[Real Clear Politics] Between 2012 and 2018, 28.3 million mail-in ballots remain unaccounted for, according to data from the federal Election Assistance Commission. The missing ballots amount to nearly one in five of all absentee ballots and ballots mailed to voters residing in states that do elections exclusively by mail.
States and local authorities simply have no idea what happened to these ballots since they were mailed — and the figure of 28 million missing ballots is likely even higher because some areas in the country, notably Chicago, did not respond to the federal agency’s survey questions. This figure does not include ballots that were spoiled, undeliverable, or came back for any reason.
Although there is no evidence that the millions of missing ballots were used fraudulently, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which compiled the public data provided from the Election Assistance Commission, says that the sheer volume of them raises serious doubts about election security.
These questions are particularly relevant as the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing states across the country to rapidly expand vote-by-mail operations in an election year. Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden have proposed the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of 2020, a bill that would allow every eligible voter the opportunity to vote by mail, regardless of state laws governing mail-in ballots.
A significant increase in mail-in voting this fall could greatly incentivize "ballot harvesting," where third parties collect mail-in ballots on behalf of voters and deliver them to election officials. There’s long been a consensus that such a practice incentivizes fraud, and ballot harvesting is illegal in most of the country. Public debate over the issue has intensified in recent years after a GOP operative in North Carolina was indicted for crimes related to ballot harvesting in 2018.
That same election cycle California legalized ballot harvesting, and observers say the practice played a key role in ousting several Republican congressmen in Orange County in 2018, a longstanding GOP stronghold in a state that has become very liberal in recent decades.
The fact that millions of unused mail-in ballots are floating around in every election cycle "is not a secret type data here — it's sitting there on the Internet, and you're paying for the server cost," notes Logan Churchwell, a spokesman for PILF. "So what do people that really focus on the election process do about that? They go into ballot harvesting. If there's so many ballots out there in the wind unaccounted for by election officials, surely some manpower could be dedicated to go bring them in. And that's another part of the system where you have weaknesses and risk."
To illustrate the risk, Churchwell notes that in 2016 Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by garnering over 2.8 million more votes than Donald Trump. But nearly 6 million unaccounted mail-in ballots were never counted in 2016, more than twice her margin in the popular vote. The potential to affect elections by chasing down unused mail-in ballots and make sure they get counted — using methods that may or may not be legal — is great.
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My favorite thing about Wild Bill's shooting philosophy is he didn't want the first shot, but always the best shot.
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I have a Pocket Navy, it's the little brother to what Bill used. It's not a cartridge conversion but it's as elegant a little revolver as was ever made.
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Weapons of a Pistoleer: Wild Bill Was Well-Armed
"....for all the good it did him."
Mike
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...with a .44-caliber Colt Dragoon revolver, young Hickok could hit an oyster can at 100 yards
[BBC] At first sight, there is little clue to the secrets that lie beneath the Château de Brézé in France. Below the surface of this impressive castle lies a deep network of tunnels and rooms that form one of Europe's largest underground fortresses.
Much like the billionaires of today, the lords of this castle carefully constructed themselves a medieval 'doomsday bunker' to provide themselves with shelter and protection in the face of invasion or disease.
Coincidentally, 'Maatje' means 'buddy' in Afrikaans
[CNN] Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, saying she brought the disease to China.
The false claims are spreading across YouTube every day, so far racking up hundreds of thousands of apparent views, and have been embraced by Chinese Communist Party media. Despite never having tested positive for the coronavirus or experienced symptoms, Benassi and her husband are now subjects of discussion on Chinese social media about the outbreak, including among accounts that are known drivers of large-scale coordinated activities by their followers.
The claims have turned their lives upside down. The couple say their home address has been posted online and that, before they shut down their accounts, their social media inboxes were overrun with messages from believers of the conspiracy.
