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So it is a plain old man in the middle attack. A way to prevent this, is use GPS in the keyfob as part of the challenge response and compare with the car GPS. But this does make the keys more expensive and GPS dependent (parked in a basement anyone?). AKA people get real upset when their car won't start. Also stolen cars are much less of a thing that it use to be in many parts of the world. I would also assume this won't work for after market alarms and imoblizers.

And there the is magnavolt, the final word on car alarms.

Pascal's Wager?

I was reminded of that when I found a video called "The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See" on YouTube some years back.

[screed that equates a relatively small number of Islamic fundamentalists with the hundreds of millions of people throughout the world who practice the Muslim religion]

Here is a quote from the introduction of the 2005 book Devil's Game: How the US unleashed fundamentalist Islam by Robert Dreyfuss:

The United States played not with Islam -- that is, the religion, the traditional, organized system of belief of hundreds of millions -- but with Islamism. Unlike the faith, with fourteen centuries of history behind it, Islamism is of a more recent vintage. It is a political creed with its origins in the late nineteenth century, a militant, all-encompassing philosophy whose tenets would appear foreign or heretical to most of the Muslims of earlier ages and that still appear so to many educated Muslims today. Whether it is called pan-Islam, or Islamic fundamentalism, or political Islam, it is an altogether different creature from the spiritual interpretation of Muslim life as contained in the Five Pillars of Islam. It is, in fact, a perversion of that religious faith. That is the mutant ideology that the United States encouraged, supported, organized, or funded. It is the same one variously represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, by Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, by Saudi Arabia's ultra-orthodox Wahhabism, by Hamas and Hezbollah, by the Afghan jihadis, and by Osama bin Laden.

As others have said, while some people who claim to be Muslims attack innocent civilians, so do some people who claim to follow other faiths or claim to have no faith. Generalizing to the larger group of all Muslims is extremely counter-productive (unless you goal is to increase the number of and ferocity of attacks against innocent civilians in the West). The mechanism for how fear-based anti-Muslim screeds in the West fuel fundamentalist attacks against the West was explained in the Adam Curtis documentary series The Power of Nightmares.

In addition, while nothing can justify attacks against innocent civilians anywhere in the world -- regardless of the race, nationality, or religion of the attackers or the victims -- by ignoring the causes of the attacks, by disavowing any responsibility for our own actions, and by instead opting for a fear-based knee-jerk emotional reaction, we only make the situation worse, not better.

Fear is the mind-killer. Often the purpose of attacks against innocent civilians is to instill fear and terror. If we drop our reasoning ability and indulge ourselves in these emotions then we are feeding the cycle of violence, reprisals, and incriminations. Over-generalizations, collective blame, xenophobia, and ignoring the obvious consequences of our own actions just fan the flames of conflict. They do nothing to quell it.

If you consider the people who perpetrated these attacks to be you enemy then know your enemy! Certainly avoid aiding and abetting them by reacting exactly how they want you to react! Blaming, attacking, or murdering other innocents just because they share a country, a religion, or a family with people who are responsible for the attacks fuels the conflict. The problem is not that group-A is mostly bad and group-B is mostly good by comparison. The problem is attacking, killing, and even blaming innocent people. This is happening on both sides of the conflict. For example, blaming Iraq for the 9/11 attacks led to the war on Iraq that killed over one hundred thousand innocent civilians and led to the destabilization of the entire area, the rise of ISIS and the massive refuge crisis. Absolving ourselves of any responsibility for the obvious consequences of our actions and instead continuing on the same path of blaming and punishing more innocent people will continue to have the same disastrous consequences.

You have a choice. You can either keep feeding the conflict or you can work to stop it. Even if your fear-based beliefs were correct and they are somehow morally worse than us then it is even more incumbent on us to stop the conflict instead of feeding it.

