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Could signs of phosphorous in the clouds of Venus be discovered by scientists re-examining data from the Pioneer mission?
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By Lewis Dartnell
In September 2020, researchers led by Jane Greaves at Cardiff University published spectra collected by radio telescopes that indicated the presence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus.
The debate this announcement subsequently triggered has been almost as heated as the Venusian climate.
Experts have already published papers calling into question whether the gas is definitely there, as well as questioning what geological processes or atmospheric chemistry could have produced the gas, or whether
it could feasibly be the signature of ultra-hardy Venusian life forms.
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I was particularly taken by the response from Rakesh Mogul at Cal Poly Pomona, California, and his colleagues, who have gone back to reanalyse 40 year-old data.
In December 1978 the Pioneer Venus multiprobe mission deployed four probes into the Venusian atmosphere.
The largest of these had an onboard mass spectrometer that measured the concentrations of different gases as it parachuted towards the surface.
An ultraviolet image of Venus's clouds captured by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Feb. 5, 1979). Credit: NASA
Phosphorus compounds were not initially reported from these spectra, but Mogul has reanalysed this heritage data to see if there may have been signs of phosphine overlooked in the late 1970s.
Mogul stresses that they can only draw tentative conclusions from these mass spectra, but they are certainly tantalising.
There is a signal at 33.992 amu (atomic mass units; phosphorus is ~30.9, and hydrogen ~1), which matches what you would expect from phosphine (PH3; 33.997). However, hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is also very close, at 33.987.
Mogul and his team believe they can rule out a significant abundance of hydrogen sulphide though because there is no detection of isotope variants. If they're right, it means that phosphine may have been lying unnoticed in these Pioneer spectra for four decades.
An artist's impression of Venus, inset showing a representation of phosphine molecule. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech
Mogul and his colleagues submitted their analysis to the Nature, Matters Arising journal, which is set up to allow fast turn-around commentary or responses to recent publications.
As such, this is one of the shortest papers I've reported on – just three pages without the bibliography – but I think it illustrates how scientific knowledge advances in jerky steps.
One research group analyses their results as thoroughly and dutifully as they can and then submits their report to a journal. This data and their interpretation are then scrutinised by peer reviewers, before being published for the scientific community and a press release sent to journalists.
Then, if it's particularly significant or controversial, other scientists around the world will race to attempt to replicate or refute the findings using alternative instruments or datasets.
And this is what we are seeing playing out with the Venus phosphine announcement.
An image of Venus created using data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mogul and his colleagues have looked back over heritage data from the early Pioneer probes, and without a doubt astronomers will be scrambling to get observation time on ALMA or other radio telescopes to attempt to confirm the phosphine detection.
There has also been a surge in interest to return to Venus with descent probes to investigate the cloud chemistry close-up.
The DAVINCI probe, currently shortlisted for construction by NASA, is one particularly exciting prospect, but we'll have to wait until summer 2021 to see if it's selected.
Prof Lewis Dartnell is an astrobiologist at the University of Westminster.
Lewis was reading Is Phosphine in the Mass Spectra from Venus' Clouds? by Rakesh Mogul et al. Read it online at arxiv.org.
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The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty.
Did hunter-gatherers have poor relations? Who became poor faster than anyone else in history? And can Karl Marx make tea? But you also look at big questions: what's lifted people out of poverty and how?
Is there a formula that would work again? Is poverty an "engine of the system" and a great driver of progress - or a terrible by-product of inequality?
In other words, less govt = less poor. The socialists cultivate and fertilize them with horse manure so to have more voting for them.
Wrong, less government = more poor. Less government regulation of the economy has created the largest social and economic inequality in the world since the Great Depression. If less government is so great, then why does half the world's wealth belong to 8 billionaires and why does half the world's population live on $2 to $10 per day instead on $200 to $1,000 per day?
No, the capitalists/plutocrats cultivate and fertilized them with horse manure so the brainwash population continues to support the unequal economic, political, and social system.
Question the premise of everything. Rewind the scenario a bit. Suppose no one wanted those minerals in that supposedly poor country? Would that then make the poor country rich?
For sure the cause of most any problem is evil people. But who are the evil? People just trying to live a decent life and fooled into being a debt slave? Does that make for a "rich" nation, most being in debt?
Does a smart phone, computer, big screen TV, fancy car, nice house, jewelry, traffic jams, noise, stress, and all the GMO food you can eat, does that make you wealthier?
If I could move to an island where people weren't so full of themselves after being indoctrinated by govt and media. Where they leave bankers, lawyers, politicians, and union organizers hanging from a rope with a sign at the port of entry, to keep those attempting to set up their evil to a minimum. Where the people gather to decide if any misreporting of any news was intentional and the appropriate punishment. Where all reporters were only allowed to be ugly men so the public would have no problem serving swift justice to any propagandists. Where the people themselves would repair the water systems and other utilities, hire teachers for the kids, and elect a representative which amounts to a secretary to present issues, pros and cons, welcome discussion, and tally the vote along with two random people drawn from a hat. That is small govt. If it meant living by a rake and shovel in your garden, that would be good exercise. In a communist or fully socialist regime they would come take a large portion of my garden for themselves while claiming it was for the poor. Now what motive would I have to do that again next year? Now you know how the store shelves were bare in the former Soviet Union.
What brought Russia and China out of poverty? Allowing a fair bit of capitalism. What is the difference between North Korea and South Korea but capitalism.
Even with capitalism, GOVT is the problem. Without govt providing the means, most evil men could not accomplish much. For instance, the miners in the supposedly exploited poor country, if that govt wanted them to be paid more, they would, up to the point where the corporation wanting those minerals would just get them somewhere else. If not for govt, a city could not claim eminent domain and take a person's place of business and provide it to a different business they claimed would pay them more taxes (supposedly making it the greater good). Yes, that has happened in the good old usa. A Chemical or other company polluting the drinking water or rivers is allowed via govt. Govt IS the problem, not the solution.
Can you make the weather the same everywhere? No, that is out of your hands. Can you make people the same of talent, drive, cleverness, ingenuity, persistence, moral fiber, honesty, etc.? No, that is out of your hands. Then how is it that Socialists-Communists-Progressives = Collectivists, are able to fool so many into believing that nature will not react to the attempt to paying everyone the same? Mankind is part of nature and it is in their nature to not produce if the reward isn't sufficient. You could see many prime examples of this in the former Soviet globe of control. Bare store shelves. Pitifully dirty train stations. A man to dole out toilet paper at public restrooms so it wouldn't be stolen/horded. If you didn't like your lot in life, your choice was to escape via vodka or by foot if you could figure out a way to do so. You are not free to leave. Just who are you Mr. Collectivist to tell me where I must live?
How are today's people so easily fooled into Collectivism? Emotional propaganda. Emotion tends to override logic and reason, especially in those that have been schooled all their lives that way.
wow a lot of drivel.
You really believe what you are saying?
When looking at poverty in the United States, one should realize that every pocket of poverty is represented and controlled by the Democrat Party year after year. Look at Watts in California, Southside Chicago, Harlem in New York I believe this is planned.
How do europeans sleep at night knowing the evil that ancestors did?
Almost everyone in the world believes in the God of Abraham (Jews, Christians and Muslims. If people abided by the laws that God wrote in the Bible then living unselfishly would solve spiritual poverty, emotional poverty, mental poverty and physical poverty. The one force that prevents this is Satan who offers up lust so that love dies, greed so that generosity dies, pride so that humility dies, wrath so that peace dies, sloth so that diligence dies, gluttony so that equity dies, envy so that charity dies and all of these so that healthy balanced relationships die. The reason that poverty and every bad thing exists is because of your and my sin and every human's sin that have gone before us. If God's people will humble ourselves and pray and seek His face ( by listening to Him through reading his life instruction manual-- the Bible) and turn from our wicked ways then He will hear us and forgive our sins and heal our land. This applies to every believer in the God of Abraham. It's up to us to listen to God and turn from our sins..... That will help more than anything because then God will do what mankind cannot.
im afraid not the gods of old did not help and Yahweh will not save you now. hope is one of the most enduring sprits in man however we must understand that this has been used to control. example: its ok things are bad know because I have been good and so god will save my soul. Only he wont your soul needs saved now we need to stand up now not when we are dead this is the power Islam and Christianity gives the powerful in this world. it was established by rich people and has been used to control ever since. there is no hope accept it and then let the anger out.
This is a awsome video it clearly shows that poverty is not the norm, poverty that we have today is poverty by design.
I realize that nobody pays attention to the human condition. The issue of poverty is traceable to the knowledge of right and wrong. Ever since mankind got infected, wrong knowledge accumulated and this has become the source of mankind's burden.
Ever realize why Truth is not the same as knowledge? Truth is what science is really after. People discover Truth, and it is irrefutable science.
Knowledge is power, only if what you know holds as the truth. If what you know is false, how can it empower you? Wrong knowledge will be a source of problems and that can cost you dearly.
No wonder, it shall be Truth which will set men free. Truth is liberating and can provide independence. Lies meanwhile would enslave us and eventually false knowledge leads to destruction.
"Ever since mankind got infected, wrong knowledge accumulated and this has become the source of mankind's burden."
Infected? Mankind got infected? I'm glad you've got a lifetime ahead of you to read history, and try to discover reality.
OK, I'm ready.... what did mankind get infected with? Or by?
Please finish reading the post and take more time to communicate COMPLETELY. You got a habit of taking a few ideas then posting one and the same bias religiously.
Jon, maybe start with that one sentence and please explain what you mean...... "Ever since mankind got infected.." Infected with what? And when?
