Posts by Mr. Kevvy

1) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2132548)
Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But we expect the USA to massively help Ukraine...


Again, it's back to the Budapest Memorandum where the governments of the US and UK (and of course, Russia) convinced the government of Ukraine to give Soviet-era nuclear weapons stored there back to Russia in exchange for an assurance of non-aggression.

The US in no small part caused this situation, thus any amount of aid they give to facilitate getting the Russian army out of Ukraine is not unreasonable.
2) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2131303)
Posted 15 Jan 2024 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Trump called a judge a 'bad person' for not allowing him to travel for a funeral. His calendar says he's got a campaign event that day.


And as noted at the end of the article, this is a civil trial so he doesn't even need to attend... attorneys can take of it (and even they aren't required...)

Props to the judge for not falling for lie number... I dunno, lost track after thirty thousand.
3) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 2130290)
Posted 23 Dec 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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...alleged mistakes in her application to register as a candidate....


In box marked "Name", did not provide correct answer "Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin", therefore application is invalidated. :^p
4) Message boards : Politics : The "Other" Electric Vehicles Thread (Message 2130088)
Posted 20 Dec 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Nearly every car maker on the planet is rolling out EVs, but none have been able to solve a huge issue with the vehicles. This could change soon.


Sadly they are addressing concerns of convenience rather than utility. The issue that keeps me from buying an EV is not the charging time, but the limited number of charge cycles before the battery is too weak to be usable. They cost tens of thousands of dollars to replace and some owners have had insult added to injury by receiving quotes which were more than it would be to just buy a new car.

I'm also dubious, given the heating that is taking place during fast-charging when hundreds of kilowatts are being fed into the batteries, whether this is shortening their life as well. I rented a Tesla to not only try the driving but also evaluate what cost would be expected and it was quite "educational"; when fast-charging there is a powerful fan running in the battery compartment keeping them from overheating. The fast chargers also gouge 4-5x or even more the cost of electricity for the convenience of fast charging. I'd never consider an EV without my own garage to charge it in. If one runs a 240V four-prong stove outlet to one's garage it's less than one day from zero to full charge and charging can be timed for off-peak hours when electricity is cheapest (or from one's own solar panels.)

Sticking with my bicycle for the time being. :^)
5) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2130087)
Posted 20 Dec 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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6) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2129690)
Posted 11 Dec 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And those tank shells should've went straight to the Ukraine instead of Israel.

Blinken defends bypassing Congress to sell weapons to Israel and presses lawmakers to help Ukraine.

It just makes the U.S. more complaisant in Benji/Israeli war crimes.


Israel is a wealthy nuclear-armed state fighting a bunch of terrorists who need to make rocket launchers out of water pipes... they have next to zero chance of losing.

Ukraine is fighting a nuclear-armed state with 3x their population and the only reason that they don't have nuclear weapons to defend themselves (which would have kept Putin from even considering an invasion) is that they gave them up in exchange for US and Russian guarantees. One has so far proven to be worthless. I hope the other one does not. Someone should remind the historically-ignorant bozos in the GOP Congress of this, but I'm sure they'd just ignore it.
7) Message boards : Politics : Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke. (Message 2129321)
Posted 1 Dec 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments

I don't understand how his diplomatic skills based on subtle wit and charm could fail to sway their return. :^p

' "X is enabling an information independence that is uncomfortable for some people,” Ms. Yaccarino wrote.'

This is, almost certainly accidentally, correct. I am uncomfortable about how independent X is from actual information.
8) Message boards : Politics : Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke. (Message 2129292)
Posted 1 Dec 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just like Donny and Elon, Diet Coke looks to bring out the very worse in people that heavily consume it (we have and have had a few here that also fit this theory perfectly to a tee), is it the artificial sweeteners involved?


I drink plenty of Coke Zero plus put nothing but Splenda in my (excessive) coffee, and don't seem to have an issue. However, I try to also not be greedy nor have a tremendously oversized ego to catalyze the effects. :^)
9) Message boards : Politics : Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke. (Message 2129216)
Posted 30 Nov 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Elmo stays classy as always...
10) Message boards : Politics : Aussie pollitics. (Message 2128985)
Posted 24 Nov 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Bruce Lehrmann has admitted he was “mistaken” when he told police he did not have alcohol in his parliamentary office..."

Well, obviously... rule #4 of the Bruces is that they don't want to catch anyone not drinking. ;^)
11) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2128609)
Posted 16 Nov 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We should no longer debate whether children or/and babies were massacred by Hamas using brutal method A or more gentle B.


That entirely misses the point. The point is the the so-called good guys lied about it when it was unnecessary to, so any later statements from them are now dubious.

There is no denial that they were attacked first and have the right to defend themselves. But if they have to make up lies escalating the offense to them, it indicates that they want to unjustifiably escalate their reprisals going beyond mere defense, to wanton destruction and vengeance. This, they seem to have done.
(Shades of 9/11...)
12) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2128598)
Posted 16 Nov 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unfortunately and unnecessarily the Israeli government blew their credibility early on with the old clichéd baby-murderer canard. Already worn out in WWI and the Gulf War, sorry. They sacrificed the moral high ground of innocent (but unfortunately for sensationalism, adult) unarmed civilians being murdered by armed thugs while going about their peaceful activities; that wasn't enough I guess.

So, I'll need confirmation from a reputable source of either actual journalism or unbiased and reliable third party info (Amnesty or DWB or the UN or some more uninvolved and honest nation, for example) before I give any weight to these stories, from either side.
13) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2128420)
Posted 12 Nov 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It has to be expected forevermore that anytime there is any armed conflict, the more radical supporters of both sides will immediately rush to post as many fictional stories and miscaptioned videos of war crimes, false flags, crisis actors, etc. on the world's bullsh... er.. social media networks as possible to drum up support and dismiss any losses of "the other side." There are ones with tens of millions of views that claim Israeli victims of Hamas were actors, so I don't doubt they are influencing many including the protestors. Of course there are also others that claim that Palestinian victims of the Israeli reprisals were also actors.

The Israel/Hamas war section of Snopes has quite a few of them.
14) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2127313)
Posted 21 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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They are part of our culture, our spoken language, even mine. Especially the old (psalms?) from the old testament are suitable to illustrate or refer to the history of ancient times, without any evil or unwanted indoctrination. But, what do I know about faith or religion? Nothing.


Religion has been the greatest tool of social control ever devised since it was invented, to the point that this is probably the reason it was invented, or at least organized out of private individual worship (sometimes contradictory to its own founders) in the first place.

There is no place this is more evident than in warfare; it wouldn't usually be easy to get young men to throw their lives away for old men's lusts for power and land, but when they've been lied to basically since birth that somehow they will go a magical place forever if they die serving those old men's lusts, they become compliant, thus the obsession to get their "holy" books and indoctrination and prayers into schools as soon as possible. "There are no atheists in foxholes" should really be a compliment that they've been wise enough to avoid being there.

Non-religious autocracies get around this by elevating the leader or the state to the same position that would be held by a god or church, often with many of its same trappings. North Korea is a good example.
15) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2127276)
Posted 21 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I bet that Liz would easily get more than the 217 votes required straight up.


I agree, because her integrity would get more Democrats to vote for her than Republicans against her.
16) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2127143)
Posted 18 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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They're honest enough to say that they haven't got answers to all the questions yet, but they have promised to keep that page updated as new conclusions are reached.


Initially it's leaning towards this being a Palestinian-caused blast, so I am hoping to be very happy to have been proven wrong.
17) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2127081)
Posted 17 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Predictably, Israel's response to atrocities is that its government has given an ultimatum to people that have next to nothing to clear out and lose the little they have, so that thousands of their homes can be flattened with carpet bombing...


Sometimes I hate being correct... hospitals in this case.

At least 500 people have been killed in a bombing of a hospital in Gaza City, the Palestinian Health Ministry has claimed.


Apparently they were sheltering there.
18) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2127064)
Posted 17 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What way out of the ongoing tragedy?

What options are there?


De-radicalization of both sides... Palestinians need to stop supporting Hamas, Hezbollah or any other radical Islamist/terrorist group that uses violence especially against civilians for political ends.
Israelis need to kick Benji and the other radical right-wingers out of leadership, and replace them with a more moderate government that is willing to seriously move forward towards Palestinian self-government and stability and prosperity, ending practices such as forced resettlement and destroying innocent peoples' homes which just perpetuates further generations of terrorists.

Right now, good luck with all that sadly.
19) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Vox article: "The true story of how humans are searching for intelligent alien life" (Message 2126957)
Posted 15 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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(Published Oct. 12)

The true story of how humans are searching for intelligent alien life
Real scientists are searching for alien life. Don’t let the kooks distract you.


Let’s get something straight: Congressional hearings are not the way we are going to discover the existence of intelligent alien life. They are a distraction from the bona fide alien-hunting work — the sort that doesn’t involve grandstanding individuals and showy stunts, but scientists searching a sea of stars for the sounds or sights of extraterrestrial intelligence.


A nice summary of SETI research including the current state of it and upcoming projects. UCB's Andrew Siemion has three quotes and a mention.
20) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2126882)
Posted 14 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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.... a kind and sunny future with gentle winds should also be possible there.


... but it won't happen just yet. Predictably, Israel's response to atrocities is that its government has given an ultimatum to people that have next to nothing to clear out and lose the little they have, so that thousands of their homes can be flattened with carpet bombing instead of surgically removing Hamas members. Thousands of innocent people will be made homeless, their children will grow up angry and resentful and join Hamas or Hezbollah or whatever and be told to commit more atrocities as revenge.

And the cycle continues.
21) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2126790)
Posted 11 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And on that basis I have some sympathy with Hamas...


Sympathy with deliberate, wilful child-murderers? (As opposed to indiscriminate bombing, or sympathy with the innocent people of Palestine.) I was awaiting third-party confirmation of the beheaded babies that Israeli soldiers reported finding, but we have it for deliberate murders of children.

I don't seem to remember other colonized people ie South Africans or Indians behaving this way or making excuses for it... because:

the United Nations have condemned the violence in the starkest terms, with the U.N. secretary general saying, “Nothing can justify these acts of terror and the killing, maiming and abduction of civilians.”


Nothing can justify these acts.

Yes, Israel has treated the Palestinians terribly, but this is much worse. And with only a choice between terrible and much worse, terrible is the better choice every time.
22) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2126738)
Posted 10 Oct 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Netanyahu failed Israel.


... and the Hamas terror thugs and their allies played right into his hands by being worse than he even could be: massacring young people at a musical peace festival, going house-to-house and eliminating only the Jewish residents like the SS themselves, kidnapping teenage girls to be used as sex slaves/taking hostages then beheading them while recording it and posting on the internet à la ISIL, and much more.

So now he is the defender, has the unwavering support of all Western allies, is likely going to be president for life and has carte blanche to do whatever he wants to the West Bank and Gaza. If the invaders had stuck to military/government targets and fought a legitimate war we may have had a nice investigation into the all-too-convenient intelligence and other failures that allowed this to happen; doubt that will get much traction now. The Palestinian people will again pay the price for allowing mindlessly violent extremists to exist in their midst and represent them.

By the way, the Hamas leadership met with Putin in March.. another coincidence? I would be very surprised if he doesn't have a hand in this. Like Netanyahu, it would certainly serve his needs: drawing U.S. involvement into any other conflict would (he hopes) draw it away from support for Ukraine.
23) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2126226)
Posted 29 Sep 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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24) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2126180)
Posted 28 Sep 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I prefer to look at nature and how it is created.
...where you recognize God's creation.


Yes, Zeus has been most bountiful.
25) Message boards : Politics : The U.S.'s biggest problem these days doesn't come from where you think. (Message 2125388)
Posted 12 Sep 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I never did think it came from "there" :^) The US' own DOHS has stated that about 25% of domestic terrorist incidents are "left-wing" or Islamist (these days at least.) The remaining 75% are "right-wing".

9/11 certainly threw that stat off for the casualties, though.
26) Message boards : Politics : Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke. (Message 2125066)
Posted 5 Sep 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Looks like Mr. "Free Speech Absolutist" changed his original threat to ban the ADL from Twitter MuskoX whatever it is as he would have to give up that title. :^p
27) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 2124988)
Posted 3 Sep 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I really wish the Western media would ignore his pathetic saber-rattling. He and his cronies have made so many nuclear threats in the past year that I start wondering if a week goes by without another one. I guess he skipped Diplomacy 101 where it was pointed out that repeated, unfulfilled overpuffed threats become jokes.
It's his version of "pandering to his base" I imagine.

I would wager his nuclear arsenal isn't as functional as he thinks, ironically due to the same crony corruption and outright theft that got him and his den of thieves into office in the first place.
28) Message boards : Politics : A Tyranny of Technology and The Consequences of Copyright (Message 2124895)
Posted 1 Sep 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How can selling ice cream have anything to do with "Copyright"?...


The documentary that started this on YouTube (complete.) It's quite good.
29) Message boards : Politics : A Tyranny of Technology and The Consequences of Copyright (Message 2124737)
Posted 29 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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On that subject, Steamboat Willie's (1928!) copyright is going to expire next year, so it's time for Disney to unfreeze the IP lawyers from carbonite and send them off to Washington to get it extended even more ridiculously, as they have done twice before.

Good thing they bought the Star Wars franchise... that carbonite comes in handy. :^p
30) Message boards : SETI@home Science : We may actually be unique in the galaxy, maybe even the universe (Message 2124584)
Posted 25 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This book from 2000 is worth a read as it makes a very good case for this premise and was one of the few well-known publications to do so. (It even made an appearance in my profile, before I cleared it when the project was euthanized.)

So, if we don't find anything out there, I won't be disappointed. :^)
31) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Is the US Government/Military hiding real UFO's? Maybe! (Message 2124583)
Posted 25 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Words about programs about spacecraft. No actual spacecraft though. :^)
32) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2124488)
Posted 23 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If Yevgeniy Prigozhin really is dead, he suffered less and for a shorter time than many of the innocent civilians and captured soldiers his hired thugs murdered at his command, so he should count himself fortunate.
33) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2124426)
Posted 22 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Robots Are Now Flying Planes Better Than Any Human




This tech has been around since the late 1970's. ;^)
34) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 2124286)
Posted 20 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The "Pig Butchering" scam leads to a Chinese gang's slave complex in Cambodia

I learned that whoever was posing as Vicky was likely a victim as well—of human trafficking. Most pig-butchering operations were orchestrated by Chinese gangsters based in Cambodia or Myanmar. They’d lure young people from across Southeast Asia to move abroad with the promise of well-paying jobs in customer service or online gambling. Then, when the workers arrived, they’d be held captive and forced into a criminal racket.

Thousands have been tricked this way. Entire office towers are filled with floor after floor of people sending spam messages around the clock, under threat of torture or death. With the assistance of translators, I started video chatting with people who’d escaped.

They described abuses that were worse than I could have imagined. Workers who missed quotas were beaten, starved, made to hit one another. One said he’d seen people forcibly injected with methamphetamine to increase productivity. Two others said they’d seen workers murdered, with the deaths passed off as suicides. They said the bosses would buy and sell captive laborers like livestock.
35) Message boards : Politics : Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke. (Message 2124235)
Posted 18 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Elon Musk Says X (aka Twitter) Will No Longer Let You Block Other Users

This already violates both Apple's and Google's TOS for social media apps. they allow on their platforms. Perhaps it will be be the last straw for the EU as well.
Well, I can hope. :^p
36) Message boards : Politics : A Tyranny of Technology and The Consequences of Copyright (Message 2124189)
Posted 18 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why would you take the large amount of time to create art unless you get something for it?


As an example of how broken copyright is: a pharmaceutical company spends hundreds of millions to discover, test, refine, retest in human trials (which can take a decade), certify, produce and advertise a product that has the potential to save millions of lives. They get a 20 year patent.

A reporter tosses off a screed about the new product in fifteen minutes, and their work is under copyright for their lifetime plus 70 years.

When the US was founded, it was 14 years flat and I would argue it should have stayed that way.
37) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2124061)
Posted 15 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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MAGA Talking Heads Want Georgia Republicans to Overhaul Laws to Pardon Trump.


Georgia has? is working on? a bill that allows the governor to remove elected District Attorneys. As well there's a legal framework for getting a state trial moved to Federal court if the accused was on the fed. payroll at the time. He'd probably go for this for the chance of getting a judge he nominated plus the possibility of self-pardon if he is re-elected.

So, still nothing certain just yet it seems.
38) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2123573)
Posted 4 Aug 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Giuliani hyped this video as 'smoking gun' for voter fraud – now it may land Trump in jail.


I still have my doubts he'll see a day of jail. He'll probably end up with some suspended sentence nonsense and continue as if nothing had happened. He may even be re-elected (and if he is will immediately pardon himself of every Federal charge, which is to say... everything worth anything) because although he tried to overthrow the federal government (among other things), Joe Biden despite leading a record-setting stock market and strong economy and passing two historic bills with unprecedented bipartisan support (plus many others) from his decades of experience, stammered and stumbled a couple of times (being 80 and all), and also has a (D) after his name so is clearly unfit for office. :^p

Wish I was kidding about the possibility of this coming to pass...
39) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2123355)
Posted 30 Jul 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And then there's those guns that go off by themselves.

Chief Dumps Gun Company Completely After Scary Self-Fire Caught on Cam.


As soon as I saw this I thought "Sig Sauer". I am at a loss why any professional org. ie militaries, police, security continue to use these things. Our dopey military just replaced all its sidearms with the P320, disregarding there have been over a hundred of these "spontaneous firing incidents", so expect a few stories like this from Canada until they waste more taxpayer money replacing them.
40) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2122802)
Posted 18 Jul 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... and it's already too late...


Unless there's a wide orange arse currently and barely parked under the Resolute desk, I'll reserve judgement on that. :^p
41) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2122798)
Posted 18 Jul 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So what? I learned Trump can win presidential elections and serve as U.S. president, even from his prison cell.


Well, there is the US Constitution ,14th amendment, section 3:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

If he is convicted of any insurrection charge including conspiracy, there will be strong legal grounds to prohibit him from all public office...
42) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2121433)
Posted 24 Jun 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Favourite comment on this by (must-read) Darth Putin:

"I’m beginning to think that giving a psychopath his own private army of criminals was not a good idea."

Twitter may not be good for much but a laugh these days but it is still very good for that. :^)

Edit: other goodies..

"2nd most powerful army in world
2nd most powerful army in Ukraine
2nd most powerful Russian army in Ukraine

2nd most powerful army in Russia"

"Day 485 of my 3 day war. Russia is invading Russia to free Russia from those who invaded Russia to free Russia from those who invaded Russia.
I remain a master strategist."
43) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2121041)
Posted 16 Jun 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Russian Losses in Bakhmut 'Nine Times' More Than Ukraine's.


A lot of people thought Ukraine's commmanders were nuts to slog it out in Bakhmut when the entire town is basically trashed, and this was the reason suspected. (Crazy like a fox?) Wow... 9x is more than I would have guessed.
44) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2120797)
Posted 12 Jun 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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One thing that seems to be overlooked by those supporting Donny, and the American population in general, is "What will be the impact on U.S. Intelligence if Donny gets away with these charges and becomes president again?"


Of all the legal challenges, the ones I was most hoping would go to fruition were the Jan. 6th set. If he were convicted of any form of insurrection ie conspiracy, he would then be prohibited from seeking public office due to the 14th amendment. Doesn't seem like that's going to happen in time though.
45) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2120629)
Posted 9 Jun 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just in case anyone wonders about the source...

Well, that's enough internet for me today. :^p
46) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2120622)
Posted 8 Jun 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Looks like the (expected) big one is official:

(Donald) Trump indicted in classified documents case in Florida

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted in federal court in Miami in connection with his retention of classified government documents he retained after leaving the White House.

Trump himself disclosed the indictment in a series of posts on his Truth Social social media site on Thursday evening. He also said he has been summoned to appear in court in Miami on Tuesday.

NBC News soon after confirmed the indictment.
47) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 4 (Message 2120239)
Posted 31 May 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm wondering if it was even a failure... they purposely launch so many rockets at the ocean, maybe someone forgot to reprogram it. :^p
48) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 2120042)
Posted 26 May 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The port authorities should welcome their new neighbours by sending a Christmas gift of the traditional Norwegian holiday delicacy rakfisk.

That will get rid of them. :^)
49) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2119556)
Posted 17 May 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Supreme Court denies request to block Illinois ban on semi-automatic rifles

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday left in place for now state and local laws in Illinois that ban assault-style weapons, turning down a request to block the restrictions as the nation again finds itself grappling with a slew of recent mass shootings.

The brief, unsigned order from the high court rejects an application for emergency relief sought by a gun rights group and gun store owner who argued that the Illinois law and a Naperville ordinance violated their Second Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.


Unexpected but not unwelcome.
50) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2119258)
Posted 12 May 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Really?... What sort of 'cool' understatement is "an extremely stressful time"?...


Alberta is sort of our Texas. :^p
51) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2119005)
Posted 9 May 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Lovely fantasy, but out of 100 Texans at random, only 2 are gun owners, of course they own 300 guns between them.


Is that a a wild guess or...? Because it's only off by a factor of 17.

35.7%, not 2%, and this figure or close to showed up in other reliable sources.
52) Message boards : Cafe SETI : FOOD, EDIBLES (Message 2118964)
Posted 8 May 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have a friend who has a photosensitivity reaction if he eats celery and gets exposed to the UV rays of the sun. He gets blisters on his face, arms or anything exposed to the sun for more than 30 minutes.

Celery Allergy, Symptoms, and How to Treat It?
Celery root is one of the most common causes of food allergies in pollen-sensitive individuals. As well as celery, carrot, coriander, dill, and parsley are all members of the Umbelliferae family. All over the world, this plant is called Apiumgraveolans.

...Overall, celery sensitization was observed in 6.8 percent of the general population in 2022.


Nice... learned something new today so thank you. :^) Umbelliferae is the same family as giant hogweed which has this phototoxicity to an extreme degree and is dangerous in many other respects as well. Did not know that celery was also a member and so even has a little bit of this effect.
53) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2118740)
Posted 4 May 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In this age of electronics, sometimes KISS is more effective.


Reminds me of Independence Day (the movie!) where the invaders knocked out all the advanced communications so the entire counteroffensive was coordinated through ham radio in Morse code...
54) Message boards : Politics : Russia meets China, is WWIII on the way? (Message 2118214)
Posted 24 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Eastern European countries scramble after China gives Russia ‘permission’ to invade.


The Chinese government disassociated itself from that statement rather quickly. I'm torn between whether it was because he said the unspoken quiet part out loud, or failed to notice that "ex-Soviet Union countries don't exist" includes, well... Russia. :^)
55) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2118187)
Posted 24 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Tucker Carlson appears to be leaving Fox News

Fox News said Monday that it was parting ways with Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime time host who was also the source of repeated controversies and headaches for the network because of his statements on everything from race relations to L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

The network made the announcement less than a week after it agreed to pay $787.5 million in a defamation lawsuit in which Mr. Carlson’s show, one of the highest rated on Fox, figured prominently for its role in spreading misinformation after the 2020 election.

In making its announcement, Fox offered a terse statement of gratitude. “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” it said.
56) Message boards : Politics : Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke. (Message 2118040)
Posted 21 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Twitter has started removing the blue "verified" checkmark from all accounts that are not subscribed to Twitter Blue including those of celebrities and legitimate organizations. This has resulted in a large increase in scam accounts as they can't be distinguished from the genuine as neither have the verified mark.

Twitter is down to less than half its previous valuation so I'm hoping that Elmu will decide to cut his losses and step aside, handing the reins to someone competent.
57) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2118038)
Posted 21 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I can hear PooTin flipping his lid already.


He should instead be happy he's going to get NATO Salesman of the Year for two straight... :^)
58) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2117748)
Posted 16 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Meanwhile junior must have shares.


Even if not, they do have hotels, golf courses and resorts where they probably don't want Anheuser-Busch or InBev or whoever terminating the contracts for sale of their products...
59) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2117690)
Posted 15 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Clarence gets caught out yet again.

Thomas failed to disclose real estate deal with GOP donor who also paid for lavish trips.


So far the best thing to come out of this debacle is "quid pro Crow". :^)
60) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2117456)
Posted 11 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oh spiffy... just the one picked for our new sidearm for our soldier(s?)

Edit; Something tells me it was because they are cheap. I've not heard of military/police-grade Berettas, Colts or Glocks doing this. Sigh... not a good place to pennypinch.
61) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2117220)
Posted 7 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You know, there's a lesson in here about possible consequences of both encouraging citizens to own and carry firearms, while simultaneously ensuring the police have both the bare minimum of intelligence and/or training... but it would be lost on the proponents of both of these things so forget it. :^p
62) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2116980)
Posted 2 Apr 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The idea of a $1,000 fine and 30 days in an orange suit is so pleasing.


If it were orange he'd be risking adding indecent exposure charges to the rest...
63) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2116896)
Posted 31 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mr Trump, the first US president to face charges, denies wrongdoing.

BZZZZZZZZT!


The original was:

A grand jury voted to indict him on criminal charges, after investigating a $130,000 pay-out to Stormy Daniels in an attempt to buy her silence over an alleged affair.

Mr Trump, the first US president to face charges, denies...


I read it as "face charges" in this context being implicit as a convenient shorter form of "criminal charges" in the previous sentence, which is correct. No other president has ever been charged or indicted with a criminal offense, though as noted Grant was the first and so far only to be arrested.
64) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2116425)
Posted 20 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Trump has unleashed his last-ditch secret weapon: everything always in all-caps. This will have a dual-purpose effect in now reaching many of his Jan. 6th followers who gave up on the small letters, and/or are more likely to think something is true if it's shouted.

Meanwhile the Manhattan Criminal Court is placing steel barricades outside for no apparent reason, nothing to see here and move along, citizen.

So, finally, something may actually be happening soon. Maybe.
65) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2116318)
Posted 18 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Given who's saying it, I now doubt the existence of arrests and Tuesdays.

I think he just heard as we all did something vague about possibly next week and guessed that day to appear like he has inside info.
66) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2116294)
Posted 18 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And China has been caught out with their fingers in the mess.

Chinese companies are shipping rifles, body armor to Russia.

Chinese Company Admits Its Drone Was Shot Down in Ukraine.


Now ammunition as well...
67) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Transportation Safety 3 (Message 2115807)
Posted 8 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Someone at Tesla must have heard the old joke that the part of the vehicle that causes the most accidents is the nut behind the steering wheel, so they left it off as a safety feature. :^p
68) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2115683)
Posted 7 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This latest leak of a story rehashing an old story, and claiming "low probability", and from an unexpected department that is more usually out of the news, and at an opportune time in the world of politics...



69) Message boards : Politics : KARI LAKE for VP Running Mate with SUPERTrump. Wat A FIREBRAND. A Female SUPERTrump. Maybe More So. (Message 2115644)
Posted 6 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
SUPERDon and SUPERKari

Wat a Team.

Next Prez and VP


“We’re flattered, but unfortunately our legal team says the Constitution won’t allow for her to serve as Governor and VP at the same time.”

I think I'll just agree with them there and move on. :^p
70) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Compact Disc has turned 40 years old this week. What was your 1st CD? (Message 2115560)
Posted 4 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Geez... now that I try to remember, I can't remember the first one. I'm sure it could have been this one:



Fittingly, one of the first to be completely digitally recorded.
71) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2115475)
Posted 3 Mar 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hey, I hear Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are available... :^)
72) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2115362)
Posted 28 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It certainly will, but I will remain my usual pragmatic self and await the evidence. :^) I always found it interesting that there "happened" to be a major virology lab in the same ground zero city.

In other news, Read the label and ensure erythritol is not on it!

A sugar replacement called erythritol – used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products – has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study.

“The degree of risk was not modest,” said lead study author Dr. Stanley Hazen, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.

People with existing risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes, were twice as likely to experience a heart attack or stroke if they had the highest levels of erythritol in their blood, according to the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.


Well I feel much better ignoring the "good" advice to go off sucralose/Splenda in favour of stevia or monkfruit (the former which I find tastes like saccharin... yecch!)
73) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2115346)
Posted 28 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I made sure to link to a trusted source... what has been batted around in conspiracy posts for years may have finally gathered some evidence:

Lab Leak Most Likely Caused Pandemic, Energy Dept. Says

WASHINGTON — New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic, though U.S. spy agencies remain divided over the origins of the virus, American officials said on Sunday.

The conclusion was a change from the department’s earlier position that it was undecided on how the virus emerged.

Some officials briefed on the intelligence said that it was relatively weak and that the Energy Department’s conclusion was made with “low confidence,” suggesting its level of certainty was not high. While the department shared the information with other agencies, none of them changed their conclusions, officials said.

Officials would not disclose what the intelligence was. But many of the Energy Department’s insights come from its network of national laboratories, some of which conduct biological research, rather than more traditional forms of intelligence like spy networks or communications intercepts.

...

In addition to the Energy Department, the F.B.I. has also concluded, with moderate confidence, that the virus first emerged accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that worked on coronaviruses. Four other intelligence agencies and the National Intelligence Council have concluded, with low confidence, that the virus most likely emerged through natural transmission, the director of national intelligence’s office announced in October 2021.
74) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2115172)
Posted 23 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Another fine stunt, worthy of a good chuckle:

Ukraine war: Group turns Russian Embassy road yellow and blue


Finn there, done that ;^)
75) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2114938)
Posted 18 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
US: Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine (VP Harris at the Munich Security Conference)

MUNICH (AP) — The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, insisting that “justice must be served” to the perpetrators.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Harris said the international community has both a moral and a strategic interest in pursuing those crimes, pointing to a danger of other authoritarian governments taking advantage if international rules are undermined.

“Russian forces have pursued a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population — gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape, and deportation,” Harris said. She also cited “execution-style killings, beatings, and electrocution.”

The Biden administration formally determined last March that Russian troops had committed war crimes in Ukraine and said it would work with others to prosecute offenders. A determination of crimes against humanity goes a step further, indicating that attacks against civilians are being carried out in a widespread and systematic manner.


And I am surprised just how often I am agreeing with Mitch McConnell these days...

Speaking to the security conference Friday morning, McConnell called on European leaders to strengthen their commitment to the trans-Atlantic alliance and emphasized the strength of bipartisan support in Congress for Ukraine.

“I am a conservative Republican from America and I come in peace! Reports about the death of Republican support for strong American leadership in the world have been greatly exaggerated,” he declared.

“Don’t look at Twitter, look at people in power. Look at me and Speaker Kevin McCarthy [R-Calif.]. Look at the top Republicans on the Senate and House committees that handle armed services, foreign affairs, appropriations and intelligence” issues, he said.
...
McConnell pledged that Republican leaders are committed to a strong trans-Atlantic alliance and to helping Ukraine because “America’s own core national interests are at stake” given the ties between American and European security and prosperity.

The GOP leader posted a picture on Twitter of himself and Schumer standing next to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with the caption: “We’re in a critical moment for American and European commitments to our militaries and our collective defense.”

In a Fox News interview Thursday, McConnell said “defeating the Russians in Ukraine is single most important event going on in the world right now.”
76) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Transportation Safety 3 (Message 2114891)
Posted 17 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Palmdale (California) catalytic converter thief fatally run over, investigators say


Flatten 'em for platinum, into the roadium for rhodium...
77) Message boards : News : Citizen Science SETI Project at UCLA. (Message 2114768)
Posted 15 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
[copied over from my now-redundant thread in SETI@Home Science]

This is wonderful news as we were sad to lose the SETI Institute's Zooniverse project years ago. If you haven't ever been to Zooniverse, please see the overview below.

Are we alone in the universe? project home

Project overview:

UCLA SETI
The mission of UCLA SETI is to find evidence of other civilizations in the Galaxy. We conduct searches for radio technosignatures with the largest fully steerable telescope on Earth, the 100 meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Our searches are sensitive to signals emitted thousands of light years away, enabling contact from a large fraction of the Milky Way Galaxy. We have sampled over 42,000 stars and detected over 64 million candidate signals to date, with more observations planned in the near future.

We are excited to expand our search capabilities by launching a collaboration with citizen scientists, and we are grateful for your involvement in the search! This collaboration is made possible by grants from The Planetary Society and the NASA Citizen Science Seed Funding Program.


Overview of Zooniverse:

What is the Zooniverse?
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers — more than a million people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.

At the Zooniverse, anyone can be a researcher
You don’t need any specialised background, training, or expertise to participate in any Zooniverse projects. We make it easy for anyone to contribute to real academic research, on their own computer, at their own convenience.

You’ll be able to study authentic objects of interest gathered by researchers, like images of faraway galaxies, historical records and diaries, or videos of animals in their natural habitats. By answering simple questions about them, you’ll help contribute to our understanding of our world, our history, our Universe, and more.

With our wide-ranging and ever-expanding suite of projects, covering many disciplines and topics across the sciences and humanities, there's a place for anyone and everyone to explore, learn and have fun in the Zooniverse. To volunteer with us, just go to the Projects page, choose one you like the look of, and get started.


Like SETI@Home, it's a "distributed computing" project, but where the participants themselves do the data processing, transcribing, classification and analysis.

Hope to see you there! :^)
78) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2114706)
Posted 14 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Michigan State University shooting: Three dead after gunman opens fire.


Rather sad photo from this:



The "Oxford Strong" shirt is being worn by a survivor of the Oxford high school shooting. This is their second mass school shooting in two years.
79) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2114416)
Posted 10 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Then there's this bunch of creeps.

Full List of Republicans Backing Matt Gaetz's Resolution to End Ukraine Aid.


... Rep. Charles Lindbergh
Rep. Neville Chamberlain ...
80) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2114339)
Posted 9 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Sources? Evidence? Only the author's reputation: Seymour Hersh and his sources within the U.S. administration


His reputation is not so good; while he has been involved in some good findings, some of his publications such as this rely on anonymous sources with no further evidence to back them up, so are indistinguishable from (admittedly well-written) fiction.

I would classify this entire story as such, at least until corroborating evidence emerges, were it not for one detail: the well-publicized on-the-record statement from President Joe Biden exactly one year ago (no coincidence I think!) stating that "If Russia invades... again, then there will be [no] longer Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." and "I promise you we will be able to do it."

Not really evidence, but even an implication from that high up may be worth something...
81) Message boards : Politics : China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and The World (Message 2114102)
Posted 4 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
>> Pop! <<
82) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2114039)
Posted 3 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Lagevrio works by creating mutations in the Covid genome that prevent the virus from replicating in the body,


Er... I am frankly amazed that this was approved at all.
83) Message boards : Politics : We are being slimed... #2 (Message 2114017)
Posted 3 Feb 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... But why are people's diet so bad to need vital food 'fortification' interventions in the first place?...


It's only for white bread, wholemeal bread doesn't need fortifying.


If you've ever wondered why whole wheat flour and its products are more expensive than white flour products when the additional processing step to remove something hasn't been done, it's because it has about one-quarter the shelf life before it spoils (blame the wheat germ oil and other oils going rancid.) Spoilage and less storage ability drives the price up, and in less well-off countries lower price is often the only criterion.
84) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2113844)
Posted 31 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Why police training in the US falls short compared to the rest of the world.


Another one to add to the pile:

California cops shoot dead double amputee, 36, as he tries to run away from them on his stumps: Police department says officers feared he was going to 'throw his knife at them'

Poorly trained/equipped officers who don't know any way of dealing with a person having a mental health crisis with a knife other than shooting them, as usual. He was "running" away... on stumps.
85) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2113603)
Posted 26 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
5 Officers Charged With Murder in Memphis Police Killing

Five fired Memphis police officers have been charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man hospitalized after a traffic stop early this month. The officers were fired last week and accused of using excessive force, with the police chief describing their actions, captured on body camera video, as “a failing of basic humanity."
86) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2113495)
Posted 24 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Several Top Officials Fired Amid Corruption Crackdown in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine — Several top Ukrainian officials were fired on Tuesday, including the governors of several Ukrainian regions, amid a ballooning corruption scandal. The move marked the biggest upheaval in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government since Russia’s invasion began 11 months ago.

Ukraine’s cabinet ministry, which announced the firings on the Telegram social messaging app, provided no details about the reason, but it followed reports that Ukraine’s military had agreed to pay inflated prices for food meant for Ukrainian troops.


Glad that Zelensky is cleaning house because possible corruption involving the misuse of support funds was an obstacle.
87) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2113481)
Posted 23 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I think that Dianne Feinstein would be deeply offended by that comment for about ten seconds until it was forgotten. :^p
88) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Boinc (Message 2113399)
Posted 22 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The BOINC client itself should not require a password for installation, only the specific projects. SETI@Home stopped distributing work three years ago (see the main page) and is not expected to return.

There are still plenty of other active BOINC-based projects to choose from though.
89) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 2113227)
Posted 19 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I wonder if this Neo-fascist moron understands that he is actually describing himself and his boss?

'Absurd': Russian foreign minister Lavrov sparks backlash for invoking Holocaust.


"Israel sharply denounced Lavrov’s self-pitying view of European history — and of the European present, where Russia, not Germany, is seen as the greatest threat to peace and prosperity on the continent.

“Any comparison or relating current events with Hitler’s final solution plan for the extermination of the Jewish People distorts the historical truth, desecrates the memory of those who perished and the survivors and should be strongly rejected,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry s
aid."

Oooh, someone's taking a stand there... so, any help for Ukraine then, Israel? <<crickets and tumbleweeds>>
90) Message boards : Politics : Positive World News (Message 2113086)
Posted 16 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Coincidentally, it was Rensch who taught Harrell the Heimlich maneuver, as he teaches inmates first aid training." Best part of the story. :^)
91) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 2113002)
Posted 14 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Russian Prisoners Turned Soldiers Could Become 'Politicians,' Official Says.


To paraphrase Mohandas K. Gandhi:
"What do you think of Russia in the 21st Century?"
"I think it would be a good idea..."
92) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2112952)
Posted 13 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Peters has previously produced the anti-vaccine film Watch the Water, which purports that COVID-19 vaccines are derived from snake venom in order to transform people into 'a hybrid of Satan'"

I was already dissatisfied that I failed to become magnetic or receive 5G as predicted, and now I find I'm missing my promised wings, horns and pointy tail. I want my money back for these damned vaccinations.
Oh wait.. they were free. :^p
93) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2112922)
Posted 12 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
However I can hear an echo. :^D
94) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2112907)
Posted 12 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Update: Garland Names Special Counsel in Biden Documents Case

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Thursday appointed Robert K. Hur, a veteran prosecutor who worked in the Trump administration, to handle the investigation into how classified documents from President Biden’s time as vice president ended up at his private office and home.

Mr. Hur, who previously served as the U.S. attorney for Maryland during the Trump administration, is responsible for investigating “the possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records discovered” at the office of Mr. Biden’s think tank in Washington and his residence in Wilmington, Del., according to the order signed by Mr. Garland on Thursday.


Second Set of Classified Documents Found at Biden’s Wilmington Home

WASHINGTON — The second set of classified documents from President Biden’s time as vice president were discovered at a storage space in the garage of his home in Wilmington, Del., a top White House lawyer said on Thursday.

The Times reported on Wednesday that this second set of documents had been found at a location “associated” with Mr. Biden. On Thursday the White House statement offered more detail by specifying that the location was his private residence, where he often spends weekends.

The White House statement, by Richard Sauber, a special counsel to Mr. Biden, did not answer fundamental questions about the contents of the documents, who packed them and whether anyone had gained access to them after he left office. It also did not say when the second batch had been found.
95) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2112798)
Posted 10 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office

CNN — Several classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were discovered last fall in a private office, Biden’s attorneys acknowledged Monday.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked the US attorney in Chicago to investigate the matter, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN, and congressional Republicans are also taking notice.

Biden’s lawyers say they found the government materials in November while closing out a Washington, DC-based office – the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement – that Biden used as part of his relationship with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an honorary professor from 2017 to 2019.

Fewer than a dozen classified documents were found at Biden’s office, another source told CNN. It is unclear what the documents pertain to or why they were taken to Biden’s private office. Federal officeholders are required by law to relinquish official documents and classified records when their government service ends.
96) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2112742)
Posted 8 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A FORGIVING GOD is An AWESOME GOD.

GOD FORGIVEs)


Only minor things where S/He isn't personally involved like murder, rape, slavery... but not blasphemy against the "Holy Ghost" whatever the hells that is. This is as per Matthew 12:31 - 12:32, as well as other places:

"Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come."


Seems the so-called Almighty is some cosmic version of Elon Musk. Was that blasphemous enough to qualify? I hope so. :^p
97) Message boards : Politics : Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke. (Message 2112703)
Posted 7 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
McDonald’s Australia is to “permanently” remove Diet Coke from menus across the country, in a move likely to anger some customers.


I wouldn't be one of them... since I first tried Coke Zero (aka Coke No Sugar as per the article?) I was an instant convert and I now find Diet Coke has the chemically fake-sweet flavour reminiscent of cyclamate or saccharin. Yech. :^p
98) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Stars are blue, Panthers are pink and the music plays here (Message 2112416)
Posted 2 Jan 2023 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here listening to a Shorts at 10 AM, and apparently a new interstellar traveler has been discovered.

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


They were a bit late... it was discovered over five years ago, and was already receding from Earth then. As it's in a hyperbolic trajectory, most likely not coming back either and has already left the solar system.
99) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2112192)
Posted 29 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Even in Japan, which is touted as a model society for its phenomenally low rate of firearm homicides as well as homicides in general, firearm ownership is legal, of course with very stringent regulations. In other countries similarly well-known for low homicides rates (ie the Nordic countries) firearm ownership is legal.

The big difference seems to be the requirements for licensing and training. If we can do it for vehicles, which can be deadly and homicidal weapons if misused, I don't see why this shouldn't apply to firearms as well. We also require proportionally more training and certification to the size, danger and complexity of the vehicle (ie it takes much more training to safely drive a tractor-trailer rig than a compact car with an automatic transmission) which also can be analogously applied to larger, more deadlier, more complex firearms.
100) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2112185)
Posted 29 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I still believe that I am correct. From what I understand, you have to have a valid reason for obtaining such a permit, and self protection alone is not one of them.


If that was the point you were trying to make, you were correct... joining a club or equivalent is a requirement and they don't accept just "self-defense" as a "genuine" reason. Apologies for misinterpreting it as being unable to obtain a firearm at all.
101) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2112180)
Posted 28 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've stated here before that I have firearms license myself and 2 rifles for removing feral varmints..


Was hoping you would chime in; couldn't remember if you were in Queensland or not and the regulations differ by territory. :^)
102) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2112177)
Posted 28 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Too bad Emma Lovell was not permitted to have a weapon to defend herself.


This is incorrect.
103) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 2111916)
Posted 22 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Pointy Haird Boss.. I would like to withdraw all my funds from your crypto exchange....


LoL.. thank you. :^)
104) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2111864)
Posted 21 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I can't disagree in that I was stunned by the amount. $2.2 billion for military assistance was expected, but $45 billion? Yikes. Time to share the load. I don't mind my taxes paying for it if it's worthwhile and cautiously allotted. ie Don't send cash or anything fungible, as there's a long history of similar aid elsewhere going missing due to "middlemen" aka
105) Message boards : Politics : China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and The World (Message 2111686)
Posted 18 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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'“The biggest problem that China has is that their ICU capacity is quite low – it’s around three per million,” he said."' I would say that if China is still using Sinovac aka CoronaVac, then this is a similar or larger issue. The accepted efficacy is 50-60% over numerous studies, vs. 90%+ for Pfizer and Moderna.
Citations available on request. :^)
106) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2111607)
Posted 16 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You arn't even safe in your own home.


Flashback to 2018... also in Texas.
107) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2111594)
Posted 16 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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108) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2111556)
Posted 16 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hah... very appropriate. Google "putin bellend" and the first link should be the Independent to view it in its uncensored glory. :^)
109) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2111511)
Posted 15 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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While PooTin Primes Nuclear Bomb 12 Times More Powerful Than Dropped on Hiroshima (I hope that he plans on sitting on it).


Sigh... they like to drag out the 1950's-era tech and wave it around as if no one else had anything better, don't they? :^p
110) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2111353)
Posted 12 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Ukrainian politician who idolizes Reagan tries to win over today’s Republicans
111) Message boards : Politics : KARI LAKE for VP Running Mate with SUPERTrump. Wat A FIREBRAND. A Female SUPERTrump. Maybe More So. (Message 2111235)
Posted 10 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unfortunately not surprisingly Kari Lake Sues Arizona’s Largest County, Seeking to Overturn Her Defeat

Good luck with that.
112) Message boards : Politics : Reasons why politics and religion should not be mixed. Put them here. (Message 2111093)
Posted 7 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Christian conservative group denied service at Virginia restaurant as staff felt 'unsafe'.




Must have been those "groomers" I keep hearing about where a man in a dress reads books to children... scary stuff. :^p
113) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2111082)
Posted 7 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... how come so many voters could vote for such a patently unqualified candidate as Walker?


Simple partisanship. I would wager over half the voting public would gladly cast their ballot for a tree if it had the "correct" letter in parentheses after it. :^p
Trees also make oxygen and don't talk, so are already better than many candidates... I might vote for one regardless of party!
114) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2111056)
Posted 7 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Was there any doubt?


Only the required presumption of innocence. :^) No longer required now. I'm sure there will be more, but from this point Trump's business dealings forever forward may be be factually described as a criminal enterprise, having been proven as such in a court of law, so a satisfying takeaway.

Now as to Donald Trump himself...
115) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2111054)
Posted 6 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Siri, find my lawsuit..."

In January, Colorado police officers confined a 77-year-old grandmother named Ruby Johnson for hours in a squad car without even offering a glass of water during a time when she was due to take her daily medications—why?

Nobody told Johnson what was going on when she opened her front door to a SWAT team assembled on her lawn. Much later, she found out about a stolen truck—reportedly with six guns and an iPhone stashed inside—wrongly believed to be parked in her garage based on no evidence other than her home being located within a wide blue circle drawn by a “Find My” iPhone app. Now she’s suing a Denver cop for conducting what she believes was an illegal search of her home based on what her legal team describes as either an intentionally or recklessly defective application for a search warrant that was “wholly devoid of probable cause.” Because of the allegedly improper raid, the retired US Postal Service worker had to “endure an unreasonable search and seizure, unlawful police confinement, and severe physical and emotional distress.”
116) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2110936)
Posted 3 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Of course, we won't see anything more about them no matter how successful until there's a fire. :^p
But don't normal big rigs also spontaneously combust at times as well?


And "normal" cars as well, but we only seem to see the fires in the electrical ones mentioned around here. :^)
117) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2110909)
Posted 3 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Shouldn't there be posts here praising the President for lowering the price of gas.


Also: "The economy added 263,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate stayed 3.7%, still near a 53-year low, the Labor Department said Friday. November’s job growth dipped only slightly from October’s 284,000 gain.

All year, as inflation has surged and the Fed has imposed ever-higher borrowing rates, America’s labor market has defied skeptics, adding hundreds of thousands of jobs, month after month."
118) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2110907)
Posted 3 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Tesla delivered on electric semi trucks yesterday

Tesla delivered its first Tesla Semi electric trucks to customers and revealed details of its production version of the vehicle – delivering on a five-year-old promise.
Today, the company held its Tesla Semi Delivery Event in Nevada.
As expected, Tesla delivered the first electric trucks to PepsiCo, a long-time reservation holder, and held a presentation to reveal more details about the production version of the Tesla Semi.
There wasn’t any big surprise during the presentation.
Tesla basically delivered on its original promises made in 2017 when it first unveiled the prototypes of the Tesla Semi.
Despite the lack of major changes, it’s still a big moment since the electric truck has the potential to change the trucking industry for good by eliminating emissions and significantly reducing costs...
...
Dan Priestley, Tesla Semi Program manager, explained that Tesla is using one of the motors for cruising speed geared toward peak efficiency at highway speeds and the two other motors are used for torque when accelerating in order to create a smooth driving experience never seen in a class 8 truck before.

To prove the capacity, Tesla shared a very impressive video of a Tesla Semi loaded at 82,000 lb. passing a diesel truck at 6% incline on the Donner Pass as if it’s nothing...
Okay, it’s powerful, but can it travel long distances? Well, yes it can. Tesla promised a range of 500 miles with a full load five years ago, and it delivered on the promise.
Tesla shared data on a 500-mile trip with a full load of just under 82,000 lb. total with the tractor. It started out in the Bay Area with a 97% state of charge and ended up in San Diego with still 4% charge...
Tesla reiterated that it can achieve a less-than-2 kWh-per-mile efficiency, which means that trucking companies can achieve up to $70,000 in fuel savings per year depending on their cost of electricity.


Of course, we won't see anything more about them no matter how successful until there's a fire. :^p
119) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110844)
Posted 1 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If so then is Diet Coke the true source of this problem?


I'm guessing some form of coke is involved with (at least) one of them. :^)

Appeals Court Scraps Special Master Review in Trump Documents Case

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday removed a major obstacle to the criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s hoarding of sensitive government documents, ending an outside review of thousands of records the F.B.I. seized from his home and freeing the Justice Department to use them in their inquiry.
120) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110840)
Posted 1 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, they are having quite a jovial time.
121) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2110826)
Posted 1 Dec 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Uvalde survivors and families file $27 billion class action lawsuit

Survivors of the fatal mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, have filed a $27 billion class action lawsuit against multiple law enforcement agencies in Texas, according to court documents.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Austin, names the city, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, the school district’s police department, the Uvalde Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety and a number of persons who are members or former members of the agencies listed as defendants.
122) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2110783)
Posted 30 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some posts in this thread name "Putin's war", "Putin's" aggression, war crimes, etc. If only it were Putin's will to attack his neighbors, whom he defines as a split-off part of his own people he rules, breaking all international treaties to do so, tears down all bridges to the western world, jeopardizes the future of its own economy, of the Russian state as a whole, then there would be a sufficiently powerful faction in the Russian elite that would (quickly) end Putin's reign...


Putin is the leader... he sets the agenda, no military action happens without his order, and he therefiore gets the blame for it. This is completely his situation as he was giving premonitions of his invasion of Ukraine long before it happened, ie by his griping that the worst thing ever was the collapse of the USSR and his vow to "correct" this. I very much doubt that this would have happened with a less power-hungry and aggressive leader.

I also don't want to blame any of the Russian people for this; I am sure that many if not most don't like this situation either, just that they are prevented from expressing their disdain, and those who are in agreement follow authoritarians and would have followed otherwise had one decided not to invade a soveriegn nation for no good reason whatsoever. Best to lay the blame where it can be proven and in the smallest number of persons responsible: the one guy at the top.
123) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2110663)
Posted 27 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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124) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2110601)
Posted 25 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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They may all be coming back starting next week (except for Alex Jones of course, the only one that as far as I know has been specifically excluded...

Well, the Nazis are happy about this at least. :^p
125) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110576)
Posted 24 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meanwhile that MAGA RINO who just managed to keep her seat gets told.

'We’re looking at you': Denver newspaper slams Lauren Boebert’s for 'hateful speech' after Colorado attack.


I thought that one was still in recount (and one other House seat...)
126) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110414)
Posted 20 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If he doesn't return, this would be an (arguably uncharacteristically) wise decision: his return to Twitter could be a deathblow to "Truth" Social, and he could just end up getting banned from Twitter by new management or it could shut down, given its current course, leaving him high and dry again.
127) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2110413)
Posted 20 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I can only guess why...
128) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110397)
Posted 20 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A slim majority (of Russian government bots?) in Elon Musk's poll voted to unban Donald Trump's Twitter account.
129) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110389)
Posted 19 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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GOP wins house majority, sends a message to 'woke' businesses: get out of politics.

Just remember that the original meaning of "WOKE" is, "aware, informed and educated". So does that mean that those MAGA RINO's only want people to be blind, unaware and stupid?


Brace for two years of this garbage... they ran on a deceptively "reasonable" platform with the issues of border security, inflation and the cost-of-living, though being on the opposing side of the #2 issue that voters indicated motivated them: abortion rights. However now that they are in, all of that is forgotten and it's back to the usual B.S. non-issues ie Hunter Biden's laptop, trying to prove that COVID was engineered and Dr. Fauci is the bogeyman, "wokeness", investigating all the people who investigated Donald Trump for their insolence at daring to suggest His Orangeness may have ever done anything wrong, etc.

In the long-term, this may be a good thing as it will likely lead to an even more dismal result for the GQP in 2024 and ongoing, until they can get rid of or stop giving airtime to their more radical and dishonest fringe and dock off the tail that grew on that Q back to an O.:^p
130) Message boards : Politics : KARI LAKE for VP Running Mate with SUPERTrump. Wat A FIREBRAND. A Female SUPERTrump. Maybe More So. (Message 2110308)
Posted 18 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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...and just under 20 don't. :^p
131) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110303)
Posted 18 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meanwhile as the GOP now targets Hunter Biden with that same old story Kushner's $2B Saudi Deal Resurfaces and did that lead to this?


132) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110274)
Posted 16 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Republicans have finally been confirmed for 218 seats so have won the House. Kevin McCarthy has been confirmed as Speaker.

Nancy Pelosi is resigning as leader

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.

Pelosi announced in a spirited speech on the House floor that she will step aside after leading Democrats for nearly 20 years and in the aftermath of the brutal attack on her husband, Paul, last month in their San Francisco home.

The California Democrat, who rose to become the nation’s first woman to wield the speaker’s gavel, said she would remain in Congress as the representative from San Francisco, a position she has held for 35 years, when the new Congress convenes in January.
133) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110244)
Posted 16 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Apparently some Florida Man made an announcement of something yesterday but it wasn't worth mentioning so it was buried on page 26 with no details in the headline. :^p
134) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2110240)
Posted 16 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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NATO and Poland Say Deadly Blast Was Likely Unintentional

Poland’s president and the secretary general of NATO said Wednesday that it appears that a Ukrainian air defense missile most likely unintentionally caused a deadly explosion on its territory a day earlier.

President Andrzej Duda noted that Russian forces had launched a barrage of missile strikes on Ukraine on Tuesday. He said that early indications suggested that Ukrainian efforts to counter the barrage had caused an “unfortunate accident” in Poland — not a direct attack on his country.


Er.... even if it were a Russian missile, there was only evidence it was unintentional anyway. Because it is now indicated it was not from there, I removed "Russian" from the previous taglines.
135) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2110215)
Posted 15 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Live Pentagon briefing on YouTube
136) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2110211)
Posted 15 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Daily Express? That needs confirming with multiple sources, for a claim as serious as that. Hold your fire until then.


Well, something is up...

Another one: US Official Says Missiles Crossed Into Poland

Our national news and not as "unconfirmed"
137) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2110209)
Posted 15 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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At least two dead after missiles land in NATO state Poland on Ukraine border

Two people have been killed in Poland after two stray rockets landed near the border with Ukraine.

It has not yet been confirmed if the rockets landed in the NATO state as a result of Russia's mass bombardment of Ukrainian cities earlier today, which saw over 100 rockets launched.

Poland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has convened the Committee of the Council of Ministers for National Security and Defense Affairs "as a matter of urgency", government spokesman Piotr Müller confirmed, with local news sites claiming this is likely the result of the explosions.
138) Message boards : Politics : KARI LAKE for VP Running Mate with SUPERTrump. Wat A FIREBRAND. A Female SUPERTrump. Maybe More So. (Message 2110196)
Posted 15 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, it would seem that 1,267,241 do. :^)
139) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2110194)
Posted 15 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Trump campaign taking 90% of intended Herschel Walker campaign donations

Republican politicians and associated committees are sending out desperate fundraising emails begging the GOP faithful to help save America by getting behind Herschel Walker in his Dec. 6 runoff against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia.
...
The campaign said it first noticed the problem Saturday when former President Donald Trump’s Save America sent out an email that asked prospective donors to “contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to the Official Georgia Runoff Fundraising Goal and increase your impact by 1200%”

But if donors didn’t see a link that said “click here for details or to edit allocation,” they wouldn’t have noticed that 90% of their contributions automatically went to Trump, with the remaining 10% going to Walker.


Note that it's Herschel Walker's own campaign staff reporting this... Not surprised really.
140) Message boards : Politics : KARI LAKE for VP Running Mate with SUPERTrump. Wat A FIREBRAND. A Female SUPERTrump. Maybe More So. (Message 2110176)
Posted 15 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Democrat Katie Hobbs Defeats Kari Lake in High-Profile Arizona Governor Race by only about 20K votes out of 2.4M.

Because this state's election was so closely scrutinized, to avoid controversy as much as possible it took six days to count the votes.
(I'm sure there will still be plenty of controversy. :^p)
141) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2110175)
Posted 15 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is Elon's water being delivered through lead pipes?


To save money, Elon announced he was turning off "unnecessary microservices." Unfortunately, one of them was the service that sends out 2FA codes so no one could log on. Oops. :^p
142) Message boards : Politics : What happened to that "Red Wave"? (Message 2110073)
Posted 13 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Democrats have won their 50th seat and kept the Senate

WASHINGTON — Democrats defied historical trends and defeated several candidates backed by former President Donald Trump to keep control of the Senate, providing enormous relief for President Joe Biden.

The battle for the House, meanwhile, remains too close to call.

The picture in the Senate became clear late Saturday after Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada narrowly defeated Republican Adam Laxalt to win re-election, putting her party over the threshold, NBC News projected Saturday.
143) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2110056)
Posted 12 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Martin is correct; there is scientifically accepted, peer-reviewed data showing that COVID-19 vaccines among others prevent exposure to an infectious agent from resulting in infection with signs/symptoms, as well as reducing severity.

Scientific Citation: Kelly M Hatfield, James Baggs, Hannah Wolford, Michael Fang, Ammarah A Sattar, Kelsey S Montgomery, Steven Jin, John Jernigan, Tamara Pilishvili, Effectiveness of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection Among Residents of US Nursing Homes Before and During the Delta Variant Predominance, December 2020–November 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 75, Issue Supplement_2, 1 October 2022, Pages S147–S154

For adults: 58% overall, without prior infection
67% < 150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Pfizer-BioNTech, pre-Delta period
75% <150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Moderna, pre-Delta period
33% >150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Pfizer-BioNTech, Delta period
77% >150 days of receipt of the 2nd dose of Moderna, Delta period
(This is only for one adult mRNA study. There are dozens of others supporting it.)

As this is not a matter of opinion, posts to the contrary will be handled as spreading of false medical info.

(Note: I had to change the less-than-or-equal signs to less-than as the forum choked on them and threw an error.)
144) Message boards : Politics : What happened to that "Red Wave"? (Message 2109994)
Posted 11 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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145) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2109951)
Posted 11 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The WSJ appears to have Drumpfed him as well:

146) Message boards : Politics : Fake News! (Message 2109935)
Posted 10 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And the possibility is now a reality as Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $473M More to Sandy Hook Families.
147) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2109917)
Posted 10 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Those confounded Jeffersonians. :^p
148) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2109873)
Posted 8 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, it's finally the midterms today... some things to keep in mind

In the 22 midterm elections from 1934 -2018, the President's party has averaged a loss of 28 House seats and four Senate seats. The president’s party gained seats in the House only three times, but gained seats in the Senate on six occasions. The president’s party has gained seats in both houses only twice.


Also due to all the advance voting, it's going to take days, if not over a week, before all races are finalized. Hope this helps in blunting any angst and/or gloating. :^)
149) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2109801)
Posted 7 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Rumors in the breeze indicate Donald Trump may announce he's running early...

If he does, I'm speculating an attempted dodge of a possible indictment.
150) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2109772)
Posted 7 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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151) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2109751)
Posted 6 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Vote "Yes".

Measure 114: Oregon could soon have stricter requirements for gun ownership.


Putting a dollar on this being appealed up to SCOTUS and getting overturned should it pass. But it's exactly what I recommend.
152) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2109721)
Posted 6 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meanwhile the U.S. privately asks Ukraine to show Russia it's open to talks, but I wouldn't until all of PooTin's war criminals have left the country.

Well, you can always be open to talks for an unconditional Russian surrender. After all the USA did that with Japan.


I am wondering if this dialog is starting in case the Republicans end up with a majority in the House and/or Senate next week. Unfortunately it has gotten so polarized that I don't doubt there will be an impetus to cut off funding to Ukraine, disregarding that it's the right thing to do regardless of "sides", just because the Democrats are doing it. There's been a major increase in Russian government social media "presence" recently prior to the midterms and they are pushing to politicize any assistance, for obvious reasons.
153) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2109648)
Posted 5 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You are an INDUSTRY Killing and JOBs Killing PIG.


US adds 261,000 jobs in continued sign of robust labour market

Oink.
154) Message boards : Politics : I feel that a "Donny" is going to be chucked here. (Message 2109503)
Posted 2 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He finally sorta conceded: "It is over..."
155) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2109481)
Posted 2 Nov 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... they're causing Ukraine Energy Giant to Run Out of Equipment to Fix Power Outages.

PooTin and his terrorist war criminals have a lot to answer for.


Purposely destroying the electrical grid before winter so that civilians freeze to death is certainly one item. :^(
156) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2109308)
Posted 29 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For now, for the most part, yes. Today, the majority of the politically motivated violence (not including property!) is on one "side of the aisle". Fifty years ago, as with so much else, it was reversed, and perhaps in less time now given the pace of change, the pendulum will swing back again.
157) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2109289)
Posted 28 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The people who tRump fires up.


Yep...

158) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2109286)
Posted 28 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yesterday Joe got his bivalent covid booster, shame on the unvaxed.


I CHOOSE What Goes in my Body.


So does everyone else, including the "vaxed."
159) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2109284)
Posted 28 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Condemn the NRA as a hate group and closely scrutinize and penalize as needed their every misdemeanor


I don't think this would be possible... what protected class are they hating on? OK... right... humans. Too broad. :^)

But there is something that could definitely be done: strip their 501(c)(4) "social welfare organization" tax-exempt status. They lobby extensively which should have disqualified them (decades ago.)
160) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2109021)
Posted 24 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I thought 'Sleepy Joe' was just a metaphor...
161) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2108847)
Posted 20 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is because it's bi-valent, so the two opposing magnetic poles cancel each other. ;^)
162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 114 (Message 2108837)
Posted 20 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Genetic
163) Message boards : Politics : UK political scene (Message 2108824)
Posted 20 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We had a 69-day PM once but I don't recall him. I remember Kim Campbell in the 1980's(?) but she managed to hold out for 132. :^)
164) Message boards : Politics : UK political scene (Message 2108820)
Posted 20 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Truss resigning...

A Tory leadership race will now begin and a new PM will be chosen in the next WEEK.

Standing outside No10, a solemn Ms Truss said: "This morning I met the chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady.

"We've agreed that there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week.

"This will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country's economic stability and national security.

"I will remain as Prime Minister until a successor has been chosen."
165) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2108778)
Posted 19 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That succinctly highlights how both Trump and Putin have tuned their speaking and messaging into a poisonously political artform...


Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no one's jamming their transmission


Not much has changed in 42 years. :^)
166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 114 (Message 2108772)
Posted 19 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Microsoft
167) Message boards : Politics : When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government? (Message 2108749)
Posted 18 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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When are other governments going to do the same for this terrorist government?


Never had to...

While Israel designates Jerusalem as its capital, Canada believes that the final status of the city needs to be negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinians. At present, Canada maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv.
168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VIII (Message 2108683)
Posted 17 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler
The seasons turn, the tides ebb and flow. Just as regularly, each Friday The Register delvers another instalment of On-Call, our reader-contributed tale of another sad constant: IT people being asked to do amazingly dumb things.

Have you ever been asked to fix something that was not even on your job responsibilities list?


One of the quasi-governmental organizations I did IT support for instituted a policy whereby anyone could escalate any IT ticket up to "severity one" highest priority, which automatically triggered a broadcast to IT and a conference of the incident co-ordinators, among other things.

Predictably, this policy lasted approximately one week before it was cancelled, because a mid-level exec. invoked the a severity one IT incident process as he didn't think that the plant in his new office matched the other décor.
169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 114 (Message 2108520)
Posted 14 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Extinction
170) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2108468)
Posted 13 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Supreme Court denies Trump bid to void ruling in Mar-a-Lago raid documents case

The Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request by former President Donald Trump to vacate a lower appeals court ruling in a case related to the FBI raid and seizure of documents from his Florida residence last month.

The 11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals had barred a so-called special master, who was appointed by a federal judge, from reviewing more than 100 classified documents as part of an examination of the more than 11,000 government records seized in the raid to determine which should be barred from being used in a criminal probe of Trump.

Trump’s lawyers last week asked the Supreme Court to reverse that decision arguing that it “impairs substantially the ongoing, time-sensitive work of the special master.”
171) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2108454)
Posted 13 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A special evacuation is usually preceded by much Putin. :^p
172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 114 (Message 2108447)
Posted 13 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Polynesian
173) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2108443)
Posted 13 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Jan. 6 committee plans to vote on subpoena for Trump, sources say

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the committee's plans told NBC News Thursday.

Members of the panel, which held what was expected to be its final hearing before the midterm elections Thursday, had previously said that they were still considering seeking an interview with Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence.

The subpoena would come more than a year since the committee began investigating the insurrection. The panel has already conducted more than 1,000 interviews and depositions. It has received hundreds of thousands of documents and there are 100 subpoenas that were publicly known to be issued.


Marjorie Taylor Greene, Who Also Pushed Mass Shooting Conspiracy Theories, Defends Alex Jones After Sandy Hook Verdict.


Let's see what dumb crap she said today:

He was not the one who pulled the trigger.
Were his words wrong and did he apologize? Yes.
That’s what freedom of speech is. Freedom to speak words.
Political persecution must end.


Someone oughta remind this brilliant legal scholar that the government didn't arrest or even bother Jones for those words, or rule against him at the trial; it was a private lawsuit with a verdict of peers, and anyone can sue anyone else for anything. Also, if it actually was a criminal issue, her sterling "defense argument" would also apply to Charles Manson. :^p

And this is a person actually entrusted to write the laws... eagh.
174) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 114 (Message 2108430)
Posted 13 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Commonwealth
175) Message boards : Politics : Justice is served. (Message 2108400)
Posted 12 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Alex Jones defamation trial verdicts/damage being read. They are all in the ten$ of million$. The first one was for $120 million for one defendant.

Yes, some states do limit damages of course.
176) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2108376)
Posted 11 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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US supreme court declines to take up fetal personhood case

The US supreme court on Tuesday refused to rule on whether fetuses are people and therefore have constitutional rights, dealing a blow to two women and a Catholic church that filed a lawsuit against the state of Rhode Island.

In May, the Rhode Island supreme court ruled that the word “person” does not apply to the unborn. But that ruling cited Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling which guaranteed the right to abortion and which the US supreme court overturned in June.

The Rhode Island ruling read, in part: “The unborn plaintiffs fail to assert a legally cognizable and protected interest as persons pursuant to these repealed statutes, which are contrary to the United States constitution as construed by the United States supreme court.”


Had they ruled otherwise, IMHO this would have instituted a nationwide ban.
177) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2108286)
Posted 9 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I can't understand why these things were named after traitors in the first place.


I can, but it's too obvious to mention. :^p Fort Hood Cavazos will be the first to be renamed.
178) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2108176)
Posted 7 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I wonder if that child is the one who he doesn't acknowledge, or the one who he does acknowledge who detests him. :^p



Party of Traditional Family Values...
179) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2108173)
Posted 7 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The hypocrisy of it all as Donny and his RINO's defend Herschel Walker after abortion accusation rocks Georgia Senate race.
FAKE NEWS!
Is it?


I took it that Gary is being sarcastic, but only he knows for sure. ;^) Pretty sure the Daily Beast would never have released something so incendiary without vetting those documents to prove they were legit.
180) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2108136)
Posted 6 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I am not much into THC as it gives me severe anxiety, so I avoid getting high, but CBD has been very helpful with my lifelong moderate depression/anxiety/insomnia (the latter was a happy accident when I tried it for the other two.) Unlike SSRIs, no unwanted side effects. So I'm glad it was realized it has enough legitimate use (ie the epileptic children) and is now generally available.

You are fortunate you didn't give into nicotine. I was addicted for a quarter century. I also started at sixteen but I had basically zero willpower then, so it was hopeless quitting it.
181) Message boards : Politics : It's also time to stop pandering to these terrorists as well. (Message 2108131)
Posted 6 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Are you suggesting that the Saudi royal family may have to reconsider their priorities and sell off their golden toilets to pay for their own national defense!?!?! Blasphemy! :^)
182) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2108123)
Posted 6 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hungary, Italy, Sweden, and probably Canada in the next election. The pendulum has arced "right", and then will arc "left", and then... sometimes this takes as little as four years per swing. Someday it may settle down.

I always compared political parties to cable packages: you end up getting and paying dearly for a lot of what you don't want to get the little and relatively inexpensive thing that you do want. So if you want the Social Programs channel to watch your favorite social programs, you need to bundle it with the Crime Out of Control channel where all major cities are all-crime-all-the-time , and the Housing Costs Outta Control channel where the people who run things try to pretend they've never heard of "supply and demand" and the... well, you get the picture, but not in HD unless you want to pay an extra $9.99 per month.

Similarly, if you want the Fiscal Responsibility network, you need to pay for the Church in State channel where it's all-Bible-all-the-time, in your government and your bedroom and your bong and your marriage and "your" uterus, and also BSN (formerly the History Channel) aka the Out-Liar Outliers, where the more ridiculous the story, the more votes it gets.

Someday someone will figure out that we can have the best of these without the excess and in many cases unrelated baggage. The "centrists" have tried and not really succeeded but it's worth working at. Incidentally, compared to (most of) the rest of the world, the US Democrats are considered much closer to the "centre" than may care to be admitted, rather than the "left". All positioning is relative.
183) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2108118)
Posted 6 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Statement from President Biden on Marijuana Reform

First, I am announcing a pardon of all prior Federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana. I have directed the Attorney General to develop an administrative process for the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible individuals. There are thousands of people who have prior Federal convictions for marijuana possession, who may be denied employment, housing, or educational opportunities as a result. My action will help relieve the collateral consequences arising from these convictions.

Second, I am urging all Governors to do the same with regard to state offenses. Just as no one should be in a Federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either.

Third, I am asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to initiate the administrative process to review expeditiously how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. Federal law currently classifies marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the classification meant for the most dangerous substances. This is the same schedule as for heroin and LSD, and even higher than the classification of fentanyl and methamphetamine – the drugs that are driving our overdose epidemic.


Finally...
184) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2108100)
Posted 6 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And all the other crooks, fraudsters, haters, killers, lunatics, loonies, losers, morons, maniacs, psychos, religious nutters, sickos, treasonous traitors, etc, etc,...


I LOVE HUWOMANITY as CORRECTLY Described Above.

Certainly Would NOT Want It any Other Way.


Those ethics of the (self-identified) Party of Law and Order and/or Party of Morality these days...
185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 114 (Message 2108019)
Posted 4 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hairless
186) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107998)
Posted 4 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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QUIT PICKING on HUWOMANITY and The HUMAN Condition


Like this?

GAFFEMeister - My New Nickname fo JOkE aka RATFACE

Forgetful JOkE
It is OK RATFACE.


It is Like: JOE Who? Prez Who? Who Dat Stumblin'; Mumblin'; GAFF Producin' Bag of Nuthin'?

Stutterers and the aging don't have the choice whether to make their mistakes. Opportunistic hypocritical liars like Mr. Walker do have that choice.
187) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107988)
Posted 4 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The usual hypocrisy....

‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion

Herschel Walker, the football legend now running for Senate in Georgia, says he wants to completely ban abortion, likening it to murder and claiming there should be “no exception” for rape, incest, or the life of the mother.

But the Republican candidate has supported at least one exception—for himself.

A woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns told The Daily Beast that after she and Walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009 he urged her to get an abortion. The woman said she had the procedure and that Walker reimbursed her for it.

She supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a “get well” card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.
188) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107968)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oh Dats Right. With Above I am Continually Handed Life on a Silver Platter. 'Cause I'm Male and White. GOTCHA


No one even implied that (again.) Neither of us got any handouts for our colour or gender. But more importantly: no one held us back for them either.
189) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2107947)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Have they seen the light?


If this device which made a semi- into a full- had been legalized, I think it would have set a precedent that any device that did was similarly legalized, including replacement pieces of the firearm mechanism. Credit where due...
190) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107942)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Darn RIGHT!!!!!

I WANT MY PREZ!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!

Got It?


Got it.... you have your president



Oh Yeah. DARN RIGHT I'm ENTITILED. I'm WHITE ain't I? And MALE. Dats Called PRIVILIGED BABY!!!!!


You went there, not me. But it is rather "entitled" to mock, laugh at or belittle the plight of rape victims and others denied health care because they were born the "wrong" gender and therefore have to endure things that you don't by being fortunate enough to be born the "correct" gender. A little empathy would be a good thing.
191) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107939)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sounds like some of the noise I heard when some entitled people didn't get the president they wanted a couple of years ago.

Other One Got Refused or couldn't ge MEDs and Then GOT.


What's your source for this?
192) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107936)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm guessing it was missed that they were raped children who needed the abortions. Or maybe it wasn't missed and that's just fine?

Anyways they should not have to be shuttled around from state to state like the political pawns they are nowadays.

Also no mention of the 14-year old girl who couldn't get necessary medication because it may be used to prevent pregnancy. Too bad she didn't have the foresight to be born a boy and wouldn't have to risk that.
193) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107929)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Was Problem Solved?


No, it most certainly was not.
194) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2107926)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I know I'm a worrier, but it's usually only when there's justification. I'm dreading that Putin is planning on using small "tactical" nuclear weapons to force Ukraine's surrender.

Before dismissing this, keep in mind that many dismissed out of hand that he would ever invade Ukraine in the first place because it was such a militarily bad idea. It was, and still is, and so would be using tactical nukes, but Putin has never been dissuaded by something being a very bad idea, and doesn't look likely to ever start.

Putin has tried to portray himself as a strongman and intimidator, but he's getting his arse handed to him by a country a fraction of Russia's size and population. He is being humiliated and people of his character type don't handle that well, Most notably, he's been scolded by two of his very few allies or at least trading partners, China and India, and considering how he has tried to impress China's president this has to hurt.

Putin is also losing control. His armies are nearly out of supplies, his people are rebelling against conscription and now openly calling for his resignation or for him to be charged with treason, the Russian economy is in tatters regardless of his government's attempts to prop it up and pretend otherwise. When he "annexed" four Ukrainian territories a few days ago and said they would "always be Russian", one of them fell to the Ukrainian army within hours, a further public humiliation.

Three things have happened in the past couple of days which justify this concern:
1) Nuclear-ready bombers have been deployed to a Russian nuclear arms base
2) A train has left the Russian division HQ responsible for nuclear weapons
3) Putin's closest ally and fellow "tough guy" (aka bully/thug) Chechnyan leader Ramzan Kadyrov is pressuring him to use tactical nukes in Ukraine and has also recently chastised the Russian military on losses, a further humiliation.

Of course #4 doesn't need a link because it's something we all are aware of: Putin's sham premature annexation of four Ukrainian regions. By doing this, he can now claim to the Russian people (but certainly not the rest of the world) that Ukraine is attacking Russia itself by continuing to fight in these regions, and thus further justify a nuclear escalation.

This does not bode well...
195) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107922)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Teen girl denied medication refill under AZ’s new abortion law

TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A 14-year-old Tucson girl was denied a refill of a life-saving prescription drug she had been taking for years just two days after Arizona’s new abortion law had taken effect.

14 year old Emma Thompson has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis which has kept her in and out of the hospital for most of her life. She relies on methotrexate to help tame the effects of the disease.

But methotrexate can also be used to end ectopic pregnancies, to induce an abortion and that’s where the problem arises.


May be one person now, but as it's a statewide ban, more to follow as predicted in Ohio...

At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies, according to sworn affidavits filed by abortion providers.

The affidavits were filed in Cincinnati as part of a lawsuit aimed at stopping the enforcement of Ohio’s strict new abortion law. Originally paused for two weeks, the enforcement delay will be extended to at least Oct. 12.


Gosh... unintended consequences. Who ever could have guessed.
196) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2107912)
Posted 3 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Drax never really "looked right" in my mind..


Agreed... could pass for a Bond villain. Drax Industries is not to be trusted. :^)

197) Message boards : Politics : UK political scene (Message 2107869)
Posted 2 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No one should be "attending" these climate summits etc. anyway... they should all be done by teleconference, not flying around in private jets to tell we plebs to stick to bikes and public transit and avoid unnecessary air travel. :^p
(Yes, I like my bike and public transit, and don't much like hypocrisy.)
198) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107860)
Posted 2 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I agree Donny will look super in an orange prison jump suit.


Being a Male, I Don't Comment on How Men Look GOoD or 'SUPER' in Their Attire.


199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 114 (Message 2107814)
Posted 1 Oct 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Sheath
200) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2107747)
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why would you listen to an entertainer for news? I don't.


Unfortunately we live in an age where a major "news" source, and in fact one that some people use exclusively, is Facebook. In the reliability department, rather like your exclusive source being the scribbles on public washroom stalls, but I digress...
201) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2107745)
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SUPERTuck is a FACT SPEWING MOCHINE


This is incorrect.

Of the statements checked: 0% True, 4% Mostly True, 4% Half True, 18% Mostly False, 40% False and 31% Pants On Fire (false to the point of ridiculous.)
202) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2107742)
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Myself, I do wonder how Tucker can possibly believe anything of the poisonous diarrhea "alleged opinion" that he reads out...

... And then Fox calls that 'entertainment'?!!


Which is my answer to the question:

So Then. Give Me Three Names of People in Same Profession as SUPERTuck Who are People You LIsten to


Zero. These "opinion" shows are just that: entertainment, like political rallies, or sermons for that matter. I'd prefer factual info ie reliable and unfiltered news, and I will make my own decisions based on that.
203) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2107734)
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ukraine has officially applied for NATO membership

Of course, they will need to clear those pesky invaders out first, but then things should move along fairly quickly.

204) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2107718)
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
HURRICANEJOkEr - da MOST DAMAGING - to da Nation and Its Peoples -

IN DA HISTORY of PREZs.


Does this mean Obama's tan suit isn't the worst thing ever anymore? How could Joe possibly outdo this level of outrage? He must have worn white after Labour Day.
205) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2107717)
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
NOPE


Hard to dispute such a well-reasoned rebuttal.
206) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2107549)
Posted 27 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, said in 2019 that women should be charged with murder if they violated his proposed abortion ban
207) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2107506)
Posted 26 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What's so super and patriotic about a many-times-convicted heroin-dealing thug?


He Took da US of A and Made It His Own and LIved Accordingly.

As All GOoD Patriots and American Citizens Do.


So did MS-13, the Bloods and the Crips. Like the Hell's Angels, they are all violent criminal street gangs founded in California who deal narcotics and are officially classed as organized crime syndicates. All good "GOoD Patriots and American Citizens" right?

If not, what's the distinction?
208) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2107493)
Posted 26 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
SUPERSonny


What's so super and patriotic about a many-times-convicted heroin-dealing thug?
209) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2107491)
Posted 26 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Tucker pays tribute to Sonny Barger at his funeral

'Sonny Barger died in his home state of California. He was 83 years old,' Carlson began, addressing thousands in the crowd... The famously outspoken host of Tucker Carlson Tonight continued: 'We'd always been fans of Sonny Barger, but I didn't know what his personal views were apart from representing the club... 'if I can summarize it from memory, was: 'Always stand tall, stay loyal... remain free, and always value honor.'


Wow, sounds like a heckuva guy this Sonny Barger...

'And I thought to myself, if there is a phrase that sums up more perfectly what I want to be, what I aspire to be, and the kind of man I respect.'... 'I can't think of a phrase that sums it up more perfectly than that,'

'Why aren't we hearing that from the people who run the country? Why is it left to Sonny Barger to say, "Stand tall, stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor?"

'The president of the United States should be saying that - every single morning as he salutes the flag - but only Sunny Barger is saying it,' Carlson continued.

'And I thought to myself, "I want to pay tribute to the man who spoke those words."


My gosh... this Sonny Barger is more patriotic than the actual President? Who is he?

Oh... right. He's one of the founders of the Hell's Angels. Let's review some of those sterling freedumb-lovin' accomplishments:

With Otto Friedli, the founder of the original San Bernardino Hells Angels chapter, in prison, Barger was proclaimed de facto national president in 1958. One of his first actions was to relocate the club's "mother chapter" — the national headquarters — from San Bernardino to Oakland. Later that year, Barger suffered a fractured skull during a fight with Oakland police.

His criminal record began in 1963 after he was arrested for possession of marijuana. He was arrested again on the same charge the following year, and for assault with a deadly weapon in 1965 and 1966. In the late 1960s, Barger began selling heroin and also developed an addiction to cocaine.

Barger was among thirty-three members of the Oakland chapter arrested on drug charges after police raided a bar and a duplex apartment in the city on August 30, 1968. $7,000 worth of heroin and $2,500 worth of other narcotics were confiscated, as were firearms — including an M16 rifle, two shotguns, and an M1 carbine — and a large cache of ammunition, knives, chains, and suspected stolen merchandise.

Barger was one of the Hells Angels present at the Rolling Stones' Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969, where concert goers and musicians alike were subjected to violence from the bikers, including Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane who was knocked unconscious and audience member Meredith Hunter who was stabbed to death. After the concert and critical media attention given to the HAMC, Barger went on a local California radio station to justify the actions of the Hells Angels and to present their side of the story. He claimed that violence only started once the crowd began vandalizing the Hells Angels' motorcycles. Barger would later claim that Hunter fired a shot that struck a Hells Angels member with what he described as "just a flesh wound." He also claimed that he stuck a gun into Keith Richards' side, to force the Rolling Stones to keep on playing through the riot despite the band's misgivings.

On April 11, 1970, Barger was arrested on narcotics charges after Donald Howarth, a film studio property manager and 1967 Mr. America from Studio City, was apprehended while walking towards Barger's home with 17 ounces of cocaine and 30 ounces of heroin (with an estimated retail worth of $350,000) in a suitcase. Barger temporarily resigned as president of the Oakland chapter in June 1970 to fight the charges, but returned to the position within months after his successor, John "Johnny Angel" Palomar, was sentenced to a ten-year prison term for shooting a bartender. The drug charges against Barger were later dismissed, although Howarth was convicted and sentenced to serve five years-to-life in prison. Barger was, however, sentenced to ninety days in jail after walking out of a court session.

Barger and four other Hells Angels were charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon after being arrested while driving through Redwood Regional Park by park rangers who discovered two bound, gagged and beaten club prospects in the trunk of the vehicle on January 22, 1972. All five pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of unlawful imprisonment.

Along with fellow Hells Angels members Sergey Walton, Donald Duane "Whitey" Smith, and "Oakland" Gary Popkin, Barger was charged with the May 21, 1972 murder of Servio Winston Agero — a drug dealer from McAllen, Texas who had traveled to Oakland with a consignment of narcotics for sale — which allegedly occurred following a dispute over an $80,000 cocaine deal. A prosecution witness, Richard Ivaldi, testified that he witnessed Barger shoot Agero dead as he slept at the home of an absent acquaintance, and that Barger subsequently ordered the others to set fire to the residence. Barger and his three co-defendants were acquitted on December 29, 1972, following a seven-week trial after Ivaldi's credibility came under scrutiny.

On March 16, 1973, Barger was sentenced to a prison term of ten years-to-life after he was convicted of possession of narcotics for sale (37 grams of heroin), and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. His girlfriend, Sharon Gruhlke, was a co-defendant; her case ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. According to police intelligence reports, Barger had designated San Jose chapter president Fillmore Cross as his international successor during a motorcycle run at Bass Lake prior to his imprisonment. Cross was also imprisoned, for possession of amphetamines in 1975, however, and Barger allegedly continued to lead the Hells Angels from his cell at Folsom State Prison.He was paroled on November 3, 1977, after serving four-and-a-half years of his sentence.

Barger was arrested on a parole violation charge of possession of firearms when police officers discovered a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, a .38 caliber revolver, and a rifle after arriving at his Oakland home on March 27, 1978, to serve a subpoena and to conduct a parole search. The case was dismissed when Barger's wife Sharon testified that the guns belonged to her, not her husband.

Barger and his wife were among thirty-three members and associates of the Hells Angels' Oakland, San Francisco, Marin County, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Vallejo chapters indicted on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act statutes on June 13, 1979. The prosecution team, representing the federal government, attempted to demonstrate a pattern of behavior to convict Barger and other members of the club of racketeering offenses related to illegal weapons and drugs. On July 2, 1980, following an eight-month trial in which 194 witnesses testified, a mistrial was declared when a jury failed to reach a verdict on counts against eighteen defendants. Of the remaining twelve, nine were convicted and three — including Sonny and Sharon Barger — were acquitted. Barger repeatedly maintained that the club should not be held accountable for the actions of individual members.

On November 10, 1987, thirteen Hells Angels including Barger were arrested on narcotics, weapons, explosives, and conspiracy charges during a series of raids carried out by the FBI, ATF, and California State Police in the San Francisco Bay Area, which also resulted in the seizure of over a hundred weapons, more than $1 million in cash and drugs, and three methamphetamine laboratories.
210) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2107444)
Posted 25 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I apologize if evidence offends, but Joseph R. Biden was not a strong candidate as demonstrated by his 1988 and 2008 performances, yet somehow managed to be elected in 2020 with the largest vote total in history, 12 million more than Barack Obama's only 8 years earlier and 7 million more than Donald Trump's record 74 million (so cannot be explained merely by population growth.) There must have been a reason why so many would come out to vote for an otherwise relatively lacklustre candidate. What could it be? Perhaps they were not really voting for that candidate, so much as against another one.
211) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2107441)
Posted 25 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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PREZ DUFUS aka JOkE Could Not have Won PREZindency WITHOUT Some SHENNANIGANs.


Agreed and here is a handy list of them.
212) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107268)
Posted 23 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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MAGA Music is WONDERFUL


A big "Ew" to that. I'd like to keep both religion and music separated from politics.
213) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107250)
Posted 23 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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FREEBIRD

Song Made 1975 worth Livin'


Music is wonderful... something we can agree on!
214) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107239)
Posted 22 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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While Donny rails at the real world from his delusional bubble as it shrinks.


A Time cover from a couple of years ago that is even more appropriate now:


215) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107223)
Posted 22 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Real People doing REAL WORK are SICK OF IT


Who are these "real" people and what qualifies your implication that others are not?
216) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107204)
Posted 21 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Then there's another of his crooked buddies.

Tom Barrack used access to White House to help foreign government, prosecutor says.


I first saw this story, possibly from another source, as "Barrack Used White House Access to Help Foreign Government" ... and thought it was about someone else with a typo. I guess I wasn't the only one as it's been retitled with "Trump Ally Tom" at the beginning. :^)

(His bail package was $250 million, $5 million of that in cash and he managed to pay it.)

----

The classified documents investigation has been cleared to resume on appeal

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals panel has lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use classified records seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate in its ongoing criminal investigation.

The ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit is a victory for the Justice Department, clearing the way for it to immediately resume its use of the documents as it evaluates whether to bring criminal charges in its investigation into the presence of top-secret government records held at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House.

The government had argued that its investigation had been impeded by the order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that temporarily barred investigators from continuing to use the documents in the probe. Cannon, a Trump appointee, had said the hold would remain in place pending a separate review by an independent arbiter she had appointed at the Trump team’s request.
217) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107185)
Posted 21 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Tax fraud is also rather cut and dry.


Agreed and the NYAG is pursuing the tax angle, although I don't think they've released anything about their evidence so unknown if it's likely to succeed. I don't doubt that if their announcement today concerns DJT that it is likely to be tax-related.
218) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2107178)
Posted 21 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why is dat?????


Simply, because to indict an ex-POTUS it had better be an absolutely 100% sure case, at least as far as prosecutability goes (the jury decision is of course always subject to wildcards thus unpredictable.)

The Jan. 6th issues have many variables ie witness co-operation and testimony etc. so may never come to fruition or may take much more time. There's no such variables with the documents; simple possession is enough (ie narcotics or CP.) It's the only one I would wager will lead to an actual criminal indictment of Donald J. Trump personally. (NYAG is dropping something today but I doubt it's this... probably going to go after the Trump org. with the end goal of dissolution.) No predictions from me on the outcome of that dice-roll called a trial, however. :^p
219) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2107168)
Posted 21 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Open Heart and Flare dem Nostrils and LET da GREAT ONE In.




Indeed in many hearts has He been.
220) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2107109)
Posted 20 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Perhaps taken into consideration was that the couple was among the few dignitaries who were granted permission to travel in their own presidential limousine, nicknamed “The Beast,” for security reasons.
Most other leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, were escorted to the funeral on shuttle buses due to tight security and road restrictions in place across London.
Taking their own transportation meant the Bidens also apparently arrived later than scheduled after getting caught in standstill traffic, the Guardian reported."
221) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 2106990)
Posted 17 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Merge was completed two days ago so I guess we will find out...
222) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2106960)
Posted 16 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Are MiniMe and Santos any different than a coyote smuggler? After all they aren't putting them in a locked facility at the other end, they are releasing them to run.


Well that certainly sounds illegal as they are releasing them from detention which not being federal operatives qualified to do so under federal law...
223) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2106957)
Posted 16 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Agreed, if these are legal migrants applying for asylum or refugee status or citizenship or whatever, then this is ridiculous, cruel and probably illegal to dump them off in a strange faraway city and clearly they are being used as political pawns. If the place they crossed at can't look after them while they are awaiting processing, it should be asking the feds for the resources to do so.

If they entered illegally? Well one doesn't get to choose the circumstances of one's detention; only the Constitution does.
Edit: after reading up on this, it appears they are "undocumented" ie entered illegally. Some are arguing that shipping them off was still illegal. Certainly possible but I leave it to the courts to decide.
224) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2106905)
Posted 15 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Joe the great one got it done. the trains willl continue to run...


Oh no... he made the trains run on time... he's gonna get called a secret fascist. :^)
225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why won't ET introduce himself? (Message 2106882)
Posted 15 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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226) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2106859)
Posted 14 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Louisiana woman carrying unviable fetus forced to travel to New York for abortion

Nancy Davis suffered ‘unspeakable pain’ due to poorly worded law that meant hospital in home state refused to terminate pregnancy

An expectant Louisiana woman who was carrying a skull-less fetus that would die within a short time from birth ultimately traveled about 1,400 miles to New York City to terminate her pregnancy after her local hospital denied her an abortion amid uncertainty over the procedure’s legality.

Nancy Davis, 36, told the Guardian that she had her pregnancy terminated on 1 September after traveling from her home town of Baton Rouge to a clinic in Manhattan whose staff had agreed to complete the procedure.

Davis was about 10 weeks pregnant in late July when an ultrasound at Woman’s hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s capital, showed that her fetus was missing the top of its skull, a rare but fatal condition known as acrania that kills babies within days – and sometimes minutes – of birth.

Louisiana’s abortion ban contains a general exception for fetuses that cannot survive outside their mothers’ wombs, and the law’s author – state senator Katrina Jackson – has insisted that Davis could have legally obtained an abortion without having to go across the country.

But Louisiana’s list of conditions justifying an exception from the state’s abortion ban did not explicitly include acrania. So officials at the hospital where Davis had her ultrasound refused to provide an abortion for her, apparently fearing that they could be exposed to prison time, fines and forfeiture of their licenses to practice if they performed the procedure.


This specifically contradicts the assertion presented here previously that medical professionals will err on the side of saving the mother's life if there is ambiguity. Like the beliefs that motivated banning the procedure themselves, pretty words with zero basis in reality.
227) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2106848)
Posted 14 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Armed man in clown wig hoping to ‘restore Trump as President king’ arrested at Dairy Queen in Pennsylvania.


Appropriate locale... since Donald J. Trump is as much of an actual King of the United States of America as the Dairy Queen is the actual Queen, he probably went there to demand a reinstatement by royal decree.
228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why won't ET introduce himself? (Message 2106818)
Posted 14 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We Exist and are VASTLY ALONE.

It Hurts. Hurts Bad.

Science Fiction is So Wonderfully Inspiring.

It SUCKs and I Hate Also the Truth of ALONE.

Heck Many People on Earth have NOT One Single Lifeforce to say Hi too.

Wish I Could Believe.


A big Agreed and +1 from me.

"In all our searching, the only thing that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."
--- Carl Sagan
229) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2106813)
Posted 14 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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FREEDOM To LIVE is a GOoD Thang


Agreed.
230) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2106796)
Posted 13 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just another far right Donny supporting sicko who couldn't face the "real" truth and the "real" world and lost it with those who could. :-(

Man Who Shot Wife, Daughter Was 'Ruined' After Trump's Election Loss.


"He always said he wanted to keep us safe and healthy."
She continued: "Well, at around 4 AM on September 11, he had an argument with my mother and he decided to take our guns and shoot her, my dog and my sister."


In MAGA-world, this would be an above-average success.
231) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2106742)
Posted 12 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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mO fOs are GOIN' DOWN.

SUPERTRUMP Gots 'em FREAKIN


Who are you referring to as "GOING DOWN" and " 'em "? I am confoozticated by these generalities.
232) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2106629)
Posted 9 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And Yet, I'm Breathing BEAUTIFULLY.


CO2 is not very toxic other than by simply replacing oxygen at high concentrations. We're at about 417ppm right now. The highest Earth has even seen is about 6,000ppm prior to the Carboniferous, and we could survive in that.

Bear in mind, in those conditions there would not be a trace of sea-level ice or permafrost anywhere, the oceans would be about 100m higher, as was the case in the Devonian. This is close to undeniable, as it has already happened before and is simply geography/elevation and volume, rather than requiring prediction. I'll skip any predictions of temperature lol.

I am amazed how much of China disappears...
233) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2106615)
Posted 9 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Another day, another dose of reality...

“I was just your quintessential pro-life Texan,” Kailee, 29, told CNN in a recent interview.

“I was raised in central Texas by extremely Republican parents and grandparents,” Cade, 31, said. “One hundred percent pro-life.”

A year after they were married, Kailee miscarried at 16 weeks and was hospitalized for severe complications, including blood clots and infection. It was one of three miscarriages she had in the early years of marriage.

“It made me realize that pregnancy can be dangerous,” she said. “It made me think of my little sisters, and I wanted them to be able to have a choice if they ever had to go through something like that.”

...

Last September, when a restrictive anti-abortion law took effect in Texas, Kailee pled on Facebook for people to contact their elected representatives to protect abortion rights.

In November, Kailee and Cade were overjoyed to learn she was pregnant. Full of hope, they posted ultrasound pictures and a gender reveal video of a cannon shooting out blue confetti. They named their baby boy Finley.

Then about three months later, they learned Finley had heart, lung, brain, kidney, and genetic defects and would either be stillborn or die within minutes of birth. Carrying him to term put Kailee at high risk for severe pregnancy complications, including blood clots, preeclampsia and cancer.

Even so, they could not get an abortion in Texas and fled to New Mexico.

“I’ve never felt more betrayed by a place I was once so proud to be from,” Kailee said through tears.
234) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2106488)
Posted 7 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Same Reasons YOU DON'T WANT a Camera in your Face 365/24/7


Yes, I don't want to be recorded or many of the other drawbacks of being a LEO so that is why I am not one.
They made the choice to work in public where they can be recorded anytime. If they can't handle this, they can resign.
Also, they don't need to put up with a camera "in their face" either. The recorder needs to be at a minimum distance to not interfere with their duties, and this has been legally upheld. Your statement is misleading.
235) Message boards : Politics : We are being slimed... #2 (Message 2106483)
Posted 7 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It looks like our fishing industries need to take a good hard look at themselves.


If you have Netflix this documentary is a must-see. It also demonstrates that the majority of the oceanic plastic waste is due to commercial fishing.
236) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2106462)
Posted 7 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mr. Perfect would say "You're welcome" but sadly he ODed on cocaine two decades ago.
237) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2106437)
Posted 6 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Every Accusation is a Confession Part... er... I lost count. :^)
238) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2106258)
Posted 3 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Plan B is often considered an end-run around the issue as the consensus is that it in most cases prevents implantation, so technically is not inducing an abortion; this is what happens to a third to a half of fertilized ova already.
I'd be surprised if he was being accurate in this case given his track record but perhaps he's softened somewhat given the opposition.
239) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2106149)
Posted 2 Sep 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unintended effects


Another 'unintended consequence' : customers stealing shopping baskets. Have not noticed it here though.
240) Message boards : News : Another bittersweet milestone. (Message 2106067)
Posted 31 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hola desde Puerto Rico, que pasara con los proyectos que estamos corriendo y cuales estaran disponible?


Ir al sitio: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/language_select.php
Seleccionar español
Ir al sitio: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
Estos son todos los proyectos activos.
241) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2106055)
Posted 31 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If they were classified at the sort of level that required additional clearance then what the chuff-chuff were they doing outside a properly authorised and secured location once they had been used by the intended recipient.


This is (the only reason) why I would finally break from my usual caution and conclude that there will be an indictment of Donald Trump. Anything else he's possibly done ie tax evasion needs to have intent proven as well as the act itself (did he just forget to pay or make an honest mistake?) This can be very difficult and of course prosecutors know this and may decline to act if intent can't be shown.

The security level of these documents doesn't require intent. It's the legal equivalent in severity and prosecutability of being caught with a similar number of kiddie porn hardcopy photos. Simple possession alone is enough for a solid case. To this can be added the possible (until proven) obstruction and certain lies given to the relevant authorities about them. The latter I can also say without waiting for a conviction in a court of law because several of the excuses provided by Trump and/or his legal team contradicted each other.
242) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2105817)
Posted 27 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Like how China graciously shares with the Uyghurs?


Even if it's paywalled, you will sell one copy of every paper to the entire country. It will be copied and distributed internally. As an example, only ~1% of Chinese companies that use Windows pay for it.

You can use IP geolocating to try to make it available to U.S. access, but there's no way from keeping it from the world if it isn't classified. The only consideration is not to enrich private companies profiting off off publicly owned research.
243) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2105805)
Posted 26 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why should the USA taxpayer freely give research to China?


I'm sure China already had it long before anyone else.
244) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2105747)
Posted 26 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay

Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at no cost. In a memorandum to federal departments and agencies, Dr. Alondra Nelson, the head of OSTP, delivered guidance for agencies to update their public access policies as soon as possible to make publications and research funded by taxpayers publicly accessible, without an embargo or cost. All agencies will fully implement updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo, no later than December 31, 2025.


This is something that the scientific community has been asking for quite a while. Up until now, publicly funded research results could be locked up behind paywalls (looking at you, Elsevier) and the taxpayers who funded the research results forced to pay again to view them.
245) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2105721)
Posted 25 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Germany opens a passengers rail line with hydrogen-fueled trains

Fourteen hydrogen trains powered by fuel cell propulsion will exclusively run on the route in Bremervörde, Lower Saxony. The 93 million euro ($92.3 million) deal has been struck by state subsidiary Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen (LVNG), the owners of the railway, and Alstom, builders of the Coradia iLint trains. The Elbe-Weser Railways and Transport Company (EVB), which will operate the trains, and gas and engineering company Linde, are also part of the project.

The trains, five of which which debut Wednesday, will gradually replace the 15 diesel trains that currently run on the route, with all 14 running exclusively by the end of the year. Just 1 kilo of hydrogen fuel can do the same as around 4.5 kilos of diesel.

The trains are emissions-free and low-noise, with only steam and condensed water issuing from the exhaust. They have a range of 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), meaning they can run for an entire day on the network on a single tank of hydrogen. A hydrogen filling station has already been established on the route. The trains can go at a maximum of 140 kph, or 87mph, though regular speeds on the line are much less, between 80-120 kph.


Now wouldn't it be ironic given Germany's recent fuel issues if the hydrogen was made from natural gas, oil, coal, or water electrolysis using coal-generated electricity. :^p Hydrogen is of course only an intermediary.
246) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105651)
Posted 24 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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GOP candidate who said it's "totally just" to stone gays to death loses election.


Well good for him not having a political career to need to resign in disgrace from when he's inevitably caught with a "rent boy". :^p
247) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2105640)
Posted 24 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I am sorry you and all other students with debt that late in life didn't have it forgiven. Agreed it is unfair but I guess better late than never. Better than spending it on more nuclear weapons that would just get downsized out as around 90% of them have been.
248) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2105623)
Posted 24 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Joe is about the corrupt every law ever made by allowing the liberal students loan amnesty.
And that should offend all of us.


"My bill proposes, 1. Elementary schools in every county, which shall place every householder within three miles of a school. 2. District colleges, which shall place every father within a day's ride of a college where he may dispose of his son. 3. An university in a healthy and central situation... To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the colleges and university."

-- That corrupt America-destroying offensive libby libbery-loo Thomas Jefferson, to M. Correa de Serra, 1817
249) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2105615)
Posted 24 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Joe is about the corrupt every law ever made by allowing the liberal students loan amnesty.


Er... I doubt there's a political test for who qualifies. :^p
250) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105572)
Posted 23 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'll start the list with;
Employing illegal immigrants


To be fair, half the farm workers in the U.S. (and three-quarters in Cali) are "undocumented", so it's extremely common.
251) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105552)
Posted 23 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How Much Shat did OBLABBY Take with Him? LOTs. Is it Missing? Or Any Prez.


Until there is evidence for it resulting in a conviction, zero. And the same applies here.
252) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2105506)
Posted 22 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Tory conference: LGBT group unveils politics-themed condoms


aka a precopulatory inhibitory. Of course they will just call them persecutory. ;^)
253) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The James Webb Space Telescope (Message 2105462)
Posted 21 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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With amazing advancement in instrumentation, new data may (always?) appear that challenges existing theory. In this case:

Distant galaxies in Webb images suggest we need to rethink star and galaxy evolution in the early universe.

The very first results from the James Webb Space Telescope seem to indicate that massive, luminous galaxies had already formed within the first 250 million years after the Big Bang. If confirmed, this would seriously challenge current cosmological thinking. For now, however, that’s still a big “if.”

Shortly after NASA published Webb’s first batch of scientific data, the astronomical preprint server arXiv was flooded with papers claiming the detection of galaxies that are so remote that their light took some 13.5 billion years to reach us. Many of these appear to be more massive than the standard cosmological model that describes the universe’s composition and evolution.

“It worries me slightly that we find these monsters in the first few images,” says cosmologist Richard Ellis (University College London).


This is a very exciting (or terrifying, depending on your outlook!) time to be an astrophysicist or cosmologist. :^)

I have not gotten to the "Big Bang never happened and we live in a steady-state universe" phase, and will not for a while as there is much data required to collect and process, but we can be assured that James Webb is going to seriously challenge our estimates for the universe's age if nothing else.

We've never been able to see galaxies this far back as their light is 2-3x further redshifted than what we could see previously, and no instrument ever existed that could both receive those frequencies and image/resolve objects that distant. Only a month after its first images were received, cosmology is already being rocked... what will many years bring!?
254) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2105457)
Posted 21 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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All I can say is, if there is a god then he needs to be fired for doing such a lousy job.


St. George agrees... :^)

255) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2105376)
Posted 19 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hum. First observer to collapse the wave function. Hum. Youse can call it God.


It appears string theory was a surprisingly accurate god descriptor. :^)
256) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2105338)
Posted 18 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Those FACTs are MEANINGLESS To ME.


I don't really need to add anything to this.
257) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2105333)
Posted 18 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.327A429
"A 2017 study published in the scientific journal Nature Energy calculated that one gigawatt hour of solar electricity produces five tonnes of greenhouse gases, compared to 820 tonnes for a coal-fired power plant." This is inclusive of the total energy requirement to manufacture and transport solar panels.

"The European Environment Agency says around 90 percent of the mass of the wind turbines can be recycled"

"Research cited by the EPA and International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) also shows that electric vehicles make less planet-warming emissions over their life cycles than gasoline cars."

""In any case, it's clear that the social and environmental impact of global warming is catastrophic, at a different scale than the mining of battery raw materials, and that battery electric vehicles have a much lower global warming impact than combustion engine cars,"

"According to the European Environment Agency, 95 percent of the materials in solar panels can be recycled."

https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24332461-400-what-is-the-carbon-payback-period-for-a-wind-turbine/
"In 2006, turbine manufacturer Vestas studied the carbon payback period for various turbines. This took into account extraction and manufacturing of raw materials, production of the turbines, their transport, erection, operation, maintenance, dismantling and disposal, and the same for their foundation and the transmission grid. The figure was between seven and nine months, depending on the type of turbine. Other analyses have come up with similar figures."

Personally, I am more concerned about running out of fossil fuel... if alternatives buy humanity enough time that some long-term solutions in development can come online (ie thorium or breeder nuclear, fusion) so much the better.
258) Message boards : Politics : Justice is served. (Message 2105318)
Posted 17 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Who are these people? Need more info.


Here are a few:



Plenty of job openings in the fast food sector after those photos. :^p
259) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105295)
Posted 17 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There Will be NO CIVIL WAR. Yet, Some on Other Side seem to SPAKE of IT Constantly.

Hmmmm. Wonder Why?


I doubt most people (myself included) are worried about an actual civil war, ie one that lasts for years with dead in the hundreds of thousands and destruction of entire cities. The concern is more about rumblings of it and veiled threats and dog-whistles that can cause people (individuals and small to medium groups) to carry out violent acts they would not otherwise, to the damage almost always of innocents who are not politically involved. aka "stochastic terrorism"

A certain date last year springs to mind... ;^p
260) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2105291)
Posted 17 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hey ELVIS: Hopin' Your BirthDay is a GOoD Day. REAL GOoD

Lovin' Memories of You.


Here's one...

In late 1956, Elvis Presley was on the precipice of global stardom. “Heartbreak Hotel” had reached number one on the charts earlier that year and Love Me Tender, his debut film, would be released in November. In the midst of this trajectory, he was booked as a guest on the most popular TV show at the time, The Ed Sullivan Show. But he wasn’t only there to perform his hits. Before the show started, and in front of the press and Ed Sullivan himself, Presley flashed his swoon-worthy smile, rolled up his sleeves and let a New York state official stick a needle loaded up with the polio vaccine in his arm.

At that point, the polio virus had been ravaging the American landscape for years, and approximately 60,000 children were infected annually. By 1955, hope famously arrived in the form of Jonas Salk’s vaccine. But despite the literally crippling effects of the virus and the promising results of the vaccination, many Americans simply weren’t getting vaccinated. In fact, when Presley appeared on the Sullivan show, immunization levels among American teens were at an abysmal 0.6 percent.

What did prove successful was Elvis getting the vaccine in front of millions. In fact, after he publicly did so, vaccination rates among American youth skyrocketed to 80 percent after just six months.


He also did his military service when he was drafted rather than using his celebrity status to opt out. Such character seems too-often lacking these days.
261) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105229)
Posted 16 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some one Doing Such Things Would NOT Have Secret Docs laying Around....


Maybe would be kept somewhere "safe".
262) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 2105222)
Posted 16 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Could you please provide your evidence for this conclusion? Thank you.


Cliché but: There's an app for that.
263) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105207)
Posted 16 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Another speculation is that they would be much more useful to a proportionally much wealthier nation with no nuclear program who seems to want to develop one: Saudi Arabia. Recall the sparsely-attended Saudi-backed LIV golf tournament that Donald Trump played at in late July.

I'm sure the FBI and other agencies are exploring these avenues so we may have more than my idle speculation soon. :^p Or not...
264) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Space Exploration News (Message 2105187)
Posted 16 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well that's The Daily Beast for you...


Lol yes I wouldn't count them as a premier source for science journalism. :^)
265) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Space Exploration News (Message 2105185)
Posted 15 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Er...

"Álvaro Romero-Calvo told The Daily Beast that the downward pull of gravity on the ISS compared to objects on Earth only differs by 10 percent. Rather, the difficulty lies in the buoyancy produced by the state of constant free fall."

... that "downward pull" is negated by being in orbit. There is no measurable difference between it and being in deep space, ie microgravity. This equivalence principle is a critical and much-proven part of General Relativity.
266) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105166)
Posted 15 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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16. The raid was just a cover for an FBI assassination attempt, which for some reason was timed to when he wasn't home. (Courtesy Steve Bannon today)
(and if I am interpreting this correctly:)
17. Document classification is invalid so anyone who had access before should be allowed to keep whatever classified documents they like, because they just could have memorized them anyway.


well, last time the USA faced that. the goD, er Dog, was Hirohito and we know how that turned out. However Hirohito did not have mental illness so he realized when it was over. It will be much bloodier this time.


Well-timed comment...

Tokyo wanted the emperor’s status protected; the Allies wanted no preconditions. There was a compromise. The emperor retained his title; Gen. Douglas MacArthur believed his at least ceremonial presence would be a stabilizing influence in postwar Japan. But Hirohito was forced to disclaim his divine status. Japan lost more than a war—it lost a god.
267) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105138)
Posted 15 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Apologies on the repost, but it keeps being required. :^p

268) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105121)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just in case anyone wonders how he holds onto followers:



Why only 17 mins.? Could that possibly be because "Q" is the 17th letter of the alphabet? Thy 5th-dimensional chess has reached Mastery, spraytanned mangod! And as subtle as a cockroach on a wedding cake.
269) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105120)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In America I have access to NEWs from LEFT; RIGHT; and MIDDLE. Although MIDDLE is Skewed to Left. Although I can find some
MIDDLE which is TRULY MIDDLE with Heaps of LOGIG and REASON. FOX Lots of Times has these People On.


I am unsure what this means.
270) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105116)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I wouldn't want to be in this persons shoes.

Trump lawyer in June said classified material had been returned.

Posted this one a couple of days ago. :^)


But why people keep on making excuses for his multi-level criminal activities is totally beyond me as his excuses keep on changing.


The running compendium of excuses thus far:

1. There were no boxes at Mar-a-Lago
2. Other people brought those boxes to Mar-a-Lago
3. The National Archives could have retrieved the boxes anytime they wanted
4. All the documents in the boxes were declassified
5. I was protecting the boxes for the National Archives
6. The boxes were planted by the FBI
7. Obama had more boxes
8. The documents should not have been classified in the first place
9. The documents were already returned
10. They were my documents all along
11. There was a standing order that any documents I took out of the Oval Office were automatically declassified
12. Mishandled and rushed move by GSA
13. Invented hoax because the January 6th Committee ratings were dropping
14. Laws against espionage are wrong and should be repealed
15. Documents were protected by Executive Privilege and should not have been removed by FBI

Please reply if any new ones appear. :^)
271) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105114)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why Cause This UGLY RIFT between PEOPLEs by RAIDING a Leading Candidate for Next Prez Election


Because there was ample evidence a crime was committed, enough so to justify a warrant. Lady Justice has a blindfold on for a reason and should accept no excuses based on how wealthy, connected or politically privileged a person is.

If any president, whether Democrat, Republican or other had done the same I would expect the same result.

(Edit: also as of this writing Donald Trump has not even announced his candidacy.)
272) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2105091)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Idaho Supreme Court allows state’s strict abortion bans to take effect

The part that says it all:

Another law is also going into effect that allows potential relatives of an embryo or fetus to sue abortion providers for up to $20,000 within four years of an abortion. Rapists cannot sue under the law, but a rapists’ family members would be able to sue.


I don't even know where to begin with this...
273) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105088)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mr. Kevvy: I Like You. As an OLD and WISE Human You Know The 'QUIET PART' is NOT QUIET when it CONcerns PREZ SUPERTrump.


Well thanks... you're not so bad yourself but I do question your tastes in politics. :^)

SUPERTrump is MEGA HATED and Therefore - Well, We Hear and See it EVERYDAY. There is ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT Towards and For Him.

I Feel SORRY for Those Having to 'GO ALONG' with this TOTAL DISRESPECT and HATE - Due to Needing to Keep Job and Career.

I ENJOY and APPLAUD SUPERTrump Throwin' 'Shade' All Over His HATERs.


