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He's just tailoring his message to his audience! There's no way he actually believes that! He's for individual liberties!!!11

I know a lot of you are disappointed I didn't go ahead and finish the debate on the MIT petition story. Tough.

Most days it's fun smacking down the willfully ignorant but sometimes outside forces conspire to make me too tired to bother. I just delete all the messages, pop open a beer, and watch some TV.

This was one of those times and you're just going to have to live with it.

It's not a sure thing yet but the client sounded quite enthusiastic about me.

They're my usual sort of client, they have some windows products and they want them to work on the mac.

Google "mac os x device drivers". When I try my company is the eighth hit.

The great SEO is due to the "Tips" articles I provide. Link Popularity "flows through" from linked page to linked page. Those articles are very popular.

I'm under NDA so I can't say much about it. They're a hardware vendor. They have three projects for me so I could be working for them for several months.

I told my doctor that the imipramine that I've been taking for depression is not working as well as I expected it to. I told him I was bored all the time, that I knew plenty of things that would relieve the boredom but that I didn't want to do any of them.

He told me to discontinue the imipramine and put me on Latuda. This is a new medication that is said to work especially well for Manic-Depressives.

I've been taking the Latuda for a few days, but I know very well that all antidepressants require a long time to take effect.

However the other night I did some drawing. I'm quite good when I'm in practice but have not been in practice. I could see that I drew better than the last few times I tried.

More importanly I found myself absorbed into the work. Not bored at all not noticing the passage of time, it was a good experience.

The 'editor in chief and publisher' of the MIT Technology Review Jason Pontin took to twitter today. He was replying to WikiLeaks posting a picture of Eric Schmidt wearing a "Clinton Campaign Staff Badge". I with agree with Jason, that image is pretty meaningless by itself. Schmidt private citizen and can support a candidate if he wants to.

However, Jason goes on to say, after being shown differences between suggested searches on DuckDuckGo and Google; "Well, I doubt it... but oooh, no autocorrect: that will swing an election."

Where he goes off the deep end and is either lying or being completely ignorant is when he says "You have no evidence, except your own paranoia, that Google manipulates search results." ... This is from the Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Technology Review.

Here is the leading paragraph from an engadget article written in 2015:

A few years ago, the FTC decided not to pursue an antitrust lawsuit against Google despite finding that its search algorithm really was biased. Now, we finally know the details of that lengthy investigation, thanks to a report written by FTC staffers that recently surfaced due to an open-records request. According to the 160-page report, the employees found evidence that Mountain View was demoting its competitors and placing its own services on top of search results lists, even if they weren't as helpful.

I'm sure most of us have seen the effects of localization and other 'personalization' on search results and suggestions when using Google outside your normal state/country.

This sets an extremely low standard for what the MIT Technology Review publishes from where i'm sitting.

I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder. That's much like being manic-depressive and schizophrenic at the same time. For a little less than a year I've been beset with depression.

I asked my witch doctor to prescribe imipramine, which has worked well for my depression before, but it is not working as well as I hoped. While I don't feel sadness or despair, I am bored all the time yet cannot bring myself to do anything to relieve the boredom.

There are plenty of things I could do, I am well aware of them but I cannot get motivated to actually do any of them.

I was working on my own software product. It's "mostly done" with lots of little things left to do. I cannot bring myself to work on it.

But manic-depressives have a cycle. Bipolar mania is like being high on laughing gas. It doesn't make sense to me just now that I could ever be like that, yet I know from experince that I have been.

I take Trileptal to prevent the mania. It's worked so far but I've only taken it a little over a year. It doesn't really work to take it just when the mania is coming on, because the early incidence of mania is quite subtle.

I'm going to ask my doctor to change my antidepressant, either to increase the dose or give me a different one. There have been plenty of times that I've been far worse than this, yet antidepressants got me back to normal.

If the new medicine works I am confident I can finish my product.

So, I've been sitting here watching the Spam moderations page and the mod-bombs page post-election thinking someone's gonna get butthurt and abuse moderation. It has yet to happen. Kudos to everyone for managing to restrain themselves. You guys make me fucking proud, so I'll leave you with this little bit of humor on an otherwise tense day:

Britain: Brexit is the most shocking thing a country will do this year.

America: Hold my beer...

US election: Trump and the rise of the alt-right

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US election: The German comparing Trump's campaign to Hitler's

Oculus VR made "factually inaccurate" statements in ZeniMax lawsuit, forensic analyst says

A recently-granted motion in the lawsuit between ZeniMax Media and Oculus VR suggests that the case could be about to get very interesting, and not in a way that's good for Oculus. The motion to "permit disclosure of any 'demonstrably inaccurate' representations made to court," as reported by Polygon, indicates that an independent expert investigating the case found sworn statements that are "factually incorrect," and that "critical log files" on one of John Carmack's hard drives were deleted prior to its collection as evidence.

I'm too lazy to give this one the research needed to produce a coherent submission, since I haven't been following the case.

I'm taking away your Air Force One privileges.

President Obama ridiculed on Snapchat by daughter Sasha

The president also mentioned that his own iPhone was limited to receiving emails and browsing the internet, and would not take photos, play music or make calls. "My rule has been throughout my presidency, that I assume that someday, some time, somebody will read this email," he said. "So, I don't send any email that at some point won't be on the front page of the newspapers."

US election 2016: Indians' verdict on Donald Trump's Hindi

An uncanny mixture: God, alcohol and even cannabis

A Stray: Finding and filming the real Somali immigrant experience

The Skype sex scam - a fortune built on shame