The immigrants have larger families and may vote for the left but they despise its social agenda as much as I do. Probably more so.
All this tells me the left's social deconstructivism is not going to be an issue long term. In the US that doesn't matter because you've got fast breeding conservative Christians to take over. In Europe the fast breeding religious conservatives are Muslim, and that is an issue.
Also, what do drunken one-night-stands have to do with sexual assault?
A lot. If both parties are wasted it's much harder to negotiate consent. Also some percentage of men don't care about consent when they're drunk. And drunken women are going to have a harder job fighting them off.
Compare and contrast to the traditional US ideal where you're not expected to have sex until you're married. I'm not sure everyone did that, but they didn't expect to have drunken one night stands.
I think they may feral as in 'free roaming and sexually promiscuous'.
Though as mean spirited conservative types have pointed out telling women they'll be happy if they behave like men and that sex before marriage is fine and telling men that chivalry is sexist may well have something to do with the fact that women are now complaining that drunken one night stands leave them feeling like they've been taken advantage of.
I.e. the traditional ideal of no sex before marriage was there to protect women from cads. Once you deconstruct it those cads have free rein, which means they'll notch up a lot more victims than they would be able to in a more traditional society. And it's noticeable who all the actresses crying "MeToo" now were quite happy to cover for people like Weinstein until someone else outed him and took the career hit instead of them.
So Rose McGowan spoke up and saw her career and party invites end. Meryl Streep called Weinstein 'God' until he was outed, confined her criticism to Trump is rooms full of Democrats and is still one of the in crowd.
Has anyone else noticed that slashdot doesn't work so good these days?
The site is frequently down - either completely or everything but the nginx reverse proxy. You click on your user page and you don't see the latest comments. It tells you you have messages, you click on them and it says it can't find them. The database is clearly inconsistent.
It's like the people who knew how to get the abomination of Apache, Perl scripts, MySQL and nginx working again when it fell over have all left.
What's happened is that the media have essentially given up on the pretense that they're objectively report on the news and instead decide to report on stories that fit their narrative as emotionally as possible and ignore ones that don't.
So after a mass shooting CNN will get a bunch of kids on to demand gun control. They don't do the analogous think when an illegal immigrant killed Kathryn Steinle. Or when a Omar Mateen shoot up a gay bar. It's not like they get crying, photogenic kiddies on to demand a travel ban, border wall or an end to sanctuary cities.
And the thing is once you know the double standard it's impossible to take CNN seriously as a news source anymore. That's not to say everything they say is fake, rather there are a lot of true things they will never say. And a lot of the things they do say are are too heavy on emotion and too light on facts.
For example the left wing Washington Post fact checked Marco Rubio's claim that gun control would not have stopped mass shootings and found it was true
Will CNN present that as a counter point to the kids yelling "Hey, hey NRA! How many kids have you killed today?" ( The answer obviously being "Zero", unlike Planned Parenthood). Yeah, don't hold your breath. The Democrats know this of course which is why they didn't even try to implement gun control when they last had control of all three branches of government.
Anthony Scaramucci really needs to buy "Fandango"
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Thus finally explaining the lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody"
We're much more advanced than those silly Greeks. Everyone knows that men and women are absolutely indistinguishable, there's no point getting married or having kids and telling everyone that sleeping around won't cause any problems at all. What's that you say? The rate of sexual assault is going up and the birth rate is going down because telling everyone to stay single means they spend their adult lives having drunken one night stands instead of having a family? Slut shaming! Sexist nonsense! We just need to import third worlders to get the birth rate up! Oh you object to that? You must be a racist! Remember all humans are completely interchangeable and anyone who says there are any differences between groups is a deplorable! Also we need to import people who'll pay taxes so we can afford to pay the natives to do nothing! How DARE you point out the people we're importing are actually more likely to be doing claiming welfare than paying taxes than the natives their replacing! Fascist!
Gender is a social construct and that's why some men need us to pay for someone to cut their genitals up so they can become women. If we don't, they might kill themselves!
Do women have that degree of inherent autism brought about by an environment which offers them no options, no friends, etc other than to sit alone in a room for years learning how to do some extremely specialized thing? No, at least not any which might be competent enough to learn it were that the only option
Interestingly there might be deep reasons why men are more prone to autism and aspergers
Russia used misinformation to install Trump and look what we have: mass shooting after mass shooting. At this rate all humanity will be gone in years. It is too bad Hillary has not yet gotten into power, she would be our savior from this kind of misinformation Russian tyranny.
