| hunterk |
Posted on 19-09-22, 20:54 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Posted by sureanemThat's an interesting way to put it. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-09-22, 22:55 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #42 of 60
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I do think it is largely settled insofar as a bunch of people think he's "exonerated" and a bunch of others are waiting for the Dems to do their Constitutional duty and impeach him based on the crimes that were clearly laid out in the report. Until that happens, there's honestly not much more to report on. My assumption is that the Dem leadership wants to see how 2020 shakes out, which may be shrewd but is also super-lame. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-09-23, 03:07 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #43 of 60
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Posted by sureanemNo, I'm interested in objective reality (something that used to be shared by a majority of people). Truth isn't a matter of who says what the loudest or what you can get the most idiots to believe. Likewise, Dems *need* to impeach him, not out of political expediency but because it's what the Constitution demands in this situation. By refusing to do their part of it, they are just as complicit in his crimes as the Republicans that shield him. Also, when the economy goes pear-shaped, it's not going to be because the Fed "stabbed him in the back". That's just buying into his conspiracy drivel. The Fed doesn't have the power to cause or control the business cycle, only to take the edge off the extreme peaks and valleys (at best). |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-09-23, 16:14 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #44 of 60
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Posted by sureanemNo, it's that he demonstrably obstructed justice and abused the power of his office (with the purpose of impeding the investigation into his campaign's very real ties and communications with Russian officials and election interference, which the Mueller report did not find rose to the level of criminality on the part of the Trump campaign, though there is reason to believe this is only as a result of their own bungling). It sounds like you haven't read the report. You really should. (especially before you go telling people what it does or doesn't say) Posted by sureanemThis all is a single issue: The president apparently committed crimes (as clearly laid out in the report). It is the Department of Justice's policy that a sitting president cannot be criminally indicted (this is not a value judgment suggesting that a president's actions are inherently legal, ipso facto, but rather a nuts and bolts procedural issue). So, to be taken to trial (and maybe found innocent! who knows?), a sitting president must first no longer be president either through resignation or the one procedural method for removal laid out in the Constitution: impeachment. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-09-23, 21:38 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #45 of 60
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No, the report didn't say he committed no crimes, but rather that it was not tasked with charging him, as he cannot be charged, as president. Likewise, the president is not above the law and can most definitely commit crimes. That's a difference between a president and a king. Anyway, the report is actually quite entertaining (in parts) and you can skim it in a couple of hours at most. But I see what you're getting at, which is: objective reality doesn't matter to the proles, so it also doesn't matter for "anticipating near future." In which case, nothing matters at all, because the unwashed will change their whims with the breeze, and yesterday's headlines are completely useless by tomorrow. Why even bother trying to predict it? Who even reads headlines before forming an opinion? |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-10-05, 14:19 in Computer Operating System News
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Making people pay a fee and crypto-sign applications before they can be included in a store is normal and fine, IMO. The problem comes in when they make it harder and harder to load applications from other sources. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-10-31, 00:23 in Fighting and versus games thread
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Post: #47 of 60
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Those were some good matches. It's good to see Itabashi back on Gief! That match vs Ibuki was wild. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-11-04, 19:30 in Fighting and versus games thread
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Post: #48 of 60
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Oh man, those first 2 matches were great. ChrisCCH really had to work for that win, had to make a lot of gambles that ended up well for him. Nemo just didn't have anything for JWong's Poison. Back to the ol' drawing board, i guess. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-11-18, 14:19 in Fighting and versus games thread
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Post: #49 of 60
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Sounds like the new SF5 update will unlock all the d00ds for $25. I'll finally have a full game several years and $85 later... |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-11-19, 15:40 in Fighting and versus games thread (revision 1)
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Post: #50 of 60
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I'm not a big fan of how heavily some characters (including Gil) rely on juggling. This ain't Tekken :P EDIT: whoa, punk is in the top spot? Wild. I haven't watched m/any matches with him on Karin, but I never cared much for his Rog. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-11-20, 01:07 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #51 of 60
