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AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs With 7nm+ Zen 3 Cores & X670 Flagship AM4 Platform Arriving End of 2020

* It looks like Zen 3 will be the last generation on AM4, then Zen 4 will move to AM5, adding support for DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.
* Since it's a little over 12 months between each release, you could see Zen 3 in Q4 2020 and Zen 4 in Q1 2022.
* Rumors about Zen 3 performance range from +8% IPC and +200 MHz to over 15% IPC increase and higher core counts. A core count increase (e.g. 12 cores per chiplet or more chiplets) seems unlikely to me, but "7nm+" might make it possible (20% greater transistor density).

Things to watch out for in January:

* 64-core Threadripper 3990X
* Possible 48-core Threadripper 3980X, which AMD may have decided is not worth releasing. You are probably either good with 32 cores or want as many as possible.
* Possible 8-channel memory for Threadripper
* Zen 2 APUs with up to 8 cores
* Use of either Vega or Navi graphics for the Zen 2 APUs
* Any improvements to media decoding? Such as AV1 or 8K. Is it called Video Core Next, Radeon Multimedia Engine, or both?
* LPDDR4X support?
* Possible successor to the fanless A6-9220C, with at least the +52% higher IPC of Zen.
* Possibly more details about ray tracing for the next-gen consoles.

So why is 5G network coverage so sparse? It turns out, there is a reason.

It is little known, yet well established that AT&T representatives are carefully disguised to have the form and appearance of ordinary human beings.

Due to lack of sufficient testing early on, it escaped AT&T's notice that 5G network signals interfered with the disguise making it possible for some people to perceive the true form and nature of their representatives. Because of this, AT&T representatives need to avoid being in areas where 5G signals are present. Thus it makes sense to ensure that 5G coverage is in as few areas as possible, and to manipulate other major carriers to do likewise.

In the meantime marketing will work on hype for a new 6G network so that the entire 5G debacle can be swept under the rug as quickly and quietly as possible.

You read it on the intarweb tubes. So it MUST be true!

His suicide note, written just before he started shooting, gives a scary insight into the warped world of misogenist hate.

Forgive the mistakes, I had 15 minutes to write this. See also Annex.

Please note that if I commit suicide today 89-12-06 it is not for economic reasons (for I have waited until I exhausted all my financial means, even refusing jobs) but for political reasons. Because I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker. For seven years life has brought me no joy and being totally blasé, I have decided to put an end to those viragos.

I tried in my youth to enter the Forces as an officer cadet, which would have allowed me possibly to get into the arsenal and precede Lortie in a raid. They refused me because asocial [sic]. I therefore had to wait until this day to execute my plans. In between, I continued my studies in a haphazard way for they never really interested me, knowing in advance my fate. Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite my theory of not handing in work and the lack of studying before exams.

Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media, I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts. For why persevere to exist if it is only to please the government. Being rather backward-looking by nature (except for science), the feminists have always enraged me. They want to keep the advantages of women (e.g. cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by a preventative leave, etc.) while seizing for themselves those of men.

Thus it is an obvious truth that if the Olympic Games removed the Men-Women distinction, there would be Women only in the graceful events. So the feminists are not fighting to remove that barrier. They are so opportunistic they [do not][note 2] neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men through the ages. They always try to misrepresent them every time they can. Thus, the other day, I heard they were honoring the Canadian men and women who fought at the frontline during the world wars. How can you explain [that since][note 3] women were not authorized to go to the frontline??? Will we hear of Caesar's female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50% of the ranks of history, though they never existed. A real Casus Belli.

Sorry for this too brief letter.

Marc Lépine

The letter is followed by the list of nineteen names, with a note at the bottom:

___ nearly died today. The lack of time (because I started too late) has allowed these radical feminists to survive.

Alea iacta est.

Lepine couldn't support himself, failed in school, was kicked out of preliminary military screening after a month for being unsuitable, and insisted on taking revenge for his failed life on female engineering students who were achieving what he was unable to.

