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"We've always brought the country together. 'We the people, we hold these truths to be self-evident.' (Trump) flies in the face of all the basic things that we've never really met the standard (of, but) we've never abandoned it before," Biden said. "He looks like he's just flat abandoned the theory that we are one people."

Riiiiiight. Never really met...or tried to meet. Why try to meet it when you can have the rich on one side and the French fry servers on the other. We're one people, 'cept some of us are more 'one' than others. Moooooo.

"Biden on Monday also doubled down on his support for a new assault weapons ban and suggested his administration would try to create a buyback program to get those weapons off the street."

Riiiiiight. That'll work. The crazies will be ALL over that.

"Biden was clear that he would not seek to confiscate privately owned or purchased guns, instead advocating for "a national buyback program" intended to get the weapons "off the street."

You can vote for me because the laws I make won't matter.

"The fact of the matter is (assault weapons) should be illegal. Period," Biden said. "The Second Amendment doesn't say you can't restrict the kinds of weapons people can own. You can't buy a bazooka. You can't have a flame-thrower."

The 2nd amendment ALSO says you can't restrict hand guns either: clubs are arms. Ban ALL hand guns too!

Good ol' creepy Uncle Joe: it's safe to vote for him cos he'll do nothing to piss you off, really.... except feel your daughter's boob and sniff your wife's hair.

This guy is same old same old ( but creepier).
So.......the parties SAFE choice, I guess.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says first orbital Starship prototype flight debut is just weeks away

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one or both of the company’s two orbital Starship prototypes could be “ready to fly” – or nearly so – by the end of August. Even if Musk is off by one or several months, it would still make for a spectacular achievement.

The focus of the conversation that led Musk to the classic Musk-time prediction was the topic of a long-promised presentation on SpaceX’s Starship program. Although just a few weeks shy of the usual schedule, 2019’s presentation – set for August 24th in Boca Chica, Texas – more or less follows an annual September update tradition that Musk has consistently followed since 2016. Each year, Musk has given the public a glimpse into the constantly evolving process of designing SpaceX’s next-generation Mars-bound rocket. Despite the tradition’s consistency, 2019 is simply different.

The prototypes are referred to as "orbital", but the first flight will be high-altitude suborbital with 3 Raptor engines:

Elon Musk will update the status of Starship development on August 24

In regard to his August 24 presentation, Musk said of this suborbital test vehicle, "We should have Starship Mk1 with 3 Raptors almost ready to fly by then." The orbital version of Starship will ultimately fly on six Raptor engines. The flight of that vehicle into space may come in 2020, or 2021.

One interesting piece of information to look out for: What payload could a single-stage-to-orbit Starship deliver? Probably not much, and it might not make sense not to use it without the Super Heavy booster, but maybe it could still be competitive with smallsat launchers.

August 12-14: 200-meter Starhopper test
August 24: Starship update presentation
Late August?: High-altitude suborbital launch
2020: Orbital

Also: Report outlines SpaceX’s plans for Starship launches from KSC

SpaceX plans to build facilities at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A for launches and, eventually, landings of its next-generation launch vehicle, according to a newly released report.

An environment assessment prepared by SpaceX, and released by NASA Aug. 1, discusses plans to develop additional facilities at LC-39A, which currently hosts Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches, for use by the company’s Starship vehicle and its Super Heavy booster.

The plans outlined in the document call for the construction of a new launch mount at the complex near the existing one used by the Falcon 9 and Heavy. The modifications to the pad would also include a tank farm for the methane fuel used by the Raptor engines that power Starship and Super Heavy.

The Super Heavy booster would land at a ship in the ocean downrange from the launch site, although the report noted that SpaceX may later have the booster return to land. The Starship upper stage would initially land at the company’s existing Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but the company plans to build a pad near the new launch mount at LC-39A for to support Starship landings at a future date.

The facilities will be able to support up to 24 Starship/Super Heavy launches a year, the company said in the report, with a corresponding decline in Falcon launches from the complex. “Due to the higher lift capability, Starship/Super Heavy could launch more payloads and reduce the overall launch cadence when compared to Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy,” the report states.

