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In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When there's no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn't make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions. America most definitely has such a system.

And when independent candidates run for office and can't get their message out for being shadow banned, and the corporatist candidates are always the number one trending subject, you'll be there to finger wag for not bothering to set up their own world-class content distribution system first.

Any time you try to talk about how internet censorship threatens our ability to get the jackboot of oligarchy off our necks you'll always get some guy in your face who's read one Ayn Rand book and thinks he knows everything, saying things like âoeFacebook is a private company! It can do whatever it wants!â Is it now? Has not Facebook been inviting US government-funded groups to help regulate its operations, vowing on the Senate floor to do more to facilitate the interests of the US government, deleting accounts at the direction of the US and Israeli governments, and handing the guidance of its censorship behavior over to the Atlantic Council, which receives funding from the US government, the EU, NATO and Gulf states? How "private" is that? Facebook is a deeply government-entrenched corporation, and Facebook censorship is just what government censorship looks like in a corporatist system of government.

who got away with knowingly laundering money for drug cartels for years (decades?), got to keep all the profits and had little to no repercussions ($100 million dollar fine sounds like a lot unless you consider the profits they made from the illegal activity).

They way I look at it is like this: Police yourselves so the gov't doesn't have to. See here for a far more amusing take on it though

Thanks for proving your mental retardation. It could be blown away by the wind, burnt up due to chemical processes, repelled by electric forces. To say nothing about the vagueness of the word "fallen".

Though, if your corporate masters want you to not admit that it is not "fallen", you might make some other irrelevant statement like this rather than address the actual issue.

That was a (slightly mangled) TOS quote (and a fairly well-known one at that), dumbass. My use of that quote served to help demonstrate that some things are incontrovertible, simply because, to conclude otherwise, would require a reordering of fundamental laws of the universe. In the case of failure rates of socketed vs. non-socketed RAM and SSD, there can be little, if any, argument, that each connector comes with at least the increased POSSIBILITY of electromechanical failure modes over soldering.

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

Hand in your Geek Card immediately, loser.

Why don't you tell us who you're talking about? "The left" isn't a group really except in your AM radio feedback loop, sleepy traitor.

He never said the word group, d-bag, shouldn't you be getting triggered someplace more productive for your kind:

and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try.

Clearly the kids who made these drawings never saw this old Sesame Street clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then again, if the episodes I have seen recently are any indication, I doubt Sesame Street plays the kind of really good educational clips it used to anymore (I suspect it started going downhill when someone decided they could make a lot of money selling plush toys (especially that ugly red thing) and switched the focus away from the educational clips and towards more clips featuring the Muppet characters who could be marketed via toys and such.

aren't there more down to earth already practicable use cases, where this fibre will replace some other fibre because it is better?

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

Have kids and you'll see that less screen time equals less headache and screaming from the kids. This is a no brainer. If the study says anything different than that, then no kids were and nobody who has ever been around a kid was involved in the study.

SPOT ON! Our up and coming two year old granddaughter tries to physically interact with characters on kids TV shows by trying to hand plastic toys an food to the characters on the screen. She becomes oblivious to the real world around her and becomes instantly belligerent if you turn off her session of tv or internet prattle like the seeming innocent ever present "baby sharks" currently taking over the minds of little children and this generation of screen addicted parents. But driving some grand parents and some parents who actually interact with their children nuts!

We are not far away from the day when our kids will not understand that there is more to life than looking at a screen and poking at it to interact with other humans is all there is in life. Taking a cell phone away from away from anyone over the age of 10 will be outlawed because it will be considered child cruelty by today's generation of so called connected and tech savy young people.

Watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

His hands were raised, he was obeying but there were at least 2 cops shouting different instructions.

A Fucking Leaf!

It's Marvin the Martian powering up his subterranean giant laser gun

He found the plug.

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

recompiling the X.org server in #t2sde Linux; https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ;-)

Sweden Not a Socialist Success.