If this is so widespread, it may be recommended to consider that there may be something to it. I started out willing to give him a chance because I don't go along with groupthink but prefer to "let the evidence decide". For example, though I think Trump was a terrible president for numerous reasons, I still think that George W. Bush was worse because allowed himself to be manipulated into using trivially discredited phony intel to attack a peaceful nation who had done nothing wrong and cause the death of possibly a million of their citizens. It's hard to overcome numbers like that. Trump never started any wars and did pursue talks with some U.S. adversaries, notably Kim Jong-Un who no one else had met with. So there is that.

However, he made numerous pronouncements when he was campaigning on how supportive he was of law enforcement and how many agencies had backed him. Yet, as we have been shown numerous ways, he then stirred up the Jan. 6th mob to attack the capitol which caused the death and injury of numerous members of law enforcement. (Hard to dispute this when it happened live on worldwide TV.) Now because of the recent raid, he has "doxxed" numerous law enforcement personnel, illegally releasing their names, some through his personal Truth Social account, knowing they will be threatened, which they have been of course.

These are only two of numerous examples. Note that I have refrained from mentioning anything which needs to be proven in a court of law and has not been.

Do you find this behaviour "presidential"? Is there anything that Donald Trump could possibly do to cause you to stop supporting him?
274) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105061)
Posted 13 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Every EX-PREZ is a SECURITY THREAT.

And Enemies and Near-Do-Wells Abound.


As I am old and forgetful, please remind me when anything like this happened to any ex-president of the U.S. ever.
275) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105056)
Posted 13 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned

At least one lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government, four people with knowledge of the document said.

The written declaration was made after a visit on June 3 to Mar-a-Lago by Jay I. Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division.

The existence of the signed declaration, which has not previously been reported, is a possible indication that Mr. Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators about the material. And it could help explain why a potential violation of a criminal statute related to obstruction was cited by the department as one basis for seeking the warrant used to carry out the daylong search of the former president’s home on Monday, an extraordinary step that generated political shock waves.

It also helps to further explain the sequence of events that prompted the Justice Department’s decision to conduct the search after months in which it had tried to resolve the matter through discussions with Mr. Trump and his team.


I'm now cancelling my previous prediction that Trump himself will not be criminally indicted, which was based on only Jan. 6th info. I think that this evidence in writing is the final nail that he knew he had highly classified material he should not have had, failed to return it and that both he and he legal team knew about both of these things and lied about it in writing. This is eminently prosecutable... open and shut in the parlance. Conviction? Who knows; one Trump supporter on the jury and no one could ever get a conviction for anything he did regardless of any evidence.

It will be interesting to see if they are able to determine why this intel was taken... there are many possible financial benefits that may have occurred for it. Time will tell.
276) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2105005)
Posted 12 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some kudos are in order for that diminishing text series. :^)

Edit: The unsealed warrant
"Various classified TS/SCI documents..." Well there's an issue. :^p
277) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2104998)
Posted 12 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Search warrant shows Trump under investigation for potential obstruction of justice, Espionage Act violations

A search warrant viewed by POLITICO reveals that the FBI is investigating Donald Trump for a potential violation of the Espionage Act and removed classified documents from the former president’s Florida estate earlier this week.

A receipt accompanying the search warrant, viewed by POLITICO on Friday, shows that Trump possessed documents including a handwritten note; documents marked with “TS/SCI,” which indicate one of the highest levels of government classification; and another item labeled “Info re: President of France.”
278) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2104995)
Posted 12 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here's the list of "real" Republicans who backed Joe and the Chip Bill. ;-)

These are the 24 House Republicans who broke with the party to support chips and science bill.


Paying dividends already: South Korea’s SK Hynix to launch US chip plant in 2023

South Korea’s SK Hynix aims to select a US site for its advanced chip packaging plant and break ground there around the first quarter of next year, two people familiar with the matter said, helping the United States to compete as China pours money into the burgeoning sector.

The plant, whose estimated cost would be “several billions”, would ramp up to mass production by 2025-26 and employ about 1,000 workers, one of the sources said, declining to be named because details about the plant have not been made public.
279) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2104994)
Posted 12 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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LoL @ Breitbart disparaging anyone or anything as fascist. There's an old pair of humorous definitions:

"Conservative": A "liberal" who has just been mugged.
"Liberal": A "conservative" who has just been arrested.

Pretty appropriate right now. :^D
(quotes added because those terms are so arbitrary and polarizing these days and I try to avoid them.)
280) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2104927)
Posted 11 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Justice Department seeks to unseal Trump raid search warrant

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that the Justice Department has asked a judge to unseal a search warrant used by the FBI to raid the Florida home of former President Donald Trump three days earlier.

Trump and his allies have claimed the DOJ and Garland, who was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, searched the Mar-a-Lago club on Monday to hurt the former president politically.

They have pushed Garland to explain the raid, which appears to be related to the removal of records from the White House when Trump left office in Jan. 2021.
281) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2104917)
Posted 11 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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5-D chessmate indeed. :^p
282) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 2104912)
Posted 11 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Estonia is a NATO member since 2004. Good luck with that, Pooty Poot.
283) Message boards : Politics : Pascal's Wager. (Message 2104880)
Posted 11 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I propose XMascal's Wager on the Existence of Santa Claus. If there is only a tiny probability that Santa Claus truly exists, it makes sense to behave as if He did because the rewards could be a bounty of Christmas presents, whereas the lack of belief risks the misery of nothing but coal in one's stocking. Yet people still refuse to believe!
284) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2104878)
Posted 11 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We're through the looking glass again... in addition to Donald taking the fifth after saying it was for "the mob", all of a sudden numerous followers seem to have gone all "Why did they need AR-15s?" and "Defund/dissolve the FBI".
It would be nice if some people could cultivate a milligram of empathy about things before they were personally affected by them... sigh.
285) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2104558)
Posted 6 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Also that I could be knowing for just sensing that "MOMMY" could be an agnostic himself, for also me for the same.


Agnosticism and atheism are not incompatible. Gnosticism/agnosticism refers to knowledge, whether a person thinks one is capable of knowing there is a supreme being or not. Theism/atheism refers to belief or whether one thinks there is or is not a supreme being, with or without knowledge.
By this I am an agnostic atheist because I don't claim absolute knowledge of lack of any supreme beings as that would be evidentially irresponsible, but definitely do not have any belief there are any in the absence of any knowledge or evidence.
286) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2104556)
Posted 6 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is explained "away" the best way to put it to our doubters (the ones agnostic or atheist to our reasoning)? Why not just say explained?


By "explained" away, I was referring to the handwaving around the problem of evil, how to reconcile the contradictory duality of believing that there is an all-knowing, all-powerful benevolent deity who supposedly cares deeply about everyone, yet allows us to do horrible things to each other without intervening, so that we have to pretend with no evidence whatsoever that there is an afterlife where reward and punishment will be handed out to make up for the lack of such in this one. So we have to introduce another entity (the Devil) from which the evil comes, which the all-knowing, all-powerful benevolent deity mysteriously can't do anything about even though they supposedly made the entire universe, including the entity just by wishing it into existence.

Of course, if we're going to imagine there is a god, a non-interventionist one who doesn't care is just as possible as any other. I focus only nowadays on lack of evidence rather than epistemology.

(Not getting any good answers to my early childhood questions about why doesn't God just get rid of the Devil right away before anyone else does evil or suffers any more was my personal beginning of the end...)
287) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2104532)
Posted 5 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As if this wasn't horrific enough, we had a very similar murder where a man boarded a public transit bus, poured accelerant on a female passenger and then set her ablaze. Like this victim, she also died and I don't even want to speculate how painfully in each case.

There have to be some acts even too insane for an insanity plea...
288) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2104496)
Posted 5 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If These Things and Other EVIL Things DID NOT HAPPEN At All -

NON -BELIEVERs would Have a Much Harder Time NOT BELIEVING.


Not true in my case. As I like to put it: I don't believe there are god(s) for precisely the same reasons you (probably?) don't believe there is an actual Santa Claus. Evil acts can be "explained" away. The utter lack of any reasonable evidence for god(s) cannot be.
289) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2104470)
Posted 4 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Four Officers Face Federal Charges in Breonna Taylor Raid

Federal officials on Thursday charged four current and former police officers in Louisville, Ky., who were involved in a fatal raid on the apartment of Breonna Taylor, accusing them of several crimes, including lying to obtain a warrant that was used to search her home.

The charges stem from a nighttime raid of Ms. Taylor’s apartment in March 2020, during which officers knocked down Ms. Taylor’s door and fired a volley of gunshots after her boyfriend shot an officer in the leg, believing that intruders had burst into the home.

Two officers shot Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, who was pronounced dead at the scene.


Note that the charges stem from the accusations that the officers lied to get a warrant.
290) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 2104431)
Posted 4 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Egads... this happened to the Mt. Gox exchange in 2014, and yet even with "cold storage" offline vaulting to prevent this, still there are exchanges like this after all this time with all their coins in the open asking to get robbed.

For now, Nomad is relying on the good graces of white hat hackers to return some of the stolen currency.


I hope their customers rely on the good graces of their attorneys to sue this incompetent company into the ground to return some of the stolen currency.
291) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2104402)
Posted 3 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Best Brain on TV is SUPERTuck


That says more about TV than "SUPERTuck". :^p
292) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2104379)
Posted 3 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not a good look at all.

Diabetic man with dementia dies in jail after arrest for intoxication -- but no drugs or alcohol found in his system.



This happens all-too-often. Type 1 diabetes' ketoacidosis causes symptoms of alcohol intoxication as well as a chemically ketone odor that can be mistaken for alcoholic drinks. As always, the root cause is poor/non-existent officer training.
293) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2104360)
Posted 3 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SUPERDonny is My GOD.

SUPERGOD


294) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2104347)
Posted 2 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Biden Justice Department sues Idaho over state’s abortion restrictions in first post-Dobbs lawsuit

The Biden administration filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Idaho for restricting access to abortion to patients who need lifesaving medical treatment, the first such Justice Department challenge since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer.

Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, which will take effect later this month, would make it nearly impossible, according to the Justice Department, for patients who need an abortion in emergency medical situations, such as an ectopic pregnancy or other complications, from receiving potentially lifesaving treatment.

The trigger law, which was passed in 2020, would make providing abortions a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The ban has exceptions for cases of rape or incest if reported to law enforcement or to prevent the death of the pregnant person.

...

Garland said that the lawsuit has “nothing to do with going around” the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs.

“The Supreme Court said that each state can make its own decisions with respect to abortion, but so too can the federal government,” he told reporters Tuesday. “Nothing that the Supreme Court said, said that the statutes passed by Congress, such as EMTALA are in any way invalid. It’s quite the opposite. The Supreme Court left it to the people’s representatives. EMTALA was a decision made by the Congress of the United States. The supremacy clause is a decision made in the Constitution of the United States. Federal law invalidates state laws that are in direct contradiction.”


I am pleasantly surprised that Idaho's law even has "has exceptions for cases of rape or incest if reported to law enforcement or to prevent the death of the pregnant person". Since the article indicates ectopic pregnancy treatment is restricted which should already qualify being life-threatening, I wonder what details cause this state to be sued instead of others without these exceptions.
295) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2104327)
Posted 2 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Federal Judge Rejects Trump’s Motion To Dismiss Jan 6 Lawsuit Against Him

A Federal judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s request to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by Capitol Police officers who were injured during the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

That day, Trump sent a mob of his supporters to the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory. In his motion, Trump claimed total immunity, suggesting that his his actions leading up to and during the January 6 riots are not subject to civil litigation because they “fall within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his presidential responsibilities.”

As reported by Politico’s Kyle Cheney, however, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta Mehta rejected Trump’s assertion. Mehta cited his own past rulings shutting down Trump’s motions to dismiss in which he held that Trump’s actions “entirely concern his efforts to remain in office for a second term,” and were not any part of his official duties as America’s commander-in-chief.

“Accordingly, President Trump’s motions to dismiss are denied,” Mehta concluded.
296) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2104321)
Posted 2 Aug 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Gots to Be da MOST TINY PREZ in History.


That would be James Madison at 5'4" and 100lb. Joe is 6" and 158lb.
297) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2104090)
Posted 29 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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298) Message boards : Politics : Reasons why politics and religion should not be mixed. Put them here. (Message 2104084)
Posted 29 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Religion is BEAUTIFUL.


Does this include the religions that kidnapped thousands of children from their families with full governmental authorization and oversight, imprisoned them in "schools" where they were forcefully delivered to predatory adults made pedophiles by the religious denial of their normal healthy sexuality, who raped them often repeatedly, physically abused them, neglected them in overcrowded conditions so they became diseased, and then shamefully hid their bodies in unmarked graves when disease or abuse or suicide or hypothermia for the escapees ended their short lives?

Well that's what happened here at least when government and religion weren't forcefully separated. Now that it's legally fashionable to ignore the first amendment, I'm sure you'll have plenty (more) homegrown examples soon enough.
299) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2104048)
Posted 29 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Indiana attorney general launched investigation of abortion doctor based on 'so-called' complaints, her lawyer says, with one listing '555-555-5555' as the doctor's phone number.


I think MSN pulled that story... it redirects to their homepage now. Here is a link to an Indiana source.
300) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2104041)
Posted 28 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Whatever You THINK YOU GAVE US(I Didn't Get It) Gas Price INFLATION and OTHER INFLATION Has TAKEN IT ALL AWAY and
MORE.


Gasoline here is over $2/L; it was $1.40 until a certain European event caused a lot of unease n the market. The store brand coffee we used to buy last year for $9.99 is now $16.99. My RRSPs have fallen for the first time in almost thirty years I've held them. These recent and rapid changes started when Putin ordered the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is not exclusively a U.S. problem, and quite a few countries are in recession.

We are reliant on an interconnected worldwide web of trade. One loose cannon tyrant can break many threads of it, but that wasn't Joe Biden who started a war in Europe.
301) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2103967)
Posted 28 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And it was a PRIVATE CITIZEN with his own gun, not the police that took out the bad guy. Proof that the 2nd Amendment & Concealed Carry do work as intended.


Yep. And Hoping It Continues So.

SUPERShot


The big difference seems to be training... it would be nice if there was a training requirement for owning firearms esp. concealed, but that just seems to get everyone's dander up, and then they wonder why there are unnecessary shootings or terrible mistakes. The police and military require training for a reason.

We expect drivers to be licensed and trained proportionally to the size, complexity and danger of their vehicle to prevent injuries and death to others, so why not the same for firearms?
302) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2103946)
Posted 27 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He Knows wat Part of Pen Deposits Ink?




(and if he forgets, that's why they have advisors. :^p)
303) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2103939)
Posted 27 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What is JOkE Doin' Today.

Tripping on his Shoe Laces?


Well, when he's done tripping over his shoelaces and it's time to play prez , he can sign the bipartisan domestic semiconductor bill that just cleared the Senate and will create thousands of high-tech US jobs, revitalize a vital segment of US manufacturing and at the same time prevent technology and innovation from being appropriated (aka stolen) by the Chinese government over the long term.

Then he can have a nap and fumble a word or two in his next speech. I'm sure we'll be advised of those last two events. :^p
304) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2103936)
Posted 27 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But they say the curb was not painted when they initially parked their car. In fact, photos show a bare portion of the curb where the tire of the couple's car allegedly prevented paint, indicating it was painted after the car was already there.


305) Message boards : Politics : PIPE (Message 2103914)
Posted 27 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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306) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2103756)
Posted 24 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Solar tower produces jet fuel from CO2, water and sunlight

Taking carbon dioxide, water and sunlight as its only inputs, this solar thermal tower in Spain produces carbon-neutral, sustainable versions of diesel and jet fuel.
...
Fossil fuels can be replaced with batteries or hydrogen in cars and trucks – but aircraft are trickier. With more than 25,000 commercial airliners in service today, and service lifetimes around 25 years, airlines are looking to carbon-neutral fuels to bring down their emissions.


Someone should point this out to our local zero-talent celebroty who thinks he needs an entire full-sized passenger jet all to himself to go to the next town.
307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why won't ET introduce himself? (Message 2103723)
Posted 24 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Susie, there really isn't any actual data that supports your point of view. There is a huge obstacle, called physics. If the physics is solved, meaning why a "manned" spaceship needing to cover many light-years, taking perhaps hundreds or thousands of years one way, would be feasible for a planet that has given off radio waves for just over 100 years, would make a target for another intelligent planet just doesn't make sense.


This is the power of radio SETI... radio signals are relatively cheap to generate and receive, they're among the first electrical technology we discovered and we hope others would do the same, they propagate instantly and forever through interstellar space at light speed needing no further power source or maintenance or anything else to keep going.

Anyone else out there would be constrained by the same stupendous obstacles of physics and mind-boggling distances that we are. So much easier to just send a signal out saying "Hi" and hope for a reply.

Just as an idea of the distances we're dealing with, the furthest humans have ever been from Earth is the moon. Let's scale the Earth down to a mustard seed so that the moon is a grain of sand one cm away (about the width of your little fingernail) and place the two in New York. That's it... that one cm fingernail width is the furthest we've traveled, and it took thousands of people working for many years and billions of dollars to do it. The nearest extrasolar planet would be in or near Tokyo, just over a billion times farther away. Our minds have great difficulty even visualizing the distance, as well as the energy requirements it would take to get there in less than tens of thousands of years.

So where is ET's introduction on radio SETI? I think we just need to listen more and longer. Given its cost effectiveness and that we already have all the technology in place, we've still done little more than that fingernail-width first step but without a good excuse.
308) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2103649)
Posted 22 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Seriously, no one else has seen this before or has thoughts on it, in either direction?


They did.
309) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2103578)
Posted 21 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Now what sort of judge is that and who did he pay off to become 1?


Must be angling for a Supreme Court appointment.
310) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2103561)
Posted 21 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No controversy there... he did overstate (at least once) as noted which is incorrect info. He did also state during the same session that vaccinated people are less likely to become infected, or develop severe symptoms if they do, which is correct.
311) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2103542)
Posted 21 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Biden tests positive for Covid-19, White House says

President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday.

“This morning, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms. He has begun taking Paxlovid. Consistent with CDC guidelines, he will isolate at the White House and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time,” she said.

Biden, 79, did not have a fever Thursday morning, the White House’s coronavirus coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told CNN. Biden has a runny nose, dry cough and is experiencing some fatigue, Jha said.


Posting this only so that I can reiterate, before the usual noise that he caught it even while vaccinated, that there is a wealth of evidence that being vaccinated will reduce the symptoms/severity and to the possibility of saving the person's life.
312) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2103533)
Posted 21 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Half of the U.S, seems to be high in the clouds, with their invisible fantasy God. So, it will not pass the Senate.

47 House Republicans did support and vote for the bill, so I will stay hopeful a similar ratio holds in the Senate.
313) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2103510)
Posted 20 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Nice work... and very true. Trees are definitely the best way to keep your house cool, as long as you can keep their roots out of your drains and lop off the dead branches before they fall on the roof.
314) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2103502)
Posted 20 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well it looks like Donny's days have been numbered by the DoJ.

Attorney General Merrick Garland memo suggests no federal indictment of Donald Trump before November election.


I think that number is "infinity. "

Attorney General Merrick Garland reminded U.S. Department of Justice officials that extra steps are required before action can be taken in politically sensitive cases during the fall election season...


Oh not during the fall election season! Gosh, that would be like wearing white after Labour Day. Anyone bother to nudge him and remind him that the presidency isn't on the ticket?

Trump is most likely going to announce candidacy right after it, and then Garland's excuse will be "... extra steps are required before action can be taken against a presidential candidate" and then "extra steps are required before action can be taken in politically sensitive cases during the Presidential election season" and then "no steps can be taken because President Trump fired my milquetoast arse..."

So I still vehemently doubt Donald J. Trump will ever be criminally charged with anything federally. Maybe some NYAG tax evasion. As old Benji Franklin said, I'm a pessimist so that I am not disappointed and can be pleasantly surprised. Would be happy to be proven incorrect.
315) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2103452)
Posted 19 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This came up four years ago when he was POTUS

Actor and comedian Tom Arnold accused President Donald Trump of previously abusing Adderall on the set of NBC's The Apprentice.

"Donald Trump abused Adderall on the set & it made him crazy. He even snorted Adderall. Mark Burnett knew it. It's scary," he wrote in a tweet, accusing The Apprentice creator of knowing that the president took the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug.
316) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2103434)
Posted 19 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I do not love the fact he's not yet in prison but I love the fact he will be.


Wouldn't count on that as a "fact" until it actually happens... the wealthy and powerful have a different set of laws. Always have. Always will.
317) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2103389)
Posted 18 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That moronic RINO rep... Man, so many moronic sickos abound these days. :-(


On that topic: Idaho Republicans vote to force women with severe pregnancy complications to die

The Idaho Republican Party has approved changes to its platform that criminalize all abortions without exemptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother, as well as green-lighting restrictions to voting in future GOP primary elections.
...
Some delegates shared stories or concerns about ectopic pregnancies, which are non-viable pregnancies that endanger the mother, and suggested adding an exemption for abortion if the life of the mother is in “lethal danger.” A motion for amendment including that exception failed in a 412-164 vote.


The party of "freedom" and "small government" indeed.
318) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2103380)
Posted 18 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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EMERGENCY ROOM

Tell Me Any ER - No Matter wat Law Says -Will Turn Away a Woman Needing an Operation to SAVE HER LIFE.


We can add Wisconsin to this. Wisconsin? Really? Woman left to bleed for 10 days from incomplete miscarriage after being turned away by hospital?

A woman in Wisconsin was left to bleed for more than 10 days after suffering an incomplete miscarriage as doctors in the state struggle to navigate abortion laws in a post-Roe America.

Carley Zeal, an OB/GYN in southern Wisconsin and fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, told The Washington Post that the unidentified woman was going through a miscarriage and needed to have the fetal tissue removed from her uterus.

However because of Wisconsin’s outright ban on abortion, the woman was turned away by emergency room staff at a hospital in the state.

Dr Zeal said that she saw the woman more than 10 days later when she was still bleeding severely and at serious risk of infection.


Also note:

The only exception to the state’s abortion ban is when there is risk to the mother’s life.


...which was ignored. But really, why take the risk some hoamskooled politician will override a doctor and conclude what they did was not required to save the woman's life, cancel their license and criminally charge them? Just bleed to death at home... it's safer for everyone.
319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why won't ET introduce himself? (Message 2103328)
Posted 17 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why won't ET introduce himself? (Message 2103279)
Posted 16 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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All the actual verified evidence we have thus far is indicative that we haven't met any extraterrestrials because they are exceedingly rare. I'd expect to find thousands of planets with the equivalent of earthly bacteria before I found one with the equivalent of a worm, never mind an intelligence, a civilization. And we haven't even discovered a single extraterrestrial bacterium yet.

We should still keep listening, though. We can check for signals from millions of other worlds from here, and it's something to keep us going and hopeful in a vast, lonely and indifferent universe.
321) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2103270)
Posted 16 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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EMERGENCY ROOM

Tell Me Any ER - No Matter wat Law Says -Will Turn Away a Woman Needing an Operation to SAVE HER LIFE.


You can add Texas to the states where this is happening:

The Texas Medical Association (TMA) is raising the alarm on what they believe to be a growing number of cases in the state in which healthcare professionals are siding against providing care for women with severe pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state's abortion ban.

According to The Dallas Morning News' Allie Morris, a letter sent by members of the non-profit organization Wednesday to the Texas Medical Board claimed the association has received complaints regarding hospital administrators disallowing medical care providers from offering critical services to patients with ectopic pregnancies and other child birth complications.


Soon to be nationwide.
322) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2103236)
Posted 15 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why-o-why can't people wear masks?


I dunno either... the overdramatizing of wearing a $1 tiny piece of cloth made no sense to me. Fine and dandy if people don't want another injection, but claiming a mask was "traumatic," especially to children with zero evidence, was... well, typical sadly. Adult projection of what they imagined children to be feeling, without the inconvenience of actually having to ask them. Never saw a child have an issue with it; most of them thought it was fun as they had interesting masks (ie dinosaurs, dogs, superheroes.)

I never stopped with wearing one indoors as, well, COVID-19 never went away. It may be milder on average, but there are many more cases. It's more for the benefit of others, not as much myself, as there's plenty of evidence that they protect others more than the wearer. (See the old but accurate analogy of the peeing disease and wearing pants.)

323) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2103199)
Posted 15 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I find it a sad commentary on the entire system that a convicted felon can legally be elected President, the most powerful position on Earth, even while incarcerated, but most states ban people from simply voting for the President if they ever were a felon, even though they "paid their debt to society" and haven't even had a ticket in decades. As we saw in 2000, another security weakness to be exploited by "accidentally" purging non-felons from the rolls because they had similar names so may vote for the "wrong party".
324) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2103196)
Posted 15 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What's the betting that part of the reason for Donny to announce he is running in 2024, is so that he can ask his supporters for more money. And like in the past use it to pay for all the lawyers he needs.


The consensus seems to be that he is announcing it early as he has concluded he is going to be indicted, so if he is running for 2024 can then claim the indictment is for political reasons to deny him another term.
325) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2103147)
Posted 14 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Judge denied protective order against ex-husband, who appears to have returned and shot the entire family

A Michigan woman was denied a protection order against her husband two weeks before she and her family were found dead Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide, court documents show.

Tirany Savage, 35, filed for the order June 24 in Michigan’s 34th Circuit Court, claiming her husband, Bo Eugene Savage, had recently bought a gun, repeatedly threatened suicide and refused to leave the family’s home...

...deputies in Roscommon Township, roughly 115 miles north of Lansing, were dispatched to a home around 3:30 a.m. and found the bodies of Tirany Savage; her husband; her son, Dayton Cowdrey, 13; and her mother, Kim Lynette Ebright, 58, the Roscommon County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

The sheriff's office said that the family appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds and that the incident is being investigated as a murder-suicide.


Note emphasis.... where were these "red flag laws"? Probably the same place the protection order went.
326) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2103127)
Posted 13 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Then there's been another arrest in the Mesa County scandal.

3rd arrest made in alleged Colorado election security breach.


Sigh... Every Accusation is a Confession Part.. I lost count.

DENVER (AP) — The former elections manager for a Colorado clerk indicted on charges of tampering with voting equipment has been arrested on allegations that she was part of the scheme, an official said Wednesday.
...
Peters and her chief deputy, Belinda Knisley, are being prosecuted for allegedly allowing a copy of a hard drive to be made during an update of election equipment in May 2021. State election officials first became aware of a security breach last summer when a photo and video of confidential voting system passwords were posted on social media and a conservative website.

Peters, who has echoed former President Donald Trump’s false theories about the 2020 election and become a hero to election conspiracy theorists, lost her bid to become the GOP candidate for Colorado secretary of state last month. She first came to national attention when she spoke last year at a conference hosted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of the most prominent election deniers in the country.
327) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2103094)
Posted 13 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hadn't realized how many were incels.


If they weren't already, adopting that set of ideals and objectives will just about guarantee it.

However he added one chilling line "Our ultimate goal is The Handmaidens Tale"


Egads... again we see satire becoming reality. So much for "The Handmaid's Tale" is not a how-to manual. Appears it now is.

328) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2103024)
Posted 12 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, I have said for many years, that the U.S or rather D.S (Divided States), will go the same route as the Roman Empire.
It's not going to be a dictatorship, with 50% of the people on the other "side" so to speak, but will slowly slide into total
internal destruction. That's what happens when you follow an old and outdated constitution, not fit for modern times.


My personal predictions for the next few years given the current trajectory:
1) Moore v. Harper will be decided for the state/Moore. This will give the states powers to throw out presidential election results that the state governments disagree with (specifically of course if the winner is the "wrong" party) I think this one is a given as the court's radicals already indicated as such in an earlier dissent
1.5) Corollary to the above, a number of the redder states will gerrymander their districts to prevent the "wrong party" from being elected to Congress in future elections. There may be some "blue state" backlash where the same is done
2) Obergefell v. Hodges will be overturned ASAP ie in the next session; same-sex marriage will no longer be a universal right and states will be able to deny and annul marriages
3) Lawrence v. Texas will be overturned; individual states will be able to criminalize sexual acts between consenting adults even in the privacy of their own homes. This one is also possibly a given as its precedent of individual privacy was Roe v. Wade which is already overturned
4) Griswold v. Connecticut will be overturned; individual states will be able to ban and/or restrict contraceptives
5) In the 2024 presidential election, at least one state will follow Moore v. Harper and throw out their results citing unverified claims of election fraud, and substitute state-appointed electors of the "correct" party, which may be enough to change the results of the election
6) Throughout this, the Democratic party will do little or nothing, not wanting to offend their "across the aisle" connections they imagine to exist. The SCOTUS "justices" who lied under oath or actively abetted sedition will not be impeached. The court will not be expanded to 13 justices to match the 12+1 chief federal court districts. No bills will be passed to reform election integrity or increase the punishments for interfering with a federal election
7) A major state, most possibly California or New York, will begin formal secession proceedings to withdraw from the Union

We'll see how many of these pan out. Still holding out hope for "none". Willing to be pleasantly surprised.
329) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2102912)
Posted 10 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Return the U.S. to the dark ages of the Puritans.

That's a good idea, should go down well.


It seems to have been overlooked that the Puritans were exceedingly intolerant of even other Christian denominations. Quakers, Baptists and Catholics were not welcome to the extreme of executions of those who wouldn't convert or leave.

Good luck on those advocating for a "national church" agreeing on which one it will end up being. They'll have to rediscover for themselves the hundreds of years of religious wars in Europe that motivated the U.S. to be the first nation in history which did not have a state church and whose only constitutional reference to religion was exclusionary.
330) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2102889)
Posted 10 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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331) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2102888)
Posted 9 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
FAKE Manufactured EVIDENCE


Which specific evidence is fake?
332) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2102887)
Posted 9 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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When SUPERTrump is IN PRISON - dA SUPERTrump BRIGADE Will Break Him Out wind after too much Golden Corral buffet


Fixed that one for ya.
333) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2102879)
Posted 9 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, stupid or not, it does seem to have more evidence supporting it than that if you eat a piece of bread that magically became the son of an invisible spacebeard man then you'll be able to experience cosmic Disneyland forever even after you're a pile of dust... I give it that.
334) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2102856)
Posted 9 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It is the US Senate which appoints Supreme Court Justices to their job, not a sitting president.


This is incorrect. The president appoints them; the senate approves or denies the appointment. This is as per the US Constitution Article II, Section 2:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court...


Consent of the Senate = the senate votes to confirm or deny.

We can also add another important and contentious detail: Article III, Section 1:

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.


As "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour" is the only mention in the document of any length of term, thus all federal justices' appointments are of indefinite length (ie for life or until resignation) unless "good Behaviour" has been determined to have ceased via impeachment and conviction by the senate. This has only happened once, with Samuel Chase's impeachment in 1805, which he was acquitted of by the senate anyway. (Incidentally it was for making politically biased rulings... could use a few more of those but they'd probably end up with the same result right now.)
335) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102810)
Posted 8 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Biden signs executive order on abortion access amid pressure from Democrats

Two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion nationwide despite efforts by some states to outlaw or severely restrict it.

Speaking from the Roosevelt Room of the White House alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Biden decried the court's decision two weeks ago as "extreme" and "totally wrong."

...

His order largely finalizes what has already been announced by the administration -- including instructions to the Justice Department to make sure women can travel out-of-state for abortion care.

The order addresses the elevated risks for patients, providers and clinics, which includes efforts to protect mobile clinics that have been deployed to state borders to offer care for out-of-state patients.

Biden's action, the White House said, directs Attorney General Merrick Garland and the White House counsel to convene volunteer lawyers and organizations to "encourage robust legal representation of patients, providers, and third parties lawfully seeking or offering reproductive health care services throughout the country."

Biden has also said he'll provide leave for federal workers traveling for medical care, which could set an example for private companies to do the same.

Biden is also ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to take "additional action to protect and expand" access to medication abortion, emergency contraception and IUDs.

The agency is instructed to increase outreach and public education efforts regarding access to reproductive health care services -- abortion included -- to get reliable information to the public.

Patient privacy is another part of Biden's order, which takes additional measures to address the transfer and sale of sensitive health-related data, combat digital surveillance related to reproductive health care services and protects people from fraudulent and deceptive practices.

Last week, Democratic governors urged Biden to use federal facilities and land for abortion services.


I wonder if the " and protects people from fraudulent and deceptive practices" means busting all the fake "pregnancy centres" which are deceptive fronts for churches, etc. Nah, I doubt it.
336) Message boards : Politics : UK political scene (Message 2102694)
Posted 7 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wait for it. ;-)


Gone...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign, his office said Thursday, ending an unprecedented political crisis over his future that has paralyzed Britain's government.


43 ministers resigned. Should have been capped at 42 in my opinion. :^)
337) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102643)
Posted 6 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And The WOMEN who Do have Those Options throw Caution to da Wind.

For a Couple Moments of What?

Heavy Breathing


Perhaps we should ban all surgery while we're at it, as it is sometimes used to save the lives of people who "threw caution to the wind," self-mutilated and/or attempted suicide.
338) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102611)
Posted 5 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meaning: To NOT Have Sex. Or Having PROTECTED Sex.


I don't think raped ten-year-olds have those options.
339) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102516)
Posted 4 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Fancy having to carry a baby until it dies?


Or the mother does. US examples to soon follow, unfortunately. Since the inevitable result is that women will die needlessly and then this garbage decision will be overturned, can we just skip the "women will die needlessly" part already? Sigh.

Well said. Also, Gary's comment that followed.


Thanks. :^)
340) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2102417)
Posted 2 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The other two Donald Trump appointed (Barrett and Gorsuch) were not forthright in their confirmations and it could be argued they should be removed, but Kavanaugh didn't even bother being evasive and just outright directly perjured. In a sane world, he would be impeached for it. But...

Thomas is definitely the worst of them for not only being brazenly partisan and not even maintaining a veneer of impartiality (he attends Federalist Society meetings which are nigh-exclusively populated by Republicans; examples include Pence and McConnell) and gives partisan speeches there, but also of course his refusal to recuse himself from Jan. 6th related matters while his wife is trying to overthrow the election, then being the only dissenting vote for no good reason when Trump's request to block the release of document evidence to the panel was refused.

But with the hyperpartisan senate where it would be doubtful a single Republican would vote to convict no matter the evidence, I think it would be a waste of time and effort to even try (as I am sure is why it hasn't been done yet.) As far as I know impeachment of anyone whether a president or a judge requires a two-thirds majority.
341) Message boards : Politics : SCOTUS returning the U.S. back to the dark ages. (Message 2102414)
Posted 2 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And why don't they just pay for their own security? They're getting enough kickbacks arn't they?


Didn't they block New York's concealed carry law for this reason, self-defense? They should be able to look after themselves.
342) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102411)
Posted 2 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I am not against the death penalty because of the guilty (having very little sympathy with murderers) but the innocent wrongly convicted.

Similarly, I am not pro-abortion because of perfectly healthy consenting people who don't take precautions etc. I do acknowledge them the right, but with similar disdain to not wanting public nosepicking to be criminalized. I am not merely pro-choice, but pro-abortion, for rape victims, especially children, and if the mother's or fetus' life is in danger.

It's a complex shades-of-grey issue, one whose ethical nuances are lost in a world where everything needs to be simplified down to bumper sticker slogan size.
343) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102379)
Posted 1 Jul 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How Many 'To Be' GREAT PEOPLE were ABORTED? I Guess Same Amount as MURDERING mO fOs.


I wonder which one a 10-year-old girl's rape baby would be...

Happily we won't get to find out because she was able to go to a neighbouring state. Unfortunately hers has a limit of six weeks, and she was at six weeks and three days. but rules are rules doncha know becuz freedumb, or something.

Soon all those neighbouring states will ban it, so we'll get to find out how the next ten-year-old's rape baby turns out. I wonder if the mother will survive?
344) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2102296)
Posted 30 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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OAKLAND, Calif. - Two rookie Oakland police officers chased the driver of a Nissan 350Z they said was involved in a sideshow event, prompting a deadly crash before fleeing the scene without helping anyone who was injured...
345) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2102215)
Posted 29 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That's a good example of the hypocrisy of the far right.
There must be free choice for vaccines but not for abortions.



346) Message boards : Politics : KARI LAKE for VP Running Mate with SUPERTrump. Wat A FIREBRAND. A Female SUPERTrump. Maybe More So. (Message 2102120)
Posted 27 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This Anchor and Rest of FOX News has been Kissin' da Butt of Narrative of NO ELECTION FRAUD 2020.

Makes Me Sick the Way they Kiss da Butt of All The DENIERs.


How dare they require evidence or assume that assertions not proven in court may be incorrect. The nerve of them.
347) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2102095)
Posted 27 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
More guns and less mayonnaise needed in Atlanta
348) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102074)
Posted 27 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks, Gary, I didn't see anything about destruction of property but there were a few incidents of troublemakers (as always.) They make the rest of the protestors look bad (perhaps not an accident?)
349) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102061)
Posted 26 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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CONTROLING the Breaking of GLASS; BURNING of Many Things; WANTON HAVOC EveryWhere. Other Peoples RIGHTs and PROPERTIEs
BE DAMNED.

Being OUT - OF - CONTROL Seems to Be MOST IMPORTANT.


Where exactly are there any riots and/or destruction of property as you noted anywhere related to this issue?
350) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2102030)
Posted 26 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Late Term ABORTIONs Makes Me ILL. Again, if there are People who Want Them and Will Perform Them - Do It.


Even I don't agree they should be simply on-demand. However, as would be expected they are very rare and most doctors won't do them without a very good reason (ie life-threatening complications to the woman or fetus). Of course by then she has been aware of the pregnancy for several months so would (should!) have terminated it much sooner before there was any brain development, which is the only scientifically verifiable criterion we have to determine it's become a human rather than a small lump of tissue. Someone needs to tell these "heartbeat" politicos that human heart cells can be generated from stem cells and kept beating all on their own in a petri dish with the right medium.

The grotesque late-term poster-sized pictures that abortion opponents flash on street corners these days for shock value don't have any context. Were they done to save the woman's life? Was the fetus dead already anyways? They don't say and frankly I wouldn't believe them if they did for obvious reasons.

As per the CDC "and even fewer (<1.0%) were performed at 21 weeks’ gestation". Less than 1% at 21, and third trimester doesn't start until 27.
351) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101955)
Posted 25 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Something from a religious non-nutjob that's never been more relevant or required these days:

" 'The unborn' are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”

--- Methodist Pastor David Barnhart
352) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101925)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For years afterwards, the religious nutjob told everyone that I had a new soul as my last 2 went to heaven.



353) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101923)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please Tell Me a Country Where NO ONE EVER Dies Needlessly.


We should cancel all medicine then, because since people die needlessly anyway what's the point.
Oh also clearly God wanted them to die so who are we to question His Divine Will.
354) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101921)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
EMERGENCY ROOM

Tell Me Any ER - No Matter wat Law Says -Will Turn Away a Woman Needing an Operation to SAVE HER LIFE.


Most of them.

I was astounded by how often patients were turned away from emergency rooms and their doctor’s offices in the middle of their miscarriages. No wonder Alabama has the third-highest maternal mortality rate in the nation, I initially thought. People are denied urgent medical attention outright, which left me wondering at first if health care providers were simply negligent and not keeping up with their medical education. Or was this lack of care a reflection of discrimination? Eventually, I landed on discrimination as the cause.


Medical providers who treat pregnancy-related issues in red states exist in a constant state of fear of performing any procedure that can be classified as an abortion—even while the procedures remain legal. We know that we face the risk of being prosecuted, having our licenses revoked, or even being thrown in jail if we fail to precisely follow every regulation, no matter how arcane or medically unnecessary it is. (We can be cited if the clinic’s janitor’s closet isn’t the size deemed appropriate by the state, for example.)


You expect a doctor to risk loss of their medical license and jail time? Hah. Not in a for-profit health system at least.
355) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101915)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You Go Where They Will Do Operation.


Oops... Republican POTUS 2024, it's now homicide nationwide, nowhere to go in enough time. Patient bled to death.

Good try though.

356) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101909)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If You Want CONTROL of Your Body, Take CONTROL.

Don't Allow a PENILE IMPLANT ifN you Can CONCIEVE.


Exactly how does your utterly worthless and useless "advice" help a married woman who wants to have a baby but has an ectopic pregnancy and is going to die because her state banned the required termination of it without exception for the life of the mother?

I asked someone else this before and didn't get an answer for some reason. Maybe I will get one this time. Looking forward!
357) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101903)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I wonder what her views will be in 20 years time if any children she has are murdered in a school shooting?
Will she put in as much effort to ban guns?


The politicians need to offset the population loss from all the expected gun deaths. A few million unwanted babies should do that. A disproportionate number will also become criminals due to being unwanted, thus more money for the police and courts. It's a win-win...
358) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101899)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In his remarks, Biden said that women in states where abortion restrictions are now in place will be free to travel to other parts of the country to receive abortion care.


Pence's first comment on this was that they will be pushing for a national ban bill, probably equating abortion with homicide. If the Republicans take Congress in the midterms, will certainly author this, and have it promptly vetoed if it passes.

I wonder if post-pubescent females crossing the border from red states into Canada are now going to have to undergo mandatory ultrasounds in case they are crossing for an abortion, as well as many other side effects of this decision. There will be plenty of women who die because of this because many states don't have an exception to save the woman's life in case of complications requiring medical intervention, but since most of them will be poor and not Republican (so not as likely white) nothing will be done. Wealthy Republicans will still be able to get abortions when they want.

Sharon Stone indicated today she had nine miscarriages. US women can look forward to a future of possibly being criminally investigated whenever they have one, and I'm sure many will be charged and convicted for it.

In this case, that the US is a litigatious society may be a way out of this: I would strongly urge women (or their surviving families) who are injured or die because they were legislatively denied the right to a medical procedure to sue their state governments for as many tens of millions of dollars as the law will allow. Money talks.
359) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101893)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Same-Sex Marriage and Contraception Should Be Next on Chopping Block: Clarence Thomas


Gosh, he conveniently accidentally overlooked Loving v. Virginia. That isn't very originalist of him.
360) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2101890)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. in 1973.
361) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2101859)
Posted 23 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Appeals court revives challenge to bump stock ban.


I remember when the best way of getting someone to change the subject around here when they argued that restricting high-capacity semi-automatic rifles was tyranny was to ask why they drew the line there, and why wasn't restricting full-autos tyranny as well?

So at least they're going to be consistent and it'll be machine guns for everyone now... whee.
362) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2101835)
Posted 23 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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When a BADDIE/SICKO is STOPPED from The OUTCOME da BADDIE/SICKO is Hoping For -by a GUN - and ANOTHER US of A Citizen Lives to See Another Moment of Life - instead of the Eternal DIRT NAP - with LOVED ONEs Looking at The Grave - Well, It is a GOoD Thang.


"Any evidence is just going to be dismissed or ignored anyway." The evidence that this post ignores is that overwhelmingly, if they are ever used for anything but practice, firearms are used for murders and assaults and other illegal purposes, not lawful protection from "baddies and sickos."

My issue isn't with the firearms themselves... it's the laws allowing any yahoo to buy a weapon of war that can shoot twenty schoolchildren a minute with no waiting period, no license, no training, no proof of responsible ownership, no nothing except a check that, up until that moment, they have not used such for that purpose.

It's like letting someone on their 16th birthday drive a transport truck with no license or training, and when they inevitably hamburger a busload of nuns and orphans or something equivalently horrific, boohooing that this is the price of "freedom", there's nothing we can do, and if anyone tries they're traitors and deserving of death threats.
363) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2101831)
Posted 23 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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POST ALL One Can to SHOW how Attempting to Be Safe has Gone Wrong.

It Is GOoD to Know OutComes. Bad or GOoD.


Already did "... 45. States with stricter gun control laws witness fewer gun-related deaths..." This also applies to countries.

Any evidence is just going to be dismissed or ignored anyway.
364) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2101812)
Posted 23 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Supreme Court Overturns NY's Concealed Carry Law

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York law that regulated who is allowed to carry a concealed weapon in public, expanding gun rights nationwide at a time when the country is reeling from a series of recent mass shooting.

In a 6-3 decision by the court's conservative majority, the justices ruled that requiring people to demonstrate a particular need for carrying a gun in order to get a license to carry one in public violated the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”


There goes visiting NYC off my bucket list. :^p
365) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2101729)
Posted 22 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And, Pence saying Biden is the most dishonest president ever in his lifetime. To that I say "40. Feet."


He did an important correct thing once when he could have done otherwise, so don't expect anything else. :^p

Trump had 7x more false or misleading statements in his first 100 days in office by the way...
366) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2101681)
Posted 21 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And Looked GOoD Doing It.

RATFACE. Always Lookin' GOoD.

SUPERPrez


I Gots to Admit. This OLDSTER is Well-Dressed; GOoD-Lookin'; and STUDLY

Go Get 'em SUPERStud

Man O Live

Best Lookin' SUPERPrez EVER


My sarcasmeter needs some new batteries... I can't get a good reading.
367) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2101662)
Posted 21 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oh, This Would Make GUNs; KILLING; DEATH; and WAR a GOoD Thing?


It isn't "good" but is legally and ethically warranted self-defense, just as a homeowner using their firearms to defend their home and family from armed invaders is.

"Good" would have been Vladimir Putin retiring many years ago and reforms including legimate elections.
368) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2101629)
Posted 20 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thread Title Should be:

Fascinated by US of A GUN DEATHs


This could be interpreted positively that so many others look to the US as a world leader and example. In this case, they may be dismayed that the US is such an outlier in gun violence among wealthy nations.
(Canada is catching up unfortunately.)
369) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2101593)
Posted 20 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Perhaps decommissioning nuclear power generation was not a good idea long-term: Germany will restart coal-fired power plants to replace Russian gas losses.
370) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2101543)
Posted 19 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I can name you another politician who was elected with a strong majority, who was charismatic and much beloved by his followers at the time, but today isn't thought of so highly... popularity and charisma does not necessarily mean that the person is either correct nor doing the right thing, just that they believe themselves to be doing the correct thing, and/or have convinced others of this. In retrospect, evidence may be discovered that neither was true.

No, it's not the obvious example. :^p Much more recent. People who disagreed with George W. Bush's 2003 Iraq invasion were routinely pilloried as traitors or libby loos or wimps or whatever insults were fashionable at the time, and the media was almost completely onboard with it (as Michael Moore demonstrated in Fahrenheit 9/11, for the making of which he was constantly slandered and received death threats... the usual.) As time went by, it became evident what most of the rest of the world was already aware of and found obvious: that no or exceedingly minimal WMDs were present in Iraq, that the regime was secular and antagonistic to, never mind not merely affiliated with, Al Quaeda or other Islamist groups, and as predicted this would energize Islamist terrorism in the region when their opponent was removed... ISIS/ISIL and others ended up being fertilized in the ashes of the war. The opposite premises presented to the American people were that Iraq had thousands of WMDs including nuclear (remember Bush's ridiculous "We don't want the smoking gun to be in the form of a mushroom cloud" ?) that Saddam was allied with Al Quaeda and that his removal would reduce Islamist terrorism and help the Iraqi people. The once so-called fringe left-wing position that these were all incorrect and the invasion was a terrible mistake went so mainstream that Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, even indicated such during his campaign.

Yet at the time, GWB was so charismatic and popular that he was re-elected with a majority even after the war had been running long enough that the fact it was a failure with no factual basis was already known.
371) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2101480)
Posted 17 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've yet to see this mysterious "militant left" that they claim is about, but may they need some real truth.




Could be proof they watch too much Russian media. ;^)
372) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2101355)
Posted 15 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We'll See RATFACE in ORANGE - Along with His Crime Family


Will that be before or after Hillary Clinton, as "predicted" over many years?
373) Message boards : Politics : PIPE (Message 2101294)
Posted 14 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Build a Water Pipe to some Arid Part of US and


There are no arid parts of the USA... it's all climate change hysteria. Bring on the New Dust Bowl.
374) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2101293)
Posted 14 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Climate Change Hysteria


Lakes drying up are hysteria now? The bar lowers...
375) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2101277)
Posted 13 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Water levels have gotten so low in Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir, that human remains have been discovered among the receding waters. The Colorado River, a major freshwater source for more 40 million people in seven southwestern U.S. states and parts of northern Mexico, has lost 20% of its water levels over the past 22 years, making it the most endangered river in the country.


And another one: Great Salt Lake has lost 2/3 of its water. Note the 1987/2021 satellite photos.

Also note that "Most alarming, the air surrounding Salt Lake City would occasionally turn poisonous. The lake bed contains high levels of arsenic and as more of it becomes exposed, wind storms carry that arsenic into the lungs of nearby residents, who make up three-quarters of Utah’s population."

(Need I mention who they voted for twice?)
376) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2101229)
Posted 12 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As a user of leg power and public transportation, I agree with a lot of this list. I do have to wonder what has happened to gas use in the US since the mid-90s, as well as accidents/mortality since then.


Average MPG has doubled since the 1970s, but only increased from about 20 to 25 since the 1990s. The industry ends up making larger and heavier vehicles when efficiency improves, which minimize the gains. Source.

Deaths per distance per capita has been on average falling since the 1960s and is close to its lowest point. We can probably thank seat belts, air bags, laws and social pressure against DUI and anti-lock brakes as major contributors. Source.
377) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2101183)
Posted 11 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Such a Special One

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/07/democrat-senator-says-gas-prices-dont-matter-to-her-as-millions-impacted-by-record-high-prices/


Hey, all that doesn't matter to her is the price of gasoline... she is not so special. For me you can also add: insurance, licensing, registration, depreciation, repossession, maintenance labour, breakdown tows, unrepairable and unnecessary onboard electronics, parking, traffic jams, most road closures, carjackings, speed limits, unnecessary stop signs, unnecessary red lights on some three-ways, and a bunch else. I think Sarge may be in agreement with this list as well.
378) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2101145)
Posted 11 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Perhaps no advertiser is prepared to have their good name sullied by being associated with Tucker?


Just the opposite: his rate is the highest on cable "news"

It would seem that that Fox was willing to lose well over $100K in revenue to keep its viewers from changing their channel.
379) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2101033)
Posted 9 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Perhaps not as much as some, but Joe is not immune from shoveling some BS:

"Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in the country” that have immunity from lawsuits.

In the wake of the deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, President Joe Biden repeated an inaccurate talking point in his push for gun control legislation, saying that gun manufacturers represent the "only industry" with liability immunity.

"We should repeal the liability shield that often protects gun manufacturers from being sued for the death and destruction caused by their weapons," Biden wrote in a June 2 tweet. "They’re the only industry in the country that has this kind of immunity. It’s outrageous. It must end."
...
For example, in 2019, the Supreme Court allowed a lawsuit brought by nine Sandy Hook victims’ families against gun manufacturer Remington Arms Company to continue. Remington Arms manufactured the gun used in the mass shooting and the plaintiffs sought to hold the company partly responsible by targeting its marketing practices. The families settled with the gunmaker in February for $73 million.
...
Biden said that gun manufacturers represent the only industry in America that is exempt from being sued.

This isn’t accurate. The gun industry is not entirely exempt from being sued and is susceptible to some lawsuits. Further, there are federal laws that restrict liability for a variety of other business sectors.

We rate it False.
380) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2100988)
Posted 8 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Marjorie Taylor Greene outraged by parody Twitter account labeled as "misleading".

So totally stupid and brain dead that girl. LOL


She would say that the Gazpacho Police whipped up something in a Peach Tree dish that made you think that. ;^)
381) Message boards : Politics : Fake News! (Message 2100934)
Posted 7 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Fact check: Energy costs of wind turbine manufacturing recouped in months.


From the article:

"The turbine has to spin continually for 7 plus years just to replace the energy it took to manufacture the turbine," reads part of the caption of an April 16 Facebook post.

The post garnered nearly 800 interactions. Versions of the claim also spread on Twitter.


Sigh... It's admirable that someone is putting the effort in, but factchecking those two sewers is like trying to drain the ocean with a teaspoon.
382) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2100743)
Posted 4 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Donald Trump and His Adult Children Will Spend Seven Hours Apiece in Depositions for a Suit Accusing Them of Promoting a Pyramid Scheme

Former President Donald Trump and three of his adult children will spend seven hours apiece facing deposition for a federal lawsuit accusing them of promoting a pyramid scheme, a new court filing indicates.

...

Initially filed anonymously in 2018, the lawsuit alleges that the Trump Corporation promoted a multi-level marketing scheme—better known as a pyramid scheme—through the company ACN Opportunity, LLC, which operates under the name American Communications Network. The four named plaintiffs, suing under a proposed class action, agreed to waive their anonymity last year in filing a second amended lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, ACN was a “get-rich-quick scheme” that burnished Trump and his family’s names for the purposes of “conn[ing] each of these victims into giving up hundreds or thousands of dollars” in alleged violation of various state laws. ACN had investors sign an arbitration agreement, but the Trumps did not.

The U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit denied the Trump family’s request to force the plaintiffs into arbitration, which likely would have resolved the matter secretly.

Instead, the case proceeded publicly in the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit there claims that the Trumps arranged for ACN to appear twice on The Celebrity Apprentice.
383) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100534)
Posted 1 Jun 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Correction: the second rep. Randy Fine tweet “Elementary school children is a small sacrifice that I’m willing to make for the Second Amendment” was from a parody account. The first one threatening Joe Biden was genuine.
384) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100258)
Posted 27 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Texas official says police didn’t go inside Uvalde school because ‘they could have been shot’.


Meanwhile, unarmed and unarmored teachers died shielding children with their own bodies.
385) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100235)
Posted 27 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How Many NRA Members do you Know?


the NRA.


"the NRA" != individual NRA members.
386) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100224)
Posted 26 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Another victim succumbs... an indirect victim.

UVALDE, Texas - The husband of an elementary school teacher killed during a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas has died of a heart attack.

Family members tell FOX 26 Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, died Thursday - just two days after his wife was tragically killed when a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and opened fire.
387) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100198)
Posted 26 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The stooge from Florida I posted a tweet from yesterday has outdone himself...



Can't get beyond that first sentence without stopping reading. I'd rank that as probably the worst official statement or at least in the top three from an elected representative in my lifetime, if it's not satire. I can't even tell anymore.

And "stooge" isn't an exaggeration: apparently he's the/a great-grandson of Larry Fine of the Three Stooges. How appropriate.
388) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2100174)
Posted 26 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Military Bases Named After Confederate Leaders May Soon Honor Women and People of Color Instead.

Now that's a list of morally honorable people to replace the current trash 1's.


One of the names I remember that I sadly don't see there any more is Alwyn Cashe.

Cashe died in 2005 after the Bradley Fighting Vehicle he was commanding in Iraq was struck by an improvised explosive device. He pulled the driver out of the vehicle despite his own uniform being soaked in fuel. While he was rescuing the driver, Cashe's uniform caught fire, causing burns over most of his body, but he still went back to save another six soldiers from the vehicle.


Seemingly oblivious to the fact that he was on fire until he had rescued all the other occupants of the vehicle, he was severely burned over 70% of his body and died three weeks later in military hospital. It took 15 years until his Silver Star was upgraded to a Medal of Honor.
389) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100155)
Posted 25 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Of course, from the embarrassingly exposed dangly bit in the southeast comes this gem:



Do absolutely nothing and still get a death threat (federal crime of course when it's the president.)

Or, if you don't feel like getting a visit from the Secret Service, just blame the two favorite boogeypeople... they're mostly more vulnerable and defenseless so easy pickings, right?



And this is a federal politician, not a state or municipal... hey, he missed the quadrifecta by saying they were also Antifa and working for George Soros, so re-election is not in the cards for rep. Dr. (OK, dentist) Gosar.
390) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100153)
Posted 25 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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An 18 Year Old can be SENT TO WAR by U. S. Guv. Is He/Her SENT TO WAR WITHOUT a GUN/WEAPON? NOPE.


As per the usual oversimplification and convenient omissions, forgot the ten weeks of intensive training the military provides, with testing and monitoring throughout to weed out the incompetents and nutcases. But then so does everyone who misses the "well regulated Militia" bit in the 2nd as if it said "wul ergaberted mersha" instead.
It's so legally and legislatively overlooked they may as well have written that verbatim.
391) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2100099)
Posted 24 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Now 15 and counting.
392) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2100048)
Posted 24 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A principled and outspoken Russian diplomat resigns

Boris Bondarev, 41, confirmed his resignation in a letter delivered Monday morning after a diplomatic official passed on his English-language statement to The Associated Press.

“For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on Feb. 24 of this year,” he wrote, alluding to the date of Russia's invasion.
...
“The aggressive war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine, and in fact against the entire Western world, is not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia, with a bold letter Z crossing out all hopes and prospects for a prosperous and free society in our country,” Bondarev wrote, referring to the widespread use of the letter “Z” as a symbol of support for Russia's war in Ukraine.
...
“It is intolerable what my government is doing now,” Bondarev told the AP. “As a civil servant, I have to carry a share of responsibility for that. And I don't want to do that.”
...
Bondarev said those who conceived the war “want only one thing - to remain in power forever, live in pompous tasteless palaces, sail on yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the entire Russian Navy, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity.”
...
“In 18 years, he (Lavrov) went from a professional and educated intellectual to a person who constantly broadcasts conflicting statements and threatens the world with nuclear weapons!” he wrote. “Today, the (Russian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not about diplomacy. It is all about warmongering, lies and hatred.”


I hope he stays vigilant from this point on...
393) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2100032)
Posted 23 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We LOVE Our KING aka SUPERTrump

SUPERKing


394) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2100030)
Posted 23 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Q:
How crazy and despicably zany can the Republicans get?


A:
KING SUPERTrump
395) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099935)
Posted 21 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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dA WAY Weeee da Weeee Peoples LIKE 'IT'.


If you're seriously agreeing with banning birth control, I highly doubt "Weeee da Weeee Peoples" is more than a disproportionately noisy ten percent or so radical fringe.
396) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099900)
Posted 20 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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They're starting to say the quiet part out loud...

Trump-Endorsed Candidate Backs Banning Birth Control

Donald Trump’s pick for a Michigan state Senate seat is promising to ban all birth control if she gets the chance.
397) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2099842)
Posted 19 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The majority of people are dead, about fifteen to one is the best estimate. I'll stay in the minority as long as possible, thanks.
398) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2099653)
Posted 16 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Where's da Daily Mass Murder Update?


Probably the same place the ritual Tucker adoration went.
399) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2099564)
Posted 15 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

BUFFALO—In the hours following a violent rampage in New York in which a lone attacker killed ten individuals, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said a resident, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”


Updated for the latest occurrence.
400) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2099531)
Posted 14 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Calling a man 'bald' is sexual harassment, a UK tribunal rules.

I can see this causing problems.


Googling "suspect description bald" returns 8,440,000 results. The lawsuits could tie up the courts for decades and bankrupt numerous police departments. :^p
401) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099508)
Posted 14 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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These Border Crossers are The Healthiest; Well Dressed; Fittest; Crisply Moving; Happiest; Bouncy; Migrants EVER to Cross Any Border in da World - ThroughOut History.
No Matter HOW LONG Their Trek - They BOUND Over da Border Like No Others Ever.
None are GASPING for Water or Begging for FOOD. Many Are OVERWEIGHT by a Large Amount.
None are Wearing RAGs.


Political refugees are not necessarily poor.
402) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099492)
Posted 13 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He LOVEs a GOoD ROTFLHMFAO.


I'm still at a loss to find any humor in the simple fact that if a person is legally detained, they need to be fed while detained to the minimum requirements to sustain human life. Being all "pro-life", so-called, this should be obvious.
403) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2099476)
Posted 13 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I for one will gladly pay more for what I buy, in order to stop feeding undemocratic, dictatorial, and fascist countries like Russia and China.
That may mean that I must lower my living standards, and I'm more than willing to do that. I've had enough of Russia and China.


This was another instance of easily bought politicians... there used to be plenty of tariff and other protections in place, and laws to make it financially a no-win to ship jobs to other countries, but they were scrapped after enough "influence."

We've had plenty of evidence that China criminalizes just about everything, then uses prison labour in manufacturing (which is then no better than slave labour) and even "free" workers are treated like slaves, ie forced to live in company quarters for a fee, worked double-digit hours and then lose their pay for taking an extra minute on break or nodding off for a few seconds. I'm not a fan of excessive regulation, but it's impossible for a free society to compete fairly with this thus the tariffs etc.. We need to vote this issue (and Ukraine too, of course.)
404) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2099394)
Posted 12 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"You'd better not join NATO, or we'll... make you wish you'd joined NATO!"
405) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099290)
Posted 11 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It is said ”Wayne Dehoney, Southern Baptist Convention president in the 1960’s, noted, in 1976, the difference between Protestant and Catholic theology when he said: Protestant theology generally takes Genesis 2:7 as a statement that the soul is formed at breath, not conception.'"
My question is, can anyone track down where he originally said this?


This is a possibly "official" info source for the denomination:

"The blog cited as evidence a 1971 Southern Baptist Convention resolution that supported “legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental and physical health of the mother.”

In his 2006 book, Thy Kingdom Come, Randall Balmer noted the approval of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized most abortion by First Baptist of Dallas Pastor W.A. Criswell, president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the time."

“Protestant theology generally takes Genesis 2:7 as a statement that the soul is formed at breath, not conception,” Dehoney said.


At the time the Declaration and Constitution were written, given that instruments for safe internal examination were basically non-existent, it was uncontroversial that a fetus was not considered alive at all until its "quickening", when it began to noticeably move, at 17 to 23 weeks which is in the second trimester. There were absolutely no restrictions against termination before quickening whether by chemical, surgical or other means in any state. (Even Benjamin Franklin published a how-to walkthrough based on pennyroyal.)
406) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099258)
Posted 10 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If the females would just keep an aspirin between their knees, then they would not get pregnant


How does this not-so-sage and rather callous advice help, say, married women with life-threatening complications of their pregnancy where the only medical procedure to save their life has been ruled illegal?
407) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099212)
Posted 10 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You know when things are wrong when security fencing has to be put up around the supreme court..


The height of irony/hypocrisy is that the same SCOTUS in 2014 struck down a Massachusetts law requiring a 35-foot buffer zone around clinics in which it would be illegal to harass patients. Their decision? It was an unconstitutional limitation of freedom of speech.

I also still have yet to see any investigation into how one of them can not be recused during cases into the January 2021 insurrection when his wife was part of it, actively working to overthrow the presidential election, but I guess they have a different set of standards than we little people.

Never mind only behind closed doors, some of the judges have contradicted what they said in their senate confirmation hearings. But as usual, though it would normally be impeachable, nothing will happen.
408) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099166)
Posted 9 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I LOVE SEEING MINDs EXPLODE with GOTCHAs


Those are called "replies" and are to be expected on a discussion forum. I note that there was no on-topic content in this post so not much else for me to reply to.
409) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2099159)
Posted 8 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A Male and Female AWARE of What Can Happen when they Have Unprotected Sex. They COPULATE Unprotected.

Conception Occurs. They Knew it Was Possible, Yet Did It Anyways. They DID NOT WANT a Pregnency.


Outside of the (obviously) rare instances where people use abortion as a form of birth control, does this mean that first-trimester abortions for rape, incest, fetal unviability, contraceptive failure, or mortal danger to the health of the mother (ie ectopic pregnancy) are acceptable?

I ask as once again your narrative vastly oversimplifies as if there are no other circumstances.

By the way, the proposed Louisiana bill, contrary to your assertion that no one will lose this right, also doesn't recognize any of these justifications. If a woman has an ectopic pregnancy in Louisiana, her two alternatives will be death, or her and her doctor being charged with murder (oh, that could lead to death there too, of course.) Brought to you by the party of freedumb and small government of course.
410) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2099062)
Posted 6 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"The stuff in my freezer is still frozen, so my house can't possibly be on fire."
411) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2098968)
Posted 5 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is There NO VIOLENCE in KILLING an In-the Womb BABY at 9 Months; 8 Months; 7 Months; 6 Months.........X Months


Late-term abortions exceedingly rare, doctors won't do them unless required (ie to save the mother's life or if the fetus would die anyway) but they were nevertheless already outlawed in 43 states anyway.

There is a huge ethical difference between causing the death for no compelling reason of a fetus that could survive as a baby with medical assistance, and a rape victim's undifferentiated blastocyst the size of a grain of sand, and this is the critical point: the laws almost universally don't take this into consideration. They don't consider the life of the mother, or the life or development or viability of the fetus, or how it got there... they just blanket ban pregnancy termination at all stages. This shows that they are not there to "protect babies" or any other BS explanation but simply to enforce religiously-based nonsense that babby seed was made by magic sky beardman and who are we to interfere with it etc. etc.
412) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2098957)
Posted 4 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Roe being repealed will create more female dem voters than ever, this is a real boon for them in the midterm election.


The counter to this is going to be a state abortion ban referendum on the federal ballots.
413) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2098910)
Posted 4 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Still Open Season on Fetal Life.


Cysts and tumors are equally alive. Still awaiting the faux outrage about their removal.

Meanwhile millions of US Gilead women can soon live in fear of a visit from homicide with possible arrest, interrogation and maybe even some beatings and forced confessions and jail time and a death sentence or two to show the brood mares who runs things in Gawd's Country should anyone rat them out for having an uninduced miscarriage. Yep.

There are many other side effects to this decision other than simply the loss of abortion rights.
414) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2098890)
Posted 4 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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ABORTION is NOT being Banned.

Anyone Hearing and Reading or Seeing Know Abortion is NOT being Banned.


There are 13 states who have already passed so-called "trigger laws" that will immediately go into effect to ban it if Roe v. Wade is tossed, so for those states this incorrect. There are also 9 more which have unenforced bans still on the books which will then become enforceable. We're up to 22 states which is only 3 away from half. I'm sure others will follow once the rescinding is official.
415) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2098838)
Posted 3 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some States will Be DEATH MILLS


I wonder if a woman forced to carry their rapist's baby to delivery because they were to poor to travel out of state for an abortion would use that term.

Happily mifepristone and misoprostol by mail is very hard to control.
416) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2098834)
Posted 3 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.


Note that this is a leaked draft, but I'm betting it's a done deal.
417) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2098813)
Posted 2 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Out of ONE MILLION Words SPOKE - SUPERTrump makes ONE MISTAKE.


... and 30,573 conveniently overlooked "false or misleading claims"

(aka lies.)
418) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2098809)
Posted 2 May 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not having caused enough laughter and/or outrage by claiming that the Ukrainian president is a Jewish Nazi, Russia has used up that meme path by claiming Adolf Hitler was too.
419) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2098701)
Posted 30 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As if there were not enough parallels to what Putin is doing to Ukraine and what Hitler did: Ukraine accuses Russian forces of seizing 2,000 artworks in Mariupol

Stay classy, Russia.
420) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2098689)
Posted 30 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It would be nice if Mr. Biden would complete a recognized cognitive test, if for anything to put some of the suspicion to rest. He is in control of a vast nuclear arsenal, for one. Having someone with any chance of senile dementia at the helm is not a very comforting thought.

For whatever his other faults, when Donald Trump faced the same allegations, he was tested and was found to have no cognitive issues.
421) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2098669)
Posted 30 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm amazed that is even a thing... the entire point of rail is that the train's path is constrained to the rails so they can be electrified by wire. Diesel-electrics are 30-35% efficient, electrics-by-wire about 95%.
422) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2098536)
Posted 27 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Russian State TV Comforts Viewers on Nuclear War: 'We All Die Someday'.

Make what you will of it all.


Will do:

"Vladimir Solovyov added, "But we will go to heaven, while they will simply croak."

If any summary could be made of how these ancient moldy myths could stubbornly persist today and possibly forevermore, here it is. They are tailor-made to further the ambitions of warmongers.
423) Message boards : Politics : Don;t know where it should go? Stick it here 3 (Message 2098437)
Posted 26 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As likely the only user of this forum to have had to pay a criminal first amendment defense lawyer...


Neat.. any details? (Catch-all thread... it's all on-topic. ) :^)
424) Message boards : Politics : Don;t know where it should go? Stick it here 3 (Message 2098426)
Posted 25 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Am I to understand that the world's biggest electric car maker suddenly is in the American right-wing's good books? Will wonders never cease...

Musk reiterated that it was his desire to ensure free speech that compelled him to take over the company.

"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said Monday, adding that he wants to make the company's algorithm open source to increase trust.

Though it seems he just spent $44 billion to demonstrate he has no further understanding of the legal meaning of that term than many of the Twitter (ex-)users (and many people on all internet forums including this one, for that matter.)
425) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2098217)
Posted 22 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well rhat just goes to show you have a moral compass.


Thanks... unfortunately there are plenty who don't.

Two Ex-Russian Gas Company Execs Found Dead Along With Their Families in Two Days

Sergei Protosenya, formerly the chief accountant at Russian gas giant Novatek, is the latest to turn up dead, Spanish news site Telecino reports.

The 55-year-old millionaire was found dead along with his wife and daughter at a villa in the town of Lloret de Mar near Barcelona earlier this week, law enforcement sources told the news site. Police have not officially named the family, however.

Protosenya, a former member of Novatek’s board of directors, was found hanged at the scene, while his wife and daughter had been stabbed, the report said. Investigators are said to be examining two different scenarios: that Protosenya killed his wife and daughter before taking his own life, or that all three were murdered by someone who then staged the crime scene.
426) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2098202)
Posted 21 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hey, Prime Minister Trudeau: I disagree with many of your policies and didn't vote for you, but opposing thugs who invade sovereign nations in order to annex them, purposely murder innocent citizens including women and children and destroy their homes, businesses and even hospitals, and bully the world with nuclear threats, is the best use of my tax dollars I could think of. Please keep supporting Ukraine as much as required.

Edit: FYI Churchill had terrible approval ratings before WW II, and was voted out after. Just sayin'. :^p
427) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2098123)
Posted 20 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This includes Donald Trump who complained about mail-in voting numerous times in speeches and then was found to be voting by mail himself...
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/01/15/fact-check-did-trump-vote-mail-2020-election/6516078001/
428) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2097829)
Posted 15 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Perhaps the previous flag was correct...
429) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2097815)
Posted 15 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I really wish these "reporters" would stop invoking nuclear weapons until one actually gets used. Otherwise it's simply fearmongering for clicks.
Sigh...
(Edit: And that goes for the CIA too. :^p)
430) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2097792)
Posted 15 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Bet Commerce Would Ground to a Halt.


Yeah... they will all cost nothing to make and be free for everyone. Right.
431) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2097652)
Posted 12 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


(I liked the artwork...)
432) Message boards : Politics : Electric Vehicles (Message 2097501)
Posted 10 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As Far As ELECTRIC Vehicles GO - I Want to Live Long Enough to See Their TOTAL FAIL.

Until BATTERIEs can Be Replaced by Other POWER Sources - Electric Vehicles will be a STUPID Alternative to GAS and Oil Vehicles.


Once a battery is available that has a higher energy-mass ratio than gasoline, is rechargeable for the operating life of the vehicle without replacement, is operable at wide temperature ranges and safe from fires etc., what possible objections could you have to that?
433) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2097065)
Posted 3 Apr 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I bet that's another entry on PooTin's hit list.


He'll have to convince Lithuania how "unnecessary" it is to be a post-USSR NATO member first. :^)
(That argument has become somewhat more difficult to make recently for some reason... hmm...)
434) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2096546)
Posted 26 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The Supreme Court Justice has just been released from hospital and will face the heat in coming days to either recuse himself from all January 6 cases or be impeached.


He has definitely earned his impeachment... with his wife actively working to overturn the 2020 election results, he was the only dissenter in the SCOTUS decision to reject DJT's suit to block the release of records possibly relating to his involvement in the January 6th attack on the Capitol, yes... even dissenting from Trump's two appointees.
435) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2096522)
Posted 25 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I thought I would need to move a post in a wrong thread until those last two words. :^)
436) Message boards : Politics : Tucker Says the Darndest Things! (Message 2096515)
Posted 25 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This will be corrected this fall.
And we shall be taking care of the rest in the next big election.


New Twitter management is getting voted in?
437) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2096473)
Posted 25 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My vehicle's engine is fueled by peanut oil, but prefers other oils such as canola and olive.
The vehicle is a bicycle and the engine is me. :^p
438) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2096433)
Posted 24 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As the world's total COVID case tally passes 476.5 million...


And plenty like me who don't even get counted. I had it in 2020 Jan. and I just got it again... of course our idiot premier after spending billions on the QR certificates scrapped the requirement because he couldn't take the pressure from the low-IQAnon fringe in his party (which includes his own daughter.) Restaurants no longer need to check certs., capture contacts, do temp. checks, etc.

Sunday I foolishly agreed to go to one to eat and of course some selfish shytestain with a bad cough at a nearby table could not be bothered to stay home and get tested, so now I get to do so on his behalf. I am pretty confident it was him as the incubation period is spot-on, I work at home, biked there and wasn't around anyone but my S.O. (who of course tested negative...) in any buildings for more than a second ie not in elevators.

I self-tested with a rapid antigen kit (strong positive within one min. not 15!) so this and my previous case were never officially recorded. Now consider that India has over a million villages... how many hundreds of millions of cases went uncounted.
439) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2096321)
Posted 23 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/22/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-defamation-lawsuit-300000-attorneys-fees/


Trump campaign ordered to pay ex-staffer more than $300,000 after trying to enforce an 'unconstitutional' nondisclosure agreement.


They balance out nicely. :^)
440) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2096256)
Posted 22 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How About ANOTHER EXAMPLE of GUN LOVING and DEATH?
Waiting
Yep


As requested.
441) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2096115)
Posted 19 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Your Children are GOoD at Their MOST Favorite Task.

DESTROYING Each Other.


Children tend to be influenced by their parents.
442) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2095980)
Posted 17 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
For something so simple and effective, why ever not save lives?
Assisting humanity is not part of the ethos of a certain class.
You're not wrong there Gary as the effects of recent mask mandates being lifted along several other restrictions combined with the Omicron BA. 2 variant have got numbers on the rise here yet again. :-(


Masks are only useful if (almost) everyone wears them, as they protect others from the wearer about 10x more than the wearer from others, so a very few unmasked infected can transmit to many masked uninfected. Our mask mandates will be lifted in 5 days and only about 50% say they will continue wearing them, making them pretty much useless.

I purchased a P100 full-face respirator and will be using it whenever I have to be in a risky situation (ie public transport) stuck around un-known/masked/vaccinated people. I was an "early adopter" having caught COVID-19 in January of 2020 (ironically, but maybe not for me, while I was on my first vacation in 20+ years) before masks, vaccines, testing or even many doctors knowing what it was, while I was in another country and not near a hospital; thankfully there was a clinic onsite. It was very unpleasant and I am glad I was younger and in good physical shape or it would have possibly been fatal, and I would not like to repeat that so will take whatever steps are required.

(Edit: Wiggo, you are a firefighter so probably have one of those kicking around already. :^) )
443) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 2095839)
Posted 15 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Pi Day Sez there Is a GOD


Appears we need to add 667. Argument from a pretty sunrise through a stone thing

(1) There was a pretty sunrise.
(2) Also it was visible through an old three-legged stone thing that would be roughly pi-shaped if only pi didn't have two legs.
(3) Therefore, God exists.
444) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2095706)
Posted 12 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So, next on Putin's agenda may be using biological warfare and blaming on the US and the Ukraine for starting it. Is it possible that there are some unknown Soviet labs in the Ukraine that Putin knows the location of? Is he that devious?


No evidence to back unproven Russian claim of Ukraine bioweapons program, UN says

The United Nations on Friday said it had no evidence Ukraine had a biological weapons program in Ukraine while Washington and its allies voiced concerns Russia was spreading the unproven claim as a possible prelude to launching its own biological or chemical attacks.


Every accusation is a confession, as always.
445) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2095698)
Posted 12 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Captured Russian soldiers fear death by firing squad: ‘We will be shot by our own people’.

Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces claim they’re “already considered dead” at home and fear they’ll face a firing squad if they’re sent back by exchange.


I am not surprised by this... morale is very low, many Russian soldiers are well-aware they were lied to about the reasons for the invasion (many even that they would be fighting Ukrainians) and many deserted early on, so I wager their commanders have threatened them that if they are captured it will be treated as of dereliction of duty and can result in execution.
446) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2095641)
Posted 10 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn blasts Ukraine for "pushing woke ideologies," calls Zelenskyy a "thug".


Gosh, last week the Ukrainians were neo-Nazis (who somehow elected a Jewish president) and this week they've gone right to the other deep end and are "woke". It's almost like what happened to Russian politics. Every accusation is a confession as usual.

GOP Congressman Madison Cawthorn charged with driving on a revoked license for 2nd time; court dates set.


He probably ran on a "law and order" platform too... as usual, long as it's applied to everyone else.
447) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2095362)
Posted 4 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The "nothing" is working... he's starting to beg

Vladimir Putin Says Russia Has 'No Ill Intentions,' Pleads for No More Sanctions

"I want to emphasize once again. We have no ill intentions towards our neighbors, and I would advise them not to escalate the situation, nor to introduce any restrictions," he said, according to news agencies.


(Cluster-bombing residential areas and shelling nuclear power stations is not ill intentions?)

More sanctions please...
448) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2095275)
Posted 2 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If you believe that you must also believe in the Easter bunny.


449) Message boards : Politics : The Ukraine Crisis (Message 2095273)
Posted 2 Mar 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Knowing da SO CALLED WEST Will DO NOTHING.


The ruble is down around 40% since before the invasion and the Russian stock market has lost the better part of a trillion dollars in value due to sanctions, and Ukraine has been kept going and fighting by hundreds of millions* in arms, armor, food, medicine and other equipment and supplies from elsewhere, which will continue until the Russian occupiers are driven out.
(* Edit : add to that billions in direct monetary aid to the Ukrainian government to buy more of the same)

This is nothing?
450) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2094957)
Posted 25 Feb 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Obama presidency, no COVID-19.
Trump presidency, COVID-19.

Study it out folks! :^p

Makes just as much sense as the oil price "logic".
451) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2094751)
Posted 22 Feb 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Way to Go SUPERJOkE aka RATFACE aka DROOLING TOOL.

Barrel of Oil and Gas Prices are Soaring.


Joe Biden must have quite the influence to be able to order those Russian troops around...
452) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2094643)
Posted 20 Feb 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
....the biggest news down here this morning is that there are no train services running down in Sydney today.


I wish it would stay that way but unfortunately I sense some much larger and worse news is going to happen soon. :^(
453) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2094641)
Posted 20 Feb 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Eagerly Waiting fO NEXT LONG List of CRIMINALITIES of SUPERTrump and Family.


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

Disregarding civil suits, and because everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, it's an empty list.
(the Trump Foundation was found to have committed fraud and shut down, but not Donald J. Trump personally.)
454) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2094619)
Posted 20 Feb 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Need to SUE da Politicians Letting BADDIEs Run Rampant Throughout America.

Their 'Social Justice ' Policies are Giving da 'GO AHEAD' for Countless Crimes to Occur.




Agreed.
455) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2093795)
Posted 10 Feb 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Sorry. I Don't Understand. Translator No Understand.


https://birdsarentreal.com/

It's satire. :^p
456) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2093434)
Posted 3 Feb 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
HIs Hatin' on Truckers and Their Supporters is Causing Him to Show His WORTHLESSNESS.




Yeah, what's not to love about the Nazis...
457) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2093215)
Posted 31 Jan 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Also, as I've aged, many teeth have fallen out and My Smile shows this along with Crooked Gappy Yellow teeth of Wats Left. Mask hiding this is GOoD. REAL GOoD.

...

And My Breath is HORRID. Haven't brushed my teeth in over three Years. Whew!!!!! GAG a Maggot.


Aside from the aesthetics, there are numerous studies supporting a connection between general bad mouth maintenance (ie gingivitis, periodontitis) and increased heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular issues. Those bacteria can migrate, including to your heart valves.
458) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2092447)
Posted 19 Jan 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Barrel of OIL is Highest in 7 Years.

Way to GO RATFACE!!!!!


Joe Biden is also the president of the Houthis in Yemen?
459) Message boards : Politics : With this covid will never go away (Message 2092056)
Posted 12 Jan 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Isn't this the fellow you admire and, I would think, take the advice of?

Trump slams politicians who won't say they got booster shots

NEW YORK -- Former U.S. President Donald Trump is slamming politicians who refuse to say whether they have received COVID-19 booster shots as "gutless."

"You gotta say it. Whether you had it or not, say it," Trump said in an interview that aired Tuesday night on the conservative One America News Network.

Trump, who was booed last month by supporters after revealing he had gotten a booster shot, has become increasingly vocal in calling out those who have questioned the vaccines' efficacy and safety. It's a change in posture for Trump as he eyes another run for the White House and faces potential competition from a long list of possible Republican challengers.
460) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2092055)
Posted 12 Jan 2022 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Murder Someone or ANY Other Heinous Act and Never spend a Day In Jail. No Matter How Many Witnesses: Vid; or an Outright Confession.


Any examples of this to share?
461) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2090716)
Posted 22 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Am staying at The Biden Tower Hotels...


Good marketing opportunity: "I get the best night's rest ever at the Biden Hotel. Thanks, Sleepy Joe! And the complimentary shampoo leaves my hair smelling so nice..."
462) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2090212)
Posted 14 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Been Plenty of VAXXed who have gotten INFECTED or RE-INFECTED and they have INFECTED or RE-INFECTED both VAXXed and UNVAXXed.

And There Have Been DEATHs.

Media Does Not Like to Report on INFECTED or RE-INFECTED VAXXed who have DIED or SICKENED Again, but They LOVE to SCREAM LOUDLY Those who were
UNVAXXed.



Unfortunately you are still posting factually incorrect information without any citations or evidence to back it up. As a recent counterexample, when Colin Powell died of COVID-19, it was noted in all the major media outlets that he had been vaccinated.

Whether any media report on this or that does not change the evidence we have that vaccination prevents 64-95% of COVID-19 infections, and correspondingly reduces the likelihood of hospitalization or death should the vaccinated person still contract it. All the noise about agendas and pharma and whatever does not change this.
463) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2090182)
Posted 13 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Because One is VAXXed - Whether they Know or Not Know they Can Pass On Infection - Most Go On with Their Lives
as Usual ala Pre CV.


...which they are not supposed to do, at least in areas that follow proper protocol. Even vaccinated we are still supposed to wear masks in indoor public spaces, maintain physical distancing, wash/sanitize our hands regularly especially after handling items in a publicly-accessible space, and accurately submit contact tracing when requested when visiting public spaces.

By doing this, we can allow businesses and other public amenities to remain open. The alternative is too many cases for the ICUs to handle and then it's back to lockdown. Pick an option...
464) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2090109)
Posted 12 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
They claim to be religion, Rump does not claim to be a religion.


Both claim to genuinely believe things wholly unsubstantiated by any evidence and want donations to further this belief. If religion gets away with this without it being called "lying" or made illegal, so does everyone else.
465) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2090104)
Posted 12 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"There is no First Amendment right to lie to people to get their money," Painter asserted.....


I have some excellent examples of why this is incorrect.
466) Message boards : Politics : Red-x discussions (Message 2090087)
Posted 12 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A Post was made with a Link to someone dying of CV

Another Poster said: KARMA

If I said this, I would Get Banished.

Why is this Poster Not Banished?


I don't know the post(s) but there are some criteria:

    Was it a forum member who died or an outside celebrity or personality? There will always be less tolerance of statements about forum members.
    Was it in Politics or another forum? Politics allows discussions and statements that don't fly in the other forums. This is done so that forum members who don't wish to have their threads turn into political arguments or participate in them can avoid them simply by staying out of here.
    Did the person who died actually make public statements to about COVID-19 which may have justified the comment? ieTo try to get others to avoid getting vaccinated/wear masks in indoor public spaces? Spread conspiracy rumors that it was a hoax/engineered? Diminish the issue by saying it was hype or overblown, etc.?

467) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2089975)
Posted 10 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
SO, What's dA ADVANTAGE and SMARTNESS in Being or Becoming VAXXed?

I KNOW. Less Serious Illness/Sickness and LESS Likely to Die.


This is correct, and thus it's not "playing the odds" well when vaccines are avoided even though they are many times more likely to prevent a serious illness than cause one. Turning a fatal illness into a mild one is a major advantage even if it isn't a complete avoidance.
468) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2089920)
Posted 9 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The Left is Running America.

Show Me a Visual Metaphor fO Dat.


469) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2089874)
Posted 9 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Not to worry the great Joe is vaxed and so am I...


Guess who else is...
470) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2089585)
Posted 5 Dec 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Covid vaccines, will become mandatory all over the world.


Well before we go that far, let's have a look at some objections:

We aren't born with them, they're artificial/synthetic and imposed on us through societal coercion.
If someone goes into a publicly-accessible indoor place without them, they'll be told to leave immediately.
If they go to work without them, they'll be suspended without pay or fired.
People with them will laugh and mock people without them, causing them emotional distress.
They don't work all the time.. sometimes they fail.
Sometimes they can cause or exacerbate injury.

Actually, that was a list of objections to pants. They are pretty similar to the objections to vaccinations, and also similarly ridiculous.
471) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2088729)
Posted 23 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

Federal Buildings in DC: WE BOUGHT; SUFFERED and DIED For. We Will Crawl All Over them and In Them if We Chose to.

WE OWN THEM.

Yep


Along those lines, you also own all the nuclear weapons, so I guess just any old citizen should be allowed to play with them...? Or not? Anyways, citizens are free to visit the capitol... when it's open! If they knowingly go in when it's closed, this is break and enter and trespassing. If they knowingly go in to make trouble for political ends, it becomes something more serious.

(Hold on... I thought those on the "right side" of the fence were all about law and order? I guess as long as the laws and orders don't apply to them...)

On the subject of being too lax on crimes of violence especially involving weapons, I totally agree. But this was never stated as a reason of what happened Jan. 6th, not even by its participants. It was just an Our Guy Didn't Win and We Don't Like It event.
472) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2088714)
Posted 22 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
All SHAMANGuy did was Walk Around and Sit Down.


I'm rather doubting you would be as casual if someone broke into your home and did the same. :^p
473) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2087858)
Posted 11 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Evidence and Facts are NOT Evidence and Facts Anymore. No Mater dA Letters After Name; or Before; Prizes Won; Reputation Excellence or Anything Once Having Rock Solid Cred.

It is ALL About CONTROL; POWER; MONEY and How Many Can Be Herded Along; 'specially MSM and Their ZOMBIE Believers.




This is me agreeing with you. Of course this is probably not the "MSM" you had in mind, but it will do.

(That was "News"Max's White House correspondent, by the way. Probably not anymore as got kicked off Twitter for spreading, well, stuff without evidence and facts.)
474) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2087797)
Posted 10 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That was very prosaic, but again it has absolutely nothing to do with being correct or having any actual evidence whatsoever.

Lots of people said and wrote plenty of prosaic things for thousands of years "proving" that the earth was the center of the universe, or that large objects fell faster than small ones, or that lead could be transformed into gold chemically. And all their prosaic words were worthless once the first person decided to actually collect some actual evidence one way or the other. We're in the same situation here.
475) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2087787)
Posted 9 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Who could possibly refute such a data-rich and comprehensive analysis,
476) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2087658)
Posted 7 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You know, if you are going to make quantitative statements other than just "denied" or personal opinions, you're going to have to back it up with data...
477) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6) (Message 2087643)
Posted 7 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I could just claim no historical event happened anywhere at any time because the universe was created just today as-is including our fake memories, and shout "DENIED!" whenever someone tried to prove otherwise, and it would have as much relevance.
478) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2087614)
Posted 7 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Now that he's done with this, he can address the toilet paper issue:

Democrats pass $1 trillion US infrastructure bill...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress's passage of his $1 trillion US infrastructure package as a "monumental step forward for the nation" after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to finally seal the deal.

The House passed the measure by a vote of 228-206 late Friday, prompting prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. Thirteen Republicans, mostly moderates, supported the legislation, while six Democrats — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri — opposed it.

Approval of the bill, which promises to create legions of jobs and improve broadband, water supplies and other public works, sends it to the desk of a president whose approval ratings have dropped and whose nervous party got a cold shoulder from voters in this week's off-year elections.
479) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2087449)
Posted 4 Nov 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Should Brandon go in his fump truck or some other mode of transport?
480) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2087009)
Posted 28 Oct 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In Last Year and Half, All I've Eaten is Bread, Water, and Milk...


I hope there is some fruit or vitamin supplement in there... I've not seen bread fortified with C as the little not destroyed by baking would add an acid flavour, which is why it would also not be used to supplement milk. Scurvy is rather unpleasant and of course can be fatal.

Vitamin K is also going to be absent as I've never seen milk or bread fortified with either K1 or K2, and it's essential for proper blood clotting among other things. Green leafy vegetables are the best source of K1. Guess what a good source of K2 is? ....

... Yes, it's bacon.

I hope the bread is whole-grain... gotta have your fibre. :^)
481) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2086816)
Posted 25 Oct 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Jon-Erik Hexum


Ah thank you... was trying to remember the name and kept coming up with the similar name Jan-Michael Vincent. :^p

I was a big fan of "Voyagers!" as a youngster.
482) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2086766)
Posted 24 Oct 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Set protocol is that any firearm needs to be inspected and found to be safe by a certified expert before it is placed in the actor's hands. Unless the actor put the prop gun against someone's head and fired or beat them with it, it is in no way their fault as it is in no way their responsibility.

Giving an actor a live round without telling them (or in almost all cases, even with telling them unless it is being used for a specific stunt, they are trained on it beforehand, supervised by an expert and the set is cleared) is about the worst failure of the prop department possible.
483) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2086058)
Posted 11 Oct 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A Reason to Eat Bacon?


Bacon is always the one-and-only reason required to eat bacon. Bacon.
484) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2086006)
Posted 11 Oct 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Every time I pull down the lies of the liberal left.


I think you'll find there is plenty of BS on all the "sides". Hey, it's politics. Grim reality doesn't win elections.
485) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2085875)
Posted 9 Oct 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Celebrity? Oooh, that is a low blow :^p
486) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2085761)
Posted 7 Oct 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A Flu Vaccine Commercial says in Its VoiceOver: Vaccinations May Not Protect Everyone.

I Don't Remember hearing this Caveat when a CV Vaccine Commercial is On. Ive Seen/Heard Hundreds of them. Maybe same Caveat has been said during CV Commercials and I DID NOT Notice.

The Flu Vaccine Commercial Did not say 'Their' Vaccine May Not Protect Everyone. Their Statement meant ALL Vaccinations of Any Kind for any Ailment

So, Why is this 'KNOWN' Fact about Vaccines NOT talked about. I hear NO Discourse of 'Vaccinations May Not Protect Everyone'.


Roofs may not protect everyone against rain and snow... some roofs leak or collapse.

I don't remember hearing this caveat during roofing commercials. I've seen/heard hundreds of them. Maybe the same has been said during door commercials and I did not notice.

So, why is this known fact about roofs not talked about? I hear no discourse of "roofs may not protect everyone."

I hope this stellar argument convinces everyone that Big Roofing is profiting off this unreliable technology.
487) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2083949)
Posted 8 Sep 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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CV has never been Exponential.


Using a hairdryer while in the bathtub is not exponential but one should still avoid it by any means necessary. :^p
488) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2083793)
Posted 5 Sep 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hard to know whether this should go into the COVID or police thread...

WA Denies All Religious Exemptions To Vaccine Mandates, Hundreds Of Troopers Face Termination

Olympia, WA – Washington State Patrol (WSP) employees who refuse to comply with Governor Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate will be fired, according to his office.

WSP employees who interact with the public must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 if they want to keep their jobs, KTTH reported.

Some staff members received emails on Thursday warning that there would be “no accommodation” for those who make “religious exemption requests,” according to the news outlet.


There are currently numerous police forces in the U.S. whose members are refusing to get mandatory vaccinations, and their unions are backing them to the point of threatening lawsuits. I think that this is a tailor-made and accurately targeted police reform solution opportunity: any officer refusing to be vaccinated without an actual medical exemption, especially one interacting with the public, has just demonstrated that they put their own personal safety (and for pretty much evidence-free reasons) ahead of that of the people they are supposed to be serving, so should be immediately fired. That should get rid of most of the bad cops immediately.
489) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2083764)
Posted 4 Sep 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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dA Beauty of Life is Back BABY!!!!!


Ah... the beauty of dying young of something now preventable. That was all we had until about 230 years ago so why give it up.
490) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2083763)
Posted 4 Sep 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Isn't that stuff ONLY meant to be used for multiple tons of cattle and elephants?


More hilariously: sheep. Yes, the same people who called others "sheep" for getting vaccinated now take sheep medicine instead.
491) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2083712)
Posted 4 Sep 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oklahoma's ERs are so backed up with people overdosing on ivermectin that gunshot victims are having to wait to be treated... I hardly know where to begin. :^p
492) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2082834)
Posted 22 Aug 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The exception that proves the rule.


I thought an exception disproved it, but what do I know.
493) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2082828)
Posted 22 Aug 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Are sysadmins anti-vaxxers?


I'm currently an IT admin. of a vaccination scheduling system, so that would be a no. :^p
494) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #8 (Message 2082391)
Posted 16 Aug 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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.... and don't do anything stupid.


Unlike these fellows in a prescient comic from a 1930 health manual making the rounds:



Yes, amazingly, even smallpox had its shared of anti-vaxxers. Happily they did not prevail which is why the worst disease ever is extinct. Perhaps this one will be too someday, I hope.
495) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #7 (Message 2081637)
Posted 5 Aug 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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China responds quickly for good health.


Was this copied verbatim off of one of their posters? :^p
496) Message boards : Politics : Don;t know where it should go? Stick it here 3 (Message 2080846)
Posted 25 Jul 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Better not tell them that algebra and many other parts of maths were discovered by Arabs.


Algebra itself is an Arabic term (al-jabr). As is algorithm, alcohol, alembic, alkali(ne), anil(ine), azimuth... and that's just the a's.
497) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2079731)
Posted 11 Jul 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, now I have a bunch of completed SETI tasks from March 6, 2020 to July 21, 2020. These are at the top of my BOINC manager and I can't get rid of them. Can you turn on the appropriate servers for a few days to clear these from my manager. I am not concerned about the missed credit.


We don't have to even speculate about this: your work units can be seen in your hosts. Every one of them already timed out due to non-completion and the ones I checked were reassigned to others, completed and closed off. So even if you could submit them, they would not do anything now. May as well save some disk space in the BOINC client: click the Projects tab, then click SETI@Home and then Remove and confirm. This will remove all the now-useless work units and SETI@Home project data. You can always re-add it if it comes back. I'd bet my last dollar it ain't coming back, at least not in this form.
498) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2079431)
Posted 7 Jul 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hilariously, he already proved that no "First Amendment" restriction against his writings exists by setting up his own blog in which he could publish whatever he liked without any restrictions. Oh, except that it sucked and almost no one read it so he cancelled it.

Maybe he should sue people under First Amendment grounds who didn't read his blog because it was terrible. Hey, that and social media banning him both limited the number of people that read his drivel, so they are both equally valid First Amendment cases. :^p
499) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2076228)
Posted 19 May 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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BBC - New York prosecutor says Trump inquiry now 'criminal'


Occasionally I call these correctly... I've been saying since the election to wait until at least May before any results are forthcoming. This is a large and convoluted investigation and it needs to be done properly. So for those who were expecting him to be arrested as soon as he left the White House: patience. :^p
500) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2075081)
Posted 6 May 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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FYI I am in agreement with "Dull" here. I may like Joe Biden, but if we can't call out when he makes a mistake ie being a hypocrite and going against his own policies, then we may as well have Trump's can-do-no-wrong cult back again.

Bad example, Joe. :^p

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9541223/Bidens-Carters-pose-maskless-indoor-picture.html

Why no mask, Joe? Biden and Jill pose without masks for pics with frail Jimmy Carter, 96, and wife Rosalynn, 93, despite president insisting it's his 'patriotic responsibility' to wear one for socially distanced interviews and outdoors despite CDC advice


501) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2070500)
Posted 12 Mar 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Trump and the news media while pretending to be adversaries needed each other in the deepest way possible. The news media provided Trump with a megaphone to blast his tens of thousands of lies and get himself in the centre of the world's attention 24/7, a position he desperately craves. The news media's ratings soared with this daily circus of chaos and melodrama and of course when this happens advertising rates increase proportionally; billions of dollars were at stake.

Now? Things are so boring that CNN has cancelled White House press briefings.

Just one month into President Joe Biden's term, the all-news cable channel last week stopped airing the daily White House press briefings. Perhaps the events weren't entertaining enough, as White House spokesperson Jen Psaki has routinely declined to insert Biden into cultural war debates, refused to castigate reporters, and won’t make stuff up in the name of partisan warfare, the way her Republican predecessors did.

Instead, Psaki has answered questions as best she can about White House policy, while treating journalists with respect, instead of mocking them in search of cheap political points.
502) Message boards : Politics : Rush Limbaugh has passed away (Message 2069156)
Posted 24 Feb 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Iowa’s Cedar Rapids Gazette reported in 1990 that Limbaugh’s “AIDS Update,” a recurring segment in which he made jokes about a disease that had killed more than 100,000 people in the United States the previous decade, started by playing songs such as “Back in the Saddle Again,” “Kiss Him Goodbye,” “I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” and “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.”

The “Aids Update” segment was short-lived. According to The New York Times, it ended after a few weeks. Limbaugh would call the segment one of “most regretful things I’ve ever done” because it was “making fun of people who were dying long, painful and excruciating deaths.”


I do give him some leeway that he pulled the segment and then publicly regretted it, but I could not find a formal apology, and really...to have ever considering broadcasting such a thing? And I am sure that he only pulled the segment due to the volume of negative feedback he received.

So, he definitely could have been worse, but I still don't think he was a person deserving of respect simply by dying while famous.
503) Message boards : Politics : Don;t know where it should go? Stick it here 3 (Message 2067195)
Posted 29 Jan 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is my total lack of surprise at seeing two glaringly obvious spelling errors in that "contract".
Edit: Three.
504) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2066786)
Posted 25 Jan 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Fox News is small potatoes in the questionable news business these days... biased as heck, but at least what they report is true (albeit cherry-picked of course) or clearly marked as editorial/opinion. Where did their 40% of viewers go? To One America Network and NewsMax. These both started as internet-only "news" sites, and now have cable channels with tens of millions of viewers, and little to no factual integrity. For example, they both had official policies and openly presented as "news" the unfounded accusations that the 2020 elections were rigged, with millions of votes being transferred to Joe Biden via Dominion voting systems machines. (Dominion is now suing Rudy Guiliani for $1.3 billion for repeatedly making such claims.) OAN even employs a Russian reporter who is simultaneously employed by Sputnik, the Russian state-owned news propaganda mill.

(Please do check out NewsMax and OAN for confirmation, but I won't link to them.)

Meanwhile, Fox refused to present unfounded accusations as news by claiming that Donald Trump had been re-elected. Two of their commentators did so regarding election allegations editorially, so Fox brought in a consultant from Dominion to explain why this was a secure election. But as we know too well: no good deed goes unpunished, thus Fox News has lost a significant percentage of their viewership due to their eyebrow-raising integrity.

I've just gone to bat for Fox News... and now the weather. Below zero temperatures and freezing conditions continue to affect the Nine Hells area...
505) Message boards : Politics : The Joe Biden Thread - Part I (Message 2066186)
Posted 20 Jan 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has now been sworn in as the 46th POTUS, starting this discussion thread for anything related to him and his presidency.

Some guidelines from the Donald Thread also apply here:

    Don't point fingers at other posters
    Answer requests for fact with either the facts or links to the facts
    Fact check external sources in a reasonable manner
    Keep the size of pictures SMALL, and certainly with the larger dimension less than 1024
    Be very aware when "deep quoting" that when you get above three deep the message can become unreadable on some small-screen devices
    Remember posting is a privilege not a right, and that privilege may be withdrawn at any time
    All posts here are accessible to the public, so don't post anything you don't want to spill outside this community.

506) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2066146)
Posted 20 Jan 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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re: "Keep it clean"

507) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2065454)
Posted 11 Jan 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And the war against the left begins......


More like the war against reality.

This will succeed the same day it becomes a crime to tell mouthy, annoying, unwanted guests planning crimes while in one's house to leave.

Much of the Insurrectile Dysfunction was planned on Parler, including threats against VP Pence's life (by the way the gallows setup brought to the capitol was planned for him if he was caught.) I'll be waiting patiently for the day when conspiracy to commit the severest federal felonies carrying a life sentence becomes protected speech that private corporations are forced to host and propagate.
508) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2065442)
Posted 10 Jan 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I didn't know you were affiliated with the Communist Chinese government.
You certainly have the drill down. Crush all dissent, by any and all means necessary.


I didn't realize that Google, Facebook and Twitter were governments now. Will I start having to pay them taxes? Here I thought they were free enterprises that didn't have to host someone else's political garbage... which incidentally in China the media companies are forced to.
509) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2065439)
Posted 10 Jan 2021 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The riot was precipitated by the blatant disregard and disrespect from the liberal democrats for the opinion and votes of nearly half the people in this nation. Don't forget that fact.


I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean. Did someone claim the 74 million Trump votes never happened? Is this a claim that Trump should have won anyways even though Biden received 81 million votes? Is this a request for scrapping the first-past-the-post system and replacing it with proportional representation so that there are two Presidents or a Presidential committee or something with decision percentage based on vote percentage or....?
510) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2063637)
Posted 15 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Or have I got the game all wrong??


No, you got it correct... it's a buggy mess to the point that CD Projekt Red is offering refunds and stated at least two major patches will be required.

I'd wager that the thread crippling you mentioned is testing code that was neglected to be removed for the release.
511) Message boards : Politics : CON MAN!!!!! Where's dA JOE aka OUR NEXT PREz Stuff? C'MON MAN!!!!!! Certaninly Posts to a CON MAN JOE Thread should be OVERFLOWING with ACCOLADEs to Our SOON to be NEXT PREZ. CON MAN!!!!! (Message 2063628)
Posted 14 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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NOT LEGAL YET.

RUBEWorld LOVEs LEGAL and ELECTORAL College


Then here is something for Rubeworld to love.
512) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2063582)
Posted 14 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Suggest it is time to have a think before buying all those devices that rely on the web.


Reminds me of when numerous people's homes were ruined when their Nest thermostats automatically downloaded a bad update which bricked the devices while the owners were away. The furnace no longer came on, so the water froze in the pipes which burst, flooded the house and the resulting mess then froze.

Unfortunately the current fad is to connect everything to the internet. sometimes unnecessarily and in disregard of failsafe and security risks, so we can expect plenty more occurrences.
513) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2063400)
Posted 12 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The bizarre second lawsuit in which 17 states filed suit to overturn the results of other states has also been tossed by the SCOTUS in even less time:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday night rejected an eleventh hour challenge to Joe Biden's election as president.

The court's action came in a one-page order, which said the complaint was denied "for lack of standing."

"Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections," the court wrote.

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote that in their view the court does "not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction."

"I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue," Alito wrote.


With sterling legal acumen such as this, similar to the last tossed filing, I am not surprised:

514) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2063222)
Posted 8 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He's going to appeal all the way up to SCOTUS, with the hope that "his" appointed judges will rule in his favour of course, so he can stay as a dictator.
That's been the plan all the time. By having his insane cases thrown out from every court so far, he will appeal until the last appeal(s) end up with the SCOTUS. Not that hard to figure out.


Let's see how that bold strategy paid off:

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort to overturn the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, signaling the high court would not go along with President Trump's unprecedented efforts to win another term despite a decisive defeat in the popular vote and Electoral College.

The lawsuit was brought by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly, who argued a 2019 state law authorizing universal mail-in voting is unconstitutional and that all ballots cast by mail in the general election in Pennsylvania should be thrown out.

"The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice [Samuel] Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied," said the court's one-sentence order, which did not suggest any dissent among the nine justices.




Did not seem to pay off so well.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see, exactly how political and corrupt SCOTUS is.


A possible 9-0 would seem to indicate: not as much as was thought. :^)
(including by Mr. Trump.)

I hope that the events of the past few weeks have restored at least some confidence in the integrity of the U.S. and its officials.
515) Message boards : News : Bryon Leigh Hatch and Arecibo have passed on. (Message 2062859)
Posted 3 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Reads "the the" in the second paragraph on the front page.


Good eye... I have passed this on to Dr. Korpela and thanks.
516) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2062701)
Posted 2 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to block Biden election victory in Pennsylvania

Republicans attempting to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by the highest court in the battleground state.

In the request to the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and the other plaintiffs are asking the court to prevent the state from certifying any contests from the Nov. 3 election, and undo any certifications already made, such as Biden’s victory.

They maintain that Pennsylvania’s expansive vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional because it required a constitutional amendment to authorize its provisions.
517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rest in Peace Byron Leigh Hatch, team Carl Sagan founder (Message 2062583)
Posted 1 Dec 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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OK, I will see what I can do to find Byron. I'll update this post with any finds.

I don't have any special access or powers, but I do also live in Canada, so at least the phone calls will be inexpensive!

Edit: I am very sad to report that, as had been noted earlier on July 26th that he was in his final days, Byron did indeed pass on August 13th of this year peacefully in hospital. As he was a very private man, with this project being a rare and fortunate exception, there is no remembrance page for him elsewhere.

I will edit the thread title and the remembrance page appropriately.
518) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2062401)
Posted 28 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
519) Message boards : Politics : CON MAN!!!!! Where's dA JOE aka OUR NEXT PREz Stuff? C'MON MAN!!!!!! Certaninly Posts to a CON MAN JOE Thread should be OVERFLOWING with ACCOLADEs to Our SOON to be NEXT PREZ. CON MAN!!!!! (Message 2062281)
Posted 26 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here's the quality of these filings

Two glaring typos in the heading, never mind the body. Enough to get an undergrad junior summer intern sent packing... and this is supposed to overturn the presidency of the United States?

Kraken indeed... Kraken up!

Edit: Trump's team already dumped Sidney Powell for similar reasons, no?
520) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2062267)
Posted 26 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just in case anyone decides that the systemic issues are exclusively a U.S. problem...

Toronto police officer says she faced years of sexist, racist retribution for reporting colleague

Human rights complaint is among 38 ongoing complaints of sexual misconduct by colleagues on Toronto force
521) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2062213)
Posted 25 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
President Trump pardons Michael Flynn

President Donald Trump said he issued a pardon Wednesday to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, ending a three-year legal odyssey for the retired Army general who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian ambassador prior to Trump's inauguration.

The president's action, coming in the final weeks of his administration, once again highlighted the long shadow cast by the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, which resulted in the prosecution of six former aides to the president.
522) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2062112)
Posted 24 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country"....
THAT's nOT a TRUMP TWeeT!

1: There's too few CAPITAL LETTERS;
2: The capital letters that have been used are all in their correct places;


"Country" is a common noun not at the beginning of a sentence, not a proper noun (a specific country) so should not have been capitalized, at least not during this nor the last century. :^)
523) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2062098)
Posted 23 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
GSA tells Biden that transition can formally begin

(CNN)The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.
The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump's defeat, more than two weeks after Biden was declared the winner in the election.
Murphy said she had not been pressured by the White House to delay the formal transition and did not make a decision "out of fear or favoritism."

...


Trump tweeted moments after the letter was reported, thanking Murphy for her work and affirming the decision to start the transition.

"I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused -- and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA. Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!" Trump tweeted. "Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same."
524) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061889)
Posted 21 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If Trump doesn't succeed with his latest scheme, trying to get some state legislators to appoint Trump friendly electors, this is the next he will do, after Biden becomes the sworn in President:

1. Set up a competing/alternative government in the most Red (Fascist friendly) state. (in effect start the next civil war), bringing with him all Republican senators and house members.
2. Call on his fascist followers to start a militia, and arm them to the teeth.
3. Occupy/take over at least one military base that has nuclear weapons. (Not that hard to do in a Red state)
4 Threaten the Biden administration that he will nuke Washington, and New York, unless Biden steps down.
5. Show that he is serious (insane), by a demonstration nuking in a desert in America.
6. If successful (which is likely, because the Dems are such weaklings when it comes to power play), he will become the dictator of the U.S for life.
7. Outlaw the Democratic party, and throw all democratic legislators in all states in jail.
8. Declare that the U.S no longer consists of different states. It will be one state only.
9. Open China like re-education camps, in places located in areas similar to Groom Lake.
10. Leave NATO, and start negotiating with Putin regarding Spheres of interest/Spheres of influence.


1. With the presidential shield of immunity removed, spend the rest of his life and fortune fighting off indictments and lawsuits.


Fixed that for you. :^)
525) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061716)
Posted 19 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Actually you can, run at least; elect-ability is a different issue, but likely doesn't apply to King Donald.


True... no one has tried of course, but there is nothing in the Constitution against it. Of course the POTUS is elected by electors of the states, and many states have laws on the books against persons with a felony record holding public office. These could be possibly be leveraged to overturn a state's electors voting for one. An interesting scenario, and one I hope remains theoretical.
526) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061691)
Posted 18 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I doubt Joe will be much of anything. He's a low-key centrist who will try to reach across the aisle to compromise, and after a few too many smacks of his gladhanding, he'll give that a rest. Hamstrung by a Republican senate with MM freshly re-elected, he won't get his proposed bills passed or his court appointees confirmed, and the states will fight his COVID proposals. He'll probably lose by default in 2024 because he hasn't been able to get anything done.

I doubt he will lose to Donald Trump though, as there are still the matter of the numerous indictments to be unsealed by the SDNY on Jan. 20th, and you can't run for POTUS with a rap sheet.
527) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061418)
Posted 14 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My gosh... Trump is proven correct again. Another verified case of voter fraud in Pennsylvania:

A Willistown man’s clumsy attempt at trying to cast a false ballot in the 2020 presidential election has led to one of the only verified instances in Chester County of alleged voter fraud.

Police on Monday filed criminal charges against Ralph Holloway Thurman for allegedly attempting to vote as another person — his own son — before being discovered by an alert poll worker who recognized him as having voted a short time earlier.

Thurman, who had not been arraigned by District Judge Thomas Tartaglio as of Thursday, was charged with four criminal counts, including forgery, identity theft, forging or destroying ballots, all misdemeanors, and repeat voting at elections, a third-degree felony.
...
Thurman then allegedly asked whether he could vote for his son, Kyle Thurman, but was told by poll worker Eric Frank that doing so would be illegal.

Thurman signed the register, was given a ballot, voted, and left the polling place, according to the complaint.

However, about 45 minutes later, Thurman reportedly returned to the precinct, this time wearing sunglasses, and identified himself as his son. He again signed the voter log, was given a ballot, and proceeded to vote, Viebahn wrote.


Just in case it isn't already obvious:

Both Thurman’s are registered voters in the township, although their voting record is somewhat spotty, with the elder man voting about a quarter of the time and his son only half that. Ralph Thurman is a registered Republican, while Kyle Thurman is a registered Democrat.


Unfortunately these people have been told by their so-called leaders not only to vote twice to "test the system" but also that the elections are sloppily-monitored shams that can allow hundreds of thousands of fake ballots, so I imagine they figure one bogus vote won't get noticed.

Meanwhile Two accused 'dead' Georgia voters very much alive despite claims - and they voted legally

President Donald Trump’s campaign tweeted accusations claiming that James Blalock of Covington, who is deceased, voted in the election.

“The only problem? He passed away 14 years ago. Sadly, Mr. Blalock is a victim of voter fraud,” the tweet reads.

The accusations were amplified on national television.

“Mr. Blalock was a mailman for 33 years until he passed away in 2006. Fourteen years later, according to state records, he was still mailing things. James Blalock cast a ballot in last week’s election,” Tucker Carlson said in a clip and story labeled on Fox News' website as an opinion piece.

However, 11Alive was able to find out that James Blalock did not vote in last week’s election. Mrs. James Blalock did vote.

