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"Dark matter cannot be used to fudge them because in order for dark matter to predict galaxy rotation it must stay spread out and therefore it cannot be squeezed into little wide binary systems."

https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2018/

His blog is an interesting read.
Dark matter is dying. RIP.

• Entry-Level Quality Assurance Developer
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Our hair isn't pointy; you do not need a Computer Science degree! While the Senior Front End Developer does require Javascript expertise, neither developer job needs experience with any particular framework.

We are writing our back end in Python but will happily hire a Back End coder who has experience in any of Perl, Ruby, Java, PHP, Node.js and the like.

Our Entry-Level QA position would be perfect for recent college graduates as well as technically inclined high school graduates. We will consider part-time work for current high school students.

I'm hosting a friend for free on the VM that I get for free.

My friend has oodles of domains, which I regard as a waste of money but he pointed out "It's my money, not yours".

More importantly, just one guy can't develop so many websites all at the same time - but it's _his_ time not mine.

Today I will configure all his domains and put up a "Hey Is This Thing On" page at each of them. He's got like twenty domains.

After that I'll continue to fiddle with the two week free trial that SEMRush gave me. I'm definitely going to pay for a SEMRush subscription however I don't know when as money has been quite tight since my July Manic Episode.

Because my bag is full of Magazines Of Ill Repute.

I don't need to tell you folks, we live in the Age of Computer. The Age of Cyber. Of Internet. And we have a lot of things -- many things we never had before, that nobody ever had in the history of the world. Incredible speed. But we don't have the security we need.

Yesterday -- Thursday -- I signed an Executive Order making our CAATSA, our Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, much stronger. Sounds like cats, right? Like a nice pussy, warm & friendly. Nice smooth fur you'd like to stroke. Feels amazing when you stroke that pussy, right? With your hand or your whatever. I'll tell you, it's not nice, it's not friendly. It's very tough. And very strong. Like you wouldn't believe. Believe me. And by the way, that's a Donald J. Trump beauty. That's another one I signed, very beautifully, back in 2017. Great signature. Although frankly, it's not just Donald J. Trump, folks. I talked to some of our Dems in Congress, I said you're being nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS, let's try working together. And getting something done for once. We had some great talks, we made a very fair deal. And we got it done, it was very bipartisan. I love bipartisan.

So, Executive Order. We're going to be moving very strongly there. We have all these Countries sending their people, some of their best people, very smart. But not very nice. In fact, not nice at all. And they speak American -- they speak it PERFECTO -- they dress American. They put up the most beautiful Christmas trees you've seen in your entire life, they say "Merry Christmas" like we do. And you think, "wow, we got some real Americans here, 100%." But they're not American. They're Fake American. If you ever saw their Birth Certificate, you can't even read that thing. Very very foreign. And they're here to DIVIDE, they're incredibly divisive. It's called Trolling. Which the Dems love. And for years we had Open Boarders. For anyone to come in and screw with our Elections. Screw with our Cyber. With our Energy Grid -- look what happened in Puerto Rico. Where they had 2 hurricanes. Their Energy Grid went out before those even hit. And you gotta ask, how did that one happen? You have some guy sitting on his bed, he's not in Puerto Rico. He hears the hurricanes are coming, they're not there yet. But he doesn't know that. He pushes a button, a cyber button. Sends his cyber to Puerto Rico. And the whole island goes dark. Trust me, they've done a real number on our Country. NO MORE, folks. We're doing STRATEGY now. Something we haven't had in a long time. In 15 years. I call it my National Cyber Strategy. Because it's not just for one guy. Not for one Party -- or Company. And it's not for everyone. Not for our competitors (Russia), not for our foes (European U). It's for our Country -- America. America is back. And stronger than ever. AMERICA FIRST!!!! whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-authorizing-implementation-certain-sanctions-set-forth-countering-americas-adversaries-sanctions-act whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/text-letter-president-speaker-house-representatives-president-senate-36 whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trump-unveils-americas-first-cybersecurity-strategy-15-years

Are we to the point yet where we can mostly agree that the name game is fucking stupid? You know, the one where as soon as everyone gets used to referring to a group by $name it gets declared *ist and a new and wildly less accurate one is created? This isn't a thing I lose sleep over and it doesn't offend me when someone uses one of the retarded terms but the fact that it is still a thing that happens annoys me much in the same way people not using their turn signals does.

Let's go through a few here. Mine first. Native American. I was born here, so I'm a native American. So is little Chewy who was born in east L.A. even though his parents were illegals. So is Tyrone who was born in Detroit. So is Sally who was born in Vermont. Which is to say, it's a fucking idiotic term. I prefer Indian or wagon burner but I'll answer to anything that isn't trying to paint my race as delicate snowflakes; even Azuma's favorite racial slur, Chief Shitting Bull, is better.

African American next. For starters, not all black people are American. Not by a long shot. Also, the vast majority of them are no more African than they are Martian. If you just emigrated from Africa and got citizenship, this term would make sense. Most black folks though can't even tell you which quarter of that continent their ancestors came from. They have zero genuine ties to Africa.

