SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Bolton Bombshell: A trial without witnesses is no trial.
John Bolton’s impeachment bombshell, explained
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton claims that, contrary to President Trump’s denials, the president said outright that he was blocking aid to Ukraine unless Ukrainian officials helped with investigations into the Bidens.
That’s according to an unpublished book manuscript written by Bolton and reported on by the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt Sunday night. And this revelation is enormously significant for Trump’s unfolding impeachment trial — since Bolton has offered to testify to the Senate. It may throw a wrench into Senate Republicans’ hope of wrapping up the trial quickly without any witness testimony.
The news could also scramble the dynamics of Trump’s trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been patiently trying to line up the necessary votes to bring proceedings to a close without calling any witnesses. But Bolton has already made clear he’d testify willingly, and now the Times has made clear his testimony would be damaging for Trump.
So ending the trial without getting his testimony would now look even more like a cover-up. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Monday that the Bolton news made it “increasingly likely” that enough Republicans vote to get his testimony. And Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said the reports “strengthen the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversations among my colleagues.”
Call the witnesses! A trial without witnesses is not a trial!
Does money have any real value at all?
Or is it just notes between debtors and creditors?
I only ask because of all this bullshit I always hear about the deficit/national debt which are used to justify austerity and the coming cuts to existing earned benefits.
We could pay off the principal, and tell then banks to fuck off on the interest. Or just tell them to fuck off completely and zero the books ourselves. The government has that power. And then we can make labor the global currency instead of the petro-dollar, since the dollars aren't worth shit without the ass wipers to serve their master. I know I'm being all nationalistic and shit, but I thought it was kinda cool when the world thought American labor was the best labor, and they all sang Elvis tunes, worth every penny. But now, it's just the dollars. Even your ISIS guys have to be paid in dollars, or they jump over to work for Al Qaeda. Either way, there's lots of dollars in that business.
Who wants to convince me that putting some random homeless people in the white house and congress would be any worse than what we are doing to ourselves right now?
copy/pasta spam?
Funny argument about it... between... who else? [um, I can't verify the veracity of that link, I may have been fished in again, for now I'll run with it]
Aren't I a stinker?
Analogix Announces ANX2187 TCON With Gamut Rotation
CES 2020: Analogix Announces ANX2187 TCON With Gamut Rotation
We haven’t talked about Analogix in a few years, and we certainly haven’t talked about TCON announcements much at all. At CES 2020 Analogix announced the new ANX2187 TCON chip with little fanfare, but it could drastically change the way PC displays are manufactured and how end products end up in terms of their colour accuracy.
Analogix has been a leader in delivering TCON solutions to the PC and laptop market for many years, and the market has been relatively speaking quite boring when it comes to new developments. Analogix wants to modernise the display panel experience for monitors and laptops with the introduction of the new ANX2186 which promises to bring 3D Colour Gamut rotation to the PC market.
Display makers usually have a quite hard time in terms of producing accurate display panels using the “traditional” manufacturing methods. In the old way of doing things, a panel’s colour accuracy is largely dependent upon its manufacturing and if it comes out matching the target specifications, with it being very hard for display vendors to individually adjust the display controller firmware on each panel in order to achieve better calibrations and accuracy.
The ANX2186 is a TCON that features gamut manipulation in the optical domain – in essence it’s a calibration engine that sits at the TCON level between the display input and the DDIC and is able to transparently manipulate the gamut in its 3D space. This technology isn’t inherently new, one area it’s been present for years has been in the mobile space (Samsung’s mDNIe was first as far as I know) as well as in TVs by various TV SoC vendors.
What this allows is for calibration and manipulation of the colours fully independent of the DDIC firmware of a display panel. Display manufacturers can now very quickly with help of automatic tooling calibrate each individual panel in a product line, write the compensation/calibration factors as ROM data to the TCON, and not have to worry about fiddling with the much more complex firmware data on the side of the DDIC.
TCON = timing controller.
The Deskjet 9800 wide format printer rides again
I inherited a deskjet 9800 wide format printer when I worked as an office manager/receptionist while looking for a new coding gig.
Basically, the company had moved into the premises and nobody from the old business must have wanted the printer, because it was just sitting there. No ink. So I also inherited a bundle of 11"x17" paper as well.
The thing weighs a ton (okay, 23 pounds, but that's probably due to it's metal construction, except for the lid). A real boat anchor.
So over the next couple of days I need to print out some legal notices to sic the human rights commission on the government and my former doctor for discrimination*. My colour laser had given up the ghost a few years ago (needs a new imaging unit, which costs as much as the printer cost new), so I decided to see if the deskjet would work.
Bought a new black ink cartridge (unlike newer printers, it will work even if one of the cartridges is empty, and it doesn't matter how low the ink goes, it will pump it out until you can barely see it) and I'm surprised at just how good this old bugger is. No wonder they don't make it any more!
30 ppm for 8-1/2"x11", 20 ppm for 11"x17", can do up to 11.7"x 50", slightly slower for colour.