Liqid Element Unveils "LQD450" PCIe 4.0 x16 SSD: 32 TB At Up to 24 GB/s

The fastest Liqid Element LQD4500 SSDs will offer up to 24 GB/s sequential read and write speeds as well as up to 4 million read and write IOPS (sustained random writes are rated at 600K IOPS). Such drives will also offer an ~80 μs read access latency as well as a ~20 μs write latency.

The drive comes in a full-height full-length (FHFL) add-in-card (AIC) form-factor with a one-wide passive cooling system, and is therefore compatible with large systems that need extreme performance and can provide a minimum of 400 LFM of air flow, as the card consumes and dissipates up to 65 W of power. Depending on customer requirements, the drive can be configured for different capacities, performance, and endurance levels.

32 GB Unbuffered DIMMs Listed from Seven Brands: DDR4-2400 to DDR4-3000

Now that both Samsung and Micron are shipping their 16 Gb DDR4 memory chips to third parties, we're seeing wider availability of 32 GB unbuffered memory modules (UDIMMs). To date, six brands have either introduced, or started to sell their 32 GB unbuffered DIMMs, and in the coming months more manufacturers are expected to follow.

[...] Twitter user momomo_us, who is from Japan, has managed to get a list of 32 GB unbuffered memory modules that are either available now or are about to hit the shelves there. The list is valid for Japan, yet we do know that ADATA and G.Skill are about to launch their 32 GB UDIMMs in the near future too, so our list includes data on these memory sticks as well.

Previously: Corsair 32 GB DIMMs: Where da ECC at?

22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends”

A recent poll from YouGov, a polling firm and market research company, found that 30 percent of millennials say they feel lonely. This is the highest percentage of all the generations surveyed.

Furthermore, 22 percent of millennials in the poll said they had zero friends. Twenty-seven percent said they had “no close friends,” 30 percent said they have “no best friends,” and 25 percent said they have no acquaintances. (I wonder if the poll respondents have differing thoughts on what “acquaintance” means; I take it to mean “people you interact with now and then.”)

In comparison, just 16 percent of Gen Xers and 9 percent of baby boomers say they have no friends.

Wow.

Back when I was in college, when the Apple II, TRS-80, PET and Star Wars were somewhat new, we had to actually go physically locate our friends (no cell phones), and ask "hey, you want to go spend some quarters at the video arcade and then get some nachos? Who's going to drive? Want to go ask XXX and YYY to see if they want to come along?"

Sometimes they couldn't go because -- gasp! -- studying! Or reading the required chapter.

Some of us would go to the "computer center" together to use the terminals. For hours. But even this had a significant social element to it.

I wonder how life would have turned out if everyone was trying to get "likes" and "thumbs up" and always glued to their phones? Or glued to video games without spending the required quarters.

I remember getting very good at an electro-mechanical game called "Space Tactics". But I still had a life and limited quarters. And doing laundry competed for those same quarters, which I kept in a Big Cheese Pizza mug with lid. Arcade trips were limited by pouring out a generous handful of quarters and pocketing them.

When graduating, I remember wishing those days could go on forever. We kept in touch all these decades. These people are my lifelong best friends.

What is so different about today? Is it right to blame social media? Does it not only tear apart the fabric of civil society, but also isolate everyone? Can't we have "no phones at the table" rules? (my house did, but I was one of the parents)

I don't believe the people are any different. It is something about the environment.

and it was uphill both ways . . . get off my lawn!

Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, Marooned Together on Fantasy Island

Oops, missed the previous one. I hear Marianne Williamson sold a few books with her performance.

In tonight's debate, we'll have Biden directly between Booker and Harris.

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de Blasio fires opening shots at Biden and Harris. Heckler in the audience.

Senator Michael Bennet (Colorado) loves America. Sad sack act. "Kids belong in classrooms, not cages. They deserve better than a bully in the White House."

