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80% capacity after 500K miles? Sounds great! Now, if they can just get past those sticky issues of Tesla's crashing and burning, maybe they could last long enough to get to that 500K miles...

It also wouldn't hurt to add a manually actuated emergency brake and manual door opening levers for those times when the electronics and/or software goes wrong. Just sayin'...

80% capacity after 500K miles? Sounds great! Now, if they can just get past those sticky issues of Tesla's crashing and burning, maybe they could last long enough to get to that 500K miles...

It also wouldn't hurt to add a manually actuated emergency brake and manual door opening levers for those times when the electronics and/or software goes wrong. Just sayin'...

Today would be a good day for you to learn how to properly markup a hyperlink in HTML.

Mysterious Drug-Resistant Germ Deemed An "Urgent Threat" Is Quietly Sweeping The Globe.

https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/f...

This article has a telling graph of how education has been moving out of reach for a large part of the US population
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

While some technological things have become much cheaper the relative cost of education has increased manifold.

the student loan crisis is then just one aspect of this problem. It's the tip of the iceberg. I still see people focusing on the 'leeches' , people somehow abusing student loans. I'm sure that happens, but using such examples to represent the situation is entirely wrong. As is the solution which is presented in the article on here. The leeches are on the other side. They're the people getting rich off this.

Now Chinese cars can drive you into barriers and the back of fire trucks. At least this one found the hole: https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

I wouldn't be too worried about this "theft." That source code is a huge trojan horse anyway, if I ever seen one. How many times has Tesla autopilot caused crashes, deaths, and mayhem so far?

If China wants to bring Skynet Terminator robots running loose in their country without updates, bug fixes, and support from the original developers, they are going to reap all that is coming to them. Good luck, have fun!

I wouldn't be too worried about this "theft." That source code is a huge trojan horse anyway, if I ever seen one. How many times has Tesla autopilot caused crashes, deaths, and mayhem so far?

If China wants to bring Skynet Terminator robots running loose in their country without updates, bug fixes, and support from the original developers, they are going to reap all that is coming to them. Good luck, have fun!

I wouldn't be too worried about this "theft." That source code is a huge trojan horse anyway, if I ever seen one. How many times has Tesla autopilot caused crashes, deaths, and mayhem so far?

If China wants to bring Skynet Terminator robots running loose in their country without updates, bug fixes, and support from the original developers, they are going to reap all that is coming to them. Good luck, have fun!

Also there was Alita, which rocked. Since I get to see about one film every quarter, that definitely had the more powerful lure for me.

Sadly, no it didn't. It wasn't god awful... didn't make me angry... But it was AT BEST serviceable.

That's if one ignores huge and pointless plot contrivances which would mar any movie (seriously, Rodriguez is barely a mediocre director), terrible dialogue and generally bad writing very much in the vein of Kalogridis' work on Altered Carbon and Terminator Genisys.

That movie should have been a new Star Wars... a work of fiction reshaping and presenting philosophical ideas to the general audience.
Also it should have felt a lot more like Mad Max and a lot less like... hell... Zootopia.
And I don't mean the uncanny valley eyes (an immediate giveaway that the movie makers don't understand the work they are adapting) - I mean the color scheme and the general feeling of cheeriness.
Not one moment did I feel that anyone in that world was a survivor of any kind of hardship.
It's supposed to be a post-apocalyptic world of cyborgs and mutants. A desperate world, built out of scrap and garbage of the old one.
Not an occasionally somewhat dangerous yet oddly kid-friendly global melting pot with what I can only imagine as a Walmart on every block filled with brand new and colorful clothes and various other casually flashed gear.

But I did notice this fake "rivalry" online.
Alita being somehow an opposite to Captain Marvel... and its "toxic feminism"... "toxic femininity"... by the usual members of the sad and pathetic ass-clown army.

One more reason I'm glad this movie has practically no chance for a sequel. Even on paper it barely broke even...
And knowing how long it was in development (for a while it seemed all that would come out if it is a passing resemblance of Dark Angel to the source material) - I suspect that it drags a LOT more in pre-production cost and how much Cameron will be taking for himself.
I'm inclined to believe its "break even" point is closer to 500 million or more.
Hell... at one time it was Alita or Avatar. It was supposed to make THAT much.

