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They're down 3-0 against the, Nationals? Who the hell are they? And when did the Astros jump over to the American league?

What the hell is this new phone from Essential’s Andy Rubin? (Update)

Essential’s new smartphone has the aspect ratio of a TV remote

Oops, cancelled before arrival.

My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.

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Here's looking at you, DNC!

When is she going to announce?

Rumor : AMD Zen 3 Delivers 8%+ IPC & 200Mhz Higher Clock vs Zen 2

Not stunning, but could end up as a 13-14% overall performance increase. (1.08*(4.1/3.9)) = 13.5% for the 3800X.

If true, Zen 3 is a nice breather for AMD. Not a fantastic increase, but still somewhat better than the Zen+ increase.

Rumor : AMD Bringing Ray Tracing Support to Navi in December

Hardware acceleration of raytracing is confirmed for PlayStation 5. This is not that. The generation of desktop GPUs after Navi might have dedicated acceleration (Navi 2?).

Microsoft's DirectX Ray Tracing is mentioned, but not Vulkan (yet).

AMD Arcturus Next-Gen GPU Support Added To HWiNFO, Could Be Featured In Radeon Instinct AI/HPC Lineup As Early As 2020

This would be a replacement for Vega, which is used in enterprise GPU products. AMD has basically split the consumer and business product lines, with RDNA (Navi, Navi 2...) being focused solely on gaming GPUs. Maybe Arcturus will be known as GCN 6th gen, beats me.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/us/ar-15-guns-law-atf-invs/index.html

He sold illegal AR-15s. Feds agreed to let him go free to avoid hurting gun control efforts

By Scott Glover, CNN

Updated 7:07 PM ET, Fri October 11, 2019

(CNN)For more than a year, Joseph Roh illegally manufactured AR-15-style rifles in a warehouse south of Los Angeles.
His customers, more than two dozen of whom were legally prohibited from possessing a firearm, could push a button, pull a lever, and walk away a short time later with a fully assembled, untraceable semi-automatic weapon for about $1,000, according to court records.
Roh continued his black-market operation despite being warned in person by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that he was breaking the law.
But five years after raiding his business and indicting him, federal authorities quietly cut a deal with Roh earlier this year and agreed to drop the charges.
Why?
The judge in the case had issued a tentative order that, in the eyes of prosecutors, threatened to upend the decades-old Gun Control Act and "seriously undermine the ATF's ability to trace and regulate firearms nationwide."

A case once touted by prosecutors as a crackdown on an illicit firearms factory was suddenly seen as having the potential to pave the way to unfettered access to one of the most demonized guns in America.
Federal authorities preferred to let Roh go free rather than have the ruling become final and potentially create case law that could have a crippling effect on the enforcement of gun laws, several sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Each requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the case and its possible implications.

The guns are sometimes assembled from separately acquired parts. Under federal law, the one regulated individual part of a firearm is what's known as the frame or receiver — a piece that, among other things, provides a housing for the hammer and firing mechanism of a gun.

Though incapable of firing a round, the part is considered a gun in its own right and is subject to the same restrictions as a fully intact firearm. Manufacturers must stamp it with a serial number and licensed dealers are required to conduct background checks on prospective buyers. The restrictions are intended, in part, to keep felons and other people prohibited from possessing firearms from acquiring them piece by piece.
AR-15s, however, do not have a single receiver that meets that definition. They have both an upper and lower receiver — two parts as opposed to the single part described in the law.

At issue in Roh's case was whether the law could fairly be interpreted to apply to just the lower receiver of the AR-15, as the ATF has been doing for decades.

'There is a disconnect'
Though the trial lasted less than a week, Selna deliberated for more than year. In April, he issued a tentative order in which he determined that the ATF had improperly classified the AR-15 lower receivers in Roh's case as firearms.
He rejected the prosecution's argument that the ATF's interpretation of the regulation describing a receiver could reasonably be applied to the device at issue in Roh's case.
"There is a disconnect," the judge wrote.
Selna added that the combination of the federal law and regulation governing the manufacturing of receivers is "unconstitutionally vague" as applied in the case against Roh.
"No reasonable person would understand that a part constitutes a receiver where it lacks the components specified in the regulation," Selna wrote.
Therefore, the judge determined, "Roh did not violate the law by manufacturing receivers."

Interesting that the gun control lobby is unable to define "assault weapon" or "assault rifle", while at the same time, the ATF is also unable to define "firearm".

As a sidenote, how many are aware that a muzzle loading rifle is NOT considered a "firearm"? http://guide.sportsmansguide.com/adventures/muzzleloader-considered-firearm/

Tiptoeing Around Hunter Biden (archive)

So far, none of the Democratic primary candidates have taken a hard swing at Mr. Biden, focusing instead on the impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump. But a few are, quite delicately, trying to raise some concerns. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke suggested, albeit mildly, that Hunter Biden’s work posed a problem, telling reporters, “I would not allow a family member, anyone in my cabinet to have a family member, to work in a position like that.”

Senator Cory Booker called Mr. Biden “truly an honorable man” on CNN last week, adding, “This is in no way can besmirch his character, his honor and his incredible service to this country over decades.” But, he noted, “I just do not think that children of presidents, of vice presidents during an administration should be out there doing that.”

Senator Amy Klobuchar took a similar position when asked whether she’d be comfortable with the child of her vice president sitting on the board of a foreign company. “I can promise you right now, my own daughter, who’s only 24, does not sit on the board of a foreign company,” she said, also on CNN. “But that is not the issue. The issue here is what the president is doing.”

