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Ah. So you're saying I can drop a GCC program in Green Hills, PGC or Intel?

I didn't say that. I said, "I'm talking about mainstream features that every C compiler supports. If you have to radically alter your approach to writing C programs to a subset of C, you just aren't in C land anymore, and trying to say, "See, the problem isn't C!" is a farce."

Please avoid the Cathy Newman strawmen. Thanks.

This is a partial truth. The real truth is that America gave Japan a gigantic bribe in the form of totally unfair (to Americans) trade deals. Japan largely got a pass from the United States when it used protectionism and state subsidies to build its industries after World War II. The same protectionism that people decry today apparently worked spectacularly well when anyone but Americans did it.

Japan was free to dump its autos on America and put our people out of work, but American imports to Japan were tightly restricted. This bribe was to stay on the free world side in the Cold War. You'd think they wouldn't need a bribe, but even today Japan has an active Communist Party, and even back when Russia was 1000 times the threat it is today, Japanese and Western leftists sought to join their nations to the Soviet Union as Soviet republics. More info here.

Follow me back to 1946. Europe is ruined, China is still a backwater. The USA puts together an alliance that allows everyone within it to trade goods into the US without significant trade barriers. This allows for Europe to export their way back to prosperity after WWII. It gives them room to grow their economies beyond what their somewhat depleted populations will allow. In addition to allowing the free flow of goods, the USA becomes the security guarantor of the free world by using our navy to police the world's oceans and enable low risk (and hence low cost) global trade.

But there was a condition. In order to deal with the US, you had to be on our side in helping to combat and contain the Soviet Union. Essentially the US traded some of its economic/manufacturing capacity for increased security and strategic assets to assist in the cold war. Only one problem: We won. The Soviet flag went down in 1991, and we didn't really make any changes to the world order.

They only beat us on trade the past few decades because we let them. We're not letting them any more. Globalization is over. Free trade is over. The rest of the world riding on America's back is over. Atlas is shrugging.

"Language is a virus from outer space." William S. Burroughs.

Laurie Anderson's take on it.

I call it the Scotty Principle, explained in Star Trek 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You didn't actually refute anything that was said.

You mean aside from everything, categorically? You know playing the stubborn jackass card doesn't work in real life.

All you did was make excuses for a murderer who fled justice to live in a real life communist country.

You can stop trying to make this delegitimization/deflection happen. It's not going to happen. I can tell you're so dense your head could take a direct hit from the Death Star and you wouldn't even notice, but lets use your argument with different variables. Teabaggers and MAGA hatters have been wearing this T-shirt of late, which celebrates Pinochet throwing thousands people out of helicopters over the ocean. Numerically speaking, that's 40,000 times worse than than citing a fifty year old shootout.

Since you believe in guilt-by-any-association, all Teabaggers, Libertarians, Trump voters and Republicans have to answer for this celebration of fascist mass murder. But of course they don't, because this entire line of reasoning is nutpicking, which is always an exercise in dumbfuckery.

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Put down the shovel and stop embarrassing yourself.

• Cassette tapes were the biggest piracy threat since they allowed people to make their own copies of music.
• Combination radios with cassette recorders were the biggest piracy threat since they allowed people to record music playing on the radio.
• The VCR was the biggest piracy threat to the movie industry.
• Videotape rental stores were the biggest piracy threat to the movie industry, since people could just watch any movie they wanted.
• MP3s were the biggest piracy threat since they allowed music to be freely traded without any media.
• The Internet was the biggest piracy threat since it allowed music and movies to be distributed without needing physical media.
• YouTube is the biggest piracy threat since it makes it easy for people to capture a copy of a song they're listening to.

