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Handsome Ralph posted:Mods, please change name to "Jimmy the Jew" or "Spanish Carmine". TIA. I'm quite partial to "Joey Glasses".
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Cugel the Clever posted:Cool as Biden and Bernie are, can the Dems just please nominate someone under the age of 50 instead? There really should be an upper age limit on these things (more ~70, but still). There is no way in hell Biden can run for the next election, it's a shame because he's one of those very rare U.S. politicians that's as popular over here in Europe as the U.S. But that job would kill him, it's just not realistic unless he wanted to die in office.
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Jun 1, 2017 15:51
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Well, on the upside, late night comedy hosts can spend the next week making fun of Trump once again being wrong about absolutely everything and understanding absolutely nothing, in the most recent case, the impact of temperature changes of fractures of a degree Celsius. Also on the upside, Florida is going to sink no matter what we do at this point. We can maybe save some of the low lying land that everyone's been panicking about, but we're in the "Red Zone" of climate change planning now. Worst predictions from the 90s ahoy. And lol, as someone that's spent quite a bit of their life working on A.I. / automation software, we're so hosed in terms of working out how to provide jobs for people in the next 50 years it's beyond funny.
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Jun 1, 2017 21:15
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Missionary Positron posted:See, this right here is what makes the US such a profoundly interesting and contradictory nation to me. The idealistic version of the United States is the first truly modern nation in terms of democratic ideals. I mean we all know that poo poo didn't happen, but the philosophical underpinnings of the US declaration of independence sort of heralded the coming of what was to be an era of globalization and migration. Yet at at the same time, the US has always been a weirdly conservative nation wary of change. Maybe I'm the one who's getting tangled up in symbolism, but the whole coal thing is just so perfectly emblematic of America's history; the constant interplay between progress and tradition. Being drunk is fine in this day and age, and you're pretty much correct. The U.S. is weird, speaking as an English dude. It probably has the most free and best form of governance on the planet, kind of. It has the downside that the system has some serious security holes, it turns out if you can buy up enough of the media you can persuade enough people to go along with things that blatantly aren't true or correct, and dump your society in a hole. It also has a culture outside of the big cities that is deeply rooted in old agriculture / agrarian society. Like most of us in Europe used to be. I still think you lot will sort yourselves out though, just might take a while.
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Jun 1, 2017 21:54
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suboptimal posted:So I was just in a tiny, desperately poor coastal west African country that's mostly flat, dependent on subsistence agriculture, and will be absolutely turbofucked by the sea level rise brought on by climate change. Despite that no civilian government has survived a full term in office due to continual interference by the country's military, they still managed to find their asses with both hands and sign the Paris Agreement even though they contribute .02% of the world's greenhouse gases. They're all already hosed - when climate scientists were screaming in the press about climate change in the early 2000s, this was what their projections were turning up. At this point, if we're really lucky, we might save Bangladesh. That's the big one. We have no idea if we can.
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Jun 1, 2017 21:56
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Lol. It's not soldering pipes in a factory. So we need an autonomous mobile robot which is capable of manipulating tools, can articulate fully, think it's way around problems and correspond with multiple levels of command. It's called a human. You are wrong basically. You're correct, but we're working on it. You're right that the current deep learning crap that's going on is not exactly going to build us a terminator. I and quite a few other researchers are working on the kind of contextual machine that could do the interesting things, but we're nowhere near there yet. I mean it's so complex we don't understand what the hell we're trying to build at this point.
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Jun 1, 2017 22:17
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Nick Soapdish posted:One step closer to our Space Balls' future.  I'll get you an engineering quote for lets say, $5 Billion.
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Jun 1, 2017 23:24
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As a brown English dude that isn't a Muslim, I currently want to knife punch every person that affiliates with ISIS through the loving throat. You cunts can't win but thanks for making my life harder again.
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Jun 4, 2017 01:06
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Zeris posted:In a year or two, sad European couples will come to USA to adopt retard 
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Jun 4, 2017 02:43
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Zeris posted:Also D&D is totally welcome here / in this thread, I'm just worried they have an inferiority complex with respect to how much we're heroes and they're not. As one of the non-military regulars in this thread, if I ever called any of my military friends or family heros, I believe I'd get laughed at so hard I might have to kill myself.
