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Trump Won't Endorse Paul Ryan, But His VP Will
Ever since Trump went toe-to-toe with the parents of a dead Muslim veteran, the Republican Party has been in crisis mode.
Pence breaks with Trump, endorses Ryan
Pence: Trump 'strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan'
Paul Ryan is expected to win, so as irritating as the Trump non-endorsement may be to Party leaders, it might have a limited shelf life.
This fact is also amusing:
The GOP's Donald Trump freak-out
A GOP source told CNN's Dana Bash that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was especially frustrated because Paul Ryan and Priebus, both from Wisconsin, are very close. The source said Trump refusing to endorse Ryan in his re-election primary was "personal" especially since Priebus has "taken on a lot of water" for Trump. "He takes this very personally," said the source. Priebus "does want to show his support" for Ryan, a source tells CNN.
The chairman has been the main point of contact between Trump and the Republican Party, on which the billionaire has been relying heavily since he lacks the political infrastructure of a conventional political candidate. Priebus, who was said by the source to be incredibly upset with Trump's behavior, had expressed his disappointment and frustration to several leading members of Trump's entourage, the source said.
Is it all for naught?
A knowledgeable Republican source told CNN Tuesday that some of Trump's campaign staff -- even campaign chairman Paul Manafort -- "feel like they are wasting their time," given their boss's recent comments. But Manafort insisted to CNN Wednesaday that isn't true and any frustration centers on the media.
Los Angeles Gang Tour Puts A Twist On Drive-Bys
Los Angeles Gang Tour Puts A Twist On Drive-Bys
2010 article I found for crutchy on IRC.
Nvidia Announces Pascal-based NVIDIA Titan X
NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan X” Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd
Move Over GTX 1080, There’s A New Titan X In Town
Meaningless for anybody who doesn't want the general compute features. It's $200 more expensive than its predecessor, probably to avoid cannibalizing sales of more expensive Pascal GPUs intended for businesses.
Peter Thiel at the RNC
The billion-dollar RNC question: What is Peter Thiel doing there?
Fun for everyone.
Cows On The InterTubes!
Before pictures of cats were popular on the Internet, we had text cows:-
$ fortune | cowsay
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And now the popular cowsay utility has been cow-patched to handle multi-line input correctly, especially if it contains UTF-8. Here's the archive with a SHA1 of d3cc231704eb8575941478be3ebbc19fb6b0f5c4:-
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And here are some example uses:-
$ cowsay -f frog Hey, man. This lillipad is `df | perl -e 'while(defined($line=<STDIN>)){@field=split(/[ \t\n\r]+/,$line);if((index($ENV{'PWD'},$field[5])==0)&&(length($mount)<length($field[5]))){$mount=$field[5];$avail=$field[4]}}print $avail,"\n"'` full. Ribbit.
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| Hey, man. This lillipad is 99% full. Ribbit. |
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If you're particularly inclined, you can chain/nest instances of cowsay:-
$ ls -l / | cowsay | cowsay | cowthink
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( | | total 84 | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 23:11 bin | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 boot | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 3240 May 28 11:17 dev | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 4096 May 28 23:31 etc | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 10 22:57 home | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 10 23:12 lib | | )
( | | drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 10 23:38 lost+found | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 22:52 media | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 22:52 mnt | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 10 23:30 opt | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x 104 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 proc | | )
( | | drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jun 1 09:04 root | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 320 May 28 11:17 run | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 1 05:17 sbin | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 22:52 srv | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 May 28 11:17 sys | | )
( | | drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 4096 Jun 1 09:53 tmp | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 10 23:27 usr | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 28 23:27 var | | )
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Seagate 10 TB Helium-Filled HDDs for Consumers
Not a big enough deal to get an article. Prices start at $460-$535, significantly more than 8 TB drives which can be bought for $200 on sale.
Seagate Announces 10TB Consumer HDD Lineup With Five Year Warranty
Seagate's New 'Guardian Series' Portfolio Brings 10TB Helium HDDs to Consumers
Melania Trump Copies Michelle Obama Speech About Hard Work
Qandeel Baloch: Pakistani social media star strangled by bro
Pakistani QT killed by brother for what would be usual vanity stuff for Westerners on social media:
Qandeel Baloch: Pakistani social media star strangled by her brother
Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan's most famous and controversial social media stars, has been strangled to death in what police are calling a case of so called "honor" killing in the city of Multan in the country's province of Punjab. Azhar Akram, Multan's chief police officer, told CNN that Baloch was killed by her brother in her family's home after he had protested at the "kind of pictures she had been posting online."