Governor Jay Inslee (Washington). THE PEOPLE WATCHING AND IN THIS ROOM ARE THE LAST BEST HOPE FOR THE PLANET. One issue candidate: climate change and clean energy.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (New York). My grandmother/mother taught me nothing is impossible. And her mother worked with the gays. And she (Sen. G) was single handedly responsible for repealing DADT. "BEATING DONALD TRUMP... DEFINITELY NOT IMPOSSIBLE."

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii). Patriots patriots patriots patriots. "Donald Trump is not behaving like a patriot... I'll fight for our rights and freedoms." Soldier's values.

Julian Castro. Invokes recent Puerto Rico protests. Good health care, education, job opportunities. Even in Detroit. Grew up with a single Mom in a poor neighborhood.

Andrew Yang. $1,000 a month. "I KNOW THIS MAY SOUND LIKE A GIMMICK." Why? Because automation. Auto workers in Detroit. Asks people to raise their hands if they've seen a store close. Invokes Amazon. The opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math. Very enthusiastic supporter in the audience.

Cory Booker starts out with Trump's Baltimore attack. Commotion in the audience. He has to stop his opening statement so that security can escort somebody out. Other stuff. Heal as a nation.

Senator Kamala Harris (California). Microphones for several candidates sound crappy, feedback. Says something blandly inspirational. "Successfully prosecute the case of four more years of Donald Trump".

Biden. Restore the soul of the country. Mentions the diversity of the stage. Talks directly to "Mr. President".

Kamala Harris asked about her health care plan. "They're probably confused because they haven't read it." Generic stuff about co-pays, premiums. Option for a public or private plan. Access to health care must be a right. Biden says Harris has had several plans. Says plan will cost $3 trillion over 10 years. Harris responds. "Babies will be born into our plan!" Biden's plan will leave out 10 million Americans. Biden: Repeats $3 trillion cost estimate. Requires taxes to go up. Eliminates employer based insurance. Harris says the cost of doing nothing is too much, health care already costs $3-6 trillion a year.

de Blasio "doesn't know what they're talking about". Says tens of millions don't have insurance, and union members don't like their current insurance. Biden: build on Obamacare, provide a public option. Biden says his plan will cost $750 billion, not $30 trillion. Gillibrand brings up personal story about an allergic reaction to eggs. Forest, trees. Republicans gonna take away your health care. Harris says her plan is approved by the architect of Obamacare, Kathleen Sebelius. Biden: nothing is demanded in my plan, i.e. if you like your insurance you can keep it. Booker: Donald Trump is enjoying this debate while he plans to gut the ACA. RAISED BY TWO CIVIL RIGHTS PARENTS. Stand with the belief of health care as a human right. 20% of the economy to be spent on health care. We spend "multiple more than other countries". We're dividing each other over this issue. Gabbard: We have a "sick care system". Big insurance and pharma have been profiting off the backs of the sick, and have a seat at the table. Gabbard throws shade at Sebelius for working for an insurance company. Harris: Sebelius didn't write my plan, just endorsed it. Biden awkwardly brings up biopharma "it's not about chemicals anymore" (he was probably referring to biologics). Bennet wants a public option. My plan is different from Warren/Sanders/Harris/socialists! Agrees with Biden on the costs. Harris wants to respond, but it goes to Castro. Castro's granny had diabetes. Medicare should be expanded, keep private plans if you want, doesn't believe that profit motive should determine whether anybody gets health care. Harris: "With respect to my friend Bennet, my plan does not offer anything that is illegal". Bennet: MUH FRIEND. We need to be honest that Harris's plan bans employer based insurance and costs $30 trillion. Harris seems stumped, says Bennet is using Republican talking points. Misleading to suggest that employees want what their employers are offering _only_. Inslee: Washington first state to offer public option. Proud of his state yada yada. Brings up mental health care. Yang: TRUE STORY MY WIFE ASKED ME ABOUT HEALTH CARE WHEN I SAID I WAS RUNNING FOR PREZ. de Blasio: Democrats are fearmongering about universal health care. We don't need to be dependent on private insurance. Disrupt the status quo. de Blasio clarifies that Bennet is the one fearmongering. Bennet: This has nothing to do with Republican talking points. Sanders says that it will cost $32 trillion, not me. de Blasio: The American people get to decide (i.e. make the election a mandate on health care). Biden: Republicans are trying to kill Obamacare, which covered +20 million and 100 million for preexisting conditions. "bunch of malarkey". Bernie acknowledges $30 trillion must be paid. Harris: Let's talk about math. Pharma + insurance profited $72 billion last year. Biden's "status quo plan" does not hold these companies to task. Some stuff about insulin and Narcan. Biden wants to put insurance execs in jail over opioids. Gold plan, awkward cutoff.