My answer is summarised in the second paragraph of my other answer to you. Apart from, more or less once more, stating that I honestly cannot think of a single reason why blowing up people by abusing the justification of democracy is somehow on a different scale of morality that doing the same in the name of a religion (any religion), I'm not sure what else to say. Well, maybe that it's true that in our generally more secularised Western world, aggressors focus on different arguments that resonate better with the public here (democracy rather than Christianity).

To be clear: I was not trying to prove that Christianity is worse or as bad as Islam or something like that. The answer to that would be (IMO, but of course the "others" you called upon to reinforce your rebuttal won't care about that either) "mu". Just like democracy is not better or worse than either in this context. They're all just tools used to play a particular public's opinion in this context, and to appease one or other conscience. I just wanted to give an example of how, today, Christians (note that the OP talked about Christians, not Christianity) are in fact still committing atrocities, and even explicitly against Muslims (née terrorists). Who cares about what's written on the bombs, or what the drone operators yell when they press the fire button on their joystick, when the justification behind it is rotten to the core anyway? I doubt it matters to the people at the receiving end, scales of morality be damned.

Regarding the innocent bystanders: I was only talking about numbers released by the US army. They themselves, in their own (secret until leaked) statistics, admit they basically have no idea about who is an innocent bystander and who isn't, so they just count everyone they possibly can as an enemy combattant. You and your morality will hopefully see that there is an issue as far as morality is concerned if you keep bombing people in the full knowledge that you don't have even the slightest idea how many innocents you are killing (not even afterwards), and moreover are appeasing the conscience of whoever feels the need by claiming that pretty much everyone you kill was in fact a combatant. Those bombs might as well be recruitment pamphlets for IS (and in fact, they act exactly like that). John Oliver explained all about the insanity of the drone strikes quite well, too.

Finally, drone strikes most certainly are not in the daily news here in Belgium, unlike news about IS attacks. In fact, it's been quite some time since I read anything about drone strikes on the news site of our public broadcaster (even if they pride themselves on their holistic, neutral reporting, and are definitely not US apologists or anything like that).

Here you go: a physics prof demonstrates and explains the antenna effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sixty Symbols is a great channel for debunking commonly held physics misconceptions (whether they're right here or not).

According to Cable Store FAQ, users will have to go through Comcast directly if they want to make any changes to their existing plan.

Wow, could it be any redder of a flag that a company famous for thwarting attempts to cancel service wants to insert itself between customers and Amazon (a company known for oozing convenience) at the critical moment when they want to make a change?

impact of global warming will be quicker and more catastrophic than generally envisioned.

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

The difference is lack of control.

Any government-funded process usually has government control. The BBC is not controlled by the government, not funded by the government (although I agree they're involved with the mechanics of the funding process) and was established by royal charter.

The BBC are frequently critical of government policies (as well as shadow-cabinet policies. Try watching politicians of all walks squirm on News Night, for example - although I believe Jeremy Paxman has retired from the program now, he was a shark amongst goldfish when interviewing politicians. It'd be interesting to see a real "defend yourself and your policies" 1:1 interview like this over here on US television. I don't think any of the networks would have the balls to run it though.

The BBC aren't above lampooning important members of the government either. On "Have I got news for you?" (A topical quiz/panel entertainment show), when Roy Hattersley failed to appear for the 4 June 1993 episode — it was the third time he had cancelled at the last minute — he was replaced with a tub of lard (credited as "The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard MP"), as it was "liable to give much the same performance and imbued with many of the same qualities". Roy was ... a little overweight...

IMHO, the BBC are rightly regarded as being as impartial as you can get with a national broadcaster, and they actually fulfill the important (to any democracy) role of the 4th estate, being critical when necessary and not shying away from controversy when its demanded. They have suffered in recent years of trying to always appear unbiased by covering both "sides" of the story when any reasonable person might conclude there's only one side really, but hey, I'd rather have it that way round than the other.