The 2018 Toronto Van attack by a self-confessed incel software developer also targeted women.

I haven't heard of any female incels doing mass killings against men. Something is wrong, and it's not the women.

Men need to help each other deal with toxic masculinity, because women trying to help will leave them at risk of becoming another target.

They release documents...

The war mongers see things differently of course, but they have no credibility:

The Syrian war has split the OPCW, once largely a technical organization, along political lines, with Russia and its ally Syria on one side and the United States, France and Britain on the other.

Here's something in the judgment, as reported by Radio-Canada (the national French TV/radio network - yes I am bilingual, tabernac), that people in other countries, including my neighbours to the south, might want to consider (because countries, while not bound to rulings in other countries, sometimes use them to inform their judgments).

The court stated that police officers cannot blindly follow their training as a defence to liability. They must use reasonable judgment (aka common sense).

So, not only is "I was just following orders" not a defence, neither is "I was just following my training."

Given the ongoing problems with the Montreal police force, the refusal of leadership to admit to racism ("there's a systemic problem, not racism"), and the lack of trust in the police by the general population (even people who don't have a criminal record don't want to call them), at last here's a cudgel to beat them with to maybe force them to change.

Here's one recent example of police stupidity

A Montreal mom was left confused after an officer wrote her a $169 ticket for driving in the HOV lane with her daughter. The officer claimed the nine-year-old passenger needed a driver’s licence.

Stéphanie Émond was driving in the Sources Boulevard carpool lane last week when the officer pulled her over. The lane is reserved for buses, taxis and cars carrying two or more people, as the roadside sign indicated, so Émond was puzzled. Even more so when she received the pricey ticket.

The officer claimed that in order to drive in the high-occupancy vehicle lane, Émond’s daughter needed to have a driver’s licence herself. After all, carpool lanes are meant to keep more cars off the road. Since her daughter couldn’t drive herself yet, they’re not reducing emissions.

“She went on to say, ‘With your daughter not having a driver’s permit, we’re obviously not getting cars off the road this way.’ So she thought that I deserved a ticket,” Émond recalled on CTV News Channel Wednesday. “She seemed very sure of what she was telling me.”

Émond understands the eco-friendly purpose of a carpool lane, but says there’s no clear definition of who constitutes a “passenger” in a carpool lane so she shouldn’t have been ticketed.

“When there’s no definition, we cannot make one up. It has to be written somewhere and we can’t just issue (a ticket) based on interpretation of the law -- even if it made a lot of sense,” she said.

The Quebec website for the Canadian Automobile Association supports Émond’s position. There is no age requirement for carpooling, it says, quoting Transport Québec spokesperson Solène Lemay as saying “a parent taking a child to daycare is assumed to be carpooling.”

You really can't make this shit up.

The guy who destroyed his SUV by blocking a stolen car from hitting pedestrians a couple of weeks ago is lucky he didn't get a ticket for obstructing traffic and another one for causing an accident.

Anyone else got crazy stupid cop stories?

Today the Supreme Court of Canada ordered both the cop and his employer to each pay $10,000 to a woman who received a ticket for ignoring an escalator sign saying to hold onto the handrail in a subway escalator.

Montreal
Supreme Court awards $20K to woman fined for refusing to hold escalator handrail.

Court orders transit authority, police officer to each pay half of the cost

The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered that a woman who was arrested for refusing to hold an escalator handrail in a Metro station in Laval, Que., be awarded $20,000 in damages.

Bela Kosoian was at the Montmorency Metro station in 2009 when a police officer told her to respect a pictogram with the instruction "Hold the handrail."

The situation grew tense when she refused to comply and declined to identify herself when asked.

She was arrested, detained for 30 minutes and finally let go with two tickets: one for $100 for disobeying a pictogram and a $320 fine for obstructing the work of an inspector.

