In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the question before the court is if a state can constitutionally enforce a civil rights law against a bakery whose owner declined, for First Amendment free speech and religious reasons, to make a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding party.
Jack Phillips and his wife own a business in Colorado, where as a cake artist Phillips designs cakes. In their court petition, Phillips' attorneys note that due to his beliefs, Phillips has also declined to make cakes that celebrate Halloween, anti-American or anti-family themes, atheism, racism, or indecency. When approached by a same-sex couple about making a cake for their wedding, Phillips declined to design a cake with that message, but he offered to make any another cake for them that didn't conflict with his beliefs.
Ashers Baking Company was founded in Newtownabbey in 1992. Run by the McArthur family, the Christian-owned business operates six shops in Northern Ireland.
The bakery came to wider prominence in July 2014 when it emerged that it had declined an order in its Belfast branch from a gay rights activist.
He had wanted them to make a cake that included a slogan that said "support gay marriage" along with a picture of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, and the logo of the Queerspace organisation. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has not passed a law to introduce same-sex marriage
The cake was being commissioned for a civic event in Bangor, County Down, to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
Staff at the bakery passed the order to its head office, which considered it to be "at odds with our beliefs".
The lawsuits started in 1987. Rich Lovgren, former assistant general counsel for AMD, recalled that AMD founder Jerry Sanders sat through "every second" of one of the trials. "There were certainly bridges that were burned," he said.
Under the terms of the settlement, both companies gained free access to each other's patents in a cross-licensing agreement. AMD agreed to pay Intel royalties for making chips based on the x86 architecture, said Mulloy, who worked for AMD when the settlement was drafted. Royalties, he added, only go one way. AMD does get to collect royalties from Intel for any patents Intel might adopt.
AMD also agreed not to make any clones of Intel chips, but nothing bars Intel from doing a clone of an AMD chip, Mulloy added.
While the terms may seem one-sided, AMD has benefited from the agreement as well. Without the clean and enforceable right to make x86 chips granted by the agreement, AMD would not have been able to produce the K6, K6 II, K6III, Athlon, Duron, Athlon 64 or Opteron chips without fear of incurring a lawsuit.
Intel probably doesn't have access to the graphics patents AMD picked up when it bought ATI though. There were rumours it would licence them which it denied.
Intel, however, has reached out to put the kibosh on such rumors. In a statement sent to Barrons, Intel stated, "The recent rumors that Intel has licensed AMDâ(TM)s graphics technology are untrue." The company has said that further information will not be provided.
Of course if it buys AMD GPU dies and puts them in the same package as Intel chips it doesn't need to licence all AMD's graphics patents, just agree on a price for the dies. It also doesn't need to hire a bunch of GPU engineers to reinvent a GPU based on AMD's technology. Intel have a rather poor record of performance GPU design. E.g. the last discrete Intel GPU was the disappointing i740.
And AMD have a pretty good record in building embedded GPUs for the PS4 and Xbox One.
I.e. it all makes sense. Intel and AMD don't need to agree on a licence fee for all AMD's graphics patents. Intel doesn't need to design a discrete GPU. AMD can just sell dies to Intel. Intel gets access to console or better class graphics, gets to show off its EMIB technology and can probably sell the resultant module to people like Apple. Intel and NVidia can continue to glare at each other.
It depends what you mean by failure. For gaming, yeah. But then gamers are always going to have a discrete GPU.
For people who don't game and want long battery life onboard graphics are better because they're lower power.
I suspect Intel know if they keep the non gamers happy with a good CPU with 'good enough' graphics they'll sell a lot of chips. And for non gaming 'good enough' graphics isn't that hard to do. Gamers will more than likely buy an Intel CPU and pair it with discrete graphics provided Intel's CPU performance is competitive.
I.e. Intel are aiming at the chunk of the market where people care about CPU performance and power efficiency but don't care about onboard GPU performance.
Of course this chip means you could pair an Intel CPU and a discrete GPU on the same package. Which would be ideal for something like a Macbook Pro 15 inch, which currently uses an Intel CPU and an AMD Radeon 560.