This is all well and good, as long as you have electricity. But as Venezuelans are finding out as we speak, you can't very easily transmit bitcoins over radio if you don't have any electricity to power your radio in the first place. North Korea? Most don't have electricity to speak of either.

And in other news regarding Facebook: Several top Facebook employees have ties or formerly worked in the government..

Stop using Facebook people. Like they say in Star Wars, "It's a TRAP!"

In the Church of Environmentalism, killing off a few percent of the world's population is seen as a good thing. There are too many people on this planet and the planet can only support so many for a short time. Death by crashing your Tesla at high speed or having the computer crash it for you is a very exciting and exhilarating way to end your life.

Save the planet, MFer's!

In the Church of Environmentalism, killing off a few percent of the world's population is seen as a good thing. There are too many people on this planet and the planet can only support so many for a short time. Death by crashing your Tesla at high speed or having the computer crash it for you is a very exciting and exhilarating way to end your life.

Save the planet, MFer's!

Here in California when the local fiber was being rolled out, it was either strung from the phone lines, or put down between 2 and 10 feet deep under the roads.

Cool story, bro...

Now would you mind telling your glorious fiber laying illegal-alien workers to PLEASE crack open some more PG&E gas pipelines for all the homeless drug users to warm up with? It's fucking cold this year, with all those anti-global whore-ming initiatives ya'll keep passing. We can't even get grocery bags for free anymore -- WTF are we supposed to use for taking a dump now?

Here in California when the local fiber was being rolled out, it was either strung from the phone lines, or put down between 2 and 10 feet deep under the roads.

Cool story, bro...

Now would you mind telling your glorious fiber laying illegal-alien workers to PLEASE crack open some more PG&E gas pipelines for all the homeless drug users to warm up with? It's fucking cold this year, with all those anti-global whore-ming initiatives ya'll keep passing. We can't even get grocery bags for free anymore -- WTF are we supposed to use for taking a dump now?

This article kind of goes into a bit more relevant spying related issues, if it's trustworthy. Bottom line is, there's rarely much evidence for any of this, but a good read nonetheless.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-19/5g-huawei-and-us-america-hates-competition

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-19/5g-huawei-and-us-america-hates-competition

I'll just leave that here...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

Snopes Refuses To Correct Nathan Phillips "Stolen Valor" Fact Check; Google, Facebook Promote Disinfo.

Snopes is basically run by a guy and his cat. The guy sits in his recliner all day and trolls his own site with biased opinions. And takes tons of money in from the Soros crowd. And then you have initiatives used where THESE are the people who are supposed to "vet" news merely because they have a popular website. Forget Netcraft! If Snopes confirms it, it MUST be true.

I suppose Americans' attention spans are so low these days that you don't even need a real Ministry of Truth. You just have to find a popular website that has a bias to begin with and then get the operators on your payroll. It's sad where things have gone.

The Trump administration is in favor of letting Assange walk free. It is the Obama-era appointments still sitting in the DOJ that are continuing to push forward on charges against Assange.

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) will bring about massive inflation with increase taxation at the same time. This is exactly how you get to "shit-hole" nation status where dollars are cheaper to wipe your ass than straw.

The house rejected Trump's minimum and went with a smaller amount.

Yet ANOTHER patently false statement. The House passed a $5.7B funding for border wall budget.

Thing is that the sanctions mean that most Western banks are prohibited from providing them with services because they are also present in the USA. That's a lot more problematic.

It simply means that free, independent nations will increasingly make their own arrangements, cutting out the US-controlled banks and institutions entirely. This is already well under way in Russia, China and Iran - and a lot of other countries can see which way the wind is blowing.

If someone potentially hostile is holding your testicles, it is wise to take steps to change the situation. Perhaps by getting someone else to deal the aggressor a smart blow to the head, or - all else failing - by grabbing his nuts, which at least equalizes things.

Further plenty of countries will be happy to arrest them pending extradition to the USA, including pretty much the entire EU [among] others.

Then they simply stay out of those countries, whose numbers are likely to drop rather smartly once they realise the consequences of arbitrarily arresting foreigners without any legal basis. (Just as I suspect we shan't be seeing a lot more Chinese nationals being arrested by Canada or the USA).