“He’s not voting. He didn’t vote,” Agnes Blalock told 11Alive. “It was me.” Newton County officials confirmed that Agnes Blalock voted using her married name. “Her voter registration was signed as Mrs. James E. Blalock, Jr. and that is exactly how she signed her name when she voted in the Nov. 3 general election,” officials said. They posted a statement online saying James Blalock's widow has always voted under that name.

Another person accused of voting in Georgia was Linda Kesler. "Mrs. Linda Kesler of Nicholson, Georgia voted in the election," a tweet from Trump campaign said. "The only problem," she passed away 17 years ago, in 2003."

11Alive was able to determine that is also false. The Jackson County Board of Elections said she did not vote. “Linda Kesler of Nicholson was marked deceased in 2003 and did not vote. Lynda Kesler who has a different address, birthday, and zip who is entitled to vote—did vote,” the board of elections said.
528) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061322)
Posted 13 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Georgia has been called for Joe Biden as the number of uncounted votes is not enough to give Donald Trump a win. There will be a manual recount of all however, but it is not expected to change the totals significantly enough to change the result.

If it holds, Joe Biden will be the first democrat since Bill Clinton in 1992 to win Georgia, and he will have 306 electoral votes, so even losing Pennsylvania's 20 he will still be 16 over the minimum.
529) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061310)
Posted 13 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The agency is also examining whether some portion of the current infections are not travel-related, one government official said, but instead trace back to the site where many Secret Service officers report for duty each day: the White House.


Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, while one of Trump's staunchest policy allies, has refused to visit the White House even when directly summoned by the POTUS because of the lack of COVID-19 protocol there.
530) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061246)
Posted 12 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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First he was correct about a plot to dump fake ballots into the counting process, and now Donald Trump has been proven correct again:


https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-2020-presidential-election-voter-fraud-dead-voters

RUBEWorld BELIEVEs

Yep


There are precisely two votes mentioned in that article, neither indicate any specifics of who the vote was for, who actually cast it, whether they have been charged.

So, we have possibly three provable instances out of, what, a hundred and fifty million? And for actual actionable fraud which is being handled legally so far, one.
531) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061194)
Posted 12 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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First he was correct about a plot to dump fake ballots into the counting process, and now Donald Trump has been proven correct again: An actual case (possibly the only proven one in this election) where someone tried to vote on behalf of a dead person.
532) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061115)
Posted 10 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In four years I expect that the Joe Biden thread will be just as long and dissatisfied with the results of his four years in office and still be waiting for the end of the Covid 19 pandemic.


"I'm a comedy writer and I don't get a tenth of the material out of this guy as the last one. How am I supposed to pay my bills?"

"Boooorrrring... where are all the scandals and shouting? Biden's presidency puts me to sleep."

"Now that the COVID numbers are way down, so are my flock's donations. Thanks for screwing up the apocalypse, Biggest Idiot Democrats Ever Nominated!"

"I spent five grand on guns and ammo because I was told he'd be banning the Second Amendment as a prelude to unveiling Obama as the leader of the Lizard People and installing him as our Eternal Overlord, and nothing happened! I want my money back!"
533) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2061051)
Posted 10 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It now continues as I have predicted for four years. Criminal AG Barr steps in to investigate the election in Pennsylvania, despite no evidence at all about anything wrong.


The same administration investigated Hillary Clinton for two years with no result. (She was also questioned for 11 hours straight about Benghazi.) As well, Barack Obama and his administration were investigated regarding allegations that they spied on the Trump campaign. Again, this came to nothing and no evidence was found.

I don't doubt that will also be the result of this investigation.

And if it isn't, the Biden team has about twice as many lawyers plus the ACLU to oppose this. Oh, they also have a very feisty ally in the Pennsylvania Attorney General:



Edited to add:

Trump campaign sues to block certification of Biden win in Pennsylvania

... which is highly unlikely to work because...

Edward Foley, who specializes in election law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, said the Pennsylvania legislature couldn’t stop the certification of the vote without changing the law.

“To do that, they would have to attempt to amend the state statute and that is going to be vetoed” by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, said Foley.
534) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060856)
Posted 7 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There's a Tweet for Everything - Part n^n, n -> inf:

535) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060837)
Posted 7 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against US President Donald Trump, who is fighting the cabal.

That should clear things up. :^)
536) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060835)
Posted 7 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hate to admit this, but it actually appears that Donald Trump and Jr. were correct after all that armed partisans were trying to insert fake ballots in one of states still counting... thank goodness it has been foiled:

Fake ballots, Q Anon, and a Virginia senator: “Alarming” incident prompts gun charges for men outside Philly vote-counting center

Speaking during a Friday afternoon press conference, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said Thursday, the FBI’s field office in Norfolk heard "individuals were en route from Virginia Beach to Philadelphia in a Silver Hummer truck, and were in possession of weapons and ammunition.”
...
Officers then searched the Hummer. Inside, they found another gun, an AR-15-style rifle, plus ammunition. The car itself was plastered with bumper stickers supporting the far-right Q Anon conspiracy theory.
...
The Hummer turned up that afternoon, parked outside the Philadelphia Convention Center. Inside, thousands of ballots were being counted in the ongoing Presidential race.
...
According to a release from Philadelphia Police, both men were charged with having a “concealed firearm without a license, a third-degree felony.” At an arraignment hearing Friday evening, prosecutors said both men were concerned about the ballots being counted at the convention center, and were “coming to deliver a truck full of fake ballots to Philly," according to CBS Philly.
537) Message boards : Politics : CON MAN!!!!! Where's dA JOE aka OUR NEXT PREz Stuff? C'MON MAN!!!!!! Certaninly Posts to a CON MAN JOE Thread should be OVERFLOWING with ACCOLADEs to Our SOON to be NEXT PREZ. CON MAN!!!!! (Message 2060793)
Posted 7 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


:^)
538) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Fast Radio Bursts (Message 2060753)
Posted 6 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Nailed it!. :^)

Excuse my enthusiasm... I'm most often wrong lol.
539) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060738)
Posted 6 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Joe Biden has even taken an exceedingly narrow lead (currently 984 votes) in Georgia. The count continues.

So far, 63% of all ballots cast in this election were mail-in/absentee/drop box, with only 37% being traditional in-person. This is why the count is taking so long: state resources were simply overloaded in an unprecedented way. Democrat votes are disproportionately those mail-in/absentee/drop box votes for several reasons:

1) Trump cast doubt on the mail-in/absentee/drop box process for months before election day and encouraged Republican voters to use in-person voting
2) Trump made intimidating statements (ie telling the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by") and his militia followers stated they would possibly be "monitoring" polling places while armed, which Democrat voters would want to avoid via mail-in/absentee/drop box voting
3) Because Trump has downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic (ie holding gatherings/rallies whereas Biden and other Democrats have done the opposite and held no rallies), Democrat voters would also be more likely to use mail-in/absentee/drop box voting to avoid the risk of contracting or spreading COVID-19 at polling places

Thus, the Democrats have slowly made gains in the states still remaining.
540) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060678)
Posted 5 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some outlets are already calling Arizona for Biden. The only other state he currently leads in, which will put him to exactly 270, is Nevada.

Edit: If it does come down to just Nevada, the outcome may not be decided conclusively and finally for five more days as Nevada law allows one week for delivery of all mail-in ballots, as long as they are postmarked on the day of the election Nov. 3rd.
541) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060601)
Posted 4 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But I bet there are some high-rises in New York City built with cheaper, weaker cement than the architect specified - dumped out of an unmarked truck, round the back of the building site, at four in the morning. And I think I know someone who could think like that, and who has friends who could organise a scam like that.


Many New Yorkers would also know that a similar scam happened during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge... the wire contractor was changed from the bridge's designer to another by way of political maneuvering. He then ran a scam where shipments of tested and certified wire being shipped to the site were intercepted, and poor-quality rejected wire was substituted. By the time this was discovered, the bad wire was already woven into the bridge cables and could not be removed. It's estimated they are half the strength they were planned for because of this (4x over maximum capacity instead of 8x so still plenty of leeway.) This is one of the reasons semis and buses are prohibited on the bridge.

Edit: Wisconsin has flipped for Biden (went for Trump in 2016.) He needs three more.

Edit2: Michigan has also flipped for Biden (and also went for Trump in 2016.) Two more...
542) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060597)
Posted 4 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well it isn't over just yet... Joe Biden has a very narrow path to a very slim victory: he's currently leading in Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan by razor-thin margins, and with a comfortable lead in Maine. If he captures all five of these states, he will reach 270 electoral college votes , where 270 are required.

The votes being counted right now are mail-in/absentee which are predominantly Democratic, so he may keep those leads. Of course, Trump's campaign is trying to get the counts stopped but I have no idea why as then Biden would instantly be the victor as he's ahead!

Biden also leads the total vote count by 2.8 million. If Trump wins it will be another electoral college "victory"... 2016 all over again.

Edit: Maine appears to have been called for Biden so he needs the other four states. And I corrected my count above... Joe will get exactly 270 electoral college votes if he wins all four remaining battlegrounds.

Thus, one "faithless elector" could doom his presidency.
543) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060570)
Posted 4 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't think he's going to need the courts... looking at the results right now it looks like Trump is on the verge of taking Texas, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with a strong enough lead in each that there don't seem to be enough uncounted votes to flip it the other way. I think it's done. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and it will have changed, but doubt it. So Much For The Polls: Part II.

Don't forget what year this election was held in... 2020 wasn't dead yet. So no surprise.
544) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean" (Message 2060498)
Posted 2 Nov 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm thankful my view on things is not so dismal.

Biden could certainly still win the election if it's overwhelming enough that it would be an obvious "fix" to hand it to Trump through the courts. What is to be avoided is a close election with a slight Trump loss; then we could have Bush v. Gore 2000 all over again.

As for the courts: Five times Republican appointees have ruled against Trump. This was two years ago and there have been plenty more examples since.

A war of words broke out between Trump and Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Wednesday over the president's angry comments about judges who rule against him.

Roberts, in a rare rebuke of a sitting president, said the country doesn't have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."

"What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them," Roberts said in a statement. "That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for."


Trump has the worst record at the Supreme Court of any modern president

Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh have voted in favor of the Trump administration 39 percent and 57 percent of the time, respectively.


These are, of course, two of his appointees.

Don't forget that the Democrats could muster just as many if not more lawyers now; donations were twice that to the Republican campaign recently. And if it's to prevent an election being stolen outright moreso than 2000, add in the thousands affiliated with the ACLU, who have been very effective.

And try to stay hopeful. :^)
545) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2059356)
Posted 15 Oct 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'd like to see this so called “God-given rights” in writing delivered by this so called "God" himself.


They are in here somewhere. :^)
546) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2056985)
Posted 13 Sep 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... he told Fox & Friends that he was opposed to Democrats’ efforts to make it easier to vote because “if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”


It's so telling that he would espouse this, given that he lost the popular vote, and the last president before him that did was IMHO still the worst president ever: George W. Bush. Before that we have to go back 130 years to find the next one. Every other president, Republican or Democrat, was able to win the popular vote ie won with more votes than their opponent so was unambiguously the actual winner without needing an electoral college "victory".

Thus I interpret his quote as: “if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican ME elected in this country again.”
547) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2056569)
Posted 6 Sep 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is trending on Twitter as #Dumbkirk.... lol.
548) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2056540)
Posted 6 Sep 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The "October surprises" are starting in September this election cycle, but there are going to be so many of them that one month just isn't enough. "September surprise" has better alliteration anyway.
549) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2056519)
Posted 5 Sep 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Oh where do they breed these idiots? :-(

Mostly south of the Mason Dixon line.

You are forgetiiing the Sturgis S.D. motorcycle rally and I'd bet that most of them never heard of the Mason Dixon line.


As predicted:

South Dakota is nation's top hot spot for COVID-19; 2,143 test positive in last week

South Dakota surpassed 3,000 active COVID-19 cases Thursday while becoming the state with the highest per capita surge in the nation, according to nationwide tracking by the New York Times. Iowa and North Dakota follow the state in hot spot rankings.

In the past seven days, 2,143 South Dakotans have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Department of Health.
...
Contact tracing

118 South Dakotans have COVID-19 as a result of attending the Sturgis motorcycle rally, the DOH reported Thursday.

Clayton said the state is basing its rally tally on South Dakota residents who in 14 days prior to their illness onset visited Sturgis or attended an event that would be considered part of the motorcycle rally prior to their illness.


Those 118 are the ones where it could be firmly established that infection was as a result of attendance. This is probably only a small fraction of the total. It was estimated that 65% of counties in the lower 48 are home to someone who attended Sturgis.
550) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2056494)
Posted 4 Sep 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Guns came to OSHAWA, Ontario


Toronto and surrounding areas are awash in mostly illegal firearms run over the thinly guarded border, mostly by gangs. We're averaging about a gang shooting per day, and the politicians who can do something about it don't seem to care, so we'll be hitting Chicago numbers eventually.
551) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2055712)
Posted 23 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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re: "DeAngelo, 74, was arrested in 2018 after his DNA was found on a genealogy website."

Not per se; I am surprised the BBC would oversimplify to this degree... because he had never been arrested nor (for obvious reasons) ever submitted his DNA to a genealogical database. Instead, this case was a landmark for using public DNA databases to construct familial relationships for an otherwise unknown suspect; DNA samples were matched to persons in the database with shared ancestors five generations back, a consultant genealogist constructed a (huge) family tree and a closest match was identified. The suspect became known as a relative of this closest match in the database, his home was visited and DNA swabs were taken from exterior surfaces he may have touched. An exact genetic match to forensic evidence from the crimes was obtained and he was arrested.
552) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2055561)
Posted 20 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ballistic^2 :

Judge throws out Trump's effort to block subpoena for financial records

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from President Trump that sought to block Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's subpoena for his financial records.

Why it matters: The Supreme Court ruled last month that presidents are not immune from investigation, denying Trump the sweeping grant of presidential power he had asked for. The court gave Vance the right to access records from Trump's financial institutions as part of a criminal investigation, but sent the case back down to the lower courts so that Trump's lawyers could continue to fight the subpoena.

Between the lines: In a disclosure earlier this month, the DA's office suggested for the first time that it's investigating Trump and his company for "alleged bank and insurance fraud."
553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : is it me or are horror movies getting more funny than comedies? (Message 2055381)
Posted 17 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
554) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2055239)
Posted 13 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Alternative - get a buzz cut, no issues with the hair running wild in the wind


555) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2055120)
Posted 11 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some technological trends can be extrapolated, some cannot.

For example, I can imagine nineteenth-century "researchers" predicting that in 2020, fully half of the urban workforce would be employed keeping the streets cleaned of horse poo, based on the assumption that the following nineteenth-century realities would continue:

1) There would be no street transportation but human-powered and horse-powered.
2) Only half the adult population (men) would be available to do this.
3) The job would have to be done manually ie with a shovel.

Someone actually did make a similar prediction, namely that a similar fraction of the population would be employed as telephone operators. They did not foresee automated calling.
556) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2055116)
Posted 11 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Researchers estimate that in 300 years...


557) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2054870)
Posted 7 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another appropriate and strangely foretelling movie reference:

558) Message boards : Politics : CON MAN!!!!! Where's dA JOE aka OUR NEXT PREz Stuff? C'MON MAN!!!!!! Certaninly Posts to a CON MAN JOE Thread should be OVERFLOWING with ACCOLADEs to Our SOON to be NEXT PREZ. CON MAN!!!!! (Message 2054863)
Posted 7 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Post DEM GLOWING ACCOLADEs Here fO OUR NEXT GREAT ONE.


If and when he's President and does something worth an accolade, sure. I tend to try to give people a chance to prove themselves one way or another, and reserve judgement until then.
559) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2054590)
Posted 3 Aug 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Military, the National guard, and the Police will protect him.


As the National Guard is under the control of each state, sort of a tossup.

I would not count on military support. He has already alienated many of the "top brass" (edit: here's an example a couple of days later), and the branches have much stronger codes of ethics. This article "Why the US Military Usually Punishes Misconduct but Police Often Close Ranks" is a good summary.
560) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2054376)
Posted 30 Jul 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You DON'T KNOW How He Got It.

NO ONE Does


Yes, we do actually. He got it by being talked into those around him into thinking it wasn't a threat, which you seem to be persisting in doing (albeit briefly) ... so he didn't take precautions, nor did those around him.

The exact where or whom doesn't matter in the slightest.
561) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2054370)
Posted 30 Jul 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
June 20:



Indeed, only one mask in sight...



July 2:





He died today (July 30th) of COVID-19.

Please take this pandemic seriously.
562) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2053726)
Posted 20 Jul 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Adele, REM and Pharrell Williams have previously taken issue with Mr Trump using their music...


Also Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Guns N' Roses, Neil Young, Nickelback, Panic at the Disco, Queen, Rihanna and the Rolling Stones. This doesn't even count the estates/families of the departed who took issue...
563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Is Seti@home shutting down, including this site? (Message 2053305)
Posted 14 Jul 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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some guy named www.extremetech.com


Gary's response was perfect then. :^)

Official confirmation that no such closure is imminent.
564) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2052881)
Posted 28 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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FYI the Trump retweet and the original video have been removed from Twitter.
565) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2052772)
Posted 26 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So many productivity apps., ie office applications (such as the O365 suite including Excel), database front-ends such as inventory, cataloging, POS etc. now run in browsers, and Linux's browsers such as Firefox and Chrome are functionally equivalent to Windows'.
566) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2052341)
Posted 19 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
We've been using postal votes for decades now without a problem...


So too have all branches of the U.S. military since the Civil War, thus I doubt any claims there are issues with it.
567) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2052276)
Posted 19 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Since the Upside Down Triangle noted, is not Pro Nazi. It denote's ANTI-NAZISM and people fighting AGAINST the NAZI'S.


Can you please clarify this? ie can you provide a citation anyone who was not a Holocaust survivor using the symbols that the Nazis used on others, ie the red or other colour triangle, yellow Magen David, tattoos, etc. to identify themselves as against Nazism or fascism?

As far as I know, it would be considered highly disrespectful by anyone who suffered forcible identification by these symbols for someone else to self-identify using them in their name, so someone whose cause was fighting Nazism or fascism would absolutely not do this. (Edit: An exception is possibly the pink triangle as I don't know whether it predates its use in the Holocaust, but one's sexuality is not a political stance.)

If you dispute this, I would request that you provide a citation. As far as is known, these were Nazi and only Nazi symbols.
568) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump thread part V (Message 2052221)
Posted 18 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The results were within the normal predicted range, Clinton won the popular vote, but Trump won because of the weird US Electoral college system which is biased to the smaller population states and they are mainly Republican.


With some numbers:

Wyoming: Population 578,800 with 3 electoral college votes, each vote represents 578,800/3 = 192,919 people
New York: Population 19,450,000 with 29 electoral college votes, each vote represents 19,450,000/29 = 670,690 people

Wyoming therefore has 670,690 / 192,919 = 3.48x as much leverage per capita in choosing the President.

Again, Canada's not much better with our parliamentary system where the prime minister isn't voted for directly, but instead elected by being the member of the party that wins the most seats. (Ironically, this kept the Conservative from being elected in our last election... he won the popular vote, and IMHO should be prime minister.) The odd part of the U.S. system is that the electoral college is a redundant add-on to this whereas it could simply be the party that wins the most seats in the House. This would be like the electoral college without the electoral college.
569) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2051965)
Posted 15 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well by that "logic" anyone should be allowed to shoot anyone else on the grounds that they are potentially preventing some future crime. At least in Minority Report they had to demonstrate their precognitive power beforehand...
570) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2051894)
Posted 14 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
An under lying health problem maybe?


Some claim it's frontotemporal dementia as this can also cause this odd "centaur without hind legs" leaning forward stance, as well as other signs matching (lack of empathy, saying inappropriate things) but I think it's the simpler combination of his obesity and wearing lift shoes, both of which tend to unbalance one to falling forward. Lift shoes are known to cause that "centaur" standing posture as well.
571) Questions and Answers : Windows : Seti@home no available tasks? (Message 2051450)
Posted 9 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's been removed as there is no more work. You can manually type or paste the URL:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu

But, don't expect any work. :^)
572) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2051426)
Posted 8 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Then he switched paths, becoming a military police officer in the U.S. Army, serving in Germany.


Thanks... I had no idea he had a military background when I wrote my last post in this thread which mentioned former military police officers.
573) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2051425)
Posted 8 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Oh god, if Biden gets into office it'll be such a huge cluster f*** too. He's the worst candidate the democrat's could've come up with."


As this is the third iteration of this observation... any reasons why he's so bad?
574) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2051409)
Posted 8 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Where do they get these idiots from?


Rejecting applicants for being too intelligent for a start. Then once they are in, they can pick up "training" from the many police (and corrections) officers who are members of white supremacist or other radical groups. The military is very strict on purging these groups; police forces need to be similarly so.

One other issue that police forces have is preferential hiring of ex-military, I imagine just because they know how to use firearms or it's thought that they will be calm under stressful situations. However there's a rather large downside in that military veterans may have PTSD or other issues brought on by their experiences that will cause them to over-react and escalate situations; they may require special training to counteract this. As well, the military and police are of completely opposite mindsets: When the military is deployed in a foreign country, everyone around them is a potential enemy or threat, and there is a clear "us or them" distinction. When this idea is brought to the police, who are citizens operating in their own country, we end up with the "thin blue line" mentality, over-militarization of the police, and officers being pressured to defend or hide bad conduct of their colleagues.

The oft-used meme:



(Who knew Battlestar Galactica could be so profound?)

I would love to see the Japanese train the world's police forces. Like the British, many of them don't carry firearms. Instead they are trained in martial arts (a black belt in judo is considered a strong asset), de-escalation and techniques to render hostile people harmless without violence. For example rather than one or two officers attending when there is a violent out-of-control person, a minimum of four will show up with what looks like a giant futon, and are trained how to wrap the person up in it very quickly (within a second or two) rendering them completely harmless, and they can then be transported to a place to calm down.

Edit: And this is what can happen if the problems aren't fixed...

Minneapolis council members pledge to disband police as protests continue

A majority of city council members in Minneapolis have pledged to abolish the city’s police department after the death of an unarmed black man in custody last month led to some of the biggest protests seen in the United States.
...
Nine members of the 13-person Minneapolis City Council pledged on Sunday to do away with the police department in favour of a community-led safety model, a step that would have seemed unthinkable just two weeks ago.

“A veto-proof majority of the MPLS City Council just publicly agreed that the Minneapolis Police Department is not reformable and that we’re going to end the current policing system,” Alondra Cano, a member of the Minneapolis council, said on Twitter.
575) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2051168)
Posted 6 Jun 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And a military who primary allegiance is to our Constitution and following the order's of a President are secondary to our Constitution when taking the oath. With all orders by their superiors must be legal and constitutional.


As per the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, only Congress has the power to declare war.

Under Harry Truman, the only action by Congress in the Korean War was a $12 billion appropriation. War was not declared. This is the first war where the oft-parodied "police action" was used (by Truman) to describe it, and is the least ambiguous of the bunch as it lasted three years, thus was an unconstitutional war, so everyone who fought in it was given and followed unconstitutional orders from the highest level.

Under Bill Clinton, Operation Uphold Democracy invaded Haiti in 1994. Congress was not involved.

Nor was Congress involved (in fact, declined to be involved) in U.S. military action in Bosnia also under Bill Clinton.

Barack Obama's military strikes against Libya in 2001, described by Defense Secretary Robert Gates as an unambiguous act of war, also did not involve congressional approval.

There are plenty more I am sure.
576) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2050718)
Posted 31 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Also the police in Kansas City...
577) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2050605)
Posted 30 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Soooo........under their 'community standards' banner shouldn't twitter be obliged to also hide comments calling for the destruction of Israel by Iranian leaders?........


Cruz calls for criminal investigation of Twitter

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a letter Friday to the Justice and Treasury departments, is calling for a criminal investigation of Twitter over allegations the company is violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
578) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2050600)
Posted 29 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Did ANY of dA 'Spectators' and 'Commentators' on dA Scene a few feet away - Call 911?


Should they maybe have asked to send the police?
579) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2050578)
Posted 29 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin arrested in George Floyd's death

The Minneapolis police officer shown in bystander video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who subsequently died, has been taken into custody, officials in Minnesota said on Friday.

Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington made the announcement, and said any charging decisions would be made by the Hennepin County Attorney's Office.

Harrington said he was not aware of any arrests of the three other officers who were on the scene on May 26. Those officers, like Chauvin, were fired by the Minneapolis Police Department the following day.


(The officer had 18 complaints against him prior to this...)
580) Questions and Answers : Windows : SETI@Home, Equipe SETI@Deutschland (Message 2050548)
Posted 29 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This forum is only for SETI@Home. You should ask on the WCG forum.

Dieses Forum ist nur für SETI @ Home. Sie sollten im WCG-Forum fragen
581) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2050281)
Posted 24 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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(Technically an HIV vaccine, not an AIDS vaccine per se.) There are at least two trials currently (another was cancelled in Feb. as it was determined to be ineffective.)

This page has plenty of info.
582) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2050232)
Posted 24 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that Rep., Rep., and Rep.?

Gerrymandering wins!


And the Electoral College ensures that vote by a Wyoming voter carries about 4x the weight of a New York voter. I wonder which party each is more likely to prefer... hmm.

As with Britain, we're really no better with our British-derived parliamentary system. Our current prime minister, Justin Trudeau (Liberal), in 2019 lost the popular vote 6,018,728 to Andrew Scheer's (Conservative) 6,239,227. But because he won more seats in parliament, he's now the prime minister and Scheer resigned as leader of the official opposition. I would prefer that MPs and the Prime Minister were voted for separately so that simply the candidate with the most votes won.
583) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2050227)
Posted 24 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Remember "Bill" Clinton. Who became President after receiving only 43% of the nationwide popular vote in 1992.


This isn't applicable, as Bill Clinton did win the popular vote with 44,909,889 to George H.W. Bush's 39,104,550. It wasn't half or more of all voters, but the issue with the Electoral College isn't this, but simply that the candidate with the most votes doesn't necessarily win.

The last three presidents to lose the popular vote but still win the presidency through the Electoral College are Donald Trump (2016), George W. Bush (2000) and then we have to go all the way back to Benjamin Harrison (1888).
584) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2049998)
Posted 21 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And AMERICA will, on November 3rd...


I seem to remember similarly confident pronouncements about the certainty of a certain Ms. Clinton...
585) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2049690)
Posted 19 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Virtually all gun laws in this country, at all levels, are a violation of the 2nd Amendment.


So, full-automatics for everyone including the insane and felons, then?
586) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2049327)
Posted 15 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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NPR exactly agrees.
587) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2049295)
Posted 15 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This one was missed from March.

The usual suspects: Wee hours no-knock narcotics raid... at an incorrect address. Police don't bother announcing they are police, of course, as we don't want any evidence flushed down the toilet, right? Legal resident (an EMT) reasonably concludes they are being invaded and uses his second-amendment-legal firearm to defend himself and his girlfriend. Police shoot dead, not him, but his unarmed girlfriend, who is also an EMT. By this point do I even need to mention they are both black people? Of course not.

Still not overloaded by the incredible basic incompetence of the police involved? The man they were seeking was in custody at the time. They didn't bother checking.
588) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2048785)
Posted 10 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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AR-15 rounds will also penetrate body armour lower than level 4, which includes all soft/flexible armour including citizen "bulletproof" backpacks and standard-issue police body armour. Need I also mention their unmodified semi-auto rate of fire is about 3x that of a pump-action shotgun as well, even without a bump stock or other gadget.
589) Questions and Answers : Web site : Seti@home Communication differed (Message 2048687)
Posted 9 May 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The project is in hibernation indefinitely.
590) Message boards : Number crunching : The last day of S@H (Message 2047735)
Posted 30 Apr 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm going with "Distributed Computing".
591) Questions and Answers : Web site : something strange with statistics (Message 2046944)
Posted 25 Apr 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The "Projects in which you are participating" stats are pulled from an external BOINC stats aggregate site ie BOINCStats. It updates about once a week.
592) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2045827)
Posted 19 Apr 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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When I first heard of SMR's basis a few years ago when it was planning to be introduced, I thought it would only be usable for data storage, not as an active OS platform as it would be too slow. I wondered if its slowness would be noticed should this occur; guess it was!
593) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Telescope Raw Data (Message 2045735)
Posted 19 Apr 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The raw Breakthrough Listen data from the Green Bank Robert C. Byrd telescope, as well as other sources, is available for download here. There is no equivalent for Arecibo SETI@Home-only data.
594) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2044992)
Posted 15 Apr 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If it is true that people that have already come down with CV19 and recovered are getting it again then there doesn't seem to be much hope that a vaccine will do any good and if that is true, how can the spread of the virus be halted?


A vaccine may still be feasible, as vaccine-induced antibodies may differ qualitatively (different antibodies) or quantitatively (same antibodies but in different proportions) from those induced by natural exposure; this can make the vaccine less or more effective than the naturally-acquired immunity.

Citations:

Comparison of naturally acquired and vaccine-induced antibodies to Haemophilus influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide

Natural or vaccine-induced antibody as a predictor of immunity in the face of natural challenge with influenza viruses
595) Message boards : News : SETI@home and COVID-19 (Message 2044155)
Posted 11 Apr 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've read on the Berkeley Online Newsletter that on April 7 Nobel prizewinner Saul Perlmutter will host a TV conference in Berkeley on the problems of data processing posed by COVID-19. I intend to attend.
Tullio


Fixed that for you I think. :^)
596) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2042297)
Posted 1 Apr 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I was wondering the same thing....I know we can finish them....but is there a point? Will they still be accepting them?


Of course... only new work generation has stopped. Result return including re-sends for timeouts, errors etc. is going to continue indefinitely until it's all completed (that's what we've been advised, at least.)
597) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2040275)
Posted 25 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As with the Spanish Flu not being a racist rant...


Ironically, the only reason that it was called that is that due to Spanish neutrality in WW1, the epidemic in Spain could be freely reported, and not so in aligned European nations. It may have followed the bird to pig to human vector with the first infections being British soldiers on the French front lines.
598) Message boards : News : SETI@home and COVID-19 (Message 2039969)
Posted 23 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There's always the non-BOINC option Folding@home, which is apparently now the most powerful computer on Earth (though I don't think that rating is near high enough myself) as this is the project that the gamers are overwhelmingly supporting. It's doing as much COVID-19 as possible.
599) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2039447)
Posted 21 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Summit: 200 EPFlops (200,000 TFlops)


// stickler for details. :^)
600) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2039031)
Posted 20 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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(W.T.F. stands for "What's That For?" ... of course!) 😄
601) Questions and Answers : Windows : lost tasks (Message 2038414)
Posted 17 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here is the process.
602) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC client lost attachement to Seti@home, now not downloading any tasks (Message 2038347)
Posted 16 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As the directions were updated, the posts with the old ones were hidden. Read through the thread and you'll find the active post with them (by Keith Myers.)
603) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2038047)
Posted 15 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is doubtless another effect of the replica being way behind. You can check this by going to the Server status page and noting "Replica seconds behind master". It's currently 85,491, or just under one day.
604) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2037987)
Posted 15 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So did you find anything and will you tell us where we can read your paper?


We won't know if there are any findings until the Nebula analysis is completed, which we don't have a timeframe for either as it's still in development. I wouldn't expect anything for a few months at least.

The resulting paper will definitely be made public; I'm pretty sure that this was already directly indicated by someone on the team who could make such a pronouncement; don't have the link handy though.
605) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2037806)
Posted 14 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I still don't know what this toilet paper thang is about.


I don't know where it started or what use it serves either. It seems to be a "herd mentality" thing where people see others buying huge amounts of toilet paper, then have to do the same themselves, lest others get ahead of them in the toilet paper game... or something.
606) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2037741)
Posted 13 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Lately most of our data has been sourced from the Breakthrough Listen initiative. All of its raw data is publicly available and can be downloaded here for anyone to analyze.
607) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2037724)
Posted 13 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As has been detailed, the work we've done over twenty years isn't being "chucked" but will be analyzed, and this is the reason that the "hibernation" is taking place. However I do agree that the shutting down of the project could have been avoided and observations and sending/receiving work continued. If the money wasn't there to enable this, it wasn't asked for.
608) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2037597)
Posted 12 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SUPERTrump will Prevail. Like it or not.


Reminds me of a whole bunch of folks who were just as overconfident about a certain female candidate's certainty a few years ago.... hmmm.

Sometimes it's best to be hopeful rather than sure of things that haven't happened yet....
609) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2037573)
Posted 12 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I still cling to the faint glimmer of a foolishly optimistic hope (as I have nothing else right now) that should the Nebula run not find anything, that the project will indeed come back to life, hopefully with refreshed long-term goals and funding/staffing requirements to keep it going.

As noted earlier, we haven't even touched a quarter of the sky due to the declination limitations of the two radio telescopes SETI@Home has used so far, as Parkes was never brought online. We have zero possible idea of when we're going to find that signal or signals (multiples still are required to even qualify) so more observations can only improve our chances. And there's no time like the present with computers thousands of times faster than the clunkers we started with twenty years ago to sift all that data.

We're also 10x more sensitive than the real-time BL analysis. Assuming strict inverse-square, that means we could detect a signal from about 3.2x further away, which by volume would be about 33x the number of star systems assuming an even distribution. This is the slower but better "quality vs. quantity" search which I think has a better chance... if, and only if, we keep listening!
610) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2037415)
Posted 12 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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From the NIH:

According to the statistics, the deceased organ donation rate in China currently is only about 0.6/1,000,000 China citizens, one of the lowest in the world. The sad truth is that there are about 1 to 1.5 million people in China needing organ transplant every year and only 10,000 people can get a new organ successfully.


Most patients in countries with far higher donation rates wait months or years for new lungs, yet China manages to find two in a row in less than a week. Strains credulity I would say...
611) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2037407)
Posted 12 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You do more of the same thing and get fewer rewards.


We would have to go from finding zero extraterrestrial signals to some negative number. :^)
612) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2037119)
Posted 10 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I would say that if the the outrage was cancelled to decrease the numbers, then the team is certainly aware so they will be "massaged" downwards ie by running scripts to clear the backlog, kick the assimilators etc.
613) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2037113)
Posted 10 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We are forgoing this week's outage in order to let validation and assimilation to catch up.


Awesome... I know at least one of us requested this directly (no point really when it's all shutting down anyways so soon.) Nice that it was implemented.
614) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2037046)
Posted 10 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please read this SETI@Home fundraising letter from Nov. 2019 only four months ago.

We continue to obtain raw data from Berkeley's Breakthrough Listen program. From Green Bank, we will be getting data from observations of galaxies and targets selected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) program. Parkes will soon be conducting a survey plane of our own Milky Way galaxy and we will be distributing those data as well.


In those four months, we went from that, to:

We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again.


"other" = It won't be anyone from the SETI@Home team currently, so no continuation or succession. It won't be SETI@Home, in other words.
"We hope"/"if this happens" = No one's confirmed anything. Maybe no one's even been asked.

As far as "diminishing returns", unless someone has some inside info on when ET is calling, more observations can only improve our chances of finding anything. And we haven't even observed half the southern sky (which was what the Parkes data was supposed to do) as the lowest declination of the GBT is only -46° (Arecibo is only slightly steerable so is -1°, even being much further south.)
615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rest In Peace, Max Von Sydow. (Message 2036974)
Posted 9 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


R.I.P.
616) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2036953)
Posted 9 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It might look to you that the cafe might be the place for this subject, because of the social implications, or the non-seti science pages because the people who deal with it are scientists and doctors. But unfortunately the real effects are the results of political decisions.
No matter what happens the discussions about how well we get through this or why was this so bad will be politically based, and if you move it somewhere else who is going to moderate the unavoidable political comments in either of your choices.

The decision should not be ours, lets leave it to the mods.


Thank you... this is the correct summary. The moderator consensus was to leave the derailment prior here for now, hopefully as being instructive for future posts, but anything regarding posts/threads being offtopic is supposed to be reported with the red-X.

I think I noted this already(?), but to recap: this thread was moved to Politics because of the above, and here it shall remain. Let's please return to the topic and thank you.
617) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036934)
Posted 9 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If the 'volunteer' section is closing on 31st march, then why is my PC still downloading data to be processed, that has a 'early May' deadline ?


Mar. 31 is only when new work will stop being made. The servers will still be around for a while to receive results and send out re-sends for invalids, etc.
618) Message boards : Number crunching : 20th Anniversary T-shirts (Message 2036873)
Posted 9 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My 2 cents, I would lose the RIP for Hibernation.


I suspect it may be permanent, and very much hope to be proven wrong.
619) Message boards : Number crunching : 20th Anniversary T-shirts (Message 2036871)
Posted 9 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


How's this? Feel free to use it. It may be a work in progress, for example, I had an idea to possibly add an ethereal toilet bowl around the "galaxy". Please let me know if you have any other ideas.

Note to anyone: PLEASE do not reply unnecessarily quoting/duplicating the image in the reply. I like to hide those. :^)
620) Message boards : Number crunching : Suggestions/Comments for a SETI@home v3 (Message 2036676)
Posted 8 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My biggest disappointment is that the project can't keep looking in different locations for another 20 years.


This is my (and I am sure I have plenty of company) question that has not been answered by the team, and I don't even feel like bothering them any more about anything regarding the shutdown (they don't seem keen on it.)

So, in the most likely scenario (it's a big and sparse universe after all) Nebula is completed and runs on the twenty-year data set and finds absolutely diddly-squat. Is SETI@Home going to come out of hibernation and keep looking?

The communique only mentioned "We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again." This clearly states that SETI@Home is dead as far as SETI goes. That isn't a "hibernation". I don't know if this was just a miswording.
621) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2036645)
Posted 8 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Was it an unfortunate power victim?


One of several reasons that SETI@Home moved all the project's servers to the UC Berkeley colocation (aka CoLo) facility is that it has a backup generator for outages, and an enterprise-grade UPS that will keep the entire CoLo online until the generator kicks in. During last year's Berkeley outages due to PG&E cutting power to prevent fires that caused classes to be cancelled and closed most of the campus, I don't think SETI@Home had so much as a hiccup.
622) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036627)
Posted 8 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How exactly can they not process & analyze the data via distributed computing?


Nebula's analysis is looking for "beacon" repeating signals from the same direction. In order to do that comparison meaningfully, they need the entire database at the same place at the same time.

I'd suggest reading Dr. Anderson's postings in the Nebula forum, which go into details.
623) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036304)
Posted 6 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So can you not distribute the analysis?


It can't be distributed practically as it needs the entire data set simultaneously to work on. What could have instead happened was having the analysis run while we're still sending and receiving work as usual, but neither the money was there, nor, I am becoming increasingly convinced, the interest to find it and keep the project going as it has. Only time will tell, by how long it takes for the hibernation to end.
624) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036237)
Posted 6 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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putting this out. can we put a list of all the seti@home that have past away. in the faq or something to honor them and remember them for their service on here.????


I'd been planning on doing this for a while, and since this is an optimal time, I've pinned a list in the Cafe. The forums will continue to operate long after work distribution has ended.
625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : In memory of SETIzens passed (Message 2036233)
Posted 6 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As the SETI@Home project is going into hiatus for a long time, if not forever, this thread is being pinned to honor the SETIzens who died while contributing over the years. Please note that this is a work in progress so will be added to/updated as new information is found.

As this thread is locked/read-only (much like any other memorial) if there are any missing SETIzens or other info to add/correct, please send me a private messsage. If I am no longer performing moderation duties at the time for some reason, please instead pass the info to the moderation team via using the red-X on the post and another moderator will duplicate/update it. Thank you.



Bodley ••• Memoriam thread
(Unfortunately, Bodley doesn't seem to have had his own memoriam thread, but was mentioned in others)

Byron Leigh Hatch ••• Memoriam thread

Captain Avatar (Timothy G. Hunt) ••• Memoriam thread

Celttooth (M. Ian Russell) ••• Memoriam thread ••• Newsfeed thread

Darth Dogbytes (Dennis Peters) ••• Memoriam thread ••• Newsfeed thread

Dr. C.E.T.I. (Richard Lubrich) ••• Newsfeed thread

Gordon M. Lowe ••• Memoriam thread ••• Newsfeed thread

Grant Nelson ••• Memoriam thread

Jack Lass ••• Newsfeed thread

JBird (James Jay Chapman III) ••• Obituary page

Jim Scott ••• Memoriam thread ••• Newsfeed thread

John Clark ••• Memoriam thread ••• Newsfeed thread

Josef W. Segur ••• Memoriam thread

MajorKong ••• Memoriam thread
(Note that "KWSN" is a team designation for "The Knights Who Say Ni!", not actually part of his forum name)

Monday (Jeff) ••• Memoriam thread

Robert M. Deller ••• Obituary page
(Unfortunately his memoriam thread is on a team forum so is not generally visible)

"Rocky" (Marvin L.) Cudd ••• Memoriam thread ••• Newsfeed thread

Steve C. ••• Memoriam thread
(Note that this is a shared account between father Steve and son Ian, who continued to contribute)

Wes Wycoff ••• Newsfeed thread

Yank (Vincent Frank Splain) ••• Memoriam thread ••• Obituary page
626) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036138)
Posted 6 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This hit CNN.... did SETI@Home ever before?
627) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2036088)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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...and Warren quickly to follow...


Indeed...

Elizabeth Warren ends Democratic presidential campaign

Calling it the "honour of a lifetime," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Thursday she is ending her bid for the Democratic nomination for president.

Warren, who electrified progressives with her "plan for everything" and strong message of economic populism, confirmed earlier to her campaign staff she would depart the race.

Speaking to reporters outside her home in Cambridge, Mass., said she would continue fighting in her current capacity for everyday Americans "who have gotten the short end of the stick."

"There are still tens of millions of people across the country who, one bad medical diagnosis and they're upside down financially. There are still mamas and daddies all across this country who can't finish their education, can't take on jobs because they can't find access to decent child care that they can afford," Warren said, standing beside her husband Bruce Mann.

For much of the past year, her campaign had all the markers of success: robust poll numbers, impressive fundraising and a sprawling political infrastructure that featured staffers on the ground across the country. She was squeezed out, though, by Bernie Sanders, who had an immovable base of voters she needed to advance.
628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Following the death of Paul Allen, there is no more money to operate Seti ... (Message 2036073)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Personally, I think there were numerous paths to keeping the project going as-is, still with Nebula analysis:

1) Required donation level. Stop calling it a "donation" and call it a "maintenance fee". $12 annual contribution to be able to download work and post in forums. Voluntary higher contribution levels for perks ie special forum icons, recognition walls, etc. With 80K volunteers, that's $960K annually. If the number shrinks, the fee goes up accordingly or vice versa to keep it at $1M annually.

2) More detailed pleas for donations. Not once was it indicated that the project would have to shut down because there wasn't sufficient funding to have a concurrent Nebula going. If this was made very clear, I think that they would have made that $1M annual goal!

3) Corporate partnership. Given the trade-off between having an Amazon etc. ad banner on pages and no SETI@Home at all, I'd very happily choose the former.

Where there's a will...

Edit: There are also other wealthy donors out there. Yuri Milner I would consider already did his bit with $100M for BL, but Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and others are strongly interested in space sciences and tech. and I 'm sure that a million would be fiddly pocket lint to them.
629) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036051)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hope they change the s/w to allow Zero RAC people to post.


I verified with the team that they are going to address the possible issue of falling RAC causing the inability to post here. Unknown how but it should be taken care of.
630) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036031)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Even though no additional data will be distributed, will the system continue to accept data we process beyond March 31?


The indication was yes... new work won't be generated/sent beyond Mar. 31st, but the servers will still be up to receive work in progress and send out re-sends in the case of invalids and inconclusives, etc.
631) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035857)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is there Acceptence of Monies over decades fo da false pretense of Existence of Extra-Terrestrials aka ET?????

What is Difference?


The difference is, at least scientifically, there is no pretense of what's out there. (Never heard a SETI scientist pontificate what they are sure extraterrestrials want us to do, for example.)

There may be nothing at all, or there may be civilizations galore, but we'll never know which if we don't listen continuously until we find out.
632) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2035851)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm not sure why they need a computer of that calibre in the first place to maximize how many humans can be vaporized and cities destroyed when we already have enough nuclear weapons to do that already several times over... another great excuse to waste a huge amount of money on something that we'll hopefully never use and almost certainly don't need.

For a bit of perspective: SETI@Home at its peak was doing just over a PetaFLOP, so that proposed computer is two thousand times as powerful (or 2,048 if you're a powers-of-two person.) Yet every government on earth refuses to support SETI research, saying it is a waste of money. Go figure...
633) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035828)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But the project changed it's mind and went for a real time scenario. It soon found that they would need a m/c costing around $40,000 to do it. The money was simply not there.


I can tell you precisely and evidentially why it wasn't there: because it was not asked for!

Please have a look at December's donations. This is when we had the fundraiser for the disk array... because it was asked for. We needed $10,894. Instead that month raised $46,501. That's enough for the real-time Nebula system right there.

I wrote a detailed proposal earlier it could just be a paddym replica server to sync off the science database until it was "caught up" and then it could be offlined and the drive array sent to ATLAS for Nebula processing. When the run was done the array could sent back, resynced to the updated science database and the process repeated. One week-long fundraiser could buy one of those.

All they need to do is ask... look at how well it turns out when they do.
634) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035738)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The very unfortunate aspect is that rather than running concurrently and continuously that the project needs to be taken down for months or years (if not forever) to do this analysis. As Dr. Korpela noted, if the donation level had been higher ($1 million annually or greater) then Nebula could have been built to work in this concurrent manner. Considering that there are 80K active participants currently, that works out to only $12 annually each.

I tried, but my investments are in the toilet right now with the worldwide trade wars and disease-fuelled recession, and the personal and workplace lottery pools resulted in as much luck and long-term results as anything else I've attempted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyone have Jeff Bezos' phone number handy?

SETI is a search for our meaning and our place in the cosmos, It's a question that has been longing for an answer since the first humans looked upwards to the night sky and wondered if they were alone. It's as deeply emotional as it is scientific. This project not only allowed us to try to answer it, but actually to directly participate in finding this answer, to whatever degree we chose. There is nothing that will ever quite replace it.

The saddest part of this is to read the farewell posts of volunteers who have contributing since the beginning and have never posted before or only a very few times. For twenty years they silently and uncomplainingly kept this project, and hope itself, going, and now they have nothing more they care about to contribute to.

I hope that you can have some empathy for them.
635) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035712)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Alternately - why not open up the full Seti@home code to public so others could take the project and create a new start?


It always has been...
636) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035705)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Cats are ET. They just live here to use us a servants.


Evidence:


637) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What If? (Message 2035685)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SETI looks for basic amplitude-modulated radio signals because the hope is that this is the first electromagnetic communications (OK, other than light reflecting off the written word!) that anyone else will discover as it was for us, and thus this would be the "beacon" medium a more technologically advanced civilization would use if they wanted the highest possibility of it being discovered.

Of course, the converse could also be true. They could be using a more advanced medium we haven't even developed or even discovered yet, because they don't want to communicate with anyone else who isn't yet at that level of technology... sort of an intelligence test.
638) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI@home in the News (Message 2035679)
Posted 4 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In the news not in the way we wanted, but:

SETI@Home Is Over. But the Search for Alien Life Continues (from Wired)

In 1995, the computer scientist David Gedye had an idea that could only originate at a cocktail party. What if the world’s personal computers were linked together on the internet to create a virtual supercomputer that could help with SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence? The network would be able to sort through the massive amounts of data being collected by radio telescopes, seeking signals that might point to an alien civilization around another star. A distributed supercomputer sounded outlandish at the time, but within four years, Gedye and his collaborators had built the software to make it a reality. They called it SETI@home.

On Tuesday, researchers at the Berkeley SETI Research Center announced they would stop distributing new data to SETI@home users at the end of March. It marks the culmination of an unprecedented 20-year experiment that engaged millions of people from almost every country on earth. But all experiments must come to an end, and SETI@home is no exception. So far, the researchers at Berkeley have only been able to analyze small portions of the SETI@home data. They had to hit pause on the public-facing part of the experiment to analyze the full two decades of radio astronomy data they’ve collected to see what they might find.

“For 20 years, there’s been this fight between keeping the project running and getting the results out to the scientific community,” says Eric Korpela, the director of SETI@home. “At this point, we can’t even be sure that we haven’t found anything because we’ve been doing most of our data analysis on small test databases rather than the whole sky.”


SETI@home Going into Hibernation (from the SETI Institute)

UC Berkeley has announced that the volunteer computing part of SETI @ home will stop distributing work and go into hibernation on March 31. Two reasons were cited for this action:


[The remainder is basically a verbatim of the announcement.]

SETI@home to shut down after two decades of crowdsourced alien hunting (from CNet)

After March 31, a bunch of amateur alien hunters will regain some personal computing power. The Berkeley SETI Research Center announced Monday that SETI@home, the two-decades-old crowdsourcing effort to hunt for signs of E.T. in radio telescope data using internet-connected computers, is shutting down at the end of the month.

The home-based search for extraterrestrial intelligence project was launched from University of California, Berkeley, back in 1999 -- when the internet was still a relatively new thing to many people and the term crowdsourcing had not yet been coined.

Prior to SETI@home, radio telescopes would collect massive amounts of noisy data that would then need to be analyzed using supercomputers to see if there might be a signal from distant civilizations amid all the noise.

SETI@home works a little bit like bitcoin mining: Volunteers install a free computer program that downloads and crunches data in the background around the clock. The difference being that there is no currency produced as a reward, except for the satisfaction of helping your fellow humans navigate the vast cosmos, in a way.

Now the SETI@home team says it's time to shut the whole thing down and focus on compiling the results from the project.
639) Message boards : News : A new fundraiser for SETI storage! (Message 2035335)
Posted 3 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And like magic, an answer appears elsewhere:

If you donated for the disk array, we'll still need that. Jeff is in the process of assembling it. If you gave money in the annual drive, we'll have bills to pay all the way to the end (including page charges for the papers).
640) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035186)
Posted 2 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is sad, but not unexpected. Nebula has been in the works for a while and was designed to process the two decades of data we've accumulated. The project always had a fixed lifespan pending getting to this state. I had hoped that it would continue with data being collected, processed and put into Nebula at the same time, but this may not be technically possible.

In the interim, the greatest contribution to the world that SETI@Home has made is the development of BOINC. There are dozens of worthy BOINC projects out there to switch our computers to, all needing volunteers. While they'll never replace SETI@Home for me, they'll at least keep the hardware we paid for busy, and who knows... we might still discover something. (And of course we can only now start to discover something here... all of our data has sat idle and waiting until now!)

So there is still hope.
641) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2035165)
Posted 2 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No, I said all I can say under the circumstances. Just keep an eye on the News forum.

How long is this "news" going to take to be released? A day .....year


Now.

I hope it is about SETI shutting down the crunching part of the project, for an extended time, or forever.
It's run its course, and now it's time for the analyzing of all 20+ years worth of results.



Sten, you totally nailed it. I usually find the most unpleasant answer is the correct one as well. :^)
642) Message boards : Number crunching : About Deadlines or Database reduction proposals (Message 2035056)
Posted 2 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My half-baked hypothesis is that we'll have a very extended (days or more) outrage this Tuesday. The team promised they'd post pics, stats etc. of the new device for the 16TB drives we just fundraised for, and as we haven't seen anything on it yet this may be what it's about. I would expect if they are consolidating all of the project into one box it will be a good time for a complete database rebuild to get rid of bad records, including all the junk entries from the RX 5700 cards and any other detritus that has built up over the years. We don't want that in Nebula.
643) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2035042)
Posted 2 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The CDC states 9.3-45 million cases with 12-61 thousand deaths for the plain old "flu". In a worst-case scenario, taking the highest deaths with lowest cases, this is about 0.66%. Data from Iran suggests that COVID19 has a mortality of about 8-18%, and 3% worldwide from wealthier countries with correspondingly more health care technology. So it would appear at minimum to be five times as deadly as the flu, and perhaps much more so.
644) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2034894)
Posted 1 Mar 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Pete Buttigieg to pull out of Democratic race for White House

Pete Buttigieg, the former Indiana mayor who made an ambitious run for president, is to end his campaign for the White House, US media report.

The 38-year-old became the first openly gay major-party presidential candidate when he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination.

But despite a successful start, his campaign has failed to gain momentum.

His decision to drop out comes ahead of a key day on Tuesday in the Democratic race to take on Trump.

Fourteen states will vote on Super Tuesday, by the end of which staunch left-winger Bernie Sanders could have an unbeatable lead and be a step closer to the nomination.

Mr Buttigieg surprisingly, and narrowly, won the first event of the primary season, the caucuses in Iowa on 3 February. But he failed to repeat that success and build up crucial delegates, and finished a distant fourth in South Carolina on Saturday.

He also struggled to build support among African-American voters, a point emphasised by his poor showing in South Carolina.

While there has been no formal announcement from Mr Buttigieg's team, it is expected to confirm the end of his campaign later today.
645) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2034438)
Posted 28 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Lots of Top Docs have said dA 'Virus' is a lot like a Cold.


You're right... it is quite similar at first which is probably why so many cases have slipped through enabling it to become pandemic. However, colds of course don't as often then progress to pneumonia, and certainly not multiple organ failure.
646) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2034423)
Posted 28 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Perhaps this Topic would be better served by transferring it from the partisan posting Politics Boards.


This thread was moved here precisely for the reason you mentioned, that commentary in it inevitably became of a political nature.
647) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2034307)
Posted 27 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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...it was stated by Eric that this is being done to try and keep the system within it's RAM limits, I just can't remember where that post was made and whether Eric actually made it or it was passed along ATM.


It's actually right in the News forum so visible in the BOINC client. (Edit: of course it was there yesterday and now that I post this it's disappeared lol.)
648) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2034280)
Posted 27 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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👍

An honest admission of error and retraction in Politics is as commendable as it is rare. :^)
649) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2034266)
Posted 27 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please show the source of these fatality numbers. I can't find them.


It appears that this was the number of infections, rather than fatalities:

In 2018, researchers at Yale University found the epidemic could have been prevented if Pence and state officials had acted faster. The study received financial support from the federal government.

“Our findings suggest that with earlier action the actual number of infections recorded in Scott County — 215 — might have been brought down to fewer than 56, if the state had acted in 2013, or to fewer than 10 infections, if they had responded to the [hepatitis C] outbreak in 2010-2011,” the paper’s senior author, Forrest W. Crawford, said in a statement at the time. Instead they cut funding for the last HIV testing provider in the county.”
650) Questions and Answers : Windows : Multiple Questions (In Progress, types of tasks, etc.) (Message 2034061)
Posted 26 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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2) I have 53 items In Progress listed on the website. Eight of them are listed in the application. I believe the others are from project resets. Will these 40+ tasks timeout at some point?


If you would like to try to recover those lost tasks (which is considered a Good Thing as it reduces the database overhead) you can find directions of how to do so here.
651) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2033819)
Posted 24 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This thread is for problems that are occurring with the project, not how it can be improved.


Quoted for emphasis. Posts that are about anything other than current server and related problems are going to be moved and/or hidden. This (important) thread is where basically the entire forum turns to for answers when there are issues. Please keep improvement suggestions and other commentary to other threads, and thank you.
652) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2033818)
Posted 24 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Closed by OP request. New thread here.
653) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2033437)
Posted 22 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The issue with the Confederate statues was only that they were on outdoor government property, so appeared to be the government ironically giving official honors to those who seceded and went to war with the United States (isn't that the actual definition of treason?) Many have been moved to private land and museums and there hasn't been any issue with those.
654) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Cuda device initialisation failed after sleep/hibernate (Message 2033166)
Posted 20 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Have you tried quitting BOINC before putting the system to sleep and restarting it when it wakes up? (If you are putting it to sleep manually of course...)
655) Message boards : Number crunching : Why Do the People at the Top Suddenly Appear to Stop Contributing? (Message 2033010)
Posted 19 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Many Seti work units are just a rehash of old units, what's the point?


1) An error in the Gaussian fit algorithm was corrected years ago.
2) The pulse-finding algorithm has been improved.
3) Autocorrelation detection has been added.

... and probably much more than this. So it is worthwhile to re-run old data through the system as there could be undiscovered signals hiding it in.
656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 2032441)
Posted 14 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yaaaaaaaay! Glad you are back and OK. We were, uh, rather worried there.
657) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2032431)
Posted 14 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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higemayuge is already in the list. Guess I'll send a reminder. :^)
658) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2032265)
Posted 13 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thread is getting offtopic... I suggest for proposed improvements another thread is used such as this one. Don't want to have to go moving dozens of posts. Thanks!
659) Message boards : Number crunching : Ryzen and Threadripper (Message 2032262)
Posted 13 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If you're installing from scratch on a new clean machine (or a new clean disk), you may as well give a recommended Linux distro a try.


(whispers) Shh... it's called Windows 12 Lite now. 😊
660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 2032075)
Posted 12 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks! :^)

Could Kittyman be returning?... after five months one of his computers just returned some work.
661) Questions and Answers : Windows : Older clients no longer allowed? (Message 2032000)
Posted 12 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please see this thread. Apparently you may be able to copy ca-bundle.crt from a working BOINC to this one to replace the outdated one.
662) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2031997)
Posted 11 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There's a tweet for everything, you know:

663) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2031457)
Posted 8 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I hope it's just a break from the project and not a break from life.....


While I can't be certain, I did a lot of follow-up offline and this does not seem to be the case. Everything I could find indicates that he just left the project quietly for an undetermined time (as so many others have.)
Edit: Keith kinda beat me to it. I also followed up through other resources. I don't want to be too specific as I don't want him to be bothered as it appears he left of his own volition for personal reasons.
664) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2031416)
Posted 8 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... RTX5700 ...


Extra letter in there. :^)
665) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2030923)
Posted 5 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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On the offchance everyone isn't already aware:

Donald Trump acquitted by Senate on both charges in impeachment trial

U.S. President Donald Trump has been acquitted of both charges in his Senate impeachment trial.

On the first article of impeachment, the charge of abuse of power, the vote was 52 to 48.

On the second article, the charge of obstruction of Congress, the vote was 53 to 47.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was the only Republican who voted to convict Trump on the first article. Romney made his decision known hours before the vote on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Romney called Trump's actions "perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of oath of office that I can imagine."

The impeachment drama that has consumed Washington since September comes to an end as the Republican president pivots toward the election in November.
666) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2030913)
Posted 5 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just in case anyone wonders why Yap is suddenly not very happy with "Mittens"

Edit: The bit solely about Mitt Romney voting to convict has been rewritten into the piece about Trump's acquittal.
667) Message boards : Politics : Coronavirus, Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food & Drugs, Studies, Recalls #6 (Message 2030892)
Posted 5 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wuhan 2019nCoV may be much worse than "officially" reported

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As many experts question the veracity of China's statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Tencent over the weekend seems to have inadvertently released what is potentially the actual number of infections and deaths, which were astronomically higher than official figures.

On late Saturday evening (Feb. 1), Tencent, on its webpage titled "Epidemic Situation Tracker", showed confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) in China as standing at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time. It listed the number of suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure.

The number of cured cases was only 269, well below the official number that day of 300. Most ominously, the death toll listed was 24,589, vastly higher than the 300 officially listed that day.

Moments later, Tencent updated the numbers to reflect the government's "official" numbers that day. Netizens noticed that Tencent has on at least three occasions posted extremely high numbers, only to quickly lower them to government-approved statistics.
668) Message boards : Number crunching : credit equals time? (Message 2030885)
Posted 5 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Two things that I found help with work overload having Einstein@Home as a backup project:

1) Set its Resource Share to zero. Then it will only download enough work to keep each CPU core or GPU busy without keeping a cache (this doesn't apply for anyone "spoofing" their GPU count of course.)

2) Disable CPU work. As you noted they take too long to complete compared to the GPU work (and add little credit as CPU is so slow in comparison.)

Both of these settings are in the project's preferences in your Einstein@Home account page.
669) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 2030870)
Posted 5 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you Freewill, Jimbocous, Kevin, Ian and Keith. :^)
Edit: And Zalster. :^)
670) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Multiple computers setup? (Message 2030779)
Posted 4 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Running SETI@Home or any other BOINC project on a cluster probably is not very efficient. Cluster computing is for large single jobs that have not already been split into smaller ones for parallel processing. BOINC's work units already have been, so the overhead of having to divvy up the calculations is redundant and will detract from the output. BOINC already will use all the CPU on each node so the master node won't be able to get any more work out of the compute nodes than they already would do with just BOINC running on each as single machines.
671) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 2030778)
Posted 4 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well, there goes a billion. Let's see how many confirmed discoveries in there... oh, right. Still zero. OK, back to work. :^)
672) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Multiple computers setup? (Message 2030725)
Posted 3 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have a small mini Raspberry Pi cluster setup. (PoE)



Well it is a cluster... that is exactly how it should behave as far as I know. Only the master node would communicate with the outside under a single hostname; the compute nodes only communicate with the master node.
673) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2030724)
Posted 3 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
LOL @ Seeing "SETI@Home" in the driver release notes. Epic.


It's becoming commonplace these days... 😃

Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.1 Highlights

Fixed Issues

Fixed result overflows that can be experienced with Radeon RX 5700 series when using SETI@Home.
674) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Mobile App (Message 2030659)
Posted 3 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Keep letting them error out and eventually it may pick a platform app. that works. If it does it will keep using that one.
675) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Mobile App (Message 2030657)
Posted 3 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If this is your Pixel (the only Android device I see on your account) then it has actually downloaded 21 tasks, but they errored out. Please see this pinned thread for the cause.
676) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030530)
Posted 2 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Or we will be trapped on an endless loop of no new work each time the total reaches 20 MM.


Possible explanation of why this has only been happening recently here.... Briefly: Quorum=3 for overflows coupled with BLC35 files which generate little except overflows.
677) Message boards : News : Low available work. (Message 2030528)
Posted 2 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Understand the explanation and rationale given by "Mr Kevvy." - Thanks!

However, has there been published an estimate as to how long the work unit outage may last?


You're welcome. :^) The work outage is (temporarily?) over as the results are below 20M with most of the purging done. Let's see how long this lasts...
678) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030527)
Posted 2 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm not seeing the '71' under the S@H V7 column on the server status page. Did those finally get cleaned up in the dbase?


It appears they did... the purging queue has fallen by half, so work generation is back as the result table is well below 20M.
679) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2030518)
Posted 2 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
OK, bad news first: it would appear that this issue is still responsible for the entire SETI@Home project's recent two-week spate of no or low work, stalled up/downloads, scheduler timeouts and general slowness. This is because to avoid the RXs from cross-validating, all overflow results whether from them or not are now set to a quorum of three rather than two. Whenever we get a "shorty storm" of "noise bomb" work units, these are all -9 overflows and will trigger the quorum = 3 and resends. The result is that millions more tasks then need to be re-sent to third computers (resulting in the puzzler of stalling up/download servers even with no work being generated) and the results table overflowing with >20M active tasks awaiting validation, so work generation is turned off leading to much angst.

The good (very) news: As of Jan. 29, the fixed AMD drivers (20.1.3) are now WHQLed/Recommended rather than Optional. This means that they may start appearing in Windows updates rather than needing manual installation. (This is one of the times I can be happy about Windows 10's pushiness with updates!) Once this happens, soon everyone will have them and this issue is very happily a thing of the past.

Please, if someone with an AMD card could verify when 20.1.3 or later is being offered as a Windows update, this would be very much appreciated. I hope that, unlike the NVidia drivers, that the Windows-provided AMD ones are more complete with OpenCL included so no manual installation is required.

Edit: Thanks Richard... the proverbial "perfect storm" of those two issues. I'll definitely mention that.
680) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030399)
Posted 1 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I would hope that they can get the backlogs cleared this time before another Tuesday rolls around. So far I have not seen sufficient progress to meet that deadline.


I don't know what caused me to forget about this for so long as a strong contender for the root cause of this, as it certainly was two weeks ago at the start of this debacle. So I checked in my hosts, and in the first host I found, the first validated work unit I looked at:

8496478459 	8781094 	31 Jan 2020, 11:03:11 UTC 	1 Feb 2020, 1:31:12 UTC 	Completed and validated 	15.40 	10.00 	2.43 	SETI@home v8 v8.22 (opencl_nvidia_SoG)
windows_intelx86
8498701021 	8723394 	1 Feb 2020, 9:13:15 UTC 	1 Feb 2020, 9:18:21 UTC 	Completed and validated 	24.59 	22.55 	2.43 	SETI@home v8 v8.05
windows_x86_64
8499068304 	8508092 	1 Feb 2020, 12:08:09 UTC 	1 Feb 2020, 15:57:46 UTC 	Completed and validated 	9.05 	7.51 	2.43 	SETI@home v8
Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)


It looks like 3-quorum validation for -9 overflows is still on to prevent AMD RX cross-validation. So when we have a "shorty storm" of all overflow work, the resends, work units in the field and awaiting validation are going to go nuts.
681) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2030333)
Posted 1 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A lot of this GPU language is over my head and I'm not sure I have the time lo learn all that is needed to understand some of this. I have heard of CUDA but my knowledge is limited.


Graphics, especially 3D, is all math/computation. CUDA is simply a framework to allow your GPU to use that capability to do actual computation like a CPU does.
682) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030324)
Posted 1 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And yet I find no one posting a similar complaint...


I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that your search was less than complete. :^)

As I noted earlier, keep a backup project that you like in BOINC, a second favorite, enabled but in the project preferences set its task share to zero. (Most of us end up with Einstein@Home.) Then if SETI@Home is out of work, BOINC will download just enough work to keep your CPU/GPU(s) busy and no cache. That way if work appears here, you'll get it and not be overloaded with backup project work.
683) Message boards : News : Low available work. (Message 2030320)
Posted 1 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've only been a member since the 10th of January, so I have to ask, are these maintenance shutdowns and work slow downs a regular weekly occurrence? It seems just as I settle into a routine, everything gets screwed up.


The maintenance shutdowns prior to this problem lasted only a few hours; the last two have lasted a day or more. It takes close to the same amount of time for things to stabilize after a shutdown as it lasted as the longer it's down, the more short of work the participants' computers get.

The recent issues which have been for two weeks of long outages and no work are an anomaly. They seem to be caused by a backlog of the servers not processing returned work so it accumulates. The hope is that eventually the SETI@Home team is going to run a script or equivalent to clear the logjam and let things get back to normal.

Edit: To add some details to this, this is from the last look at Computing > Server status:

Results out in the field = 3,932,277
Results returned and awaiting validation = 12,302,507
Results waiting for db purging = 5,075,815


The total of these three is 21,310,599, which is too large. Dr. Korpela has noted that the functional limit of the active result table is 20M. After this it may no longer fit into memory (which is maxed out) on the machine it's running on. Probably at this point virtual memory will start paging it to disk which is extremely slow, hundreds or thousands of times slower than memory's bandwidth, so everything grinds to a halt. Thus the splitters are disabled from generating more work until this total falls lower than 20M.

However this is a band-aid. It is not falling nearly as fast nor as low as it should, thus the need to run a process to get the validation and purging done (the latter should be very close to zero.) That process/script may not even exist yet requiring someone (inevitably already-overloaded project director Dr. Korpela) to develop it.

Hope this explains things a little. :^)
684) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030294)
Posted 1 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's not a lag - newer work is being removed - it is data or system corruption...

We don't have a 'lag' in the assimilator. We have a mess.


Absolutely, and my criterion for this is the clump of 71 old v7 work units that have been waiting for purging for... I don't even remember how long. v7 was retired years ago.
685) Message boards : News : Low available work. (Message 2030257)
Posted 1 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This thread (and its future descendants) in the Number Crunching forum is a good go-to whenever there are problems like this, as it's regularly updated with findings of issue causes. Also Computing > Server Status is helpful to see what project machines are disabled or down, and the work stats.

In this case, work generation has been turned off as there are too many results in the field because of of the millions of "shorties" or "noise bombs" from the most result data files... work units that take only a few seconds to be determined as noise and completed. For example "Results returned and awaiting validation" is currently over 13M.
686) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030223)
Posted 1 Feb 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Maybe this will be a "dry" Weekend (eg. no drinking?)


Called that one hours ago. :^)
687) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030150)
Posted 31 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Actually by writing it, I caused the splitters to come back up, there is work, and Results returned fell below 13M just to prove me wrong. Mission accomplished. :^) Apparently Dr. K. has a script to clear the backlog and keep the project up... fingers crossed.
688) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030147)
Posted 31 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Work unit generation is off, "Results returned and awaiting validation" has passed 13M which has to be the highest ever. I am expecting any moment there will be a News blurb about low/no work for the next little while, but if no blurb comes I would still get the backup projects ready, ie disable NNT and set their task share to zero (works for most of them) so if cache runs dry the machine will get minimal work of them. I predict a dry weekend, but it's for the integrity of the data and thus the very existence of the SETI@Home project, thus a worthy cause.
689) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2030144)
Posted 31 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unlike Trump and most of his opponent's in the Democrat Presidential nomination process. Bloomberg is mostly a positive, let's get back together message.


That was one of the things I liked most about Andrew Yang. He not only expressed his policies and ideas coherently and factually without rhetoric or fluff, but stuck to that without being divisive or derogatory towards other candidates or parties.
690) Message boards : Number crunching : I've not noticed a result like this before. Is this a valid result? (Message 2030129)
Posted 31 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Dr. Korpela has confirmed that normal two-quorum validation has been restored. Whew!
691) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2030128)
Posted 31 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Dr. Korpela has confirmed that normal two-quorum validation has been restored. Whew!
692) Message boards : Number crunching : Data Chat (Message 2029951)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
See the Panic Mode thread... much discussion in there of these.
Edit: OK or there too. :^)
693) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2029931)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That can't be scientifically sound. Especially having in mind all the AMD/ATI GPU's producing nothing else than crap. And of course all the other crap producing computers we have here.


It's supposed to work only on validated hosts that have a very high ratio of valid to invalid tasks. But I definitely agree that I would rather that the project ran slower without it than faster with it. Even the most reliable host can have a driver conniption or other issue causing it to trash its entire queue into Invalids. For example, my largest host will do that if it loses the secondary PSU which only drives the GPUs. Without validation, all of those will be instantly entered into the final science database.

I hope it's turned off.
694) Message boards : Number crunching : I've not noticed a result like this before. Is this a valid result? (Message 2029917)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Please see the server issues thread. It appears that one-task validation is enabled.
695) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2029901)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Confirmed Dr. K. is on it... he indicated adaptive replication was enabled to get the queues down, but still this doesn't seem to be as planned. He may post a News update on it. If not I'll try to get info.
696) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2029889)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So much for it keeping out the unwanted foreignairs. 🤣
697) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2029886)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't remember ever seeing this before even through other database issues, so just in case this is an unplanned and unwanted side effect of Tuesday's changes, I've sent a note off to Dr. Korpela. I'll advise if I get any info on it. Thanks TBar... good catch! Yes, I did find some like that in my queues as well.
698) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2029869)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Checking on tasks, it shows that they are still in progress & checking on the wu, it shows "suppressed pending completion". Never seen that before.
Computer 8888215


It's come up in other threads in this forum... it appears to have been introduced in the most recent Tuesday and the hypothesis is that it's to reduce the database transactions.
699) Message boards : Number crunching : WARNING - Windows 10 Pro x64 - 1903 OVERRIDES "Local Group Policy Editor". (Message 2029356)
Posted 26 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That will be the day that I dump Winders into the nearest dumpster, set fire to it and go 100% Linux and give up gaming


Just out of curiosity, I checked my favorite game retailer GOG and there are now around 1,200 of their titles with Linux editions. This includes best-sellers ie The Witcher series.

If your favorite game doesn't have a Linux edition, plenty of them work under WINE. For example, the WINE top 10 Platinum list (Platinum = All features work perfectly and completely with little or no configuration) contains EVE Online, StarCraft 1.16.1 (Brood War), Team Fortress 2 , Counter-Strike, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Company of Heroes, Spore and System Shock.

So, one needn't give up gaming (anymore!)
700) Message boards : News : Low available work. (Message 2029241)
Posted 25 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
(cc'ed from NC)

I contacted Dr. Korpela and he inidcated that there still is some throttling going on to keep the total results less than 20M (lest we have the same issue where the results table exceeds memory) which is probably why the BLC splitters were disabled earlier. No doubt the "shorty storm" from blc35_2bit_guppi_58691_* is causing this. In the interim things seem to be improving and I'm getting just enough work to keep my machines busy, so it should be over soon.
701) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2029240)
Posted 25 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I contacted Dr. Korpela and he inidcated that there still is some throttling going on to keep the total results less than 20M (lest we have the same issue where the results table exceeds memory) which is probably why the BLC splitters were disabled earlier. No doubt the "shorty storm" from blc35_2bit_guppi_58691_* is causing this. In the interim things seem to be improving and I'm getting just enough work to keep my machines busy, so it should be over soon.
702) Message boards : News : Low available work. (Message 2029038)
Posted 24 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, there will probably be low work for a couple of days following the two-day outage.
703) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2028995)
Posted 24 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This morning all hosts are completely empty. So either I have very bad luck in the filling queue or there is still a problem with the RTS buffer and splitting.


Same here... only my slower hosts have enough work. Every time that I have checked the result creation rate since the outrage ended it has been 8/sec. or so (and the page has certainly updated since then.) Now all the GBT splitters are showing disabled. so I think that result creation is still being throttled.

There are 5M results in the field even with this, so again it seems to fall back on the three-quorum validation being in place due to the bad AMD hosts.
704) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2028989)
Posted 24 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"So help me God". So what could possible go wrong:)


Everything. :^)
705) Message boards : News : Low available work. (Message 2028770)
Posted 23 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've been with no work for just over 24 hrs now on 5 computers and none of them have been able to "report" any results. I've about 300 plus units "ready to report" and it's been that way since yesterday.


Expect several hours more like this due to the servers being battered by 100,000+ dry hosts after two days offline.
706) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2028540)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Lol thanks... and a rotating one. ;^)

OK, here are the new bad host owners I contacted for the first time today if required (some were not):

aplrapid 7807183
Leigh Green 123169
Vytautas Liesis 173783
Adam Tadian 9295811
firecrypt 10881832 (already had updated)
Capizzi 10504781
AshlandPony 9004257
cprince1977 10886783 (already had updated)
Illyria 10845292
jcr 3428
teargasm 10886461
BigDaddyDave 265982
killerepicprofurrygamer6969 10885981
dcox 10884993
iinkabob 102908
Simgiov 8796082
Hozer 61288 (no affected GPUs)
unbound 10885610

Thankfully I was able to give them a solution immediately rather than just to disable their GPU and wait. I also re-contacted every single one of the known bad host owners to advise them of the solution as well. And here is the updated list:

李溪伦 9302807
[AfZ]TomServo1 1483720
achimbln 138625
Adam Tadian 9295811
Alexandr Galushchenko 9609912
alffrommars 9024750
AMD Jesus 70887
antoi 10856207
aplrapid 7807183
aridhol 10288747
Arnab 10093567
AshlandPony 9004257
Baldarov 9438496
BigDaddyDave 265982
Bigthor 480399
Borktron 10682716
Brandon 8198367
calendir 9663884
Camiron 7449359
Capizzi 10504781
Carl 914781
Christopher 9894096
CoffeeSloth 10266313
cprince1977 10886783
Crisu 7833612
dalex 10881818
Daniel Conrad Broom 8059986
Daniel frederikson 9813817
Daniel Penz 91581
Dank 49802
dcox 10884993
Derrek 219419
Doc_Jebus 10863878
dsharbour 10858679
Dzsozi 8002127
Earendil 146007
egon.sauter 494566
Eirikafh 10883218
Eric 9157146
eryndel 10878567
Esta 10624508
firecrypt 10881832
Foaming Mad Cow Industries 219464
Ffred 1935325
fredi 7913572
George Ko 639539
ghostbuster 564989
gunsnammo 137399
Haiko_N 9198068
HawkMedic 10838738
higemayuge 10790664
HMZ 9079227
Hozer 61288
iinkabob 102908
Illyria 10845292
jcr 3428
Jeff 10639246
Jeffrey A. Smith 38247
Jerjes 1291426
JohnDoe 9166075
Jorge Barrera 9650295
Juraxell 10864786
Kekke 46817
killerepicprofurrygamer6969 10885981
knutella 9880098
lastsworder 10878688
Leigh Green 123169
lupaslupas 10002927
MadMikeDelta 8221690
Maulwurf 1516335
MaximusPrometheus 10240426
mgg 279419
mnelsonx 272885
Niflhuem 113140

No Name@Extraterrestrial Intelligence 8116
NYX.consulting 10503661
Oriah 9838773

Otosan 8547502
PantherJon 9801065
Peter Furlong 7965665
phoenix7477 10773411
Rafael 8249913
rame 10738
rAttmAniA 9002301
Recedham 954834

rgeens 10740140
Richard 8565733
Richard Hartland 9781177
Rocky 270621

Saint123 159425
Simgiov 8796082
SimplisticNerd 100334866 (formerly known as "Zac")
Stephen Diem 36679
stogdan 10865456
StrayCat 177967

Strickland 34273
suhail ahmad 9878177
Swagstergo 10882690
T66 3336343
Tanis 10773581
teargasm 10886461
toby 9442798
TomasFraus 8445239
Tomik 8972653
Trezy 10367889
Tristan 9778349
unbound 10885610
vleermuis 1295921
VMS Software Inc 45538

Vytautas Liesis 173783
werewolf_007 10880222
xakei 10823091

Italicized names have replied and indicated they are disabling their affected GPUs.
Struck-through names are confirmed to no longer be producing these bad results, ie via disabling GPU computing.
707) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2028537)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The BOINC platform code itself isn't affected, rather it's the client executable that BOINC (or WCG) downloads. Each project will have to recompile their client for the new drivers to set the required flag. BOINC will then download the new client automatically (unless they have an "anonymous" manually installed client lke the Lunatics one here.)
708) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2028528)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The scheduler is being hammered by all the bone-dry hosts asking for work so yes, there are timeouts aplenty.
709) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2028526)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Send more guns!


"Two Shot at the Community Arms Apartment Complex"

How appropriate. :^p
710) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2028524)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't know why I haven't seen more lawsuits over this practice, but better late than never:

Family Sues DEA and TSA After Elderly Man's Life Savings Were Seized at Airport

A class-action lawsuit is now challenging the DEA's habit of seizing large amounts of cash from travelers without evidence of any crime.

C.J. Ciaramella | 1.16.2020 5:26 PM
Terry-Rolin-IJ2_9354
(Institute for Justice)

Terrence Rolin kept his life savings in a Tupperware container, but all that money now belongs to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), even though the 79-year-old retired railroad engineer hasn't been charged with a crime.

When Rolin's daughter, Rebecca Brown, tried to take her fathers' savings—$82,373 in cash—on an airplane, a DEA agent seized it simply because large amounts of cash are considered suspicious by the agency.

Brown and Rolin are now the lead plaintiffs in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public interest law firm, challenging the DEA and TSA's practice of seizing large amounts of cash from airline passengers without any evidence of any underlying crime.

"Flying with any amount of cash is completely legal, but once again we see government agents treating American citizens like criminals," Institute for Justice senior attorney Dan Alban said in a press release. "You don't forfeit your constitutional rights when you try to board an airplane. It is time for TSA and federal law enforcement to stop seizing cash from travelers simply because the government considers certain amounts of cash 'suspicious.'"


Er? "but all that money now belongs to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)" Nah... stealing something doesn't make it yours. :^p
711) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2028510)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks, Richard... I'm busily PMing all the known hosts' owners and I just ran into an Anonymous Windows one doubtless on Lunatics so your update was fortuitous. I'll link to this post in the private message to them.
712) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2028497)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have an old Core2 Quad Q6600 on its Intel board, which I bought a dozen years ago, happily crunching away with 3xGTX970s stuffed in it, on the latest Mint Tricia 19.3 64-bit with the latest NVidia drivers and all updates.

(Edit: disregard that it shows 24 GPUs lol)
713) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2028493)
Posted 19 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm convinced, as they started at the same time, that as the root cause of the issues has been determined to be too many results out in the field that what actually triggered this was turning on triple-quorum validation for overflow work units due to the bad AMD drivers which have now been corrected.

So, as it's now well-confirmed that the new drivers (and the recompiled 8.24 client to take advantage of them) resolve this problem, I'm making it a priority to re-contact all of the owners of known bad hosts and advise them to update, as well as all of the new owners of bad hosts I hadn't had a chance to. The faster we can get these updated, the less of a chance they can cross-validate and we can then go back to normal two-quorum validation which should resolve the excessive queues. I should have an update in that thread within a few hours once I have contacted all known bad host owners (plus catching up on my private message replies from them...)
714) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2028361)
Posted 18 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It might even be worth declaring a splitter holiday and allowing work allocated before the outage to report, validate, assimilate, delete and purge before starting to fill up the database again.


Coincidentally (or not lol) Dr. Korpela has updated the News feed:

For a couple of reasons, the result table has grown to the point where it no longer fits in main memory. That has been slowing the validators and assimilators, which is causing the result table to grow further.

We'd like to get it down to a manageable size before our Tuesday outage. To that end we are throttling work generation to a rate at which the table size is shrinking. We hope that this rate will increase as the table gets smaller.

So for the next few days work will be hard to come by (but not zero).


Just what we were asking for... a simple brief update if there are issues.
715) Message boards : News : Low available work. (Message 2028360)
Posted 18 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks for the update... much appreciated!
716) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2028353)
Posted 18 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
These issues have been ongoing since the day-long Tuesday outrage... it's as if the system has been overloaded since then just trying to catch up with the demand the extended outage imposed, with scheduler timeouts, slow forums, up/downloads failing and never enough work to keep my faster computers from regularly running out of it.

All I can hope for is that the next Tuesday outrage in two days is of normal duration and resets everything so these issues are put to rest.
717) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@Home will now cache 150 CPU work units and 150 per installed GPU (Message 2027996)
Posted 16 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Title updated again. :^)
718) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2027994)
Posted 16 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It would appear it's now time to follow up with the people who were producing bad results and let them know that the solution is at hand. As far as I know as 8.24 has gone to main, it will update automatically, and fixed drivers can be had at https://www.amd.com/en/support

I don't think there's anything else I need to pass on, but please advise if otherwise. I'll give it a while and then start sending messages.
719) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@Home will now cache 150 CPU work units and 150 per installed GPU (Message 2027928)
Posted 16 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Three good confirmations... I've edited the thread title (again). :^)
720) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2027828)
Posted 16 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I dunno if it's a lottery or the scheduler is drunk again. I refreshed the server status page until I got one where the last update was only two minutes ago, the replica was less than a minute behind the master, and there were 780K work units in the RTS queue. Then I manually initiated a scheduler contact on an empty client:

Wed 15 Jan 2020 07:45:43 PM EST | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Wed 15 Jan 2020 07:45:43 PM EST | SETI@home | [sched_op] Server version 709
Wed 15 Jan 2020 07:45:43 PM EST | SETI@home | Project has no tasks available
721) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2027741)
Posted 15 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I also agree that a simple one-liner would only take a minute for an admin. to type and doesn't even have to explain the issue, just acknowledge that there is one. ie "We're currently having a work distribution issue and are working to identify and resolve it, so in the interim, our weekly outage may be much longer than normal and it may be advisable to obtain work from a backup project."

One minute from a project admin. saves thousands from us fumbling around and checking the threads over and over...
722) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2027694)
Posted 15 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm wondering if the outrage was so long as they bought/received the new 16TB drive array and were migrating all the data over from the old 2TB array.
I'll stick to that rather than that the project is just broken. :^)
723) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2027524)
Posted 12 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just returned from a week of completely offline vacation, so I have a lot of catching up to do in this thread... of course I miss the most significant developments, namely new drivers and an app. to go with them. Once both are tested I can re-contact all the people who replied earlier (and perhaps even the ones who didn't) and let them know there's a solution. It's also excellent to see that some of the people I reached out to are now helping with the testing... thank you. :^)
724) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2026271)
Posted 4 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Tanis, Richard and AMD Jesus (edit: and George Ko) pestered. stogdan and Richard Hartland also replied and indicated they are disabling their affected GPUs... yay!

The list is two pages back or more so here's a repost of it:

李溪伦 9302807
[AfZ]TomServo1 1483720
achimbln 138625
Alexandr Galushchenko 9609912
alffrommars 9024750
AMD Jesus 70887
antoi 10856207
aridhol 10288747
Arnab 10093567
Baldarov 9438496
Bigthor 480399
Borktron 10682716
Brandon 8198367
calendir 9663884

Camiron 7449359
Carl 914781
Christopher 9894096
CoffeeSloth 10266313
Crisu 7833612
dalex 10881818
Daniel Conrad Broom 8059986
Daniel frederikson 9813817
Daniel Penz 91581
Dank 49802
Derrek 219419
Doc_Jebus 10863878
dsharbour 10858679
Dzsozi 8002127
Earendil 146007
egon.sauter 494566
Eirikafh 10883218
Eric 9157146
eryndel 10878567
Esta 10624508
Foaming Mad Cow Industries 219464
fred 1935325
fredi 7913572
George Ko 639539
ghostbuster 564989
gunsnammo 137399
Haiko_N 9198068
HawkMedic 10838738
higemayuge 10790664
HMZ 9079227
Jeff 10639246
Jeffrey A. Smith 38247
Jerjes 1291426
JohnDoe 9166075
Jorge Barrera 9650295
Juraxell 10864786
Kekke 46817
knutella 9880098
lastsworder 10878688
lupaslupas 10002927
MadMikeDelta 8221690
Maulwurf 1516335
MaximusPrometheus 10240426
mgg 279419
mnelsonx 272885
Niflhuem 113140

No Name@Extraterrestrial Intelligence 8116
NYX.consulting 10503661
Oriah 9838773

Otosan 8547502
PantherJon 9801065
Peter Furlong 7965665
phoenix7477 10773411
Rafael 8249913
rame 10738
rAttmAniA 9002301
Recedham 954834
rgeens 10740140
Richard 8565733
Richard Hartland 9781177
Rocky 270621

Saint123 159425

Stephen Diem 36679
stogdan 10865456
StrayCat 177967

Strickland 34273
suhail ahmad 9878177
Swagstergo 10882690
T66 3336343
Tanis 10773581
toby 9442798
TomasFraus 8445239
Tomik 8972653
Trezy 10367889
Tristan 9778349
vleermuis 1295921
VMS Software Inc 45538

werewolf_007 10880222
xakei 10823091
Zac 100334866

Italicized names have replied and indicated they are disabling their affected GPUs.
Struck-through names are confirmed to no longer be producing these bad results, ie via disabling GPU computing.
725) Questions and Answers : Wish list : T-shirts & other merch? (Message 2026056)
Posted 3 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
When SETI@Home began just over twenty years ago, there was a SETI@Home shop. (I even bought a mug from it... was worth its weight in gold with the exchange, shipping, duties etc... broke it nonetheless.) However it disappeared a year or so later.

You can possibly purchase 20th anniversary t-shirts here.
726) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2025999)
Posted 2 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Alexandr Galushchenko and Richard Hartland pestered... thank you! AMD Jesus is the "correct" one (rame is already in the list) as has many invalids, but as noted not used a card known to be an issue and there are a mix of good and bad in there so I wonder if either it was some other issue or the card was changed. I will give that one a day to verify.
727) Questions and Answers : Web site : Where's my green star? (Message 2025944)
Posted 2 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Apologies, Henry... the fellow who runs gpuug.org recently had surgery for medical issues and is recuperating. I just checked the payment history from gpuug.org and it appears it's way overdue: five days short of a year. Unfortunately I have no way of reaching him except e-mail and he's offline right now.

He's planning on letting me know when he's back online. I hope in the interim that he's left backup info with someone in case can't return to these duties.
728) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025810)
Posted 1 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Great work everyone. Why not keep the fundraiser open for the remainder of the two week period for any other hardware items that are needed?


It is... just unlike the drives we don't know what it will be for. :^)
Any donations are always welcome. And always required. The SETI@Home year-end fundraiser to "keep the lights on" continues...
729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025808)
Posted 1 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The goal is reached in less than two days! I'm supposed to keep this pinned, but I will lock it and please use the linked NC thread for any discussion.
730) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025807)
Posted 1 Jan 2020 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As promised at the beginning:

You gave $1,000.00

to SETI@home

on December 31, 2019

via Visa
Your confirmation number is 505647




Grand total so far is thus $11,648

Goal is reached in less than two days!

Dr. Korpela indicated wanted this to run the full two weeks but it's done... any more funds will be for general use now. Thank you all for your amazing generosity... I knew it would only take a couple of days as these hardware fundraisers always do.
731) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025728)
Posted 31 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you Ian, daysteppr, RueiKe and Freewill and especially Keith, the second GPUUG member to match or exceed what I was planning on donating!

We had a fantastic first day, collecting $5370 through UCB and $758 (including the $500 donation to GPUUG that is going to be redirected to SETI@Home) through GPUUG for a total of $6088. And we've collected a further $270 through GPUUG and $1895 through UCB today for a grand total of $8253!

Yes, we may possibly consider this campaign complete after only two days... I still have to put my promised thousand in. I am at work right now, so when I am home this evening I will do that.
732) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2025721)
Posted 31 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
No outrage today.... it will be a Confluence: A Thorsday Outrage as the first of the decade! This must be an omen...

Weekly Outage will be on Thursday
Because of the holidays, we are conducting the weekly maintenance outage on Thursday this week.
31 Dec 2019, 16:09:25 UTC
733) Message boards : Number crunching : Error after match? (Message 2025708)
Posted 31 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The change is for all -9s. The validator has no capacity to evaluate what platform complete the task. The thread merely explains why this is being done.
Edit: @Richard Did TBar indicate that his newest 10.2 compile improve pulse-finding to reduce the Inconclusives? I seem to remember that.
734) Message boards : Number crunching : Error after match? (Message 2025704)
Posted 31 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Please see this thread. The quorum on -9 overflows is now 3 (possibly even 4) due to all of the AMD RX series cards cross-validating incorrect -9 results.
735) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2025608)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Seems this pic is a bit different. Gunman standing with shotgun and the Retired FBI/Security with handgun. Don't see any of these other guns.


There aren't any because they took several seconds longer for their (non-pro) owners to whip out... after the lone professional on the left had already shot the attempted-mass-murderer and he was down. His reaction time was excellent: from the first shot by the attacker, just over two seconds for two accurate shots from quite a distance, no more attacker.

(If anything I think that this reinforces that carrying should only be done if the person is trained and of a mental state to use it properly!)
736) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025597)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Zalster... well I don't know what to say, so as a picture is worth a thousand words I'll have to reuse the same one from the last time you donated!



Can't thank you enough for your amazing generosity!

And thank you LoneTree!

Edit: As of 13h37 Berkeley/21h37 UTC we are already at just shy of $3500 thanks to Zalster's amazing donation! Can we make it to the halfway mark and get my grand today?
737) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025594)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wow... the first two posted donations are GPUUG members each dropping a C-note. Awesome and thank you!
738) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025588)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That's an excellent start to the campaign, John, and thank you! :^)
739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025585)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
(Crossposted here from the Number Crunching thread)

I regularly ask the SETI@Home team if they have any hardware requirements to ensure the project has what it needs to keep going, and finally a requirement has emerged, so we have our rumored fundraiser... the SETI@Home team requires funds for:

26 x Seagate 16TB Exos X16 7200 RPM SATA 3.5" Enterprise Hard Drives



There will be 22 for storage and 2 for filesystem in a 24-drive NAS bay, plus 2 spares in the unlikely case of failures. The team already has the bay; we only need supply the drives. This request may be "not very sexy" as Jeff Cobb put it, but it's one of those essential requirements that keeps SETI@Home running properly, and more importantly efficiently, for the long term.


What is the fundraising goal?

The best cost I could find for these drives is $419 each (from Amazon) so the goal is 26 x $419 = $10,894. This doesn't include tax and shipping, and the cost may change in the interim (they are on sale), so any overage will still probably be required.

I will be providing updates on the total contibutions through the SETI@home Donation History, and for those donating via PayPal, the GPUUG Donation Tracker.


Why is this required?

First: too many spindles! SETI@Home's data is currently spread out over 120+ 2TB drives in UC Berkeley's Co-Location datacenter. Since the project has to pay UC Berkeley per drive for this storage, it's gotten to the point where it's costing the project far too much money, something that unfortunately is always in short supply. As well, it's a waste of electricity (which the SETI@Home project also has to pay for) to keep 120+ spindles spinning where 24 of the same power would do.

Second: Reliability. The 2TB drives currently used are getting near end-of-life and are becoming unreliable and failing. With 2.5M hrs. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) all of these new drives should last for decades or as long as they are required. But, we'll get a couple of spares just in case!


What's the timeframe?

This fundraiser will run for two weeks until Jan. 13th. In my experience, it won't take nearly that long to reach the goal.


How do we contribute?

Simply make your donation as normal through the UC Berkeley Donate to SETI@home portal, or if you are donating via Paypal, via the GPU Users Group's Donation directly to SETI@Home option. You won't need to do anything but donate normally as any donation during this timeframe is going to be applied to this fundraiser.

Please feel free to post your confirmation number or other record of your confirmation here! It's excellent to see the generosity. All donations large and small are much appreciated and thank you!


Will there be a matching donation?

I don't have the funds to do a matching donation, but if I see things are going well by Dec. 31st and we're at or close to the halfway point, I'm kicking in one thousand dollars! So the earlier you can donate, the better!
740) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025584)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I regularly ask the SETI@Home team if they have any hardware requirements to ensure the project has what it needs to keep going, and finally a requirement has emerged, so we have our rumored fundraiser... the SETI@Home team requires funds for:

26 x Seagate 16TB Exos X16 7200 RPM SATA 3.5" Enterprise Hard Drives



There will be 22 for storage and 2 for filesystem in a 24-drive NAS bay, plus 2 spares in the unlikely case of failures. The team already has the bay; we only need supply the drives. This request may be "not very sexy" as Jeff Cobb put it, but it's one of those essential requirements that keeps SETI@Home running properly, and more importantly efficiently, for the long term.


What is the fundraising goal?

The best cost I could find for these drives is $419 each (from Amazon) so the goal is 26 x $419 = $10,894. This doesn't include tax and shipping, and the cost may change in the interim (they are on sale), so any overage will still probably be required.

I will be providing updates on the total contibutions through the SETI@home Donation History, and for those donating via PayPal, the GPUUG Donation Tracker.


Why is this required?

First: too many spindles! SETI@Home's data is currently spread out over 120+ 2TB drives in UC Berkeley's Co-Location datacenter. Since the project has to pay UC Berkeley per drive for this storage, it's gotten to the point where it's costing the project far too much money, something that unfortunately is always in short supply. As well, it's a waste of electricity (which the SETI@Home project also has to pay for) to keep 120+ spindles spinning where 24 of the same power would do.

Second: Reliability. The 2TB drives currently used are getting near end-of-life and are becoming unreliable and failing. With 2.5M hrs. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) all of these new drives should last for decades or as long as they are required. But, we'll get a couple of spares just in case!


What's the timeframe?

This fundraiser will run for two weeks until Jan. 13th. In my experience, it won't take nearly that long to reach the goal.


How do we contribute?

Simply make your donation as normal through the UC Berkeley Donate to SETI@home portal, or if you are donating via Paypal, via the GPU Users Group's Donation directly to SETI@Home option. You won't need to do anything but donate normally as any donation during this timeframe is going to be applied to this fundraiser.

Please feel free to post your confirmation number or other record of your confirmation here! It's excellent to see the generosity. All donations large and small are much appreciated and thank you!


Will there be a matching donation?

I don't have the funds to do a matching donation, but if I see things are going well by Dec. 31st and we're at or close to the halfway point, I'm kicking in one thousand dollars! So the earlier you can donate, the better!
741) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2025562)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks! Daniel Conrad Broom pestered. rAttmAniA was already in the list. And also thanks to fredi, the latest person to reply to indicate that they disabled their affected GPU.
742) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2025502)
Posted 30 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is it just me or are the web pages getting sluggish.


It isn't just you... this has been noted the last time we had scheduler HTTP errors and no work errors when there was work.
743) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2025454)
Posted 29 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Dank and Rafael added and pestered and thank you. :^) Also thanks to Swagstergo who is the latest to reply and indicate that they disabled their affected GPU.

I also found I was mugged for 3810416472 which is exactly what I was waiting for as it created after the indicated quorum fix was in place but stil "validated" with two -9 overflow RX 5700s overpowering a non-overflow platform. I will be contacting Dr. Korpela and I'll include the work unit posted earlier as well.

Edit: The pesterposts seem to be working. I went over the entire list checking work queues and found that an equal number or more people had disabled their affected GPUs (or stopped computing entirely) without replying than otherwise, so there are plenty more strikethroughs in there.
744) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2025414)
Posted 29 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Eirikafh, Swagstergo, dalex and Daniel Penz all pestered and thank you both! dalex is the first multi-RX participant I have seen with three hosts, all with bad RX 5700s. As well, Peter Furlong has replied and indicated has stopped producing the bad work units... thanks!

@Ian: Keith had also noted that some were not overflows. Your result was not, but both the quorum RX 5700 results on that work unit were. If I see any more like this ie from Dec. 28th on I will pass them to Dr. Korpela as this would indicate that the three-quorum isn't checking the two "valid" results but instead all of them for -9s and clearly in most cases the good platform is not going to have that.

I'm also at a loss why the platform hasn't been blocked from v8 work (their AP results are actually good) but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
745) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2025385)
Posted 28 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Trying to get this thread back on topic:

Man shoots his wife and her therapy dog, then thanks the NRA, POTUS and Senate Majority Leader for making it "easy"

746) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2025336)
Posted 28 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That may not be verifiable without testing any posted US URLs through a VPN, as this site would appear to be doing as so many other US sites are by blocking all European traffic to avoid GDPR hassles.
747) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU tasks suddenly not running (Message 2025324)
Posted 28 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You're welcome. :^) You're correct that the web-based preferences in your project profile are independent. This setting to suspend the GPU when the computer is in use isn't one of them though as it's machine-specific; most people with more then one computer will have one "daily driver" they actually use which it would be on for, and the rest are BOINC-dedicated and it would be off for them.
748) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2025314)
Posted 28 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks again... two more were found by going through the wingies who "validated" that person's RX 5700 GPU results. All pestered and list updated. :^)
749) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU tasks suddenly not running (Message 2025257)
Posted 28 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As first step, in the BOINC client: Options > Computing Preferences > Suspend GPU computing when computer is in use should be unchecked.
750) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2025225)
Posted 27 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Copying a filename all from the keyboard, this is from memory as I am in Windowsland right now (office)...
With the file highlighted:

F2 - Puts it into Rename; in Ubuntu this pops up a rename dialog, in Mint Cinnamon the rename is inline as with Windows, but same effect
Home - Moves the cursor to the beginning of the filename
Shift+End - Moves the cursor to the end of the filename selecting the entire filename
Ctrl+c - Copies the selection

Repeat for renaming with Ctrl+v instead for the last (again, much like Windows.)
751) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2025197)
Posted 27 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here you go. The "Total Credit" column header should be clickable and provide this.
752) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2025184)
Posted 27 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Looks like this is a common issue... also getting no tasks available yet with 763K in the RTS queue and the replica was only 46 seconds out from the master when I checked. As well the scheduler is very slow to respond and also throwing HTTP errors unless I enable NNT and/or set max_tasks_reported to 125 or less in cc_config.

So other than the scheduler version showing as 709, it's just what was happening before the restoration. Is someone messing with the codebase again? Sigh.

Edit: To confirm there are still issues, I tried to view Invalids only both for my entire account and host 8873220 and got:

Database Error
Database Error
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/result.inc on line 757 Database Error
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/result.inc on line 766


This was at approx. 09h50 PST, 17h50 UTC.
753) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Breakthrough Listen? (Message 2025085)
Posted 26 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Breakthrough Listen is now the source of most of the project's data, the work units that start with "blc".
Edit: Mostly beaten to it as well lol.
754) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2025080)
Posted 26 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Now that things are back to "normal" (quotes required around here) I've pestered the new additions. Here's the updated list as it's now three pages back (will update the cc in Invalid Host Messaging as always... (and please don't reply quoting the entire thing :^p )
(Edit: Thanks to Recedham, the latest person to reply and indicate they've disabled the affected GPU.)

李溪伦 9302807
[AfZ]TomServo1 1483720
achimbln 138625
Alexandr Galushchenko 9609912
alffrommars 9024750
antoi 10856207
aridhol 10288747
Arnab 10093567
Baldarov 9438496
Bigthor 480399
Borktron 10682716
Brandon 8198367
calendir 9663884

Camiron 7449359
Carl 914781
Christopher 9894096
CoffeeSloth 10266313
Crisu 7833612
dalex 10881818
Daniel Conrad Broom 8059986
Daniel frederikson 9813817
Daniel Penz 91581
Dank 49802
Derrek 219419
Doc_Jebus 10863878
dsharbour 10858679
Dzsozi 8002127
Earendil 146007
egon.sauter 494566
Eirikafh 10883218
Eric 9157146
eryndel 10878567
Esta 10624508
Foaming Mad Cow Industries 219464
fred 1935325
fredi 7913572
ghostbuster 564989
gunsnammo 137399
Haiko_N 9198068
HawkMedic 10838738
higemayuge 10790664
HMZ 9079227
Jeff 10639246
Jeffrey A. Smith 38247
Jerjes 1291426
JohnDoe 9166075
Jorge Barrera 9650295
Juraxell 10864786
Kekke 46817
knutella 9880098
lastsworder 10878688
lupaslupas 10002927
MadMikeDelta 8221690
Maulwurf 1516335
MaximusPrometheus 10240426
mgg 279419
mnelsonx 272885
Niflhuem 113140

No Name@Extraterrestrial Intelligence 8116
NYX.consulting 10503661
Oriah 9838773

Otosan 8547502
PantherJon 9801065
Peter Furlong 7965665
phoenix7477 10773411
Rafael 8249913
rame 10738
rAttmAniA 9002301
Recedham 954834
rgeens 10740140
Richard Hartland 9781177
Rocky 270621

Saint123 159425

Stephen Diem 36679
stogdan 10865456
StrayCat 177967

Strickland 34273
suhail ahmad 9878177
Swagstergo 10882690
T66 3336343
toby 9442798
TomasFraus 8445239
Tomik 8972653
Trezy 10367889
Tristan 9778349
vleermuis 1295921
VMS Software Inc 45538

werewolf_007 10880222
xakei 10823091
Zac 100334866

Italicized names have replied and indicated they are disabling their affected GPUs.
Struck-through names are confirmed to no longer be producing these bad results, ie via disabling GPU computing.
755) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024657)
Posted 23 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...these problems were known on Beta already, and really should have been hashed out before deployment.


1) On a Friday 2) Before a holiday week 3) With no reversion plan in case of failure.
Just to be complete. :^)
756) Message boards : SETI@home Science : New FAST data? (Message 2024631)
Posted 23 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
FAST has been collecting Breakthrough Listen Data for over three years. SETI@Home gets most of its data now from the Green Bank Breakthrough Listen receiver. There are plans to incorporate data from Parkes and FAST; Parkes is in development but there is no timeframe for FAST. But it's not like there isn't any significant SETI activity from FAST already.

By the way, SETI@Home only has the capacity to analyze one percent of the data from just the Green Bank source. There certainly may be plenty we're already missing, so it's arguable that further data sources are unnecessary when we can't even cope with a reasonable fraction of what we have now.
757) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024540)
Posted 23 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks... I think that explains the poor performance I am having on the 4-GPU system... they are all using the same card! The 2 GPU systems are still an improvement over stock. The only issue I had was that on first launch a resumed task may stall; abort it and all the rest are fine.
758) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024518)
Posted 23 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Brilliant workaround... applying to every machine stat and thank you! :^)
Edit: I tried it first on a 2x2080ti machine and it was doing two at once fine... watched it complete half a dozen like that. Hrm.
759) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Install RX 5700 in Fedora? (Message 2024500)
Posted 23 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
No worries... Dr. Eric Korpela, the project director, tweaked the validator because of the all the misbehaving AMD RXs (and because we pestered him 😃 ) so that now for -9 overflows it will take a quorum of three machines not two to agree for validity. That should stop most of the RX cross-validations. But please do keep a watch on it. Good to do that for any new host.
760) Questions and Answers : Windows : VPN preventing WU transfer (Message 2024497)
Posted 23 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I had a similar issue on a Linux (Ubuntu) computer. It would connect to anything except SETI@Home. Although I still don't know the root cause, uninstalling the VPN client and reinstalling it from a fresh download of the latest version and logging in again fixed the issue. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
761) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024393)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My understanding is that the status pages are driven from the replica database


Rather defeats the entire definition of a status page to have it set up this way, but I would not be surprised if that was the case.
762) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024388)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks... I guess I will just be patient. Hard to do as of late. :^p
763) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024382)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
At this moment I've 18 hrs (33 CPU tasks) left & 19 tasks that have not been able to report...


Setting "No new tasks" and then hitting or allowing Update will resolve this. Cause is that the scheduler is now checking for and resending lost tasks on every connection which is causing connects to fail, but only if work is requested.

If that still doesn't resolve it, then edit cc_config.xml in your main BOINC folder and ensure there's a line <max_tasks_reported>##</max_tasks_reported>. The largest possible value for ## is 255 (anything over that it scales back to 255 without advising.) I would try maybe 50 at first.


Edit: I've also tried renaming app_config.xml and app_info.xml, resetting the project and restarting the client. On 2/3 machines it still doesn't work... No tasks available even with half a million in the RTS queue. :^( Some setting is persisting. I guess I detach and reattach next.
764) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024370)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks TBar... I had tried that on my largest machine but it didn't work. I probably fat fingered something (I think I neglected app_config). I'll try it again.
765) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2024366)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
New thread is here.
766) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024365)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Since I am using the All-In-One, I don't even have a stock to revert to. I'd need to archive the BOINC folder, download/install the detested Repository version, reconnect to SETI, download/install all the setup/apps/work including some ancient and slow CUDA50 that takes 10x as long to finish if it doesn't crash, then when this is fixed (which with my luck will happen exactly when I have completed this) wait for the work to complete, uninstall it, unpack the All-In-One back and hope for the best...

... on eight computers.

Or I could just connect to Einstein. Takes about ten seconds apiece. Much easier.
767) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2024363)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
We need a new thread.


Like the scheduler needed some new code... lol.
768) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Install RX 5700 in Fedora? (Message 2024355)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unfortunately, the same issue does affect the Linux OpenCL drivers for the Navi cards. Here is an affected host.

Very good timing because we had been looking for one of these until yesterday... almost all the Linux hosts on this project are using NVidia cards (including mine.)
769) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2024350)
Posted 22 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Better? :^)
770) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2024231)
Posted 21 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
One observation, when we ask for new work it returns: Sat 21 Dec 2019 05:39:10 PM EST | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error

Maybe somebody forget to update the address of the server on the task started when the anonymous host ask for new work...


This is, I think, further evidence that something went very wrong in the disconnection noted in News and we're actually connecting to the Beta scheduler.
771) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2024139)
Posted 21 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
- Could the not allowing anonymous servers help with the bad machines validating each other and polluting the db issue??


Nope, they are all running the "stock" Windows SETI@Home client.

This is actually making it worse as they will be able to get even more work and trash it by cross-validating now that would otherwise have been completed accurately by a locked-out host!

Ah well, I could always find something else to do, perhaps start early with my Christmas visits to people less fortunate than I am.


I think some XMas shopping and a good lunch with the missus will be a good day and then I can return and find this is resolved. Enjoy. :^)
772) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2024117)
Posted 21 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I wonder why make such changes a week before the Christmas holidays?


Also before a weekend... it seems the norm for the project to do this whereas it's standard IT procedure to never make enterprise-wide changes like this except at the beginning of a standard work week so there is maximum time to roll it back or otherwise fix any issues caused by it without support people having to run in on their days off.

Sigh.

Edit: I wonder if it was an accident. Dr. Korpela indicated that Beta was being disabled due to problems with its filesystem; I wonder if somehow its scheduler's boot volume got into Main. Weird, but why would they bring it over to Main just when it was down due to problems?
Looks like great minds think alike and fools seldom differ... heh. :^)
773) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2024084)
Posted 21 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This seems like everything is affected... the scheduler can't be reached most times unless NNT or reduced max_tasks_reported is set, when it is reached many times it still throws errors, there is zero work available, the replica is 27,951 seconds behind, uploads are mostly failing and those that do get through are slow. With the scheduler being unreachable, there should be plenty of work and very little upload traffic, so I think there is more to the problem than it appears.

Whole project needs a reboot. :^p

Edit: I wonder if all of those components were "upgraded" to 715.
Edit2: Well there is plenty of work showing, but I can't be assigned any of it, and uploads are going through. I guess it is just the scheduler now.

Sat 21 Dec 2019 09:49:20 AM EST | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Sat 21 Dec 2019 09:49:20 AM EST | SETI@home | [sched_op] Server version 715
Sat 21 Dec 2019 09:49:20 AM EST | SETI@home | Project has no tasks available

Data Distribution State	SETI@home v7 #	Astropulse #	SETI@home v8 #	As of*
Results ready to send	0	        0	        595,405	        9m
774) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023967)
Posted 21 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I was either very very lucky yesterday (UTC time) as only 2 regulars were of a very minor annoyance to me, or more have shut their GPU's down (or have they been finally locked out?).

Cheers.


I think it's working.. between my pestering (JohnDoe 9166075 is the latest and thank you) and word getting out. [AfZ]TomServo1 is the latest to reply and indicate the GPU is now disabled.
775) Message boards : News : Some server issues today... (Message 2023886)
Posted 20 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Many thanks for the update as it's certainly better than it being a mystery issue... cc'ed to the server thread in NC.
776) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2023885)
Posted 20 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Dr. Korpela has posted in News:

It's the Friday before a holiday week and the servers know it.

The file system containing the beta project uploads directory is having problems, so beta is down until further notice.

This problem may be affecting the rate at which the main project can handle results, so the validation and assimilation queues are getting large, which may affect the rate of work generation.
777) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2023641)
Posted 19 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A foregone conclusion, but:

Majority of U.S. House votes to impeach Trump; vote still ongoing

WASHINGTON -- A majority in U.S. House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump on the charge of abuse of power for enlisting a foreign ally to investigate a political rival ahead of the 2020 election.

With voting still underway, Trump is on track to become the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, and the only one in modern times to be running for reelection facing the political equivalent of an indictment, an indelible mark on a purposely disruptive presidency.
778) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023594)
Posted 18 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
1) Excellent work Ian!

2) @Stephen Rocky just indicated has suspended GPU computing so there may be many work units out there still awaiting wingie "validation".

3) Someone indicated that this issue does not affect Linux OpenCL (or Mac for that matter) but I have never seen any OS but Windows that was using these cards... the vast majority of Linux hosts here are so to take take advantage of Petri's NVidia-only client. If anyone can find an actual host number of one, it would be much appreciated.
779) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : GPU computing causing excessive hard drive activity (Message 2023591)
Posted 18 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I would try in BOINC client Options > Computing preferences > Computing tab setting "Request tasks to checkpoint at most every [x] seconds" to a value longer than the longest GPU work unit completion time (not Astropulse.) I see from your computer that the longest was 602 seconds, so I would set it to 700 (or the highest BOINC allows.) Then the GPU tasks won't write to disk midway, or at least will do so minimally.
780) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023573)
Posted 18 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Happily MadMikeDelta, Earendil and Rocky have joined the list of participants who have replied indicating that they are disabling their affected GPU. Also had a mugging from a new one (Doc_Jebus 10863878) so sent a pesterpost. I'll update the list shortly.

@Iona: vleermuis also pestered and thank you! :^)
781) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2023509)
Posted 17 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yep, there is a distinct possibility something got "fixed" during the 8hr maintenance, that's the polite way to say something is fubar.


