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AMD Ryzen 2nd Gen Details: Four CPUs, Pre-Order Today, Reviews on the 19th

These are not the 3rd-gen "Zen 2" 7nm Ryzen parts you are looking for, but 2nd-gen "Zen+" 12nm Ryzen.

No submission yet since there is no review.

A TOTAL, UNPRESIDENTED WITCH HUNT!!! Attorney-client privilege is dead. They broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. Good man. And it's a disgraceful situation. I've wanted to keep it down: We’ve given, I believe, over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel. They continue to just go forward and here we are talking about Syria. We're talking about a lot of serious things with the greatest fighting force ever. And I have this WITCH HUNT constantly going on for over 12 months now and actually much more than that. You could say it was right after I won the nomination instead. It makes the country look very bad. Can we call it treason? It puts the country in a very bad position, so the sooner it’s worked out, the better it is for the country. Why don't I just fire Mueller? Well I think it's a disgrace what's going on. We'll see what happens. There has been NO COLLUSION & NO OBSTRUCTION WHATSOEVER (except me fighting back). You fight back, oh, it’s "obstruction."

Topless Protester Arrested at First Day of Cosby Retrial Used to Be on The Cosby Show

Legalize it.

Vatican police arrest ex-diplomat over 'child pornography'

Police at the Vatican have arrested a priest who previously worked at the Holy See's US embassy on suspicion of possessing child pornography.

Carlo Alberto Capella was taken into custody after an investigation.

Monsignor Capella was recalled from the US in September 2017 after US authorities told the Vatican about a possible violation of child pornography laws by one of its diplomats.

He was ordained in 1993 and joined the Vatican's diplomatic corps in 2004.

The arrest could draw fresh attention to Pope Francis's efforts to snuff out child abuse in the Catholic Church. He has pledged zero tolerance but critics say he has not done enough to hold to account bishops who allegedly covered up abuse.

Also at NYT and The Guardian.

Are Water Worlds Habitable?

Rehash of this article. But here is a detail that may have been overlooked:

Take the fifth planet within the TRAPPIST-1 system as an example. Cayman Unterborn, an exogeologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, and his colleagues think that the liquid water here extends down about 200 kilometers—roughly 20 times deeper than Earth’s Mariana Trench. That much water would create a large ice layer at the bottom of the ocean which would seal the ocean from the land and effectively shut down a geochemical cycle that plays a crucial role in Earth’s habitability.

The Western Digital WD Black 3D NAND SSD Review: EVO Meets Its Match

Very fast sequential speeds and high IOPS. Endurance could be problematic (600 TB for the 1 TB model, calculated as 0.3 DWPD). I wonder what that ratio will be for QLC 3D NAND SSDs.

Western Digital bought SanDisk in 2016.

Folks, our Country has become the dumping ground for the rest of the world. For some terrific people. They’re terrific people, but we are gonna make a determination at that. What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country -- we call it deportation -- or we are going to incarcerate. And sometimes, unfortunately, we've been doing the Due Process on that. Meaning, we take them to court. But our judges are much too SLOW! So we're giving them a little incentive, we're doing the carrot and the stick. And the carrot is something we call the Quota. We're going to have a Quota of 700 cases per year. And the judges that don't meet the Quota will be fired. Out on their asses. People think I'm shy about firing people. Those are very foolish people. Because I'm not shy, believe me.

Viral Photo Of Hockey Player Breastfeeding Baby Sparks Debate Among Social Media Users

Online tumult over breastfeeding photo challenges stigmas, highlights hurdles

Furor Over Alberta Hockey Player's Breastfeeding Pic Proves Stigma Still Exists: Experts

And Merry Christmas, everyone! Have a GREAT TIME with your favorite Bunny. twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/979816766904954880

Crazed girls flood Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz with fan mail

Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account.

Teenage girls, women and even older men are writing to the Parkland school shooter and sending photographs — some suggestive — tucked inside cute greeting cards and attached to notebook paper with offers of friendship and encouragement. Groupies also are joining Facebook communities to talk about how to help the killer.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel obtained copies of some of the letters showing that Cruz, who had few friends in the outside world, is now being showered with attention.