migrants, now they're the rape capital of Europe. The USA worked great until it threw away their Nationalism and let their country get gutted by economic migrants and H1B / migrant workers -- This all benefits the Globalists who are beholden to no country.

Globalism allows international elites to profit from selling to rich countries without contributing to the country. Meanwhile they benefit from the 3rd world laborers -- and promote more of those low income migrants to reduce wages in otherwise successful countries. But won't they kill the geese laying the golden eggs? Yes! That's the whole point. They're not beholden to a single country so an economic collapse allows them buy up property and riches for pennies on the dollar. So long as there are a few nice places to be, it doesn't matter if most of the world is going through perpetual boom and bust cycles. Stability is bad for globalists.

The real battle is between Globalists and Nationalists. All the other politic is tangential distractions. If your nation is crippled by globalism then it doesn't matter if you're left or right, green or red, black or white. This is why "conservatism" is on the rise. The pendulum must swing back towards nationalism or there will be no turning back -- the whole world will be a 3rd world shithole exploited by elites.

Protip: Even the Panama Papers are part of a banker's war. USA is a huge tax haven. The US bankers are unscathed and can say, "See, the other banks can't protect you. Come to our US / UK banks if you don't want that happening to you." Just look at who is financing the "journalists" who have access to the Panama Papers -- Rothschilds and Rockefellers.

SpaceX is owned by Elon Musk, who owns Tesla. He has two goals in life: "Save Earth" and "Make Mankind a multiplanetary species". The goal of Tesla is to fix global warning - go and watch Elon's introduction of the Model 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Yes, go and watch the first few minutes - you see that he really cares about global warming more than his cars. So yes, this guy is putting everything into saving Earth and saving Mankind. His Gigafactory is about bringing down cost of batteries. and TODAY, he was slamming the fossil fuel industry publicly at SpaceX. Name one other person doing as much single handedly to stop global warming. He might win a Nobel Prize for stopping war in the Middle East by getting us all off our addiction to oil.

They have a YouTube Channel (with almost 3 million subscribers)
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...

And a whole network of channels
https://www.tytnetwork.com/

I really enjoyed the Open Debate they participated in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They have a YouTube Channel (with almost 3 million subscribers)
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...

And a whole network of channels
https://www.tytnetwork.com/

I really enjoyed the Open Debate they participated in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

your article does NOT support you.

It is not "my" article. I linked to it, because it offered the large chunk of the IG's report not available on other pages popping up on Google. That their editorializing does not fully support my accusation is not surprising — they are firmly "in the tank" with Hillary and Democrats. But the facts they cited do support my accusation and I reposted the relevant text entirely.

like saying a murder in person went to prison "because among other things he ran a red light"

Except I did not withhold anything and cited the entire paragraph, which listed all of the things — the murders and the traffic infractions alike — that the report considered "most troubling" about the ex-Ambassador. Use of unapproved e-mail service among them. Madame Secretary read the report, but set up her own server anyway.

ie, you lied, again.

You obsession with me is troubling and unhealthy. But, if you find my ideas so intriguing, I once again invite you to subscribe to my newsletter.

The after-burning is expected. The same thing happens on a pad safe during an abort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This is the aborted launch from SES-9, and you can clearly see that there are flames under the rocket post-abort, but this same rocket launched 4 days later (had to make a new launch window) without issue.

"The people are revolting!"
"You said it, they stink on ice."

Oh please please have it read Rough and Ready by Sandra Hill.

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

It's the beat, you know, the rhythm... It rolls off the tongue. Works better if you say it in a William F. Buckley voice.

Cameras on rockets? A little less spin is easier on the eyes

Here you go. For future reference, just tack an "&t=8m53s" on the end of the link, substituting whatever value for minutes and seconds you're looking for. I linked a bit earlier than 9:10 to establish context.

It was for real last time, the luddites and their children died in grinding poverty, only their grandchildren started to get work. Most people don't know that and think that the luddites worked themselves into a tizzy for nothing and were back to work the next week. Not so.

