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Exclusive: Next Generation AMD Mobility 7nm CPUs Landing In Q1 2020, Will Bring AMD Gaming Laptops Price Down To $699

So here is what AMD has planned next: An AMD gaming laptop, equipped with a Ryzen 5 CPU, complete with discrete graphics, starting from $699. While I do not have confirmation of the exact specification, I do know this pricing is being based on a 7nm Ryzen part with 6-cores along with a dGPU (the Radeon RX 5300M/5500M potentially) and will go up against the Intel Core i5-8265U + GTX 1050 setup. This represents a serious level of gaming performance in the mobility segment and the GTX 1050 could be called the starting point of a true gaming laptop. That said, AMD is clearly pursuing the thin, light and fast ideology while offering good gaming performance.

Interesting, but still skippable. I want to see 8 cores (matching consoles), AV1 decoding (unclear what kind of GPU or version of Video Core Next will be used), and at least 1 GiB of L4 cache (compare to the just cancelled Core i7-8809G which has 4 GiB of HBM on the same package as the CPU and "discrete" AMD GPU).

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two key subjects in House Democrats' impeachment inquiry who worked with Rudy Giuliani in an effort to gather damaging information about Joe Biden, have been arrested, a spokesperson for the US attorney's office in Manhattan confirmed Thursday morning.

The two men were charged with conspiring to get around federal laws that prohibit foreign nationals from contributing to US campaigns, according to the indictment, which was first published by the New York Times. They're accused of entering into "secret agreements" to hide the scheme from candidates and federal regulators, laundering foreign money into the campaigns through various corporate identities, and using "straw donors" to make the contributions.

Two Men Who Worked With Rudy Giuliani To Dig Up Dirt On Biden Have Been Arrested

Two Giuliani associates linked to Ukraine investigations indicted on campaign finance charges

2 Giuliani Associates Linked to Ukraine Scandal Arrested for Violating Campaign Finance Rules

A new book-length study on the tax burden of the ultrarich begins with a startling finding: In 2018, for the first time in history, America’s richest billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than the working class.

“The Triumph of Injustice,” by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley, presents a first-of-its kind analysis of Americans’ effective tax rates since the 1960s. It finds that in 2018 the average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families in the country was 23 percent, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent rate paid by the bottom half of American households.

In 1980, by contrast, the 400 richest had an effective tax rate of 47 percent. In 1960, that rate was as high as 56 percent. The effective tax rate paid by the bottom 50 percent, by contrast, has changed little over time.

The analysis differs from many other published estimates of tax burdens by encompassing the totality of taxes Americans pay: not just federal income taxes but also corporate taxes, as well as taxes paid at the state and local levels. It also includes the burden of about $250 billion of what Saez and Zucman call “indirect taxes,” such as licenses for motor vehicles and businesses.

For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year

Non paywall link

Old news, from July of this year - https://100percentfedup.com/armed-antifa-terrorist-manifesto-reveals-inspiration-by-democrat-aoc/

Odd, I do a search for Willem Van Spronsen and there seem to be zero hits from the liberal mainstream media. Fox is the sixth hit, washingtontimes and washington post a ways down from Fox. Several lesser known sites cover him, like pacificpundit, thefederalist, legalinsurrection. There is no CNN, NBC, ABC - wait, back about three pages apnews.com - https://apnews.com/6bbb56a3887e46db80516a01858b5e75

ARMED ANTIFA TERRORIST Manifesto Reveals Inspiration By Democrat AOC

Yesterday, an armed self-described member of Antifa, Willem Van Spronsen, a was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after he threw explosives at an ICE detention center in Tacoma, WA.

Seattle Times reports that this was not Van Spronsen’s first run in with law enforcement tied to an immigration detention center

Van Spronsen’s manifesto was filled with radical rhetoric frequently heard coming from the leftist media and far-left Democrat U.S. Representatives like AOC, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

In this page of his manifesto, the Antifa terrorist adopts the term “concentration camps” used by Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) to describe detention centers on our southern border used to house illegal aliens.

