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Yeah, my Windows 95 CD had Good Times by Edie Brickell, and Buddy Holly by Weezer.

Hover was awesome. :)

Yeah, my Windows 95 CD had Good Times by Edie Brickell, and Buddy Holly by Weezer.

Hover was awesome. :)

Yeah, my Windows 95 CD had Good Times by Edie Brickell, and Buddy Holly by Weezer.

Hover was awesome. :)

And adding a 4th just gives me a headache.

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

They even wrote a song about it!

About 3 weeks ago, Hank of the Vlogbrothers put up a vlog where he questioned whether we need to reconsider how the First Amendment works now. The basic premise of his post was questioning whether private platforms could eventually reach a size and scope such that they become public forums upon which free speech must be protected. I don't think he's in support of this, but was simply airing the general thought and outrage that some people (conservatives) are having over the censorship that is occurring on various platforms. In other words, the public is starting to feel that free speech is something that should be protected from businesses, not just the government.

I personally don't think this should or will happen. At the end of the day, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are private businesses that let people on the platform and let them say what they want, for free. The companies have to manage and pay for the servers and infrastructure that keeps all of that running, which gives them the power to decide what they want on their platforms. Is it censoring? Yes, but its not much different from a business owner kicking you out of their shop for cursing up a storm.

If society decides that free speech is something that should exist within private businesses as well, then I think we'll start to see a lot products simply forgo allowing people to have speech in the first place. I know some services have stripped comments and reviews completely because they can be very toxic and are more trouble to police than anything else.

Well good luck with your sober good time.

...here's a highly technical description of the software:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

The Buddy Holly video from Weezer was far and away the best part of the windows 95 install CD (or was it Plus pack?)

Heh, that was the first video I ever ripped from a disc (of any kind), & transcoded to Divx 3.11alpha. Good times.

Good times indeed! Just reminded me of the other insipid song that came on the win95 CD https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm confused, i was told that you will never, ever catch a virus on an apple.

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

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

The spread of the tech to make alcohol in various forms predates christianity, and roughly follows the spread of civilization.

Alcohol correlates with the spread of civilization because water in skins, pots, or barrels goes bad after a few days. But people figured out that adding alcohol to the water kept it good for months (we now know that it's because alcohol inhibits the growth of bacteria).

Long-term water storage thanks to alcohol is what enabled long-distance travel and exploration. Without it, you needed to find a potable water source or there had to be rain every 3 days, or you'd die. Which strongly discourages people from moving beyond familiar territory. Civilized people may have enjoyed getting drunk, but that wasn't why alcohol helped civilization to spread..

>"If your opinion is shared by the neo-nazi's, and they say you're the savior of the white race.... chances are you're a fucking neo-nazi".

Or, you are just a rallying point for ignorant people who think they have something going that they don't. Siting a left-wing site outlet of a left-wing organization (SPLC) doesn't lend much credibility to the analysis. I could just as easily site Stossel's take on the SPLC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

>"The fact you think the media is to blame for calling out hate groups, not that the hate groups exist in the first place, is a testament to your ideology... not an indication of reality. "

Don't put words in my mouth. There have ALWAYS been hate groups, in every country, in every society, in every time. And there probably always will be, too. I would certainly never say otherwise. What I said is that it APPEARS there are more "now" because of the slanted and sensationalized media. And I believe that is absolutely true. All the other "hate" I see is just ever more escalating, polarized bickering and hypersensitivity. Trump certainly doesn't help that at all- more by what he says than by what he does (thankfully).

>"You might be too stupid to understand that, but it doesn't change the fact"

Great, so now *I* am "stupid" because I don't agree with your assessment?

>"Trump won on spreading hate, telling people they're not to blame for their problems, that the "other" people are... those with different color skin, or a different religion, or a different birth place. that pretty much boils down Trump supporters.... people who can't take responsibility for themselves, and absolutely have to have some one to blame for their own shortcomings in life."

That is ripe, because what you described is so very similar to the platform of the far left- everyone is a victim, you are only what your "identity politics" say you are or can be, everything is someone else's fault, especially certain other "groups", and only the government can fix it.

The fact is, there is enough stupidity and hate to go all around.

HERE IS SUM rElEvAnT shish kebob on how some women out-steampunked steampunk. Enjoy!