Castro asked whether border is "open to all" if border crossings are decriminalized. Repeal Section 1325. Marshall Plan for South American countries. Bennet: Disagrees. Invokes his Holocaust Mom. Bill gave pathway to citizenship for 11 million, would do that again. Harris: Went to Homestead private detention facility in Florida, with 2,700 children. No entry. IMA TELL YOU WHAT I SAW. Children being walked into barracks. Bennet: We agree on family separation. Border turned into a symbol of nativist hostility. Gillibrand: Tries to humanize people fleeing violence, rape in South America. Make it a civil violation, not criminal. CNN to Biden: 800,000 immigrants were deported under Obama, more than under Trump. Biden gets heckled while answering. Asylum... flood the zone? Already proposed/passed $750 million for Guatemala. Keep it a crime. Castro: One of us has learned the lessons of the past, and one of us hasn't. My plan would also fix the broken LEGAL immigration system. It is a civil action. Biden: "I have guts enough to say his plan doesn't make sense." People should have to get in line. Defeat Donald Trump. Gabbard: "Our hearts break when we see these children at detention facilities." Make it easier to seek asylum. Yang: I'm a son of immigrants... we can't always be focused on distressed stories. Immigrants are being scapegoated for automation/robots. Booker: We are playing into Republican hands. Unlawful crossing is the same whether in civil or criminal courts, but criminal courts allow Trump to violate human rights. Doing it in the civil system means you don't need horrible detention facilities. Biden: I agree that asylum... is a real process. Increase number of legal immigrants allowed. We are able to cherry pick the best. It took curry? Inslee: We can no longer allow a white nationalist in the White House. Make America a place of refugee. First Governor to say "Send us your Syrian refugees." de Blasio: There's 11 million people here that have broken the law, but are a part of our communities now. Says Biden did not respond to whether he tried to stop deportations. Biden: "Dreamers" were Obama's idea. Comparing Obama to Trump is bizarre.

Gabbard: Does not believe tuition should be free for illegal ("undocumented") immigrants. Crushing student debt. de Blasio: I agree, but I don't hear an answer from the Vice President on deportations. Biden gives another half-assed answer. Booker: You can't just invoke Obama when it's convenient. Criticizes on Biden "cherry picking" immigrants. "Some are from shithole countries, some are from working countries." Biden: Obama went out of his way to change the system, got pushback. Gillibrand: 7 children died under Trump Admin's custody.

[commercial break]

Criminal justice. Biden: Booker's criminal justice plan is similar to mine. Rehab, not prison, for drug crimes. More education in prison. Eligibility for Pell grants, etc. when they get out. Booker: Race, poverty, mental health, addiction treated by locking people up, not lifting them up. Biden claimed responsibility for decades worth of failed laws. TRUE MARIJUANA JUSTICE. Biden grabs Booker, calls him a future President. Booker engaged in stop and frisk as Mayor of Newark. Booker inherited a bad city. Booker shocked that Biden wants to compare records. "Biden Crime Bill". Biden: We passed that bill (?). Nothing done with police dept. during his time as mayor. He hired Giuliani's guy. Booker: You're dipping into the Kool-Aid and don't even know the flavor. Come to Newark to see the results of our reforms. Biden's tough on crime bills have put people in prison for life.

