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We had a beautiful year!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 22 2018, @04:35AM (#2943)
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Thank you to Brad Blakeman on @FoxNews for grading year one of my presidency with an “A”-and likewise to Doug Schoen for the very good grade and statements.

Unprecedented success for our Country, in so many ways, since the Election. Record Stock Market, Strong on Military, Crime, Borders, & ISIS, Judicial Strength & Numbers, Lowest Unemployment for Women & ALL, Massive Tax Cuts, end of Individual Mandate -- and so much more. The Trump Administration has terminated more UNNECESSARY Regulation, in just twelve months, than any other Administration has terminated during their full term in office, no matter what the length.

The good news is, THERE IS MUCH MORE TO COME -- BIG 2018. Working hard! www.youtu.be/gFXcLi85cQY

Reminder for Intel Apologists

Posted by takyon on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:37PM (#2941)
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Business

Intel Has a Big Problem. It Needs to Act Like It

During the six months Intel was quietly working to try to fix the vulnerabilities, Krzanich sold $24 million in company shares. Intel says the stock sale was part of a plan that had been in place before anyone there knew about Meltdown or Spectre, but the day after Krzanich’s CES speech, two U.S. senators sent letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice demanding investigations. Consumer and shareholder lawyers have filed a dozen class actions against Intel, and there are few signs the pressure will let up on Krzanich anytime soon. In a research note, an analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. called the stock sale “indefensible.”

Making sigs - and so, Soylent - more coolnitch

Posted by fyngyrz on Sunday January 21 2018, @06:11AM (#2940)
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I have written many, many sigs; and I've kept them all around in a textfile.

I would like to use many sigs here. It would be wonderful if the sig part of the account allowed for multiple sigs. It should be trivial to write such a thing — even in Perl, shudder — and it would be a fun enhancement to the site.

You just need storage of multiple lines of HTML, separated by some obvious token like a linefeed. Actual line breaks in sigs would be <BR> as per usual. Obvious user account options to sequence in order (requires additional storage of one integer), or presented pseudo-randomly. Total length of any one sig could still be limited (although I'd sure like that limit to increase a bit, or at least not count HTML tags against it.)

Bonus: it'd be way better than That Other Site, and more fun. Those people are so mired in their own egos and incompetence it'd be/take years, or until never, for them to catch up. That goes for all Soylent improvements anyway.

Pseudocode:

  • Split the field by \n
  • Chose one of the splits
  • Triage the length
  • Profit!

Ham radio, fuck yeah

Posted by Knowledge Troll on Friday January 19 2018, @06:35AM (#2936)
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I was down in the shack and I wonder if anyone is on the 2 meter simplex call frequency turned into a wonderful hour long rag chew with a station about 30 miles away. I just recently got back on the air after spending about a week validating the operation of my little 100 watt HF/VHF/UHF station and I've really been enjoying it. With my dipole I've been able to work South Korea, China, New Zealand, Indonesia, Australia, Falkland Islands, Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, and many more countries in South and Central America on 20 meters and 40 meters using FT8.

What a blast!

&#x1F3C6; And the FAKE NEWS winners are... &#x1F3C6;

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:29AM (#2934)
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Despite some very corrupt and dishonest media coverage, there are many great reporters I respect and lots of GOOD NEWS for the American people to be proud of! Announcing the Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards!!!! https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/

Happy Martin Luther King Day!!!!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 15 2018, @11:46PM (#2924)
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Martin Luther King, Jr., was the very model of a modern American patriot.

The Reverend’s devotion to fighting the injustice of segregation and discrimination ignited the American spirit of fraternity and reminded us of our higher purpose.

Dr. King's dream is my dream. It is the American Dream. It's the promise stitched into the fabric of our Nation, etched into the hearts of our people, and written into the soul of humankind. AMERICA FIRST! 45.wh.gov/NhJy55

We don' need no steenkin' dark matter

Posted by Gaaark on Monday January 15 2018, @10:24PM (#2923)
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Science

Mike does another good job explaining why dark matter hand waving is not needed when you have science.

http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.ca

I made a new park & holiday!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 14 2018, @02:55AM (#2920)
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Good news for #MLK fans -- yesterday, it was my great honor to proclaim January 15, 2018, as Martin Luther King Jr., Federal Holiday. That's right, I proclaimed a holiday just for him! Because I think he was a great guy, a great American hero. We have some fine people from Norway, but Martin was one of our own. I encourage all Americans to observe this day with appropriate civic, community, and service activities in honor of Dr. King's EXTRAORDINARY life and his great legacy. pic.twitter.com/samlJsz1Nt

And on Monday it was my great pleasure & honor to sign H.R. 267, the "Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act," which redesignates the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the State of Georgia as the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park. 45.wh.gov/T5ByM5 pic.twitter.com/QTgaqTawPT

God bless you all and God bless America!

NASA Kilopower News Conference on Jan. 18

Posted by takyon on Thursday January 11 2018, @01:31AM (#2916)
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Science

NASA, Partners Discuss Power for Future Space Exploration

NASA and its partners will host a news conference at noon EST (9 a.m. PST) Thursday, Jan. 18, at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, to discuss a recent experiment involving a new power source that could provide the safe, efficient and plentiful energy needed for future robotic and human space exploration missions.

Audio of the news conference and presentation slides will stream live on NASA’s website.

Representatives from NASA, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Los Alamos National Laboratory and Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) will discuss and take questions on the Kilopower project, which aims to demonstrate space fission power systems technology that has the potential to enable future crewed surface missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Testing began in November 2017 and is expected to continue through March.

Previously: NASA's Kilopower Project Testing a Nuclear Stirling Engine

Good news, folks! I ended global warming! ❄&#x1F30E;❄

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday January 10 2018, @06:34AM (#2914)
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Folks, President Obama is a big believer in global warming. So he told his people, "look for the global warming, tell everyone about the global warming." And every year they said "last year was the warmest year ever, this is going to be even warmer." But I'm open-minded. I got rid of a lot of Obama FLUNKIES & FLOOZIES. And the folks that are left, I said to them, "global warming is a hoax, maybe, probably, it's a hoax, just tell us about the weather!" So we have a beautiful weather report from my people at NOAA. We had some amazing weather last year in the great states of Florida, Texas, California, Montana, North and South Dakota. Erie, Pennsylvania. And Puerto Rico, which isn't a state. It's an island.

But guess what, it wasn't the warmest year. 2017 wasn't the warmest year ever. Because 2012 and 2014 -- when Obama was in office -- were warmer. I'll tell you, I never promised to end global warming. But I did it. And I did it while I BROUGHT BACK THE JOBS in our terrific coal, oil & gas industries. Like I promised.

And now that we've taken care of global warming, we're going to repeal Obama's Clean Power Plan. Because our power is clean enough. If we make it any cleaner, we'll kill our electric. Our Christmas trees will go dark. And our chandeliers. It won't be pretty, folks. In Africa they like it dark, they can stay in the dark. We're not doing that. We're doing a REPEAL. Administrator Pruitt, very smart guy, is doing the paperwork for that. To Make America Great Again.

And if we get a little global warming, we can use it. We could really use it. Our East, our South and our Central USA were cold as hell last week. Pipes freezing & bursting in Jackson, Mississippi and in Atlanta! And a lot of people freezing to death. We could use some goddamned global warming!