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There are lots of things covered in the new regs. But the argument is over the "right to be forgotten" and particularly it's application to search engines.

From the EU themselves:

The respective legal grounds of original publishers and search engines are different. The
search engine should carry out the assessment of the different elements (public interest, public
relevance, nature of the data, actual relevance) on the basis of its own legal ground, which
derives from its own economic interest and that of the users to have access to the information
via the search engines and using a name as terms of search. Even when (continued)
publication by the original publishers is lawful, the universal diffusion and accessibility of
that information by a search engine, together with other data related to the same individual,
can be unlawful due to the disproportionate impact on privacy.

There's lots of things in the regulations that are not controversial. Others that are controversial, but on matters of policy and contract law. "Right to be forgotten" as described above says that you can write an article about Commander Taco's hot tub, but if he doesn't like folks knowing about it he can prohibit me from pointing folks to that article (should I have a search engine). This bit is a fundamental free speech issue. "No it isn't" isn't an argument. It's simple contradiction.

The Galaxy S7 Edge appears to already work under water

And they didn't have to worry about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... turning into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I always thought the squeaky scratchy voice thing was intentional when a female singer did it. It goes with the jet black dyed hair and the skin tight black leather pants. She thought she was being edgy, or something. Maybe I give her too much credit. The audience evidently didn't agree with me.

And they didn't have to worry about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... turning into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I always thought the squeaky scratchy voice thing was intentional when a female singer did it. It goes with the jet black dyed hair and the skin tight black leather pants. She thought she was being edgy, or something. Maybe I give her too much credit. The audience evidently didn't agree with me.

Fire can't melt steel is a red herring, plus retarded.
Watch "9/11 and War by Deception" if you want a serious documentary that makes the case for a government conspiracy. This movie changed my entire view of everything that happened during the Bush administration. It goes over 9/11, the Anthrax attacks, and the neo-conservative movement.

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

Well, that's the rub, isn't it? We don't want them going to the Russians or the Chinese... Oy! The things we do for love...

Nuke em` and they won't be going anywhere.

Well, that's the rub, isn't it? We don't want them going to the Russians or the Chinese... Oy! The things we do for love...

And if we want to continue to surf the leading edge, we have to create the leading edge. Nobody else is going to do it for us.

All we have to do to bring back manufacturing is relax the "nuclear non proliferation" laws on US rare earth mining so that non fissile materials (like Thorium) don't make it overly expensive to mine dysprosium and neodymium, etc. China and Russia are trying to ensure our US politicians don't allow this to happen. This way manufacturing jobs which gravitate towards the source of their raw materials won't ever be viable in the USA. Stop flipping out over Thorium, and we'll be able to bring jobs back to America, and then our innovators will be able to innovate on the manufacturing process as well as product design.

Same here--without the chocolates.

For those of you kids who don't get it, this might help.

Due process died a long time ago. Now the rule is "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone!"

Reagan also deregulated the banking system which essentially has caused all the financial calamities that have followed, including the 2009 meltdown. What's your point?

BULLSHIT

''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''

And

Barney Frank: What Housing Bubble?

Red Barchetta:

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

LOL! Try to realize that people once complained about Mozart creating crap music and then realize whatever kind of music _you_ prefer actually is still created! In essence you think you are the arbitrator of what suck and not, just as every generation have thought the "new" kind of music worse/more immoral than the thing they grew up with.

The idea that Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus might be be revered as an equal to Mozart is pretty amusing. While Mozart is not may favorite classical composer - I'm more likely to be caught listening to JS Bach or Rameau or Glass - there is a immense difference between any of the classical Masters and today's pop music. The Masters understood and played music. They were not chosen because of their physical looks. Their music was composed by humans and not a selection of "hooks" assembled by a computer. And they didn't have to worry about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... turning into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This was a modern day pop idol, with absolutely no talent whatsoever. Aside from this sentence, it should be a crime to compare Ashlee Simpson and all of the rest of the autotune crowd to Mozart.

