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Comet Lake Core i9-10900T CPU at 35 Watt rating hits 123 watts in Sandra benchmark
TDPs are often a very tricky thing, but this one definitely falls into the category, odd. In the SiSoft Sandra database, an entry appeared of a pending Core i9-10900T processor, that T in there is for the energy-friendly 35 Watt models.
Now, make no mistake, we're talking about a 10-core/20-threads processor. So in low base-clock loads achieving 35 Watts, I would find it amazing by itself all together. That, however, is not the case, the benchmark shows that the Core i9-10900T actually draws up-to 123 Watts under load. Again, 10 cores, I am not shocked, but with a rating of 35 Watts, it's definitely on the high side if you think about it for a small form factor build. The base clock (the absolute lowest load clock for all cores) should be 1.9 GHz for the Core i9-10900T. The processor is listed as having a 4.5 GHz boost frequency (single thread).
Top-end 10-core could draw up to 300 Watts.
The Hunt (some) Liberal's wet dream
Review: The Hunt is every bit as bad and offensive as we suspected
But at least it's an equal-opportunity offender. And Betty Gilpin is terrific.
Jennifer Ouellette - Mar 14, 2020 1:00 pm UTC
Twelve random "regular" people find themselves being hunted by vengeful wealthy sociopaths in The Hunt, starring GLOW's Betty Gilpin and Oscar-winner Hilary Swank. Delayed since last fall in the wake of mass shootings, the film is being touted as a daring, politically incorrect edgy satire. It's not. It's just a predictably pointless, simplistic premise with all the subtle nuance of a cudgel to the side of the head, pretending that it has something relevant to say about "cancel culture" and our current hyper-polarized partisan divide.
Written by Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse (whose father Carlton shared showrunner duties with Lindelof on LOST), The Hunt is about 12 strangers who wake up in a clearing with no idea where they are or how they got there. They soon discover they are "prey" at an exclusive resort called The Manor, where the uber-wealthy come to hunt human beings—although Hilary Swank's high-end executive (who masterminded the whole thing) scoffs that they should hardly be considered "beings." But one of the targets, Gilpin's Crystal, fights back, and proves to be a formidable adversary.
As I pointed out when the first trailer dropped, it's not a particularly new idea, since Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" was first published in 1924 and has spawned countless film and television interpretations of the basic concept over the ensuing decades. The twist in this case is that the hunted are all red state "deplorables," and the hunters are "liberal elites"—albeit of the super-entitled uber-wealthy variety.
Naturally, Fox News had a field day with the film's storyline. It's essentially trolling Fox's core audience, after all, although the premise is frankly just as offensive to folks on the opposite end of the political spectrum (fair and balanced!). Sometimes that kind of controversy can be good marketing for a strong opening weekend. But then Universal decided to pull the film's originally scheduled release in the wake of three US mass shootings that claimed the lives of more than 30 people. That was the right decision.
Even though the premise, and that original trailer, seemed pretty dubious, I was willing to give Lindelof and Cuse the benefit of the doubt and wait to see the film before rendering judgment. If anyone could set up expectations and then toss in a jaw-dropping twist, it's those two. So I'm actually quite peeved that The Hunt is so unrelentingly predictable and pedestrian. How Lindelof and Cuse could go from something as multi-faceted and sublime as Watchmen to this godawful mess is a the head-scratcher.
The most recent trailer (embedded above) has been recut to hint that The Hunt isn't really about rich liberals literally killing conservative folks, but that's disingenuous. Yes, the premise really is that dumb and obvious. There are no fully-formed characters, just caricatures; half of the characters aren't even named, they're just listed in the credits as "Yoga Pants," "Trucker," "Staten Island," or "Crisis Mike," to name a few. As for the motivation of the so-called "liberals," we learn that the notion of the Hunt started out as a Q-Anon-like Internet conspiracy.
The "liberal" group in question, while making fun of the idiocy of an unnamed president (*cough* Trump *cough*), joke in a group text thread about killing a few "deplorables" in an upcoming hunt on "the Manor." When one person's phone is hacked, the texts go public and a certain segment of gullible right-wing Internet denizens thinks it's real. Everyone on that thread is summarily fired to preserve the "optics" of their respective corporations. Orchestrating a real "hunt" that targets those who bought into and spread the rumor is their revenge.