Everyone else understands that new technology comes with advantages and disadvantages. But the new technology is preferred because the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Only the music and movie industries don't seem to get this, and focus only on the disadvantages while ignoring the advantages. Their piracy claims have been wrong every single time. Cassette tapes led to increased music sales, since it freed music from a record needle sitting in a groove, meaning you could now listen to music in your car or while jogging. Radio/cassette recorders allowed people to listen to music two different ways with a single device, so led to people listening to more music since the playback devices now cost less them less. VCRs spawned the movie sale industry, allowing movie studios to make more money than they ever could through theater releases alone. Sales to video rental stores eventually eclipsed videotape sales as the biggest revenue source for movie studios. MP3s became the ubiquitous method to store and distribute music in the 21st century. Internet-based music and movie sales and rentals have now eclipsed disc-based sales and rentals. And YouTube remains the easiest way to quickly check out new releases and new genres of music, and view movie trailers on demand without having to hope to catch it during a commercial break on TV

In every single case, their prophecies of doom by piracy have not only been proven wrong, but the new technology has led to increased sales of music and movies. Yet these two industries cannot seem to break their habit of demanding the new technology be shut down before it "destroys" them. Life isn't perfect. You're never going to get rid of piracy. As long as the benefits of a service like YouTube outweigh the piracy drawbacks, it's a net win. Just like retail stores don't shut down just because they lose some inventory to shoplifting. The benefits of increased sales from allowing customers to see, feel, and browse the merchandise in person outweighs the drawback of loss due to shoplifting.

Get the fuck out of here.

right here

Microsoft is willing to give some ground on Windows in exchange for subscription revenue for office.

Absolutely fantastic post, thanks.

I studied physics at ANU 20 years ago and we received a comprehensive course on nuclear weapon technology. Sure, I realise there are a lot of materials science and electronics involved, but I too agree that Australia as a nation could build a decent nuke within 6 months. What that quote/report doesn't elaborate on would be what time-frame Australia would need to get within 90% of what the US and Russia have. My estimate would be 2-3 years, provided a comprehensive testing regime was implemented. This is noteworthy because politically the people of Australia may not have the stomach for it.

By pure coincidence I was watching this tonight.

What is a fascinating corollary of your post, and my own research, is the USA has been a systematic bad-actor all the way through. Why do we tolerate their shit?

Save the Rich by Garfunkel and Oates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M8fOwHnwg0

Fast reactors are not a great example, as they have experienced multiple meltdowns during their very lengthy and expensive development. They will not melt if designed and constructed very carefully, but are not inherently immune.

Note how little was spent on MSR development by comparison, and the remarkable results achieved. This was possible because they are simple and inherently safe. Molten salt reactors are just a better idea, and inspire more confidence than systems cooled by liquid metals that burn violently if exposed to air or water.

NuScale's reactor is safe because it is small. The inventor of the PWR knew this, and advised against scaling them beyond 60MW since safety can not be guaranteed, and heroic engineering of complex cooling systems is needed. Instead, he advocated MSRs, which can be scaled arbitrarily large, and remain passively safe.

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

He was technically correct---the best kind of correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So, he did win this one.

All there is is 'Fake News' now. Possibly that's all there ever was, but the media as a whole definitely seems strikingly shittier than 5 years ago (which is remarkable considering how shitty it was even then).

Will It Blend?

We know better. We know that everything we put into the environment doesn't disappear, doesn't dilute to become irrelevant. Oceans are not safer than land. We'd live on the oceans if they were safer. People are rightfully terrified of the sea. The "safety" that you think you get from moving nuclear reactors to the oceans is based on that faulty notion of being able to tow them "beyond the environment", as a classic sketch quipped. There is still significant radiation all over the world from the first nuclear bomb tests. The radioactive contamination from Chernobyl, Fukushima and all the lesser incidents is still with us. It won't go away for a very long time, longer than people will remember where it came from. The oceans are not "beyond the environment". Don't treat them like contaminating them doesn't matter.

And the proper way to shun someone is to use unicorns.

There is nothing more salient that Eisenhower's warning about the Military Industrial Complex. I wonder how much healthcare could be provided with the taxpayers $13 Billion?