And please tell me, how is "Truth the same as irrefutable science?" Science is always open to revision and correction, that is it's essence. But religion, which proclaims 'truths', is static, whatever matters is in the past, God did this and that and it can't change.
Unless 'God' would choose to SHOW UP, but that's not likely, is it?
ANSWER: Infected by FALSE, misleading and poor KNOWLEDGE spread by F O O L S and forced down everyone's throats by propaganda: social or peer pressures. It started as soon as men found the means to learn from each other.
Maybe reread the original post too. It cannot be any different from what I am saying the first time. Stop the habit of reacting too hastily. That is cheap tabloid. You create a bold and huge headline but hide the facts in fine print to attract attention.
if only there where absolute truths. this is a construct of the human mind things are not right or wrong. good or bad, false or true only religion deals in absolutes and has left us with this idea we must know the truth. science is doing the same it cant break from that narrow narrative. add on "lies meanwhile would enslave us" i say the opposite is right. the truth enslaves you because u never question it.
You mean just like in WW2 the socialists took over and liberated the masses but most of them were RIP. Propaganda is never the idea for TRUTH. A lie often repeated does not become truth but a passport to HELL.
yes propaganda or public relations from a state is the same as religion. nationalism is worse than religion ill say that much because it leaves no room for the good messages religion brings. Both serve the same purpose teaching a absolute truth or ideal and both lead to a grandiose sense of self meaning you can kill for your truth or ideal. Heaven and hell exist in our experience of life not in the devotion to a promise you can never know.
Excellent! Very concise historical road map of poverty through the ages! Well Done super documentary for all ages!
So many holes in this !!!
I watched, I learned, I really really liked it! This would be an awesome video for first year social work students; it explains a whole lot in a very short video. I would use certainly use it as a teaching aid.
From a childhood during WWII, a period when there was no inflation and the world population was less than one-third of today's it has become plain to see this film avoids addressing the real truths. 1. the imposition of compound interes by the IMF and The World Bank go a long way to the further impoverishment of already poor countries. 2.Coupled with prolific population growth the amount of poverty can only grow commensurately. WAR was an alleviating factor by reducing population it gave reconstruction work to the survivors. Today the weapons of war are so horrific they can only rebound on those that use them. Reduction, not elimination of poverty can only be accomplished by reduction of debt and population levels by a quantum leap in world education.
In my own opinion of course...(cheshire smiles)...the film is worth a watch; well done with the animation. I'd argue it moved through the 1st 200,000 years of 'human' history a little too quickly, and thereby missed an important story-'more' research is proposing that many hunter/gatherers were quite successful and stayed in abundant food forests for long periods of time. In addition, it seems that women of the clans/tribes were highly regarded and societies were egalitarian (more equal). Turns out the women who hunted smaller game, and gathered vegetables, roots, nuts, berries, and medicines actually provided between 50% and 80% of the communities needs, including food. Regarding poverty today I would add: 1. we have already reached 'peak' child - we are having fewer children everywhere (but our pop is very young, so the #'s will rise until 2050 and level off, then gradually decline) and further 2. the 'idea' of over population I think is relative. Consider, living close, like in Tokyo, we could fit the world's entire population into the state of Texas, in the US. 3. We are now (as in today) growing 2 times MORE food then we need in the world-in fact in developed nations (so called) we 'throw away a great deal of food. Soo - population and too many children? not an issue, there is lots of room on the planet; Food? we already grow more then enough for double our current population. Those arguments are 'smoke screens'; the real answers are a) forgive debt - everywhere - the super rich are rich enough,(and all they would lose is more $ numbers on paper) b) provide equal education and opportunities for both girls and boys, c) financially support - minimally - communities with their own solutions and ideas. d) eliminate monopolies and break up banks and companies 'too big to fail' into smaller companies who are not provided unfair tax incentives or influence over people's representatives, e) no more wars. I think sincerely that greed and lust for power, and judgementalism are the reasons for today's inequity; we will change all that when we decide what 'humanity' really means. If our planetary values include value for 'life' and quality of life, and some reasonable semblance of fairness and justice, then we can fix this, all of it, quite quickly.
Surely there is enough room for more of us on the planet. But bringing more and more to add to those already starving or living in an abject poverty wouldn't improve much, would it?
It is nor a question of how many kids an average couple can have. It is a question of what is the reason behind it.
1. "I wanna more kids to have someone look after me in the old age" - that's a sheer selfishness and fear.
2. "I wanna my own kid, my own" - What does that mean? You own kid like your own car or your own handy? - That's not love, that's possessivness.
And then we got what we got - hundreds of millions of kids abandoned, neglected, rejected, abused and left to rot.
perhaps u did not intend to be harsh? You sound very judgemental. The 'evidence' tells us that when people do not lose children in childhood because the health status improves, and, when education levels improve (esp. with women) then people 'generally' have fewer children. The reason people have children is none of my damn business (and I would argue, nor yours). That said if you want to help the children abandoned, then help. However, if 'we' (all of us) fail to address the giant issues of our time - the injustice/treason of elites owning governments, exploiting and making war, poisoning the land, the air and the water, and still mostly successfully, managing the 'masses' through media and distraction. Whatever one of us does to help another is surely meaningful, yet we must also DO something to deal with the bloated purple elephant in the room!
No, but it certainly sounds harsh in a society that is built on lies.
And what choice does one have when one tries to shatter someone out of illusion? It is painful and it evokes anger. But still it is better than indifference. It is a chance for a discussion, you have stirred the heart a bit.
But when there is only indifference as the reply then the game is over.
Scarcity is relative, and knowledge is the greatest resource. It is a resource that is exponentially being generated as well. There will be more than enough to spread around before long. The question is will we actually utilize tech for the betterment of all mankind , as we def haven't been.
Poverty is a byproduct of false scarcity. The manipulation of humanity through the control mechanism of "money" and profit is pure evil.
All of these words, ambition, drive, skill, success, failure, shows the singular hive-minded imprinting my friends. The trained response of a human that has accepted itself as a unit of production in a system of consumption.
This is a manufactured Hyper-reality... none of it is real, it's all pointless.
I hope the moderator will post this.. as it says it all..
With all due respect to Richard Buckminster Fuller, many of the people he refers to in his last sentence were "thinking" about absolutely nothing prior to someone coming along telling them they had to earn a living, or if they were thinking about something, it was utterly selfish. Does he believe that everyone should, at the very least, attempt to be CONTRIBUTING members of society or not? What about you? Do you believe that certain members of society, perfectly capable of contributing something, should be allowed not to simply because they don't want to?
Of course it is an indoctrination that have been rammed into people's heads for centuries.
The army of sociopaths in various organized religions and state organizations have been working on it side by side in order to gain power, control and money.
Pharaos and cesars? Kings and queens, popes, high priests, barons? Out of fear, ignorance or sheer stupidity the unconscious masses have been worshipped these predators and parasites while themselves vegetating and dying in misery.
This is what I call poverty - poverty of human consciousness.
Poverty can and will NOT be solved. We will always have the rich and the poor; because of variations in circumstances, drive, talent, and luck. Some ppl have it all and end up "failures," while some have nothing and are "kings" in their own way. You don't need money to get things done. Some ppl with money have to pay ppl without money to do things ppl with money "normally" wouldn't and / or couldn't do. What I'm trying to say is Power is where it's at, and the rising poverty of our nation is directly related to the moral and mental status of those in power.
I believe the power to change begins by you wanting to change. One individual can influence his circle, which in turn influences another circle, and so on. But as humanity conforms its value system more and more to the values of those presently in power, then our income gaps will also get ever wider because the economic game that we play everyday turns from providing a service to all to a competition where only the best wins and everyone else can eat it.
What a shame. Poverty is easy to fix. Why with the application of genuine humanity and logical planning and just a touch of compassion for our fellow man we could devise economic systems and level out the standards of living common to all , organise, educate and liberate all humans form disease and ignorance.
Naturally implimenting such a system of integrity would take time. I mean humans are raised up on the maxim..."it is it too good to be true, then it isnt" . It might take a long time to condition people to favoring intelligence over manipulation.
While economic poverty may be an easy fix in theory, the moral poverty, poverty of ambition and talent, poverty of will, drive and skill, is not so simple to fix. In theory and in practice.
true that. I have tried to figure out a starting theory for the fixing of that ambition of mankind to better himself. But find it is highly subjective, and easilly sucumbs to repetitive negitive suggestion. When you find a person with a good working theory on that matter, it will hardly stand the riducule of the outsider who resists the attempt at the practice. Yet when you find five or more following the theorm, you have a cult whose method of practice cant be applied to outsiders. Then I have my fourth mental break down of the day and watch some Law and Order instead.
Lol. Enjoy your life girl. Enjoy your f***in life. The problems of the world will be here centuries after we have passed. Some of these problems will have been fixed, but the process of fixing them will cause even bigger issues, and so on and so on. If you enjoy thought experiments then by all means, continue. But if you are emotionally invested in the outcome and your personal solutions, you're doing yourself a disservice.
There are 2 issues here, poverty and income gap. In the developed nations income gap is a huge issue. Read "Spirit Level" to get a better understanding of the real impact income inequality has on societies, its huge.
I believe in capitalism and its impact on man kind over the years. However I believe it needs to be combined with a compulsory profit share for the employees. By all means reward the entrepreneur who's willing to risk it all to make a dream come true, but the grafters at the "coal face " ultimately make it happen with the systems/culture of the company. The workers need the recognition and reward they deserve.
Do the workers get a base-wage pay cut if the company doesn't make a profit?
