Um….is that some attempt to summarize what I said? I can’t help but notice you addressed it at yourself. “Nice try BOBBIE”? Uhhhh…..I’m not bobbie, you are.

I love when you get triggered and your only rebuttal is “nuh-uh”. That always comes off so sad when I offered specific verified facts you could easily verify yourself if truth mattered to you. I always picture you alone and weeping as you write things like this.

The investigation of Toth Senchal soliciting money from sanctioned Russian oligarchs through Caribbean banks is public knowledge now. You can’t even offer propaganda rebuttals.

Ten million percent false? You think this makes you sound smart? Or adult?

Nice try bobbie

I don't want to remove the chance either, but I wouldn't use that one in ten million chance of success as a selling point for gun rights. Home defense is a far more reasonable need imo.

There are >10 million doctors worldwide. Thousands equates to .02% think it's the right treatment. That means ten million doctors worldwide disagree. The only medical studies done so far have shown it's not effective against covid19, but is deadly when taken with diabetes medications. The anecdotal evidence that it helps comes from places where it's used in conjunction with antibacterial or antiviral drugs, when used alone it's useless.
Jebus, @bobknight33, the dangerous stupidity is increasing with every post. Not one bit surprising, you get all your information from unethical, amoral propagandists like Trump , Faux, and OAN, all of which are verified constant liars whose listeners are less informed after listening....calling any actual verifiable information "fake news".
Your idiocy would be laughable if this wasn't life and death information.

A quick reminder of hydrooxychloroquine side effects-
Blistering, peeling, loosening of the skin
blurred vision or other vision changes
chest discomfort, pain, or tightness
cough or hoarseness
dark urine
decreased urination
defective color vision
diarrhea
difficulty breathing
difficulty seeing at night
dizziness or fainting
fast, pounding, uneven heartbeat
feeling that others are watching you or controlling your behavior
feeling that others can hear your thoughts
feeling, seeing, or hearing things that are not there
fever with or without chills
general feeling of tiredness or weakness
headache
inability to move the eyes
increased blinking or spasms of the eyelid
joint or muscle pain
large, hive-like swelling on the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, and sex organs
loss of hearing
lower back or side pain
noisy breathing
painful or difficult urination
red irritated eyes
red skin lesions, often with a purple center
severe mood or mental changes
sore throat sores, ulcers, or white spots on the lips or in the mouth
sticking out of the tongue
stomach pain
swelling of the feet or lower legs
swollen or painful glands
trouble with breathing, speaking, or swallowing
uncontrolled twisting movements of the neck, trunk, arms, or legs
unusual behavior
unusual bleeding or bruising
unusual facial expressions
unusual tiredness or weakness
yellow eyes or skin
death

Edit:oh, now I get it. I've now read Giuliani told Trump this crap works, and of course trump trusts him over the medical community or scientific studies...as do .02% of doctors if this opinion piece isn't pure *lies like OAN trades in. Remember, they are essentially a subsidiary of Pravda. It will be interesting to find out how many people pushing the untested hydroxychloroquine recently invested in companies that make it.
Btw-Giuliani had his Twitter account suspended for lying and claiming hydro has 100% effectiveness at eradicating covid19 despite zero evidence to support that claim and tons to refute it.

Well, the details are out and guess what? It is doom and gloom. Medicaid is going to be gutted. Who benefits from Medicaid?

64% of nursing home residents
39% of American children
60% of American children with disabilities
76% of all poor children in the US.

Meanwhile, tens millions of Americans will lose healthcare coverage. All this so that tax cuts can make the richest people in America even richer.

Are you sure you're a Christian? Last time I checked, Jesus didn't tell you to fuck the poor and make the rich even richer. This bill isn't just "mean" like Trump calls it; it is pure evil. This bill and the Republican party is a disgrace to Jesus and a disgrace to humanity.

For some not-so-strange reason, this looks intentional-How else (notwithstanding the creosote-soaked wood used for railroad timber) would the entire length of the thing burn so uniformly and so completely?

*edit- Ok, brush-fire. Now I see it-Damn. Ten million and change to rebuild it, construction to begin post-haste as this is a line used frequently for Ag near there.

It's about expected utility versus risk. As an investment, it's a loser, but a buck or two is a minimal, perhaps negligible risk, and just the value of thinking about winning might be worth it to many people.

What makes less sense to me is why anybody thinks they're going to be happier with a half billion dollars than with ten million, and so accepts the much worse odds against winning to go for it.