The BBC is one of, if not the, pre-eminent news organization(s) on the planet. Their funding is (IMHO) a good part of why that's the case. They truly have nothing to fear from government oversight (they do after all get to report on any overly-intrusive government actions) and they have the guaranteed resources of a national broadcaster to execute on their charter. It's all pretty good.

When the Christians are in the news EVERY FUCKING DAY -- right now, in 2016 -- shooting innocent civilians, blowing up car bombs, bulldozing and dynamiting the cultural treasures of other religions, raping children, beheading people for drawing pictures of Christ, etc., all in the name of Jesus, and trying to establish a worldwide Christian nation (and telling people that's what they're doing), then I'll agree. And I mean now. Not hundreds of years ago during the Crusades and not during the Inquisition. I might right fucking now in 2016 in the modern, civilized world. Until then, quit trying to equate what these 7th Century barbarians are doing with any other modern religion, because it's complete bullshit.

Drone strikes are not in the news everyday because they don't kill people that are "one of us". Many of them are carried out by Christians though, and by a nation that's one under God or some such.. They hit many innocent civilians too, and often they don't even even know who exactly they've hit. Their number of killed innocent bystanders are reduced by classifying every killed "military-aged male" as an "enemy killed in action". They also hit hospitals, and then just administratively sanction the people that were responsible for it rather than prosecuting them for war crimes.

We turn a blind eye to regimes creating situations that lead to all of the above (thinking they can suppress it before it gets out of hand, and then failing spectacularly), and next join in the narrative that this is just another bunch of insane Muslims that turned violent for no obvious reason. We selectively attack/try to topple regimes if we don't like them, all in the name of human rights but in practice caring little or not at all about the actual human rights of the people in the country at the receiving side of the bombs.

If you read a bit more on any site that goes a bit deeper than "the news of the day", you can find plenty more things. The fact that these acts are not carried out in the name of Christianity (except for possibly in case of Bush Jr), is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. The origin of these acts is not religion, it's just an easily used argument with which people can identify (and the fact that the US self-identifies as a Christian nation is of course abused by IS to claim this is in fact Christian-inspired violence, just like you are doing above w.r.t. Islam). In the West we generally use democracy and human rights as justifications with the same goals, and with just as little relevance.

Or, in the words of the inimitable Juice Rap News:

You can't spell justice without the US
And it's called justice because it's just us
that's justified in judging just cause, just wars and just evidence
Just test this justice and get just iced if you mess with us

And for the record: I count Western Europe pretty much as culpable in all of this as the US, it's not like we ever really took a stand against this (on the contrary, we often join in the context of NATO operations).

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

As authoritarian and unpolished he is, it seems that his absence of political correctness was more of a business like saying they way it is.

I have heard that he wanted to weaken encryption so that it would be easier to break in to the phones, but that could probably be attributable to the technical ignorance of a 70 year old dude, all used to the old school paper, handshake and a smile business style.

I think he will get popularity boost.

Yup, all taken out of context to build a strawman. Good job. I won't debate against climate change because I do not deny it. All I said was I question campus ideological polarization and that it's probably not doing climatology any favors outside left-wing friendly circles, and you call me a 'denialist.' Did you remember to bring your pitchfork?

You're asking what marxism has to do with science? Nothing. That was my point. What's it doing causing mass idiocy on campuses? Why do scientists working for these universities tolerate it? I don't know. Ask Michael Mann. Maybe he knows.

You want me to google for you too? Here, a quick search turned up this doc. It has plenty of clips from various campuses, both students and staff. I'm sure you know how to use youtube if you want more. I'm sure it doesn't matter as you'll likely label any source that doesn't agree with your brand of politics as conspiratorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I love the bit at 11:06 about 'racist capitalist america'
wiki's synopsis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It should be pretty straight forward to understand that if you want to be taken seriously by people who do not have your knowledge background and possibly don't share your ideological outlook, you can't afford to be associated with ideologically charged organizations of any sort...or worse, actively join in their foolishness.

