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Intel Could Pay TSMC to Make GPUs on "6nm" and "3nm" Nodes
Rumor | Intel's upcoming 6nm and 3nm Xe GPUs to be built by TSMC following the 10nm debacle
These rumors have cropped up repeatedly. Doing it for a relatively small volume enterprise/HPC product line might make the most sense.
Max von Sydow dies and all it does...
...is remind me of Strange Brew...but then again, I AM CANADIAN!
“My brother and I used to say that drownin' in beer was like heaven, eh? Now he's not here, and I've got two soakers... this isn't heaven. This sucks!”
"It's a jelly."
Wassup wit' Americans?
&&&We really need a Politics Journal Topic&&&&&&
If you join the American military, you get free health care. O,'TAY!
If you don't, but WANT free health care, COMMUNIST!
Why are Americans so.......dumb? Obstinate? Paranoid?
A medical genius
US President Donald Trump has suggested he might have "a natural ability" in medical research, as his government fended off criticism of an inadequate response to the coronavirus outbreak.
On a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, he told reporters: “I like this stuff. I really get it."
Mr Trump said he had had a “great, super-genius uncle” who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“People are really surprised I understand this stuff. Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.
But he's totally fit for office of the president.
Kamala Harris Endorses White Segregationist
When Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Clashed on Busing and Segregation
About an hour into the debate held June 27, Ms. Harris, a black former prosecutor, leapt into the cross-talk with a request to speak “on the issue of race.” She then trained her attention on Mr. Biden, and after making clear that she did not believe he was a racist, proceeded to sharply criticize him for having made “very hurtful” comments about having worked with two segregationist senators.
Ms. Harris then also recalled Mr. Biden’s opposition to school busing in the 1970s and opened up about her own history. “There was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day,” she said. “And that little girl was me.”
Mr. Biden called her remarks “a mischaracterization of my position across the board.” Moments later, he added: “I did not oppose busing in America,” Mr. Biden said. “What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education.”
In reality, Mr. Biden was a leading opponent of busing in the Senate during the 1970s and 1980s, and his opposition went beyond the federal government’s role in the practice.
Kamala Harris endorses Biden's presidential bid
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced her endorsement of Joe Biden's White House bid Sunday morning, saying that the former vice president “speaks to the best of who we are and challenges us to live up to our ideals.”
[...] Harris and Biden clashed during Democratic debates last summer, with the California senator confronting Biden on his opposition to desegregation busing. Biden said he would consider her as a potential running mate after she dropped out of the race in December.
"She is solid. She can be president someday herself. She can be the vice president. She can go on to be a Supreme Court justice. She can be an attorney general. She has enormous capability," Biden said.
Trump/Trump 2020, Covid-19 behaviour, no more clock changes
This week's interesting shit.
1. The Trump-Trump 2020 ticket
Trump has never liked Mike Pence. He feels judged by Pence, with his goody two-shoes christian habits. He needed Pence in 2016 to give hime some acceptability among fundamental evangelicals back then, but a lot has changed.
The embrace by the fundies of Trump has done as even the Bible could have predicted, totally compromised them. "You can't serve both God and Mammon." With their absolutely hysterical, insouciant embrace of the Liar-in-Chief King Vulgarian, they can't turn against him now without having to do the biggest climb-down of their lives. And they won't do that. Their pride won't let them (and of course, pride comes before a fall).
However, the Dems have squandered the opportunity. By refusing to embrace a forward-looking vision, and instead putting forth Joe Biden, another geriatric with dementia and a history of really bad policies, they have thrown the 2020 election before the primaries finish.
So it will be the Republican pig in chief, who also suffers from dementia, against the Democratic hair-sniffer (what's up with that anyway? His handlers can't get him to stop?)
At least the Soviet genotocracy was able to get rid of the politburo members who lost their grip, mostly quietly. Here, getting rid of Trump under Article 25 would have led to Pence, the Armageddon-is-coming VP, having the ability to start the process of the end of the world.
So now that Trump doesn't need Pence, and evangelicals have no alternative to doubling down and voting for him again, what is Trump doing?
He might not be all there, but even he can smell the opportunity this provides. Put Pence in charge of Covid-19, and let him take the fall for the ensuing screw-up. After all, it's not like Pence has a great record on health ("smoking doesn't kill", halting a needle exchange program that led to the biggest outbreak of AIDS in his state as governor).
So he'll be able to ditch Pence with impunity. People will want a sacrifice, after all. And then Trump can announce that Ivanka Trump will be his running mate in 2020. Talk about an October surprise!
This sets up 4 terms for The Donald - 2 as president, 2 as vice president, all legal. And anyone criticizing it will be labelled a misogynist.
2. Will covid-19 spread be curtailed by summer?
Update: a few hours after posting this, Italy (pop. 61 million) locked down 16 million people , no weddings or funerals, no going to the movies, no public sports events, schools closed, etc. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
For anyone counting on summer to make a difference in the spread of coronavirus, Italy is on the Mediterranean. We can't afford to hope for a "summer fix." Only time will tell.
