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This is a follow up to my previous journal entry. One thing I'd like to focus on is how the U.S. justice system works...

1. People read the law, file suit to enforce their rights against the government.
2. Appeals court makes incorrect ruling by copying and pasting arguments from government.
3. Party points it out errors.
4. Judge says "oops to bad" or "this case isn't important enough to merit reconsideration".
5. Party realises legal system is fake, much too late.

Some people don't seem to believe it. What amount of evidence / annotated cases would it take to convince you this is a systemic problem and not a set of isolated incidents? 10? 50? 100? more? Are you open to being convinced the U.S. Justice system is fake in the sense of not following written law?

Taiwan Legislature Approves Asia’s First Same-Sex Marriage Law

Taiwan gay marriage: Parliament legalises same-sex unions

Previously: Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage

Hey! Going to limit to friends and friends of friends, just to see what happens. No Runaway posts, I take it. But here is the deal. Softball submission, about dogs, which janrinok more or less requested. And, of course, rejected. I despair that we Soylentils may have a rational discussion on the issues of the day, if even dog posts are banned, censored, and deep-sixed by the editors. I begin to suspect chromas, who may be a beard for Ncommander, our founder and alt-right syncophant? Perhaps. Maybe the game has been rigged from the beginning.

Or, the editors are all cat-people. We could have had This fine Submission about a dog sucked into the alt-right. But, rejected without comment, message, and not even left in the queue for more than a couple hours. Censorship, of dogs! This aggression will not stand, man! Peed on my rug.

Samsung Samples 32 Gb DDR4 Memory Chips

JEDEC’s DDR4 specification only describes 4 Gb, 8Gb, and 16 Gb memory devices. As a result, DRAM makers have to use advanced packaging techniques to build chips for high-capacity memory modules for servers or workstations. DDPs are not something particularly new, but 32 Gb DDR4-2666 DDPs are unique to Samsung.

[...] Samsung does not disclose pricing of its 32 Gb DDR4-2666 DDPs, but it is obvious that they will be sold at a premium given the fact that they are only available from Samsung and they are harder to build than SDPs.

The expensive way to double capacity.

By comparison: Samsung Shows Off 256 GB Server Memory Modules Using 16 Gb Chips

The canceling of James Charles: Beauty YouTuber loses 3 million subscribers in a weekend

One video led to YouTube’s biggest makeup vlogger losing millions of subscribers

That's apparently the largest/fastest loss of subscribers in YouTube history.

Funny memes aside, if you look into the circumstances more closely, James Charles got called out for promoting a company's gummy vitamin formulated for sleep (melatonin and other junk) instead of his friend Tati Westbrook's vitamin product. But Tati Westbrook doesn't sell any sleep vitamin products (they are intended for hair/nails and skin). So the whole feud is built on a misunderstanding or deliberate misrepresentation. As for catfishing/trying to turn guys gay, Tati Westbrook kept those allegations under wraps and only decided to bring them up after complaining about a stupid product promotion (or more accurately, her own stupid product not being promoted by her "friend").

That isn't to say that James Charles isn't necessarily a scumbag and scam artist selling overpriced junk and $500 fan meetup tickets. But the recent cancelling of YouTuber "ProJared" (NSFW) is much more clear cut.

When the shooting at the Highlands Ranch, CO, Stem school happened, the world reacted in shock and horror that yet another student used a firearm to hurt or kill other students in a place that is supposed to be one of the safest places for your child to be.

News agencies across the country immediately took action, and activist groups began planning events to promote gun control. One such event occurred at the very location the shooting occurred. Students were duped into attending, believing it was a vigil of some kind, but walked away when they found out that the atrocity they endured was being politicized.

