Comment Re:They Said It and Wanted It To Spread (Score 1) 160
At a minimum, the Washington Post, ESPN, CNN said unarmed
Cites please?
Comment Re:Misinformation (Score 3, Insightful) 160
"Jacob Blake was unarmed"
I think the actual quote most people used was "Jacob Blake didn't have a gun".
But I guess him having a knife was justification enough to shoot him seven times in the back? Or was it because he was a scumbag? Was that enough justification to shoot him in the back & leave him a paralyzed burden on his family & wider society for the rest of his life?
Comment Spoken like an MBA (Score 2) 170
who has never coded anything in their life.
Comment What freedom is that? (Score 1) 152
Noise ordinances don't apply until the sun goes down and it's around 10pm.
You don't get to whine because your neighbors are having fun in the middle of the day.
Comment Are they paying the employees? (Score 4, Interesting) 39
Raising prices so you can pay your workers generously is fine.
Raising prices so you can line your own pockets is not fine. The company is currently taking water from farmers in Taiwan rather than investing in desalination with their $1 trillion in profit.
53% margin matches their history which is half of their revenue is recognized as profit.
Comment Exclusives don't matter (Score 1) 25
The PS5, XBox, and PC Gaming are all competing with specs, not any particular titles anymore.
Nintendo doesn't compete on specs, so they focus on exclusive content. They create novel hardware and then build games around that hardware.
There's no functional difference between PS5, XBox, and PC. It's just about how much money you're willing to spend to have some better graphics quality. The only key difference that most people probably don't care about are the buttons. If your language is figure based then the PS buttons are natural. If your language has a sequence of letters, then the XY,AB buttons make more sense. But if you get used to it, it doesn't matter. The XBox and Nintendo just flip the button order. YX vs XY. Seeing the square on the screen telling me to push the button on a PS does absolutely nothing for me to tell me what physical button to press.
If you just play games and don't care about the graphics, then no, it's not that exciting.
However, what the PS5 has is a VR headset that competes with the best available. So if you want to experience modern VR, the PS5 setup is about half the price of a comparable PC setup.
While the Oculus has great specs for the display, it lacks computational power.
Comment Re:this unlocks laws (Score 1) 235
more people die because they can't defend themselves.
Sure, that's why countries with tighter gun controls have far higher gun death rates.
(fucking hell you people are ignoramuses)
Pentagon Official Floats a Theory For Unexplained Sightings: Alien Motherships (politico.com) 118
The official in charge of a secretive Pentagon effort to investigate unexplained aerial incursions has co-authored an academic paper that presents an out-of-this-world theory: Recent objects could actually be alien probes from a mothership sent to study Earth. Politico reports: In a draft paper dated March 7 (PDF), Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and Harvard professor Avi Loeb teamed up to write that the objects, which appear to defy all physics, could be "probes" from an extraterrestrial "parent craft." It's unusual for government officials, especially those involved in the nascent effort to collect intelligence on recent sightings, to discuss the possibility of extraterrestrial life, although top agency officials don't rule it out when asked. After Loeb posted it online, the paper gained notoriety from a post on Military Times and has also circulated among science-focused news outlets.
More than half of the five-page paper is devoted to discussing the possibility that the unexplained objects DoD is studying could be the "probes" in the mothership scenario, including most of the page-long introduction. One section is titled: "The Extraterrestrial Possibility" and another "Propulsion Methods." Kirkpatrick's involvement in the academic paper demonstrates that the Pentagon is open to scientific debate of the origins of UFOs, an important signal to send to the academic world, experts said. But they add that his decision to attach his name to a theory considered in most academic circles to be highly unsubstantiated also raises questions about AARO's credibility.
The paper explains that interstellar objects such as the cigar-shaped "Oumuamua" that scientists spotted flying through the galaxy in 2017 "could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth." The paper goes on to compare the probes to "dandelion seeds" that could be separated from the parent craft by the sun's gravitational force. It examines the physics of how the smaller craft could move through the Earth's atmosphere to reach the surface, where they could be spotted by humans. The paper notes that the "probes" could use starlight to "charge their batteries" and the Earth's water as fuel. It also speculates on the motive for aliens to send exploratory probes to Earth. "What would be the overarching purpose of the journey? In analogy with actual dandelion seeds, the probes could propagate the blueprint of their senders," the authors write. "As with biological seeds, the raw materials on the planet's surface could also be used by them as nutrients for self-replication or simply scientific exploration."