Surely you are in more danger of it being pulled off the table because what they actually bumped into was the power cord. So why are not other laptops suffering these RAM or SSD glitches where on the vast majority of laptops these are socketed.

How do you know they aren't?

If I wanted a fashion statement I would buy an air not a macbook pro.
and since when was a hard drive or ssd or ram left to float around in any laptop?

You're pretty stupid, aren't you?

although there was a particular ic which gave problems due to poor soldering which on refurbs apple glued some rubber on to sandwich it against the case and hold it down in case the solder joints failed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That was the fault of the chip itself not being sufficiently "flat"; although I agree, that's not a wonderful permanent repair, IMHO.

Here’s a better video faggot.

That seems to be a video of idiots driving poorly, mostly in Teslas. Last I checked, idiots (before incarceration and/or death) are free to drive whatever they want.

Are you suggesting that Tesla drivers are predominately idiots? If so, I see a lot of idiot driver and crash videos for pretty much every make of car.

So please, clarify...

See subject & https://www.bing.com/search?FO...

* IF I had a themesong? It'd be "There's NOTHING you can't do" position 2:04 "I'm from the EMPIRE STATE & that's (AAAaaaayyy) - New York: Concrete Jungle where DREAMS are MADE OF - there's NOTHING you can't do ( THAT BOY'S GOOD ) From https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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P.S.=> BECAUSE WE ARE "THE MEN IN BLACK" - "You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name (APK by AC). Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black"... apk

Surely you are in more danger of it being pulled off the table because what they actually bumped into was the power cord. So why are not other laptops suffering these RAM or SSD glitches where on the vast majority of laptops these are socketed.

If I wanted a fashion statement I would buy an air not a macbook pro.
and since when was a hard drive or ssd or ram left to float around in any laptop?
although there was a particular ic which gave problems due to poor soldering which on refurbs apple glued some rubber on to sandwich it against the case and hold it down in case the solder joints failed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here’s a better video faggot.

Classic musk faggot whataboutism.

Here, calm down with some nice videos:

Help with anger management, courtesy of the Muppets and Jack Black.

Technological advances should not be seen as an enemy.

Classic musk faggot whataboutism.

Here, calm down with some nice videos:

Help with anger management, courtesy of the Muppets and Jack Black.

Technological advances should not be seen as an enemy.

They will sound like this: A dramatic reading of a lawyer commercial written by a bot

Democrats do spread the "Punch a Nazi" meme.

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

Many of them are also tepid in their condemnation (or outright supportive) of Antifa terrorism and harrassment.

Leftist professors openly call for violence:

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

You look silly pretending there aren't Democrats who support this kind of thing.

Democrats do spread the "Punch a Nazi" meme.

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

Many of them are also tepid in their condemnation (or outright supportive) of Antifa terrorism and harrassment.

Leftist professors openly call for violence:

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

You look silly pretending there aren't Democrats who support this kind of thing.

Carbon sequestration starts with soil biology. We have already figured out the solution to this problem. The issue is: not many people hear the answer. If we converted big agriculture to a polyculture based system along the lines of permaculture, we could sequester just about all the carbon released in the atmosphere within about a decade. Permaculture systems create soil, sequester carbon and reverse desertification at an incredible rate. We can build soil at a rate of 1-3 inches per year whereas nature normally takes 1,000 years to create 1 inch of soil. Farmers make more money, have more stable and diversified crops and animal products, soil biology is repaired, carbon is sequestered at an incredible rate, water is held in the soil - regulating stream flows, mitigating floods... Come on people. Don't make this harder than it needs to be. We have the answer. I'm actively doing it myself. Hope in a Changing World - Reforesting the Yellow River Basin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How CO2 Could Be The Future Of Fuel | VICE on HBO
Anyone know how accurate this report is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I know everyone is joking about trees, but a much more effective way, according to many researchers including this guy, are by restoring grasslands.

