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Ever since Trump went toe-to-toe with the parents of a dead Muslim veteran, the Republican Party has been in crisis mode.

Pence breaks with Trump, endorses Ryan

Pence: Trump 'strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan'

Paul Ryan is expected to win, so as irritating as the Trump non-endorsement may be to Party leaders, it might have a limited shelf life.

This fact is also amusing:

The GOP's Donald Trump freak-out

A GOP source told CNN's Dana Bash that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was especially frustrated because Paul Ryan and Priebus, both from Wisconsin, are very close. The source said Trump refusing to endorse Ryan in his re-election primary was "personal" especially since Priebus has "taken on a lot of water" for Trump. "He takes this very personally," said the source. Priebus "does want to show his support" for Ryan, a source tells CNN.

The chairman has been the main point of contact between Trump and the Republican Party, on which the billionaire has been relying heavily since he lacks the political infrastructure of a conventional political candidate. Priebus, who was said by the source to be incredibly upset with Trump's behavior, had expressed his disappointment and frustration to several leading members of Trump's entourage, the source said.

Is it all for naught?

A knowledgeable Republican source told CNN Tuesday that some of Trump's campaign staff -- even campaign chairman Paul Manafort -- "feel like they are wasting their time," given their boss's recent comments. But Manafort insisted to CNN Wednesaday that isn't true and any frustration centers on the media.

Does anyone have a news source they follow for American news that is relatively unbiased?
I go to the CBC and BBC and to CNN for breaking news (not for unbiased news)...

Buehler?

Okay, haven't written here for a while, got some time and something on my chest to ask: something that has been bugging me since it happened. This gun-toting 'Republic' of 'Freedom Fighters, Freedom Fries and Freedom Pies' seems to have accepted the dropping of democracy and the rise of blatant corruption. So here goes...

Are Americans apathetic?
Hillary stole money and support from Sanders, and got away with it: her friend in the DNC shuffles money away from Sanders, then says "No way!" when Sanders says it's happening. Corrupt!!!

Speaking of corruption, Hillary then WITHOUT ANY PRETENSE OR UNDER-THE-TABLENESS hires the corrupt thief and liar. Corrupt!!!

And Americans say......
Americans do.......

What what what?

Why aren't Americans in the street protesting???

1. Hillary has shown herself to be corrupt by condoning corruption in people under her and around her.
2. She blatantly reinforces and raises to a higher level, those who acted in a corrupt manner for her benefit.
3. She seems to be blowing Sanders off: rumours of her agreeing to do things he wants to shut him up, but only in the interim... then she will do what she wants after.
4. She's against the TPP, but not really and will support it once elected.
5. ...................

I know 3,4,and 5 are how politicians work, but 1 and 2 should have Americans screaming bloody Jihad or something.
Where are the protests?
Where are the cries of "CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION"?

Why are some Americans still supporting her?

I am Canadian and cannot vote in this US election, but I liked Sanders: now after Sanders giving in for "Let's beat Trump", if i WAS American, I think i'd be voting for Jill Stein who i know nothing about except for the slogan "Jill not Hill" or whatever.
Anything but Billary 'Corruption' Clinton.

Do you go quietly into this nightmare? Is everyone too busy playing Pokemon Go to protest?? WTF???

Damn, i'd vote Trump before Shillary.

Why is the U.S. so quiet about this blatant corruption???? Throw her tea into the harbour, i say!!!

Los Angeles Gang Tour Puts A Twist On Drive-Bys

2010 article I found for crutchy on IRC.

NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan X” Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd

Move Over GTX 1080, There’s A New Titan X In Town

Meaningless for anybody who doesn't want the general compute features. It's $200 more expensive than its predecessor, probably to avoid cannibalizing sales of more expensive Pascal GPUs intended for businesses.

The billion-dollar RNC question: What is Peter Thiel doing there?

Fun for everyone.

Before pictures of cats were popular on the Internet, we had text cows:-

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And now the popular cowsay utility has been cow-patched to handle multi-line input correctly, especially if it contains UTF-8. Here's the archive with a SHA1 of d3cc231704eb8575941478be3ebbc19fb6b0f5c4:-

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And here are some example uses:-

$ cowsay -f frog Hey, man. This lillipad is `df | perl -e 'while(defined($line=<STDIN>)){@field=split(/[ \t\n\r]+/,$line);if((index($ENV{'PWD'},$field[5])==0)&&(length($mount)<length($field[5]))){$mount=$field[5];$avail=$field[4]}}print $avail,"\n"'` full. Ribbit.
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| Hey, man. This lillipad is 99% full. Ribbit. |
 ----------------------------------------------
     \
      \
          oO)-.                       .-(Oo
         /__  _\                     /_  __\
         \  \(  |     ()~()         |  )/  /
          \__|\ |    (-___-)        | /|__/
          '  '--'    ==`-'==        '--'  '

If you're particularly inclined, you can chain/nest instances of cowsay:-

$ ls -l / | cowsay | cowsay | cowthink
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
(  ------------------------------------------------------------  )
( |  --------------------------------------------------------  | )
( | | total 84                                               | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 23:11 bin        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 boot       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  3240 May 28 11:17 dev        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 111 root root  4096 May 28 23:31 etc        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May 10 22:57 home       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  19 root root  4096 May 10 23:12 lib        | | )
( | | drwx------   2 root root 16384 May 10 23:38 lost+found | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 media      | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 mnt        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 May 10 23:30 opt        | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x 104 root root     0 Jan  1  1970 proc       | | )
( | | drwx------   5 root root  4096 Jun  1 09:04 root       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  12 root root   320 May 28 11:17 run        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  1 05:17 sbin       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 srv        | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x  12 root root     0 May 28 11:17 sys        | | )
( | | drwxrwxrwt  17 root root  4096 Jun  1 09:53 tmp        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 May 10 23:27 usr        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 May 28 23:27 var        | | )
( |  --------------------------------------------------------  | )
( |      \                                                     | )
( |       \   ^__^                                             | )
( |        \  (oo)\_______                                     | )
( |           (__)\       )\/\                                 | )
( |               ||----w |                                    | )
( |               ||     ||                                    | )
(  ------------------------------------------------------------  )
(      \                                                         )
(       \   ^__^                                                 )
(        \  (oo)\_______                                         )
(           (__)\       )\/\                                     )
(               ||----w |                                        )
(               ||     ||                                        )
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     o
      o   ^__^
       o  (oo)\_______
          (__)\       )\/\
              ||----w |
              ||     ||

So, audioguy (one of our sysadminy types) was checking the firewall logs and apparently one of the speedbumps we put in for bots got tripped by an L-3 Communications Holdings address. Not to be confused with Level 3 Communications, L-3 is the sneaky spy corp born of the Lockheed Martin merger. So, yes, we're officially being actively (as opposed to the passive scraping the NSA does to everyone's traffic) electronically surveiled.

Mind you, since they're tripping our firewall, they're not going to be seeing much unless they throttle back how many connections they use at once. They really should make use of the API for bot stuff. It's still firewalled but there are bits in it that can get you much more info at once and save us both the overhead of inefficient scraping.

Not a big enough deal to get an article. Prices start at $460-$535, significantly more than 8 TB drives which can be bought for $200 on sale.

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