I'm betting on a restriction on the bad Navi platform getting work. Any time I try to help out with something like this, chaos and backfiring are the inevitable results. :^p
782) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2023436)
Posted 17 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
538 rate Fox News polls as A-, the polls are live telephone calls only.


Thanks... that would explain why they actually took this one seriously.
783) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023430)
Posted 17 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Excellent Ian and thanks. I only got mugged twice today by four usual suspects, and Wiggo not at all, so things seem to be noticeably improving.
Edit: ... until the wave of RX 5500s show up of course!
784) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2023427)
Posted 17 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Also there has never been an incumbent President defeated when approval of the economy was high.


I'd thought Gerald Ford was the only one and lost for his pardoning of Nixon, but remembered incorrectly; instead he presided over a recession and made it worse instead of better. So, the rule does hold.
785) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2023419)
Posted 17 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
50% want Trump to be impeached and removed from office. Another 4% want Trump to be impeached at least.


I'm skeptical of internet polls... there are no controls ie to ensure a random sampling and avoid "poll crashing" where other sites send enough people to to the poll to deliberately skew it the opposite way it would go otherwise.

Was this an internet poll or a random sample poll where they contact the participants?
786) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023347)
Posted 16 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
BOINC projects like Milkyway and Einstein don't have a problem running work on the RX 5700 (XT) with OpenCL.


Please read this E@H thread Right from the get-go in July to one from yesterday they are having the same issue. One person noted that they only validate with other Navi, a rather understated way to say that they are putting junk results in the database... "As you have discovered, tasks completed with a 5700 will only validate if partnered with another machine with a 5700"

Also in the same thread is a link to a thread where even the coin miners can't use the Navi OpenCL drivers as they are broken. Also please see Keith's post further down here where it was acknowledged they were broken from release day but nonetheless they were released regardless.

This project is possibly the only one with a high enough turnover that the issue has become prominent.

Edit: in the Techpowerup link, someone suggests:

There's a suggestion that Navi has bad FFT implementation.
So as of this moment Navi cards are unfit for almost all computing production systems... and rather pointless for development (even students).


This would be really bad, although as far as I know FFT isn't done completely on the hardware but via the OpenCL clFFT library. This also certainly would not affect coin mining... but there may be something to it as (as far as I know) other AMD cards produce good results with OpenCL 2.0, but not on these ones so something underlying may be broken.
787) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023319)
Posted 16 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some positive news finally: Dr. Anderson responded. The SETI@Home project is having a team meeting this morning and this issue is being raised. That's all I have for now. :^)

Edit: OK, one more... gunsnammo is the latest person to have replied and indicate they've disabled GPU computing, and alffrommars did so though did not reply (thanks both!)

I've updated the list and you finally have your wished strikethrough lol.
788) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023293)
Posted 16 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Excellent work again Wiggo and thanks! Pesterposted all five and list updated. :^)
789) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2023292)
Posted 16 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What's to be done about the ghosts?


This.
790) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023241)
Posted 15 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I see this constantly with blocks of consecutive work units cross-validating from the same two hosts due to the volume of work they are requesting.

Thanks, Ian! gunsnammo 137399 has been pestered. :^)

Also I am saving strikethough for when I validate they are actually gone including ones that didn't reply.
791) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023209)
Posted 15 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I logged the participant IDs that I contacted to prevent any ambiguity of who was contacted as there are many duplicates, for example there are dozens who are exactly "Eric".
Edit: Also in case any changed their display names.
792) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2023208)
Posted 15 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I am pleased you are able to make a very discerning observation regarding the post and the thought behind it.

There is so much irrational and fervent hatred directed towards the President that I react strongly to it's expression, as I do to irrational and fervent hatred in general. The American Congress and a majority of it's citizens have forgotten the way our Country and our Republic came to be was through debate and COMPROMISE. There is always Quid and Quo in every social transaction between human beings.


Thanks. :^) I do think that if people did listen to each other a bit more, and not just to conclusions because another person is in a certain political party or supports a certain politician, then it may be realized most of us are more politically complicated, nuanced, and yes, sometimes even in agreement, than those who seek profit and/or power off of dividing others would have us believe. Ironically, because of this partisanship and polarization, civil government is losing its civility.
793) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023204)
Posted 15 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks! However I think that was the one I have in there as the ID numbers I've listed are the participant IDs... toby's RX 5700 host is 8772813. Edit: And Wiggo beat me to it. :^)

I am hoping that, as with epidemiology, once a certain threshold in the population is crossed, "infectable hosts" will no longer statistically find each other, so a small percentage of responses as Wiggo noted may result in a much higher reduction in cross-validations. Unfortunately all we have is hope right now.
794) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2023178)
Posted 15 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
........can't wait for these comments........


OK here's one: That's a pretty positive ad... simple, effective, doesn't libel anyone, and as I noted before, historical precedent is that presidents with strong economies get re-elected.

I don't think that is what was expected though. ;^)
795) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023168)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Excellent and no worries... I've pesterposted alffrommars. I also found a couple more. Here is the complete list with participant (not computer) IDs so it's fresh. Please, to all, don't quote the whole thing in a reply. Thanks.

[AfZ]TomServo1 1483720
achimbln 138625
alffrommars 9024750
antoi 10856207
aridhol 10288747
Baldarov 9438496
Bigthor 480399
Borktron 10682716
Brandon 8198367
calendir 9663884
Camiron 7449359
Carl 914781
Christopher 9894096
CoffeeSloth 10266313
Crisu 7833612
Daniel frederikson 9813817
Derrek 219419
Doc_Jebus 10863878
dsharbour 10858679
Dzsozi 8002127
Earendil 146007
egon.sauter 494566
Eric 9157146
eryndel 10878567
Esta 10624508
Foaming Mad Cow Industries 219464
fred 1935325
ghostbuster 564989
gunsnammo 137399
Haiko_N 9198068
HawkMedic 10838738
higemayuge 10790664
HMZ 9079227
Jeff 10639246
Jeffrey A. Smith 38247
Jerjes 1291426
Jorge Barrera 9650295
Juraxell 10864786
Kekke 46817
knutella 9880098
lastsworder 10878688
lupaslupas 10002927
MadMikeDelta 8221690
Maulwurf 1516335
MaximusPrometheus 10240426
mgg 279419
mnelsonx 272885
Niflhuem 113140
No Name@Extraterrestrial Intelligence 8116
NYX.consulting 10503661
Oriah 9838773
Otosan 8547502
PantherJon 9801065
Peter Furlong 7965665
phoenix7477 10773411
rgeens 10740140
Rocky 270621
Saint123 159425
Stephen Diem 36679
stogdan 10865456
StrayCat 177967
Strickland 34273
suhail ahmad 9878177
T66 3336343
toby 9442798
Tomik 8972653
Trezy 10367889
Tristan 9778349
vleermuis 1295921
VMS Software Inc 45538
werewolf_007 10880222
xakei 10823091
Zac 100334866

Italicized names have replied and indicated they are disabling their affected GPUs.
Struck-through names are confirmed to no longer be producing these bad results, ie via disabling GPU computing.
796) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023166)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some more.


Thanks, Wiggo! Haiko_N and Juraxell were already in the list and pestered. Wojciech Knapczyk doesn't have an affected card so may have removed it if was already notified in the "Invalid Host Messaging" thread or otherwise.

I am going to update my list with annotations and check whether the ones who haven't replied are still producing garbage; some of them may have offlined but not replied.
797) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023087)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The person to contact is Eric Korpela... Next would be Jeff Cobb.


Unfortunately I didn't get a reply from Dr. Korpela and missed any acknowedgment, so I've written to Dr. David Anderson cc Jeff Cobb. I think that the more on the team that are aware, the better. Also as Dr. Anderson has been working on Nebula for years and this has the potential to do serious damage to its output, I think he should definitely be aware (I'm sure he probably is but we haven't had any wide-ranging official word on this so that would be nice too.)

Edit: And Jeffrey A. Smith is the latest person to reply indicating that they have disabled GPU computing.
798) Questions and Answers : Windows : Seti GPU Problem (Message 2023082)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... with the latest GPU Drivers...


This is actually the issue. Please see this thread. You'll need to revert to older drivers via "clean install".
799) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023069)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Perfect... thanks Keith. That certainly answers that yes, bad data is going to get into the final database and eventually Nebula.

Edit: Also Niflhuem has responded and disabled GPU computing. It was a given, but I also found this post which shows that other BOINC projects are affected (as would be expected as OpenCL as far as I know is used for all AMD GPU computing.
800) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023055)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I had a look at the Stderr of these cross-validated results and I think that the reason that they are not being actioned to any great degree is that they are all finishing with result overflow -9. As far as I know, work units like this are thrown out as noise.

So although we are unfortunately losing a lot of observations, as well as wasting large amounts of processing and bandwidth, I don't know if it's actually going to taint the end results (other than by their absence.)
801) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2023035)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
calendir 9663884
eryndel 10878567
PantherJon 9801065
Rocky 270621
T66 3336343


Pestered and thank you again! Er... no need in future to quote the whole list. It's getting annoyingly long and I don't see it getting shorter anytime soon. :^)

Edit: I found half a dozen or so more from checking valids on the host queues of the known bad IDs, sent pesterposts and updated my original list on the last page.

One of those computers (T66's) demonstrated perfectly why this is such a deceptively severe issue, which I think that the admins. here are missing. It only had 8 invalids, but of the valids, 2 were from the GPU, so it is managing to find another AMD RX to cross-validate a quarter of the time, seemingly very disproportionately with small percentage of AMD RX Windows rigs out there.
802) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022999)
Posted 13 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks to lastsworder for pointing out that AMD just released the cheaper RX 5500 XT yesterday, which is probably going to have the same issue, and more of them may turn up here due to their affordability.
803) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022919)
Posted 13 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And a few more.

lastsworder 10878688
MaximusPrometheus 10240426
stogdan 10865456
suhail ahmad 9878177


Pestered and thanks again! And also thanks to dsharbour and VMS Software Inc who have joined StrayCat and rgeens as the four who have confirmed they are turning off GPU computing for now!
Edit: Also lastsworder, Derrek and Camiron!
804) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2022875)
Posted 12 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But that i only if we can scrap Vlar


Did you mean VHAR? I hope so as almost every Breakthrough Listen work unit (over 90% of what we do now) is a VLAR, because it's dedicated recording time with the target being tracked (so little to no movement of it across the field). This is in contrast to Arecibo's normal/VHAR angle range work units where SETI@Home is "along for the ride" and not tracking the target.
805) Message boards : Politics : Politics Forum Moderation (Message 2022867)
Posted 12 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Please note that the moderation team has adopted a near-zero-tolerance approach to negative personal commentary, directed against other forum members, in the Politics forum. Other methods were unfortunately not dissuading of it, so posts that contain such are very likely to be removed.

As has been (too-often) previously mentioned, discuss the topic, not the other people in the thread. If you disagree with them, express disagreement with their ideas or opinions rather than themselves personally, which includes implying that there is something wrong with them for holding such ideas or opinions. And if they annoy you to such an extent that you feel tempted to make personal comments about them, please use the provided forum tools (ie filtering in your profile's Community Preferences) to avoid reading them.

Thank you for your understanding.
806) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022811)
Posted 11 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Awesome work... thank you! I'll send them all some pesterpost. :^)
Edit: Well, not grcpool.com as that's a group ID lol.

All pestered... also StrayCat has replied and indicated has disabled GPU computing! Yay!
Edit: and rgeens!
807) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022806)
Posted 11 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The very unfortunate part of the purging is that it would appear the platform info is lost with the purged results, so only the work unit info and stderr would go into the science database. Thus it may be be nigh-impossible to get rid of these garbage results after a few days once they are submitted because it won't be able to be determined that two RX 5700s "validated" them.
808) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022803)
Posted 11 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You may be correct... some of them were disappearing almost immediately, but it is possible they were just purged. Even if they are being removed, it's a drop in the bucket.
809) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022801)
Posted 11 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Has anyone emailed Eric about it?


Twice... I think he's going through this thread as well as ones that are posted here are getting removed (see the strikeout ones in my list.)
810) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022793)
Posted 11 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
After hunting for bad cross-validations: it's hopeless to manually remove them. There are too many of these bad hosts, they produce invalids every 10-20 seconds so the cross-validation rate is horrific. Here is a computer showing 489 (edit: it went up to 508 in the time it took to write this!) valid tasks as of when I checked. 90% of them are from the RX 5700 and every single one of them cross-validated and is garbage... all from one single card in a few days. And there are probably hundreds of them like this.

Thus there are probably tens if not hundreds of thousands of garbage results in the science database now, which will eventually corrupt Nebula.

I think that this is the most serious threat to the data integrity of this project it has ever faced, as bad as a successful deliberately malicious attack on it. These cards need to be banned from getting any work ASAP... this was done with other broken platforms in the past so the capability is there.
811) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022695)
Posted 11 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Because all the ones I posted earlier went away, I will repost these in the hope that they do as well. Here are the cross-validated work units so far posted by others that are still in the database:

3779924575, 3781287501, 3781287513, 3780346096, 3780179788, 3780408798, 3782950900, 3779723247, 3779723283

Here are more from me: 3781128179, 3781089000, 3781088834

And here are some I found when I went hunting them: 3784413112, 3784300965, 3784224221, 378422425, 3783191211, 3773625441, 3782078981, 3783481584, 3782835475, 3782835493, 3783901857, 3783901627. 3782194669, 3783332726, 3783213329, 3782273057, 3784908129, 3699446653, 3784707978, 3784309715, 3785273063, 3784309634, 3784309640, 3784309580, 3784309586, 3784309552, 3784309558, 3784309563, 3784267651, 3784267716, 3784267728, 3784267626, 3784267669, 3784267687, 3784267699, 3785142714, 3761673400, 3784712782, 3781095787

3784267733 is the only work unit I have seen where the RX 5700 validated against a different platform (NVidia CUDA.) This is because it was a -9 overflow; they merely both agreed it could not complete.

And here are the participants I PMed (many thanks to Wiggo for providing a bunch of these names) advising that they have cards producing nothing but bad results (just so they don't get bothered twice I hope):

[AfZ]TomServo1 1483720
achimbln 138625
antoi 10856207
aridhol 10288747
Baldarov 9438496
Borktron 10682716
Brandon 8198367
calendir 9663884
Camiron 7449359
Carl 914781
Christopher 9894096
CoffeeSloth 10266313
Crisu 7833612
Derrek 219419
dsharbour 10858679
Dzsozi 8002127
Earendil 146007
egon.sauter 494566
eryndel 10878567
Foaming Mad Cow Industries 219464
fred 1935325
ghostbuster 564989
Haiko_N 9198068
HawkMedic 10838738
higemayuge 10790664
HMZ 9079227
Jeff 10639246
Jeffrey A. Smith 38247
Jerjes 1291426
Jorge Barrera 9650295
Juraxell 10864786
Kekke 46817
lastsworder 10878688
lupaslupas 10002927
Maulwurf 1516335
MaximusPrometheus 10240426
mnelsonx 272885
Niflhuem 113140
No Name@Extraterrestrial Intelligence 8116
Oriah 9838773
Otosan 8547502
PantherJon 9801065
Peter Furlong 7965665
phoenix7477 10773411
rgeens 10740140
Rocky 270621
Saint123 159425
Stephen Diem 36679
stogdan 10865456
StrayCat 177967
Strickland 34273
suhail ahmad 9878177
T66 3336343
toby 9442798
Tomik 8972653
Trezy 10367889
Tristan 9778349
VMS Software Inc 45538
xakei 10823091
Zac 100334866
812) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stop GPU use? (Message 2022647)
Posted 10 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Indeed... this machine is an ancient Intel board with 3x970s stuffed into it, with a few mm between them, in a too-small case with only a single 80mm case fan, and they run the AIO 24x7 without overheating. I'm suspecting clogging with dust as well.
813) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@Home will now cache 150 CPU work units and 150 per installed GPU (Message 2022567)
Posted 10 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks, Tom. :^)
Edit: Also thanks for the confirmation, Dr. Z. Title and my post updated.
814) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2022565)
Posted 10 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" perhaps?
815) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2022525)
Posted 9 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
First time I ever checked my invalids since this thread started, and of course I have a few cross-validations: 3778213593, 3777934914, 3777934944 and 3777934950,

I also had 3775326461 but it was deleted, so there is some proactive purging going on.

Edit: All of the four above that I could originally link to have now been removed as well since I posted this.
816) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2022489)
Posted 9 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't like our PM much any more; his behaviour was unprofessional (even if he thinks he's off-camera he shouldn't stoop to that conduct at a major world summit) and he's not doing anything about certain issues (ie gun crime in urban areas.)

However, in this case, most of the job losses we've been experiencing are due to effects on our "oil patch" from this so-called trade war. The price of oil and futures fell directly along with every tariff against China and other nations; now that it appears there will be a new trade deal in early 2020 it's starting to perk up again.

It's certainly arguable that this was necessary due to an unfair existing situation, but still it's something external we had no control over.
817) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2022483)
Posted 9 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I had the same problem with the "Windows Subsystem for Linux". It does not support OpenCL or CUDA.


It does actually now have the capability as WSL2 which was released this year uses a real virtualized kernel with device driver support rather than just translating all kernel system calls, but CUDA/OpenCL have yet to be implemented. Microsoft has indicated it's in development though I wouldn't expect it until perhaps mid-2020.
818) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@Home will now cache 150 CPU work units and 150 per installed GPU (Message 2022475)
Posted 9 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Apologies for all the system e-mails you may have received from post moves into this thread...

For anyone running a "spoofed" client, you will of course now get 300x the number of "spoofed" GPUs which may be an overload so may want to reduce the "spoof" number appropriately, ie to one-third what it currently is. The hard limit of 10K platform tasks remains, so I was seeing just under 10,200 tasks (10K GPU + 200 CPU) on my largest host (which incidentally isn't overdoing it; this is about a day's worth.) All of the others I had to reduce appropriately as noted.
819) Message boards : News : Fall/Winter 2019 Funding drive has started (Message 2022407)
Posted 8 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
For U.S. donors who would like a tax deduction for their donations, please note that there have been recent changes in U.S. income tax law with the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Donations, including to 501(c) (3) registered charitable organizations such as SETI@Home, are now only deductible on itemized returns, those where a Standard Deduction ($12,000 for single or married filing separately, $18,000 for head of household) is not used and instead all deductions that would fall under this blanket deduction are claimed separately.

This guide and calculator will allow calculation of the amount one can claim on itemized returns. Please note that this page indicates that there were no changes to charitable donations due to the Act's tax reforms, but this assumes that one is already submitting itemized returns (generally these are more often used by people with larger incomes.)

Of course, it is also recommended to consult a certified tax professional before making any changes to one's tax returns.
820) Message boards : News : Fall/Winter 2019 Funding drive has started (Message 2022302)
Posted 8 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Barring an official answer, I will see what I can do...

I do not understand why you need it. You are part of Berkeley, surely, the university will receive credit and financial support to release some information on discoveries.


UC Berkeley is a public, thus partially taxpayer-funded, U.S. university. It is nigh-impossible to obtain government funding for SETI in the U.S. since 1992, when Senator William Proxmire handed out his "Golden Fleece Award," for projects which he deemed the most frivolous use of taxpayer dollars, to NASA's SETI program. Unfortunately this proved unduly influential, and this program was cancelled after only roughly a year. No publicly-funded SETI program emerged again. If the SETI@Home team could get funding from UC Berkeley, they would, but UC Berkeley won't even pay for the project's electrical or internet bandwidth costs; this basic necessity is one of the prime reasons for the steady-state donations of these regular fundraisers.

We as your supporters on the other hand already spend thousands of dollars on equipment and the associated cost of electricity. For example, it costs me near A $3000,00 a quarter for electricity cost only running 16 machines for only BOINC use 24/7.


SETI@Home was designed and intended from its inception as a more casual project for smaller participants who ran the client during idle time of their single home or work computers. If we choose to have farms of 24x7 multi-GPU machines as I also do, well... our choice and expense. No one coerced us to do so. As well you are participating in numerous other projects besides SETI@Home.

Please explain, why should I finance your costs as well, considering that your project credits are the lowest of all BOINC Projects.


BOINC itself and and SETI@Home share the same inventors and developers who set the credit standard. While it is true our credit awards are roughly half of what they would have been before "CreditNew" was introduced, it is well-known that some other projects seem to artificially award much higher credit than the Cobblestone definition allows, precisely to attract participants. Solving arcane mathematical equations certainly doesn't have the inspirational wide-ranging appeal as finding the first sign of extraterrestrial intelligence!

Hope this helps...
821) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@Home will now cache 150 CPU work units and 150 per installed GPU (Message 2022093)
Posted 7 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I wrote to Dr. Korpela (also re: the AMD RX 5700 issue) but of course it's five in the morning on a Saturday in Cali so I hope his rest is undisturbed for a few hours. :^)

Just before this started I noticed there was a very brief site outage with a malformed maintenance notification in error code, so it would appear that changes were made. Hopeful there will be confirmation.
822) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021986)
Posted 7 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm not so sure... the China trade deal will be confirmed in 2020 and kick the economy back into high gear... So I still think it's quite possible he may get a second term.


To expand on what I wrote earlier, here is an article written by a CNN editor that puts it in economic terms:
(Had to mention the CNN bit to I hope dispel a tiny bit of the idea that they have it in for Donald Trump. Probably won't help, but I try. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

The latest economic numbers -- 266,000 jobs created in November, unemployment at a 50-year low -- make one thing very clear: U.S. President Donald Trump has a path to win a second term next year.
...
In a CNN poll released late last month, Trump's overall job approval was a less-than-stellar 42% while a majority -- 54% -- disapproved. But those numbers were reversed when people were asked what they thought of Trump's handling of the economy. On that question, 52% approved while 40% disapproved. (It was the only area in the poll where a majority of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing.)
...
Because, well, it's been proven right over and over again. Incumbent presidents don't lose often. When they do, it's usually because the economy is perceived to be weak or faltering.

Take Jimmy Carter, who saw the unemployment and inflation rates soar during his time in office and watched as Ronald Reagan promised to turn things around. Or George H.W. Bush, whose sky-high poll numbers during the first Gulf War collapsed amid an economic recession and delivered the White House to Clinton. The only other president in the last nine decades to lose a bid for reelection was Gerald Ford -- and that was due in large part to his decision to pardon the man he replaced in office: Richard Nixon.

The data then is clear: It's very, very hard to beat an incumbent president unless the economy is seen by a majority of the public to be weakening badly.
823) Message boards : News : New paper on observing "Clarke Exo-belts" (Message 2021916)
Posted 6 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have to ask, did someone mean "Clarke" Exo-belts, for Arthur C. Clarke?


Correct... looks like a typo. And yes, it is named after him as he basically invented the concept of the geostationary comsat (as well as writing much of my favorite sci-fi.)
I've passed it on (don't want to be editing thread titles in a newsfeed) so hopeful it will be corrected.
824) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 2021844)
Posted 5 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Same here, but not quite as soon. 😄
And congrats on joining the Billionaires Club, Keith!
825) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021842)
Posted 5 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm trying to have some positive thinking here:)


Well I'll try...

Whenever the zeitgeist gets me down, I read Donald Trump's personal twitter feed. Probably 90% or more of it is derogatory towards him, some of it very strongly in language and imagery I can't repeat here.

I'm not saying whether I agree with (some of... certainly not all of!) it or not, but I just note that it's there. He doesn't have assistants remove it all in real time forcing the writers to sue under 1st Amendment grounds to have it put back, which would certainly take a lot of time and effort (probably not money as it would be pro bono though!) and probably not impact him personally at all.

Then I wonder what would happen in China, Russia or Saudi Arabia, three other wealthy and influential nations with designs on replacing the U.S. as the most powerful country on Earth, if similar material were to be posted about their so-called leaders. (I say so-called as they more often lead by fear and intimidation than inspiration.) Results would range from a beating by thugs (state-ordered, not just independent "loose cannons") to assassination or execution.

So, as long as this basic right is upheld, I think that all is still well with the U.S., its president isn't nearly as monstrous as he is portrayed, and the only reason that we hear so much about U.S problems and not those a hundred times worse in other nations is that those nations suppress the right of communicating them, often violently, while the United States continues to uphold and even encourage it. And that, to me, is a very positive thing.

Hope this helped. :^)
826) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021757)
Posted 5 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's only a year before he have to leave the office down voted by the American people. Yes I'm quite sure he will lose his final battle.


I'm not so sure... the China trade deal will be confirmed in 2020 and kick the economy back into high gear, he still has very firm support of roughly 95% registered Republicans and roughly 95% of them make sure to vote, he wasn't implicated in the Mueller Report, the impeachment conviction/removal is almost certainly not going to happen (and, need I add, he hasn't started any wars yet. :^) ) So I still think it's quite possible he may get a second term.
827) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021753)
Posted 5 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Question #1) Do you believe the US House of Representatives will vote to impeach President Donald Trump?

Yes. Sufficient votes have been confirmed.

Question #2) Do you believe the US Senate will convict President Donald Trump of 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors'?

No. I think for a two-third majority that twenty Republican senators would have to vote to convict. Confirmations thus far: zero. I don't think that this will change by more than one or two votes.

Question #3) Do you believe the expense of time and taxpayer funds have benefited the Citizens of the United States of America?

I can't determine yet until the results are complete and the outcome is seen. If POTUS Trump really did have the intent of hanging aid funds on digging up dirt on a rival in order to win an election, then I think that it is the duty of the opposition party (and sadly, not his own) to do what they can to oppose this by whatever legal means are at their disposal, even though it is doomed to failure, because it is the correct thing to do to keep your democracy, the most important democracy in this little world, working properly... all that may be the result is that it was brought to public light, but that may be enough. However that is a very large "if", hanging mostly on testimony, which as anyone knows can be unreliable (thus the volume of it required in order for correlation.)

I did notice that when POTUS was called on the plan to host the G7 at Mar-A-Lago, that he changed this almost immediately, recognizing that this would have been a physical-evidence as opposed to testimonial violation of the emoluments clause that would have been added to the Articles with possibly more weight, but he has not similarly backed down on this which may possibly mean that at least he did not think he was doing anything wrong ie intent. So, I'm still ambiguous.
828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Stars are blue, Panthers are pink and the music plays here (Message 2021748)
Posted 4 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just thinking, and I do not want the title coming with me here, for that of "Volunteer tester".
...
Therefore asking if the title perhaps could be removed here.


The "Volunteer tester" label is added here when you register at SETI@Home Beta using the same e-mail address you log in here with. If you are sure you won't need it, you can go to the Beta link I provided, log in if required, open your profile top-right and use the "Change > e-mail address" link, and if that doesn't work within a day or two, the "delete account" link, but I don't know if it will remove the title here. It's the only possibility though.
829) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021709)
Posted 4 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just in case the story is doubted as it's on a site called "MAGA Daily Report", here is the official DOJ release.
830) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021706)
Posted 4 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He's probably a member of this movement. 'English Only': The movement to limit Spanish speaking in US


There are 58 million Spanish speakers in the U.S, and 41 million speak it at home or otherwise on a regular basis. (Source). Good luck to that movement. :^)
831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Stars are blue, Panthers are pink and the music plays here (Message 2021681)
Posted 4 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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(Is this the first reply you've gotten in this thread, I wonder? Well, you ask, I try to answer...)

From what I understand, the previous runs to find signal candidates were done periodically as one-offs with some effort required. Because Nebula is still in development and is going to be replacing this process with a much more comprehensive analysis, there won't be any more of these candidate lists until Nebula is completed, however once it is, there will (we hope) be far more possible candidates identified due to its much greater scale of the entire results database.

Hope this helps. :^)
832) Message boards : Number crunching : Data Chat (Message 2021476)
Posted 2 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As I always do, when I saw that line in the fundraiser e-mail, I wrote to the team...


Well, I got an acknowledgement, so there may be something in the works. They have to plan carefully of course so no hurry, but I'm hopeful.
833) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Is ET in Our Solar System? (Message 2021446)
Posted 2 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Also the famous Chanels on Mars are signals large enough to see from a long distance.


Going to be picky here, sorry. :^) There are no Martian "canals" aka canali, channels, etc. They were a combination of optical illusion and meme (seeing what was expected or claimed by others rather than what was there) and found not to exist once high-resolution photos from orbiters were obtained. Mars does have a large, deep canyon system (Valles Marineris) which is visible from Earth-based telescopes as a dark band, but as far as I know, they were not recognized as having depth until the Mariner orbiter missions in the early 1970's identified them as canyons... this is also how and when they were named.
834) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021434)
Posted 2 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What did you have to show (documents) in order to register and vote in your State?


Government photo-ID, or a mailed voter reg. card (derivative from tax records and previous voting) + proof of address, or, ie for people in assisted care facilities who have neither, a guarantor must present government photo ID and their identity is logged.
835) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021431)
Posted 2 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Might help if the Republicans stop blocking election security bills.

Such as requiring proof of American Citizenship and a photo ID at the polls?

........didn't think so.


I can hardly imagine both of these sets of measures aren't already in place for such important elections...
836) Message boards : Politics : The Donald Trump Thread (IV) (Message 2021286)
Posted 1 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A continuation of this thread...

The is the fourth and current Donald Trump (45th President of the United States of America) thread. Everything about Donald Trump is on-topic: ie himself, his Presidency, his party, his cabinet, his family, his business interests, and the state of the U.S. Federal Government during his term.

As with any other thread, please note that any offtopic material may be removed at moderator discretion
837) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2021272)
Posted 1 Dec 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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With over 10K posts, this thread is way past its Best Before Date, so time for a new one. I or another moderator will start it with a plain title ie "The Donald Trump Thread". Please note that any others before this will be hidden.

In the interim, this one will stay closed for a while in the hopes that the off-topic banter that has yet again started up will cease and the new thread can stay on topic. Thank you.

Edit: New thread here.
838) Message boards : Number crunching : Data Chat (Message 2021183)
Posted 30 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Would be nice if they let us know how much they need and what it's for...


As I always do, when I saw that line in the fundraiser e-mail, I wrote to the team indicating that they need only ask for whatever specific requirement funds and we'll raise them... the project should not be missing new data sources due to a lack of money. Unfortunately, as has happened so often, no reply yet. So the ball is in their court, also as always. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
839) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#5) (Message 2021106)
Posted 29 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What I don't get is that he doesn't see profit in green tech. It is an entire new field to be exploited!


It's part of the polarization and politicizing of everything in the U.S.; renewables and everything to do with them have been arbitrarily pushed to the "left" of the spectrum, no matter the fortunes to be reaped from them, and everything fossil-fueled to the "right".

An excellent example of this recently was Trump's proposal to force industries to use coal power, a totally non-free-market and formerly "left" idea considering that the free market phased out coal as it is too expensive. But because coal is now in the arbitrary "right" side of the political spectrum, this was somehow acceptable. (Imagine the hue and cry had he told industry they had to, say, use LED lightbulbs or electric trucks.)
840) Message boards : News : Fall/Winter 2019 Funding drive has started (Message 2021096)
Posted 29 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Who gets the Credit the Member or the Team GPU Users Group?


The donor gets the star and donation credit. GPUUG is just the vector to get the funding to the SETI@Home project via UC Berkeley.

Most all other BOINC Projects World Wide Support Direct PayPal Donations.


As Gary noted, this due to both SETI@Home (and BOINC itself) being part of UC Berkeley, unlike all other BOINC projects which are independent. UC Berkeley will not and has never accepted PayPal on its donation portal and not from lack of the SETI@Home team asking, I am sure. :^)
841) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2021090)
Posted 29 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is absolutely the worst piece of legislation on this topic I have ever heard of. In Ohio, women with ectopic pregnancies (which will be fatal due to internal bleeding) under a proposed bill are going to be forced to have them re-implanted, which would also be fatal, and can't even be done?

Ohio bill would make doctors 'reimplant' ectopic pregnancies (which is impossible) or face 'abortion murder' charges

Ohio is currently mulling a new abortion bill proposed by Republican senators, House Bill 413, which would force doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into the uterus of a woman who suffered from the complication.

This procedure is technically impossible, but if the doctor doesn’t perform it, the new bill states, they would face a charge of “abortion murder” the Guardian reports.

In an ectopic pregnancy, a complication which sees the embryo attach outside of the uterus, a woman can die if the tissue is allowed to continue growing.

On its website, the Mayo Clinic says of the complication: “An ectopic pregnancy can’t proceed normally. The fertilized egg can’t survive, and the growing tissue may cause life-threatening bleeding, if left untreated.”

The Guardian reports that obstetricians and gynaecologists in the state are now reminding the state’s legislators that the procedure is a medical impossibility.


This bill also proposes charges of aggravated murder for performing an abortion which means the doctor could technically be executed, and defines a fertilized ovum as a person.

All of this is probably just to get it pushed to the now-stacked SCOTUS so Roe v. Wade can be overturned, but putting people's lives at risk as a political gambit is, well, just what I would expect these days.
842) Message boards : News : Fall/Winter 2019 Funding drive has started (Message 2021061)
Posted 29 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why No PayPal?


From the donation page:

PayPal users: We vastly prefer the other donation methods listed above (due to lower overhead and ease of management), but if you can't contribute to us otherwise, you can now use PayPal. Thanks to the helpful support of the GPU Users Group, they are collecting donations via PayPal for SETI@home, which (after the standard PayPal overhead) is redirected entirely to us for general use or to then purchase specific pieces of hardware. The GPU Users Group is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, so donations made via this method are similarly tax-deductible. If you use this method, there may be a long delay (as much as a month) before you obtain your green star. For more information, or to make a donation through the GPU Users Group, click here.
843) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2020482)
Posted 25 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There's no "so help me God" or equivalent in the presidential oath. It was added extemporaneously by George Washington.
844) Message boards : Number crunching : Used and "New" (non big box store) and Wish.com, GPU Buyers BEWARE! (Message 2020361)
Posted 24 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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i notice Newegg selling a lot of X79 socket 2011 motherboards from China.


I'm running my daily driver (which I'm posting from) on one of those as the original board failed and they are no longer manufactured by the major brands... I didn't feel like tossing the CPU, RAM, cooler etc. over a failed board.

So far it's been flawless, driving 2x2080ti cards on the All-In-One Linux client full-bore 24x7 since July. It has an American Megatrends/AMI BIOS so no Chinese writing anywhere I've seen. I got it from Amazon as, in case it was a lemon, they have a very good return policy. The price was $136 Can. which was near what would be expected for a major brand's board, unlike those knockoff cards not a "too good to be true" price for which a disappointment should be expected.
845) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Radio or some other form of communication? (Message 2020327)
Posted 24 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Maybe the reason we hear nothing is simply because it's a really, really bad idea.


It may also be that, if there is something out there that is very far advanced from us, they've decided that their "beacon" should be in the most advanced form of communication that they have, something we have yet to develop or even theorize about, so that any civilization that can detect them is similarly advanced technologically, and thus hopefully past the risk of self-immolation.

But of course, we'll never know unless we listen. All the speculation we can do is never a substitute, as we really have no idea if or what we will find.
846) Message boards : Number crunching : Used and "New" (non big box store) and Wish.com, GPU Buyers BEWARE! (Message 2020082)
Posted 22 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here is a good guide on avoiding Chinese fake video cards.
847) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2019930)
Posted 21 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Gary, I am surprised that your list made no mention that U.S. farms are also the recipients of one of the most expensive forms of social assistance: farm subsidies. Yet this is often ignored by many who claim to be for smaller government, reduced taxation and fewer handouts.

The federal government spends more than $20 billion a year on subsidies for farm businesses. About 39 percent of the nation's 2.1 million farms receive subsidies, with the lion's share of the handouts going to the largest producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, and rice.
848) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2019911)
Posted 21 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Even experts can't control them.


Agreed!

N Carolina Sheriff: Gun instructor accidentally shoots self

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s office says a firearms instructor has been injured in an accidental shooting on the job.

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement obtained by news outlets Monday that the instructor, a civilian employee, accidentally shot himself in the leg at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center on Sunday afternoon.


Er... time for a new career, I would think.
849) Questions and Answers : Preferences : says cpu is in use 100% (Message 2019863)
Posted 21 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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On Windows 10, use Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager. You can then click on the CPU column heading to sort by CPU use to find the offending process. Here is a good starter guide...
850) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2019538)
Posted 18 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have not seen much criticism of the deportation of knowingly illegal immigrants. The major issue is the forceful and arbitrary separation of families even of lawful asylum-seekers, thousands of which have lost their children in the bureaucratic maze of detention camps, as well as other issues such as allowing ICE onto domestic bus routes and other issues.
851) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2019441)
Posted 17 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe.


Emphasis required. 😄

852) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Gripe: Every ubuntu nvidia driver install is harder than the previous (Message 2019334)
Posted 17 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I like the look and feel of Mint Cinnamon (even with it's quirks), but if Linux is really serious about taking on Windows, they need to make it possible to add, remove & find out what is installed using the GUI. Until such time that occurs they will never come close to challenging Windows.


It is... open the menu bottom-left, type "dr" and launch Driver Manager. This is the only method I use for adding/changing video drivers. I'll use command-line for purging.
853) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Show Graphics and Screensaver doesn't work (Message 2019178)
Posted 15 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please see this thread with a solution in the Unix/Linux forum.
854) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2019173)
Posted 15 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You would disagree that the most powerful person on the planet should possibly be held to a higher standard than trolls on social media?
I should hope so... nuclear arsenal and all.

Edit: Ironically, of course given his unfiltered Twitter feed some may argue that he is simultaneously both the most powerful person on the planet and a troll on social media, but I digress. :^)
855) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2019151)
Posted 15 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In today's wonky and insane name calling world. Why anyone would wish to be an important elected official. Or take the job as spokesperson for a President, or her/his Chief of Staff, or Director of the FBI, or an appointed Ambassador, et al. Is beyond me.


Yet it's as close as your signature:

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
856) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2019149)
Posted 15 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The usual terminology to distinguish powers-of-ten from powers-of-two data sizes is "Kib", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB" for power-of-ten versus "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB" for powers-of-two. By that:

1,024 bytes = 1 KB, 1,024 KB = 1 MB, 1,024 MB = 1 GB, 1,024 GB = 1 TB
whereas:
1,000 bytes = 1 KiB, 1,000 KiB = 1 MiB, 1,000 MiB = 1 GiB, 1,000 GiB = 1 TiB
857) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2019132)
Posted 15 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't know if this has been posted here yet, but the intense scrutiny on Donald Trump has caused yet more serious legal issues for someone close to him:

Giuliani Faces U.S. Probe on Campaign Finance, Lobbying Breaches

Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is being investigated by federal prosecutors for possible campaign finance violations and a failure to register as a foreign agent as part of an active investigation into his financial dealings, according to three U.S. officials.

The probe of Giuliani, which one official said could also include possible charges on violating laws against bribing foreign officials or conspiracy, presents a serious threat to Trump’s presidency from a man that former national security adviser John Bolton has called a “hand grenade.”


A second official said Giuliani’s activities raise counterintelligence concerns as well, although there probably wouldn’t be a criminal charge related to that. The officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, provided the first indication of the potential charges under investigation.

Giuliani is a central figure in the U.S. House impeachment inquiry, which focuses on an effort led by the former New York City mayor to pressure Ukraine’s government to investigate the president’s political rivals. If Giuliani is charged or indicted, he could expose Trump to a new level of legal and political jeopardy, especially if he’s accused of committing a crime on the president’s behalf.
858) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2019049)
Posted 15 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If There Are CRIMINAL ACTs EXPOSED in a TAX RETURN,
IRS SPOTs THEM and NOTIFIEs
dA PROPER AUTHORITIEs


This is true for most people, but there are some things that a President or other politician in a leadership role can do that the IRS won't touch. For example, a President's returns might show a large loan from a bank in a small country. The record may then show that the President then performed an action as a course of their office that greatly benefited that country. Neither of these are illegal, however together they could be influence peddling or outright bribery. Only Congress could determine this via impeachment.
859) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2018977)
Posted 14 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"And those who believe that politicians must be lying simply by being politicians are equally wrong." is not an assumption that they are not lying either. It's a statement not to assume at all either way. Statements of fact are true or false based on verifiable evidence and nothing else. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you misinterpreted me to mean the exact opposite of what I did.
860) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2018974)
Posted 14 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I asked you "Where did I say this?" in response to "Sorry, your assumption of trusting those in power, or those who wish to obtain power is incorrect."

I would like a reply as you are putting "words in my mouth" and attributing to me positions I don't take. Please don't change the subject or deflect by asking other questions. Thanks.
861) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2018971)
Posted 14 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sorry, your assumption of trusting those in power, or those who wish to obtain power is incorrect.


Where did I say this?
862) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2018966)
Posted 14 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Those that believe that Republican politicians must be telling the truth are wrong.

Those that believe that Democrat politicians must be telling the truth are equally wrong.


And those who believe that politicians must be lying simply by being politicians are equally wrong. You don't get to keep your assumptions if you deny others theirs.
863) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2018964)
Posted 14 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Question: How do you know politicians are lying?

Answer: Their lips are moving.


So... if one politician tells another that they did a certain specific action, and the other says they did not... both can somehow be lying at the same time? Politics is quantum computing?
864) Message boards : Number crunching : What "spare parts" would you keep to allow a rapid recovery from failure? (Message 2018808)
Posted 13 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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....which is why it is a bad idea to have over-inflated caches as having a couple of hundred tasks waiting to time-out is one thing, but to have several thousand is even worse.


This assumes that the person is just going to let them abandon and time out. When I lost a hard drive full I recovered all of them. By doing so I was able to improve the process and more importantly get the resend limit increased from 20 to 80 per request. So, it was actually a net positive for everyone.
865) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2018786)
Posted 13 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, that should make all auto manufacturers rest easy when MADD starts suing them..........


If one wants firearms to be treated like vehicles, then the analogy has to be carried all the way:


  1. One cannot legally use one without a license.
  2. Every legal one must also be registered and have a unique serial number, which is associated with the operator's license.
  3. A license can only be obtained after passing a standardized test demonstrating the operator's knowledge of safe operation within the law.
  4. Because complexity and the potential for damage/deaths/injuries increase with size, licenses for larger ones correspondingly require mandatory training, more testing and are thus more difficult to obtain.
  5. The operator must also pass a vision test to be licensed, is excluded for certain mental issues, and must be retested regularly.
  6. The operator must purchase a minimum amount of liability insurance to compensate for any accidental injuries or deaths they may cause, with a premium reduction if a voluntary accredited training program has been completed.
  7. Operators who are convicted of improper operation have their license revoked, for more severe infractions, for life.



If we can apply these regulations to vehicles because they are potentially very dangerous, I don't accept the arguments that similarly and intentionally dangerous firearms should be magically exempted because of some nonsense that they may be needed to overthrow a tyranny at some point in the undetermined future (also I think vehicles would come in very handy in that endeavor as well!)

866) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2018705)
Posted 12 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meanwhile.

Anonymous anti-Trump book is already a hit and it's not on shelves until next week.


From that article:

"In addition to English, the book will also be published in French, German, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Dutch and Arabic," Hachette said.


Way to miss your target market there.. coughSPANISHcough. 😄
867) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2018685)
Posted 12 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How do I tell if any of these were Arecibo VHAR workunits?


In the first one in the sterr output: WU true angle range is : 8.615825

I've seen a little as 2 1.1 be described as VHAR. (Thanks Keith.)

Also you can tell it it's an Arecibo work unit simply by its name not starting with "blc"
868) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2018519)
Posted 11 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you for the remembrance, J.E.
869) Message boards : Politics : UK: National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘Racist or Sexist Language, Gestures, Behaviour’ (Message 2018451)
Posted 10 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There are for-profit hospitals and not-for-profit hospitals in the USA.
VA and prison hospitals are about the only government operated hospitals in the USA. They both have an option not generally available elsewhere to have armed police attached to a disruptive patient.


58% of community hospitals in the United States are non-profit, 21% are government owned, and 21% are for-profit. 21%, not rare at all. And of the 58% community, if they take even a dollar of government money, they can't turn patients away. The only guaranteed ones that can are the 21% for-profits.

(Ironically, wouldn't you consider this a good thing as a self-identified Libertarian voter? Privatizing all health care is a central Libertarian tenet...)
870) Message boards : Politics : UK: National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘Racist or Sexist Language, Gestures, Behaviour’ (Message 2018410)
Posted 10 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No. In the USA "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."


This is only true for private hospitals.
871) Message boards : Politics : UK: National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘Racist or Sexist Language, Gestures, Behaviour’ (Message 2018388)
Posted 10 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why should the medical profession, or anyone else who devotes themselves to helping others, be expected to endure any abuse at all.


Because, as noted, the alternative is to let the patient die and then being sued for millions of dollars/pounds.

Ironically, the U.S. has a much stronger history of institutionalized/systemic racism, so one would expect doctors there to endure more abuse, yet this is not being mentioned as an issue. This tells me that the U.S. doctors are either better/properly compensated or accept it as the necessity of dealing with traumatized, mentally ill and/or intoxicated people.
872) Message boards : Politics : UK: National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘Racist or Sexist Language, Gestures, Behaviour’ (Message 2018315)
Posted 9 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Physicians are deservedly well-compensated for many reasons and this is one of them. No one should have to endure verbal abuse or discrimination in performing their jobs, but making on-the-spot judgement calls of whether someone is or is not mentally ill and then deciding whether to treat them or not based on this would certainly result very soon in some very large malpractice lawsuits against the caregivers and hospitals.

Besides, this is all moot as the proposal is that "treatment would be 'withdrawn as soon as is safe'." Er... shouldn't this be the goal anyway in a public health system?

If they won't stop being insulting or calm down, Haldol to the rescue as always. :^p
873) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Older Tasks Completed and Wait For Validation (Message 2018185)
Posted 8 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You're welcome. :^)
874) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2018091)
Posted 7 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The server status page is showing many processes disabled. Not sure what is going on.


"'This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'"
--- Douglas Adams, The The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

(Or was it Thorsday?)
875) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Older Tasks Completed and Wait For Validation (Message 2017992)
Posted 6 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It will be sent to a third (or more) computer and this will repeat up to 10x until results agree. If they still don't at this point the work unit is marked as bad.
876) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2017943)
Posted 6 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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JE, you are either a more successful prognosticator than those you mentioned in the Donald Trump thread, or read this story before posting. I note that this one was a few hours earlier, and they both use the phrase "level the playing field".
877) Questions and Answers : Preferences : GPU tasks only please (Message 2017862)
Posted 5 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Go into your profile top-right then "SETI@home preferences" and uncheck "Use CPU".
878) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Older Tasks Completed and Wait For Validation (Message 2017833)
Posted 4 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Validation is dependent on the other computer(s) the same work unit is sent to. Please see this thread on the same topic.
879) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2017830)
Posted 4 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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majority of posters on this board


JE, I think that it may be a good idea to qualify those statements as "the majority of posters that I can recall that expressed any opinion on these issues either way." Some of them I can barely remember anyone saying anything about it. One person predicting something that turns out to not happen shouldn't be called a "majority" when the rest of us refrained from prognostication. Citations would be nice.
880) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : SETI@Home may not work properly on newer Android (7 and 8) devices (Message 2017787)
Posted 4 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've moved the prev. post to this thread; please read over the first few posts for details: after enough work has errored out, it may start working when BOINC tries a different client executable.
881) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2017554)
Posted 2 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Plus, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1789 were grounded in real fears that European powers — France, in particular — would conspire, or were conspiring, to undermine the new nation.”


That is very odd, considering that France supported Washington's Continental Army to such a degree that it's arguable they would have lost otherwise, as they were fighting Great Britain, France's opponent. Relations didn't sour until 1794 when the U.S. refused to pay debts to post-monarchial France, claiming they were not owed to that government.
882) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Recovering Lost email address for old account (Message 2017479)
Posted 1 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well I am happy to say I have been able to gain access to the account :)


Excellent!
883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California - "Third World" - Nation Status!!! (Message 2017433)
Posted 1 Nov 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The reason the are up high is in part RF radiation but mainly heat.


I think that the primary reason is that being that high up, the air gap is an effective insulator, so the conductors are a bare un-insulated aluminum alloy cable with a steel core. This is why they are so cost-effective compared to underground or near-ground conduit where very heavy insulation is a necessity and the conductor must be surrounded and supported at all points.
884) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2017385)
Posted 31 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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....Interesting how all these NYT and WaPo 'News' stories are gleaned from leaks in a closed Star Chamber hearing.........

Impeachment by secret hearing and leaks............a new judicial process? Not in Russia or China or DPRK.


As an example, Clinton's impeachment was done by the same process. It has to start off with closed-door secretive hearings with both Democrats and Republicans in attendance to prevent witnesses influencing other witnesses, ie falsely repeating and claiming what others have said. Once those depositions are recorded it then becomes public in the House.
885) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California - "Third World" - Nation Status!!! (Message 2017374)
Posted 31 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm wondering also if longer-distance undergrounding in Cali would be a bad idea due to all of the possible earthquake faults that would be crossed.
886) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2017267)
Posted 30 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Both the Radical Left and the Radical Right. Be they religious or ideological. Inhabit the same fetid sewer of intolerant beliefs.


Simplified for you... it certainly extends beyond politics.

The best short summary I can think of to distinguish the two:

Non-radical: "I can't do that as it's against my principles/beliefs."
Radical: "You can't do that as it's against my principles/beliefs."
887) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 2017259)
Posted 30 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Only one abortion location in the entire State of Missouri???


Also Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia..
888) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2017054)
Posted 29 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... Trump might get credit for.


How much credit has he given?
889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VII (Message 2017050)
Posted 29 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I think San Diego Transit's motto at one point was "Take twice daily to relieve congestion."
890) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Earth-like exoplanets may be common, study says. (Message 2016751)
Posted 26 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
--- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
891) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2016588)
Posted 25 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So, full-autos for anyone on demand then?
892) Message boards : Number crunching : Why Do the People at the Top Suddenly Appear to Stop Contributing? (Message 2016575)
Posted 25 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If you can afford the power for the computers themselves, a passive cooling area would be much cheaper, ie a dedicated room with two windows, one with a small fan blowing cool air in (optional) and one with a small fan blowing hot air out . Or just put them outdoors in a shed or enclosure.

The merciless laws of thermodynamics dictate that every joule of heat you put into the house will require roughly two joules of AC to get rid of it. So it will end up costing 3x in power what it would just running the computers alone.
893) Message boards : Number crunching : Are we crunching new data? (Message 2016571)
Posted 25 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Correct... there is an analysis done on-site when the data is captured, but there is so much data SETI@Home only is able to process one percent of it. This is unfortunate as our analysis is much more sensitive (by a factor of about ten.)

The upside of this is that, because all of the Breakthrough Listen data will be archived permanently, SETI@Home will have enough work for centuries.
894) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Recovering Lost email address for old account (Message 2016493)
Posted 24 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unfortunately we don't have any access to anything except public account data, ie no e-mail addresses, private keys etc... sorry.

I would suggest trying SETI@Home password recovery going through all of your e-mail addresses except the one you are logged into this account (dag33k) currently with. Then, as you indicate you have access to all of them, you will eventually hit one that SETI@Home says is valid, and will reset the password of and e-mail it to you. Then you can log in with just that e-mail address, and your profile will show you the lost account name.

Edit: Apologies... I missed that you already do know the account name. Unfortunately you will just have to try e-mail addresses as that is the only logon identifier used now.
895) Message boards : Number crunching : Are we crunching new data? (Message 2016479)
Posted 24 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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All of the Breakthrough Listen "blc" work units, which are about 95% of what we are getting, are new. The other 5% is Arecibo work, a mixture of old and new data, and new Astropulse data. Re-examining old data could be useful as our algorithms have been improved and debugged significantly over the years.
896) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Transportation Safety 3 (Message 2016395)
Posted 23 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Surprised this wasn't posted yet (or perhaps I just missed it): 11foot8.com, a site dedicated to this bridge aka "The Canopener". It was raised 8 inches this month to alleviate some of the impacts.

A heavy steel crash beam protects the bridge from over-height trucks but does nothing to prevent crashes or protect the trucks. The crash beam has been hit so often that it had to be replaced at least once.

The Transportation Department of the City of Durham maintains Gregson Street, which runs under the bridge. The city installed height detectors on Gregson a block before the bridge. When an over-height truck passes by the detector, yellow warning lights flash to alert the drivers of trucks that will not clear the low underpass. However, many drivers fail to heed the warnings and crash into the bridge.
897) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2016313)
Posted 23 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meanwhile in China,


Yup, that was basically my gist as well: here is the country that will eventually rule the world, because (as well as many other things) they didn't cripple their mathematics courses by injecting them with dubious political baggage.

If only there were more of teachers like this one.

In 1974, he began teaching at Garfield High School. Escalante eventually changed his mind about returning to work when he found 12 students willing to take an algebra class.

Shortly after Escalante came to Garfield High School, its accreditation became threatened. Instead of gearing classes to poorly performing students, Escalante offered AP Calculus. He had already earned the criticism of an administrator, who disapproved of his requiring the students to answer a homework question before being allowed into the classroom. "He told me to just get them inside," Escalante reported, "but I said, there is no teaching, no learning going on."

Determined to change the status quo, Escalante persuaded a few students that they could control their futures with the right education. He promised them that they could get jobs in engineering, electronics, and computers if they would learn math: "I'll teach you math and that's your language. With that, you're going to make it. You're going to college and sit in the first row, not the back because you're going to know more than anybody."

The school administration opposed Escalante frequently during his first few years. He was threatened with dismissal by an assistant principal because he was coming in too early, leaving too late, and failing to get administrative permission to raise funds to pay for his students' Advanced Placement tests. The opposition changed with the arrival of a new principal, Henry Gradillas. Aside from allowing Escalante to stay, Gradillas overhauled the academic curriculum at Garfield, reducing the number of basic math classes and requiring those taking basic math to take algebra as well. He denied extracurricular activities to students who failed to maintain a C average and to new students who failed basic skills tests. One of Escalante's students remarked, "If he wants to teach us that bad, we can learn."

Escalante continued to teach at Garfield and instructed his first calculus class in 1978. Escalante recruited fellow teacher Ben Jiménez and taught calculus to five students, two of whom passed the AP calculus test. The following year, the class size increased to nine students, seven of whom passed the AP calculus test. By 1981, the class had increased to 15 students, 14 of whom passed.


Good movie too by the way.... the actor who played him was nominated for Best Actor.
898) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2016305)
Posted 22 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Because that story is from the Daily Caller, the initial reaction may be to dismiss it, but it does look genuine. Here is the source PDF curriculum document from the Seattle Public Schools.

Meanwhile in China, math students are learning math. Sigh...
899) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2016254)
Posted 22 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In our federal election last night we saw a similar result: in the US although it appears one is voting for the president, instead the vote is for one of 538 electors who will vote (it is hoped) for the president, and Canada has a parliamentary system where the only thing being voted for in a federal election is the local Member of Parliament (MP). The leader of the party with the most MPs out of 338 total seats elected becomes the Prime Minister, so it's also rather like voting for the Prime Minister indirectly though an elector.

Our incumbent Liberal PM lost the popular vote with 33.1% / 5,911,879 votes to the Conservative challenger's 34.4% / 6,153,521 votes, yet still won the election due to his party getting 157 seats vs. the Conservative party's 121. This is because in many ridings esp. in the west, the Conservative candidate won by a very large margin of votes (ie 80% of the total.)

So, as always, this system cuts both ways and a reform to it would be fairer to everyone no matter their political alignment. Incidentally our re-elected PM ran last time on a promise of electoral reform, but didn't follow through.
900) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2016094)
Posted 20 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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BTW: In 1992 'Bill' Clinton was only chosen by 43% and won the election. The majority, in 1992 and 2016, voted against a Clinton.


Bill Clinton won the popular vote 44,909,889 to Bush's 39,104,550, so this fails to make any point at all.
901) Message boards : Number crunching : Task Status "Postponed" -- ERROR: OpenCL kernel/call 'clEnqueueMapBuffer(gpu_GPUState)' call failed (-36) in file ..\analyzeFuncs.cpp near line 1995. (Message 2016049)
Posted 20 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Although at least one of the SETI@Home developers has submitted the issue to NVidia already, by all means if you'd like to do so that would be appreciated, as the more reports they get the more likely they are to do something to resolve it (or at least acknowledge!)

I personally haven't seen that particular error before, but as it's been established there are known bad drivers present, they are going to be blamed. The best thing at this point would be to revert to 431.xx, even just briefly for testing, to see if the issue is resolved. I'm betting it would be.
902) Message boards : Number crunching : Task Status "Postponed" -- ERROR: OpenCL kernel/call 'clEnqueueMapBuffer(gpu_GPUState)' call failed (-36) in file ..\analyzeFuncs.cpp near line 1995. (Message 2016046)
Posted 20 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The fix is to download 431.xx drivers and do a "clean install" which removes all traces of the previous set. NVidia hasn't even gotten as far as acknowledging the issue with 436.xx as it's such a tiny minority of their customers who are affected by this.
903) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2016039)
Posted 20 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Do you believe in the ability of a tyrannical minority of self styled "superior" people who "know best". To overturn the election results of those similar matters you support and that your side won?

If not...

Understand that this belief can be used to destroy all that your majority won in a free and open election.


I have a good and current example of this too: in a recent presidential election, the first candidate received three million votes more than the second. Clearly the will of The People was for the first candidate to win. However a tyrannical minority of self-styled "superior" people who "know best" has made it that rather than electing the president, the voters are actually voting for 538 other self-styled "superior" people who "know best" who then vote for the President on their behalf... except that some of their votes count four times as much as others by geography, and sometimes, being self-styled "superior" people who "know best," they don't even vote for the candidate who won their district as they are directed to, because... reasons. Thus the election result, the will of the majority of The People, was overturned and the candidate with three million more votes lost.

Yet, strangely, so many of those that claim knowledge of 'self-styled "superior" people who "know best'" will deny vehemently that it applies to this situation, as if they are claiming that their own political system is somehow immune to the shortcomings of others...
904) Message boards : Number crunching : Why Do the People at the Top Suddenly Appear to Stop Contributing? (Message 2016018)
Posted 20 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I guess I'm actually reading the stats incorrectly. Most are still contributing.


Correct... the retain rate in the "leaderboard" is much higher than generally. There are currently 1,786,164 SETI@Home BOINC accounts that have been created since the platform started in 2005 (although I'm unsure how many of those are "real" and have actually submitted any work.)

However merely 87,379 of those are active accounts that submitted any work as of yesterday. This is just under five percent, so generally more than 19 out of 20 participants have either stopped contributing or never did.
905) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2015872)
Posted 18 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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With Trump, you know exactly where you stand.


I do give him that... other politicians try to hide their shenanigans, but Trump does them right out in the open, and has since long before he even had inklings of being president. I leave it to others to determine whether it's brazenness or bravery.

The latest instance that brings this up, one I am very surprised hasn't been mentioned in this thread (or that it just fell to the bottom of the pile) is that Trump's own golf course is being used to host the 2020 G7. He claims he won't profit from this. I highly doubt it, unless he or any of his organizations don't actually own it nor is he profiting from having his name on it.

And this is just the latest of several official state functions where it just happened to be determined that a Trump property was the most ideal location. (How did the federal government function before, I wonder?)
906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alexa Skill for SETI@home (Message 2015869)
Posted 18 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Congrats Morris.... Dr. Korpela has posted a News feed article about this.

So now one can add the Alexa Skill to enable Alexa to read the news feed article that one can add the Alexa Skill to enable Alexa to read the news feed article. Technology! 😄
907) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Fusion power on the grid within 15 years? (Message 2015722)
Posted 17 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So, the question is how much do you want to pay for electricity. In Europe where there is more solar and wind I bet you are already paying at least 20 Cents (US Dollar-based) per Kilowatt hour.


If that is true then it's due to markup. The production cost for wind-generated electricity is down to roughly $0.02/kWh.

By the way, the largest wind farms in the U.S. are being built in Texas. Disregarding all the political and environmental baggage, it's simply much cheaper.
908) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 2015670)
Posted 17 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin

Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for his operation of Welcome To Video, the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content. The nine-count indictment was unsealed today along with a parallel civil forfeiture action. Son has also been charged and convicted in South Korea and is currently in custody serving his sentence in South Korea. An additional 337 site users residing in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington State and Washington, D.C. as well as the United Kingdom, South Korea, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and Australia have been arrested and charged.
...
“Through the sophisticated tracing of bitcoin transactions, IRS-CI special agents were able to determine the location of the Darknet server, identify the administrator of the website and ultimately track down the website server’s physical location in South Korea,” said IRS-CI Chief Don Fort.
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The agencies have shared data from the seized server with law enforcement around the world to assist in identifying and prosecuting customers of the site. This has resulted in leads sent to 38 countries and yielded arrests of 337 subjects around the world. The operation has resulted in searches of residences and businesses of approximately 92 individuals in the United States. Notably, the operation is responsible for the rescue of at least 23 minor victims residing in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom, who were being actively abused by the users of the site.


As noted, this was accomplished by de-anonymizing the Bitcoin transactions. Because of the nature of the blockchain's recording of wallet ID's, once this is done for one transaction, all of that wallet's/person's transactions are exposed.
909) Message boards : Number crunching : SoG custom application stuck on 1660Ti (Message 2015622)
Posted 16 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not sure why this thread is still going when we already have a pinned thread on this very well-known issue but as it was established that the real issue was the 436-series drivers two pages ago, I will close this off as a duplicate and please use the pinned thread for future discussions on it.
910) Message boards : Politics : Go back to where you came from says Donald Trump. (Message 2015591)
Posted 16 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some updates (well, counterstatements at least):

U.S. officials say British family illegally crossed border from Canada on purpose

A British family currently held in U.S. immigration custody was arrested for making what U.S. agents believe was a deliberate attempt to enter the United States illegally from Canada, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said Tuesday.
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CBP officials disputed the family’s version of events and said the Connors were spotted via video surveillance “slowly and deliberately driving through a ditch onto Boundary Road in Lynden, Washington,” between parallel roadways on the U.S. and Canadian sides. The roads are not connected by cross streets, and the only legal way to traverse between the countries is through staffed border stations throughout the region.
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The CBP statement said U.S. agents also determined that two of the family members had applied for travel authorization to visit the United States and were denied. A senior CBP official said the Connors applied for visa waivers last year, and it was not immediately clear why they were rejected.
911) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2015535)
Posted 15 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Dr. Korpela indicated that he just may have found and fixed the Sunday unresponsive scheduler issue. Let's hope we're back to merely one weekly outage...
912) Message boards : Politics : Go back to where you came from says Donald Trump. (Message 2015525)
Posted 15 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If only people were even allowed to go back to where they came from...

A British couple say they have been detained in the US after accidentally crossing the border from Canada.

David Connors, 30, and his wife Eileen, 24, say they are being held in Pennsylvania with their three-month-old baby and are "traumatised".

They say were driving with relatives on 3 October when, to avoid an animal, they veered onto a small road.

A police officer then pulled them over, told them they were in the US state of Washington and arrested them.

The couple have detailed the "scariest experience of our entire lives" in a sworn statement that was provided to BBC News by their lawyer.
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They were stopped by a police officer who did not read them their rights, nor allow them to "simply turn around" and go back to Canada, according to the complaint.

At first the young family say they were separated - with David Connors being held in a male-only cell, and Eileen Connors and their infant son in a women's cell.

Later, the husband was taken to a detention centre in Tacoma, Washington, while his wife and their baby son were taken to a budget hotel near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to the complaint.

The following morning they say they were driven to the airport, which raised their hopes that they were being flown back to Canada or the UK.

"But that was not the case," Eileen Connors says in the sworn statement. Instead, they were flown to Pennsylvania - on the other side of the country.
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The couple's sworn statement says the cells are "frigid", and staff have refused to turn the heating on until the end of next month.

"When I ask how I am supposed to keep my baby warm in this horrible cold, all they tell me is to put a hat on him," Mrs Connors said in the statement.

"My baby can't wear a hat all the time, he feels uncomfortable with hats and mittens and starts to cry."

Staff, she added, confiscated her son's formula for three days, as well as his teething powder, and would only provide "disgusting" blankets that smelled "like a dead dog".

They say the baby's skin is now rough and blotchy and he appears to have an eye infection.
913) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2015473)
Posted 15 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Texas officer charged with murder, resigns after shooting

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door was charged with murder on Monday after resigning from the force.

Aaron Dean, 34, was jailed Monday evening on $200,000 bond after the police chief said he acted without justification would have been fired if he hadn’t quit.

Police bodycam video showed Dean approaching the door of the home where Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was caring for her 8-year-old nephew early Saturday. He then walked around the side of the house, pushed through a gate into the fenced-off backyard and fired through the glass a split-second after shouting at Jefferson to show her hands.

Dean was not heard identifying himself as police on the video, and Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus said there was no sign Dean or the other officer who responded even knocked on the front door.

“Nobody looked at this video and said that there’s any doubt that this officer acted inappropriately,” Kraus said.


Sadly, two very similar stories from the same state in a row...
914) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2015407)
Posted 14 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You're welcome. I think it will be much improved. :^)
915) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2015377)
Posted 14 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The driver version is 436.48... the NVidia 436 series is known to cause this issue.

I would suggest to download 431.xx WHQL drivers from nvidia.com and install using the Clean Install option to remove existing.

Edit: As I did with the Number Crunching thread, I will rename and pin this one as there's no ETA for a fix from NVidia yet (as far as I know, they have yet to even acknowledge the issue) so there will doubtless be more experiencing the problem.
916) Message boards : News : Servers Remain Up During Power Outage (Message 2015037)
Posted 11 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is the internet connection down now?


I checked my online boxes (remotely... at work) and they have uploaded/reported work as of three mins. ago. Also no complaints from anyone else. This is the best thread to check for outages... it gets updated quickly if anything goes down.
917) Message boards : Number crunching : How long must I wait for validation for SETI tasks? (Message 2014944)
Posted 11 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wouldn't it be better if they prioritized the project's tasks reported by how many they have received from individual's computers, the more received the sooner they get validation?


Validation occurs when the "wingperson" participant who receives the same work unit completes and returns it, and the result agrees. It is completely not under the control of the project, as they can take from a little as a minute to as much as two months to return it.

So what the project would have to do is try to send tasks from low-latency hosts only to other low-latency hosts for faster validation. This would be a high added level of complexity and processing at the project level that I think they would prefer to avoid. It wouldn't add anything for us... once enough Pendings have built up you reach a point where they are being validated as fast as you produce new Pendings, so your average daily production (RAC) stabilizes at the same rate as it would without Pendings anyways.
918) Message boards : Number crunching : How long must I wait for validation for SETI tasks? (Message 2014920)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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One of the reasons the timeout is so long is that SETI@Home is trying to be as universally accessible of a project as possible, including for those with very slow or barely used computers (ie smartphones or systems that only do work when idle and are powered off when not used for a long time.) If I remember correctly, one of the project's directors/architects did indicate this directly.

I remember the old SETI@Home site when it first got underway that indicated "while you are getting coffee, your computer can be looking for signs of intelligent life..." It was designed and marketed for this casual of a participant.
919) Message boards : Number crunching : How long must I wait for validation for SETI tasks? (Message 2014914)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The only one from Aug. is this one which is going to time out and get reassigned in two days anyway if the wingperson doesn't complete it. Then the next wingie will have two more months... just something we have to live with.

Edit: 27,604 of them here. This is is why I don't even bother checking them anymore lol.
920) Questions and Answers : Web site : Where's my green star? (Message 2014907)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Apologies it is taking so long... usually it's over a month but not three. This is because the donations/data are manually exported to SETI@Home and then someone has to process them (also manually) and this was usually Matt but he's been on long-term assignment with BreakThrough Listen.

I'll try to remember to follow up to make sure the exports have been happening when I get home.
921) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2014898)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
News update from Jeff Cobb re: outage

Large swaths of Northern California, including the UC Berkeley Campus, are under a Public Safety Power Shutoff due to high winds and the associated wildfire risks. Our servers are located in the campus Data Center which is protected by a high capacity UPS. We expect that our servers will remain up for the duration of the outage. Thus far Internet connectivity also remains up although this depends on factors outside of the Data Center.
922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California - "Third World" - Nation Status!!! (Message 2014896)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
News update from Jeff Cobb re: outage

Large swaths of Northern California, including the UC Berkeley Campus, are under a Public Safety Power Shutoff due to high winds and the associated wildfire risks. Our servers are located in the campus Data Center which is protected by a high capacity UPS. We expect that our servers will remain up for the duration of the outage. Thus far Internet connectivity also remains up although this depends on factors outside of the Data Center.
923) Message boards : News : Servers Remain Up During Power Outage (Message 2014895)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Much appreciated update! :^)
924) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2014857)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He says the Kurds did not help the US during World War II. "They didn't help us in Normandy," says Trump.


Neither did Israel... makes just as much sense.
925) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2014849)
Posted 10 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So, full-autos for anyone on-demand then? Anything less would be unreasonable.
926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California - "Third World" - Nation Status!!! (Message 2014683)
Posted 8 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So, EVEN IF you have Solar, you are STILL ON GRID AND IF Power gets cut by PG&E your Solar gets cut TOO!


927) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2014678)
Posted 8 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for the heads-up on the possible power outage at UC Berkeley and area tomorrow.

(For anyone who didn't see it, was posted in the Data Chat thread starting here.)

Guess I will be filling all the caches tonight...
928) Questions and Answers : Getting started : How are Credits Gained? (Message 2014665)
Posted 8 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hello, i was wondering that same thing about earning credits.


You have work units in progress on your Android device... keep it powered on, charging and BOINC running and you'll have credits soon enough.
929) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#5) (Message 2014645)
Posted 8 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This I would not worry too much about... with LED bulbs so common now that they are as little as $1 in dollar stores, the simple economics that they save 95% in usage and replacement costs (they will last twenty years or more) is enough incentive that most people will never buy an incandescent again.
930) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2014488)
Posted 7 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I just got through to the scheduler (of course got no tasks available) but it is responding now so appears to be either resolved or in the process...
931) Questions and Answers : Web site : How do I attach a screenshot to my post ? (Message 2014482)
Posted 7 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Surround the URL of the image with [img] and [/img] tags ie:

 [img]https://mysite.com/myimage.jpg[/img]


Edit: If you paste and highlight the URL then click the Img button, the tags will be added.
932) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2014397)
Posted 6 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Second whistleblower in Trump impeachment inquiry comes forward, lawyer says

A second whistleblower has come forward about U.S. President Donald Trump‘s attempts to get the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival, lawyers for the official said on Sunday.

Lawyer Mark Zaid said the person, also an intelligence official, has first-hand knowledge of some of the allegations involving the initial whistleblower complaint, which triggered impeachment proceedings against the Republican president.

The second official has been interviewed by the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, Zaid said.

The first whistleblower complaint, filed with the inspector general on Aug. 12, cited information received from half a dozen U.S. officials expressing concern that Trump was using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country as he seeks re-election a second term in 2020.

It also alleged that Trump leveraged $400 million in aid to secure a promise from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate a Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden, who served as a director on a Ukrainian energy company.

“I can confirm that my firm and my team represent multiple whistleblowers in connection to the underlying August 12, 2019, disclosure to the Intelligence Community Inspector General,” Andrew Bakaj, a second lawyer, said on Twitter.
933) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2014263)
Posted 5 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you both... that was it. The error tasks listing indicates "SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)" so I failed to notice that no GPU was involved. They must have been rescheduled and I forgot about it. Apologies and please disregard.
934) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2014257)
Posted 5 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've discovered many excessive runtime tasks with Arecibo VLAR, not VHAR, work units on this computer that resulted in 197 (0x000000C5) EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED errors but on driver 430.50, not a 436.xx driver, and I'm wondering if they may be related. They all have runtimes of 12,000+ seconds on GPU though the usual completion time is about 35-50 seconds. The computer was recently rebooted and is processing all other work properly. As well these work units errored out on other computers they were assigned to, even on CPU, though not from excessive runtimes.

Tasks are: 8100604949, 8100604968, 8100605056, 8100605039, 8100605044, 8100605056, 8100605074, 8100605099, 8097708300, 8097708079, 8097708336, 8097708355, 8097708139, 8097708255 and 8097708262.

Hope this proves helpful...
935) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2014095)
Posted 3 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Donald Trump calls on China to investigate Joe Biden and his son

WASHINGTON — Ensnarled in an impeachment investigation over his request for Ukraine to investigate a chief political rival, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called on another nation to probe former Vice President Joe Biden: China.

“China should start an investigation into the Bidens,” Trump said in remarks to reporters outside the White House. Trump said he hadn’t directly asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to investigate Biden and his son Hunter but said it’s “certainly something we could start thinking about.

Trump and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have also tried to raise suspicions about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China, leaning on the writings of conservative author Peter Schweizer. But there is no evidence that the former vice president benefited financially from his son’s business relationships.

Trump’s requests for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to dig up dirt on Biden, as well as Giuliani’s conduct, are at the center of an intelligence community whistleblower complaint that sparked the House Democratic impeachment probe last week.
936) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2014026)
Posted 2 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I would imagine that the statistical risk of meat-eating (ie from the saturated fat) is probably offset by other diet and lifestyle choices, especially avoidance of excessive sugars, and regular exercise.
937) Message boards : Number crunching : Data Chat (Message 2014023)
Posted 2 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Can you use RAC as a measure?

Seti RAC deprecates with increases in computing power, while Einstein with its fixed credits gives an RAC over 20X greater than Seti.


Unfortunately we don't have any other metric... I'm still using the Cobblestone definition where 1GF over a day gives a RAC of 200, so one credit is 432 billion floating-point operations.

Also need to consider that over half our computation power disappears due to quorum.

Edit: When I moved my farm over to Einstein I was getting about 2-4x the RAC depending on the workload here and there, nowhere close to 20x.
938) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2014001)
Posted 2 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Challenge accepted! 😄
939) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (2) (Message 2013990)
Posted 2 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There's an old saying "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." With Windows 10, I don't think that this is true anymore. I was able to compare firsthand as I had a dual-boot Linux/Windows 10 SSD which had not been used since last year.

I booted into Linux, saw that updates were available (including video driver and kernel.) Installed all updates, rebooted, all up to date. Total time = 5 minutes (let's make it 10 counting the first boot and finding updates.)

I booted into Windows...
Checking for updates = 10 mins.
Downloading latest "Creator's update" = 45 mins.
Installing latest "Creator's update" = 90 mins.
Shutting down after "Creator's update" = 10 mins.
Continuing install of "Creator's update" on boot = 15 mins.
Checking for updates again = 10 mins. (There were about 30 available.)
Downloading updates = 25 mins.
Installing updates = 60 mins.

At this point I had to take the drive away so shut it down, so I still don't know the total. :^p I think over 4 hours, more than 26x as long as Linux took, is more than a little excessive. YMMV of course!
940) Message boards : Number crunching : Data Chat (Message 2013926)
Posted 1 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Collectively we are the best supercomputer, so I'm puzzled they haven't sent us this data somehow. Anyone have anymore insight?


That up-to-two-month latency may have something to do with it. :^)

Edit: Also all of BOINC combined is in the Top Ten of supercomputers, but all of SETI@Home is barely in the Top 1000 (minimum of a PF required these days.) SETI@Home has a total RAC of just over 200M which is only 1PF, and they indicate will need a hundred times that. Incidentally? Coincidentally? that is also what BL needs.
941) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2013913)
Posted 1 Oct 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Amber Guyger found guilty of murder at trial in fatal shooting of neighbor Botham Jean

Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting her neighbor, Botham Jean, after thinking he was an intruder when she mistakenly entered his apartment.

Guyger, who has been out on a $300,000 bond, faces a maximum of life in prison. She was not immediately taken into custody and the sentencing phase in her trial was set to begin later Tuesday afternoon.

...

Guyger was off-duty but in uniform when she shot twice at Jean on Sept. 6, 2018, just before 10 p.m., striking him in the chest. She had worked a 13-1/2-hour shift on the Dallas Police Department's crime response team that day and parked on the fourth floor of the complex's garage.

She lived on the third floor, and Jean, a 26-year-old accountant and native of the island nation of St. Lucia, lived directly above her. The two did not know each other.

The fatal shooting, which has led to one of the most anticipated murder trials in Dallas in decades, became a flashpoint on issues of police use of force and racial bias. Guyger is white and Jean was black, and the Jean family has questioned whether Guyger would have shot him if he were a different race.


IMHO the most bizarre aspect of this trial was the desperation of the defense in invoking the "Castle Doctrine" of defending one's own home.... ?!?!? If this was successful it would have established a legal precedent that if an intruder breaks into someone else's home, it's legal to shoot the homeowner if they try to make the intruder leave. Eagh.
942) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units (Message 2013852)
Posted 30 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Excellent... that makes me glad I renamed and pinned it. :^)
I figured there are going to be a lot of people having this issue...
943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 2013820)
Posted 30 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I certainly will do that if I actually contact him, but I unfortunately still have yet to do so. What I garnered was from other sources...
944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 2013808)
Posted 30 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It appears that Mark is OK and just taking time off from here for personal reasons. I can't elaborate as I am not completely sure, but as he appears to have done so voluntarily I won't pursue it further as I don't want to intrude on his privacy.

I hope that he is able to return soon, and will of course update if I get any definitive information.

Edit: re: "Please also check WoW, Message board." Someone from our team did this earlier (I would have no idea how) but there was no update there from him either.
945) Questions and Answers : Windows : Manualy copy *.exe and *.dll to project folder? (Message 2013806)
Posted 30 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What Keith suggested may be a good solution then.... installing the Lunatics client will provide all the executable client code so only work will be downloaded from then on, and also make the SETI@Home install an "anonymous platform" client so it won't try to update the client with more executable code again.

I would be more concerned that your firewall even knows that BOINC is downloading executable code. All of BOINC's traffic is encrypted via SSL... this would seem to indicate that the firewall is using MITM aka "Man-In-The-Middle" fake SSL certificates so that all traffic can be decrypted and analyzed. If this is an enterprise environment, I would make very certain that you are allowed to run BOINC, given this level of monitoring.
946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 2013711)
Posted 29 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mark has now not posted in almost three weeks, and his computers have not contacted the servers in two weeks. He did significantly reduce his production here, but it isn't like him to disappear completely without notice. No response to e-mail, PM and even a couple of phone calls with messages left.

Has anyone had any contact from him since Sept. 8th when he last posted here? Hoping he is OK. Forgive me if my concern seems excessive (hoping he is just on vacation or hiatus or something) but the last person who vanished like this was Gordon. :^(
947) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2013548)
Posted 27 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The world's largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete. It can power 1 million homes

London (CNN Business)The world's largest offshore wind farm is taking shape off the east coast of Britain, a landmark project that demonstrates one way to combat climate change at scale.

Located 120 kilometers (75 miles) off England's Yorkshire coast, Hornsea One will produce enough energy to supply 1 million UK homes with clean electricity when it is completed in 2020.

The project spans an area that's bigger than the Maldives or Malta, and is located farther out to see [sic] than any other wind farm. It consists of 174 seven-megawatt wind turbines that are each 100 meters tall. The blades have a circumference [sic] of 75 meters, and cover an area bigger than the London Eye observation wheel as they turn.

Just a single rotation of one of the turbines can power the average home for an entire day, according to Stefan Hoonings, senior project manager at Orsted (DOGEF), the Danish energy company that built the farm.
948) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Eight New Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Discovered (Message 2013522)
Posted 27 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My pet hypothesis is that FRBs are, or are related to, starquakes on magnetars. The combination of these two phenomena would seem to have the magnetic intensity, brevity and lack of periodicity required.
949) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 2013292)
Posted 25 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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1	8662921	juan BFP	1,404,265,382



Also that machine of Juan's due to a bug has many times more than his total production (just under 488M.) Never saw an explanation for this anomaly that I can remember...
950) Questions and Answers : Web site : Unable to set "Are your donations anonymous?" to No (Message 2013025)
Posted 23 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You're quite welcome. :^) Well I did not get a reply, but now I am only getting one "carolyn" error in my donations page, and it's different, so it appears something has been done. Perhaps it will work now.
951) Message boards : SETI@home Science : UFO/UAP - there here...so now what? (Message 2013008)
Posted 23 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So far every candidate signal from this project (and every other SETI project) has turned out to have been of intelligent origin: Earthly. This also applies to every image and video from non-scientist sources purporting whether on purpose or not to be of some extraterrestrial craft since the invention of photography as well. They were either natural phenomena, human-made flying objects unintentionally appearing otherwise, or out-and-out-fraud (plenty of thrown hubcaps in there.) We don't have any evidence that these videos were anything different. Extraterrestrials have to be the last explanation when everything mundane has been eliminated.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
--- Carl Sagan
952) Questions and Answers : Web site : Unable to set "Are your donations anonymous?" to No (Message 2012987)
Posted 23 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks Pierre... when I checked in mine, I am getting undefined index errors on the carolyn server so I think someone has been fiddling with the forum code again. :^) I'll pass this on to the admins.
953) Message boards : Politics : "They can't stop all of us..." (Message 2012669)
Posted 20 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Only 150 out of 2 million?

Pathetic.


That 1,999,850 of those two million figured out it was a joke that got out of hand and stayed home is actually quite a positive thing, I think.
954) Message boards : Politics : "They can't stop all of us..." (Message 2012627)
Posted 20 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Area 51 "raid": Only 75 people showed up near the gates, only two arrests (and one wasn't even trying to sneak in.) So far only one person actually did try to enter, and was immediately arrested by civilian law enforcement, who thankfully are there to detain anyone foolish enough to attempt to enter before they have to deal with military law enforcement.

“It’s public land,” the sheriff said. “They’re allowed to go to the gate, as long as they don’t cross the boundary.”


Happy it turned out this well.
955) Message boards : SETI@home Science : other SETI-like projects? (Message 2012608)
Posted 20 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Zooniverse is currently running a "Spot the clusters" project (here)


Zooniverse had an actual SETI project run by the SETI Institute: SETILive. Sadly it only ran from 2012-2014. I never found out why it was cancelled.
956) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2012595)
Posted 20 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Lol... I have four machines on a shelf that are connected by a KVM switch; up until a few months ago it was an old VGA/PS2 one, so I was using a ball mouse as all my optical ones were USB. Well now I feel three thousand years old, thanks. :^)
957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dementia Research - Supporting Blurf's Fundraising Efforts (Message 2012546)
Posted 19 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Aw heck... with all the money I throw at video cards, I think I can spare a few bucks on this important research too! This is a very good cause as there have been some significant breakthroughs in our understanding of the biochemical mechanisms recently, which has led to some very promising treatments in development, so this is when funding is most needed. We may see treatments, for Alzheimer's at least, available within a few years.

Good that you are doing this, especially in honor of your mom. :^)
958) Message boards : Number crunching : ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1650 (Message 2012349)
Posted 17 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Your saying the errors will clear up?


re: the quota... Once the errors clear up and the host starts producing non-error results that run to completion (even if they turn out to be invalid later) the quota will increase so that the host can download two for every valid one returned.

This is of course after the errors have been resolved, whatever may be causing them. This quota system prevents one host from erroring out thousands of work units (as this can take less than a second each and then it will just keep asking for more work.)
959) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2012340)
Posted 17 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A "Ghost" task is one that left the servers but you never actually received.


You can also "ghost" them by either wiping the files from the project folder, or badly editing app_info.xml so that the executable for a platform that has work units is invalid ie has a typo.
960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #288 (Message 2011944)
Posted 14 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
961) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux Dual Boot With Windows How To, Problems, Fixes (Message 2011842)
Posted 13 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
IIRC it's "Open as Root" in Mint (well, at least from last memory... it's been changed before in the past.)

If that doesn't work back up one folder level, right-click the folder the file to edit is in, then Open as Root and provide password. When the window opens the file can be then opened normally with the default text editor.

Edit: You're welcome and glad it worked. :^)
962) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2011703)
Posted 12 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/09/11/study-trump-rallies-hate-crimes-debunked-2


... Which had absolutely nothing to do with the article I cited. Mine was about all politically extremist murders being classed as right-wing extremism, yours in reply was about "debunking" the links between Trump rallies and hate crimes.

Are you therefore classing Trump rallies as right-wing extremism? Not that you would be alone in this... lol.
963) Message boards : Number crunching : What is BOINC? I need help explaining to my friends/family. (Message 2011658)
Posted 12 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Scientists have big problems to solve and hard questions to answer that take lots of computer power. In the old days, the only way to do it was to build a big computer, but these cost a lot of money and used a lot of power. BOINC helps scientists let people help them by working on those problems on their own computers. It's sort of like having a big floor like a dance floor to sweep, but giving many people their own little square to do instead of one person sweeping it all.

The scientists write the actual computer program to do the work, but BOINC takes care of breaking the work into small bite-size pieces, sending them out to people's computers, getting their results back, and making sure they are correct by making sure at least two people work on each piece and they get the same result."


Except for "scientists", "computers" and "pieces" (and only because they are pluralized... and of course BOINC as it's an acronym) this description is Ogden's Basic English compatible (like Simple Wikipedia.) That's about as easy as I can make it. :^)
964) Message boards : Number crunching : running GPU without CPU (Message 2011597)
Posted 11 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks but it doesn't work
I put this snew computer in another group 'Work' (different from others computers).
Then I have edited 'Separate preferences for work' to untick 'CPU'
Last, I have updated project in boincmgr....but still using CPU tasks


It may finish any current tasks but should not get any new ones. I've done this on a few machines and it works...
965) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Processing Suspended. Running on Batteries. (Message 2011521)
Posted 10 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Correct... by default it won't process work if the device (ie laptop, tablet or smartphone) is not plugged in and charging.

If you want to override this, go into the Options menu > Computing Preferences and uncheck "Suspend when computer is on battery..." assuming that this is for the Darwin notebook in your profile.
966) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2011074)
Posted 7 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not that it will put this to rest, but here's the NOAA's release (as some won't trust it if it's Fox News.)

From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama. This is clearly demonstrated in Hurricane Advisories #15 through #41, which can be viewed at the following link.

The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.
967) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2010999)
Posted 6 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And dA WEAPON of CHOICE is LEFTist HATE...


Except...

All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report
968) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2010935)
Posted 6 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Awaiting his answer.


Awaiting your simple Yes/No to "Machine guns for all who want them?" for nigh a year now...
969) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2010932)
Posted 6 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't agree with including the silly "machine guns" in this discussion. Do you?


Of course you don't... you just equated people who are for any sort of firearm restriction to Nazis. So now you are in the predicament of either agreeing that everyone should be able to own a machine gun, which is an opinion you probably disagree with and don't want to be associated with, or that everyone should not be able to own a machine gun, which is... a firearm restriction! Which makes you either a hypocrite, or an equivalent of a Nazi by your very own words, and of course leads to the next logical question of: if you agree with machine guns being restricted because they are too dangerous, then why do you so strongly and divisively disagree with other types of firearms ie semi-automatic high-capacity magazine rifles also being restricted because they are too dangerous?

Not a good corner you have painted yourself into, is it?
970) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2010926)
Posted 6 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since getting a straight answer on this (especially from some) is like trying to nail smoke to the wall, I'll demonstrate:

Interviewer: Say, Mr. Kevvy... Machine guns for all who want them, then?
Mr . Kevvy: No.

Wow... that was complicated.
971) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2010823)
Posted 5 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've installed NVidia drivers which include CUDA as Keith noted on all my hosts with the start menu's Driver Manager (Mint) GUI. Very easy and never had an issue.
Edit: In Ubuntu it's in Software & Updates > Additional Drivers tab.
972) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2010792)
Posted 5 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Of course, once Twitter gets a hold of it...
973) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2010753)
Posted 5 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just the Left Wing Superior People, as with the Master Race by the Right. Believing in their right to control, what they believe to be the Masses, Inferior's. Deplorables, Lowlifes and anyone disagreeing with them.

A Secular Ideological belief, as with the similar Religious Theological belief in their Superiority and Right to Control. That is evil, hate filled and will always destroy our individual freedom. A freedom which they despise.


So, machine guns for all who want them then?

Like I'll ever get a straight answer on that...
974) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2010658)
Posted 4 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Accurately, the correct tense is used: was. It certainly isn't applicable anymore, as military hardware has so far outstripped what citizens are legally allowed to own (my previous example was the Apache helicopter, which can blow targets into tiny pieces with a 20mm cannon in pitch darkness and beyond accurate range of most rifles... even if a lucky shot could hit one at that distance it would not penetrate the Apache's armor.)

Still the argument can be made for citizens owning firearms for personal protection, especially if they live in rural areas, and of course may need them to deal with wildlife and livestock.
975) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2010392)
Posted 1 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

“It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.”
976) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI & Radioastronomy News 1 (Message 2010322)
Posted 1 Sep 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Arecibo Observatory nets $19 million grant to search for dangerous asteroids

NASA has ensured the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico can continue its search for near Earth objects (NEOs) that pose a threat to the planet with a $19 million grant. The fund was awarded to the University of Central Florida, which operates the observatory on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
...
The Arecibo Observatory will also analyze and categorize NEOs to help inform future space mining and sampling missions. "We can use our system to constrain the size, shape, mass, spin state, composition, binarity, trajectory, and gravitational and surface environments of NEOs and this will help NASA to determine potential targets for future missions," says Anne Virkki, principal investigator for the observatory's planetary radar program.

A portion of the $19 million grant will also be used for a STEM education program at the Science, Technology and Research (STAR) Academy in Puerto Rico. 30 high schoolers per semester will learn about the science and research conducted at the observatory across 16 sessions.

The 1,000-foot radio telescope has been in service since the mid-1960s, having served a variety of uses, from determining the rotation period of Mercury to transmitting a bitmap image to hypothetical extraterrestrials 25,000 lightyears away. The facility has occasionally faced financial troubles, but this latest grant will keep the Arecibo Observatory running for the time being.


It appeared a few years ago that Arecibo would end up being closed... nice that it has been revitalized with this search as it will also continue to produce SETI@Home data for us.
977) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2009593)
Posted 28 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As usual, I've had to move a number of posts because the thread was derailed and all actual discussion ceased, so I again have to reiterate that which, for most of us, is painfully obvious:

1) If someone's writings happen to annoy you without intent, please refrain from baiting them. If their writings are that painful that you don't wish to read them, please use the Filtered Users feature in Community Preferences in your account settings (top-right.)

2) If someone is deliberately trying to annoy you, please report it with the red X rather than responding. In my experience, responding just causes more of it now that they know they have an audience (ie have confirmed that you have not filtered them as per the above.)

Thank you.
978) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Halting GPU Tasks (Message 2009385)
Posted 26 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Go into your account name top-right and then into "SETI@Home Preferences". Click "Edit Preferences", Uncheck all the "Use...GPU" options and then click "Update". You won't get any more GPU work.

If you add a second machine with a GPU you want to use you'll need to change this but until then it will do.
979) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux Distro, what's the best flavor for long time MS Windows user. (Message 2009354)
Posted 26 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Another vote for Mint here... it seems to be tailor-made for migrating from Windows with its interface, menu and control placement, and suite of pre-installed apps. After using Mint I tried Ubuntu and did not like it at all in comparison. Mint is an Ubuntu derivative so is completely compatible, certainly for SETI@Home purposes! All my computers except one including my daily driver are Mint now. (I keep the one Ubuntu box for testing.)
980) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2009249)
Posted 25 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No it is what's called a command economy. It is used by many socialist economies but it is not per se socialism.


True, but it certainly isn't the so-called free market that the GOP claims to support. OK except for corporate welfare, privatizing the profits while publicizing the losses, cronyism, etc.

If anyone else did this, especially with a (D) after their name, they'd be labeled with the "s-word" endlessly.
981) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2009200)
Posted 25 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I PM'd Alexander, and he agreed to remove his 5700 from the project for now.


Also that work unit I linked below only two days ago has now been purged as was the last one, so there definitely is some admin. involvement going on.

@Nikolaj: You're fine... no issues with that card. The only check the project makes for quorum as far as I know is that both copies of a work unit aren't sent to the same participant.
982) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2009145)
Posted 25 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he has ordered American companies to exit China...


The POTUS ordering private businesses around telling them how to do business... How is this not socialism?
983) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019 (Message 2009133)
Posted 25 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My goal is to find ETI. I only join Wow to help the team as it's impossible I will ever even get to a "podium" finish what with others' farms and offline bunkering. I did fill my caches just before the event started and then empty them once it did, but that was all.

Whatever gets as many people motivated to do as much valid work as possible and submit it on time for credit is a good thing, including contests, and spoofing, bunkering and getting as many machines/cards online as possible to win them. This project keeps asking for more volunteers and more work done because we're only currently processing one percent of the tsunami coming out of the Breakthrough Listen receivers, which I think are our best chance of ever actually fulfilling the project's goals of finding something. (Our processing has ten times the sensitivity of the BL processing done onsite.)

To me, here is our current actual ranking: currently everyone who has ever participated in this project, from W3Perl to the person with no computers attached yet who joined five minutes ago, is tied at zero ETI signals found. Someday we may find one and then at least two of us will be tied for first place with at least one point. All the other credit points are just good for telling us how much data we are sifting to get there.

So keep at it as best we can. :^)
984) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 2008932)
Posted 23 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Maybe I should try a dual boot with Linux?


Dual-booting with Linux is very easy and painless if you already have Windows installed. Here is a great walkthrough. Done this for a few machines and no issues.

Edit: Oh... passed 1.5 million daily and 700M. Almost forgot the topic :^)
985) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2008931)
Posted 23 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And by checking the queues of the computers involved, others will inevitably be found. Well, the good word has been passed so it's out of our hands lol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
986) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 2008359)
Posted 19 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Pittsburgh police officer charged with DUI hit-and-run while off duty

A Pittsburgh police officer is accused of driving under the influence, hitting a bicyclist on the North Shore and failing to stop while off duty.
...
Police then recovered video evidence that showed Martin drinking at Tequila Cowboy on the North Shore, drinking a total of two shots and eight Miller Lite beers. His truck's GPS also indicated it was at the scene of the crash.
...
Martin is charged with causing an accident involving death or personal injury, DUI and reckless driving. Martin has been placed on unpaid administrative leave.

Officials confirmed Martin had previously been put on desk duty after a Facebook comment he made last year appeared to celebrate the death of up-and-coming rapper Jimmy Wopo in June 2018.
987) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : GPU Temp Monitoring (Message 2007413)
Posted 15 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's basic, but by installing the NVidia drivers (as you have the latest 430s) "NVidia X Server Settings" is present and it does show GPU temps., clock and fan speeds under Powermizer and Thermal Settings on the left. I tried other apps ie Green With Envy but none of them seemed ready for "prime time" so I stuck with the NVidia one as it works and I don't need long-term monitoring, just something to ensure that the cards are clocking and fans spinning up properly with nothing overheating.
988) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2007063)
Posted 12 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Looks like Dr. Korpela is on it as that work unit linked in the OP has now been purged.

This host's work unitslinked in the "Invalid Host Messaging" show it only has 64 in progress none of which are opencl_ati_nocal so either that platform has been banned or the owner acted on a private message. Another host from that thread shows active opencl_ati_nocal work but it was sent five days ago.
989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 2006854)
Posted 11 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"How many wives can a man have"?


That reminds me of two definitions.

Bigamy: The condition of having one wife too many.

Monogamy: See "bigamy".
990) Message boards : Number crunching : Flakey AMD/ATI GPUs, including RX 5700 XT, Cross Validating, polluting the Database (Message 2006525)
Posted 9 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for this, TBar. I had seen this mentioned before but didn't read it enough to see that they unfortunately aren't erroring out but instead running to boinc_finish completion.

I'm sure he's aware, but just in case, I'll collect the info and let Dr. Korpela know.

Edit: He's acknowledged... I am glad that I advised him as I don't think he had been yet.
991) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2006205)
Posted 7 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SO FULL of HATE, is dA LEFT

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/08/07/netflixs-dear-white-people-depicts-trump-supporters-as-kkk-members


Well, a few of them actually are KKK members: the Klan did officially endorse Trump for POTUS in its publication The Crusader. (David Duke did as well.) Trump's campaign was quick to reject these endorsements (he took a little longer but eventually did, but this is not atypical... politicians don't like saying no to votes), but there you have it.

I'm sure that the Communist party and other radical parties on the "left" also endorse the Democrats just as unwantedly too.
992) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : How to auto-start BOINC Mgr in Linux Mint? (Message 2006123)
Posted 7 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You're welcome and glad it worked. :^)
993) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : How to auto-start BOINC Mgr in Linux Mint? (Message 2006071)
Posted 6 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You can't install from Software Manager or Synaptic or any other package manager... that is the "repository" BOINC and it spreads files in multiple folders. If you did, uninstall it. Then reinstall the AIO, which is as easy as dragging the BOINC folder out of the .7z into your Home folder or anywhere else you like as long as it's not on an NTFS or FAT volume (no executables there.) I recommend Home though for simplicity.

Edit run_manager in the BOINC folder. It contains
cd "/home/user/BOINC" && exec ./boincmgr $@

Change that "user" to your logon name and save.
Exit, right-click, Properties > Permissions and make sure "Allow executing..." is checked.

To autostart: Go into the start menu and type "start" and launch "Startup Applications" when it appears. Click + > Custom Command. Click Browse and find that run_manager.
You may have to put a "./" in the path so that Linux doesn't look elsewhere for the command. For example if it's:
/home/kieron/BOINC/run_manager

change it to
/home/kieron/BOINC/./run_manager

(no space before the ./)

You can follow this process to recover lost work units.

Hope this helps. :^)
994) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (117) (Message 2006057)
Posted 6 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Where's the 'Kaboom'?!?!? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering 'Kaboom'!"
995) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2006031)
Posted 6 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You know very well that illegal immigration is not considered a criminal act. Merely not following the law.


I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, but illegally entering the United States of America by any means (including falsification of papers) is unambiguously a criminal act as it can result in six months imprisonment in a federal prison for the first offense, and two years for subsequent, as per the INA.
996) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2005720)
Posted 4 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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(Please note that the linked post was moved here from another thread.)
997) Message boards : Number crunching : Ryzen and Threadripper (Message 2005576)
Posted 3 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Ryzen line is doing so well that last month 79% of CPU sales were AMD and only 21% Intel.
(I'll definitely be giving one a go next time I need a new CPU/board combo.)
998) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2005562)
Posted 3 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Death toll is now up to 18 20. :^(
999) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2005505)
Posted 3 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Lots of the U.S electronic voting machines has been sent to (wait for it..........) a Russian company for "service", before the 2020 election.


This is quite possibly correct...

In 2015, Maryland’s main election system vendor was bought by a parent company with ties to a Russian oligarch. The state’s election officials did not know about the purchase until July 2018, when the FBI notified them of the potential conflict.
...
Both Robert Mueller’s report and a previous indictment of 12 Russian agents confirmed Russians also targeted private vendors that provided election software. The Russians successfully breached at least one company, its name redacted in the reports, “and installed malware on the company network”, according to the Mueller report.
1000) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2005345)
Posted 2 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just so you don't feel bad about your one work unit being invalid, when my big system's cooling pump died, the cards overheated and made around six thousand of them before I shut it down. Of course it had to be in the wee hours when I was sleeping. :^)

It's what happens and it's why the quorum system is set up the way it is... most of us are using consumer-grade (ie not very precise or reliable) hardware and operating systems, and running other things on our computer that can interfere. So invalids are occasionally generated and the project has to be able to weed them out.
1001) Message boards : Number crunching : beware fake gtx1050ti (Message 2005273)
Posted 2 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No worries... eBay (and Amazon) will cover if you bought fake merchandise. Make sure to initiate a return with "Doesn't seem genuine" and open a case with eBay if there are any issues. eBay and Amazon got as large as they are for a reason. :^) (OK, many reasons, but this is one of them!)
1002) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2005196)
Posted 1 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Interesting how Chinese manufacturing of US bound products are moving to Viet Nam, Mexico and Guatemala......to avoid Tariffs.


One of the countries picking up much of the ex-Chinese manufacturing and ramping up their own economy and standard of living is India. I think this is a good thing, as politically moderate, democratic republic India is an excellent foil to the argument that a nation as populous as China needs to be a tyrannical authoritarian oligarchy in order to function.
1003) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : SETI@Home may not work properly on newer Android (7 and 8) devices (Message 2005192)
Posted 1 Aug 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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(Moved from another thread.)
Please read over the first post; this is due to your device using Android 9. As noted some work units may complete properly and then the device may start using that platform that worked all the time.
1004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 72 (Message 2005091)
Posted 31 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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OK, finally judgement time and thanks for your patience. As always I let my missus pick with only the image and captions.

#3 - rob smith: "I hate it when it starts first time....."
#2 - Carlos: "Easy Ridermunk"

and the #1 and winner:

Carlos: "Oh nuts. I left my helmet at home."

PM sent.
1005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 72 (Message 2004736)
Posted 29 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you Carlos! Here is our next image to caption, another variety of squirrel having a good time:

1006) Message boards : Number crunching : Data Chat (Message 2004578)
Posted 28 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I also bothered him directly as well... I can be quite a pest when required. :^)

Edit: Also for those wondering why automatic ghost recovery was turned off, you can thank computers like this one with currently 17,845 tasks "in progress" yet not a single valid one returned. Automatically re-sending ghosts would require the scheduler to check its task allotment list of 17,845 against the list actually present on the host whenever it requested work, ie every five minutes.

So, if it were automatic, three hundred machines as bad as this asking for work would be on average one per second. The scheduler would have time and bandwidth for little else.
1007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 72 (Message 2004299)
Posted 26 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Saturday Nut Fever
1008) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin GPU-based Mining Machines good for BOINC / SETI? (Message 2004259)
Posted 25 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The title of the thread seems a little misleading. It’s more referring to GPU-based cryptocurrency mining rigs, not specifically Bitcoin ASICS, which is what you have.


Good point, so I added "GPU-based" to the title.
1009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rutger Hauer Dead (Message 2004141)
Posted 24 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


R.I.P.
1010) Message boards : Number crunching : PC is not processing overnight (Message 2004117)
Posted 24 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SETTINGS: POWER & SLEEP. Turn off screen after 15 minutes of inactivity.


If you can't find it otherwise, I would disable this setting. There have been issues where certain video drivers disable the GPU when the screen power saver is active. You'll have to just manually power off the screen.
1011) Questions and Answers : Windows : Restart aborted / abandoned tasks? (Message 2003845)
Posted 22 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The BOINC client will take care of the error reporting on its own. To re-send any missing "ghost" tasks you can follow the process I linked below.
1012) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2003631)
Posted 21 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That may be as I note that the recommended cc_config <max_tasks_reported> value is 512, but there's no time limit it seems.
1013) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2003624)
Posted 21 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The maximum return rate is 255 tasks every 5 mins.

Nothing you do will change this. Even if it says “reporting 5368 tasks”, only 255 will make it through.


I've reported a queue of several thousand uploads in less than five minutes, 512 at a time manually hitting the Update button right after each prev. scheduler request was completed, watching them disappear from the BOINC tasks display until there were none to report. I've also done this several times (as part of recovering my lost tasks... have to clear out any to upload and report first.) If the above is true, where did they go? And why did it seem to be working?
1014) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2003479)
Posted 20 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It seems to be having a "bad hair day" even into the evening (1736EDT here.) Using precisely the same timing I've used until now, it's consistently refusing to do anything but send loads of new work... 170+ at a time so it's not a case of a too-full cache. I'm using NNT, disabling network within half second of the sched. request, quitting within half a second of the disabled notification, waiting until boinc and boincmgr are gone as always. I'll just forget it until tomorrow.

Edit: And now when I try it the next morning with the same timings, it's working properly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is all I have.

Edit2: All done... 6,523 lost work units recovered in total. Thank you again Keith for writing this up and consistently updating it. :^)
1015) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2003415)
Posted 20 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I hope that this doesn't force a rewrite again (sorry, Keith) but after many times retrying I have concluded that it is impossible for me to force resends in the mornings here (Eastern timezone); instead I always get new work. I didn't notice that the time of day was the issue until now as I'm confident enough with causing it otherwise that I'm not the issue. It could be that the scheduler is very fast with a low load, or that there is some restriction, but I am following the same process with the same timings that has worked a hundred or more times in the evenings, and I can't get it to resend once. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

May be something to keep in mind if anyone else has issues.

Edit: I did also make sure to run the cache down to >80 WU lower than full.
1016) Message boards : Number crunching : High performance Linux clients at SETI (Message 2003409)
Posted 20 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
AP work units require OpenCL... try installing it via:

sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1 


or just find "ocl-icd-libopencl1" in the package manager ie "Software" or "Synaptic Package Manager".
1017) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2003336)
Posted 19 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks, Keith. :^) And change resend limit too.... since everything was stable at 40, it's been doubled again to 80 tasks per resend request!
So, even the largest, spoofiest queues should be recoverable with a reasonable effort.
1018) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin GPU-based Mining Machines good for BOINC / SETI? (Message 2003308)
Posted 19 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unfortunately not as far as anyone knows. Because these miners are ASIC, they are using custom chips designed only for mining so can't perform easily as general-purpose computers. For example, mining hashing (as far as I am familiar with) is completely integer bitwise based, whereas SETI@Home requires at least single-precision floating point and other projects ie MilkyWay require double-precision.

They would at minimum require a custom-written client to take advantage of their unique architecture, if this were even possible.
1019) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Does SETI BOINC crunch Breakthrough Listen data? (Message 2003305)
Posted 19 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Breakthrough Listen is producing so much data that we're only able to process about one percent of it, so the more participants and computers we can get contributing the better!
(The other 99% is analyzed onsite, but ours is about ten times more sensitive.)
1020) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2003282)
Posted 19 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another nod for Intel boards... it's a shame Intel stopped making them(?) as they were very durable. This computer has 3x970s which would otherwise be dust-collecting spares stuffed into a 12-year-old Intel board (that old and already had 3xPCIe slots... amazing) the first multicore setup I ever bought, and it's been used continuously ever since.

And another vote for me on not overspending on the CPU/board and reusing older ones... a mediocre GPU will outperform a top-of-the-line CPU so I don't overspend on them.
1021) Message boards : Politics : "They can't stop all of us..." (Message 2003257)
Posted 19 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Excellent comeback:

1022) Message boards : Politics : "They can't stop all of us..." (Message 2003171)
Posted 18 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/us/area-51-bud-light-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0sTRJlFYWGfKZ5stvTJyouFdletuwd1Mel_wKSRszEyVBDDguL1ZM0ExI

Budlight is giving free beer to any Alien that escapes Area51! Sounds like a nice publicity move....


I think Bud needs a basic biochemistry primer... I would recommend avoiding any local intoxicants on alien worlds. May be more toxic than expected. :^)
1023) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2003090)
Posted 18 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If you haven't already done this, this has always worked for me when video drivers go wrong.

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*


This will wipe all NVidia drivers. Reboot after of course. Warning: if your card is an RTX 20xx you may boot into the Nouveau drivers which may give you an unstable desktop or none at all. If so you will have to temporarily install another card ie a 1070 that Nouveau supports.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update


Open Drivers (Mint) or Driver Manager (Ubuntu) from the start menu. You should see current drivers available to install. I suggest 4.18, others may suggest 4.30. Choose either, click Apply, wait a minute until they are installed, reboot again.

Good luck. :^)
1024) Questions and Answers : Windows : Restart aborted / abandoned tasks? (Message 2003059)
Posted 17 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
No, once they are marked as errors they must be reported as such, but it's OK. The project is built to accommodate that, and it's much better they get reported so that they can get re-sent to someone else immediately than being lost and timing out in a month or so.


Edit: If you think you have actual lost "ghost" tasks this thread may be useful.
1025) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2002924)
Posted 17 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
OK... some excellent news for a change: I contacted Dr. Korpela about the low resend limit of 20 tasks per request. It was set this low due to issues they were having with CGI (possibly due to using FastCGI on the BOINC servers) however these issues were mostly resolved. So.... it's been increased to 40 resends per request. Half the time and effort required for ghostbusting now!
1026) Message boards : Number crunching : Ryzen 2700x anyone using (Message 2002879)
Posted 16 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It looks like Keith has at least three... I'm sure he will chime in but just in case. :^)
1027) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2002660)
Posted 15 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My point wasn't about immigration, but rather that he just called his own government, of which he is the leader "a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world..." etc.
1028) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2002635)
Posted 15 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm surprised no one has picked up on Trump's wording yet...

So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all)


Er... three of his intended targets were born in the United States of America, so this is the country they "originally came from."
1029) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2002590)
Posted 14 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Except for the native peoples everyone in the USA is an immigrant and comes from immigrant families.


Even the "native" peoples of the Americas are immigrants, albeit from far longer ago and into a land uninhabited by any other humans. The only humans on earth who have any claim to be non-immigrants are North Africans, where the oldest H. sapiens fossils have been discovered. Everyone else is an descendant of immigrants to some degree.
1030) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2002409)
Posted 13 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've been able to recover hundreds so far today following the process, with two suggested addenda:

1) It is essential to wait until the "Suspending network activity - user request" message appears before exiting the BOINC manager.
2) The process to watch in System Monitor > Processes is simply "boinc". When it has disappeared, it's safe to restart the client/manager.
1031) Questions and Answers : Web site : Donation Icons (Message 2002283)
Posted 12 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
re: "... and is shaming me into donating again." Ironically this is quite possibly correct: mine were the same except that the hard disk was the extra one, and it was actually indicative of >1 year since my last donation. I strongly doubt this is by design. When I made another donation the hard drive went away.
1032) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2002253)
Posted 12 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Alex Acosta resigns from U.S. government after furor over Jeffrey Epstein plea deal


U.S. Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta on Friday resigned after earlier in the week defending way [sic] he handled a decade-old sex abuse case against wealthy businessman Jeffrey Epstein while Acosta was a federal prosecutor.

Donald Trump announced the news with Acosta by his side at the White House as the president left on a trip to the Midwest.

...

The prosecutors said they were not bound by the 2008 Florida deal struck by Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, that allowed Epstein to plea to a lesser offence. Epstein served 13 months in jail with leave during the day and registered as a sex offender.

The deal came under scrutiny earlier this year following reporting by the Miami Herald, and Democrats en masse had called for Acosta's resignation.

Acosta had attempted to clear his name, and on Wednesday held a news conference — encouraged by Trump — to defend his actions. In a 50-plus-minute lawyerly rebuttal, Acosta argued his office had secured the best deal it could at the time and was working in the victims' best interests.

"We did what we did because we wanted to see Epstein go to jail," he said, refusing to apologize for his actions. "We believe that we proceeded appropriately."
1033) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2002047)
Posted 11 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What happened to Ghost Detector v1.05? This program Rocked.


Interesting... never heard of it before. There's a caveat in there that it "scrapes" info from the science database so may cause one's IP to be blacklisted. However it also only seems to detect ghosts but not assist in recovering them. I find the number I have by simply finding how many local work units the machine has -- just range selecting the work unit files in /projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu will do that -- and the "In progress" count in "All tasks for computer". The difference between those two numbers is the number of ghosts; simply the difference between how many work units the scheduler records a computer having, and how many it actually has.
1034) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2001990)
Posted 10 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unfortunately I don't see any build numbers in the AIO. It's BOINC 7.15.0 but I don't think that helps. The latest last mod. date in the archive is Apr. 16 for "README 7.4.44 & 7.14.2"
Edit: it was a "public" release from the links posted in NC here, not a beta or testing build as far as I know.
1035) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 2001972)
Posted 10 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unfortunately, due to hard drive failure as well as numerous other issues on my largest host I've made thousands of ghosts on it again. In a dozen times trying to resend, I was only able to cause it once no matter how fast I am on disabling network access.

