Saturday, October 27, 2018
Buddhist vs Ultra Reform Jewish Response to Trump
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A Buddhist friend of a friend on Facebook says we must not be angry about Trump and his stupid followers but must follow a path of non-engagement. Or something like that.
My response was:
I am a former wanna-be Buddhist (never really a buddhist, but aspired to be as a youth, read books, you know the usual jewish white boy contrarian shtick...), but now I have returned to my Virginian ultra-reform assimilated Democratic nonJewish Jewish roots, and I call for the Tetragrammatron to smite them with a lightning bolt of patriarchal vigor!
Tensorflow on Hold After Weeks of Wasted Effort
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Time that could have been spent learning machine learning has instead been spent trying to get Tensorflow to work on Centos 7.5. Its been a neverending nightmare, a labyrinth of conflicting requirements, installation programs, neurotic programs that require specific versions, complications of using a GPU and so forth. I feel like I am living the Reagan "Star Wars" nightmare of software that is one bridge too far.
Let there be no doubt I made this worse for myself in a variety of ways. This computer has to serve a lot of purposes, not just one. Google Tensorflow makes a precompiled version for Ubuntu, which I despise, and makes the source available for other Linux's including Centos (Centos == Redhat for those of you outside that world).
Without doubt, the biggest problem here involves Python and its wacky Pip installer. Look, I know that if you are immersed in the Python culture that this all works for you kids. But I am not immerse, I want to use Keras and Tensorflow, Python is just along for the ride.
I had it working for normal CPU work and it was painful but not impossible. When I went to use it with a GPU, though, it all fell apart and now I can not get back.
The good news is that I do have CUDA working, which is a non trivial accomplishment. Of course, X is broken.
This nightmare has to end.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
The Supreme Court Crushes Freedom
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Any question you may have about whether or not the Supreme Court is just a right-wing tool of oppression should now have been answered.
1. Roberts has said that the Secretary of the Commerce does not have to answer questions about whether he lied to congress (perjured himself) during his nomination process.
2. Gorsuch is planning to assist the destruction of the census. The census feeds into everything else this country does when it comes to helping people. It is far, far more than a census in a simple sense of that word.
3. Roberts has stayed the progress of the children's crusade on global warming.
4. The supreme court has refused to act to end the insanely illegal violation of voting rights in Georgia, N. Dakota and other states. This means that the upcoming midterm elections will be invalid.
5. And of course, the right wing thug Kavanaugh lied to congress, is a complete shit, and was confirmed for the supreme court.
That is the end of the matter. Do what you will with this information, this is not new, this is just overt. There is no valid justice system in this country.
1. Roberts has said that the Secretary of the Commerce does not have to answer questions about whether he lied to congress (perjured himself) during his nomination process.
2. Gorsuch is planning to assist the destruction of the census. The census feeds into everything else this country does when it comes to helping people. It is far, far more than a census in a simple sense of that word.
3. Roberts has stayed the progress of the children's crusade on global warming.
4. The supreme court has refused to act to end the insanely illegal violation of voting rights in Georgia, N. Dakota and other states. This means that the upcoming midterm elections will be invalid.
5. And of course, the right wing thug Kavanaugh lied to congress, is a complete shit, and was confirmed for the supreme court.
That is the end of the matter. Do what you will with this information, this is not new, this is just overt. There is no valid justice system in this country.
What I Dont Understand
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I do not understand why, after the last two years of hell, the Democrats are not crushing the Republicans at the polls. I do not understand why they are not expected to win the Senate back. This is causing me to lose my faith in the American people.
I do not understand why, after the last two years of hell, the Democrats are not crushing the Republicans at the polls. I do not understand why they are not expected to win the Senate back. This is causing me to lose my faith in the American people.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Constitutional Failure, What Changes Should We Make?
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Since the constitution has obviously failed and we are living in semi-dictatorship, or moving in that direction, (see note), it seems reasonable to discuss how we can change the constitution to improve it and prevent such things in the future. But since our elected leaders and political elite have failed to step up to this challenge, I will do it for them. For those of you who say I am completely unqualified, my response is "too f*cking bad". I have endured two illegal presidents in my lifetime and now we have a bunch of right wing thugs in the judiciary and while that is obviously OK with you it is not OK with me.
You want a country? You want a democracy? You failed to do anything and your opportunity is over. Now lets see what someone else can do.
As Putin has said, paraphrasing here, "America has made too many mistakes" and he is right. Our first mistake was to allow the Republicans and Fox News to exist.
Note: OK, if it were a true dictatorship, it wouldnt matter what I said, and of course it doesnt matter what I say, now does it? See! But seriously folks, we have one fucked up country here and I am not seeing our political elite responding in a coherent and holistic way.
Note: OK, if it were a true dictatorship, it wouldnt matter what I said, and of course it doesnt matter what I say, now does it? See! But seriously folks, we have one fucked up country here and I am not seeing our political elite responding in a coherent and holistic way.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Roberts Claims the Supreme Court will be Independent
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Roberts claims that the supreme court will be independent of politics and just do the right thing. See for example see this article in Politico.
But he is, of course, lying. Remember, it was Roberts who voted to put their right wing thug, George W. Bush into office over the obviously elected Al Gore. The ostensible reason, if you recall, is that there can not be bad delays in determining this vote. Oh, really? No voting rights for this court, I suppose.
But now today when we have overt voting rights suppression in at least Georgia, Florida and N. Dakota, notice that the Supreme Court does nothing. The legitimacy of the election system is being challenged in a very real and overt fashion, but the Supreme Court does not act. Why not?