Asian Americans? They're generally fucking proud of being from their nation of origin and would prefer that nomenclature-wise. Don't believe me? Call a Japanese person Chinese and see what happens. Lumping them all together is actually insulting if you know their ancestry. You're basically saying they all look alike. See African American for the American bit.

Middle Eastern? See above but switch Israeli and Egyptian for Japanese and Chinese.

Hispanic? Did you know you can call a person from Germany German, a person from Canada Canadian, but not a person from Mexico Mexican? That's some fucktarded shit.

People of Color? Strictly a term to exclude white people. Damn fine way to spot a racist asshole though.

Now how about some that have been declared reee-worthy simply so you can call someone a bigot...

Retard/retarded. See, this word has an actual meaning and is not an insult to anyone who it is an accurate description of. But it's been around a while, so it must be offensive and need changing.

Ditto disabled, handicapped, etc...

Tranny? Short for trans-whatever using the long standing habit of chopping a long word and adding "y" to shorten it. No more insulting than Tommy for a guy named Thomas. Jimmy for James never made sense to me on account of having the same number of letters but at least it follows a pattern that makes sense in general even if not in every specific case.

We don't even need to go into the pronoun game much. Anyone who can't decide on male or female can fuck right off and anyone getting offended about not being called the one they prefer should stop fucking looking like the other one.

If you're pissed off and want to discuss this, please try and present a rational argument. You being offended isn't going to cause any fucks to be given by me, no matter how hurt your butt is.

sax = xml.sax

parser = sax.make_parser()

print parser

print "Parsing good.html"

parser.parse( "TestData/good.html" )

print "Parsing bad.html"

parser.parse( "TestData/good.html" )

===

But seriously folks - I've found a 100% bugs in the W3C HTML5 validator - it doesn't catch a certain unclosed tag. It also doesn't catch a bad entity, but I don't know maybe HTML 5 is OK with ampersands that mark the start of a query parameter.

I'll report this later today.

Folks, we just lost a great, and very brave guy -- one of the greats. Jon Burge of the Chicago Police Dept. Formerly of the Chicago Police. A guy that stopped a shooter by sticking his thumb into her gun. A guy that knew torture works. Had a great relationship with the blacks. And did more than anybody to stop the "carnage" in our great city of Chicago. RIP!!!! Pardon? chicago.suntimes.com/news/jon-burge-chicago-police-department-key-dates

I still remember the bad feeling I had on 11/8 that convinced me to vote for Hillary Clinton. I considered Gary Johnson, but at that time I had started to seriously question libertarianism. I wanted to vote my conscience and vote for Dr. Jill Stein, MD, who was qualified to unlock the female head of state achievement. It was one of those bad feelings.

We all know what we woke up to on 11/9.

Then we learned that 53% of white women voted for a pussy grabber. I thought that maybe that would mute the identity politics to come, but it did not.

As Collins Appears to Side With Kavanaugh Over Assault Allegation, Group Issues Warning: Women Won't Forget:

"Guess who is perpetrating all of these kinds of actions? It's the men in this country," Hirono said. "I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up and step up. Do the right thing, for a change."

"I expect all of the enlightened men in our country, cause there must be millions of men out there who are enlightened, who also will rise up to say we cannot continue the victimization and the smearing of someone like Dr. Ford," Hirono continued.

This is now about holding everybody assigned the male gender at birth, men and trans women (because let's be clear—we're talking about wombs), accountable for the actions of others, especially for the 53% of white women who obviously don't care about abortion. It is now about completely letting those 53% of white women who voted for Trump off the hook.

I nearly threw up after reading that this morning. (Had a PTSD-like reaction I had to manage for a couple hours while at work.) There is nothing that can prevent Kavanaugh—or somebody worse—from being confirmed. The Democratic Party doesn't even have good chances of gaining control of the senate. There is nothing that can be done until 2020.

And every person who does not have a womb is collectively and severally accountable, and every person who does have a womb and voted for Trump is off the hook.

I'm sorry I voted for Hillary Clinton. I will never vote for the Democratic Party again.

I knew it would be this way. But now that I am present in the moment when it happens, I am having a lot of emotional difficulties.

A growing number of Republican senators are calling for a delay on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation vote until they have time to hear from a woman accusing the judge of sexual misconduct when they were both in high school.

Christine Blasey Ford, 51, came forward publicly Sunday with a detailed account in The Washington Post of an incident that took place at a party when she was 15 and Kavanaugh was 17. Ford claims Kavanaugh held her down and tried to remove her clothes while covering her mouth with his hand and leading her to believe that he could "inadvertently kill me."

In light of the allegations, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he does not think the committee should advance Kavanaugh's nomination until Ford is heard out.

"If they push forward without any attempt with hearing what she's had to say, I'm not comfortable voting yes," Flake told Politico on Sunday. "We need to hear from her. And I don't think I'm alone in this."

Republican senators call for delay on Brett Kavanaugh vote until they can hear from accuser

But he hires the best people!