I have no idea why the max. number of resends is set so arbitrarily low at 20. As the BOINC group is meeting I've asked that this be looked into as well. I think that, if anything, it should be the same number as the max. number of new work units that can be assigned in a single scheduler request.
1036) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : SETI@Home may not work properly on newer Android (7 and 8) devices (Message 2001942)
Posted 10 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
(Please note that the previous post and the one two after this one were moved here from another thread/forum.)
1037) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Can't report completed tasks due to "Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error" (Message 2001922)
Posted 10 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Firstly, thank you for replying!

sched_request_setiathome.berkeley.edu is 6.9MB and yup, it's full of those same repeating bad init blocks.... I'll send you a .7z of it.

cc_config.xml already has

<max_tasks_reported>100</max_tasks_reported>


It was 512 earlier. However: I had not placed it at first so if it's still showing zero, this appears to be further evidence as well as the "user initiated" scheduler request on startup that BOINC is futilely trying to complete old sched. requests rather than starting a new ones with the changed parameters.

Edit: Success! I reduced <max_tasks_reported> to 10 and it went through! Seems to also be working, albeit slowly, with 64 (nice call) so I will leave it on that permanently.
1038) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #3 (Message 2001916)
Posted 10 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is this a case of "holier than thou"; I guess they never heard of fish farming.
Indonesia has thriving fish farms--also catfish are extremely tasty and can be raised in a tank in someone's garage if need be.


I still enjoy my salmon sashimi guilt-free because the majority of it is farmed salmon, mostly from Norway. Interestingly because they are not eating carotenoid-rich copepods and other animals, their meat needs to be dyed pink or it would be grey and look rotten.
1039) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Can't report completed tasks due to "Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error" (Message 2001914)
Posted 10 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well I am at a loss... the very same thing has happened again. I reinstalled the AIO on that machine wiping out all traces of the old one (backed it up to a flash drive) and it worked since the time of my last update, and now the same thing has happened again and it is refusing to contact the scheduler.

I'm adding more data into the first post as I find it so that it's all one place.

Edit: I may have found the issue in client_state.xml. If one of the video cards has issues and won't initialize, repeating error blocks are accumulating in the stderr of the work units, which are then too large to be reported so the scheduler throws an error, which in any other circumstance would mean it was down or having issues. I'm going to remove those blocks and retry. I will post the details and I'm archiving client_state.xml as this may need to go to the developers...
1040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Congratulations OzzFan... a married man as of today!!! (Message 2001827)
Posted 9 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
She's more than made an honest man out of me. She's kept me afloat during some very rough times and I love her all the more for it. She's an amazing person and I'm delighted that she said yes.


Congrats on finding such a perfect match. I'd pretty much sum up my missus the same, and interestingly her name is also Michele (exact spelling). :^)
1041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 2001468)
Posted 7 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I do sometimes wonder what I could have accomplished in my life had I not chosen to do little.


"Credit: 980,302,942"

You've done 423,490,824,720,000,000,000 calculations to answer possibly the most important unanswered scientific question there is, and every second you do 238,280,000,000 more.

I'd say that was a lot.
1042) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Can't report completed tasks due to "Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error" (Message 2001458)
Posted 7 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Not that I know of... firewall is off (by default in Mint as well) and also on the other computer where this BOINC does the same, but its own connects properly.
1043) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Can't report completed tasks due to "Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error" (Message 2001406)
Posted 6 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This computer hasn't reported tasks in days. When started BOINC tries to report and a few minutes later gives "Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error". Using TBar's latest AIO; Mint 19.1 is a derivative of Ubuntu 18.4.
Note: I accidentally created a duplicate of this hostname in my Computers while troubleshooting but it has a different ID so it won't interfere with this one.

I already:
    * Verified internet connection is fine for everything else
  • Verified firewall is off (which is Mint's default)
  • Rebooted
  • Checked the hosts file for bad entries and removed everything unnecessary
  • Enabled/disabled network and NNT (I did get the master file download message as well)
  • Flushed the DNS cache with "sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches" and "systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service"
  • Set max_tasks_reported in cc_config.xml to 100
  • Added "208.68.240.126 setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu" to hosts
  • Found that netstat -tupn shows boincmgr connected to localhost 127.0.0.1 rather than an external SETI@Home IP address
  • Found that BOINC > Projects shows "Scheduler request pending, Requested by user, Scheduler request in progress" even when BOINC is quit completely and restarted and there is no "user request"
    * Moved the entire BOINC folder to another known-working BOINC computer changing its hostname to match and the same thing happened, showing that it's a BOINC issue, not the computer or OS



I enabled everything in the Event Log and here's the start until it repeats awaiting the timeout. Sorry it's so long...

Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | 0 persistent file xfers
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | 0 active tasks
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8705341; resource share 100
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 03-Mar-2016 06:55:05)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | Computer location: home
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | Reading preferences override file
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | Preferences:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | max memory usage when active: 3548.36 MB
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | max memory usage when idle: 3548.36 MB
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | max disk usage: 22.10 GB
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] Request CPU reschedule: Prefs update
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Prefs update
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] Request CPU reschedule: Startup
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Startup
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | Setting up project and slot directories
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | Checking active tasks
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [statefile] set dirty: init
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | Setting up GUI RPC socket
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] Local control only allowed
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] Listening on port 31416
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | Checking presence of 6474 project files
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] adding feed: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d, 86400 sec
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] feed: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d, 86400 sec
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] processing notice: New SETI Perspectives:  "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image"
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] adding notice 1
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] processing notice: Private message
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] scanning old notice 1: New SETI Perspectives:  "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image"
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] adding notice 2
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | read 2 total notices
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] Request CPU reschedule: Not idle
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [mem_usage] All others: WS 1494.86MB, swap 55473.18MB, user 42.900s, kernel 31.410s
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [suspend] net_susp: no; file_xfer_susp: no; reason: unknown reason
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [notice] start fetch from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [proxy] HTTP_OP::no_proxy_for_url(): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [proxy] returning false
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] Request CPU reschedule: periodic CPU scheduling
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [prio] recent est credit: 0.00G in 5.73 sec, 12797165.958044 + -146.317937 ->12797019.640107
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] schedule_cpus(): start
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [rr_sim] start: work_buf min 172800 additional 0 total 172800 on_frac 0.930 active_frac 1.000
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] enforce_run_list(): start
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] preliminary job list:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] final job list:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [mem_usage] enforce: available RAM 3548.36MB swap 1325.14MB
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] using 0.00 out of 4 CPUs
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: CPUs idle
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] enforce_run_list: end
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | sched RPC pending: Requested by user
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [rr_sim] start: work_buf min 172800 additional 0 total 172800 on_frac 0.930 active_frac 1.000
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [prio] -1.000000 rsf 1.000000 rt 12797019.640107 rs 12797019.640107
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] ------- start work fetch state -------
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] target work buffer: 172800.00 + 0.00 sec
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] --- project states ---
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [work_fetch] REC 12797019.640 prio -1.000 can request work
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] --- state for CPU ---
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] shortfall 691200.00 nidle 4.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [work_fetch] share 1.000
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] --- state for NVIDIA GPU ---
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] shortfall 518400.00 nidle 3.00 saturated 0.00 busy 0.00
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [work_fetch] share 1.000
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [work_fetch] ------- end work fetch state -------
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [work_fetch] set_request() for CPU: ninst 4 nused_total 0.00 nidle_now 4.00 fetch share 1.00 req_inst 4.00 req_secs 691200.00
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [work_fetch] set_request() for NVIDIA GPU: ninst 3 nused_total 0.00 nidle_now 3.00 fetch share 1.00 req_inst 3.00 req_secs 518400.00
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [work_fetch] request: CPU (691200.00 sec, 4.00 inst) NVIDIA GPU (518400.00 sec, 3.00 inst)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [disk_usage] allowed 22624.11MB used 2962.34MB
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [disk_usage] usage 2620.38MB share 24886.52MB
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | Reporting 512 completed tasks
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 691200.00 seconds; 4.00 devices
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] NVIDIA GPU work request: 518400.00 seconds; 3.00 devices
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] HTTP_OP::init_post(): http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [proxy] HTTP_OP::no_proxy_for_url(): http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [proxy] returning false
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::poll_slow_events(): scheduler_rpc
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:08 AM EDT |  | [statefile] Writing state file
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [statefile] Done writing state file
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::do_something(): End poll: 1 tasks active
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [suspend] net_susp: no; file_xfer_susp: no; reason: unknown reason
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::do_something(): End poll: 0 tasks active
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [time] dt 26.238149 susp_reason 0 gpu_susp_reason 0
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [time] w2 0.999970 on 0.929523; active 0.999959; gpu_active 0.999959; conn -1.000000, cpu_and_net_avail 0.251361
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] got new GUI RPC connection
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><auth1/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><nonce>1562412791.200918</nonce></boinc_gui_rpc_reply>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><auth2><nonce_hash>34c5b3f8054966534f833d67676b8a9a</nonce_hash></auth2></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><authorized/></boinc_gui_rpc_reply>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><exchange_versions>   <major>7</major>   <minor>14</minor>   <release>2</release></exchange_versions></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><server_version>   <major>7</major>   <minor>14</minor>   <release>2</release></server_version></boin'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_cc_status/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [network_status] status: online
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><cc_status>   <network_status>0</network_status>   <ams_password_error>0</ams_password_error>   <task_s'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_state/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><client_state><host_info>    <timezone>-14400</timezone>    <domain_name>BeaterCruncher3</domain_name>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:    Trying 208.68.240.110...
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  TCP_NODELAY set
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Info:    Trying 208.68.240.126...
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Info:  TCP_NODELAY set
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_project_init_status/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><get_project_init_status>    <url></url>    <name></name>    <team_name></team_name>    <setup_cookie>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><acct_mgr_info/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><acct_mgr_info>   <acct_mgr_url></acct_mgr_url>   <acct_mgr_name></acct_mgr_name></acct_mgr_info></boi'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_project_status/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><projects><project>    <master_url>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</master_url>    <project_name>SETI@h'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><acct_mgr_info/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><acct_mgr_info>   <acct_mgr_url></acct_mgr_url>   <acct_mgr_name></acct_mgr_name></acct_mgr_info></boi'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Connected to setiathome.berkeley.edu (208.68.240.110) port 80 (#0)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET /notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d HTTP/1.1
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 7.14.2)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_CA
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: te:5
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Info:  Connected to setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu (208.68.240.126) port 80 (#1)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: POST /sah_cgi/cgi HTTP/1.1
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Host: setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 7.14.2)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_CA
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Length: 29583615
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Expect: 100-continue
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT | SETI@home | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:33:11 GMT
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Scientific Linux)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Location: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Length: 0
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Connection: close
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Closing connection 0
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Issue another request to this URL: 'https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:    Trying 208.68.240.110...
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  TCP_NODELAY set
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Connected to setiathome.berkeley.edu (208.68.240.110) port 443 (#2)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  found 133 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  found 402 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:11 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  ALPN, offering http/1.1
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  SSL connection using TLS1.2 / ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 server certificate verification OK
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 server certificate status verification SKIPPED
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 common name: setiathome.berkeley.edu (matched)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 server certificate expiration date OK
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 server certificate activation date OK
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 certificate public key: RSA
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 certificate version: #3
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 subject: CN=setiathome.berkeley.edu
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 start date: Thu, 09 May 2019 20:25:04 GMT
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 expire date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:25:04 GMT
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 issuer: C=US,O=Let's Encrypt,CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  	 compression: NULL
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET /notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d HTTP/1.1
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 7.14.2)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Referer: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_CA
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [suspend] net_susp: no; file_xfer_susp: no; reason: unknown reason
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::do_something(): End poll: 0 tasks active
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:33:12 GMT
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Scientific Linux)
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Expires: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:33:12 GMT
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:33:12 GMT
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Length: 1455
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Connection: close
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: application/xml
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server:
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1455 bytes
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:12 AM EDT |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Closing connection 2
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [suspend] net_susp: no; file_xfer_susp: no; reason: unknown reason
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] handling reply from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/notices.php?userid=9652&auth=9652_4de752a06d640b1fed5702c24144bb6d
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] parsed RSS feed: total 2 error 0 added 0
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] processing notice: Private message
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] scanning old notice 2: New SETI Perspectives:  "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image"
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] scanning old notice 1: Private message
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] keeping identical older notice 1
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] processing notice: New SETI Perspectives:  "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image"
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] scanning old notice 2: New SETI Perspectives:  "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image"
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] keeping identical older notice 2
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [notice] scanning old notice 1: Private message
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::poll_slow_events(): gui_http
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::do_something(): End poll: 1 tasks active
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [suspend] net_susp: no; file_xfer_susp: no; reason: unknown reason
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::do_something(): End poll: 0 tasks active
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><set_language>    <language>en_CA</language></set_language></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [statefile] set dirty: set_language
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><success/></boinc_gui_rpc_reply>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_cc_status/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [network_status] status: online
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><cc_status>   <network_status>0</network_status>   <ams_password_error>0</ams_password_error>   <task_s'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_messages>  <seqno>0</seqno>  <translatable/></get_messages></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:13 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><msgs><msg> <project></project> <pri>1</pri> <seqno>11192</seqno> <body><![CDATA[    blc64_2bit_gupp'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_notices>   <seqno>0</seqno></get_notices></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | NOTICES::write: seqno 0, refresh false, 2 notices
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | NOTICES::write: sending notice 1
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | NOTICES::write: sending notice 2
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><notices><notice>   <title>Private message</title>   <description><![CDATA[You have received a <a href'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_project_status/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><projects><project>    <master_url>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</master_url>    <project_name>SETI@h'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | [suspend] net_susp: no; file_xfer_susp: no; reason: unknown reason
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:14 AM EDT |  | [statefile] Writing state file
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [statefile] Done writing state file

[------This block then just repeats every second------]

Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [poll] CLIENT_STATE::do_something(): End poll: 0 tasks active
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_cc_status/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [network_status] status: online
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><cc_status>   <network_status>0</network_status>   <ams_password_error>0</ams_password_error>   <task_s'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_messages>  <seqno>13192</seqno>  <translatable/></get_messages></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><msgs><msg> <project></project> <pri>1</pri> <seqno>13193</seqno> <body><![CDATA[[gui_rpc] GUI RPC r'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_project_status/></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><projects><project>    <master_url>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</master_url>    <project_name>SETI@h'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC Command = '<boinc_gui_rpc_request><get_messages>  <seqno>13208</seqno>  <translatable/></get_messages></boinc_gui_rpc_request>'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:16 AM EDT |  | [gui_rpc] GUI RPC reply: '<boinc_gui_rpc_reply><msgs><msg> <project></project> <pri>1</pri> <seqno>13209</seqno> <body><![CDATA[[gui_rpc] GUI RPC r'
Sat 06 Jul 2019 07:33:17 AM EDT |  | [suspend] net_susp: no; file_xfer_susp: no; reason: unknown reason

[------End repeat block------]


Thanks for any assistance!
1044) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Anyone confirm that the lowest cache you can set is 0.1 day? (Message 2001389)
Posted 6 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Did you set the Einstein Resource share in Preferences > Project to 0 (zero)?

As long as SETI@Home is >0 then Einstein should then only download one work unit per available core/GPU slot depending on your settings.
1045) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 2001310)
Posted 6 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anyone else getting "Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error" on any machines when trying to report completed tasks etc.? I have one doing this yet its internet connection is fine, made no changes recently, it ran all night fine and then just started this a couple hours ago, even tried rebooting... nothing. Just times out in five minutes. Don't have any added hosts entries on it either.

Edit: Well none of the other machines are doing this so it's probably that one... it's very strange however that it would suddenly start doing this, but my mistake that it was working last night. It actually hasn't contacted in three days. But that is for another thread...
1046) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Anyone confirm that the lowest cache you can set is 0.1 day? (Message 2001256)
Posted 6 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Strange... I've always been able to use 0.01 and 0 additional for testing on both the repository 7.2.42 and AIO BOINC. However that was for SETI@Home, but still it's BOINC rather than a project setting.
1047) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 2001120)
Posted 5 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I really don't get the "Betsy Ross flag" thing either... are we supposed to go all Taliban and burn anything made before 1865 because it was made when there was legalized Western slavery? If so, then I have some racist furniture. :^p

This is one problem with these movements: they start off with perfectly legitimate and justified goals, but once those are accomplished become movements in search of something to change/be against and end up becoming ridiculous. The "stars and bars" are one emblem of actual traitors by the constitutional definition of the word, who went to war against the U.S. expressly to preserve slavery and segregation, so I completely agree with getting rid of it from the public sphere entirely. The older U.S. flags are none of these things.

Edit: I wonder, but I very much doubt, if the old "Betsy Ross" flag is being objected to as too similar in appearance to the actual flag of the CSA (Confederate States of America)



(this is the final one... there were earlier with fewer stars.)
1048) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2001118)
Posted 5 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Please, when you get to that date, also include the winning Canadian Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49 numbers for tomorrow and Saturday in your message and PM them to me. I promise to donate most of my winnings to SETI@Home directly and indirectly through completing work. Thank you. :^)
1049) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 2001021)
Posted 4 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Single-shot, muzzle-loading, loose-powder, round-bullet armed Americans of course. :^)
1050) Message boards : Politics : China (Message 2000782)
Posted 3 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Xinjiang is far northern inland and consists mostly of mountainous desert, so only a tiny percentage of visitors to China go there.
1051) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Any more projects with support for android crunching devices ? (Message 2000765)
Posted 3 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here is a list of active BOINC projects as of March 2, showing available platforms.
1052) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2000752)
Posted 3 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Never mind comedians... just read a little later in the article:

Wilson has long been a critic of the president, whom she has claimed is "crazy" and suffering from "a brain disorder."


I guess she should turn herself in first. As well as ignorant of the law, she seems ignorant of the Streisand Effect and is going to be pilloried incessantly on the internet now. :^p
1053) Questions and Answers : Windows : Group Policy Deployment (Message 2000682)
Posted 2 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Check the BOINC Wiki here.

The "Running BOINC: advanced" and "Mass deployment of the BOINC client" sections should be helpful.
1054) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 2000612)
Posted 2 Jul 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm taking an involuntary breather as well... my RAC briefly went over a million (up to one and a quarter when there was plenty of Arecibo work) but my usual luck kicked in and my big system has failed twice, first from the cooling pump dying, and now it's restarting every few minutes and I don't even know why. So it's offline until I can figure it out... spare PSU for testing should arrive in a few days.

On the plus side I temporarily repurposed the radiator fan to cool the apartment so it's much nicer in there. :^) I hate summer now. Bah.
1055) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 2000367)
Posted 30 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Are you sure it isn't the Bitcoin? Can't trace that so the NSA/CIA/MI5/MI6/FSB/KGB/3 letter types don't know who is paying who and how much.


Only if anonymity and portability are vastly more important than stability. So, yeah... for criminals. Not for legitimate business.

Bitcoin is so unstable these days it lost $1,800 in just ten minutes on Wednesday.
1056) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 2000202)
Posted 29 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Compulsory voting? From a self-identified Libertarian? (Well, that was how you voted at least.) Not that it's the first stance I've seen that would put you at odds with "mainstream" libertarians. But I digress...

In a properly functioning democracy, voters won't need to be compelled. They will vote because they feel that their vote will count and that voting is important. The very low turnout at U..S. federal elections should be sending a message that voters no longer care and reforms are needed. (I say "should" because there certainly are some vested interests that are encouraging low voter turnout.) Some possible reasons:

Electronic voting: a paperless voting machine can lose or change thousands of votes without any verifiable trace. Thousands of people patiently waiting for hours to vote (sometimes taking time off work...) all wasted; their votes are now worthless. It's common knowledge that these machines are usually insecure, prone to failure, easily tampered with and usually run by people who know very little about their inner workings. I personally would not ever vote if that was my only option.

Superdelegates etc.: Remember what happened to Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primaries? He didn't win the Democratic nomination because it was already pre-determined that Hillary was going to be the candidate... who cares what the people chose. I wonder how many voters decided they had had enough at that point.

Inconvenience: There are usually not enough polling stations resulting in long lineups, for a process that doesn't require this at all. For example Washington state now has vote-by-mail statewide using secure hand-counted paper ballots (as well as polling stations.) Why isn't this national? Again we come back to a fragmented system of fifty sets of laws and policies yet for one federal election.

Ennui/stalemate/partisanship: The U.S. is regionally polarized enough that elections are usually decided by a couple of swing states, leaving two almost evenly matched houses. In such conditions it's very difficult to get any meaningful legislation passed. Voters don't feel anything will change, so they may as well stay home.

I'm sure others can think of many more...
1057) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2000091)
Posted 28 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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B-B-R-O-Y-G-B-V-G-W lol :) I only know the R version, never heard a G version.


Big Ben rings out: "Young girls buy Volkswagens, George Washington!" is one. It's strange how memory works... it's such a ridiculously meaningless sentence, yet I saw it only once as a child and never forgot it.
1058) Message boards : Politics : Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Message 1999997)
Posted 27 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, they learned it mostly from the automobile companies...

In a rear-end collision, the fuel filler neck could separate and puncture the fuel tank, spraying fuel into the passenger compartment and igniting. In an exposé in Mother Jones in 1977, it was revealed that Ford had known about the defect before the car even went to production, but decided it would be too expensive to fix — the cost to safely upgrade the fuel system would’ve added $11 to the cost of each car. A shield to protect the tank from rupturing would have only cost $1.

To make matters worse, a chilling memo from 1973 was leaked to the media that outlined (by Ford’s bean counters’ estimates) how many deaths to expect per year from the defect and how much it expected to cost the company per lawsuit. The memo ultimately decided that this was cheaper for the company than spending the money to fix the problem. By 1978, the public outcry was so strong that Ford reluctantly recalled 1.5 million Pintos (and the identical Mercury Bobcat), and made the life-saving modifications to the fuel system.


46 years gone and nothing changes.
1059) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU does not calculate (Message 1999914)
Posted 27 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's going to be difficult to assist you as you have hidden display of your computer(s) which is required to troubleshoot (this also will show workunits and errors etc.) You can enable it by clicking your profile at the top-right, then "SETI@Home Preferences" and checking "Should SETI@home show your computers on its web site". Thanks.
1060) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1999723)
Posted 26 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Again, as so many times before, you have conflated an economic system with a legislative/executive one. A socialist state can have the separation of powers as described, or it can be a autocratic dictatorship. This also applies to capitalism. Fascism is an example of a capitalist autocracy, or even modern Russia.
1061) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1999703)
Posted 26 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've passed this issue on to Dr. Korpela...
1062) Message boards : Number crunching : Building a New SETI Cruncher - Getting the Most Credit/RAC Per $1/£1 Spent (Message 1999625)
Posted 26 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... install the graphics drivers, this was the only thing I originally has trouble with as it seems the syntax of the command changed in Ubuntu 18.04.


You don't even need that... click the start menu, then start typing "driver" and either Drivers or Driver Manager will appear, launch it and they can be installed in two clicks.
1063) Questions and Answers : Web site : i can't download !! (Message 1999600)
Posted 25 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please copy that last post and start a new thread in the Windows forum for this issue and you can be assisted there.
1064) Questions and Answers : Web site : i can't download !! (Message 1999583)
Posted 25 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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BOINC is back up... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
1065) Questions and Answers : Web site : i can't download !! (Message 1999452)
Posted 24 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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@Jord: my fault, I moved that post out of a new thread in the Cafe.
1066) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1999313)
Posted 23 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Seems as though "both sides of the aisle" agree...

Joe Biden Is Bad At Politics

Why do Democratic Party leaders keep backing bad candidates?

The first time Joe Biden ran for president was in 1988. Sort of.

Biden officially withdrew from that contest in September 1987, after just three and a half months as a declared candidate. Despite building what The New York Times called “a formidable corps of fund-raisers,” Biden spent his brief time on the campaign trail bumbling from unforced error to unforced error. He insulted voters face to face, telling one, “I think I probably have a much higher I.Q. than you.” He lied about his academic record, lied about marching in the civil rights movement and plagiarized Bobby Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and the British politician Neil Kinnock.

Biden’s first presidential flameout was shocking. He was a 14-year Senate veteran, chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, and the favorite candidate of a deep bench of deep-pocketed donors.

Two decades later, Biden tried again, now with 34 years of experience in the Senate. He opened his campaign with an unintentionally racist gaffe, complimenting then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as “articulate” and “clean.” The second time around, he made it to the actual year of the election but withdrew after failing to win a single percentage point of the vote in the Iowa caucuses.
...

Trump is a uniquely unpopular candidate. He lost the popular vote by 3 million in 2016 and presided over a disastrous midterm election for Republicans. It will take a very special brand of incompetence to lose to him again in 2020. But if anyone is capable of orchestrating another Democratic defeat, it’s the leaders of today’s Democratic Party.
1067) Questions and Answers : Web site : Dead link on tell a friend (Message 1999248)
Posted 23 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for noting this. :^) I have passed it to the site admins.
1068) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#5) (Message 1999237)
Posted 22 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meanwhile in India, the predictions of the effects keep coming true...

Four reservoirs, which supply Chennai's water, have almost run dry. And the groundwater levels have dropped drastically over the years.
"Because the level of water in the reservoirs has gone down, and due to less rainfall ... a drinking water problem has arisen in Chennai," said Edappadi K. Palaniswami, chief minister of Tamil Nadu Friday.
...
The shortage in India's sixth largest city is symbolic of a crisis that is being felt across a country battling with one of its longest heatwaves, which has killed at least 137 people.
India has been inching closer to a debilitating water crisis for months. With poor water management and unsupervised groundwater extraction, experts said that 600 million of India's 1.3 billion people are facing acute water shortage.
According to a report released by Niti Aayog -- a government-run think tank -- 21 major cities including New Delhi will run out of groundwater by 2020.
"This crisis is further driven by a poorly defined legal framework for groundwater that rests ownership with landowners and leads to unchecked extraction. This crisis is most acute in the Indian agriculture sector, where groundwater accounts for 63% of all irrigation water," states the report.


Chennai is on the coast of the Bay of Bengal... I hope that they have sense enough to plan for the future and build a desalination plant.
1069) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1999043)
Posted 21 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Followup to the Quadriga debacle:

Quadriga founder transferred clients’ cryptocurrency to his own personal accounts, Ernst & Young finds

It’s looking more and more like QuadrigaCX founder Gerald Cotten mismanaged the digital-asset exchange before he died, with cryptocurrencies from clients ending up at rival marketplaces in his personal accounts.

The latest report from Ernst & Young, which is overseeing the bankruptcy process for Quadriga Fintech Solutions Corp., paints a clearer picture of a Vancouver-based firm that lacked financial reporting and operational controls, run primarily by a founder whose actions ultimately led to its collapse, leaving hundreds of customers owed millions in cash and cryptocurrency.

“Quadriga’s operating infrastructure appears to have been significantly flawed from a financial reporting and operational control perspective,” the June 19 report said. “Activities were largely directed by a single individual, Mr. Cotten, and as a result typical segregation of duties and basic internal controls did not appear to exist.”

Cotten ran Quadriga mostly from his laptop, and his sudden death in December while travelling in India threw the business into disarray. Speculation has swirled around the firm as a series of peculiar details have filtered out, including that digital storage accounts used by Quadriga to hold Bitcoin for clients were empty for months before Cotten’s death.


Make that "death"... he "died" in India in a place where you can get a registered death certificate for less than a C-note, and he wrote his will 12 days before his "death".

Still trust the banks less?
1070) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 1998901)
Posted 20 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please note that Richard's post two before this one appears out of context as it was moved from another thread.
1071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 72 (Message 1998821)
Posted 19 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mona Lizard?
1072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1998741)
Posted 19 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Judgment time (and I finally remembered this time without any "reminders"... lol.) As always, I let my missus pick her favorites from just the captions with no names:

#3: KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! - Someone has forgotten how to build a penny farthing bicycle...

#2: Admiral Gloval - 🎼Big Wheel keep on turning.🎼

And the winner:

#1: Lynn - straight outta compton

Congrats and PM sent!
1073) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1998627)
Posted 18 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's gangs as usual... by the way this was about four blocks from where I was working.
Edit: There were two stabbings with four victims as well. I cynically joked earlier in the day I wondered when the shootings and stabbings would be.

Make that five shot with a further six arrests. This one was two blocks from where I am working now.
1074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1998617)
Posted 17 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not ten answers yet in 24 hours so I will give it the 48.
1075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1998419)
Posted 16 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks! Continuing the theme of very odd pedal-powered vehicles:

1076) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 1998318)
Posted 15 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Parents say police pulled guns on them after 4-year-old daughter took a doll from a store in Phoenix

(CNN)A Phoenix couple is seeking $10 million from the city after a video showed police officers drawing a gun on them after their 4-year-old daughter allegedly stole a doll from a Family Dollar store.
Dravon Ames and fiancee Iesha Harper told CNN they didn't notice when their daughter walked out with a Barbie from the store last month. They've filed a notice of claim against the city for $10 million, which serves as a precursor to a lawsuit.
Soon after they left the store, Ames said the couple pulled into an apartment complex to drop their daughter off at a babysitter. Then an officer began banging against their window, yelling and threatening to kill them.
"Our hands are up, we're just trying not to get shot, trying to stay calm," Ames said. "He had a gun drawn."
Ames said there were no sirens or lights to indicate that they were being pulled over beforehand and the officer who was pointing a gun at them did not immediately identify himself as an officer.
The incident took place on May 29, the family said. Police said they were made aware of video on June 11.
In the 12-minute blurred-out video posted on the department's Facebook page, one officer can be seen handcuffing Ames, first on the ground and then against a police car. The officer kicks Ames and can be heard yelling multiple times, "When I tell you to do something, you f****** do it."


Twitter link to cellphone video of the encounter which is much better quality than the CNN "official" video. (NSFW language and may be stress-inducing.)
1077) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 1998248)
Posted 15 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Are we long long overdue for medical equipment to be cyber certified?


I think we're long overdue for everything to be certified, if it can connect to the internet and/or receive digital updates in any form. Billions of exploitable "Internet of Things" devices are going to come online soon and who knows what they could be leveraged for.

Otherwise...

1078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1998196)
Posted 14 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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NASA budget cutbacks force a redesign of the next Lunar Rover.
1079) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1997817)
Posted 11 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Excuse the obvious, but: Did you click it to "Show Active Tasks" rather than "Show All Tasks"?
1080) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Wild claim on Science Channel's Nasa's Unexplained Files (Message 1997692)
Posted 10 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So, is there a logical explanation for the presence of the xenon isotope in the Martian soil? Ur was it falsely identified to start with?


I'm going with cosmic rays... as the most powerful ones discovered thus far have the energy of a pitched baseball in a single particle, they could certainly account for this. As these isotopes would have formed by cosmic rays striking precursor isotopes on the Martian surface (precursors aren't found to any degree in the atmosphere) the ratios of these isotopes would be expected to be higher than on Earth, where cosmic rays are both deflected by our magnetic field and intercepted/vastly reduced in strength by our hundred-times-denser atmosphere.

Edit: Seems I'm in agreement with NASA.
1081) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1997291)
Posted 8 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Until I see 4 bit in the task name or hear from Jeff, Matt, Eric or Mark or see an official post on main I will have to agree to disagree that we are processing 4 bit work


The postings from Dr. Korpela:

I'll be distributing some workunits with 4-bit complex samples. They'll be twice the size of the current 2-bit workunits, but will give us 46% reduction in noise power.

It's possible that some of the app versions date from before the 4-bit quantization code existed in the client (but I don't think so). If things are going to break it should be obvious pretty quickly.


and also

There won't be any easy way to tell what you've got apart from the file size. 2-bit WUs are about 360K. 4-bit WUs are about 620K. The "2bit" or "8bit" designation in the file name is about the input data that the splitter operated upon. (And it's wrong anyway. The 2bit input data is actually 4 bits per complex sample.)

In the workunit file itself, there's a relatively new entry called wu_bits_per_sample which should be 2 past data, and in the new data should say 4.


Edit: I also checked and all of mine are 721KB and the Arecibo ones contain "<wu_bits_per_sample>4</wu_bits_per_sample>"

This has been posted twice in this thread...


Still doesn't seem like enough though... lol.
1082) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU FLOPS: Theory vs Reality (Message 1997287)
Posted 8 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Judging by the graph, the CUDA10.1 special client is about 6 times faster than the "official" OpenCL one.
As an "outsider" I don't understand why cripples the project itself on purpose by not making it an official app. (Sorry, I won't dig the 2 million post on the forum for a self-justificatory explanation.)
I consider it an awful waste of space computing power. Obviously the "powers that be" doesn't.


SETI@Home is perpetually short of personnel since Breakthrough Listen absorbed many of its staff. The few who are left don't have the time to run rigorous testing on a non-standard application to verify it meets all of the criteria that their own app. does, to rewrite the scheduling code to distribute different versions of it for different CUDA Compute levels, and do whatever else is required to integrate it officially into the project. (As well as SETI@Home, they are also involved with other projects such as other non-SETI research, some Breakthrough Listen duties and teaching.)

As well, this app. is unfortunately for Linux only. This is simply because that's the platform the developer was familiar with, and the driver model is different in Linux than Windows, so the changes/optimizations won't port over... it can't just be recompiled with Windows libraries in the Windows CUDA development suite and work. It would have to be re-optimized from scratch for Windows with different changes. I would conclude that the admins. have correctly surmised that anyone on Linux is already going to be using it, as many (most?) of us converted over just to do so.

I hope this makes it a bit clearer.
1083) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1997042)
Posted 6 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sorry for what? The inability to provide the simple answer I asked for?

So, I provide an example of some Fake News from yesterday. It's from the White House's own official news feed, none of those lugenpresse, sorry, "Fake News" mainstream sources.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, Prime Minister. I appreciate it. I very much appreciate the relationship we’ve had. It’s been outstanding. And I guess some people know that; some people don’t. But you and I know it. But it’s been, really, a very good relationship and I appreciate it very much.

We are your largest partner. You’re our largest partner. A lot of people don’t know that. I was surprised.


Yes, they don't know it because it is completely bloody incorrect: the U.S. is the U.K.'s largest trading partner, but the U.K. is behind China, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Germany in trade with the U.S.

Do you have any similar factual examples? If not I can find a few thousand more like this one if required.
1084) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1997036)
Posted 6 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What independent entities have validated they are more reliable?

In this age of Opinion Media parading as Responsible and Professional Journalism.

Be critical of all. Even those who mirror your opinions.


Another non-answer.
I also try to care more about factual information than opinions.
1085) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1997030)
Posted 6 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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....and so 'Fake News' is calling the kettle black..........not unexpected.


As I wish Donald Trump would be asked more often:

What specific "fake" stories qualify this oft-repeated statement?
What more reliable source(s) do you then propose?
What independent entities have validated they are more reliable?
1086) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1996816)
Posted 4 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I did know that one... it's the hair-thin "1 male & female" on the right column of the bar chart. Sort of dwarfed by the 106 male-only.
1087) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1996802)
Posted 4 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I seem to have forgotten the mass-shootings in recent history carried out by women who have had abortions. Or by women at all.

Well no wonder, women are behind 106 to 4, far behind men... you know... those people who don't have abortions. But nice try. :^p
1088) Message boards : Politics : China (Message 1996792)
Posted 4 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Today is the official 30th anniversary of nothing whatsoever.

Unofficially, we know better.
1089) Questions and Answers : Windows : How can i tell this is working (Message 1996739)
Posted 4 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The log showed it went back and forth between downloading and backing off. How do I get going? Thanks!


One of the download servers has been barely functional for a couple of days. You can go to the Transfers tab, click the stuck work units and then Retry but they will probably just back off again.

If you feel adventurous, you can add to your hosts file the following entries:

208.68.240.118	setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu	# upload server Oct 2016
208.68.240.119	boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu		# download server Oct 2016
208.68.240.126	setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu	# scheduler Oct 2016


May have to reboot for this to take effect.
1090) Message boards : Number crunching : 4 x 2080 ti gpu cards (Message 1996584)
Posted 3 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have an i7-5820K (same # of cores, PCIe rev.) keeping the 4 x 2080tis completely occupied, so it would be fine. The 4960X is only about a tenth slower in memory bandwidth, it's 300MHz faster default clock and it even supports more PCIe lanes... it would probably keep even four 2080ti's busy just as well as mine does.
5820k 4960x
1091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1996493)
Posted 2 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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@KWSN THHG: Ah you're right... don't know how I misread it that badly. Also on the topic of misreads, "her" referred to my missus, not the Admiral. :^)
Haven't thought of a caption yet I wouldn't want to hide later... lol.
1092) Message boards : Number crunching : 4 x 2080 ti gpu cards (Message 1996436)
Posted 2 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Could you tell me what miracle you are using/doing to get 1 wu done in less than 40 seconds consistently?


This miracle. Apologies... thought that was already known. The All-In-One Linux client will get about 2.5x the performance out of any compatible GPU hardware.
1093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1996276)
Posted 1 Jun 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As always, my missus picked, and she chose the following:

#3 - Kittyman: So when is this supposed to turn into ketchup?
#2 - Admiral Gloval: This is not what I meant when I said surprise me.
#1 - (also) Admiral Gloval: If I come back in 24 hours. Will this still be waiting for me?

Her #1 was outside of the 48-hour limit, so it goes to the #2 which was within it... same person. Congrats and PM sent.

Also, there's a bit of an exploit hole (er... bus-sized) in the Beet's rule set. One could win every time by posting:

"1. Here is a caption.
2. Here is a caption.
...
10. Here is a caption."


... right away after a photo is posted. 😄
1094) Message boards : Number crunching : 4 x 2080 ti gpu cards (Message 1996140)
Posted 31 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for the answers, Keith. I was very busy at work so wasn't able to.

Looks like I'll be #4 soon lol. :^)
1095) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1996110)
Posted 31 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just a light "shortie shower" forecast. :^)

Edit:

Fri 31 May 2019 06:28:26 PM EDT | SETI@home | Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
Fri 31 May 2019 06:28:26 PM EDT | SETI@home | Project requested delay of 3600 seconds
Fri 31 May 2019 06:28:26 PM EDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Deferring communication for 01:00:00
Fri 31 May 2019 06:28:26 PM EDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Reason: project requested delay


This is actually a good thing: a brief planned maintenance outage with SETI@Home personnel onsite. This is in contrast to a weekend-long unplanned outage with no-one onsite (which I've seen enough of.) :^p
1096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #284 (Message 1996093)
Posted 31 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank Thor Its Friday.


Frigg is offended you have misappropriated her day. She may be so peeved as to even say her own name. :^)
1097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1996036)
Posted 30 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There are over ten replies now, but weren't by the 24-hour interval so I will give it until 48.
1098) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1995996)
Posted 30 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I thought there was a post that both Observatories transfer their data files over a network connection.


Here is one that confirms Green Bank is on a data connection at least..
1099) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1995984)
Posted 30 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
They do not to cherry pick the data that is sent out, rather just send out what is available.


A "shortie storm" drives the return rate up so high that there is a real risk of crashing oscar and/or carolyn. (Edit: also possibly paddym?)
1100) Message boards : Number crunching : 4 x 2080 ti gpu cards (Message 1995839)
Posted 29 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That rad setup is identical to mine. I have it mounted in a window also with a big fan on it haha. Works great.


Ahh... it was your photo of that setup that inspired me to go with the big rad/fan; wasn't sure as never saw it again. I had not seen such a large rad for PC use before, so was not aware they were made that large. Not only large, but when I first pulled that gorgeous hunk of metal out of the box I was astounded how thick, solid and well-made it was, so not a bad price plus considering it was imported from Germany, where there is certainly quality but not cheap.

Here's the rad/fan setup:



And the computer itself:



Not pretty, but it works. :^p Note the secondary PSU on the right Zip-tied in the peripheral bay. The clear thing on the tubing upper-left is a flow indicator. There's also a temp. indicator above the primary PSU hiding behind cabling. And I decided against liquid-cooling the CPU so left the existing Noctua cooler in place, as I didn't know if I would get sufficient cooling for the cards from this setup (plus why waste a good Noctua and spend more for an unneeded CPU block.) I did have to cut away some of the rad fins to run the tubing.

Looks like the coolant needs topping up there... there is a very slow loss which I've been unable to find, and not from lack of trying, a mm or two daily. (I had to improvise a filler with a silicone reusable drinking straw and tiny funnel, as there's very little clearance under the hard drive.) The second-from-the-bottom card LEDs don't work; this is probably why it was an open-box return that was sold to me as new that took weeks to unregister via Gigabyte, but I would actually prefer they were all off. And I need to still get the right large case fan working before summer... had to order a Molex to fan connector adapter as the cord is too short.

Hope I can keep it running. :^)
1101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1995755)
Posted 29 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks, Carlos. :^)

Sorry folks, no raccoon this time...

1102) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home Lunatics _Win64 for RTX 2060 GPU HELP on a AMD FX8350 system (Message 1995661)
Posted 28 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You'll need to hit this thread if you'd like to improve your performance by about 2.5x, but it will require reimaging (or at least dual-boot.) All the top machines/contributors are using this custom client, and it's only on Linux currently.

(For example, you have to go down to #43 in the Top Hosts listing before a Windows machine appears.)
Edit: Also I don't have 64 video cards in one machine... just 4. :^) Any number above 10 is similarly inflated.
1103) Message boards : Number crunching : What did I break this time? (Message 1995554)
Posted 28 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Probably, but at least we know that would be a reliable source. :^)

Edit: should still resolve it even with the old version.
Edit2: And it's all resolved anyways (with the newest version assisting.)
1104) Message boards : Number crunching : What did I break this time? (Message 1995549)
Posted 28 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I would suggest (as I don't see it's been done) as long as you don't have work in the cache:

Uninstall BOINC

Delete the BOINC data folder C:\ProgramData\BOINC

Delete the BOINC program folder C:\Program Files\BOINC

Delete the following registry keys including subkeys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Services > BOINC [if BOINC was installed as a service]

Reinstall BOINC from a fresh download from here

That should force a new machine ID for this computer so you should be able to download again. If it's existing once you've reported some work you can merge into the old name.

Please let me know if this doesn't work, and I'll move the thread to Q&A > Windows (as it really is a "getting started" issue now if you can't get any work on a machine.)
1105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1995546)
Posted 27 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And where does a raccoon Lone Ranger ride?

♫♪ "To the dump, to the dump, to the dumpdumpdump..." ♫♪
1106) Message boards : Number crunching : 4 x 2080 ti gpu cards (Message 1995487)
Posted 27 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
LoL it's OK, Keith... hard to tell with the inflated GPU count. :^)

The machine Keith linked to is indeed 4 x RTX 2080tis, specifically AORUS GeForce RTXâ„¢ 2080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE WB 11G. They're on a custom loop so that they can blow their heat out a window rather than into our apartment that swelters already in the summer.

The rad is an MO-RA3 360 LT:



I mounted it on a board with eight heavy carriage bolts and fender washers. Rather than nine wimpy computer fans, I hung one of these on it upside-down in "push" configuration with a threaded hook through the board and more fender washers:



This fan (designed and built in the same metropolitan area I live) is well-known for being designed like a jet engine and producing a silent, laminar flow of air. I also chose it because replacements are easy to find and reinstall, being just hung there. And I have so far have only had to run on the lowest speed "1" to keep the system cool... if things heat up in the summer there's still "2" and "3".

The primary PSU is an eVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 120-G2-1300-XR 80+ GOLD 1300W‎ which does everything except two of the cards. The other two cards are powered by a 1000W helper PSU zip-tied into the case in the peripheral bay. This also allows the load to be split over two circuits... also essential in an apartment! They are joined via a 24Pin 20+4pin Dual PSU ATX Power Supply Adaptor Cable aka PSU ganging cable ($5 on Fleabay.) I did this as these cards can draw 260W apiece at full-bore, so the whole system would be 1200W+, too close to the margin for one 1300W PSU (I like to keep it below 2/3 of the rated capacity long-term, and don't tend to burn out PSUs much by sticking to this rule-of-thumb.)

Pump is just a standard EKWB 140mm pump/res combo. Most would say the res. is too small for the amount of tubing I have but by being careful with elevations of the PC/rad. when filling I had no issues. Highest coolant temp. I have seen is 37C and the GPUs are below 50C at that time.

One caveat: I have not been able to successfully overclock those cards. Cinnamon crashes as soon as there is an xorg.conf and even overclocking very lightly, and not on the display card, it produces invalids. Could not stop them so gave up on overclocking. I also found out that accidentally unplugging the secondary PSU will also make invalids, rather rapidly!

Hope this helps. :^) Sorry no pics of the actual setup yet... keep forgetting to upload them. I may edit them in when I get home.
1107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns & Limericks (Message 1995464)
Posted 27 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
1108) Message boards : News : Article on SETI@home's 20th anniversary (Message 1995419)
Posted 27 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks, Sirius.

Regards,
The mysterious, anonymous Kevin D. :^)
1109) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost "Ghost" task recovery protocol (Message 1995347)
Posted 26 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
@Keith: Thank you very much for this easy-to follow process... was worth the rewrites! Because I was checking all my caches due to the "shortie storm" yesterday... oops, this machine had 540 in progress with 3xGPUs unspoofed; should have been max. 400 so were at least 140 ghosts. I expected there may be some as there is a failing GTX980 which sometimes overheats and can lock the system up, but not that many.

As it turned out, it was worse: I kept performing the process even at 400 and I think there were possibly up to 100 more of them.

The only issue I had is that sometimes the servers would be too fast: I would suspend networking right after the second "[sched_op]", not get a "Scheduler request completed" and tasks to report would still show, but when I restarted the client I'd still get "Not sending work - last request too recent" from the scheduler. The simple workaround for this was just to exit BOINC for a minimum of 303 seconds and after this resends would occur as expected.
1110) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1995203)
Posted 25 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hopefully we will get through this patch of noise bombs soon.


Looks like a "Shortie Storm".

(I always read that in my Metallica voice. 😆)
1111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It's Angela's birthday! (Message 1995055)
Posted 24 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
1112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1994956)
Posted 24 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Signals that baffled astronomers for 17 years traced to observatory's microwave oven


I'm amazed such a device was even permitted near the facility outside of a shielded room. Green Bank, where most of our data now comes from, prohibits microwave ovens and also WiFi, cordless phones, cell phones, even digital cameras and gasoline vehicles (spark plugs emit RFI... diesels are OK.)
1113) Message boards : News : 20 years and counting! (Message 1994713)
Posted 22 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As example of how far the technology has progressed in these two decades: I happened to save a screenshot of the old SETI@Home app. pre-BOINC... this is from 2000:



While the current work unit is almost complete with just over 9 hours elapsed, notice that 169 work units have been completed before this in 4900.3 hours. This works out to very close to 29 hours per work unit. (I was running SETI@Home on some very pokey work computers as well as on previous, much slower, computers at home which is where this screenie is from.)

On the the most recent computer I put together (well, vastly improved with fresh video cards and liquid cooling) each GPU completes a work unit in 38-42 seconds. Running four in parallel and with the CPU also contributing whatever it has left after keeping the GPUs busy and housekeeping, that machine is completing a work unit on average just over every 9 seconds (and as Dr. Korpela has noted, far more actual analysis on those work units is being done than was being done on that year 2000 one.)

Result: Roughly 11,600x improvement over my first SETI@Home computers. :^)
1114) Message boards : Politics : OH MY GOoDness. YOU HAVE GOT to Listen to Andrew Yang (D) Presidential Candidate 2020. This GUY is INCREDIBLE!!! No Foolin' Broheims. This DUDE BLOWs Me Away. (Message 1994646)
Posted 21 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Also, does the GPUUG still take PayPal donations for SETI? I don't care about the green star showing up btw as I remember that had to be done manually or something....


Yes... you can click my banner to go there. :^)

Also the green star will appear; it just takes up to a month.
1115) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 1994390)
Posted 20 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Works for me...

3 Teenagers Charged in Vandalism at Cemetery

Three teenagers have turned themselves in to police after allegedly toppling 250 headstones and shattering two statues and causing an estimated $1 million in damage at a Boyle Heights cemetery over the weekend, authorities said Monday.

Two of the juveniles, a 17-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl who live nearby, reportedly confessed Sunday after they saw news of what they had done on television, said Los Angeles Police Det. Sal Nares. They apparently became remorseful and told their parents of their deeds. The parents took them to the Hollenbeck police station, he said.
1116) Message boards : News : 20 years and counting! (Message 1994370)
Posted 19 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I think it is wonderful how many people have posted in this thread who've been here a long time, some since the beginning, and have single-digit post counts... even just one post, yet all this time have been silently contributing for up to twenty years. Congrats to all of you for persevering this far. :^)
1117) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : No scheduler URLs found in master file - iysearch.com malware? (Message 1994365)
Posted 19 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yup... this is a known typosquatting malware domain.
1118) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1994063)
Posted 17 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yep, I know. I mentioned that I downloaded the 32bit version and used Rufus to burn the ISO to the flash drive. :)


You did, and I completely missed it. :^)
1119) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1994061)
Posted 17 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I tried to install Linux Mint, but that was a no go the CPU is 32bit.


Er... even the latest'n'greatest Mint is still available in 32-bit: Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce.
1120) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1994032)
Posted 17 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm wondering how "every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God" didn't apply to the life of the convicted murderer Talibama executed the very same day.

<<shrug>> Don't blame me... it's the governor who doesn't know the proper use of the word "every". :^p
1121) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2 (Message 1993964)
Posted 16 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Also correct in that an EU or UK leader is not going to be called "a prime minister for all Australians." :^)
1122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1993913)
Posted 16 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Toyotank
1123) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1993872)
Posted 15 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How wonderful that 22 seemingly-cloned senators (all men... and here is an issue where gender is actually relevant) voted down the rape and incest exception, ensuring that Alabama's 11-year-old girls also will have the privilege of carrying their screamingly unwanted rape babies to an agonizing birthing of basically being torn open... rather like being raped a second time.

It isn't called "Talibama" for nothing. :^p
1124) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 20 Year Club! (Message 1993853)
Posted 15 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Was hoping to cross a million RAC for my 20th... SETIversary? AnniverSETI?... today, but doesn't look like that is going to happen. :^) It's been a good two decades anyway. When this project first started I predicted it would be at least twenty years before the hardware, algorithms and techniques were sophisticated enough to make a discovery (plus there's that much space to listen to.) With the recent developments of Breakthrough Listen, two more signal sources, the computing power of modern GPUs and the optimized clients to achieve their full potential, it seems we're just about there.

Edit: Thank you, Zalster. :^) And congrats to Gene, Dave Lewis, XArchAngel and of course Pierre Renaud on your 20ths!
1125) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Why can nobody join my team? (Message 1993624)
Posted 13 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It doesn't have the button for you as you are already in it. It will for anyone else (I see it.)
1126) Message boards : Number crunching : How many gpus can you run on an AMD AM4 socket motherboard? (Ryzen 7 1900, 2700 etc) (Message 1993524)
Posted 12 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some cleanup was required and posts have gone away. Please keep it civil as per the policies on the left displayed always when writing a posting.

This would be a good time for a reminder of the Filtered Users setting in your profile's Community Preferences, which can be used to put someone on ignore, and the tiny (and too often easily-missed) red X button at the bottom of every post between the post ID and Reply button. If a post is found to be offensive, it's always better to use that to report it rather than respond in kind and throw more fuel on the flames.

Thank you. :^)
1127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1993341)
Posted 10 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"I fixed the little hole in the pressure cooker lid that made that annoying hissing sound."
1128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1993277)
Posted 9 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Who knew that the LifeHacker article "Make Your Own Rocket Propellant at Home" could have unintended consequences?
1129) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1993102)
Posted 8 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... coupled with the Dim embracing of Socialism...


If it were any more than a minority who did, Joe Biden wouldn't currently have a 32-point lead as the 2020 candidate.
1130) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (2) (Message 1993003)
Posted 7 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, and it stayed like that for months. Microsoft may have recently changed it to put itself back on again. Ah well.
Edit: I guess disabling updates avoided the update that made that change...
Did you also Disable the "Automatic Updates" service? I think that one may be required as well.
1131) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1992975)
Posted 7 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
By the way, what is "GDPR"?


Here
1132) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My last day on earth............................ (Message 1992963)
Posted 7 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Kevin never fit in anywhere until now."
1133) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1992890)
Posted 7 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks... at least I know it isn't just me. :^) I notified Dr. K. so let's hope "the Doctor is In."
1134) Questions and Answers : Web site : Notice: Use of undefined constant USER_COUNTRY - assumed 'USER_COUNTRY' in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/forum.inc on line 6xx (Message 1992883)
Posted 6 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anyone else getting this in all threads by the poster's country flag?

Edit: It's confirmed... admins. advised.

Edit2: Issue has been resolved.
1135) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1992825)
Posted 6 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ohio man raped 11-year-old who is now pregnant

Unfortunately, the most important line in this story was buried at the bottom instead of headlined in 72-point bold capitals:

Ohio’s new “heartbeat bill” means that the 11-year-old girl will be forced to carry the child to birth, regardless of the fact that she was raped.
1136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1992803)
Posted 6 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well, almost ten replies received and it's been longer than 48 hours so my better half has again asssisted with the choices with my gratitude:

#3 Carlos "King Cage"
#2 Admiral Gloval "Tuesday at “Outrage” central."

and the winner:

#1 KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! "Night shift mainframe operator during backups..."

PM sent.

Edit: It's been way longer than 24 hours and no PM reply or post from KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!. Admiral, it's all yours.
1137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns & Limericks (Message 1992575)
Posted 4 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another nerdly one I remember from my childhood:

A mathematician confided
That a Möbius strip is one-sided,
And you’ll get quite a laugh
If you cut one in half,
For it stays in one piece when divided.


And of course, its sequel:

A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius strip was divine.
He said: "If you glue
The edges of two
You'll get a weird bottle like mine."
1138) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (2) (Message 1992529)
Posted 4 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I wonder if you could run Windows in a VM box under Linux?


Absolutely... in VirtualBox (which is in most of the distros' repositories.) It's even what BOINC uses. VMWare Player and KVM are two other options. Google any of them and there are many sites with step-by-step directions.

Edit: Here is a walkthrough for KVM. VirtualBox is IMHO the simplest.
1139) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (2) (Message 1992480)
Posted 3 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I prefer GOG (formerly Good Old Games until they started selling new releases) myself... Here is their Linux library.
1140) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (2) (Message 1992476)
Posted 3 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'll probably get a chorus of gripe replies about security issues, but it's your computer so just ignore them. :^)

It's very easy to permanently block updates in Windows 10, or at least as much as I know. Go into the start menu, type "Services" until the Services app pops up, launch it. Find the Windows Update service, right-click it, choose Properties. Set the service to Disabled and OK.

As far as I know Windows will not put it back on.
1141) Message boards : Number crunching : High performance Linux clients at SETI (Message 1992464)
Posted 3 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
All of the crashed work units were GPU not CPU. It looks like TBar was correct about not enough VRAM for some of them:

cudaMalloc errorNot enough VRAM for Autocorrelations...
setiathome_CUDA: CUDA runtime ERROR in device memory allocation, attempt 1 of 6


Some crashed before that state but as I'm pretty sure autocorrelation is being run on all MB work I don't know if you're going to get it working on that card.
1142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1992425)
Posted 3 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just over a day has passed with only four responses so I will give it until a second day.
1143) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1992379)
Posted 3 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Drug company founder convicted of bribing doctors with money, strippers to sell more Fentanyl

A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.

John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations. Four former employees of the Arizona-based company, including the former exotic dancer, were also convicted.

Some of the most sensational evidence in the months-long federal trial included a video of employees dancing and rapping around an executive dressed as a giant bottle of the powerful spray Subsys, and testimony about how the company made a habit of hiring attractive women as sales representatives.

Federal prosecutors portrayed the case as part of the government's effort to go after those it views as responsible for fuelling the nation's deadly opioid crisis.
1144) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 1992239)
Posted 2 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mint can be considered a variant of Ubuntu... it's based off of it with some popular apps. baked in and a (IMHO) much better desktop. I always recommend it for people making the switch from Windows.
1145) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 1992235)
Posted 1 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And yet, just about all mission-critical business apps. do run on Linux on the web, and servers, just not on the end-user desktops. Even Microsoft Azure runs on Linux and its most popular virtual machines are Linux-based.

Linux may be fragmented, but gradually certain distros may come to dominate, probably Ubuntu (edit: and its derivatives) for desktops and Red Hat for servers. By the way, Canonical's fastest-growing market right now is for desktop business Ubuntu for AI development.
1146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1992228)
Posted 1 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks, Carlos!

Here is our next photo to caption... enjoy.

1147) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 1992191)
Posted 1 May 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Really? So please explain why it does not hold the lions share of the market & running in most homes & businesses.


I can think of a few reasons off the top of my head:

1) Apps. Windows had a long head start on Linux so there's a larger base of applications for it, some of which are unique and never ported elsewhere, such as custom business apps. which are business-essential. And of course there are plenty of Windows-only games.

2) Mind-share. To most non-IT people, PCs run Windows and that's it. Other operating systems just aren't on the radar. A great example of this are the phony "Microsoft tech support" scammers (and yes, they are most definitely not IT people.) I will occasionally get calls from them and prank them by putting on an old man voice and accurately following their directions on my Linux desktop. They don't even register there is such a thing so are lost why they aren't able to seize control of my computer. :^)

3) Bundling. New desktops, laptops, netbooks and tablets are sold with Windows pre-installed. Most people don't know that this is optional with the price of a Windows license built into the price of the computer... one will need to jump through a few hoops but it is refundable (by law in most places.) For most people, it just works so they don't worry about what's on it.
1148) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (116) Server Problems? (Message 1992001)
Posted 30 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Shortest Tuesday out(r)age yet ever today I think. I don't know whether this forebodes anything but I will try to stay positive. :^)
1149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1991902)
Posted 29 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Finding square roots without a calculator was easier than I expected.
1150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A Second Chance Code For Coma Patients (Message 1991691)
Posted 27 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Andy,

Just so you know you're not being ignored, I have been reading your thread (as many others have been.) You may have to accept, if you are "on the spectrum," that you think differently than most other people (not saying better or worse, of course, just differently) so that they may have difficulty following your narrative, thus no replies yet. I know this from experience as my spouse has Asperger; sometimes I have to puzzle out what she is saying as it can be ambiguous as she assumes knowledge I don't have. For example, you refer to this "flower and train effect" which I have never encountered before and couldn't find anywhere, so may be something you created in order to name and remember it so it could be repeated and understood, as part of your self-awareness. Of course, anyone reading the thread is not going to know this if it was a name you created.

If no one replies, you can consider this a "journal thread" to post your thoughts. Here is a well-known example which has closed now due to inactivity, but bluestar/musicplayer (same person) wrote about 2,800 posts in it. He didn't get many if any replies, probably for the reason I mentioned that others may have had difficulty following his narrative, but at least he had a safe space to express himself (within the forum policies of course!)

I hope that this can help you to feel more welcome here. :^)
1151) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 1991587)
Posted 26 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The wonderful world of free and open source software where you the user must be a computer scientist to know if a program is nefarious


Are you able to provide the source code or a link to it for any one of these hundred apps. to demonstrate that they are, in fact, open source as you claim?

I didn't think so either.
1152) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1991338)
Posted 24 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Also, just in case anyone would like to use the report's exoneration of Donald Trump's involvement in Russian interference in the 2016 election to also claim that such never happened... well, give it a read. The complete redacted report, all 448 pages of it, can be read online or downloaded from here.

Only 9 pages in, in the introduction to Volume 1:

The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.


It goes into much detail... the Internet Research Agency was of course behind it, and payments in BitCoin were not enough to stop the funds being traced. Basically all of this was known before the report was released anyways, right from the days following the election.

(No, I'm not claiming the election is somehow now invalid... there's no provision for that anyways.) The only ambiguity was whether Donald Trump was personally involved. So far that has not been established, so the presumption of innocence applies.
1153) Message boards : Politics : The A O-C (aka Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) thread (Message 1991318)
Posted 24 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A couple of politicians were called out for even referring to the victims as "Easter worshippers" rather than "Christians."

The media failed to note that this actually made their statements factually incorrect. Easter is etymologically "Ä’ostre" aka Ostara, a Germanic goddess who had a holiday during the same time of the year. So calling the victims "Easter worshippers" is calling them all European pagans.
1154) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1990518)
Posted 18 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
....and will lead to the same location............nowhere.


Myself, I'll simply continue to wait until all the evidence is made available before drawing any conclusions.
1155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns & Limericks (Message 1990415)
Posted 17 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Those were "awful"!


Excellent! 😀
1156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns & Limericks (Message 1990410)
Posted 17 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some recycled SETI@Home puns and similar I've posted here over the years, now that there's finally a place for them... all original as far as I know. :^)

Since I'm Canadian, I apologize in advance for any pain caused.
😀

--------------

I accidentally bought AMD instead of NVidia video cards for my new SETI@Home computer, and now it won't be a top performer.
I CUDA been a contender.

BOINC is like modeling... it takes a lot of expensive silicon to have a nice RAC.

I asked some of the top contributors what would be the best way to find intelligent extraterrestrials and they said I needed a good video card, so I got one. I ended up renting E.T., Contact and Close Encounters with it, so I guess they were right.

A noted astronomer said that they are looking for extraterrestrial civilizations by searching for hot Dyson spheres. After giving the house a good clean with my Ball Vac, I found that it was rather warm. Should I advise NASA or the SETI Institute first?

At first I thought BOINC was only for Apple Macintosh computers, as it requires at least one core.

It must be true that aliens want to eat us if we can communicate with them in microwaves through dishes and a giant bowl.

We finally discovered intelligent extraterrestrial beings. Coincidentally, they strongly resemble the platypus, an animal with both bird and mammal features. This made their communications complex and hard to analyze, but we soon figured out all we had to do was find the beak amplitude and dechirp with a fast Furrier transform. Results to be published on the web.

//"Ducks" out of thread... 😀
1157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1990409)
Posted 17 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My apologies; I have been extremely busy over the past couple of days and completely forgot. Thanks for the reminders. :^)

As always, to avoid any favoritism I let my missus pick, as we usually agree on these things.

#3 - betreger with: "Darth on a unicycle playing the bagpipes, what's not to like?"
#2 - Admiral Gloval with: "This new suit is damn drafty."

And the winner:

#1 - rob smith with: "...that reminds me - I must clip my toe nails when I get home"
PM sent.

Edit: @Carlos, that was indeed an excellent find. :^)
1158) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1990388)
Posted 17 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


1159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Notre Dame Cathedral IN FLAMES!!! (Message 1990172)
Posted 15 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Livestream on CBC Canada.
1160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1990020)
Posted 14 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Apologies; went a little over one day, but still don't have ten responses yet so I will give it another day.
1161) Message boards : Number crunching : Opinions requested from home Linux users (Message 1989933)
Posted 13 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Myself, I really dislike the repository BOINC due to its propensity for unnecessarily spreading files around and installing as a service, versus the much simpler one-folder BOINC that is easy to stop, start, and configure, last version 7.2.42. I was hoping that development would have proceeded in the opposite direction , and was saddened when this became no longer usable on newer distros due to missing dependencies... thank goodness for TBar and the All-In-One.

I use the Snooze GPU often as I run BOINC on the daily driver I use, and with the GPUs going I can't watch movies or other graphic-intensive tasks on it due to stuttering, and then I can keep the CPU processing going.
1162) Message boards : Politics : How is agent Orange leaving? 25th Amendment? Handcuffs? Both? (Message 1989927)
Posted 13 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Now that the fake Trump/Russia collusion has apparently been shown for what it was. It's his taxes.


As I futilely attempted to point out, this is not a "now" issue... he's been refusing to release his tax returns since 2016 on the campaign trail. All other recent presidents have done so. If he has nothing to hide, I don't know what he expects from this other than to look suspicious. He could easily put this suspicion to rest by simply releasing them (shades of long-form Obama birth certificate, anyone?)

The labeling of this as "hysteria" has an interesting historical parallel: "hysteria", like "hysterectomy" is derived from the Latin "hustera" and Greek "husterikos"... womb. It was a fictitious disease ascribed to women so that when they got out of control, ie by demanding votes, equality and not being treated as property, they could be classed as insane and institutionalized (at one point there were twenty times as many women as men in Western mental hospitals.) How coincidental that again this term is being used to stifle and marginalize legitimate discussion.
1163) Message boards : Politics : How is agent Orange leaving? 25th Amendment? Handcuffs? Both? (Message 1989914)
Posted 13 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
People who believe that a mega wealthy capitalist with vast international holdings and businesses personally does his/her taxes are very, very, very silly.


Whoever they are, I have no idea. I don't know of anyone anywhere who claimed this, certainly not in this thread or the Donald Trump thread.
1164) Message boards : Politics : How is agent Orange leaving? 25th Amendment? Handcuffs? Both? (Message 1989907)
Posted 13 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Even giving him the benefit of the doubt and not assuming that he is actually doing something illegal, at least until there's hard evidence of it, he did state on record (in the 2016 campaign) that he would release his taxes when the routine audit was completed. He did not do this, so he either lied or broke his word... call it what one will but it is still a dishonesty. As two more sets of returns have been filed since then, that audit must have been completed.

He also stated several times that he could not release them because he was under audit, even though the IRS went so far as to issue a contradictory statement that there is no restriction against releasing returns that are under audit.
1165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1989727)
Posted 12 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you, betreger! Here is the next entry:

1166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1989567)
Posted 10 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
♫♪"Jus' two good ol' boys..."
1167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : how many inches of pollen do you have? (Message 1989530)
Posted 10 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Q: how many inches of pollen do you have?

A: Allergen umber. 😆
1168) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Fast Radio Bursts: Enigmatic Signals from Across the Universe (Message 1989526)
Posted 10 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... would it be too much to ask to display the text in black on white, rather than white on black? That would be much easier on the eyes, and would avoid most of the wasted ink if we wanted to print a portion for later study.


All modern popular browsers have Accessibility features whereby text colours can be changed for better visibility. Here is a guide on how to do this for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.
1169) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Black Holes part 4 (Message 1989509)
Posted 10 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And got help with the math from Karl Schwarzschild, who found the exact solution only one month later.


... while fighting in World War I on the Russian Front, and dying of a rare disease. Quite the accomplishment of determination to do world-class mathematics under such circumstances.
1170) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact (Message 1989029)
Posted 6 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But the Drake Equation, given very, very conservative numbers, is telling us that there are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of intelligent creatures in the universe.


This seemingly large number is less than one intelligent species per thousand galaxies, there being over a hundred billion of those. My pessimistic numbers resulted in one or two civilizations per galaxy. I think that intelligent life is exceedingly rare; plenty of bacteria out there, and very few civilizations. But given that they are likely to be far older than ours, I still think it's worthwhile to look for them. A very small chance is always larger than zero. :^)
1171) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1988745)
Posted 4 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I wonder that: if you consider abortion murder though it is legal because someone disagrees with it, why this should not equally apply to capital punishment as well.
Again I suggest you work to change the law rather than redefine the language.
1172) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1988698)
Posted 4 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
U.S. House Democrats press IRS for Trump's tax returns

The Democratic head of a powerful U.S. House committee asked the Internal Revenue Service for six years of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal and business tax returns on Wednesday, in a long-awaited move widely expected to lead to a long court battle with the White House.

The request, in a letter from Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Richard Neal to IRS Commissioner, Charles Rettig, is viewed by Democrats in the House of Representatives as a vital first step toward oversight of Trump's income taxes and business network, which some lawmakers believe could be rife with conflicts of interest and potential tax law violations.

"It is critical to ensure the accountability of our government and elected officials. To maintain trust in our democracy, the American people must be assured that their government is operating properly, as laws intend," Neal said in a statement.

IRS and U.S. Treasury officials were not immediately available for comment.

Trump defied decades of precedent as a presidential candidate by refusing to release the tax documents and has continued to keep them under wraps as president, saying his returns were "under audit" by the IRS.
1173) Message boards : Number crunching : Download latest anonymous GPU app for setiathome v8 (Message 1988327)
Posted 1 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...I'm wondering if the upgrade will help for Pascal cards.


Yes; the optimizations are for CUDA Compute Capability 5.x, so it supports Maxwell (GTX 9xx series), Pascal (GTX 10xx series) and Turing/Volta (RTX 20xx series and TITAN V) cards.
1174) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : AMD raedon GPU and ubuntu (Message 1988230)
Posted 1 Apr 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
that's more than a bargain. that's a price i would be highly skeptical of.


Indeed... plenty of fakes out there. As noted in the article, the latest (Windows-only) GPU-Z will detect fakes directly, but you don't need that in Linux... just do the CUDA cores and RAM check through NVIDIA X Server Settings, which is installed along with your NVidia driver suite.
1175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Great movie soundtracks. (Message 1988002)
Posted 30 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Blade Runner anyone ? ^^


Yes, one of the only soundtracks I went out and bought on CD; it was tied up with licensing issues for over a decade after the movie was in cinemas.

Cowboys and Aliens


This is one of the few lower-rated movies I love (guilty pleasure?) The soundtrack is quite good as well although not with any memorable themes.

My addition to the list:
Cinema Paradiso (aka Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)

The film and its soundtrack are both masterpieces, if you can handle subtitles (or understand Italian.) Bravo, Ennio Morricone. Avoid the dubbed version... it's atrocious IMHO.
1176) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #2 (Message 1987994)
Posted 30 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Florida Power & Light stakes its claim for the world’s largest solar battery system

Florida Power & Light has joined the race to build the world’s largest solar battery storage system, announcing plans for its massive Manatee Energy Storage Center.

The utility plans to build a 409 MW/900 MWh battery, to be powered by an existing FPL solar plant in Manatee County, Florida. It will begin serving customers in 2021.

FPL says the battery system will be able to power 329,000 homes for two hours. For comparison, FPL notes the battery system is equivalent to 100 million iPhone batteries, or 300 million AA batteries. The system will be used in periods of high demand.

The Manatee Energy Storage Center will accelerate the retirement of two natural gas units at a nearby power plant. FPL says the project will save customers more than $100 million while eliminating more than 1 million tons of carbon emissions, though no cost estimates for the project were disclosed.


Emphasis mine... "renewables" are now cheaper than fossil fuels, even natural gas, and this will be the driver of conversion, not legislation, environmental concerns or anything else.... just the free market at work. This is why I'm continually confused by so-called free-market fiscal conservatives opposing them (yes, I know they are being bought off by the fossils.)
1177) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Computer Doesn't Exist! (Message 1987795)
Posted 29 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I think that this is being caused by the errors from the carolyn server we're experiencing.

For example, your profile is giving the error so many others do:

Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 12276 of 12288 bytes in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/user/show_user.php on line 65 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/user/show_user.php on line 66 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/user/show_user.php on line 67 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/user/show_user.php on line 86
1178) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 1987634)
Posted 28 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Chicago police raided wrong home during child's birthday party

CHICAGO, Illinois -- A civil rights lawsuit claims that Chicago police raided the wrong house during a 4-year-old boy's birthday party.

A Chicago family alleges that 17 officers executed a search warrant on their home on Feb. 10, smashing the child's birthday cake and trashing the apartment.

Officers also pointed guns at the boy, Terrence Jackson, Jr., and his 7-year old sister,
the family said. The children's mother says her daughter is fearful of police.

The search warrant was for a suspect who had not lived there for five years. No one was arrested or charged. None of the contraband items listed in the warrant were found, the family's attorney said.


(Emphasis mine.)
1179) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (115) Server Problems? (Message 1987337)
Posted 27 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
all my stuck downloads cleared. things seem smooth, for now.


Dr. K. indicated that there was actually an issue with the campus networking... he's done a workaround so it seems to have resolved it. Whew. :^)
1180) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (115) Server Problems? (Message 1987293)
Posted 26 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
OK I let Dr. K. know about the downloads... it's early afternoon in Berkeley so he should be able to have a look at it (I hope.)
1181) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (115) Server Problems? (Message 1987284)
Posted 26 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Perfect and thanks all. :^)

I'll keep an eye on the downloads issue.
1182) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (115) Server Problems? (Message 1987278)
Posted 26 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If someone (sorry Siran... unsure how many you had) with a machine with a very large queue of uploads can confirm whether the bruno upload issue is resolved it would be appreciated... advised Dr. K. would let him know either way so he's sure the issue is gone. Thanks...
1183) Message boards : Politics : Venezuela's economic crisis was caused by US sanctions. US wants control over the largest oil reserves in the Americas. (Message 1987275)
Posted 26 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's as if you haven't read any thing posted above.


marmot, welcome to the Politics forum. I can tell somehow that you arrived here recently. 😆
It's just how things are done around here.
1184) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1987266)
Posted 26 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Extending socialized medicine to the impoverished saves babies and should be what any Pro-Lifer supports.


As with so much else, I think George Carlin summed this up perfectly.

Linked rather than quoted due to language... also some of it would not pass muster here even with censor marks. :^)
1185) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (115) Server Problems? (Message 1987206)
Posted 26 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hi Stephen. When I simply can't get enough work from SETI to keep my machines active, I change my local preferences cache to store 0.05 days of work and 0 additional days of work, then switch Einstein from "No new tasks" to "Allow new tasks".


You can do this without any manual intervention of changing settings back and forth... in the Project Preferences in your backup project's profile, set the Resource Share to "0" zero. BOINC will then only download a minimal amount of work to keep your CPU/GPU busy without keeping a cache, only when your primary project with a non-zero Resource Share cannot do so. You can then keep Allow New Tasks for the backup all the time so your computers don't sit idle pending intervention if the primary project is short of work or down.
1186) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1986975)
Posted 25 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What may have happened was not defending the integrity of our Constitution. But a possible attempt to subvert a Constitutionally elected Presidency.


If there had been no results, I might accept that, but given the number of indictments that resulted that were successful, many with the indicted being convicted including through confession (Papadopoulos, Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Pinedo, Cohen, Stone... these are just the Americans) I don't, and find this argument groundless. I strongly doubt given its success in this regard that that any "investigation of the investigation" will result in anything except the waste of time and money that this one was accused of being.

Again it is being portrayed as just being about Donald Trump, whereas its results demonstrate that the opposite was and is true.
1187) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1986967)
Posted 25 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
'...this $25 Million dollar fiasco.


I don't think it was one: it resulted in numerous indictments and confessions. This was not just about Donald Trump himself, but also those around him. It also exonerated him personally, which I think greatly increases his chances of re-election in 2020 (I thought you'd at least agree with that!)

$25 million to defend the integrity of the Constitution, the Union and the electoral process... well, that's what the military spends to do the same every twenty minutes (not an exaggeration.) Chump change.
1188) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : SETI@Home may not work properly on newer Android (7 and 8) devices (Message 1986905)
Posted 24 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If this is going to be your "active" phone, I actually recommend against running BOINC on it at full-bore without throttling it back, ie setting the max. battery temperature, num. CPU cores, and/or CPU percentage lower. This is based on personal experience with numerous devices.

This is because they were never designed for long-term continuous processing, so this causes two issues: First, they have little to no heat dissipation engineered in. Heat that collects in them tends to migrate to their most massive component: the battery. Second: when plugged in, rather than the charger's DC current going straight to the board and CPU, it only charges the battery, so the battery is constantly both charging and discharging. I noted that the batteries of devices I ran BOINC on always when plugged in at maximum almost immediately started to degrade as they do near end-of-life; battery life appears to be shortened considerably (ie by about half.)

So, instead, I run BOINC/SETI@Home continuously on our "retired" Android smartphones, WiFi only with no SIMs in them. The result of this: in every one of them the battery has swelled and burst the casing open.
1189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 71 (Message 1986670)
Posted 23 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The moon is a balloon has indeed been redoon.

Edit: not an entry... just commentary. :^)
1190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kitsch (Message 1986666)
Posted 23 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Other than that it was a rather useless song.


Well, it's historically important as it was the first video ever played on MTV. It is admittedly kitschy though.
1191) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1986658)
Posted 22 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
For anyone expecting the opposite: sorry to disappoint but Robert Mueller has already said he doesn't recommend any further indictments. Sell your popcorn futures, short if possible. :^)


(Edit: Just to clarify, he hasn't said this officially, but this is what all the sources in Justice have confirmed. Could still change but not likely.)
1192) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1986601)
Posted 22 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It was by the Saxons (Germans).


Don't forget the Normans and the Romans too...
1193) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1986386)
Posted 21 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Where did I say Trump's taxes were under IRS audit?


Donald Trump is claiming this himself.
1194) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1986346)
Posted 21 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It seems the US does not want to learn or change. :-(

....finally, it's beginning to sink in.........NO INFRINGEMENT......


So, full-autos for all then?

(I seem to never get a straight answer on this.) :^)
1195) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1986345)
Posted 21 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't remember anyone here calling Breitbart a "fake news site". Most of their stories are sourced from reputable mainstream sources and are factually correct. As an example of a "fake news site": Infowars, many of whose stories stories are sourced from nowhere, as they are made up by Infowars under the guise of reporting. They were the actual source of Pizzagate, the Sandy Hook "false flag" conspiracy and many others.

Rather, Breitbart is heavily biased and partisan, and its presentation can be deceptive. This story is a good example, as what is clearly satirical (this proposed bill) has been presented as serious in order to rile up its readers. The bill is supposed be ridiculous, to satirically demonstrate the intrusiveness of the state into women's reproductive choices by showing what the equivalent would be if men were treated similarly.

That you are calling authors of the bill "demented" (as well as the reaction to this story elsewhere) shows that Breitbart's tactic of reporting their proposed bill as a serious attempt at legislation seems to have been unfortunately successful.
1196) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Quantum World (Message 1986330)
Posted 21 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If we need liquid helium and microwaves to make a single atom work then I doubt anything more than research interest will come out of these efforts.
We shall see. I never thought that in the era of large IBM mainframes desktops would be anything more than a toy ==LOL.


Indeed... the (almost) first electronic computer, ENIAC, required an air conditioner to stay within thermal limits that weighed about sixty tons.
1197) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1986320)
Posted 21 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It took me three attempts, and I needed chemical assistance (patches.) Due to the first two, I was able to remember all of the tricks nicotine withdrawal plays with your psyche, including depression about two months in, ie "Life is just futile if I can't inhale burning leaves again." Yes, major loss there. :^p

However, it worked, and I haven't relapsed in over a decade.
1198) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Beginner (Message 1986263)
Posted 21 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some of the work as you noted may be recorded a long time ago. The scientists at SETI@Home are sending the data to us again as the techniques for analyzing it have improved, and been debugged, over the years, so perhaps we'll find something that was missed. As well they are looking for repeating signals (ie "beacons") meant to be found so older data is good to have.

If we do find something, it will be publicly announced. There's usually a release on the main page when they have candidate signals whose stars are going to be checked, so far nothing has resulted from these checks but I stay hopeful. :^)
1199) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Quantum World (Message 1986097)
Posted 20 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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To do a Level set and to help dispel my ignorance on the subject--let me just ask how a a four bit (QUBIT ?) full adder would work. Show the truth table, logic diagram and then the hardware please with the registers and the adder..


Here you go.

A qubit too much to post here, really. :^) Also not the specified number of bits but it's going to have to do.
1200) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Quantum World (Message 1986094)
Posted 20 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Your responses to this question were all things that are commonly done on today's digital computers.


Correct... very, very slowly. We don't use single-core CPUs and onboard unaccelerated VGA anymore for this reason. I think that trying to slow the inevitable progress of quantum computing is going to be about as successful as bringing them back as the standard.
1201) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1985980)
Posted 19 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, certainly no source can be said to be unbiased as one can always pick and choose what to report, even if the actual reporting is strictly factual... burying stories can have a similar effect to "spin". These are just the least offenders; like democracy being the "worst system in the world except for all the others."

I notice that you didn't mention Al Jazeera in there which is in the high centre and is certainly only minimally U.S.-influenced; you linked to one of their stories in another thread recently for just this reason.
1202) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1985906)
Posted 18 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This is worth noting...

Cuba has long had a nearly identical life expectancy to the United States, despite widespread poverty. The humanitarian-physician Paul Farmer notes in his book Pathologies of Power that there’s a saying in Cuba: “We live like poor people, but we die like rich people.” Farmer also notes that the rate of infant mortality in Cuba has been lower than in the Boston neighborhood of his own prestigious hospital, Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s.

All of this despite Cuba spending just $813 per person annually on health care compared with America’s $9,403.

In Cuba, health care is protected under the constitution as a fundamental human right. As a poor country, Cuba can’t afford to equivocate and waste money upholding that. This pressure seems to have created efficiency. Instead of pouring money into advanced medical technology, the system is forced to keep people healthy.


Even with a so-called private health care system, the U.S. spends $9,403 per person per year of public money on health care, whereas Canada with a public (OK... scary socialized) health care system spends just over half of that: $6,839 per person per year (Canadian) which is $5,142 U.S.

So by expenditure, U.S. health care is already almost twice as "socialist" as anyone else's. :^)
1203) Message boards : Number crunching : High performance Linux clients at SETI (Message 1985874)
Posted 18 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It seems we've finally found the ideal distro for those who refuse to transition until they get that full "Windows experience". 😀
1204) Questions and Answers : Windows : SETI bos is dying and I need assistance. (Message 1985708)
Posted 18 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The work will be redistributed if it is not completed. The best thing to do is Abort the tasks first... select them (use Shift+click to select a range) then click Abort and confirm. That way they are immediately reported as not completed to the server and will be re-sent right away. Otherwise with active tasks if the project is reset they may not be reported and then there will be a delay of whatever their timeout is (up to two months) before the servers time them out and redistribute them.
1205) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1985404)
Posted 15 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Sigh... this again..



Breitbart is too uncomfortably close to the Infowars sewer for my liking. :^p

I see CNN has taken a beating recently as well, way out of the circle.
1206) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Long time account no longer recognized - username based; not email (Message 1984457)
Posted 10 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
i lost my seti account when i changed my email address to a new computer i tried to get in and it said i already have a account at this address how do i get my project back


You appear to already be logged into the "lost"account on these forums as this account has 348,103 credit with three computers attached, and none contacted the servers since Oct. 2016.

So if you forgot the password to this account to attach one or more computers, click your account name at the top-right and then the "password" link beside "Change". Then you can choose a new password you know. You can also change the e-mail address there if required.
1207) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1984236)
Posted 9 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
We already knew this, but confirmation is good:

North Korea stole cryptocurrency via hacking: UN panel

UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea has used cyberattacks and blockchain technology to circumvent economic sanctions and obtain foreign currency, according to a panel of experts reporting to the U.N. Security Council.

Pyongyang has amassed around $670 million in foreign and virtual currency through cyberthefts, using blockchain technology to cover its tracks, the panel told the Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee in its annual report, Nikkei has learned.
1208) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1984178)
Posted 8 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So much for the I.o.T. Practically impossible to secure so many doors.


The most ridiculous example I have seen of this thus far.

I think "Nike's firmware update bricked my self-tying $350 IoT sneakers" may have reached Peak First World Problems. I wonder what the symptoms would be... could the wearer be infected with malware to cause them to kick people? Would they walk in circles? Could other components be affected by this causing a Blue Jean of Death? :^p
1209) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1984159)
Posted 8 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No, I don't, and I suggest you stop badgering myself and other forum members if they don't respond to you. Thank you.
1210) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1984112)
Posted 8 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As usual, I didn't ask you any of that, and you respond with another question without answering mine.
1211) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1984105)
Posted 8 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well... where is this superior non-"mega wealthy media masters" source of news then?

If you're going to put others down, you should instead suggest better sources.
Edit: And why would help as well.
1212) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1984103)
Posted 8 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Why these parents haven't been charged with child neglect and/or for the cost of the medical care is beyond me... (perhaps they have been for the latter, I hope.)

Unvaccinated 6-year-old boy was Oregon's first tetanus case in almost 30 years

A report showed that a 6-year-old unvaccinated boy from Oregon was with tetanus, the state's first case of its kind in nearly 30 years.

The young boy contracted the disease after he cut his forehead while playing outside on a farm, according to a report released by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday that details the 2017 case.
....
In total, the boy required nearly “8 weeks of inpatient care, followed by rehabilitation care, before he was able to resume normal activities,” the CDC said in the report.

Excluding the costs of air transportation, inpatient rehabilitation and ambulatory follow-ups, inpatient charges for the boy totaled $811,929.

But despite “extensive review of the risks and benefits of tetanus vaccination by physicians,” the boy’s parents declined a second dose of the tetanus-fighting medication and “any other recommended immunizations
.”


Emphasis mine.
1213) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1983845)
Posted 7 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Keyword: originally. Any takers on what that means? :^p
1214) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1983835)
Posted 7 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Social Democracy: "A socialist system of government achieved by democratic means.


No, that's democratic socialism. Social democracy:

"Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and a capitalist economy."
1215) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1983830)
Posted 7 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Under Socialism/Social Democracy...


Did you mean "Democratic Socialism"? You've identified/agreed with Social Democracy before.
1216) Message boards : News : We're back up. (Message 1983824)
Posted 7 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As Richard correctly noted, this is more of a personnel than a hardware shortfall.
1217) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1983640)
Posted 6 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Less we forget.....How many babies murdered at Planned Murderhood since Sandy Hook....


As per current law, most recently BAIPA 2002: Zero, that we know of. If you disagree with this, change the law.
1218) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (115) Server Problems? (Message 1983630)
Posted 6 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Chris, thank you for the reminder. I have written to Dr. K. several times over the years inquiring as to whether there is anything that the project needs to overcome these difficulties in the way of hardware etc. that we could hold a fundraiser for. I have had positive responses for expansions (ie Green Bank and Parkes) but not for anything for day-to-day operations, which may be mundane but are certainly required. So I've just sent off another one. In each of these I have expressed that he can ask anytime.

Thus, actually, "the ball in their court"...
1219) Message boards : Number crunching : How much data is available? Is SETI behind? (Message 1983419)
Posted 4 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Two good reasons I know of to reprocess old data:

1) Autocorrelation was only added a few years ago.
2) An error with the Gaussian curve fitting algorithm was also fixed at about the same time if I remember correctly.
1220) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1983411)
Posted 4 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
House Judiciary Committee launches investigation into potential Trump abuses

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Monday launched an investigation into potential Constitutional abuses and public corruption by President Donald Trump, sending a sweeping request for documents from the president’s family, businesses and administration.

Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the requests issued to 81 individuals and entities would help the committee probe three main topics: obstruction of justice, including the potential interference by the president into criminal investigations; public corruption, including violations of the emoluments clause; and abuses of power, including attacks on the free press, the judiciary and law enforcement agencies.
1221) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work available to process (Message 1983121)
Posted 3 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The project was just down for a couple of days, and this was possibly due to a malfunctioning download server (which still seems to be.) So backlog has piled on backlog and it may be days before it's clear... we'll have to be patient.
1222) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : No more work (Message 1982885)
Posted 1 Mar 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, this is a known issue: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83895
1223) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1982656)
Posted 28 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
POTUS shouldn't be getting on an airplane to go to a summit unless the deal is already done. Kim played him for the fool. Kim had a nice vacation, his intent all along.


Would not have been a summit then... would have been a signing ceremony. Other summits have resulted in no agreement, example: The U.S./Soviet summit of 1960. Was Eisenhower played for a fool by Krushchev?
1224) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1982643)
Posted 28 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The failure is so large it is Trumpian!
...
Kim really played him for a fool...


I don't get it... Kim wanted sanctions relief without disarming. Trump said no and that was the end of it. I don't understand how this is either a failure or how "Kim played him for a fool". Rather the opposite... it would have been if Kim had gotten sanctions removed while continuing to build nuclear weapons in "secret;" this was an attempt by Kim to play Trump for a fool that failed.
1225) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1982036)
Posted 24 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
---The Quarterly Review, March, 1825.
1226) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1981909)
Posted 23 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In January 2013, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Abraham Foxman said in a press release: "The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler's Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and their families." Later that year, Jewish groups and Jersey City, New Jersey, mayor Steven Fulop criticized the NRA for comparing gun control supporters to Nazi Germany. The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ released a statement saying: "Access to guns and the systematic murder of six million Jews have no basis for comparison in the United States or in New Jersey. The Holocaust has no place in this discussion and it is offensive to link this tragedy to such a debate."

In October 2015, in response to comments made by Ben Carson, history professor Alan E. Steinweis wrote in a New York Times piece:

"The Jews of Germany constituted less than 1 percent of the country's population. It is preposterous to argue that the possession of firearms would have enabled them to mount resistance against a systematic program of persecution implemented by a modern bureaucracy, enforced by a well-armed police state, and either supported or tolerated by the majority of the German population. Mr. Carson's suggestion that ordinary Germans, had they had guns, would have risked their lives in armed resistance against the regime simply does not comport with the regrettable historical reality of a regime that was quite popular at home. Inside Germany, only the army possessed the physical force necessary for defying or overthrowing the Nazis, but the generals had thrown in their lot with Hitler early on."

The view that had Jews in Germany been armed they could have stopped the Holocaust not only has little support among legal scholars and historians, it also has little support among human rights activists like Richard Lutz who wrote: "It is farcical for gun rights advocates to assert that Jewish civilians could have stopped the Holocaust if only they had ready access to firearms as they only constituted a tiny disorganized minority in areas under Nazi control, though some able-bodied Jews would undoubtedly have been able to put up more resistance as in the case of the Bielski partisans."


Source
1227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Scotch, Whiskey, and Port Drinkers Thread. (Message 1981581)
Posted 21 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
One five-hundredth the cost, and probably better.
1228) Message boards : Politics : OH MY GOoDness. YOU HAVE GOT to Listen to Andrew Yang (D) Presidential Candidate 2020. This GUY is INCREDIBLE!!! No Foolin' Broheims. This DUDE BLOWs Me Away. (Message 1981547)
Posted 21 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My missus had me watch a two-hour interview with him on YouTube and I was quite impressed. I'll dig up the link if no one else does when I can (blocked at work.) (Edit: Found it in my message cache. Here it is.) He seems very knowledgeable of the issues, understanding of all political "sides'" motivations, and more importantly, is not divisive. He indicated he is running as a Democrat as he admits that unfortunately in the U.S.'s polarized two-party system it's impossible to get elected otherwise, or he would be an independent.

He Is Runnin' DEMOCRAT, but with dA Way He SPAKEs, I DON'T CARE!!!!!


That's impressive, not only of him but also of you. It shows that you are not a "partisan" but determining the worth of candidate based on themselves rather than their party. I'm confident we'd find a lot more people were like that... if we had some better candidates!
1229) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1981536)
Posted 21 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Ah, but this has been planned for and there are guns even an APC can't take away...



(Shhh... cleverly disguised as a mailbox. No one will suspect a thing.) :^)
1230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Farewell and Rest In Peace - Gordon MacKenzie Lowe (Message 1981328)
Posted 20 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We are deeply saddened to report that our fellow friend, forum member, volunteer moderator and SETIzen Gordon MacKenzie Lowe died suddenly at his home in Louisville, Kentucky of heart failure, possibly on February 6th. Gordon lived alone and had no known family since his mother's death in 2017. As per his wishes, he will be buried without ceremony in Louisville. He will have a headstone if anyone wishes to visit him there (details will be provided when known.)

Gordon is already deeply missed... he was a gentleman of exemplary conduct and an integral part of the moderation team. It will not be the same here without him. Thank you for everything you did for us over the years, Gordon. You will not be forgotten.

-----------------

Update: Gordon's obituary page is here. He was interred today (Feb. 20) at Calvary Cemetery, 1600 Newburg Road, Louisville.


Gordon in happier times, with his mother Iva, and friend Vera
1231) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1981216)
Posted 20 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As far as I know, the only directive in the Qu'ran is that women (and men) should dress modestly when in public, and women should cover their bosoms. The over-the-top outfits are a tribal/sectarian affectation, but are in no way required. In fact while on Hajj, the niqab/burka (screen) veil is prohibited.
1232) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1981211)
Posted 20 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But then again how can one tell there is no existence of any god(s )?


That works for Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Thor, Zeus, etc. List is endless. :^)
1233) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1981201)
Posted 20 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
She's broken ... Sharia law.


I deny and reject the existence of any god(s).

There, so have I. And my statement is considered blasphemy, which is punishable by death in Sharia states.

"All I said was: that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!"
"Oooh! Blasphemy! He's said it again!"

:^)
1234) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1981198)
Posted 20 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The opinion piece ran in his print-only newspaper, the Democrat-Reporter...

He said Democrats were going to raise taxes and that the KKK should hang them and raid Washington DC.


Quoted with emphasis and some bewilderment. (Yes, the paper was probably named after the pre-1948 Dixiecrat Democrats... but it's still utterly bizarre nonetheless.)
1235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein has passed. (Message 1981160)
Posted 19 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (also The Fellowship) is a philanthropic organization founded in 1983 by Yechiel Eckstein....
1236) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1981008)
Posted 18 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've created this thread for discussion of this issue as it is derailing the Donald Trump thread. I will try to move only posts that do not reference him or his presidency and discuss socialism independently of same here. Thank you.
1237) Message boards : Politics : Amazon (in New York) (Message 1980875)
Posted 17 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've created this thread for discussion of this issue as it has derailed the Donald Trump thread. Thank you.
1238) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1980192)
Posted 14 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is why I have always maintained that Mueller's investigation should be allowed to proceed as it may have the unexpected effect of exonerating the POTUS, which as noted would increase his chance of re-election. It is possible that any Russian involvement was orchestrated by his entourage, rather than himself. As to whether he had knowledge, this may be unanswerable.
1239) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : DISASTER WITHOUT - WITHOUT MS UPDATE (Message 1979792)
Posted 10 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This setting is controlled on your local BOINC client under Tools > Computing preferences... > Processor usage tab, not the SETI@Home preferences on your profile on this site.
1240) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1979302)
Posted 8 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Barring felons from voting


This has also had the side of effect of disenfranchising plenty of non-felons as well who (were claimed to) have names similar to actual felons.
1241) Message boards : Politics : Socialism (Message 1978827)
Posted 6 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Why do people so often cite the failures of Democratic socialism by cherry picking their examples?


Call it splitting hairs, but those I would class as Social Democracy rather than Democratic Socialism. "Socialism" as with other political terminology is an oft-misused word. In true socialism, the government owns the means of production ie factories, businesses and farms. In Social Democracy, the means of production is private, but taxed to support the social programs that socialized production would otherwise support.

I think that experience has shown that private production is important because of that one critical factor that ironically its purveyors are always trying to eliminate: competition. Without competition, one industry will dominate a market and it will stagnate with no innovation required, because there is no need to if they already have all possible customers, not having any choice. Without competition we'd still be paying millions for building-sized computers filled with vacuum tubes, and as powerful as dollar-store pocket calculators are these days. This has been borne out in the biological world, where competition is called "natural selection" and has produced exquisite innovations over time, and even scientifically codified into AI where algorithms can solve problems much faster by competing against each other for the solution and varying depending on what works.

Thus, I don't mind capitalism as long as it is regulated to avoid becoming corrupt, or corrupting, and supports the society that in turn supports it by being well-off enough to be customers.
1242) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1978602)
Posted 4 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
OOPS


"...it cannot repay most of $190 million in client holdings after its 30-year-old founder Gerald Cotten, the only person who knew the passwords to its “cold storage,” unexpectedly died in India in December 2018"

I wonder if $190 million is enough to fake one's own death over.... hmmm.
1243) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 1978523)
Posted 4 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Marine Vet Films Traffic Stop From His Porch; California Cop Gives Him a Concussion

On January 22, Adrian Burrell was at his home in Vallejo, California, when he saw his cousin outside with his hands in the air. The cousin, Michael Walton, was standing next to his motorcycle with his back to a police officer. "He can't hear you. He has his helmet on," Burrell told the officer, according to the account he later gave to KGO. At that point, he says, the cop told him to go back in his house.

Instead, Burrell, who is a filmmaker, opted to record the incident. Even if he hadn't been standing on his own private property, this would be within his rights. In California, citizens can film on-duty police officers as long as they aren't interfering in their work. In this case, Burrell tells The San Francisco Chronicle, he was on his porch—more than 20 feet away from what was going on.
...
"Get back," the officer tells Burrell. "No," he replies. (Burrell notes to the Chronicle that his back was already up against the side of his home.) The officer then walks toward Burrell, holstering his weapon as he does so. "You're interfering with me, my man?" he asks. "You're interfering, you're going to get one from the back of the car."

"That's fine," Burrell responds. The officer starts handcuffing Burrell, and tells him to "stop resisting."

"I'm not resisting you," Burrell says, as the officer threatens to take him down. "Stop fighting or you're going to go on the ground," the cop says.

It's hard to see what happens next, and the camera eventually goes dark. "He handcuffed me and threw me into this wall here," Burrell tells KGO. "Swung my body into that pole there, where I knocked my head. He took me to the car and detained me and told me I was going to jail." Burrell wrote on Facebook that he sufferred a concussion as a result of the officer's actions.

...

Burrell, who is black, suspects his race was a factor in the incident. "I'm not a lawyer," tells the Bay Area News Group. "I'm not a detective. I'm just somebody who went with something and am trying to figure it out, and understand that historically these things happen to people who look like me and in communities like this."


Yes, there is excellent video corroboration...
1244) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here. (Message 1978460)
Posted 3 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
IfN dA Lt.GUVofVA was a WHITE GOPTer, NOT ONE of dA DEM/Libs SCREECHin' for GUV RALPHeeeHEEEtoRESIGN would be DOin' So.


LEFTistHATERs LOVE Their OWN. ROTFLMMFAO!!!!!


Quite amazing how the same people can simultaneously love him as their own and screech for his resignation...
1245) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1978310)
Posted 2 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This quote is not from John Adams himself, but instead from the John Adams character in a 1969 play about the American Revolution.

This of course says nothing about its validity... I'll leave that to the reader. :^)
1246) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1978066)
Posted 1 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I Love FREE HEAT

ManMadeClimateCHANGE is

DENIED

Again.


I imagine that since the compelling argument "It's cold in the winter. Climate change denied!" isn't convincing anyone, you could try "It's hot in the winter. Climate change denied!" and see if there's any new takers.
1247) Questions and Answers : Windows : Data Usage (Message 1978039)
Posted 1 Feb 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The most work units I saw your single computer completing in a day is 10. A standard work unit is about 300KB, and the result about 10-30KB if I remember correctly. So if you did that for a whole month, you'd use about 10,230KB or about 10MB of network data.

This is one-hundredth of a gigabyte, so about one-hundred-thousandth of your usage in January. So, it's definitely not this project and I would strongly suggest checking your network for unauthorized usage. If you have WiFi on your network ie in your cablemodem or router, use WPA2 not WPA and definitely not WEP as the security on it, and change your WiFi password.
1248) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 1977151)
Posted 26 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And most importantly, how could a heavily trained cop accidentally fire the gun straight into Alix’s chest?


They were apparently playing Russian Roulette.
1249) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1977123)
Posted 26 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You mean that the US has had a President worse than Trump.
That I cannot believe.


Well, as I have noted before... until he is (manipulated?) into starting a war on laughably weak evidence to steal another nation's resources, resulting in at least the deaths of at least half a million people in that nation and several thousand U.S. service personnel, and a predicted power vacuum quickly filled by the worst terrorist group in recent history which requires a further war to root it out, he has a long way to go to catch up to George W. Bush.

I do concur him a possible #2 spot though depending on the criteria... I think he finally blew it with the whole shutdown mess.
1250) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1976317)
Posted 21 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Sometimes memes are worth it.......


That one certainly is. :^)
1251) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1975882)
Posted 19 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I didn't like this story because, even if it were true, it summarizes as "Buzzfeed said that Cohen said that Trump said..." A court would rule this inadmissible hearsay. Hard evidence (digitally signed e-mails, authenticated recordings, signed letters, etc.) please.
1252) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1975343)
Posted 15 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
To a different degree, I blame both sides.


Don't forget that this shutdown didn't start now. It started on Dec. 22nd, when the Republican president couldn't get the Republican Senate or Republican House to pass the spending bill with wall funding in it. The Republicans had all three, yet this is somehow now the Democrats' doing? And it's strange that Mr. Trump had two years to pass this prior, but it only was introduced just after the Democrats won the House majority (but not before they were actually in place.)

Trump also said, himself, that he would take the blame for the shutdown.
1253) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1974560)
Posted 10 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Conveniently forgotten past border wall funding by then Senators Obama, Hillary Clinton and present Democrat Minority Leader Schumer.


I don't think anyone else has funded or even seriously proposed a complete partition running the entire length of the border before, only small partitions along the most-travelled routes.
1254) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1974494)
Posted 10 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... technology - drones, video surveillance, etc. - would be more cost effective than the extremely expensive and complicated construction of a physical barrier.


Even if a wall is built, the same level of technology will be needed anyway or it will be immediately breached whether with ladders or dynamite. It would have to be continuously monitored electronically, as a wall that long would otherwise need ten thousand or so paid government employees watching it 24x7. So either the technology or employees would then make the wall itself unnecessary.
1255) Message boards : Politics : How is agent Orange leaving? 25th Amendment? Handcuffs? Both? (Message 1973918)
Posted 7 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As I've also noted before (as I am sure have many others) treason isn't even applicable... it's a charge of collaboration with an actual enemy specifically in a declared state of war. Even the Rosenbergs were not charged and convicted of (and executed for) treason for selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, but for conspiracy to commit espionage.
1256) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Theories on why we haven't found alien life yet (Message 1973597)
Posted 5 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
9) Because we ruined our eyes trying to read that scaled-down image. :^)

Here is a much larger/more readable version.
1257) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1973416)
Posted 4 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Republican party employees are "leftist haters" now? (And not in the "haters of leftists" context... :^p )
1258) Questions and Answers : Windows : Windows 10 vs Linux performance for Nvidia GPU's (Message 1973411)
Posted 4 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The (vast?) majority of Linux systems with recent CUDA-ready cards are not "tweaked" per se, but are running a completely different and heavily optimized client. Its performance is between two and three times that of the stock Windows client and just under twice that of the SoG optimized Windows client.

You can find out how to install it here.
1259) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1973410)
Posted 4 Jan 2019 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Certainly not:

"6. Attack on day zero: a security gap that's closed too late"


Developer issue. :^p
1260) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1972170)
Posted 27 Dec 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You've now reiterated the same assertions twice, including that they were open and thus communicating about it, so it would be appreciated if you could provide actual specific examples including statements.
1261) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1970162)
Posted 13 Dec 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Trump sets 'terrible precedent' by crossing red line on Huawei case.


The result of Trump's ham-fisted diplomacy, mouthing off that he is using the arrested Huawei exec. as a bargaining chip to leverage China into a new trade deal, is that the Chinese government is very angry with Canada, has arbitrarily arrested and detained two Canadians in China on bogus vague "national security" charges, is urging boycotts of Canadian-made products (Canada Goose is "down" (no pun intended) 20%) and may lead to long-term problems with our relationship with China.

Why Canada is being punished for this is beyond me, as we are beholden to our extradition treaty with the U.S.; if we don't arrest people wanted in the U.S. if the proper paperwork is done, then they won't either and Canadian criminals can use the U.S. as a hideout. I imagine it's simply because we have no nukes (we are aware of) and a tenth the population, so are a more target for bullying.

Again, this sort of behaviour was predicted for someone with zero political/diplomatic experience whose CV is filled with single-owner corporations comprised of "yes men." Sigh...
1262) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 1969901)
Posted 11 Dec 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Meanwhile, in Canada....

:^)
1263) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Fusion power on the grid within 15 years? (Message 1969127)
Posted 7 Dec 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I do agree that progress has been made, because when I was young, fusion power was perpetually 30 years away. but now it's perpetually 15 years away. Progress! :^)

//ducks out of thread
///It would be wonderful if it was actually achieved, especially for our long-term viability as a technological and eventually interplanetary species, so I do hope the research continues apace.
1264) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1969103)
Posted 7 Dec 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
.....oh, and stop murdering children in the womb.


Corollary: Stop murdering sometimes-innocent convicts.
1265) Message boards : Politics : Gender (Message 1967927)
Posted 30 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The one thing that Political Correctness cannot change

Humanity is divided into 2:
Male
Female
Which again is divided into 2:
Adult
Child


I do suggest that before making pronouncements like this that seem more suited to a sermon, that you read up on the actual scientific, biological basis of gender and how it can often become complicated.

Here's a very good article from one of the premiere scientific journals to get started.
1266) Message boards : Politics : China (Message 1967926)
Posted 30 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The only one ever to come close to it, was the Mongol Empire.


Bzzzt....

The Mongol Empire peaked at 24,000,000 km² in a horizontal swath of Eurasia only. The British Empire was the largest ever at peak 35,500,000 km² in every continent except Antarctica.
1267) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1966088)
Posted 18 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Many Finns have been astonished by Donald Trump's statement that the forests should be raked in Finland.


1268) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1965185)
Posted 14 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't think that I'd like to be at the Christmas Party just for starters. :-O


Ironically, there would be much less risk if it was literally just for "starters". :^)
1269) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1965168)
Posted 14 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fox News, other outlets back CNN’s lawsuit against Trump administration

Fox News joined a number of media outlets on Wednesday in announcing that they would back rival CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Fox News President Jay Wallace said in a statement that the network intends to file an amicus brief with a U.S. District Court in the lawsuit.

CNN filed suit against the White House on Tuesday seeking the return of correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials, which were revoked last week after a testy exchange with President Trump during a press conference.

“FOX News supports CNN in its legal effort to regain its White House reporter’s press credential. We intend to file an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court. Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized," Wallace said.

"While we don’t condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the President and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges for the American people.”
1270) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1965078)
Posted 14 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just speaking of those Religious and Secular Humans in Power in general.

Unless one believes that their Religious or Secular Humans in Power are incorruptible and the other side isn't.

The Passions of the Day shouldn't deflect from the historical truth regarding humans holding the reigns of power.

Edit: Think of the alternative to Trump, which was Hillary and her 'Foundation' [sic].


As expected, this non-sequitur had nothing to do whatsoever with what I asked. So I will answer for you: zero. This is, incidentally, also the number of criminal charges and indictments that proceeded from the two year investigation of her e-mail server, and the ten investigations (over half from Republican-controlled committees) into the Benghazi attack: zero.
1271) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1965045)
Posted 13 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes Gary, both sides are the same.


Really? 33 indicted including 6 Americans, 6 pleaded guilty and one found guilty... so far. How many from the "other side"?
1272) Questions and Answers : Web site : Forum posts no longer word-wrapping (Message 1963825)
Posted 8 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've just noticed today that forum posts will break words, and not just at a hyphen, rather than wrapping the entire word to the next line. I checked on a couple of lines and it isn't by character length as they were different (one broke at 260 chars., one at 268.)

Noticed on both my browsers (Firefox 63.0 and Chrome 70.0.3538.77, both up to date, on Ubuntu-flavoured Linux.)

Anyone else notice this?
1273) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1963764)
Posted 7 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Actually that does not apply. Impeachment isn't a criminal trial and quite possibly the 4th, 5th and 6th don't apply either. Fortunately we have never had a POTUS that was such an idiot as to force those issues to be decided.


I'm using the phrase "until proven guilty" to mean "until due process of law such as impeachment conviction has determined otherwise"... just doesn't have the same ring to it.
1274) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1963761)
Posted 7 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Cause? https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663933067/emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump-can-go-forward-judge-says


"Innocent until proven guilty" still applies. :^)
1275) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1963749)
Posted 7 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So I take it the odds for resignation/impeachment has shortened?


I would speculate from "impossible" to "highly unlikely" for several reasons.

1) Impeachment may be initiated by the House, but it would have to be confirmed by a (more) Republican-dominated Senate. Not going to happen without very good cause.
2) There's no very good cause (yet?) Trump may not be the most likeable president (bit of an understatement) personally with his 3am toilet tweets, bluster and balderdash, but he's doing his job, "innocent until proven guilty" still applies, he hasn't started any wars... etc.
3) The GOP may have lost the House, but they gained in the Senate. Clinton and Obama both had worse midterms in which they lost in both houses. So not a chance of resignation either (Edit: other than for that "very good cause" of course, something unrelated to just the performance in the midterms. I'm pretty sure getting his tax returns released is going to be a priority, for example.)
1276) Message boards : Politics : U.S. voting (Message 1963676)
Posted 6 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I think turnout is going to be very heavy everywhere... this is a contentious election.

Whoever you all may vote for, get out there and exercise that right that so many millions (billions?) of people only dream of, that so many gave their lives for: the right to choose your leaders, your laws, and your futures. Vote like they depended on it.

Vote. No excuses.
1277) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1963478)
Posted 5 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's basically a given these days that no one lighter than paper bag will ever be called a "terrorist" whereas anyone darker than one, especially with a Middle Eastern name, will be labeled as such sometimes as soon as the story has broken.

I've come to the conclusion that this is due to the fact that if someone is labeled a terrorist, law enforcement must then investigate their "network" ie who or what radicalized them, who put them up to the act, who else they may know in the same clique. And in the case of white nationalists/supremacists, there may be some people who don't want this investigated.
1278) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : EVGA GeFrce GTX 460 (Message 1962768)
Posted 1 Nov 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You absolutely must connect the 2x6pin connectors to your power supply (use the PCIe connectors... if they are 8-pin two of the pins' connector can be separated off) or the card won't be recognized.

The GTX460 works fine with SETI@Home. You can download up-to-date drivers here: https://www.geforce.com/drivers
1279) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1962664)
Posted 31 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


Happy Hallowe'en!
(Would this be a Trumpkin?)

I'm never getting over the border now. :^)
1280) Message boards : Nebula : Improved multiplet-finding (Message 1962579)
Posted 30 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There any chance of someday seeing a Zooniverse version of this like say... Gravity Spy?


There was already a project as you describe on Zooniverse: SETILive however it ceased in 2014.
1281) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Things left behind on the moon (Message 1962452)
Posted 29 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


One scientific instrument left on the moon is still usable...

Lunar laser ranging measurement data is available from the Paris Observatory Lunar Analysis Center, and the active stations. Some of the findings of this long-term experiment are:

- The Moon is spiraling away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 cm per year. This rate has been described as anomalously high.
- The Moon probably has a liquid core of about 20% of the Moon's radius.
- The universal force of gravity is very stable. The experiments have constrained the change in Newton's gravitational constant G to a factor of (2±7)×10−13 per year.
- The likelihood of any "Nordtvedt effect" (a differential acceleration of the Moon and Earth towards the Sun caused by their different degrees of compactness) has been ruled out to high precision, strongly supporting the validity of the strong equivalence principle.
- Einstein's theory of gravity (the general theory of relativity) predicts the Moon's orbit to within the accuracy of the laser ranging measurements.
- Gauge freedom plays a major role in a correct physical interpretation of the relativistic effects in the Earth-Moon system observed with LLR technique


Not bad for a mirror. :^)
1282) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1962448)
Posted 29 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You think one guy with his prayer book in one hand and a revolver in the other would have made the difference?


Possibly, if he was trained, as the terrorist (yes that is the proper term) would not be expecting that, but this is missing the point, I think, the point instead being that it's madness to suggest that citizens should be armed and fearing for their lives everywhere. Doing so in a place of worship is something expected from Baghdad, Saudi Arabia etc. where sectarian violence is unfortunately a way of life, not the United States.

And yet still no mention of the "t-word" anywhere in his charges:

Bowers was charged with 11 state counts of criminal homicide, six counts of aggravated assault and 13 counts of ethnic intimidation. He was also charged in a 29-count federal criminal complaint that included counts of obstructing the exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death -- a federal hate crime -- and using a firearm to commit murder.


Terrorism is the use of violence for political ends/objectives. I don't think this could get much more accurate of a definition...



Ah, right... silly me.
1283) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1962181)
Posted 27 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My unity message:



Brief and to the point.
1284) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1962163)
Posted 27 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Really, anti-trump? You must be reading fake news again. Since his posts were pro #MAGA, somehow I can't feature that for an anti-trumper.


He was pretty clear that he thought Trump was too much of a moderate because he didn't expel all Jewish people from the United States... this was his interpretation of "#MAGA".

I can't link to them as linking to hate material is not permitted here, but I'm sure his "collection" is easy to find if verification is required. Not safe for work and rather disturbing though.
1285) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1962008)
Posted 26 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
OH OH OH How dA FAKERs will SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM when dA FACTs are REVEALed.


Such as that he's been a registered Republican since at least 2016 when he voted in the Presidential election?