"It's like waking up from a bad dream going into a nightmare day after day," Maatje Benassi told CNN Business in an exclusive interview, the first time she has spoken publicly since being smeared online.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — The holy month of Ramadan is underway, and the Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif in Birmingham should be full of worshippers. But this year, the main arrivals are the dead.
While the mosque in the central England city has been closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, its parking lot has been transformed into a temporary morgue with room for 150 bodies.
The volunteer-run mortuary, with its white tents, industrial refrigerators and neat stacks of coffins, is evidence of the toll the virus is taking on Britain’s Muslim and ethnic-minority communities. The two most diverse regions of the U.K. — London and the Midlands area centered in Birmingham — have seen the largest number of deaths in the outbreak.
Mohammed Zahid, a mosque trustee who helped set up the mortuary with a firm of Muslim funeral directors, said the mosque in Birmingham’s predominantly South Asian Small Heath district normally holds one or two funerals a week.
In the last few weeks, "we were doing five to six a day," he said.
"You can see how the families were grieving," said 44-year-old Zahid, who wears a mask, coveralls and gloves as he moves among the coffins.
Local government social-distancing rules allow only six people to attend each burial.
"Especially when they can’t get their own cousins and brothers and sisters around them — it’s made it really hard for the people who’ve lost their loved ones," said Zahid, who has lost two aunts to COVID-19. "What do you say to a family who’s got five sons or daughters, and some of them have to stay home?"
It’s a similar story at the nearby Green Lane Mosque, where coffins lie stacked up inside the prayer hall. Usually the mosque holds about 25 funerals a year. For the past three weeks it has seen five a day.
Spanish children were allowed outside on Sunday for the first time in six weeks as countries eased lockdown measures and reopen economies gutted by the coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly three million people worldwide.https://t.co/LWwqWxilCy
In recent days, the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 statewide and locally has held steady or declined.
On Friday, the state Department of Health Services reported that 361 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in Wisconsin, with 143 requiring intensive care.
Earlier in the week the total number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients was 358, with 137 in ICUs.
Overall, as of Saturday, 4,272 of the state’s 11,489 hospital beds were empty, and the DHS reported that 1,253 ventilators were on hand in Wisconsin hospitals.
And of the 5,687 confirmed cases of the virus statewide, 1,376 patients, or 24%, were ever hospitalized, the DHS reported Saturday.
The news on the state’s hospital vacancies comes at a time when some health care workers are being furloughed across the country, and concerns are being raised about Gov. Tony Evers’ extension of his Safer At Home order to May 26.
Last week, the Mayo Clinic, headquartered in Rochester, Minn., announced it was furloughing or reducing the hours of 42% of its 70,000 employees across all campuses in an attempt to mitigate financial losses for the pandemic.
NYC coronavirus cases reach over 150,000 as state death toll nears 17,000
[NYPOST] More than 400 Big Apple residents succumbed to confirmed or suspected cases of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... Saturday into Sunday, raising the combined corpse count to nearly 17,000, City Hall statistics show.
A total of 16,673 New Yorkers have now been lost as of 2 p.m. Sunday, a jump of 403 from the last update at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
That unthinkable tally includes 11,460 confirmed coronavirus fatalities, and 5,213 "probable" cases in which the dear departed exhibited telltale signs of the disease, but weren’t officially tested, according to the city Department of Health.
Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo earlier Sunday announced a confirmed statewide corpse count of 16,966.
Unlike the five boroughs, Albany does not yet include "probable" deaths in its public accounting.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the city rose to 153,204 on Sunday — up 2,628 from Saturday.
Shocking video shows 1,000 people drinking and dancing in defiance of social distancing orders at massive party in Chicago [MAIL] Around 1,000 people ignored coronavirus lockdown orders and packed into an apartment to party in Chicago’s West Side over the weekend. Many arrived on foot or were dropped off.