In 1981, Frank Tipler[3] put forth an argument that extraterrestrial intelligences do not exist, based on the absence of von Neumann probes. Given even a moderate rate of replication and the history of the galaxy, such probes should already be common throughout space and thus, we should have already encountered them. Because we have not, this shows that extraterrestrial intelligences do not exist. This is thus a resolution to the Fermi paradox—that is, the question of why we have not already encountered extraterrestrial intelligence if it is common throughout the universe.

A response[4] came from Carl Sagan and William Newman. Now known as Sagan's Response, it pointed out that in fact Tipler had underestimated the rate of replication, and that von Neumann probes should have already started to consume most of the mass in the galaxy. Any intelligent race would therefore, Sagan and Newman reasoned, not design von Neumann probes in the first place, and would try to destroy any von Neumann probes found as soon as they were detected. As Robert Freitas[5] has pointed out the assumed capacity of von Neumann probes described by both sides of the debate are unlikely in reality, and more modestly reproducing systems are unlikely to be observable in their effects on our Solar System or the Galaxy as a whole.

Another objection to the prevalence of von Neumann probes is that civilizations of the type that could potentially create such devices may have inherently short lifetimes, and self-destruct before so advanced a stage is reached, through such events as biological or nuclear warfare, nanoterrorism, resource exhaustion, ecological catastrophe, pandemics due to antibiotic resistance.

A simple workaround exists to avoid the over-replication scenario. Radio transmitters, or other means of wireless communication, could be used by probes programmed not to replicate beyond a certain density (such as five probes per cubic parsec) or arbitrary limit (such as ten million within one century), analogous to the Hayflick limit in cell reproduction. One problem with this defence against uncontrolled replication is that it would only require a single probe to malfunction and begin unrestricted reproduction for the entire approach to fail — essentially a technological cancer — unless each probe also has the ability to detect such malfunction in its neighbours and implements a seek and destroy protocol.

wikipedia my friend

Unfortunately she's doing her job, It's just for the wrong people.

Oh, and the irony of her statement about the public getting 10 or so billion dollars out of the bailout, well.... guess who paid for the bailout? Right, the public, so that means the public didn't make any money at all from the bailout, they just lost slightly less than the full amount (if her statement is true) in addition to the ten million or so jobs lost since the last unemployment peak around 2004.

Having said that, arguing over a few billion is just semantics at this point, the bigger issue is the corporate money in politics, the immoral wars, the unchecked destruction of the environment and food supply and the powerlessness of the average person in the larger political climate.

One of the most important changes that needs to happen now (in relation to this topic) is for the average person to start looking for real content in news programming, rather than watching it to be entertained by a handsome/pretty looking anchor with bells and whistles scrolling across the screen.

>> ^blankfist:

>> ^Ryjkyj:
>> ^blankfist:
Kill the rich! Cut their balls off! YAY! We hate that they have money! We should steal more of it!

C'mon Blank. You get more, you PAY more. Society doesn't work because a guy tells his staff to buy low and sell high. People acting like the rich get picked on so badly really get my blood boiling.

Society doesn't work because a guy tells his staff to buy low and sell high? What does that mean? I never understood why people who work to make more should be punished. It's not like the government is working harder for that person. It's not like he gets more services from the government whether he pays a little or he pays a lot.
Stop being greedy, I say. And I like how his chart stops at 1 million. Why doesn't he show what they'd do to people who make more than 1 million? What about people who make ten million? Or 100 million? Because this is just theater.


I think it means that people have to get over the idea that the money they make is directly proportional to the amount they work. Some people are more successful than others but we all live in the same society and we all use its resources and structure.

Bill Gates earns more money a year than I could spend in a lifetime. It's not because he's worth a billion times more than me as a human. It's because he got lucky. And actually, if you look a little bit closer at his story, it's because he was a fucking dick to everyone he ever dealt with. Bill Gates didn't invent the operating system. He took everyone's ideas together and called the whole his own. Is that the way to make a ton of money? Sure. But I think you should give something back to the society you took from. And I don't think I'm crazy for seeing it that way.

Am I the only person who was in kindergarten on the day we learned how to share?

Oh... and "stop being greedy" you say? How much does a person need before they give the rest back to society? Jesus fucking christ.

