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Movies & video games are very violent. Need a rating system!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:57AM (#3068)
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Techonomics

Had a terrific Summit Thursday at the White House. We had some fine folks. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center, Melissa Henson -- she's a mother -- of the Parents Television Council,Strauss Zelnick of Take Two Interactive & Rockstar Games, Pat Vance of the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Mike Gallagher of the Entertainment Software Association, and Robert Altman of ZeniMax Media -- my little brother Robert Trump is on their board. Vicky Hartzler, one of our wonderful Republicans in Congress. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, he's doing great things with our Police. Some good people, I assume they're good people. And I showed them some clips we put together, these are scenes from video games. Some look so real, right? They're not real, they're all Fake. And I asked, this is violent, isn’t it? youtu.be/0C_IBSuXIoo

We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and their minds are being formed. We have to do something about maybe what they're seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts.

And movies. You see these movies, they're so violent. And yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn't involved, but killing is involved. And maybe they have to put a rating system for that. You get into a whole very complicated, very big deal but the fact is that you are having movies come out that are so violent with the killing and everything else that maybe that's another thing we're going to have to discuss.

The movies, the video games, obviously a very big part of our economy. Very important to our economy. But I'm asking the folks in those industries to explore things they can do on their own to make things healthier in society. Because I think maybe when folks see so much fake violence, it can lead to real violence. This is not a guns thing. And by the way, we're not doing the age restriction on the guns. I was kidding, obviously I was kidding there. So our Second Amendment people can relax about that one. We're doing the concealed carry for teachers, for our very gun-adept teachers, instead. The 20%. MAGA! whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/readout-president-donald-j-trumps-meeting-video-game-industry-leaders

$ sudo chmod -R root:wheel *

Posted by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday March 12 2018, @11:09PM (#3066)
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I should not avail myself of my right under the laws of the State of Washington to legally consume Cannibus Sativa and code either.

Coming to California on Tuesday!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Monday March 12 2018, @09:23AM (#3065)
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News

Friends, I'm going to California on Tuesday. March 13 -- that's tomorrow, as I'm writing it's tomorrow. I'll be in Otay Mesa near our VERY WEAK Border, to look at our beautiful Wall prototypes. And maybe pick a winner!!! Join me there if you can, maybe we can have a nice rally. Like we did in 2016. A word to my terrific Second Amendment folks, unfortunately it's going to be a GUN-FREE ZONE. I asked my Secret Service guys, can we have the guns, the concealed carry? And they said it could be a big problem. Because of the Sheriff. I'm sorry about that. But I hope you all will come anyway.

Then I'm heading to Beverly Hills for dinner. It's a VERY SPECIAL benefit for Trump 2020 and for our wonderful RNC. Ronna McDaniel -- Mitt Romney's niece but a very classy and sexy lady -- will be there, also our fabulous money men, Todd Ricketts and Elliott Broidy. Tickets start at $35k for singles, $50k for couples. And you'll get a delicious meal. I promise, it's going to be the best meal you've ever had in your life. But if you can do $250k it's much better. Much better. You'll get the star treatment, the works. The dinner, the round table, and the photos. Including a VERY SPECIAL photo with ME, the President of the United States of America.

Again, that's TUESDAY, March 13. Save the date and let's turn California RED!!!! For complete info, text TRUMP to 88022. Message & data rates apply. Text STOP to opt-out. T&C/Privacy: sms-terms.com/88022

I'm Starting On A New Product This Evening

Posted by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:08AM (#3064)
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I won't tell you what it is until it goes into public beta.

I've learned the hard way that it's a really bad idea to preannounce my products.

This won't be Free Software. Neither will it be Open Source. It's gonna be dammit-give-me-your-money-you-cheap-bastards-Ware.

However, there is some possibility that I give it away free so as to solicit organic links to my website.

And Facebook shares. And tweets.

That facebook and twitter have become far more important to online businesses than google just appalls me.

If I do charge for it it won't have a very high price. Less than ten dollars and more than ninety-eight cents.

My Antminer L3+ LiteCoin mining rig is chugging away as I write this. It seems to actually be working. I joint the coinfoundry.org mining pool. Coin Foundry reports the right hash rate. I've received two payouts.

However I have become quite skeptical of the claims of all the mining profit calculators:

Coin Foundry asserts that its payout policy is competitive with the pay from other pools. The Block Reward for solving a block is LTC 25. Most of the other miners in my pool have a hashrate of 1 GH/sec; the top miner has 13 GH/sec.

My humble L3+ has only 504 MH/s. That leads me to speculate that all the mining profit calculators overestimate by orders of magnitude.

However Coin Foundry points out that one cannot really determine how profitable one's rig is until one has been with Coin Foundry for at least two months. I'm willing to accept the possibility that Coin Foundry is truthful, so I will stay with them until two months have elapsed.

If by some miracle my L3+ turns out to be lucrative I'll buy more of them.

I have only three circuit breakers for wall outlets. The noise of three rigs would drive me bananas so if I should buy lots of them I'll colocate them in a data center.

Opus Interactive quoted me $299 for 12U and 15 Amps in their Portland data center. 12U should be enough for six Antminers and six Bitmain APW++ power supplies. If the mining profit calculates turn out to be truthful, to colocate six rigs would be economical.