Videos emerged on social media showing the raucous group dancing, drinking, and chatting in a packed room on Saturday, ignoring warnings to practice social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Chicago’s leaders Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Governor J. B. Pritzker have been strict in their lockdown orders, barring people from leaving their homes except for essential trips and banning gatherings of over 10 people through May 30.
However, the group of youngsters defied all preventative measures and gathered for an evening of fun.
"We now have a very definite trend in reduced number of people in hospitals. That is most marked in London but you can also see that in the Midlands and the beginnings of that in other areas of the UK," National Medical Director of NHS England Stephen Powis told a news conference.
"That is definitely showing that our compliance with social distancing is proving to be beneficial, it is reducing the transmission and spread of the virus."
Italy's Conte Vows to Reopen Schools in September, Businesses Next Week
[AnNahar] Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte vowed Sunday to reopen schools by September and allow many businesses to resume in a week's time as the country emerges from a near-total shutdown. Conte told La Repubblica newspaper that he will spell out the full details of how Italy will ease its way out of the world's longest active coronavirus lockdown by the start of next week. He has reportedly been presented with a cautious proposal that involves a gradual lifting of restrictions over the course of May.
Italy's official death toll of 26,384 is Europe's highest and only second globally to the United States. But its number of cases has been ebbing and Italy believes its contagion rate -- reported at between 0.2 and 0.7 -- is low enough below the key threshold of 1.0 to try and get back to work.
New York announces lowest death toll this month, may partially reopen May 15
[IsraelTimes] Cuomo said that any easing of measures would take place first in the north of the state and not in the New York City metropolitan region, by far the hardest-hit area in the US. He said that any potential reopening of New York City, the country’s most populous city, could need to be coordinated with authorities in the adjacent states of New Jersey and Connecticut.
A lockdown of New York ordered by Cuomo is set to expire on May 15. Under a plan for reopening, the first sectors would be construction and manufacturing.
New York state reports 367 fatalities in 24 hours. COVID-19 has now killed 16,966 people in the state, accounting for around a third of the deaths in the United States.
Cuomo said that some school districts were investigating whether to hold summer sessions to make up for lost time.
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You cannot fix stupid have a good summer planet earth!
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Eric Hoffer wrote, "A cult does not need a God figure, but it must have a Devil."
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[ZeroHedge] Bill Gates vehemently defended China's initial response to the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, telling CNN's Fareed Zakaria that the communist country - which silenced whistleblowers and lied about transmissibility - "did a lot of things right."
"How would you respond to the charge that hte Chinese covered this up. They've essentially deceived the rest of the world, and as a result, they should be held in some way responsible for this?" asked Zakaria.
To which Gates responded: "Well, I don't think that's a timely thing because it doesn't affect how we act today. You know, China did a lot of things right. At the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up, they can look back and say that they missed some things," Gates said, adding "Some countries did respond very quickly and get their testing in place, and they avoided the incredible economic pain - and it's sad that even the US that you would have expected to do this well, did it particularly poorly - but it's not time to talk about that."
Gates then suggested that this is the time "to take the great science we have, the fact that we're in this together, fix testing and treatments and get that vaccine, and minimize the trillions in dollars and many things that you can't even dimensionalize in economic terms that are awful about the situation that we're in.
"That's a distraction," Gates added, regarding placing the blame on China. "I think there's a lot of incorrect and unfair things said."...
We wonder why Bill Gates - one of the largest donors to the World Health Organization - is similarly defending China, which is also one of the WHO's largest contributors.
#4
Two important facts about China.
(a) It don't minds screwing the rest of the World.
(b) If death rate was 1%, or even 10%, they would never put their important industrial hub of Wuhan on lockdown.
Two important facts about Bill Gates.
(a) He did a lot of good things like Khan Academy, etc...
(b) He still doesn't get it about China.
#8
My kid was taught by me and his mother. And now using Khan. State schools exist for the sole purpose of providing jobs for female teachers who otherwise would be home keepers or sales clerks.
#10
It's never too late, Lex. In Israel something like 15% improve their matriculation certificate AFTER military service.
