That Trump continues to enjoy such poll numbers this far after both his announcement and his multiple ludicrous statements cause me serious concern over the GOP's future. I'm concerned about a fully blue house, senate, and presidency once the representative districts change- I'm pretty worried that the Republicans are a highly ineffective opposition party, and are almost two whole parties at this point.
We have a two party system*, and it needs two functional parties to work properly. The Republicans *look* like they are contributing, but they mostly are not.
Trump should be a clarion call to reform the party before it's too damned late.
*A plurality voting system necessitates two choices only. If one party becomes too dominant, than the power stops being in the hands of the people (to whatever extent it was) and becomes almost entirely in the hands of the majority party, and their backers.
> And that is if we could call terrorists who follow the most twisted interpretation of Islam imaginable "Muslims".
Can you point out how they are not Muslims? Moderate Muslims think these guys are absolutely nuts, but could you point me to any evidence for a widespread belief among moderate Muslims that Islamists are not Islamic?
It seems unlikely that this will be released as a generic thing on the PS4. If you have space in your house for a working PS2, and a desire to play those games, then you should get the hardware.
The PS3 was going to have this problem from the start- the cell architecture was just too exotic. The only way we would have PS3 emulation on the PS4 is if the PS4 kept to that exact design concept- and that's just punting the problem to whenever it's no longer wise to keep down that design path.
> Perhaps if the developer chose x86 ASM instead of C++, he wouldn't need a multi-GHz CPU to properly emulate things.
And he'd have a bunch of limitations as to where he could run it, then.
The "right" way to right an emulator is probably with several tuned hardware specific pieces of code for the parts that are the most resource intensive, cobbled together with a high level language- but you have to maintain each separately. If you expect a random emulator to have the same sort of support as the Windows or Linux kernels, maybe you should be on that team.
Most actually vintage titles get GoG releases. Many can also be emulated in DosBox just straight up.
Basically, if you don't want to keep your old PC hardware around (as you obviously do your old console hardware), then you have to take steps in software to play the games. With consoles, you don't have the second option at all- though the first option is a bit easier.
I think of the people chewing into the troll, yours is the best answer. If you bought a PS3 able to boot Linux (an advertised feature, and on the box) that is also able to play online games (same), you had to choose. If you choose the first option, you forever lost your ability to play online games (and many other games would later check for version- basically your box was now dead to everything from that point in time forward). If you chose the second option, you lost the Linux capability.
> Is it also a lie when pork is not explicitly labeled as Haraam? No. The producer DOES have to say that it is pork. If you have an external structure on top of that- avoiding pork because you are a Muslim, because you are Jewish, because you have that weird ass allergy to to a certain carbohydrate only found in meat, or because you believe pigs are tiny divine princesses- you have boiled down your religious belief or medical need to a specific thing- pork.
It would be bullshit if they could put pork in something and not say it, though.
GM salmon is different than non GM salmon. Wild caught salmon is different than farmed salmon. You should have to label what something objectively is, and that's what most labeling laws do. This is a fight to be able to put the GM salmon next to the non-GM salmon, and not tell anyone that yours is different.
Yes, there is. Religion is an irrational thing. There are many others, but by cutting directly to the one that everyone universally understands does NOT mean "you sacrifice your human rights by subscribing to this brand of irrationality", I am demonstrating that the idea of "if people are irrational they become animals, lie to them and herd them" is inherently immoral. I could go a longer route and call out a great deal of other irrationalities, but that is less succinct. Religion is the best example- I don't gain the power to mistreat you because you are irrational in your beliefs.
The joke is 20 years, not 30. And if get net energy positive fusion in, say, 2020, then the joke will have been accurate for around 20 years, and overly pessimistic for an additional 20. Either way, the joke is more accurate than it is inaccurate, given that fusion has been 20 years away for around 30 years plus.
> . How do you think that most people who do not take this time will think when they hear
I think the lives of most 21 year old college girls would be vastly improved if they started lining up around my block to suck my dick, but it doesn't make it legal, moral, or ethical for me to lie to make that happen.
If you have any product to sell- be it a bunch of gene tweaked fishies, a shiny new car, or my white cock- the fact that "if I told the truth, I wouldn't make as many sales as I would like" isn't an ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE TO LIE. Society doesn't OWE the companies a captive lied-to audience for the convenience of the people selling product, who would otherwise make a different decision. That's bullshit.
> There you go spouting a falsehood. No Monsanto seeds have ever produces sterile crops
Remember the "Terminator Gene"? Monsanto was looking into that. You are correct in your statement, but *IT'S NOT FOR LACK OF TRYING*. The UN banned it a year after Monsanto dealt with the backlash and promised to never use it.