If the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, than why is the population so ****** high?
This is the typical logistics of poverty, which unfortunately can be, but need not be, a perpetual loop. In poor countries lacking more modern development, children are necessary as a labor force (you can't afford to pay anyone else to harvest, for example and you equally may lack more labor saving devices) and for your care into your old age.
Some of this can be cultural too. Countries where women do not have the same legal equality as in more developed countries tend to show increased family size. You'll notice that population DECLINES have been a concern in parts of the developed world (and wealthier families tend to have smaller families)--and falling birth rates here were already a phenomenon here even before the advent of recent contraception like the pill, etc.
Perhaps one reason why the Earth has 7 billion people nonetheless (where in earlier centuries this would be impossible owing to disease and a productivity not nearly as abundant and dynamic), is that the poor of the world, depending on where you are, have not entirely escaped some of the improvements of the modern world (medicine, infrastructure) though very insufficient for a more decent development as where many poor can be adjacent to more urbanized centers (i.e, those who live in slums).
Thanks a lot for your articulate and informative reply.
You are most welcome. I appreciate your time in reading it.
How different might the world be if young minds watched this, instead of being fed Bronze Age Abrahamic Myths? Discussion and 'thinking' is unarguably a good thing for people to do. So why, here in the UK, and in most schools around the world, our young are indoctrinated into Christian, Jewish ir Islamic nonsense. Nonsense that keeps a very, very, few at the top...and everyone else contended just treading water, with no real hope of equality, and feathering the nests of the elite.
Whether you like this doc or not... If you berate it, I think you are kinda missing the Eleph...err, no...the Brontosaurus in the room!!!!!
The theistic beliefs themselves have little to do with the oppressive systems their religious elite have structured. At least that's the case for Christianity.
You guys sure complain a lot, I thought it was good as a basic overview although I was slightly offended by the fact that they seemed to think keynesian capitalism is the only thing that has been successful in reducing modern poverty.
Keynes' theories do a lot for people in the short run, but its long-term negative effects far outweigh the short-term positives. I prefer Chicago-school economics.
That's because you've never been at the bottom of the class pyramid when it was in practice.... see Chile and the Brick.
Longest commercial on poverty- ever!
I grew up poor. Never knew why until I read The Creature from Jekyll Island.
I found this documentary to be an incredibly useful overview of the evolution of social movement through human history. The simplification along with the great animation allowed me to be drawn in to a deeper understanding of of some key factors. Done in a more poetic way that allows for fundamental truths...A way that a more detailed and "accurate" representation likely be lost on someone like me. I am going to highly recommend to my high school kids and their teacher. Seems like it would be a great starting point for discussion.
Full of cliches and imprecise. Just compare the human population in the 70's and in 2010 and compare the rates of extreme poverty and hunger there in now. The same 1 billion remains today despite humans are now 7 billion people instead of 3 billion. This reduction of hunger and poverty has benefited mostly the periphery not the rich countries.
the depiction of hunter gatherers is not accurate and skews the rest of this history. I suggest reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn and the other books in series. the website is full of information too.
Poverty is always relative. As GDP grows, so grows GDP per capita. Unless the government is too corrupt to distribute the nation's wealth evenly across the society, no place on earth would enjoy absolute poverty.
@Kateye70 I think Rand had a noble idea, if not a very original one (we've seen plenty of individualistic romantic heroes before her), but she got strangely confused with details. Profit-seeking doesn't necessarily lead to high achievement as she proclaimed (nor does it automatically lead to exploitation, an opinion she attributed to opponents). I don't see yet how she could have missed the point given that some of her most negative "looter" characters were in fact underachieving egotistical profit-seekers.
Also, I read her novels - which are works of fiction for a reason - as intended exaggerations, a semi-religious satire (not of the positive rich heroes, but more of the collectivism and politics). They can and should be interpreted as metaphers, warnings, stipulations, rather than an accurate description (or prescription) of reality. Could be that she got carried off herself into believing too much of her own stories, what with the drug abuse and psychological problems. But there are grains of truth in her writing, too, for the discerning observer. Same goes for other religious texts - study them and you might find something useful, believe them and you're the utter fool.
All one has to do is watch just one of the interviews where she unequivocally states her views, and the notion of confusion and intentional exaggeration for purposes of satire fly out the window. She was not confused about what she meant, and there was nothing metaphorical about it. However, I agree with your last few words: "believe them and [one is an] utter fool."
My guess is that as far as poverty goes there's many solutions. Most are just variations of borrowing time, depending on WHAT,HOW and WHY you want to do them, some ideas may be better than others.
The solution that makes the most sense to me is a mixture of many processes, which may also come with a composite set of problems. Another good option is just to simply do what you can in your lifetime and ultimately let time decide our fate.
Time, which we may or may not have. Time, the enemy of all things.
The reality of impoverished nations is we want them that way, its what allows our high standard of living. We like despots, they allow us to extract large amounts of resources for pennies on the dollar.
It hardly touches the real reasons for the poverty, and it completely leaves out the biggest reason for it - privately held money creation power.
Also this "doc" is so fragmented that it makes it very confusing. And we all know what people usually do when they are confronted with confusing things. They stop while they are trying to make sense of things at hand.
Which of course is nice for status quo.
these so called experts seemed to not know much about the problem. at one point one of them stated that economists cannot figure out what causes prosperity or "the formula" and it just happens randomly (paraphrase).
Technology allows for more work done with less people... but as soon as the technology is unleashed the population goes up and up.
We need to unleash clean tech, but make a policy for population stabilization. We can have all the best tech in the world to reduce poverty, but if people are wealthy they also want to f--k like rabbits.
So, unleash the tech, implement population stabilization policies.
1.In poorer societies sometimes people purposely have more children so they know someone will be there to take care of them in their old age, help bring in income, help tend fields and with manual labor, etc.
2. Different theocracies forbid the use of birth control of any kind.
3.Lack of education means often people are not even aware of all the options modern science offers.
4. Even though many poorer cultures have advanced to the point large families are a detriment people cling to cultural norms rooted in the past.
However, according to the United Nations world population should flatten out around 2050 at ten billion, and then decline back to were we currently are by 2100. At least this is the statistics Micheal Shermer quoted at TAM this year.
Matt. It's good to get ones facts right before one share his/hers ideas with others. That way one doesn't look like i*iot so easily.
Birthrate is highest in poor countries, and birthrate is lowest in rich countries.
I think people fock equally accross the globe....rich or poor, if they can. The result does not end in birth in developped countries because of the pill, abortion, women's freedom of sexuality (as in saying don't come inside), and the likes.
Matt, I agree... Anytime efficiency is increased, we just use more of it. See Jevons Paradox. Population size is regulated by our ability to produce energy. With oil, you see population become exponential. If we increase efficiency, then without population policies in place, we will fill that efficiency with more people... The same goes to new energy technologies (think fusion), we will just consume to the point that the population cant sustain the standard of living for everyone. We are already at this point with our current energy production, people dieing from lack of basic necessities is a sign of meeting this tipping point.
But you can save a child's future for less than the cost of a cup of coffee a day !!!
Guilt trip anyone ? The industrialized nations are consuming vastly more than the impoverished nations, and the kicker is, the big industry gets most of those resources from the impoverished nations. And thanks to privatization its beginning to happen in our own back yards.
I'm just thankful Ill be going into 2014 with nothing but recurring bills. Debts will be done with in the matter of a few months.
Congrats! That's a good way to begin the new year.
Don't want to spoil the ending, but the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, but the presentation was cleverly done.
the wealthy should get a taste of poverty themselfs!!!!
For example. "Doc" doesn't address the biggest reason for poverty - pervertic money mechanics - at all.
Not super thorough, more of a general overview of historical to modern poverty. It does rather successfully display different types of poverty and a widened definition of it as well. Really nice animation as well. Great production value. Overall, definitely worth a watch.
We need a world in which the do-nothings convince the know-nothings that the have-nothings will lead us down the path to wonderfully equal nothingness.
What ridiculous exaggeration!! No one wants to do away with meritocracy, no one ever said they did. This documentary just outlined the fact that the monetary out flow of poor nations to the rich nations equals about one trillion US dollars, while the aid they give in return is only one tenth to an eighth of that. Now you can say they are asking for charity or a hand out but the truth is you and I gain from their poverty and in return people like you have the nerve to thumb your nose at the less fortunate? Whats more you refuse to even admit you do gain from their unnecessary suffering in any way and try to present it as if all you have access to is what you have earned- not true for you or any other person living in the developed world.
dufas_duck is an example of someone who has not studied the Great Book of Rand carefully enough, and so took from it only what fit his narcissist self-image. Rand has made it very easy for dumb people to read her like that and to confuse her satirical black-and-white world with reality.
I guess you don't know much about Ayn Rand and her little in-group. There wasn't anything satirical about her writing, although I agree her world view was pretty much black-and-white.
I think Ayn Rand's world view was mentally ill and boosted with amphetamine.
Yes, until her world changed and she died in poverty, collecting not only supposed "welfare" before she died--horrors!--in the form of Social Security, but also possibly Medicare. Her husband collected Social Security as well. Funny how those abstract theories change once the real world sets in.
I'm sure you were very good in school. You seem to be very good in repeating the message from above with zero critical thinking.
If you would check on the claims of many of the documentaries that I have seen you support, you might find that many do not fit with the facts. Some are true, most exaggerate for effect, many are outright propaganda.