If you don't mind some practical advice.
Try Khan before you try tutors - good tutors are both expensive and rare (most of them animal trainers who teach your kid to do tricks).
If your kids succeed in learning, teach them to zip it in a classroom - the less their teacher knows, the more easily she (even if XY) offended.
#11
We were happy w Johns Hopkins CTY but then the educational Shitshow shut down our attempts to go it alone as well (hint: cf. that Harvard Law School witch's vendetta)...
Our heads have been spinning... Why do they hate us so?
We just want a superior education, of the caliber that our (gifted) kid deserves. We're not malicious; we're not political or on some sort of crusade against public education. WTF did we do to deserve so much grief at the hands of our public educationists? Why did they have to do so much damage to our child? ...so sick of this nonsense
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We just want a superior education, of the caliber that our (gifted) kid deserves.
Oboy. Teachers often assume that the parents of a child claimed to be gifted are both wrong and interfering, or that indisputably intellectually gifted children will succeed on their own in a regular classroom without extra teaching effort. If your child tests as the 1% classified as intellectually gifted, you ought legally to be able to demand an individualized education program, as gifted falls under the category of learning disabled/special ed., but what that will get your child in the real world will depend on the laws in your state and the funded offerings in your school district. Most smaller or less well funded schools/school districts have absolutely nothing available, lacking both funding and teachers with a gifted ed. graduate specialty. The National Association for Gifted Children has information here for parents dealing with schools, and here for information and contacts for each state.
When we moved back to the US I was unaware that gifted ed. was a thing, never mind that my children might be other than ordinarily bright. And even though our district provided a wonderful gifted ed program, it was only one period a day— for social studies — with the rest of the day spent in ordinary regular/advanced classes. So we did a lot of enriching at home anyway. If only the Khan academy and university on-line programs had been available when the trailing daughters were young (two decades ago) — there is so much more available for parents of gifted parents now.
And yes, about the absolute vileness that was Common Core. My bright, five year old niece was reduced to daily tears over her homework and had to be held back a year because she was so traumatized by the experience. She is thriving now that the school gave it up, but it was tough for all involved — and her father is a computer science professor.
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So I have people asking when I'll boycott Microsoft products. Um, no time soon. Gates didn't write DOS, look it up. Gates didn't write Windows. Look it up. If I have to boycott every company that has a stockholder I disagree with, I'll be rubbing two sticks together in the back yard. I utterly disagree with how Gates uses his money but as a capitalist I do respect his right to misuse what he has earned. He's maybe one of the most recent, but definitely in big company.
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@#20
Oh gods no. Gates is no where near the evil that is Soros. Just describing his political views. Anything that globalizes things and gives governments more power he will be favorable too. And he LOVES the UN.
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Gates is a coastie who plays the game that's necessary to fit in with the crowd he couldn't accept not being part of. His last original idea was the traf-o-data.
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And the linsux losers will be here before the day is out.
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You know, it's loved in datacenters, sort of like the ROM in your car's ECU. Set it and forget it. On the desktop it's doing about as well as COVID-19 penetration wise.
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(b) He still doesn't get it about China.
Oh, I think he gets it perfectly well. His interests are just a little different than some of us, by which I mean he wants to maximize his Chinese profits and he doesn't give a fuck about Americans.
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WTF did we do to deserve so much grief at the hands of our public educationists? Why did they have to do so much damage to our child?
I don't think it's anything personal, Lex. They're just to lazy and stupid to do right. Also, their unions protect them from any attempts to make them change.
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Iron Rice bowl first last and always.
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^ too lazy and stupid
Now they'll say I'm too lazy and stupid to write proper English.
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But then my school teacher wife was yammering at me while I wrote that.
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Gates is also the guy who didn't get wise to the Internet until long after all the UNIX computers had the TCP/IP stack compiled into their operating systems.