This time it could be not only for real, but permanent.

Or watch the recent video of the Falcon 9 launch. Max Q is reached about 1:24 after launch at 1900 km/h, 14km altitude. This is about the same altitude as the Apollo missions and a little bit later than the space shuttle, which reached Max Q at about 11km altitude.

Holy shit I've seen this rocket before!
Also on YouTube but be warned, these guys are actual flat earthers.
They literally think the rocket stopped going up because it hit water up there and all of space is water.
All I know is I want what they're smoking.

The landing is at about 9:10 here but there isn't very much to see: it was a night landing from a nearby camera - the moment of landing is invisible in glare. You get to see the glare, then it fades to reveal the landed rocket.

Take a look at the Qt framework. It's wonderful for cross-platform application development. Qt coupled with improvements in C++11 (smart pointers, auto, etc) have completely changed my opinion of C++ for the better. You should not need to use "new" unless creating a QObject or smart pointer and both will handle memory cleanup themselves. You shouldn't really have to use delete. Others have written about this more coherently and succinctly than I'm able to right now, but I encourage you to check it out.

The Qt IDE is quite nice and the official documentation is very good. There are some good tutorials out there and there's enough of a community that it's easy to find Qt-specific answers with a web search. If you're at all a monkey-see-monkey-do kind of learner then something like VoidRealm's series on learning Qt/C++ could be helpful. He's got a great voice that I haven't found annoying after listening for many hours. Some of that series is basic stuff you can skip over but even if you're familiar with a topic but want to learn "the Qt way" then I'd recommend playing it back at an increased speed until something catches your interest.

So you specifically said not C++ and I suggested it anyway since you really do not have to worry about allocating and deallocating memory like you once had to (use QObjects and assign them a parent if they're not automatically assigned one and use smart pointers for anything else you want on the heap). In that same vein of not listening to your requirements, Qt probably qualifies as a corporate language/framework. It is open source (LGPL/GPL but also has a commercial license for $$) and welcomes contributions from the public. I don't see this as a bad thing myself since the money brought in from commercial subscriptions helps pay for development and growth of the framework. Also I use Qt for both personal and open source projects so have no issues with their licensing, but if your use-case means you'd have to pay I think it's a very worthwhile business expense. Also pertinent is that Qt is becoming more and more used in e.g. Fortune 500 companies and has a symbiotic relationship with KDE. I think Qt's future looks very promising, which is important to me when investing a lot of time into learning a new technology.

It's definitely compiled. It creates fast cross-platform applications and making UIs is simple. It's easy to make it talk to databases including but not limited to embedded SQLite, PostgresQL, MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Check it out. C++ is a changed beast. Its creator and other experts flat out say to use a subset of all its features, which include some major improvements in C++11/14. Forget your preconceived notions or past experience and give it a shot. Memory management is much simpler now. Qt makes it even easier and adds a whole lot of extras, including a great IDE.

He's in a documentary that's from before he was shipped here and while he was serving time in Romania. It's called something like, "The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." It's worth watching and is easily found online at your favorite torrent site - it was free in a bundle thingy (I think) but I'm sure there are many ways to get it - there's probably streaming versions.

There are two of them. Almost the same titles. Links below. Both produced by Norton(TM) == Symantec (TM) Antivirus. Nonetheless, they were both worth the 20 minutes of each – time well spent. Just keep in the back of your mind, while watching, that Symantec produced them both, and that Symantec has a stake in having people scared. Even for those in-the-know, you will find the videos informative---They are mostly interviews of people, black-hats and white-hats, so you can hear their voices, watch their body language, and hear (an edited version of) what they have to say. . . and why they do what they do.

Before the links, I recall a trojan that I wrote in 1987, and uploaded to my local BBS, which updated daily with BBS's in other States of the US. It was a seriously damaging trojan, but only potentially so. It was so clumsily written (in BASIC on DOS 3.3) that I doubt that anyone ever clicked on the "Yes, Format my boot-up drive" button. . . or text-entry "Y or N?" line. (I forget which.) I was just trying to get my $50 bounty from Norton for 'discovering' a new malware 'in the wild,' for which they advertised so heavily in computer magazines back then. They never paid me.

