Comment Ahhh loot (Score 0) 57
I miss the days when you got rewards for beating parts of the game. Paying for stuff should be called 'expansions'.
Comment Screw that (Score -1) 32
Move on in life. Yes we can see you're proud of "first person to do blah", but it's pretty shallow that what's between someone's legs constitutes "journalism".
Comment Nerf the corporations (Score 1) 652
This is a joke. If people don't like something someone else is doing shut your mouth and move on.
If they're actually physically hurting people, you should say something.
Otherwise this is a blatant attack by people who hate their life trying to control everything they see.
It's like the media saying what happened in DC is an insurrection? Uhhh ya, look up BLM videos on youtube and watch how many cities burned over the summer.
I don't even think they started a single fire in DC, let alone burned flags.
Get the heck out of here...
And no, to the idiots who think I'm a Trump supporter, I didn't vote. (you've proved my point, you blindly hate non-democrats; Get a life)
Comment This stuff needs to stop... (Score -1) 478
If you haven't noticed, private companies are playing the PC card more often, but is it really in good will?
I did not ever see DT say anything about being violent except to NOT be violent.
Even his message that gained traction on the news the other day was calling for people to go home. But the news focused on 'he violated social media rules'.
So when people don't pay attention, and companies are playing what they deem to be morally acceptable, where does it end?
I'm sure people would disagree with the Kay KK having companies right? Since they would give preference to whites?
But what about the recent companies giving free delivery to black owned businesses? Giving money outright TO people of a certain race?
What's the difference? We've moved passed that into the trouble zone of these companies doing what the Not c's did and asking people to report those who are "abusing" that system.
No, I didn't vote. MinimumWageForAllPoliticians
(had to edit; couldn't post about the party from Germany? lol)
Comment What a waste (Score 0) 26
Such an incredible waste of food... This sums up the stupidity of the human race for ya. During a pandemic, incredibly high poverty/unemployment rates, and many of those people starving, and some idiot thinks it's funny to waste this much food for a gag/publicity.
Comment This is the problem with IT (Score 0) 149
I've been using computers since I was 5, it's been my passion ever since.
People like this get chosen because they can lie in social scenarios.
Meanwhile, getting laid off again while my job (single escalation point for 4 teams, in which I did a stellar job) has been sent to Budapest. And one of the idiots who used to be a car salesman in his very previous job, got to stay.
Fuck IT. I'm done. These people in the article are why programs never work properly or you have to restart Windows 20 times a day.
Seriously, I would rather sell burgers now and laugh, not fix someone else's problem because they didn't listen to me in the first place when I told them to do something else preventatively to eliminate the situation from ever happening in the first place.
Comment Nobody give a crap about the gender specifics (Score 0, Flamebait) 47
Leave that kinda crap out. It only causes divisiveness.
It's bad enough the world is too much of a p**** to tell people like the KKK and BLM to stfu.
Submission + - Wildlife Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous? (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: If you’re unfortunate enough to breathe wildfire smoke, you’re getting a lungful of charred plant material, noxious gases, and—if the fire tore through human structures—incinerated synthetic materials. All across the board, it’s bad stuff, proven to be a severe detriment to human health, particularly for those with respiratory conditions like asthma. And not to pile on the worries, but that haze also turns out to be loaded with microbes like bacteria and fungi. The problem is, scientists have only just begun to study this smoky microbial community. That led a pair of researchers to publish a new perspective piece in the journal Science today calling for a multidisciplinary push to better characterize these microbes and determine how they might be making wildfire smoke even worse for human lungs. “It's not just comprised of particulate matter and gases, but it also has a significant living component in it,” says University of Idaho fire scientist Leda Kobziar, coauthor of the piece. Wildfire smoke may actually spread beneficial organisms for an ecosystem, Kobziar adds, but “what might the consequences be for the spread of pathogens that we know are airborne?”
But hold on a tick: Shouldn’t the microbes get cooked to death in the flames? Well, that’s not giving these microbes any credit. You see, a wildfire burns with different intensities at different spots as it moves across a landscape. “At the smallest scales, complete combustion is coupled with incomplete combustion,” says Kobziar. “Even at one centimeter, you could get very high temperatures for long durations, and at the next centimeter, it can be completely skipped, and no heat at all. So that degree of variability provides a lot of pockets in which these microbes could survive fire.” Instead of perishing, they hitch rides on bits of charred carbon and in water vapor, as the wildfire’s heat propels all of the muck skyward. If they end up in tiny droplets of water, this could well protect them from desiccation as they travel downwind. “We know that microbes attached to dust particles are certainly transported across continents,” Kobziar says. “So we have no reason to believe that that's not also occurring in smoke as smoke travels. But how long do they survive, and which ones survive? That is an open question, and that's exactly the kind of research that we're hoping this paper will inspire.”