The linchpin of the Intel-AMD agreement is a tiny piece of silicon that Intel began talking up over the past year: the Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, or EMIB. Numerous EMIBs can connect silicon dies, routing the electrical traces through the substrate itself. The result is what Intel calls a System-in-Package module. In this case, EMIBs allowed Intel to construct the three-die module, which will tie together Intelâ(TM)s Core chip, the Radeon core, and next-generation high-bandwidth memory, or HBM2.
AMD sell Intel bare dies that talk EMIB. Interesting thing is that Intel could do a deal with NVidia to supply GPU dies which use the same interface. Well except that Intel pays NVidia licence fees whereas the AMD Intel patent licensing agreement is completely one sided - AMD pays Intel but Intel gets IP rights to anything AMD invents for free.
It's not like AMD is selling Intel a synthesizable core or even a hard macro. And Intel being Intel they probably pay people to do competitor analysis on AMD stuff anyway. So getting bare dies doesn't tell them anything that they don't already know.
And as a lot of people have noted Apple use Intel and AMD GPUs but not NVidia ones. Post Itanium I think Intel regards Apple as its non commodity low volume/high margin market.
So it all makes sense. It'll be interesting to see what the chip costs and if EMIB graphics has performance and/or power advantages over PCI Express run chip to chip. With USB you can strip out the analog transceivers for HSIC
Meanwhile, modem makers were looking for a suitable interconnect for next-generation LTE networks. These networks will have air interfaces capable of throughputs beyond the 40 MB/s typically possible with HSIC USB. Further, there was a desire to deploy other SuperSpeed applications such as mass storage in a chip-to-chip environment. The SuperSpeed Inter-Chip USB (SSIC USB) group selected M-PHY as the physical layer, and developed a reference model that bridges from the PIPE 3.0 reference model to the M-PHY physical layer. This allows existing USB 3.0 IP to be quickly adapted for SSIC USB use by deleting (or disabling) the legacy USB 2.0 support, replacing the USB PIPE 3.0 implementation with a shim plus an M-PHY implementation, and making minor changes to the link layer of the USB 3.0 IP.
In September 2012, PCI-SIG and the MIPI Alliance announced an initiative to similarly adapt PCIe to run over M-PHY. Because of the work already done by the USB-IF SSIC USB group, the adaptation will likely include a similar reference model based on PIPE 3.0, simplifying early prototyping and architectural verification.
PCIe over M-PHY is likely to be quickly accepted in the Ultrabook and x86-based tablet PC market because it will allow reuse of hardware and software IP while lowering system power requirements. Adoption may be slower in smartphones and ARM-based tablets, because thereâ(TM)s less experience in using PCIe in those systems.
Of course you could do that for PCIe run chip to chip too. Still maybe you could use lower voltages over EMIB.
Bruno Mars is gay is the most discussed in the media in the few years ago. Even it has happened in 2012, but some of the public still curious about what is exactly happening and to be the reason there is a rumor comes out about his gay. At that time he became the massive social networking rumor. The public, especially his fans are shocked. He just came out with his bad rumor which is spread massively. This time is not about his music career, but his bad rumor. The rumor is out of standardize of hoax, according the last reported this singer revealed himself as homosexual. Do you still believe or not, this rumor is really much talked by people even in a person of his fans.
Like most clever things on the Internet, this was produced by FSB agents operating an advanced artificial intelligence, codenamed MAGA.
A buffer overflow in the English syntax decoding subsystems of Americans corrupted their brains and caused them to vote Trump a mere two years and two months after this went viral.
The East India Company wasn't running amok though. Parliament granted it a charter which gave it a monopoly on trade in a big chunk of the world. The EIC then acted inside that charter which gave it more or less absolute power in the area the charter applied from the perspective of the UK government. If any other state quibbled with that absolute power, the EIC was empowered to raise armies and fight them.
Of course the advantage to the UK government was that if the shit ever hit the fan and the EIC did something the UK government didn't like, the UK government could blame the EIC and potentially disestablish it. Which eventually happened when the Indian Rebellion happened. The UK government decided to blame all the nastiness on the EIC, revoke its charter and rule directly.
