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Well, at least its a first for me. Safari tried to tell me that I HAD A VIRUS and I HAD to do some stupid shit, etc, etc, you know the drill.
Our right wing FBI and Orange-Sack-of-Shit President is too busy putting rapists on the Supreme Court to try and catch these criminals. Hell, the Trump-ola is probably making money off the scam.
Monday, November 5, 2018
Who is More Stupid, Democrats or Republicans
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Sure the Republicans are evil swine, but the Democrats never learn. I read in the Daily Beast that if/when the Dems take the House they immediately should get in a fight over Nancy Pelosi (yawn) and then be nice to the Republicans.
OH, they say, dont dare go after the Republicans for their crimes.
Idiots, morons, swine. Put the Republicans in jail. All of them. Start with the Orange Bag of Shit and his rapist justice.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Holy Moly This Hollywood Bullshit Makes Me Mad
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Dear Friends, or not as the case may be.
I dont want your hopes and prayers. I want the money you owe me for getting so much done which you based your enitre careers upon.
Thank you!
Saturday, November 3, 2018
What if We Met The Caravan with Open Arms
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What if it was all a joke and Trump means to have the immigrant caravan met by the US Military with open arms, housing and humanitarian aid!?
Then we would be the angel of the international scene and not hated (as much).
For those who say this is not practical, they are probably right. On the other hand if this country had not welcomed immigrants, I would not be alive.
For those who say this is not practical, they are probably right. On the other hand if this country had not welcomed immigrants, I would not be alive.
Oh That Hollywood Insincerity
Ha Ha!
Another example of a dear friend proving what a shallow and insincere person he/she is. Who knows. Managing expectations is the key, and my expectations have been way too high.
Obviously.
Why do I even bother?
Why do I even bother?
Friday, November 2, 2018
Election Predictions Midterms 2018
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What a clusterf*ck this has been.
It has been excruciating to read the mainstream press the last few months as they agonize over numbers that tell us nothing. I have literally read every possible prediction contradicted by some pundit within days.
1. Dems take the house by 20 or so votes. Anything more than that is a victory that makes it harder for the republicans to spin.
1.1 But the Dems need a minimum of 40 votes majority to spin it as a Blue Wave and who knows if they will get it.
1.2 The people who claim that young people will vote, will vote Dem, and who say that women will vote Dem as a block will be wrong. The Women Vote will be mostly dead (except as a slight majority, not a block) after this election. That is my prediction. You will still hear about the youth vote and the women vote because there will be stupid lefties who cant get it out of their heads, but it isnt real. Sorry.
2. Reps pick up at least one seat in the Senate, maybe two. Beto is defeated by Cruz.
3. The Georgia race is too close to call.
4. Dems win Florida governorship for a net gain of several governorships.
5. Nunes and Hunter are reelected.
6. Trump declares victory and voter fraud in the House. He uses that as an excuse to ignore subpoenas.
7. Dems in the House unleash hell but it does them no good, not really.
8. Because the Senate is firmly in Trumps hands and does his bidding.
9. Trump and the Senate continue to place stupid right wing thugs in the judiciary.
10. The Supreme Court starts fucking with our freedoms.
11. Violence increases.
12. The Trump revolution is pronounced real and not an aberration.
13. Most Americans still fail to understand that they live in a dictatorship and that most of the constitution has failed.
14. Mueller indicts Stone and the Wikileaks asshole but what he does beyond that is a mystery to me.
15. Voter Repression goes full force. Right wing courts uphold most of it. Voting rights, fuck that, this is Trump Country now.
It has been excruciating to read the mainstream press the last few months as they agonize over numbers that tell us nothing. I have literally read every possible prediction contradicted by some pundit within days.
1. Dems take the house by 20 or so votes. Anything more than that is a victory that makes it harder for the republicans to spin.
1.1 But the Dems need a minimum of 40 votes majority to spin it as a Blue Wave and who knows if they will get it.
1.2 The people who claim that young people will vote, will vote Dem, and who say that women will vote Dem as a block will be wrong. The Women Vote will be mostly dead (except as a slight majority, not a block) after this election. That is my prediction. You will still hear about the youth vote and the women vote because there will be stupid lefties who cant get it out of their heads, but it isnt real. Sorry.