I like a lot of dfferent types of music. You could catch me listening to Viking Death metal now and again, but it has to be good. This shit is just that - shit. For your penance, you have to listen to both clips, say ten Hail Mary's and make a good act of contrition. Go forth and sin no more.

LOL! Try to realize that people once complained about Mozart creating crap music and then realize whatever kind of music _you_ prefer actually is still created! In essence you think you are the arbitrator of what suck and not, just as every generation have thought the "new" kind of music worse/more immoral than the thing they grew up with.

The idea that Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus might be be revered as an equal to Mozart is pretty amusing. While Mozart is not may favorite classical composer - I'm more likely to be caught listening to JS Bach or Rameau or Glass - there is a immense difference between any of the classical Masters and today's pop music. The Masters understood and played music. They were not chosen because of their physical looks. Their music was composed by humans and not a selection of "hooks" assembled by a computer. And they didn't have to worry about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... turning into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This was a modern day pop idol, with absolutely no talent whatsoever. Aside from this sentence, it should be a crime to compare Ashlee Simpson and all of the rest of the autotune crowd to Mozart.

I like a lot of dfferent types of music. You could catch me listening to Viking Death metal now and again, but it has to be good. This shit is just that - shit. For your penance, you have to listen to both clips, say ten Hail Mary's and make a good act of contrition. Go forth and sin no more.

Most non-electric cars really suck at floating. It's not like they built them like the VW Beetle way back when. And water ingestion will kill the engine.

There is plenty of that sort of footage around already. There's no bang, but being this side of the screen is as close as I'd want to get.

What's wrong?

Have a look at:

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

How do you feel about it now?

What's wrong?

Have a look at:

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

How do you feel about it now?

conclusion was that it is OK to ban Kipling's work

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

He's over-reacting simply because he remembers how the Tina Fey/Sara Palin thing went down; a lot of low-information voters didn't know the difference what Fey said in character of Palin and what Palin actually said.

That's because what Fey said in character was damn near the exact text of what Palin said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maybe most bears might be subject to it, but for one who is not your average bear it would be a different thing.

But you probably don't want to piss it off, regardless. Still, I'm sure they could find *some* way to get along.

(Sorry about the self-reply)

But you probably don't want to piss it off, regardless. Still, I'm sure they could find *some* way to get along.

(Sorry about the self-reply)

Probably depends on the bear.

That's what just slays me about listening to old music on Youtube. Singers like the Andrews Sisters

Talk about coincidences! You might have seen this, but I'll share in case you didn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The apple tree song, with Shemp from the Three Stooges is in it as well.

But yeah, the inabilty to hold a note is no impediment if a person is "hot" enough today. The odd thing is that autotune has the same effect on me as running fingernails on a blackboard does. We're supposed to like it?

Just watch carefully. I did and noticed way too many incongruous or inconsistent moments.

I just watched carefully and didn't notice anything incongruous.

For example there's a moment when you see the hoverboard turn to the right with the pilot on top... the pilot literally doesn't move.

At what timecode? I didn't see any shot were the pilot literally doesn't move. What would you like to do as he flies 20m in the air - wave his arms around, maybe dance a jig?

I'm not sure why everyone's screaming hoax so vociferously. We've had jetpacks since the 60s. This is just a jetpack stuck under someone's feet instead of attached to their back.

Here's another flight, single shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And possibly the same flight, certainly the same location, different angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just watch carefully. I did and noticed way too many incongruous or inconsistent moments.

I just watched carefully and didn't notice anything incongruous.

For example there's a moment when you see the hoverboard turn to the right with the pilot on top... the pilot literally doesn't move.

At what timecode? I didn't see any shot were the pilot literally doesn't move. What would you like to do as he flies 20m in the air - wave his arms around, maybe dance a jig?

I'm not sure why everyone's screaming hoax so vociferously. We've had jetpacks since the 60s. This is just a jetpack stuck under someone's feet instead of attached to their back.