In Dune terms the UK government was Baron Harkonnen and the EIC was Beast Rabban - i.e. a rapacious leader who'd subjugate territory and then be replaced by someone else who'd seem like a relief.
In the aftermath of the Harkonnen attack on the House of Atreides on Arrakis that nearly destroyed the House, Rabban was left in charge of Arrakis by his uncle. Harkonnen gave him orders to squeeze the populace, and to set new lows in cruelty and depraved behavior. Harkonnen's intention was that when the people of Arrakis were crushed enough that he would send Feyd to save the people of Arrakis, and become a hero to the people there.
Well I'm not sure the UK government planned ahead that far. But having empire built by a quasi non governmental corporation was definitely a deliberate strategy that always allowed for the government to abolish the corporation and rule directly.
So the EIC isn't an example of an evil corporation slipping the reins of regulation, it's an example of an evil government using a corporation to do its dirty work in a way that could later be disavowed.
Well I'm simplifying a bit. Inside the UK government there were different factions, some that wanted a highly rapacious but disavowable entity in charge of India and some that want direct government control and enlightened imperialism. The former set up the EIC and the later eventually used the Indian Rebellion as an excuse to shut it down.
I suppose a US counterpart would be Blackwater in Iraq. Blackwater never got as large as the EIC though. At one point the EIC had a larger army than the UK had. Still at no point would it have occurred to the people who run the EIC to take on the UK militarily - the UK was always politically the master and the EIC a mere subcontractor.
Google fires James Damore for writing a conservative memo.
Liberals: It's a private company, they're not obligated to respect his free speech rights.
The NFL fires Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the anthem
Liberals: THEY VIOLATED HIS RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH!!
Another example was the gay wedding cake case. A private company refused to bake a cake saying "I support gay marriage" because the owners were religious types who didn't support gay marriage and they got sued out of business with the left cheering it on.
Now I'm sure someone will say "gay people are a protected class and white cisscum male like Damore are not".
Curious how the left keeps adding more protected classes like trans people. I.e. the protected class notion had some validity post civil rights but the left have basically added all the groups other than white ciscum males to the protected class category.
And then they act surprised when white cismen start acting like an identity group too. Actually I'm surprised it doesn't happen more.
The left in the US have a peculiar 'build a majority out the minorities' strategy which depends on them siding against white cisscum males and with every other group. I'm not really sure this is viable - e.g. what do the left do if one of their protected groups takes a stand against another. Which basically guaranteed. Black in the US people are less likely to support gay marriage than whites, a poll of UK muslims found zero tolerance for homosexuality. In fact gay rights is something which is almost exclusive to majority white, judeo christian based societies like the US and Europe.
There's no real reason to believe that importing lots of people from outside those countries into them will make the country more 'progressive'. And yet the far left continue to say that once white people are a minority will 'true revolution' be possible.
Of course this sort of rhetoric is hardly likely to make white people decide to vote democrat and stop worrying about immigration.
If one party is plotting to make you a powerless minority, aren't you more likely to vote for the other? Even if the other party nominates someone who is a bit non politically correct as its candidate? In fact given PC means becoming a powerless minority, maybe Trump's non PC-ness is a feature.
As a modern day tech giant, they're undoubtedly beholden to several important populist grass roots movements as a matter of course
And you know they're important because Google promotes people saying they're important to the top of the search results and removes videos critical of them from YouTube.
So you're saying Google, an ad company which doesn't seem to employ any actual humans you can talk to isn't doing a good job of removing fake apps which only show ads?
As part of the IOT Botnet Operators' Guild, I'd like to point out that The Right To Tinker means that all keys for signing firmware should be made available to all users.
It will be a pleasant experience to see the Democrats return to being a party for the common people, and rethink their base values.
If you look at the Labour Party in the UK after the Blairites got purged it was taken over by identitarian types who think the common people are sexist racists oppressors who need to be replaced with morally pure third worlders who'll vote for them. And old school Marxists like Corbyn.
I could see something similar happening to the Democrats in the US.