How 'bout it?

and their organic sensor. My GH5s already does awesome video in ISO 12800 and is just as good or better in stills than my A7s was. In video at high ISO it walks on the A7s.

Some GH5s iso 12800/Zuiko 8mm FE 1.8 video in nightclub/rave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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and their organic sensor. My GH5s already does awesome video in ISO 12800 and is just as good or better in stills than my A7s was. In video at high ISO it walks on the A7s.

Some GH5s iso 12800/Zuiko 8mm FE 1.8 video in nightclub/rave

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

and their organic sensor. My GH5s already does awesome video in ISO 12800 and is just as good or better in stills than my A7s was. In video at high ISO it walks on the A7s.

Some GH5s iso 12800/Zuiko 8mm FE 1.8 video in nightclub/rave

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She clearly took her name far too seriously, Nominative Determinism is not a get out of jail card.

What Is Nominative Determinism you ask?

Have I Got News For You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Dude, it was a Futurama joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo

I was asking the man who actually lives in Venezuela, not people anxious to remove the taint of yet another horrible failure from the "good brand" of socialism. For you, here's Jeremy Corbyn, a man who has been a socialist all his life and who knows socialism when he sees it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Chavez ... showed us that there is a different, and a better way of doing things. It's called socialism".

Except that this would be wrong for the games in question here. The differences don't vanish.
For example here we have a comparison between the i7-8700k and the R7 2700X in Kingdome Come: Deliverance, on a fully patched Windows 10 as far as I know. If you watch the graphs for frame times, you can easily see that Intel delivers a way more consistent experience.
Security mitigations are also pretty irrelevant if you're mostly gaming with your PC. So why would the affect gaming performance in meaningful ways?
And as you appear to see Tom's Hardware as a trustworthy enough source here, you may be interested in their analysis of how the security mitigations impact gameplay. Spoiler: Apparently its effects neither impact Intel nor AMD in a significantly negative way as far as gaming is concerned. So it's not like that these mitigations artificially crippled performance on AMDs in order to make Intel look better in comparison (as far as gaming is concerned of course). Although I must be honest here and say that those averages and min frame rates do not tell the entire story. More thorough testing would be required. According to that data, I'd say the impact on performance is well within the margin of error.
So I don't know what else to say on this. Personally I don't have that much faith in Tom's Hardware because they used to be hardcore Intel fanboys in the past. Maybe the situation has changed since they've made their tests. More recent benchmarks would confirm the trend that was shown by their tests. So until someone manages to come up with a better analysis that proves all these findings wrong, you can't really say that your claim is backed up by facts.

I've come to expect such misinformation from post-purchase rationalizing AMD fanboys. You can't just be happy with having an amazing CPU that is waaaay more cost effective for general purpose use than anything Intel has to offer, forcing Intel to finally make some more significant changes for the first time in a long time. No you must also see to it that nobody on the internet possibly considers buying and Intel, even though it may fit their very specialized niche purpose.
Of course this phenomenon is not isolated to AMD. There's plenty of Intel and nVidia fanboys out there as well. But that doesn't make these self-righteous AMD fanboys less obnoxious.

it has better performance and price anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You saw this coming but have no idea of the history behind microcode patches?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The microcode feature is there to help you, not enslave you. Silicon is forever. Patching it on your desktop after the fact is a god-send.

Learn some history before you claim to have predicted the future.

With respect; the fight to keep alternative operating systems on PCs and servers is a long and storied history. Through the "hardware partner" cartel, win modems and finally the palladium initiatives culminating in locked bios that required key codes to load an OS. Linux has weathered the lockout exclusion storms that favor Microsoft and to a lesser extent Apple.

The fact that Linux based servers still run huge portions of the servers that power the net is still a problem for Intel, in as much as Linux servers don't suffer the constant upgrade cycles that Windows servers do. Thus reducing the need to change out high horsepower gear every 5 years or so and greatly reducing the software licensing fees for ISPs and web servers. The slow sales of Windows server software to ISP, can easily be helped along by Intel locking down testing of security updates for the Linux kernel. Servers certainly must patch the Intel hell holes that speculative execution has created.

