Tuesday, November 21, 2017

things sthat I did for new laptop

laptop - first boot ...
keyboard, language, network

oh look it
installs updates ....

malwarebytes

now it wants email etc ...

updagtesfirst 

default apps
browser
ultraderfag 
mail??
itunes

notepadd++

speccy

wow

checkpoint

lastpass

backblaze

crystal disk mark

a bunch of asus tools and what nots

https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/skip-windows-10-login-screen/











Sunday, November 19, 2017

NDAs and when does the dam break

almost like we need a website to collate the data:
who, number of accusers, confirmed by accused, "everyone knew", defended/attacked by right, by left, "crime"
(aka - asshole, harassment, touching, assault, rape)

no one is victim blaming here ... but ... if this picks up ANY STEAM, we are going to be buried when the dam breaks ..


at what point will .... people start self-reporting, to get ahead of the storm?
Is Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise HOPING that this blows over?
(no really .... )


and .... this woman with the NDA and settlement from weinstein ... who came forward ... is she being sued for breaking her silence? or not ?

Saturday, November 18, 2017

get some songs from these lists etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_supergroups

https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=19046.0

http://www.gothicera.com/Eighties%20Top%20100.htm

Looks like you're after a fairly wide selection. I'd find and consider the following tracks, based entirely on my own personal biases. Depends on how eclectic you want it maybe:


I've got the following in my CD collection that I think will be useful:
The Vanishing-Songs for Psychotic Children
The Cure-Pornography, 17 Seconds, Kiss me...
Bauhaus-Crackle and The Sky's Gone Out (plus their vinyl Singles collection)
KMFDM-Adios
Joy Division-Unknown Pleausres and Closer (I'm thinking "She's Lost Control" is a must)
VNV Nation-Empires and Burning Empires
The Sisters of Mercy-Floodland

I know I'm missing some classics from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Christian Death etc. but what songs would particularly add to the above assortment?  Anything by the Legendary Pink Dots accessible and dancey enough?  I like them and they're prolific, but don't know much of their music.  Anything from the above or elsewhere that would be a 'must?

:wumpscut: - Black Death
:wumpscut: - Funeral Diner
Alien Sex Fiend - Clockwork Banana Banana Moon
Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine
Angelspit - Nurse Grenade
Anne Clark - Our Darkness
Cat Rapes Dog - Motordead
Christian Death - Romeos Distress
Combichrist - This is My Rifle
Covenant - Call the Ships to Port
The Cure - Burn
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Current 93 - Crowleymass
E Nomine - Mitternacht
Edge of Sanity - Sacrificed
Funker Vogt - History
Gothminister - Devil [Icon of Coil Remix]
Hanzel und Gretyl - Disko Fire Scheiss Messiah
Icon of Coil - Access and Amplify
Icon of Coil - Floorkiller
Inkubus Sukkubus - The Leveller
Inkubus Sukkubus - Vampyre Erotica
The Invincible Spirit - Push!
KMFDM - A Drug Against War
Laibach - Tanz Mit Laibach
Laibach - War
London After Midnight - Where Good Girls Go to Die
Ministry - Every Day is Halloween
Mortiis - Marshland
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion (ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL)
The Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
Tiamat - Nihil
Wolfsheim - Approaching Lightspeed
Wolfsheim - The Sparrows and the Nightingales
XIII. Stoleti - London After Midnight
Zombina and the Skeletones - Horror Highschool
Zombina and the Skeletones - Nobody Likes You When You're Dead

Friday, November 17, 2017

implicit

IN the end .. you ask the silly question (do we need to wear shirts) ... which answers the other questions ..... which are being ignored/not asked/etc

you are out at a dark, dank gay bar - when you walk in, you literally are putting on your "go ahead let's get crazy" shirt ...
which is why this woman, upset about LEWDNESS at an SF gay bar is so absurd .... "hello - you are in a sex friendly environment - for gay men"

on the other extreme you have men and women AT WORK, being sexually assaulted, their jobs threatened, etc ...
those victims went to work with their "we are work, dont grab my crouch" shirts on ... and were assaulted



whether it is assault or not is defined by the implicit shirts that we are wearing and the implicit contract of those locations.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

web tools links

https://www.keycdn.com/blog/web-development-tools/

What's the next

Things that we didnt "expect" to see in our lifetime:
A black president 
A female president (so damn close)
A Jewish president (lol he still thinks he could have won)
An open trans in federal office
Same sex marriage
Obamacare (wasnt universal health, but infinitely better than the past)

What will the next big thing be?
Universal Health? (Get enough states to pass their own, and ...)
Equal Rights (aka gender and preference protected like religion)
NPV (states can "eliminate" the electoral college) (google it)
Universal, Mandatory, Vote by Mail (no more fucking with the voters) (and screwing with the recounts)
ALL representatives to be AT-LARGE
Increase the number of reps to the proper proportionate number. (4,000 to 12,000 seats)

(Omg - get back to work)

Computers beating humans at chess and go. 

Funeral Music

Jeff Buckley - Halleaulujah 


Ends with
U2 - Beautiful Day

Friday, November 3, 2017

Machines

The REALLY FUNNY PART, as someone who has READ about AI (I Robot was the first book that I bought out of my own money) since DAY ONE.
As a scientist who has done some basic research on machine learning/AI/NN/etc/etc/etc, I have been AMUSED at the whole discussion.

FFrom the: machines will NEVER BE ABLE TO DO <THIS>!!
Every time that machines do <THIS>, they move the bar.

FFS: they had to make a NEW TERM, AGI - artificial Generalized Intelligence. 

Will a machine ever be exactly the same as a human?? Yawn.

Will machines ever CRUSH us at every thing that we do? Yup.
Chess and go? LOL
Poker? LOL
Visual recognition (started with reading addresses on envelopes, now faces and god knows what else)? Yup
hell look at manual vs automatic transmissions - early days human manual was always better. Now? Didnt Porsche stop making a manual trans???

Music, writing, "art" - "pure creation"
These are all that is really left.
Will we see THEM in our life time? Possibly/probably. (Vinge...)
Will it happen in the next 100 years? I would LONG-BET on that for sure.

OF COURSE, when they day comes, the English lit prof will say "I am an expert, therefore, I define LIT, so this is NOT LIT"