I no fan of Apple, Google or Microsoft these days, but comparing them to the East India Company is a bit of stretch. The EIC had private armies and took over most of India. In fact it was the de facto government of India until the UK government intervened and shut it down.
During its first century of operation, the focus of the company was trade, not the building of an empire in India. Company interests turned from trade to territory during the 18th century as the Mughal Empire declined in power and the East India Company struggled with its French counterpart, the French East India Company (Compagnie francaise des Indes orientales) during the Carnatic Wars of the 1740s and 1750s. The Battle of Plassey and Battle of Buxar, in which the British, led by Robert Clive, defeated the Indian powers, left the company in control of Bengal and a major military and political power in India. In the following decades it gradually increased the extent of the territories under its control, ruling the whole Indian subcontinent either directly or indirectly via local puppet rulers under the threat of force by its Presidency armies, much of which were composed of native Indian sepoys.
By 1803, at the height of its rule in India, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000â"twice the size of the British Army.[5] The company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions.[6] Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 and lasted until 1858, when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown's assuming direct control of the Indian subcontinent in the form of the new British Raj.
Plus, there is always the option of punishing coal plant building countries with carbon tariffs on their exports if they slack off on scrubber installation.
Good luck doing that under WTO rules. Also enjoy your trade war.
Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad," and that during the Vietnam War the USSR gave $1 billion to American anti-war movements, more than it gave to the VietCong,[19] although he does not identify any organisation by name. Lunev described this as a "hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost".[19] The former KGB officer Sergei Tretyakov said that the Soviet Peace Committee funded and organized demonstrations in Europe against US bases.[20] According to Time magazine, a US State Department official estimated that the KGB may have spent $600 million on the peace offensive up to 1983, channeling funds through national Communist parties or the World Peace Council "to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source."[13] Richard Felix Staar in his book Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union says that non-communist peace movements without overt ties to the USSR were "virtually controlled" by it. Lord Chalfont claimed that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £100 million a year. The Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) alleged Soviet funding of CND.
There is a process for for full color inkless thermal printing. The paper is a bit expensive but given the costs of shipping stuff to space that doesn't really matter. The printers are mechanically very simple but so far it's only been used in novelty/selfie printers
I always liked this bit of dialogue. It'd be more scientifically accurate if Batty had suggested telomerase and Tyrell had warned it would cause cancer. Or if Batty suggested stem cells and Tyrell mentioned teratomas. Still you can sort of live with that. What was interesting was that you get the impression that the four year lifespan isn't artificial crippling as is suggested earlier but it was the best Tyrell Corp could do. Or maybe Tyrell was bullshitting. Blade Runner being Blade Runner, either interpretation is possible.
Roy: Had in mind something a little more radical. Tyrell: What..? What seems to be the problem? Roy: Death. Tyrell: Death. Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction, you... Roy: I want more life, fucker (father). Tyrell: The facts of life: To make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established. Roy: Why not? Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship sinks. Roy: What about EMS recombination? Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate is an alkylating agent and a potent mutagen. It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table. Roy: Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells. Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you've got a virus again. But this - all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you. Roy: But not to last. Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize! Roy: I've done questionable things. Tyrell: Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time! Roy: Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for. [kisses Tyrell and kills him] Roy: [to J. F. Sebastian] Sorry, Sebastian. [Sebastian panics] Come. Come.
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https://constitutioncenter.org...
In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the question before the court is if a state can constitutionally enforce a civil rights law against a bakery whose owner declined, for First Amendment free speech and religious reasons, to make a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding party.
Jack Phillips and his wife own a business in Colorado, where as a cake artist Phillips designs cakes. In their court petition, Phillips' attorneys note that due to his beliefs, Phillips has also declined to make cakes that celebrate Halloween, anti-American or anti-family themes, atheism, racism, or indecency. When approached by a same-sex couple about making a cake for their wedding, Phillips declined to design a cake with that message, but he offered to make any another cake for them that didn't conflict with his beliefs.
Similar case in the UK
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-nor...
Ashers Baking Company was founded in Newtownabbey in 1992. Run by the McArthur family, the Christian-owned business operates six shops in Northern Ireland.
