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You are not going to jail just because you were part of the criminal organization of Donald Trump, although, admittedly, that should be enough.
You are going to jail because when Donald Trump became president, if he did become president, he did not grow into the job, but instead worked to be the most incompetent, the most dishonest, the most racist, the most idiotic fucking nutcase that we have ever had, in conjunction with nutcases like Ryan, Nunes, Grassley and McConnel. Racist nutcases. Assholes like the Koch Brothers and the Mercers. Obvious criminals like Pruitt.
You are going to jail because Trump put a rapist on the Supreme Court and a right wing nutty boy as well.
You are going to jail because people hate that fucking son of a bitch so much that they are even willing to enforce the law, something that we normally only do to poor people, not rich people.
That is why you are going to jail.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Thursday, November 29, 2018
What the Constitution Means to Me
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It means that Dershowitz and Kavanaugh can borrow a private jet from one of their rich Wall Street friends and go on a rape party in Georgia secure in the knowledge that there will be no fair elections and no legal reprecusions, then fly back to Washington and laugh at videos of political refugees being teargassed and beaten.
Thats what the Constitution of the United States stands for today.
It means that Dershowitz and Kavanaugh can borrow a private jet from one of their rich Wall Street friends and go on a rape party in Georgia secure in the knowledge that there will be no fair elections and no legal reprecusions, then fly back to Washington and laugh at videos of political refugees being teargassed and beaten.
Thats what the Constitution of the United States stands for today.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
In Response To Comments From A Wonderful Friend
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What a nice person you are to care.
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
Listening to the sound track of Repo Man.
And somehow it seemed appropriate.
I am not likely to suddenly become a nice guy.
I appreciate your words, your experience and your help.
But I advise you to limit your expectations.
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one, but the lightbulb has to sincerely want to change.
What a nice person you are to care.
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
Listening to the sound track of Repo Man.
And somehow it seemed appropriate.
I am not likely to suddenly become a nice guy.
I appreciate your words, your experience and your help.
But I advise you to limit your expectations.
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one, but the lightbulb has to sincerely want to change.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
When Some Moron Says Trump is Not Impeachable
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I dont have any pro-Trump friends any more, at least not on FB. I might have some friends in real life with whom I do not discuss politics who might be Trump supporters without my knowledge, and that is fine. But for those of you who have Trump supporters as friends, here is a nice concise response from the New Yorker about what to say when they say "What!? What has he done that impeachable!? Nothing!". When some idiot says that, here is at least one reply:
Over its first 20 months in office, this administration has produced what would have, heretofore, passed for a presidency-defining scandal on a near-daily basis. There is, of course, the president’s ongoing campaign to undermine the independence of federal law enforcement; his apparent use of U.S. military deployments as a campaign tool; ostensible violations of campaign-finance law; shameless profiteering off the presidency; gross violations of information-security protocols; use of mass child abuse as a tool for border enforcement; personal business relations with a Saudi government whose murder of an American resident he has enthusiastically apologized for; lackluster response to the hurricane crisis in Puerto Rico; and failure to so much as staff many key federal offices; among many, many other things. Meanwhile, just about every major Cabinet official has seemingly committed at least one major ethics offense.
From the New Yorker.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/house-democrats-trump-investigations-oversight-maxine-waters-moderates.html
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Real Clear Politics, Republicans and Georgia
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According to Real Clear Politics (a Republican news aggregator), Stacey Abrams hurt Georgia business because of "sour grapes" after a lost election.
You see, this is why Republicans are evil. There is no thought in their twisted little minds that Kemp did not win the election, that Kemp is a racist who stole the election.
Are the Republicans really that stupid? No. They are just lying to steal the money, always have been, always will.
Lock him up. Lock Kemp up, period.
According to Real Clear Politics (a Republican news aggregator), Stacey Abrams hurt Georgia business because of "sour grapes" after a lost election.
You see, this is why Republicans are evil. There is no thought in their twisted little minds that Kemp did not win the election, that Kemp is a racist who stole the election.
Are the Republicans really that stupid? No. They are just lying to steal the money, always have been, always will.
Lock him up. Lock Kemp up, period.
Things Learned On the Road to GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks)
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Miscellaneous things learned working with Tensorflow/Keras and machine learning to generate images.
1. Use Containers to install Tensorflow
Containers are virtual machines - lite, and it is the least annoying way to install tensorflow on Linux/Centos 7.5.
2. For CNNs, the GPU is many times faster.
Its true what they say, at least in part. For convolution neural networks, the GPU speeds things up by at least an order of magnitude and possibly two. With containers, you only need to install the Nvidia driver on the base machine / OS and use a different container.
3. It is not at all clear how the CNN relates to real convolutions as we know them from image processing, but it does seem as though using larger filters as we increase resolution avoids the problem of the picture subdividing into lots of little squares.