Ironically what you said is the definition of fake news.
Now, there is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.
"and look what we have: mass shooting after mass shooting. "
Gun violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males. Although mass shootings have been covered extensively in the media, mass shootings in the US account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths and the frequency of these events steadily declined between 1994 and 2007, rising between 2007 and 2013.
"At this rate all humanity will be gone in years"
There'll still be loads of humans left at the end of Trump's second term.
"It is too bad Hillary has not yet gotten into power, she would be our savior from this kind of misinformation Russian tyranny."
You know she's conceded the election, right? The idea that if people keep whinging online enough the election result will somehow change and she'll replace Trump in the White House is delusional.
Witnesses told police that the victim had used Uber's food delivery service to order a meal. They said that when the delivery arrived, Thornton met the driver and received his order; then, as Thornton walked away, "words may have been exchanged" between the two men, police said in a statement.
Police said shots were fired from the delivery vehicle, striking Thornton.
Patterson said that Bivines told him that Thornton was agitated by the time Bivines arrived because the driver had issues finding the location. Patterson said that when Bivines gave Thornton his food order, Thornton "jerked it" away and cursed at the driver. Thornton then reached into his jacket pocket and shouted "I'm going to f- you up," according to Bivines's attorney.
Patterson said Bivines thought the customer had a gun and that he tried to defend himself.
An unidentified man who said he was Thornton's uncle told NBC affiliate WXIA that his nephew had recently received a political science degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta and had started a new job. "Ryan was a good boy," he told the station.
An Uber spokesman said that the company is cooperating with investigators in the shooting.
"We are shocked and saddened by this news," the spokesman said in a statement. "We are working with the Atlanta Police Department, and our hearts go out to the families of those involved."
Uber launched Uber Eats several years ago as a food delivery app in which drivers pick up meals from local restaurants and deliver them to customers.
According to Uber, drivers are required to undergo a screening process, which checks driving histories and criminal histories, including the national sex offender registry. In addition, Uber bars both drivers and riders from carrying firearms in the vehicles, "to the extent permitted by applicable law," according to the company's firearm policy.
"Our goal is to ensure that everyone has a safe and reliable ride. That's why Uber prohibits riders and drivers from carrying firearms of any kind in a vehicle while using our app," Uber says on its website. The company said that drivers or riders who fail to comply with the policy may be banned from Uber.
I still think there'd be some corner case where the layout in memory of a structure would be different. Bitfields for example, though Windows usually doesn't use those because of portability concerns. Or SIMD data.
Another issue is that x86 and x64 are strongly ordered and ARM is not. You have to add in explicit barriers to for ARM to work the same. ARM I&D caches are not coherent too - self modifying code works on x86 because writes to the D cache automagically end up in the I cache. That's not true in ARM. x86 goes to great lengths in hardware so that code now sees the same machine that code back in the 386 days did and one which is very different from both a moder x86/x64 chip and any Risc chip. Modern x86/x64 chips have extra hardware to maintain the illusion and Riscs like ARM do not.
True. But most people don't. I just want a phone I can use for a phone stuff and a few apps. However it does need to have long battery life so it can still run for a full day after I've had it for a year or two so I'm not forced to replace it.
If you had something analogous for climate control they'd look at all the data for he last year, try to work out what events might alter climate for the coming one (El Nino) and set the flow rate. If there was a volcanic eruption they could decide to change things at the next meeting.
In fact that's one advantage to controlling temperature via a sulphate pump over trying to regulate global CO2. Another is that you can't actually regulate global CO2 if China is responsible for most of the increases and they refuse to be regulated.
