Ireland has signed various treaties that make them part of the EU, including economical/financial treaties. And these treaties are at least 20 years old, so they are not Ex Post Facto changes. What the verdict actually means is a stricter enforcement of already-existing treaties and laws, which deals between Irish politicians and Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet etc have contravened.
They didn't change the rules afterwards. Irish politicians and corps like Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet etc made deals that were in contravention of existing EU treaties and laws. This trial, that has taken years to come to this verdict, goes back to strict enforcement of old treaties and laws
Except that it's not ex post facto. It's a step towards stricter enforcement, and that's why Ireland is also being spanked pretty hard right now, because the deals they made were in contravention of existing EU legal frameworks and treaties, and were as such illegal and thus invalid. It's enforcement of the actual law, not of an illegal and underhanded deal between irish politicians and various megacorps such as Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and a whole crapton of others.
What? Plenty of people print in A5 at home, or for their hobby group etc. I print plenty of photographs on A5 to frame, or to send as larger postcards to friends and family.
As for making economic sense, can you fuckers in Nazi States of America fucking stop using Letter/Legal and go with A4? I'm tired of having to waste money on special binders etc just to handle paperwork from you guys. Exchange of paperwork with Taiwan? A4. Exchange of paperwork with South Africa? A4. Exchange of paperwork with Germany? A4. Exchange of paperwork with Australia? A4. Exchange of paperwork with USA? Roll the dice, 20% chance of A4, 40% chance of Letter, 40% chance of Legal.
In the beginning, they rendered on the same Amiga 4k's with accelerator boards they modeled on, but later they rendered on a network of Raptor machines(Alphas running Windows NT)
No, they are not exact opposites. A military coup is a method of change, just like armed insurrection/rebellion. A military coup can be used to remove an autocratic regime and pave the way for a democratic regime. As has been done in Turkey a couple of times, when some political leaders went towards an authoritarian islamistic regime and sharia law instead of secular law and democracy. As has been pointed out elsewhere, military intervention in such cases was an actual part of the constitution of Turkey, and technically still is, because Erdogan did not have the authority to change the constitution like he did in 2003. Which is one of the reasons why he's sacked thousands of judges, including 5 of the judges on the supreme court.
I think he partially engineered it, by feeding it false intelligence, conflicting signals etc, and moving his own assets around to capitalize on it when triggered.
"1) We're talking about a military that knows how to stage coups. It's likely that some of the upper level officers have already been in the force when the last one happened. This would have been the 4th coup in Turkey since WW2. In other words, we're not talking about some stage performance military that is at best useful to look pretty when some guest of honor arrives, this is a military that KNOWS how to run a coup successfully (because this is actually the first one that fails)."
Here we come to one of the problems with Erdogan and the AKP: Over the last 15 years, he's systematically worked to purge all officers not loyal to him and his party. He especially targeted officers that had been involved in previous coups or were too secular for his liking. So, the experience of how to stage a coup was lost, and the ability to do so further impeded by Erdogan loyalists.
"2) Everyone who has at least a passing interest in military coups knows that you have to get 4 things done: First, arrest or kill the head honcho you're trying to oust, along with his main cronies. Second, get the media under control. Third, get the secret police under control or at least ensure that they cannot act. Fourth, disrupt the coordination of the powers that are loyal to the regime (in this case, the police). NONE OF THESE were taken care of. There was a half-baked "uhhh, we do coup!" message being broadcast (almost as if they wanted to make sure that everyone knows that this is not just for shits and giggles), but nothing else of tactical value was secured."
This is where things really get into False Flag territory. What better way to further cement your power than sacrificing the lives of some of your loyal fanatics, sanctifying your rise to power with the blood of martyrs. Also, if it had been a serious military coup, they'd have quietly closed down multiple mosques to hamper the ability for Erdogan's loyal imams to rabble rouse.
"3) The "coup" was staged in the two main towns. Why? What the hell is the benefit of shooting aimlessly from helicopters into towns where the only thing you can accomplish is to anger the population without gaining any strategic advantage? Controlling the bridges across the Bosporus Strait I can see, but not even that was done right because there were still bridges that were neither closed nor controlled."
Further shows that it was not a true coup. If it had been a true coup, Erdogan would have been taken out by a special forces team where he was on his vacation, or possibly by a bomb, and indeed aimed at unifying the rage of the populace against a single target.
"4) 2 days after the "coup" thousands of opposing judges, politicians and other people who did not participate in the coup but somehow "annoy" our little tinpot dictator are arrested. This must be the most efficient kind of bureaucracy ever observed that they can in 2 days identify the "culprits" for the coup and already have them arrested."
Judges, academics, teachers etc are the primary threat against Erdogan through upholding secular values and knowledge, secular laws, and opposes orthodox islamic values and sharia.
Don't need that many to be truly in the know. Remember, he's purged the military before, people who have been found to be too secular, too pro-constitution etc, and replaced with people loyal to him, via his party.