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Q: When I plug my Windows 10 laptop into a projector, the screen blinks endlessly I installed Windows 10 on my laptop and everything works great.  Except when I take it to meetings and plug into a projector, nothing shows up on the projector and my screen blinks madly between all black and a grayish screen where I can kind of make out the mouse cursor.
I understand that Windows 10 is alpha/beta... what steps can I take to troubleshoot this problem?
Here are some facts:

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*Resolution: 1366x768

*The projector worked fine when the laptop was Windows 8.1

*The graphics card is Intel HD Graphics Family (whatever that means)

*The driver is from May 2014, so reasonably recent and I don't see any updates.

*The Device Manager is all good, except for 1 item marked Other Devices -> Unknown Device (can't figure out what it is - Details tab doesn't really give any info).

A: The Fact that your graphics card is identified as Intel HD Graphics most likely means that Windows 10 cant find a driver for it. You can:

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*Right click > properties > update driver online.

*Go to the manufacturer website and try the most recent driver.

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*You could install in comparability mode by right click the install exe if they don't have a driver for Windows 10 yet, which I'm sure they don't and wont

Pretty safe to say that your graphics card is integrated on an Intel mother board. If you need to view your hardware in Windows 10 go to All Apps > Windows Administrative Tools > System information.
I personally prefer using an application like PC Wizard.

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*Go to "My Computer"

*Try to disable the built in-video card

*Enable the external video card

*Restart

*Go to "My Computer"

*In "Properties," disable the external video card

*Enable the built-in video card

*Enable the external video card

(It's all automatic detection.)

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Msinga Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Umzinyathi District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The name means a current in the sea where air movement causes ripples on top of the water surface and ends up influencing the nearby climatic conditions through its breeze.

Msinga is largely located in deep gorges of the Tugela and Buffalo Rivers, isolated from the immediate surrounding municipal areas. The population dynamics result in a growing rural area and a declining urban area in Msinga, contrary to most other areas in the country. This can be attributed to the fact that the urban areas of Msinga are very small and are unable to provide the normal range of goods and services provided in urban areas.

Msinga is a poverty stricken area with few economic resources and little economic activity. Social services and private households generate 29% of the income for the area.

Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-one wards, while the remaining twenty are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a majority of twenty-seven seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links
 http://www.msinga.org/

Local municipalities of the Umzinyathi District Municipality

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Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1 é o terceiro extended play (EP) da rapper americana Saweetie. Foi lançado digitalmente em 16 de abril de 2021 através de seu próprio selo, Icy e pela Warner Records. O projeto contém participações especiais de Bbyafricka, Kendra Jae, Lourdiz, Loui e Drakeo the Ruler. O EP foi procedido pelos singles promocionais "Risky" com Drakeo the Ruler e "Talkin' Bout" de Loui com Saweetie. O EP precede o lançamento do próximo álbum de estúdio de estreia de Saweetie, Pretty Bitch Music.

Fundo
Em 5 de abril de 2021, Saweetie anunciou em sua conta oficial no Instagram o lançamento de Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1. O chamando de uma "nova tradição", Saweetie disse na legenda do anúncio do projeto que "todo verão eu estou compartilhando minha plataforma e lançando uma lista de reprodução com artistas que estão na próxima. Esta é a primeira temporada".

No EP de 7 faixas, a rapper destaca estrelas em ascensão, incluindo a vocalista nativa de Sacramento, Kendra Jae, na faixa "Seesaw", e a cantora e compositora de San Antonio, Lourdiz, que adiciona seus vocais a "Back Seat". Nomes conhecidos como Drakeo the Ruler em "Risky", faixa essa que serve como abertura do EP. "Baby Mama Coochie" de Bbyafricka e o sucesso do TikTok "Talkin' Bout" de Loui.