Until that backlash, they were like "oh cool, copy protection for life itself, and a possible way to end humanity if we fuck up a little bit, but we can reduce seed fucking piracy or whatever bullshit we tell ourselves, sounds good, lets do this"
> there will be no room left on many packages for the required nutritional statement, weight statement, or ingredients list
I know that at least the nutritional info and ingredients lists faced huge pushback from corporations that wanted to keep lying about the foods. They pushed back on the transfat labels. They will do anything to prevent you knowing what is in your food. There is no moral defense for that. People have to eat.
But his point is valid. Science is agnostic. You can make a medicine or a poison. Science makes awful things with awful uses, good things with good uses, but mostly it makes things that can be used wisely or foolishly.
Sure, it's incorrect to blame science for the foolishness of fools. But at this point, I wonder if the anti-GM people don't have a point. All the research has turned into so far is another way to change the food supply en masse, while corporations fight for their right to not have to tell anyone what the fuck the food even is. When you see this happen again and again, the luddite view of trying to outright ban it (so as to remove the economic incentive) starts to have a lot of good reasoning behind it.
And no, there's probably nothing wrong with most GM foods. This fish thing will help feed the world- we can't sustain fishing with a growing population, we need badly to farm fish, and this is a solid solution. And I was down with that... right up until they fought to not have to mark their food. That means they have something to hide, it means that they are automatically in the wrong. I'm not a food scientist or a fish scientist or whatever, but I know naked deception and greed when it is presented so openly.
> Better yet, catch it yourself. It's quite an enjoyable and delicious hobby.
Right, I'll be sure to catch myself a years worth of salmon during the brief period they are catchable here. I'm sure my job won't miss me for however many weeks that takes, if it's even possible. Clearly if I want wild caught fish, or fish that don't have lab tuned genes, I should have to be a subsistence hunter.
> You want something to be labelled? Prove a negative consequence.
Man, this is such a fuckdiculous standard it is unreal. Especially because the guys who want to prove it safe have huge financial motivation, and anyone trying to prove the opposite just wants to eat food because they purchased a lifetime subscription to a digestive tract. Gods forbid they know what goes in there, right?
> The problem is that the anti-GM people are not logical.
Doesn't matter. If you have to lie to them, you are in the wrong.
Also, this nation was founded in many ways on religion- even the Deists count to some degree- so we already live in a nation full of irrational people.
There's no law against it. And you certainly can't lie to people because they believe in the wrong sky monkey. So why because they want to avoid GM foods?
If you have to lie, you're in the wrong. It's just that simple.
"Hey Apple, gimme a list of everyone who downloaded the stego app. Also, there's a bunch of data that's stored in an encrypted dropbox, can you tell us what phone did that? Thanks, ok, can you dump the unencrypted cache from the unencrypted phone for us?"
One huge downside of these vendor lock in phones is that it creates a single point of failure- the company that issues them. Apple and Google are doing what they can to make things private, but all it takes is these turkeys to convince them otherwise briefly and it all goes away. It's not like on a PC where you have root and no one else can fuck your shit up.
I'm fine with English speakers making jokes in English about the English language.
Every single character that was in the English character set that wasn't shared with the standard set of European characters got ditched. No more thorns, no more eths, no more yogh. It fucked the language up pretty good too, giving us shitty words like "enough" and "ye" that are pronounced literally nothing like what they look like, despite previously having a totally phonetic spelling.
If the English can go without all their fucking letters to make the French happy, then you don't really need all them funny accent markers either!
If you put a modifier in front, it usually acts to modify. In this case, it is providing no modification. The opposite "key escrow", is a system where someone has a master key that can unlock anything locked by all the slave keys (that's what you get, citizen!).
> but having access to the phone contents reportedly did allow investigators to make headway in France
So, we have access to encryption (aka real encryption, aka zero knowledge encryption), and the terrorists were not using it. This then becomes an argument against real encryption. Of course, if the terrorists WERE using it, it would ALSO be a an argument against real encryption.
The story so far: Terrorists communicate without using Bibles, or encryption. Terrorists kill a bunch of people without using Bibles, or encryption. Later investigators find phones without Bibles, or encryption.
Nothing in this story involves Bibles, or encryption- if either one is inserted, it's because someone wants to take your Bible. Or more likely, your encryption.
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That Trump continues to enjoy such poll numbers this far after both his announcement and his multiple ludicrous statements cause me serious concern over the GOP's future. I'm concerned about a fully blue house, senate, and presidency once the representative districts change- I'm pretty worried that the Republicans are a highly ineffective opposition party, and are almost two whole parties at this point.