They will also be unable to get diplomatic passports for pretty much anywhere now, and if Russia issues false identities to get them diplomatic passports they are invalid and that diplomatic immunity is out the window.

You don't seem to understand how diplomatic passports work. They are issued by a person's own government, like any other passports. If a host nation does not wish to allow entry to a given foreign national - even with a diplomatic passport - that is its right. Of course, denying entry to accredited diplomats is a rather unfriendly move, and would be taken into account in future relations.

Above all, you don't seem to understand that the "new world order" some deranged people in Washington hoped for does not exist. The USA accounts for about 4% of the world's population, and although George Kennan and others resolved in the 1940s to make sure that the USA went on consuming at least 25% of the world's resources, those days are over.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

She has SEVEN passports that we know about (4 from China, 3 from HK), plus at least one more than listed.

Simultaneously, she's a cause celebre for the Chinese GOVERNMENT.

And so she's NOT a flight risk?

Britain's propaganda machine:

https://www.wired.co.uk/articl...

"a UK-based psyop to create a "large-scale information secret service" in Europe in order to combat "Russian propaganda" - which has been blamed for everything from Brexit to US President Trump winning the 2016 US election"

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

GM CEO Mary Barra said the company is "still hiring people with expertise in software and electric and autonomous vehicles, and many of those who will lose their jobs are now working on conventional cars with internal combustion engines," reports Dallas News. "Barra said the industry is changing rapidly and moving toward electric propulsion, autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing, and GM must adjust with it."

Those car plants will probably be retooled over the span of a year or two and start producing Electric and Autonomous vehicles and the jobs that they couldn't automate will come back. The real losers here will be all the mechanical engineers that will be replaced with electrical engineers because those jobs are not coming back once the transition to electric cars is complete. This sucks but such is the cost of progress.

Not out here in California. We like to spend $100 bilion on rail from Merced to Bakersfield (servicing around 1 million people total) with no idea how to extend to Los Angeles.

And we like to spend $100,000 per homeless person to make us feel better (yes, we could put them up in a hotel and feed them 3 meals a day AND provide free education and healthcare for that amount - but we'll spend it keeping them on the streets because "compassion").

We know how to waste a massive amount of money here in California because hey - tech money! Silly-con Valley mentality abour funding runs strong in Sacramento, too...

It has to be so amusing to those that fund the astroturf and paid-protestor NGOs that people actually parrot Blame Russia despite all the evidence that it was a false narrative . It's fucking hilarious, when you think about it. #cutthecheck

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.

That entire paragraph is plagiarism.

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.

So is this one.

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.

Well that sure looks familiar too.

What takes random paragraphs from internet sources based on key words, with a time span ranging in years, and cobbles them together to make forum posts?

GM also lied here too. Never under estimate the reach of American companies.

The shit tesla is better than the leaf at spontaneously combusting due its shit build quality.

As well as addressing why the Awan brothers spy ring in congress managed to operate for as long as it did.

Or how Debbi Wasserman Shultz threatened the DC police to return a laptop that was considered evidence in that investigation, pointing to a coverup and an even larger scandal.

Nope, the only thing Democrats want to do is point and wave frantically to divert attention towards Russia.

I'm amazed Android doesn't have better charge control settings already. With Samsung overcharging their batteries to 4.35V (normally lithium ions are charged to 4.2V max), and having so many batteries fail that they had to recall the Galaxy Note S7 line, AND still having serious battery failures, you'd think enough would be enough already...

Does he mean the 'intelligence agencies' that he says are lying about everything and are worthless?

I'll wait for your quote that shows that he says that.

Or has someone spoon-fed Trump enough that he's got it through his 5th grader mentality how things actually work?

Given your own 5th grader mentality here, you should look in the mirror and stop throwing stones.

The Russia hysteria is just that, hysteria, whipped up by the DNC and a Deep State intent on keeping up the Trump/Russia collusion narrative.

Don't believe the article? Watch this testimony. Any techie on Slashdot should be flabberghasted at this stunning admission.

Oh yeah?

Secret Grand Jury Proceedings Underway Against Andrew McCabe; Witnesses Summoned

  the grand jury has summoned at least two witnesses, and the case is ongoing according to WaPo's sources.