Sure, that's draft mode - but it's version of draft mode looks like my old laser's normal output. So screw it - I'm glad I didn't opt to buy another printer. 1200x1200 dpi is good enough - don't need the 4800 dpi "enhanced" mode. I doubt anyone will be able to tell.
What dissuaded me from just buying a new printer? New printers come with gimmicks - like missing toner and ink. And they want an internet connection to set up, and to run (hello, HP Instant Ink). Refilling a cart isn't rocket science, but refilled carts are so cheap ... by the time you add the 2 cents per page of the amortized cost of a new imaging unit on a laser, the inkjet is far cheaper. And with remanufactured carts, it's cheaper than even refilled toner.
No wonder they stopped making them. Doesn't need any special drivers under linux, does duplex printing, what's not to like?
* While he admitted to the improprieties that had another witness, he denied everything else. Too bad the medical records say he was in the wrong on other things he said never happened. When you only tell the truth about things you know can be proven, and lie about the other stuff, you don't deserve forgiveness.
It's taken me until earlier this week to come to this decision, since I don't like hassles, and I like the guy, but he screwed up, and that screwed me over to the tune of 6 figures to the left of the decimal point, as well as untold misery.
#NeverSanders
Clinton says 'nobody likes' Sanders and won't commit to backing him if he's the Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton blasts Sen. Bernie Sanders in a new documentary, saying "nobody likes him" and declining in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to say whether she would endorse and campaign for him if he's the Democratic 2020 nominee.
"He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," Clinton says in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."
[...] In the THR interview, Clinton also pointedly questions the "culture" around Sanders' campaign, from "his leadership team" to "his online Bernie Bros."
"It's not only him, it's the culture around him. It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women," Clinton said, before suggesting that Sanders himself was complicit in promoting those voices.
#ILikeBernie Trends After Hillary Clinton Says 'Nobody Likes' Bernie Sanders
Despite Clinton's criticism, Sanders is a clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination, with the latest data from Morning Consult showing that he has the highest favorability of all candidates in the primary race. Sanders is viewed positively by 76 percent of voters, while former Vice President Joe Biden is viewed favorably by 71 percent. Senator Elizabeth Warren comes in third at 65 percent.
Meanwhile, only 17 percent of respondents said they had an unfavorable opinion of Sanders, while 22 percent had an unfavorable view of Biden. Warren was viewed unfavorably by 18 percent.
Hillary Clinton Defends Harvey Weinstein Association: 'How Could We Have Known?'
Hillary Clinton has defended her years-long association with disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, saying it was "something that everybody thought made sense."
Weinstein has long been a major donor and fundraiser for the Democratic Party and reportedly brought in over $1.4 million to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Clinton has since disavowed Weinstein, saying she was "shocked and appalled" following the publication of numerous claims of sexual assault and harassment against him in 2017 that led to his fall and the rise of the #MeToo movement.
It could be a moot point. FiveThirtyEight forecasts a 45% chance for Biden to win the nomination, and just 18% for Sanders.
Moron Labe! :D
If all you're going to do is sling contentless, butt-mad vitriol...well, haters gonna hate, as a wise philosopher-poet of our time once said :) Your tears of rage and pain are delicious, if a bit buttery; some of you *really* need to lower your cholesterol...
Runaway is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he? I've been warning people for at least 2 years now--mom should have named me Cassandra, not Marissa--that he's becoming dangerously radicalized. This is not the first time I've written a journal on the subject, either. He's usually self-controlled enough to stop himself from looking completely cross-eyed badger-spit insane, but when something sets him off (and his big things are guns, a potential civil war, and a special kind of "I'm not a racist" racism), well...we get stuff like this...which is enough to make anyone sane go "Hoooo-leeee sheepshit" by itself.
Lately, though, he's been throwing "molon labe!" around a bunch, as if the stupid bastard would know Sparta in any context outside the movie 300.
Invitations to come after him personally and take his guns (with extra "molon labe" on top of course) , are plentiful. He's gleefully imagining some kind of private Rambo scenario where he gets to be manly and virile and pump his gun and shoot, over and over again, just like he (tells us) did when he was younger--and yes, that sounds a lot like a description of serial male masturbation for a very good reason.
But most tragicomically, he appears to have aligned himself with the crowd of shit-stirrers converging on Virginia, even stating that were he free, he would join "the protestors" in Virginia. What's stopping him, I wonder? Surely not productive work...
The most alarming bit of this, though, is his wholesale embrace of the group-identifying slang associated with the above set of accelerationists, the ones panting and moaning for a civil war, to burn it all down so they can, good grief, rebuild it in their image. There is a word, "boogaloo," which is the accelerationist equivalent of "SHTF" in the specific context of "the glorious civil war 2.0 has begun, and we righteous will fight and triumph gloriously!"
Of course, the stupid motherfucker can't even spell it right, though he's perfectly willing to "put some chlorine in [the] genepool" of some random AC he's never even met. Classy, and completely mentally stable as well. Definitely someone I'd feel safe around after he'd had a few beers. Or no alcohol at all.
And now I'm going to stop the mockery for a moment and turn to the deadly serious: this guy is flirting with domestic terrorism.