In this page of his manifesto, Van Spronsen uses a term used by another radical leftist, Michael Brown’s stepfather, who called on Black Lives Matter terrorists to “burn the motherf**ker down!”, a reference to burning down the city of Ferguson, MO, after Officer Wilson was exonorated in the highly charged “hands up, don’t shoot” case, that proved the whole “hands up don’t shoot” exchange never took place. He also cites the “Proud Boys,” a group that was formed to protect free speech advocates from the violent anti-free speech terror group, Antifa.

Finally, on this page, Willem Van Spronsen makes his allegience to Antifa known, saying: “i am antifa.” He also indicates that he is part of a trans community, as he identifies his “trans comrades” a term commonly used when referring to fellow communists.

Conservative, First Amendment defender and trial lawyer, Harmeet K. Dhillon tweeted a thread likening the John Brown Gun Club, “JBGC” to a gateway drug to the violent Antifa terror group. After independent journalist Andy Ngo was severely beaten by Antifa in Portland, OR, Dhillon agreed to defend him in his case against the brutal leftist terrorists.

The fact that leftist terrorists have killed few people is not a result of their more civilized, or humane conduct. It is a result of their incompetence to terrorize people.

I just stumbled over this damned fool, while searching for AOC Manifesto. That was the subject of discussion on talk radio this morning. AOC has written a manifesto. She can be expected to shoot up a school, or a gay bar, or a synagogue soon. How many other shooters first published a manifesto, then went out to kill as many people as possible before the law caught up to them? O'Crazio is certainly crazy enough to shoot up a school!!

Just read the manifesto - it's full of acts giving American wealth away to anyone who ambles up to the border, and demands it.

Enjoy a video -
https://www.newswars.com/aoc-unveils-manifesto-a-just-society-means-rent-control-abolish-prisons-welfare-for-all-illegals/

It will never be a literal thing, only a useful fiction, sorry. You want proof? Tide doesn't make laundry soap that smells like bacon or WD-40.

This "capsule" Scotch whisky doesn't require a glass

Glenlivet's Tide Pod-like booze capsules have captivated social media

For the ultimate meal, you need the ultimate beverage.

http://v8tools.com/special.html#3803

Scroll down to the last entry. WK-01 Warm Keyboard.

Keep your hands warm!

Heated computer Keyboard keeps your hands warm for those cold shops!

Perfect for shops in the cold, winter months!
Great multi-media keys along the top
Promotes healthy blood circulation in your hands
Convenient USB connections
Patented in the USA, China and Taiwan
Safe and energy efficient
Tested to comply with FCC standards for home and office use
UL listed. The keyboard does have a separate 110v power supply.
manufacturer's suggested list:
$65.20

Now, if they offered a heated foot board to go under the desk, I could probably turn off my heat for the winter months!!

Should I put a disclaimer here? I'm not associated in any way with V8tools. And, no, this isn't a spam post, I prefer bacon.

But, I'm not done here yet! Who would have thought that browsing a tool site would find a rather well thought out opinion piece written by a PhD?
http://v8tools.com/AngryAmerica.pdf

Oh, those Angry Americans!! (I've quoted the first paragraph here, click the link for the full PDF)

THE GREAT TECH REVOLUTION: OUR BLESSING AND CURSE

  From the supporters of Donald Trump (and Bernie Sanders), to the street protesters
of Southern Europe, voters around the world are mad as hell.
“Inequality, immigration, and the establishment's perceived indifference, are firing up
electorates in a way that has rarely been seen before”- Andre Tartar, et al , Bloomberg
3/22/16.
The authors have continued to document the buildup of income inequality all over the
world in recent years and suggest that things are getting worse. The author of the
present article further suggests this global phenomenon is deeply rooted in another
global happening, the technological revolution which is altering this world inside out.
It promotes prosperity and growth, and it also creates insecurity and frustration among a
ever greater number of people around the world. Yet, the tech changes are so much a
part of our daily lives that we tend to take it for granted. Has it become the elephant in
the room that we ignore? It is the time to take a look at this elephant before it crushes
us. We will talk about a few of the things the new industrial revolution has done to us,
the impact of automation, extreme competition, tech monopolies, and the coming
recession in America. This author will also say a few things about what we can do in
the future