Have to consider unintended consequences as well, probably just an increase in acid rain
The Royal Society did a report on geoengineering where they concluded this was not an issue
The enhanced stratospheric sulphate layer which followed the eruption of Mt Pinatubo led to a signifi cant reduction in stratospheric ozone, with global ozone about 2% below the expected values (Harris et al. 1997). Tilmes et al. (2008) suggest that Arctic ozone depletion following geoengineering of the sulphate layer could be substantially increased and cause a delay in 'recovery' of the Antarctic ozone layer by perhaps up to 70 years (see also Submission: Tilmes). Also important could be more subtle changes in ozone in the middle latitude lower stratosphere; the connection between decadal scale climate variability and stratospheric ozone is increasingly being discussed (see for example, Baldwin et al. 2003; Shaw & Shepherd 2008). Indeed there is a range of so far unexplored feedback processes, which could become important with a permanently engineered sulphate layer. These could include increased stratospheretroposphere exchange (STE), driven by aerosol heating in the tropical lower stratosphere. This could have a long-term impact on stratospheric water vapour, and radiative forcing (see Joshi & Shine, 2003); increased STE would also lower the lifetime of the aerosol layer, calling for increased injections to maintain a particular value of the optical depth.
Changes in surface water and soil moisture as well as in solar radiation intensity at the surface would both be expected to have an impact on the biosphere and there are indications that the carbon cycle did change after the eruption of Mt Pinatubo since changes in the rates of increase of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 were observed (IPCC 2007a). No assessment of this in the geoengineering context has yet been carried out. An increase in acid rain appears to be unlikely to be a problem, as the perturbation to the global sulphur cycle by these stratospheric emissions is quite small (natural volcanic emissions are ~50 MtS/yr, and industrial emissions are much larger).
Delivering between 1 and 5 MtS/yr to the stratosphere is feasible. The mass involved is less than a tenth of the current annual payload of the global air transportation, and commercial transport aircraft already reach the lower stratosphere. Methods of delivering the required mass to the stratosphere depend on the required delivery altitude, assuming that the highest required altitude would be that needed to access the lower tropical stratosphere, about 20 km, then the most cost-effective delivery method would probably be a custom built fl eet of aircraft, although rockets, aircraft/rocket combinations, artillery and balloons have all been sugg
It's a good thing people are pushing ahead with OLED displays, even if my current phone, an LG V20, has an IPS display not an OLED.
In fact personally I'd be happy with a 4.3" 800p display like the one in an S2 and better battery life. Even the 1080p 5.1" one on the S5 seems like overkill.
I can see it depends what you're doing with the phone but for using it as a phone or watching video on a treadmill how many pixels do you need? In fact these days I only ever watch video on a old 10" tablet, not a phone.
Jobs's retina rhetoric inadvertently makes the point that a 1440p display on a 5.7" device - the V20 - is actually way past the point of diminishing returns in terms of what most people can see. And refreshing all those pixels takes power.
There's a case to be made for going back in resolution on the grounds that it increases battery life, decreases cost and most people can't see those pixels. Perhaps as a compromise you could have a display where you clock the data into two lines simultaneously, reducing the effective resolution and number of lines that need to be refreshed. Problem is halving the resolution on a 1440p device would take you to 720p which even I reckon is pushing it.
With more than three killings per hour, Venezuela last year was the worldâ(TM)s second most murderous nation after El Salvador, a local crime monitoring group said. The homicide rate in Caracas alone was a staggering 140 per 100,000 people, according to the group, the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence.
Authorities say nongovernmental groups inflate figures to create paranoia and tarnish the government, but even so the most recent official national murder rate - 58 per 100,000 inhabitants for 2015 - was still among the worldâ(TM)s highest.
The Venezuelan government stopped publishing comprehensive crime data more than a decade ago, and the discrepancies between what authorities say and data released by independent organizations are extreme.
For instance, local officials announced that 17,778 Venezuelans were victims of homicide in 2015. But the Venezuelan Violence Observatory, a nongovernmental group, estimated that there were 27,875 murders that year, which would make Venezuela's homicide rate one of the highest in the world, at 90 killings per 100,000 residents. The group found that the rate climbed higher in 2016, to 92 per 100,000.
Venezuela's capital, Caracas, was proclaimed the most violent city in the world last year by the Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, a Mexican research group that tallies an annual index of the world's most violent cities. The homicide rate supposedly topped 119 per 100,000 residents, the group said. But there are no official statistics to support the claim and, predictably, the Venezuelan government has denied it.
One reason for the data discrepancies is that the Venezuelan government has excluded extrajudicial killings from its homicide count, while human rights groups such as violence observatory do not. Also, the government has traditionally relied on statistics gathered by the Ministry of Health, while the observatory combines this health data with unofficial information about so-called resistance deaths attributed to state security forces and other deaths being investigated by independent forensics agencies.
