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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.

Some chick just schedules a phone call with a mortgage company for tomorrow afternoon but gave them _my_ email address not hers.

I figure that a mortgage must be pretty important so I called the mortgage company then got as far as leaving a message that informed them that "mdcrawford@gmail.com is my email address, not hers". But I expect that will only confuse them.

Doubtlessly she will try another broker. I'll let you know after I am approved for a mortgage meant for her.

A certain Dr. Crawford is a transplant surgeon in Australia. Whenever someone particularly sick checks in the staff of that hospital is prompt and certain to let me know about it.

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/04/09/0138218

In 1972 or so I asked my father how much a Talos antiaircraft missile cost.

"About a million dollars."

"Surely it's not a good use of the taxpayer's money to spend a million on something that's just going to explode!"

"That's OK: the planes it shoots down cost sixty million."

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.

... via instant message.

She said "Yes", also via instant message.

<3 :-) <3

I at first planned to take her to some romantic place such as a beach at sunset, but last night our Facebook Messenger chat seemed to be the right time and place.

She's from some - I won't tell you where because she's very shy - other country. I'm going to get her a fiancé visa. I don't know the procedure yet but I handled Bonita's green card completely on my own. I expect I can figure out how to smuggle her into the US despite the National Guard.

I'm going to start shopping for a ring soon. When I complete my contract I will have the ducats required to buy it. I won't take out a loan.

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.

She doesn't have a computer, and if she did she wouldn't know how to use it.

So I'm going to buy her a laptop and a HOWTO book with lots of color pictures.

I was at first going to get her a Windows box because where she lives there wouldn't be any shops that service Macs.

But now I expect to go there and live with her.

That led me to look into a MacBook for her. But a MacBook costs what would be three month's rent where she lives. But I really don't want to get her a Windows box. My Acer is good as laptops go but for me using Windows is like pounding nails with my fists.

But I figure that if I set her up with Linux Mint - or maybe even Puppy - she would be completely unaware that Linux Will Never Be Ready For The Desktop and so be perfectly happy with The Penguin.

What's your take? Linux from scratch?

$GAY_AS_OLD_PAREE: "Hi!"

$MICHAEL_DAVID_CRAWFORD: "Hi. I can't chat right now I'm talking with my girlfriend."

$GAY_AS_OLD_PAREE: "Do you sex?"

$MICHAEL_DAVID_CRAWFORD: "No."

$GIRLFRIEND wants me to move in with her. Where she lives housing is much less expensive than even Vantucky.

Either we will rent a house, or we will buy a vacant lot and I will build a house.

I actually know how to, because my father taught me how to use every kind of tool. I already have all the tools I would need; I even have a full-sized table saw.

I would need a helper, and I'd get someone else to do the foundation.

Maybe I'll build a geodesic dome. Bonita said she would refuse to live in such a Fullerian home, but quite likely $GIRLFRIEND would be into it.

The Hell is a homeless guy doing with a table saw? You quite reasonably ask. When my father died my mother asked what I wanted to inherit. "His tools," I replied. She paid for the storage.

I'm probably going to sell the auto body tools. Those were given to my grandfather by his best friend, because his best friend had no heirs.

Nighty-Night! Don't Let The Code Bugs Byte.