We have a two party system*, and it needs two functional parties to work properly. The Republicans *look* like they are contributing, but they mostly are not.
Trump should be a clarion call to reform the party before it's too damned late.
*A plurality voting system necessitates two choices only. If one party becomes too dominant, than the power stops being in the hands of the people (to whatever extent it was) and becomes almost entirely in the hands of the majority party, and their backers.
> And that is if we could call terrorists who follow the most twisted interpretation of Islam imaginable "Muslims".
Can you point out how they are not Muslims? Moderate Muslims think these guys are absolutely nuts, but could you point me to any evidence for a widespread belief among moderate Muslims that Islamists are not Islamic?
The are absolutely not recompiling the games for better support. They are emulating the games.
They might have to recompile the emulator to support more games later.
WINE, as I will point out twice, Is Not an Emulator.
It seems unlikely that this will be released as a generic thing on the PS4. If you have space in your house for a working PS2, and a desire to play those games, then you should get the hardware.
The PS3 was going to have this problem from the start- the cell architecture was just too exotic. The only way we would have PS3 emulation on the PS4 is if the PS4 kept to that exact design concept- and that's just punting the problem to whenever it's no longer wise to keep down that design path.
> Perhaps if the developer chose x86 ASM instead of C++, he wouldn't need a multi-GHz CPU to properly emulate things.
And he'd have a bunch of limitations as to where he could run it, then.
The "right" way to right an emulator is probably with several tuned hardware specific pieces of code for the parts that are the most resource intensive, cobbled together with a high level language- but you have to maintain each separately. If you expect a random emulator to have the same sort of support as the Windows or Linux kernels, maybe you should be on that team.
Most actually vintage titles get GoG releases. Many can also be emulated in DosBox just straight up.
Basically, if you don't want to keep your old PC hardware around (as you obviously do your old console hardware), then you have to take steps in software to play the games. With consoles, you don't have the second option at all- though the first option is a bit easier.
I think of the people chewing into the troll, yours is the best answer. If you bought a PS3 able to boot Linux (an advertised feature, and on the box) that is also able to play online games (same), you had to choose. If you choose the first option, you forever lost your ability to play online games (and many other games would later check for version- basically your box was now dead to everything from that point in time forward). If you chose the second option, you lost the Linux capability.
It was real bad news.
> Is it also a lie when pork is not explicitly labeled as Haraam?
No. The producer DOES have to say that it is pork. If you have an external structure on top of that- avoiding pork because you are a Muslim, because you are Jewish, because you have that weird ass allergy to to a certain carbohydrate only found in meat, or because you believe pigs are tiny divine princesses- you have boiled down your religious belief or medical need to a specific thing- pork.
It would be bullshit if they could put pork in something and not say it, though.
GM salmon is different than non GM salmon. Wild caught salmon is different than farmed salmon. You should have to label what something objectively is, and that's what most labeling laws do. This is a fight to be able to put the GM salmon next to the non-GM salmon, and not tell anyone that yours is different.
Yes, there is. Religion is an irrational thing. There are many others, but by cutting directly to the one that everyone universally understands does NOT mean "you sacrifice your human rights by subscribing to this brand of irrationality", I am demonstrating that the idea of "if people are irrational they become animals, lie to them and herd them" is inherently immoral. I could go a longer route and call out a great deal of other irrationalities, but that is less succinct. Religion is the best example- I don't gain the power to mistreat you because you are irrational in your beliefs.
The joke is 20 years, not 30. And if get net energy positive fusion in, say, 2020, then the joke will have been accurate for around 20 years, and overly pessimistic for an additional 20. Either way, the joke is more accurate than it is inaccurate, given that fusion has been 20 years away for around 30 years plus.
There's a reason my dad taught me that joke in the 80s. Let me continue the trend: in 6 years, it will take 14 more years longer than planned!
> . How do you think that most people who do not take this time will think when they hear
I think the lives of most 21 year old college girls would be vastly improved if they started lining up around my block to suck my dick, but it doesn't make it legal, moral, or ethical for me to lie to make that happen.
If you have any product to sell- be it a bunch of gene tweaked fishies, a shiny new car, or my white cock- the fact that "if I told the truth, I wouldn't make as many sales as I would like" isn't an ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE TO LIE. Society doesn't OWE the companies a captive lied-to audience for the convenience of the people selling product, who would otherwise make a different decision. That's bullshit.
> There you go spouting a falsehood. No Monsanto seeds have ever produces sterile crops
Remember the "Terminator Gene"? Monsanto was looking into that. You are correct in your statement, but *IT'S NOT FOR LACK OF TRYING*. The UN banned it a year after Monsanto dealt with the backlash and promised to never use it.