The bakery came to wider prominence in July 2014 when it emerged that it had declined an order in its Belfast branch from a gay rights activist.
He had wanted them to make a cake that included a slogan that said "support gay marriage" along with a picture of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, and the logo of the Queerspace organisation.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has not passed a law to introduce same-sex marriage
The cake was being commissioned for a civic event in Bangor, County Down, to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
Staff at the bakery passed the order to its head office, which considered it to be "at odds with our beliefs".
Another bakery agreed to accept the order.
Lower your fanboy ranting a level.
I prefer Intel CPUs and NVidia GPUs given a choice.
What I said is true for x64.
https://www.cnet.com/au/news/a...
The lawsuits started in 1987. Rich Lovgren, former assistant general counsel for AMD, recalled that AMD founder Jerry Sanders sat through "every second" of one of the trials. "There were certainly bridges that were burned," he said.
Under the terms of the settlement, both companies gained free access to each other's patents in a cross-licensing agreement. AMD agreed to pay Intel royalties for making chips based on the x86 architecture, said Mulloy, who worked for AMD when the settlement was drafted. Royalties, he added, only go one way. AMD does get to collect royalties from Intel for any patents Intel might adopt.
AMD also agreed not to make any clones of Intel chips, but nothing bars Intel from doing a clone of an AMD chip, Mulloy added.
While the terms may seem one-sided, AMD has benefited from the agreement as well. Without the clean and enforceable right to make x86 chips granted by the agreement, AMD would not have been able to produce the K6, K6 II, K6III, Athlon, Duron, Athlon 64 or Opteron chips without fear of incurring a lawsuit.
Intel probably doesn't have access to the graphics patents AMD picked up when it bought ATI though. There were rumours it would licence them which it denied.
https://www.extremetech.com/ex...
Intel, however, has reached out to put the kibosh on such rumors. In a statement sent to Barrons, Intel stated, "The recent rumors that Intel has licensed AMDâ(TM)s graphics technology are untrue." The company has said that further information will not be provided.
Of course if it buys AMD GPU dies and puts them in the same package as Intel chips it doesn't need to licence all AMD's graphics patents, just agree on a price for the dies. It also doesn't need to hire a bunch of GPU engineers to reinvent a GPU based on AMD's technology. Intel have a rather poor record of performance GPU design. E.g. the last discrete Intel GPU was the disappointing i740.
And AMD have a pretty good record in building embedded GPUs for the PS4 and Xbox One.
I.e. it all makes sense. Intel and AMD don't need to agree on a licence fee for all AMD's graphics patents. Intel doesn't need to design a discrete GPU. AMD can just sell dies to Intel. Intel gets access to console or better class graphics, gets to show off its EMIB technology and can probably sell the resultant module to people like Apple. Intel and NVidia can continue to glare at each other.
It depends what you mean by failure. For gaming, yeah. But then gamers are always going to have a discrete GPU.
For people who don't game and want long battery life onboard graphics are better because they're lower power.
I suspect Intel know if they keep the non gamers happy with a good CPU with 'good enough' graphics they'll sell a lot of chips. And for non gaming 'good enough' graphics isn't that hard to do. Gamers will more than likely buy an Intel CPU and pair it with discrete graphics provided Intel's CPU performance is competitive.
I.e. Intel are aiming at the chunk of the market where people care about CPU performance and power efficiency but don't care about onboard GPU performance.
Of course this chip means you could pair an Intel CPU and a discrete GPU on the same package. Which would be ideal for something like a Macbook Pro 15 inch, which currently uses an Intel CPU and an AMD Radeon 560.
https://support.apple.com/kb/S...
Will gamers buy it? Probably not.
Intel claim 20x better power efficiency for EMIB compared to PCIe chip to chip here.
http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...
https://i.imgur.com/q4cxMtU.jp...
The linchpin of the Intel-AMD agreement is a tiny piece of silicon that Intel began talking up over the past year: the Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, or EMIB. Numerous EMIBs can connect silicon dies, routing the electrical traces through the substrate itself. The result is what Intel calls a System-in-Package module. In this case, EMIBs allowed Intel to construct the three-die module, which will tie together Intelâ(TM)s Core chip, the Radeon core, and next-generation high-bandwidth memory, or HBM2.