I would not be surprised, and I said as much to him on that thread, if someone decided to report his dumb ass to the Feds. And if that happens, this site is going to end up getting the IT equivalent of a deep cavity search with a Roto-Rooter. Or an NSL. Or a domain seizure.
I'd really rather it doesn't come to that, but if it does, we'll know whose fat fucking mouth is very likely to blame. Moron Labe!
The Meg Whitman Streaming Service
Jeffrey Katzenberg insists that his new video-streaming service Quibi isn’t competing against Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, or any of the other streaming services that have launched or are launching soon. You’ve got it all wrong. You’re not even asking the right questions.
“We don’t think we’re in the streaming wars,” Katzenberg, the former boss of Walt Disney Studios and founder of DreamWorks, tells The Verge in a closed-door meeting the day before the company’s grand reveal at a CES keynote. “They’re all battling for this,” he says as he thrusts his arm toward a TV in the room. “We’re going for this,” he says, gesturing toward his phone. “Don’t tell them!”
Katzenberg and Quibi CEO Meg Whitman, who is best known as the CEO of HP and eBay, are publicly announcing Quibi at CES — but not quite unveiling it — after having raised $1 billion on the promise of a roster of Hollywood stars and supposedly revolutionary video-streaming technology that delivers portrait and landscape video at the same time. Everything on Quibi is designed for viewing on a phone, on the go, in 10 minutes or less. These chunks of video are called “quick bites” — hence, “Quibi.”
A streaming service for millennial goldfish. Should be about as successful as Meg Whitman's campaign for Governor of California.
Censored aristarchus submissions! Again!
The past is prologue! What has been, will be again. Amor Fati!
Once again, aristarchus submissions are being suppressed! By this I mean, not rejected, but hidden, concealed, obscurated. These three submissions are listed as "accepted", but do not appear in the queue, or anywhere else.
US Army veteran among group of suspected neo-Nazis arrested by FBI on gun charges
White nationalist who spoke at Charlottesville arrested on fugitive warrant charges
3 Alleged Members Of Hate Group 'The Base' Arrested In Georgia
Yes, typical aristarchus submissions. Fake accepted just to mess with me? Or deep-sixed to keep coverage of alt-right terrorism off of SoylentNews? Possibly related to the recent threading bug TMB has discovered? Or another "Athanasius" scenario? QAnon, or Lizard People?
*****
Update: more rejected submissions, as the Hate goes down in Virginia.
Proud Boy "Tiny" Toese Pleads Guilty to 2018 Assault
And,
What is The Base? FBI arrest of alleged white supremacists puts focus on extremist group
And,
‘Emasculated’ Virginia gun nuts mocked for ‘purchasing toys, dressing up in costumes, and fantasizin (one of my personal favorites!)
And,
ALEX JONES CRUISES THROUGH STREETS IN INFOWARS 'BATTLE TANK' AS PROUD BOYS JOIN HIM AT VIRGINIA, the crazy does not get any more crazy than this, unless it is Texans in Congress.
****
New excuse for censorship on SoylentNews! Makes me feel so much better. Here it is:
Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately it does not meet the criteria spelled out in the submission guidelines, which can be found at https://soylentnews.org/faq.pl?op=editorial and has therefore been removed from the submissions queue. Please consider revising it based on the submission guidelines and resubmitting. Alternately you could consider posting it as a journal entry.
Yup, gonna revise this an resubmit! That'll work! Nothing like getting around censorship by doing exactly what the censors want! Hooboy! I feel a spate of submissions about alt-right Neo-nazi really stupid racists and Trump supporters coming on! Pray that the fetuses of Evangelical miscarry! Turn about is fair play. Oh, and TMB is behind on his payments.
New SSD Controllers, PCIe 4.0, QLC NAND
CES 2020: Innogrit SSD Controllers Score Multiple Design Wins
Phison At CES 2020: Preparing For QLC To Go Mainstream
NAND flash memory prices are projected to climb in 2020. The manufacturing transitions to 96-layer 3D NAND and beyond are not going to increase bit output as quickly as demand will be growing. This will be a major change from the NAND oversupply that caused price crashes in 2018 and into 2019.
SSD controller vendor Phison is betting that increasing prices will finally push the consumer SSD market to embrace 4 bit per cell QLC NAND flash memory, which thus far has seen only limited success in the retail SSD market and virtually no adoption from PC OEMs. The price premium for SSDs with 3 bit per cell TLC NAND has been small or non-existent across all market segments, so the performance and endurance advantages of sticking with TLC NAND have been worthwhile. Those days may be coming to an end. Phison expects—quite reasonably—that when NAND flash memory supplies are constrained the bulk of the TLC NAND manufactured will be snatched up by the higher-paying enterprise SSD customers, more or less forcing the consumer SSD market to start shifting toward using QLC as the mainstream option.
QLC data retention, write endurance, and speed drop-offs: manageable?
CES 2020: Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSD Makes An Appearance
OWC Releases Accelsior 4M2 SSD: Quad-M.2 For Over 6000 MB/s
CES 2020: ADATA Preparing Three PCIe 4.0 Consumer SSDs
The next-gen consoles due for release in late 2020 have been rumored to use faster-than-typical SSDs.