Indeed. And you don't need to go anywhere for that. Just take a look at this video - the queue to the first McDonald's open in Moscow, back in 1990 (so still USSR):

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

I don't really get the need for the attitude, if there existed zero evidence for it then I wouldn't mention it, however as you said in my case "don't believe that's intentional" maybe the same can be said about the harshness in your comment. But I assume it was, but you kinda covered it up by kinda stating being too harsh may not be valid because my "lies" wasn't intentional so whatever.

Over to the posts.
The stuff I've seen HAS BEEN lower performance on SteamOS. As for WHY that's is the case I don't really care. The main reason reason people would be against switching OS would likely be lack of applications, in this case the games they are or want to be playing, the second reason for gamers would likely be for lower performance if they switched. Lower performance may cut it for some ideologists but it won't cut it for the majority which focus about THE GAMES and not the operating system.

There's what is now old tests of early versions of SteamOS, maybe I really shouldn't use those.
Here's one on Arstechnica from 13th November 2015, it shows performance for ValveÂs own Source-based games:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...
SteamOS 2.0 vs Windows 10:
Portal: 107.1 vs 146.2 FPS
Team Fortress 2: 89.2 vs 114.3 FPS
Left for Dead 2: 49.1 vs 50.1 FPS
DOTA 2 (Source 2 version?): 60.0 vs 70.6 FPS.

They also cover Metro: Last Light Redux:
Min settings, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 40.0 vs 50.5 FPS
Max settings, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 4.2 vs 9.5 FPS
and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor:
Lowest, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 61 vs 95.5 FPS
Low, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 55.3 vs 87.0 FPS
Medium, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 42.1 vs 63.3 FPS
High, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 39.2 vs 50.7 FPS
Very high, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 35.9 vs 46.9 FPS
Ultra, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 14.6 vs 34.5 FPS

Phoronix, 6th August 2015, test performance of Ubuntu OpenGL vs Windows 10, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...:
OpenArena, slight lead for Ubuntu, at most by 12.4%.
Xonotic, massive lead for Windows, at most 344.9% faster.

Arma III about the same in the clip you pointed out I'd say, but maybe I would had preferred the Linux version anyway because it's the slowest parts of the game-play which matter the most.
Googled for Total War on Steam OS and Windows and found this of TW: Attila which shows better performance on SteamOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

16th November 2015, SteamOS vs Windows 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Geekbench: Winner Windows 10.
Unigine Heaven: Winner Windows 10 (46.5 vs 48.8 FPS.)
Borderlands 2: Winner Windows 10 (34.1 vs 38.6 FPS.)
Metro: LL: Winner Windows 10 (37.5 vs 42.3 FPS.)
Alien: Isolation: Winner Windows 10 (46.8 vs 54.2 FPS.)
Shadow of Mordor: Winner Windows 10 (~42 vs ~47 FPS.)

8 February 2015, CS:GO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Kinda a wash, either side leads at times.

As for Vulkan:
17 February 2016: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Fury X:
OpenGL: 51.8 FPS
Vulkan: 56.9 FPS (beta)
DX11: 97.8 FPS
980Ti:
OpenGL: 62.6 FPS
Vulkan: 65.8 FPS
DX11: 91 FPS

Not on topic but somewhat related I think the performance using DX12 in Gears of wars was worse too? Or was it just that AMD cards performed worse with that version? (It is a GameWorks title.)

As I said with completely new games and engines from people who know what they are doing that may change but as is anyone who owns The Talos Principle who were exited about Vulkan support and who hopped for even bet

I don't really get the need for the attitude, if there existed zero evidence for it then I wouldn't mention it, however as you said in my case "don't believe that's intentional" maybe the same can be said about the harshness in your comment. But I assume it was, but you kinda covered it up by kinda stating being too harsh may not be valid because my "lies" wasn't intentional so whatever.

