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Alex Jones pushed violent attacks

What a complete lie. It's in illogical stretch to say he incited violence. But then you snap the tendons and stretch a yard further.

Here's your wet dream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is not threatening. If these were threats, where are the lawsuits? Oh, that's right, the legal system (amazingly) isn't as insane as you are (yet).

I feel sorry for this AI that's its purpose for existing is to run the A/C for a data center. I'm reminded of the Butter Robot from Rick and Morty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs

The pictures weren't even vertical.

The Rothschilds want to charge you a personal carbon tax which they personal enrich themselves. (see federal reserve). Like exhaling c02? To bad! hold your fucking breath, or be taxes for your c02 output! New York Shitty Shithole was the original city that George Washington knew the conspiracy was coming from. The Rothchilds use NY city to this day as their test playground.

This story has been making the rounds on Twitter and other social media sites for a few weeks now, yet for some reason all the Gamergate assholes have been quiet and aren't 'discussing' integrity in games journalism through threats of raping and murdering the journalist in question. I wonder why that is /s

Because IGN didn't double down by attacking those who made the accusations of plagiarism, and didn't launch a media campaign attacking gamers. Pretty cut and dried, IGN dealt with it swiftly and correctly.

You're correct, of course. It was the "Gamers Are Over/Dead" articles on August 28th, 2014 that really gave Gamergate momentum.

But save your breath anyway; the parent poster is lying through his teeth:

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

This scandal was covered early on in multiple posts on r/KotakuInAction, the main GG subreddit.

You can absolutely kludge up an e-ink laptop or tablet with existing products. A raspberry combined with any number of e-ink screen solutions is quite doable right this very minute, and you can go up from there. But I don't recommend it. There are intractable problems with e-ink's refresh rate, and there's no good way to have color without further screwing with how the white space of the screen looks. You can push the refresh rate on e-ink up a fair bit...but not for long. It'll damage the screen permanently.

  Also I'm not sure why you're saying e-ink and oled in the same context given how different they are. If you wanna read on oled, get a used Note 4 or something.

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

You mean like this:

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

You should read the medical and research papers collected at vitaminDwiki.com
The life you save might your own....

"Choose wisely."
choose wisely
Darwin knows, and has an award....
He chose poorly

You should read the medical and research papers collected at vitaminDwiki.com
The life you save might your own....

"Choose wisely."
choose wisely
Darwin knows, and has an award....
He chose poorly

"Choose wisely."
choose wisely
Darwin knows, and has an award....
He chose poorly

"Choose wisely."
choose wisely
Darwin knows, and has an award....
He chose poorly

I'll just leave this here

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When Chinese Can't Afford The Latest Apple Product

Old news, really, but what the American people don't know about Chinese culture is why moronic posts about organ harvesting, and "human rights abuses" are as perennial as the grass on /.

China's firewall prevents western corporations from denying the government vital and private information of its citizens. Soon, a generation will have passed since Yahoo first agreed to grant this access to its servers residing on Chinese soil. It is a simple proposition: Want to Do Business in China? Agree to oversight.

The western default is Why Would Any Country Deny Google/FaceBook/Amazon? And most of the world has acquiesced to this seemingly innocent proposition of dominance. Yet, everyday westerners learn of some new way their private data is used without their permission or comprehension.

About Permission: Imagine a TOS agreement written in Chinese or Russian on every website you see that's accompanied by pervasive multimedia advertising insisting you massacre your indigenous peoples, force minorities to live in ghettos, bankrupt a middle class when hospitalized, require three times more food and eight times the energy, recklessly endanger another with commodity-based weapons and force your daughters to choose between 4/5th pay, domesticity, or sex work.

Just an exercise.

I'll just leave this here

MamaHuhu (YouTubeHome)
When Chinese Can't Afford The Latest Apple Product

Old news, really, but what the American people don't know about Chinese culture is why moronic posts about organ harvesting, and "human rights abuses" are as perennial as the grass on /.