Unless someone has a time machine, that would be rather hard to contrive.
1286) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1961958)
Posted 26 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The second one certainly requires more abstract thought processes, so in a way it's flattering to the left to ascribe that capacity to them.


it even goes further than that....

Packages with bombs sent by mail this week to prominent political figures and critics of President Donald Trump appear to have been littered with spelling mistakes.

The package addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan — which Business Insider has seen pictures of — misspelled his name as "Brenan" and misidentified the TV network he contributes to.

It listed Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida as the sender but spelled her name as "Shultz" and her home state as "Florids."
1287) Message boards : Politics : The situation in the Middle East is in chaos (Message 1961516)
Posted 22 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"All I did was torture to death and hack to pieces a United States permanent resident just because he disagreed with me. Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"

I had high hopes for the crown prince with his (probably Potemkin) reforms, but that has long since evaporated. :^(
1288) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1961288)
Posted 21 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
BTW: A privately owned restaurant is not a Public Place. It is a Privately Owned Space with Public Access. Who can call Law Enforcement to stop those disturbing their customers.


Ya think? I guess I should have included that little caveat.

What may not apply is the speaker's right to be in the private property making that speech, which is a different issue altogether. If the owner or their appointed delegate asks the speaker to leave and they do not, then they are committing the offense of trespassing and may be arrested.


Oh... right. I did.
1289) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1961263)
Posted 20 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You really believe that entering restaurants, disrupting and putting fear into their non involved patrons, is covered under the 1st Amendment?


Actually it is. If the speech is in itself legal, ie the speaker could not be arrested for it in a public place, then the First Amendment applies.

What may not apply is the speaker's right to be in the private property making that speech, which is a different issue altogether. If the owner or their appointed delegate asks the speaker to leave and they do not, then they are committing the offense of trespassing and may be arrested.

This well-known comic explains it nicely. Unfortunately, I can't post the image directly due to language. I have a cleaned-up version I uploaded but I'm away from home and forgot the URL. I'll edit it in when I get the chance...

Edit: And here it is...

1290) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1960776)
Posted 18 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Where will he stop...or when?


This is another issue where both I am in agreement with Mr. Trump, and very few other politicians would have the gall to actually resolve it. And I am sure we have all seen it as well, simply from buying goods from eBay. How else are Chinese sellers able to offer free shipping to anywhere on Earth for items where the postage itself would normally be worth more than the item? Because China has kept its "developing nation" status with the postal union even while becoming arguably the world's largest economy, or if not a very close second.
1291) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1960712)
Posted 18 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As for your's truly, I'll double-look left and right even at green lights for the next few weeks =:)


Indeed.... Winnipeg's 1st toking and driving ticket issued 1 hour into legalization

Ah, Winnipeg. Staying classy as always... :^)
1292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Paul Allen (Message 1960483)
Posted 15 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, dead at 65

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world's biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family said.

Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a corporate juggernaut, following a dispute with Gates, but his share of their original partnership allowed him to spend the rest of his life and billions of dollars on yachts, art, rock music, sports teams, brain research and real estate.

Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer, the Allen family said in a statement.


Closer to home, Paul Allen was a huge contributor to SETI research via his funding of the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array.
1293) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1960456)
Posted 15 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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COMPOSing & ORCHESTRATing ... SupposedMURDer of a Journo


Big shocker: it appears you may have been incorrect.

Saudi officials will admit Jamal Khashoggi died in an interrogation gone wrong, sources say

Keep mind that this hasn't gone "official" yet, but I doubt it won't.

The Saudis are preparing a report that will acknowledge Jamal Khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation that went wrong — one that was intended to lead to his abduction from Turkey, according to two sources.

One source says the report will likely conclude that the operation was carried out without clearance and transparency and that those involved will be held responsible.


Must be those "rogue elements" that can get diplomatic passports and back-door access to a secure consulate.
Maybe it's the "interrogators" that just happen to bring a bone saw to "interrogations"...
1294) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1959998)
Posted 13 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The teacher has been suspended from teaching. We can all rest easier now that this dire threat has been neutralized.
1295) Message boards : SETI@home Science : National Academy of Sciences report: An Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe (Message 1959926)
Posted 12 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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NASA Should Expand the Search for Life in the Universe and Make Astrobiology an Integral Part of its Missions, Says New Report

Oct. 10, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NASA Should Expand the Search for Life in the Universe and Make Astrobiology an Integral Part of its Missions, Says New Report

WASHINGTON – To advance the search for life in the universe, NASA should support research on a broader range of biosignatures and environments, and incorporate the field of astrobiology into all stages of future exploratory missions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, is a rapidly changing field, especially in the years since the publication of NASA’s Astrobiology Strategy 2015. Recent scientific advances in the field now provide many opportunities to strengthen the role of astrobiology in NASA missions and to increase collaboration with other scientific fields and organizations. The report finds that these changes necessitate an updated science strategy for astrobiology.

The committee that authored the report found that the lines of evidence we use to look for current and past life on Earth and beyond, called biosignatures, needs expansion. An updated, more sophisticated catalog and framework will be important to enhance our ability to detect both life that might be similar to terrestrial life, and potential life that differs from life as we know it. The latter will be enabled by investigating novel “agnostic” biosignatures – signs of life that are not tied to a particular metabolism or molecular “blueprint,” or other characteristics of life as we currently know it.

A comprehensive framework could also aid in distinguishing between biosignatures and abiotic (non-living) phenomena, and improve understanding of the potential for biosignatures to be preserved (or not) over long planetary time-scales. The report highlights the need to include in situ detection of energy-starved or otherwise sparsely distributed life such as chemolithotrophic or rock-eating life. In particular, the report found that NASA should focus on research and exploration of possible life below the surface of a planet in light of recent advances that have demonstrated the breadth and diversity of life below Earth’s surface, the nature of fluids beneath the surface of Mars, and the likelihood of life-sustaining geological processes in planets and moons with subsurface oceans. A renewed focus on how to seek signs of subsurface life will inform astrobiology investigations of other rocky planets or moons, ocean or icy worlds, and beyond to exoplanets.


As it was "congressionally mandated" I'm hoping we will see plenty of new NASA initiatives... perhaps even some for a SETI project (or even this one!... AstroPulse is already an NSF project.)
1296) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1959814)
Posted 11 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Kayne West visited the White House today... pretty much as expected.

The rapper then offered his thoughts on the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865.

West said he wanted to “abolish the trap door called the 13th Amendment,” because, he said, when the amendment was written it was illegal for blacks to read.

“That meant if you actually read the amendment, you’d get locked up and turned into a slave!” West exclaimed, clapping his hands for emphasis.


That is some "If she weighs more than a duck, she must be a witch" quality reasoning right there.

In an extraordinary, mostly uninterrupted rant, West said that he was recently diagnosed as being bipolar, but he insisted the diagnosis was wrong and that he was merely sleep-deprived.


Well, thank you for finally giving us a proper explanation for this bizarre situation.
1297) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1959797)
Posted 11 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... and SupposedMURDer of a Journo - ALL TO AFFECT Nov.Elections...


How could this possibly affect any US elections? Are the president, vice-president, house and senate expected to magically know in advance what the Saudis are plotting in their own embassy on a different continent?
1298) Message boards : News : NASA Technosignatures Workshop Webcast (Message 1959742)
Posted 11 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I just tried with both of those browsers and they both worked fine for me.
1299) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1959721)
Posted 11 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please, please stop believing or even entertaining the silly ideas thrown about on extremist websites. This is not post-nuclear anarchy. You have a functioning society with law enforcement and courts. If anyone assassinates anyone, they will be quickly arrested, tried in a court of law, and spend the rest of their miserable lives incarcerated (including up until their execution depending on state.)

Sigh...
1300) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1959546)
Posted 10 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Free speech is not Free, it has a price, that price is CIVILITY in disagreement...


Does this include calling the about half the citizens of the country by membership or affiliation "Dims"?

Just checking. ;^)
1301) Message boards : Politics : Kavanaugh (Message 1959284)
Posted 8 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We have never, excepting Alcohol Probation, reduced any Individual Rights because of the Passions of the Day.

Tobacco, helmets for cyclists, seat belts in cars, drugs, I disagree.
Frankly I do agree with these restrictions.


This seems to be where the current disagreement started, and it appears to have been a due to a misunderstanding. Clyde meant that there was any restriction in the U.S. Constitution of personal liberties of anything except alcohol usage, which was of course soon repealed. All of these examples were outside the Constitution and had nothing to do with it so are irrelevant.

(Of course I'm sure some ugly-minded people have claimed that the 13th was a restriction of their right to own other humans, but of course as that amendment affirmed vastly more rights than it took away, I discount them. :^p)
1302) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1958935)
Posted 6 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"....Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation would tilt America's highest court in favour of conservatives"

The nine-member panel has the final say on issues such as abortion, gun control and voting rules and justices are appointed for life."

....and there are two more Justices in their 80's .......
....and Trump has AT LEAST 2 more years in office..........

I've had this silly grin on my face since 11/7/2016.......


So basically, you've stated that you prefer a strongly biased court, as long as it's a bias you agree with. That can certainly lead to disappointment if it's someone else's preferred biases getting appointed.

Myself, in the interest of a Supreme Court that actually rules only on the legality and evidence of the cases before it, would prefer that all justices everywhere be "swing votes" without a predetermined agenda.
1303) Message boards : Number crunching : Errors on android, all tasks (Message 1958570)
Posted 5 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This thread may be useful... SETI@Home may not work with some Android 7 or higher devices. For some, letting tasks error out may eventually lead to tasks that work (slowly) but not always.
1304) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin GPU-based Mining Machines good for BOINC / SETI? (Message 1958560)
Posted 5 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SOG stands for...


From the author:

Signals on GPU.

It means spikes, autocorrs and gaussians are stored completely on GPU now and retrieved only on checkpoints. Much less synching for some ARs and hence much less issues with NV's realisation of that synching in their OpenCL runtime.
And perhaps better GPU usage after all.
1305) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin GPU-based Mining Machines good for BOINC / SETI? (Message 1958216)
Posted 3 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I currently have 9 nVidia GPUs running on a Gigabyte FinTech board without using any special settings. The board will handle up to 12 GPUs...


Those boards have almost all PCIe x1 tiny slots for dedicated miner cards. Are you using x1 miner 1060s or risers/adapters to fit x16 full-size cards to them?
1306) Message boards : Politics : Trade War (Message 1958076)
Posted 1 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The biggest impediment to this agreement was the dairy industry, who have been among the largest lobbyists for "supply management" ie extreme tariffs and subsidies. They are angry already at the concessions...

Lessons for Canada from New Zealand’s dairy industry (note that this is from over two years ago and TVO is our Ontario government TV station, not a dubiously accurate "think tank") :

Tiny New Zealand, with a population just one-eighth that of Canada, is on a quest to quench the world’s thirst for milk. Today milk is the country’s biggest export, and 95 per cent of what Kiwi farmers produce goes abroad, mostly to China.

Compare that to Canada, where dairy farmers keep fighting to protect their supply management system, which means higher milk prices for consumers and puts a strain on Canada’s trading relationships. Only five per cent of what Canada produces is exported.

While Canada is wringing its hands about what to do about the dairy sector, the question to ask is: Will ending supply management spell doom for Canadian dairy farmers?

Since moving to a free-market model from subsidies and tariffs, dairy in New Zealand has become the country’s top export earner. Overseas shipments last year, totalling NZ$11.9 billion worth of milk, accounted for about two per cent of world production, according to a report by the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand.
1307) Questions and Answers : Web site : Change name on account (Message 1957976)
Posted 1 Oct 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Click your account name at the top-right, then beside "Change" click "other account info" and you can edit the "Screen name" and click "Update info" to save it.
1308) Message boards : Number crunching : Why does team avg not go up. (Message 1957123)
Posted 24 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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FreeDC shows this team's RAC is 249,160 today and was 247,363 yesterday. It is growing.
1309) Message boards : Number crunching : Why does team avg not go up. (Message 1957113)
Posted 24 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The team RAC only rises with work returned after a team member joins. Their personal RAC is not immediately added to the team RAC.
1310) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Would the Governments of the World Try to Suppress News of a SETI Discovery? (Message 1957026)
Posted 23 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My personal hypothesis is that our universe is one of a virtual particle-antiparticle pair as is found on a very tiny scale, so the "anti"-universe went speeding off in another direction but will eventually meet again... it all has to balance and cancel out of course or we'd be getting something for nothing. :^)
1311) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Would the Governments of the World Try to Suppress News of a SETI Discovery? (Message 1957009)
Posted 23 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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you mean the opposite of electrons...


He means antiparticles.... they are literally"anti"-matter as they perfectly annihilate "normal" matter on contact into energy as per old Albert's famous equation, thus the name.
1312) Message boards : Politics : Food for thought and life (Message 1956638)
Posted 21 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I certainly don't mind eating adult domesticated animals... they only exist because we raised them for our use, after all. Wild-caught fish, well, I don't think they have much in the way of minds so I don't feel bad for them. But whatever we eat, we need to slaughter it humanely with as little pain as possible. ie I consider dropping a conscious lobster or crab into a pot of boiling water as an act of animal cruelty/abuse.
I won't eat hunted wild mammal animals (ie venison) because the animal had earned a life of its own without our assistance and doesn't owe us anything... yes, of course (other) predators also eat them, but we cheat with our firearms etc., and the predators don't have a choice because they are driven by instinct alone and can't survive otherwise.
I won't eat baby farmed animals ie veal or lamb because I think it's unethical to knowingly slaughter a baby anything, and what veal calves go through in their short and miserable lives would qualify as animal cruelty/abuse if performed on cat or dog.
And I won't eat ducks, frogs or rabbits simply because they are cute and I feel bad for them.

This is of course my own personal ethos which I don't expect others to share...
1313) Message boards : Politics : Food for thought and life (Message 1956583)
Posted 21 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I usually take one by one and put them in water with the head first to make the procedure quick.


That won't work with lobsters as they have a more decentralized nervous system than vertebrates. If you want to humanely cook a lobster, put in in the freezer for 20 minutes, then stab it just behind the eyes with a large chef's knife with the blade pointing backwards and then rotate the knife flat pushing downwards to cut the lobster almost in half. This will destroy the ventral nerve cord so the lobster doesn't feel anything.

Edit: This would also work with crayfish. And I also would never buy or order lobster, because I don't trust that any precautions were taken... the food industry with its narrow margins is notorious for cutting corners when no one is watching.
1314) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1956455)
Posted 20 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well there goes half a billion. :^)
1315) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1955695)
Posted 16 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Guessing The Marlboro Man will be 'pushing' another type of 'weed' :-D


Marlboros have long been nicknamed "Marleys"... now more appropriate than ever. 😀
1316) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1955633)
Posted 16 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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They DO know that disarming the citizenry is the first step to controlling them(the same thing King George thought in the 1770's).


This argument worked in the 1770s, because then everyone had the right to own the same weaponry, and military tactics were laughable... ie lines of soldiers dressed in unnatural, highly visible colours walking slowly in a row with their one-shot-a-minute-muzzle-loaders, easily picked off like tin ducks in a shooting gallery. Then, the citizens had a chance to fight back against tyranny.

Now, the U.S. has probably the best-equipped and arguably the best-trained military on Earth. A citizen may own, say, a Bushmaster or an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. The government owns Apache helicopters, with armor that won't even dent from AR-15 rounds, with infrared cameras that can see people in pitch darkness from miles away and then blow them into tiny bits with 30mm rounds at the push of a button. This is but one example... there are of course also the usual gamut of APCs and tanks that any weapons a citizen may possess are useless against, and now pilotless drones that can destroy buildings full of people while the operator sits in comfort half a world away.

If this military were turned against the citizenry, it's laughable that they could be opposed. Yet, this has not happened, and doesn't seem likely to. This indicates that the nation is healthy, and that the checks and balances, separation of powers and other safeguards that were put into place work properly.

So, what use is personal firearm ownership? Simply, to protect against other citizens (or, of course... non citizens)... criminals. If there are no or very few guns in a country (for example Japan) and it has a benevolent government, it may be a benefit to keep firearms out entirely (note that Japan's murder rate is about one-fifteenth of the United States... per capita of course.) However, if the guns are already out there, in the hands of criminals, then it is unconscionable to prevent good, law-abiding people from defending themselves, especially those who live in remote areas where the police may be too far away to respond in time. No one should have to live in permanent fear or die at criminal hands without the right of self-defense.

As always, this is a complex issue too often prone to oversimplification. :^)
1317) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin GPU-based Mining Machines good for BOINC / SETI? (Message 1955358)
Posted 14 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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VNC or one of its derivatives ie RealVNC, TightVNC, or UltraVNC possibly?
1318) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT #2 (Message 1954968)
Posted 12 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since my last thread was closed without my consent...


Threads "time out" and are locked automatically if there are no posts within a certain timeframe. If you'd like it unlocked please use the red-X on the first post (as you are the originator) and will be happy to do so.
1319) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1954845)
Posted 11 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't get it... supporting repressed innocent Muslims while denouncing radical terrorist Muslims are not contradictory actions.
1320) Message boards : Politics : R.I.P. John McCain (Message 1953951)
Posted 6 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There is a dedicated thread in the Cafe, where the R.I.P. threads usually end up. However for actual political commentary on him, it's probably good to have a thread here as well... so far (happily) that has been avoided in the Cafe thread.
1321) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1953410)
Posted 2 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It does appear that many in Federal Law Enforcement may be facing serious problems.


I'm still awaiting the upcoming Hillary Clinton perp walk I kept seeing predicted. I think this might take as long...
1322) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Would the Governments of the World Try to Suppress News of a SETI Discovery? (Message 1953368)
Posted 2 Sep 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I am a self admitted atheist and agnostic combined.
But that's a contradiction.


This is a misconception due to the incorrect common usage of the words... theism/atheism is an affirmation of belief, whereas gnosticicm/agnosticism is a claim of knowledge or lack thereof. People who call themselves "agnostics" are usually agnostic atheists: they do not have belief in supernatural supreme being(s) aka god(s) (the atheism part)and also claim that it not possible to know either way with the current evidence (the agnostic part.) They usually self-identify as agnostics to distinguish themselves from the more assertive gnostic atheists who claim evidence/knowledge that god(s) do not or cannot exist.

Similarly there are gnostic and agnostic theists as well of course, the former being more assertive theists (ie fundamentalists) who claim knowledge that a supreme being exists, and the latter who are willing to admit they have faith alone and that is enough.

Edit: Well, I scrolled down and saw that Chris already answered this. This will teach me to post before I've had my morning coffee. :^)
1323) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI & Radioastronomy News 1 (Message 1952400)
Posted 27 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not just locked away, but the chance of developing communications technology without fire, (feasible) electricity or even hands is arguably remote... even if we could reach them. there would be probably be nothing to reach.
1324) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1952394)
Posted 27 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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JE is correct... here are the "Rules of Conduct" at Jacksonville Landing where the shooting happened

Possession of a weapon, even if legally carried (except by law enforcement officers) is absolutely prohibited on Landing property


This link was embedded in the NRA spokesperson's tweet.
1325) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Article about the type of intelligence a first contact would reveal (Message 1952358)
Posted 27 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Both of my favourite and arguably two of the best-known and most influential sci-fi works regarding ETI discoveries (2001 and Contact) also anticipated this. In both, no actual alien intelligence is communicated with. Instead the interaction is completely with alien beacons, machine intelligences which not only communicate but also orchestrate the events of the stories.
1326) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #2 (Message 1952196)
Posted 26 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yep. All hail mass murdering and enslaving Mao's One-Child Policy.


Given that the article suggested avoiding having children as a personal decision only, this makes about as much sense as stating you are "hailing murdering and enslaving Mao's Enforced State Atheism Policy" (which still exists) by being a (self-identified) atheist. But, anything to slip that phrase in wherever possible... sigh.
1327) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : A "How to install" a version of Linux (Lubuntu) and the "All in one CUDA90" from Tbar. (Message 1952052)
Posted 25 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Two things I can add:

1) For technical issues with this TBar/Petri SETI@Home client, a better place to look/ask than here is the Number Crunching forum... because this is non-standard and cutting-edge, the greater number of technically savvy people there is helpful. I link to the forum rather than a specific thread as threads change and close, but there should be a relevant one near the top.

2) The usual place people will install (as this is the downloadable client's default install location) is the Home folder. If the boot disk is a solid state drive/SSD, then BOINC and all of its data files will be on the SSD. I would recommend not installing it to an SSD, especially for a multi-GPU system with fast GPUs. This is because BOINC will be constantly writing to its data files and the client work files. If the SSD is nearly full, it will be overwriting the same sectors often. and this can lead to bad sectors (I did actually have this problem.) Hopefully you will have a secondary spinning hard drive for data that is not completely NTFS (Linux won't run any programs from NTFS as it doesn't support the file permissions.) If you don't, you can use GParted or GNOME Disks to put a small (for SETI@Home, 3-4GB is enough) partition on an NTFS hard disk. This will very likely destroy the NTFS partition and it will need to be reformatted and restored so please backup first!
1328) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1951258)
Posted 22 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Where have I read these prognostications before?

David Eisenhower Says Nixon Will Never Quit

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) —President Nixon will not resign even if impeached by the House of Representatives, his son‐in‐law, David Eisenhower, said today.

Speaking with reporters, Mr. Eisenhower said: “I don't think there is the faintest possibility of him resigning under any circumstances, and impeachment is just not going to happen.

“This decision was made long time ago—that he's never going to resign.”

He added that the House had no “solid grounds” on which to approve a bill of impeachment. But he said “it would make no difference” if it did approve one, the President would not quit.

The interview with nearly a dozen members of the White House press corps was arranged by Mr. Nixon's communications director, Kenneth W. Clawson, and held in his quarters in the Executive Office Building. Mr. Clawson selected the reporters. It was part of a current campaign to help bolster public confidence in the President by making family members and supporters available to the news media.

Mr. Eisenhower, a grandson of the late President, described Mr. Nixon as a “brilliant man” with a “mind of steel.”


A regular stable genius...

I'm not saying Trump will or will not be impeached, or resign, or anything else. I'm just saying I don't know. (Hint: You don't either.)

"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."
--- Will Rogers
1329) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1950830)
Posted 20 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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re: The United States having the third-highest rate of homicides worldwide, but drops dramatically in the rankings if four major cities are excluded from the stats...

Mostly false. (Thank you again Snopes.)

In fact the U.S. murder rate per capita is not so high at all, only when compared to other industrialized, wealthy nations. It isn't third in the world... it's 87th with 5.35 per 100,000 per annum, even counting Chicago et al. By contrast El Salvador is 82.84!

However most people overestimate the U.S. homicide rate due to U.S. mass shootings making world news for weeks...
1330) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1950418)
Posted 17 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A +1 to you for consistent conservatism and disagreeing with the POTUS on this, and I wish it was more widespread.
1331) Message boards : Politics : Totally FAUX news (Message 1950414)
Posted 17 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Jefferson Davis?


Not exactly, but damn if that wasn't an apt comparison.
1332) Message boards : Politics : Totally FAUX news (Message 1950402)
Posted 17 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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When any of those invade a sovereign nation that had never harmed the U.S. on the flimsiest of evidence decried by the international community, causing up to a million deaths mostly of displaced and starving civilians, leaving a power vacuum in the regions rapidly filled by one of the largest and most despicably brutal and inhumane terrorist groups ever to exist, and all of this egged on so their Vice President can make millions of dollars in war profiteering by owning a large share of the corporation doing all of the admin. work of the invasion....

... then I will add them. And not before. Lost human lives will always count more to me than any other consideration.
1333) Message boards : Politics : Totally FAUX news (Message 1950395)
Posted 17 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Have we ever had worse than Trump?


1334) Message boards : Politics : Totally FAUX news (Message 1950293)
Posted 17 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Trump is a Nazi is an Opinion by a Fake News site.


I'm pretty sure that Gary was saying that some of Trump's followers were self-identified neo-Nazis, which is true, rather than Trump himself. Several white nationalist groups including self-identified neo-Nazi groups and three or more Klan leaders (ie grand dragons) endorsed Trump in the 2016 election. Their words, their publications.

Yes, this is a tiny percentage of the number of Trump supporters/voters and he certainly did not thank them for their endorsements. However, neither did he refuse the endorsements, and as far as I know the only person in his administration to speak out against them was Kellyanne Conway.
1335) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 1949932)
Posted 15 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This one was making the rounds yesterday...

In summary, an NYPD officer on vacation in Nashville got so drunk he returned "home" to the wrong house, one next door to his AirBNB rental. When he found the door locked, he kicked it open and entered, threatened the family, and called them a rather horrid N-word... other than "Nashville" or "New York". 😀

And now I will balance it out with something positive that happened here last week:

Toronto police mounted a dramatic elevator rescue on Tuesday night while the city was being drenched by a heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding, street closures and several cars to be trapped in flooded underpasses.

Two men had to be rescued from an elevator that was stuck in the basement of a commercial building in the city’s north end.

Police spokeswoman Katrina Arrogante said water had almost filled the elevator before the men were rescued by officers who had to swim down to the basement to get them out.

“The water level has rose to six feet and there was only one foot of air space left for the two males to breathe,” she said, adding that the men were able to keep their heads above water by standing on handrails inside the elevator.

“The two officers answering the call then found a crowbar and swam into the basement location of the commercial building, pried open the elevator and rescued the two males that were stuck inside,” Arrogante told The Canadian Press.


They stated they were just doing their jobs, but of course it was was beyond their job description; they could have claimed it was too dangerous and waited for better-equipped responders. Huge kudos to them for not doing that.
1336) Message boards : Politics : Kneeling for what? (Message 1949162)
Posted 12 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I could care less abut their 'injustice".


Well, it's good that you do care. 😀
1337) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1948867)
Posted 10 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Stop making public personal political statements during other peoples "entertainment and relaxation".


Such as bought-and-paid-for phony nationalism. That I can agree with.
Patriotism is either freely given or it is worthless.
1338) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1948849)
Posted 10 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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STOP INFECTING ALL a Person is WATCHing and SPECTATing for ENTERTAINMENT and RELAXATion Into a Friggin' PROTEST.


Interestingly (for those with short memories) prior to 2009, except for the Superbowl teams waited in the locker room until the anthem was done and then paraded out to the field. Starting then, the Department of Defense paid the NFL over $50 million over several years for signage, branded content, etc. to use football as a recruiting tool. This is when the rule was changed to mandate that players stand on the sidelines during the anthem for all games.

So it appears that one's "entertainment and relaxation" was already cynically co-opted for advertising purposes. The players are arguably the ones trying restore it to its former state of being just a sport again.
1339) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1948464)
Posted 8 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And don't forget that people laugh at clowns and mimes who have their faces painted unnaturally white. I think you three had best have a harsh word with those bigoted balloon-benders...

<<snerk>>
1340) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1948405)
Posted 8 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In addition the Left and the Capitalists controlling Facebook and other Social Media. Wish to do the same to those who oppose their beliefs. For the good of the people [sic] of course.


Facebook, Apple, and Google are privately owned companies. This is no more censorship than painting over graffiti sprayed on your house.
1341) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1948288)
Posted 7 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I would guess that my support of a Social Welfare State/Social Democracy. Will not be understood by many on the Radical Left who continually attack me.


May not be what you are saying but more how you are saying it. :^p I find myself agreeing with your actual ideas often...

I surmise that you may find they would actually agree with you... many who call themselves "socialists" use the term as synonymous with "social democrats". There aren't many who advocate the transfer of the means of production from private ownership these days. For one, it reduces or eliminates competition, which is essential to prevent stagnation and inefficiency. China uses the "market socialist" model where companies behave as though they were privately owned capitalist entities in competition but are still owned and/or controlled by the state.

I haven't seen a "Radical Left" person in this forum yet however. Everyone here is pretty moderate. :^)
1342) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1948286)
Posted 7 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here Socialism lead to the destruction of people such as giving us free education, almost free healthcare, and guaranteed minimal pensions.
What you are describing is not Socialism. But a Social Welfare State under Capitalism. A Capitalism which supplies funds for the Peoples Welfare. A Social Welfare System which I vigorously support.


Aka social democracy...
1343) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1947861)
Posted 4 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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LIST!!!!!!

https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/07/05/rap-sheet-acts-of-media-approved-violence-and-harassment-against-trump-supporters


I had a look at these and not one case of "media approved" violence did I see. In every case the writing was a factual account of the events, and if anyone committed any criminal acts they were promptly arrested and charged with no disagreement from anyone.

So, more persecution complex and falsehoods from that site as always.
1344) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1947700)
Posted 3 Aug 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sirius B...

You are continually failing.


Well, of course... orbit is a continual falling, and it's common knowledge that Sirius B orbits Sirius A with a six year period.

😀
1345) Message boards : Number crunching : Over one million points deducted from BOINC team stats..... WHY? (Message 1946413)
Posted 26 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The -1,014,530 is under Credit/Month, means that the team is earning 1,014,530 fewer credits per month than it did the month before (which will happen if someone with a RAC of just over 30K leaves.)

Total credit will not (or should not at least) ever decrease.
1346) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1946383)
Posted 26 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't think that this has been posted yet (apologies if I overlooked it...)

11 Republicans move to impeach deputy attorney general overseeing Mueller probe

A group of 11 U.S. House Republicans has introduced articles of impeachment against deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

The Republicans who introduced the resolution have criticized Rosenstein for not being responsive enough as they have requested documents related to the Russia investigation and a closed investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton's emails. It is unclear whether there will be enough support in the party to pass it, as Republican leaders have not signed on to the effort.
1347) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1946305)
Posted 26 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He was referring to the Trader Joe's shooting in Los Angeles.


Thanks... that makes more sense.
1348) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1946291)
Posted 26 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But only noticing the fact that it was the shop owner who became killed by a police bullet, and next also a stray bullet only, for such.


No... no shop owners or any other innocents were hit by any police bullets. The only person shot by the police was the person who very badly needed to be.

Edit: I don't even know which post you are referring to but hope I cleared that up in case it was mine.

Edit2: It's just been released that he committed suicide after running away from the police. They may have shot him but the fatal headshot was his own.
1349) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1946288)
Posted 25 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sigh... I'm getting tired of being correct.

The gun used to shoot 15 people on a busy Toronto street was likely obtained from a “gang-related source,” according to a person familiar with the case.

CP24 safety specialist Cam Woolley says a police source has told him the semi-automatic handgun used in the shooting is illegal in Canada and was originally from the United States. American authorities are helping track the gun’s exact origin.
1350) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1946014)
Posted 23 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Да. Спасибо.
1351) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1946002)
Posted 23 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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English language does not give the opportunity to fully convey the meaning of objects and phenomena, so English is primitive.
This is not an insult, but a statement of fact.
Calm down, English is not primitive, if compared with the languages of the aborigines of Australia or the Amazon Indians.


Really? And how many of the three hundred or so languages of the Australian aborigines have you studied in such detail that you are able to state this as a "statement of fact"? I'm guessing... um.... zero.
1352) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1945946)
Posted 23 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'll recap one of my previous posts for the forgetful:
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Sometimes the interference is not as direct, but it happens anyways.

For example, Toronto is experiencing an epidemic of gang shootings. Almost all of them are being committed with cheap semi-automatic pistols smuggled in from the U.S. because they are so easy to buy there with no checks ie the "gun show loophole" and from there find their way to the criminal market and over the border. The U.S.-Canadian border is just over twice as long as the U.S.-Mexican border so any talk of border walls or closing that gap is ridiculous.
...
As I've always stated, I'm completely in favour of licensed, trained and *sane* individuals owning slower-fire registered firearms for self-defense, but this is nothing like what is being imposed on us.


I wrote the above 23 days ago. A couple of days ago the Toronto police in co-ordination with other area police forces executed a dawn raid on the "Five Point Generalz" street gang and have arrested about 75 people so far. And one of those people?


... at a news conference on Friday it was revealed that the biggest bust actually occurred about a month ago, when a suspect was pulled over while en route from Cornwall to Toronto.

Police allege that the suspect had stashed 60 brand new handguns in the trunk of his vehicle after picking them up from individuals who had purchased them in Florida.

They say that the seizure is the single largest involving illegal firearms in Toronto Police Services history.

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This shooting was just down the street from me... I biked there to find out what was going on because my wife was terrified with the parade of police cars screaming past down Danforth, at least twenty of them.

So far, it appears to have been committed with a large-magazine semi-automatic pistol, which is illegal in Canada. It's very likely that it was gang-sourced, one of many as noted above that are smuggled over the border because there is little to no tracking of firearms in the United States and so many loopholes, and such a long border. As the gang gun-runner in the original posting was caught at Cornwall, he is using the well-known evasion of crossing through the Akwesasne reservation because it straddles the U.S./Canadian border.

Because Toronto just put two hundred more officers on the night shift to deal with this shooting epidemic, there were some nearby and they shot the shooter who ran off and was found dead. No tears from me, possibly lives saved and one less threat, but too late to save two of the victims who have since died.
1353) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1945696)
Posted 21 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Naturally, we are creating new types of weapons in order to achieve parity.
We do not have as many weapons and troops as in NATO.


Sigh... parity of what? NATO can kill every Russian twenty times over but the Russians can only kill everyone else ten times over so it's time to get building nukes to close that overkill gap?

I thought this nonsense was finally over in 1990 when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union shortly ended, but it just keeps dragging on and on and on, in an unstoppable race of who can out-stupid the other and waste the most billions on the most giant bombs that will sit in bunkers, never get used and then complain they have nothing left over for anything else like highways or education or health care, etc.

I can guarantee that NATO, China and no one else is invading Russia, just like I can guarantee that Russia isn't invading China, or China invading NATO, or even India pulling a fast one and invading Russia because who would suspect it. It's called Mutually Assured Destruction, and since the 1950's, has guaranteed that no nuclear power on this Earth will ever invade another one. So can we move on from this accusatory paranoia?

I wish the human race would grow up, soon. This is one of the reasons I like SETI. I figure if we find something truly and incomprehensibly alien out there, something a thousand times more different than us than we think the most "foreign" human being is, it might grow us up and bring us together as one humanity right quick.
1354) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1945587)
Posted 20 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yup, all those Russian troops in Crimea were just on vacation.

So, those aren't NATO bases, they are just travel agencies, in case there is a sudden, unexplained mass decision of Russian troops to go on vacation in a NATO country. They will offer alternate travel and vacation arrangements. Anything contrary is just propaganda.
1355) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1945547)
Posted 20 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Gots dA LEFTies SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING


Ironically, the only instances of "screaming" I see in here are your tirades in all-caps. You do know that this is considered yelling/screaming etc. in internet discourse, right?

<shrug>
1356) Questions and Answers : Web site : Message forum headings. (Message 1945476)
Posted 20 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Appears this change was made last Tuesday the 9th during the weekly outage. The "panic mode" thread has some postings about it. Apparently the site admins. were consulted and indicated it was deliberate.
1357) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1945001)
Posted 17 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Once again, the GRU does not exist!
Exist: Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.


Yes, the Main Intelligence Directorate
Cyrillic: Гла́вное разве́дывательное управле́ни
Transiterated: Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye

I may not be Russian so please correct me if I am wrong, but it certainly looks like GRU would be a good acronym. 😀
1358) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944920)
Posted 17 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Fine and dandy, but please don't try to tell us that there is either freedom of religion or of expression there when either can be arbitrarily labeled as "extremism" or "propaganda" and criminalized.
1359) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944915)
Posted 17 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I do not have to prove anything to you.


Your admission that you were incorrect is noted.
1360) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944900)
Posted 17 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Islamic state, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda are also religious organizations, or you did not know it and all of them are extremist.


The Quakers are an extremist organization... extremely pacifist. You'd best throw them in jail as well.
1361) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944879)
Posted 17 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Nelson Mandella, Mahatma Gandhi, Lech Walesa, Martin Luther King did not prepare explosions and did not intimidate the population.


Incorrect for Nelson Mandela...

... in 1961 Mandela, Sisulu, and Slovo co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation", abbreviated MK). Becoming chairman of the militant group, Mandela gained ideas from literature on guerilla warfare by Marxist militants Mao and Che Guevara as well as from the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz. Although initially declared officially separate from the ANC so as not to taint the latter's reputation, MK was later widely recognised as the party's armed wing...

Operating through a cell structure, MK planned to carry out acts of sabotage that would exert maximum pressure on the government with minimum casualties; they sought to bomb military installations, power plants, telephone lines, and transport links at night, when civilians were not present. Mandela stated that they chose sabotage because it was the least harmful action, did not involve killing, and offered the best hope for racial reconciliation afterwards; he nevertheless acknowledged that should this have failed then guerrilla warfare might have been necessary. Soon after ANC leader Luthuli was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, MK publicly announced its existence with 57 bombings on Dingane's Day (16 December) 1961, followed by further attacks on New Year's Eve.


His life term was for four counts of sabotage from these bombings. He was also initially given a death sentence, but it was commuted by the judge.
1362) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944719)
Posted 16 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For them, any government bans are happiness.


Comedy gold... heard plenty of the same from the Jim Crow South.
1363) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944716)
Posted 16 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In Russia, the law only prohibits the holding of LGBT parades and propaganda.
This is due to the government's course towards traditional values. In Russia, most citizens consider this to be right and fully support.


I'm sure that they do, and rather sad that you also seem to agree with this or at least defend it, but legislating morality and calling any speech or writing you find "non-traditional" as "propaganda" and banning it is about as oppressive and contrary to freedom of expression as one can get.
1364) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944711)
Posted 16 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The United States is not perfect, and has made some mistakes in this regard, but it has so far expressed the highest level of support for free speech and expression... occupying others' land may not count as that.

Russia has made simply publishing a magazine by LGBT people for other LGBT people a criminal offense. Canada is far from perfect as well as we have "hate crime" laws which have already been misused to prosecute people simply for publishing unpopular opinions. And don't even get me started with China and its "Great Firewall" where most of the biggest sites outside China are blocked because they may offer up information that the state has deemed illegal (Tiananmen square, anyone?)... internet use there is so monitored simply Googling "democracy" has resulted in a visit from the police.
1365) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21st Century #2 (Message 1944706)
Posted 16 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You are almost certainly correct, Vadim in that their protests seem silly or misplaced. But freedom of expression is the protection of expression of deeply unpopular ideas and opinions. There has never been a regime so despotic that praising it, or its leader, or its policies, would be opposed by the state.

So far the only country that has consistently understood this and has supported freedom of speech and expression more than any other is the United States.
1366) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1944575)
Posted 15 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This thread seems to have wandered way off topic to general politics and other things that should be in the Donald Trump thread...
Thanks.
1367) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1944056)
Posted 13 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Leaving....

1368) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1943532)
Posted 9 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Straw man

A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man."

The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition.

This technique has been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly in arguments about highly charged emotional issues where a fiery "battle" and the defeat of an "enemy" may be more valued than critical thinking or an understanding of both sides of the issue."
1369) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1942701)
Posted 5 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And what did your great leader Obama embolden you to do, Yap?

And to save you a bellowing spittle-flecked tirade: Precisely as much as our Prime Minister Trudeau has emboldened me to do, which is absolutely nothing (that he wanted me to, anyway.)
1370) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1942656)
Posted 4 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Way to Go one Canadian private company altering their own private property


Fixed that for yap.
1371) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1942122)
Posted 1 Jul 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As was Ireland. Thankfully that has now changed.


Indeed... I highly doubt El Salvador will similarly allow a referendum on the issue in the near future.
1372) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1942117)
Posted 30 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If you think Gary is exaggerating:

El Salvador woman freed after 15 years in prison for abortion

... which probably wasn't even an abortion at all. Women are convicted for having natural miscarriages or stillbirths because the courts assume they were induced.

A 34-year-old woman in El Salvador has been freed after spending 15 years in jail for having an abortion.

Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín was released after her 30-year sentence for aggravated murder was reduced.

Abortion is banned in El Salvador, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, in any circumstances.

Ms Figueroa always maintained her innocence. She said she suffered a stillbirth in a house where she was working as a maid in 2003.


A maid... these laws always target poor women, because wealthy women just don't tell anyone they are pregnant and go on "vacation" to a foreign country returning with no pregnancy, just as women in U.S. states do where abortion is restricted.

Abortion is completely banned in El Salvador even in cases of rape, incest, or where the woman's life is in danger, and I am sure there are many that would like this to be the same in the U.S. and everywhere else. Unfortunately in the U.S. they seem to have a chance of succeeding.
1373) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1941860)
Posted 29 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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JE is correct... right from the first line of this article and many others:

The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper was investigated five years ago for a barrage of menacing tweets against the Capital Gazette...
(emphasis mine)

Somehow I doubt this will stop the accusations that the media are "fake news" and out to get Donald Trump, however.
1374) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1941836)
Posted 29 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just specifically referencing what is happening today is not unique...


Well I can't argue with that.
1375) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1941831)
Posted 29 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You missed the proverbial elephant in the room: over two centuries of slavery and its offshoots of the deadliest war in US history, the Klan and its three thousand or so murders, Jim Crow and its endemic and systemic racism that relegated generations to second-class citizen status.
1376) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1941829)
Posted 29 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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HORRORS:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/elizabeth-wettlaufer-police-allegations-1.4038003

Canadian nurse murdered nine elderly people under her medical care.
Therefore, we must ban medical care for elderly people.
1377) Message boards : Politics : Dear Harley, (Message 1941731)
Posted 29 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Dear Yap,

Harley-Davidson has stated that the bikes they are building in their offshore plants are for sale where they are being built, because this is the only way to avoid the import tariffs that have been levied to counter the recent U.S. tariffs against those countries.

Even if their workers worked for free it would not offset the tariffs (26% on some if I remember.)
1378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fine dining in your town (Message 1941660)
Posted 28 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For those with (very?) large appetites, my other primary hobby than SETI@Home is reviewing Toronto and area All-You-Can-Eat (AYCE) restaurants (ie sushi bars, buffets, grill houses, brunches, etc.) Most of them are quite good, and quite a few excellent... the old-school low-quality ones have disappeared over time as Toronto has "gentrified".

I'm particularly happy with the map at the top-right which shows their location, genre, links to their Google Maps entry and our rating and review if it exists.

Bon appétit. :^)
1379) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1941590)
Posted 28 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Feds ran a bitcoin-laundering sting for over a year

More than 40 alleged dark-web drug dealers have been arrested as part of a sweeping federal effort described by the Department of Justice as “the first nationwide undercover operation targeting dark net vendors.” The core of the operation was an online money-laundering business seized by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and operated as a sting for over a year. By offering cash for bitcoin, HSI agents were able to identify specific drug dealers, ultimately tracing more than $20 million in drug-linked cryptocurrency transactions.

“For the past year, undercover agents have been providing money-laundering services to these dark net vendors, specifically those involved in narcotics trafficking,” said HSI Special Agent in Charge Angel Melendez, in a press conference earlier today. Melendez led the operation from New York.

The hijacked money-laundering service was offered across a number of different marketplaces, with agents claiming at least some presence on AlphaBay, Dream Market, Wall Street, and others. In the past, law enforcement efforts have focused on taking down marketplaces in full, most notably Silk Road, Silk Road 2.0, and AlphaBay. But Melendez says his office has shifted focus to the individual dealers, who often operate independent of any single site.

“When we take down a dark net marketplace, these criminals will move to other marketplaces,” Melendez said. “So the focus of this operation was really the bad actors, the people utilizing the dark net to sell drugs.”

So far, prosecutions have been launched across 19 states as a result of the operation, seizing more than $3.6 million in cash. The same raids seized large quantities of Schedule IV pharmaceuticals — including 100,000 tramadol pills and over 24 kilograms of Xanax — as is typical of trade on dark net markets. Agents also recovered more than 300 models of liquid synthetic opioids and roughly 100 grams of fentanyl. Further investigations are still ongoing.
1380) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1941566)
Posted 27 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some posts had to go away unfortunately... please try to keep it civil as per:

"No messages intended to annoy or antagonize other people, or to hijack a thread."
"No messages that are deliberately hostile, threatening, or insulting."


Thank you.
1381) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1941524)
Posted 27 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Justice Kennedy to retire, opening Supreme Court seat

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring, giving President Trump and Senate Republicans an opportunity to create a solidly conservative court that could last for decades.

Kennedy announced his retirement in a letter to President Trump addressed, "My dear Mr. President." Within minutes, Trump told reporters he would move quickly to nominate someone from a list of 25 potential replacements -- someone "as outstanding" as Kennedy.

"It will be somebody from that list," Trump said.

Kennedy's long-rumored decision to step down July 31 will touch off a titanic battle between conservatives and liberals in the nation's capital, on the airwaves, and in states represented by key senators whose votes will be needed to confirm his successor.

Kennedy, 81, has held the most important seat on the court for more than a decade: He is the swing vote on issues ranging from abortion and affirmative action to gay rights and capital punishment, often siding with the court’s more liberal justices.

His long-anticipated retirement will come a year after Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, which followed a 14-month saga that replenished but did not bolster the conservatives’ narrow advantage on the high court.
1382) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1941520)
Posted 27 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For anyone who isn't aware, that is Sarah Silverman, a comedian, not anyone with any sort of political power.

In related news, comedians say funny things... sometimes without meaning to. :^p
1383) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1941476)
Posted 27 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But the rhetoric is again rising to that level that was obtained in 1861, so..............?


I don't think it is even remotely close, but it's being stoked by "external agencies" who would very much like to see the USA internally fractured and no longer a superpower. And we see, in this very forum. how this happens when people who almost completely agree on everything pin divisive partisan labels on each other and shout vitriolic invective past each other without any attempt at understanding.

For example, you yourself agree that firearm ownership should be coupled with responsibility ie safe storage, training and licensing of the owner to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and the insane, and ensure that they are used as rarely as possible as intended as a very last resort to defend innocent lives. I am sure that almost everyone here would agree with this (myself included.) Yet whenever things get heated I am repeatedly seeing the old rhetoric that everyone wants the US government to revoke the 2nd and take everyone's guns away. I don't think I've ever seen anyone here say anything close to that ever.

// $0.02
1384) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1940844)
Posted 22 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sometimes the interference is not as direct, but it happens anyways.

For example, Toronto is experiencing an epidemic of gang shootings. Almost all of them are being committed with cheap semi-automatic pistols smuggled in from the U.S. because they are so easy to buy there with no checks ie the "gun show loophole" and from there find their way to the criminal market and over the border. The U.S.-Canadian border is just over twice as long as the U.S.-Mexican border so any talk of border walls or closing that gap is ridiculous.
...
As I've always stated, I'm completely in favour of licensed, trained and *sane* individuals owning slower-fire registered firearms for self-defense, but this is nothing like what is being imposed on us.


I wrote the above 23 days ago. A couple of days ago the Toronto police in co-ordination with other area police forces executed a dawn raid on the "Five Point Generalz" street gang and have arrested about 75 people so far. And one of those people?


... at a news conference on Friday it was revealed that the biggest bust actually occurred about a month ago, when a suspect was pulled over while en route from Cornwall to Toronto.

Police allege that the suspect had stashed 60 brand new handguns in the trunk of his vehicle after picking them up from individuals who had purchased them in Florida.

They say that the seizure is the single largest involving illegal firearms in Toronto Police Services history.
1385) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1940558)
Posted 21 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Where is that meme... ah right...



(Interestingly this is the ad photo for a Canadian tax firm... he's supposed to be happy at getting a return.)

Anyways, the directive to separate children from their parents/guardians was the "brainchild" of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and AG Jeff Sessions, who by criminalizing illegal entry invoked the directive that children can't be imprisoned with their parents. (If anyone doesn't believe me or wants to insist that it's US law or some other baloney, I'd like to see an official citation for this, ie a U.S.C. code reference, SCOTUS case ref., MLA/APA house bill citation or White House release... good luck with that.)

IMHO POTUS Trump made the situation worse by spreading the unfortunately usual falsehoods about it ie he had no choice, it was the Democrats, etc. This act is wearing thin. I understand that he was hired to do an unpleasant and difficult job that other presidents didn't want to get (as) involved in: fixing the immigration issue and others, but this behaviour undermines his efforts. Happily he has done the right thing now.
1386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Suicide (Message 1940552)
Posted 21 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There is no contradiction... the "you" that will be born perhaps a trillion trillion years, or tomorrow, after "you" die from this life won't be the same "you" at all with no connection. It could be a sluglike being in a methane ocean in perpetual darkness, for example. But to "you" no time at all would have passed and "you" would have no possible memories of any previous life.

It's like the old conundrum of going through a Star Trek transporter: The people that come out will swear up and down that they are the same people who just went in, and for all purposes are, but it's just as possible that the people who went into the transporter are now dead and these doppelgangers who claim to be them are completely unconnected to them... one thread of consciousness ended and another began anew.
1387) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1940544)
Posted 20 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In rare reversal, Trump signs order ending family separations, but ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy stays

WASHINGTON—Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border.

It was a dramatic turnaround for Trump, who has been insisting, wrongly, that his administration had no choice but to separate families apprehended at the border because of federal law and a court decision.
1388) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1940394)
Posted 20 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not done homework again, Russia, Iran and Syria are not members
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/CurrentMembers.aspx


However Russia was until 2016, and Saudi Arabia currently is, which I am am surprised wasn't mentioned until now (was it deliberate given that they are a close US ally?) There were certainly plenty of headlines when SA was admitted as well of course... example: Why one of the world’s worst human rights offenders is leading a U.N. human rights panel.
1389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Suicide (Message 1940330)
Posted 20 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So, what do you think happens to the "me" after death? Does it just float around indefinitely? Where does it go in between tangible existences?


To be scientific, it requires that there be absolutely no connection between the two lives. No phantom memories of going down with the Titanic or being beheaded during the French Revolution, etc. (Why aren't 99.9% of those "past lives" just nameless nobodies to match the real-world proportion I wonder...) Our consciousness is born and dies with our brain, and is utterly unconnected to the consciousness of some other "brain" or equivalent in an unimaginably remote future that we happen to perceive as ourselves.

The upshot of this elegant hypothesis is that given a either an endlessly cycling monoverse or an infinity of multiverses, or a combination of both, that "we" have always and will always be here. To us, as soon as we die we will be reborn without any mystic intervention required, with no perception of the chasm of time that may have passed.... effectively immortal albeit in small disconnected intervals, and mostly as barely-conscious beings.

Why you ask? I have no idea. None of my ancesters has been killed by one that I know of.. Is it racial memory handed down through our DNA.


Of course... our not-ancestors who were not wary of snaky or predatory beasts quickly found themselves their meal and didn't get to pass on their not-wary genes. Our ancestors who were wary survived and passed on their wary genes until just about everyone had them.
1390) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1939998)
Posted 17 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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LEFTists Have TRIED EVERYTHANG to DESTROY SUPERTrump.

LOVIN' Their New Tactic: 'RIPPIN' CHILDREN OUT OF dA ARMs of PARENTs'!!!!!!; SEPARATING CHILDREN from Their 'Parents'!!!!!


Hmm... Does that make Mrs. Trump a "leftist"?

1391) Message boards : Politics : Ukraine/Crimea (Message 1939900)
Posted 16 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Participants discuss @BuzzFeed report that Trump told G7 leaders "Crimea is Russian, because everyone who lives there speaks Russian."

According to that logic, Austria is German and both Ireland and the USA British.


Hrm... 66% of Canada speaks English. What with this and Donald Trump's recent antagonism to our Prime Minister and our shared world's longest undefended border, should we be worried? :^p
(Edit: Oh damn... we have oil too.)
1392) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1939544)
Posted 14 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A revolver is semi-automatic.


The older ones are single-action... the hammer needs to be pulled back/cocked manually, so they don't qualify. Most new ones are double-action, where the hammer can be manually cocked but pulling the trigger will pull the hammer back if it is uncocked; those ones can be fired as fast as the trigger can be pulled.

(Edit: OK, yes... there's fanning the hammer, but one needs to be a professional marksman to get any sort fo reasonable aim that way. :^p )
1393) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1939490)
Posted 14 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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N.Y. Attorney General Sues Trump Foundation Over Sweeping Violations

The New York State attorney general’s office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.

The lawsuit, which seeks to dissolve the foundation and bar President Trump and three of his children from serving on nonprofit organizations, was an extraordinary rebuke of a sitting president. The attorney general also sent referral letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission for possible further action, adding to Mr. Trump’s extensive legal problems.

The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, culminated a nearly two-year investigation of Mr. Trump’s charity, which became a subject of scrutiny during and after the 2016 presidential campaign. While such foundations are supposed to be devoted to charitable activities, the complaint asserts that Mr. Trump’s was often used to curry political favor or settle legal claims against his various businesses, and even spent $10,000 on a portrait of Mr. Trump that was hung at one of his golf clubs.
1394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone notice the change to the home page? (Message 1939461)
Posted 14 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm surprised that change was made but no donation in the bullet point list of how to help the project. If it isn't there, I read it as donations not being important, whereas in reality the project would not exist without them; they are very important. Perhaps it will be added later (I hope.)
1395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Suicide (Message 1939436)
Posted 14 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My take on that is that I will always have an eternity ahead of me to find out what is "beyond" so I should stick around as long as possible to enjoy life to the fullest. If life ever becomes so miserable that I feel like ending it and can't see any hope, I will liquidate all my assets, sell off all the computers, quit my job and hop the next plane or boat to somewhere amazing I have never been and/or would never otherwise go to... I'm leaning towards Europe and Polynesia. Life is too short to make it even shorter, and there is so much out there I have not experienced yet.

I am convinced of the "scientific reincarnation" hypothesis that when I die, a tremendous amount of time can pass without "me" being conscious of it, and given enough time the exceedingly improbable can happen, such as something coming into existence, somewhere, that I perceive as "me" again, possibly in some unimaginably remote future so far off that it isn't even in this cycle of our universe, and certainly having no connection whatsoever to this life as that would be certainly unprovable, and more likely completely impossible no matter how advanced our understanding becomes. However, given that there are so many orders of magnitude more "lesser beings" than conscious and technological ones (how many trillions of times more insects and bacteria are there than humans?) I might have to have go through many millions of brief and miserable lives before I have a long enjoyable one again as something equivalent to a human being. So savor it as long as you can! :^)
1396) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1939320)
Posted 13 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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TOP500
SETI@home : 0.8 teraflops / 0.001 petaflops (see bottom of the Applications page)
BOINC projects combined: 20 petaflops


The SETI@Home numbers are pretty far off; for example, I'm doing about 2 TF myself... by the definition of the Cobblestone a 1 GF computer will earn 200 Cobblestone credits a day (and this is with CreditFew Screw.... um.... CreditNew which actually just about halves the real performances, so it's 4 TF but counted as 2)... simply divide RAC by 200,000 to convert to TF.

As per BOINCStats, SETI@Home's entire RAC is about 180 million, which by this simple calculation is 900 TF or 0.9 PF, and this matches what appears on the BOINCStats page
1397) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1939288)
Posted 13 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Would that be in Russia, India, Pakistan, China, France, Israel, DPRK, IRAN, the US?


I'm pretty sure that the UK/GB has a bunch as well left over from the Cold War days.

That's what makes it seem so curious that so many are belittling the meeting between Trump and Kim, instead of expressing hope that maybe, just maybe, this time WILL be different.

At least they're talking instead of nuking.

......which I think is a good thing.......


Absolutely. I don't know what will become of this meeting, but a small improvement is always better than none.

Also Trump is good at manipulating others psychologically, and I think he deliberately dissed Trudeau just before their meeting not because of of trade, because being bullyish, easily offended and angry at "loss of face" is what Kim relates to, and it would give Trump an edge in their meeting. It may be a long shot, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trudeau was secretly in on it. Canada and the U.S. have a long history of secret collaboration, which I hope continues.
1398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone notice the change to the home page? (Message 1939183)
Posted 11 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The new home page doesn't have a donate button... I couldn't find it in any of the drop down menus either.


I think it was always under Project but it should appear in that list of bullet points on the main page in the near future. Thanks for pointing this out. :^)
1399) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1938787)
Posted 9 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I had no idea there was a 270% tariff on unfiltered Milk from America going to Canada. How is that Fair Trade?


Eggs, poultry and dairy are notorious in Canada for their "marketing boards" that have been price-fixing and lobbying for very high tariffs since, well, longer than I can remember. Since the 1950s at least. I stopped buying milk because of the ridiculous pricing (just buy powdered and make a little as required.) A 1L carton costs $2.99, but 2L $3.99, and 4L in bags $5.29? They are basically forcing overbuying so they don't have an oversupply which might force the price down. One of many controls they have on the market.
1400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Suicide (Message 1938708)
Posted 8 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just read this yesterday...

US suicide rates increased more than 25% since 1999, CDC says

Suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016, according to research published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-five states experienced a rise in suicides by more than 30%, the government report finds.

More than half of those who died by suicide had not been diagnosed with a mental health condition, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC.

"These findings are disturbing. Suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in the US right now, and it's one of three causes that is actually increasing recently, so we do consider it a public health problem -- and something that is all around us," Schuchat said. The other two top 10 causes of death that are on the rise are Alzheimer's disease and drug overdoses, she noted.
1401) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1938329)
Posted 5 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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[I do not support universal 'right to carry' without proper training and regulation. This is one of several positions on which I differ from the NRA. Also such training and licensing answers the anti-2nd Amendment cries of 'well regulated militia'. I also DO support background checks for all firearms sales or transfers, provided it is the same COMPREHENSIVE background check performed when applying for a CCW License.


It's only by conversing that we can find that all of us have more nuanced and agreeable positions on issues than superficially apparent. Meme pics just don't express it. :^) I would say a majority of people who would seem to be "anti-second amendment" or whatever would be for ownership and perhaps even CC with the requirements of background checks, a license, registration and training. This isn't to keep people from protecting themselves (which a simple ban would do more overtly) but simply to make it safer for everyone, and more difficult for criminals and the insane to acquire firearms.

Yes, some still will depending on desperation or money, but a solution doesn't have to be 100% effective to be better than nothing (ie we still lock our doors when we go out even though it isn't 100% effective and there are workarounds, because if you make it difficult enough the majority of criminals will give up.)
1402) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1938316)
Posted 5 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There were uncounted numbers of forced abortions in China under the "one child policy" mostly in the 1990s but it still occurs today.
1403) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1938163)
Posted 3 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wouldn't a fire extinguisher be a better analogy? A smoke detector is to a fire what an intrusion/burglar alarm is to an intruder.
1404) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1938039)
Posted 2 Jun 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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....no stigmata to welfare anymore...


1405) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1937747)
Posted 31 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sometimes the interference is not as direct, but it happens anyways.

For example, Toronto is experiencing an epidemic of gang shootings. Almost all of them are being committed with cheap semi-automatic pistols smuggled in from the U.S. because they are so easy to buy there with no checks ie the "gun show loophole" and from there find their way to the criminal market and over the border. The U.S.-Canadian border is just over twice as long as the U.S.-Mexican border so any talk of border walls or closing that gap is ridiculous.

So, we are suffering because of this bit of parchment written two centuries ago before the U.S. even had a standing army which has been bizarrely interpreted to mean that any yahoo can buy a military-grade firearm less than full-auto with no waiting period, background check, registration, license, training or anything but untraceable cash in hand, and that even the wise foresight of the "well-regulated militia" is conveniently ignored (funny how the old Founders are dead-on 100% accurate and every word is gospel, except when it's politically inconvenient and then the stacked courts ignore them.)

As I've always stated, I'm completely in favour of licensed, trained and *sane* individuals owning slower-fire registered firearms for self-defense, but this is nothing like what is being imposed on us.
1406) Questions and Answers : Windows : CUDA tasks versus .vlar tasks. (Message 1937737)
Posted 30 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I think that you are indicating assigning work to the platform that supports it best, ie VLAR work to CPU and VLAR work to (NVidia) GPU... (AMD GPUs actually prefer VLAR due to their different architecture) if so this thread may be a good starting point.

However, you have not completed a SETI@Home work unit on your attached machines in over 30 days which confuses me further...
Edit: never mind, your alter ego seems to be doing a few.
1407) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1937735)
Posted 30 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Give me one reason you need abortion clinics..................

Give me one reason why what a woman owns is any of your business.
1408) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1937732)
Posted 30 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For the 'Great White Deer Stalker' with an answer for everything.........again, as we told you 243 years ago.............it's ...................none...............of ..............your...............business.


So... personal nuclear weapons for all, then? 😀

Edit: Geez... you could apply this to so much:

"Give me one reason why you need a roomful of kiddie porn."
"Give me one reason why what I own is any of your business."

"Give me one reason why you need a hydrogen bomb."
"Give me one reason why what I own is any of your business."

"Give me one reason why you need a big ten-kilo sack of pure Columbian blow."
"Give me one reason why what I own is any of your business."

Surely there are better arguments than extreme oversimplification, no?
1409) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1937656)
Posted 30 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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MuslimReligion MOST Successful in World. Apes HIGHLY Successful for Tens&Tens&Tens of Millions of Years-more so than H. Sapiens.


Apes are defined as members of the family Hominidae, of which the genus Homo is a member. All humans, past and present, of all ethnicities, are and will forever be, apes. This is the scientific usage of the terminology.

However, attempting to demean a large group of people by claiming that they are "more animal" (read: less human and thus less entitled to human rights) than the group doing the demeaning by claiming that they are "less evolved" (which in itself belies a fundamental ignorance of biology) such as by comparing their appearance with other species, is racism in the proper usage of the term, and has been used against several groups of people who have suffered discrimination, such as the Irish in 19th century America, and the Jews even until today, as well as African-Americans.

Conversely, Donald Trump is of German ancestry, but there is no historical precedent of similar discrimination against Germans comparing them to other species, so jokes comparing his appearance to an orangutan are not related or equivalent.

Anyone who can't understand this distinction, and how offensive the comparison is, should not be in a position of communication with the public, which in this case has been corrected.
1410) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1937098)
Posted 25 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Edit: Oops, seems like the EU's GDPR has hit here :-(

Sorry, this content is not available in your region. Got that on a white screen with the statement top right corner after clicking on your link :-(


You are going to find this on many US sites. Consider a VPN solution... for simple newsreading and browsing, there are some very inexpensive (even free) options.
1411) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1937092)
Posted 25 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As the gunman was fleeing the scene


Depending on the circumstances (ie did the fleeing gunman threaten the anyone while fleeing) the armed citizen may be in legal trouble.
1412) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1937063)
Posted 25 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Not innocent people, only their Democratic Leaders. A mini nuke on their heads.

Instead when Khamenei says to go back to enriching the uranium surely he will use it to create the phosphorescent sticks. Or when it threatens to destroy Israel, people will surely not die.


Oh oh... looks like the problem is closer to home: The Italian prime minister has been caught lying on his CV about his academic qualifications...

I'm guessing nukes are off the table for this one.

Threats against Israel? Again: empty words coming from the mouth of an unelected, unremovable dictator and innocent people are expected to die for it. Really.
1413) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1937056)
Posted 25 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anyone should nuke the $hitH0l€ that keeps lying. Like Kim's Fatty Chum and his beloved Iranian Supreme Terrorist Blackmail Leader.


You are advocating murdering millions of innocent people because their leader, who they can't even get rid of because they have no elections, told some lies?

You will have a lot of murdering to do then... politicians everywhere lie. For example: Apparently Donald Trump has told 3,000+ lies in his term of office thus far.
1414) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@Home won't communicate with server, but Einstein & MilkyWay do just fine (Message 1937051)
Posted 25 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here is the original first post in the thread from George. I am reposting it as it contained confidential info that needed to be removed:

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Please HELP!!

I am not getting any response, such as communicating with the server and downloading tasks, from SETI@Home, but Einstein@Home and MilkyWay@Home are doing just fine.

I began this multi project about 3 months ago (joined SETI on Oct. 23rd) and have accumulated 432k+ credits. Then I proceeded to mess things up. I changed my PC's name, changed my passwords, used the Boinc Account Manager, and even went from a Windows 7 Pro to a Windows 10 Pro operating system. At sometime along the way I realized the problem and I've been trying to fix it since.

I used one of Boinc's volunteers (name will remain anonymous). He was VERY helpful, spent countless hours on trying to solve my problem, but no luck. He recommended I get the new Boinc client version 7.10.2, so I did. Still the same.

Also my computer has not been recognized by Boinc for SETI@Home as Windows 10 Pro. It still shows Windows 7 Pro.

I think my inability to communicate lies with mismatched ID #'s, but I don't know. If you can help, please do!

Below are my stats from my "Your Account" page:

User ID: 10598086

And from "Boinc Stats":

BOINC Cross Project Identifier: 84ae7ef08ecc01dfbed770a1917b8af7

User ID: 18853313830

BOINC Manager Log File:

05/23/18 2:35:47 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
05/23/18 2:35:47 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.10.2 for windows_x86_64
05/23/18 2:35:47 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
05/23/18 2:35:47 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8
05/23/18 2:35:47 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
05/23/18 2:35:47 PM | | Running under account georg
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 220 (driver version 342.01, CUDA version 6.5, compute capability 1.2, 1024MB, 871MB available, 196 GFLOPS peak)
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Creating new client state file
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Host name: GWG-PC
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.16299.00)
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Memory: 15.99 GB physical, 18.37 GB virtual
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Disk: 200.01 GB total, 146.88 GB free
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | VirtualBox version: 5.2.8
05/23/18 2:35:50 PM | | Last benchmark was 17674 days 19:35:47 ago
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | No general preferences found - using defaults
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | Preferences:
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8187.56 MB
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 14737.60 MB
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | max disk usage: 146.78 GB
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | don't use GPU while active
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | Setting up project and slot directories
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | Checking active tasks
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | Checking presence of 0 project files
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | This computer is not attached to any projects
05/23/18 2:35:55 PM | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
05/23/18 2:37:02 PM | | Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
05/23/18 2:39:14 PM | | Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
05/23/18 2:39:37 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks
05/23/18 2:39:37 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
05/23/18 2:40:08 PM | | Benchmark results:
05/23/18 2:40:08 PM | | Number of CPUs: 8
05/23/18 2:40:08 PM | | 3258 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
05/23/18 2:40:08 PM | | 9186 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
05/23/18 2:40:09 PM | | Resuming computation
05/23/18 3:10:36 PM | | Resuming GPU computation
05/23/18 3:11:38 PM | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
05/23/18 3:16:56 PM | SETI@home | update requested by user
05/23/18 3:17:00 PM | SETI@home | Fetching scheduler list
05/23/18 3:17:01 PM | SETI@home | update requested by user
05/23/18 3:17:56 PM | | Resuming GPU computation
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | No general preferences found - using defaults
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | Reading preferences override file
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | Preferences:
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8187.56 MB
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 14737.60 MB
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | max disk usage: 10.00 GB
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | don't use GPU while active
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 75%
05/23/18 3:20:23 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
05/23/18 3:20:51 PM | | Re-reading cc_config.xml
05/23/18 3:20:51 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
05/23/18 3:20:51 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | No general preferences found - using defaults
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | Reading preferences override file
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | Preferences:
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8187.56 MB
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 14737.60 MB
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | max disk usage: 10.00 GB
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | don't use GPU while active
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 75%
05/23/18 3:21:20 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
05/23/18 3:22:32 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks
05/23/18 3:22:33 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
05/23/18 3:22:50 PM | SETI@home | Fetching scheduler list
05/23/18 3:23:03 PM | | Benchmark results:
05/23/18 3:23:03 PM | | Number of CPUs: 8
05/23/18 3:23:03 PM | | 3263 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
05/23/18 3:23:03 PM | | 9158 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
05/23/18 3:23:04 PM | | Resuming computation
05/23/18 3:49:22 PM | | Re-reading cc_config.xml
05/23/18 3:49:22 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
05/23/18 3:49:31 PM | | Re-reading cc_config.xml
05/23/18 3:49:31 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
1415) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1936985)
Posted 24 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well you do have something in common with Jules Verne:

Neither of you can tell the difference between climate and weather.
At least he had the excuse that he was trapped in the Victorian era...
1416) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1936980)
Posted 24 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I had thought I remembered that NK had stated that talks were dependent on no "exercises" between the US and South Korea, but I may have remembered wrong. I tried to find a citation otherwise but couldn't.... I found just the opposite instead:

In a similar vein, Kim signaled in March that he would not oppose joint US-South Korean military exercises, which had been postponed while South Korea hosted the Winter Olympics. The annual war games have been a sore point for the North Korean leader, who sees them as a direct provocation to his country's security.

A South Korean delegation that traveled to Pyongyang reported back that Kim understands Seoul's position on holding military drills with the United States. "Our stance on the joint military drills is that it is hard to postpone the exercises again or suspend them, and there is no justification for doing so. But Kim said that he understands the South's stance," a high-level official in South Korea's presidential office told CNN in March.

According to the official, Kim also said he expects the joint drills to be "readjusted" once the security situation on the Korean Peninsula stabilizes. US military leaders have refused to put the drills on the table as a negotiating chip.
1417) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1936943)
Posted 24 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anybody surprised?




Dammit... I was assured that these were a good investment. 😀
1418) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU MISSING!??? (Message 1936866)
Posted 23 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Checking that profile for Windows 10... yup, "Microsoft Windows 10".

Look one or two threads down for the other "GPU Missing" thread for the solution. :^)

Also try this so it doesn't happen again.
1419) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Headless ubuntu (Message 1936610)
Posted 22 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You can use apt if you are going to run stock and are not going to fiddle with it. Otherwise the repository version is a huge pain for two reasons: it installs into two folders (which you can't choose) and it also runs as a service. I personally detest it, but unfortunately am stuck with it for the latest CUDA 9 drivers due to the missing dependencies as noted.

If you do want a current downloadable one-folder non-service version check the Setting up a Linux machine to crunch CUDA80 for Windows users thread in Number Crunching for info on the "all-in-one" which is a recompile of it with updated libs etc. It's available here
1420) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1936585)
Posted 21 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I am truly sorry for you.


Why? We can still buy firearms.... defensive ones.

Edit: I also note that you have not addressed the disconnect in your argument. You claim that the Jews were able to be taken to prison camps because they had no access to firearms. But the Americans of Japanese ancestry were also taken to internment camps, and yet did have a right to own firearms. This shows that your argument that firearm ownership will prevent this is incorrect. How can this be explained?

Whatever did or did not happen in Canada has no bearing or relevance.
1421) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1936583)
Posted 21 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And your lot never had a moment of regret over YOUR policies towards your ORIGINAL citizens.


Are you a mind-reader? I think you must think you are. I don't know you can possibly pretend to know what others think or feel.

We also don't have a "Second Amendment" that we pretend would have prevented these abuses, either. Personally, I think I would have agreed strongly with the native Canadians if they had taken up arms against the government trying to take their children from them, but you didn't bother asking.
1422) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1936496)
Posted 21 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
These people were United States citizens living under the Second Amendment with access to firearms, etc.:



Doesn't seem to have made a difference. Tyranny has much larger and deadlier weapons (and better defenses) than citizens are allowed, or can afford.
1423) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1936281)
Posted 19 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Most likely miscaptioned/inaccurate:

This image is real in the sense that it has not been digitally altered (other than the text) and it appears that it was truly taken in Israel. However, this image was not taken at a school, and Israel’s school security practices make it unlikely that the armed woman in the photograph is a teacher.
...
When this photograph first went viral in 2012, Israeli Today took issue with the claim that all teachers in Israel carry guns. In fact, the Israeli web site wrote that it would be very uncommon for a teacher to be carrying a gun in the country, and surmised that the woman in the photograph was actually a security guard.
1424) Message boards : Politics : The situation in the Middle East is in chaos (Message 1936275)
Posted 19 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
One of those people shot in Gaza was a volunteer Canadian doctor who was wearing green hospital scrubs (ie clearly dressed and acting as a doctor) and treating the injured. And he wasn't the only medical person who seemed to be targeted:

That doctor you just mentioned, a member of your team, Musa, what happened to him?

Musa's my rescuer. He was a very bright guy. Incredible man.

About an hour after he rescued me, he was trying to get another patient, and ended up getting shot in the chest.

Unfortunately, he died.


"The personnel engaged exclusively in the collection, transport and treatment of the wounded and sick, and in the administration of medical formations and establishments, … shall be respected and protected under all circumstances." - Geneva Convention, Article 9

And it certainly didn't seem warranted:

Do you believe that members of your team the medics were targeted by the Israelis?

I don't know. I'm a doctor and doctors don't make conclusions, they make observations.

My observation is that I was clearly marked and I was shot.

I don't feel I was caught in crossfire, but I can't speak to the intentions of the sniper who shot me.

The Israelis say they're using lethal force only to protect their border that they have the right to defend. They say that those who were there were trying to attack the fence or threaten border security. What do you say to that?

Any doctor will tell you that a peaceful protester shouldn't be summarily executed.

Nobody was armed, from what I saw. Everybody was there peacefully.

Yes, some Palestinians threw rocks. Some Palestinians burned tires. I've frankly seen worse in downtown Toronto protests.
1425) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1936180)
Posted 18 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He's also a member of the local Greek Orthodox Church, Yap... any insightful commentary on that too?

Edit: I'm also very curious as to your "source" regarding his clothing.

Gee, who would have guessed... "Trenchcoat Worn By Santa Fe School Shooter Shows Both Communist and Nazi Symbols". I guess that far-right Nazi stuff cancels out the far-left Communist stuff then, leaving him as just a plain old apolitical mass-murderer, right?
1426) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1936177)
Posted 18 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
All that is needed is to offer our thoughts and prayers and things will get better.


1427) Questions and Answers : Web site : What happened to Server Status page? (Message 1936062)
Posted 17 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I guess we need a Server Status Page Status Page now. 😀
1428) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1935800)
Posted 15 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Doesn't bode well for Trump's summit with Ping Pong II


I like to try to stay positive but I have this dread feeling that the most accurate assessment of this situation so far has been Tut's. The Kim legacy has been doing this sort of thing for half a century and it's unlikely they will stop now.

I'm all for them agreeing to peace and dismantling the nukes, etc. but this would require absolute and unprecedented UN and other monitoring and I would be surprised if they would agree to it, and if they didn't it would seem like a(nother) ruse.

Ah well.

Edit: I seem to remember that these talks were contingent on there being no more "exercises" and that the U.S. had agreed to this, no? I wonder why they are still going ahead.
1429) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1935685)
Posted 14 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Good trigger discipline. However so much showing off of the trigger discipline that it looks deliberate, perfectly new white shoes and hi-tops with no desert dust, scuffs etc. and open-toed shoes in the gravelly desert (ouch), perfect new clothing also inappropriate for the surroundings with no safety or shooting gear other than the actual firearms, perfect brilliant smiles, perfectly smoothed hair, perfectly groomed gravel foregound with no distracting litter or marks, etc.

My conclusion: staged. But opinions vary.
1430) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1935115)
Posted 11 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In the case of the video link I posted, why would a physicist ruin his reputation?


$

"C..."? Tsk, tsk, tsk. No need to curse.


Are you for real? Have you seen Yap's display name? Gawd.
1431) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1935108)
Posted 11 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My point (which appears to have been missed) was that anyone can post any crap on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube... they are not reliable sources of information.
1432) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1935063)
Posted 11 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Occasionally I follow a page on facebook that states that the sun, being at the minimum of its eleven-year cycle, would have climatic repercussions on the Earth in addition to seismic and volcanic activities.


Here is a page on Facebook too.
So much for Facebook.
I'm going back to bed now.
1433) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1935056)
Posted 11 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What did you think about this?


Skeptic bloggers and YouTube... great places to find out that the earth is six thousand years old, flat, and run by Illuminati aliens.

If you don't accept peer-reviewed, mainstream science's conclusions, then this peer-reviewed, mainstream science project is a strange place to hang out. After all, you're already accepting their conclusions that we haven't found any evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence yet as well as trusting that if we do it will be properly documented and disseminated. Meanwhile, the bloggers and YouTubers are convinced that aliens have not only visited but are living among us, making radio searches of places thousands of light-years away rather pointless. So, why accept one set of pseudo-scientific cranks and not the other?
1434) Questions and Answers : Web site : Profile Picture No Worky (Message 1934539)
Posted 9 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anytime.... looks much better now. :^)
1435) Questions and Answers : Web site : Profile Picture No Worky (Message 1934488)
Posted 9 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Your profile picture only appears in your profile. Go into your account top-right and then Community Preferences and it's the Avatar settings you want to add/change.
1436) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1934296)
Posted 7 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes you do. Try being a black man carrying an AR-15 wearing a hoodie in an open carry state!


How about just buying a BB gun at Walmart...
1437) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1933462)
Posted 3 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Enjoy our replacements :-)
Your replacements?
Please explain.


China and Russia mostly...
1438) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1933124)
Posted 2 May 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

-- Douglas Adams
1439) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1932880)
Posted 30 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But what are the item "Selfie Sticks" and "Signs"?


Selfie sticks are the handle devices used to hold smartphones for photos. Both they and signs (especially the signpost) are security risks as can conceal long stabbing/cutting weapons among other things.
1440) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1932480)
Posted 28 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
1441) Message boards : Politics : Police and Law Enforcement #5 (Message 1932309)
Posted 27 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A continuation of I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 As per the OP there: "If anyone wishes to continue the "Good cop, Bad cop" discussion. Open your own thread."

As the last thread was closed due to offtopic back-and-forth sniping I guess I have to set the OP as I did with the Donald Trump thread.

The topic of this thread is Police and Law Enforcement, including both the bad (police corruption, crimes committed by police officers, systemic ethnic/racial bias in police forces, etc.) and good (heroic and above-and-beyond actions by police officers and police departments, etc.)
Offtopic material such as back and forth criticism of other forum members or their posting style rather than sticking to the topic will be removed at moderator discretion.


As always, if you think a post doesn't belong here, the correct course of action is to hit the red "X" and let us know why. Thank you.
1442) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1932084)
Posted 26 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What serious crimes have you committed?

You are inserting words, that don't apply, AGAIN.

Nope.


Are you seriously denying having clearly added the word "serious" where it wasn't present before? Really?
1443) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1931926)
Posted 26 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
765,000 PO's x 99.9999% = 765,000 PO's x 0.999999 = 764,999.235 PO's is a wrong answer!
Give me a break. Who is the 0.235 Police Officer?


764,999.235 is 99.9999% of 765,000 .
You then subtract to obtain the 0.0001% difference:
765,000 - 764,999.235 = 0.765

That was the original assertion: that of 765,000 police officers, 99.9999% were not rapists/murderers. By asserting this, one is also asserting that 0.765 of a police officer is.
And, ironically, given that only one police officer is currently suspected of being a rapist/murderer, and 0.765 rounds to 1, this was actually correct. :^p Far more so than the 100x error of 76.5 caused by missing the two decimal places.
1444) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1931910)
Posted 25 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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765000 X .0001 = 76.5

Means if .0001% of Law Enforcement was Mass murdering Rapists. Their would be 76.5 that are Mass murdering rapists.


You made the same mistake again: you forgot that you are dealing with percent so you left two zeroes to the right of the decimal. ie 99.9% is 0.999 leaving 0.001 not 0.9 leaving 0.1.
99.9999% is 0.999999 leaving 0.000001 not 0.9999 leaving 0.0001.
1445) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1931902)
Posted 25 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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765,000 Sworn Law Enforcement Officers in the USA.

99.9999% would leave 75.5 Law Enforcement being Mass murdering rapists.


765,000 x 99.9999% = 765,000 x 0.999999 = 764,999.235
765,000 - 764,999.235 = 0.765 Law Enforcement being Mass murdering rapists

Methinks you ran the numbers through the Confiscated Controlled Substance Value Calculator. 😀
1446) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1931768)
Posted 25 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It was obvious that he didn't have a gun as the Officer's actions showed and therefore wasn't a threat anymore.


The unexpected part (well, these days) is that the officer actually waited behind his car to assess that what the object the suspect was holding wasn't a handgun, rather than immediately shouting "gun" when he saw any object ie a cell phone, tiny pocketknife, piece of pipe, or his pants (four things that I recall others getting shot dead over) and unloading as many rounds as possible. Some more details on the training I mentioned:

Constable Lam pulled out his gun and commanded the man, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, identified by the police as the driver who had plowed down dozens of pedestrians on a busy Toronto street on Monday, to get down.
But before rushing toward him, or firing his gun, Constable Lam did something else: He paused, walked briskly back to his car and turned off its blaring siren.
Policing experts cited that as the first sign not only of Constable Lam’s calm-under-fire composure, but also, and more important, of the training he had in de-escalation tactics. There were many more.
“This is going to be a great training video in the future,” said Ronal Serpas, who led police departments in New Orleans and Nashville and is now a professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. “It almost gives you chills how well he handled himself.”
The man who helped devise the police training in Toronto agreed.
“These are all the lessons we teach in our training,” said Mike Federico, a deputy chief of the Toronto police who retired last September after 45 years with the force. “This is a great visual.”
Constable Lam is a traffic officer in the north end of Toronto and a seven-year veteran of the force, the local police union said. Each year, he would have received one day of de-escalation and mental health training, drafted under Deputy Chief Federico’s supervision and put in place by the Toronto police in 2016.
The training was created partly in response to several high-profile confrontations between the Toronto police and civilians in crisis that ended in death.
...
First, Constable Lam turned off the siren blaring from his car. This immediately lowered the temperature, experts said, making it easier for him to communicate with the suspect. Also, by leaning into the car, the officer is indicating that he is not in a rush.
“It is about slowing things down, using time and distance to de-escalate the situation,” said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Washington-based Police Executive Research Forum, which develops best policing practices. “The most important thing at a time like this is time and communications.”
Constable Lam continues to shout, loudly but calmly, “Get down.” The suspect replies, “Kill me.”
“No, get down,” Constable Lam repeats.
When the suspect yells that he has a gun in his pocket, Constable Lam replies: “I don’t care. Get down.”
Learning how to handle situations like this — known as suicide-by-cop — is part of the training, former Deputy Chief Federico said.
“It’s clear the officer is listening and is not worried,” he said. “He’s not going to act out of fear. We train police officers to not in any way be provoked.”
Next, the video shows, Constable Lam steps out and away from the cover of his car, indicating perhaps that he has assessed that the object in Mr. Minassian’s hand was not a gun.
Constable Lam then issues his first warning: “Get down or you’ll get shot.”
Throughout the encounter, the officer repeats the same simple command to get down. Yasmeen Krameddine, director of research and development at ProTraining, an Alberta organization that trains police forces in how to de-escalate confrontations involving people with mental health illness, said that it might have been better if he had varied his language.
“We train officers to offer step-by-step instructions, and when they see a person is not responding to their commands, to use different words,” she said.
But, she added, “In this situation, there was no time for that.”
Constable Lam then backs away from Mr. Minassian, who walks toward him, threatening object in hand. In response, the officer appears to replace his gun with a baton, visibly de-escalating the threat to Mr. Minassian.
...
Then, Constable Lam confidently and slowly approaches the suspect with his baton in hand. By the time the officer reaches him, Mr. Minassian has dropped the object in his hand, raised his hands in surrender, turned and laid down on his stomach with his hands behind his back.
Constable Lam doesn’t even use his baton. He merely handcuffs him."


All Toronto police officers were trained in de-escalation tactics and dealing with suspects with possible mental health issues by 2016, after the 2013 Sammy Yatim incident in which a police officer shot a young man nine times on a Toronto streetcar who was armed only with a tiny pocketknife. It seems to have been very effective in this case and I hope that this motivates many other police forces to offer the same training.
1447) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1931698)
Posted 24 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not to toot our own horn unnecessarily, but some of the few positive notes from the terrible events yesterday in north Toronto were the actions of the first responders, especially this police officer. I post it here to contrast it with some of the stories of police overuse of force and to emphasize how effective proper training can be.

He arrested a driver who had just plowed through crowds of people and for all appearances was a terrorist, all by himself, without violence, shots fired, or even harsh language... even though the suspect was pointing an object at the officer claiming it was a handgun and threatening to shoot him (and also asking to be shot himself.) Instead of giving into this, the officer recognized it was attempted "suicide by cop" and pulled out his baton... the suspect wanted a shooting, not a beating, so dropped the object (which was not a handgun) and was arrested.

Some may say it would have been less expense and better for society if this person had been shot, but if the police can restrain themselves from unnecessarily shooting someone who might deserve it. they are much more likely to also do so for someone who doesn't deserve it.

Video from the scene shows suspect Alek Minassian pointing an object at the officer and shouting: "Kill me!"

The officer tells the man to "get down" and when the suspect says he has a gun, the officer repeats: "I don't care. Get down."

Many in North America are asking how the suspect did not end up dead in a hail of police gunfire. It contrasts with incidents in the US where police have shot and killed unarmed people.

"Research has shown that Canadian police are reluctant users of deadly force," says Rick Parent, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University in Canada's British Columbia.

"An analysis of police shooting data over many years revealed, that in comparison to their American counterparts, Canadian police officers discharge their firearms far less, per capita that US police. However, like American police officers they take many risks in protecting the public."

One US-based academic told the BBC that the officer would have had a "duty" to kill the suspect, if the object he was pointing was a gun.
1448) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Core processor overheating (Message 1931015)
Posted 20 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you for pointing that out - i'm surprised they didn't ask me to do that since it is an Nvidia specific tool.


You're welcome and me too; my initial thought that it would have been the first thing that they would have had you do.

I had a ThermalTake power supply once. Once. :^) They are not very good. The only three brands I will ever buy now are Corsair, eVGA and Seasonic. You will find these three almost universally as the go-to brands for everyone who has built many computers.
1449) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Core processor overheating (Message 1930975)
Posted 20 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You're welcome. :^) I will await NVidia's determination, but in the interim if you haven't already I would install NTune or SpeedFan or equivalent to see that GPU's temperature when idle and when a task starts. I wonder if it's seriously overheating...
1450) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : SETI@Home may not work properly on newer Android (7 and 8) devices (Message 1930920)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As always, thank you Jord... Dr. Korpela had indicated that it was the neon client that was failing. I will update my OP indicating.

I have tasks (example) that seem to be completing now very slowly on aarch64-android-linux-gnu but the neon ones all errored out.
1451) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : SETI@Home may not work properly on newer Android (7 and 8) devices (Message 1930913)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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(This has been well-known here for a while, at least a year, but I think it needs a pinned thread for those who aren't forum regulars.)

The SETI@Home client may not work on some newer Android smartphones, tablets, etc. Work units may crash and show as "Error while computing" in the device's Tasks listing. Here is an example task from my own Samsung Galaxy S7. The error shows:

process got signal 6
</message>
<stderr_txt>
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_8.00_arm-android-linux-gnu__armv7-neon": /data/data/edu.berkeley.boinc/client/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_8.00_arm-android-linux-gnu__armv7-neon: has text relocations


The technical reason behind this is that the SETI@Home Android client is 32-bit and has never been ported to Android's 64-bit CLANG C++ suite. Some devices have a 32-bit subsystem to run these older 32-bit apps. (much like desktop OSes do so you can still use your older programs in Windows 10 64-bit, for example) but some do not and the client will not launch. Even if the 32-client does work, tasks may complete slowly compared to a native 64-bit client. (Thanks to Dr. Korpela for confirming this.)

If you have a newer Android device and it doesn't seem to be doing any work, you can confirm this issue by clicking your display name at the top-right of this page, then the View link beside Computers on this account, then find the device and click Tasks beside it. Under the Status column look for Error while computing.

If this is noted, go back to Computers on this account and click Details. Beside Operating system will be the Android version. If it shows (Android 7.0) or higher (ie 8 or 9) then this is the issue and SETI@Home may not work properly on this device until new client is released. After enough work units have errored out, some may start to complete slowly as they are based on a different Android platform (see Ageless' post after this one.)

In the interim, if it doesn't work at all or is too slow, there are other BOINC projects with updated clients which are compatible with Android 7+. Unfortunately there is no ETA for an updated Android SETI@Home client at this time.
1452) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Core processor overheating (Message 1930749)
Posted 18 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What make/model of video card and power supply do you have? From what I see it appears your power supply is underpowered and overheating when under load, and/or perhaps the 12V rail(s) are not able to push enough amperage. My rule of thumb is system power draw should be max. 65% of the PSUs rating for 24x7 operation.
1453) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1930629)
Posted 18 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unfortunately more posts went away as the thread got completely derailed again...

"This is not the Personalities Of and Gripes About People Who Post in the Donald Trump Thread Thread. Those and other offtopic material may be removed."
1454) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1930587)
Posted 17 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But that same Justice system states that in America (different in Canada or Ireland?)


Unsure of Ireland, but in Canada this right is enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (our version of the Bill of Rights):

"Any person charged with an offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal."
1455) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Exclude Applications from CPU (Message 1929831)
Posted 13 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I am so used to custom apps I forgot that stock doesn't have an app_info.xml. :^)
1456) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Exclude Applications from CPU (Message 1929828)
Posted 13 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You can exclude Astropulse from all your machines easily in your account settings... click your name top-right then SETI@home preferences, click Edit preferences and uncheck AstroPulse v7.

If you want to restrict on only one machine you can do this by editing app_info.xml (not app_config.xml as you indicated.)

There will be a section with "<app_name>astropulse_v7</app_name>" in it. You can remove this (back the file up first of course!)
1457) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1929618)
Posted 12 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Maybe I'll join Diamond and Silk in a 1st Amendment lawsuit...


I know Facebook is oversized and overreaching, but I don't think it's a government just yet. :^)
1458) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1929607)
Posted 12 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Perhaps arming teachers is not such a good idea...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A Marjory Stoneman Douglas teacher was arrested after he left a loaded gun in a public restroom and a drunk homeless man found it and fired it, according to an arrest report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Chemistry teacher Sean Simpson, 43, who was at the Parkland school during the Feb. 14 mass shooting that killed 17, told deputies on Sunday that he forgot the Glock 9 mm in a stall at a restroom at the Deerfield Beach Pier. No one was hurt during the incident.
1459) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (111) Server Problems? (Message 1929266)
Posted 10 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Appears we had the shortest Kaboom in a long time... back to that original "four hour" it started as. Nice work on that optimization. :^)
1460) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (111) Server Problems? (Message 1929242)
Posted 10 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Almost 10h00 EDT and no outrage yet?

1461) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1929053)
Posted 9 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some posts... OK, quite a few... had to go away as there wasn't a topical post to be seen in a page-and-a-half. From the OP:

"This is not the Personalities Of and Gripes About People Who Post in the Donald Trump Thread Thread. Those and other offtopic material may be removed."

Please note that as this thread is more prone to go off the rails it will be more heavily moderated if it does as per the OP. Once again, please try to keep it to topic (not each other) and thank you.
1462) Message boards : Number crunching : Should BOINC/Seti be stratified? (Message 1928504)
Posted 7 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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https://tinyurl.com/y8d8bnu6


The file at this link is named SETI Production.bmp but is is actually a JPEG so may have to be renamed to .JPG/.JPEG to open.
1463) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU missing, Waiting to run (0.209 CPUs + 1 Nvidia GPU (Message 1928278)
Posted 6 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You have your computer(s) hidden by the way which impedes assisting you... this can be changed by going into your profile at the top-right then SETI@home preferences and changing "Should SETI@home show your computers on its web site?"

The most common cause of the issue you are experiencing is allowing Windows to update your video card drivers. It only installs very basic ones missing the compute capability (CUDA in this case). I would suggest downloading the latest certified drivers for your card, installing them (quit BOINC first of course) checking the "clean install" option to remove any existing and it should then be OK.
1464) Questions and Answers : Getting started : WOW, 1 million credits and I can tell no one (Message 1928247)
Posted 6 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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WOW, 1 million credits processed...


"Credit: 306,682"

???
Maybe credit from other projects?

Anyways, you have no connected computers anymore and your RAC has fallen to zero; install BOINC, connect to SETI@Home, complete even a single work unit and once it validates you're good to post in the forums for between one and two weeks.
1465) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (111) Server Problems? (Message 1928125)
Posted 5 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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All of these look new... I wonder with the recent long outrage to fix database issues that this has been introduced to reduce work-in-progress entries, specifically by countering "bunkering" (edit: not saying that anyone is, of course! Pretty sure that the 100 CPU/GPU limit was introduced specifically to limit work-in-progress entries so it is an issue that has been addressed before so it's possible.)
1466) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Verification of data (Message 1928035)
Posted 4 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How credit is calculated. This system "CreditNew" pays out less than the old system (the old one from the Cobblestone definition that a gigaflop machine will earn 200 credits a day we get that each credit is 432 billion floating point operations) so it has led to much complaining. :^) (It pays as little as half depending on platform.)
1467) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Verification of data (Message 1928015)
Posted 4 Apr 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Comparison with others' results is the only verification that I know of on a workunit-by-workunit basis. It has also been verified that there are test signals injected into the data to ensure that they are being detected and reported, to show that the system is working from start to finish.

Each unit is sent to a minimum of two random hosts. If their results agree then the unit is marked completed. If not is it is sent to a third, then a fourth, to a maximum of ten if I remember correctly until there is quorum. If there is not by then it is flagged as erroneous and removed.
1468) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1927363)
Posted 30 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Murder by Cellphone
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/22/596051907/video-shows-sacramento-police-shoot-unarmed-black-man-in-grandparents-backyard


An update on this:

Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times From Behind or the Side, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds

“You could reasonably conclude that he received seven gunshot wounds from his back,” Dr. Omalu said at a news conference on Friday. He added that each of those seven shots could have had a “fatal capacity” and described severe damage to Mr. Clark’s body, including a shattered vertebrae [sic] and a collapsed lung.

“These findings from the independent autopsy contradict the police narrative that we’ve been told,” Benjamin Crump, the family’s lawyer, said in a statement. “This independent autopsy affirms that Stephon was not a threat to police and was slain in another senseless police killing under increasingly questionable circumstances.”

Mr. Crump said the results proved that Mr. Clark could not have been moving in a threatening fashion toward the officers when they opened fire.
1469) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1927011)
Posted 29 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A free press used to do that important function, now the alt right and Trump denigrates that function.


Agreed... denigrates, absolutely, but so far hasn't censored or shuttered or otherwise damaged their First Amendment rights, so could be much worse.
1470) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1927007)
Posted 29 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I hope that Mueller keeps looking, but not because I've predetermined what he's going to find. Instead, much like what we're doing here, finding nothing can be just as important as finding something. If he is able to continue investigating unhindered, if it is not proven that Donald Trump had any part of any provable conspiracy to interfere with the election, then this will increase confidence in him and his administration. His approval rating is rising, a sign of increasing confidence. (Yes... I know the only important poll is the ballot box, but still...)

And, perhaps Mueller will find something unexpected... maybe a corrupt Democrat or two, who knows? I hope he investigates both sides of the aisle, and independents; everyone who needs to be. All leaders should be so closely scrutinized: it keeps them (more) honest. It's a small price to pay compared with the billions a disastrous corrupt administration can cost.
1471) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Flat (in the) earth?? (Message 1926771)
Posted 26 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for catching that... hey it's a distracted Monday. :^) I edited it.
1472) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Flat (in the) earth?? (Message 1926758)
Posted 26 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Happily, the ancient Greeks already proved the earth to be (very nearly) spherical more than two thousand years ago. They didn't need rockets either... although Eratosthenes' experiment for the size of the earth requires a curvature, it doesn't exactly establish it.

All one needs is an old wooden sailing ship. Because water is a liquid it will always seek to be the same average (disregarding waves and tides) height everywhere, so the ocean will be the same height from the earth's centre (if spherical) or base (if flat.) Send a ship off in any direction from any point on Earth and it will slowly descend as it approaches the horizon and its mast will always disappear below the horizon at the same distance, to one part in three hundred. A smaller stationary boat may be required if the observer is not on shore, of course, but it is not essential.
So, this establishes that the Earth's surface has the same non-zero curvature everywhere (again to one part in three hundred for the sticklers) and is convex. There's only one shape that fulfills this.

As a bonus: the moon's eclipses are the Earth's shadow on the moon when it is between the moon and sun. The shadow is always the arc of a circle (again, to one part in three hundred) no matter the orientation of the earth. If the earth was anything but a very slightly ellipsoid sphere, the shadow would sometimes be a line, or an ellipse, or a lenticular shape, etc.

I'm sure the True Believers have plenty of counterarguments for this: the atmosphere refracts at distance faking curvature, Earth is always in the same orientation, the Cosmic Space Unicorn is pushing the ships down to uphold the Conspheracy... but unless any of these are proven first, they aren't allowed as rebuttals, sorry. :^p
1473) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Flat (in the) earth?? (Message 1926732)
Posted 26 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I very strongly doubt he truly believes that the earth is flat, or that his rockets will somehow prove it. He was a daredevil and amateur rocket buff long before his first attempt. In 2016 he tried a GoFundMe to raise funds to build his own rocket and the fundraiser was a failure.

Very conveniently, he then announced he was a flat-earth convert, and targeted the flat-earth community with his next fundraiser stating that his rocket would prove them correct. This was successful and he raised enough money for this launch.

His rocket went about two-thirds the height of the Burj Kalifa tower in Dubai, so he could have had a much higher/longer view with far less risk if that was really what he was after. :^p
1474) Message boards : Politics : What will trigger WWIII? (Message 1926276)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wasn't there a sci fi film where that happened, the President told Russia but they wouldn't believe him, so he had to bomb New York?


Fail Safe
1475) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1926249)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Bitcoin really isn't all that bad.
With enough processing power almost every Bitcoin transaction can be traced.


One of the reasons Bitcoin's value has slumped is that once it was figured out how to deanonymize the blockchain transactions, criminals and others with something to hide have been dumping it for Monero and others specifically designed to prevent this.
1476) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1925980)
Posted 23 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That has nothing to do with either child pornography, or Bitcoin, at all. The site indicated that the videos are migrating to is the largest (adult) pornography site on the internet and stays that way by being strictly legal as far as age and content goes at least, and no cryptocurrency is mentioned.
1477) Message boards : Politics : Trade War (Message 1925899)
Posted 23 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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However Trump starts his Trade War in two fronts at the same time.
China. That's OK.
The EU. What?... Unfair...? National security risks...?


If I may make a prediction: Trump will consider the tariffs on the EU and decide against them. The EU will then be all smiles and back the tariffs on China, which they otherwise would not have.
1478) Message boards : Politics : Trade War (Message 1925853)
Posted 22 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is one of the issues I am a) 100% in agreement with Donald Trump on and b) convinced only a political "outsider" could address, and was hoping that he would (he made it a campaign issue.) He may succeed or fail, but no one else has tried, or probably even would.

I'm not in agreement with tariffs between free nations on level playing fields, however it's beyond well-known that China uses prison labour extensively, aka slave labour. In addition, even the non-prison workers are also worked up to 16 hours a day, denied breaks, forced to pay for accommodations and food from their government-run employers and then given arbitrary "fines" for made-up infractions which end up equaling their wages so they are working for free. Here is one example. There are many more if one looks. It is impossible for a free developed-world labour market to compete with slavery.

This has been a human rights issue for decades, and I am surprised that so many who are pro-human rights aren't willing to "vote with their wallet" to pay a little more for some goods in exchange for bringing jobs home away from modern slavery, or even acknowledge the issue (I blame partisanship.)

(Yes, there is some prison labour in US prisons as well... maybe 1% or less as much as China's.)

Edit: Trump's China tariffs get bipartisan support, reflecting widespread U.S. disillusionment with Beijing

President Trump's decision to order some $50 billion in tariffs on a wide range of Chinese imports, despite the risk of setting off a wider trade war, met with bipartisan approval Thursday, reflecting the growing disillusionment with Beijing on the part of many American officials and business leaders.

...



Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York, for example, praised the president Thursday morning in a Senate floor speech.

"Today he is doing the right thing," Schumer said, accusing China of "rapaciously" taking advantage of the United States. "They steal it," he said, referring to U.S. intellectual property, "and we do nothing."

A leading Republican, House Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady of Texas, offered more nuanced praise.

"President Trump is right to take a hard line against China's dishonest trade practices, which have clearly harmed American workers," Brady said in a statement. "The challenge for every president, however, is how to punish China without harming our families, businesses, and farmers. Tariffs are taxes, so the next 30 days of input are crucial to make sure we don't punish American workers and families for China's misbehavior."
1479) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1925711)
Posted 22 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It Has Begun! Venezuela Launches National Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency.
https://sputniknews.com/business/201801061060550736-venezuela-maduropetro-launch-emission/
Venezuela is issuing $5.9 billion in petro, its state cryptocurrency, in the hopes that it will drive the country out of economic downfall amid US sanctions. The petro is backed by the country's oil, diamond and gold reserves.


Well, it was pretty obvious from the get-go (this story even comes from Sputnik News) but confirmed:

Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency to Evade U.S. Sanctions

President Donald Trump may not have realized on Monday that his executive order would step on Russia’s toes. Its official target was Venezuela, specifically the country’s plan to create the world’s first state-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, which went on sale Tuesday.

But behind the scenes, the petro was in fact a collaboration—a half-hidden joint venture between Venezuelan and Russian officials and businessmen, whose aim was to erode the power of U.S. sanctions, sources familiar with the effort told TIME.

Trump’s executive order did not mention the petro’s Russian backers, whose role has not previously been reported. Citing economic sanctions that the U.S. imposed against Venezuela in August, the order simply made clear that anyone who buys or uses the new cryptocurrency would be in breach of those sanctions, as would anyone under U.S. jurisdiction who helps Venezuela develop the petro. “Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited,” the document states.
1480) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Breakthrough Listening (Message 1925393)
Posted 19 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Breakthrough Listen is part of the Breakthrough Initiatives, a set of scientific initiatives founded and funded by Yuri Milner via a $100 million grant.

For us, this resulted in a new receiver at the Green Bank observatory in Virginia; SETI@Home does some of the data processing for this receiver. There is also a new receiver on the way for the Parkes observatory in Australia.

Unlike the Arecibo search which "goes along for the ride" recording whatever the telescope is "pointing" at, this is a targeted search using dedicated telescope time and resources to examine what are thought to be the most promising candidates.
1481) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT? (Message 1924974)
Posted 16 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Science uses the word to a extent. God Particle, Peter Higgs.


Not his and he didn't like it...

But “God particle”? The name was the invention of Leon Lederman, himself a great physicist, who used it as the title of a popular book in 1993.

Scientists and clerics almost uniformly say they dislike it. Even Peter Higgs said he wished Lederman hadn’t done it. “I have to explain to people it was a joke,” Higgs said in a rare interview with The Guardian in 2007. “I'm an atheist, but I have an uneasy feeling that playing around with names like that could be unnecessarily offensive to people who are religious."
1482) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT? (Message 1924968)
Posted 16 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My response, upon reaching my supposed maturity, to those who believe. Is to say "guessing I'm going to hell".


I always have a couple of these handy in my wallet in case I get told I'm going to hell (usually by street preachers, but occasionally not...)


1483) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1924962)
Posted 16 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
B.C. CEO charged with conspiring to sell unhackable phones to criminals

This is the paragraph that caught my notice:

Documents obtained by Postmedia show Ramos used shell companies and crypto currencies to allegedly launder “tens of millions” of dollars of his illicit profits. The latest indictment alleges Phantom Secure generated approximately $80 million in annual revenue since 2008.
1484) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1924910)
Posted 16 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But, I find it quite interesting, that... anyone running seti, probably isn't very religious ... Since if we did find life on other planets, that would be a big blow to anything written in the bible.


Er... there are plenty of ways of being religious that don't involve "the" bible.
Also there are plenty of Christians here as well, including some of the top contributors. It may be a problem for "literalists" but there aren't many of them around here.
1485) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT? (Message 1924784)
Posted 15 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is it OK to pray to the Sun?



"So, I worship the sun. But, I don't pray to the sun. Know why? I wouldn't presume on our friendship. It's not polite."
-- George Carlin
1486) Message boards : Politics : GOD or NOT? (Message 1924766)
Posted 15 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hawking changed his mind...


Not sure which direction, but 26 years after this quote, he stated in an interview to a Spanish newspaper:

"In the past, before we understood science, it was logical to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant to say when I said [at the end of A Brief History of Time] that we would know 'the mind of God' was that we would understand everything God would be able to understand if he happened to exist. But there is no God. I'm an atheist. Religion believes in miracles, but those are not compatible with science."


The religious views of scientists are often contentious because they will sometimes use the word "god" in an non-standard way. Einstein was notable for this as well, which has led to plenty of claims about his religiosity. Similar to Hawking he had to make a statement to counter them, which was part of the recently auctioned letter of his.

As with so much else, Carl Sagan summarized it perfectly:

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. "
1487) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924292)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Again you are incorrect.


70% of Americans want stricter assault weapon laws — more than ever before

A new poll shows that 70% of Americans — and more than half of Republicans — support stricter laws on assault weapons in the wake of a deadly shooting in Florida.

According to the poll from Business Insider's partner MSN, 87% of Democrats and 52% of Republicans support stricter laws on assault weapons.

The nationwide average of 70% is even higher than the 67% that want to ban assault weapons and the 66% that wanted tougher gun laws in general in a recent Quinnipiac University poll. Those figures are the highest ever in the 10-year history of the poll.


Gun control support surges in polls

Support for stricter gun laws has spiked in polls conducted after the fatal South Florida school shooting, hitting its highest level in at least a quarter-century.

Roughly 2 in 3 Americans now say gun control laws should be made more strict in the wake of the murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to a number of polls, including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that shows support for stricter gun laws among registered voters at 68 percent, compared with just 25 percent who oppose stricter gun laws.


Florida Shooting: 50 Percent of Americans Now Want Nationwide Ban on Assault Weapons, Poll Shows

Half of Americans would back a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons, a new poll shows, with the majority of respondents also stating President Donald Trump is not doing enough to prevent mass shootings.

The Washington Post/ABC News poll was conducted following the deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, which left at least 17 people dead and others injured.

Of the 808 adults surveyed from February 15 to 18, 62 percent of people do not think the president is doing enough to prevent mass shootings, with 77 percent believing Congress is not doing enough to tackle the problem.


Majority support increased gun restrictions: poll

Most Americans support stricter gun laws following a mass shooting at a Florida high school this month, but few expect Congress to take action on the issue, a poll released Sunday found.

A USA Today poll showed 19 percent of Americans believe there’s a good or excellent chance Congress will enact tougher gun control laws, while 76 percent believe there’s a fair or poor chance lawmakers will act.


"Polls don't matter!" in 3....2....1....
1488) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1924284)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And just over eight years ago...



Unfortunately I tend to agree with both.
1489) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924212)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What is the life threatening difference between a Clip and a Magazine?

You claim to have been in several career's, all of which require the use of correct terminology. In at least one of those careers it would have been drilled into you so deeply that it would become second nature to always do it. And you would never have referred to a magazine as a clip or vice versa.


+∞
1490) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924205)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You know, you could have just answered it a hundred times by now. And, no, I don't know. And I don't appreciate being told what I do or do not. I read thousands of posts here weekly, so don't take it personally if I don't remember every nuance.

So again, I ask: Do you support restrictions on fully-automatic firearms or not?
1491) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924196)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Do you support restrictions on fully-automatic firearms or not?

Mr. Kevvy... I answered that and you know that.


If I did, I would not have asked. Perhaps I missed it. So I am asking again.
1492) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924191)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I meant I am not putting any "fluff" in so that you can evade the question, so I ask again:

Do you support restrictions on fully-automatic firearms or not?
1493) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924188)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As Gary has pointed out, over 99% of legal fully-automatic rifle owners (who are properly vetted) have not used theirs to "murder, rape, mutilate" either. So your argument can be used to claim they they should be allowed without restriction as well. Should they?

(no fluff this time)
1494) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924183)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since over 99% of semiautomatic rifle owners will not use their guns to murder, rape, mutilate, etc. That you, I and others disagree, is just that, a personal disagreement.


We should allow personal nukes then... I'm sure the vast majority of them will be used defensively by law-abiding citizens.
(Yes, I know I'm exaggerating but there's a point to it.)

As Gary has pointed out, over 99% of legal fully-automatic rifle owners (who are properly vetted) have not used theirs to "murder, rape, mutilate" either. So your argument can be used to claim they they should be allowed without restriction as well. Should they?
1495) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1924176)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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'clip' confiscation


many with clips containing 7-16 rounds


{giggle}
1496) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1923995)
Posted 11 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What peoples cultures and/or religions allow. Is not pertinent to the failure of British Authorities.


I wasn't saying it was.
1497) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1923989)
Posted 11 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is worth a read as it is very similar. I notice that the Mirror article still calls the perpetrators "Asian", so it appears they have not learned anything from this. The Wikipedia article addresses this as well:

The UK Hindu Council and the Sikh Federation asked that the perpetrators be described as Pakistani Muslims, rather than Asian.


Note that the prosecutor: "himself a Muslim, made the decision in 2011 to prosecute the Rochdale child sex abuse ring after the CPS had turned the case down. Responding to the Jay report, he argued that the abuse had no basis in Islam: 'Islam says that alcohol, drugs, rape and abuse are all forbidden, yet these men were surrounded by all of these things.'"

However, coming from a culture that has established a religious basis for routinely treating women as second-class citizens whose pleas for help against abuse from males are often ignored would certainly be a contributing factor.
1498) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1923766)
Posted 10 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm just amazed that it can still be believed that the U.S. has some exceptional freedom that this separation of power somehow guarantees, when black people lived in chains for three centuries and as second or third-class citizens for another century after that, when native Americans were massacred and forced onto reservations, when over a hundred thousand law-abiding citizens were stripped of their property and imprisoned in internment camps merely for having Japanese ancestry, when it still has the highest incarceration rate of any nation on Earth (oh, second to the Seychelles, a tiny archipelago with a population of about a hundred thousand.)

Neither guns nor the Constitution seemed to work for them as a bulwark against governmental tyranny, did they? Then again, I'm merely a foreigner, so cannot be expected to comprehend such intricacies.
1499) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1923504)
Posted 9 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hah... I think our new joke name for Kim should be "Yawn Sigh Oh".

I reaffirm what I said earlier: I think that if Donald Trump can pull this off and get North and South Korea peacefully talking and end the brinkmanship on both sides, this would be re-election material and I would concur that he had earned it. Whatever chaos may or may not be going on behind closed doors in Washington, so far he seems to be doing some good things.
1500) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1923494)
Posted 9 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here is the major announcement indicated below:

Trump accepts invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

North Korea’s belligerent leader, Kim Jong Un, has asked President Trump for talks and Trump has agreed to meet him “by May,” South Korea’s national security adviser said at the White House Thursday after delivering the invitation to the American president.

Kim has also committed to stopping nuclear and missile testing, even during joint military drills in South Korea next month, Chung Eui-yong told reporters in Washington.

After a year in which North Korea fired inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of reaching all of the United States and tested what is widely thought to have been a hydrogen bomb, such a moratorium would be welcomed by the U.S. and the world.

Kim Jong Un “expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible,” Chung said. “President Trump said he would meet Kim Jong Un by May.” Chung did not provide any information on where the meeting would be. In Seoul, the presidential Blue House clarified that the meeting would occur by the end of May.
1501) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1923478)
Posted 9 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But Mr. Kevvy, "full-auto firearms, short-barrelled rifles, short-barrelled shotguns, silencers and hand grenades" are legal for private citizens to own in the USA...


Yes, but not for everyone... and that is precisely the point. The more deadly something is, the more the owner should have to be vetted in order to acquire it. For example, we don't allow someone to drive a train or an eighteen-wheeler with the same level of training and licensing we do for a sedan. All we need to do is recognize that it's been a mistake up to this point to have large-capacity magazine semi-automatic firearms in the "sedan" side.
1502) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1923391)
Posted 8 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A forcibly disarmed person is a slave.


Then you are already a slave... you were forcibly disarmed of your full-auto firearms, short-barrelled rifles, short-barrelled shotguns, silencers and hand grenades in 1934.

Still no takers on why this is OK but restricting semi-auto assault rifles with large magazines is not. Oh, right... the impending zombie apocalypse.
1503) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1923359)
Posted 8 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, from what I have seen in this thread, you've argued rather endlessly that the "right" to be mass-murdered by a lunatic with unrestricted access is to military-class weaponry, and to to live in fear of being so, is a distinctly American value, so I don't think you're any better.
1504) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1922561)
Posted 3 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizens' behavior. It was written to restrain the government's behavior.