Frustrated, crying and angry, #STEMschool shooting victims hold an impromptu vigil in the rain Wednesday after leaving a gun-control vigil they felt inappropriately politicized their trauma. (They asked that I not photograph their faces close up, and I respected their wishes.) pic.twitter.com/cksRXGtYQA

        — Trevor Hughes (@TrevorHughes) May 9, 2019

Facebook posts from concerned people dotted the social media site and Twitter was ablaze with anti-gun rhetoric once again.

And then it all suddenly went silent.

Now, the media seems far less interested in the shooting. An odd turnaround for the media who take every opportunity to hammer home the idea that guns are the problem in this nation, not something else. Why? It’s because the identity of the shooters was released, and it doesn’t fall in line with any of the approved columns for a media-based attack.

They found that one of the shooters is gay and another is transgendered and biologically female, as NBC reported in the update about her. Even NBC buried these facts in their own report about it, choosing instead to call the gay shooter a “bully” instead of highlighting their identities and backgrounds first:

The suspected shooter, Devon Erickson, “would whisper, like get really close and kinda put his arm around you, and whisper in your ear, ‘don’t come to school tomorrow,'” said Kevin Cole, a former student of STEM School Highlands Ranch, during an interview on “Today.”

        Erickson, 18, and a juvenile, who police identify as a girl but who prefers male pronouns, are accused of entering the K-12 school with handguns Tuesday. NBC News is not identifying the juvenile suspect.

One of the shooters also expressed his hatred for Christians according to Heavy, which is also unfitting for reports as Christians are always the bad guys in the story.

“You know what I hate? All these Christians who hate gays, yet in the bible, it says in Deuteronomy 17:12-13, if someone doesn’t do what their priest tells them to do, they are supposed to die. It has plenty of crazy stuff like that, but all they get out of it is ‘ewwwwww gays,’” wrote Erickson in a Facebook post.

There was even anti-Christian messaging spraypainted on the shooter’s car before the attack, and the words “F*** SOCIETY.”

Car towed from #stemshooting suspect's home apparently has "F*** SOCIETY" spray painted on the side. Also "666" and a what looks like a pentagram sprayed on the hood. pic.twitter.com/e6QX3lq4v3

        — John Fenton (@higuysimjohn) May 8, 2019

Worst of all, the shooter appeared to be a Democrat who posted memes and messages from the hard-left Facebook group “Occupy Democrats.”

None of this falls in line with what the shooter is supposed to be according to what the media likes to tell us. For mainstream press, the shooter is supposed to be white, male, straight, extremely right-leaning, and bonus points if he’s supposedly Christian. However, both of these shooters fall into their most protected groups.

Judging by how the media coverage and subsequent fallout from school shootings have gone in the past, the media seems absolutely silent in comparison now, but it’s easy to see why. All of its usual strawmen have been stripped away and its left with nothing but the cold reality that there was something mentally wrong with the two shooters.

All the shooters throughout history, when put together, are a diverse lot. They range from white to Middle-Eastern, to black. They’re left, right, white-supremacists and anti-Christian, gay and straight, women and men. While some killers tend to share more similarities with other killers, the point is clear: It’s not just what your background is.

There was clearly something wrong in the heads of the people who engage in these murders. However, the media doesn’t seem to be interested in investigating the demonstrable fact. They’ve now, for the most part, walked away from the Denver Stem school story. The students don’t seem to be as into making a political spectacle as some of the Parkland students were, and the shooters don’t fit the narrative.

The media loves bloodshed, but not bloodshed it can’t use. It doesn’t care about how safe you are, and I’d venture to say that it waits with bated breath for the next opportunity. I wish I was being hyperbolic, but the media has clearly demonstrated that I’m not.

https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/05/11/medias-sudden-disinterest-denver-stem-school-shooting-proves-greater-interests-agendas/

Milan - The Next Frontier? (22m28s)

Notes from SemiAccurate's CC with Susquehanna this morning

Various sources said things like "Milan will have 80 cores" or "Milan will have 15 chiplets".