Until that backlash, they were like "oh cool, copy protection for life itself, and a possible way to end humanity if we fuck up a little bit, but we can reduce seed fucking piracy or whatever bullshit we tell ourselves, sounds good, lets do this"
> Wiki has some info about the changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nice, was looking for a link to the patch notes.
> there will be no room left on many packages for the required nutritional statement, weight statement, or ingredients list
I know that at least the nutritional info and ingredients lists faced huge pushback from corporations that wanted to keep lying about the foods. They pushed back on the transfat labels. They will do anything to prevent you knowing what is in your food. There is no moral defense for that. People have to eat.
Actually he should be blaming economics.
But his point is valid. Science is agnostic. You can make a medicine or a poison. Science makes awful things with awful uses, good things with good uses, but mostly it makes things that can be used wisely or foolishly.
Sure, it's incorrect to blame science for the foolishness of fools. But at this point, I wonder if the anti-GM people don't have a point. All the research has turned into so far is another way to change the food supply en masse, while corporations fight for their right to not have to tell anyone what the fuck the food even is. When you see this happen again and again, the luddite view of trying to outright ban it (so as to remove the economic incentive) starts to have a lot of good reasoning behind it.
And no, there's probably nothing wrong with most GM foods. This fish thing will help feed the world- we can't sustain fishing with a growing population, we need badly to farm fish, and this is a solid solution. And I was down with that... right up until they fought to not have to mark their food. That means they have something to hide, it means that they are automatically in the wrong. I'm not a food scientist or a fish scientist or whatever, but I know naked deception and greed when it is presented so openly.
> Better yet, catch it yourself. It's quite an enjoyable and delicious hobby.
Right, I'll be sure to catch myself a years worth of salmon during the brief period they are catchable here. I'm sure my job won't miss me for however many weeks that takes, if it's even possible. Clearly if I want wild caught fish, or fish that don't have lab tuned genes, I should have to be a subsistence hunter.
> You want something to be labelled? Prove a negative consequence.
Man, this is such a fuckdiculous standard it is unreal. Especially because the guys who want to prove it safe have huge financial motivation, and anyone trying to prove the opposite just wants to eat food because they purchased a lifetime subscription to a digestive tract. Gods forbid they know what goes in there, right?
> The problem is that the anti-GM people are not logical.
Doesn't matter. If you have to lie to them, you are in the wrong.
Also, this nation was founded in many ways on religion- even the Deists count to some degree- so we already live in a nation full of irrational people.
There's no law against it. And you certainly can't lie to people because they believe in the wrong sky monkey. So why because they want to avoid GM foods?
If you have to lie, you're in the wrong. It's just that simple.
They still can't mark them "wild caught" unless they are. I wonder- do they still get labeled as "Atlantic Salmon"?
"Hey Apple, gimme a list of everyone who downloaded the stego app. Also, there's a bunch of data that's stored in an encrypted dropbox, can you tell us what phone did that? Thanks, ok, can you dump the unencrypted cache from the unencrypted phone for us?"
One huge downside of these vendor lock in phones is that it creates a single point of failure- the company that issues them. Apple and Google are doing what they can to make things private, but all it takes is these turkeys to convince them otherwise briefly and it all goes away. It's not like on a PC where you have root and no one else can fuck your shit up.
I'm fine with English speakers making jokes in English about the English language.
Every single character that was in the English character set that wasn't shared with the standard set of European characters got ditched. No more thorns, no more eths, no more yogh. It fucked the language up pretty good too, giving us shitty words like "enough" and "ye" that are pronounced literally nothing like what they look like, despite previously having a totally phonetic spelling.
If the English can go without all their fucking letters to make the French happy, then you don't really need all them funny accent markers either!
So, it means encryption.
If you put a modifier in front, it usually acts to modify. In this case, it is providing no modification. The opposite "key escrow", is a system where someone has a master key that can unlock anything locked by all the slave keys (that's what you get, citizen!).
> but having access to the phone contents reportedly did allow investigators to make headway in France
So, we have access to encryption (aka real encryption, aka zero knowledge encryption), and the terrorists were not using it. This then becomes an argument against real encryption. Of course, if the terrorists WERE using it, it would ALSO be a an argument against real encryption.
The story so far: Terrorists communicate without using Bibles, or encryption. Terrorists kill a bunch of people without using Bibles, or encryption. Later investigators find phones without Bibles, or encryption.
Nothing in this story involves Bibles, or encryption- if either one is inserted, it's because someone wants to take your Bible. Or more likely, your encryption.