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Posted by sureanemyao_ming.png |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-12-14, 19:25 in The Xbox Series X
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Post: #52 of 60
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Yeah, i've seen some complaining about the look online. I think it looks fine. It's basically like 2 slim 360s on edge. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-12-16, 04:07 in Fighting and versus games thread (revision 1)
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Post: #53 of 60
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Those Kichipa-mu matches are a perfect illustration of why Gief sucks in SF5: no conversion capability. Every other good character can convert a landed footsie into good damage, a hard knockdown and usually a mixup. You land a perfect footsie with Gief and you get... nothing. It feels very unrewarding. I liked all of the Idom matches I saw. He's a good player and that stoneface of his is great. EDIT: whoops, I was thinking someone else with the stoneface, but Idom is definitely a great player with a great attitude. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-12-22, 03:08 in Fighting and versus games thread
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Post: #54 of 60
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Oh man, that was a great grand finals. Infiltration always has such weird pocket characters. Fuck Menat, though. What were they thinking when they designed that character anyway? "What if Dhalsim... but Rose?" I'm very impressed that Kubo managed to win with Abigail, since that seems to be a really poor matchup for him. Infiltration seemed to be having a lot of fun, too, which is nice to see. That counter-kick thing for Gief looks really useful, as opposed to his existing counter thing, which is indeed fucking useless. I think its active frames are too short or something, as it never lands, even when it seems like it should. FAKEDIT: oh, okay, nvm, this pretty much sums up why it sucks: This attack is infamous for its counter intuitiveness in terms of usefulness, as most other attacks simply work against an attack archtype, such as punch attacks or aerial attacks. However, this attack counters certain kind of kick attacks. Zangief can only catch horizontally-aligned kicks with this move. Mistimed or trying to counter the wrong type of attack puts Zangief in a Counter Hit state for higher damage and longer combos. It does seem to have a 2f startup, which is smart so it can sneak into frametraps, you just need to know every single vulnerable move from every character and when those moves are used in blockstrings... That burden of knowledge is simply too great to be really useful, IMO. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-12-23, 01:14 in Fighting and versus games thread
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Post: #55 of 60
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Posted by Brosephrofl, a bunch of international nerds in a cage chugging red bulls. I love it! Some great matches, too. I agree that Rashid is bullshit, and it's even more infuriating since we see so many of them each tournament, all doing the same bullshit flowchart over and over and over. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 20-02-04, 21:27 in U.S. 2020 Election
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Post: #56 of 60
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I'm a Hanlon's razor kinda guy but either way it doesn't bode well for the general election. According to the most recent Gallup poll:Posted by "gallup poll"It is important to recognize that a majority of "independents" tend to be conservatives who are ashamed to call themselves Republicans for whatever reason (antiestablishmentarians, libertarians, rich blue-staters, etc), but that's an extremely tight margin that makes another electoral college win for Trump pretty likely. The most important bit of info to come out of Iowa so far, though, is that Dem voter turnout was at the lackluster 2016 level rather than the high-energy 2008/2012 levels. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 20-03-02, 02:19 in Show us your Linux/BSD Desktop setup!
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Post: #57 of 60
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I used to customize a lot of stuff back in the old days with KDE 3.5 and compiz, etc. but I don't even change the default background anymore. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 20-03-12, 01:11 in Computer Security news
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Post: #58 of 60
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I'm okay with the fancy names and mascots and shit for a whole family of vulnerabilities (e.g., if "spectre" referred to the whole family of speculative execution vulns), but yeah, it gets pretty old when they come up with scary names for stuff that's only really feasible for highly sophisticated (probably nation-state) attackers who have physical access to your machine. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 20-05-24, 03:43 in Micro-Soft opensources BASIC (revision 1)
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Post: #59 of 60
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I would say this is about the time these sorts of things should be falling into the public domain. It's commercially useless and now only has any value historically and educationally. Good on MS for doing it all the same. |
| hunterk |
Posted on 20-05-24, 03:46 in higan v107 released
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Post: #60 of 60
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Posted by wertigonNot really, but themaister's ParaLLEl-RDP is probably the closest analog. It's hardware-accelerated software rendering done in vulkan compute shaders. |