AMD sell Intel bare dies that talk EMIB. Interesting thing is that Intel could do a deal with NVidia to supply GPU dies which use the same interface. Well except that Intel pays NVidia licence fees whereas the AMD Intel patent licensing agreement is completely one sided - AMD pays Intel but Intel gets IP rights to anything AMD invents for free.
It's not like AMD is selling Intel a synthesizable core or even a hard macro. And Intel being Intel they probably pay people to do competitor analysis on AMD stuff anyway. So getting bare dies doesn't tell them anything that they don't already know.
And as a lot of people have noted Apple use Intel and AMD GPUs but not NVidia ones. Post Itanium I think Intel regards Apple as its non commodity low volume/high margin market.
So it all makes sense. It'll be interesting to see what the chip costs and if EMIB graphics has performance and/or power advantages over PCI Express run chip to chip. With USB you can strip out the analog transceivers for HSIC
https://www.synopsys.com/dw/dw...
Could you do something similar for PCIe? Turns out you can
http://eecatalog.com/pcie/2012...
Meanwhile, modem makers were looking for a suitable interconnect for next-generation LTE networks. These networks will have air interfaces capable of throughputs beyond the 40 MB/s typically possible with HSIC USB. Further, there was a desire to deploy other SuperSpeed applications such as mass storage in a chip-to-chip environment. The SuperSpeed Inter-Chip USB (SSIC USB) group selected M-PHY as the physical layer, and developed a reference model that bridges from the PIPE 3.0 reference model to the M-PHY physical layer. This allows existing USB 3.0 IP to be quickly adapted for SSIC USB use by deleting (or disabling) the legacy USB 2.0 support, replacing the USB PIPE 3.0 implementation with a shim plus an M-PHY implementation, and making minor changes to the link layer of the USB 3.0 IP.
In September 2012, PCI-SIG and the MIPI Alliance announced an initiative to similarly adapt PCIe to run over M-PHY. Because of the work already done by the USB-IF SSIC USB group, the adaptation will likely include a similar reference model based on PIPE 3.0, simplifying early prototyping and architectural verification.
PCIe over M-PHY is likely to be quickly accepted in the Ultrabook and x86-based tablet PC market because it will allow reuse of hardware and software IP while lowering system power requirements. Adoption may be slower in smartphones and ARM-based tablets, because thereâ(TM)s less experience in using PCIe in those systems.
Of course you could do that for PCIe run chip to chip too. Still maybe you could use lower voltages over EMIB.
It actually takes some skill to produce English this mangled. Consider this masterpiece
http://brunomars.us/rumor-come...
Bruno Mars is gay is the most discussed in the media in the few years ago. Even it has happened in 2012, but some of the public still curious about what is exactly happening and to be the reason there is a rumor comes out about his gay. At that time he became the massive social networking rumor. The public, especially his fans are shocked. He just came out with his bad rumor which is spread massively. This time is not about his music career, but his bad rumor. The rumor is out of standardize of hoax, according the last reported this singer revealed himself as homosexual. Do you still believe or not, this rumor is really much talked by people even in a person of his fans.
Like most clever things on the Internet, this was produced by FSB agents operating an advanced artificial intelligence, codenamed MAGA.
A buffer overflow in the English syntax decoding subsystems of Americans corrupted their brains and caused them to vote Trump a mere two years and two months after this went viral.
This is honestly the sort of lunatic American nationalism that I unironically admire.
Well that's my point really. Corporations are very dangerous when they have a government to grant them the sort of power that EIC got.
Bilbo is a homo. Why else did he never marry a chick and only hung out with dudes?
No problem. They'll just need to give him A Case Of The Not Gays in the TV show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The East India Company wasn't running amok though. Parliament granted it a charter which gave it a monopoly on trade in a big chunk of the world. The EIC then acted inside that charter which gave it more or less absolute power in the area the charter applied from the perspective of the UK government. If any other state quibbled with that absolute power, the EIC was empowered to raise armies and fight them.