Castro: Agrees with Booker. What Biden authored in '94 was a mistake, and he has flip flopped. Castro has put forward a police reform plan. Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner. National use of force standard. End of qualified immunity. Inslee: Come to the state of Washington and see what crim. justice reform looks like. Eliminated death penalty, "banned the box" so convicts can get a job. Police accountability and training in deescalation. Castro: Dept. of Justice didn't go after officer who killed Eric Garner. de Blasio: I know the Garner family, and they are going to get justice. In the next 30 days! There will never be another Eric Garner. Biden... what did you do about the Garner case for 2.5 years? Biden: (dodges) We reduced federal prison population, provided for body cameras. I find it fascinating that everyone thinks I'm terrible on these issues, but Obama chose me. Yang: I would trust anybody on this stage over Donald Trump on criminal justice. We should pay people to stay out of jail. Certainly after they come out, but also before they go in (everything comes back to UBI). Gillibrand: Officer who killed Eric Garner should be fired NAO! Illegal chokehold. If I was mayor, I would fire him. Would investigate as Prez. Harris asked about busing, audience mumbles. Harris: (my position not the same as Biden's) He worked with segregationists. Had they gotten their way, Booker and me wouldn't be here and Obama wouldn't have been President. Biden fails to acknowledge his past position. I too met with Eric Garner's mother. Civil rights division of DOJ said charges should have been filed, but it was overruled. Biden: When Senator Harris was Attorney General for 8 years, she presided over the 2 most segregated districts. And she presided over a police debt. that was abusing people's rights. Biden literally says to Google "1000 prisoners freed Kamala Harris" (SEO dream?). Gabbard: Deeply concerned about Harris's record. She laughed about being asked about smoking marijuana despite putting people in prison for it. Ignored evidence that could have exonerated a death row inmate. Etc. Harris: National model... fancy speeches. Reformed a system badly in need of reform. Legalize marijuana. Gabbard: Bottom line is that when you were in a position to help people, you did not. Actually blocked evidence that would have freed multiple death row inmates. Harris: My entire career, I have been opposed to the death penalty. Proud of my work as AG. I made an unpopular decision to not seek the death penalty.

Bennet: Prez racist, vote him out. This is the fourth debate, second time we debated busing 50 years ago despite schools still being segregated TODAY. Equal is not equal. You can draw a straight line from slavery to mass incarceration. 88% of prisoners dropped out of high school. Inslee: I approach this question with humility because I've never been a black teenager pulled over in a white neighborhood, LGBTQ slurred. Ended the school to prison pipeline in his state. Even if we get a majority in the Senate, nothing will get done, because we need to get rid of the filibuster. Yang: I spent 7 years running a nonprofit that created jobs, including in Detroit. Average African American median net worth will be $0 by 2053. Truck drivers gonna lose their jobs. MLK supported a guaranteed minimum income.

Castro asked about Baltimore tweets. "The President is a racist." Baltimore and other cities are rich in culture and possibilities. Invest in education, universal pre-K, tuition free university/job training. Desegregate thru HUD. Rent is going through the roof. Gillibrand: I don't believe it's the responsibility of Booker and Harris to be the only ones handling these issues. WHITE PRIVILEGE. Whiteness protects you from being shot.

Climate issue

Inslee's #1 priority is the climate. He knows the impact across the country happening now. Climate change is health, national security, and economy. Middle ground solutions like Biden's won't save us. My plan has been called the gold standard. Environmental justice. Nearby Detroit oil refinery (?) causing cancer. Biden: No middle ground with my plan. Immediate action. 15% of all the pollution in the country. Rejoin Paris climate accord. Yang: The important number is that U.S. is only 15% of global emissions. We are 10 years too late. We need to start moving our people to higher ground. Put economic resources in families' hands so they can move. Inslee: Biden's plan doesn't get us off coal and fossil fuels. Survival is realistic, and that's the plan we need. Biden: My plan calls for EV charging stations! $400 billion investment in tech. Double offshore wind. End coal/fossil subsidies. Engage the world while we are doing it. "We would work it out." Inslee: Our house is on fire, we need to get off coal within 10 years. Harris agrees with Inslee. Wind turbines cause jobs, not cancer. Carbon neutral by 2030. Gillibrand is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal. How is it realistic? Gillibrand will clorox the Oval Office (hahahahahahhahaha). Will lead a worldwide conversation. Visited a family in Ohio that got flooded (severe weather being blamed on climate change). Invokes JFK Moon speech. Why not have a green energy race with China? Will put a price on carbon. Gabbard: This is personal. I grew up in Hawaii. Protecting our environment a way of life. I introduced most ambitious legislation in this area. Booker: I agree wholeheartedly with Inslee. Joined other mayors to speak out on Kyoto accords. Must deal with existential climate threat. U.S. must lead.