In the absence of concrete and comprehensive statistics, some groups are attempting to gather oblique data on Venezuela's crime wave. Our organization commissioned a study on perceptions of violence from the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University. Early data indicate that 6 out of 10 Venezuelans reported at least one murder in their neighborhood over the previous 12 months. By way of comparison, only 3.5 out of 10 respondents said the same in El Salvador and Honduras, considered the two most violent countries in the world.
The public opinion project survey also found that 80% of Venezuelans are "very" or "partly" afraid of being murdered in the coming year. This fear of violence is fueling a migration crisis as Venezuelans flee to Brazil and Colombia.
There are many causes of the spiraling homicide problem in Venezuela. Political and economic crises have undermined the legitimacy of institutions. The military and police have been largely discredited. State security agencies are said to both commit and ignore lethal violence. Impunity is rife and the cost of murder low, with an estimated 92% of homicides not resulting in a conviction. And gang violence has soared in the capital city.
But without solid statistics, Venezuela has little chance of slowing the crime wave anytime soon. It is next to impossible to make effective public policy without reliable data. Over the last decade, Venezuela has implemented no less than a dozen anti-crime initiatives, with no visible results to
The interesting thing about Deep Fakes is that even if you had some horrific shit on video involving famous, people are going to argue that it's not real.
If they come from a volcano you've got no control over them. If you're pumping the sulphates with technology you can just turn down the flow rate.
You'd have some sort of international body which decided on what the flow rate would be. Kind of the Fed sets interest rates, except it would global and deciding whether to pump more or less.
Also "Trump is not my President" is fake news. Well it is if you're American, I'm not, so it's true when I say it.
Mind you it reminds me of a line from an Ozzy Osbourne song
It's been confirmed that Ozzy Osbourne is not the Antichrist. We reached the Devil at his home in Las Vegas. When asked for a comment, Satan said, "No, he's not my boy. But I love him like a son!"
And now we find that "Trump is not my President" is something the Russians were pushing. Because their goal is to delegitimize the US political institutions. Also from Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements - extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."
African American racists = BLM. Secessionist movements are like the one in California. The left have been the ones encouraging "ethnic, social and racial conflicts". And having Richard Spencer on the news all the time is supporting "extremist, racist, and sectarian groups" too. If the media ignored him he's be in a room with half a dozen people LARPing. The media have built him up as a boogeyman who has seems to have much more influence than he really does.
White Nationalist events struggle to fill a meeting room in a hotel and even then most of the people there are journalists and FBI agents. The Right Stuff organized an event in New York and ten people turned up. I could get more than that by just saying 'Anyone fancy a pint?' on social media.
President Trump says, "it is more important than ever before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be successful. It's time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions. We must unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and our elections."
Quite right too. Americans need to reject false, Russian planted narratives that try to divide them based on race and ethnicity and ignore irrelevant fringe loonies like Spencer. And all come together and unite around America's institutions like the Presidency.
Trump will be out of office in two terms. It's not that long to wait.
"Some defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities."
So the Russians didn't tell the 'unwitting individuals' they were Russians. That's not collusion. Collusion would require the Trump Campaign staffers knew they were dealing with Russians. The indictment makes it clear they did not,
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly.
We're just a little under 2 children per mother, which seems just fine to me.
In Europe you'll find it depends a lot on ethnic groups. The white people have a low birth rate and the immigrants have a high one.
In the US from what I can tell the religious conservatives have a higher birth rate than secular liberals.
E.g.
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/...
The immigrants have larger families and may vote for the left but they despise its social agenda as much as I do. Probably more so.
All this tells me the left's social deconstructivism is not going to be an issue long term. In the US that doesn't matter because you've got fast breeding conservative Christians to take over. In Europe the fast breeding religious conservatives are Muslim, and that is an issue.
Also, what do drunken one-night-stands have to do with sexual assault?
A lot. If both parties are wasted it's much harder to negotiate consent. Also some percentage of men don't care about consent when they're drunk. And drunken women are going to have a harder job fighting them off.
Compare and contrast to the traditional US ideal where you're not expected to have sex until you're married. I'm not sure everyone did that, but they didn't expect to have drunken one night stands.
If I look at my user page
https://slashdot.org/~Hal_Port...
The most recent comment I can see is from yesterday
https://imgur.com/a/68y2T
And yet obviously the comment you responded to from today exists.