LINKS (not embedded, but you can copy-paste, can't you?):
http://us.norton.com/mostdange...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How about dropping millennials from helicopters?

The millennials have considered your suggestion and responded with a counter-proposal.

It must be quite a feat of mental gymnastics to demand that everything somehow change for the better while everything remains the same. A three year old might find this idea reasonable, but grown men and women?

And for both a Bill Maher reference and a car analogy, here he is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And it makes good sense.

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

Why are they continuing to aggressively push invasive, paternalistic, and generally super-assholey "features" that make me never want to go back to a Microsoft OS?

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"

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

I can't help but think of this immediately.

new law proposal: for millennials to get drivers licenses, they must install a lockout mechanism in the vehicle, similar to a brethalyzer, that will disable the ignition or accelerator if a phone is active in the vehicle.

I'll ignore the conundrum of passenger phones this time...

A lockout doesn't address the actual problem, which isn't the phone. It's poor driving ability and distractedness. Removing the phone will not stop an idiot from being an idiot, it might help, but isn't a solution.

We need to make the driving tests harder. And not just for new licenses. Teach them about consequences. Perhaps even implement using a phone while on the drive test like this. Simply taking away their toys isn't going to help, they'll find more toys.

Cell phones are fine, making something other than driving your priority when you're driving is not. It's bad decision making, plain and simple. THAT'S what we need to address.

Kodos' human suit runs out of power:

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

And the hands malfunctioned...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Kodos' human suit runs out of power:

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

And the hands malfunctioned...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I highly suggest everyone watch this video released by anonymous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It really drives home who Clinton is. I can't believe I have to choose between Clinton and Trump. It is like the simpsons episode where we are choosing our alien overlord. Please let there be a viable third party candidate....

It depends on they type of crash. I had a friend who was driving a 65 T-bird when a driver going the other way fell asleep and crossed over and hit him head on. The other car was a Chevy Beretta, which had a 5 star head on rating crash at the time. My friend was fine, other than being shaken up. The other driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

While the dynamics of all crashes are different, I''m just going to drop this right here. Moderns vehicles are designed from the ground up to sacrifice the car for the safety of the passengers. Older vehicles were not.

Your new car will be totaled in any significant accident, while your land yacht may just need a hammer, some bondo, and some paint, but the humans in a modern vehicle are much, much safer.

I drink Dr Hitler and I’m proud
I used to be alone in a crowd
But now you look around these days
There seems to be a Dr Hitler craze

Oh, Hitler

I’m a Hitler, he’s a Hitler, she’s a Hitler, we’re a Hitler
Wouldn’t you like to be a Hitler, too?
I’m a Hitler, he’s a Hitler, she’s a Hitler
If you drink Dr Hitler, you’re a Hitler too

Us Hitlers are an interesting breed
An original taste is what we need
Ask any Hitler and he’ll say
Only Dr Hitler tastes that way

Oh, Hitler

I’m a Hitler, he’s a Hitler, she’s a Hitler, we’re a Hitler
Wouldn’t you like to be a Hitler, too?
I’m a Hitler, he’s a Hitler, she’s a Hitler, we’re a Hitler!
Wouldn’t you like to be a Hitler, too?

Be a Hitler
Drink Dr Hitler
Be a Hitler
Drink Dr Hitler...

I'd agree that prohibitions on contraception are largely a Catholic thing, but aren't Catholics the single largest Christian denomination worldwide by a long margin?

Sometimes correlation does imply causation.

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

Yeah, no one has ever seen a privately funded road before, right?

I suppose if the government ran grocery stores, you'd complain no one has ever seen a private grocery store before, so how could that possibly work?

Yeah, no one has ever seen a privately funded road before, right?

I suppose if the government ran grocery stores, you'd complain no one has ever seen a private grocery store before, so how could that possibly work?