China's firewall prevents western corporations from denying the government vital and private information of its citizens. Soon, a generation will have passed since Yahoo first agreed to grant this access to its servers residing on Chinese soil. It is a simple proposition: Want to Do Business in China? Agree to oversight.

The western default is Why Would Any Country Deny Google/FaceBook/Amazon? And most of the world has acquiesced to this seemingly innocent proposition of dominance. Yet, everyday westerners learn of some new way their private data is used without their permission or comprehension.

About Permission: Imagine a TOS agreement written in Chinese or Russian on every website you see that's accompanied by pervasive multimedia advertising insisting you massacre your indigenous peoples, force minorities to live in ghettos, bankrupt a middle class when hospitalized, require three times more food and eight times the energy, recklessly endanger another with commodity-based weapons and force your daughters to choose between 4/5th pay, domesticity, or sex work.

Just an exercise.

This is what I was saying about electric cars back in 2008

Except there was already a proof-of-concept with the EV1. Electric cars are at least feasible, even if they are still too expensive or impractical, with the vast majority of people still driving on gasoline engines.

and about the idea of reusable rockets back in 2010

That also has a history before Musk.

I underestimated him twice; unlike people like you, I learn from my mistakes

No, you've just become a fanboy unable to think critically.

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

Or it might be because Netflix content sucks, and they don't want to have 200 movies with shit reviews on them ?
I know that if I had a product that sucks, I would certainly hate to give people ability to comment on it.

As the plane worshiping tribes of the south pacific once said of us westerners

What is the name of this religion and how do I convert?

Cargo cult Their understanding of the people on the airplanes is that the planes are just protecting them from harm because they rely upon far too much cargo. The people on the planes are in danger of killing each other if the planes do not protect them and all their cargo. So they worship the airplanes for this reason in their eyes airplanes have a been given a divine spirit regardless of how or who made them. They believe that all material things including that which we modify and create have spirit. And if you fight over cargo or the ownership of any material thing you will become a mad evil spirit after death that needs to be exorcised.

Cargo in their language is simply anything that you must carry around with you as you travel through life. Their lives rely on not having to carry cargo because cargo is shared by all. Materialism is beyond their understanding, the ownership of any material thing of the earth and sky is not a good thing in their eyes.

The beginnings of same type of belief was still present in most of North America until we fucked the natives over, in British Columbia and elsewhere there are still echoes of the potlatch economy. Would that an economy and laws based on potlatch become more advanced. Any economy that is based upon ever cheaper labour, the overconsumption and hording of material things will eventually fall as did Rome. Economic growth has limits that are defined by the availability of food and materials and we are quickly using everything up and are doomed as a civilization for this very reason.

Just as an aside, Braunschweig is where famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger originally came from.

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Welcome to the United States.

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As one of one of the instigators of this discussion, I'm kind of disappointed... So let me try to summarize.

There seems to be an extremely strong consensus that confidential mode is a bad idea badly implemented. I would go farther and count it as more evidence of the increasing badness and evil of the google, but there wasn't much discussion along such lines and assigning the blame doesn't matter too much anyway. This is a bad feature that keeps rising from the grave like any good zombie.

I was unable to detect (in this discussion or anywhere else) any good reasons for this feature. Absence of evidence is not proof of absence, but if anyone does have a good reason for confidential mode email, then I hope you will share it. I'll continue searching the discussion (until it expires in a day or two), but obviously I'd be more likely to find your "good reason" if you reply to this comment...

My first suggested solution was a way to reject incoming confidential-mode email. Some people seem to agree that would be good, but no one (whose comments I found here on Slashdot) actually pointed at a way to do it or at a way to persuade the google to give us that option. I would also count it as a solution if someone knew of and told me about a full-featured email system with the option (and I even consider this feature bad enough to justify the large effort of leaving Gmail).

