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Are palindromes for people who like to end at the beginning?

Or for people who like to begin at the end?

Or for people who like to start in the middle?

Or for people who do only half the work and say they are done?

Florida charter boat captain accused of drinking, doing drugs, firing gun, threatening passengers

A Florida charter boat captain is accused of drinking heavily, doing drugs and threatening to shoot his passengers and throw them overboard before firing his gun several times from the top deck of the boat.

[...] All of the passengers and Kissell reported that Bailey drank several beers in the beginning of the trip, according to an arrest report. When Lopeparo asked his nephew, Rialmo Jr., to grab him a beer from the top deck where Bailey was, the captain told him he couldn't have it, but the teen thought he was kidding and grabbed the beer anyway.

At that point, "the captain bumped shoulders with the young man and grabbed him around the neck and clasped on to the young man’s chain and ripped it off," Giuffre told police. An argument ensued, but the captain retreated back to the upper deck to keep drinking. At this point, he was drinking Captain Morgan rum, smoking a joint and using cocaine, the passengers reported.

Later, the inebriated captain told Giuffre Jr., "It would be nothing to pop a bullet in each one of us and dump our bodies overboard," Giuffre Jr. wrote in his statement to police. "He also stated he has his buddies at the dock for us when we get back. He then proceeded to say he wanted to help to kill n------," Giuffre Jr. wrote. The police report said Giuffre Jr. and his fellow passengers were white.

All of the passengers reported that shortly after threatening them, Bailey fired between four and eight gunshots from the upper deck. At that point, the elder Giuffre said, Bailey was "drinking rum from the bottle" and "scaring the crap out of all of us."

I am a Master Builder. And when I build, I never ever forget the paint. That's so important. Great paint makes a structure look truly fabulous. The same way a Supermodel -- like Melanie -- makes a dress look truly fabulous. So important. And paint can do much more. It does many things.

That's why I've directed my military to paint our Border Wall. Starting in beautiful Calexico, California. Which I visited in April with Kirstjen -- we miss Kirstjen, don't we? And which I'll be visiting many times. Many times. We tore down the old Clinton Border Fence in Calexico. And put up a brand new See Through Barrier. Very see-through, so you're able to see the other side, which is a very important element. And very, very hard to climb. That's something my Border Patrol appreciates a lot. They gave me a trophy for that one, if you can believe it.

And mark my words, they'll be giving me another trophy when we're done with the painting there. Because we're doing a very special color. Known as Flat Black. Looks incredible on a Supermodel. And believe me, it's going to look incredible on our tall Wall Slats, which are 30 feet tall in some places. One of the tallest Walls in the entire world. And the Flat Black is going to do a lot to stop the invasion of our Country by Human Traffickers, Drug Dealers, Cartels, Coyotes and Caravans of Illegal Immigrants. Something that, frankly, Mexico hasn't been doing much about. But the very special paint, the Flat Black, when it's in the sun there in Mexico -- Mexico adjacent USA and they get an incredible amount of sun in that part of our Country, it's a sun day almost every day. Almost every day and that Flat Black is going to get very very hot. Not the sexy hot, the gotta grab it hot. The other hot, the one that's very painful when we touch it. And nobody's going to want to climb up there because of that horrible heat. That's right, we're doing the Anti Climb paint. There are now 77 major or significant Walls built around the world, with 45 countries planning or building Walls. But U.S.A is the first with the Anti Climb paint.

And there's more. If you've seen the Clinton Border Fence -- so ugly. Because it rusted. And it was actually camouflaging the individuals crossing (illegally) our Border. One of their favorite tactics. My Border Patrol folks told me it was very hard for them to see those people. Because it was brown against brown. No more, we're doing the black. And that's costing $150,000. Sounds like a lot of money. It is a lot of money. And Crybaby Dems like Dick Dustbin are saying, "oh, it's too much money." They're very short sighted. And possibly something else is short too, I don't know. Trust me, we're going to make it up on the back end. Mexico is going to be paying for that one. Because of me there is now going to be great cooperation between Mexico & the USA, something that didn’t exist for decades. Mexico was not being cooperative on the Border in things we had, or didn’t have. But now we're making a New Deal with Mexico, much better than NAFTA. Much better and Mexico is going to work a lot harder on stopping the invasion. And the beautiful Flat Black paint will also stop it. NO MORE INVASION! And that means we'll be spending less money on the Enforcement, on the Boarder Patrol.

And I want spikes on top. Very sharp so if someone makes it up there -- again, we have 30 foot tall Slats in some places and that's something we're going to see more and more -- they're going to be sorry they did. Because there Hands are going to get cut very badly. And I think they know that. I think they know. And they're VERY INTIMIDATED by it.

Tall, Black and covered in spikes. The Wall I'm building is very big. And very beautiful. A promise kept!!!!

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 4.7 GHz CPU Leaked, World’s First 16 Core Gaming Chip

It has the full 72 MB of cache.

I'll guess $700 for the price.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT ‘7nm Navi’ Graphics Card Final Specifications Leak Out – Features 2560 Cores, 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM and Up To 1905 MHz Clock Speeds

Apparently people want more than 8 GB of VRAM for 4K gaming.

Skip as many gens as you can!

Spotted at Computex: Triple Monitor Mobile Systems are Back

More innovation than a MacBook.

AMD says “we need to start to talk about our ray tracing strategy”

AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, told the press at Computex that the company will discuss ray tracing in mainstream graphics in 10 days (via PCWorld). So we can expect to hear more from AMD’s Next Horizon gaming event on June 10.

Supposedly the Sony PS5 custom chip will do ray tracing, but this year's Navi desktop GPUs (a hybrid of GCN and RDNA) won't. Maybe we'll get a surprise though.