Over to the posts.
The stuff I've seen HAS BEEN lower performance on SteamOS. As for WHY that's is the case I don't really care. The main reason reason people would be against switching OS would likely be lack of applications, in this case the games they are or want to be playing, the second reason for gamers would likely be for lower performance if they switched. Lower performance may cut it for some ideologists but it won't cut it for the majority which focus about THE GAMES and not the operating system.

There's what is now old tests of early versions of SteamOS, maybe I really shouldn't use those.
Here's one on Arstechnica from 13th November 2015, it shows performance for ValveÂs own Source-based games:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...
SteamOS 2.0 vs Windows 10:
Portal: 107.1 vs 146.2 FPS
Team Fortress 2: 89.2 vs 114.3 FPS
Left for Dead 2: 49.1 vs 50.1 FPS
DOTA 2 (Source 2 version?): 60.0 vs 70.6 FPS.

They also cover Metro: Last Light Redux:
Min settings, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 40.0 vs 50.5 FPS
Max settings, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 4.2 vs 9.5 FPS
and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor:
Lowest, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 61 vs 95.5 FPS
Low, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 55.3 vs 87.0 FPS
Medium, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 42.1 vs 63.3 FPS
High, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 39.2 vs 50.7 FPS
Very high, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 35.9 vs 46.9 FPS
Ultra, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 14.6 vs 34.5 FPS

Phoronix, 6th August 2015, test performance of Ubuntu OpenGL vs Windows 10, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...:
OpenArena, slight lead for Ubuntu, at most by 12.4%.
Xonotic, massive lead for Windows, at most 344.9% faster.

Arma III about the same in the clip you pointed out I'd say, but maybe I would had preferred the Linux version anyway because it's the slowest parts of the game-play which matter the most.
Googled for Total War on Steam OS and Windows and found this of TW: Attila which shows better performance on SteamOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

16th November 2015, SteamOS vs Windows 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Geekbench: Winner Windows 10.
Unigine Heaven: Winner Windows 10 (46.5 vs 48.8 FPS.)
Borderlands 2: Winner Windows 10 (34.1 vs 38.6 FPS.)
Metro: LL: Winner Windows 10 (37.5 vs 42.3 FPS.)
Alien: Isolation: Winner Windows 10 (46.8 vs 54.2 FPS.)
Shadow of Mordor: Winner Windows 10 (~42 vs ~47 FPS.)

8 February 2015, CS:GO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Kinda a wash, either side leads at times.

As for Vulkan:
17 February 2016: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Fury X:
OpenGL: 51.8 FPS
Vulkan: 56.9 FPS (beta)
DX11: 97.8 FPS
980Ti:
OpenGL: 62.6 FPS
Vulkan: 65.8 FPS
DX11: 91 FPS

Not on topic but somewhat related I think the performance using DX12 in Gears of wars was worse too? Or was it just that AMD cards performed worse with that version? (It is a GameWorks title.)

As I said with completely new games and engines from people who know what they are doing that may change but as is anyone who owns The Talos Principle who were exited about Vulkan support and who hopped for even bet

I don't really get the need for the attitude, if there existed zero evidence for it then I wouldn't mention it, however as you said in my case "don't believe that's intentional" maybe the same can be said about the harshness in your comment. But I assume it was, but you kinda covered it up by kinda stating being too harsh may not be valid because my "lies" wasn't intentional so whatever.

Over to the posts.
The stuff I've seen HAS BEEN lower performance on SteamOS. As for WHY that's is the case I don't really care. The main reason reason people would be against switching OS would likely be lack of applications, in this case the games they are or want to be playing, the second reason for gamers would likely be for lower performance if they switched. Lower performance may cut it for some ideologists but it won't cut it for the majority which focus about THE GAMES and not the operating system.

There's what is now old tests of early versions of SteamOS, maybe I really shouldn't use those.
Here's one on Arstechnica from 13th November 2015, it shows performance for ValveÂs own Source-based games:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...
SteamOS 2.0 vs Windows 10:
Portal: 107.1 vs 146.2 FPS
Team Fortress 2: 89.2 vs 114.3 FPS
Left for Dead 2: 49.1 vs 50.1 FPS
DOTA 2 (Source 2 version?): 60.0 vs 70.6 FPS.