I think they may feral as in 'free roaming and sexually promiscuous'.
Though as mean spirited conservative types have pointed out telling women they'll be happy if they behave like men and that sex before marriage is fine and telling men that chivalry is sexist may well have something to do with the fact that women are now complaining that drunken one night stands leave them feeling like they've been taken advantage of.
I.e. the traditional ideal of no sex before marriage was there to protect women from cads. Once you deconstruct it those cads have free rein, which means they'll notch up a lot more victims than they would be able to in a more traditional society. And it's noticeable who all the actresses crying "MeToo" now were quite happy to cover for people like Weinstein until someone else outed him and took the career hit instead of them.
So Rose McGowan spoke up and saw her career and party invites end. Meryl Streep called Weinstein 'God' until he was outed, confined her criticism to Trump is rooms full of Democrats and is still one of the in crowd.
Thank heavens I don't work for Google.
Has anyone else noticed that slashdot doesn't work so good these days?
The site is frequently down - either completely or everything but the nginx reverse proxy. You click on your user page and you don't see the latest comments. It tells you you have messages, you click on them and it says it can't find them. The database is clearly inconsistent.
It's like the people who knew how to get the abomination of Apache, Perl scripts, MySQL and nginx working again when it fell over have all left.
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/738025-i-was-only-pretending-to-be-retarded
That poll has 14% of Republicans trusting the media
That's a higher percentage of journalists that were Republicans in 2014
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
What's happened is that the media have essentially given up on the pretense that they're objectively report on the news and instead decide to report on stories that fit their narrative as emotionally as possible and ignore ones that don't.
So after a mass shooting CNN will get a bunch of kids on to demand gun control. They don't do the analogous think when an illegal immigrant killed Kathryn Steinle. Or when a Omar Mateen shoot up a gay bar. It's not like they get crying, photogenic kiddies on to demand a travel ban, border wall or an end to sanctuary cities.
And the thing is once you know the double standard it's impossible to take CNN seriously as a news source anymore. That's not to say everything they say is fake, rather there are a lot of true things they will never say. And a lot of the things they do say are are too heavy on emotion and too light on facts.
For example the left wing Washington Post fact checked Marco Rubio's claim that gun control would not have stopped mass shootings and found it was true
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Will CNN present that as a counter point to the kids yelling "Hey, hey NRA! How many kids have you killed today?" ( The answer obviously being "Zero", unlike Planned Parenthood). Yeah, don't hold your breath. The Democrats know this of course which is why they didn't even try to implement gun control when they last had control of all three branches of government.
Thus finally explaining the lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody"
You're having as much fun with that straw man as you claim the geeks are having with He Men dolls.
Also if geeks like He Men dolls they're probably more interested in having sex with Ken than they are with Barbie.
"nature girl Feral Cheryl remains the only doll with a map of Tassie." That's pubic hair for you in the northern hemisphere.
Australians are so awesome. They say stuff you can't understand with great enthusiasm, like Louis Tully in Ghostbusters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We're much more advanced than those silly Greeks. Everyone knows that men and women are absolutely indistinguishable, there's no point getting married or having kids and telling everyone that sleeping around won't cause any problems at all. What's that you say? The rate of sexual assault is going up and the birth rate is going down because telling everyone to stay single means they spend their adult lives having drunken one night stands instead of having a family? Slut shaming! Sexist nonsense! We just need to import third worlders to get the birth rate up! Oh you object to that? You must be a racist! Remember all humans are completely interchangeable and anyone who says there are any differences between groups is a deplorable! Also we need to import people who'll pay taxes so we can afford to pay the natives to do nothing! How DARE you point out the people we're importing are actually more likely to be doing claiming welfare than paying taxes than the natives their replacing! Fascist!
Gender is a social construct and that's why some men need us to pay for someone to cut their genitals up so they can become women. If we don't, they might kill themselves!
Do women have that degree of inherent autism brought about by an environment which offers them no options, no friends, etc other than to sit alone in a room for years learning how to do some extremely specialized thing? No, at least not any which might be competent enough to learn it were that the only option
Interestingly there might be deep reasons why men are more prone to autism and aspergers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Russia used misinformation to install Trump and look what we have: mass shooting after mass shooting. At this rate all humanity will be gone in years. It is too bad Hillary has not yet gotten into power, she would be our savior from this kind of misinformation Russian tyranny.