Composição e conceito
Em "See Saw", Saweetie canta sobre seu ex-namorado Quavo e sua suposta infidelidade. A música animada se dirige a uma mulher desprezada que está dizendo adeus a um relacionamento romântico tóxico. Saweetie reflete sobre ser enganada em acreditar que Quavo era sua "âncora" que "diria que você vai fazer melhor, mas é sempre o oposto" durante seus dois anos juntos. Ela também acusa Quavo de mandar ameaças e termina seu verso com: "Não é a mulher que você pensava / Você estava pegando carona, narcisista do caralho, você só está bravo por ter sido pego", reiterando seu tweet de 19 de março sobre ele alegada infidelidade.

Lista de faixas

Notas
"Talkin' Bout" contém samples de "Booty Me Down" e "Teach Me How to Dougie", originalmente interpretadas por Kstylis e Cali Swag District.

Créditos
Lista-se abaixo todos os profissionais envolvidos na elaboração de Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1, créditos adaptados do Genius.

 Saweetie – artista principal, vocais, compositora
 Drakeo the Ruler – vocal em destaque, compositor, artista em destaque
 BbyAfricka – vocal em destaque, compositora, artista em destaque
 Kendra Jae – vocal em destaque, compositora, artista em destaque
 Lourdiz – vocal em destaque, compositora, artista em destaque
 Loui – vocal em destaque, compositor, artista em destaque
 Jaycen Joshua – engenheiro de mixagem
 Colin Leonard – engenheiro de masterização
 Mike Seaberg – engenheiro assistente
 Jacob Richards – engenheiro assistente
 DJ Riggins – engenheiro assistente

 Dirty Sosa – produtor; programação
 Trev Rich – compositor
 Dinuzzo – produtor; programação
 Th3ory – produtor; programação
 T-Nyce – produtor; programação
 B Ham – produtor; programação
 Mike Crook – produtor; programação
 Ryan OG – produtor; programação
 BigBroLGND – produtor; programação
 Bizness Boi – produtor; programação
 Derelle Rideout – produtor

Histórico de lançamento

Álbuns de Saweetie
EP de 2021
EPs de hip hop


Hato Moa and Damurushi are the creative force behind the hit pigeon dating sim sensation Hatoful Boyfriend and its sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star. First released as an April Fool's joke in 2011, Hatoful Boyfriend has exploded into an international phenomenon with a worldwide fanbase, and just recently had a successful Kickstarter to crowdfund plush dolls of its characters. In addition, the writing and art duo are working on new games, such as the mystery visual novel Black Holmes, and the BL visual novel Queen's Lingerie Show.


Early studies examining the relations between respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of parasympathetic regulation, and children's prosocial development provided little evidence of consistent associations. We contend that the Polyvagal Theory, as recently refined by Stephen Porges (2007, 2011), provides an evolutionary-based theoretical framework for the essential role of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), and the vagus nerve in particular, in the generation of positive other-oriented emotions and actions. Recent studies provide evidence that the flexible withdrawal and augmentation of parasympathetic influence over cardiac activity is associated with effective emotion regulation in response to others' emotions, feelings of sympathetic concern, and displays of helpful and altruistic behaviors. Thus, one key aspect of understanding the multidisciplinarity of prosocial behavior is recognizing the integration of physiological, affective, cognitive and behavioral functioning that underlies children's positive engagement with their social world.


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Boone: The Bounty Hunter
A fame-seeking reality show Bounty Hunter gets carried away in his role and tries to bring down a drug lord and his empire. But when his quest for accolades ends with a bounty on his own head, this vigilante learns that serving justice is a heck of a lot more dangerous than ratings!
STARRING: John Hennigan (WWE Smackdown!), Osric Chau (Supernatural), Kevin Sorbo (God's Not Dead), Spencer Grammar (Greek), Jonathan Lipnicki (The Little Vampire), Dominque Swain (Face/Off), Lorenzo Lamas (American Dad)
DIRECTED BY: Robert Kirbyson
PRODUCED BY: Brady Romberg , Jonathan Lee Smith
You've Been Boone'd. Marine-turned-bounty hunter Darrell Boone (John Hennigan, WWE Smackdown!) uses a combination of brute strength, athletic prowess and persuasion to bring down fugitives from the law (Kevin Sorbo, Andromeda) for his hit reality TV series. Backed by his fearless crew (Spender Grammar, Greek; Osric Chau, Supernatural; Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, The A-Team; Dominique Swain, Face/Off), Boone will go to any length to get the shot and throw these criminals behind bars. But when the network decides to cancel his show due to low ratings, Boone has just the fix. His plan is to hunt down a cold-blooded drug lord (Richard Tyson, Black Hawk Down) and kidnap his spoiled son (Jonathan Lipnicki, Stuart Little). But when a bounty is put on his own head, this reality vigilante must use every kick-ass trick at his disposal to bring down the bad guys, save his show and become a hero.


Goldberg Karen is located at the address 12017 Kerwood Rd in Silver Spring, Maryland 20904. They can be contacted via phone at (301) 680-9060 for pricing, hours and directions.
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Did fugitive spy Metsos lead to Russian spy arrests?
July 28, 2010 by intelNews Leave a comment
C.R. Metsos
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
Soon after the June 27 arrests of 10 Russian non-official-cover (NOC) spies in several US cities, one name came to the attention of intelligence observers: Sergei Tretyakov. Tretyakov was a senior Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) officer who defected to the US in 2000, while second-in-command at the SVR station in Russia's United Nations mission in New York –the same outfit that run the deep-cover operatives arrested in June by the FBI. The Bureau's own admission that it began monitoring the operatives around 2001, has caused many to believe that Tretyakov, who died suddenly on June 13, at age 53, may have tipped off the FBI about the NOCs. But Russian investigative journalist Yulia Latynina has raised a second possibility, no less intriguing than the first. Namely that it was not Tretyakov who betrayed the deep-cover operatives to the FBI, but rather the mysterious so-called 11th spy, Christopher R. Metsos, a seasoned SVR operative who is said to have acted as a go-between and financier for all 10 Russian spies. Read more of this post
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Fate of 11th Russian spy suspect remains a mystery
By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org |
As the world's media attention is focused firmly on last week's 14-member spy swap between Russia and the United States, the fate of the 11th member of the Russian deep-cover intelligence network remains unknown. The operative, known as Christopher R. Metsos, was listed as "defendant No. 1" in the FBI criminal complaint against the now infamous Russian illegals network. Like his co-defendants, he was not charged with espionage, but with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government". He was also charged with money laundering, and was described as the main financier of his ten co-defendants. However, Metsos escaped arrest in the US, because during the FBI raids he was in Cyprus, where he had arrived on June 17. He was arrested on June 29 at the island's Larnaca International Airport, while trying to board a flight for Budapest, Hungary. A much younger woman traveling with him was allowed to leave on the flight, according to Cypriot media. Read more of this post
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Wanted Russian spy ring member skips bail in Cyprus
July 1, 2010 by intelNews Leave a comment
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Police in the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus have issued an arrest warrant for a member of an alleged Russian spy ring in the United States, who had been released on bail following his capture on Tuesday. The FBI says that Christopher R. Metsos, who holds Canadian citizenship, was the financial go-between in the 11-member Russian spy ring, which was busted in a series of coordinated raids across several US states on Saturday. On June 25, Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for Metsos, who escaped arrest in the US because he was in Cyprus, where he had arrived on June 17. He was arrested at the island's Larnaca International Airport on Tuesday, while trying to board a flight for Budapest, Hungary. Remarkably, however, Metsos was soon released on bail, awaiting an extradition request from Washington. Predictably, on Wednesday, he failed to report to Larnaca police, as stipulated in his bail release court order. Read more of this post
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FBI busts alleged Russian spy ring, 11 arrested [updated]
June 29, 2010 by intelNews 7 Comments
Ten members of an alleged Russian spy ring operating in America's East Coast were arrested in a series of coordinated raids on Sunday. US Department of Justice insiders said that the arrests, which took place in Arlington, New Jersey, New York, and Boston, marked the culmination of an FBI counterintelligence operation initiated during the second administration of President Bill Clinton. It appears that the alleged Russian agents were non-official-cover (NOC) operatives, otherwise known as 'illegals', a term used to identify deep-cover intelligence operatives not associated with the diplomatic representation of the Russian Federation in the United States. Eight of the arrestees were married couples and all were using fake identities. Almost all are fluent in several languages; they include "Vicky Pelaez", who worked for a New York Spanish-language newspaper, another woman identified as "Anna Chapman" (see photo), and "Mikhail Semenko", who is said to be fluent in English, Spanish, Russian, and even Mandarin. An eleventh alleged member of the spy ring, named as "Christopher R. Metsos", remains at large and is wanted by the FBI was captured by Greek-Cypriot authorities at Larnaca airport earlier today, while trying to board a flight for Hungary. Read more of this post
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Davis Street Mercantile, a new furniture store and design studio, opened Saturday. It is the work of husband-and-wife Joe Ramirez and Amy Thomasson Ramirez. She is an interior designer, and he is a real estate broker with a talent for refurbishing vintage furniture. They started designing furniture together about two years ago.
The Oak Cliff residents bought the two-story building at 443 W. Davis in October. They leased one of two upstairs studios to Nikki Cotten Photography, which also celebrated its grand opening Saturday.