Much of the rest of field has largely dodged the question. Senator Elizabeth Warren initially said she didn’t know when asked whether her ethics plan would prevent a top official’s child from getting a job with a foreign company. Since then, she’s pivoted back to Mr. Trump when asked similar questions. And Senator Kamala Harris, when asked about the issue, has taken to simply saying: “Leave Joe Biden alone.”

FYI: This was posted the same day that Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were indicted.

Stalker 'found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes'

A Japanese man accused of stalking and sexually assaulting a young pop star told police he located her through the reflection in her eyes in a picture, according to local media reports.

The man said he had identified a train station reflected in the singer's eyes in a selfie she posted online.

The 26-year-old then waited at the station until he saw his victim and followed her to her home, police said.

[...] The suspect told police that after zooming in on the image of her eyes, he used Google Street View to identify the station.

He also said he had studied videos the woman shot in her apartment, looking at details such as the placement of curtains and the direction of natural light coming through the window to try to determine exactly which floor she lived on, reports said.

Blame the 30+ megapixel phone cameras.

#CNNHeroes #Inspirational

Exclusive: Next Generation AMD Mobility 7nm CPUs Landing In Q1 2020, Will Bring AMD Gaming Laptops Price Down To $699

So here is what AMD has planned next: An AMD gaming laptop, equipped with a Ryzen 5 CPU, complete with discrete graphics, starting from $699. While I do not have confirmation of the exact specification, I do know this pricing is being based on a 7nm Ryzen part with 6-cores along with a dGPU (the Radeon RX 5300M/5500M potentially) and will go up against the Intel Core i5-8265U + GTX 1050 setup. This represents a serious level of gaming performance in the mobility segment and the GTX 1050 could be called the starting point of a true gaming laptop. That said, AMD is clearly pursuing the thin, light and fast ideology while offering good gaming performance.

Interesting, but still skippable. I want to see 8 cores (matching consoles), AV1 decoding (unclear what kind of GPU or version of Video Core Next will be used), and at least 1 GiB of L4 cache (compare to the just cancelled Core i7-8809G which has 4 GiB of HBM on the same package as the CPU and "discrete" AMD GPU).

Here's hoping Bill Barr meets the same fate, at the very least... We have them for obstruction. Expect some sweet plea deals...

And for the umpteenth time, "I am NOT running!"

Edit:

Here's another one that should have been locked up already. What's the hold up?

Old news, from July of this year - https://100percentfedup.com/armed-antifa-terrorist-manifesto-reveals-inspiration-by-democrat-aoc/

Odd, I do a search for Willem Van Spronsen and there seem to be zero hits from the liberal mainstream media. Fox is the sixth hit, washingtontimes and washington post a ways down from Fox. Several lesser known sites cover him, like pacificpundit, thefederalist, legalinsurrection. There is no CNN, NBC, ABC - wait, back about three pages apnews.com - https://apnews.com/6bbb56a3887e46db80516a01858b5e75

ARMED ANTIFA TERRORIST Manifesto Reveals Inspiration By Democrat AOC

Yesterday, an armed self-described member of Antifa, Willem Van Spronsen, a was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after he threw explosives at an ICE detention center in Tacoma, WA.

Seattle Times reports that this was not Van Spronsen’s first run in with law enforcement tied to an immigration detention center

Van Spronsen’s manifesto was filled with radical rhetoric frequently heard coming from the leftist media and far-left Democrat U.S. Representatives like AOC, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

In this page of his manifesto, the Antifa terrorist adopts the term “concentration camps” used by Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) to describe detention centers on our southern border used to house illegal aliens.

In this page of his manifesto, Van Spronsen uses a term used by another radical leftist, Michael Brown’s stepfather, who called on Black Lives Matter terrorists to “burn the motherf**ker down!”, a reference to burning down the city of Ferguson, MO, after Officer Wilson was exonorated in the highly charged “hands up, don’t shoot” case, that proved the whole “hands up don’t shoot” exchange never took place. He also cites the “Proud Boys,” a group that was formed to protect free speech advocates from the violent anti-free speech terror group, Antifa.

Finally, on this page, Willem Van Spronsen makes his allegience to Antifa known, saying: “i am antifa.” He also indicates that he is part of a trans community, as he identifies his “trans comrades” a term commonly used when referring to fellow communists.

Conservative, First Amendment defender and trial lawyer, Harmeet K. Dhillon tweeted a thread likening the John Brown Gun Club, “JBGC” to a gateway drug to the violent Antifa terror group. After independent journalist Andy Ngo was severely beaten by Antifa in Portland, OR, Dhillon agreed to defend him in his case against the brutal leftist terrorists.

The fact that leftist terrorists have killed few people is not a result of their more civilized, or humane conduct. It is a result of their incompetence to terrorize people.

I just stumbled over this damned fool, while searching for AOC Manifesto. That was the subject of discussion on talk radio this morning. AOC has written a manifesto. She can be expected to shoot up a school, or a gay bar, or a synagogue soon. How many other shooters first published a manifesto, then went out to kill as many people as possible before the law caught up to them? O'Crazio is certainly crazy enough to shoot up a school!!

Just read the manifesto - it's full of acts giving American wealth away to anyone who ambles up to the border, and demands it.

Enjoy a video -
https://www.newswars.com/aoc-unveils-manifesto-a-just-society-means-rent-control-abolish-prisons-welfare-for-all-illegals/