That is our difference. The only country in the world to do so.


Have you actually read any other nations' constitutions? I'm rather doubting it from that last sentence. :^p
1505) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1922151)
Posted 2 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, I have no idea how to change our Culture within the next few years or perhaps decades.


Changing your culture or constitution is not required. As I've pointed out numerous times (still without a reply as to why this isn't workable) fully-auto firearms were defined as weapons of war, not of self-defense, sport or hunting, and are heavily restricted, and this was found to be constitutional. So, the same can be done with semi-auto rifles and pistols with magazine sizes greater than a certain number of rounds... ie 6 or 7, ban anything that makes a semi- into a full-auto (ie bump stocks.) If someone wants one, they can be validated (ie register the weapon with the police, undergo a background and mental heath check, and repeat it periodically.)

I'm only agreeing with Mr. Reagan and Trump here... you'll have to take it up with them. :^p

(I also find it strange that the same people who hold up the police as heroes and want to give extended powers and minimal oversight to them tend to be the most strongly opposed to registering one's firearms with them. If they are heroes they won't go participating in "tyranny" by sharing this with any gun-grabber regime, right?)
1506) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1922135)
Posted 2 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hi Mr. Kevvy. Yes, I knew he would post something before your response to my reply regarding your fascinating observation and question


I'm completely in agreement with him... I've asked you several times on several issues what your proposed solutions are and nothing; instead you constantly criticize others' solutions, and worse, overdramatize discussion into "scolding" as you did below. Well, last last time I checked, this was a discussion forum... that's what we do here. Nothing I write will likely affect anything anyways, being merely an uninformed foreigner and all.

So, what do you propose to improve the situation?
1507) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1922116)
Posted 2 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I did read everything and saw no relevance to what I was responding to.


It would have been hypocritical if he was suggesting others to have to undergo verification that he wasn't willing to himself, but this is not the case:

"...but unlike you have been properly vetted by Anti-Terrorist Police, and had my Mental Health subject to scrutiny, before being authorised to legally possess, and I'm happy with the system..."


So far I haven't seen a single person in this thread even suggest that it's a good idea to ban all firearms, or even confiscate them... proper background and mental health checks and perhaps ownership restrictions only for semi-automatic assault weapons (like that old lefty Ronald Reagan wanted) is as far as anyone has gone.

And I'm still awaiting anyone to offer an explanation why they can be constitutionally OK with full-auto rifles being restricted but not OK with semi-autos...
1508) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1922085)
Posted 2 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You have THAT many guns and most of you Brits want to take OUR guns away from us or at the very least make us go through mountains of red tape just to own one???????

DAMN!!! Talk about hypocrisy. >_<


It really helps if you read everything a person writes (or at least consider it), and not just one sentence. :^p
1509) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1922011)
Posted 2 Mar 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This quote has been making the rounds from that libbiest lib who ever libbed, that foreigner who just couldn't understand the intricacies of the U.S. Constitution: Ronald Reagan

“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense,” he said. “But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”

Reagan erred in his use of terminology: The type of weapon used by Patrick Purdy, and referenced by Reagan in his comment, was actually a semi-automatic version of the AK-47, not a “machine gun.” In 1994 Reagan was a co-signatory (along with former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter) to a letter urging the U.S. House of Representatives to support a ban on the domestic manufacture of “assault weapons” such as semi-automatic AK-47s.


This was after the 1989 Stockton massacre which was committed with an AK-47 in semi-automatic fire mode, as was the AR-15 in Parkland.
1510) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1920683)
Posted 23 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just FYI: The Virginia Tech. massacre ended up with almost twice as many dead (32 and 17 wounded) and was committed with just a pair of semi-automatic pistols. The shooter was also declared mentally ill beforehand, but was not committed.
1511) Message boards : Politics : How Russia influenced the US Presidential election. (Message 1920578)
Posted 23 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And Trump? Because that is the foundation of this year long...

BTW: As you know. I have referred to Trump as Dangerous Donald, Idiot Trump and Slobbering Mouth. I hate him as President. Edit: Whenever I see him on TV, I grimace.

But... As with the Republicans Impeachment of Bill Clinton, which you mentioned. I hold the same opinion of those which have subjected our country to their year long hysteria.


And Trump... I even answered that before...

I go where the evidence leads, Clyde... Obama was the lawfully elected president as no good evidence was found leading to a lawful overturning of this, and Trump is the lawfully elected president as no good evidence has been found leading to a lawful overturning of this. This may change but until it does "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" applies to everyone. I do strongly disagree with any political side even hinting or implying violence of any kind as a solution to their grievances, as this can set off unstable radicals and cause them to act, and it poisons civilized discussion.

As long as there is none of that, I expect that each "side" will try to unseat the other in such a polarized political climate. I merely disagree that one side has some sort of a moral high ground that some of their supporters have engaged in it any less than the other!


You may be more radical than I am on Trump then... lol... I don't think he's doing that bad of a job. Note that this is completely separate from anything he says... I think he'd have a better chance of getting re-elected if he could keep his mouth shut and stay off of Twitter. This has nothing to do with whether I agree with his policies and/or politics at all.

There's too much evidence that there was Russian meddling, but that doesn't imply American involvement. This will have to be proven, or not, legally. It's a possibility that the Russians did it on their own or without the direct involvement of higher-ups in the Trump campaign. Putin is very wily and a master manipulator and politically savvy (and I say this almost with admiration as he's so good at it, and I don't admire much else about him to be sure.) What more divisive and destabilizing of a move could he make than meddling in the US election without "approval", which would put both parties at each other's throats and mostly destroy confidence in the US federal elections? This is what he wants: infighting and instability, divide and conquer. So I would avoid the partisan blame game as it's exactly what he wants...

(Unfortunately it's off to bed for me so I won't be able to reply for a while.)
1512) Message boards : Politics : How Russia influenced the US Presidential election. (Message 1920565)
Posted 23 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A confirmation that only one side is under investigation.


I don't know what this means really. Do you mean that only the Republicans are being investigated and this is biased? That only the Democrats are being investigated so this confirms your premature conclusions and presumptions of guilt?

Well, it certainly isn't the latter as so far the only Americans charged that I know of are:

Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security advisor
Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager (former?)
Rick Gates, Trump's deputy campaign manager (former?)
George Papadopoulos, Trump's campaign foreign policy advisor

And they are also all innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
1513) Message boards : Politics : How Russia influenced the US Presidential election. (Message 1920561)
Posted 23 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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.... the relevant Hillary Clinton campaign officials and allies, Obama administration principals and holdovers in the law enforcement, national security and foreign policy apparatuses, Fusion GPS players and the journalists...


How many of these people have been indicted themselves? Charged without indictment? Tried? Convicted?

If you expect others to apply "innocent until proven guilty" to Donald Trump and his associates with regards to interference in the election, it may be a good idea to reciprocate and also apply it to the Democrats. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Hrm... where have I heard that one?
1514) Message boards : Politics : How Russia influenced the US Presidential election. (Message 1920542)
Posted 22 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The enablers and 'useful fools' of Putin's Divide and Conquer inside the USA, are the Democrat Party and the Anti Trump Media.


This isn't helping, Clyde... in fact it's being just the opposite: divisive. Whatever noise is coming from the Democrat camp is because "their team" currently isn't in the White House. If it was, the roles would be reversed, as it was for eight years prior. Do I really need to dig up all the "Birthergate" nonsense that persisted from the Republican camp (including from the current President!) for that time period trying to, as you put it yourself "attempt to invalidate a Constitutional and lawful election of a President"? Are memories that short?

This is a bipartisan issue.... period.
1515) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1919609)
Posted 18 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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List of firearm deaths by country per 100,000 per year

United States: 10.54
Sweden: 1.47

Less than one-seventh.
1516) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1919605)
Posted 18 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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. . First you have to have the magnetic media


We do

, and then the station wagon and a driver....

This is close enough.
1517) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1919589)
Posted 18 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Bring it into the 21s century...


And this was already done as I have noted. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." There is no mention of which "Arms" they are allowed to keep and bear. It was already determined that full-auto was not covered, and surprisingly everyone seems OK with this. Why is this not just as much of an "infringement" as banning semi-auto rifles? Or even semi-auto pistols with large magazines? Some states already have restrictions on these and buyers need to be licensed and weapons registered.

Time and time again I see rebuttals that firearms control doesn't work because criminals won't listen to the laws etc. etc. I haven't seen any factual, numerical data to support these claims. Rather, in practice there is ample evidence that it does work. A good example as I think has been mentioned is Australia, where after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre of 35 people by a shooter also with a semi-automatic assault rifle, multi-partisan legislation banning the ownership (IIRC) and purchase of these weapons was passed. There had been 13 mass shootings in the 18 years before this legislation. After? Not one in the 21 years since.

Also in 1996, the Dunblane Primary School massacre in Britain which was carried out with handguns caused the UK to introduce a general ownership ban on them, and there has not been a single school massacre in the 21+ years since (the last major one, not at a school, which had caused a long-gun restriction was in 1987.)

I can also provide an example from my own country... in 2014 a radical Islamist convert named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau decided to shoot up the Canadian capitol building, the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa. He tried to buy a black-market assault rifle, but they were so expensive and hard to find given the restrictions on ownership that he couldn't find one he could afford. He ended up storming Parliament with a vintage .30-.30 lever-action Winchester. Sadly he shot dead a soldier on ceremonial sentry duty before he could load his rifle (they are required to keep it unloaded as part of their duties... perhaps that is no longer the case.) Rather underpowered for an offensive action. the Sergeant-At-Arms was able to retrieve his sidearm from its lockbox and shoot him... after taking out a terrorist, he was able to return to his duties of carrying a large ceremonial golden sceptre while in rather ancient garb.
1518) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1919563)
Posted 17 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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To slightly paraphrase, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic media hurtling down the highway"
1519) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1919275)
Posted 16 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"There is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity," [Deputy Attorney General] Rosenstein said, adding there "there is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election."


Thanks... I guess I should have posted that but as only Russians are indicated it sort of spoke for itself. Anyways, yes... This troll farm was also whipping up Clinton supporters as well during the 2016 election cycle, playing both sides. And they also got very active yesterday about the shootings in Florida, pumping out numerous piles of B.S. (ie that shooter was a registered Democrat and/or Antifa member, etc.)

It's called "Divide and conquer", and it's been played since Roman times and unfortunately still works.
1520) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1919267)
Posted 16 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mueller Indicts 13 Russians Accused of Election Meddling

Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities were indicted Friday for allegedly interfering in U.S. elections and political processes, a spokesperson for special counsel Robert Mueller's office said in a statement.

Charges listed in the 37-page indictment include conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft and they are the most direct allegation to date of illegal Russian meddling in the election.

"A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment on Feb. 16, 2018, against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes. The indictment charges all of the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five defendants with aggravated identity theft," the special counsel's statement said.


Original indictment here. This concerns the documented "Internet Research Agency" troll farm.
1521) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin euphoria and how it can damage volunteer distributed computing (Message 1919259)
Posted 16 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I suspect that they will be watched very closely.


One recently was not watched so closely, which is probably why they pulled these three:

LoopX Startup Pulls ICO Exit Scam and Disappears with $4.5 Million

A cryptocurrency startup named LoopX has pulled an exit scam after collecting around $4.5 million from users during an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) held for the past weeks.

The LoopX team disappeared out of the blue at the start of the week when it took down its website and deleted its Facebook, Telegram, and YouTube channels without any explanation.
1522) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1919237)
Posted 16 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Dear School Shooter,

We were going to write to you how absolutely devastated we were that you violently and horribly took our daughter from us so early in her life which was so full of potential for great things, but on second thought, the little princess just was too above cleaning up her room and always left the towels on the bathroom floor after her endless showers, so really, we're just kind of 'meh.'

Also we understand that it's completely your fault, and if you didn't have access to military weapons of war before you were old enough to legally buy a beer and while as crazy as a shytehouse rat, you just would have beaten all those kids to death with a rusty pipe or something, because no one could possibly run away from something like that. We offer our sincere apologies, thoughts and prayers to the assault rifle for hurting its feelings.

Sincerely,

No parent ever"
1523) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1919071)
Posted 15 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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TOTAL IRRELEVANCE concerning Event In Question and TOTAL IRRELEVANCE per My Comments.


Geez, I can't think of anything more relevant. Let's try a car analogy... I've been told that works with these difficult technical concepts.

Vision test requirements for driver's licenses are implemented during Obama era.
Auto-negation of anything that happened during that era means they are overturned by the president.
Blind driver runs down 29 people, 17 of whom die.
The president then stresses the need for vision testing... those same requirements that he already cancelled.

"TOTAL IRRELEVANCE."

Uh huh.
1524) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1919057)
Posted 15 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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#1 - Despite the above, SCOTUS has affirmed that the 2nd Amendment is about Individual Rights.


Yes, and I think incorrectly and influenced by politics. The interpretation has also gone the other way; it did in 1876. Not likely these days but again this is only one of several possible ideas.

#2 - The Republican Party controls 2/3 of the States.


Yes, and those would be the least restrictive. This is the "Will of The People"... those who disagreed could either move elsewhere or vote in a different state government.

Worse. 70% of the American people do not want a ban on handguns.


If you re-read what I wrote, there was nothing in there about banning all handguns.

Doesn't matter what foreign countries believe. Only what is believed inside the USA.


I don't know where this little snipe comes from, but I don't think it's very civil. This is a discussion board, and I am discussing, by proposing ideas, of how to possibly resolve a problem, and nothing more. If this is somehow objectionable, I trust you will heed your own advice and refrain from commentary in the North Korea thread; after all you are a foreigner so it doesn't matter what you believe... correct? :^p

Do you have any ideas of how this problem may be resolved?
1525) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1919032)
Posted 15 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since when is banning guns going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and idiots that go on shooting sprees? Do you think they will "obey" the law?


This argument is illogical (sorry) because it fails to account for the ban on full automatic weapons. Restated:

"Since when is banning automatic weapons going to keep them out of the hands of criminals and idiots that go on shooting sprees? Do you think they will "obey" the law?"

Why is this not just as valid?

I see the usual rhetoric but not much throwing around any concrete ideas of what to do to fix this problem... if you want to. Of course I support the right of a free, law-abiding people to defend themselves, and this problem has nothing to do with that. Within the framework of the Constitution I see several possibilities, in increasing severity:

1) Do nothing. Everything is just fine. Doesn't affect me. It happens, get over it. Etc.

2) Reinterpretation of the second amendments "well-ordered militia" clause to actually mean something. In its current interpretation it is completely ignored ie if the second said "Being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." or even "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." this would make no difference to its application in practice at all. There are actually solid constitutionally sound reasons for doing this: first, the wording of the constitution was very carefully decided and its authors were not ones to waste words by having unnecessary verbiage present. The second reason is that James Madison's original wording was: "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms." This makes it much clearer that the Second only applied to a militia.

So by doing this, one would have to be a member of the state militia in order to own/use firearms. This could enable detailed background checks, training requirements, recurring mental health assessments, and revocation of the right for reasons such as propensity to violence, threatening or harassing social media postings, failing mental health assessment, etc. And this would satisfy the "states' rights" advocates because each state could determine the qualifications to be militia members... including none at all.

3) "Strict constructionist weaponry" as I mentioned before: the Founders only knew of and used firearms that could fire one shot and then needed manual intervention. Redefine anything that fires as fast as one can pull the trigger as a weapon of offense and war, not of defense and not subject to constitutional protection (as was done with full-autos!) While no one would be expected to go back to the days of ramrods and biting the top off powder bags, bolt/lever/single/pump-action and single-shot firearms are excellent for self-defense, hunting, target shooting, utility (ie putting down wounded animals) etc.... not so good for gang warfare or shooting up schools.

4) Repeal the second amendment. As noted above, the amendment was most likely created in 1789 to enable state militias because the United States did not have a standing army at all until 1791 (the Continental Army of the Revolution had been dissolved) and it did not become significant until the War of 1812. It is constitutionally arguable that the Second is obsolete. Then, again, it becomes a "states' rights" issue and individual states can decide, and will at least have the option to restrict or not however they choose is optimal.

These are just ideas for discussion so please do. :^p
1526) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1918996)
Posted 15 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'll just say I agree with 'This happens nowhere else' Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, home to Sandy Hook Elementary School


Every time there's another mass shooting, The Onion updates their story ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

PARKLAND, FL—In the hours following a violent rampage in Florida in which a lone attacker killed 17 individuals and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Indiana resident Harold Turner, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
1527) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1918878)
Posted 15 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You forgot to blame Obama...

1528) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1918769)
Posted 14 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In addition to cryptojacking and tax evasion, some other uses of cryptocurrency include narcotics, child pornography, human trafficking, illegal weapons, money laundering, blackmail, ransomware...

... basically everything that an anonymous, digital, supposedly untraceable currency was predicted to be used for.
1529) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1918614)
Posted 13 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Heh... I wonder how often those signs are stolen by tourists. Well, given the proximity of the police, probably not too often. :^)

There's a town in Austria with a name that also starts with "F" and ends with "ing" and I can't write it here, and their signs are (were?) probably the most often stolen, even when they welded them to steel posts embedded in buried concrete.
1530) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1918538)
Posted 12 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The broken record continues...

"Murdering and enslaving dictator!"
"Korea is for Koreans!"
<<TIC>>
"Murdering and enslaving dictator!"
"Korea is for Koreans!"
<<TIC>>

You are both correct, and incorrect... Korea is for Koreans. Unfortunately whereas the South is for South Koreans, the North seems to be for a very small clique of Kim's family and anointed. Everyone else is close to starving and can disappear into a labour camp for the rest of their days for something as minor as rolling a cigarette from a newspaper with Kim's photograph on it. Anything much more "severe" warrants execution, sometimes being blown into tiny bits by an antiaircraft gun in a stadium to terrify everyone else into compliance. Lovely country you have there!

So this brings up the second yadda: telling others how to live their lives. Well, as if we have any power to do so when their lives are already so absolutely controlled as it is... Kim and his anointed are already doing a good job of that.

But, it is correct that this is the Koreans' business and they will have to work it out as best they can. It is our business if he is threatening others with nuclear weapons, thus the sanctions.

As to the "murdering and enslaving" part... there's no argument with that. The problem is that this is endlessly repeated without any actual plan for what to do about it. Rather than belittle others for not being sufficiently outraged for your standards, how about just telling us in plain English what you propose? If you don't, it appears you're for a pre-emptive strike but just don't want to admit it. If that's the case I don't blame you, as it would be a strategically dumb move, risking Kim desperately nuking cities because he knows he would be dead anyways, and China going to war on his side.
1531) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1917957)
Posted 10 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The party you wanted to send is the party MK and I support. http://www.lp.org


Surprised, Gary... thought you were more of a Bernie Sanders voter... interesting. I do like some libertarian ideas, especially getting rid of victimless crimes and fiscal responsibility for once. However I also like social safety nets ie healthcare (not people who live their whole lives on welfare.) I totally agree with JE and MK and the rest of you on the fiscal responsibility, and I think that any government that purposely spends into deficit and/or debt, unless there is a national emergency ie a disaster with deaths in the high thousands or war, should be deposed immediately. Have all the social services and military and whatever, or not, just pay for it all right away or get rid of it! Otherwise you get a situation like this where the debt has gotten so big no one wants to touch it for fear of exposing just how big it is... it's like ignoring cancer because gosh darn it, thinking about it is just no fun and the chemo might be unpleasant.

Unfortunately, some come into office with the best of intentions, but the biggest cliché around is that power corrupts, and they end up blowing money on toys and parades instead of doing the needful. It's the nature of the beast... just about anyone, in order to get and stay elected, has to turn into more of a standard politician.
(Time to watch some Yes, Minister or Yes, Prime Minister reruns!)
1532) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1917910)
Posted 9 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is a classic case of "State's Rights". I find it extremely funny that a lot of the same people who are opposed to "State's Rights" in all/almost all other cases are very pro "State's Rights" when it comes to 'weed'.


That would be because this is a situation where the states are permitting something that that the federal government is restricting, rather than vice versa, and in some cases contrary to the 14th amendment. As someone in favour of more liberty, this should be a given.

Also, though many call marijuana 'safe', why then is it listed in the 'list' under California's Prop. 65 as 'causes cancer'?

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/chemicals/marijuana-smoke

From a Libertarian standpoint, I have no issues with someone consuming something that causes cancer... As long as it only affects THEM.
But, in this case there is a lot of evidence that '2nd-hand' marijuana smoke also elevates cancer rates...
So, what to do?


We already have a perfect model for this in existing legislation: tobacco, which is far stronger of a carcinogen (marijuana is also commonly vaped these days as well, which has not been demonstrated to have any second-hand cancer risks, and made into edibles which have zero by definition.) So smoking of marijuana should be permissible wherever smoking of tobacco is permitted ie in private residences, in open public areas where others are not being directly exposed, etc.
1533) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1917902)
Posted 9 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Er... unless I missed something, and women lost voting rights everywhere they gained them in the last century or so, I think that the "Suffrage people" may actually have been the ones "WINNING WINNING WINNING". 😀
1534) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1917683)
Posted 8 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There is (finally) a bill in the U.S. House to federally legalize: the Marijuana Justice Act. This is being introduced to counter Attorney General Sessions' attempts to continue federal enforcement policies contrary to the Tenth Amendment and states that have chosen to legalize.

The ACLU has posted a contact form to assist with writing your congressional reps. I would suggest a printed paper e-mail and to customize it.

And remember, as we've noted, this is not a "liberal" or "conservative" or "left-wing" or "right-wing" issue... it's a liberty and justice issue, and the arguments for legalization are very strong on all "sides" (and correspondingly weak, evidence-free and long-debunked for keeping it illegal on all "sides" too!) I hope you can all do your part and let your representatives know...
1535) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1917285)
Posted 6 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Last week everybody was shouting "Trump didn't cause the rally, Obama did."


Guess that would be everybody... other than me. :^) I looked it at it that the markets were highly optimistic and were climbing on that. But isn't it a tenet of fiscal conservatism that governments don't create wealth? Certainly don't wish it into existence with optimism. So it really was a "correction" of an overinflated market. Simply put by several here, a bubble that popped.

(Note that I'm not blaming anyone... I'd rather see the markets optimistic than pessimistic and the POTUS can influence that. The market just bit off a little more than it could chew.)
1536) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1917196)
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just seeing if I understand...

Stocks go up = Trump did it! Yay Trump!
Stocks go down = Correction.... sell-off.

😀
1537) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin euphoria and how it can damage volunteer distributed computing (Message 1917159)
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I can see two ways in which cryptocurrency has hurt volunteer distributed computing already:

First, it's driving up the price and down the availability of new video cards.

Secondly, try finding a rental apartment these days with included electricity! Too many miners sell the building's power for their own personal profit. Distributed computing is rare enough that it was "under the radar" but many landlords are well aware of crypto miners. At least the apartment grow-ops (edit: link added) were illegal so they could get rid of them. :^p
1538) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1917130)
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, LHC@home is in a crisis for unknown reasons. CPDN is unreachable, Sourcefinder an astronomy project also using VirtualBox like LHC@home has no work. Only Einstein@home is feeding my computers.


Thanks tullio... this is actually helpful as it shows that SETI@Home is not the only BOINC project that has its share of issues.

I would suggest a zero resource share (Edit: in project preferences in your account page on the project's site not in your BOINC client) on one's backup project as then BOINC only downloads a bare minimum of work, ie if there is a core or GPU free it will download one work unit for it, and not keep a cache. Then when SETI@Home has work it will fill the cache as much as it can and suspend the backup's work until the timeout is near.

One caveat is that BOINC will sometimes stop asking for work for the primary project... you can see that this has happened when there is no countdown timer to next contact. Clicking "Update" when it is like this will resolve it.
1539) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1916565)
Posted 3 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We had our 2nd funeral in 30 days here, thank you for that 'tribute' Gary...


I don't think anyone here including Gary doubts that the majority of police officers are decent and will put their lives on the line in the course of their duties. The first one's death is especially heartbreaking as he was pleading with the man who eventually shot him "Let me help you..." That (as has been discussed to death in the relevant thread) isn't the issue, but instead the system's failure to take action against those who abuse their office, or sometimes even acknowledge that such a thing exists.

(I note that one of the ironies of this is that one of the largest beneficiaries of a corrupt police force is the narcotics trade with its large amount of "easy money" to throw around (and of course I don't mean marijuana. but the seriously addictive and potentially lethal stuff) so it's in the interest of "law and order" proponents to ensure the police have external oversight. Too often (think NYC in the 1970s) the corruption can run all the way to the top where everyone is either in it or doesn't care/looks the other way.)
1540) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1916218)
Posted 1 Feb 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Erm...

Longing for reunion with families back in the North was the most frequent reason for having wanted to return, cited by 34.3 percent of those who answered in the affirmative, according to the survey. Another major reason was nostalgia for hometown.


That's quite a large family he has...

Also only a fifth of the escapees indicated any desire to return. And more telling: they have not returned. And I wouldn't discount this effect either.
1541) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1916093)
Posted 31 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Eric did post it was Internet2 which is not commercial. Its backbone is supposed to support 8.8Tb/sec. YMMV


Thanks... did not see that. Rather staggering theoretical speed there too,
1542) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1916055)
Posted 31 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So anyone want to comment on my idea of just FedEx'ing some drives to Berkeley?


Done and it only took -5 years...... I guess those drives got repurposed.

Also if there is a mysterious slowdown on a GBT <-> Berkeley data link, I'm wondering if it's being caused by the dreaded post-net-neutrality that was being worried about, depending on who's the link provider. Worth checking if everything else fails I guess.
1543) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1915948)
Posted 31 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Around here this is known as "Tuesday".
1544) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915852)
Posted 30 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meaning : I believe, as you don't. That inviting and smiling with the Leader of a Hate Group. Be it the KKK or Black Muslims, is most informative and enlightening regarding your belief.


What exactly is my belief, Clyde, since you seem to know it better than I do?

Since Trump was photographed "inviting and smiling" whatever that means with the Clintons, should I now follow your "reasoning", declare him in league with the Deep State or Derp State or whatever it is and call for his impeachment? (as if one silly Canadian voice in the wilderness matters.) I mean, since you are implying that being seen in a photo with someone grinning means you are completely in agreement with them, right?

I am merely disputing that it does.
1545) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915848)
Posted 30 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Like clockwork...

Also "I believe, as you don't, is most illuminating." Sorry but whatever this means eludes me. I haven't seen anything conclusive that the photo of Barack/Louis was 'shopped (and I have looked) but I don't think it affects anything whether it was or not, really. (Thus the photo I posted... it doesn't reflect reality. I don't think the other one does either.)
1546) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915845)
Posted 30 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Having one's picture taken with another whilst all are a-smiling does not imply the parties are in agreement or alignment...



(I know I'm being foolish posting this as I'm just asking for several replies annoyingly including it so it turns into wallpaper as does every other large image in this forum. 😀)
1547) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915692)
Posted 29 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some posts had to go away... please keep the OP in mind when posting: "This is not the Personalities Of and Gripes About People Who Post in the Donald Trump Thread Thread. Those and other offtopic material may be removed."

If you disagree with someone's information, political stance, supported politicians, etc. please criticize those directly without insulting them. Thank you.
1548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1915611)
Posted 28 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Tooth Retractor


Correct (enough)... it's a retractor for lower wisdom teeth. And it's also known as a rake retractor so I should have taken that one too really! PM on its way...
1549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1915573)
Posted 28 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mr. K is playing hard to get.


Nah, just having a busier weekend than I planned...

rake retractor


retractor


These two are almost there.
1550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1915372)
Posted 27 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks... again apologies on the delay but didn't have time this morning to find and post one. Hope this is another challenge. :^)

1551) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915365)
Posted 27 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You appear to have missed two things in what I wrote:

There is no such thing like an unbiased observer.


First: "trying to be a pragmatic and unbiased outside observer"... I make no claims.

What have other world leaders said about Trump?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-40528955


Second: "that which is ultimately irrelevant, ie whether... people outside the US like him or not." I think he has demonstrated he doesn't care about their opinions.
1552) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915298)
Posted 26 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He simply doesn't like incompetent political leaders.


As someone trying to be a pragmatic and unbiased outside observer, I still have yet to understand this so-called incompetence as a leader, after filtering out that which is ultimately irrelevant, ie whether I agree with his policies or actions, or people outside the US like him or not, or he says silly things on Twitter or during speeches (which really count for nothing legislatively... actions are important.)

So other than some poor self-control in communication, I haven't seen anything that bad yet... for anything regarding corruption/emoluments, Russian interference, etc. I am not dismissing that there may be evidence but I am not in a position to judge one way or another (nor I think really are any of us unless we are much closer to the situation than we are letting on) so I stick to "innocent until proven guilty."

Maybe that's just me. :^p
1553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1915116)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That is a very old can opener.
1554) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915088)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A rumor currently circulating says that ANTIFA is planning on disrupting the Annual Sturgis Bike Week because of the blatant displays of US and Confederate Flags...


Nope.
1555) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1915080)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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An American workers wage is how much?
A Chinese workers wage is how much?


Sometimes zero... China is known to use prison labour, aka slave labour, in products for export to the U.S. I recently saw an example of this in the Netflix documentary Rotten. The U.S. garlic farming industry was being undercut by cheap Chinese imports, so a tariff was applied. The Chinese then would ship garlic to other countries first and reship to the U.S. from them to evade the tariff. This was confirmed by genetic analysis of the garlic that it was all of Chinese origin. But where was it coming from?

Much of this garlic was peeled which is the favoured type as it is ideal for bulk usage as this tedious step is not required. A U.S. Chinese immigrant garlic farmer, one of those who was being financially crippled by the cheap imports, found out. He traveled to China under the premise of being a garlic trader, and made hidden-camera videos of a prison in China where the inmates peel garlic. They peel it 16 hours a day, 7 days a week unpaid until their fingernails wear off and they are forced to use their teeth. If they don't peel, they don't eat. Keep in mind as well that this is in a country where Googling the word "democracy" can result in a prison term... unlimited free labour.

Hard to compete legitimately with that.
1556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1914996)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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hmm....

Skin graft razor....


Paging Doctor Zed to the ER, and by ER I mean Exactly Right! :^) While Brown Dermatome is the specific name of this device it certainly is a skin graft razor so is the first correct answer.

PM on its way.
1557) Message boards : Politics : Against ALL women - Infanticide, Slavery, Rape, Trafficking... (#3) (Message 1914962)
Posted 24 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some posts had to go away... please try to stick to topic. If someone seems to be deliberately dragging it elsewhere (or otherwise going off-policy) please let us know via red-X rather than calling them out (I'm sure we all know the old drill...)

Thanks!
1558) Message boards : Politics : 44 GOING TO JAIL CONmutiny DESTRUCTIONizer to Have Teachable 'Moments' fO a 'CAPTIVE' Audience (Message 1914935)
Posted 24 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Deep State...


1559) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1914925)
Posted 24 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I believe reasoning individuals will find upon examination that Conservative policies regarding energy are an all of the above approach. Stop taking sides and let the market determine the viable mix of all sources, oil, gas, wind, solar and Unicorn farts.


I agree with this, but actually it happened long before... plants stopped using coal and migrated to gas once the infrastructure was in place, as gas is much safer and less expensive especially over the long term. Coal is not a good source of energy by mass, it has to be mined instead of just tapped or fracked out of the ground, it can't be pipelined which adds more to its cost but instead needs to be shipped or railroaded, and whereas gas burns completely into carbon dioxide and water, coal leaves a toxic residual ash high in heavy metals that adds yet more expense to get rid of properly and can cause major problems if it gets into the environment ie by a tailings breach.

I wish that some people would stop seeing "renewables" as some sort of an anti-business bogeyman. There's a huge amount of money to be made from them, and by 2020 they (wind, solar, etc.) are going to be cheaper than any fossil fuels per kilowatt-hour, so expect further possible job losses in the coal sector. As someone once said to the fossil fuel magnates: "Stop thinking of yourselves as oil companies, coal companies, gas companies... start thinking of yourself as energy companies." Those that do will prosper, and sustainably so.
1560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1914820)
Posted 24 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Where is the clues?


These were the two that are at least approaching correctness:

Briss tool


A very rough razor :P
1561) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1914658)
Posted 22 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The United States endures, so, we all won. Dread that it should ever be otherwise, and to those who persist: be careful what you wish for.

That is all.
1562) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1914644)
Posted 22 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I believe you only need to register if you want to post in the forums.


RAC of >=1 is also required to post in any of the Message Boards forums, but not in the Questions and Answers forums so people having technical issues getting started can ask for help (so of course we do get spammers there.)
1563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1914596)
Posted 22 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Volunteer for 12yrs.


Commendable and kudos. :^)

This one is a tough one we may need a clue!


Two of the answers thus far were "on the right track"... if there's nothing more today I'll narrow it down. Glad I picked a good one.
1564) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1914205)
Posted 20 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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.... girthers."


Witty! I like a good wordplay so thank you. :^)
1565) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1914204)
Posted 20 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I see that a few people still have their green stars.


I advised Dr. Korpela so it's a known issue and should be restored soon. It was indicated that this seemed to be the result of a BOINC update breaking the scripting.
1566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Mark (Message 1914005)
Posted 19 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Sixty-wonderful!"... You have had a wonderful year with some inspirational and very positive changes in it, so you've earned a very happy birthday and many more to come. :^)
1567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1913986)
Posted 19 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Us rural firefighters call them "Hooligan bars" as what hooligan wouldn't want 1?


That is a witty alternative name, isn't it... amazing how the name lends itself so readily to this. Didn't know you were a firefighter... Volunteer or pro?

-------

I nodded off when I got home so it took a little longer to post the next image than I planned.


1568) Message boards : Politics : Totally FAUX news (Message 1913823)
Posted 18 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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marijuana is a plant and one not native to the USA.


Although most feral cannabis is descended from industrial hemp, migrating birds have been known to poop marijuana seeds that grow wild in warmer North American locations. If it were not for being illegal and thus destroyed, there would doubtless be native marijuana.

(It's native if nature does it. :^p)
1569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1913790)
Posted 18 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's a Halligan bar.
1570) Message boards : Politics : Totally FAUX news (Message 1913766)
Posted 18 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Edit: Having worked and lived in Germany. Their 'States' are not Sovereign States as with the USA.


The states of the United States are not sovereign either... sovereignty is "the full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any interference from outside sources or bodies." If they were, there would be no United States, but fifty independent nations. The 14th amendment of the Constitution guarantees this: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.." et al. As a famous example, George Wallace and others who opposed integration and the civil rights movement as contrary to their states' laws found this out the hard way... (the 14th was adopted just after the civil war precisely to prevent states reinstituting slavery or equivalent under the guise of state law.) As MajorKong noted states do have authority to make their own laws via the 10th amendment for anything not covered by the Constitution, as long as they do not violate the rights granted to The People and responsibilities of the Federal government as spelled out in it.

....but then again I am a foreigner so could not possibly understand such intricacies. 😀
1571) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (109) Server Problems? (Message 1913739)
Posted 18 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Caches are full and RAC is steadily dropping...


Indeed... the lack of work accelerated the fall to where it was going to end up anyways; ripping off the proverbial bandage.
1572) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1913660)
Posted 18 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Hrm... I was about to reply indicating that 143 is not that bad (I also take 10mg/d Crestor/rosuvastatin... it's only midway "borderline high") but it turns out there is more:

Although it was not part of the official medical records that were released yesterday, after further questioning, Jackson also revealed that Trump underwent a coronary calcium CT scan as part of his routine physical exam. His score is 133, and anything over 100 indicates plaque is present and that the patient has heart disease. According to Trump's official medical records, in 2009 his coronary calcium score was 34. In 2013, it was 98.


That is much worse.
1573) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (109) Server Problems? (Message 1913636)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Really frustrating that my Linux box is still unable to get any appreciable work while my slow Windows7 boxes have mostly full caches.


I noticed that as well... I'm sure some would disagree but I see it with my own eyes: even with a zero resource share, if E@H has minimal work (one WU per slot running and zero cached) and SETI@Home is empty, BOINC often stops asking for SETI@Home work (has zero work units and it's just sitting with no countdown timer to next scheduler request) and I have to hit Update manually to remind it. Well I did that with six fast Linux machines and they got zilch and the seventh was my wife's slower SoG Win7 box and presto... 130 tasks. Just the luck of the draw (I hope.)
1574) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (109) Server Problems? (Message 1913608)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I got a reply from Dr. Korpela about five hours ago; the splitters were reporting themselves as fine with normal output but weren't actually doing any work. This is why it wasn't caught after the outrage. So it will take a while to fill all those hungry caches but it's working.

Those naughty splitters...

1575) Message boards : Politics : North Korea Part 3 (Message 1913507)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The joint team is a go...

North, South Korea agree to march under ‘unification flag’ at Olympic opening ceremony

SEOUL—South Korea says the rival Koreas have agreed to form their first joint Olympic team and have their athletes march together during the opening ceremony of next month’s Winter Olympics in the South.

Seoul’s Unification Ministry says the Koreas reached the agreement during talks Wednesday at the border village of Panmunjom.

It says athletes from the two Koreas will march together under a “unification flag” depicting their peninsula during the opening ceremony and will field a single women’s ice hockey team.


I think that this is a very hopeful sign of good things to come...
1576) Message boards : Number crunching : A very steep decline in Average Credits!!! (Message 1913386)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He has acknowledged a problem with credit, though: credit is a BOINC-wide problem, not a SETI problem. Issue #2132


Issue #2132 (Fixed URL)
1577) Message boards : Number crunching : 100 WU limit for GPUs is too low. (Message 1913259)
Posted 15 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The work unit limit was deliberately set like this years ago by the project scientists to avoid stressing the fragile Informix database upon which the entire project utterly depends with too many work units in progress at once and other similar "stressers" on it. It's been discussed to death, and it isn't going to be changing in the foreseeable future. Also, they don't read this forum that we know of. So, best to make one's peace with it as the way it is.

By the way I got about 2-3 hours of work units max. cached when they were Arecibo ones.... I get about 4-5 from the BLCs which is a slight (and accidental) improvement. We're all in the same boat.
1578) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1912672)
Posted 13 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So you have no objection to the rest of the world calling your country the biggest ****hole on the planet?


The United States has a loud and blustery president. What else have they done that is so wrong to earn such a distinction? There are some pretty horrific governments in the world from a human rights perspective; the United States certainly isn't perfect, but it's a long way from the bottom and it seems the worst offenders get a free pass just by staying quiet.

I sort of answered my own question there: The US seems so bad because there's so much internal criticism of its government, which of course is expressed through the media and internet, and since both are mostly US developments they saturate the world so it seems like there's a disproportionate amount of it. Ironically this is only because this criticism is allowed, even encouraged. In many other countries that might deserve the title this criticism is absent through legislation, fear or outright brutality.
1579) Message boards : Number crunching : A very steep decline in Average Credits!!! (Message 1912287)
Posted 11 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have no problem with the higher credit they award but they just don't strike my interest that much.


Which is precisely why they award the higher credit. :^)
1580) Message boards : Number crunching : A very steep decline in Average Credits!!! (Message 1912000)
Posted 9 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, if it helps, we have been expecting this for a long time... I'm pretty sure all of the Arecibo work was from old drives (aka tapes) being reprocessed to take advantage of the algorithm updates, but we've known it was limited. Even without Maria Arecibo had been defunded and was expecting closure. The BL work units being targeted at optimal local star systems compensate by (probably) having a much greater chance of actually finding something!

Soon Parkes will be online too (and its work will also doubtless all be BL VLAR as well.) So we're going to be awash in higher-quality work to do. What's not to like? :^)
1581) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1911832)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So TRUE. NO NEED to CITE or PROVE...


Good summary right there.
1582) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1911830)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I hardly think a criminal gang with about 20 'members' could be considered as a significant political group.


I hardly do either, but it's all we have. :^p

Contrast that with the Klan: "in 18 months ending in June 1867, there were 197 murders and 548 cases of aggravated assault."

Oh, I forgot the Black Panthers. They self-identified as "socialist", had a murder or two, and promoted firearm use. Still small potatoes.
1583) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1911826)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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..........and obviously just a 'non-violent' protestor in the mold of Antifa...............


Missing a "not"? :^) I certainly don't agree with Antifa's methods but I don't know of them ever using firearms, or causing any deaths.

The Symbionese Liberation Army comes to mind as a violent radical U.S. left-wing movement that caused a few deaths and used firearms.
1584) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1911591)
Posted 7 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... as of this year all active-duty police and firefighters have been issued naloxone and trained in its use as well, as they are often first responders in what turns out to be an opioid overdose.

Hope this gets implemented everywhere it's a problem.


And not long after I wrote this, I find this in our local news:

OPP use naloxone to save Ontario man from apparent opioid overdose

Ontario Provincial Police saved the life of a 27-year-old Ontario man by using the overdose-reversing medication naloxone.
Police were called to the Queensway Motel in Simcoe, Ont. Saturday afternoon after reports of a man in medical distress.
After determining that the man seemed to be suffering from an opioid overdose, an officer administered three doses of naloxone.
The man regained consciousness and was transported to a hospital.
OPP say this is the second time naloxone has been administered to save a life in Norfolk County.
The Ontario government announced in December that it would offer naloxone to all of the province’s police and fire departments as part of an effort to combat the rising opioid crisis.
1585) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1911520)
Posted 7 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Take a random cubic parsec and you will find matter in it, never mind the virtual particles.


There's about one hydrogen atom/cm3 in galactic interstellar space, and even a few per m3 in deep intergalactic space. Thus the idea for the Bussard ramjet...
1586) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1910912)
Posted 5 Jan 2018 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As of this moment:
•Feds actively investigating Clinton Foundation•
Is the leading article. Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." Is not prominent.
http://www.cnn.com/
Yes... CNN
Hmmmmm


CNN... isn't that the Mainest of the Mainstream Media? What was that you said about them when they were investigating Donald Trump's campaign?

"The Mainstream Media stands for nothing excepting Political Hysteria, Social Hysteria, Lying Politically Inspired Rumors disguised as Facts and their Continuous Support for the Corrupt Washington Swamp."

But I guess this investigation you personally approve of, so they are somehow reliable again...

Myself, I hope all possible wrongdoing from all sides, parties and persons is aggressively investigated, publicized and if warranted, prosecuted.
1587) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1909608)
Posted 30 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Only one shot was fired and by only one Police Officer?

As a trained and experienced investigator of police shootings. This raises many red flags.


Definitely... I hypothesize that the officer wasn't following one of the most basic principles:

1588) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1909593)
Posted 30 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in deadly Wichita police shooting

Briefly: two Call of Duty gamers had an online dispute. One threatened to "swat" the other (make a prank call pretending to have a hostage situation in order to cause a large police response.) The other gave a false address near his home in Wichita. The first made the call: "The caller claimed his father had been shot in the head, and that he was holding his mother and a sibling at gunpoint..." When police arrived at the false address, an unarmed 28-year-old man answered the door. Body camera video shows him on the porch with his hands raised as ordered, yet an officer shot him and he died a few minutes later in hospital.

Happily, the swatter (in LA) has just been arrested. While he is certainly the criminal instigator and I hope he is convicted of murder for it, the police officer's action is indicative of poor training ie no firearm control and no training on dealing with possible swatting situations, though there are hundreds in North America annually.
1589) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1908534)
Posted 23 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That's included in the training as far as I know. :^) Should always call 911 first so the pros are on their way and as naloxone is an immediate opioid antagonist, the recipient can go into instant withdrawal! May not be too happy about it but it beats dying. Well I hope it does!
1590) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1908531)
Posted 23 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm again thankful to be living in a place that addresses these concerns... in Ontario anyone with a health card can obtain a naloxone/Narcan kit from a pharmacy free of charge, which includes training on how to use it to save the life of someone who's overdosed. Paramedics had of course long been trained in dealing with opioid overdoses, but as of this year all active-duty police and firefighters have been issued naloxone and trained in its use as well, as they are often first responders in what turns out to be an opioid overdose.

Hope this gets implemented everywhere it's a problem.
1591) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908474)
Posted 22 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just keeping it Fair and Balanced. 😀
1592) Message boards : Politics : Bitcoin and other crypt-currency stuff (Message 1907918)
Posted 18 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Very simplified, mining consists of running numbers through a secure hash algorithm (SHA256 for BitCoin) and if the output confirms to a specific pattern it's a good thing. in Bitcoin's case it's if it starts with a number of zeroes I think. Because these numbers that hash to these desired patterns are rare and it takes a lot of computation to find them (and being secure there are no shortcuts... there's no known way of reversing the process) this is the "work" being done which prevents unlimited amounts of "coins" from being generated with no effort.

As well, as Darth noted, with the way it's set up there's also a hard limit of 21 million BitCoins which prevents inflation.
1593) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1907778)
Posted 17 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It looks like Trump's team will go to any length to stop Mueller's investigation.


It has been recently rumored (yes, I know what rumors are...) that Trump may be preparing to fire Mueller on Dec. 22nd or thereabouts (after Congress is in holiday recess) and this may be either an excuse or the reason why depending on one's interpretation. I guess we'll wait and see.
1594) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1907590)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thread is getting oversized... new thread here.
1595) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1907587)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A continutation of this thread...

The is the third and current Donald Trump (45th President of the United States of America) thread. Everything about Donald Trump is on-topic: ie himself, his Presidency, his party, his cabinet, his family, his business interests, and the state of the U.S. Federal Government during his term.

This is not the Personalities Of and Gripes About People Who Post in the Donald Trump Thread Thread. Those and other offtopic material may be removed.
1596) Questions and Answers : Web site : no access to my profile page (Message 1907442)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It should be OK now... I checked and it and it seems fine. As well there were numerous other profiles having the same issue as well as some of the stats. pages but they were all fixed around the same time.
1597) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1906669)
Posted 12 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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1598) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1906472)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Breitbart (similarly?) also has a bias, and they are not (as much of) a fake news site either... they may spin hard, but it's almost all based on actual factual. And they have also issued retractions when they were wrong.

Remember the old Weekly World News?




It's too bad they went under, as since then we seem to have forgotten what authentic Fake News looks like... the goalposts have rather narrowed.
1599) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1906460)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Finally the meltdown of the Fake News pundits is a joy to behold. CNN has to retract a fake story about Donald Trump Jr getting access to the Wikileaks emails earlier than their official release............claiming faulty sources(REALLY?). And then the Washington Post reporter who tweets a photo on Friday claiming a half empty venue for Trump's Pensacola rally. And then having to apologize when the truth is revealed that the image was taken several hours BEFORE the rally.


Biased News possibly, but at least they're issuing retractions and apologies... admissions of error. I've never known a true Fake News source to do that.

"AHEM! How about a retraction on that Martian Child Slave Colony piece, Mr. Alex Jones?"...
<<crickets>>

:^)
1600) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1906300)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks Clyde... was not aware of that one. The more common one of his statements about that era was resulting from someone asking him re: "Make America Great Again" when he thought America was last "great":

“I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery — they cared for one another…. Our families were strong, our country had a direction.”

At the same event, Moore referred to Native Americans and Asian Americans as “reds and yellows.”
1601) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1906230)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Any U.S. citizen that gets their hands on a automatic long gun is in violation of federal and/or state law. The gun is illegal. A person using said long gun for a nefarious purpose is responsible for their actions, NOT the manufacturer. The manufacturer did NOT twist that person's arm and tell them to go kill someone. That would be like someone suing McDonald's because they are fat (which I believe has happened). We cannot have the son of a suicide bomber being sued for what his father did.


I'll reiterate my point that the banning of automatic long guns is just as much of a restriction as the banning of semi-automatic assault rifles. If the first is agreeable because they are too dangerous/powerful/potential of misuse, why is there an arbitrary disagreement with the second? Either the Second Amendment is being followed to the letter, or it is not.

If automatics were legal, and someone used one to massacre a school full of children and teachers, the same arguments would still apply: the murderer was responsible for their own actions. No one twisted their arm and told them to do this. The manufacturers were blameless.
1602) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1906221)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You liberals really like to go to the EXTREME don't you?


Please don't pin labels like this on me... I don't fit into any political pigeonhole and I prefer it that way. The term is also never used as anything but an insult these days anyways. Thank you.

The fact that you support nuclear arms control for personal use shows that you do support arms control... now it's just a matter of degree. I also note that you didn't address whether you agree that fully-automatic firearms should be legal. Do you? (edit: I see you edited in that you do support restriction for automatic firearms.)

In this case, why? Doesn't this fit into your argument of personal responsibility and that the manufacturer isn't responsible? I don't see much of a distinction when a semi-automatic firearm can still have a similar magazine capacity and can fire two or more rounds per second manually... each one of those can result in a dead person, and with fully-automatics it's not even possible to aim the thing fast enough to up this much more.

I support an individual's right to self-defense and sport firearms. If I had my way, anything that allowed someone to fire as fast as they could pull the trigger would be illegal for civilian ownership. Single-action revolvers, bolt-action rifles, pump or double-barrel shotguns would be legal and of course all single-shot variants. Anything more is a mass-murder tool. These weapons allow one to defend onself from attacker(s) who are in one's face or charging, but... a critical difference, make it hard to hit someone running away ie who is not a threat, which is then not a self-defense situation. Do we need another reminder that when the Second Amendment was written, all firearms were single-shot and took many seconds to reload even for an expert?

Hope this clarifies.
1603) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1906207)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Do you think fully automatic firearms should be legal then? How about personal nuclear weapons? After all, they are both armaments and Second Amendment manufacturers not responsible yadda. If you would restrict them, why the arbitrary distinction?

I look at this much like the "free speech" issue. Free speech means only that the government won't prosecute someone for saying something controversial. It doesn't absolve one of responsibility or ramifications of this speech, including firing, termination of online services, or just being despised.

Likewise, the government (unfortunately?) won't prosecute manufacturers from making or selling weapons of war to civilians. They made a device with the designed purpose of killing as many human beings in as short of a time as the law could possibly allow; it has no other uses and is far too powerful for self-defense or hunting. Why should they then be absolved of all responsibility? The device was being used for the purpose it was designed for. The fact that the targets were innocent six-year-old schoolchildren rather than a fantasy horde of post-apocalyptic invaders was not considered.
1604) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1906195)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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1605) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1906192)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Father of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim hopes to bring unique lawsuit against AR-15 makers

He and family members of other victims have filed a unique lawsuit against the gun manufacturers of the AR-15, the powerful semi-automatic assault rifle that allowed Lanza to carry out his rampage so quickly and with such lethal capability. They claim the manufacturers, Remington Arms and Bushmaster Firearms, bear responsibility for the massacre.
...
Thanks to Congress, gun manufacturers have largely been absolved from any responsibility. After intense lobbying from the National Rifle Association, Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005. Under the law, manufacturers cannot be held accountable when one of their weapons is used in a crime or mass shooting. However, the law allows for a sliver of wiggle room if the plaintiffs can prove “negligent entrustment.” In this case, the legal term means proving the manufacturers were reckless in that they knew they were selling deadly weapons and looking for violent young men as customers. The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Joshua Koskoff, believes they can prove this.

He said Remington and Bushmaster have described the gun as a modern sporting rifle. But in their marketing, they showcase it as a militarized weapon. The gun appears in violent first-person shooter video games and is advertised in a catalog as capable of making the “forces of opposition bow down,” according to Koskoff. The lawyer scoffed at the manufacturers’ classification of the weapon as a sporting rifle when it was meant for trained military personnel, not civilians. “This has military roots going back to Vietnam,” Koskoff said of the gun. “They were trying to design the perfect killing machine for the world’s greatest military. It checked all the boxes.” Moreover, Koskoff said, public filings by Remington show that it has been eager to tap into a younger demographic. The marketing, and the customer base it targets, lead to high-risk users like Lanza, Koskoff said.
1606) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905917)
Posted 9 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm not a heavy hitter like Richard or Mr. K or the Hanson family (thanks, guys!...


You're welcome! And the Hanson family too! :^) (Actually I see you edited that.) In fact their and Richard's contributions are going to end up making mine look minuscule because we collected much more than anticipated. They don't have icons yet because they're awaiting the totals. My part is being the noisy emptier bottle that rattles louder. 😀

I think this exercise has shown that rather than donate to a general expenses fund, people like the idea of contributing for "their" little bit of hardware that they feel has "their" name on it. And that has encouraged people here that that have to be careful with money to join in. I'm sure the GPUUG won't feel we are treading on their toes :-)


Not at all... GPUUG is in on this, but even if not, as long as the goal is reached everyone is happy.

What motivated me from the beginning with hardware fundraisers even without any personalization or recognition icons etc. was taking the project in new directions. Same-old same-old maintenance steady-state will get a green star $10 or perhaps $100 if there's a dead server needing resurrection, but what really fired me up was exploration and the possibility of discovery in a completely different area. If same-old hasn't found anything yet, enthusiasm wanes and novelty is essential to get it back again.
1607) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1905902)
Posted 9 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Charlie Chaplin......?


Correct. :^)

(Not my best work, I know, but not bad for about three minutes. Also you correctly understood the intent of somewhat humorous misdirection.)

And Bob you're also correct in that it could have been Stan... just thinner. I forgot he had a tiny mustache as well, and a bowler hat to boot.
1608) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905800)
Posted 9 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Second matching donation made... $2,900 down and $2,100 to go. I made it $1,400 as the first one was declined; if the exchange rate changed it may have gone just over the limit.

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1609) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1905769)
Posted 9 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If you put a tiny mustache under that nose he'd look just like....



1610) Message boards : Number crunching : New fundraiser for new data (Message 1905665)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mirrored from the news thread:

The response has been amazing! We've already reached our goal for the fundraiser and a bit more, and we reached the limits to which the donors have agreed to match. Any further matching of donations is up to them. If you didn't get a chance to get your special disk drive or GPU icon, we'll keep that open for donations that come in until 8am Pacific Time (1600 UTC) on Monday.
1611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905664)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Cute, but the single spinner reminds me a record player, ;~).


And which record? Why, a record-breaking fundraiser! :^)

Mirrored from the news thread:

The response has been amazing! We've already reached our goal for the fundraiser and a bit more, and we reached the limits to which the donors have agreed to match. Any further matching of donations is up to them. If you didn't get a chance to get your special disk drive or GPU icon, we'll keep that open for donations that come in until 8am Pacific Time (1600 UTC) on Monday.
1612) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905642)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You gave $3,000.00
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1613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1905624)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oral surgery just in healing mode now, waiting for the bone implants to heal and strengthen.


Another excellent payoff for your quitting smoking... recently I happened to find a study that showed that only 4% of implants fail in non-smokers, but 15% in smokers. Smoking also complicates and increases healing time in just about every dental/oral surgery procedure... it's always the first thing asked when assessing contraindications.

Hope you're sticking with it of course. :^)
1614) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1905623)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That is correct... the health department should have done this as otherwise the man could have been infected with rabies ie if he cut himself during the process. So he was being ordered to do something dangerous that he should not have been doing at all.
1615) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1905617)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Officer shoots man's dog then threatens him with arrest if he doesn't behead it for testing

The Crawford County Sheriff says one of his investigators should not have ordered a man to cut off the head of his dog as a way to check for rabies. This comes after a man says a Crawford County investigator ordered him to either cut his dog's head off or go to jail after the dog bit someone.

Crawford County Sheriff Lewis Walker says Friday afternoon one of his deputies responded to a call about a dog bite. He says the dog charged at the deputy after he arrived on the scene.
1616) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1905600)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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After he is expelled, what happens next? Is his seat vacant? If not and he hangs on for six years getting a paycheck, voters get exactly what they deserve.


Unlike reps., replacement senators can be appointed and most states insist that the replacement be the same party. So I think if he is elected, he will be admitted to the senate, and there will be a public hearing and if it's decided there's enough evidence he will be expelled. Then he's permanently out of the Senate and the seat stays Republican with an appointee. The Republican majority is slim thus the earnest in keeping this one.

I don't know Alabama's specifics... in some states IIRC an election to confirm appointees is optional.
1617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905581)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you all... and every little bit helps! :^)
1618) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905580)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is it necessary to enter a specific set of words in the donation page for this money to go to the Parkes data fundraising rather than just the general SETI@home pot (e.g. "for the Parkes Data store server" in the 'Special Instructions for this gift' section) or is it just assumed that all current donations are for that purpose?


I am pretty sure that during the campaign all the donations collected from anywhere are going towards it.
1619) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905469)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I committed to $5,000 US for a sixth of the server when it was $30K... there's also about $10K for the other part and the server went up to $34K. I think I can add the extra to make it an even sixth. But due to my daily transaction limit I have to start matching now as everyone has been so generous. :^) We're well over halfway there in roughly half a day! Over $2,600 so far.

So here's my first matching donation:

You gave $1,500.00

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I want all the icons please! 😀
1620) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905448)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... looking forward to seeing how much poorer I'm going to be by the morning.


But you will be richer in the ways that actually matter. :^)

Thank you Hanson family members, Richard Haselgrove and Mr. Kevvy for your generous matching contributions.


You are most welcome!
1621) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905430)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For anyone either having issues donating, or wanting to donate via PayPal, you can donate through GPUUG (GPU Users' Group). This will be tax-deductible for U.S. donors, but not for donors elsewhere.

Note as always for GPUUG donations that they are transferred to SETI@Home at the beginning of the following month so it may take a while for your star or other icon to appear.
1622) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1905400)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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FrankenGROPER and HIs 'Allies' aka FAKIN' OUTRAGE Libbers, Have 'Thunk' up Another Scheme to Get Rid of BEST GREATEST BIGGG BIGGG BIGGG Cojones LEADER of ALL TIME. FAKE GROPE OUTRAGE by LIBBERs,


Got a citation for this?
1623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905388)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please see the thread in News... we're bringing a third data source (Parkes) online for Breakthrough Listen data... donations will be matched 5x!

So this is a great time to get that green star you always wanted but were putting off. :^) There will also be special forum/profile icons for donations at the $75 and $250 level.

For anyone either having issues donating, or wanting to donate via PayPal, you can donate through GPUUG (GPU Users' Group). This will be tax-deductible for U.S. donors, but not for donors elsewhere.

Note as always for GPUUG donations that they are transferred to SETI@Home at the beginning of the following month so it may take a while for your star or other icon to appear.
1624) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1905330)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You're politicizing hashing functions? Geez.

FYI some of the biggest promoters of cryptocurrency including BTC have been economic libertarians, anti-governmental/"survivalist" groups, and others typically classed on the "right" of the oversimplified traditional political spectrum.

Oh, and this guy... you know, the one who released all the Hillary Clinton e-mails that were a major factor in putting Donald Trump in the White House.

My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, Payal, AmEx, Mooneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin -- with > 50000% return.


All generalizations are bad! Oh wait...
1625) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1905197)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, this is bound to inflame many in the Middle East. However, as they have unfortunately demonstrated, so will drawing a stick man and labeling it "Mohammed". And this anger is certainly being purposefully stoked.

Interestingly, in June on the anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, the Senate affirmed an undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by 90-0... so all the Democrats voted for it too.

Whereas the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 104–45), which became law on November 8, 1995, states that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected...

...(6) reaffirms the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 104–45) as United States law, and calls upon the President and all United States officials to abide by its provisions.


So, I conclude, and hope, that this will be a soon-forgotten grief du jour.

Mr. Kevvy...

You are absolutely correct and I apologize for including you with the Echo Chamber.


Unsure who/what that is here at least but no worries and thank you.
1626) Message boards : News : No work. Database issues. (Message 1905075)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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. . Hi Mr kevvy

. . Your hunch was only out by a day or so :)


A couple of hours... geez I never get a break. :^p And now no work either ... out again but supposed to be back later today.
1627) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1905023)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What your attackers...


Oh gosh I am an "attacker" now for playfully half-agreeing with someone... overdramatizing much?

No Authority would dare to replace him with either a Republican or a person not of Conyers choosing.


Representatives are not appointed... if they vacate before their term is up the seat stays vacant until a new representative is elected.
1628) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1904982)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So...........John Conyers is gonna 'retire', but he feels his SON should be his replacement...........since when has a US Congressional seat been something you pass down in the family.


I think that he "endorsed" his son but it's pretty clear he can't just hand the seat over... some arcane by-law called the U.S. Constitution 2:2:4 as you noted won't allow that "When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies." :^)

Libber ...
...LEFTIST...
...LIBBER...
... LIBBERs ....
...


1629) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (108) Server Problems? (Message 1904830)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Anybody any thoughts on how quick the RAC should recover after the outage? Mine was quick to drop but has not shown much sign of recovery despite crunching 100% since Saturday morning.


It takes a while because of the Pendings. If you have very fast CPUs/GPUs most of your work units will be waiting for slower wing-hosts who take correspondingly longer to return their results, and you don't get your credit until they do. The outage was three days so they mostly emptied their caches and reported their results during that time thus resetting your wait timer.

You can check this by watching your Pendings and seeing if they are increasing over time. Once it stabilizes your RAC will start increasing.
1630) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (108) Server Problems? (Message 1904808)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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After all, I'm sitting here with a Win98 machine a few inches from my left knee. I still use it occasionally because that was the last OS with a driver that supports my preferred scanner. I know that story........I had to scrap a HP Legal Flatbed scanner because the drivers were no longer available when I went to Win 8.1.

Yesterday I had to break the same news to a very nice lady for whom I built a new Win 7 system. It nearly broke her heart because she felt the HP did a better job than her 'new' Epson All-n-One. I had to agree.

As a result I now no longer purchase or use HP products. They don't support their own devices with drivers because they want you to buy a new one. And that's the same reason I will go to Linux when Win 8.1 is no longer supported.


I had a scanner (CanoScan LIDE 20) which I could not use because no Windows 64-bit driver was ever developed for it. I had to keep it plugged into an old laptop I used for little else. Just for giggles I tried it on 64-bit Linux Mint 17.2 when I first installed it as I had read Mint/Ubuntu supported about 2,400 different scanner models, and, lo and behold, it worked right away without installing anything else. This pretty much sold me on using Linux as my full-time productivity OS, not just for SETI@Home.
1631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1904189)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A close relative of the jump boot is the hop boot.
1632) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1904178)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes. And people who say open source doesn't have human nature issues are the open source issue.


And who exactly are these people? I haven't seen one and I am certainly not one.
1633) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1904173)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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<<shrug>> Apple, worth what... $700 billion? And anyone can get into their flagship desktop OS as an admin. by entering "root" as a logon name and clicking the logon button repeatedly. How many hundreds of closed-source mobile apps. had to be pulled for being fake or containing malware again?

This is not an open-source issue. It's a human nature issue.
1634) Questions and Answers : Windows : How do I control usage on GPU's? (Message 1904154)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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* Provided adequate cooling within the manufacturer's specs.


Aye... I don't overclock. They were designed for a certain clock and temperature spec. so I defer to the expertise of the designers. RMAing is a pain so I'd rather it lasted.
1635) Questions and Answers : Windows : How do I control usage on GPU's? (Message 1904137)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have found nowhere, in the app, where I can turn GPU usage off.


Of course... this is because that isn't where it is. Click on your profile top-right, go into Preferences for this project, click Edit preferences and uncheck the Use * GPU boxes. They will never re-enable on their own.

Edit: I've also lost three video cards so far out of over twenty since I started, and all of them were under warranty and RMAed at no cost to me but shipping. This is running them at 100% capacity or as much as possible 24x7 for many years. Quality kit can stand the usage.
1636) Message boards : News : No work. Database issues. (Message 1904133)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here are 33 other BOINC projects (not counting SETI@Home of course) to keep your computing platforms of choice busy in the interim...

Although I do have a hunch it's going to come back up today.
1637) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1904051)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Gary, I think you should enlighten the owners, developers and administrators of earth's top 500 supercomputers, because as of a few days ago, every single one of them are running Linux. (The two AIX holdouts fell off the bottom as of the last update... it was "only" 498 for a year or more.)

Those poor people... whatever will they do?

//sarc
1638) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1903931)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Opa.
US Foreign Minister Rex Tillerson is expected to be replaced on his post, states the New York Times. According to the anonymous US sources of authority that the newspaper quotes, he will be replaced by the current CIA director Mike Pompeo in the coming weeks!


Rexit! 😀
1639) Questions and Answers : Windows : Virus Astropulse bitdefender (Message 1903929)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It is blocking boinc.exe for "accessing a web resource" which means that it didn't like it was trying to download an executable file, rather than the content of the file itself, which BOINC will of course do to keep itself and its projects updated. Note that it is downloading from boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu not a malware site.

How to whitelist in BitDefender
1640) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1903724)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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After the first "Pocahontas" one of her supporters bought the domain name and just made it a redirect to her campaign site elizabethwarren.com; this was in June 2016.
1641) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1903362)
Posted 29 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, he got his "wish"... NK ICBMs can apparently now reach any part of the continental U.S.

North Korea’s Longest Missile Test Yet

Reports are saying that the missile test was highly lofted and landed in the Sea of Japan some 960 km (600 miles) from the launch site. They are also saying the missile reached a maximum altitude of 4,500 km. This would mean that it flew for about 54 minutes, which is consistent with reports from Japan.

If these numbers are correct, then if flown on a standard trajectory rather than this lofted trajectory, this missile would have a range of more than 13,000 kilometers (km) (8,100 miles). This is significantly longer than North Korea’s previous long range tests, which flew on lofted trajectories for 37 minutes (July 4) and 47 minutes (July 28). Such a missile would have more than enough range to reach Washington, D.C., and in fact any part of the continental United States.
1642) Message boards : Politics : SINaTURD FRAKENGROPER Said: I RESPECT what a Woman SeZZZ 'bout ME, Even Tho Women are LYING. aka CONyers fO Your Vote. dA GREAT ICONs of DEM/Lib Party. SLOGON: ICON You fO Your Vote. (Message 1903232)
Posted 28 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In other Roy Moore deflection attempts:

She falsely claimed Roy Moore impregnated her at 15. She appears to be part of sting targeting the Washington Post

WASHINGTON—A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.
1643) Message boards : Politics : Charles Manson, dead at 83 (Message 1902446)
Posted 23 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I understand the difference between adults (Manson, Hitler, Stalin, etc.) being held responsible for their decisions and...


Does this mean that you would not recognize a plea of insanity for an adult?
Charles Manson's behavior I would describe as insane. I am no psychologist, but I do know that psychology is a a qualitative rather than quantitative science, and has been known to be pressured to obtain "desired" diagnoses at times... wouldn't want to deprive The Public of a good hanging for a detested criminal of course.
1644) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1902445)
Posted 23 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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About two-thirds of sexual assaults are never reported, by the way. And fewer than one percent of offenders ever see the inside of a prison for it. So there should be little wonder why there may be a silence of decades until the victim discovers the rapist/assaulter is about to gain a position of public trust and/or power.
1645) Message boards : Politics : Charles Manson, dead at 83 (Message 1902426)
Posted 22 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I always found it a curious contradiction of U.S. so-called "neo-conservative" thought that the government is considered to to be incompetent and untrustworthy, except for the most important and serious decision: which citizens should be put to death, at which point the government magically becomes perfect and inerrant.

Or maybe they just don't care about the "collateral damage" of the 4% or so who are innocent.

(Edit: and I overlooked the big one of being "Pro-Life" but for the death penalty. Er... ?)
1646) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1901975)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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An article in the Economist that indicates pretty much what MajorKong has been stating... it doesn't look like there's any viable way of dealing with this long-term, Paris accord or not.

Fully 101 of the 116 models the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses to chart what lies ahead assume that carbon will be taken out of the air in order for the world to have a good chance of meeting the 2°C target. The total amount of CO2 to be soaked up by 2100 could be a staggering 810bn tonnes, as much as the world’s economy produces in 20 years at today’s rate (see article). Putting in place carbon-removal schemes of this magnitude would be an epic endeavour even if tried-and-tested techniques existed.

They do not. A few power stations and industrial facilities capture CO2 that would otherwise end up in the air and store it away underground, a practice known as carbon capture and storage. But this long-touted approach to cutting emissions still operates on only a very small scale, dealing with just a few tens of millions of tonnes of CO2 a year. And such schemes merely lower emissions; they do not reverse them.


We could probably do it if we could plant two Amazon-sized forests in currently unforested areas and leave them alone. However, given our propensity for clearing forests and expanding population, this doesn't seem like it will ever happen.

//Staying positive and riding my bicycle. :^p
1647) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1901383)
Posted 16 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Does the name Bill Clinton ring any bells?
1648) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1901368)
Posted 16 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As I have repeatedly observed. Both sides have lost the moral and ethical foundation to attack the other.


There are no "sides"... Moore, Franken, Weinstein et al. are individuals, did not do what they are accused of through political affiliation, and do not have the support of their respective parties for these actions. The only issue is whether the allegations are true and consequently they as individuals deserve their positions due to these actions.
1649) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1900013)
Posted 9 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Good, but you seem to be over focused on only one of them. By the way I did edit mine for fear it would be misinterpreted. Please do the same.

Also: So, Yap... any evidence yet?
1650) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1900011)
Posted 9 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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BTW: If the Democrat Party finally admits that their attempt to divide this country along racial, gender, ethnic, etc. groups. Has been a disaster to their national political power.


You mean like blaming "illegal aliens" (not-very-subtle codeword for Mexicans) every time "your candidate" loses an election?
1651) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1900003)
Posted 9 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yap, if every time "your candidate" loses you have to blame voter fraud and "illegal aliens" rather than accepting reality...
... then how can you possibly contest the "other side" doing the same with Russia, gerrymandering, etc.?

Do you have any actual evidence for your claim? I highly doubt it.
1652) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Considering donations (Message 1899722)
Posted 7 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You may be waiting a long time... as noted on the page you linked to, you will have to write to Dr. Korpela directly if you wish to donate any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin.
1653) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1899531)
Posted 6 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Heh... I was actually wondering how long it would be before someone linked to that. :^)
1654) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1899516)
Posted 6 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Er... you forgot the police and military.
1655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Stars are blue, Panthers are pink and the music plays here (Message 1899468)
Posted 6 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Only "extraterrestrial" is correct; the other is other is just a spelling error.
1656) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1899458)
Posted 6 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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1657) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1899031)
Posted 4 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sanctions appear to be working...

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea called on Friday for a halt to what it called “brutal sanctions”, saying the measures - imposed after its latest nuclear test - constituted genocide.

“Today the U.S.-led racket of brutal sanctions and pressure against the DPRK constitutes contemporary human rights violation and genocide,” the North Korean mission to the United Nations in Geneva said in a statement.

The sanctions regime “threatens and impedes the enjoyment by the people of DPRK of their human rights in all sectors”, it said.

The call for an immediate end to the sanctions comes as U.S. President Donald Trump sets off on a trip to Asia - including China, South Korea and Japan - looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from the nuclear crisis.
1658) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1898856)
Posted 3 Nov 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here is a "free market" solution to prop up the dying coal industry:

The Trump administration wants to force electricity customers to pay for a $10.6 billion annual bailout of the failing coal and nuclear industries through surcharges on their monthly energy bills.

The quietly announced proposal would require ratepayers to fully underwrite a new mandate that coal and nuclear plants hold a minimum of 90 days' worth of fuel on-site under the false premise of providing security from power outages.

But critics say the subsidy is just a massive government-mandated transfer of wealth from consumers to coal and nuclear companies.

"This is like changing the energy system from capitalism to communism—and the U.S. government wants to do it within the next two weeks," said Michael Krancer, a principal at energy policy company Silent Majority Strategies.

The Department of Energy says the fuel stockpiles are necessary to prevent power outages “in times of supply stress, such as recent natural disasters.” But only 0.00007 percent of all major power disruptions over the past five years were due to fuel supply problems, John Larsen, a power sector researcher for the Rhodium Group, told Newsweek.
1659) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1898179)
Posted 30 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well then you must have a non-fictional non-BS source for this photo.


Here is one... it's on many sources and the image is from the AFP.
1660) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1898073)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Important context I didn't see from this: did this happen in the UK or the ROI? (unsure as your profile lists the latter but you live in the former but unknown for how long.)
1661) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1898068)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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IF GhG-ACC is correct, and the major driving force behind the climate changes we see today, then Algore, the UN IPCC, and all the other politicians are just not doing enough. I have said it here before. If we stop using all Fossil Fuel... ALL of it... right now this instant... it wouldn't be enough to even really slow down very much the climate change we are observing in the short to medium-long term. Maybe in a couple of hundred thousand years the climate might get back to normal... And this is the case even if we stopped right now this instant EVERYTHING else we are doing that is driving climate change. There are just WAY too many humans on this planet.. somewhere around 2000 times too many...


Unfortunately, I think you may be correct, or at least in the ballpark. But I don't think that this should stop us from doing what we can. And that we have "free market solutions" already developed or in development with plenty more on the way should be encouraging... doing the right thing should not have to cost more. So I will keep riding my bike. :^)
1662) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1898008)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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After a few Words by Journo, ALL dA REST is by dA SCIENTIST.


Well, retired scientist... but yes, still there are some that do disagree with AGW. Counting only actual fields relevant to the study of it, it's about 3%. The other 97% are quite confident of AGW including those who are the closest to the field itself, ie climatologists who study just that. (If after studying your test results, 97 doctors told you that you had cancer and should do something about it, but 3 disagreed... who would you listen to?)

But, I don't worry too much about it. The world has moved on... let the deniers deny all they want. The market has pushed research that has developed wind turbines and and solar cells to the point they are cheaper for generation than the cheapest, dirtiest lignite coal (for solar, by several times) and it just keeps getting cheaper. Hope you will not argue that the free-market should choose something pricier, higher-maintenance, more labour-expensive and with a greater risk of interference by lawsuits and legislation down the road just to keep the proverbial buggy-whip factories open. :^)
1663) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1897762)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Man shot by Chicago police officer is awarded $44.7 million

A federal jury awarded a Chicago man a record-breaking $44.7 million Thursday after finding that a Chicago police officer shot him in the head after a night of heavy drinking and that the troubled Police Department enabled the off-duty patrolman's violent behavior.

...

Though they needed some time to reach a unanimous decision on how much to award in damages, jurors said it took them less than 20 minutes to determine Officer Patrick Kelly fired a bullet into his best friend Michael LaPorta's skull in January 2010 and then misled investigators by insisting LaPorta tried to kill himself.

LaPorta, who lives in the city's Morgan Park neighborhood, survived the shooting but still suffers from a host of medical conditions. Now 37, he can no longer walk or read and depends on his aging parents for around-the-clock care.

...

Because the jury found that the Police Department has a widespread problem with disciplining officers and failed to maintain an early-warning system, the city of Chicago is responsible for the $44.7 million award and LaPorta's legal fees, which likely also will be millions of dollars.

The verdict is a record award for a misconduct lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, according to records reviewed by the Chicago Tribune and sources with knowledge of where the verdict would rank in comparison with past cases.

The previous record was $25 million, which a jury awarded to Thaddeus Jimenez in a wrongful conviction case in 2012.

...

Kelly, 36, has been found mentally unfit for duty twice, arrested two times, accused of beating a girlfriend and has been treated for alcohol addiction. He has been sued six times and has been the subject of more than two dozen investigations into his on- and off-duty conduct, including one in which he was found to have assaulted a female sergeant.

Prosecutors opted not to charge Kelly with wrongdoing in connection with the shooting after it happened. Police, however, reopened their investigation into the shooting last year.

Kelly and LaPorta were the only people inside the patrolman's South Side home on Jan. 12, 2010, when LaPorta was shot toward the back of his head with Kelly's service weapon. Chicago police classified the shooting as an attempted suicide based largely on an account from Kelly.

LaPorta couldn't speak for months after the shooting, but his family pushed back against the suicide classification and accused Kelly of covering up the truth. Kelly told investigators that LaPorta held the gun with his left hand, but the ambidextrous LaPorta was a lifelong hunter who always shot with his right. No fingerprints were on the gun, which investigators found on the floor next to LaPorta.
1664) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1897638)
Posted 26 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Who are nuked out of existence in the first minutes. What is left to conscript?


Please have a look at this and then we can try to explain how that is possible. :^)
1665) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1897634)
Posted 26 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Founder and Owner of Pharmaceutical Company Insys Arrested and Charged with Racketeering

BOSTON – The founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics Inc., was arrested today and charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a Fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain.

John N. Kapoor, 74, of Phoenix, Ariz., a current member of the Board of Directors of Insys, was arrested this morning in Arizona and charged with RICO conspiracy, as well as other felonies, including conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Law. Kapoor, the former Executive Chairman of the Board and CEO of Insys, will appear in federal court in Phoenix today. He will appear in U.S. District Court in Boston at a later date.

The superseding indictment, unsealed today in Boston, also includes additional allegations against several former Insys executives and managers who were initially indicted in December 2016.

The superseding indictment charges that Kapoor; Michael L. Babich, 40, of Scottsdale, Ariz., former CEO and President of the company; Alec Burlakoff, 42, of Charlotte, N.C., former Vice President of Sales; Richard M. Simon, 46, of Seal Beach, Calif., former National Director of Sales; former Regional Sales Directors Sunrise Lee, 36, of Bryant City, Mich., and Joseph A. Rowan, 43, of Panama City, Fla.; and former Vice President of Managed Markets, Michael J. Gurry, 53, of Scottsdale, Ariz., conspired to bribe practitioners in various states, many of whom operated pain clinics, in order to get them to prescribe a fentanyl-based pain medication. The medication, called “Subsys,” is a powerful narcotic intended to treat cancer patients suffering intense breakthrough pain. In exchange for bribes and kickbacks, the practitioners wrote large numbers of prescriptions for the patients, most of whom were not diagnosed with cancer.


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Thanks Mr. Kevvy

Very interesting article. Thanks for posting.


Anytime. :^)
1666) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1897632)
Posted 26 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Kim has to expect that with all the threats and provocations there will be plenty of American military as close in as they can be while in international space...

I still stick with my initial assessment that this is a war of words and bluster; Kim is fully aware that he can swagger and test all he wants but attacking first would be the end of him and possibly most of North Korea depending on whether it was conventional or nuclear, and Trump isn't going to attack first because he knows that he would lose most if not all world support and assistance, destroy one of the most devoted allies the U.S. has (South Korea) and then also have to deal with China becoming an enemy and a possible World War III situation.

So both leaders "win"... Kim gets to show he's strong to his people by bad-mouthing and threatening the U.S. and getting away with it, and Trump gets to show he's strong to his people by showing he will stand up to any aggression. Political Brinksmanship 101...

Well I am hope I am right... it lets me sleep at night at least. :^)

Also JE beat me to mentioning that a fat, complacent, lazy and wealthy people can afford to pay for a very good military to defend them that is none of the above.
1667) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1897571)
Posted 26 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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One of those women who were very reluctant to have an abortion, agonized over it and had it to due to necessity was my wife...

When she married her first husband, they were living in a small apartment and wanted to get established in their careers before having children so that they would be born into a stable and prosperous household, so were using birth control. They both were working to save money, but unfortunately the husband's job failed to deliver on a promised promotion, so he resigned, being young and motivated enough knowing that he would end up with something better (which he did) but not when.

He was madly looking for work, up at five every morning to be the first in all the employment lineups even in winter, and his wife was working as hard and well as she could at her job, knowing she was mostly carrying both of them for a while, but they were alright as they were just scraping by...

... and then she discovered she was pregnant. The birth control had failed, as it often does.

This was before the days of widespread maternal leave and the abortion pill. Being pregnant could cost her job, and there was no guarantee of finding adoptive parents. Her husband was still looking for work. They were living hand-to-mouth as it was. She cried over the decision many times, and it haunts her to this day, but she had the abortion as soon as she could so that she was aborting something tiny and brainless, and as least baby-like as possible.

Those who think that they have the right to force women to be brood-mares and carry babies to term often dismiss the agony and tears that they go through in making this most personal and profound of decisions... treat it as if they were deciding nothing more than whether to have a mole excised. And not surprisingly, they are also the same people who would arbitrarily stall their abortions as long as possible so that they can then argue the women are aborting a baby rather than a fetus, and deny them effective birth control access and social services to support them or provide adoption services so that abortion is not required in the first place. But this is to be expected.
1668) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1897272)
Posted 24 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is one of the most positive pieces of news (for the long-term good of humanity) I have read in a long time. It's all over the place but this is the original source from the Guardian. I had high hopes for this young crown prince when he overturned the Saudi ban on female drivers as soon as he could... well, he has a lot more planned:

I will return Saudi Arabia to moderate Islam, says crown prince

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has vowed to return the country to “moderate Islam” and asked for global support to transform the hardline kingdom into an open society that empowers citizens and lures investors.

In an interview with the Guardian, the powerful heir to the Saudi throne said the ultra-conservative state had been “not normal” for the past 30 years, blaming rigid doctrines that have governed society in a reaction to the Iranian revolution, which successive leaders “didn’t know how to deal with”.

Expanding on comments he made at an investment conference at which he announced the launch of an ambitious $500bn (£381bn) independent economic zone straddling Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, Prince Mohammed said: “We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We’re in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.

“What happened in the last 30 years is not Saudi Arabia. What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries, one of them is Saudi Arabia. We didn’t know how to deal with it. And the problem spread all over the world. Now is the time to get rid of it.”

Earlier Prince Mohammed had said: “We are simply reverting to what we followed – a moderate Islam open to the world and all religions. 70% of the Saudis are younger than 30, honestly we won’t waste 30 years of our life combating extremist thoughts, we will destroy them now and immediately.”


I very much hope he doesn't meet with an "accident" before he officially takes over from his father... he will be stepping on quite a few very nasty and change-unfriendly toes. But given that it's an open secret that Saudi hardline Wahhabism has been at the root of Daesh/ISIL, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram and other acknowledged terrorist groups and it's almost certain that elements of the Saudi royal family and others have been secretly funding these groups, I think that this is very good news indeed and hope he can carry out his plan.
1669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Gord Downie (Message 1895933)
Posted 18 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Gord Downie dies at 53

Gord Downie, the legendary front man of the Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip, has died at the age of 53.

In a statement posted online, the band confirmed that Downie died on Tuesday night, “with his beloved children and family close by.”

“Gord knew this day was coming – his response was to spend this precious time as he always had – making music, making memories and expressing deep gratitude to his family and friends for a life well lived, often sealing it with a kiss… on the lips,” the statement said.

The beloved Canadian musician was diagnosed with a terminal form of brain cancer in May, 2016.


The Tragically Hip never achieved the popularity south of the border that they could have, but some of their hits did cross over and may be familiar. In Canada he was probably the best-known currently-performing rock musician (OK, perhaps tied with Geddy Lee of Rush.) Gord also in his last days and by his own initiative produced the album/graphic novel/animated film The Secret Path to document the abuses of First Nations people in Canadian residential schools.

A sad but unfortunately not unexpected loss given his recent diagnosis. Rest easy, Gord, and thank you for all the music we grew up to.

Some of his best with the Tragically Hip:

New Orleans is Sinking (my personal favorite... only gained in popularity after being banned from radio airplay after hurricane Katrina)

38 Years Old

Ahead By a Century

Blow at High Dough

Boots or Hearts

Little Bones

Locked in the Trunk of a Car
1670) Message boards : Politics : Ebola and Infectious diseases, Food and Drugs, Recalls #5 (Message 1895922)
Posted 18 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Over 30,000 Published Studies Could Be Wrong Due to Contaminated Cells

Many of the standard research cell lines used to develop and test new treatments aren't what they are claimed to be because they were contaminated with other "immortal" cell lines. We will doubtless see a lot of fallout from this in the near future.
1671) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1895506)
Posted 15 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I think an even more important reason was that Saddam Hussein ran a strong secular government in an area full of radical Islamists wanting to institute a Sharia caliphate and kept them at bay. When he was removed, this left a power vacuum rapidly occupied by Daesh/ISIS. They would not have existed as anything but a few underground plotters otherwise.

(And this is another reason why I think Bush II is the worst president ever. His father was aware of the above and after kicking the Iraqi army out of Kuwait refused his advisors' urgings to topple Saddam. Will this change? I'll add Saddam keeping Iran at bay to my list though! Bush II certainly left a "legacy")
1672) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1895316)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What powered them, especially military ones?


(Miniaturized for portables) tubes and other discrete components. The first experimental transistor wasn't made until 1947.
1673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kicking the habit......smoking. What worked for you? (Message 1895076)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It blows my mind how much cigarettes cost. I had no idea it was that expensive. Is it just the last couple decades that prices have gone up so much due to tobacco taxes?


I was surprised as well... they are more expensive than in Canada where we usually pay higher taxes. This could be because the taxes are being diverted into health care to pay for the increased care/expense smokers incur whereas our health care is already covered by other taxes anyways. But you're correct the increases have mostly been in the last two decades coincident with banning smoking in public areas (ie bars, restaurants, etc.), advertising legislation and tobacco companies losing huge lawsuits.

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And something for Mark:

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
--- Calvin Coolidge

Go kittyman! :^)
1674) Message boards : Number crunching : 16 GPUs? For real? (Message 1894719)
Posted 11 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yeh, Petri's home brew, Tuesday Special...


The client reports them as being "Tu"'s for "Tuesday" rather than "Ti"... nice touch.
1675) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1894137)
Posted 8 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And all the dead thousands to millions of animals (a kingdom which includes insects, fish and birds) such as pets, and babies both born and unborn, caused by the pre-meditated attack you seem to be supporting are not innocent?
1676) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1893846)
Posted 7 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Ah thank you... I had not seen any of those new "Benjamins". The U.S. has flirted with getting rid of the hundred entirely due to it being the medium of choice for traffickers in narcotics, arms, etc. and other illegal activity, so if there are new ones is there a grace period to exchange the old ones before they are declared valueless? That would eliminate the most of the problem.

Also it doesn't appear they are polymer bills with transparent areas unfortunately.
1677) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1893837)
Posted 7 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
He has counterfeited millions of US dollars to help finance his nuclear program. That alone in legal terms constitutes an act of war.


Unfortunately, U.S. currency design hasn't been updated in decades. Modern bills in other wealthy nations are very colourful so cheap printer/copier output will look wrong, polymer-based so can't be made on a normal copier/printer/press including transparent areas which show they aren't completely of paper or other opaque materials, contain holograms which can't be scanned or photocopied, contain CDS/EURion patterns so modern colour scanners/copiers will refuse to even try to copy them, etc... packed with security features.

Counterfeiting in Canada has fallen by two-thirds in only four years because of these measures... you're making it too easy. :^)
1678) Message boards : Number crunching : Apologies to wing wo/men (Message 1893801)
Posted 7 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's one of the smaller coolers, but that is definitely an issue with them (I had to wire the cooler to the chassis on one machine so it wasn't stressing the board when sideways.)

However, I had taken the board/CPU to the techs. at the chain I bought them from initially for the diagnosis of whether it was the MB or CPU (didn't want to wreck another machine for spare parts to find out) and they had initially said it was the MB but then said it had only failed a Northbridge test. Well damned if it doesn't work now... I have no idea what went wrong in the first place as reconnecting everything didn't change it at all, and now it's just run all night. <<shrug>>

I'll just count my rare good fortune and be done with it. :^)
1679) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1893735)
Posted 7 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But there are some claims that don't stand up to scrutiny.


Probably, but I'm only providing examples that I know of... I'm not advocating one way or another.
1680) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1893732)
Posted 7 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I remember several others.... but I do hang out at odd news sites. :^)

Gun in hand, woman saves boyfriend in attack over blowing leaves

Meet the pistol-packing nurse who saved white man from a Detroit mob after he accidentally hit a 10-year-old black boy

Florida Man, 71, Shoots at Alleged Robbers at Internet Cafe

Philadelphia-area hospital shooting ended by armed doctor, cops say

I am sure there are plenty more... if one looks.
1681) Message boards : Number crunching : Apologies to wing wo/men (Message 1893594)
Posted 6 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Rather than starting a new thread for my griping I'll use this one for my apologies post...

Lost this machine for now. It had been running at 35% CPU and with the cover off because the cooler was not sufficient. Ordered and installed a new Noctua cooler... task went so smoothly not even dropping a screw or missing any wiring, started up first pull and ran between 40-55C. Was I happy with this? No, when things go too well, it always means they will...

... blow the *#@% motherboard two hours later.
1682) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1893535)
Posted 6 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unfortunately, Gary is correct... or at least was. For example in Canada rape within marriage was not made illegal until 1983 (it started to change in the 1970s in the U.S.), and those who tried to keep it legal often used religious excuses via the religious definition of marriage, just as those who are trying to ban abortion do. It would not be a stretch to claim an overlap between the two groups.

One of the origins of the concept of a marital exemption from rape laws (a rule that a husband cannot be charged with the rape of his wife) is the idea that by marriage a woman gives irrevocable consent for her husband to have sex with her any time he demands it. This view was described by Sir Matthew Hale, in History of the Pleas of the Crown (1736), where he wrote that the wife "hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband, which she cannot retract." Also, American and English law subscribed until the 20th century to the system of coverture, that is, a legal doctrine under which, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights were subsumed by those of her husband.


Edit: @Clyde I don't think you were included in that.
1683) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1893530)
Posted 6 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unsure which specific(s) you mean... all I can suggest as always is to report any post with an intended insult (which that scenario you describe could very well be.)
1684) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1893525)
Posted 6 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Please note that falsely claiming that the Las Vegas mass-murderer Stephen Paddock was of one or another political alignment in order to smear those who are of that alignment (which includes many members of this forum) will be considered a violation of "No posts intended to insult" or "No posts intended to antagonize"

Some posts have had to go away because of this... I will repost part of one of them as it was a shame to lose, from CLYDE:

Paddock was not a registered Democrat or Republican and was not registered to vote in Florida, where he had a permanent home address.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/03/the-las-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock-separating-fact-from-fiction/


The Blaze is pretty slanted at times, so kudos to them for their accuracy. And boo to those who are using this tragedy to malign others.

Thank you.
1685) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1893288)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And I stand by those words. USA Today and the Indepenedant are not someone. They're not even reputable.


So they are Fake News now?
1686) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1893286)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Seriously? USA Today and a UK website?


Well, you did say "no one"... one counterexample is enough.
1687) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1893283)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Because no one is saying the Vegas shooting is the largest in American history. They are saying it is the largest gun massacre in recent history.


Las Vegas shooting is easily the deadliest massacre in US history

Las Vegas shooting now tops list of worst mass shootings in U.S. history
1688) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1893279)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I didn't realize memes needed to be factual. I thought they only needed to be funny.


<<<shrug>>> Just FYI. That one pretended to be factual by having a "quote" on it (also didn't seem to be trying to be funny either.)

@Jaundiced Eye: That is actually quite a good point. Why isn't Wounded Knee called the largest massacre? (Because the government instead of a private citizen did it perhaps?)
1689) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1893276)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Ozz, that supposed People Magazine quote is bogus.
1690) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1893233)
Posted 4 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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House passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy

The House on Tuesday approved a bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, advancing a key GOP priority for the third time in the past four years — this time, with a supportive Republican in the White House.

The bill, known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, is not expected to emerge from the Senate, where most Democrats and a handful of moderate Republicans can block its consideration. But antiabortion activists are calling President Trump’s endorsement of the bill a significant advance for their movement.

The White House said in a statement released Monday that the administration “strongly supports” the legislation “and applauds the House of Representatives for continuing its efforts to secure critical pro-life protections.”

The bill provides for abortions after 20 weeks gestation only when they are necessary to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest. Under the bill, abortions performed during that period could be carried out “only in the manner which, in reasonable medical judgment, provides the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive” and would require a second physician trained in neonatal resuscitation to be present.
1691) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1893143)
Posted 4 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since the US Constitution is the foundation of all are laws. And the Right to Bear Arms has been recently judged by SCOTUS to be an Individual Constitutional Right. Any attempt to diminish that Constitutional Right by Legislation. Will unfortunately be largely unsuccessful.


I can think of at least two workarounds that aren't unconstitutional:

1) The Second Amendment doesn't specify which kinds of arms. Fully automatic firearms are already illegal for personal ownership. Doesn't this infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms? Then if it is constitutional to restrict certain types, then one could restrict all types that did not exist when the Second Amendment was written... Strict Constructionist muzzle-loading flintlock rifles/pistols, blunderbusses and cannons for all... try sneaking a few twelve-pounders on carriages into your hotel room. Oh, and swords of course.

2) The Second Amendment says nothing about ammunition. Keep and bear all the now-useless firearms you want when ammunition for them is illegal. Ammo is also much more difficult to clandestinely manufacture as it requires several different materials, some of which are highly toxic and/or unstable (ie lead, mercury (II) fulminate and nitrocellulose powder.) (Edit: there are better less toxic primer materials available these days...)

Just my $0.02.
1692) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1893011)
Posted 3 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Although most of those complications merely slow down the process rather than negating it (also yes the article listed a lot of non-auto weapons... only the first part was relevant) I really appreciate the detail and effort you put into your writing!

Regarding automatics rising and throwing off one's aim, the saddest example I've seen of this is the range instructor who was accidentally shot dead by this effect because they allowed a full-auto Uzi to be fired by a nine-year-old girl.
1693) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1892964)
Posted 2 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Due to FOPA, the ATF ruling on this was that it only applies to full-auto firearms manufactured during or after 1986. Anything beforehand is exempt in Nevada.

Edit: A story on this from today. They need only be registered; anyone who can legally own any firearm can do so.
1694) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1892948)
Posted 2 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Also understand that some non automatic weapons can be converted to Fully Automatic.


Correct and kits/parts/directions to do so are easily found on the internet.
1695) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1892945)
Posted 2 Oct 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Sorry Sirius, machine guns are illegal in all 50 states, trusts, territories and possessions.


The NRA begs to differ... Nevada does not require registration of non-NFA firearms including for open carry. Automatic firearms (ie machine guns) are legal if they are federally registered.
1696) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1892458)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If true, NK has managed to miniaturize nuclear weapons to this size.
Perhaps not a hydrogen bomb but a boosted plutonium one!


The U.S. MIRV-capable W88 is about the same size and 475 kilotons. Such miniaturization has been around for a while due to MIRV small size/mass requirements.

...a W88 warhead manages to yield up to 475 kt with a physics package 68.9 in (1.75 m) long, with a maximum diameter of 21.8 in (0.55 m), and weighing probably less than 800 lb (360 kg).
1697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kicking the habit......smoking. What worked for you? (Message 1892448)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some cross-posting from the other thread... [edit: sorry Mark; I meant I was :^) ]

1) Nicoderm patches worked very well for me and I would not recommend any other brand. They cost a little more and it's worth it. Without them, the cravings were intolerable. With them, they were very mild to non-existent. It's a three step program, each for two weeks, which weans you off nicotine as each stage delivers less of it. The transition was barely noticeable. But whichever chemical assist you choose, your health coverage will very likely pay most or all of it, and you needn't feel any less for quitting: it's still 100% you doing it and it still requires some willpower to stick with it.
Edit: I actually liked one of the side effects of the patches: vivid, memorable, colorful dreams.

2) Exercise to break the "triggers"... for me it was buying a bicycle which gradually became not just a recreation but my mode of transport and that kept me from reverting. You may prefer walking, or cross-country skiing, or working out at a gym (or martial arts... unleash your inner kitty warrior!) but whatever it is, it will get you away from the "triggers" ie the computer or just being idle at home, and also once you feel how your endurance and energy have improved, you won't feel like filling your lungs with gunk and undoing your progress. Regular exercise will also undo some of the damage smoking does over the years by reducing the risk of heart disease, for example.

3) Beware that nicotine may sometimes mess with your head even months afterwards... I got rather depressed at that time that I would not smoke any more even after two months of zero nicotine from any source. Drove me back to it once. The second time I was prepared.

4) If you falter, pick another quit date and try again. Any reduction is better than none, and don't be hard on yourself as it makes it worse. Take each day, hour and minute at a time and be proud of each as your accomplishment.
1698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1892436)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The patches did nothing for me. In fact the patch made it worse. I posted about Chantix in your other thread.


Were they Nicoderm? I tried other patches and they were universally awful.
1699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner died on Wednesday at the Playboy Mansion. He was 91. (Message 1892429)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Plus the hefneri breeds slower than other rabbits...


Now that is some irony! Perhaps a nearby bowl of Viagrabbit® would assist. 😀
1700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1892378)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I suggest exercise... for me it was buying a bicycle which gradually became not just a recreation but my mode of transport and that kept me from reverting. You may prefer walking, or cross-country skiing, or working out at a gym, but whatever it is, it will get you away from the "triggers" ie the computer or just being idle at home, and also once you feel how your endurance and energy have improved, you won't feel like filling your lungs with gunk and undoing your progress. Regular exercise will also undo some of the damage smoking does over the years by reducing the risk of heart disease, for example.
1701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1892365)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... but this is going to take sheer will and determination on my part.


And if sheer will and determination need a hand, another vote for:



Keep in mind that nicotine is the most addictive substance we know of, even more so than cocaine and heroin (ease of availability may contribute!) Nothing wrong with some assistance kicking it. I certainly couldn't have done it without them; with them it wasn't so bad. And they are covered by just about all health insurance plans (for obvious $-saving reasons).

Keep up the excellent progress! :^)
1702) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1891930)
Posted 27 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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JFK, however, did not get drawn into taunts best left to the schoolyard... I would not suggest ignoring Kim either. But deliberate provocation is not a wise course of action.

There is a reason, honed over centuries, that diplomats are so... diplomatic. Those who seek political power not only have especially large and fragile egos, but are sometimes Machiavellian enough that they will think nothing of sacrificing a few thousand? hundred thousand? million? "ordinary" lives and a civilization or two when those eggshell-thin egos are cracked through some imagined offense.

POTUS would be wise to keep this in mind.
1703) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1891926)
Posted 27 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't know what to make of that. Sound like you advocate doing nothing because anything may make it worse, except that you also negate that by saying that doing nothing may make it worse.
1704) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1891923)
Posted 27 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Do you think we should go to war then? I still haven't seen your proposal of what you think we should do about Kim since the last time I asked.

Note that I said absolutely nothing about "stopping" Kim by other means... I only mentioned "if Donald Trump gets his war with North Korea that he seems to want to start."
1705) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1891921)
Posted 27 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"At this point, who DOESN'T want Trump impeached?"
--- Ann Coulter
(can't make stuff like this up...)

You forgot a significant percentage of Republicans. But I still think GWB was worse. If Donald Trump gets his war with North Korea that he seems to want to start, I may have to reconsider... in the interim I try to ignore what he says and focus on what he does instead. Then he doesn't seem so bad... so far. I hope North Korea can do the same, or can at least understand him.
1706) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU on a headless PC? (Message 1891858)
Posted 26 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You can set any recent version of Windows with no password on the default logon account, so that if the system restarts it will "log on" and then BOINC can start GPU processing... this is one way around the service GPU use restriction (also works on Linux.)
1707) Message boards : Politics : PC in Sport (Message 1891702)
Posted 25 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The athletes imposing their political and social views. Be it Anti Racism, Pro KKK, et al on the playing field. Are cutting their own throats.


One could then conversely argue that politics are being imposed on the athletes by forcing them to stand for the national anthem and that it is an imposition of the "real world" into the sporting event. They are the ones resisting this imposition as you are wanting the management to do.

(I'm also at a loss why it's considered "disrespectful" or some such. Silent kneeling? In a religious service this is a respectful act of veneration. If they wanted to be disrespectful without ambiguity they could always moon the audience... no argument there. :^p )

Edit: Seen all this before with the daily Pledge recitals by schoolchildren... it's merely a test to see which nails stand up so that they can be hammered into place.
1708) Message boards : Politics : PC in Sport (Message 1891672)
Posted 24 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yap, once your time machine is completed, please send me a few weeks' worth of future Canadian Lotto Max winning numbers. That way I can fix up Arecibo like new and get the other receivers up and running. Thanks. :^p
1709) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1891592)
Posted 24 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I doubt that anything would stop him from developing a nuclear arsenal, yes. But given that he has a dictator-sized massive ego, he may be goaded into using it by being insulted or challenged whereas he would not have otherwise.

It's hypocritical to both claim he is deranged and simultaneously goad him as if he wasn't. Now all we can do is hope that he really isn't.
1710) Message boards : Politics : North Korea II (Message 1891590)
Posted 23 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, IMHO whatever moral upper hand that the U.S. has in this is being lost because POTUS either deliberately wants to start a war by goading Kim into one or some other reason (ego and lack of self-control are often mentioned.)

If the official conclusion is that Kim really is "deranged" then shouldn't he be treated as such, ie likely to do something rash in a state of rage that he and millions of other people who have no stake in this game will regret forever? This is not how to talk to "deranged" people with nuclear weapons, and unfortunately we had too many warnings that POTUS' lack of diplomatic experience and familiarity only with sole proprietorships where his word was unquestionable would lead to this.

My $0.02 of the day. :^(
1711) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1891334)
Posted 22 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Respectfully Mr K, I do not believe the DPRK will agree to ever give up it's Nuclear ambitions regardless of who "has their back", as long as Kim is in power. That is the one factor to the equation that must be eliminated for intelligent reasoning to occur.

I don't think anyone would seriously question the statement that Kim is deranged. There is the problem.


You may be correct, but I still think it would be worthwhile at least to get to the stage where this can be proposed. especially if China commits to protecting NK sovereignty. They are the only nation that seems to have any sway with the Kim regime thus far.
1712) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1891326)
Posted 22 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Clyde, I agree with Sirius that it's more productive to propose your own idea of what to do than just contradict those of others. What would you do about this situation?

Here is what I would do if I was in control:

Reiterate that the U.S. does not want a war (ever) but any actual attack by NK would result in its destruction; the U.S. must uphold its commitments to its allies or they are worthless.
Hard sanctions on NK reiterating that these are in place only to force them to the negotiating table.
Sanctions on any nation that still does business with NK.
Once NK enters into negotiation, NK must give up and dismantle its nuclear program and this must be confirmed and monitored by the UN closely.
In return for this, the U.S. and its allies commit to not violate NK national sovereignty. Unlike Iraq which had no ally willing to assist, China has already said it has NK's back if it is attacked first so would be able to enforce this commitment; NK may accept it.

What is your proposal?
1713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Better hurry, only 1 shopping day left 'till doomsday................. (Message 1891320)
Posted 22 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
1714) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1891237)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The communities with the highest crime and murder rates are terrified of the Drug Dealers and Murderer's in their midst.

The continuous anti police rhetoric in the media, from hate groups and academia. And the refusal to understand or acknowledge the real problem. Is just enabling a continuation of this assault against the innocent victims by these criminals.


We are at a twenty-year low in the violent crime rate in the U.S. There were drug dealers and murderers fifty years ago too, and very almost as many of them:



Yet the police were solving fifty percent more murders than they do now.

Source
1715) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1891234)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In American Culture. If you live in, or police some neighborhoods. You are continuously hearing gunshots. Resulting in multiple people shot or killed, especially over the weekend. This Is in addition to people stabbed and bludgeoned.

Nothing to do with the efficiency of the police.


Strangely, when I first read the list, #4 "The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes, proportionately, the necessity for the use of physical force and compulsion in achieving police objectives." stood out.

Even with all our modern technology including genetic identification and other forensics, the U.S. homicide clearance rate is 64.1%, but half a century ago it was 90%. Unfortunately from decades of systemic abuse, the communities with the highest murder rate just don't trust the police anymore and won't co-operate and help them solve crimes. There are of course other factors, but this is a major one. "Snitches get stitches" etc.

So, the police militarize to deal with the violent inner cities, which increases police-to-citizen violence and brutality, which makes citizens even less co-operative, which leads to more unsolved murders, which leads to more militarization ad nauseum.
1716) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1891230)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Rules set in the 1800's are still the rule today. The pitchforks are starting to come out.


It is ironic that one of the best and influential (although unfortunately not influential enough everywhere) police departments was founded in the early 1800s. I recently stumbled across Sir Robert Peel's Nine Principles of Policing, all of 187 years old, and still as fresh and relevant as the day they were written. Perhaps they are even too relevant, in fact, as so many of the problems that we see with modern policing, including many that have been discussed in this thread, seem to be caused by ignoring them. Are they even taught in police academies any more?

(For those who haven't head of him, Sir Robert Peel was the founder of the London Metropolitan Police, considered to be the first modern police force and one of the oldest in terms of continuity from its founding. London police are informally called "bobbies" in his honor... or sometimes "peelers" by those who find themselves on the wrong side of the law.)

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Sir Robert Peel's Nine Principles of Policing (1829)


  1. The basic mission for which police exist is to prevent crime and disorder as an alternative to the repression of crime and disorder by military force and severity of legal punishment.

  2. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police existence, actions, behavior and the ability of the police to secure and maintain public respect.

  3. The police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain public respect.

  4. The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes, proportionately, the necessity for the use of physical force and compulsion in achieving police objectives.

  5. The police seek and preserve public favor, not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to the law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws; by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the society without regard to their race or social standing; by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humor; and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.

  6. The police should use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to achieve police objectives; and police should use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.

  7. The police at all times should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police; the police are the only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interest of the community welfare.

  8. The police should always direct their actions toward their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary by avenging individuals or the state, or authoritatively judging guilt or punishing the guilty.

  9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.


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1717) Message boards : News : Data from "Tabby's Star" is flowing. (Message 1891177)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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do you know if Seti@home might one day be allowed to receive data from China's new radio Telescope ?

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


I don't know if he will see this/respond but I can confirm that the team has stated they are definitely interested in getting a receiver on FAST and have done however much can be done at this point to initiate it (I think all that can be is to advise the FAST administrators.)

Edit: Thankfully he did and I'm quite happy my info was out of date. I do hope we get some of that data here.
1718) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc v7.8.0 for linux (Message 1891146)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It also should work with the other Newer versions Linux. Everything appears to be the same to me.


That is excellent and thank you... I was stuck on Mint 17.02 as the "good" BOINC 7.2.42 that uses the Home folder would fail on later Mints due to the dependency. (Later Mints can now install kernel updates as well too.)

(That 7.8.2 is a Berkeley installer version using Home as well, correct?)
1719) Message boards : Number crunching : RAC falling dramatically (Message 1891142)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You don't seem to be as NVidia-GPU-dependent as I am, but my RAC wavers up or down dependent on what proportion of Arecibo to Green Bank work is being distributed; since Tuesday it's been falling as there has been more Green Bank GUPPI VLAR and less Arecibo. (Are Intel GPUs similarly affected? AMDs are not.)
1720) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1891076)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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One of the strongly contributing factors to this is a militarization of the police, where they are being given stronger and stronger lethal weapons and unfortunately their training reflects this. (I was utterly flabbergasted even at the concept of police bayonets, one of the military weapons formerly prohibited for police forces yet somehow now allowed...)
Thus when there is a bad situation requiring a fast assessment, that assessment is immediately going to be directed to the firearm and shooting centre of mass or other lethal response, rather than towards the most effective non-lethal solution available and minimal force required to solve the problem.

For example, a person with a possible mental issue armed with a simple blunt object ie a hammer or pipe could be rendered ineffective by an officer in riot gear with a riot shield... this gear makes one impervious to such a weapon. This is standard-issue kit... why aren't police putting it on to confront people in these situations so they don't have to pull their sidearm? ie pin them with the shield while whacking them with a truncheon if required and then other officers can restrain them for good. Also works wonders against tiny pocket knives or screwdrivers or other barely-lethal weapons that so many people have been shot dead over.

As an example of the contrast between police training in Europe and North America, we have the incident of unarmed Swedish police officers on vacation who non-violently subdued people fighting on the New York subway. Their training includes how to non-violently restrain violent suspects, etc., and emphasis on de-escalation. This is pretty much standard in European police forces.
1721) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1890696)
Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks... there is a nice chart in there:



I'd be interested in the differentiation of it to see if and how much it is increasing over time. (It certainly looks to be, but data would be nice.)
1722) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1890686)
Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, Climate Change has REDUCED dA POWER of Hurricanes. You know, Made LESS WORSE.


Peer-reviewed actual-science citation pleez.

In the interim another totally-not-AGW-amplified hurricane has just gone Category 5 and is threatening the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico.
1723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Transportation Safety 3 (Message 1890627)
Posted 18 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is unfortunately common among the "fixie" crowd as fixed-gear bikes for track racing don't have brakes (as there should be no obstacles to have to brake for, and if someone ahead hits the brakes suddenly it could cause quite a pile-up.) So some buy them like this or remove the brakes to be "cool" even though it is completely illegal just about everywhere for road use for the good reason that backpedaling is nowhere close to the stopping power of brakes.

And of course in Toronto we don't just have to deal with them... the non-fixies can be just as brazenly dangerous. Happily that mindset also causes them to post videos of it and end up charged.

(I maintain my brakes weekly and always wear a helmet unlike this clown... didn't stop my wife and I from colliding last week mashing my knee (happily no fractures though) and giving me some nice road rash... lol.)

Edit: Coincidental wheelie charges... nice.
1724) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1890607)
Posted 18 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Pay for view link. Got something we can read?


Right-click WaPo links and "Open in new private tab/window" and they will work.
1725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Transportation Safety 3 (Message 1890447)
Posted 17 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oh dear, another double decker that wanted to be a single decker


I love this bit from the article.:

A spokesman for East Coast Buses said: ... "It is too early to know the full circumstances of what happened."


Yes... it's just as possible that a malicious walkway lowered itself and sneakily changed its clearance sign to cover it up just before the bus went under it as that your driver missed it. Uh huh. 😀
1726) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1890277)
Posted 16 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The first time contained a little 'disaster'. When I served, in addition to the traditional turkey, my World Famous Glazed Ham. When I saw the look in his eyes. I started to remove The Ham and he said it was OK. But I wasn't comfortable, and out of respect, removed it anyway


Could have been worse...

Someone at that store got a talking to. :^)
1727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Better hurry, only 1 shopping day left 'till doomsday................. (Message 1890239)
Posted 16 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I advise those who believe that this is indeed The End to divest... divest I say of your worldly mammon in order to be pure for the event! I accept cash, cheques and Paypal. 😀
1728) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1890195)
Posted 16 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Equifax's IT department should not have allowed open source that doesn't self update.


I suspect that you don't work in IT (I do)... that is a recipe for disaster especially in a web service or other public-facing platform.

It is absolutely the responsibility of the server support and data security teams to inventory all applications and components tracking version numbers and last update dates, and either get on the developer's mailing lists so that they are informed of patches, or check the developer's versioning regularly. For a public-facing intrusion-prone enterprise protecting a large volume of confidential information this should be daily.

When a patch or other update is available it is then tested in a UAT environment, ie on a UAT server which is a clone of the production server(s) that will be patched, to ensure it doesn't break anything, otherwise the enterprise could grind to a halt. Once this is done it is deployed. If there are functionality changes there is notification beforehand. For a security patch with a risk to the data security of the enterprise this should be of course be prioritized to, say, one to two business days, and data security should be engaged to monitor and/or mitigate the vulnerability that will be patched in the interim.

Equifax hadn't installed this highest criticality patch five months after it was released. They are a complete and utter laughingstock, especially their pathetic attempt to blame open source for their laziness and incompetence. For example 498 of the top 500 supercomputers on earth run Linux, and Apache is still the most popular web server suite... I think OSS just might be used by people who know what they are doing!
1729) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1890097)
Posted 16 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Shows how MOST Coppers are GOoD and Right.


The overwhelming majority of police officers (at least in the U.S. and Canada) are indeed good people, won't get into legal trouble through the course of their duties, peacefully resolve conflicts where possible, use only the minimal amount of force required to protect life, property and uphold the law, protect others sometimes at risk to their own lives, and are exemplary citizens. This is not the problem.

A small minority of police officers (as with every other group) are violent, bigoted, corrupt, dishonest, or a combination of all four. Ideally they will be caught at it and fired and/or prosecuted, so... this is not the problem.

Some bizarre ethical mutation causes the overwhelming majority, as well as the judicial/legal system, to protect the small minority from the consequences of their actions. This is the problem.
1730) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1890073)
Posted 15 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unfortunately, the violence is now on-topic...