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Easily to reach, immerged in the Baroque Art of the Old Town Palaces.
Lecce is about 40 Km from the International "Airport of Salento" in Brindisi and 160 Km from the International Airport "Karol Wojtyla" of Bari. Arriving by car it is possible to reach the hotel, in the Old Town, by using a permission given at your arrival from the receptionists; for the whole stay a safe, covered and pay parking is at your disposal at a very small distance. The Hotel is reachable by walk from the train station of Lecce in 12 minutes or, in 15 minutes starting from the City Terminal located in the northern entrance of the City.
It will be important to note that, in order to enter to the limited traffic area it will be necessary to provide the reception staff the car plate number and make a signature on a form which will be presented at check-in. Transit in the ZTL is possible on arrival and departure, exclusively for helping with luggages. In order to park your car, it is essential to do it outside the walls surrounding the old town (5 minutes walk from the Hotel, Via Adua). Our advice is to set up the navigator on "Piazzetta Arco di Trionfo" and, once arrived there, call us in order to be "guided" by telephone to the hotel.


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Q: Why the results from R don't match Spark MLlib? I have a simple csv file (99 observation, the file is attached) and I want to do a simple regression and predict a field on my file (Energy consumption "y_3"). I applied Linear regression (lm method in caret, code is at the end) in R and LinearRegressionWithSGD (code at the end) in MLlib, Spark.
But the RMSE in Spark is 20 times more than R.
So I am confused with these results and any help would be appriciated
Thanks
CSV:
y_3,x_6,x_7,x_73_1,x_73_2,x_73_3,x_8
2995.3846153846152,17.0,1800.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,12.0
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2001.9512195121952,35.0,1432.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,5.0
992.4324324324324,17.0,1430.0,1.0,0.0,0.0,12.0
4386.666666666667,26.0,1430.0,0.0,0.0,1.0,25.0
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R code:
library(caret)
library(fscaret)
set.seed(123)
data.main <- read.csv(file="data_2.csv",head=TRUE,sep=",")
split <- createDataPartition(y = data.main$y_3, p = 0.8, list = FALSE)
train <- data.main[split,]
test <- data.main[-split,]
lmCVFit.lm <-train(y_3 ~ .,
                 data = train,
                 method = "lm")
p <- predict.train(lmCVFit.lm, test[,-1])
t <- test$y_3
n <- nrow(test)
mse.lm <- MSE(p, t, n)
rmse.lm <- RMSE(p, t, n)

Spark code:
val datadir = new String("data directory");
val headerAndRows = sc.textFile(datadir + "/data_2.csv");
val header = headerAndRows.first;
val data = headerAndRows.filter(_(0) != header(0));
val parsedData = data.map { line =>
    val parts = line.split(',')
    LabeledPoint(parts(0).toDouble, Vectors.dense(parts(1).split(' ').map(_.toDouble)))
    }.cache()
// Split data into training and test
val splits = parsedData.randomSplit(Array(0.8, 0.2), seed = 11L);
val train = splits(0).cache
val test = splits(1).cache
val algorithm = new LinearRegressionWithSGD()
    algorithm.setIntercept(true)
    algorithm.optimizer
    .setNumIterations(100)
    .setStepSize(0.5)
    .setUpdater(new SquaredL2Updater())
    .setRegParam(10.0)
val new_model = algorithm.run(train)
val valuesAndPreds = test.map { point =>
    val prediction = new_model.predict(point.features)
    val r = (point.label, prediction)
    r
    }
val residuals = valuesAndPreds.map {case (v, p) => math.pow((v - p), 2)}
val MSE = residuals.mean();
val RMSE = math.pow(MSE, 0.5);


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The Dutch government will spend around 1 billion euros more on IT projects than originally planned, Financieele Dagblad concludes after analyzing 125 recent ICT initiatives by the national government.
The original budget for the analyzed projects was approximately 2.5 billion euros. The expected costs have now risen to 3.5 billion euros, according to the newspaper. On average, the projects are 36 percent over budget. For 22 projects, costs doubled.
Consultancy and service firm Royal Imtech N.V. formally entered bankruptcy protection on Thursday. The fate of part of the Gouda-based company's workforce, including 22,000 global employees, of which 2,700 are in the Netherlands, is not yet known.
Numerous schools contacted software company Afas after it donated 300,000 euros and new computers to the Hugo Grotius School in Rotterdam. The company's phone rang constantly beginning early on Monday morning with more schools asking for a sponsorship contract, newspaper AD reported.
In the next five years, another 15,000 jobs will disappear in the finance sector according to a report from benefits agency UWV. Despite the growing economy, the job market in the financial sector is not healthy.
State secretary for Finance, Eric Wiebes, says it may be years before the Tax Administration is entirely functional again, and is not ruling out new incidents with tax returns, the Algemeen Dagblad reports.
Failed or too expensive, some of the government's IT projects have come under fire. Parliament will be hearing questions about these on Friday.
The World Economic Forum has listed the Netherlands as the country with the third best accommodations for international trade. Singapore and Hong Kong repeated as the top two countries, with Holland advancing from 7th in the biannual Global Enabling Trade Report.