This bone-headed premise might conceivably work in the context of a five-minute comedy sketch, except the ham-fisted script isn't particularly sharp or funny, regardless of which group it's targeting with the jibes. Case in point: there's a scene where Ma (Amy Madigan) and Pop (Reed Birney), posing as rural gas station owners, argue about whether "Black" or "African-American" is the more politically correct terminology for people of color as they haul the bodies of the targets they've just slaughtered into the back of the store. Hahaha. Get it? That's about as subtle as the purported "humor" gets.
The sole exception to all of this is Crystal, and that's largely due to an extraordinary performance by Gilpin—the one bright light in this otherwise dankly distasteful film. (The gifted Swank is utterly wasted in her role as Athena.) It's also an underdeveloped part, but Gilpin's expressive face and mannerisms infuse her bare outline of a character with a bit of much-needed depth. She's a cipher from the start, although we gradually learn she's a veteran who saw combat in Afghanistan, which certainly explains her mastery of weaponry and skill at hand-to-hand combat—and matter-of-fact ruthlessness at killing those hunting her, like a Mississippi John Wick. I suspect a touch of PTSD might be a factor.
What’s the point?
When Crystal finally faces Athena in the inevitable final confrontation, the latter is surprised to learn that Crystal can recognize the music of Beethoven and has read (and understood) George Orwell's Animal Farm. So what is the implicit message here? That Crystal deserves to live because she has some cultural refinements, while her fellow "deplorables" deserved to die? I'm sure that wasn't Lindelof and Cuse's intent, but it is a natural inference to make, especially when we learn that Crystal's kidnapping was actually a case of mistaken identity. She's not one of the much-maligned "deplorables" who were targeted because of their online embracing of a weird conspiracy theory.
Perhaps there's supposed to be some kind of nihilistic message in all of this, but if so, it's garbled and muddled to such a degree as to be meaningless. At one point Crystal tells one of the other survivors a story her mother used to tell her, about the jackrabbit and the box turtle. It's a version of the tortoise and the hare, with an ugly twist. After the cocky jackrabbit loses to the box turtle because he took a nap mid-race, he goes to the box turtle's house with a hammer, kills the turtle's family in front of him, and then kills the box turtle, before gobbling up their dinner amid their smashed bodies—"because the jackrabbit always wins." Her fellow survivor, confused, asks if they are the jackrabbit or the box turtle. Crystal doesn't answer. That's pretty much the predicament of anyone looking for deeper meaning in this film.
The Hunt is doubly disappointing because, in the right hands, this could have been a challenging, thought-provoking take on a well-established literary classic. The studio's marketing is trumpeting this as the most controversial movie of 2019 that nobody has yet seen, hinting at playing the "censorship card" and urging audiences to decide for themselves. Well, I'm hardly squeamish about challenging films that push the boundaries of socially acceptable mores, which puts me very much in the target audience for this film. But it's actually hard to pull off such a feat, and sadly, The Hunt fails on almost every level.
The Hunt is currently playing in theaters, should you decide to take a break from "social distancing." But frankly, it deserves to bomb at the box office.
Actually, this should be classified as "fantasy". In reality, elite liberals hide in the cities, quaking in fear at the idea that "deplorables" own weapons.
Lest you feel superior, many of you liberals are equally deplorable. If the only Wagner ever to be heard in your home was "Flight of the Valkyries" in a war movie, you're deplorable.
This is why we want only police to have weaponry
Lawyer: Man asleep when police fired on house, killing him
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/03/lawyer-man-asleep-when-police-fired-on-house-killing-him/
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outside his house, killing him and wounding his girlfriend, an attorney for the 21-year-old man’s family said Friday.
The Montgomery County Police Department said in a news release Friday that Duncan Socrates Lemp “confronted” police and was shot by one of the officers early Thursday. Rene Sandler, an attorney for Lemp’s relatives, said an eyewitness gave a “completely contrary” account of the shooting. She said police could have “absolutely no justification” for shooting Lemp based on what she has heard about the circumstances.
