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"The game's not over until everybody gets their cookies" -- Gallagher

I'm going to teAch you a new word: "Anorgasmia"

I didn't get my cookies

It worked at first to take only half my dose of Wellbutrin. But after two gentlemen devoted a total of an hour and a half to struggling valiantly to get me off I stopped taking it at all

For a few days I feared it was permanent. But I am happy to report that I finally got them

But there is a problem: I was taking Wellbutrin so I wouldn't sleep all day.

Today I slept all dAy.

"If you're going to change your medicine, tell your doctor " -- Dr. C

Florida governor Rick Scott's three-point plan requires gun buyers to be 21 and up

Scott's plan also includes prohibiting a person from having or buying a firearm if he or she is subject to an injunction for protection against stalking, cyberstalking or domestic violence.

Cyberstalking is serious business.

This article makes some fascinating postulations about religious belief and the purpose it serves, as well as the question of judging the rationality of beliefs versus the rationality of actions. It's a tough read, but I found it fascinating.

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Yesterday was a great day for me, and for America -- I always, always put America First. Because I held what I call a Listening Session. People don't know what that is, it's something new. Where I sit down with the American people and LISTEN to what they say. I had 44 predecessors, none of them ever did that. So simple, but none of them ever thought of that. But I'm listening, I listened to some of our students & parents. With cameras rolling. And I brought @VP Pence and Secretary @BetsyDeVos. So they could listen too.

And I heard some beautiful, and very smart things. Jonathan Blank, he's one of the students from Parkland, said, "Thank you for everything. You’ve done a great job, and I like the direction that you’re going in. Thank you."

And Ariana Klein, she's another student from Parkland, beautiful student, said, "I would just like to say thank you for leading this country. You’re a great leader, and I appreciate the direction that the country is going in."

Julia Cordover, she's the president of the students -- of the ones that are left -- there in Parkland. Nice looking girl, and very grateful. She told me, "I’m confident that you’ll do the right thing, and I appreciate you looking at the bump stocks yesterday."

Fred Abt, he's a parent from Parkland, he told me about something @BetsyDeVos said at lunch, he said she said "have people in the school -- teachers, administrators -- who have volunteered to have a firearm safely locked in the classroom, who are given training throughout the year."

Let me tell you, I've been thinking about that for a long time. Because she said it a long time ago. And I knew it was a very smart thing to do, but I said we'd better leave that up to the states. Leave it to our great states. Today I met with our wonderful law enforcement officers, our Governors and so many more to talk about school safety, very important talk. pic.twitter.com/WhC2AxgWXO

But maybe, probably, we need to move more strongly. That would be, certainly, a situation that is being discussed a lot by a lot of people. You’d have a lot people that’d be armed. People of talent. Teachers who are adept at firearms, a lot of people with that. They’d be ready. They’re professionals. They may be Marines that left the Marines, left the Army, left the Air Force. And they’re very adept at doing that. You’d have a lot of them, and they’d be spread evenly throughout the school.

And you would no longer have a gun-free zone. Our schools have been gun-free zones for too long. Much too long. A gun-free zone, to a maniac -- because they’re all COWARDS -- a gun-free zone is, let’s go in and let’s attack, because bullets aren’t coming back at us.

We need to do what we call CONCEALED CARRY, very important. Hunter Pollack, one of the parents, he said to me, "If a teacher or a security guard has a concealed license and the firearm on their waist, they’re able to easily stop the situation, or the bad guy -- I’ll put it that way -- would not even go near the school knowing that someone can fight back against them." Concealed carry, if you don't know, it's a secret firearm, a hidden firearm. So nobody knows, is this teacher armed? Or not armed? Nobody knows, nobody can tell which teachers or guards -- principals, nurses, everybody -- who's armed and who's not. Very smart!

And we're going to be doing many things, we're going to do a lot. We're going to look into the background checks. And into the mental illness, we have so many mentally ill people now, how did that happen? I'll tell you, years ago, we had mental hospitals -- mental institutions. We had a lot of them, and a lot of them have closed. They’ve closed. And we have so many NUT JOBS on our streets. Seriously degrading some of our finest and most luxurious shopping districts. It's a very deplorable situation. Some people thought it was a stigma. Some people thought, frankly, it was a -- the legislators thought it was too expensive. youtu.be/vKblXAikzEc

How do you feel when I mention all the beautiful women and men after me?