I am posting this from a core 2 duo on a Lenovo T500 that is completely vulnerable to the Intel holes that could melt me down at any time. In fact this aspect has already been exploited on firefox with a malicious javascript that put an old school activex style coded tidbit on my ram that made me kill the firefox pid and do a whois traceroute on the source. It was from a .tk as usual and the kicker was that the .tk redirected to a .ru. I still have the logs and printouts of the hack with bounces.

So yes linux is vulnerable and can be annoyance hacked due to intel's stupid speculative execution coding routines, but fortunately not completely hosed unless you are an idiot and let the attacker(s) in. The sky is always falling with opensource software and using linux as a computer OS. BUT I still refuse to send more ransom money to Microsoft or even the Coca Cola company for that matter to secure my computers for use on the information highway when Intel tries again to start WW111 with us linux users. I must indeed be a deviated_prevert to say this but: NOT ONE DIME MORE TO INTEL OR MICROSOFT I have spent enough securing and replacing their hardware and software over the 30 or so years I have needed it to do any serious work that required internet communications!

Summed up so brilliantly by Yes Prime Minister.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

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> Don't worry, if there is something, Mueller has it.

And even if there isn't something, he still has it. Mueller deserves to be tried as a war criminal for helping start the Iraq war, by lying about "weapons of mass destruction". See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I can just imagine them getting some strange data.

Any links to such an actual incident?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I remember videos of a couple of other such incidents but I can only find that one at the moment.

No, sirree

LEH isn't a great example because investing in crypto is different than investing in an equity. With a traditional equity, if a company goes under, you lose your money. With DLT, if the organization that governs its development goes under, the DLT remains and is available to be picked up by others. You will never lose your tokens. If you find a DLT with a huge community backing, partnerships with governments and tech companies, and technology that in some way makes it superior to others for a given market, then why not invest? By and large the folks who voice the loudest criticism of cryptocurrencies typically have very little or no grasp on exactly what they are and why DLT is such a ground breaking and disruptive technology. Why is removing banks from digital transfer of value important? How big is the IOT market projected to be in a few years? Is it possible to monetize IOT using traditional methods of payment? Imagine being able to send funds to anyone instantly with zero fee and no middleman in a secure auditable way. Imagine a payment network that can grow without limit and with each additional transaction gets faster. One of my favorite presentations that gives a fantastic high level vision of one of my favorite DLT projects (IOTA) was given by Terry Shane and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... As a developer, I find it amazing to be able to use a simple IOTA library to accept payments in iota -- programmatically adding them to the DLT -- and then receiving an event that can be reacted to once payment (or data with no money... you can send anything) is confirmed... all without banking apis, payment processors, etc. I'm personally still in the green with regard to my own crypto investments. No money has been lost, and I am comfortable with the possibility of losing my investment.

Yes social media like FB is too dangerous to leave alone. Something must be done about it.

We need protection, and we need to empower trustworthy NGOs to do the policing across the entire social media landscape to prevent hate speech from happening.

This is the only way we can be safe. This is the only way we can be free to express ourselves without fear of the corrupting, divisive, and harmful influences of speech that could mislead us. If we do nothing, people could start getting the wrong ideas, and world war or genocide could happen practically overnight. We won't call it political censorship, when it really it is just genocide prevention.

I saw just an epic speech by Dr. Jordan Peterson on free speech. It's about a half hour long but worth every minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Dr. Peterson explains how vital it is to speak freely to develop one's thoughts. If people are not able to say anything that isn't "righteous" then nothing of importance can be discussed. And who is to be the arbiter of what is righteous? To have a functioning society one needs to be able to say uncomfortable things. That includes "hate speech". Most anything of importance is in some way uncomfortable, hateful, or not "clean". It can be important as an example of good behavior as well as what we should not do.

To know what is good we at times need to see what is bad, and the damage this can cause. We define our heroes by their villains. You can't have Batman without the Joker. There is no Superman without Lex Luthor. These comic book characters borrow from old myths to the point of pulling Thor and Loki from mythical characters and turning them into big budget movies and comics. Wonder Woman borrows heavily from myth as well. In every case we see examples of heroes, fighting what we consider evil. To purge evil from society to the point that Chinese citizens can't even read of news of such evil outside their borders means Chinese people cannot learn how to see such evil within themselves.

