Lol it would be funny if you weren't right. While each successive "generation" from Intel in the last 4 years have always had least some IPC improvement, it's been very small. And they've been on 14nm since Broadwell. Skylake, Kabylake and now Coffeelake are all the same chip, more or less. Any gains have simply come from small clock speed increases, more cache, and general optimizations. I will say though that at least the desktop chips have kept the power draw under control. But the HEDT chips, the most recent being Skylake-E? Yeah they are ridiculously powerful, no doubt. And they will clock almost as high as the lower core count desktop chips. But ONLY with very good cooling. It's kinda ridiculous. You aren't too far off, the 12+ core ones really will pull 300+ watts if you can keep them cool.

They also used aluminum mostly IIRC, not steel for most of their cases. As you said they were a small boutique manufacturer, and a high end one at that, most cases at least in the $200-500 range.

Pretty common geological term, if you took any high school level or higher geology class, you would know the term. It's nothing complicated.

A craton is basically an old, stable part of the earth's crust, which generally make up the core of all the major tectonic plates. It's the part that has survived the cycles of subduction, so it's usually roughly in the center of the tectonic plate. For example, the Canadian Shield is the craton that makes up the core of the North American plate, and has some of the oldest identified rocks on the planet in it.

You are still completely ignoring the mention of the Southern Strategy. Official party views can, and do change. The actual politicians opposed to civil rights were fully conservative. Why do you think once the DNC party adopted civil rights as part of their platform that the entire south flipped from voting blue to red?

As you say, THESE are common, easily verified facts. Why do you keep ignoring them? The core of the GOP as it is today traces its identity to the opposition of civil rights. You really think that has gone away in just 50 some years? Not a chance. It's just those elements of the party haven't felt emboldened enough to vocally embrace and use those views in quite some time. But Trump changed that, and now there's a loud, vocal core that actively courts and embraces people with those views.

Yes, because cracker obviously carries the same weight as nidoubleger. Cause as we all learned in middle school history class, white people were abducted from their homelands and sold into slavery for 400 years. And the slavers used the term cracker to dehumanize them, to remind them off their place, to stereotype the entire white race "stupid crackers, we all know crackers do x, y and z, etc"

Oh wait. None of that is true, so stop acting like cracker is anywhere near any other slur used historically and currently by whites to dominate all others.

The entire "controversy" around the initial presentation of the system before the details were known was a complete non-issue. Anyone who follows current pc hardware and CPU trends and news knew immediately that it was an overclocked system, or at least they should have.

There were of course a bunch of wishful thinking fanboys and ignorant forum warrior types who immediately started with the "omg I can't believe this, I can't wait to buy one!" crap, but they were all just being delusional. Intel had just shortly before this announced a special edition 6 core chip that would stick turbo to 5 ghz on ONE core, and that was a first for a stock click chip.

So of course a 28 core 5ghz chip is overclocked. Those who made such a big deal about Intel being dishonest were either drama queens who like to get outraged on the internet; or they were rabid AMD fanboys who regularly grasp at any and all straws to bad mouth Intel. So again, complete non-story generated to drive page views and/or typical internet outrage bullshit.

2D > 3D for sub8 genetic failures with negative kanthal tilt, fivehead who lost genetic lottery. Let them keep their 2D goddesses because everyone knows the government will soon start rounding them up for execution, have some sympathy!

Hmm or how about the 14 year old kid who knocked on a neighborhood door to ask directions to school, because he had missed the bus? They of course were polite and more than happy to help the kid out...

Oh wait, the kid was black so actually the woman started about how "your kind" is always trying to rob her, then the husband comes raging out the door with a shotgun and attempted to murder the kid. He only failed because he forgot to turn the safety off the first time he pulled the trigger, and so missed by time he actually got a shot off.

Yeah that's a totally reasonable response to a14 year old kid knocking on your door asking for directions. There's no way race had anything to do with it...

I get so tired of this strawman argument of "if you took the guns away, people would just use guns, bombs, etc. You can't stop every single person who is determined to kill people, therefore it's pointless to make any changes."