My reply:

I'm cool with it.

I am presently happy with the way my love life is progressing.

Lots of people date more than one other person. I never do. While some feel that non-monogamous dating is OK, I would never be able to deal with the complication. What if two different women fell in love with me? I would have a really hard time letting just one of them down.

You and I pursue different kinds of men. In all my days I have never wanted anything other than a completely anonymous hookup. Glory holes work well for that.

"my love life is progressing":

A certain woman was totally stoked when I gave her a rose. She wasn't around on Valentine's Day so I said "Happy day after Valentine's Day".

About a week before that, I folded an Origami Peace Crane part-way so it would fit in my shirt pocket. "Check this out," I said, then despite being completely overcome with terror I folded it the rest of the way, then demonstrated that tugging on its tail made its wings flap.

"It's said that if you fold a thousand of these, that world peace would result."

She was quite stoked about the peace crane too.

I expect that panicking while folding her peace crane conveyed the message that I'm into her.

Even if she hasn't realized that, at my first opportunity I plan to ask her to meet for coffee.

Coffee first dates work well for me.

But sometimes I am so fearful that I lose the ability to speak.

- from 17.1 to 18.3?

I'm finding this vital information damn near impossible to obtain. No own answered at superuser.com. Google yields no insight.

My objective is to install the latest cmake version so I can build the XMR Stak Monero mining software. Here's a wild guess for 18.2:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com sonya main

I've gone through all the minor releases between 17 and 18.2, but /etc/issue says "Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa" is installed.

All that ever gets installed when I specify a newer distro's repository is a bunch of packages having to do with cinnamon. Nothing else gets installed.

I tried deb http://packages.linuxmint.com sonya main contrib non-free but apt-get dist-upgrade puked on my shoes.

Please tell me how to do this without using a GUI tool. Those tools do not work. I'm not the only one who says so.

This is about a 12nm "Zen+" chip coming out this year, not "Zen 2".

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Pinnacle Ridge Processor Single And Multi-Core Benchmarks Leak

The Ryzen 5 2600 is a 6-core/12-thread processor with a 3.4GHz base clock and 3.8GHz boost clock. It also has 3MB of L2 cache, 16MB of L3 cache, and a 65W TDP.

In Geekbench, the chip scored 4,269 in the single-thread testing and 20,102 in multi-threaded testing. Compared to the Ryzen 5 1600, which is a 6-core/12-thread processor clodcked at 3.2GHz to 3.6GHz with the same cache arrangement and TDP, the Ryzen 5 2600 is anywhere from 7-15 percent faster in single-threaded performance, and 22-31 percent faster in multi-threaded performance. The ranges in percentages take into account different scores in Geekbench's database.

Even if going by the low end numbers a 7 percent jump in single-threaded performance and 22 percent gain in multi-threaded work chores is a nice upgrade. Part of the difference is obviously attributable to faster clockspeeds, but performance optimizations underneath the hood also play a role. The gap could be even wider when Pinnacle Ridge ships too, as AMD and its partners will have had more time to polish up drivers.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 spotted in Geekbench database

Previously:

AMD Expected to Release Ryzen CPUs on a 12nm Process in Q1 2018
AMD at CES 2018

Folks, today is a VERY SPECIAL day. Because it's President's Day. When we honor the greatest President in history. And George Washington. Is it George Washington's birthday? Big debate about that one! Enjoy! 🇺🇸 whitehouse.gov/articles/great-debate-presidents-day-washingtons-birthday

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Summary:

I am often presented with an alert that says "This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with "mdcrawford@gmail.com". Open iCloud preferences to fix this problem."

There are two buttons: "Later" and "iCloud Preferences"

Clicking Later sometimes fails completely. The alert keeps reappearing.

I work around this by moving the alert so it is mostly off-screen. However I am unable to convince the alert that "No means No".

Steps to Reproduce:

Change your Apple ID password.

Use your Mac for a while. This mostly occurs when the Mac has been booted for at least a few days. However you can put your Mac to sleep then wake it the next day.

Expected Results:

The alert won't show itself anymore

Actual Results:

Less than one second passes between appearances of "can't connect to iCloud".

Version/Build:

macOS 10.12.5 16F73

Model Identifier Macmini7,1

Configuration:

Intel Core i5
8 GB memory

When I bought my mini Apple was advertising three configurations. I bought the $699 model.