“The facts as I understand them from eyewitnesses are incredibly concerning,” she told The Associated Press.
The warrant that police obtained to search the Potomac home Lemp shared with his parents and 19-year-old brother doesn’t mention any “imminent threat” to law enforcement or the public, Lemp’s relatives said in a statement released Friday by their lawyers. Nobody in the house that morning had a criminal record, the statement adds.
“Any attempt by the police to shift responsibility onto Duncan or his family, who were sleeping when the police fired shots into their home, is not supported by the facts,” the statement says.
A police department spokesman didn’t immediately respond to the statements by the family or their lawyer.
The department’s news release on Friday says tactical unit members were serving a “high-risk” search warrant around 4:30 a.m. when one of the unit’s officers fatally shot Lemp. Police detectives recovered three rifles and two handguns from the home. Lemp was prohibited from possessing firearms, police said.
“Detectives were following up on a complaint from the public that Lemp, though prohibited, was in possession of firearms,” the release says without elaborating.
Sandler said the family believes police fired gunshots, not a flashbang or other projectile, from outside the home, including through Lemp’s bedroom window, while he and his girlfriend were sleeping. Nobody in the home heard any warnings or commands before police opened fire, she said.
“There is no warrant or other justification that would ever allow for that unless there is an imminent threat, which there was not,” Sandler said.
The police department’s news release says the “facts and circumstances of the encounter” are still under investigation. Prosecutors from neighboring Howard County will review the evidence at the conclusion of the investigation.
“An established agreement between the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office stipulates that when an officer-involved shooting involving injury or death occurs in one county, the other county’s State’s Attorney’s Office will review the event,” police said.
Lemp was Caucasian, according to Sandler. She did not know the race of the unidentified officer involved in the shooting because she said the officers were wearing masks. The officer was placed on administrative leave, a standard procedure after police shootings.
Sandler said Lemp’s grief-stricken family is traumatized. Their statement says they intend to “hold each and every person responsible for his death.”
“We believe that the body camera footage and other forensic evidence from this event will support what Duncan’s family already knows, that he was murdered,” the statement says.
Lemp worked as a software developer and was trying to raise money for a startup company, according to friends and co-workers.
“He was a talented, smart guy. Super nice. Didn’t deserve to get shot,” said Samuel Reid, whose Canadian software company employed Lemp as an independent contractor.
Tsolmondorj Natsagdorj, 24, of Fairfax, Virginia, said he met Lemp in 2016 and bonded with him over their shared interest in cryptocurrency. They also talked about politics. He described Lemp as a libertarian who frequented the 4chan and Reddit message boards, sites popular with internet trolls.
“Duncan was a young guy with a bright future as an entrepreneur,” Natsagdorj said. “We was working on things to change the world.”
On social media accounts that friends said belonged to him, Lemp’s username was “YungQuant.” On an internet forum called “My Militia,” someone who identified himself as Duncan Lemp, of Potomac, and posted under the username “yungquant” said he was “an active III%’r and looking for local members & recruits.” That’s an apparent reference to the Three Percenters, a wing of the militia movement. The group’s logo, the Roman numeral “III,” has become popular with anti-government extremists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
On his Instagram account, Lemp recently posted a photograph that depicts two people holding up rifles and included the term “boogaloo,” slang used by militia members and other extremists to describe a future civil war in the U.S.
Friends said they never heard Lemp espouse any anti-government rhetoric. Sandler said Lemp was not a part of any anti-government or militia-type group.
“He was pro-America and supported wholeheartedly all the protections of the Constitution,” she said.
Copyright © 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.
It appears that the youngster went online, and inquired into joining one of the militias - so the police raided his hime and killed him.
Odd, all the millions of Americans who own guns, but never kill anyone. But, the cops who can be "trusted" manage to kill people routinely. Kill them while they sleep, officer, it's safest.
BTW - this is Maryland. The state where the cops run your plates while rolling down the highway, and if you are a registered gun owner, they will pull you over to search your vehicle.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/30/gun-owners-fear-maryland-cops-target-them-for-traf/
It has begun
Elections are being postponed in the US... How idyllic! And just in time! The credibility crisis is real and must be contained!
Questions be a-begging.