See also: AMD and Samsung's GPU Licensing Deal: A New Era of Collaboration?

Giving in to their intense natural attraction, the electrons and the e-holes venture further and further towards each other from opposite sides of the P-N junction. Into the the semiconductor's forbidden zone of depletion they wander. Ignoring all inhibition to stop, their growing excitement causes the depletion zone to become smaller and smaller. Finally the depletion zone becomes so small it disappears. They are suddenly surprised and shocked by a climactic explosive rush of current. It can only be described as electric. The LED lights up brightly as current flows freely. The LED continues to glow brightly until the forward current blissfully subsides and the forward voltage drops below the threshold. The electrons stop flowing and go to sleep. The depletion zone once again grows in the P-N junction keeping them separated.

Who’s in — and out — of the first Democratic debates

Presidential hopefuls have until June 12 to cross one of two thresholds to qualify for the primary debates, and 13 of the 20 slots available are set. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is currently out, one of the foremost candidates in danger of missing the stage. His camp blasted what it called the DNC's eleventh-hour "unmasking" of "arbitrary" polling rules, but the DNC said the Bullock campaign has been aware of the criteria for months.

[...] In order to be eligible for the debates, candidates must cross one of two thresholds: earning 1 percent in three polls approved by the DNC, or receiving donations from 65,000 people, with 200 in 20 different states. Thirteen have met both thresholds and clinched their spots. But there are at least 10 credible candidates bidding for the final seven spots — a list that includes two sitting senators, three congressmen, a governor, a former governor and the mayor of New York.

Next week’s deadline is a make-or-break moment for these second-tier candidates, who risk fading into irrelevance if they aren’t among the 20 candidates onstage in Miami.

The 13 candidates who can book their tickets include the race’s top figures. Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Julián Castro are the top-polling candidates; following a random drawing, they will be split across the two nights, with five on one night and four on the other.

But also meeting both the polling and fundraising thresholds are Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee and two lesser-known figures: Marianne Williamson, best known for authoring spiritual, self-help books, and Andrew Yang, a first-time candidate who wears a baseball cap that says “MATH” on the front as he touts his proposal for a universal basic income.

After those 13 candidates, the rest of the field gets murky. According to a POLITICO analysis, an additional seven candidates have hit the polling threshold: Michael Bennet, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Kirsten Gillibrand, John Hickenlooper, Tim Ryan and Eric Swalwell.

#YangGang #Yang2020

2020 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums

1A - Jun 26, 2019
1B - Jun 27, 2019
2A - Jul 30, 2019
2B - Jul 31, 2019
3A - Sep 12, 2019
3B - Sep 13, 2019 (may be cancelled)

See also: DNC Denies 2020 Democrats a Climate Change Debate

Want to defeat Trump? Attack Biden

Anyone angling to be the Democratic nominee should espouse a real progressive agenda – just being “anti-Trump” isn’t enough

Biden campaign's self-inflicted error is one it can't really afford

It’s political malpractice for any modern campaign to lift words, intentionally or not, for its policy plans or website.

That’s especially true if you’re the early Democratic frontrunner. And even more true if your 1988 presidential campaign ended in a plagiarism scandal.

But that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday, when Joe Biden’s campaign rolled out its climate plan — and admitted it forgot to give proper attribution.

“Several citations, some from sources cited in other parts of the plan, were inadvertently left out of the final version of the 22-page document,” the Biden campaign told NBC’s Garrett Haake.

Biden campaign confirms he supports controversial abortion rule (Hyde Amendment)

Planned Parenthood slammed Biden’s continued support for the Hyde Amendment in a statement to NBC. “The unfair Hyde Amendment makes it so that those who have the least end up having to pay the most to access abortion, and those who are service members or live on reservations are often left with no coverage for abortion care,” Kelly Robinson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund's executive director, said. “We encourage any candidate who doesn't recognize Hyde's impact to speak to the women it hurts most — particularly on women of color and women with low incomes — to learn more about the harmful impacts of this discriminatory policy," Robinson said.

[...] Biden voted against a 1977 compromise that allowed Medicaid to fund abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or medical safety of the mother. He then voted again in 1981 to remove rape and incest exceptions when they passed.

The ex-lawmaker also voted several times to prohibit federal workers from using health insurance on abortion services, with the only exception being to save the life of the mother.

I doubt that any of the current mudslinging at Biden is going to have an effect. Instead, it will take a few heated exchanges at one of the primary debates to cause a reversal. The first ones are scheduled for June 26th and 27th.

Previously: Joe Biden's #MeToo Adventure Continues
Joe Biden Parody Website Outranks Campaign Site

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I was trying to recall this telescope concept but it was very difficult to find as it gets drowned out by other ELTs. It is linked from the very bottom of this page. Go ahead and bookmark it.

This is another overlooked project: the Magdalena Ridge Optical Interferometer (MROI). Except it is actually being built:

Telescope array will spy on spy satellites, star surfaces, and black holes

When it's complete around 2025, the $200 million Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI) will have the equivalent resolution of a gigantic telescope 347 meters across.

MROI's small telescopes can't match the light-gathering power of its giant cousins, so it will be limited to bright targets. But by combining light from the spread-out telescopes, it is expected to make out small structures on stellar surfaces, image dust around newborn stars, and peer at supermassive black holes at the center of some galaxies. It will even be able to make out details as small as a centimeter across on satellites in geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 kilometers above Earth, enabling it to spy on spy satellites.

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope full operations begin in 2022. Extremely Large Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope will have first light in 2024. JWST scheduled for launch in 2021 or later. So astronomers will be shook in 7 years' time. It's the dark ages until then.