Ironically what you said is the definition of fake news.
"Russia used misinformation to install Trump"
There's no evidence this is true
In fact Rosenstein said it wasn't true
https://www.realclearpolitics....
Now, there is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.
"and look what we have: mass shooting after mass shooting. "
Mass shootings account for less than 1% of homicides in the US. They are a bad way to understand gun violence.
A more typical example of gun violence is deaths from gun violence. And most of those happen in places that already have gun control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Gun violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males. Although mass shootings have been covered extensively in the media, mass shootings in the US account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths and the frequency of these events steadily declined between 1994 and 2007, rising between 2007 and 2013.
"At this rate all humanity will be gone in years"
There'll still be loads of humans left at the end of Trump's second term.
"It is too bad Hillary has not yet gotten into power, she would be our savior from this kind of misinformation Russian tyranny."
You know she's conceded the election, right? The idea that if people keep whinging online enough the election result will somehow change and she'll replace Trump in the White House is delusional.
it is silly to portray the incident as something that is Uber's fault.
They hired some loon who shot and killed someone. I'd say that's a problem with their screening process.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Witnesses told police that the victim had used Uber's food delivery service to order a meal. They said that when the delivery arrived, Thornton met the driver and received his order; then, as Thornton walked away, "words may have been exchanged" between the two men, police said in a statement.
Police said shots were fired from the delivery vehicle, striking Thornton.
Patterson said that Bivines told him that Thornton was agitated by the time Bivines arrived because the driver had issues finding the location. Patterson said that when Bivines gave Thornton his food order, Thornton "jerked it" away and cursed at the driver. Thornton then reached into his jacket pocket and shouted "I'm going to f- you up," according to Bivines's attorney.
Patterson said Bivines thought the customer had a gun and that he tried to defend himself.
An unidentified man who said he was Thornton's uncle told NBC affiliate WXIA that his nephew had recently received a political science degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta and had started a new job. "Ryan was a good boy," he told the station.
An Uber spokesman said that the company is cooperating with investigators in the shooting.
"We are shocked and saddened by this news," the spokesman said in a statement. "We are working with the Atlanta Police Department, and our hearts go out to the families of those involved."
Uber launched Uber Eats several years ago as a food delivery app in which drivers pick up meals from local restaurants and deliver them to customers.
According to Uber, drivers are required to undergo a screening process, which checks driving histories and criminal histories, including the national sex offender registry. In addition, Uber bars both drivers and riders from carrying firearms in the vehicles, "to the extent permitted by applicable law," according to the company's firearm policy.
"Our goal is to ensure that everyone has a safe and reliable ride. That's why Uber prohibits riders and drivers from carrying firearms of any kind in a vehicle while using our app," Uber says on its website. The company said that drivers or riders who fail to comply with the policy may be banned from Uber.
The structure alignment rules for anything that's not a packed structure are likely to be the same for both
I found this for Android - long long is aligned to 8 bytes on ARM but 4 bytes on x86
https://software.intel.com/en-...
Microsoft compilers have an option to align. It seems like /Zp8 is the default
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
What that means is that anything up to 8 bytes will be naturally aligned
And if you look here it confirms it
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
I still think there'd be some corner case where the layout in memory of a structure would be different. Bitfields for example, though Windows usually doesn't use those because of portability concerns. Or SIMD data.
Another issue is that x86 and x64 are strongly ordered and ARM is not. You have to add in explicit barriers to for ARM to work the same. ARM I&D caches are not coherent too - self modifying code works on x86 because writes to the D cache automagically end up in the I cache. That's not true in ARM. x86 goes to great lengths in hardware so that code now sees the same machine that code back in the 386 days did and one which is very different from both a moder x86/x64 chip and any Risc chip. Modern x86/x64 chips have extra hardware to maintain the illusion and Riscs like ARM do not.
True. But most people don't. I just want a phone I can use for a phone stuff and a few apps. However it does need to have long battery life so it can still run for a full day after I've had it for a year or two so I'm not forced to replace it.
Oh, it's possible and worth considering. The problem is that climate science deals a lot with chaotic systems.