I don't think it's physics as much as financial. The demand is currently not there. A 5 year old laptop was faster than most current laptops/desktops/tablets/phones. Most people have stopped demanding high performance CPUs. Even gamers have shifted their focus to the video cards not the CPUs and a majority of games are now written for tablets/phones that have little more processing power than a 486. Because of the low processing power and low energy requirements of phones/tablets, the stuff that might have created demand like voice recognition has shifted to the cloud instead.

Moore's law was and has always been about economics. It is about the cost per transistor even at the expense of performance. Integration increases with greater density, larger area, and improved packaging which all contribute to lower cost per transistor.

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

Obama open mic slip: 'After my election I have more flexibility'

The intelligence community is trying to start a new Cold War with Russia. They have gone rogue and are not under the control of the democratically elected government. Reference: "This is like a spy novel." There is a ton of evidence that FBI and DoJ officials went rogue and started using opposition research from the Clinton campaign (which involved speaking with Russians no less) and other evidence in order to meddle in the election. Remember when Rosenstein threatened the Congressional oversight committee because they're doing their job of oversight? Stunning.

Obama open mic slip: 'After my election I have more flexibility'

The intelligence community is trying to start a new Cold War with Russia. They have gone rogue and are not under the control of the democratically elected government. Reference: "This is like a spy novel." There is a ton of evidence that FBI and DoJ officials went rogue and started using opposition research from the Clinton campaign (which involved speaking with Russians no less) and other evidence in order to meddle in the election. Remember when Rosenstein threatened the Congressional oversight committee because they're doing their job of oversight? Stunning.

I have a hard time seeing how this is art, even if it would look good, since after all it's just copying not generating for a purpose or adding it's own touch so to say (as long as ANN and trained from other data and no randomization isn't enough of "own touch" =P)

Mean-while I do consider this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Conspiracy - Chaos Theory, 64 kB intro demo) art. And it's gratis and easy to make more copies of..

...just not his!! Just because his game has been totally and utterly trounced by ELITE DANGEROUS, (which for Vive/Rift is a bit of a "killer app" for VR), doesn't mean VR not selling. That's like saying PC gaming is dying because the Duke Nukem remake didn't sell. VR is going great - yes as some people have said there's "too many cables"... but the technology is moving along at breakneck speed at the moment.. For example , the "cable" problem has just been resolved ... this week! HTC specifially have brought out a vive wireless adapter which does away with the cables. The Samsung GEAR VR and the (equivalent) Oculous GO are just pick-up-and-play self-contained VR which have a surprising amount of fantastic space games for them - such as Project Charon, End Space and Anshar 2. Project Charon specifically is a sight to behold, considering it can be run from a cheap mobile phone getup (GEAR VR) and silences most VR crtitics after a demonstration.

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

The Hall of Tortured Souls easter egg is real though:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwg9eLHZZRo

Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools

-- "When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."

Okay, I just read the article at Huff post. As a left-leaning person, I think that is fucking stupid. You are clearly out of real problems to solve if you are concerned about what position people are in when they pee. Shit like that gives the left a bad name.

Headline: "SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time". Body: "We've launched Falcon 9 over 60 times." Me: ??

The headline may be misunderstood as the third Falcon 9 flight ever. The news here is that a specific Falcon 9 booster is going to be reused for the second time, so it will be its third flight. Not to be confused with Falcon Heavy (Simultaneous boosters landing), which has been launched only once in a test flight.

It's actually worse than that. TFA:
1. the company is planning to launch a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for the third time.
2. We're about to relaunch a booster for the third time.

Where I come from, "redo" means "it's been done once and now we're doing it again, for a total of two "does". If you're relaunching for the third time, that's a total of four launches. If you're launching a booster for a third time, that means it's already been launched twice, so the third launch is the second relaunch.

It appears from the first couple of paragraphs of TFA that this will be the third launch (or second relaunch) of the subject booster. I really wish people who call themselves writers and editors would actually learn to convey accurate information in the stories they touch.

"[Trump] is not rounding people up and murdering them without any due process."
Ready for Goldberg's reply? Sit back:
"He would certainly like to."
Seriously - that was her reply.
The newswoman.
That gets you a job at The New York Times.