My second proposed solution is a sabotage pledge to subvert the intended confidentiality of any such email I do receive. Again, no local support, but now I wonder if it matters. I've realized that this feature may be doomed to disaster. Some people are going to take those obvious pictures of the confidential-mode email, and at some point the google is going to get dragged into a hefty lawsuit that may help the google realize the error of its ways. Kind of a shame that #PresidentTweety doesn't use Gmail, but I hope this feature persuades him to start. (Since the orange topic came up, I can't resist a link to this hilarious new music video and tribute to Aretha Franklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...)

Tesla cars, on the other hand, have in general failed so hard on any serious quality tests in the west that it is very clear they are still in the early steps of understanding how to build a proper car at all. I'm sure they will get there in about a decade , but I can't hold my breath that long.

You better hope that torpedo in your ass has some reserve oxygen, apparently Tesla Model 3 has the quality of a Kia from the 1990s (6:55 in video).
You're going to have to hold your breath on Tesla for TWO decades.

You don't even realise that you bed down with totalitarians and fascists. It's the Dems/left/three-letter-orgs that are the ones constantly attempting to stifle both the first and second amendments, and you cheer them on

You are completely ignorant to what happens to yourself once the first purge is complete. Here's a spolier: your usefulness to them disappears and you become the next target so that you don't get in the way of their new world order.

This playbook was explained decades ago by Yuri Bezmenov. I suggest you go watch the video of his presentation.

This tunnel should be a piece of cake considering that NASA built a wormhole between Earth and Mars.

Screw the subway, what we really need is anti-bubble technology for space walks.

Done!

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

or in stead of some conspiracy, he's just stressed out. I watched this interview: talking tech with Elon Musk of a few days ago. I don't care about tears, but the way he talks here has a lot of the same signs as people about to burn out from stress. That is not to say he will, lots of people in that state manage to avoid it, but if it was a colleague of mine I'd tell him to take a break.

It was the first search result. Here's the "official" Monty Python one.

Rich assholes that can’t drive.

If we could only do the same for Fox News, the world would be a better place. Just look at this exchange that took place recently between a host and a representative of the New York Times:

Host: "[Trump] is not rounding people up and murdering them without any due process."

Goldberg: "He would certainly like to."

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

How are you going to fight a network that supports a President that wants to round people up and murder them?

Nope. Your only possible problem is the expense of the ID and that was addressed many times with these voter ID laws.

Free IDs were offered to low income people as part of the negotiations and that had no impact on people saying it was racism. The position is intellectually bankrupt and either is ignorance of the issue which you're posturing yourself to not be... or it is deceit. Either way... *shrug*

The tribalistic talking points are boring. There are people that want to pervert the ballot box because they know their ideas actually aren't very popular or good. And that is why games like this get played.

Anyone paying attention can see it plain as day. Sadly, a lot of people just aren't. The life blood of democracy is information and education. And there are a lot of people spreading bullshit and encouraging ignorance.

That is how we got to this place. The corruption is easily dealt with via a few easy fixes that wouldn't hurt anyone but the corrupt. But if you find the corruption either convenient or necessary to your tribalistic political postures... So much for democracy and we'll probably regress back into some flavor of tyranny... where upon people that keep thinking like peasants will ultimately get that status again.

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

Why do you care about the maintainer's personal life choices? As long as they provide software you like and they don't murder someone - thereby stopping maintaining the software you like because they get thrown in the slammer - why should it matter to you whether they wear furry suits or smelly shirts? I mean, most of the world uses software made by a brilliant guy with revolting personal hygiene and nobody bats an eyelid...

40 years ago it was an earth wrecking ice age coming our way - and proven by science. 18,000 years ago a mile thick chunk of ice that covered all of Canada and much of the northern U.S. - I LIKE warm, much better, thanks to all who have helped warm the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (and Mr. Spock wouldn't lie!)

Or "It's unsafe to open our iMac Pro because we left exposed capacitor leads on the PSU"

I'm 6 months into a keto diet. less than 20g carbs/day.. usually much less. Was over 240lb, now under 200lb, feeling better overall, and I eat as much as I want.. 1lb bacon(well less after cooking) day easy.

The anon comment about fat being bad.. Checkout My big fat fiasco on youtube, done by the guy who did fathead followup documentary...
https://www.youtube.com/result...