>> ^handmethekeysyou:

I love this idea, and I really hope they continue with it as a series. However, I take one very strong issue with this video; specifically their absolute failure in communication design. The use of circles is borderline offensive to anyone even loosely schooled in the subject.
"We got a ruler and measured out the size of the tax cut, is how big the circle is [sic]". Cool. Corresponding to what? How big the tax cut is by percentage? Dollar amount? What?

Fair, point, but it's all too rare for liberals to try to make a simple, easy to understand case for what they're doing. I don't want them to spend a lot of time talking about x and y axes when they're just trying to drive home the difference in policy priorities.

That said, I suspect it's similar to this chart, and in that one, it's the area of the circle that's proportionate to the raw number of dollars a person with the stated income would save under each proposal, compared to the baseline tax code.

>> ^blankfist:

And I like how his chart stops at 1 million. Why doesn't he show what they'd do to people who make more than 1 million? What about people who make ten million? Or 100 million? Because this is just theater.


More likely, it's because it wouldn't be fair to keep going. The Obama circles stay the same size as you go up from this point (hence the "Let the tax cuts expire on income over $250,000" thing), and the Bush circles keep getting bigger at ever-faster rates. I'm not gonna try and estimate at what income level the Bush circle would be bigger than the whole board, but I wouldn't be surprised if $10 million was close.

>> ^blankfist:

And I like how his chart stops at 1 million. Why doesn't he show what they'd do to people who make more than 1 million? What about people who make ten million? Or 100 million? Because this is just theater.


Presumably that's because that demographic is a tiny fraction of the US population and not exactly the target group here.

That said,

>> ^handmethekeysyou:


The fact that the White House is not read up on Tufte, someone who has written numerous books on statistics in politics and who remains the foremost thinker on information design, is disheartening at best.
Sorry to geek out on this, but I expect better. You're trying to take steps forward by speaking in plain English to the general public, & I salute you for it. But you need to come correct.


I find it difficult to believe any player who makes it to the White House is inept enough to do this by accident. I suspect the diameter (if I was feeling really cynical, I'd say the radius) of the circles is what the ruler was used to measure out, quite intentionally.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

>> ^blankfist:
Kill the rich! Cut their balls off! YAY! We hate that they have money! We should steal more of it!

C'mon Blank. You get more, you PAY more. Society doesn't work because a guy tells his staff to buy low and sell high. People acting like the rich get picked on so badly really get my blood boiling.


Society doesn't work because a guy tells his staff to buy low and sell high? What does that mean? I never understood why people who work to make more should be punished. It's not like the government is working harder for that person. It's not like he gets more services from the government whether he pays a little or he pays a lot.

Stop being greedy, I say. And I like how his chart stops at 1 million. Why doesn't he show what they'd do to people who make more than 1 million? What about people who make ten million? Or 100 million? Because this is just theater.

nice comment buddy!

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Heh clicked through now to look for some more stuff like this, and found a lengthy description.

"This is a half-scale, all CG simulation of the 'elevator of blood' from The Shining that I did just for amusement in spare hours. I never expected it to look exactly like the real thing. The RealFlow fluid sim uses only about 1.6 million particles and therefore appears thicker and 'blobbyer' than an actual water-like liquid at this scale. I think at least ten million particles would begin to look convincing, but since this took about a month to calculate and render on on I-7, 3.2gh quad core, it isnt practical to attempt more particles without a far more powerful and prohibitively expensive computer.

I rendered, and modeled the hallway and furniture in Lightwave 9.6. Post processing was applied in Fusion 6.

In my work as a CG artist, I am often expected to integrate CG into photographic plates without any practical information from set such as what lens was used, the camera height and inclination, or the location and type of lights used. I have become rather proficient at 'eyeballing' these things. To come up with the dimensions of the set, I studied each shot in The Shining of the various hallways and fixtures. I settled on a 50mm lens, and my guess is that it was a half scale miniature since Kubrick was a perfectionist and smaller scale liquids look progressively less realistic and blobby (it is also more RealFlow friendly). The angles of the wall panels and lines on the floor indicated that the camera is not centered but was placed a few feet to the right and panned left to appear centered. Most viewers do not notice there are actually 3 different angles of this scene shown in the movie. This leads me to suspect there may have been another camera centered on the miniature set but the footage was not used.