He's a billionaire. He's the boss of one of the largest tech companies in the world. He has access to the information. It's not just that he should know better. He does know better. It's his motives that need to be questioned.
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my school teacher wife
Does Mrs. Uluque have any thoughts on academically gifted students?
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As noted above, proles weren't supposed to need >64K memory, color screens, GUIs, hard disks, multitasking, networking, etc. When it became necessary to have these things, MS bought the technology when they didn't have it in house. Gates is still as forward looking as he always was, which is to say not at all. Thank the stars for Cutler and Rusinovich.
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The graphic user interface (GUI) that uses windows, widgets, buttons and text boxes was first developed in Palo Alto by a division of Xerox Corporation known as the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). At the time, Xerox big wigs were making so much money with their photo copiers that they didn't pay much attention to PARC and never understood the significance of what they had on their hands, kinda like the morons at AT&T who didn't understand UNIX when it was developed at Bell Labs. This is all documented in a fascinating book titled Dealers of Lightening: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik.
Steve Jobs copied the idea from PARC and Bill Gates copied the idea from Jobs.
Bill Gates is not a visionary. If he was ever a computer programmer, he wasn't a very good one judging by the piss poor software he produced. He copied a good idea and was enough of a businessman to make a fortune with it. The Windows operating system in the early years was nothing more than a kluge sitting atop the DOS operating system that was also a pathetic little kluge especially compared to UNIX. Over the years it has gotten somewhat better but still has glitches. Applications like WORD and EXCEL are OK, I guess. I never had any experience with IBM's OS2 which, for a brief time, was offered as an alternative to Windows so I don't understand how or why IBM failed. Perhaps their big wigs were every bit as lame brained as the guys at Xerox and AT&T.
The real advantage of Windows was that it would run on just about any old Intel or AMD based computer. These boxes were far cheaper than the much more refined hardware produced by the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and even Apple. These days they are all Made in China which I believe goes a long way toward explaining Gates' willingness to kiss Chinese ass.
I'd put LINUX on my desktop but Mrs. Uluque would freak out.
I don't believe Gates has any real appreciation for technology and innovation. He appreciates money and power. I can't fault him for that but when he kisses Chinese ass it makes me despise him.
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Especially when his ship doesn't have to turn to line up with current events.
#39
Ethernet came from PARC too. Metcalfe made a fortune and Xerox doesn't even own the patent.
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If you need both, put WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on the Win 10 box and have it both ways. Unless you are developing hardware drivers you should be fine.
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I worked heavily with UNIX in green screen days. Great for what it was designed for. The GUIs on UNIX and Linux have always sucked, hence the lack of software development and adoption. There's a good reason the F-150 doesn't share many design concepts with a Ferrari.
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nVidia won't bother to make Linux drivers. That right there is a business decision that says something.
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Gates even got his attitude about what small computer users need from Ken Olsen at DEC. And of course UNIX was written originally to run on a DEC PDP8. When Dec canceled the follow on to VMS Dave Cutler went to Microsoft and developed Windows NT which is still the underpinnings of Windows 10 and Azure today. It's a small world.
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So, kiddies, Mr. Gates still owns Microsoft stock, but he has nothing to do with the products they sell / offer as subscription today. What they do offer is developed by some of the serious superstars of the industry. Between the lab and the user the marketing people put their stamp on it. It currently owns 94% of the client market (excluding smartphones and tablets).
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nVidia won't bother to make Linux drivers. That right there is a business decision that says something.
Gotta wonder if Gates had that written into a contract somewhere along the line. Wouldn't put it past him.
Windows NT was the point where Microsoft software became somewhat more stable and felt a little less like a toy for children.
I suppose if you must have fancy fonts and colors, then Microsoft is the way to go. These days I just want a decent browser and IE ain't it.