2. Reps pick up at least one seat in the Senate, maybe two. Beto is defeated by Cruz.
3. The Georgia race is too close to call.
4. Dems win Florida governorship for a net gain of several governorships.
5. Nunes and Hunter are reelected.
6. Trump declares victory and voter fraud in the House. He uses that as an excuse to ignore subpoenas.
7. Dems in the House unleash hell but it does them no good, not really.
8. Because the Senate is firmly in Trumps hands and does his bidding.
9. Trump and the Senate continue to place stupid right wing thugs in the judiciary.
10. The Supreme Court starts fucking with our freedoms.
11. Violence increases.
12. The Trump revolution is pronounced real and not an aberration.
13. Most Americans still fail to understand that they live in a dictatorship and that most of the constitution has failed.
14. Mueller indicts Stone and the Wikileaks asshole but what he does beyond that is a mystery to me.
15. Voter Repression goes full force. Right wing courts uphold most of it. Voting rights, fuck that, this is Trump Country now.
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Should I Alert the Humane Society
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A woman I know in Oakland sets traps for animals, castrates or neuters them, and then has them killed. Should I alert the humane society? Why bother? They would just attack me for telling them about it. They approve of that kind of thing.
A woman I know in Oakland sets traps for animals, castrates or neuters them, and then has them killed. Should I alert the humane society? Why bother? They would just attack me for telling them about it. They approve of that kind of thing.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Notes on A New Civil War I
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A few notes on the upcoming civil war. Time to step up to the line and make predictions, kids. Of course it is all fiction, since nothing like this could ever happen.
1. Civil wars are the most ugly and destructive type of wars that we know of. Expect it to be ugly. More ugly than most people I know can imagine.
2. Just because we live in a new century with new technology does not mean all the old rules are gone. Most of my friends think that. No offense or anything, but I dont agree.
3. Not all Trump supporters are armed or trained in hunting or warfare, but many of them are, and the ones that arent are, in general, not averse to being so trained.
4. On the other hand, I have not met a single non-Trump supporter who knew the first thing about firearms. I dont think I know the general case, however, I think there are many who live outside S. California who are armed or know something. They may not be NRA members, but that is OK. However I would guess that the ratio is 5 - 1 (armed vs unarmed).
5. The tools of surveillance are with the local police forces, and again, I think the ratio of Trump supporters is high, perhaps 5 - 1.
6. So when things come apart, you should presume that the right / Trump supporters will have control of the surveillance systems, and will be heavily armed, and that in general, the left will not be.
7. I have not said a thing about what the armed forces will do.
8. Of former armed force members, it is not clear what the ratios will be, but in general they will be armed, or very knowledgable (they have to be), but not necessarily pro-Trump (although in some parts of the US they will be). I need to do more research on this. For what it is worth, I have not met more than about 5 lefties out of maybe 5,000 who know the first fucking thing about the US armed forces, although I have met many who think they do.
No offense or anything.
2. Just because we live in a new century with new technology does not mean all the old rules are gone. Most of my friends think that. No offense or anything, but I dont agree.
3. Not all Trump supporters are armed or trained in hunting or warfare, but many of them are, and the ones that arent are, in general, not averse to being so trained.
4. On the other hand, I have not met a single non-Trump supporter who knew the first thing about firearms. I dont think I know the general case, however, I think there are many who live outside S. California who are armed or know something. They may not be NRA members, but that is OK. However I would guess that the ratio is 5 - 1 (armed vs unarmed).
5. The tools of surveillance are with the local police forces, and again, I think the ratio of Trump supporters is high, perhaps 5 - 1.
6. So when things come apart, you should presume that the right / Trump supporters will have control of the surveillance systems, and will be heavily armed, and that in general, the left will not be.
7. I have not said a thing about what the armed forces will do.
8. Of former armed force members, it is not clear what the ratios will be, but in general they will be armed, or very knowledgable (they have to be), but not necessarily pro-Trump (although in some parts of the US they will be). I need to do more research on this. For what it is worth, I have not met more than about 5 lefties out of maybe 5,000 who know the first fucking thing about the US armed forces, although I have met many who think they do.
No offense or anything.
Monday, October 29, 2018
Looking for Amie Slate
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If anyone reading this happens to know how to contact Amie Slate, could they please get in touch?
A documentary is being done on Mike Gribble (of Mike & Spike Animation fame) and they are hoping that Amie might have or know where there is archival footage of the Electronic Theatre of Siggraph in 1988.