Like the economy. In the UK there's a Monetary Policy Committee which sets interest rates based on looking at all the data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you had something analogous for climate control they'd look at all the data for he last year, try to work out what events might alter climate for the coming one (El Nino) and set the flow rate. If there was a volcanic eruption they could decide to change things at the next meeting.
In fact that's one advantage to controlling temperature via a sulphate pump over trying to regulate global CO2. Another is that you can't actually regulate global CO2 if China is responsible for most of the increases and they refuse to be regulated.
Have to consider unintended consequences as well, probably just an increase in acid rain
The Royal Society did a report on geoengineering where they concluded this was not an issue
https://royalsociety.org/topic...
https://royalsociety.org/~/med... page 45
The enhanced stratospheric sulphate layer which followed the eruption of Mt Pinatubo led to a signifi cant reduction in stratospheric ozone, with global ozone about 2% below the expected values (Harris et al. 1997). Tilmes et al. (2008) suggest that Arctic ozone depletion following geoengineering of the sulphate layer could be substantially increased and cause a delay in 'recovery' of the Antarctic ozone layer by perhaps up to 70 years (see also Submission: Tilmes). Also important could be more subtle changes in ozone in the middle latitude lower stratosphere; the connection between decadal scale climate variability and stratospheric ozone is increasingly being discussed (see for example, Baldwin et al. 2003; Shaw & Shepherd 2008). Indeed there is a range of so far unexplored feedback processes, which could become important with a permanently engineered sulphate layer. These could include increased stratospheretroposphere exchange (STE), driven by aerosol heating in the tropical lower stratosphere. This could have a long-term impact on stratospheric water vapour, and radiative forcing (see Joshi & Shine, 2003); increased STE would also lower the lifetime of the aerosol layer, calling for increased injections to maintain a particular value of the optical depth.
Changes in surface water and soil moisture as well as in solar radiation intensity at the surface would both be expected to have an impact on the biosphere and there are indications that the carbon cycle did change after the eruption of Mt Pinatubo since changes in the rates of increase of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 were observed (IPCC 2007a). No assessment of this in the geoengineering context has yet been carried out. An increase in acid rain appears to be unlikely to be a problem, as the perturbation to the global sulphur cycle by these stratospheric emissions is quite small (natural volcanic emissions are ~50 MtS/yr, and industrial emissions are much larger).
Delivering between 1 and 5 MtS/yr to the stratosphere is feasible. The mass involved is less than a tenth of the current annual payload of the global air transportation, and commercial transport aircraft already reach the lower stratosphere. Methods of delivering the required mass to the stratosphere depend on the required delivery altitude, assuming that the highest required altitude would be that needed to access the lower tropical stratosphere, about 20 km, then the most cost-effective delivery method would probably be a custom built fl eet of aircraft, although rockets, aircraft/rocket combinations, artillery and balloons have all been sugg
It's a good thing people are pushing ahead with OLED displays, even if my current phone, an LG V20, has an IPS display not an OLED.
In fact personally I'd be happy with a 4.3" 800p display like the one in an S2 and better battery life. Even the 1080p 5.1" one on the S5 seems like overkill.
I can see it depends what you're doing with the phone but for using it as a phone or watching video on a treadmill how many pixels do you need? In fact these days I only ever watch video on a old 10" tablet, not a phone.
Jobs's retina rhetoric inadvertently makes the point that a 1440p display on a 5.7" device - the V20 - is actually way past the point of diminishing returns in terms of what most people can see. And refreshing all those pixels takes power.
There's a case to be made for going back in resolution on the grounds that it increases battery life, decreases cost and most people can't see those pixels. Perhaps as a compromise you could have a display where you clock the data into two lines simultaneously, reducing the effective resolution and number of lines that need to be refreshed. Problem is halving the resolution on a 1440p device would take you to 720p which even I reckon is pushing it.
Still a 1080p device would be fine.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
With more than three killings per hour, Venezuela last year was the worldâ(TM)s second most murderous nation after El Salvador, a local crime monitoring group said. The homicide rate in Caracas alone was a staggering 140 per 100,000 people, according to the group, the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence.
Authorities say nongovernmental groups inflate figures to create paranoia and tarnish the government, but even so the most recent official national murder rate - 58 per 100,000 inhabitants for 2015 - was still among the worldâ(TM)s highest.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion...
The Venezuelan government stopped publishing comprehensive crime data more than a decade ago, and the discrepancies between what authorities say and data released by independent organizations are extreme.