de Blasio's city came under fire for children testing positive for lead exposure. Decades old problem. Declared eradication of all lead. Lead exposure went down 90% since 2005. Remediation needed all over the country. Public housing. Going into all of them to eradicate lead. There should be a federal mandate. Castro: I went to Flint as Hud Secretary. Improved the blood lead standard. Plan to invest $50 billion to fight lead threat.

Are Biden's plans progressive enough to energize the party (and Michigan)? We did the stimulus package, bailed out General Motors. Helped Detroit to get out of bankruptcy. Gillibrand: I took a bus tour to talk about Trump's broken promises. Trade war w/ China, signed onto bad trade deals. Yang asked whether he can beat Trump. Yang says he's building a coalition of disaffected Democrats, conservatives, and libertarians. Record stock prices, suicides, depression. HAS AN AUTISTIC SON. Wife's work (as a stay-at-home mom) is not paid for. Gabbard: Donald Trump won because people feel like they have been left behind by politicians on both sides. I'm speaking the truth about ongoing Flint poisoning. We are spending $4 billion a month on Afghanistan. Booker: The truth will set us free. We lost Michigan because Republicans and Russians targeted the suppression of African American voters. We need an assault on the most valuable voting group: black women. Activate and engage to win Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Harris: Stuff about auto workers. Jerome Powell dropped interest rates. Trump betrayed the American people (because of trade war?).

[commercial break. lot of Ad Astra (2019)]

Stream cuts into some question for Castro. Trump claiming responsibility for Obama's ~80 months of job growth. Gabbard was against TPP. Would push for fair trade. TPP would have given away our sovereignty. Clear protections for environment needed in trade deals. Gabbard would not keep China tariffs. Would Biden rejoin TPP? He would renegotiate it. We have to join, or China writes the rules for the world. Invest in workers to make them more competitive. Biden would insist in renegotiation of TPP. de Blasio mentions NAFTA 2.0. de Blasio asks Biden if he will oppose the new NAFTA. Biden says "Yes." Biden: "I love your affection for me." Bennet asked about automation!! Yang must be salivating. Bennet: Income inequality has gotten worse due to tax cuts, Middle East wars. Invest in America again. (This is looking like a dodge, bring in Yang plz.) Yang asked about women pay gap. Harris wants to fine companies that don't close gender pay gaps. Yang: I have seen firsthand the inequities. We have to do more at every step. We need to think about women in every situation. We need to give them economic freedom BY GIVING THEM $1,000 A MONTH. Harris: (Internally laughs at Yang) Pay gap. Require corporations to post on their website if they are paying women equally. Fine 1% of previous year's profits. Gillibrand: We have to have a broader conversation. I want to address Biden directly. Wrote an op-ed that said that women who work outside the home result in the deterioration of the family. Biden: It was a long time ago, and it was about a tax break for child care. Give more tax breaks. Gillibrand: YOU DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION. 4/10 moms have to work, 8/10 moms are working today. Biden: MY DECEASED WIFE WORKED WHILE RAISING MY CHILDREN. I WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN [legislation]. Biden shoots Gillibrand because she praised him previously. Gillibrand goofed. Harris: Biden opposed Hyde amendment. I PERSONALLY PROSECUTED RAPE AND CHILD MOLESTATION CASES. Biden: The Senator knows that's not my position. Everyone voted for the Hyde amendment in the past! I support a women's right to choose. As a Constitutional right. Congress should legislate. There was not full federal funding. Inslee: We need to think about how nearly all women have been underpaid.