Could it be because this suppression helps the right wing Republican Party exert their control over the majority? Could it be that the right wing thugs on the Supreme Court are just playing the partisan game and just paying lipservice to the idea of doing the right thing?
As of Kavanaugh and the huge number of right wing thugs put at all levels of the Federal Judiciary, justice is over in this country until these people are impeached. Let me repeat that, in case I was vague. There is no justice in this country until further notice.
Which leads to my first platform promise: if elected, I will work to impeach all the right wing thugs put on the judiciary by the Republicans and replace them by honest lawyers who have the country's interests at heart.
Roberts claims that the supreme court will be independent of politics and just do the right thing. See for example see this article in Politico.
But he is, of course, lying. Remember, it was Roberts who voted to put their right wing thug, George W. Bush into office over the obviously elected Al Gore. The ostensible reason, if you recall, is that there can not be bad delays in determining this vote. Oh, really? No voting rights for this court, I suppose.
But now today when we have overt voting rights suppression in at least Georgia, Florida and N. Dakota, notice that the Supreme Court does nothing. The legitimacy of the election system is being challenged in a very real and overt fashion, but the Supreme Court does not act. Why not?
Could it be because this suppression helps the right wing Republican Party exert their control over the majority? Could it be that the right wing thugs on the Supreme Court are just playing the partisan game and just paying lipservice to the idea of doing the right thing?
As of Kavanaugh and the huge number of right wing thugs put at all levels of the Federal Judiciary, justice is over in this country until these people are impeached. Let me repeat that, in case I was vague. There is no justice in this country until further notice.
Which leads to my first platform promise: if elected, I will work to impeach all the right wing thugs put on the judiciary by the Republicans and replace them by honest lawyers who have the country's interests at heart.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
In Response to a Post by Mary Lou Jepson
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Mary Lou Jepson asked if there was something you could tell your younger self that might change your degree choice or your path, what would it be.
So I said:
"Right now, people are treating you well in spite of your lack of credentials, but that is a temporary phenomenon, sadly. There will be a time when people will judge you based on what is on paper, and by then there will be those who like you and those who dont. Therefore, you are encouraged to get the best credentials you can now, while you have the cachet and while the various advantages society makes available to those in this stage of their career are available. If anything goes wrong, you will wish you had those credentials".
Mary Lou Jepson asked if there was something you could tell your younger self that might change your degree choice or your path, what would it be.
So I said:
"Right now, people are treating you well in spite of your lack of credentials, but that is a temporary phenomenon, sadly. There will be a time when people will judge you based on what is on paper, and by then there will be those who like you and those who dont. Therefore, you are encouraged to get the best credentials you can now, while you have the cachet and while the various advantages society makes available to those in this stage of their career are available. If anything goes wrong, you will wish you had those credentials".
A Suggestion for the Justice System
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You see, here is the problem. When you destroy the justice system with your right wing goons, like Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Roberts, Thomas and a whole slew of nutty boys in the Federal system whose names we may not even know, then when a judgment happens that is obviously unjust, such as the one that just happened against Stormy Daniels, then we assume that the fix is in. We cant assume that justice was done because we dont trust the justice system.
You leave us no choice but to put as many of our partisans on the court as we can, as a countermeasure. Yes, you fucked it up.
Dont complain when it comes back to bite you in the ass.
Footnote: The day after the defamation suit against Daniels is dismissed, Trump calls her "Horseface". Dont you love justice in America?
You see, here is the problem. When you destroy the justice system with your right wing goons, like Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Roberts, Thomas and a whole slew of nutty boys in the Federal system whose names we may not even know, then when a judgment happens that is obviously unjust, such as the one that just happened against Stormy Daniels, then we assume that the fix is in. We cant assume that justice was done because we dont trust the justice system.
You leave us no choice but to put as many of our partisans on the court as we can, as a countermeasure. Yes, you fucked it up.
Dont complain when it comes back to bite you in the ass.
Footnote: The day after the defamation suit against Daniels is dismissed, Trump calls her "Horseface". Dont you love justice in America?
Monday, October 8, 2018
Voter Disengagement or Brain Disengagement
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Some friend of a friend on Facebook tells me that I am a part of "Voter Disengagement" and that I am part of the problem. This is in response to me saying that I might vote, but what I really wanted was a plan that was going to work. We voted, I pointed out, we won and it didnt work.
So he calls me part of the problem.
My point is, we cant win with stupid assholes like this. We have just encountered a right wing coup d'etat and he says I am part of the problem for pointing out that voting did not help.
I mean like, what the fuck?
Some friend of a friend on Facebook tells me that I am a part of "Voter Disengagement" and that I am part of the problem. This is in response to me saying that I might vote, but what I really wanted was a plan that was going to work. We voted, I pointed out, we won and it didnt work.
So he calls me part of the problem.
My point is, we cant win with stupid assholes like this. We have just encountered a right wing coup d'etat and he says I am part of the problem for pointing out that voting did not help.
I mean like, what the fuck?
The Little Baby Jesus Gonna Rip Their Heads Off Now
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The little baby Jesus gonna rip their heads off now!
The little baby Jesus gonna rip their heads off now!
The little baby Jesus gonna rip their heads off now!
The little baby Jesus gonna rip their heads off now!
Gonna Rip McConnell's Head Off Now!
Gonna Rip Grassley's Head Off Now!
Gonna Rip Kaveneauh's Head Off Now!
Gonna Rip the Orange Zit's Head Off Now!
The little baby Jesus gonna rip their heads off now!
etc.
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