They also cover Metro: Last Light Redux:
Min settings, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 40.0 vs 50.5 FPS
Max settings, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 4.2 vs 9.5 FPS
and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor:
Lowest, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 61 vs 95.5 FPS
Low, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 55.3 vs 87.0 FPS
Medium, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 42.1 vs 63.3 FPS
High, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 39.2 vs 50.7 FPS
Very high, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 35.9 vs 46.9 FPS
Ultra, SteamOS 2 vs Windows 10: 14.6 vs 34.5 FPS

Phoronix, 6th August 2015, test performance of Ubuntu OpenGL vs Windows 10, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...:
OpenArena, slight lead for Ubuntu, at most by 12.4%.
Xonotic, massive lead for Windows, at most 344.9% faster.

Arma III about the same in the clip you pointed out I'd say, but maybe I would had preferred the Linux version anyway because it's the slowest parts of the game-play which matter the most.
Googled for Total War on Steam OS and Windows and found this of TW: Attila which shows better performance on SteamOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

16th November 2015, SteamOS vs Windows 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Geekbench: Winner Windows 10.
Unigine Heaven: Winner Windows 10 (46.5 vs 48.8 FPS.)
Borderlands 2: Winner Windows 10 (34.1 vs 38.6 FPS.)
Metro: LL: Winner Windows 10 (37.5 vs 42.3 FPS.)
Alien: Isolation: Winner Windows 10 (46.8 vs 54.2 FPS.)
Shadow of Mordor: Winner Windows 10 (~42 vs ~47 FPS.)

8 February 2015, CS:GO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Kinda a wash, either side leads at times.

As for Vulkan:
17 February 2016: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Fury X:
OpenGL: 51.8 FPS
Vulkan: 56.9 FPS (beta)
DX11: 97.8 FPS
980Ti:
OpenGL: 62.6 FPS
Vulkan: 65.8 FPS
DX11: 91 FPS

Not on topic but somewhat related I think the performance using DX12 in Gears of wars was worse too? Or was it just that AMD cards performed worse with that version? (It is a GameWorks title.)

As I said with completely new games and engines from people who know what they are doing that may change but as is anyone who owns The Talos Principle who were exited about Vulkan support and who hopped for even bet

This country's debt and overspending problem are too big to solve by a few rich people sacrificing themselves for public accolades.

Bill Whittle does a good job of explaining the scale of the problem here.

-jcr

Everyone needs to watch this extended video of Donald Trump reacting to President Obama's visit to Cuba. Whether you love or hate Trump (and it seems that most voters fall into one of those two camps), you'll recognize that Trump is not delivering talking points prepared by aides. He's quite passionate about the points he's making:

- Obama did not prepare properly for the trip because R. Castro got away with not greeting him at the airport, with the world press watching
- That alone shows that Obama is utterly incompetent
- Obama should've immediately boarded the plane and gone home

On all the other issues, benefits and drawbacks regarding Obama's diplomatic Cuban initiative, which was supposedly several years in the making, Trump says nothing. Cruz, Rubio, and some other Cuban American politicians are very harshly opposed, however.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what you will get if Trump is elected President of the United States. Right here, this is why he thinks he's the man for the job.

A little levity on this sad day, considering Intel got its start in flash memory:

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

Anime and cartoons are not the same thing. Anime is extremely distinct from other forms of animation. Calling anime anime is completely justified. I've already conclusively proven these facts in this thread, and you have been unable to offer any counter-arguments.

By the way, remind me how this cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Is exactly the same as this anime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Anime and cartoons are not the same thing. Anime is extremely distinct from other forms of animation. Calling anime anime is completely justified. I've already conclusively proven these facts in this thread, and you have been unable to offer any counter-arguments.