Here's another flight, single shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And possibly the same flight, certainly the same location, different angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

there is no parody exception to trademark law

Then how did Fox get away with MADtv's iRack sketch? Was it the addition of a stem to the logo?

That's what just slays me about listening to old music on Youtube. Singers like the Andrews Sisters, or the Statler Brothers, or even someone like Willie Nelson, (here seen in his extremely rare "young" look) damn all of them sang every note without autotune, or lip-synching, or any external help whatsoever. It's baffling, how could they have done that? I suppose it's just part of the culture that the West has lost, along with young people being able to be exposed to opinions that disagree with their own without fainting.

That's what just slays me about listening to old music on Youtube. Singers like the Andrews Sisters, or the Statler Brothers, or even someone like Willie Nelson, (here seen in his extremely rare "young" look) damn all of them sang every note without autotune, or lip-synching, or any external help whatsoever. It's baffling, how could they have done that? I suppose it's just part of the culture that the West has lost, along with young people being able to be exposed to opinions that disagree with their own without fainting.

I'll just leave this here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Samsung Galaxy S4 which demoed that feature was released on April 27, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

IPh 6s was released on September 25, 2015, more than 2 years later.

You can see the grills clearly at 1:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... They are made from the titanium metal to protect engines against birds, even dogs, on country side airfields.

I can imagine that intake grills on a fighter plane would be some kind of effort to reduce the radar cross section? However, the Hind gunship has cowls over the engine intakes, which I believe were developed for the dusty and sandy conditions of Afghanistan. So I'm sure other planes and helicopters have used them over the years.

In your video I can't spot any intake grills, but the quality is poor and I didn't watch all of it. If you're talking about these grills then they aren't for protection, they're for controlling the bypass and/or intake flow rate.

Here's a nice explanation of jet engine airflow and bypass control, based on the extreme example of the SR-71 J58 engine.

I can imagine that intake grills on a fighter plane would be some kind of effort to reduce the radar cross section? However, the Hind gunship has cowls over the engine intakes, which I believe were developed for the dusty and sandy conditions of Afghanistan. So I'm sure other planes and helicopters have used them over the years.

In your video I can't spot any intake grills, but the quality is poor and I didn't watch all of it. If you're talking about these grills then they aren't for protection, they're for controlling the bypass and/or intake flow rate.

Here's a nice explanation of jet engine airflow and bypass control, based on the extreme example of the SR-71 J58 engine.

There's a recent model simulating this floating around, and it shows the engine fan blades disintegrating in less than one revolution after impact.

Those videos are all Rolls Royce "blade off" tests where they deliberately separate one compressor blade in a running engine. You can tell you looking at a "blade off" test if one of the blades is painted for visibility in the video recording. Commercial gas turbines are tested with frozen geese carcasses, chunks of hail fired by "hail cannons" and other things. They're not anywhere near as delicate as you seem to think. You can watch some of this testing here.

The SU-27 jet has got the engine grills. You can see them clearly at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I remember. Absolutely Classic. R.I.P. Hank. Second only to the great Peter Jennings OJ spoof.

Did you get to vote? Hopefully you did, because that was a defining moment of the early internet.

I remember. Absolutely Classic. R.I.P. Hank. Second only to the great Peter Jennings OJ spoof.

What broke immersion for me was that they had the technology to mind link a crippled guy to a fully genetically engineered hybrid alien, but couldn't trivially do the same for the dude's legs.

The flick has Tumblr SJWisms all over it, everything from able-ism to colonialism to racism, etc. Not to mention the furry/otherkin pandering. For the sequels I guess they'll have to delve into "homophobia", "transphobia", "islamaphobia", etc. "-phobias" and advocate for a universal "unobtainium tax" (carbon tax) to fund the a "New World Order".

Fuck this propaganda crap, it's why I stopped watching Hollywood movies.

Doesn't look like a hoax.

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

Williams did this with the WASP in the 1970's. No fancy electronics needed either.

They also tried to sell it to the military, but the military decided that choppers were the go instead.

I wonder how this mind based control would deal with OCD people with racing thoughts?