Foreign policy

Booker asked about Afghanistan. Booker: I will not do foreign policy by tweet. I will bring troops home as quickly as possible, but won't set an artificial deadline during this campaign. Gabbard: THIS IS REAL. I served in Iraq. My cousin is deployed to Afghanistan right now. This is about leadership. I'll bring troops home within the first year because they shouldn't have been there in the first place. End wasteful regime change wars. Yang asked about Iran breaching nuclear deal. Yang would move to deescalate tensions. Renegotiate timelines. Signed a pledge to end Forever Wars. We have to spend money at home. Inslee: These are difficult matters. I voted against Iraq War. We need a President who can stand against the drums of war. Biden: I did make a bad judgment on Iraq War. I opposed surge in Afghanistan. Gabbard: We were all lied to. The current President is continuing to betray us. We have not gone after al Qaeda. Our President is supporting al Qaeda! de Blasio beat down for talking out of turn.

Harris asked about obstruction of justice. Harris: President needs to be held accountable. People have gone to prison for far less. Noone is above the law, including the POTUS. Booker: I've read the report... I've read the redacted versions of the Mueller report. Start impeachment proceedings immediately. We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. Congress should do its job. Castro agrees. I was the first to call for impeachment proceedings. Agree that President should not direct Attorney General to prosecute or not prosecute. de Blasio: Obvious that crimes have been committed, but cautions that Americans do not care about impeachment. Are we ready to make the wealthy pay their fair share. The best impeachment is to win in 2020. Bennet: We are 4 months away from the Iowa caucuses. Don't bother with impeachment since Trump will be acquitted by the Republican Senate. Or we'll give Trump a second term. Castro: We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Too many folks in the Senate are spooked by 1988. If we don't impeach Trump, Trump will just say "LOok they didn't go after me". Moscow Mitch. Bennet: I don't disagree. It's incredibly unusual for Congress to walk and chew gum at the same time.

[commercial break]

Closing statements

de Blasio: Trump pits working people against each other. This has to the party of labor unions, universal health care, and taxing the hell out of the wealthy. Trump will call us socialists. Donald, you're the real socialist... socialism for the rich. Go to taxthehell.com.

Bennet: We have been here before as a country. Trump doesn't appreciate history, rule of law, climate change, etc. Put the divisive politics of Donald Trump and the last 10 years behind us. Join me at michaelbennet.com.

Inslee: We have kicked the can of climate change for decades. We have one last chance. Literally the survival of humanity and civilization is in the hands of the next President. Must be top priority of next President. If you share my view, join me and confront the fossil fuel industry. jayinslee.com This is our moral responsibility and we will fulfill it.

Gillibrand: Donald Trump has torn apart the moral fabric of this country. I'm running for President because I want to help people, and I actually have the experience to do that. I know how to beat Donald Trump. He has broken his promises to the American people. I started out in a 2-to-1 Republican district and won it twice. There is no false choice. We don't need a progressive or a moderate, but both. Go to my website that is impossible to spell.

Gabbard: Brink of nuclear catastrophe. We would have 30 minutes if missiles were fired us. Mentions the Hawaii false alert. There is no shelter. It's all a lie. As President I will end this insanity. I will end wasteful regime change wars, and this new cold war.

Castro: This election is all about what kind of nation we're going to become. Donald Trump has not been bashful in his cruelty. I will not be bashful in my common sense and compassion. Our destiny in the years to come is to be the smartest, healthiest, fairest, and most prosperous nation. Say Adios to Donald Trump in 2021.

Yang: Talking heads only talked about me not wearing a tie. This (debate) is a reality TV show. We elected a reality TV President. My flagship proposal would put $1k/month in everyone's hands. Enter your zip code at yang2020.com!

