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Brett Kavanaugh, wife and Christine Blasey Ford all receiving death threats: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

It's 2018. Why is a public figure receiving death threats "news"? There must be individuals out there making death threats to several people every day (hundreds per year), and the chance of them getting caught and brought to trial is minimal.

Pointing out that you receive death threats or mere angry emails does not mean you should get any sympathy. It was news a decade or two ago, but no longer. The Internet is a whirlwind of hate, and as long as (relative) anonymity exists, it will stay that way. And that anonymity is more valuable than the chance to get rid of (a % of) routine death threats.

Trump on Sessions: 'I don't have an attorney general'

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A growing number of Republican senators are calling for a delay on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation vote until they have time to hear from a woman accusing the judge of sexual misconduct when they were both in high school.

Christine Blasey Ford, 51, came forward publicly Sunday with a detailed account in The Washington Post of an incident that took place at a party when she was 15 and Kavanaugh was 17. Ford claims Kavanaugh held her down and tried to remove her clothes while covering her mouth with his hand and leading her to believe that he could "inadvertently kill me."

In light of the allegations, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he does not think the committee should advance Kavanaugh's nomination until Ford is heard out.

"If they push forward without any attempt with hearing what she's had to say, I'm not comfortable voting yes," Flake told Politico on Sunday. "We need to hear from her. And I don't think I'm alone in this."

Republican senators call for delay on Brett Kavanaugh vote until they can hear from accuser

But he hires the best people!

Potential Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is having his Anita Hill moment. The White House expects that Christine Blasey Ford will testify in some capacity at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says "This woman should not be insulted, and she should not be ignored."

Obviously, Kavanaugh could still make it onto the Supreme Court. But perhaps the President will have to look to the bench instead. How about Amy Coney Barrett? She's a woman, and the dogma lives loudly in her.

Remember, for every member of the Administration you defeat, there is an evangelical waiting in the wings. ✞👼

Trump picked the wrong judge (July 9)

The long silences of Christine Blasey Ford and Dianne Feinstein

Alleged AMD EPYC ‘Rome’ 7nm Based 64 Core Processor Performance Leaks Out – Scores an Incredible 12,500 Points in Cinebench Multi-Tasking Benchmark

If the "leak" is true, then it looks like AMD will double cores on the "7nm" node as well as increase IPC compared to "14nm" and "12nm". Leading to a more-than-double performance increase in some cases. Assuming your OS, software, or benchmark can use all 64 cores/128 threads.

That also means that the consumer desktop Ryzen chips could be boosted to a maximum of 16 cores, from 8. Which makes sense given that Threadripper 2 was raised from 16 to 32 max cores, probably to make room for the new Ryzens.

16 cores at $500? $350? Could happen.

Following his conviction on eight criminal counts in a federal court in Virginia last month, President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced a new trial on another full docket of charges. On Friday morning, we learned that the second trial would be short-circuited. Instead of facing a jury to evaluate whether he had laundered money or committed bank fraud or filed false reports on his lobbying, the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III announced that it had reached a plea agreement with Manafort. In addition to the original eight charges, Manafort admitted to another two, sparing him from another trial.

One of the two charges to which Manafort admitted guilt on Friday was a sweeping conspiracy charge, incorporating a slew of the numerous counts that he faced at one point. The other charge is a conspiracy charge related to obstruction of justice.

Paul Manafort becomes the fifth Trump campaign team member to plead guilty to criminal charges

In a bombshell development, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is cooperating with the special counsel as part of the plea deal in his federal criminal trial.

Manafort Plea Deal Includes Cooperation With Prosecutors

I don't understand why nerds like Tesla Motors at all. For instance there is Rich Repairs often called the rogue Tesla mechanic because he dare attempt something like repair a Tesla vehicle when Tesla corporate doesn't want that to happen. Tesla will not supply him with parts, they will not support repaired vehicles and they won't even give them access to the supercharger network. If you dare do significant repair to a Tesla they will cut you off and leave you hanging with an expensive machine that is essentially no longer vendor supported. Rich likes Tesla but hates this behavior because it makes what he does extremely difficult.

They take this to the extreme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okLgtYgnd7A. In that video Rich covers an email he got from a Tesla owner that bought a damaged Tesla at an auction. The damage was to body panels only and is cosmetic so he replaced the panels and got a nice Tesla for a reasonable price. He then went in with full faith and totally committed to Tesla and sold his other vehicle.

He took the car to a Tesla center for some service and then they noticed that someone dared to attempt to repair one of their vehicles. They then as a total surprise blackballed him from Tesla in the middle of a road trip which means not only is his vehicle now no longer supported by the vendor he also lost all supercharger access. With out supercharger access it is extremely difficult to reasonably use the machine.

He had to ditch the car because he could no longer actually move around on his roadtrip usefully because of charge time. He flew back home after cancelling the trip and now has to find a way to recover his vehicle and after that he has to live with being blackballed from Tesla.

Now nerds - why do you possibly accept this behavior? Don't you not use Windows because of concerns about who actually owns and controls your computer? But it is ok that Tesla owns and controls your means of transportation and will fuck you with in a heart beat?

What gives?

Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Rohingya Situation 'Could Have Been Handled Better'

Under international pressure over alleged genocide by Myanmar's army, the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi acknowledged Thursday that her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslims "could have been handled better."

Speaking at a World Economic Forum meeting in Vietnam, Suu Kyi also struck a defiant tone when a moderator asked her about two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar. She said their case "had nothing to do with freedom of expression at all."

It was a rare defense from Myanmar's soft-spoken leader, now 73, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She spent nearly 15 years under house arrest at the hands of a repressive military junta, during which time she became one of the world's most famous political prisoners.

However, her reticence on both the fate of the Rohingya and the jailed journalists has been condemned by human rights groups and one-time admirers worldwide.

Nobel Peace Prize is done for tbh.

See also: Aung San Suu Kyi defends jailing of journalists in Myanmar: 'They have every right to appeal'

Previously: Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar
Reuters reporter says Myanmar police planted 'secret' papers
World reacts to sentencing of Reuters journalists in Myanmar

Apple is happy to use women and people of color as art, not authority

"Apple's boardrooms look nothing like its advertisements."

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He's gay, believes in God, and voted for Donald Trump. Here's why a top VC says being an outsider has paid off in Silicon Valley.

• The venture capitalist David Blumberg is a white man in Silicon Valley, and still he says he's a minority.
• In addition to being a supporter of President Donald Trump, the investor is gay — he has two children with his partner — and has a strong faith in God.
• Blumberg said that after coming out as a Republican more than a decade ago, he "got dropped from a lot of cocktail-party lists."
• But being an outsider has its advantages, he says.