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Jun 4, 2017 03:04
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egyptian rat race posted:poo poo's going down in London.... Van sped into crowds on London Bridge, plus reports of three men stabbing "indiscriminately". Me and my mates here reckon it's the last of the idiots left over from the Manchester attack. Can't fault them for execution, now's the right time if you want to mess with Britain. We aren't gonna let them do that though, we'll be fine. Goddamn, I am loving angry though.
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Jun 4, 2017 03:11
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Linking from the Middle East thread: Oh for gently caress's sake, World War Twitter is about to start.
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Jun 7, 2017 03:27
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mlmp08 posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfhphrmKdsg
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Jun 10, 2017 23:31
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Reverand maynard posted:would a dirty bomb even be that bad? Technically no, I was trying to think earlier when this news story came up how the hell you'd even get hold of the radioisotopes to make a serious one. It's pretty much impossible. But the fear is that you set a crappy one off in a financial centre, and then because most people don't know a hell of a lot about radioactive materials, they refuse to go there, the clean up takes ages and your local economy tanks itself. It's very unlikely any terrorist group will ever have the resources to put one together.
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Jun 15, 2017 12:55
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A witch hunt isn't a bad thing when you're trying to annihilate an actual witch.
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Jun 15, 2017 13:43
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cowboy elvis posted:Putin knows how to have fun. I don't know how he's so good at this. Actually I do, he's the total dick I'd like to be if I lived in a universe where there were no consequences to anything I did. KGB's back baby, and this time we're all losing.
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Jun 15, 2017 14:59
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Sorry for replying late but my god that kid is screwed. Calling out a non-existant threat - 2 years if you're lucky. Having the coast guard called out, ouch you're in serious trouble now. Getting NEST called out while you're doing it, oh dear.
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Jun 15, 2017 21:13
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Richard Bong posted:Good. Ballpark, and this is a guess from my point of view but I think I'm roughly right, 10 mill or so.
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Jun 15, 2017 21:40
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Russia isn't looking to become a superpower and lack the means to become one even if they wanted to. It isn't so much that they're any scarier than anyone else, it's been mentioned several times in this thread (I have several times) that computer security across industry is so bloody terrible I personally wouldn't find it particularly hard to knock over a bunch of factory SCADA systems in some other country and make things go boom. What's terrifying about the Russians is that they're pushing this stuff, while the rest of us are looking at the potential consequences of doing so (The ICBMs all get launched) and we're wondering what in the name of gently caress they're playing at.
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Jun 16, 2017 01:10
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windshipper posted:Yeah yeah yeah elections are one thing, but when you try and investigate it, and the result is this: Your analysis is correct, and the thing is we aren't going to do poo poo because the consequences are horrible for everyone. Have no doubt, if they went totally nuts tomorrow, we (I'm English but same difference, that bit of our security services is basically the same service) could shutdown every factory, hospital, facility that isn't isolated and military in their whole country. Thing is, we're not nuts, and this is a problem. That and some idiot might press the button, and that stuff isn't networked.
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Jun 16, 2017 01:47
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cowboy elvis posted:I'm wondering if there's an element of hesitation for both parties here in regards to the Russia poo poo. If we were to definitively prove the Russians interfered in the election and either Trump or people he knows played ball, what's our response? As mentioned above, kill their economy. It's pretty much the only sane move you could make.
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Jun 16, 2017 01:59
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bird food bathtub posted:So we can let the bean counters do it instead? While people are starting to grasp the idea that network security is actually important I'm not willing to give a whole lot of credit on follow through. Information systems security is still, generally speaking, seen as that line item on the budget that you make as small as possible to cover legal liability. We're a loooooooong way away from it being taken seriously, and I am of the personal opinion that it won't ever be until there's a global scale pants-making GBS threads disaster to drive the lesson home. Mathematician reporting in. We're working on that poo poo, but we're realistically about 50 years away from building systems that are resilient against attack. And getting company X to pay for upgrade to I.T. system Y is basically impossible as you described.