I think you are missing the point. The American people at large do not want healthcare, they are horrified by the prospect of getting healthcare from anybody but politically connected insurance companies peddling useless healthcare insurance policies at premium prices. This is what the people elected Trump and his stalwart group of patriots to do, to end this socialist healthcare madness. President Trump and his patriots, like a bodyguard throwing himself into the line of fire, are throwing themselves (in a supreme act of patriotic sacrifice that should bring tears to the eyes of any red blooded American) into the path of the poisoned bullet that the diabolical left wing intended to use bring 'socialist' healthcare to the American people.

There is nothing more salient that Eisenhower's warning about the Military Industrial Complex. I wonder how much healthcare could be provided with the taxpayers $13 Billion?

There are already a bunch of the plant-based bricks in the wild. JANGBRICKS did a side-by-side comparison here. Aside from some slight variation in color they were indiscernible from another.

I hope you guys know now that is is SUPER SERIAL.. really guys, I'm SERIAL , SUPER SERIAL AND AGGRESSIVE SERIAL

It is also often far more "hate speech" today on the far political left than on the far political right, against whom the statutes are enforced. It's far easier to charge a skinhead than a 6 foot former football player transgender person who grips the back of the neck of a debate opponent who is at least 5 inches shorter and 70 pounds lighter and promise to send them home in an ambulance.

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

It's a very, very threatening and dominant move to grab the back of someone's neck. It is _scary_ for the person being grabbed.

I'm afraid I'm running into some of these issues socially. I have transgender friends, and relatives. But some of the speech from the younger political advocates is, _itself_, blatant hate speech. I'm old enough to remember the hippies, and the Black Panthers, and to have met people who were actively Communist during the Vietnam War. I'm afraid to say that they're historically and emotionally related to the most extreme of the modern leftist political candidates, with some grounding in the same political doctrines proven failures in eastern Europe and communist Asia.

see for a study citation that shows most of the censorship on campus is directed at left wing people. Make of it what you will but the study appears accurate. As for Milo, he was welcome to speak at the campus in question. They asked him to pay for his own security, which is the standard practice for controversial speakers who are likely to result in violence. It doesn't matter who causes the violence (left, right, white, black or purpose), what matters is that the even was deemed risky and required security and the school wasn't going to pay for it.

Now, if you want a public space with full security paid for by tax payer dollars that's fine. But that's not what schools are. They're places of learning. The tone of your post implies an alt-right bent, which would mean you'd oppose taxpayer funded safe spaces for people to speak. Personally as a lefty I'm all for it. I'm also for mandating voting as a means of ending voter suppression and requiring people to participate in society.

Not necessarily. I'm speculating that this may be operated by a 3rd party.

The system sounds suspiciously like the ARGUS camera array and "coincidentally" its makers are from the Baltimore area.

It was featured on PBS a few years ago in a documentary called "Rise of the Drones"

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

You nailed it.

The system is called ARGUS and its creators are from Baltimore

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

If anything most of the shouting down & censorship is done at the left.

Basically, the right wing are running a victim complex to deflect attention away from their own actions. Think about it, the political right have complete control of virtually all branches and levels of government. There's a handful of left leaning districts in CA & NY, but nationally they've got the House, Senate, Presidency and locally they have virtually all the State Legislatures (they were just shy of calling a constitutional convention when a few crazies ruined for them by getting busted for sexual harassment so extreme it couldn't be ignored).

I know it sounds like I'm trolling, but that's kind of what makes going after the American Right wing so hard. It's called Poe's Law. The stuff they're engaged in is so terrible you can't distinguish from somebody doing it and somebody making fun of it. But it's real. All of it. I'm sorry, but it's high time we wake up, smell the coffee, and put our house in order.

You didn't actually refute anything that was said.

That's like asking to refute Elders of Zion or Mien Kamf.

What about that disagrees with or is incompatible with BLM rhetoric?

Because Shakur is some kind of Borg queen at the center of a hive mind of BLM activists, speaking for all of them? This is as much dumbfuckery as asking Christians everywhere how they answer for Dylann Roof.

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She murdered a police officer and fled to live in a Communist country.