The presence of the grand jury shows prosecutors are treating the matter seriously, locking in the accounts of witnesses who might later have to testify at a trial. But such panels are sometimes used only as investigative tools, and it remains unclear if McCabe will ultimately be charged. -Washington Post

McCabe was fired on March 16 after Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a criminal referral following a months-long probe, which found that McCabe lied four times, including twice under oath, about authorizing a self-serving leak to the press. Horowitz found that McCabe "had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor - including under oath - on multiple occasions."

Specifically, McCabe was fired for lying about authorizing an F.B.I. spokesman and attorney to tell Devlin Barrett of the Wall St. Journal - just days before the 2016 election, that the FBI had not put the brakes on a separate investigation into the Clinton Foundation, at a time in which McCabe was coming under fire for his wife taking a $467,500 campaign contribution from Clinton proxy pal, Terry McAuliffe.

...founding fathers of a number of allies, such as South Africa.

Who, coincidentally enough, is going through a simultaneous gun confiscation and land grab.

On Facebook's censorship of conservative views which Slashdot will not cover because it was purchased by the same big group of political interests.
 
There are no articles on non-liberal shadowbanning here and never will be. What we are seeing right now is the largest push by the shadow governments to destroy free speech, something larger in magnitude than what happened in the USA in the '30s and '40s with pro-socialist or pro-war propaganda, and possibly larger than the Soviets' push, albeit it hasn't been quite as effective.

Jeez why do rightwingers have such a persecution mentality. Bloody snowflakes.

Did you think that was clever?

* https://www.dailywire.com/news...
* https://www.zerohedge.com/news...
* http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...
* https://www.wnd.com/2015/04/tw...

There's a good starter list. Also, in the post you replied to, Jack Dorsey was the name, not Jeff Bezos. Cerebral flatulence.

No the person using ad hom here is you.

There is no equal protection under the law and its enforcement is arbitrary. Here is an example, and here is another one.

It's perfectly reasonable to ascribe ulterior motives to dogged legal persecutions of which was initiated under false pretenses to begin with. Cohen is a pawn and you know it. To pretend otherwise is some seriously sanctimonious bullshit.

Cryptocurrency is a pump and dump scheme and most of us said this six months before the Gentle Investor even heard of it.

It may not be 5 people but the point is still there:

Just 4% Own Over 95% Of Bitcoin

Comparing crypto to Facebook, Google, and Microsoft is disingenuous because it's equating a vacuous, speculative, "Beanie Baby," artificial valuation to companies that actually offer products and services.

Ah, well, in the timeless words of Scott Foval:

“It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say, “Well, they’re bussing people in.” Well, you know what? We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you fucking assholes for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now, we’re just going to find a different way to do it."

So it's no wonder that those with potential to lose influence would have difficulty understanding the need to secure a process that desperately needs it.

Pfft. Chinese donations go to Democrats (along with their spies, apparently) so they're the Good Guys.

prefixing posts with "Posted by a bot:" will rip the teeth out of most fake news, and other BS.

I see no reason to believe "fake" news is more likely to be posted or spread by bots than "real" news. NYT has just as many reasons and then some to use shady means to spread their lies...ERRRR...news as YourRealPoliticalNews.ru or whatever.

Unless you mean they'll deliberately and obviously misapply the tag as a flimsy pretext for censorship, which seems like just about the dumbest way to go about that.

Zuckerberg has been selling off his FB stock quite a bit these last months, and it makes me wonder if he knew something would happen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

Whaddaya know, FB, Google and Twitter were in a congressional hearing on censorship and has been caught "shadow banning" pretty much every conservative voice (supposedly by preventing 95% of the users that would normally see their posts from appearing on their wall/feed/recommendations), including Donald Trump, almost every republican politician (but not John McCain), Fox News, the NRA and especially Alex Jones. Apparently conservative and libertarian opinions are far more mainstream than they would have you believe.

Remember in October 2016 when r/The_Donald hit the front page of Reddit and it turned out to be a "bug"?

Reddit admin /u/redtaboo said, âoeMy understanding is a database update caused the process that updates /r/all to stop working properly, the long and short of it is that /r/the_donald is incredibly active voting wise, so when the algorithm [that] sorts /r/all brokeâ¦that subreddit was the one to be pulled into the vortex.â

âoeThe /r/all algorithm doesnâ(TM)t single out any specific subreddits, but it does make it so no single subreddit can take over completely,â they explained. âoeThe_Donald happens to be incredibly active voting wise (more so than larger subreddits) so when things broke the posts in that subreddit were the ones most actively being voted on and got picked up.