She was acquitted of the two infractions in Montreal municipal court in 2012 and subsequently filed a $45,000 lawsuit against Montreal's transit authority, the City of Laval and one of the officers, Fabio Camacho.

Her suit was rejected by Quebec court in 2015 and by the Quebec Court of Appeal in 2017, which said Kosoian was the "author of her own misfortune."

The Supreme Court has ordered $20,000 be paid to Kosoian in damages. The Société de transport de Montréal, which operates the Metro, and Camacho will each be liable for half the amount.

The judges wrote in their decision that Kosoian was "entitled to refuse to obey an unlawful order and therefore committed no fault" in the case.

"A well‑informed person whose rights are infringed must be able to respond — within reason — without being held civilly liable," the court concluded.

Hopefully more people will understand that you do not have to obey them if you think they are infringing your rights - as they did to me two weeks ago ordering me to use a sidewalk covered in ice (see a previous journal entry).

This now becomes the law not just in Montreal and the surrounding area, but all of Canada.

Hopefully this will open the floodgates and cops will stop wasting time bullying people and start doing their jobs.

After all, if they can issue fines to change people's behaviour, we should do the same.

Considering the aggravating circumstances in my case, I think I should ask for "moah monnay".

Suddenly and unexpectedly, today I have hit an article by Ron Paul:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/real-bombshell-impeachment-hearings/5695984

I was not disappointed, I really like the ingenuous wording by Colonel Vindman. It illustrates well all the mechanics behind current political processes.

It seems the pivot person in this plot is Fiona Hill. With such a cute name and strange fate which could fit to an anime character, coming from modest background she was promoted to become one of the most influencing operators of the dark Empire, publicly known by euphemism deep state:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Hill_(presidential_advisor)

from the I-wanna-hold-your-hand-rail dept.

Bela Kosoian was at the Montmorency Metro station in 2009 when a police officer told her to respect a pictogram with the instruction, "Hold the handrail."
The situation grew tense when she refused to comply and declined to identify herself when asked.

She was arrested, detained for 30 minutes and finally let go with two tickets: one for $100 for disobeying a pictogram and a $320 fine for obstructing the work of an inspector.

She was acquitted of the two infractions in Montreal municipal court in 2012 and subsequently filed a $45,000 lawsuit against Montreal's transit authority, the City of Laval and one of the officers, Fabio Camacho.

Her suit was rejected by Quebec court in 2015 and by the Quebec Court of Appeal in 2017, which said Kosoian was the "author of her own misfortune."

The Supreme Court has ordered $20,000 be paid to Kosoian in damages. The Société de transport de Montréal, which operates the Metro, and Camacho will each be liable for half the amount.
The judges wrote in their decision that Kosoian was "entitled to refuse to obey an unlawful order and therefore committed no fault" in the case.
"A well‑informed person whose rights are infringed must be able to respond — within reason — without being held civilly liable," the court concluded.

Also running in the This-is-not-a-library dept, so go somewhere else to read this! Who loves ya, baby!

From the A-Rose?-by-any-other-name dept.

The town of Asbestos, Quebec, Canada has decided a change of name is due:

"There is really a negative perception around asbestos," Mayor Hugues Grimard told CBC News, referring to the widely banned mineral that was mined there for more than a century.

"We have lost businesses that don't want to establish themselves here because of the name."

The name-change discussion has been brewing for some time, he said. Over the last few years, officials have tried to improve the town's image with a new slogan and colours.

But, try as they might, the name is loaded with negative connotations, the mayor said.
"It's really the perception that you have to change," Grimard said. "

"Others suggested a range of replacement names, from the serious to the humorous.

Suggestions included Ville des Trois-Lacs, Nobestos, Amianteville, Asbestos 2.0 and Poumontousse (a play on the French words for lung and cough)."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/asbestos-quebec-change-name-1.5375703

MY suggestion? Asbestos McAsbestosFace.
What do you think? Put this to 4chan for suggestions? Nah... SoylentChan!