I remember one year I was trying to create a Christmas letter for friends and family. Whenever I got to the point where I wanted to add just one more picture, Word would always crash. I finally got fed up and put the whole thing into an HTML file, loaded it into my browser, probably Netscape at the time, and printed it that way. I'd rather use vi to do that than to mess with Word. I guess that's how I feel about the whole issue.
One thing I found when I bought my Samsung Tab A is that it was made in Vietnam. I chose that over a laptop that would run windows for that reason. You can run it with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard just like a real computer. You can even put vi on it. Too bad the Android operating system, like the early days of Windows, it not ready for prime time.
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I don't fault the man's business acumen. Have nothing against the company and its current form and mgmt -- they've done a superb job with the cloud, and I'm looking to expand my holdings at the right moment.
But the man really needs to stay within his sphere. He should not be viewed as a sage regarding policy on education, or healthcare, or anything, really.
He's just a successful businessman, like your Grocery King or the Wizard of Whattaburger or the Ninja Turtles Tycoon.
I hope this crisis kills the Davis Man myth of the Globalist Genius whose success in one narrow little vertical entitles him to hold forth about how the planet should be run.
#47
Not only rich people fall into the trap they have everything figured out. It's a very human failing.
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You can run Chrome or New Edge as your browser on Android. Same underpinnings. I run it on my Win 10 machines and my Galaxy S8+. Not stuck letting gurgle in my pants while I browse.
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nVidia is a huge corporation involved in supercomputing architecture and hardware. I doubt Billy Gates has any say in their boardroom.
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nVidia won't bother to make Linux drivers.
Actually, they do. Running one right now. They have done it for years.
They don't open-source their drivers which annoys a certain class of people, but I'm not a fanatic about that.
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I would love to see our politics and our culture get back to the ideal of a liberally-educated citizen - traditional military & diplomatic & political history especially - who brings significant practical experience of managing people and resources - in the military, a small business, a farm, a clinic or hospital for ex. - far from D.C. or state capitols or the Cool Cities.
Veterans and people like Victor Davis Hanson who bring seasoned judgment, logic, experience and an acute awareness of how little we know for certain.
How much better off we would be if our policies were made by wise generalists like Victor Hanson instead of foolish experts and the Grifters they advise.
#52
Titan at Oak Ridge will be a mix of Intel Xeon CPUs and nVidia GPUs. The compute farm will run Linux but the GUI will be hosted on client terminals, desktop workstations and laptops.
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They don't open-source their drivers which annoys a certain class of people, but I'm not a fanatic about that.
Yes, absolutely right. Not my game so I was wrong about that.
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If we actually put smart people instead of rich people in charge we might sometimes do better. Don't know how rich Fauci is but he isn't giving me a VDH vibe.
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The opening sourcing part is the foundation of the Linux "religion." nVidia doesn't want to show what their hardware is doing.
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I'd point out Huawei and Wuhan lab don't open source either.
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Although Gates did cowrite DOS I believe he was more of a marketing type that let Paul Allen do the real engineering.
Similar story with Jobs and Woz at Apple and McNealy and Joy at Sun. Seems that you needed a more marketing oriented guy working with a software genius to succeed back then.
#58
Only a geek would buy a computer from a geek. Marketers made it happen as a commercial phenomen. And Gates had nothing to do with writing DOS he bought it from Seattle Compter Products. His flash was licensing rather than selling it to IBM.
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Joy has gone underground. He actually was sympathetic to Ted Kaszinski and is waiting for Skynet to initialize.
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Woz engineered the Apple I. Since then the only thing he's engineered is a mess on tech writers chins.
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I forgot about Gates buying DOS. I think he sold it to IBM before he even owned it, or something dodgy like that. Still the point with the dual founders stands.
[Martin Armstrong with additional link below] California ER Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi
This is the same information we are getting from around the country. Hospitals are empty and unless this lockdown is lifted, we will actually see doctors being laid off because there is nobody there and normal healthcare has been suspended. The real public health crisis is the DENIAL of regular healthcare. I have had friends and family whose surgeries were postponed indefinitely.