More than half of the five-page paper is devoted to discussing the possibility that the unexplained objects DoD is studying could be the "probes" in the mothership scenario, including most of the page-long introduction. One section is titled: "The Extraterrestrial Possibility" and another "Propulsion Methods." Kirkpatrick's involvement in the academic paper demonstrates that the Pentagon is open to scientific debate of the origins of UFOs, an important signal to send to the academic world, experts said. But they add that his decision to attach his name to a theory considered in most academic circles to be highly unsubstantiated also raises questions about AARO's credibility.
The paper explains that interstellar objects such as the cigar-shaped "Oumuamua" that scientists spotted flying through the galaxy in 2017 "could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth." The paper goes on to compare the probes to "dandelion seeds" that could be separated from the parent craft by the sun's gravitational force. It examines the physics of how the smaller craft could move through the Earth's atmosphere to reach the surface, where they could be spotted by humans. The paper notes that the "probes" could use starlight to "charge their batteries" and the Earth's water as fuel. It also speculates on the motive for aliens to send exploratory probes to Earth. "What would be the overarching purpose of the journey? In analogy with actual dandelion seeds, the probes could propagate the blueprint of their senders," the authors write. "As with biological seeds, the raw materials on the planet's surface could also be used by them as nutrients for self-replication or simply scientific exploration."
Comment Re:usual technical incompetence (Score 2) 122
in Australia both parties are really left leaning now
Wow. You're a fucking idiot. By world standards the Australian Liberals (conservative party) are right wing and the Australian Labor Party (union aligned) are centre-right.
Comment Confederates (Score 4, Insightful) 337
Frederick Douglass lamented the Confederates coming into the Republican party and hoped they'd go away.
There are no more Republicans in the Republican party. It's the party of the Klan now.
Comment What's the Price (Score 2) 70
I switched to the much more powerful ESP8266 because knock off Nano's from China went too far up in price to make sense for what I'm using them for. The ESP8266 was much cheaper and much more powerful.
What the Nano has is more pins and more analog pins. It's great for real world sensors where you don't need a lot of program memory and just need to read pins and store values on an SD card.
If the new board isn't better than the ESP boards and costs more, it's going to continue to lose relevance.
SparkFun lost all relevance when they started using expensive proprietary connectors for their boards instead of standard dirt cheap connectors that were well established.
Both companies seem more interested in making money than in serving any particular community.
Comment Spend more money, get more power, okay. (Score 0) 81
The RaspberryPI is built to price.
Obviously you can get more power if you're willing to spend 2x-3x the price.
It's not an alternative, it's an entirely different product with entirely different goals.
The biggest reason the PI is lagging on CPU power is because of heat. It needs to run reliably even with passive cooling. A more powerful device is going to need a spinning fan to keep cool and that's a moving part that can and will fail.
Comment Re:Unfortunate (Score 0) 226
Now, are you telling me that with the last 2 years of absolute record illegal crossings,
LoL, tell me you're maga without telling me you're maga. You got a source for you assertion that the illegal crossings have been records for the last two years?
As a side note, you make a number of broad assumptions about immigration in your post. You seem to have a bias that illegal migrants coming to the US do so because they want to live/stay/be American. This is true for some, but the majority are doing it for economic reasons, they come to the US, work, make their fortune and return home. To their families, their loved ones, their friends.
As life has become much, much better in Mexico, people's desire to return & reasons for staying have accelerated.
Seriously - it is not all about your country, it is about where they came from too.
Comment Re:insanity (Score 1) 84
Really? Your argument is that:
a) Men should not take co-responsibility or solo responsibility for contraception
Because:
b) Fatherhood does not affect men or their life.
Really?
Comment Re:So let me get this straight (Score 0) 81
If you're fired "for cause" you don't get unemployment.
You're counting on another round of mass layoffs. But with performance reviews, that is the "cause" to avoid paying people severance and other benefits that are required to be paid when a company is just cutting costs.
And no, it doesn't really matter anyway. It's like a school's "permanent record." You move on to a better company.
