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Heh. No it doesn't. It means we disagree about whether Sandy Hook was real or staged. That's it. But because you're a special snowflake, it has to be all or nothing, black or white, right or wrong.

<John Doe voice> I can't wait for you to see it, I really can't.

Of course. Because my opinion on Sandy Hook means the GP isn't using rhetoric.

It's called rhetoric.

Clearly, this lawsuit goes to 11.

I had the same experience after seeing Blade Runner in the theater.

> That said, I see you've been on HN long enough to not be surprised that all kinds of people can be found on here.

Well, quite. For example, I am a coder, an investigative journalist and a digital forensics consultant with a scarily good track record over the last 25 years even if I do say so myself.

> It's bad enough that my old DM lost his child in a senseless tragedy. But when people try to insist that his greatest pain was all a hoax, that the child he lost maybe didn't even exist, that's just beyond the pale. Maybe it's easier for me to have all the facts because I know people affected.

You have some facts? Great. What are they? Because so far you haven't given me any, just a second-hand sob story which may or may not be true. What's this guy's name? Where can I check out his details? Does he even exist? Because there isn't a single scrap of evidence to prove that Adam Lanza even existed, just for starters, let alone how this 120 pound kid with development problems managed to carry such a heavy arsenal into the school and kill so many people in under a minute. Where are the crime scene photos? Just one will do. Why isn't there any video or camera evidence of the shooter? Who cleaned up the blood? There are strict federal laws governing that. Not a single photo of a body. Not the shooter. Not his mother. Not one child. Not one teacher. Nothing. All kids were ruled dead at the scene. Which if you've ever talked to an EMT you never rule a person dead at the scene unless they've been decapitated. You can get shot in the head and a doctor can revive you. But no, everyone was ruled dead at the scene and there are no pictures of any blood, bodies, shell casings, anything.

> No matter how bad the media is, some stories are about real people, who can hurt. Please consider that when you spread bullshit online.

Yeah I'm deeply moved. Not.

If you're suspicious of Sandy Hook then I suggest watching this lecture by Sofia Smallstorm here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYQihoNNuQ

The inescapable conclusion for any reasonable person when presented with all the facts is that the whole thing was staged. Is that outrageous? Does sharing this make me a lunatic conspiracy theorist? Not really. It just means the US mainstream media isn't doing its job.

> I expect you're receiving downvotes (not from me) because you're introducing a strawman argument.

I didn't introduce it - the parent did. I'm being downvoted because this is a left-leaning board. Shrug.

> The fact that the national security advisor lied to the VP about discussions with Russia (for which he was fired) and now will only testify under oath with immunity suggest that there indeed may be something worth investigating there.

He resigned but yes, he should be investigated.

> If Trump somehow manages not to be a criminal and a crook (which seems downright impossible)

The vast surveillance apparatus of the deep state have crawled everything they have on Donald Trump and all they could come up with was some locker room banter from 11 years ago. The man is straight as an arrow and has been for decades.

> Now: other than bluster, what is there actually about this "Russia" probe? What exactly are we investigating? Whether Russia was involved in "fake news" stories? Whether Russia was involved in releasing emails from the DNC? Emails which revealed terrible, immature, anti-democratic conduct? The "Russia hacked the election" narrative doesn't include, AFAIK, accusations that they stuffed ballot boxes or anything, right?

Stop asking questions. RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTION! That's all you need to know. Quite how they subverted the voting apparatus of nearly 3000 counties is not a question you need to ask right now.

This is a great introduction to both Lisp and Arm ASM - very nice! I will have to take a few days off to study it properly.

If you hit a slice shot in tennis, the ball will travel considerably further because the backspin produces circulation which generates lift. If air was a bunch of bullets, the effect wouldn't happen at all. If you raise a spoiler on a Grob's wing, its lift-producing capabilities drop considerably because the spoiler interferes with the circulation. If air was a bunch of bullets, a spoiler wouldn't do anything.

> Air isn't magic fairy dust that pushes on airfoils from a distance.

No. Like I said, it's a fluid that has pressure and velocity everywhere. At low enough Reynolds numbers, like for model gliders, you can even get away with treating it as a non-compressible fluid with decent results.

> Pressure is impact.

And contact between two objects is really about Pauli exclusion surfaces at the atomic level. So what?