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November 29, 2020 November 29, 2020 Mark Noonan
So, you've started on Kings and Queen and you suddenly figure out a really cool plot development – one which will just make the story vastly more interesting and fun…and then realize it means you're going to have to do quite a bit of ret-con on Shadow Army because of it. You smile and do it anyway – because fun is what stories are supposed to be about.
Trump is still battling away. He's got the next week to get something so strong that the Courts and/or the State legislatures can't ignore it. We'll see if he can do this. To me, the obviousness of the steal grows day by day…but I'm not a Court nor am I a GOP State legislator who simply may be chicken. At all events, Biden's best hope is to crawl into the White House with no real authority and a complete inability to permanently alter anything. Meanwhile, looming in 2022 is what may be a blowout GOP year.
And I heard that Trump is considering appointing a special counsel to look into voter fraud in 2020. To be sure, Biden could immediately fire the guy and the MSM would cheer…but for all fair minded people, that would essentially be an admission of guilt. Here is a good rundown on all the oddities of 2020's vote.
Looks like the GOP will win IA-02 by six votes. Never doubt that you should vote. There are seven Iowa Democrats kicking themselves this morning.
The GOP – including Trump – are all-in on the Georgia Senate runoffs. I've been swatting at GOPers (or supposed GOPers) telling us to boycott the campaigns. That would be suicidal. I know the GOP sucks – but it's all we got. And we can't let the Democrats take the Senate. The end.
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Amazona November 29, 2020 / 5:17 pm
I'm listening to the Michael Knowles podcast this morning while building a device to keep
Boogie the Cat from breaking into his automatic feeder to cheat on his diet. (I do have an exciting life.) Anyway, after about the 40th repetition of the word "concede"—-Dems think Trump should concede, some alleged Republicans think Trump should concede, what will happen if Trump doesn't concede, blah blah blah—I had to take a break to comment on the strange idea that the outcome of the election is up to Trump, and that if he would just "give up" it would be over.
I think this ties in with the superficiality of understanding so many, perhaps even most, Americans have of systems. What if Trump were to come out and say "I give up, Joe. I concede." And then the Court rules that millions of votes were illegal and according to the law, Trump was the winner all along based on legal votes? The sillies would claim that wouldn't matter because he "conceded". Well, this is not a cage match where if you tap out you lose, no matter what. This is a SYSTEM that is bases the winner of the election on who received the most legal votes.
I haven't heard anyone point out that it is not within the power of the president to declare himself the loser, any more than it is within the power of the former vice president to do legitimately declare himself the winner. They can "declare" and "concede" all the want to, it is still going to come down to the numbers.
Retired Spook November 29, 2020 / 5:39 pm
It seems to me that the standard for conceding has already been set by the Demcrats. Hillary Clinton told Joe Biden not to concede under any circumstances, and even though she did eventually call Trump and concede in 2016, she spent the next 4 years trying to take it back.
dbschmidt November 29, 2020 / 7:47 pm
Well, aside from a judge trying to steal the election for a NY house seat by fiat just ran across a story that " Former Vice President Joe Biden's plan to do away with the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) could bankrupt the entire firearms industry." Even though I tend to prefer off calibers–I have been hunting for a Henry Bigboy H006 for months and all local "Gold Dealers" do not have or are on back order. Get what you can while it is still America.
On the other hand…A site I go to for a little warped humor has among other things a meme of Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) pronouncing "Image a world where YouTube, Twitter and Facebook merge to become known as YouTwitFace."
https://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/
simoneee9 November 29, 2020 / 7:55 pm
Did we ever work out exactly what Ivanka was being paid to do?
Did you ever work out what Hunter Biden was being paid to do?
Pretty sure Hunter isn't a Presidential Advisor.
Retired Spook November 29, 2020 / 10:44 pm
Good thing.
Did we ever "work out" that Ivanka is even being paid? Only those deep in the fever swamp of hysterical Trump hatred would fret about something like this without even finding out. Poor sad stilly little fussbudgets, snouting around for something to be outraged about.
The 36-year-old is working as a White House advisor for her father, President Donald Trump, but her annual salary in that position is a big fat zero.
According to The Associated Press, Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner chose not to take a salary in the White House
No, Hunter was a Vice Presidential adviser, letting Daddy know he was going to be investigated so Daddy could step in with taxpayer dollars to save his sorry a**. and advising Daddy on which "business" deals he could use his status and position as Vice President as leverage to make them both rich.
He may have advised Daddy to take that no-interest five million dollar "loan" from the Communist Party of China, especially as it seems to lack some details, like when it has to be repaid.
I figured someone might try to off Joe Biden before the inauguration, but I never suspected it might be his dog.
You bring up an interesting question: If someone is actually elected to the presidency (unlike Joe Biden at this point) and he dies before he is inaugurated, does the person who ran for the vice presidency on the same ticket then get inaugurated instead? I never looked up the line of succession for a situation like this.
I always thought that having Kammy waiting in the wings would be only marginally less threatening than having Hillary there. Yikes. Talk about having a bullseye on your back! Maybe we should start now having bumper stickers printed saying Joe Biden Did Not Commit Suicide.
Anyway, I really can't see Joe being so active in playing with Fido that he would get hurt. More likely, he stumbled over the dog on his way to his Lazy-Boy with his bowl of tapioca and then asked Jill "Do we have a dog?"
Several people addressed your question immediately after the election.
Bottom line, it's not exactly certain what happens if the winning candidate dies before the Electoral College votes or before Congress certifies that vote in early January since it's never happened.
Retired Spook December 1, 2020 / 11:27 am
If someone is actually elected to the presidency (unlike Joe Biden at this point) and he dies before he is inaugurated
I think a more important question would be, what happens if Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are inaugurated on January 20th, and in subsequent days, weeks or months, irrefutable evidence surfaces that there indeed was massive fraud, including, but not necessarily limited to thousands of dead people voting, tens of thousands of people voting in a state where they were no longer residents or voting in multiple states, hundreds of thousands of people who didn't vote, but someone stole their mail-in ballot and voted for them where the signature wasn't verified, and millions of votes that completely defy statistical analysis? And that doesn't even address the likely tens of millions of votes that social media changed by censoring information and directing searches in ways that hurt Trump and/or benefited Harris/Biden.
We all remember multiple news organizations descending on Florida in early 2001, bound and determined to prove that Al Gore actually won, only to find (unanimously) that George Bush did indeed win. Now I doubt that ANY complicit agenda media organization will go on a crusade to prove that Trump actually won in 2020, but the way we get news has changed so dramatically since 2001, that there is no way that efforts by independent investigative journalists (YES, JOURNALISTS) like John Solomon, Kimberley Strassel, Lara Logan, Sharyl Attkisson, and Sara Carter, just to name a few, will be silenced. Add to that the entire crew at The Blaze, as well as a number of writers at TownHall.com, and you've got a formidable group.
Amazona December 1, 2020 / 5:42 pm
As far as I can tell, if a president is inaugurated he is the president, period, barring impeachment and a subsequent vote to remove him from office. And it would be hard to impeach Joe himself on this fraud, because its planning and execution are clearly way above his ability to understand much less orchestrate and execute.
While the Constitution does not address overturning a presidential election due to fraud, it does give the Court the ability to rule based on the Constitution, and it is possible that a ruling that this election violated the Constitution could end up getting the election declared invalid. However, I doubt that the Court would then award the presidency to Trump—it would be more likely to call for a new election. Even the Catholic Church in its most rigid eras agreed that a marriage based on fraud was not legitimate or binding and I am sure this is abundant case law making the same point. However, if both Biden and Harris were declared to not have a legal claim to their offices, that would leave the presidency open until a new election could be held, and it would probably devolve onto the Speaker of the House.
Or, backing up to the Electoral College, if the votes from several states were determined to be invalid due to fraud perhaps the Electoral College vote itself would be declared invalid as well, and a new EC would have to be named and vote, without the states named in the fraud being allowed to be represented.
But no matter what the remedies might be, I do think that it is a general matter of law that a contract based upon a fraud is not binding.
Cluster December 1, 2020 / 8:27 am
"Do we have a dog?"
hahahahahahahahahaha good one
So for 3 years the media chased a Russia collusion hoax because they were convinced there was chicanery in the 2016 election that went to Trump. They parsed every angle of that story 24/7 alarming their viewers that the "walls are closing in on Trump", despite zero evidence. We all now know there was not even one morsel of evidence that could lead anyone to that conclusion but that did not stop our national media.
Fast forward to 2020 and this statement from a world renowned cyber security expert:
I conclude with high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all battleground states resulting in hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump to be transferred to Vice President Biden. These alterations were the result of systemic and widespread exploitable vulnerabilities in DVS, Scytl/SOE Software and Smartmatic systems that enabled operators to achieve the desired results. In my view, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible.
Where's the media?? Absent. AWOL. No curiosity whatsoever, no walls closing in. They are all mouthing the establishment/ruling class narrative and coronating the pedophile.
#reformmedia
https://spectator.org/legitimacy-of-biden-win-buried-by-objective-data/
Amazona December 1, 2020 / 9:05 am
The media are still pounding the idea that evidence is the same as proof, so in the absence of proof like you get in courts the evidence simply doesn't matter. It's what they do, and their mindless minions regurgitate it.
For a little while, till it got too ridiculous for even them to keep it up so they just dropped the whole subject and pretended like it didn't exist at all, one of the ways they tried to dismiss the significance of the Hunter Biden laptop was that it represented mere "hearsay". Aside from the fact that that was profoundly stupid—it was in Hunter's own words—they seem to have forgotten that the ENTIRE impeachment charade was based on hearsay. And faulty distorted hearsay at that. But they get away with it, because their audience is dumb and doesn't know the difference between hearsay and testimony.
Ditto for the testimony of the poll watchers and other witnesses to the many many frauds perpetrated by the Dems in the election—it is often sneeringly dismissed as mere "hearsay". No, dummies, when you personally observe something and tell someone what you saw that is testimony—and testimony IS evidence.
The dumbing down of America is the ONLY thing that has let the Left get as strong as it it.
As for "reforming" the media, first you have to pick a medium—in this case you are probably talking about the television "news" medium, which I think is the biggest culprit. That is tricky territory, as it involves dealing with the 1st Amendment. I think the only thing we could do is try, somehow, to define the role of the press as media—print, television and radio–required to present to the public actual and accurate accounting of events.
Just as we are now talking about removing the legal protections of Section 230 so that the major social media platforms could lose legal protections against slander, libel and other accusations because they have proved to be not just a conduit of statements from third parties but active participants in what is and is not disseminated through their platforms. That makes them part of the messages, which should make them liable for the messages.
Finding some way to make the alleged "news" media, whether television or print, responsible for what they say is more problematic because they have a 1st Amendment right to express their opinions. It is when those opinions are presented as objective fact that we run into problems with them, but I don't see a way to control what they say without violating our own standards and belief systems.
I think the approach in the case of the 2020 election would be to identify the opinions of the media as, because they are so flagrantly biased and skewed to promote a specific political agenda and party, in-kind political contributions and deal with them as such. Perhaps we should have a Congressional investigation into election interference and require those being grilled to run the entire thing on their stations, so those who watch can learn that they were lied to, manipulated and herded into a Leftist pen where they were harvested for their votes.
We might consider the possibility of requiring a chyron stating that the person speaking is giving his or her personal opinion and this should not be considered as objective fact when someone like Nicole Wallace or Joy Reid is gabbling on about some hate-driven nonsense. The problem with requiring labeling of "opinion" vs "news" is that it comes down to an judgment made by a person, or persons, and that is where everything always falls apart.
But the best, and easiest, solution is to provide an alternative—an alternative that not only provides real unadulterated news but also educates an ignorant public about the difference between news and opinion.
The dumbing down of America is the ONLY thing that has let the Left get as strong as it is.
Correct, and by design. Our kids now are weaponized, over emotional apparatchiks who subscribe to the manufactured issues of climate change and systemic racism which gives space to the ruling class to exert more control in the name of equality. Anyone who doesn't see that has their head up their ass.
Re: media reform, I have no problem with opinion shows and actually encourage Democrats to speak loudly about who they are and what they actually believe in, but that doesn't happen. They are dishonest so they always cloak their lunacy but that lunacy needs to be disclosed so MSNBC, CNN, Fox, etc. should be clearly labeled as "Opinion Based Programming" period. The word "news" or "journalism" should never be mentioned.
It would be hard to find a bigger piece of shit than Obama. The most unimpressive "man" in any room just finished writing his third book about himself and said this when interviewed:
In an interview with Stephen Colbert to promote his new memoir, former US president Barack Obama said that 'puzzling out' the biggest political issues was 'professionally really satisfying'. Obama is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term after his two election victories in 2008 and 2012. The pair also swiped at Donald Trump, with Colbert saying that the current president had shown that 'there's a whole bunch of stuff you don't actually have to do' and Obama responding: 'Who knew'?The pair also swiped at Donald Trump, with Colbert saying that the current president had shown that 'there's a whole bunch of stuff you don't actually have to do' and Obama responding: 'Who knew'?
Trump accomplished more constructive results for this country in one year than Obama did in eight years, but that doesn't stop the sycophant Colbert from bringing out his knee pads for "the one they have all been waiting for".
America would be much better off without "men" like this