A documentary is being done on Mike Gribble (of Mike & Spike Animation fame) and they are hoping that Amie might have or know where there is archival footage of the Electronic Theatre of Siggraph in 1988.
Thank you.
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Notes on Installing Windows 10 and Google Tensorflow (CPU only)
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This is the third time I have installed Windows 10. These are my notes from the experience.
1. Based on previous disaster, all other disks were unpowered when installing this OS. The only disk it could get to was the one that it was to be installed on.
2. Based on previous disaster, this disk is connected by SATA because the poor little piece of shit, Windows, cant install on USB (a marketing decision we are sure).
3. You need a Microsoft account to do this.
4. You sign an agreement which says in so many words that you are stupid for running MS software and if anything goes wrong you should go fuck yourself.
5. It reboots itself without telling you to remove the USB boot disk.
6. You must give it a device PIN.
7. You do have the option of turning off Windows Cloud, Cortina and weird non-privacy options.
8. It does not let you change the resolution on your screen.
9. When you install Firefox, it complains and tries to make you use its own stupid browser because of course it does. This is Microsoft.
10. Even though you turned Cortina and MS Cloud off it is still running, because of course it is.
11. When you download the Nvidia driver you have no choice but to load the "GEFORCE Experience" and wait 20 minutes while it downloads. The driver itself is at most a 1 minute download. Hey dont worry, my time doesnt matter.
12. One of the things I find fascinating is how slow it is. It is running on 8/16 fairly fast processors and essentially infinite memory, on an SSD drive at SATA 3 speeds and it is still slow.
13. Installing the NVIDIA driver was trivial, but ... here I am waiting for it to reboot. Will it reboot? Will it ever leave the SETUP screen? Oh Oh. Second reboot and it comes up just fine on the Nvidia card.
14. Must sign in with PIN. Weird. No way to turn it off that is obvious. Whatever they think they are doing with their control panel settings, it isnt helping. I cant find anything.
15. Now to install VLC for Windows (my preferred video player) and then we get to the good stuff. Tensorflow and Unity. OK VLC worked but forgot to turn off metadata download. Later.
16. Tensorflow ... two versions... CPU only and w/GPU. It says that beginners should only do CPU. So I install pip, virtual env, follow instructions for virtual env (one mistake in doc), run virtual env, load tensorflow via pip, run it and it fails! But wait, it fails because I skipped a step, the "MS Visual Development blahdy blahdy blahdy".
17. So I sign up for visual developer, which means a c/c++ compiler I think, and it also has a python development system and it tries to download 2 GBs. So I pause it, cut off everything but what I need the core and python, and that is a mere 380 MBs. Fine. Installed.
18. Reboot. Need to reboot twice to get Windows to run. Second time this has happened weird.
19. But now when I run tensorflow (cpu only) in python, in virtual environment, it works! Yay!
20. Installed matplotlib.
21. OK we are almost where we were a month ago.
22. Science Marches On!
12. One of the things I find fascinating is how slow it is. It is running on 8/16 fairly fast processors and essentially infinite memory, on an SSD drive at SATA 3 speeds and it is still slow.
13. Installing the NVIDIA driver was trivial, but ... here I am waiting for it to reboot. Will it reboot? Will it ever leave the SETUP screen? Oh Oh. Second reboot and it comes up just fine on the Nvidia card.
14. Must sign in with PIN. Weird. No way to turn it off that is obvious. Whatever they think they are doing with their control panel settings, it isnt helping. I cant find anything.
15. Now to install VLC for Windows (my preferred video player) and then we get to the good stuff. Tensorflow and Unity. OK VLC worked but forgot to turn off metadata download. Later.
16. Tensorflow ... two versions... CPU only and w/GPU. It says that beginners should only do CPU. So I install pip, virtual env, follow instructions for virtual env (one mistake in doc), run virtual env, load tensorflow via pip, run it and it fails! But wait, it fails because I skipped a step, the "MS Visual Development blahdy blahdy blahdy".
17. So I sign up for visual developer, which means a c/c++ compiler I think, and it also has a python development system and it tries to download 2 GBs. So I pause it, cut off everything but what I need the core and python, and that is a mere 380 MBs. Fine. Installed.
18. Reboot. Need to reboot twice to get Windows to run. Second time this has happened weird.
19. But now when I run tensorflow (cpu only) in python, in virtual environment, it works! Yay!
20. Installed matplotlib.
21. OK we are almost where we were a month ago.
22. Science Marches On!
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