I have a cousin who was a nurse working with COVID-19 patients and she got infected. She then passed it to her husband who is 67 and overweight. He had to go to the hospital where they administered the Malaria drug everyone tries to criticize Trump for and his condition was reversed and he returned home after two days....
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But everything must be about the virus and only the virus.
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The denial of urgent care including surgeries for cancer patients is killing almost as many patients
This may be a problem im specific states. Here in Cincinnati, Ohio, a girlfriend of mine is not only getting her fourth and fifth rounds of chemotherapy as previously scheduled, but the other day they took care of her just-discovered kidney stones.
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She has had more years than she and her husband originally expected, Skidmark, and between rounds of chemo have lived life to the fullest. That's s good as it gets for any of us.
[AlAhram] South Africa's police minister on Sunday apologised for a "blasphemous" remark made to praying Moslems by a policeman enforcing coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... rules, which was also condemned by a leading Moslem organization after being caught on video.
A video posted on social media and authenticated by the authorities shows police entering a room where around 20 Moslems were praying, and ordering them to the ground.
One of the police is heard saying "Are you bigger than the president? Is Mohammed bigger than the president?"
South Africans are under orders to observe strict confinement to fight the virus spread, and are allowed to leave their homes only to buy food or for medical appointments. Any gatherings are strictly prohibited.
Minister Bheki Cele said in the statement he had "issued an apology to the Moslem community for the blasphemous remarks during the arrest".
An "urgent investigation" had been launched "to establish the identity of the person behind such sacrilege".
The police, in a separate statement, said the comment was "rather unfortunate and it is unacceptable that someone could make such an utterance".
It did, however, also say that people of all religions had to respect rules during the confinement.
The Jamaatul Ulama South Africa Council of Moslem Theologians said not only were the remarks "demeaning in the name of the prophet Muhammad", but police entering a prayer room with "their heavy boots", as seen in the video, was "distressing to Moslems who consider prayer places as sacred".
But it also reminded the faithful to observe lockdown rules.
The incident, on Saturday in the Mpumalanga province in the north of the country, led to the arrest of 24 people.
On Friday, police had already detained 17 people at a religious ceremony for violating lockdown rules.
South Africa is the worst-affected sub-Saharan country by the coronavirus with 4,361 confirmed cases and 86 deaths.
[IsraelTimes] Royal decree comes a day after order to end flogging; at least 6 people are on death row for crimes allegedly committed before they turned 18.
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Remember we're all equal before the law, until convicted, then every adjectival descriptive is used to justify not applying the same punishment for the same crime.
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[ZeroHedge intro] Twitter has suspended the account of a Colorado biotech company which is working with Cedars-Sinai to test and develop a potential coronavirus treatment using UV light inserted into the lungs - the same week as Homeland Security's head of Science and Technology, Bill Bryan, suggested that UV light could have a significant affect on viruses such as COVID-19.
Space via Instapundit
A Russian cargo spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), wrapping up a brief orbital chase.
The robotic Progress 75 vehicle docked with the orbiting lab at 1:12 a.m. EDT (0512 GMT) today (April 25), less than 3.5 hours after launching atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The rendezvous occurred when both craft were flying about 260 miles (418 kilometers) over northwest China, NASA officials said.
Additionally, DOB Releases Preliminary Economic Impact Assessment by the Boston Consulting Group on the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the State Economy
The New York State Division of the Budget announced today the FY 2021 Enacted State Budget Financial Plan, which projects a $13.3 billion shortfall, or 14%, in revenue from the Executive Budget Forecast released in January and estimates a $61 billion decline through FY 2024 as a direct consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, in the absence of Federal assistance, initial budget control actions outlined in the Financial Plan will reduce spending by $10.1 billion from the Executive Budget. This represents a $7.3 billion reduction in state spending from FY 2020 levels.