Also checkout Jordan Petersons daughters story.
http://mikhailapeterson.com/

Animal fats/saturated fats are the GOOD fats, we've been lied to all these years. Just like the flip flop on egg yokes.

This study (really a survey) defines a low-carb diet as between 30-40% of calories. And the average is about 38% for the observed low-carbers.

That's lower carb, for sure, but it's not meaningfully low-carb. Ketosis (fat metabolism) doesn't begin until about 20% carbs (50-60g per day of carbs, as a rule of thumb).

A few months ago another study, 'proving' that low-carb diets had no advantages, also gave a firm conclusion recommending a 'plant based diet' while talking up low-carbing's supposed health issues. That study had low-carbing defined as 135g per a day, which is laughable.

It's as if the nutrition world is pushing a creationist diet (Adam and Eve were apparently vegetarians). Which is interesting, because Senator George McGovern, whose commission made it official US dogma that animal fat is bad for you, was a Christian. He pushed that agenda against the advice of his own scientists who advised him that the theory was unproven. The charts show the obesity epidemic starting at that point as diets went increasingly towards carbs. (Ironically, however, most of Christianity has never had a dogma of a literal translation of the bible; with Catholics even having the inventor of the Big Bang theory among their priests, Lemaitre; and Mendel, the father of modern genetics, was a monk).

Meanwhile, Stanford Uni did a study of a bunch of diets, including low-fat and Atkins, where the study lead, who was a longterm vegetarian, was surprised to find that Atkins beat all the other diets in improvements on every single cardio-vascular marker.

It's a fascinating youtube:

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

And meanwhile, in another study, vegetarian women hit the menopause several years earlier than normal people. And the fertility rate in men has dramatically dropped. hmmmm........

Well, i can tell you that I won't be getting a case of 'vegan face' any time soon.

Only ONE side is suppressing people's speech. It's the Left. The Right is fighting hard for free speech, which a few years ago wasn't even mildly controversial.

As for Fake News, they just keep providing more and more evidence. NBCâ(TM)s national affairs analyst John Heilemann said that thereâ(TM)s a decent number of Trump supporters that would be ok with the president killing their parents or grandparents.

The mainstream media, everyone. Making shit up. How is this not Fake News?

Here's everyone's favorite publication that just hired a racist, the New York Times:

"[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 lady who is representing the New York Times.
She wasn't fired for making things up. Just watch that video and tell me they can write a story about Trump without injecting their personal politics into it. What do you call a mainstream media that invents things out of whole cloth? Fake news.

I don't think many people would be able to yield a usably better one in that girl's place.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Probably not many beauty pageant participants, or high school drop-outs, or athletes that rode a railroad to fame based on their talent, and education was a distraction, but believe it or not, there are many of us who have to answer far more difficult questions on the spot on a daily basis.

I kinda doubt that.

Listen to the actual question that was posed, Recent polls have shown that 1/5th of Americans can't show the US on a world map.

It's actually a really tough question.

The premise of the question suggests that Americans are dumb or ignorant, which is something you really don't want to seem to agree with if you want to be become "Miss Teen USA". But you're also supposed to set a good example and can't be seeming to excuse ignorance either.

So she actually starts out with what I think is a pretty clever approach, people know things that are relevant in their daily lives, which doesn't actually include a map of the world for a lot of people. It ends up being a bit of trivia they learned in school, but like many other "obvious" things they learned in school it gets lost in the subsequent decades (ie, Are you smarter than a 5th grader?). Sure you need to see a map if you travel internationally, or really like world news or history, but a lot of people just don't care about the things a map would tell them, so they just don't look at one.

Unfortunately that's a fairly abstract concept that's really hard to explain, so she ended up saying they don't have maps, which is kinda true but sounds even more stupid than the thing I typed out with a couple minutes to think about it.

Now, if it were you or me in a typical daily conversation we'd restart our explanation, deflect with a joke, pause for a while, or just shrug and shake our heads and everyone would quickly forget.