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Jun 16, 2017 02:10
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:im wondering if that's fruit from the nigel farage investigation If you take that oval office out I will personally buy an American dinner. Whatever you want.
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Jun 16, 2017 03:16
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Zeris posted:Also FYI everyone, regarding Russians' general desire to drink themselves to death and provoke westerners who are otherwise averse to nuclear confrontations, it makes a lot of sense if you realize that Russian citizens are basically that superstar deployment E-4 that is now trying and failing to survive in a garrison environment, lashing out at everyone and everything in the process as a masturbatory conflagratory act of self-destructive trollpocalypse. It's loving infuriating. I'm not a military dude (though from half the stuff I've worked on you'd find it hard to tell these days), and I've got no loving clue how to deflect this poo poo.
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Jun 16, 2017 04:11
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Blind Rasputin posted:I don't know much about war and such but something about this before and after picture of the al-baghdadi bombing is really odd to me. Yeh, there are weapons like this, DIME that I remember reading about when Israel used them. That's pretty much what I'd expect the damage to look like from a set of precision guided ones.
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Jun 16, 2017 15:02
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Vasudus posted:Am I confusing my warlords or did we not cause him to lose a kidney or half his liver or something a few years ago from nearly getting annihilated by a drone? Yeh, after a quick google, pretty much dead on 2 years ago. Though I also saw repeated stories over the last 2 years saying the same thing. We appear to have been constantly drone bombing the idiot and missing.
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Jun 16, 2017 15:26
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Stultus Maximus posted:Hooray for variable pitch propellors. They could have done all sorts if they knew where the freighter was where it was, but they appeared not to. The destroyer was sub 10000 tons, the freighter was pushing 30k (I can't find a good reference online, dunno if that's for it being heavily loaded or not). They're pretty lucky they got away with that little damage, if that'd been a full on perpendicular hit, well, I'd put my money on the freighter. E: Ugh yeh, looking stuff up it was about a 4:1 battle in mass terms, the freighter would have simply sunk the destroyer if it'd run into the side of it. Hexyflexy fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jun 18, 2017 |
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Jun 18, 2017 01:53
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Asehujiko posted:Random civvie posting but I remembered something relevant wrt ships braking; the Iowa class battleships could flip their rudders 90 degree inward to create a gigantic underwater airbrake. According to the source, this did deform the rudders by 2-3cm the one time it was used but it stopped the ship in less than it's own length. I don't know if that's true (another non-military person here), but it sounds about right. Stopping motion is a very different proposition to carefully changing course. In option 1, you kill all momentum, bam, dead in the water, stopped, hire some welders. In option 2 you have to carefully note where you are, where everything else is, and try to steer around with minimal energy expenditure. They hosed that up.
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Jun 18, 2017 02:18
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Mr. Nice! posted:CPP owns. Ouch.
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Jun 18, 2017 02:24
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milk milk lemonade posted:What's not great about America again. Why do white people love complaining so much. You guys have the weirdest persecution complex about your country. America is just fine, it isn't going bloody anywhere.
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Jun 18, 2017 19:59
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CommieGIR posted:I suspect the homo-eroticism scared them off.  Googling for "Sexy Putin Images" has probably just put me on a watchlist.
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Jun 19, 2017 15:37
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mlmp08 posted:A 17 mph gust of wind won't flip a viper clean over. Something broke or someone hosed up, you can't roll a structure with that amount of mass with that kind of wind. Like, a microbust could do it but there weren't any storms around.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Pro-click. It's pretty good. I still don't understand what IS is. It bugs the crap out of me. I grew up in the UK in an area that had a high Muslim population, I've lived in several as an adult. Loads of Muslim friends, some of whom I've had for decades. It almost feels like the whole thing has nothing to do with Islam at all. I've got no idea what the hell it is though. Ah well, I don't have to care that much, the whole thing is pretty much getting terminated in every direction possible.
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