Released with the Financial Plan is an assessment of the pandemic’s impact on the New York State economy developed by Boston Consulting Group at the State’s request. Prior to March 2020, under Governor Cuomo’s leadership, New York enjoyed a decade of prosperity. During that decade, 1.3 million jobs were created — a 20% increase in private sector employment — to reach a record high as unemployment dropped from 8.9% to 3.7% and wages rose by 47%. However, now, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York State’s economy will lose $243 billion over the course of the full recovery, the equivalent of 14% of the State’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The COVID-19 recession will be deeper and the recovery longer than the 2008 Great Recession and the recession that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011.
The BCG assessment aligns with DOB’s economic projections and revenue estimates that it will drop by $13.3 billion this fiscal year and $61 billion over the next four years.
"Above all, our efforts to stop the spread of the virus are working to save lives, and now we are also addressing the economic realities the pandemic is causing as we move New York forward and build back better than before," said Robert Mujica, New York State Budget Director. "Unlike the federal government`, New York State must balance its budget and in the absence of federal assistance, we will have to make deep cuts which could impact a broad range of services. New York reflects 8% of U.S. GDP, and without federal support our ability to help lead the nation to economic recovery will be weakened."
The $10.1 billion in spending reductions from the levels proposed in the Executive Budget include an $8.2 billion reduction in "aid-to-localities," a broad spending category that includes funding for health care, K-12 schools, and higher education as well as support for local governments, public transit systems, and the State’s not-for-profit partners who deliver critical services to the most vulnerable New Yorkers. State agency operations will be reduced by 10%, along with other savings.
[Postmillennial] A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, April 22 by tenant Austin Goodrich, 22, of Forest Grove, Ore., nearby Portland, against his property manager and landlord. The lawsuit seeks damages for Goodrich "feeling overwhelmingly violated and vulnerable." When the story first made national and international headlines, reporters and Goodrich did not disclose that the landlord, Lois Ranstead, is also his grandmother and tax preparer. Stereotypes about angry losers, why do they exist?
The lawsuit accuses Goodrich's grandmother, who runs TLC Bookkeeping and Tax Prep Inc., of illegally obtaining his IRS information through the stimulus check tracking website, thus invading Goodrich's privacy. On the one hand, not cool, Granny.
OTOH, if you read the article, you'll see this guy is exactly the sort of person who would happily do the same thing to someone else, so I have no sympathy.
Spoilt brat Sonny Boy has been sponging off Granny, now threatens to ruin her life as well as her retirement savings.
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The lawsuit seeks damages for Goodrich "feeling overwhelmingly violated and vulnerable."
That's the most snowflake lawsuit I've ever seen. And - why would granny need to obtain his IRS info through the website when she already has that information from the last tax return he filed and she prepared? That part makes no sense whatsoever, unless he's really saying she grabbed his stimulus check.
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He was counting on that $1200.00 of Tupperware body armor.
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Goodrich said: "I do not have a relationship with my father's side of the family," though he did confirm that his landlord was indeed his "father's mother."
Not my president. Not my grandmother.
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^^ Early Snark O' The Day candidate
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — The holy month of Ramadan is underway, and the Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif in Birmingham should be full of worshippers. But this year, the main arrivals are the dead.
[JOURNALTIMES] As the COVID-19 pandemic strains health care in hotspots of the country, a close look at the situation at hospitals locally and across Wisconsin shows reason for optimism.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[MAIL] Around 1,000 people ignored coronavirus lockdown orders and packed into an apartment to party in Chicago’s West Side over the weekend. 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Postmillennial] A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, April 22 by tenant Austin Goodrich, 22, of Forest Grove, Ore., nearby Portland, against his property manager and landlord. The lawsuit seeks damages for Goodrich "feeling overwhelmingly violated and vulnerable." When the story first made national and international headlines, reporters and Goodrich did not disclose that the landlord, Lois Ranstead, is also his grandmother and tax preparer.