A lot of background noise going on in a person with that affliction.

Don't forget Schizophrenia. There are studies of those subjects already that show consistent differences in their brain activity; Whereas control subjects show stable brain activity, schizophrenics show rapid changes in activity. video

Are these differences the cause of halucinations/delusions, or the effect of paying attention to them? Would similar activity occur in ADD subjects whose minds wander? Autism is suspected to share a neurological underpinning with Schizophrenia; Would autistics also show this pattern?

Actually it is well documented that schizophrenics have the same mental profile as someone who has recently smoked cannabis. Both have difficulties (interestingly) seeing the "Hollow Mask" illusion also.

If you want an answer to the question how a schizophrenic would respond, you could either test the device on a schizophrenic or you could test it on someone who is high on marijuana.

i live in area that was devastated half a decade ago and i can tell you when you're world is torn to shreds, you need hope and you need to tell tragedy where to shove it. This is why we WILL rebuild. When it's all over, you can proudly declare that you cannot be defeated. #ClickThemLinks

why should we pay attentition to the failures of the NK rocket program

Because the rocket program has far more significance than the nuclear program. All the nukes in the world don't mean a thing if you can't deliver them. NK may be trying to fuck up Japan and China (the South has kinda learned to live with this shit) so they might ease up on the sanctions and/or take them seriously as a regional power.

But NK's rockets and nukes are more posturing than tactical. To mean anything, they would have to have the capability to mass-produce these devices (turn them out like sausages, to paraphrase Kruschev back in the day), which NK will never be able to do with their economy. That leaves them with a capacity to, at worst, blow their wad one time, then sit defenseless and receive a crushing retaliation from whatever country their wayward missile fell upon (be a real thing if a missile flew by to mistake China).

OTOH, the regime needs regularly-scheduled holidays and ceremonies to keep all but its hungriest citizens busy and engaged in non-subversive activities. I offer this as an amusing, admittedly biased, but actual footage of a visit to NK and their weird cultish every-day required devotion to the founder and the great leader, particularly on their birthdays. They also need to maintain the narrative that they have the strongest army in the world, and that foreign invasion will happen at any time. Indeed, they have a million-man standing army to maintain each day from falling apart under its own weight. Thus, the dog-and-pony show of missiles and parades and nuke tests and two TV channels showing documentaries of how great their country is, until the power gets cut at nightfall.

Sure, and Washington also warned against the US becoming involved in foreign affairs...

On the other hand the US has kept the structure of government checks and balances as described by the Constitution in place, educated its populace, avoided splintering into smaller states, spread from "sea to shining sea", removed the military influence of Eurpoean governments from this continent, and grown into the largest economic/military/political/social power on the planet. So, despite missing on a few minor points, I'd say old GW would probably give us a passing grade

Meanwhile, NK continues to be the punchline of a very sad joke

If you want some inspiration, try Rammstein's Amerika

such data privacy laws - see John Oliver's recent episode on Credit Reports in the US. That's what happenes if 1 in 20 humans is associated with wrong, outdated information by corporations.

Tony Seba has an interesting talk about disruption. In 1900 there were no cars on the streets of New York

By 1913 there were no horses on the streets of New York

Not many people saw that coming!

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

Cause MH17 and MH370 are actually the same plane.

It's all a conspiracy by CIA and secret reptilian government to discredit Putin and thus prevent him from his crane-leading endeavors.

My god .. the stupidity of that site is unbounded. And I could refute many of their "points" just by looking at the same evidence that they were presenting.

I wonder how this mind based control would deal with OCD people with racing thoughts?

A lot of background noise going on in a person with that affliction.

Don't forget Schizophrenia. There are studies of those subjects already that show consistent differences in their brain activity; Whereas control subjects show stable brain activity, schizophrenics show rapid changes in activity. video

Are these differences the cause of halucinations/delusions, or the effect of paying attention to them? Would similar activity occur in ADD subjects whose minds wander? Autism is suspected to share a neurological underpinning with Schizophrenia; Would autistics also show this pattern?