What most likely happened is that those loyal to him discovered that there was a group left who were not happy about Erdogan's policies(which includes supporting ISIS), and then at an opportune time fed false intel, while in the background they prepare their own moves for securing more power, such as preparing to fire most judges in the country, including the 5 in the supreme court of Turkey.
The "coup" was most likely covertly triggered by Erdogan, to allow him to initiate yet another purge of anyone opposed to him becoming the new Sultan of the Neo-Ottoman empire, as can be seen in his purge of not only teachers, but also judges, university deans, his further clampdowns on media etc.
You seriously don't understand what fascism is. The USA is far more fascist than the Turkish army. In fact, Erdogan's AKP is a highly fascist party, espousing the traditional fascist values of Strength, Purity, Unity, Corporatism and adding in ultra-orthodox Islam in the mix. As can be seen in the firing of 100's of thousands of teachers, judges etc.
If you had actually studied the history of Turkey in the 20th century, you'd have learned that the turkish military coups have actually served to protect the secular constitution and democracy, while Erdgogan is hell-bent on dismantling it, by for example seriously violating the few powers he has as president. He has a private army in the form of the indoctrinated AKP members, which he did order out into the streets. Erdgogan is also on record as admiring Hitler.
Sadly, most Flash video players out there use less CPU than HTML5 players, especially for 1080p running at 60FPS(assuming that you're using a HTML5 capable browser that has the right extension to be allowed to play 60FPS on for example Youtube... Pale Moon doesn't)
For me, being somewhat nearsighted and using glasses, the difference between 720p and 1080p is as stark as night and day, when the encoding is clearly optimized for each respective format, especially when there's lots of small details. For me, the absolute biggest difference is when watching nature documentaries.
"It's a thing called latency and it's the reason people get headaches from VR"
No, it's ONE of the reasons people can get headaches from VR. Another cause of VR-related migraines is that up to around 25% of all humans has some degree of problem with depth perception, and using VR helmets will trigger that, the more problems you have with it, the faster it will trigger. Resolution, FPS, motion latency has got nothing to do with that problem
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Look into the data storage requirements of Lightfield cameras.
I've been considering buying a Lightfield camera. This card would be a good start for such a camera, assuming it has at least 100MiB/s transfer rate.
For 4:3 there were 1600x1200 screens. What I want is something in the 5:4 ratio, like 2500x2000
Ah, the wonderful Foundation series. Partially what got me interested in psychology. That and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Ireland has signed various treaties that make them part of the EU, including economical/financial treaties. And these treaties are at least 20 years old, so they are not Ex Post Facto changes. What the verdict actually means is a stricter enforcement of already-existing treaties and laws, which deals between Irish politicians and Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet etc have contravened.
They didn't change the rules afterwards. Irish politicians and corps like Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet etc made deals that were in contravention of existing EU treaties and laws. This trial, that has taken years to come to this verdict, goes back to strict enforcement of old treaties and laws
Except that it's not ex post facto. It's a step towards stricter enforcement, and that's why Ireland is also being spanked pretty hard right now, because the deals they made were in contravention of existing EU legal frameworks and treaties, and were as such illegal and thus invalid. It's enforcement of the actual law, not of an illegal and underhanded deal between irish politicians and various megacorps such as Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and a whole crapton of others.
Firefly a spark of inspiration? You mean that shit american Blake's 7 ripoff, just with space zombies added?
Archaeology has pretty decent employment prospects at least here in the EU.
What? Plenty of people print in A5 at home, or for their hobby group etc. I print plenty of photographs on A5 to frame, or to send as larger postcards to friends and family.
As for making economic sense, can you fuckers in Nazi States of America fucking stop using Letter/Legal and go with A4? I'm tired of having to waste money on special binders etc just to handle paperwork from you guys. Exchange of paperwork with Taiwan? A4. Exchange of paperwork with South Africa? A4. Exchange of paperwork with Germany? A4. Exchange of paperwork with Australia? A4. Exchange of paperwork with USA? Roll the dice, 20% chance of A4, 40% chance of Letter, 40% chance of Legal.
No, 7.62x39 usually clocks in around 1.8-2.4 kj. 7.62x51 is around 3.4-4k, depending on load.
In the beginning, they rendered on the same Amiga 4k's with accelerator boards they modeled on, but later they rendered on a network of Raptor machines(Alphas running Windows NT)
Huh? No it's not. It's pretty decent in power/performance ratio, comparing favourably to slower cards from AMD from the same era
The card you should be comparing to in the hiearchy is the GTX 960 4GiB
Some people here still quote power use/heat output figures from the Fermi architecture, especially the 4x0 series which debuted in 2010...
No, they are not exact opposites. A military coup is a method of change, just like armed insurrection/rebellion. A military coup can be used to remove an autocratic regime and pave the way for a democratic regime. As has been done in Turkey a couple of times, when some political leaders went towards an authoritarian islamistic regime and sharia law instead of secular law and democracy. As has been pointed out elsewhere, military intervention in such cases was an actual part of the constitution of Turkey, and technically still is, because Erdogan did not have the authority to change the constitution like he did in 2003. Which is one of the reasons why he's sacked thousands of judges, including 5 of the judges on the supreme court.