Nonsense. See here:

https://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html#sec-fluid

Air does not behave like a bunch of bullets hitting a wing. It's a fluid with velocity and pressure everywhere, not simply in the vicinity of aircraft surfaces. A wing is a pump that sets up circulation in the airflow, upward of the leading edge and downward off the trailing edge. The downward momentum of the air flowing off the trailing edge produces an equal and opposite reaction by Newton's third law which is the lift.

This is clearly demonstrated by this incident. Many tons of air deflected downwards by the A380's wings had enough force to flip the unfortunate plane below several times.

Ak, that was actually Clay Shirky. Sorry Clay ;)

Institutions prolong problems to which they themselves are the solution - Systemantics.

Pleasure. org-mode really is the gift that keeps on giving.

Of course he threw profitability out. An alphabet, probably the CIA, has underwritten him for the foreseeable future. Jeff Bezos is what's known as a NOC, a Non-Official Career officer in the CIA. And they do as they're told. Other examples: Valerie Plame, Eric Schmidt, billg, Eric Braverman.

Indeed. And not quality of stories either.

"Nate, Nate" I said ever so many times, graciously telling my tale. You got it wrong. Horribly wrong. Let it go and move on. The US mainstream media is not there to report the news. It's there to shape public opinion in favor of the small group of elites who own it. It didn't work in 2016 because there's been an awakening; people want government that represents them and not itself and they're sick of being lied to. No-one really gives a fuck about what's on Memoerandom. This analysis reads like an in-depth textual criticism of the Hitler Diaries that's forgotten the main point about them: they weren't real.

Let me give you an example of how pathetic the reporting has become. This is an interview from Columbia Journalism Review (http://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/washington_post_bezos_amazon_revo...):

CJR: So you think news consumers in the future will make a decision on which Hillary Clinton story to click on based on speed? If they see a number of options and their experience tells them that The Washington Post is faster, then they’re going to read that one?

SP: Yes. And we see that already. I don’t know if it’s a conscious choice. I think it’s more about not hesitating to click.

CJR: I can’t imagine that’s a popular view in the newsroom.

JM: Well, it doesn’t really change our editorial strategy in any way.

I'm an old-school journo and I found a number of things in this disturbing. One: Hillary is assumed to be the winner. Two: The WaPo is admittedly trying to brainwash their readers through site responsiveness. Three: the article should mention owner Jeff Bezos's large contracts with the intelligence community and the ramifications of possible influence there. But it doesn't.

In short, it's propaganda.

Howard's YouTube video is really nice too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg

> So far we only know the DNC leaks were very likely Russian.

We don't know that at all. There isn't a single piece of evidence for it anywhere.

Yes! I spent at happy morning there last time I was in the city. That old submarine is right outside the front door. There was some very cool old arcade games in there but some of the mechanical ones were incredible, like the baseball game.

In Soviet Russia, passport control stamps YOU!

It's OK at first but once you get beyond the shiny, it's quite limiting.

In #devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script - DevOps Borat

Many a true word is spoken in jest - that's exactly what the problem is :)

An old friend approached me with the idea and we have developed it together. He used to work for a media company which had these sort of clients already so we got a head start when they folded and we stepped in to pick up the slack. Subsequent sales have all been word-of-mouth. Product development has been entirely driven by customers: they need something, I put it in and then every player gets the new functionality once it's battle-tested.

When we first looked at the market, we realized that no-one really knew how it worked because it's still very young. So we decided to compete on price and reliability. Instead of lock-in contracts and up-front hardware purchases, we charge a small month-to-month rental and the hardware remains ours.

I disagree - that is impressive. Document it thoroughly and put it on the CV. Current and future employers love it when someone can take practical steps to save money while improving functionality.

It's pretty boring to be honest, which is probably why it's so reliable. I sync media using rsync, the movie and stream player is omxplayer, the image and news feeds use Lua and Love2D, and the scheduler is a simple algorithm which was written first in LuaJIT, then Python and soon in Go because of speed and concurrency. The players push their status to a central server for monitoring purposes but I'm replacing that with pull and Ansible. The customer interface is web2py and the schedule creator is desktop wxpython running on Linux, the Mac and Windows.

Very. I have 200+ digital signs running on customer sites 24x7 playing videos, images, live feeds and showing web pages without trouble for over three years now.