Of course the advantage to the UK government was that if the shit ever hit the fan and the EIC did something the UK government didn't like, the UK government could blame the EIC and potentially disestablish it. Which eventually happened when the Indian Rebellion happened. The UK government decided to blame all the nastiness on the EIC, revoke its charter and rule directly.
In Dune terms the UK government was Baron Harkonnen and the EIC was Beast Rabban - i.e. a rapacious leader who'd subjugate territory and then be replaced by someone else who'd seem like a relief.
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki...
In the aftermath of the Harkonnen attack on the House of Atreides on Arrakis that nearly destroyed the House, Rabban was left in charge of Arrakis by his uncle. Harkonnen gave him orders to squeeze the populace, and to set new lows in cruelty and depraved behavior. Harkonnen's intention was that when the people of Arrakis were crushed enough that he would send Feyd to save the people of Arrakis, and become a hero to the people there.
Well I'm not sure the UK government planned ahead that far. But having empire built by a quasi non governmental corporation was definitely a deliberate strategy that always allowed for the government to abolish the corporation and rule directly.
So the EIC isn't an example of an evil corporation slipping the reins of regulation, it's an example of an evil government using a corporation to do its dirty work in a way that could later be disavowed.
Well I'm simplifying a bit. Inside the UK government there were different factions, some that wanted a highly rapacious but disavowable entity in charge of India and some that want direct government control and enlightened imperialism. The former set up the EIC and the later eventually used the Indian Rebellion as an excuse to shut it down.
I suppose a US counterpart would be Blackwater in Iraq. Blackwater never got as large as the EIC though. At one point the EIC had a larger army than the UK had. Still at no point would it have occurred to the people who run the EIC to take on the UK militarily - the UK was always politically the master and the EIC a mere subcontractor.
You remind me of this
http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/texto...
No. That's because iPhones insert smart quotes by default and Slashdot mangles anything outside ASCII.
https://www.jordanmerrick.com/...
Google fires James Damore for writing a conservative memo.
Liberals: It's a private company, they're not obligated to respect his free speech rights.
The NFL fires Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the anthem
Liberals: THEY VIOLATED HIS RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH!!
Another example was the gay wedding cake case. A private company refused to bake a cake saying "I support gay marriage" because the owners were religious types who didn't support gay marriage and they got sued out of business with the left cheering it on.
Now I'm sure someone will say "gay people are a protected class and white cisscum male like Damore are not".
Curious how the left keeps adding more protected classes like trans people. I.e. the protected class notion had some validity post civil rights but the left have basically added all the groups other than white ciscum males to the protected class category.
And then they act surprised when white cismen start acting like an identity group too. Actually I'm surprised it doesn't happen more.
The left in the US have a peculiar 'build a majority out the minorities' strategy which depends on them siding against white cisscum males and with every other group. I'm not really sure this is viable - e.g. what do the left do if one of their protected groups takes a stand against another. Which basically guaranteed. Black in the US people are less likely to support gay marriage than whites, a poll of UK muslims found zero tolerance for homosexuality. In fact gay rights is something which is almost exclusive to majority white, judeo christian based societies like the US and Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There's no real reason to believe that importing lots of people from outside those countries into them will make the country more 'progressive'. And yet the far left continue to say that once white people are a minority will 'true revolution' be possible.
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
Of course this sort of rhetoric is hardly likely to make white people decide to vote democrat and stop worrying about immigration.
If one party is plotting to make you a powerless minority, aren't you more likely to vote for the other? Even if the other party nominates someone who is a bit non politically correct as its candidate? In fact given PC means becoming a powerless minority, maybe Trump's non PC-ness is a feature.
As a modern day tech giant, they're undoubtedly beholden to several important populist grass roots movements as a matter of course
And you know they're important because Google promotes people saying they're important to the top of the search results and removes videos critical of them from YouTube.
So you're saying Google, an ad company which doesn't seem to employ any actual humans you can talk to isn't doing a good job of removing fake apps which only show ads?
I'm shocked!
As part of the IOT Botnet Operators' Guild, I'd like to point out that The Right To Tinker means that all keys for signing firmware should be made available to all users.