Somehow, somewhere I got the idea that my L3+ LiteCoin rig would profit ten grand a year. The calculators now tell me it's three grand. I have no clue what led me to believe it was ten grand.

The payouts I've received from Coin Foundry so far lead me to believe that my revenue for one year for one L3+ is going to be closer to three hundred than three thousand.

Excited to be meeting the Chairman of North Korea.

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 09 2018, @02:09PM (#3062)
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News

So excited to be meeting Chairman Kim Jong-un of North Korea. For a Summit about denuking -- denuclearization -- very important. Something no President has ever done. Time & place TBD, we'll do it by May. It will be a great meeting. And the menu will have American food.

UPDATE: going to check with my Staff about this. More info later!

I Should Not Drink And Code.

Posted by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday March 09 2018, @12:27AM (#3060)
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I fixed a panic.

My coworker fixed a different panic.

We both checked in our code, I did "$ svn update".

I built all the components.

I rolled an installer.

So as to ensure that my release wasn't DOA I tried out one of the cases that - before I fixed it - caused a panic.

And it caused a panic. :(

I expect QA may want to test everything else so I sent out an email to let them know where to find it in subversion, as well as that case that had been fixed but is now broken.

Maybe it's for the best: not having anything to do I was getting bored and planned to leave.

Now I'm not bored anymore.

Women are great. They're doing tremendously.

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:19PM (#3059)
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I am for them and I think a lot of them understand that. You know, I won many categories of women and the women vote in the election, and people were shocked to see it. I was running against a woman and I’m winning all of these categories. So many women came out to celebrate my inauguration. Very big march in Washington, one of the biggest crowds ever for an inauguration. And I think I would do even better right now.

Women have the best unemployment numbers that they’ve had in 17 years. And they’re doing tremendously in business, they’re doing tremendously in so many ways. And people are starting to see that.

I also think they want to feel safe at the border. I think they want to see our military get much stronger. Women want to see strong law enforcement. I’m very much a law-and-order person. There’s nobody better than me on the military. I think women really like that. Very proud of our women soldiers and pilots. I think they want to be safe at home, in many different respects. They want us to win the war on opioids. And above all they want us to be energy independent. So we don't go into so many wars in the Middle East.

I think we have to evolve. If we don’t evolve, there’s something missing. But I have tremendous respect for women. You see all of the women I have working around me and working with me. Tremendous respect for women.

But I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist. I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far. I’m for women, I’m for men, I’m for everyone. I think people have to go out, they have to go out and really do it, and they have to win. And women are doing great, and I’m happy about that.

Creating a Union to Fight Youtube and Google

Posted by CoolHand on Wednesday March 07 2018, @11:13PM (#3057)
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Techonomics
Joerg Sprave of "The Slingshot Channel" attempts to start a union of youtubers to fight back against Google's policies and the control of Youtube by bots. I've haven't really paid a lot of attention to the whining of youtubers about the changes thre, but I'm a fan of Joerg, so found this video very interesting. After listening to him, I now understand a lot more of the issues of what Google is doing to Yoube, and how it will likely hurt the platform in the long term. What he says makes sense and I hope he succeeds. If not, I hope that a diaspora of youtubers can increase the membership of another platform enough to continue their work, or find other methods to sustain their creation such as Patreon. Their is definitely a lot of unique content on youtube that is nowhere else to be found.

Error Between Seat And Keyboard: Please close this bug.

Posted by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday March 07 2018, @11:00PM (#3056)
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http://bugreport.apple.com

I should not drink and test.

Draining the SWAMP!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday March 07 2018, @10:31PM (#3055)
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News

Good news, folks. I'm moving very strongly on DRAINING THE SWAMP. Because I asked Gary Cohn to resign as my economic advisor. He's registered as a Democrat. And he has a long, sad history with Goldman Sachs, part of the global power structure, the global special interests, that have total control over Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted and so many of our politicians. Globalization has made the financial elite, who donate to politicians, very, very wealthy. I used to be one of them. I hate to say it, but I used to be one. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache. Gary wouldn't play ball on my beautiful new tariffs. He stood with the elites.

We allowed foreign countries to subsidize their goods, devalue their currencies, violate their agreements and cheat in every way imaginable, and our politicians did nothing about it. Trillions of our dollars and millions of our jobs flowed overseas as a result. I have visited cities and towns across this country where one-third or even half of manufacturing jobs have been wiped out in the last 20 years. Today, we import nearly $800 billion more in goods than we export. We can’t continue to do that. This is not some natural disaster, it’s a political and politician-made disaster. Very simple. And it can be corrected and we can correct it fast when we have people with the right thinking. Right up here. It is the consequence of a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism. This is a direct affront to our founding fathers. America wanted to be strong. They wanted this country to be strong. They wanted to be independent and they wanted it to be free.

And listen to this. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln -- nobody knows this, but he was a Republican -- warned that "the abandonment of the protective policy by the American government will produce WANT AND RUIN among our people." He understood it much better than our current politicians, that’s why he was Abraham Lincoln, I guess. Right?

Our founding fathers understood trade much better than our current politicians, believe me. When subsidized foreign steel is dumped into our markets, threatening our factories, the politicians have proven, folks, have proven they do nothing. We need to be one team, one people, one American family. Because all the other Countries are against us. I'm getting a fair deal for the American people. Now, it’s time for the American people to take back their future. Going to take it back. The era of economic surrender is finally OVER!