No one is saying you can stop EVERY would be mass murderer, so please stop arguing against that made up point. But if we can reduce mass shootings by 50 or 75 percent, why wouldn't you do that? Look at Australia. After the Port Arthur mass shooting that left 35 people dead, they pass comprehensive gin control laws, and offered to buy weapons back from people, if they wanted to get rid of them.

That was in 1996, over 20 years ago now, and guess how many mass shootings (defined as 5 or more people dead) they've had since then? Zero. Big fat 0. And just for comparison, in the ~20 years before that, 1979-1996, they had 13 mass shootings. So I would say that is pretty strong correlation.

So can you stop every determined killer? No. But you can make it a lot harder for most people to acquire the tools to carry one out, particularly those who may be disturbed or have a history of violence. Because something has to change. No other first would country has anywhere even NEAR the level of mass shootings that we have in America. It makes me sick, and it should everyone else to. If we can do something to even just lessen the number, I think we have a moral responsibility to do so.

You obviously chose to ignore what the FBI said on Wednesday, something like "material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy." The FBI does not make a habit of commenting on political issues. The fact that they did should tell you how strongly they feel about the extreme partisan basis of this memo.

There are an untold number of classified documents that this memo draws it's information from. We don't even know how many, what they say, or any details about them. The Republicans pushing this memo KNOW THIS, it's the whole reason they released it. They know the public has NO way to verify it's claims, it's pure cherry picked bullshit that is skewed in the extreme to push their agenda.

How do we know this? Because when they voted to release this memo, they also voted AGAINST the release of another memo, created largely by Democrats, that was based on the SAME underlying classified documents!

The fact that they blocked the Dems memo should be a HUUUGE red flag for anyone that is actually interested in the truth, and not just hell bent on destroying the credibility of the FBI and DOJ. If it was an unbiased, truthful memo, there would be no reason to block the other one.

These people are doing serious damage to our democracy, undermining trust in our institutions and doing anything to support the political will of someone actively destroying any bit of moral authority the position of POTUS had left.

Except that IS what you said: "the point was people were happy in the setting", so I have top agree with the previous reply calling that a vertu pedestrian interpretation.

You seem to really be struggling with this. You have repeated several times now, even after being corrected, the statement that emergent property=magic. No one was saying that, yet you keep using it as your strawman to try and say they're wrong. Try again, this tone without putting words in people's mouths maybe?

In regards to your definite statement about free will, I'm sorry, but it's not so nearly a settled question as you imply. Do you have any background in theories of consciousness, let alone free will in particular?

I already made a reply about this so I won't repeat everything I said, but just will throw this out there. Go read. Freedom Evolves, a thoroughly researched and compelling argument for how free will can exist, as part of and as a direct result of completely deterministic, Darwinian processes and world.

And no, it's not some far out book by some fringe writer, it's from one of the most respected minds in the field of theories of consciousness that is alive today. And I know tone is difficult to convey through text, so no I am not being facetious, you really should check it out. If you approach it with a scientific mind, not going in with unchanging and rigid beliefs, you may find the arguments compelling. Happy reading. :)

I know this isn't exactly what you were talking about, but your comment about complexity evolving reminded me of something.

There is a fascinating book by Daniel Dennett that makes a pretty compelling case for how free will can actually exist and arise out of wholly materialistic, Darwinian processes. I know it's just one man's opinions, but he is, IMHO, one of the leading modern experts in theories of consciousness that stays away from any kind of hand-wavy dualism.

It's called Freedom Evolves, and anyone interested in questions of consciousness and free will should absolutely check it out. And if you want a more general overview of theories of mind, he had two other great books: Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d...

Yup, it's like when Apple puts "Designed in California" on all their super expensive, shiny iThings. They can't actually claim made in America, so they use weasel words to try to imply something like it without technically lying or engaging in false advertising claims.

Or like I've seen with some other companies, they'll claim assembled in America or some other meaningless bullshit. Sure, all the parts were created in China for 10% of American labor costs, but when it's shipped too the American warehouse, there's 1 piece that isn't assembled yet. So they can claim assembled in America!