Choosing the rubric "Nexuses", since I have no idea what it is. But here we are talking about, "Begging the Question".
This has come up several times here on SoylentNews. And several times I have called out those using the phrase incorrectly. Since they were "conservatives", they also were "relativists" who believe that nothing is wright or Wrong, but that thinking makes it so. (Scholary Note: this quote actually occurs in Shakespeare's Hamlet (cite:Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2), but has precedents back to King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius, 4th Cent Roman.) And if it is true, then people using "begs the question" for "raises the question" is perfectly acceptable, because usage determines meaning. I am here to raise a wall of fire, or, a firewall, against this sort of nonsense, palavered by idiots and ne'erdowells, Knaves and poltroons, textbook publishers and NPR reporters, and just say, NO, you are holding it wrong.
As many, many websites explain, "begging the question" in fact does not mean "begging that a question be asked", which is what current usage seems to be suggesting. But this means that the shift in meaning is not just a shift in meaning, as when "Phat" replaced "Rad" which replaced "Cool", which replaced "Groovy". Yes, words and phrases can shift in the milieu of a living language, no question. But, there are differences.
On the one hand, the incorrect use of "begging the question" may seem to only be a shift in signification within a language. But the argument here is that it both an insidious and deleterious change in language, or in fact, an error. There are somethings that usage cannot justify, and among those are semantic misunderstandings, like the one underlying the misuse of "begging the question". And, I might point out, the worst offenders are reporters on National Public Radio, who ought to know better, but after several Project Veritas attacks, the organization has added some Affirmative Action conservatives, who are not really all that well educated.
To begin: "begging the question" is a translation of the Latin phrase, petitio principii, which, as any literate person can see, means "petitioning the principle". This is an informal fallacy, or common incorrect reasoning, that proves something based on the assumption that thing is true, or in other words, assuming the truth of what was to be proven. An example is an argument that defends laws outlawing marijuana, because use of marijuana is in fact illegal! This is called "circular reasoning", the idea that something is true, because it is true, and it is true, because it is true, and, . . .
Now, this is what "begging the question" is, assuming the truth of what you are trying to prove, or circular reasoning. Hardly convincing, unless you are already inside that particular question begging bubble. Most Black on Black crime is committed by Blacks? Absolutely true. But when you look at it, it is true by definition, and has no bearing on whether race is a factor in criminality, which is of course what the racist cracker coming up with the argument assumed.
This is why it is important to stand up for the correct usage of "begging the question". Mistaken usage by people educated enough to have heard the phrase, but not educated enough to understand it, undercut the devastating use of the accusation of the fallacy to refute all the question beggers out there. Earth flat? Well of course it is because it has no curvature! Begging the question. Blacks in American have less wealth and education? Well they must be an inferior race. Begging the question. You see how easily hidden, or not so hidden, presumptions and biases and prejudices, for the basis for erroneous conclusions. So misusing the phrase "begging the question" incorrectly weakens the force of accusations of those who actually do, "beg the question."
We go to the source, The Philosopher, as later he was called: Aristotle.
The original phrase used by Aristotle from which begging the question descends is: τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς (or sometimes ἐν ἀρχῇ) αἰτεῖν, "asking for the initial thing." Aristotle's intended meaning is closely tied to the type of dialectical argument he discusses in his Topics, book VIII: a formalized debate in which the defending party asserts a thesis that the attacking party must attempt to refute by asking yes-or-no questions and deducing some inconsistency between the responses and the original thesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Obligatory XKCD, which totally explains the problem.
So now, the explanation. Languages can change, granted. Once, "Merde" meant "honored above all others in our village". (Look it up, it is not true.) And of course, "bad" can become "good", and "rad" can become socially comformist Millennial fodder, but I digress, which begs the question (NOT!!!) of why the change in meaning of the phrase "begs the question" is even a thing. Now, I will tell you. Pay close attention. If you are Runaway, you can runaway at this point, since rational thought is required.