The speculation, based on sources and other reasoning, is that the the 8-core chiplet will continue to be used going forward. They have great yields compared to bigger monolithic chips and AMD can simply make them smaller in size rather than boost core count of each to 10-12 cores. Zen 2 Epyc uses eight 8-core chiplets for up to 64 total cores, and a future version could use ten chiplets to get to 80 cores.

AMD and Cray will make a 1.5 exaflops supercomputer.

In fact while AMD has kept the details on the technology light, it sounds like this version of [Infinity Fabric] will be the most advanced version yet. AMD is specifically noting that it’s an “incredibly” coherent fabric, calling it the first fully optimized CPU + GPU design for supercomputing. AMD’s GPUs and CPUs will be arranged in a 4-to-1 ratio, with 4 GPUs for each EPYC CPU. It’s worth noting that AMD’s slide shows a mesh with every GPU connected to the CPU and two other GPUs, but I’m not reading too much into this quite yet, as AMD hasn’t disclosed any other details on the IF setup.

Design and Analysis of an APU for Exascale Computing

AMD may try to do something like create a server/HPC APU that consists of ten 8-core CPU chiplets, four GPU chiplets(?), and the I/O chiplet, with DRAM/HBM stacked on top of the I/O die which emits less heat.

If the GPU thing is a red herring but Milan does have 14 CPU chiplets + 1 I/O chiplet, that's a whopping 112 cores. Even if clock speeds regressed a bit, it could offer more multithreaded performance per dollar than predecessors.

The U.S. justice system is FAKE.

What people don't know about our fake justice system is that most appeals are disposed of summarily, without analysis. This is a denial of due process, and the judicial system has collapsed. It is not on the verge of collapse, it has already collapsed.

Imagine paying $200,000 to an attorney who prepares a 60 page brief explaining why your side is right, then the court disposes of your case like this:

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

Or how about a 10 page petition where your case is dropped like this:

The court finds the relief not warranted, and the petition is DENIED.

And no, there's nothing more to these types of decisions other than a single sentence.

Clearly, the courts, at all levels, issue decisions in an arbitrary and capricious manner. "Docket management" has caused the rule of law to collapse. It seems we have a problem: Too many cases and not enough judges. Perhaps we should quadruple the size of all courts. In any case, the United States has turned into a lawless world where the law only applies if you hire an expensive enough lawyer to fight for you, and even then, you only have a small shot at the law being applied as written.

There are two bodies of law in the United States. The first is the written law, which applies only in theory or to anyone rich enough.The second is the unwritten law, the unpublished law, where facts don't matter and the whims of judges control your life. This latter law applies to the 99%. It's time to recognize the dual standard.

We should demand a system that doesn't issue arbitrary and capricious judgements. The obvious answer is more judges, to keep pace with cases so they have more time to review each one. Another idea is that we remove the protection of res judicta for badly reasoned or unreasoned decisions.

What should be done about the failed U.S. justice system?

South Korea's booming 'webtoons' put Japan's print manga on notice

Should Japanese manga publishers, who have for years invested first and foremost in developing print content, jump on the webtoon bandwagon to strengthen their outreach to a foreign, tech-savvy audience?

Opinions among industry insiders and experts are mixed, but at least for Hideki Egami, a former editor at leading publisher Shogakukan, the answer is a definitive yes.

“Sales for comic magazines in Japan have long been trending downward — we don’t know how much further the domestic market for print manga will shrink,” Egami said.

“Japanese publishers are now at a stage where they can’t overlook the need for going digital and overseas. … Webtoons, I think, are the most reasonable way forward.”

Vertically optimized

Unlike Japanese manga, which in most cases are first marketed for a print audience and only subsequently promoted online via apps, webtoons cater to digital device users from the get-go: Their format has already been optimized for personal computers or smartphones.

Webtoons typically scroll vertically and are in full color, as opposed to traditional manga, which are often black and white and read horizontally. Once they spread on popular manga apps in Japan, the digital South Korean comics immediately attracted a youth following here.