By the way, remind me how this cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Is exactly the same as this anime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

To be fair, the engine Unity is getting better https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Anime and cartoons are not the same thing. Anime is extremely distinct from other forms of animation. Calling anime anime is completely justified. I've already conclusively proven these facts in this thread, and you have been unable to offer any counter-arguments.

Hey, here's another one little task for you. Explain how these clips are exactly the same:

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

No problem, right?

Anime and cartoons are not the same thing. Anime is extremely distinct from other forms of animation. Calling anime anime is completely justified. I've already conclusively proven these facts in this thread, and you have been unable to offer any counter-arguments.

Hey, here's another one little task for you. Explain how these clips are exactly the same:

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

No problem, right?

Now, how do you like *them* Apples?

Only 4% of global CO2 is attributable to humans. 96% of it is naturally occurring, and we couldn't do anything about it if we tried.

Fun. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

There was way more animal life on this planet in the past, and Cows are the biggest producer of c02.

How do we know all of those other animals, which numbered far higher in the past, didn't produce more c02?

A HAH! It's another Rothschild scam to tax your carbon footprint!

This all is making sense now..

And this is one of many reasons why Obama is a liar and a failure.

Obama on signing statements

From Google: The top 10 percent pays 53.3 percent of all federal taxes.

And close to half a trillion a year of spending from all that is going to fund Welfare for immigrants from certain countries; instead of on public goods.

The burden is significant on all payers, and we find the US government becoming further and further in breach of the social contract, by just taking money from peoples' wallets and straight-up giving it to other people, which also means: the US government has become less and less legitimate over the past 50 years, and approaching the tipping point where citizens will have a solemn duty to overthrow it and institute new government which does not steal from them......

That space station has been gone since 2001

Yes, that's what we wanted you to think

Easiest way to find somebody who has a God complex because he forwarded an xterm once and thinks that everyone else is an idiot: Correctly point out that the modern X server running any real application made this century is no longer network transparent.

Bonus points for the idiots not understanding the fact that the ability to forward a window (poorly) over an X server does *NOT* make the X server "network transparent" because the word "transparent" has a specific technical meaning that the little bot with the God complex doesn't understand because "details" are beneath him.

Here's a guy who has spent almost 20 years developing X talking about why Wayland is better, he also says that modern X is not network transparent.. because it isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Watch the whole video and before you spew, remember that this guy has done more real programming for X in one day than you have done in your entire life.

And Jurassic Park also showed fsn as a file system viewer on IRIX. Not exactly the best example to support using a mainstream OS.

Replace "Are you sure?" with "Are you impressed?" in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The answer stays: NO.

Have they updated the software recently?

Not for the 2006 MacBook. In fact, many third-party applications no longer support the 32-bit processor. I got Snow Leopard and Mint Linux running on my mine. Other people got Windows 7 and 10 running on this MacBook (see video link).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJw8aSxEFwQ

This is what happens when a glider exceeds the maximum airspeed V_ne: How to break a gliders wing.

I guess you've never spliced cable before.

I watched a video on this "Lightcrimp Plus" and I guess I'm missing something but what makes this so amazing compared to any other mechanical splice kit?

I had exactly the same sentiments, but went with the iphone 6 but if there had been the option for a large capacity 5s then would have been quite happy with that.

Not sure about 'the loop bit' - I am sure this is a Malcolm Tucker reference - now that would be a product launch I would go to.

For those that do not know 'In the Loop' then judging by 'house of cards', our last great political drama, you should get your version of Malcolm in about 10 years time.
NB Malcolm is very occasionally NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUky4_A7Zw4

I did explain. Right here: "Referring to it as anime is justified because anime is a very particular form of animation. It has an instantly recognizable appearance; it has its own visual language and iconography; it has its own genres, story conventions and character archetypes; it has its own animation techniques, and it's part of a larger and tightly connected industry that encompasses manga, light novels, games and music. And so on." The differences between anime and American animation (which is what almost everyone is used to and consider the definitive representation of animation) are so extensive that they have nearly nothing in common. Even the most basic assumptions about what animation is and how it should be made are radically different. You might as well claim that early silent cinema is no different from, say, Inception (which, incidentally, likely took inspiration from Satoshi Kon's film Paprika).