But she didn't have any of those options and needed to keep trucking to the time limit. So she tried to pivot to Education, other countries might do better with maps because they're in hostile regions of the world.... ok! time for another pivot! And... she has absolutely no place to go and it's all just gibberish.

I think the whole thing was good for a laugh, but it really doesn't say much about the contestant or her intelligence.

Modern social media marketing is only interested in a particular set of eyeballs, to the exclusion of all other eyeballs, the eyeballs of the sucked in paying for the advertising, actually paying for it, paying billions in real cash, not with invasions of privacy, although those idiots paying for the advertising, are those most targeted by digital psychoanalysis at a distance, to monitor which forms of targeted at them advertising is the most effective to get them to spend billions of dollars on digital advertising.

So which form of targeted advertising gets the gullible few to spend billions on advertising, 'we can control the minds and choices of our users by targeting their preferences' advertising, targeted at those who spend billions on advertising and they pay to plant those stories all across the internet, without them being branded as ads targeted at the gullible few who pay for ads.

Proof of how well that works, well, billions spent on ads without proper checking of what returns those ads really generate. Look at the history of ads though https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., as US president as a lame arse soap salesman, no wonder he could sell gullible idiots, he was trained at it. The civil suit reflects how they feel when they realised how worthless the ads are, drowned in a flood of other ads, they people ignore and entirely worthless.

Technically the best place to put consumables ads at the moment, is computer games, not as billboards, that just pisses people off but as branded products in games, tricky though. In general digital media, as sponsored content, the argument being, you do not support the argument being presented, but do support freedom of speech and want to let the people judge for themselves as long as the content is legal. The lead in for sponsored content should be pretty clear, and the company should present it's own ideals at that moment and then of course product placement in the content. Controversy generates interested viewers and it doesn't hurt if that controversy targets competitors for end users pockets. Keep in mind in high debt societies, indirect competitors should be targeted ie non-competing product but competing for user spare spending ie a holiday resort versus netflix account vs fashion clothing vs excess alchohol consumption vs a gas guzzling car ie want people to spend more on content consumption, trash gas guzzling cars and promote low cost fuel efficient vehicles, which releases money or more accurately accessible debt back into the market which can then be targeted.

You are making stuff up, or repeating made up stuff. To be fair, "cheap" is subjective, but if nuclear wasn't affordable, there wouldn't be so many reactors under construction and planned. From wiki's list of reactors:

Additionally, there are 58 reactors under construction and 154 reactors planned, with a combined capacity of 63 GW and 157 GW, respectively. Over 300 more reactors are proposed.

Except for a few outliers for first of a kind builds, costs are reasonable and falling. (in sane places) Only in a heavily biased comparison do renewables appear favorable, even comparing their best case to nuclear's worst. Once you factor in the need for storage and backup with intermittent sources, and that nuclear plants have at least twice the lifetime, the picture changes drastically.

As the "cheap" link points out, investments in renewables are going flat around the world, which naturally happens when states pull the subsidies which they can no longer afford. China is also getting very serious about nuclear; see SINAP T-MSR Promotional Video. It is in Chinese, but it should give you an idea.

Alvin Weinberg called it "burning the rocks"; see the first few minutes of "Th". That said, "burning" here refers to fission which releases no CO2 or other pollutants, not combustion as with coal.

Interestingly enough, the very same thorium bearing ore is already the source of rare earths used in renewables, and global energy demand could be met with just those mine tailings. Mining could even be reduced if we instead used that thorium for energy, and we'd also vastly reduce the amount of concrete, steel, glass, land, etc. used as well. Renewables are a very resource intensive way to harvest energy.

You are a bullshit artist. H20 (steam) is the most impactful greenhouse gas: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.html
We pump tons of steam into the air every hour: wet surface air coolers coordinated steam release This is how we've been modifying the weather, along with aresol based modification, such as done by your local weather modification agency: http://southtexasweathermodification.com/

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

No "climate study" mentions the 100 years of weather modification we've been doing (early 1900's used tower based aresol distribution because planes weren't reliable). Since no "Climate Scientist" mentions the history of weather modification, they're all frauds, liars, or so stupid you shouldn't listen to them.