The smoking gun evidence.

I guess we are also ignoring the Leftists going around beating the shit out of people too? Cool.

That's another thing that's so weird about A-ntifa: twenty years ago, when they still called themselves the 'Black Bloc', they were the ones out protesting globalization. Does anybody else remember the 'Battle of Seattle' in 1999, when they were protesting the WTO? I do. Back then, they were actually fighting the system; now they just fight their fellow citizens for the system. Don't they realize what tools they are? Have they forgotten their own damn history?

I wonder if it's also the top rated show on SCTV...

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

(Awesome blast from the past.)

Headline: "SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time".
Body: "We've launched Falcon 9 over 60 times."
Me: ??

The headline may be misunderstood as the third Falcon 9 flight ever. The news here is that a specific Falcon 9 booster is going to be reused for the second time, so it will be its third flight. Not to be confused with Falcon Heavy (Simultaneous boosters landing), which has been launched only once in a test flight.

Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools

--
"When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."

Soviet power is too much for Trump.

4. Haptics are also on the "attempts" list https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/02/holosuit-promises-full-body-vr-tracking-and-haptics-by-november-2018/

>promises to start shipping this November.

Hmm, with a week to go before November it looks like all they've managed to build is a prototype powerglove with about a quarter-second of input lag, so everything looks right on schedule!

People fleeing the Republic helped bring about the downfall of Rome:
Ancient Rome in 20 minutes

VR needs to quite literately go back and re-invent the power glove at the minimum and work from there

I love the powerglove...it's so bad. [link]

Pretty sure the U.S. government wouldn't look too kindly on what would essentially be the creation of a trust to monopolize a market,

How little you know about how capitalist states work.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

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

Just like their self-driving cars.

These guys did a study and even dropped from 5.5 meters reaching a terminal velocity of 10 m/s (22 mph) a DJI Phantom could cause AIS 3+ (severe) neck injury if it fell on someone's head. My buddy has one of those and the biggest scare he had was in mid flight when the controller reported a battery problem. He was at 120m (~400 ft) which is the max unrestricted height, fortunately it was only a loose cable and was able to land safely but... had that been a total power loss it'd be 1.2 kg falling out of the sky from 400 ft, which is roughly worst case. At that point it'd be near terminal velocity which would be around 35 m/s (78 mph) (go to 15:00) for a drone of that size and a lethal weapon with enough power to crack an adult skull open.

Drones are, compared to say cars actually quite rare. They only have flight times measured in minutes, so run time is even less. And most are operated by sensible guys trying to avoid flying directly over people. Even when they're operated by idiots like above, they're quite reliable. But the Phantom is rated for 200g payload. Even if you just want to deliver a pizza you're going to need a much bigger drone with a lot more impact force and heavier drones drop more like a rock too. For a commercial operation in a hub-and-spoke model over populated areas... it's the "flying cars" idea in miniature. My bet is it'll last until Uber kills someone. And this time it won't be someone jaywalking in the dark, it'll just be whoever it happens to come crashing down on. Drones are cool. Drones and people are a really bad mix.

If Waymo get their self-driving car going I imagine we'll find many better alternatives to the "driveway problem", to the degree there actually is one. Maybe it could drop of micro-delivery bots that take stuff from the curb to your door or to a delivery box, if it's more like Amazon than pizza. I mean it's not like a drone leaving something on your lawn is optimal either. I mean if you'll have a drone dropping it from the sky it means it can't have no cover if it's raining, for example. Personally I think most problems would be most easily solved by a coat and slip-on shoes to go out, grab the delivery and be back inside in a minute. It's rarely that horrible outside...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBrbHKr1PU

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

Hong Kong will revert back to full Chinese control in a few decades, and this bridge is them literally extending their reach to the island, and making their presence and influence felt as early as possible.

Vox Borders has a great video about the larger political tensions and strategies that this bridge is a part of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

It has all sorts of jobs for people like yourself. I won't bother correcting your history essay.