3. Have you noticed changes in people's behaviour due to Covid-19?
While certain areas, such as Northern Italy, have failed to contain the coronavirus, there's still hope here. When I'm working with the public, I'm washing my hands every hour. Monday I'm bringing in my own bottle of hand sanitizer even though we have bottles hanging around - after all, everyone is touching those bottles. The odds are very low, but not zero, and we need to do everything we can to contain this for as long as possible. Especially since some of my co-volunteers will be coming back from cruises over then next couple of weeks.
One of the things my sister does is run adult dance classes. She has two cancer patients on chemo, so anyone who's left the country is barred from attending until they've been back in the country for two weeks. Doesn't matter if they have no symptoms, because we now know that some of the super carriers also had no symptoms.
She's also doing the hand washing thing. It's far more effective than hand sanitizer, but seriously, 20 seconds? Try two minutes. And use a nail brush. Adults are no better than kids when you tell them to wash their hands.
Have you noticed any changes in behaviour from covid-19?
4. Number of straight people in UK falls to 94.6% The guardian is reporting that the number of people who identify as straight in the UK has dropped below 95%.
In 2018, there were an estimated 1.2 million people aged 16 years and over who identified as LGB. Young people, aged between 16 and 24, were the most likely to identify as LGB at 4.4%.
Given the ongoing stigma, the true numbers are no doubt higher, everywhere in the world. Including the people around you. Or maybe you're in the closet and would like to say so anonymously?
5. Trudeau in trouble
The majority of Canadians are not impressed with Justin Trudeau. No surprise there.
6. The Yukon moves to year-round daylight savings time
The CBC is reporting that The Yukon is not going to roll back their clocks an hour in the fall. They join Saskatchewan in going to year-round daylight savings time.
Alberta and British Columbia are mulling the move.
(BC) Premier John Horgan has said he will wait to see whether neighbouring Washington, Oregon and California go with permanent daylight time before pushing ahead with the bill. Those states have taken steps to move to one time year-round, but still need approval from the U.S. Congress to make it law.
I'm sick and tired of winter sundown before 4 pm. If I'm going to get up in the dark either way in the winter, at least give me a bit of afternoon sunlight to look forward to.
We can't just zero the books
It wouldn't be fair to dead people!
This would've made front page in nanoseconds if it was Obama
If this was a story about Obama or Clinton, and not Trump, it would've made the front page in nanoseconds. Curious, that...
Donald Trump offered Julian Assange a pardon if he would say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic party emails, a court in London has been told.
The extraordinary claim was made at Westminster magistrates court before the opening next week of Assange’s legal battle to block attempts to extradite him to the US, where he faces charges for publishing hacked documents. The allegation was denied by the former Republican congressman named by the Assange legal team as a key witness.
Assange’s lawyers alleged that during a visit to London in August 2017, congressman Dana Rohrabacher told the WikiLeaks founder that “on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr Assange … said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC [Democratic National Committee] leaks.”
Donald Trump 'offered Julian Assange a pardon if he denied Russia link to hack'
Rohrabacher tells Yahoo he discussed pardon with Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email
The campaign against the prez is not serious.
It is theater for idiots.
It is simply two bickering factions of a political machine in a minor turf war.
Turns out the impeachment circus really was to protect ol' Joe.
The Liberal Elites were so freaked out about Joe Biden openly bragging about bribing the Ukrainian president to stop a prosecutor from doing his job, that they tried to use that to impeach Trump with! How insane is that? They impeached Trump for trying to investigate Biden for bragging about an obvious case of corruption — and the progressives were so afraid of their own shadows that they went along with it! Happily! AOC and the squad were doing backflips while being played for suckers! They happily gave up their golden opportunity to remove their biggest obstacle to getting a progressive in the White House. For what? To make Trump look kinda bad? Not even real bad. Just KINDA BAD!??!...
... there is no specific crime mentioned in the impeachment, because as the witnesses stated, there was no actual statement from Trump asking for a quid pro quo from Zelensky, or anyone else. They impeached him on the idea that “mind reading” is now an acceptable prosecutorial protocol. They claim that even though Trump did not explicitly say he wanted Biden investigated in return for aid, that “they know” that the Ukrainian leaders were able to “read his mind” and get that message from him....
Update:
Here's an example, showing Bloomberg's the DNC's campaign was/is always against Sanders, not Trump. Now he is feeding the DNC a bunch of money, very confident of Biden's nomination.
Well that was quick! U.S. attacks Taliban in Afghanistan
The United States has conducted an airstrike against the Taliban in Afghanistan after President Donald Trump boasted he secured peace with the group.
Military officials confirmed on Wednesday the airstrike was to interrupt a planned attack on a checkpoint run by the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF).
The strike was from a drone, according to military officials.
US launches airstrike against Taliban hours after Trump claimed he'd secured peace