Miscellaneous things learned working with Tensorflow/Keras and machine learning to generate images.
1. Use Containers to install Tensorflow
Containers are virtual machines - lite, and it is the least annoying way to install tensorflow on Linux/Centos 7.5.
2. For CNNs, the GPU is many times faster.
Its true what they say, at least in part. For convolution neural networks, the GPU speeds things up by at least an order of magnitude and possibly two. With containers, you only need to install the Nvidia driver on the base machine / OS and use a different container.
3. It is not at all clear how the CNN relates to real convolutions as we know them from image processing, but it does seem as though using larger filters as we increase resolution avoids the problem of the picture subdividing into lots of little squares.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Letter to My Congressman Salud Carbajal
Dear Congressman Carbajal
Congratulations on your re-election to Congress! You're victory in these difficult times is a testament to your energy, your knowledge and your accomplishments.
I am new to your district and I am sure I will sound a little strident in this email, but I am extraordinarily unhappy with the events of the last two years as so many Americans are.
Please do everything you can, and be as vocal as your position permits, and make it clear that (among other things) racism is any form is abhorrent to Americans, voter suppression is not acceptable, that the supreme court and federal judges must be ethically excellent individuals and not be right wing fanatics, and crime in the government must be investigated.
Stand strong for us, sir, if you would.
Sincerely,
Michael Wahrman
Congratulations on your re-election to Congress! You're victory in these difficult times is a testament to your energy, your knowledge and your accomplishments.
I am new to your district and I am sure I will sound a little strident in this email, but I am extraordinarily unhappy with the events of the last two years as so many Americans are.
Please do everything you can, and be as vocal as your position permits, and make it clear that (among other things) racism is any form is abhorrent to Americans, voter suppression is not acceptable, that the supreme court and federal judges must be ethically excellent individuals and not be right wing fanatics, and crime in the government must be investigated.
Stand strong for us, sir, if you would.
Sincerely,
Michael Wahrman
The Democratic Response
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I want the Democrats, my party of choice, to make some clear statements. At this time, at this place, now, not later but now.
Here is what I want them to say.
Racism is not acceptable in America, in politics, in how we treat each other, in how we vote. Under any circumstances, it is not acceptable. But most of all it is not acceptable in our public officials.
The people who are nominated to be a federal judge and especially the Supreme Court must be superior ethically as well in terms of their knowledge of the law and in their judgment. They must represent all Americans, not just the extreme right wing and religious right, no matter how much they might wish it. The abuse of this system by the Republican right has endangered our entire system.
Republicans need to learn that crime is wrong and will not be tolerated. You want to spend a year studying an email server, lets investigate racist motivated voting suppression, obstruction of justice, money laundering and treason.
I want the Democrats, my party of choice, to make some clear statements. At this time, at this place, now, not later but now.
Here is what I want them to say.
Racism is not acceptable in America, in politics, in how we treat each other, in how we vote. Under any circumstances, it is not acceptable. But most of all it is not acceptable in our public officials.
The people who are nominated to be a federal judge and especially the Supreme Court must be superior ethically as well in terms of their knowledge of the law and in their judgment. They must represent all Americans, not just the extreme right wing and religious right, no matter how much they might wish it. The abuse of this system by the Republican right has endangered our entire system.
Republicans need to learn that crime is wrong and will not be tolerated. You want to spend a year studying an email server, lets investigate racist motivated voting suppression, obstruction of justice, money laundering and treason.
Monday, November 19, 2018
The Democrats Must Stand Firm Or They Will Lose
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Being rewritten, please try back in a few hours!!!
This is what the Democrats have to do going forward. And let me be clear, any failure to do this will mean that they Democrats will lose at the next election. They have one chance, in my opinion, to redeem themselves from decades of accomodation and of longing for an America that sadly no longer exists.
They must throw out any idea of "bipartisanship" but must stand firm and unyielding and execute a policy based on principles.
Forget legislation, legislation can be dealt with after the right wing Republican nuts have been exposed for the traitors and criminals that they are.
The American people have been subjected to an astonishing array of crimes against their government and the people of this country and of the world. It is time for the Democrats to make clear that this behavior has to stop.
Here is a short list of things the Democrats *must* do to maintain any credibility.
In the following I really dont want to hear any stupid whining about how "why bother to impeach if the corrupt Republicans will just turn their back on truth and justice. Yes, the Republicans are corrupt and will betray America again, but that is not excuse for not impeaching him. Leave the Senate to the Senate, let the House execute its responsibilities for once.
In no particular order.
1. Trump must be investigated for his crimes, or at least a goodly number of them. If appropriate, those crimes may be referred to relevant state departmens of justice for prosecution. If appropriate, Trump must be impeached.