This censorship can only end badly. We should not tolerate it in any form. That includes these college campus protests to "de-platform" people that student groups despise. By expressing intolerance for "bad speech" means in the end expressing a disdain for thinking clearly. If you cannot think of a better response then to make noise and smash things then you are no better than unthinking animals.

I think it's bursting now. As an honors graduate of a top 10-university, I feel confident in saying: most college graduates would acquire skills more useful to employers spending 4 years working than 4 years in college. Plus they financial difference for the prospective students of spending 4 years making money rather than 4 years hemorrhaging money is enormous. Aside from certain professional fields that truly require a lot of very specific knowledge it takes years to learn (doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc), schooling is a signaling function, not an actual value-add proposition. Bran Caplan's Take on Education But it's value as a signaling function falls apart when supply outstrips demand for a significant category of degree recipients - which is middle-quality school liberal arts majors now, and that's pulling back the veil on the myth of education adding employer-relevant value to students.

As for tapes, we have your guys on tape talking about decades of voter fraud.

Citation needed.

Every effort to find evidence of voter fraud has come up with bupkis. Even the recent one appointed by Trump, and helmed by Mr. Voter-Suppression himself, Kris Kobach. All they ever find is a handful of isolated cases, mostly mistakes or misunderstandings (eg: voting in the wrong precinct).

If these "tapes" you refer to actually exist, I think we'd have all heard them by now. Meanwhile, on the other side of the debate, here's a video of Paul Weyrich, one of the "godfathers" of modern conservatism, clearly expressing his preference for reducing the number of people who are eligible to vote.

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You're right. Don't buy bitcoin, it's going to CRAAASSH :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Gamers want performance when actually playing games, especially in those CPU bottlenecked situation where frame times spike. That's when FPS matter the most in fast paced games where fast reactions can determine whether you lose or win; not when running benchmarks. Benchmarks are often crap at evaluating performance during actual gameplay, because they don't recreate those heavy gaming workloads that can be encountered especially in multi-player situations.
For example here you can see a performance comparison between an old i5, somewhat modern i7 and a (first generation) R7 in a simulation like ArmA 3, which is both CPU and memory intensive. I looked for videos that compare the performance of Coffee Lake and Zen+ but found none. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
FPS can be pretty high across all systems, when nothing is really happening. But who really needs 100+ FPS when staring at still life? It's when you need to aim during the heat of battle where those FPS count. And it's not even multi-player where the number of vehicles and player models can be highly dynamic. In multiplayer you may also want an object render distance of 3000m that puts even more strain on the simulation, because distances for sniper rifles can already be reliable up to ~2500m.
Anyway, most of the people who complain about performance in ArmA 3 turn out to own AMD CPUs. There's also a lot of issues for old and lock clocked Intels.

"I say, let 'em crash!"

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I know, right?

I dropped one of mine and flunked my Theology course after only getting a 67 on my final.

Why not? It worked for Paul Simon. link

The antifas are attacking Nazis.

No.

Video of the bridge shortly after it was put in service.

AvE posted a great video on this bridge. The designer of the bridge didn't like adding extra reinforcing. This was probably for aesthetics. This made maintenance of the bridge difficult as structural components couldn't be repaired while the bridge was in service.

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

LES would have worked, though.

There's a documentary about that.

Believers in Malthusianism are ridiculed because the concept has already proven to be wrong. The rate of population growth not only peaked long ago, it is actually in strong decline. As nations become prosperous, population growth tends toward the replacement rate, or even below it. Please see the excellent talk Nuclear Australia - Energy Freedom by Dr. Ben Heard, which covers this in the first few minutes. There is much reason to be positive about the future, and the sooner we pull the rest of the world out of poverty, the better for all.

Fortunately, it doesn't require the developed world to sacrifice anything, only to export and encourage technologies which can provide abundant and reliable clean energy, cheaper than from fossil fuels. The world will continue to develop, and the population will naturally stabilize; the only question, is whether they choose coal or we afford them access to a truly sustainable alternative. Renewables will play a part, but they alone can't support an industrial economy.

Why does it hurt when I pee?

So wait, wait...

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

That was real news? That wasn't characteristic of CNN at all?

honestly if you watch CNN they contradict themselves within the same minute constantly and are totally dishonest in their framing.