I think he partially engineered it, by feeding it false intelligence, conflicting signals etc, and moving his own assets around to capitalize on it when triggered.
"1) We're talking about a military that knows how to stage coups. It's likely that some of the upper level officers have already been in the force when the last one happened. This would have been the 4th coup in Turkey since WW2. In other words, we're not talking about some stage performance military that is at best useful to look pretty when some guest of honor arrives, this is a military that KNOWS how to run a coup successfully (because this is actually the first one that fails)."
Here we come to one of the problems with Erdogan and the AKP: Over the last 15 years, he's systematically worked to purge all officers not loyal to him and his party. He especially targeted officers that had been involved in previous coups or were too secular for his liking. So, the experience of how to stage a coup was lost, and the ability to do so further impeded by Erdogan loyalists.
"2) Everyone who has at least a passing interest in military coups knows that you have to get 4 things done: First, arrest or kill the head honcho you're trying to oust, along with his main cronies. Second, get the media under control. Third, get the secret police under control or at least ensure that they cannot act. Fourth, disrupt the coordination of the powers that are loyal to the regime (in this case, the police). NONE OF THESE were taken care of. There was a half-baked "uhhh, we do coup!" message being broadcast (almost as if they wanted to make sure that everyone knows that this is not just for shits and giggles), but nothing else of tactical value was secured."
This is where things really get into False Flag territory. What better way to further cement your power than sacrificing the lives of some of your loyal fanatics, sanctifying your rise to power with the blood of martyrs. Also, if it had been a serious military coup, they'd have quietly closed down multiple mosques to hamper the ability for Erdogan's loyal imams to rabble rouse.
"3) The "coup" was staged in the two main towns. Why? What the hell is the benefit of shooting aimlessly from helicopters into towns where the only thing you can accomplish is to anger the population without gaining any strategic advantage? Controlling the bridges across the Bosporus Strait I can see, but not even that was done right because there were still bridges that were neither closed nor controlled."
Further shows that it was not a true coup. If it had been a true coup, Erdogan would have been taken out by a special forces team where he was on his vacation, or possibly by a bomb, and indeed aimed at unifying the rage of the populace against a single target.
"4) 2 days after the "coup" thousands of opposing judges, politicians and other people who did not participate in the coup but somehow "annoy" our little tinpot dictator are arrested. This must be the most efficient kind of bureaucracy ever observed that they can in 2 days identify the "culprits" for the coup and already have them arrested."
Judges, academics, teachers etc are the primary threat against Erdogan through upholding secular values and knowledge, secular laws, and opposes orthodox islamic values and sharia.
Don't need that many to be truly in the know. Remember, he's purged the military before, people who have been found to be too secular, too pro-constitution etc, and replaced with people loyal to him, via his party.
What most likely happened is that those loyal to him discovered that there was a group left who were not happy about Erdogan's policies(which includes supporting ISIS), and then at an opportune time fed false intel, while in the background they prepare their own moves for securing more power, such as preparing to fire most judges in the country, including the 5 in the supreme court of Turkey.
The "coup" was most likely covertly triggered by Erdogan, to allow him to initiate yet another purge of anyone opposed to him becoming the new Sultan of the Neo-Ottoman empire, as can be seen in his purge of not only teachers, but also judges, university deans, his further clampdowns on media etc.
That should be 10's of thousands, got one 0 too many.
You seriously don't understand what fascism is. The USA is far more fascist than the Turkish army. In fact, Erdogan's AKP is a highly fascist party, espousing the traditional fascist values of Strength, Purity, Unity, Corporatism and adding in ultra-orthodox Islam in the mix. As can be seen in the firing of 100's of thousands of teachers, judges etc.
If you had actually studied the history of Turkey in the 20th century, you'd have learned that the turkish military coups have actually served to protect the secular constitution and democracy, while Erdgogan is hell-bent on dismantling it, by for example seriously violating the few powers he has as president. He has a private army in the form of the indoctrinated AKP members, which he did order out into the streets. Erdgogan is also on record as admiring Hitler.
Sadly, most Flash video players out there use less CPU than HTML5 players, especially for 1080p running at 60FPS(assuming that you're using a HTML5 capable browser that has the right extension to be allowed to play 60FPS on for example Youtube... Pale Moon doesn't)
Holy shit, how bad is your vision?
For me, being somewhat nearsighted and using glasses, the difference between 720p and 1080p is as stark as night and day, when the encoding is clearly optimized for each respective format, especially when there's lots of small details. For me, the absolute biggest difference is when watching nature documentaries.
"It's a thing called latency and it's the reason people get headaches from VR"
No, it's ONE of the reasons people can get headaches from VR. Another cause of VR-related migraines is that up to around 25% of all humans has some degree of problem with depth perception, and using VR helmets will trigger that, the more problems you have with it, the faster it will trigger. Resolution, FPS, motion latency has got nothing to do with that problem