[...] She had nearly 750,000 followers on Facebook, where her videos went viral but were also the subject of much debate and discomfort. In recent weeks, several of her posts encouraged her audience to challenge old practices of Pakistani society. In a July 14 post, Baloch referred to herself as a "modern day feminist."
Hamna Zubair, the culture editor of Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told CNN that she had received much criticism for carrying pieces on Baloch. One commentator asked her if she would be "reporting from a brothel" next.
Baloch tightly controlled her narrative in the media. She shared little about her personal life and was something of an enigma; nobody really knew which city she was based in.She found fame and slipped into the national consciousness after declaring that she would perform a live strip tease online if Pakistan won a cricket match against arch rival India.
As her media profile grew, Zubair said Baloch became aware "of her power to deliver a certain message about being female in Pakistan," and that she had become a "burgeoning activist for increasing women's visibility" in the country. She made more headlines after posting selfies on her Instagram account with Mufti Abdul Qavi, a senior member of the clergy. The bizarre pairing led to frenzied media coverage and resulted in Qavis's suspension from his post on one of Pakistan's religious committees. After news of Baloch's death, while waiting to go on air on a local channel, Qavi told CNN that "her death should be a lesson for all those who point fingers at someone's honor."[...] A couple of days ago, local media reported that Qandeel Baloch had married at 17 and left her husband about a year later. After the reports were published, she confirmed that her legal name was Fouzia Azeem and that she had been using an alias for safety reasons. Earlier this week Baloch had stirred up more controversy by releasing a kitschy music video on YouTube called "Ban," which mocked some of the restrictions that she had been subjected to. Behind the scenes, however, things were a bit different. Hassan Chaoudhry, a reporter for local paper Express Tribune, told CNN he had spoken to Baloch on the phone just two days ago, saying she was sobbing and "feared for her life." On the morning she was murdered, Qandeel had shared a picture of herself staring defiantly into the camera, wearing a pair of leopard print pants and a black tank top. She had written that she was a fighter. "I will bounce back," she said, adding she wanted to inspire women who have been "treated badly and dominated by society."
Burning It All To The Ground. Or, Anarchy Is Better
Maybe it's just me, but I've been getting this vibe (it's strong here, but I'm feeling it elsewhere too) that there are folks who would like to see our entire society come crashing down.
Perhaps they think we can build something better, and like the Phoenix, emerge from the ashes, strong and vibrant.
And I guess I can see the attraction. Our government has been co-opted by the monied interests, our waking lives seem to be either being tracked by corporations or one government agency or another, the same monied interests seem determined to depress wages to keep us docile and hungry for the resources we need to keep ourselves and our families alive. And on and on. It's as if our society has been taken over by greedy, corrupt and amoral scumbags.
And to an extent, all of this is true. Which begs the question: What can/should we do about it?
There is one thing most of us can agree upon: That those elected to administer our governmental systems aren't acting in the best interests of the greater populace. Rather, they seem to be taking their marching orders from those with the resources to command their attention, their wallets and their votes.
There's quite a bit of agreement about that. The problem is that there are large groups of people on various sides of this question with different prescriptions for solving these problems:
Some think we need to strip the Federal government of most of its power and leave things to the states/counties/municipalities.
Some think we need to reform our existing political systems to reduce the influence of money on our elected officials (at all levels of government).
Some think it's just a lost cause and we need to just tear it all down and start over.
The biggest issue, IMHO, is that those same folks who are controlling our political systems for their own benefit use these differences of opinion to divide us. This keeps us from putting aside our differences so we can work together to create the kind of society of which we can all be proud.
Which brings me to the folks who want to tear our system down. With what shall we replace it?
Destroying one of the bulwarks of our society seems like we're creating change. But what are the consequences of doing so, intended or otherwise?
History (cf. all the infighting and problems with the Articles of Confederation) tells us that a strong central government was necessary back in the late 18th century, and (again, IMHO) is even more important today.
Could government be more distributed than it is? Possibly. Should there be stronger controls on how the central government treats its citizens? Almost certainly.
But if we destroy the "beast in DC" to punish those who have so egregiously abused it, who will pay the price when chaos ensues.
Just some semi-random thoughts.
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