Booker: Thanks Detroit. HWNDU. My mom was born in Detroit. He has lots of ties to Detroit. 95% of my Mom's generation did better than previous, millennials are coin toss. Common bonds, purpose, pain. More indivisible into this one nation under god. corybooker.com

Harris: In my background as AG of California, I took on the big banks. I took on for-profit colleges, and transnational criminal orgs. We have a predator living in the White House. Donald Trump has predatory insticts, preys on who he perceives to be weak and vulnerable. Predators are cowards. (a bunch of stuff)

Biden: We're in a battle for the soul of America. Most consequential election. 8 years of Trump will cause America we know to no longer exist. Go to joe3030 ?????

[END]

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Previously:

2020 Democratic Debate #1A (Warren, O'Rourke, Booker)
2020 Democratic Debate #1B (Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, Yang)

Honor Set to Enter TV Market with New Honghu 8K CPU

The company stated that more details will be given at its Developer Conference in Songshan next week, but the preview details included that the processor will have an 8-core design, feature Huawei’s NPU machine learning silicon, audio optimization through the Histen technology, and a variety of decoding and upscaling features.

On the list of the ‘seven advanced image processing technologies’ includes HDR, super resolution (upscaling), noise reduction, dynamic contrast improvement, auto color management, local dimming, and motion estimation/motion compensation for high-frame rate interpolation. None of these technologies are new, but having them together in one accelerated implementation is going to be a cornerstone of this market in the future.

[...] There are a number of high-resolution focused AI-enabled optimization display processors on the market already, such as Sony’s X1, Samsung’s Quantum Processor, and LG’s Alpha 9. Honor’s take on this market relating to the processor will be next week, with perhaps a device or two on display at IFA in early September.

Related: Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec

'Born to be wild': Kenya's female biker gang

Human resources consultant Njeri Mbogo finds a heightened awareness and spirituality when on her Suzuki Gixxer 155cc: "I notice things that I don't usually notice when travelling by car. I can feel the air, temperature change, smell, the views seem clearer and my senses are generally heightened. It's a wonderful feeling."

Sylvia Thiong'o, a microbiologist who rides an TVS Apache RTR 180, likes to escape the city and dreams one day of riding north on the newly tarred A2 highway from the central town of Isiolo to Moyale, which is on the border with Ethiopia. The 500km trip would pass through several national parks with beautiful scenery.

Lawyer Doreen Murang'a says she is not big on material things: "But my bike [a ZMR Hero Karizma] is something I love. I've named her and I talk to her when she's having a bad day and refuses to start."

It is also a way of escape: "When riding you have to focus entirely on what you are doing, not an impending work deadline or life's usual stresses. It's you, your bike, the road and the wind in your hair and if you're like me, a good playlist."

A positive development.

Jeffrey Epstein found nearly unconscious in NYC jail cell after possible suicide attempt

An old Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory finds new life in Jeffrey Epstein news

The news was sensational grist for conspiracy theorists and far-right pundits, who leapt to Twitter to suggest that Esptein’s injuries might somehow be linked to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The theory, known as the “Clinton Body Count,” was soon trending on Twitter, with the corresponding #ClintonBodyCount hashtag attached to more than 70,000 tweets by Thursday afternoon.

Big tech companies have been grappling with their part in the spread of conspiracy theories surrounding politicians, health information and mass violence. Facebook has balked at reigning in the theories spread in groups and on pages, citing a slippery slope of becoming arbiters of truth, while YouTube announced this year it would stop the spread of conspiracies on its platform by tweaking its algorithm to recommend less content that could misinform users.

Some users on Twitter criticized the platform for including the Clinton conspiracy hashtag in its Trending sidebar this morning when it only had a few hundred tweets, mostly from a well-known conspiracy news account.

“Trends are determined by velocity, not volume,” a Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed response to questions about what responsibility it has to keep conspiracy theories off its trending list.

#ClintonBodyCount Conspiracy Re-emerges after Epstein Suicide Attempt Report; Claims Rooted in 1990s GOP Theories

Interesting info on how big a scum Biden is, and why maybe Trump may win again.
If they don't dump Biden, Trump will ROAST HIS ASS and win. Again.

Are they THAT STUPID to push him forward?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/marc-thiessen-joe-bidens-electability