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*You don't argue balls and strikes.*

It's part of the game. Let it be. Half the charm of baseball is the old-timey aspect.

And that's because, until PitchF/X came along a few years ago, umpires sucked at calling balls and strikes - that rule was put in place because they sucked at it. And MLB didn't really care - no one could really see but the players, so MLB just banned arguing about it.

There's no charm as shitty officiating that the sports league doesn't care enough about to fix.

But then TV came along - with more and more cameras capturing the games as the years passed. The crappy umpiring began to be exposed. I'm looking at YOU, Don Denkinger!.

I strongly remember TV cameras being placed high above home plate showing balls WAAAAY outside being called as strikes during the 1992 or 1993 World Series involving Toronto. Of course, that was only for the first game or so - MLB got pissed that the entire world could see how shitty the umpires actually were at calling balls and strikes.

Hell, PitchF/X is the reason why HRs in baseball have gone down over the last decade or so. Nope - all the homeruns weren't the result of steroid use - if they were, the homerun rate wouldn't have spiked in one year - 1994 (all too coincidentally back to 1987's "rabbit ball" levels...) Gee, HRs spike in one year, right around a major strike. And right afterwards, MLB runs TV ads glorifying HRs ("chicks dig the long ball...").

After 1994, HRs remained constant for a decade or so, until PitchF/X shows MLB just how shitty umpires really are about calling balls and strikes. The strike zone starts growing, causing strikeouts to go up. More strikeouts means less balls hit means less HRs. But the rate of HRs per batted ball remains just about constant.

"Steroids are linked to homeruns" is BULLSHIT. If steroid use were linked to more HRs, HRs would have gone up slowly as more and more players used them. But they didn't - HR rate spiked high in 1987, went back to normal, then spiked back up in 1994 and stayed there. So increased steroid use isn't linked to increasing HR rates. Do you really think steroid use in MLB jumped in 1987, went back down, then jumped back in 1994?

And the opposite is true, too. When MLB banned steroid use, HR rates didn't suddenly drop - they remained pretty constant, and only began dropping as the larger strike zone (from PitchF/X feedback on shitty umpiring...) led to less batted balls and less HRs - but the ratio of HRs to batted balls remained constant. Again - no link to steroid use.

Fucking Copyrights, how do they work?

I imagine this phrase goes through Judge Stanton's head at the start of every IP case.

I AM THE LAW

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

Seems VR would alleviate your concerns about visuals: X-Plane 11 VR Gameplay

Is X-Plane 11 with native VR support the best Virtual Reality Flight Simulator of 2017? Today I'm trying out the advanced X-Plane 11 VR Flight Sim on HTC Vive, flying a realistic Cessna 172 Skyhawk airplane in central Chicago. Is this the best VR Flight Simulator? Let's find out!

The visuals are just part of the problem. The issue is that as you approach the landing, you enter the "ground effect" which changes how the aircraft handles and as you approach the ground the visual picture is ever more important. Both of these conspire to make the flare (pulling back just before touch down to make it gentle) hard to judge in a simulator. It doesn't look or feel the same. It's hard to model the aircraft movement and hard to render the visual details close enough to make it seem real to me.

I know it's hard to understand if you've not flown, but there is a feel that's missing.

Also, my VR experience tells me that while it's able to immerse you with visual detail and sound, the head movement has a noticeable lag. Maybe it was the system I was using? But that lag would be intolerable on short final and while it's immersive, it's not accurate enough for learning how to land the real thing. It might be good enough to get you though flying a pattern, but as you turn base to final it's going to quickly loose the real feel.

The coolest flight simulator with the steepest learning curve is without a doubt Falcon BMS.

ok cant eddit my last post and it screwed it up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... this is pro gamers vs vets on call of duty. they also did this vets vs gamers gun range https://www.youtube.com/watch?...