Comic appropriatus

It's an unpopular notion but various U.S. Government agencies are required to place a dollar value on a human life in order to make reasonable economic and policy decisions. The exact value of a human life varies by agency but the range is currently about $4M to $9M. With only 11 lives lost from to this airbag fault and a reported 70 million airbags affected by this recall, each likely costly hundreds each to replace, is this recall justified?

For the logical behind this process here is Milton Friedman explaining it to a college student:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

seriously, when there is an alien about to burst out of you, do you really want to wait to get to a human surgeon?

Minutephysics posted an interesting video putting forth a theory i don't think i've ever heard before along those lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The short version is, given a set of randomly chosen groups there will be a distribution of various factors, in particular for this case we're concerned about size, in which _usually_ it follows some kind of bell curve.

Take countries, if you measure population a very small number of countries have high populations and contain the majority of the human race. If you measure size, a very small number take up a large area and contain the majority of the available surface area of the planet. If you pick a random person or a random square mile it is very likely it will be from one of those populous or large countries. But there are (comparatively) a huge number of other, smaller, less densely populated countries on the planet.

So by the same rule, statistically speaking, we should expect that we are one of the most populous species occupying one of the largest inhabited planets. And we should expect to find _many_ other species, each of which inhabits a small world and has a comparatively small population. And if you continue along those lines you should also expect those planets to be in closer orbits around smaller, dimmer stars, etc.

Of course there are some obvious problems with this theory. It is only a statistical likelihood for starters. _Someone_ has to be living in the smaller places, and maybe, against the odds, we are the "minority" and there multiple other races with trillions of members living on giant planets. Or of course we might be the only one.

Another "problem" with this logic is that i've seen the same argument used to "prove" that the world is about to end. The total human population keeps going up over time. You are statistically most likely to be born during the time of the greatest population. Therefore the population will _not_ continue to go up in the future, in fact statistically speaking it "ought" to be smaller than it is now, and the smaller it is in the future the more likely you are to be born during the time in which you actually were born. Ergo the world is about to end.

If you want a great laugh, watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Ted Cruz Bad Lio Reading)

How about controls research (the same field that brought yo driverless cars) like this?

The sources to that one are kind of sketchy....But what Hillary did actually do was get the charges against a child rapist dropped on a technicality. That's generally OK. Everyone deserves representation, and mishandling of evidence is a bad thing. The part that shows she is an evil, powerhungry, money whore is the fact that she laughed about it.

Evil Hillary

It may be bigger than you think because leading conservative and Fox commentator, Bill Kristol, is calling for a search for a viable independent to contest Clinton and Trump despite the Wall Street Journal editorial board calling for Republicans to back Trump (as Republicans are wont to do in the past). As Joe Biden would say, "this is a big fucking deal" (TM).

if it's a video, use something made for video. Here's a youtube link to the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The jerk point is not politically relevant.

As to men voting for hillary, Hillary through her proxies has accused male democrats of voting for bernie because of sexism. And the war on women thing did backfire in the congressional election. The smart money says that its going to have negative consequences for male turn out. Whether those consequences will be decisive is another matter. Neither of us have crystal balls.

As to corruption not making the top 10 things with Hillary... it tends to be in the top 2 actually. Would you like to see the polling? Or would you like to save me the time and yourself the embarrassment by simply conceding the point?

As to the policy differences between the two... this is probably one of the funnier things you've said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Don't forget the updated version of the same ad from the 1984 Democratic campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We're about overdue for a television spot juxtaposing nuclear annihilation and cute children from the Democratic National Committee.

The real question for me is - What amazing things will this next generation do with the technology at their fingertips?

This. (try to ignore the yammering idiots, just watch the video segment)

No and then!

I am sure similar incidents happens to everyone. Packing all the kids into the station wagon and driving half way across the country to a great secret backwoods camping nook that you last visited when you 8 years old, and then to be thoroughly disappointed by the actual campsite ...

I read that we never remember the actual details at all, but we only the feelings triggered by the sights and sounds.

git push -f origin HEAD:master seems to be on by default in our brain. History is constantly being rewritten.