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We cannot deny that the laptop displays are sometimes awful, and we have been dealing with it for the longest time. It is undeniably true that the best laptops were sold these days, and their resolution has been developing. However, the contrast and spectrum of an average laptop are woeful.
For the very first time after several years, we are about to witness a major revolution in the quality of a laptop display. Take note that this is not just about Ultra HD that swiftly became conventional, but also a newest picture technology that any adherent of the top-of-the-line televisions will be familiar with and we called it OLED or Organic Light Emitting Diodes.
Conceivably, you may think that you have a better screen quality when you own an Asus Zenbook or a Dell XPS 15. Compare to other laptops, you are correct. However, each laptop has the same flaw, their backlight.
In a usual LCD panel, the crystals turned to channel light to create an image. However, they do not generate light of their own. The picture will become visible only because of the light that comes on its screen that bright through its LCD panel. It works with that, but it also means that it is not possible to have a seamlessly dark image. To some extent, the light is always on. The process is not the same with OLED. It made of pixels that produce its own light instead of liquid crystals, and it doesn't require any backlighting function. The basis of this latest technology is that when an existing flows in the middle of an anode and cathode, in between these electrodes is the emissive layer of the organic molecules that can be illuminated. To make it work properly, a conductive layer consists of organic plastic molecules like polyfluorene was placed in the middle of the anode and the emissive layer. The anode will form electrons that came from the conductive layer, which make it positively charged and will form electrons from the emissive layer. As a result, the light will be produced, and this is called Electrophosphorescence.
Contrast oscillates the quality of an image more than any considerable attribute. While some agree on precise color and perfect brightness, others are not. These elements can be measured by tools to check if they match with the required standards. A verdant plain that may look unnervingly real to the eye of one person may appear false and neon to another person. Perception is important.
Everyone believes that if the contrast ratio is higher, it is better. It actually defines the variation between the dark and bright and that's an important part of the reality, but what will you feel if you open your eyes in a completely dark room? Of course, you will be terrified! How about if you attempt to look into the sun? You will hurt yourself. There is no man-made screened device that can clone the real world's contrast, but the closer the display, the better it looks. This is mainly the reason why the OLED technology is vital, and finally, it reaches to the laptop.
So far, small notebooks like Alienware 13, 13-inch HP Spectre x360, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga and Samsung Galaxy TabPro have an OLED display. They all made up of 1,440 vertical pixels, but unfortunately, they are all very expensive. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga's estimated price will be $1,650, without any upgrades with the hardware. Many people won't be able to afford OLED-based laptops this year; not even in the year 2017. Nevertheless, we should remember that when a certain company seizes the chance of introducing latest technologies, it's no doubt that other companies will follow. Toshiba first introduces the Ultra HD feature on their laptop in the year 2014. More than a year later, several top manufacturers included a 4K panel on their laptops. The PC business' tight margins can be able to make it tough for high-priced technology to establish a foothold, but once they do, it will definitely spread like wildfire!
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Mark Latham Quits As Columnist For The Australian Financial Review
Former Labor politician Mark Latham has resigned as a financial columnist for Fairfax Media's Australian Financial Review.
A statement on the AFR's website, Latham apparently resigned due to the controversy surrounding him his "views on feminism and other social issues".
Latham has continuously come under attack for his writings about women and numerous issues. He has been a columnist for the AFR for eight years, with with editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury noting readers both love him and hate him.
"Mark has been a provocative and highly readable columnist for the Financial Review," Stutchbury said on the AFR site. "He has been both loved and hated by readers – sometimes by the same ones at different times. While I didn't agree with everything Mark wrote, he has played a significant role in Australian public life and brought rare personal insight into his writing."
A recent post where he called out Australian of the Year Rosie Batty for speaking at an entertainment event sparked much outrage online.
The article caused a social media storm between Latham and Batty with a heap of media attention circulating the issue.
The AFR statement about his resignation refers to Latham's writing and views as a "self-styled western Sydney perspective" with a "sharp critique of feminisim, the medialisation of mental illness and domestic violence".
While noting Latham's controversial views, the statement reported Stutchbury saying the publication has the "right and even duty to publish provocative opinions that some readers and non-readers might find offensive".
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