2. Kavanaugh must be investigated and if appropriate his crimes referred to proper authorities. it may also be that he should be impeached.
3. Gorsuch is a right wing nutty boy. He needs to be reviewed by the house, and also, if appropriate impeached.
4. Why was Nunes allowed to betray America and why was he not removed from his position as chair of the Intelligence Committee when the DOJ and FBI begged Ryan to do so. This must be investigated.
5. Why have N. Dakota and Georgia been allowed to use obviously racist measures to disenfranchise voters?
6. Why has Florida failed to be able to reliably hold an election and count votes?
7. Why is the Senate continuing to approve right wing nutty boys for the judiciary as if that was acceptable? The judicial system is being destroyed.
8. What was Pruitt saying behind closed doors for which no notes were kept and the American people are not allowed to know. Let him testify under oath and let those he spoke to testify under oath and let them pay for their crimes.
All of these issues must be addressed before another budget is approved. If that means the government stops then I am all for it. Better we get this cleared up right now, first, before continuing some injustice or abomination.
There are other things as well. Your list may differ. This is all the House should do. If any of them are not dealt with, then as far as I am concerned we, the nation and the House has failed.
The nature of the crisis will be further discussed in a later post.
Being rewritten, please try back in a few hours!!!
This is what the Democrats have to do going forward. And let me be clear, any failure to do this will mean that they Democrats will lose at the next election. They have one chance, in my opinion, to redeem themselves from decades of accomodation and of longing for an America that sadly no longer exists.
They must throw out any idea of "bipartisanship" but must stand firm and unyielding and execute a policy based on principles.
Forget legislation, legislation can be dealt with after the right wing Republican nuts have been exposed for the traitors and criminals that they are.
The American people have been subjected to an astonishing array of crimes against their government and the people of this country and of the world. It is time for the Democrats to make clear that this behavior has to stop.
Here is a short list of things the Democrats *must* do to maintain any credibility.
In the following I really dont want to hear any stupid whining about how "why bother to impeach if the corrupt Republicans will just turn their back on truth and justice. Yes, the Republicans are corrupt and will betray America again, but that is not excuse for not impeaching him. Leave the Senate to the Senate, let the House execute its responsibilities for once.
In no particular order.
1. Trump must be investigated for his crimes, or at least a goodly number of them. If appropriate, those crimes may be referred to relevant state departmens of justice for prosecution. If appropriate, Trump must be impeached.
2. Kavanaugh must be investigated and if appropriate his crimes referred to proper authorities. it may also be that he should be impeached.
3. Gorsuch is a right wing nutty boy. He needs to be reviewed by the house, and also, if appropriate impeached.
4. Why was Nunes allowed to betray America and why was he not removed from his position as chair of the Intelligence Committee when the DOJ and FBI begged Ryan to do so. This must be investigated.
5. Why have N. Dakota and Georgia been allowed to use obviously racist measures to disenfranchise voters?
6. Why has Florida failed to be able to reliably hold an election and count votes?
7. Why is the Senate continuing to approve right wing nutty boys for the judiciary as if that was acceptable? The judicial system is being destroyed.
8. What was Pruitt saying behind closed doors for which no notes were kept and the American people are not allowed to know. Let him testify under oath and let those he spoke to testify under oath and let them pay for their crimes.
All of these issues must be addressed before another budget is approved. If that means the government stops then I am all for it. Better we get this cleared up right now, first, before continuing some injustice or abomination.
There are other things as well. Your list may differ. This is all the House should do. If any of them are not dealt with, then as far as I am concerned we, the nation and the House has failed.
The nature of the crisis will be further discussed in a later post.
Why Group Sourcing is Obviously Stupid
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At various times people talk about "group sourcing" on the internet, or of learning from the internet from the sources that people provide for free or even for a fee, as if it will just be there.
This is not only wrong, it is stupid, it is even obviously stupid, as anyone would know if they had actually tried it to learn something seriously that way.
The reason is that the noise to signal is wildly out of balance. And there is no way to judge noise from signal in the general case without a vast amount of time and effort.
Group sourcing is obviously not as good as a credible source with information that has been vetted.
Duh.
I guess the people writing about the Internet dont know what they are talking about or maybe they are just lying to steal the money.
At various times people talk about "group sourcing" on the internet, or of learning from the internet from the sources that people provide for free or even for a fee, as if it will just be there.
This is not only wrong, it is stupid, it is even obviously stupid, as anyone would know if they had actually tried it to learn something seriously that way.
The reason is that the noise to signal is wildly out of balance. And there is no way to judge noise from signal in the general case without a vast amount of time and effort.
Group sourcing is obviously not as good as a credible source with information that has been vetted.
Duh.
I guess the people writing about the Internet dont know what they are talking about or maybe they are just lying to steal the money.
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