For instance, local officials announced that 17,778 Venezuelans were victims of homicide in 2015. But the Venezuelan Violence Observatory, a nongovernmental group, estimated that there were 27,875 murders that year, which would make Venezuela's homicide rate one of the highest in the world, at 90 killings per 100,000 residents. The group found that the rate climbed higher in 2016, to 92 per 100,000.
Venezuela's capital, Caracas, was proclaimed the most violent city in the world last year by the Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, a Mexican research group that tallies an annual index of the world's most violent cities. The homicide rate supposedly topped 119 per 100,000 residents, the group said. But there are no official statistics to support the claim and, predictably, the Venezuelan government has denied it.
One reason for the data discrepancies is that the Venezuelan government has excluded extrajudicial killings from its homicide count, while human rights groups such as violence observatory do not. Also, the government has traditionally relied on statistics gathered by the Ministry of Health, while the observatory combines this health data with unofficial information about so-called resistance deaths attributed to state security forces and other deaths being investigated by independent forensics agencies.
In the absence of concrete and comprehensive statistics, some groups are attempting to gather oblique data on Venezuela's crime wave. Our organization commissioned a study on perceptions of violence from the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University. Early data indicate that 6 out of 10 Venezuelans reported at least one murder in their neighborhood over the previous 12 months. By way of comparison, only 3.5 out of 10 respondents said the same in El Salvador and Honduras, considered the two most violent countries in the world.
The public opinion project survey also found that 80% of Venezuelans are "very" or "partly" afraid of being murdered in the coming year. This fear of violence is fueling a migration crisis as Venezuelans flee to Brazil and Colombia.
There are many causes of the spiraling homicide problem in Venezuela. Political and economic crises have undermined the legitimacy of institutions. The military and police have been largely discredited. State security agencies are said to both commit and ignore lethal violence. Impunity is rife and the cost of murder low, with an estimated 92% of homicides not resulting in a conviction. And gang violence has soared in the capital city.
But without solid statistics, Venezuela has little chance of slowing the crime wave anytime soon. It is next to impossible to make effective public policy without reliable data. Over the last decade, Venezuela has implemented no less than a dozen anti-crime initiatives, with no visible results to
The interesting thing about Deep Fakes is that even if you had some horrific shit on video involving famous, people are going to argue that it's not real.
If they come from a volcano you've got no control over them. If you're pumping the sulphates with technology you can just turn down the flow rate.
You'd have some sort of international body which decided on what the flow rate would be. Kind of the Fed sets interest rates, except it would global and deciding whether to pump more or less.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...
Also "Trump is not my President" is fake news. Well it is if you're American, I'm not, so it's true when I say it.
Mind you it reminds me of a line from an Ozzy Osbourne song
It's been confirmed that Ozzy Osbourne is not the Antichrist. We reached the Devil at his home in Las Vegas. When asked for a comment, Satan said, "No, he's not my boy. But I love him like a son!"
http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... 3m in
And now we find that "Trump is not my President" is something the Russians were pushing. Because their goal is to delegitimize the US political institutions. Also from Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements - extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."
African American racists = BLM. Secessionist movements are like the one in California. The left have been the ones encouraging "ethnic, social and racial conflicts". And having Richard Spencer on the news all the time is supporting "extremist, racist, and sectarian groups" too. If the media ignored him he's be in a room with half a dozen people LARPing. The media have built him up as a boogeyman who has seems to have much more influence than he really does.
White Nationalist events struggle to fill a meeting room in a hotel and even then most of the people there are journalists and FBI agents. The Right Stuff organized an event in New York and ten people turned up. I could get more than that by just saying 'Anyone fancy a pint?' on social media.
President Trump said it best when he said
https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...
President Trump says, "it is more important than ever before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be successful. It's time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions. We must unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and our elections."
Quite right too. Americans need to reject false, Russian planted narratives that try to divide them based on race and ethnicity and ignore irrelevant fringe loonies like Spencer. And all come together and unite around America's institutions like the Presidency.
Trump will be out of office in two terms. It's not that long to wait.
"Some defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities."
So the Russians didn't tell the 'unwitting individuals' they were Russians. That's not collusion. Collusion would require the Trump Campaign staffers knew they were dealing with Russians. The indictment makes it clear they did not,