Words change. Sometimes, words are purposefully, intentionally changed. Once "Christian" meant "crucified". Kind a downer when you are trying to catapult the propaganda and hype the religion. So suddenly "crucified" meant not "dead" (which was the Roman intention), but "Saved". As an American comedian in the Sixties pointed out, if Jesus had been execute in America in the Fifties, it would have been by electric chair, and all Christians would be wearing little gold electric chairs on gold chains around their necks. But really, imagine the power of taking a Roman expression of fear and subservience, and turning into a symbol of hope, equality, and liberation? Brilliant.
"Begging the question"? Not so much. Changes in language based on ignorance of language, and superficial similarities, are quite different. They are just dumb, not to put too fine a point on it. The bare similarity of "begs" to "ask" misses the entire point of the original phrase, and takes it to another place. Begging the question is not asking any question, and current usage needs to recognise this. It is simply and purely a mistake on the part of partially educated persons, often, for some reason, journalists, who have heard the phrase "begs the question", but know nothing of its actual meaning or history. So they fuck it up. Excuse me. I beg for your forgiveness?
Confusing this phrase, out of ignorance, is often compared to the modern Brit illiterate screw-up, "a wet squid". I recommend that one watch the full episode of "The IT Crowd", where a Pedal Stool, is compared to a "damp squid", but squids are already damp, so it is "damp squib", the definition of which begs the question, oh, darnit, at this point look it up for yourself!
So it is a misunderstanding of language that has given rise to this "begging the question" to mean "raises the question", and anyone who makes such a mistake should be suitably ashamed. There are many such mistakes, they are called "eggcorns", after a failed attempt to enunciate "acorn" as the nut or seed of an oak. Kinda makes sense, a nut is a seed, which is an egg, which is, ok, it is just wrong. For a long list, see The Eggcorn Database", which seems to have gone dark circa 2017. but is still full of lovely examples, such as "Death nail" for "death knell", and many, many more, all attributable to the reduction of literacy under Republican administrations since Reagan. Which begs the questions of why Republicans hate education? See what I did there?
A more insidious approach, however, is the mis-interpretation by Grammar Girl, who I am sure is well-intentioned, but is still something of a damp squid.
The Right Way to Use "Begs the Question"
Begs the question is actually a term that comes from logic, and it's used to indicate that someone has made a conclusion based on a premise that lacks support (1, 2). It can be a premise that's independent from the conclusion (3) or in a simpler form, the premise can be just a restatement of the conclusion itself (4, 5).
So far, so good, but then:
For example, let's say Squiggly is trying to convince Aardvark that chocolate is healthful, and his argument is that chocolate grows on trees, so it must be healthful. Aardvark could rightly say there's no proof that something is good for you simply because it grows on a tree. Some things that grow on trees are poisonous--Chinaberry tree fruit, for example (6). So Squiggly's argument is based on a faulty premise.
Fatal error, Grammar Girl, whoever you are! It is not the premise that is at fault, it is the circularity of the argument. Whether the assumption that things that grow on trees are natural is in fact true or not has nothing to do with the fallaciousness of the reasoning, it is the thinking that the assumption is sufficient that is the original petitio principii that makes the reasoning fallacious.
Grammar Girl digs herself in deeper,
I remember what begs the question means by thinking that the argument raises a specific question--it begs *the* question--What's your support for that premise? OR more informally, What does that have to do with anything? You use the phrase begs the question when people are hoping you won't notice that their reasons for coming to a conclusion aren't valid. They've made an argument based on a lame assumption. The question is What's your support for that premise?
The lame assumption is the problem. It does not beg for other support for the conclusion, it is the fact that the conclusion, or some disguised rewording of the conclusion, is being offered as support for itself. Which, by the way, is totally valid. If p is true, then p is true. Such an argument cannot be invalid, because if its premises are true, its conclusion must be true. Petitio principii is not invalid; in fact, it is too valid. Premises in an argument have to be different enough so that the argument is not merely the restating of what was assumed ab initio.
So this is why T-Rex rules. He is in no doubt about the validity of his arguments, because when you beg the questions that no one dare unbeg, well:
T-Rex begs the question of whether he is a pretty sweet dude.