The thousands of cops that have murdered people for no reason since then didn't have to flee to communist countries. They are rarely investigated, much less charged, much less found guilty, much less spend real time in prison. An NBA player was given a longer sentence for accidentally shooting himself in the leg than the cop who murdered Oscar Grant on multiple cameras. Officer's are more likely to be promoted after they murder someone than go to prison for it. That's why all lives matter wankers are a million megatons of racist dumbfuckery crammed into a five pound sack when they engage in this deflection.

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And that's if the narrative on Assata Shakur is accurate, when there's a 99% chance its total BS. There's no evidence tying her to any firearm, and there was no reason for three people pulled over for a broken tail light to suddenly kill the cops for no reason. What's more likely is that chickenshit cops panicked - as chickenshit cops are wont to do - and opened fire for no reason, except in a rare instance of karma, it ended up costing said cops as well.

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

First time I heard this was in Germany 1970. These guys were playing it in the sublet apartment a hop-skip-jump away.

Or L.S.D.

Watches are taking the path of belt buckles...

Flying everywhere? Do you know how Newtonian physics work?
When the 'goop' is released from the can it has been accelerated by the pressure of the gasses in the can and follows that trajectory until an external force acts upon it. On earth one of those forces would be gravity or perhaps wind. Where gravity is negligibly low a force and when the outside is a vacuum and therefore you won't have wind blowing the stuff back into your face, there's only one significant force left - that of hitting a wall, where action equals reaction. The kinetic energy in the particles will be converted into kinetic action, deforming the liquid. Depending on properties like surface tension and viscosity it may bounds off the wall or stick to it. Eventually it will stick to something. And if you're really concerned about this use something like a plastic dome that covers the entire area, spray through a very narrow opening and wait until things have settled.

Ever brushed your teeth in front of a mirror and got some toothpaste splatter onto the mirror? Maybe not, maybe you're a really tidy person who doesn't cause such a mess. But it happens frequently enough for people to know that it will stick to the mirror and dry up there if you don't remove it. Does that stuff get into their lungs? Even if it does, do you think they can't possibly wear a mask? An acceleration of 1G gravity in downward direction doesn't seem to have much effect on it. How would ~0G acceleration in any direction change this?

Here you have a nice video from a youtuber that also happens to have a nice Russian accent. Here you can observe the physics behind the motion of the spray. You'll also notice that he wears a mask https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Although this certainly was intended to be a joke I think in space there could be actual applications for such sprays. They could make a good enough stop gap solution for problems like leaks.

Damn man, you have been so fucked over you don't know what is going on. This is Japan the non-disposable work force. Companies are loyal to workers, workers at a company are loyal to each other, sense of honour, of commitment to the company, other staff members and customers, has real import, real personal value. When you quit, you abandon the loyalty the company has shown you, the loyalty of fellow employees and the loyalty of your customers.

That is why the stress when leaving ie disposable workers == disposable companies == disposable customers (straight up psychopathic business practices), Japan, valued workers == valued company == valued customers. Why should I give a fuck about the company or it's customers when they do not give a fuck about me.

The US, as long as you can legally get away with it, fuck over everyone just as hard as you can (lie, cheat, steal and kill, as long as the penalties are lesser than the profits or of course you can get away with it via corruption), you are not a human being, you are some fucking weird pathetic simile of a Ferengi, who as it turns out are based upon, guess who, Yankee Traders, Americans == Ferengi, excluding the ears of course, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , lessons in how to be an American business person.

A company executives should feel bad with they betray the loyalty of an employee. Employee should feel bad when the betray the loyalty of a company. Both company and employee should feel bad when they betray customers and customers should feel bad when they cheat companies. Anything else is insane psychopathy or in the US case, taught sociopathy as a result of the routine abuse of psychopaths. You no longer understand inhumane behaviour for you it has become sociopathically normal and is no longer considered anti-social behaviour, when it most emphatically is.

This story is a prime example of why I would much prefer to live in Japan over the US, from an Australian perspective. I am not a rabid dog, that eats other rabid dogs.