I arrived at the 140fps frame speed by using Fusion to speed up the slow motion shot from the film until it appeared to move at a realistic speed which was x6. Six times 24fps is 140. To save time, I began RealFlow simulations at 24fps. When I sped up the resulting render x6, the CG blood turned out to hit the walls and run out of frame on close to the same frames as in the real shot, so this affirmed the rate of 140fps and the dimensions of the set as being somewhat accurate. When they shot the miniature scene, the actual event would have taken place in about four seconds.

The overhead render was an afterthought where some flaws are more apparent.

I started thinking about rendering this after viewing a YT video titled 'THE SHINING - SOMETHING IN THE RIVER OF BLOOD' where the author presents a lengthy assertion that there are some obscure shapes viewable within the blood near the elevator that Kubrick intended as a sublminal representation of a corpse or something suggesting 'Tony' inside Danny's mouth. The seemingly mysterious shapes present a Rorschach image for commentors' to offer up a myriad of odd things they believe 'it' to be. It was apparent to me that the shapes are merely reflections of the set and I emailed a simple CG still to the author demonstrating that fact but he defends the presence of mysterious objects.

I thought it would be interesting to see what ReaFlow might do, and was surprised to find that no one else had attempted a Shining-blood-elevator sim that I could find. Oddly enough, very similar 'shapes' turn up in this CG render as in the movie since they are simply distorted reflections of the elevator door itself and surrounding frame and wall. But people prefer a mystery."

Heh clicked through now to look for some more stuff like this, and found a lengthy description.

"This is a half-scale, all CG simulation of the 'elevator of blood' from The Shining that I did just for amusement in spare hours. I never expected it to look exactly like the real thing. The RealFlow fluid sim uses only about 1.6 million particles and therefore appears thicker and 'blobbyer' than an actual water-like liquid at this scale. I think at least ten million particles would begin to look convincing, but since this took about a month to calculate and render on on I-7, 3.2gh quad core, it isnt practical to attempt more particles without a far more powerful and prohibitively expensive computer.

I rendered, and modeled the hallway and furniture in Lightwave 9.6. Post processing was applied in Fusion 6.

In my work as a CG artist, I am often expected to integrate CG into photographic plates without any practical information from set such as what lens was used, the camera height and inclination, or the location and type of lights used. I have become rather proficient at 'eyeballing' these things. To come up with the dimensions of the set, I studied each shot in The Shining of the various hallways and fixtures. I settled on a 50mm lens, and my guess is that it was a half scale miniature since Kubrick was a perfectionist and smaller scale liquids look progressively less realistic and blobby (it is also more RealFlow friendly). The angles of the wall panels and lines on the floor indicated that the camera is not centered but was placed a few feet to the right and panned left to appear centered. Most viewers do not notice there are actually 3 different angles of this scene shown in the movie. This leads me to suspect there may have been another camera centered on the miniature set but the footage was not used.

I arrived at the 140fps frame speed by using Fusion to speed up the slow motion shot from the film until it appeared to move at a realistic speed which was x6. Six times 24fps is 140. To save time, I began RealFlow simulations at 24fps. When I sped up the resulting render x6, the CG blood turned out to hit the walls and run out of frame on close to the same frames as in the real shot, so this affirmed the rate of 140fps and the dimensions of the set as being somewhat accurate. When they shot the miniature scene, the actual event would have taken place in about four seconds.

The overhead render was an afterthought where some flaws are more apparent.

I started thinking about rendering this after viewing a YT video titled 'THE SHINING - SOMETHING IN THE RIVER OF BLOOD' where the author presents a lengthy assertion that there are some obscure shapes viewable within the blood near the elevator that Kubrick intended as a sublminal representation of a corpse or something suggesting 'Tony' inside Danny's mouth. The seemingly mysterious shapes present a Rorschach image for commentors' to offer up a myriad of odd things they believe 'it' to be. It was apparent to me that the shapes are merely reflections of the set and I emailed a simple CG still to the author demonstrating that fact but he defends the presence of mysterious objects.

I thought it would be interesting to see what ReaFlow might do, and was surprised to find that no one else had attempted a Shining-blood-elevator sim that I could find. Oddly enough, very similar 'shapes' turn up in this CG render as in the movie since they are simply distorted reflections of the elevator door itself and surrounding frame and wall. But people prefer a mystery."

Reminds me of the famous UFO discharge witnessed by Bob White in Colorado. You can pick up this piece of UFO excrement for only ten million dollars. Anybody want to split it with me?

So which of the thousand things was it? I'm guessing anti missile flares.

*promote