In conclusion, mistaking "begging the question" for "raises the question" is not a simple matter of language change or evolution. It is devolution, illiteracy, and the profligation of this mistake harms logical thinking. And, NPR needs to reign in its reporters, and fire them if them make this mistake on air again. I am looking at you, Steve Inskeep! Token conservative, which means only hired to fill a perceived quota, not because of question begging competence. So join me, Soylentils one and all, in sending offenders to Beg the Question.info, where they have cards you can print out to hand to offenders. Often times, they may not even be aware they offend, being illiterate, so be gentle, my noble Soylentils! May your squid ever be wet.
Privacy / FERPA Still Applies
Hundreds of colleges and universities are suddenly shutting their doors and making a rapid switch to distance learning in an effort to slow the spread of novel coronavirus disease.
Okay.
Likewise, hundreds of K-12 districts nationwide have either already followed suit or are likely to in the coming days.
What? Why? . . .
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/covid-19-2.001-640x480.jpeg
According to that chart, Kids in K-12 have a really low death rate, and in fact may be more likely to die from run of the mill flu than COVID-19. I guess, it could help to contain the infection, but still it seems like a bit of an over reaction.
Even when all of the immediate logistical and technical needs have been triaged and handled, though, there remains another complicating factor. While the United States doesn't have all that much in the way of privacy legislation, we do, in fact, have a law protecting some student educational data. It's called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA.
So, yeah, I'm pretty sure that a lot of places have a fairly extensive Distance Education program. Which would seem like a solved problem to me.
Usually educational organizations—colleges, universities, or local K-12 districts—have agreements in place with certain dedicated educational software vendors such as Blackboard or Canvas to use their tools. Compliance with FERPA is ideally part of those agreements, although adherence can be somewhat hit and miss. But when everyone is suddenly scrambling for new tools as best they can in response to a pandemic, privacy considerations may fall by the wayside.
They're predicting that some may find it expedient to use inappropriate tools for the job. Yeah, I guess I could see that.
Good News: Eurpean travel ban doesn't apply to Trump resorts
So if you need to get to the US from Europe, stop at a Trump resort first.
Trump’s travel ban sidesteps his own European resorts
The president announced new travel restrictions on Europeans as the coronavirus pandemic escalated, but a few key spots on the continent were spared.
President Donald Trump’s new European travel restrictions have a convenient side effect: They exempt nations where three Trump-owned golf resorts are located.
That's the Kwik Kourteous Konvenience you expect from Trump resorts.
These viruses are "foreign" viruses (listen to his speech). Thus good people coming from Trump resorts cannot possibly have been in contact with these "foreign" viruses.
Now it is serious! My deepest fear has come to pass
They are postponing the start of baseball season
And, as I have previously speculated. There is talk of postponing the election... in the UK, for now... I suspect the same could easily happen in the US if a certain person feels threatened by media polls.
The "Families First" bill was killed because it did not include corporate subsidies. It's a good idea to take lots of money out in case an unpaid creditor tries to put a lien on your bank account. Don't do it too fast, or they'll close the banks to "keep them solvent".
Wall street gamblers are safe... Where now is time to take from them to help people who need it, they get 1.5 tril of free money!
This is sabotageee! And all these damn people will be reelected! If there is an election. Shit! why not postpone it then?
Oh, and locusts in Africa! Gettin' all biblical 'n shit!
The way to prevent violence? Free Netflix for all!
I bet you didn't know that the Corona virus is spying on us
Well, Trump did!
The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials.... The administration officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said they could not describe the interactions in the meeting room because they were classified.
The meetings at HHS were held in a secure area called a "Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility," or SCIF, according to the administration officials.
SCIFs are usually reserved for intelligence and military operations. Ordinary cell phones and computers can’t be brought into the chambers. HHS has SCIFs because theoretically it would play a major role in biowarfare or chemical attacks.
Wow! Neato, huh?
A high-level former official who helped address public health outbreaks in the George W. Bush administration said "it's not normal to classify discussions about a response to a public health crisis."
Well yeah, former officials always speak up
Anyway, bla bla bla
Ask Soylent
So, uhhhhh, you attend a public event. You, and a couple hundred other folk attend this public event. It's an interesting event, and you're having a good time. Then, some rich bastard with armed body guards insults you, gestures threateningly, and finally threatens to slap you.
First, how do you handle the situation?
Second, what does that rich bastard deserve?