Bonus points if you can name the film in which the preceding words were uttered.

Porklips Now.

My favorite: clunge

Courtesy of The Inbetweeners.

Wonder if will speak Klingon, or better yet Tolkien Elvish.

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

...Asians will still find a way to turn those off

Oblig. Futurama.

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

Citation provided

Please provide a cite for your assertion that Democratic politicians were spreading anti-gay rhetoric as part of their platforms in the 90's and early 2000s.

Homosexuals don't deserve the same rights.

Homosexuals should be ashamed of what they are.

As a bonus:
Racism from the left.

Donald Trump approving of LGBT.

The left wanting Donald Trump to be bigoted towards LGBT.

There's enough to criticize without hiding the Democrat's bigotry and inventing bigotry from Trump. People stopped believing the boy who cried wolf and Democrats lost the last election because of it.

Stay in the real world or risk 8 years of President Donald Trump.

Please provide a cite for your assertion that Democratic politicians were spreading anti-gay rhetoric as part of their platforms in the 90's and early 2000s.

Homosexuals don't deserve the same rights.

Homosexuals should be ashamed of what they are.

As a bonus:
Racism from the left.

Donald Trump approving of LGBT.

The left wanting Donald Trump to be bigoted towards LGBT.

There's enough to criticize without hiding the Democrat's bigotry and inventing bigotry from Trump. People stopped believing the boy who cried wolf and Democrats lost the last election because of it.

Stay in the real world or risk 8 years of President Donald Trump.

This guy's channel is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
[Knowing Better - You Don't See In 4K]

Australia? The land down under uses different euphemisms

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

Of course, because of the Coriolis Effect... I am surprised they don't have more skiers for such a mountainous and snowy country...

Q: How big is the leak?
A: About 1 cubic meter lost atmosphere per hour
(some murmuring)
Q: Are you telling us absolutely everything?
A: No. We're also out of coffee.
*panic ensues*

Australia? The land down under uses different euphemisms

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

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

Some theorise that this is already happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But the horrors of a life without zinc are too much to think about!

I see in another post of yours you believe black people have inherently lesser IQ

This is a statistical fact.

Racism didn't end with the Civil Rights Act

Redlining is a natural outcome when you apply statistics to predict loan repayment. Subprime lending practices, caused by banks being pushed to make "diversity" loans, resulted in the 2008 financial crisis.

Racism has both enslaved them, and worked to keep them from accumulating opportunity

Try watching some Thomas Sowell. Anyways, there's been "affirmative" action for decades, which prioritized blacks. And blacks underperform in other countries that don't have the "historical racism" excuse.

But please, cry more about identity politics when we're just six months out from getting to hear you whine about the grand oppression of having to hear "happy holidays".

I've never complained about it once.

PS: It's okay to be white.

How typical of Trump, he again tweeted something that's apparently right in general but wrong in the specifics.

My takeaway message from this article is that Trump is wrong because the speeches of Obama that were highlighted weren't State of the Union (SOFU) addresses, and they did highlight one of Trump's without having highlighted any other SOFU addresses. So my question is: did Google highlight more of Obama's speeches to congress than Trump's? Google seems to disagree with a snapshot of the video Trump posted, but they haven't addressed the overall message of the video.

This type of "debunking" is par for the course at this point, and it makes me wonder if Trump does it intentionally. I mean, when he says that "black unemployment has never been so low" the MSM as a whole ignores it, but if there's an inaccurate detail the MSM does backflips to debunk it even if the overall message is correct. For example: Trump has many tweets about our trade deficits and our trade deficit with China, which are annually around 500 and 300 billion, respectively, and he often conflates the two numbers. Technically he's wrong when he says we have a 500b trade deficit with China, but the overall message of "we have a huge trade deficit with China and we should do something about it" is still correct. Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) discusses this in a recent video where he says that Trump is usually "directionally correct" in what he says even if the details are often incorrect.

Skip to 21:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cody shows how far the stars are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...