Of course it was a bug, a bug in the software that was preventing the regular Reddit users from realizing how popular Trump is. Before a major election.

Twitter engineers have also been caught on camera saying that they prevent posts involving the second amendment, the flag, and a few other terms, from being seen by others.
https://www.projectveritas.com...

Time to abandon ship and replace all social media with an open source alternative.

32 people were charged. 12 of those were GRU (russian) agents. 3 were trump campaign personell. Article does not say who/what the others are.

?! wrong.
from zerohedge with screen shot of indictment -
"... there is no indication that any American was a knowing participant in this activity, and no indication that these efforts altered the vote count in any way."
https://www.zerohedge.com/site...

Mueller was caught off guard last month when his original patsys actually showed up in court to testify. I'm sure he hopes these guys won't be bothered to make the trip.

The nytimes article linked does not support you claim in any way whatsoever, and where did you get the texts that look like quotes?

The quotes were orinally from transcripts of undercover video footage done by a conservative journalist named James O'Keefe, which were posted to youtube. O'Keefe's videos are often criticized for their editing, and have to be taken with a grain of salt, but the videos produce evidence of the provocateurs that were organized during the 2016 election to disrupt Trump rallies. This article highlights some of the quotes I referenced.

The more that "threats to our democracy" narrative is driven by the likes of those that stage primaries, the better, because then their own tactics get brought to light. Rent-a-mobs used for intimidation and suppressing free speech and the right to peacefully assemble is a greater threat than any Russian twitter account.

This is pure politics, with ULA buying its way to the top with political "contributions".
The USAF recently completed a bid process for launching secret missions and SpaceX won the bidding.
https://www.space.com/40978-sp...

"This is the fifth competitive procurement under the current Phase 1A of the EELV program since SpaceX entered the market to challenge ULA. The $130 million award for the Falcon Heavy launch is considerably lower than the average $350 million price tag for Delta 4 launches. "

https://fee.org/articles/compe...
"One of the keys to SpaceX’s success has been its ability to substantially undercut the prices of its competitors. While SpaceX lists its Falcon 9 rocket starting at $62 million a flight, the US Air Force budgeted $422 million for a single ULA flight in 2020."

In time competition will bring the competitors together. SpaceX will raise it prices and the ULA will have to cut their to compete. The ULA will switch from using Russian RD-180 engines to the BE-4 engine Bezos is developing, but hasn't begun engine qualification testing and doesn't plant to till 2019. Meanwhile, the ULA has ordered, and Russia will supply by the end of 2018, TWO new batches of the Russian RD-180 engine.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...
Those engines make the ULA dependent on the Russians and pose a security threat to the US.

Amazingly, NASA says the ULA is "ahead" of SpaceX! Only in NASA and the ULA's political dreams. I wonder how much money changed hands for NASA "insiders" to claim the ULA is "ahead" of SpaceX when SpaceX builds and supplies every part of their American made Falcon9 and Falcon Heavy, engines included.

"I’m not worried about artificial intelligence, I’m terrified of human stupidity."

"he debate about technology and its role in society that we need to have is being used to deceive citizens and scare them about the future so they accept to submit to politicians who cannot nor will protect us from the challenges of robotization.

However, there are many studies that tell us that in 50 years the vast majority of work will be done by robots. What can we do?

We have lived the fallacies of dystopian estimates for decades.

I always explain to my students that, if we believed the fifty-year-forward studies of the past, it has been seventeen years since we have run out of water, oil, and jobs. Fifty-year estimates always suffer from the same mistakes. First, presentism. Take the current situation and exaggerate it. Second, sweeten the past. No, no past time was better. Third, always estimate an impossible and negative future by ignoring the evidence of human ingenuity and innovation.

The reality is that today, the world population has grown to 7.5 billion, and we have more work despite the technology revolution. Global unemployment is at historic lows, 5%, global poverty has fallen to unprecedented levels, from 80% in 1820 to 10% today. Infant mortality has been reduced to less than half, from 64.8 deaths per thousand births in 1990 to 30.5 in 2016."

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