It will be a pleasant experience to see the Democrats return to being a party for the common people, and rethink their base values.
If you look at the Labour Party in the UK after the Blairites got purged it was taken over by identitarian types who think the common people are sexist racists oppressors who need to be replaced with morally pure third worlders who'll vote for them. And old school Marxists like Corbyn.
I could see something similar happening to the Democrats in the US.
You can pretty much guarantee one of the replies to this comment will give those Secret Service guys something to do.
I no fan of Apple, Google or Microsoft these days, but comparing them to the East India Company is a bit of stretch. The EIC had private armies and took over most of India. In fact it was the de facto government of India until the UK government intervened and shut it down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
During its first century of operation, the focus of the company was trade, not the building of an empire in India. Company interests turned from trade to territory during the 18th century as the Mughal Empire declined in power and the East India Company struggled with its French counterpart, the French East India Company (Compagnie francaise des Indes orientales) during the Carnatic Wars of the 1740s and 1750s. The Battle of Plassey and Battle of Buxar, in which the British, led by Robert Clive, defeated the Indian powers, left the company in control of Bengal and a major military and political power in India. In the following decades it gradually increased the extent of the territories under its control, ruling the whole Indian subcontinent either directly or indirectly via local puppet rulers under the threat of force by its Presidency armies, much of which were composed of native Indian sepoys.
By 1803, at the height of its rule in India, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000â"twice the size of the British Army.[5] The company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions.[6] Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 and lasted until 1858, when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown's assuming direct control of the Indian subcontinent in the form of the new British Raj.
Plus, there is always the option of punishing coal plant building countries with carbon tariffs on their exports if they slack off on scrubber installation.
Good luck doing that under WTO rules. Also enjoy your trade war.
Anything looking expensive before the tipping point will be peanuts in a hurricane compared to the expenses afterwards.
If you could convince people there was going to be a tipping point, they'd be willing to spend more money now.
Yup. The USSR spent a fortune on Communist and fake peace movements and the left benefited from it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad," and that during the Vietnam War the USSR gave $1 billion to American anti-war movements, more than it gave to the VietCong,[19] although he does not identify any organisation by name. Lunev described this as a "hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost".[19] The former KGB officer Sergei Tretyakov said that the Soviet Peace Committee funded and organized demonstrations in Europe against US bases.[20] According to Time magazine, a US State Department official estimated that the KGB may have spent $600 million on the peace offensive up to 1983, channeling funds through national Communist parties or the World Peace Council "to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source."[13] Richard Felix Staar in his book Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union says that non-communist peace movements without overt ties to the USSR were "virtually controlled" by it. Lord Chalfont claimed that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £100 million a year. The Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) alleged Soviet funding of CND.
The Brits certainly have the motive to create division in Europe at the moment.
Surely you're not suggesting Her Majesty's government would do anything underhand?
There is a process for for full color inkless thermal printing. The paper is a bit expensive but given the costs of shipping stuff to space that doesn't really matter. The printers are mechanically very simple but so far it's only been used in novelty/selfie printers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I always liked this bit of dialogue. It'd be more scientifically accurate if Batty had suggested telomerase and Tyrell had warned it would cause cancer. Or if Batty suggested stem cells and Tyrell mentioned teratomas. Still you can sort of live with that. What was interesting was that you get the impression that the four year lifespan isn't artificial crippling as is suggested earlier but it was the best Tyrell Corp could do. Or maybe Tyrell was bullshitting. Blade Runner being Blade Runner, either interpretation is possible.
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Roy: Had in mind something a little more radical.
Tyrell: What..? What seems to be the problem?
Roy: Death.
Tyrell: Death. Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction, you...
Roy: I want more life, fucker (father).
Tyrell: The facts of life: To make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Roy: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship sinks.
Roy: What about EMS recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate is an alkylating agent and a potent mutagen. It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
Roy: Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you've got a virus again. But this - all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Roy: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize!
Roy: I've done questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time!
Roy: Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for. [kisses Tyrell and kills him]
Roy: [to J. F. Sebastian] Sorry, Sebastian. [Sebastian panics] Come. Come.