I also provided YouTube videos contrasting cartoons and anime. Again, unless you really have some kind of issue with your brain you cannot fail to notice the differences. There is no way Silly Symphonies is anything like Ghost in the Shell (which, incidentally, was the principal inspiration behind The Matrix).

Here's a simple assigment for you: explain in detail why you think the following two clips are exactly the same.

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

I did explain. Right here: "Referring to it as anime is justified because anime is a very particular form of animation. It has an instantly recognizable appearance; it has its own visual language and iconography; it has its own genres, story conventions and character archetypes; it has its own animation techniques, and it's part of a larger and tightly connected industry that encompasses manga, light novels, games and music. And so on." The differences between anime and American animation (which is what almost everyone is used to and consider the definitive representation of animation) are so extensive that they have nearly nothing in common. Even the most basic assumptions about what animation is and how it should be made are radically different. You might as well claim that early silent cinema is no different from, say, Inception (which, incidentally, likely took inspiration from Satoshi Kon's film Paprika).

I also provided YouTube videos contrasting cartoons and anime. Again, unless you really have some kind of issue with your brain you cannot fail to notice the differences. There is no way Silly Symphonies is anything like Ghost in the Shell (which, incidentally, was the principal inspiration behind The Matrix).

Here's a simple assigment for you: explain in detail why you think the following two clips are exactly the same.

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

I can't say how many times I got into trouble for taking apart radios or clocks or vacuum cleaners when I was a kid. A lot of times when I was very young, I'd watch my dad take apart something and once asked him if he had instructions on how to fix something to which he replied, no you just look at it and see how it is put together. We built all kinds of things together.

I terrified the folks at my nursery school by taking apart and putting back together rotary-dial phones. Sometimes, I even fixed them. I don't think it has anything to do with whether people actually tinkered, though. I think that's just a symptom of an underlying curiosity about how things work. People who have that curiosity—we'll call it "the knack"—are inherently drawn to engineering, and tend to be good at it.

On my desk my Mac has 2 Thunderbolt -> DVI adapters sticking out of the, power adapter and a USB -> Ethernet adapter.

But they make the coolest adapters...

Repetition kills you.

The NSA has a very bad reputation. Most people who have the technical ability to find bugs in code would not work for the NSA. Someone works for the NSA. He's at a party. Someone else asks what he does for a living. He says NSA. The other person shows distaste and walks away.

Listen, you choose to wheel out a Matt Damon quote, and that's cool, that's fine. I don't have a problem with that. But do at least try to get the quote right, would ya?

Television is broadcast in VHF and UHF; well above 30Mhz.. These SDR receivers won't pick up any broadcast television. If any AM radio stations care enough to sue over this (something they haven't bothered to do so far, despite WebSDR existing) it's easy to filter the broadcast AM bands, or anything else that has to be blocked.

In other very interesting SDR news; last month David Rowe did a linux.conf.au presentation that covered his work on fully open source (from the boards and firmware through the protocol stack) digital VHF radio. This will ultimately lead to cheap (sub $100) and powerful TDMA repeaters for VHF and UHF. Essentially this brings cellular radio technology to amateur radio bands.

Better dumb and happy than smart and without any friends.

-- Danny Elfman (Change)

Engineer? For fuck sakes Bill Nye has always been a performer. He's been riding his name recognition since "Science Guy."

Here he is as one of the "High-fiving white guys."

I've seen this traffic system before

There needs to be a label stating whether or not food contains chemicals. Chemicals are bad for you.

Rome has had lightless intersections for a while now. No need for high tech driverless cars. Works great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Difference between Domestication and Taming? (e.g. why we don't domesticate zebra?)

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