More articles written by Wen-Lung Chang PhD here,
http://v8tools.com/writing.html

Oh, back to the tools part of V8Tools:

I was chasing after some adjustable wrenches. Looking for extra-wide jaw adjustable wrenches. The best thing I have found is made by Sunex. Let me find the link for that - https://sunextools.com/products/9614-12-wide-jaw-adjustable-wrench/

Thing opens up to fit a 2 1/2" bolt, nut, or fitting, bigger than either my 15" or 18" Crescent brand wrenches. I already own one of these, slightly modified. Throw it on a surface grinder table, and grind the thickness of the jaws down some, and you can replace an entire set of "service wrenches". Two sets, actually - SAE and metric. Any time I have to work on a hydraulic cylinder, I reach for this Sunex to hold the shaft, while I turn the nut with a more standard wrench.

And, if anyone knows where to find a 15", 18", or even a 24" adjustable with similar features, let me know!!

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Overclocked and Benchmarked at 4.4 GHz – 4.3 GHz Stated As Sweet-Spot, Outperforms The 24 Core Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

Ryzen 9 and Threadripper

3950X = 16 cores, 3.5 GHz base, 4.7 GHz turbo, 105W TDP
2970WX = 24 cores, 3 GHz base, 4.2 GHz turbo, 250W TDP
2990WX = 32 cores, 3 GHz base, 4.2 GHz turbo, 250W TDP

Unnamed 32-core Threadripper 3 CPU could be between 30% and 70% faster than the 32-core 2990WX. The unnamed 24-core Threadripper 3 CPU could beat/match 2990WX. That's probably important if 24-core TR3 launches months earlier than 32-core TR3. 24-core TR3 will likely be the cheapest chip with the fewest cores of that lineup (no new 16-core Threadrippers anymore), and could beat the top TR2 chip.

This could be accounted for by a 20% base clock increase, ~18% IPC increase, better AVX2 support, etc. The performance of Threadripper 3 may be significantly improved by better memory bandwidth (half the cores were constrained previously) and new motherboards supporting 8-channel memory, etc.

Expect a 48-core TR3, and maybe 64-core eventually.

AMD EPYC Genoa ‘Zen 4’ CPUs To Feature New Memory, New Socket ‘SP5 Platform’ & New Capabilities – EPYC Milan ‘Zen 3’ To Retain 64 Cores, PCIe 4, DDR4 & Socket Compatibility

Looks like Zen 3 improvements could be relatively minor, and no 3-4 way SMT. Nothing is mentioned about HBM on-chip L4 cache. That is the big improvement I would wait for.

AMD Ryzen 9 3900 Tested: Unreleased 65W Processor Sets World Records

12-core drops down from 105W TDP, and will presumably launch at $450 or less instead of $500 for 3900X.

Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public
office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign
national in connection with a U.S. election.(1) This is not a novel concept. Electoral intervention
from foreign governments has been considered unacceptable since the beginnings of our nation.
Our Founding Fathers sounded the alarm about “foreign Interference, Intrigue, and Influence.”
They knew that when foreign governments seek to influence American politics, it is always to
advance their own interests, not America’s. Anyone who solicits or accepts foreign assistance risks
being on the wrong end of a federal investigation. Any political campaign that receives an offer of
a prohibited donation from a foreign source should report that offer to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.

(1) 52 U.S.C. § 30121(a)(2).

Statement Regarding Illegal ContributionsFrom Foreign Governments - CHAIR ELLEN L. WEINT RAUB FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION [fec.gov]

Family outraged after a Universal character made 'OK' symbol on 6-year-old's shoulder

OK hand sign added to list of hate symbols

Petition Unicode for deprecation of 👌 immediately.

This is not OK!