But hold on a tick: Shouldn’t the microbes get cooked to death in the flames? Well, that’s not giving these microbes any credit. You see, a wildfire burns with different intensities at different spots as it moves across a landscape. “At the smallest scales, complete combustion is coupled with incomplete combustion,” says Kobziar. “Even at one centimeter, you could get very high temperatures for long durations, and at the next centimeter, it can be completely skipped, and no heat at all. So that degree of variability provides a lot of pockets in which these microbes could survive fire.” Instead of perishing, they hitch rides on bits of charred carbon and in water vapor, as the wildfire’s heat propels all of the muck skyward. If they end up in tiny droplets of water, this could well protect them from desiccation as they travel downwind. “We know that microbes attached to dust particles are certainly transported across continents,” Kobziar says. “So we have no reason to believe that that's not also occurring in smoke as smoke travels. But how long do they survive, and which ones survive? That is an open question, and that's exactly the kind of research that we're hoping this paper will inspire.”
Submission + - Physicists Made an Insanely Precise Clock That Keeps Time Using Entanglement (sciencealert.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: Nothing keeps time like the beating heart of an atom. But even the crisp tick-tock of a vibrating nucleus is limited by uncertainties imposed by the laws of quantum mechanics.
Several years ago, researchers from MIT and the University of Belgrade in Serbia proposed that quantum entanglement could push clocks beyond this blurry boundary.
Now, there's a proof of concept in the form of an experiment. Physicists connected together a cloud of ytterbium-171 atoms with streams of photons reflected from a surrounding hall of mirrors and measured the timing of their tiny wiggles.
Their results show that entangling atoms in this way could speed up the time-measuring process of atomic nuclei clocks, making them more precise than ever. In principle, a clock based on this new approach would lose just 100 milliseconds since the dawn of time itself.
Several years ago, researchers from MIT and the University of Belgrade in Serbia proposed that quantum entanglement could push clocks beyond this blurry boundary.
Now, there's a proof of concept in the form of an experiment. Physicists connected together a cloud of ytterbium-171 atoms with streams of photons reflected from a surrounding hall of mirrors and measured the timing of their tiny wiggles.
Their results show that entangling atoms in this way could speed up the time-measuring process of atomic nuclei clocks, making them more precise than ever. In principle, a clock based on this new approach would lose just 100 milliseconds since the dawn of time itself.
Submission + - Trump Considers Clemency For Silk Road 'Kingpin' Ross Ulbricht (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In his final weeks in office before Joe Biden’s inauguration, President Donald Trump is weighing granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder and former administrator of the world’s most famous darknet drug market, Silk Road, The Daily Beast has learned. According to three people familiar with the matter, the White House counsel’s office has had documents related to Ulbricht’s case under review, and Trump was recently made aware of the situation and the pleas of the Silk Road founder’s allies. Two of these sources say the president has at times privately expressed some sympathy for Ulbricht’s situation and has been considering his name, among others, for his next round of commutations and pardons before the Jan. 20 inauguration of his 2020 Democratic opponent.
It is unclear if Trump has arrived at a final decision yet, but Ulbricht has gained some influential backers in the president’s political and social orbit. Behind the scenes, he has the support of some presidential advisers, as well as criminal justice reform advocates with close ties to the administration and Trump family, including Alice Johnson, according to people with knowledge of the matter. “I’ve had documents forwarded to my contacts in the White House as early as February,” activist Weldon Angelos, a former music producer and ex-federal inmate, said in a brief interview on Tuesday evening. “In the beginning of the year, [Ulbricht’s] family had reached out to us for our support, and my organization and I have endorsed his full commutation, and I am hopeful that President Trump will commute his sentence in its entirety. This case has perhaps more support than I’ve seen in any case of this kind.”
It is unclear if Trump has arrived at a final decision yet, but Ulbricht has gained some influential backers in the president’s political and social orbit. Behind the scenes, he has the support of some presidential advisers, as well as criminal justice reform advocates with close ties to the administration and Trump family, including Alice Johnson, according to people with knowledge of the matter. “I’ve had documents forwarded to my contacts in the White House as early as February,” activist Weldon Angelos, a former music producer and ex-federal inmate, said in a brief interview on Tuesday evening. “In the beginning of the year, [Ulbricht’s] family had reached out to us for our support, and my organization and I have endorsed his full commutation, and I am hopeful that President Trump will commute his sentence in its entirety. This case has perhaps more support than I’ve seen in any case of this kind.”
Comment You better hire all the blacks you can find! (Score 0) 318
We heard black people are the hidden gem of wisdom and skill. The black skin color contains special super powers gifted to humankind by Mark Zuckerberg! You go out there and you find em! We need to start an import business bringing blacks from Africa because of these special super awesome powers! :|
Comment Don't care, skin doesn't matter (Score 0) 197
Any conversations that begin with 'such and such issue or person with such and such skin color' can go to hell.
Unless you're referring to a medical observation that directly affects an entire population. Otherwise you're part of the racism problem.
Comment Re:It's not Legos (Score 0) 72
Well, there is a defined difference between hacker and cracker....
Comment Fuck all (Score 0) 214
Fuck google, fuck colleges, fuck degrees, and fuck certificates.
I think, therefore I am.....tired of this monetized bullshit CORPORATIONS call fucking life.
Comment Re:Watch Floyd as he sits down against the wall (Score 1) 123
What doesn't exist? Proof Floyd was murdered? Exactly.
Good job obvious troll!
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