St. Louis police are saying they no longer consider a protest at a downtown intersection peaceful and they’re asking that demonstrators leave the area.

Protesters had surrounded a police vehicle in front of the old police building near Tucker Boulevard and Clark Avenue and were damaging it with rocks. Police approached and tried to secure the vehicle and protesters threw rocks and pieces of curbing at them. Police then used pepper spray on the protesters.

In a tweet, the police department said the protesters were ignoring commands and violating the law and were subject to arrest.
1731) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1890064)
Posted 15 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The short list. Equifax IT was a sleep at the wheel.


Gosh, I wonder how they could have been with such a qualified CSO. 😀

Eventually I am going to find them in the dictionary under "incompetence".

Have better. But, having been involved in past Class Action Lawsuits, which resulted in compensation. Awaiting, sometime in the future, more compensation.

Unfortunately, most of the money goes to the Law Firms.


The DoNotPay chatbot, which has successfully issued defenses against thousands of tickets, has been set up to automate filing small claims lawsuits on anyone's (in the U.S.) behalf if they have been affected by this (ie costs related to loss of data.) It's free to use DoNotPay (there of course is probably a filing fee with the courts though) and small claims courts don't involve lawyers. Compensation could be up to $25K.
1732) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1890035)
Posted 15 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Bah... I should not have added that line as things are getting off-topic. So far a few protestors threw rocks and bottles but that was quickly quelled, five were pepper-sprayed. Otherwise no violence or damage.

I would ask that we wait until it hopefully doesn't happen before excess speculation. :^p
1733) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1890002)
Posted 15 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What? No jury? Or just another case of sloppy reporting?


In U.S. state courts, the defendant has the right to waive their right to a jury verdict and instead have a verdict rendered by the judge. (This right isn't absolute in federal courts.) We have the same here as well. Given his situation I am not surprised he used it, and it seems to have paid off.
1734) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1889993)
Posted 15 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unfortunately, this is one cop who will not feel the full force of the law...

This seems to be a very bad verdict, and unfortunately the reporting/stories I have seen on it are sloppy as they all seem to miss some of the important details; one needs to read several articles to get them all.


  • (Yes, another black suspect shot by a white police officer...)
  • The officer told his partner he was "going to kill this motherf‑‑‑er, don't you know it" while they were in pursuit, ie not in a firefight attempting to intimidate the suspect.
  • The officer was carrying an AK-47 pistol at the time as well as his service pistol, completely against policy as he had not authorization to have it (this is why he was able to be fired before being found guilty.)
  • His partner did not even unholster his weapon, so clearly did not feel threatened.
  • The officer's DNA was found on the "suspect's" pistol, yet the suspect's was not; it is strongly suspected it was planted and was not seen in any of the surveillance videos entered into evidence.
  • Even with the above he was found not guilty (bench not jury trial) and the judge's ruling was that the "going to kill..." statement in the previous point was "ambiguous" and did not constitute an intention of the officer to kill the suspect.



So there are already protests starting in St. Louis and they may end up turning violent as night falls (ie, another Ferguson.) Let's hope the cooler heads prevail.

1735) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1889959)
Posted 15 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Darrell, Islam is not monolithic. It is split into numerous groups with differing and often opposing goals. Most of the issues we are having these days are with one sect (Wahhabist Salfism) of one branch (Sunni); the officially designated terrorist groups ISIL/Daesh, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, the Taliban (not Wahhabist but Salafist) and many others are members of this sect. Ironically, this branch of Islam has leaders that we can identify: the Saudi royal family (you know... America's best buds, and unfortunately Canada's as well) and the Saudi clerics under their control. The official religion of Saudi Arabia is Wahhabist Sunni Islam, after all.

These groups treat other Muslims with equal or greater disdain even than the west. Surely you haven't missed all the terrorist incidents/massacres directed at Shia mosques (often with much greater loss of life than those directed at secular western targets.) They have also been directed at the most placid and often overlooked branch of Islam: Sufism.
1736) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1889656)
Posted 14 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, one can dream. I absolutely adore our single-payer health care system, and once a plan like this is in place and working no one in their right mind would suggest getting rid of it (ie the Canadian Conservative party completely supports it.)

Amazingly, if it's properly run it ends up being cheaper for the government than the private system! Our federal government pays about $4.7K US/yr. per citizen in health care costs, whereas in the U.S. the cost to the government is around $10K! There must be a lot of graft, waste and unnecessary expenses going on to cause this difference.

Incidentally we had a national "Greatest Canadian" (ever) poll recently and Tommy Douglas won handily; he is best known for starting the first universal health care system when he was premier of Saskatchewan, it was quickly picked up by other provinces and then made national by Prime Minister Diefenbaker (also a Conservative party member.) Tommy Douglas' Saskatchewan also had universal dental and a non-profit government run auto insurance system with very reasonable premiums, yet Saskatchewan's economy boomed and the government ran in the black without deficit. Get rid of the frauds and the bureaucrats and it is possible...
1737) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1889518)
Posted 13 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since a considerable amount has already been posted here in the links, I think you are a bit tone deaf. So I'll suggest you read some political coverage of the ROK government as a start, say the last decade.


I try to read everything posted here (for obvious reasons) and I can't recall any statistically relevant poll or similar from a reliable source that indicated that the South Koreans would want Kim as their leader or the North's government as their own, so I join those asking for a citation for this seemingly dubious statement.

I do recall a few South Koreans indicating in interviews that they are more worried about Donald Trump's self-control than Kim's military, as they have also concluded that Kim is not actually planning on doing anything but tests and bluster, but that is not the same thing.
1738) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1888929)
Posted 9 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Students can vote in the state where they study.


Correct.... The Washington Post tracked down three of the accused fraudulent voters and they verified that this is exactly what they were doing... in less than an hour.

Kobach apparently made no attempt to contact voters who’d cast ballots but held out-of-state IDs. Thursday night, The Washington Post asked voters who’d done so to tell their stories; three did so within 60 minutes — college students, who were living in New Hampshire but did not change their licenses.


Hope that doesn't make it Fake News. 😀
1739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : EQUIFAX Hacked! 143 MILLION People Affected! :-O (Message 1888752)
Posted 9 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I could throw my car further than i'd trust that company.


Yeah, we have them here too. The good part of the article is that at least a legal authority has weighed in that their attempt to stave off a class action with a waiver is legally worthless.
1740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : EQUIFAX Hacked! 143 MILLION People Affected! :-O (Message 1888734)
Posted 9 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The rights waiver has been removed thanks to New York's Attorney General

Equifax has changed its terms of service to note that users checking to see if they've been affected by a massive breach it endured are not waiving their right to file a class action lawsuit.

Prior to the update, users on social media pointed out that individuals using Equifax's tool to see if their information was compromised in a massive data breach could be giving up their rights to file or join a lawsuit against the company.

Equifax revealed on Thursday that hackers had gained access to the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans including names, Social Security numbers and birth dates.

In response, the company set up the website equifaxsecurity2017.com so users could see if their data was affected. However, fine print deep in the company’s terms of service for the website includes an arbitration clause waiving the users "ability to bring or participate in a class action, class arbitration or other representative action."

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) lambasted the arbitration language in Equifax’s terms of service on Friday, calling it “unacceptable and unenforceable.” Schneiderman tweeted that his office had contacted Equifax’s office demanding the clause be removed.
1741) Message boards : Politics : Container Ships and Shipping Logistics (Message 1888701)
Posted 8 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've created this thread and moved these posts from the Donald Trump thread as they were taking it over... please continue the discussion here and thank you.
1742) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1888681)
Posted 8 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How did those police behave improperly?


I figured that there was no wrongdoing on the part of the police and Sirius had just posted that for the humor value, which saved me having to do such a thorough analysis. :^)
1743) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1888494)
Posted 7 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well said Mr. Kevy, well said!

Personally, it spite of the way a reply was made to my questions about right or duty. I would just like to drop one Neutron Bomb on Pyongyang decapitating the NK military of its leaders and be done with it. South Koreans civilians then could literally just walk in and unify both halves and we could withdraw from the country completely and let them choose their own style of living peacefully without any loss of American soldiers.

-Walk softly and carry a great big frackin' stick!


Thank you and the others for the pluses.... however, I do disagree about initiating any first strike.

Right now, I think that the United States strongly has the "moral high ground" in this situation for numerous reasons, some of which I have listed, possibly the highest high ground it has had for any potential conflict since... well, the Korean War. That would all be gone if the United States attacked first. Just as in individual conflicts, it is one of the perils of being a good and decent entity that one has to wait for the other entity to strike the first blow... for example if someone off their rocker threatens you with words and bluster only, and maybe punches a wall, and you punch them in the face laying them out and breaking their jaw, well... they won't be the one getting the assault charge.

There are too many possibilities for things to go horribly and terribly wrong in a first strike. Nick just mentioned a good one: what if we miss just enough generals to launch the counterstrike of those thousands of artillery pieces on Seoul, and maybe lob a nuke at the west coast of the USA in retaliation?

I can think of a few more:

What if Kim is never going to throw anything our way but bluster and balderdash and has no intention of attacking anything? (The aforementioned Epic Trolling... need I mention Iraq again?)
What if his generals were planning all along to assassinate him and install someone less nutty if he ever did anything as nutty as giving the order to strike the United States first?
What if we attack first and accidentally hit or otherwise damage China somehow? Oops... World War III. Didn't plan on that. (Remember that they do share a rather long border and Pyongyang is close enough to it.) Oh and China has already stated it will take North Korea's side if the United States does a first strike, but stay out of it if North Korea attacks first. So there is that.
What if we accidentally kill a few hundred thousand or million innocent civilians accidentally or as "collateral damage" because they were "in the way"?

So how do we prevent Kim's first strike?
By repeating as often as required and in no uncertain terms that any strike on the United States or its allies will result in reprisal in kind until North Korea is completely defeated: a conventional attack will result in a conventional defeat with Kim dead or captured and his military capability destroyed (with as few civilian deaths as possible), a nuclear attack on a civilian population will result in a nuclear defeat with the unfortunate and horrible complete destruction of his government (which would of course take out Pyongyang), military, nuclear arsenal and possibly other cities as required, with possibly millions of dead people...

This is not a balanced conflict; I would wager that the United States has at least a thousand nuclear warheads and/or bombs for every one North Korea has. This would not be Mutually Assured Destruction... it would just be Assured Destruction. Kim knows this well.
1744) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1888406)
Posted 7 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You are aware the country was unified prior to the Japanese annexation and the USA and USSR artificially divided it after WWII, like Berlin, aren't you?
Korea is for Korean's not the USA, China or Russia.


Yes, I am. I'm also aware that the US and USSR had World War II and the Japanese occupation of Korea to deal with, so had to do something that with our 20/20 hindsight may seem sub-optimal. Both the North and the South objected to the partition. The difference is what they did afterwards.

The government of the South accepted the situation, got to work, built a tremendous economy and a high standard of living in a modern, open and mostly free society, without ever threatening or trying to invade the North to annex them.

The government of the North instead became one of the worst tyrannies and human-rights abusers the world has ever seen, where citizens can be imprisoned in slave labour camps for years for such "crimes" as merely not using the right reply when the dictator's name is mentioned, where their lives are worth nothing and can be arbitrarily taken at a whim in these camps (children are regularly tortured and executed there, women are raped by the guards and their children are raised to become more forced labourers) where the government has total control of everything and all contact with the outside world is forbidden for almost everyone, where most of the people outside of the cities are at the edge of starvation, if not over it, while their "people's party" leaders live in luxury. Not content to oppress its own citizens, this government still thinks it is the only correct one so invaded the South in 1950, and were it not for a brilliant stroke of military planning by Douglas MacArthur was one battle away from winning!

Did their leader learn anything from this failure? No, like all sociopaths who cannot accept responsibility for their own actions, they blamed not themselves for their illegal (South Korea's defense was supported by the United Nations and the war was a U.N. military action) and unwarranted invasion, not South Korea... but the United States for upholding their responsibility to their ally. Because of this for sixty years North Korean children have been taught to hate the United States and Americans almost from birth, and the North has become per capita and GDP the most militaristic country on Earth (again, while many of its citizens are starving,) all with the goal of one day having revenge on South Korea for opposing their invasion and the United States for assisting to prevent this.

So, sorry but I have zero sympathy for the North Korean government and its so-called leaders. If they had instead diverted their resources into building their economy, normalizing trade and relations with other nations and making life better for all of their citizens, they could have achieved reunification with the South peacefully by now. Instead they chose the route of aggression, tyranny, violence and isolation. They are the ones keeping it "North Korea for North Koreans and South Korea for South Koreans" rather than "Korea for Koreans." These are fully independent and self-governing nations already, not colonies or territories.
1745) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1888310)
Posted 7 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Do we and other civilized Nations have a right or even a duty to go in and change their form of government?
Translation can we force our values on them? No. And shame on you for thinking we should.

The prime directive worked well in Star Trek, it should work well on Earth too.


I guess someone should have told the North Korean government that when they decided to invade South Korea, starting the Korean War ... I'm pretty sure that qualifies as attempting to change South Korea's form of government and forcing North Korea's values on them.

Or does that not count?
1746) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1888035)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It was removed very shortly after posting but the internet never forgets...
Edit: Make that "after being pointed out..." It resurfaced and was then deleted again later.

Link with full text
1747) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1888031)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Methinks the Ukraine, Libya results have Kim thinking that does not work. He believes only nukes can ensure national sovereignty .


If the fate of any other nation would point Kim in that direction, I would say it was Iraq's.
1748) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1888002)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just in case he isn't around, I think that he meant that it was wishful thinking to suggest that a natural disaster was a political activist . At least, that's the way I interpret it.
1749) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1887924)
Posted 4 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Meanwhile, the Times of India suggests Kim jung Un's saber-rattling and testing is to put pressure on China to act as a go-between in order to open up direct negotiations with the US.


Switzerland has volunteered.

BERNE (Reuters) - Neutral Switzerland is prepared to act as a mediator to help resolve the North Korea crisis, including by hosting ministerial talks, Swiss President Doris Leuthard said on Monday.

Leuthard said Swiss troops were deployed on the demarcation zone between South Korea and North Korea and noted that her country - along with Sweden - had a long history of neutral and discreet diplomacy. This has included Switzerland representing U.S. interests in both Iran and Cuba.
1750) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1887796)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And firing a Nuclear Weapon Capable Missile over the Japanese People. Would be considered what?

And if Putin, the USA, the UK from its Submarines, et al. Fired a Nuclear Weapon Capable Missile over a County they had threatened?

Kim must be understood in that light.


A nation's airspace is usually considered to end at about 30km altitude, otherwise countries could claim an adversary's spy satellite that passes over their nation in space was an act of war. An ICBM will reach 2,000km altitude. I'm not up on the stats of the test that went over Japan but it was probably higher than 30km because it was determined to have intercontinental range if the trajectory had been flatter.
1751) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1887792)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Understanding what might be the outcome of any action or inaction.

Any response to Kim is filling me with Utter Dread.


Me too, but I do think that the U.S. has to state firmly to Kim that he can sabre-rattle and test all he wants but any actual action is over the line just so that it is clear. Every country has a right to defend itself if attacked (not for overreacting to schoolyard bully taunts) and nothing that the U.S. has done in the recent past has warranted these threats; Kim is completely the aggressor. Hopefully if he does plan on actually going over the line his generals will spare many innocent North Korean civilians by hosting their own performance of Julius Caesar...

I still think he is trolling, as he knows perfectly well what the result will be if he is not, and he will have no one to blame but himself.
1752) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1887782)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well I was going to suggest that at this point the U.S. make a strong statement that they will not initiate a military action but if Kim does to the U.S. or any of its allies the response will be swift and utterly catastrophic to North Korea, and presto, there it is...

US warns North Korea of "massive military response" if Kim Jong-un attacks America or its allies

Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday shot back at North Korea's latest nuclear provocation with a blunt threat, saying the U.S. will answer any North Korean threat with a "massive military response -- a response both effective and overwhelming." While he said America does not seek the "total annihilation" of the North, he added somberly, "We have many options to do so."

In a brief statement to reporters outside the White House, Mattis said the international community is unified in demanding the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and said the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, should know that Washington's commitment to Japan and South Korea is unshakeable.
1753) Questions and Answers : Windows : What is the difference between CPU and GPU units? (Message 1887749)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The workunits are exactly the same. The scheduler just sends out the type of work that the client's platform CPU or GPU can process; the local BOINC client then assigns them to the relevant CUDA or OpenCL platform that is installed.
1754) Message boards : SETI@home Science : FRB 121102 Intense Burst of 15 Weird Signals (Message 1887687)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The more FRBs detected the more I think that the "WOW" signal was a non-repeating FRB.


The WOW signal lasted the entire 72-second duration of the aperture, whereas FRBs are transients in the millisecond range.
1755) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1887675)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
100% Agree with Ryan.


I am happy that this has high-level support as well. You can encourage it by supporting the passage of the DREAM Act which will formalize it into law. The ACLU has set up a page where you can automatically call your senator.

The human impact of Trump canceling DACA and 800,000 young people losing their legal status would be devastating. Every one of them would lose their work authorization and be at risk for deportation.

These people came to the U.S. as children and America is their only home.

The bipartisan Dream Act would protect DACA-recipients by providing qualified undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. before the age of 18 a pathway to citizenship. To be eligible, individuals must graduate from high school or pass the GED and either attend college or enlist in the military.
1756) Message boards : SETI@home Science : FRB 121102 Intense Burst of 15 Weird Signals (Message 1887629)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Breakthrough Initiatives release


Breakthrough Listen Detects Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from the Distant Universe

Green Bank Telescope observations of a dwarf galaxy three billion light years away reveal 15 bursts of radio emission. This is the first time bursts from this source have been seen at these frequencies.

San Francisco – August 29, 2017 – Breakthrough Listen – the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – has detected 15 fast radio bursts emanating from the mysterious "repeater" FRB 121102. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant galaxies. First detected with the Parkes Telescope in Australia, FRBs have now been seen by several radio telescopes around the world. FRB 121102 was discovered in 2012, on November 2nd (hence its name). In 2015, it was the first FRB seen to repeat, ruling out theories of the bursts' origins that involved the catastrophic destruction of the progenitor (at least in this particular instance). And in 2016, the repeater was the first FRB to have its location pinpointed with sufficient precision to allow its host galaxy to be identified. It resides in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years away from Earth.
....

Has also been picked up by several newspapers. But of course, only time will tell if it amounts to anything (at least that this project is looking for.)
1757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1887431)
Posted 2 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yup....took a half dozen edits, but I finally found one that works.
Thanks for the offer of hosting it though.


Anytime, and it's nice to see you smiling. :^)
1758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1887429)
Posted 2 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That image host doesn't allow direct linking it appears. I copied the URL from it and put that in the browser and it loaded.

Edit: Never mind... you got it.
1759) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1887426)
Posted 2 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop roughs her up, arrests her for doing her job


Update:

Salt Lake City police say an officer seen on video dragging a screaming nurse from a hospital and handcuffing her will be put on paid vacation administrative leave after prosecutors called for a criminal investigation.
Police Chief Mike Brown said in a statement Friday that his department will comply with the investigation into Detective Jeff Payne.
...
Brown and the mayor of Salt Lake City have apologized for the incident and changed their policies to mirror hospital protocols.
1760) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1887266)
Posted 1 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A termination should be in order.

He's toasted rightly so.


Fired.
1761) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1887195)
Posted 1 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And while looking for a good citation I find this from shortly thereafter which seems to contradict it.

But it's more expensive to develop them just just buy them, so I think there is definitely some shady money going into NK.
1762) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1887193)
Posted 1 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well, my $0.02 plan: follow the money. The sanctions are being evaded and someone is still trading with him; the U.S. intelligence community is convinced he's obtained old possibly Soviet-era rocket engines which is why the missiles are suddenly improved. Plus they still seem to have money to finance their military endeavors.

Use the intelligence resources to find those agencies responsible and hold their governments accountable and sanction them as well, harshly, until Kim is cut off completely and has no more money for weapons development. This I think is the only realistic alternative to a first strike or waiting him out, to involving the military and its inherent risks.

Personally I think it is highly unlikely Kim will actually do anything. He knows that he and his country would get crushed eventually and inevitably in a conventional war, and almost immediately in a nuclear one, so he is just trolling in epic proportion.
1763) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1887188)
Posted 1 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Once more (getting tiresome, no?) numerous posts have gone away as they were offtopic and the thread was once again degenerating into the back-and-forth-is-the-swastika-evil-who-called-who-a-babykiller personal criticisms thread. It's the Donald Trump thread (this much should be obvious.)

Sadly both our time is being wasted by participating in these: yours writing them and mine having to get rid of them. If we keep it to topic and stop getting personal, this won't happen anymore. The choice is, and has always been, yours of course!
1764) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1887186)
Posted 1 Sep 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some posts have gone away... the topic of this thread is police corruption or illegal/unethical activity. It isn't Donald Trump (there's already a thread for him) unless it relates to his stance on the police, or the swastika for that matter. Please try to stay on it and off the back-and forth personal commentary.
1765) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1887168)
Posted 31 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The reasoning of some that fhe world must do something IMMEDIATELY about Global Warming before it gets worse are mostly the ones who don't agree the same reasoning applies to Dip Dung Sum.........just say'n...........


I'm sure many (myself included) would want to deal with both effectively. Kim however has us in a situation where doing anything about him militarily could lead to a bloodbath in South Korea and Japan, or even World War III. So two other options remain: sanctions and doing nothing unless he strikes first, as so far he's done nothing but sabre-rattle and waste missiles in the ocean.

What do you propose we do?
1766) Message boards : Politics : Captain's log, Stardate 6969.72 (Message 1887016)
Posted 31 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In the midst of the drudgery of cleaning up around here, I try to not lose sight of what this project is, and why I am part of it.

I hope most of all for the human species to discover an extraterrestrial intelligence because finally it will put our petty differences into perspective. The most disparate two humans on earth could not help but be staggeringly more similar than anything else in the cosmos (an amount difficult to quantify), and the furthest humans would be millions of times closer together than we would be to them in terms of distance. We would finally be just one human family in one tiny shared home and no more. I think it would have more profound of a philosophical and existential effect on us that anything else we have done up to this point, even including the development of nuclear weapons.

So I stay hopeful that the discovery will be made in my lifetime.
1767) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1886953)
Posted 30 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But if all ice in the Arctic melts it's not only the searise to worry about.


Arctic ice is floating so will not cause sea level rise when it melts. Land ice (ie Antarctic, Greenland, glaciers) will.
1768) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1886676)
Posted 28 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No, Yap... no one needs more police like that. What if the police who shoot a few Antifa for resisting arrest later decide they don't like people open carrying either so shoot a few of them? Once the line is crossed it may not be the outcome you want. The same laws and ethos protect everyone. Violence feeds on itself and rarely makes anything better (sometimes it does, but only defensively when all else has failed. This is not that situation.)

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I seem to remember someone said that before...
And yes I do agree that anyone being violent at these events from any "side" should be immediately arrested and charged... properly. This has to stop.
1769) Message boards : Politics : A message for all to hear and heed (Message 1886529)
Posted 28 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yet again this thread has gotten so far off-topic that I can't remember if it ever had one. Did it? Well, I didn't start one or establish whether it has to stay on one, so that will have to be the call of the thread-starter whether it needs a cleanup, but it doesn't seem it will get itself out of the back-and-forth interpersonal griping that has nothing to do with any actual topic.
1770) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1886389)
Posted 27 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another one was just arrested as well...

A teen white supremacist who has been obsessed with Nazis since junior high school has been charged in the vicious beating of a black man during the violent rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Daniel Borden, 18, was arrested Friday in connection with the attack on 20-year-old Deandre Harris, authorities said Saturday.

A cellphone video captured a group of white men savagely pounding on Harris with metal flag poles, umbrellas and plastic shields.


Another man has been also identified and has a warrant for his arrest for the beating.
1771) Message boards : Politics : A message for all to hear and heed (Message 1886337)
Posted 27 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hard to "found" a country one has never set foot in, seen, or even knows exists. :^p

Columbus' four voyages were to the Caribbean islands and up the coast of Central America.
1772) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : VSYSCALL deprecated - s@h client recompile needed (Message 1886335)
Posted 26 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thread on this from the BOINC forums as well.
1773) Questions and Answers : Windows : Boinc Notices trying to connect to localhost (Message 1886081)
Posted 25 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is normal; the BOINC components communicate with each other through localhost.
1774) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1885895)
Posted 25 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ah well... I didn't expect much. By the way, scientists working for the oil companies already worked out the whole global warming issue in the 1970s, and it didn't cost a dime of taxpayer money. Shell even made a documentary in 1991.

No worries... self-correcting problem: once Florida is underwater the loss of its electoral votes will stop putting deniers in the White House. 😀
1775) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1885892)
Posted 25 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Let dA BIG MELT Begin.


Hey, I'll take "there's warming, but I don't care" over "There's no warming and all the scientists are liars" any day.... at least it's honest! (Edit: and doesn't put anyone down either.)
1776) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1885842)
Posted 24 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... dAt HuWoMAN Made Climate 'CHANGE' Data. Ya Know, LYIN' and 'Fuddgin' 'Data' by dA Warmist Scammers...


I'll ask again for some peer-reviewed consensus data from actual climatologists that backs this rather accusatory statement up, but something tells me I won't get anything back but more data-free Authentic Frontier Gibberish.
1777) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1885465)
Posted 23 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It looks like the orange figure is in for a warm reception at Arizona in a few hours, but it doesn't look like it'll be the type of reception he wants.


And possibly for an unexpectedly good reason...
(I rather hope he doesn't go off-cue and do it anyway.)
1778) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1885184)
Posted 21 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... last night they marched through the streets of Dallas chanting 'Oink Oink Bang Bang' scarcely 24 hours after another 3 Police Officer were ambushed and shot to death.


Where did this happen? I can't find anything in Dallas. There were two in Florida but they were not targeted/ambushed.
1779) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1885182)
Posted 20 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Sigh... here we go again...

North Korea warned Sunday that the upcoming US-South Korea military exercises are "reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war."
Pyongyang also declared that its army can target the United States anytime, and neither Guam, Hawaii nor the US mainland can "dodge the merciless strike."


1780) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1885135)
Posted 20 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some posts have once again had to go away...

Sorry to have to seem like a broken record, but again:
The is the Donald Trump (45th President of the United States of America) thread.
This is not the Personalities Of and Gripes About People Who Post in the Donald Trump Thread Thread.

if you find someone annoying who is posting within the guidelines, please filter them.
If they are posting outside the guidelines, please red-X it.
Thanks!

Edit: I had to remove a few more as people seem to be going back in time through the thread to find offtopic material to reply with more offtopic material to. If this doesn't stop and things get back on track I will have to lock the thread for a while, at least several hours, so those involved can cool off elsewhere.
1781) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1885033)
Posted 20 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have no idea what you are trying to say or what your point is... someone said there are no U.S. "leftist" radical groups who promote/use firearms, I provided two.
1782) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1885026)
Posted 20 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Add Minister Louis Farrakhan. Leader of the Black Muslim/Nation of Islam. Belief in Black Supremacy. To the ever expanding list of Hate Groups.


I am well aware of him and them, however the question was were there groups self-identified as "leftist" that also encouraged their members to own or use firearms. Barring the Nation of Islam members who were also Black Panther Party members I don't think that the group itself shows that tendency.
1783) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884983)
Posted 20 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Funny you mention that with the claim that the left kills with guns, since the left won't own guns and doesn't want anyone else to own them either.


The Black Panther Party and New Black Panther Party are examples of two U.S. groups that both identify/identified as "left" (self-described as socialist) and encourage(d) firearm ownership and open carry among their members. I have to call them two groups as many members of the original one denied that the new one was of any relation. The ADL and SPLC also consider the latter a hate group.

Edit: Also the Symbionese Liberation Army deserves a mention.
1784) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884913)
Posted 19 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Rather than repeating variations of the same posting over and over in often questionable contexts, what improvements would you propose to the current political system and both parties in order that you would find one or even both palatable and worth voting for again?
1785) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884855)
Posted 19 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Gary methinks Eye didn't go that far, as I read it he was asserting all cop killers are members of the organized left.


Gavin Eugene Long, who shot six police officers in Baton Rouge (three died) considered himself a "sovereign citizen" which is classed as a far-right fringe movement... FBI classifies them as domestic terrorists. The entire movement is hostile to law enforcement as along with income tax they eschew legalities such as driver's licenses/insurance (but still drive, so are likely to attack if pulled over) and I know there have been several other armed and possibly fatal incidents involving them.

Edit: Yes, another one was Joseph Kane... murdered two police officers during a routine traffic stop.

Thank You for injecting some intelligent reasoning into the ping pong match..........


Anytime and thank you... :^)
1786) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884830)
Posted 18 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If he is somehow found guilty of treason...


Hypotheses of presidential sentencing are in the how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or even war with North Korea, level of fantasy. Everyone knows the appointed replacement president is of the same political party so immediately pardons the impeached president. Sentences are for poor people... sheesh. 😀

Edit: And treason is a wartime crime (I should just put this in my sig... lol.)
1787) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884760)
Posted 18 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Entire White House Arts Committee Resign to Protest Trump

There go some more "silly entertainers" I guess. :^p However:

Bannon may be out (Er... again!)
1788) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884722)
Posted 18 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Missouri Democratic state senator says she hopes Trump is assassinated


Thankfully this has been picked up by other outlets as well... I would be disheartened if only Fox ran it as, yes, that would seems rather biased to bury it. If ordinary citizens are expected to refrain from these outbursts I think this goes tenfold for politicians. Unfortunately she has already said there's no way she's resigning.
1789) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884338)
Posted 17 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I think that all those groups have been disbanded as of today already as too many CEOs dropped off.
1790) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884331)
Posted 17 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
the major thing that stands out is

WHERE WERE THE POLICE? WHY WEREN'T THE GROUPS SEPARATED?


Absolutely... they were very conspicuous by their absence both when the fighting occurred and in the street where the protesters were mowed down with a car. If the police expect protesters to do the right thing and remain non-violent, then they have a duty to protect them from the ones who don't abide by the laws and arrest the violent ones promptly.

I think there were only four arrests in the whole event and one of those was the murderer so a lot of incidents were unpunished.

I didn't expect to see the only possible correct response to Nazi's posted here.


Thanks! And don't get me wrong, I defend their right to peacefully promote their hateful garbage in the public square as I don't like government-instigated censorship, but I also certainly want them to be vigorously and unremittingly (but non-violently) opposed at every turn, including being fired and driven out of any safe space they think they have on the internet.
1791) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884313)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Now that the White Supremacists, KKK, et al. Are now using similar violence and intimidation as those Radicals on the Alt Left have been doing and championing for years/


Now? I strongly doubt you missed the hundred-year period between the end of the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. There were about 3,500 lynchings during this time and several hundred other murders by the Klan, even disregarding the bombings, arson, beatings and other incidents of domestic terrorism, all against African-Americans or others who supported them.

So, sorry... I think they have this "Alt Left" beaten by about 150 years in the violence and intimidation department. Also I think the Antifa murder and lynching count still stands at zero if I am not mistaken.
1792) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884305)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Of course I decry and detest any violence from the "Antifa" ... they are ruining their moral upper-hand with any form of violence and forgetting that the most effective protests and civil rights campaigns in history were non-violent to the point of pacifism (Dr. King's and M. Gandhi's are prominent examples... the participants were trained not to fight back even if attacked.)

But dismissing their motive along with the few of them who go over the line is, well, also going over the line! There is no comparison or equivalence... there are not "two sides". Don't confuse the message with the bearers...

1793) Message boards : Politics : Ukraine/Crimea (Message 1884238)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Maybe I should read Russian news instead:)
https://sputniknews.com/


Maybe not. :^p
1794) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884186)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have no problem with a removal. Especially if they are located in a State Capital Building, or other place of honor. A Replacement to an area where people can visit and understand our history. Both the good and bad. Is the Non Orwellian solution.


History should not be erased by any means, but these statues belong in a museum, right beside the exhibits on slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, and every other ugly and thankfully bygone relic institution that they fought to preserve.

They do not deserve a place of honor on public land within the United States, because they fought against the United States as citizens of another country. To give them such officially legitimizes with the force of government and sanctions their actions, and those of every one of their followers today.
1795) Message boards : Politics : Following is an Alt-FAKE View:TAKE DOWN Washington Monument; Jefferson Memorial;All Other Monuments to Slave Owner Founding Fathers If NOT TAKEN DOWN, DEFACE IT Alt-FAKE Views are NOT to be BELIEVED Alt-FAKE Views are NOT A Call to Action in REAL WORLD (Message 1884177)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You have some interesting people that agree with you on the Washington Monument, Yap...

Some of the president's comments Tuesday mirrored rhetoric from the far-right fringe. A post Monday by the publisher of The Daily Stormer, a notorious neo-Nazi website, predicted that protesters are going to demand that the Washington Monument be torn down.


(And when did Presidents Washington or Jefferson go to war against the United States? I seem to have missed that tidbit of historical trivia.)
1796) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884050)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But his attackers, in this case, are exposing that they are even worse.


Could you possibly back this statement up? Really... you keep repeating this like it actually means something. I would like to know how opposing something or someone automatically makes someone "worse" than the thing they are opposing.

Here's an example: Donald Trump actually claimed that removing Confederate statues is akin to removing statues of Jefferson and Washington. General Lee was an enemy of the United States. He fought against the United States. In doing so he tried to kill as many United States soldiers as he could... that is what war is about. And yet there are statues of him on public land that validate these actions?

Here is the word for word quote:

"So, this week it's Robert E. Lee," Trump said. "I notice that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?"


So, do you agree with this statement that the losing, traitorous Confederacy who seceded from and went to war against the United States to preserve slavery and institutionalize racism (again in the correct and literal use of the word) is just as deserving of being officially honoured as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson... or do you oppose it, and "expose yourself as being worse"?

(Edit: You've also called Donald Trump an "idiot" several times... somehow this doesn't qualify as an "attack" though, yet one of his peers objecting very specifically to something he has said or done and very much in a position to do so (ie the very conservative Orrin Hatch stating that "My brother didn't die fighting Hitler for Nazis to go unchallenged today") is somehow "even worse"... double-standard much?)
1797) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1884040)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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OK, make that one piece of good news then... :^p
1798) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1883862)
Posted 14 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some badly needed good news to continue to get this thread back on track, and, well... we need it right now:

1) Donald Trump makes much a stronger statement and names the groups responsible:

"Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," Trump said in a statement to reporters at the White House.


2) The U.S. national debt has fallen $102 billion since he took office

We’ve checked these numbers and set them in context, and found that the national debt did indeed fall by $102 billion between 20 January and the end of July 2017. This decline is also historically remarkable, in both absolute and percentage terms. This six-month fall in the national debt is also significant when measured against the size of the overall economy.
1799) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1883476)
Posted 13 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Dull I ask a simple question, how do you make this s**t up?


Alex Jones and/or his ilk may have for him... Mr. Jones wasted no time in reaching into his vast posterior and pulling forth "VIRGINIA RIOTS STAGED TO BRING IN MARTIAL LAW, BAN CONSERVATIVE GATHERINGS" I shan't glorify the filth by linking to it... it's easy enough to find.

(Edit: Does he not expect to piss off more than a few non-lunatic-fringe conservatives by associating them with a gathering of the Klan/alt-right/neo-Nazis, etc.)?
1800) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1883437)
Posted 12 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you for that.... it needs to be said a lot more unfortunately.
1801) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1883074)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un,’ evangelical adviser says.


God also told a Florida man to blow up his own mailbox. Barring any evidence I think the two divine revelations are worth about the same amount. :^p
1802) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1883048)
Posted 10 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The US Congress?
No. It was introduced in the United States Senate in 2017.


The Senate is part of Congress (along with the House of Representatives.)
1803) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1883017)
Posted 10 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Middle-aged, poor and never completed my undergrad so no green card for me. :^)

I dunno... I keep hearing and reading that scientific education and/or accomplishment is no longer valued in the U.S. but this certainly shows it still is.
1804) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1882860)
Posted 9 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Leaving you wide open for zero day exploits.


Not likely to get them on my machine disconnected from all networks where the only things I install are purchased and months ago. :^p
I can also always re-enable the service from time to time when it's my choice to install updates thankyouverymuch, ie when I am confident that my OS won't get trashed by a bad one.

Here is a good article with plenty of options. There is even a utility to select which updates to install... what will they think of next!
1805) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1882814)
Posted 9 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I opened the cover of my Surface Tablet this morning to discover it already turned on and happily digesting some bit of M$ B$ that I probably don't want.............glad that's the only device I possess running W10.


I now have a Windows 10 machine (was pre-installed)... it's a (mostly) offline retro gaming system that doesn't have BOINC installed (I gotta have one that's just mine!) and is in suspend when I am not using it. I found it's actually quite easy to stop Windows 10's notorious updates:

Click Start, type "serv" until Services appears. Open it. Find Windows Update. Right-click and stop the service. Right-click, Properties, change Startup Type to Disabled. Ta-frickin-da! No more updates.
1806) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (107) Server Problems? (Message 1882795)
Posted 9 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for the info! And nice to see you around here... maybe the outage wasn't all bad then. :^)
1807) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (107) Server Problems? (Message 1882790)
Posted 9 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That was some outrageous outrage... about 23 hours. Of course now I am at work so can't micromanage. Darn.
1808) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1882525)
Posted 7 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Some posts have had to go away. Brief recap of the OP as reminder:

This is the Donald Trump (45th President of the United States of America) thread.
This is not the Personalities Of and Gripes About People Who Post in the Donald Trump Thread Thread.
1809) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1882464)
Posted 6 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't want to get all heavy-handed and would rather leave this thread be, but up until the last couple it has started to wander into personal slights and criticism of posters as the last one did, rather than staying on topic. Please continue to wander back to the (very obvious) topic and thanks. :^)
1810) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1882463)
Posted 6 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Another possibly hopeful development from The Hill:

Federal task force reportedly recommends more marijuana study, no crackdown

The task force Attorney General Jeff Sessions established to crack down on marijuana use has come up with no new policy recommendations for the attorney general, The Associated Press reported Friday.

Marijuana advocates feared that a report released by the Trump administration's Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety would link violent crime to marijuana. But the AP, citing portions of the report it had obtained, said that the document recommends that officials continue weighing whether to change or rescind the Obama administration's largely hands-off approach to enforcement.

Advocates hailed the news on Friday.

“The task force’s recommendations reflect the fact that the Dept. of Justice has more important priorities than harassing legitimate, taxpaying businesses. In states that have approved marijuana for medical or adult use, these businesses are creating jobs, generating revenue, protecting consumers, and making their communities safer," Don Murphy, the director of conservative outreach at the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a statement.
1811) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1881789)
Posted 3 Aug 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have been wanting to ditch that habit for many years already, but have never been strong enough to do it.


I wasn't strong enough either on my own... took me three attempts before I shook that monkey, and I needed some assistance:



Nothing wrong with assistance. This is also the only brand that works; accept no substitutes. Most health insurance plans will pay part or all of the cost (it allays the much greater costs of not quitting down the road.) Been about ten years now and no relapses. My better half and I quit together so we had each other for support... or to get on each other's nerves. :^)

I'm very happy with your progress, and your sticking with it! It's never too late to make a positive change like this and you will be immensely happier for it (such as being able actually enjoy your retirement, the time of life meant for pure enjoyment!)
1812) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1881381)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There is one option still open without invoking an actual 'shooting' War.......

Time to unleash the Cyberwarriors...


Regardless of one's opinions of old 44, we may end up being thankful to him for one thing: he ramped up cyberwarfare tremendously and started on NK in 2013 (this is one strongly suspected reason their earlier missiles were prone to wandering off course and otherwise failing.) The knowledge collected since then may prove very useful. I have no doubt that such a campaign is ongoing in dread earnest.
1813) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1881189)
Posted 30 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The USA committed massive Hitler scale war crimes against DPRK in the Korean war. True or not, every citizen of DPRK knows that as fact.


Happily you included the "True or not..." Yes, this certainly is what North Korean schoolchildren are taught almost from birth, but I don't know of any evidence for it. Yes, the U.S. military had to shoot civilians who approached them due to some being used as suicide bombers by North Korea. Yes, there were massacres of civilians for their supposed political alignment, but they were perpetrated by the South Koreans, not the U.S. North Korea committed war crimes of its own, for example in the treatment of U.S. P.OW.s.

Korea was part of the Japanese empire which dissolved at the end of WWII. It was divided very amicably by the U.S. and Soviet Union into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel. The North Korean leadership then started the Korean War by invading South Korea... there is no controversy over who was the aggressor here... and even with the backing of China and the U.S.S.R. still lost because of U.S. assistance to South Korea. Thus for over sixty years as noted their leadership has seethed with hatred towards the U.S. for denying them control of the South.

So given that it's pretty cut-and-dried that they are and have always been the aggressor and instigator of war against their neighbour, for what possible reason do they deserve it?
1814) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1881176)
Posted 30 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Trump stance regarding bumping a Murderer's head against a door. Has no relationship to Mass Murdering Nazi's, Marxists, et al.


They aren't a murderer until they are convicted of such in a court of law. Until then they are a murder suspect and presumed innocent. Of course with your extensive law enforcement experience you would know this...

This is the same essential legal principle you expect others to apply in not treating the POTUS as though he's been convicted of collusion with a foreign power to influence the election before this has actually occurred, so please try to be consistent. :^)
1815) Message boards : Number crunching : For the betterment of BOINC (Message 1880988)
Posted 29 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What and where do you mean by a "messages area", in this context?


A Q&A forum... though technically Android is a Linux derivative.
1816) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1880810)
Posted 28 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Kim is throwing lit matches into a pile of gunpowder.


I think he is doing this because he knows he can, for the most part right now, get away with it. There are no easy or viable solutions right now, and the possibility of it getting completely out of control is too high to deal with forcefully.

In my opinion this is the defining situation of Donald Trump's presidency: if he can deal with and remove this threat successfully without either loss of (non-North Korean military or leadership) human life or submitting, then anything else he has done or not done will fade into trivial secondary importance. This is re-election material. And if not, well... I don't want to think about that too much.
1817) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : SOLVED - GPUs missing starting boinc with command line; GPUs present when boinc started with BOINC manager (Message 1880613)
Posted 27 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Done. :^)
1818) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1880166)
Posted 24 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We usually lock threads at just over a thousand. This one has gone on twice as long and it's gotten way off topic a few times. It's time to put it to rest.

New thread is here. Please read the first post!

(Edit: Handed over to Yap as he wanted to continue.)
1819) Message boards : Politics : 45 LOVERS and 45 NON-LOVERS Thread.....DREE THEIR WEIRDs (Message 1880165)
Posted 24 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A continuation of this thread...

The is the Donald Trump (45th President of the United States of America) thread. Everything about Donald Trump is on-topic: ie himself, his Presidency, his cabinet, his family, his business interests, and the state of the U.S. Federal Government during his term.

This is not the Personalities Of and Gripes About People Who Post in the Donald Trump Thread Thread. You'll have to start you own one of those, and I will then have to remove it of course! Please keep to the topic and thank you.
1820) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1879903)
Posted 23 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The theory of intelligent design however is NOT science and cannot be verified.


Worse than having no evidence for it, there is instead much evidence against it. This is why the group that promotes it does no actual scientific research; they are well aware that there is already ample research to the contrary. Unlike the origins of creation stories themselves, "Intelligent Design" is very modern so its development is well known, and documents such as the Wedge Strategy show that it was intended for the express purpose of weakening public confidence in science and rebranding old-school creationism to introduce it into public schools, etc.

Thankfully, it's on the wane in the U.S. as many have concluded, quite correctly, that you don't have to dispute the findings of science to remain religious. If one believes that the universe is of divine origin, then science is finding out how it was done.
1821) Message boards : Politics : (Always wrong) ... 46 ... (Message 1879422)
Posted 21 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Anyone with an ounce of common sense. Would also include MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, et al. In the same swamp as infowars.

Excepting those idiots who believe the following: Our fake news source , is better than your fake news source.


Well, Clyde, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So far, some of the laughable garbage unsubstantiated by any evidence or reliable sources that have come out of Infowars is:

Hillary Clinton has a satanic / occult network and satanists are taking over the U.S.

The U.S. federal government is controlling the weather (especially Obama of course)

Pizzagate: The Democratic Party all the way up to Hillary Clinton is running a child prostitution ring out of a Washington pizza parlor. As you probably know, someone who also thinks all news sources are equally good showed up with two firearms to "save the children", fired three shots and threatened employees (as well as everyone connected with the place being harassed and threatened by others, including the artist who painted the murals, bands that performed there and the owners of unrelated nearby pizza parlors!)

As I have noted before, that the Sandy Hook massacre of schoolchildren and others were staged with actors so that the federal government could take people's guns away.
I can hardly imagine that when you were a police officer, you would have refused to investigate a massacre of children at school on the grounds that some whacko claimed it was all staged by the government.

I would like to see some extraordinary evidence from you of not just phony, but phony to that degree, stories from the "mainstream media." I am not doubting they can be biased. This is something quite different.
1822) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1878254)
Posted 14 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That was a lot of effort put in, Guy, and pretty well written too. Unfortunately:

BECAUSE CENTRAL PLANNING OF AN ENTIRE NATION DOESN'T WORK.


does not explain China, which is doing very economically. And no, I certainly would not want to live there for any amount of money. A government that could let a Nobel-prize winner die in his cell of untreated cancer for simply writing about reform is not one I could ever support, and there are millions of other examples.

I also agree that running a tremendous national debt is a very bad thing. It's like ignoring cancer because treatment is unfun and possibly painful and/or expensive. No one seems to want to do anything about it if they can put it off to the next-in-line as "Pay the national debt down" doesn't win elections.
1823) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1878165)
Posted 14 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In what way is Trump committing treason?


He isn't... no matter what Trump did with Russia, it could not properly be treason. The crime of Treason per se is a wartime crime of collaborating with or giving aid/comfort to an enemy. Russia is a political adversary (only in some ways) but is not an enemy and the U.S. is not at war. The word is commonly misapplied often by those who should know better.

Even with the strongest example of collaboration that has so far occurred, when the Rosenbergs were charged with providing nuclear secrets to the Soviets during the Cold War, they were charged with espionage, not treason. They were executed for it, so it's not as if espionage was a less severe charge.
1824) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 3 (Message 1878031)
Posted 12 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Our local cable company is Rogers, a company so wealthy off of its cable offerings that it could afford to buy the Skydome arena on the most expensive real estate in this half of the country and rename it the "Rogers Centre".

Rogers was forced by the CRTC (Canadian FCC) to allow other providers to use its cable network which they of course fought tooth and nail. But they lost, mostly because they took large government incentive subsidies to build that network, which they then attempted to exert monopoly control over as if that was not the case. (Nothing different north of the border, eh!)

I took advantage of this and dumped Rogers for a small provider when they were messing around with protocols nearly a decade ago and never looked back. The smaller provider has much better service. However because all their traffic runs through Rogers infrastructure they can still be bastards whenever they feel like it. If I use more than some certain amount of data in some arbitrary period (neither of which numbers they will tell) for example downloading a large game that I damn well paid for, they will deprovision my modem leaving me cut off. They have done this about a dozen times. Since I know the cause I can call my provider to get them to put it back online again within a few hours whereas it took over a day at the beginning.
1825) Message boards : SETI@home Science : How far do Earth radio/TV transmissions reach? (Message 1877990)
Posted 12 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Whoever wrote that article got the whole thing completely backwards:

Wang and colleagues begin by using a third continuous-wave laser to confirm that there are two peaks in the gain spectrum and that the refractive index does indeed change rapidly with wavelength in between. Next they send a 3.7-microsecond long laser pulse into the caesium cell, which is 6 centimetres long, and show that, at the correct wavelength, it emerges from the cell 62 nanoseconds sooner than would be expected if it had travelled at the speed of light. 62 nanoseconds might not sound like much, but since it should only take 0.2 nanoseconds for the pulse to pass through the cell, this means that the pulse has been travelling at 310 times the speed of light. Moreover, unlike previous superluminal experiments, the input and output pulse shapes are essentially the same.


Light in a vacuum does indeed cover 6cm in 0.2 nanoseconds; since it took 62 nanoseconds, the pulse is traveling 310 times slower, not faster.

In other news, snail smashes land speed record travelling 310 times slower than walking. :^)

Edit: Article is also 17 years old. No faster-than-light communications after all this time so I think I am correct.
1826) Message boards : Politics : Totally FAUX news (Message 1877605)
Posted 9 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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In Canada, we have a federal elections commission Elections Canada. It is run by all federal parties jointly to ensure it remains uncorrupted and non-partisan. Voting is done by registered, tracked, tamper-resistant paper ballots with serial numbers to prevent ballot stuffing, fraud, etc. No voting machines are permitted as they are "black boxes" which have been demonstrated in U.S. elections can be hacked and lose votes (sometimes in the thousands) with no notification. When the votes are counted the count is watched over and verified by a representative from each party. The completed tally is signed off by those representatives to show it was accurate. Thus we have very few issues/allegations of voter fraud, tampering, etc.

Even India, the world's largest democracy with about a billion voters, uses hand-counted paper ballots. It takes only three hours to tally the entire lot.

I also agree in contentious federal elections like the U.S. one that ID should be a requirement. If one needs to present ID to buy a beer then I don't see how voting should be exempt.
1827) Message boards : Politics : (Always wrong) ... 46 ... (Message 1877468)
Posted 8 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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When you're losing the intellectual argument, start photoshopping pictures of your adversary. (it's in the liberal handbook of politics)


Direct link to VPOTUS' reply tweet.... Just to avoid any of that there "fake news". :^p

And gosh I don't think I've ever seen a single humorous politically-motivated photoshop of Obama or Clinton or any other Democrat.



Just keeping it fair. :^)
1828) Message boards : Number crunching : Managed to kill so many GPUs (Message 1877391)
Posted 8 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I bought/use ear protectors for my cleaning sessions. There is so much power and airflow in such a small device it can't help but be loud. The over-ear ones at dollar stores are sufficient.
1829) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1877269)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And I shall ramp down a bit on that criticism.
I am sure that in the past I have had some nicknames for Obama and certainly for Hillary myself.
My main contention was directed at the media and their choice of what they choose to spin.


That's excellent Mark and thank you. And yes, you did :^) Heck it's almost expected in here... JE even just posted an "Obummercare" in the interim. If they are not forum members then no harm... being a politician means expecting it.

And yes, I don't doubt spin from all sides... "fake news" is not required as one can effect the same bias by choosing which stories to run/bury and how to describe them to achieve the same effect as making stuff up.
1830) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1877257)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And that also includes the snowflakes in this forum who choose to make up their cutesy little insulting names for him.


Does "O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE" qualify as well? They are in the thread title and all. 😀
1831) Message boards : Number crunching : Managed to kill so many GPUs (Message 1877254)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Its funny I have that guy sitting next to me and I do use it once every 1-2months.


I'm concluding your luck is about as bad as mine is then. :^)
1832) Message boards : Number crunching : Managed to kill so many GPUs (Message 1876936)
Posted 5 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yup, best investment I ever made. Man, does it blow out the dust in the case and radiators...


Nice... didn't know you had one as well. I had recommended them to TBret when he was having dust issues and he bought one ASAP (and loved it.)
So there we go... semi-official GPUUG seal of approval I'd say. :^)
1833) Message boards : Number crunching : Managed to kill so many GPUs (Message 1876930)
Posted 5 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If you say there is no dust in the systems, you must have one of these:



Otherwise, you may be missing some. One of the best purchases I ever made... pays for itself in a few months not needing those gawdawful weaksauce cans that miss half the dust and spray liquid if they're anything but vertical.
1834) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1876519)
Posted 3 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Guy, I don't think anyone would deny that the market should be as free as it can be... for example look at the amazing advances in computer technology that could only have happened in an enterprise economy with companies competing to outdo each other. We all end up benefiting because this competition produced technology that would have been far too expensive to develop from scratch and made it so inexpensive that everyone could afford it. And that same competition brought us the bounty we enjoy where we have a plethora of goods to choose from and food is so plentiful there's an excess.

Business has been called the engine of the economy... I think that it is a good analogy, but it's never taken to completion. A vehicle with only an engine will run it not at all or at top speed in a straight line until the engine burns out or the vehicle crashes. A vehicle also needs a speed control, a steering system and brakes.

We saw an excellent example of this in 2007-2008 when due to deregulation of the financial industry, there was no oversight and fraud on a massive scale occurred. The economy almost collapsed, hundreds of thousands of honest working people lost their life savings due to their investment companies putting their money into fraudulent worthless securities, and these so-called capitalist businesses then went to the federal government asking for bailouts of taxpayer's money. Are memories so short that this has been forgotten?

You are portraying a false dichotomy where we have to choose from either completely unregulated crony capitalism dominated by insider deals, kickbacks, fraud and wild instability, or all-out Marxism. There is a much more reasonable alternative of a "free as possible" market with some minimal level of oversight to prevent it from being taken over and dominated by white-collar criminals.
1835) Message boards : Politics : Emoluments of FAKE 'Science' and of ROTFLMAO, 'Real' 'Science'. (Message 1876439)
Posted 2 Jul 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I wasn't sure what this thread was about because Yap provided no examples... then I found one I that seems appropriate. Warning: Yap, Jaundiced Eye and Guy... you may want to prep. before you read this or it could cause an aneurysm (including from laughter.) Perhaps watch a John Wayne movie or an hour of Fox and Friends or read a chapter of The Art of the Deal or something. 😀

Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research

Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.
1836) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What tests are being run? (Message 1875714)
Posted 29 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Simple (I hope) summary of autocorrelation: The more information per time a signal carries, the more random-looking it becomes. Noise is a random signal, so the signal starts looking more like noise and thus can't be distinguished from the noise background.

Autocorrelation consists of repeating each block of the transmission at the sender end, then at the receiver end each repetition can be compared to the last one which will isolate the signal from the background noise.

Hope I got that right. :^)
1837) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (106) Server Problems? (Message 1875599)
Posted 29 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I would think that this is due to the Arecibo work recently for about the past week being about >95% VLARs. The scheduler will not send them out as GPU work. So if the GUPPI splitter happens to be out of work at the same time, only your CPUs will get anything.
1838) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1875577)
Posted 29 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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1) infect thousands of polling stations across the nation with a virus to affect the election


Where was this even seriously alleged (ie by someone who might be in a position to do something about it)?
1839) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1875560)
Posted 28 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, that could have happened. This in no way constitutes evidence that it did happen.

Similarly, Russia could have influenced the U.S. presidential election. This in no way constitutes evidence that Russia did influence the U.S. presidential election. If you want the "other side" to accept the legitimacy of "your candidate", pay them the same courtesy. Then some sanity may be restored to the political process.

How is that usually phrased...? Ah yes: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
1840) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1875531)
Posted 28 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's too much to ask for empathy from either side of the aisle these days...

But hearken back to 2011 and there are roughly a dozen interviews and tweets where Donald Trump himself questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency based on the ridiculous "birthergate" nonsense implying that he wasn't born in the United States (once he even implied that Obama was... goshgollygeewhiz... a Muslim! {{cue scary music}}) I don't feel like scouring for links being rather busy right now but I certainly will if required. These are interviews/tweets so they are words from his own mouth or keyboard, not "fake news" from a third party. He also strangely even continued after POTUS Obama released his birth certificate and he (Donald Trump) declared the matter settled and that he was a natural-born citizen after all.

Thus I don't really sympathize for him (or some of his followers) getting bent out of shape about this when he (and they) were more than willing in the past to do precisely the same to the POTUS with a similar lack of validated evidence.

Edit: Not taking sides here... just being "fair and balanced" :^p
1841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1875518)
Posted 28 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Okay ... well is it for checking your bicycle's chain, you know, for wear and tear or something...


Yes, close enough considering no one else who knows seems to want to answer. :^) I don't even know if it has a canonical name but bicycle chain checker will do.
(It's precisely machined to the right length so that on a new chain the right edge won't drop into the links when the left edge is placed flush against a chain roller, but as the chain wears over time it stretches slightly and then it will and that indicates it's time for the chain to be replaced.)
PM on its way.
1842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1874859)
Posted 24 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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*attempt gracious congratulation at Mr Kevvy*


Heh... thanks. :^)

Here is the next mystery tool...

1843) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1874782)
Posted 24 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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BTW you should look at how many times the press did call her a liar. Hint it is a number larger that zero.


Hillary Clinton even lies about lying about her lies

I'd say that's three just in one headline. :^)
1844) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1874644)
Posted 23 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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White St. Louis cop shot black off-duty officer — then claimed it was a ‘friendly fire’ incident

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and local news outlet Fox2Now, a white St. Louis police officer shot a black off-duty officer from his own force after a car chase ended in a crash outside the off-duty officer’s home.

The African American officer, who has not yet been identified, came outside of his home while off-duty after hearing the commotion from a car chase that ended nearby. Despite identifying himself as a cop, the man was ordered to the ground by two officers. He complied, and soon after, they recognized him and told him to get up.

That was when a third officer entered the scene, and because he did not recognize the black off-duty cop and claimed to “fear for his safety,” shot the off-duty cop in the arm.
1845) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1874493)
Posted 22 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What, like showing how racist he is by tweeting whenever he thinks a Muslim has committed an attack and says absolutely sweet FA when Muslims are attacked.


Interestingly, the last three radical Islamist terrorist incidents in Canada were committed by Caucasian converts. So, one may argue that this shows he is bigoted, prejudiced, biased, Islamophobic, etc., but racist? Not so much.
1846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1874487)
Posted 22 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Digital Scale Master for measuring distances on maps, blueprints, etc.

Edit: Link.
1847) Questions and Answers : Windows : Boinc keep crashing my pc (Message 1874331)
Posted 21 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As with the OP, the first two things I would check are overheating and memory errors which can sometimes be fixed by simply reseating the DIMMs. Links to the best utilities I know of (and free.)
1848) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1874305)
Posted 21 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Looks like something's going to happen that I didn't think would ever happen again... a president GREATER THAN REAGAN!


When did it happen before?
1849) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Planet Hunters Report Record-Breaking Discovery, Search for other habitable planets (Message 1874031)
Posted 19 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Kepler has found 4034 planets. Ten of them are in the Goldilocks zone...


The ten "Goldilocks zone" planets are new as of this batch of 219 announced today, not the only ones in the total 4,034.
(I think this is what you meant but it is worded such that it seems otherwise.)

Source

NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star's habitable zone
1850) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1874026)
Posted 19 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just in case our faith in humanity is waning...

In the chaotic aftermath of the violence, Imam Mohammed Mahmoud reportedly leapt into action, urging the injured and angry worshipers to remain calm and shielding the alleged attacker from the furious crowd until police could detain the man.

Speaking with Sky News, one witness explained that “The leader of the mosque said ‘You do not touch him.’ He was sitting and holding him like that, people kept holding him.”

In another interview with Sky, Muslim Welfare House CEO Toufik Kacimi was more direct in his appraisal of Imam Mahmoud’s actions.

“Our imam, Mohammed Mahmoud, went there and saved him,” Kacimi said. “He saved his life basically.”


It also appears at this point that the person who died was having a medical emergency before the incident, possibly a heart attack or similar, so the death may not have been caused by the attack. Of course the chaos that ensued may have delayed prompt treatment...
1851) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC SCREENSAVER FOREVER LOADING (Message 1873930)
Posted 19 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But pse, for my edification, who on the SETI@HOME Q&A WIN forum wd WANT to spam me??? We r all on the same quest, no?


Not anyone here, but all of SETI@Home except the team rooms is publicly accessible for reading without a logon, and Q&A also allows posts without any SETI@Home credit (so that people can ask for assistance), so it is a magnet for both spambots that harvest e-mail addresses and spam posts for external sites.
1852) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1873853)
Posted 18 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You're welcome. :^) I certainly paid my mod dues today... whew... three pages of postings. However this is a complex issue and and a controversial one so is unlikely to go away, thus should have its own thread if for nothing else than to keep it from derailing others.

Happily the three of you who are against abortion seem pretty reasonable about it as you don't seem to want to restrict family planning/birth control in any way. Those who want to restrict both are the only ones who really grind my gears. I would not even object to abortion being restricted if it was done in a staged approach ie:

First trimester: Abortion on demand
Second trimester: Mandatory counseling and offering of adoption options unless one of the cases below
Third trimester: Only in cases of rape, incest, medical or mental issues (ie the mother's life is at risk or the baby would be born with lifelong severe problems that would require permanent care, etc.)

So responsible women who missed a period would have adequate time to determine they were pregnant and obtain an abortion before they were aborting a fetus with a functioning nervous system who may be aware of it. And others would have to have a good medically proven reason why they waited.

I also think that regardless of one's views on state medical assistance, that birth control and information about it should be considered a medical necessity and be provided free of charge if required to those who can't afford it. My reasoning is that the state by spending a dollar for a condom and a nickel for a pamphlet, or even ten bucks for a month of pills now, is saving tens of thousands later by not having to support an unwanted or abandoned child because there are no available adoption parents, or worse, hundreds of thousands to millions to prosecute and incarcerate an unwanted, abused child who turns to crime in later life as so many often do.
1853) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1873839)
Posted 18 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mr. Kevvy...

Good luck!


Thanks. :^) Move completed and amazingly didn't have a power failure or anything else in the middle of it.

(Edit: for context for those who weren't involved originally, this entire thread up until this point was split out of the Donald Trump "45" thread.)
1854) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1873675)
Posted 17 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Then there are the ones who go for implantation into the wall of the uterus. Not any different than a tape worm in the gut. It is one way, a leech sucking life out of the host.


I was planning on mentioning what any Ob/Gyn knows so this seems an opportune time: about a third of pregnancies don't even implant. They are silently expelled on the next ovulation. So, for those opposed to abortion on religious grounds, this makes God the biggest abortionist in history, more than all others put together by far. Thirty billion and counting... five thousand holocausts! Where is your outrage, sirs!

:^)
1855) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1873672)
Posted 17 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It goes much farther than that, as Dr Ben Carson so eloquently pointed out, the fact that the majority of Sanger's outreach was in the Poor BLACK communities points out emphatically her racist views(no different from Hitler's except for the chosen target). Dr Carson also pointed out that the majority of Planned Parenthood sites in large cities are located in predominantly black neighborhoods.


Unfortunately this is completely untrue. Makes for some opportune political grandstanding by the good doctor and many others of course. There is no evidence that Margaret Sanger was a racist, and if she spent more time in predominantly black neighbourhoods this would have been because they were the poorest and thus most in need of assistance.
1856) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1873571)
Posted 17 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Eugenics... spit.


Well, Henry Ford was a eugenicist and supported Hitler but we aren't going to ban Fords over it, and Abraham Lincoln even though banned slavery wrote plenty of racist apologetics for his actions, and this in no way invalidates what he did either.
1857) Message boards : Politics : Abortion and Birth Control (Message 1873567)
Posted 17 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Look who started planned parenthood and what her objective was when it was started.
...
How about choosing to NOT get pregnant in the first place? There are modern ways to do this today. It requires a little bit of fore-thought though.


Funny that you recommend the use of birth control, as this was what Margaret Sanger's objective was and what she was arrested for... simply distributing birth control and literature about it was deemed to be "obscenity".

She also didn't agree with abortion, and was quite clear that if women had access to reliable, inexpensive birth control there would not be a need for it. So what was this "objective" you are referring to and via what reference?
1858) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1873367)
Posted 16 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You agree that the Never Trump movement, the Democrat Party attempting to subvert a Lawful Election, the Alt Left, et al.

Are just as Fake, Fraudulent and Dangerous, as those you correctly describe above.

Awaiting your equal condemnation of both.


I go where the evidence leads, Clyde... Obama was the lawfully elected president as no good evidence was found leading to a lawful overturning of this, and Trump is the lawfully elected president as no good evidence has been found leading to a lawful overturning of this. This may change but until it does "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" applies to everyone. I do strongly disagree with any political side even hinting or implying violence of any kind as a solution to their grievances, as this can set off unstable radicals and cause them to act, and it poisons civilized discussion.

As long as there is none of that, I expect that each "side" will try to unseat the other in such a polarized political climate. I merely disagree that one side has some sort of a moral high ground that some of their supporters have engaged in it any less than the other!
1859) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1873358)
Posted 16 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Where was the outrage when Obama placed the same countries as Trump on restrictions?


The two are not really comparable.
1860) Questions and Answers : Wish list : White upon blue. (Message 1873342)
Posted 16 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As this seems to be a request to change the forum colour scheme to the same one that BOINC uses, I will move it to the Wish List forum which is a better fit.
1861) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1873329)
Posted 16 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The Hate Filled Alt Left, the Democrat Party, and the Fake Media. In their attempt to invalidate a Constitutional and Lawful Election of a President.


Well exactly the same thing happened when Obama was president as well, so please don't pretend any "side" is blameless or exempt. Did you forget the "birther" movement, of which Donald Trump was an activist for, which tried to deny Obama's U.S. birth thus his presidency? Perhaps your memory needs jogging of people putting his face on shooting range targets? Funny I didn't see you getting all bent out of shape over that "attempt to invalidate a Constitutional and Lawful Election of a President" then.

If you don't like it, pass hate crime legislation and make political alignment a protected class. I don't think you want to do that. Until then, people will spew inflammatory political bile, the vast majority of lawful, non-violent people will disregard it, and a few radical nuts from the fringes of either "side" will think it's sacred scripture and act on it violently... same as it ever was. If it wasn't over politics, they'd be shooting people over chemtrails or sports scores. People are still allowed to defend themselves and the laws are all still in place to prosecute them, so exactly what changes are you proposing to "fix" this issue?
1862) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1873241)
Posted 16 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm telling you, if you libs keep shooting...


Shooting at people or their property is already illegal. You don't have to drag politics or entire classes of people who have nothing to do with the incident into it.
1863) Message boards : Number crunching : Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Less Than the Price of a Flagship Core i7 (Message 1873144)
Posted 15 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Very good thread on this with lots of useful info. Would have merged this one into it but it expired due to inactivity recently.
1864) Message boards : Politics : Vikings - rise and fall - the first greatness of the Nordic region (Message 1873040)
Posted 15 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes Vikings. Apes with horns.. > :)~


The myth of Viking horned helmets started in the 19th century.
1865) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1873015)
Posted 15 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The best part of this story is at the end:

In an emotional interview on Fox News, Illinois Republican Rodney Davis demanded change.

He didn't specifically blame Democrats or progressives, but said the whole country needs to learn from this.

"I never thought I'd go to baseball practice for charity and have to dodge bullets. This has got to stop, and it's got to stop today," he said. "This is the result of political rhetorical terrorism. That has to stop... This has got to be the message of Republicans like me and Democrats alike. We have to have unity in this country."

Davis shared a secret known to many people in political life, and perhaps not as many partisans: political opponents who debate on the legislative floor often manage to be friends.

"That's the misperception about Congress and about Washington that leads to this political rhetoric that is not true," he said. "You wouldn't believe it from the news reports. But some of my best friends are on the other side of the aisle here in this institution. ... We have to bind together as Americans. Not as Republicans and Democrats."

Some political partisans responded to the day's events in the usual manner: by spilling bile onto their social-media pages. Some commentators blamed the media, Hollywood, and the anti-Trump left for stoking hysteria.

That was the opposite of the immediate sentiment unleashed on Capitol Hill. Members of both parties gathered for a bipartisan meeting.

And they erupted in cheers at one particular announcement: We're still playing baseball tomorrow.


We now return you to your regularly scheduled partisan bickering with ominous overtones.
1866) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1872436)
Posted 11 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There is no Electoral College "Assistance" in determining who is our President.

Despite the Alt Left wishes, and unfounded accusations.

We will continue following the Legal and Constitutional Foundation of Our Laws.


Excuse me? This is a legitimate criticism of an undemocratic process within the American electoral system, and you use the term "Alt Left"? Are you seriously associating this with the thugs who trash universities? I suggest you quit with the labels. I find it almost insulting, and certainly inflammatory.

Incidentally in the last election, five of the electoral college voters that were supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton did not, and two that were supposed to vote for Donald Trump did not, so it works "both ways." Nothing happened to any of them legally. It wasn't enough to throw it either way of course. I think that they all should have been prosecuted.
1867) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1872426)
Posted 11 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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By also stating there has never been a Legally Elected President in American History. Because it is always either a minority of Voters, or if not. A minority of the US Population who elected him, and hopefully in the future, 'her'.


Only five elections thus far in which the President elected had less votes... one is Donald Trump of course. So going to a "candidate with the most votes wins" aka "mob rule" (of course we call it that as long as someone else's candidate wins, right?) would not have shifted the balance that much and would have kept Bush Jr. out of office thus no Iraq war etc. There would still be plenty of Republican presidents... they would have to earn it of course! As a good example, Ronald Reagan's landslide which needed no electoral college assistance.

I don't even consider the percentage of eligible voters who don't vote, thus don't call any leader elected by a majority of voters but a minority of citizens illegitimate in any form. As far as I am concerned the non-voters don't count by their own chosen inaction and refusal to participate. Voting is a privilege often paid for dearly that many don't have and yearn for, yet half of citizens in some democracies are so lazy as to not even care enough to use it, so they forfeit any inclusion in the results.
1868) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1872216)
Posted 10 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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On a PC Firefox 53.0.3(32 bit) the home page in the bar on the right says "User Name Lot out" while you are logged in


64-bit FireFox same version here, and it says "Mr. Kevvy Log out"
1869) Message boards : News : Engadget article on SETI (Message 1871674)
Posted 8 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We would do well to write code which can be executed on bitcoin mining equipment, ASICs in particular. There are millions of potential computers awaiting new purpose. I would donate some funds for that :)


Being ASIC, the AS being "Application Specific", they are hardcoded for mining and missing features and functions that SETI@Home would require. I don't know the specifics of what, but hashing doesn't require FP math as far as I know, so these ASIC chips may be only able to do integer math (at least well), for example.
1870) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1871567)
Posted 7 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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So, just seeing if I understand:

Legalizing something so that people can do it = Centralized all-powerful government control
Criminalizing something so that people are convicted and put in jail for it = Freedom?

That's some sterling "logic" there, Guy. This sort of thinking may be a side effect of that dangerous brain-damaging, legalized, all-powerful-centralized government-regulated drug called alcohol... you should steer clear of that stuff as if you are using it, it may have the same effect you think cannabis does.
1871) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1871388)
Posted 6 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But that's merely self identification. Yes, they can claim they're a member but that doesn't make them a member outside of their own mind.


However, the "membership rules" of all three religious viewpoints I indicated as example is self-identification. You repeat a certain phrase and you're in.

Coincidentally I glanced at Google News and this piece from the Boston Globe basically stating my point was on the front page (along with one about 130 imams who are refusing to have anything to do with funerals for the London attackers)

Arguable: Can a real Muslim be a jihadist?

But this is self-deception. Jihadists are not bogus Muslims any more than the murderous Crusaders of a millennium ago were bogus Christians, or than the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia were bogus Communists. Western leaders who proclaim that no real Muslim would engage in terrorist bombings and mayhem may be trying to show respect for Islam. Yet they are unwittingly providing cover for the religion’s worst expounders, and undermining those in the Muslim world most desperately in need of international support: the reformers and moderates who reject the radicals’ message, and struggle to replace it with a modern interpretation that is pluralist and tolerant.
1872) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Fermi's Paradox - from "This American Life" (Message 1871385)
Posted 6 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But American life?
Enrique Fermi was an Italian.


After picking up his Nobel prize in 1938 he went to the U.S. rather than returning to Italy, applied for permanent residency, and became a citizen as in 1944 which was the earliest he could do so by law.
1873) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1871381)
Posted 6 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How about a reputable link Guy for a change and not a link to a site that's run by a bunch of nutters (yes we've had this discussion many times before).


There are some not-nutty things there.
1874) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1871366)
Posted 5 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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But just as Christians who choose to disassociate themselves from people doing violence in the name of Chistianity, isn't just as try for Muslims to do the same? Yes, a Muslim extremist might claim to be Muslim, but can't other Muslims say their way is not the way of their God, and therefore not true Muslim?


They are certainly radical, violent, intolerant, extremist , etc. as opposed to the moderate, non-violent and tolerant people who would claim they were not "true", but as noted, entry into a religion (or non-religion) is so simple and free of restrictions on what kind of person one is, that unless the rules are changed, it can't be claimed they are not members.
1875) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1871359)
Posted 5 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Islamic. Very false.


Hrm... OK, who is is Islamic, then? As far as I can tell, all someone has to do to be a Muslim is say "There is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet" in any language, not just medieval Arabic, and mean it (OK... claim to mean it!) The five pillars can come later. From that point on, the person is a Muslim. They cannot be excommunicated as there is no governing body to do so. On the contrary, much of Islam asserts just the opposite, that one can't (or at least shouldn't) leave for any reason at all (apostasy.) I'm pretty certain that these people would have had to reaffirm this daily, possibly several times. Similarly, all a person has to do to be a Christian is recite a simplified version of the Nicene creed, and mean it. Catholics (and others) can be excommunicated, but they can still call themselves Catholics or whatever they were... anyone can claim to be of any denomination of course. Similarly, all one has to do to be an atheist is deny belief in the existence of any supernatural supreme being(s).

Thus, these criminal acts were carried out by Muslims, the Christians who carry out criminal acts are still Christians, and the atheists who carry out criminal acts are still atheists. If we do not accept this, we perpetuate the nonsense that having a particular religious affiliation automatically confers some sort of moral superiority that can then be used to excuse crimes and human rights abuses within that affiliation.

(In informal logic, this is is known as the No true Scotsman fallacy.)
1876) Message boards : Politics : Terrorist Attacks (Message 1871079)
Posted 4 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Unless and until man evolves beyond needing fairies in the sky that control you, so some other human can and will corrupt them for evil by telling followers they demand some action, this will continue.


While I completely agree with you, someone is of course bound to correctly point out that the regimes of Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot et al needed no god(s) to commit murder on a much greater scale... of course, the "gods" of their regimes were themselves, elevated to unquestionable authority status and with iconography found everywhere in their states.

I think the problem is the "unquestionable authority" bit. The first act of any tyranny, whether religious or political or a fusion of both, is to silence the dissenters.
1877) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1870804)
Posted 3 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Her act was really bad.
No fun at all.
Disgusting if you ask me :(


I agree... not funny, tasteless, and probably close to if not illegal. However one may feel about an elected leader, there are better ways of dealing with it. Voting is a good start! As a comedian, she should have stuck to satire.
1878) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1870795)
Posted 3 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Who is or what KGriff?


Kathy Griffin.
1879) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: DENIAL (#4) (Message 1870621)
Posted 2 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For those who need some good news right now...
1880) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1870548)
Posted 1 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't see anyone else implied, as each of your parents/grandparents would not have all of those characteristics at once, thus... the one and only "Polish Jewish Episcopalian Roman Catholic" would be yourself. And the old lightbulb jokes were not always about stupidity, but also guilt and other things. It seemed a pretty mild and gentle prod, at least to me, but I guess our skins get worn thin by the abrasion around here over time.

Hoping we can return to the topic of arguing about the POTUS. :^)
1881) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1870528)
Posted 1 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I remember Yiddish Theater. Where the Actors would speak all their lines in Yiddish. It is, I believe. All gone now.


There is one left in North America unexpectedly not in NYC but Montreal. Montreal even had a Yiddish newspaper but it went out of print about thirty years ago.
1882) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : NASA takes aim at the sun. (Message 1870521)
Posted 1 Jun 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Going to the sun? How will the spacecraft survive that much heat and radiation?

Oh, I know... they will send it at night. 😀

Sorry, just had to get that out of the way.
1883) Message boards : News : Jodrell Bank to partner with Breakthrough Initiatives (Message 1870402)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"The huge yellow something went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them, which was a pity because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years."

Perhaps now they will find something... although I do hope it isn't the Vogons. 😀 Excellent to have another facility onboard... the more resources the better the odds.
1884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1870349)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My first attempt at pineapple upside-down pie was not a success.
1885) Questions and Answers : Windows : Understanding Seti (Message 1870244)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It takes at least two matching results on a work unit for it to be validated, and the team would need more than one work unit from the same point on the sky to even consider it as a candidate. Once it was identified it would then be verified by other astronomers in other countries, and then there is a protocol for releasing the discovery to the scientific community, media, governments, etc. Most of the BOINC projects have stated outright that the people who processed the work unit(s) would be given credit but I haven't seen anything definite here. As you can see however there would be many names to acknowledge.
1886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1870232)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I concede.


I was trying to work out some corny "My ice" / "Mice" gag but then Ang posted that and I knew it was hopeless. :^)
1887) Message boards : Number crunching : Your thoughts/opinions on what SETI@home needs to succeed (Message 1870144)
Posted 29 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And how do you acheive that?


Right here.
1888) Message boards : Number crunching : Do we have more data than volunteers? (Message 1870089)
Posted 29 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It confirms the amounts stated in the article. The third graph begs the question of what happened from April 21 to April 22nd to cause a loss of 39,000 active users?


Just prior to this there was a purge being done of bad team pages; due to no check whether the team founder had any credit/work done (which was also fixed) the team pages were being used as a free hosting service by spammers, mostly for the type of things that can't get legitimate hosting and need to be sent in spam e-mails. This may have been the purge at completion of the accounts that created those pages.
1889) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1870001)
Posted 28 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Actually I don't have too... All your accusations are just that, accusations. Not facts.....


Yap? Is that you?
1890) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1869922)
Posted 28 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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...LEFTY MEDIA(Most of What Public Consumes), Portrays ALL Right of Center White Men as 'White Supremacists'. Among Other NASTY Descriptors.


Really... if you're going to post a steamer like this, you could at least link to one of these examples. Since this is all over the "lefty media" you can go right to the source and direct link it from there. Should be easy to find since there's so much of it, right?
1891) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1869919)
Posted 28 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... but the TRUTH is they are and continue to be part of the DEMOCRATIC Party...


Certainly in the past (the up-to-the-early-1960's "Dixiecrats" prior to the south going Republican in federal elections) but I'm extremely dubious of the "continue to be" part... please provide some evidence.
1892) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1869891)
Posted 28 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just to keep things factual, the Klan did actually back Donald Trump for president. This "endorsement" was immediately rejected and disavowed by his campaign. Every political party has "fringe supporters" that may not be representative of the party's official views and policies.
This is getting rather political rather fast.
1893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1869793)
Posted 27 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for the patience... wanted to write the winners last night but fell asleep. Fridays will do that. :^) And as usual I let my missus pick with only the photo and captions:

#3 - Sirius B - Who parked that boat in my driveway?
#2 - Carlos - It's the big white boat at the end of the dock, You can't miss it.
#1 - Carlos - Guess what the court ordered me to deliver to my husband as part of the divorce.

Congrats and PM sent.
1894) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1869661)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I know a country where absolutely everyone believes in God (at least in public), the government is inseparable from the official religion, and both abortion and gay marriage are forbidden, heck... even being gay is forbidden: Saudi Arabia... oh, and the areas ISIS controls though they aren't really recognized as countries. Seem like your ideal kind of places.

So good on the U.S.A. for being different.
1895) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A interesting fact about Bitcoins (Message 1869562)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Any other charter members?


Excite has a seat at the table... in 1999 some unknowns with nothing but a bunch of code and search algorithms offered to sell them their entire company for only a million. Bah, said Excite. Just a pile of bits and ideas. So they dropped it to $750K. Still no interest. Excite was probably put off by their odd name...

.... Google.

(actually they tested Google's algorithms and didn't think they performed any better than what they had.)
1896) Message boards : Politics : Manchester UK Bomb (Message 1869548)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wondering if Gary and Mr. Kevvy also agree.


Agree with what, and what does this have to do with you misusing the word "secular"?
1897) Message boards : Number crunching : Your thoughts/opinions on what SETI@home needs to succeed (Message 1869544)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What would be feasible is what the GPU Users Group used to do, as in post a list of hardware and software urgently needed e.g. so many SSD's at so much each, the housing for them etc. People WILL buy a drive. Whether we could raise enough for a new server I don't know, that would be in the $18-20K range for a top spec one. Extra memory for existing servers could be feasible, as could software upgrades.


Our funds transfer bottleneck was just cleared so all is well and we can start new fundraisers. I've let them know so I'm hoping to see a "shopping list" in the near future. We'll probably have to wait on the big drive bay but we can certainly start a few smaller ones ie for replacement drives in the interim.
1898) Message boards : Number crunching : Screen saver not working under Windows 10 (Message 1869541)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It is being reported that the latest Windows 10 Creators Update resolves this issue.
1899) Message boards : Politics : Manchester UK Bomb (Message 1869532)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I will try again. Your posting that I was speaking about the UK or other nations.


Interesting that you would use a non-secular nation that I didn't even mention as your example. The head of state (the Queen) is also the head of the Anglican church and the church has seats in Parliament. But please continue to redefine the language as you see fit...
1900) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1869530)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We all know that Freedom of Speech does not give anyone the Right to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater.


What if there is actually a fire?
1901) Message boards : Politics : Manchester UK Bomb (Message 1869529)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since over the past 100 years. Over 1 Billion have been murdered and enslaved by a Secular and Atheist Belief.


Sigh... I will try again though previous attempts have been unsuccessful. But hope springs eternal... or not.

Clyde: The United States is a secular nation. So is Canada for that matter. It has no official religion and the government is legislated to remain neutral in religious matters. If the government actively opposes religion, it is no longer secular. It is instead officially atheistic. And no, I wouldn't support that either.
1902) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Stealing my OS X user name?? (Message 1869507)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As reading your logon name is a BOINC function, you would be better to post this at the BOINC Manager forum as this one is for getting SETI@Home to work with BOINC, not for BOINC development issues.

(There's a pinned "Wishlist for Mac" thread there... may be a good place for it.)
1903) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti Article (Message 1869405)
Posted 25 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That's an excellent find... it looks like it was just recently posted as well. It does have a couple of kerfuffles I noticed on a first glance:

"Breakthrough Discovery project" I don't think it's called that. The entire project are the Breakthrough Initiatives and the SETI component is Breakthrough Listen.

And your point about people leaving: "The program currently only has around 150,000 volunteers (down from a peak of 1.5 million users" It never "peaked" at that... as per BOINCStats the total number of accounts ever is about 1.6 million, with about 105 thousand active (6.23%.) But there were probably never more than a few hundred thousand active at once.
1904) Message boards : Number crunching : 2008 (Message 1869373)
Posted 25 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Specifically two that I know of are that a bug in the Gaussian fit algorithm was fixed a few years ago, and autocorrelation detection was also added. So they are re-analyzing whatever old data from Arecibo is around that is prior to those two advances.
1905) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1869357)
Posted 25 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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How about "The candidate with the most votes wins."

This is what most of the world calls an "election". :^p
1906) Message boards : Politics : Daesh (Message 1869356)
Posted 25 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And here I thought it was a for-prophet business.
1907) Message boards : Number crunching : Nebula processing via BONIC? (Message 1869304)
Posted 25 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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As well when this system was proposed as NTPCKR it was going to be a local (ie in Berkeley) compute device and database, but the decision ended up going with a supercomputing cluster because not only does all the data need to be accessible at once, but the team would like to be able to tune the algorithms and re-run the search with them in a reasonable amount of time ie a few hours versus days or weeks with a smaller local computer.

There is a supercomputing facility at Berkeley but unfortunately it's apparently committed elsewhere.
1908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : CRL (Angela) got a new hat for her birthday. (Message 1869216)
Posted 25 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
1909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1869192)
Posted 24 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you Sirius (and Carlos...) Well if that one was used before I don't doubt this next one to caption was, though I haven't seen it.

1910) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 18 Year Club! (Message 1869128)
Posted 24 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Nine days late is better than never. :^) This project certainly keeps me busy.
1911) Message boards : Politics : Manchester UK Bomb (Message 1869124)
Posted 24 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I missed a critical detail of why ISIS/Daesh chose an Ariana Grande concert, not being a young pop fan... ISIS's ideal girls are kidnapped, traded like cattle, presented as war trophies to their polygamous "soldiers" (often after a forced clitoredectomy without anesthetic lest they actually have any enjoyment ever,) treated by men their entire lives as property, certainly not educated, used as child factories and indentured servants, beaten mercilessly and sometimes murdered if they have any thoughts of their own or decide this isn't the life for them...

And what does Ariana Grande represent?

Young women and girls pack Ariana Grande's concerts, snap up her songs the moment they're released and follow her every social media post. In her music, shows and videos, Grande — ever-smiling as she unleashes a soaring voice — is what her fans long to be: Self-assured, sexy, talented, optimistic, in control and proudly feminine.
...
"I am tired of living in a world where women are mostly referred to as a man's past, present, or future PROPERTY/POSSESSION," Grande wrote in 2015, in a widely shared open letter after a public breakup. "I … do not. belong. to anyone. but myself. and neither do you."

Beyond young girls, Grande has cultivated a diverse fan base and spoken plainly about her interest in LGBT issues; on concert stages she urges audiences to celebrate being different.

"I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing," she told V Magazine in 2015. "You know, my brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family. Even my grandpa, who is like, super old-school, was like, Good for you! It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment."


So, not just people having a good time, but a mostly young, female, independent, educated and tolerant group having a good time... everything Daesh hates.
1912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A interesting fact about Bitcoins (Message 1868973)
Posted 24 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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ROI-wise, I think the saddest example is Ronald Wayne, Apple's third founder. He sold his 10% share for $800. It would be worth about $70 billion today, and this doesn't include the billions in dividends it would have paid.
1913) Message boards : Politics : Manchester UK Bomb (Message 1868892)
Posted 23 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why do terrorists always chose to kill innocent people having a good time?


This is precisely the point. ISIS/Daesh at least bans just about all forms of entertainment: music, dancing, sports in addition to the usual gambling and alcohol. A significant number of people who have lived in and escaped areas controlled by them indicate they just sat at home all the time when not working, buying food or going to compulsory prayers; everything else was forbidden (and it's too easy to accidentally break the laws.)
1914) Message boards : Politics : Manchester UK Bomb (Message 1868887)
Posted 23 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
UK's turn again?

At least 19 dead, dozens injured after reports of blast at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester

Edit: As if it wasn't obvious, it is suspected as an act of terrorism.
1915) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1868858)
Posted 22 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A drugged nation is much easier to control from an all-powerful centralized government.


I would imagine your "evidence" for this is those bastions of individual free expression and open opposition to the government where marijuana is illegal: China and Saudi Arabia.

I'd be interested to know which undemocratic, authoritarian governments where cannabis is legal you meant. Good luck finding one.
1916) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Has a parallel universe been discovered? (Message 1868848)
Posted 22 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The best time resolution measurable would be Planck Time, about 5.4 x 10-44s. There would be a theoretical "exact" midnight but it couldn't of course be measured. Time is likely quantized along with space and has a slight irreducible granularity.
1917) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1868805)
Posted 22 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Never mind... my mistake. He can invoke the Fifth if the contents of the documents are not known enough that submitting them is incriminating. See United States v. Hubbell.
1918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1868794)
Posted 22 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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BMW = Break My Windows
1919) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Has a parallel universe been discovered? (Message 1868597)
Posted 21 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This infinity business is similar to Achilles and the tortoise, where in theory he can never catch it because he will always be a tiny bit away from it, the series continues ad infinitum. Oh look another way of saying for infinity!


Zeno's paradox... the intellectual leap the ancient Greeks don't seem to have universally made is that an infinite series can have a finite sum... ie:



Archimedes was getting there, but the Romans... er... intervened. Also Aristotle although a philosopher understood it. They were very close to calculus, but lacked the algebraic framework and notation to support it.

Side note: One of the niftiest and most counterintuitive results of this is that the "Harmonic Series"...



... diverges to infinity. It doesn't seem possible because after a few terms it grows so slowly and this rate falls off so fast.... it takes 144 iterations to get to 6, but to get to 10 takes 12,367, and to 100 takes over 1043! Yet the proof is there in the article (Comparison Test proof) and quite easily understandable.

Edit: one of the integral equations shown has ∞ as both the upper range of the integral and the result, showing its use in mathematics.
1920) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Man-made bubble surrounding Earth. (Message 1868415)
Posted 20 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We don't really know what is out there between the stars.


We do know with some certainty of the density of interstellar and even intergalactic hydrogen from Gaussian absorption spectra near the 21cm neutral hydrogen band. It's about 1 atom/cc. If we plan on traveling near lightspeed, these normally harmless atoms are going to become the cosmic rays, and will require shielding of a technological level beyond what we are currently capable.

The hypothetical Bussard ramjet would of course take care of two issues by both removing these atoms and using them as fusion fuel.
1921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1868404)
Posted 20 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Oh... I invited you to play pool with us. Sorry about the typo."
1922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1868315)
Posted 20 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Results time... there weren't ten within 24 hours so I waited the 48. None of the answers were on the "motif" I was looking for, so I again let my missus, "Barometer of the Public Taste" pick, showing her only the photos and answers.

3 - Admiral Gloval: Excuse me dear sir. But go fetch your own stick.
2 - Carlos: Play it again spot.

1 - Grant Nelson: I fart in my wallet so now I have enough for gas.
I have no idea how this relates to the photo, but it seemed to work as we both laughed quite a lot at it, so congrats and PM sent. :^)
1923) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (106) Server Problems? (Message 1868288)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Changing preferences didn't do it. But shutting down BOINC for five minutes and then restarting DID get the tasks flowing again for the recalcitrant computer.


It does that... it's like it gets depressed after asking numerous times and gives up.

No shorty storm (although there were quite a few shorties around)


OK... perhaps a short shorty shower? Some partially galactic hydrogenated shortening?
1924) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (106) Server Problems? (Message 1868265)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Surprisingly... I got a reply: unit production is up, but return time is way down. Conclusion: there was a "shorty storm". It should be over now, so we can return to "normal."*

*I need quotes around that here. 😀
1925) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (106) Server Problems? (Message 1868188)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Gotta be something along the lines of With the lag the server was showing validating and assimilating, it makes me think this outage was slow database related.


I also note there are four BLC splitter jobs that haven't progressed in several hours, but then again there are hundreds of thousand of work units in the to send queue.

Whatever it is, I wrote to Dr. K... not that I have any special e-mail priority :^) But perhaps it will get fixed. I notice that my larger machines finally got some work though not nearly as much as a full queue so it is improving probably as other machine's queues fill albeit slower than they should.

Nothing worse SETI-wise than a work stoppage on a Friday and facing a weekend of machines sitting idle.
1926) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1868164)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Throwing more, and more, and more money at their Failed Public School System.


I don't believe I said that "throwing money" was the solution. Proper funding must also be well-spent of course. If there is a problem with the schools, it can be fixed. If it isn't being fixed and the funds are available, it's because it isn't wanted to be fixed.
1927) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1868154)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What exactly would you tell the 'Inner City' parents, whose children may have only one shot at success. And can't afford, for the future of their children. To wait years to see if your beliefs will work:

Sorry?


No... I would tell them "I apologize that your schools have been so poorly funded recently with the funds diverted to suburban and private schools. Here is the funding you require." :^p
1928) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1868152)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If they help The Children. Remember them? Who are in situations which usually leads to failure.

Who, but a person who doesn't care about these children's future. Would care.


Yet charter schools have been demonstrated to underperform others academically. So how does this help them or prevent "failure"?
1929) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1868147)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What do School Vouchers and Special Education Classes. Have to do with Atheism?


This.

Do you not think that these vouchers are going to support religious schools?
1930) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1868141)
Posted 19 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A combination of School Vouchers (to help our children), and an increase in Special Education Classes (to help our children), May be the Intelligent, Non Ideological, Non Destructive way to proceed.


Yet again, you have the oddest views on things of any self-titled atheist I have ever encountered.

Most of the others realize that charter schools have been one component of a fundamentalist end-run around that pesky old Constitution that prohibits public funding of religion. The first step is to consistently vote in candidates that defund public education. Once it's sufficiently bankrupted and the quality of education inevitably suffers, start complaining about how bad it is and offer private (aka religious) schools as an alternative. Then bring in vouchers which divert taxpayer money from public schools into those private religious ones.

The end result of this is that taxpayers are forced to pay for the religious indoctrination of children into religions that they may personally not be a part of and may disagree with strongly. And of course this comes with the expected baggage: historical revisionism, creationism and denial of other science (ie climate change and the age of the universe) "taught" to children, discrimination based on religion and sexual orientation, etc. This is of course unconstitutional, and at least two states' supreme courts have found charter schools to be so. This is another reason why the "religious right" is hoping that SCOTUS will be packed with as many "conservative" judges as possible, so that charter schools won't be overturned at the federal level.

Charter schools don't even solve the problem they were supposedly created to solve; in Michigan and Louisiana, for example, charter school students perform lower than other states' public school students on average on standardized math and science tests. This doesn't seem to bother their proponents, of course.

So how, as an atheist, can you support them? Would it not be better to properly fund religiously neutral public schools for everyone to fix the problems they are having?
1931) Message boards : Politics : Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects: Solutions #2 (Message 1867913)
Posted 18 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Villains" of the recycling world
Number 1 - Pringle tubes.


Surprised it wasn't mentioned: In North America, I would say #1 is the one-use coffee pods (most popularly Keurig) for the same reason as Pringles tubes: they are a meld of four dissimilar materials that have to be manually separated to be recycled (aluminum lid and fabric(?) filter bonded to a plastic cup with coffee grounds or tea leaves) so the vast majority of them end up in the trash. Their prevalence in Canadian landfills has been noticed. Keurig is apparently working on a new design.

<<shrug>> I just use instant myself. And there are reusable K-cup filters that one adds their own ground coffee to.
1932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Chris Cornell (Message 1867908)
Posted 18 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, a founding father of grunge, dead at 52

Chris Cornell, a key figure in the 1990s grunge rock movement as the founder and frontman of Soundgarden and later Audioslave, died Wednesday night in Detroit sometime after playing a show at the Fox Theatre. He was 52.

Brian Bumbery, a representative for Cornell, confirmed the rocker’s death to the Associated Press, calling it “sudden and unexpected.” He was in the middle of a national tour with Soundgarden which, on Friday, was scheduled to play in Columbus, Ohio.


Far too young, and certainly sudden and unexpected.
1933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1867813)
Posted 17 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you Sirius... my childhood spent watching Bugs Bunny was not wasted after all. :^)

Here is the next photo to caption:

1934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1867713)
Posted 17 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Twelfth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver or perhaps a TV remote based on it. :^)
1935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1867685)
Posted 17 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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They keep referring to it hanging the exhaust. So it must be a tool for removing hangers.


Exhaust hanger removal tool (or pliers) it is... PM on its way.
1936) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1867483)
Posted 15 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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[It is has gotten to that level, then perhaps it is time for Fred and the rest to take a long hard look at the unwritten rules and see what applies to that kind of fishing.


We already have a function to take care of this: Filtered Users. I can't recommend it enough. It was made exactly to deal with people whom one would personally not like to read posts of, but who are posting within the forum policies.

For anyone who is not familiar with it, again: click on their profile and get their profile ID number after "?userid=". Go into your account at the top-right, then Community Preferences. Under "Message filtering" type or paste their ID number into the field and click "Add user to filter". All posts except their quoted text will be hidden and private messages from them blocked.

I know I have to keep repeating this, but people keep demonstrating that it isn't being used. :^)

Don't worry that by filtering someone you will miss something contrary to the policies here; we read all of the posts we can especially in Politics (page one is always solid white for me) and I don't wait for the report if I see something clearly out of line.

(Edit: again, this is more for others... I know you know this stuff, Gary. :^) )
1937) Message boards : Number crunching : Your thoughts/opinions on what SETI@home needs to succeed (Message 1867460)
Posted 15 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What SETI really needs to succeed, above and beyond faster hardware, is better algorithms.


Raistmer is one of the people working on those better algorithms on the client (our) side to improve our number-crunching performance. Petri33 is another one. (Edit: implementation of them at least.)

As far as the actual algorithms used by the project such as the Gaussian fit, chirp, autocorrelation etc. as noted you should contact the SETI@Home team directly. They post in the News threads occasionally but have never seen them participate in the forums elsewhere. They can be found on this page.
1938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1867452)
Posted 15 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"I knew I should've taken that left turn at Albuquerque!"
1939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1867448)
Posted 15 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is it made by Snap-on and used to remove something rather than install it?


Both correct.
1940) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1867444)
Posted 15 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My wifey and I now can't even count on all of our fingers the people in our lives that have either become addicted to heroin or have died from overdose. The problem is beyond an epidemic from what I can tell.


I read this yesterday and all I could think was: fentanyl. Because it is being added to other narcotics especially heroin it is causing street heroin to become overdose-prone. I didn't have any recent corroboration but then just today in one of our local newspapers: 'Safe' injection site tests show approximately 80% of drugs contain deadly fentanyl

Fentanyl is safe enough to be used medically when diluted properly by someone trained, but it is so strong it is too easy to get the mixture wrong and it becomes deadly.

Yet another thing that would not happen if this ridiculous "War on Drugs" was ended and addicts could purchase narcotics with proper quality controls prepared by certified people.
1941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1867436)
Posted 15 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Someone was quite close to the answer... they should re-read some of the more whimsical replies so then can correct a minor oversight. :^)
1942) Message boards : Number crunching : Your thoughts/opinions on what SETI@home needs to succeed (Message 1867254)
Posted 14 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Exactly right. A general fundraiser turns people off because they might think that their $10 goes in overheads or similar. But a list of physical equipment is much more personal. People will put their hand in their pocket for an SSD drive, feeling that "their" drive is maybe helping to crunch "their" data. It's the feel good factor.


This is exactly correct for my donations, but rather my reason is expansion into new areas/data sources or growing the project's capabilities. I'll donate hundreds or more if there is specific hardware required for a given reason, but just the minimum to keep the star on otherwise, ie that drive could be part of an array so that we have a larger work unit pool available or a backup to ensure that our results are not lost, or to store/transport results from a different telescope. Thus why I keep asking for the "shopping list".
1943) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1867115)
Posted 13 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well we have actually made some progress... we agree on the prohibition aspect (I think it should be treated exactly like alcohol ie age-limit, laws against using while driving, etc.) So we can clear that off the table. There are also many other police officers who I am glad have taken this stand and understand that the "War on Drugs" has been a colossal and very costly failure especially applied to cannabis. Also as it's just a plant I am also in favour of allowing people to grow it themselves, just as people brew beer and make wine at home.... again like alcohol. Commercial sales may be regulated.

Now on the other topic:

I had provided evidence that the for-profit prison industry contributed over $100 million to the election of Donald Trump.
After election, Donald Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions indicated that he will be resuming prosecuting people for buying/selling cannabis even in states where it was legalized through the votes of citizens.
One of the core tenets of the Republican platform is supposed to be States' Rights, that states are allowed to choose their own legislation without the federal government overriding it unless it is unconstitutional (as per the 14th amendment.) This core tenet is being directly violated.
This violation will thus send thousands of people to the for-profit prison system (we'll have to disregard the ruined lives and huge waste of tax money for the time being.)

So, how can this not be motivated by profit and the for-profit prison companies getting their "payback" for their campaign contributions?

I also provided a rather solid counterargument to your assertion that the same people would be in for-profit prisons as without them, the article that judges were convicted of taking $2.6 million in kickbacks for sending teenagers to for-profit prisons for made-up crimes. This shows that the for-profit prison system is open to abuse and corruption. (I can link to the actual court case if you like, if you doubt the validity of the New York Times...)

Citations can be provided on request.
1944) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1867112)
Posted 13 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well, Clyde, you have done it again... you've completely derailed the "Marijuana" thread into one of your cut-and-paste general political diatribes. For example: "#1 - How do you know when a Politician is lying? When her/his mouth is moving." If anyone said this about Donald Trump, you couldn't dig out the "Never Trump" and "Looney Irrelevant Left" replies fast enough.

So, I'd like to get it back on track. Rather than reading everything you are against, which is all we seem to do, what are you for? What is your stance on the legalization of cannabis? You don't seem to be for it... please explain why and what the penalties should be. Should states be able to legalize it or should the federal law override? Do you think it is dangerous or unhealthy? Should it be legal for medical use?
1945) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1867108)
Posted 13 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Since the foundation of your argument is incorrect: That Marijuana sellers and users are being thrown into Prisons, because of Profits. When the same people were previously thrown into Non Profit Prisons.


So how would they be thrown into prison in a state that legalized marijuana?

Prisons, before Privatization, were full of the same people


Really? Now that you have confirmed that you meant the prisoners...

Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page mocking the assistant principal at her high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She was a stellar student who had never been in trouble, and the page stated clearly at the bottom that it was just a joke.

Instead, the judge sentenced her to three months at a juvenile detention center on a charge of harassment.

She was handcuffed and taken away as her stunned parents stood by.

“I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare,” said Hillary, 17, who was sentenced in 2007. “All I wanted to know was how this could be fair and why the judge would do such a thing.”

The answers became a bit clearer on Thursday as the judge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and a colleague, Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to wire fraud and income tax fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers run by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western PA Child Care.


The non-private prisons were not full of these people. But throw enough garbage arguments and maybe one will stick...

'Never Trump' has been used in the Media for years. You don't understand its use?


No, I don't. You just called the media the "lying media" yesterday anyway so why would you use them to back up a metaphor I don't understand.

Maybe provide a link to it?
1946) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1867105)
Posted 13 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Prisons, before Privatization, were full of the same people.


Which people... the employees? The prisoners? The administrators? I have no idea what you are saying.

Just another 'Never Trump' allegation. Which only shows why the 'Never Trumpers' are not the alternative to Dangerous Trump.


I don't understand this either. Could we avoid the metaphors unless we agree in advance on what they mean? I have no idea what these mean.

In my opinion (allowed), and as I have repeatedly observed. Throwing a ton of garbage against the wall. Hoping something will stick. Destroys the 'Never Trumpers' position with the voters.


So... pointing out that the for-profit so-called justice system is profoundly corrupt in that it manufactures non-existent crimes in order to jail people to make money is "throwing a ton of garbage against the wall" and is going to alienate "the voters"? Just wanting to make sure I am understanding your metaphors.
1947) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1867099)
Posted 13 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Now why would anyone want to throw non-violent sellers and even buyers of a plant on the free market for personal use in prison, contrary to the very laws of their states? As always, follow the money...

Private prisons back Trump and could see big payoffs with new policies

WASHINGTON — Private prison companies, which stand to make big gains under President Trump’s tough new immigration orders, also have contributed big sums to pro-Trump groups, including the organization that raised a record $100 million for his inauguration last month.

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison operators, donated $250,000 to support Trump’s inaugural festivities, Pablo Paez, the company’s vice president of corporate relations, told USA TODAY.

That’s on top of the $225,000 that a company subsidiary donated to a super PAC that spent some $22 million to help elect the real-estate magnate. Another prison operator, CoreCivic, gave $250,000 to support Trump’s inauguration, recently filed congressional reports show.
1948) Questions and Answers : Web site : about SETI@home classic CPU time Question (Message 1866835)
Posted 12 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The "SETI@home classic workunits" and "SETI@home classic CPU time" stats. count work done on the old SETI@Home platform before 2002 when BOINC was released and replaced it. Those numbers will never change, or at least shouldn't.
1949) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1866766)
Posted 11 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here is an article on Nathan Damigo on the Daily Caller, a well known strongly conservative-leaning news site founded by Tucker Carlson. Nathan Damigo's claim to fame is punching a female counter-protestor in the face on the Berkeley campus. It calls Nathan Damigo a white supremacist both in the article and the title. So does every other news article on him I have seen, but I link this one as an example that even right-wing sites use the term.

So, clearly, at least some of the protestors at Berkeley can be identified as such without ambiguity or at least contradiction of what is generally accepted.
1950) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1866745)
Posted 11 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed under the auspices of committing espionage for the Soviet Union, this was in the early 1950's, we were not at war with the USSR.


Highlighted critical word. :^) It wasn't called treason.
Edit: similarly to "entrapment" is misused often.
1951) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1866740)
Posted 11 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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High crimes and misdemeanors is the legal term for impeachment. Treason is a capital crime.


Isn't treason only a wartime crime? For example if I remember correctly Edward Snowden was threatened with prosecution for espionage if he returns to the U.S., but not treason. I think one either has to actively fight against the U.S. in wartime or give aid/comfort to an active wartime enemy (not just a cold-war or other adversary) for it to apply.
1952) Message boards : News : Science progress reports (Message 1866735)
Posted 11 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We're just reprocessing old Arecibo data with new/corrected algorithms to ensure that nothing is missed. Once this is completed (possibly in the order of months) there will be little or no more of it.
1953) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1866686)
Posted 11 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Vermont becomes the first state to legalize through legislation

Vermont’s Legislature become [sic] the first in the nation Wednesday to approve a recreational marijuana legalization bill.

Vermont's bill, which would legalize small amounts of marijuana possession in 2018 and anticipate the possibility of a taxed and regulated legal marijuana market, was approved in the Vermont House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 79-66. The state Senate already passed the bill, so it will go directly to GOP Gov. Phil Scott.

Eight states — Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Washington — and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana following a voter referendum, but no state yet has legalized marijuana solely through the legislative process, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Legalization advocates said bills were pending in other state legislatures.
1954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1866319)
Posted 9 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oh you two! :^)
1955) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Cannot Install BOINC on Linx Mint 18.1 (Message 1866311)
Posted 8 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You have to replace the fake "Whatever" filename I put with the real one... I put Whatever because I can't see the beginning of it.
1956) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Cannot Install BOINC on Linx Mint 18.1 (Message 1866306)
Posted 8 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You will get to the file by going into Computer on the desktop and then Home on the left panel. If you are unsure where it is in Home you can click the magnifying glass icon at the top-right and search for it (a piece of the file name is enough.)

Again, I'm assuming your desktop environment is Cinnamon. If not please advise.
1957) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Cannot Install BOINC on Linx Mint 18.1 (Message 1866296)
Posted 8 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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First make sure it has execution permission... right click, Properties, Permissions tab and check "Allow executing..." (this is in Cinnamon; if you have a different desktop these may be different.)

You can do this and launch via command line... right-click in the folder it is in and choose to open a command prompt there. Then do the commands:
chmod +x Whateverx86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh
./Whateverx86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh


You can of course copy the filename and right-click -> Paste in the command window to avoid typing it.

Hope this helps!
1958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1866291)
Posted 8 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This one probably won't be too difficult. :^)
1959) Message boards : Number crunching : Your thoughts/opinions on what SETI@home needs to succeed (Message 1866280)
Posted 8 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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See that they are using Seagate Red 5TB drives.


I thought it was only the WD NAS drives that had those colour codes... I would think they would use WDs as well as Seagates aren't as reliable.
1960) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1866258)
Posted 8 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A group milestone:

The GPU Users Group, the scrappy little team of merely 49 active members I am happy to be part of, just became the first team to cross ten billion credits. Let's hope all that computing gets some results!

(Thanks to Laurent Domisse's awesome farm and the return of Zalster we're also back in the #1 production slot as well.)

Thank you to all GPUUG members for all of your contributions and making this team as great as it is.
1961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V9 (Message 1866146)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Crop-A-Dile Eyelet and Snap Punch

Dunno how I missed this for so long... I actually own one. :^)
1962) Message boards : Number crunching : Your thoughts/opinions on what SETI@home needs to succeed (Message 1866145)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I believe the last tidbit I heard was a couple of servers with 24 SSDs.


Yes, there will apparently be a requirement soon for a new storage multi-drive bay + compute capability for new data sources. The specs are still being worked out.

I suspect that this will be required for bringing Parkes online as Breakthrough Listen data source.
1963) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Run BOINC on iPhone? (Message 1866138)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There's no BOINC for iOS and none in the works as far as I know. The developers from what I have seen have indicated that this is mostly due to the restrictions the Apple Store and the platform have against applications performing code updates and pulling code modules from outside servers once installed; you would basically need a complete BOINC + application module for every project and would need to recertify and repush it every time it updated.

I'm trying to find the last official word on this I remember... I'll edit it in when I do.

Edit: Here is a GITHub discussion on it from the BOINC admins..
1964) Message boards : Politics : The Way Ahead too... (Message 1866083)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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French election tomorrow.
Macron is in the lead but apparently emails have been hacked.
So the "macronleaks" used Russian Excel: it left some app-internal strings in Russian into the files.


Interesting coincidence that Excel started off with "Macro" malware and here is some "Macron" malware...

Whatever it was, it had little effect. Macron has won by a large margin.
1965) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1866075)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Ppl always ask why we didn't find anything yet if "they" are really out there. There are many possible explanations, for example the famous Fermi Paradox. But I have my own thesis...
They may be aware of us but have no intentions to contact us because for them we are just a bunch of greedy barbars? It could be easy for those beeings to trick us into believing that we're alone.


This is known as the Zoo hypothesis.
1966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May the 4th be with you... (Message 1865649)
Posted 5 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you for posting this... my Nerd Cred has vastly increased this day.

One of the YouTube comments indicated: "Having fulfilled its ultimate purpose, the Internet was silent ever after." OK, we will permit the internet one more outburst of this project completing its mission and discovering ETI, but then no more. 😀

Edit: For the few that have not seen/heard it and know Don McLean's "American Pie" I recommend Weird Al's "The Saga Begins".
1967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1865642)
Posted 5 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thor started hammering Toronto on his day with heavy rain and will continue to do so for three days. Up to 90mm is expected, which is about 3.5", so given that the ground is already sopping from recent heavy rains flooding is expected. Of course the rain will end and skies will clear by Monday just in time for us to return to work/school.
1968) Questions and Answers : Windows : boinc crashing the system (Message 1865589)
Posted 4 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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After having one leak and destroy a mainboard and CPU (voiding both warranties) I will never mess with water again...

I recommend to Google "Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4"... Noctua makes very large highly-recommended dual-fan coolers if you have a full tower which will fit your Ryzen (it's an AM4 factor.) There are others as well. You will have to remove the board to get at the underside but would have to anyways with another cooler. Once installed they run as cool as water cooling (about 50C at full load) with zero maintenance required except for blowing the dust out once a month or so, no risk of water damage, and last for many years running 24x7. Because the fans are so large they also don't have to turn fast so it is very quiet.

There are lower-profile ones available for thinner cases as well. I have four of them in my farm at least and would not buy anything else.
1969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1865072)
Posted 1 May 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The only known photograph of the Invisible Elephant
1970) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1864822)
Posted 30 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You said that isn't your poem, but wow does it sure relate to what we're doing here. I've seen a bit of Monty Python but never did I see that poem. I truly love it.


It's the "Galaxy Song" from Monty Python's movie The Meaning of Life (1983).

I'd link to the YouTube but there's an animated bit some might find... questionable. Easily found though.
1971) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864779)
Posted 30 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The God Given Right of Free Speech his people deserved.


This idea that freedom of expression is god-given is almost exclusively American. Rather ironically, it required the American people to fight against a nation that even two centuries later has a state church, and then affirm this right in a constitution in which no god(s) are mentioned and whose only reference to religion is exclusionary. The United States of America was the first nation in history to do this, where every other nation had an official religion and a "divinely appointed" ruler. Today almost every nation with an official religion still has blasphemy laws on the books (even Ireland) and many do enforce them ie the Islamic governments, sometimes very harshly.

I am guessing you are no longer claiming to be an atheist then?
1972) Message boards : Politics : Marijuana (Message 1864544)
Posted 29 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A repost of something I wrote that was less on-topic in its original thread:
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Yes, the party " of individual liberty'" wants to control the bedroom among other things.


The best example I can find of jaw-dropping hypocrisy I can think of is their stance on cannabis.

While simultaneously claiming to be the party of liberty, property rights, small government, tax savings, free enterprise and the reduction of crime, the prohibition of marijuana has jailed hundreds of thousands if not millions of citizens sometimes after no-knock raids on their private residences as if they were violent career criminals, deprived them of property through probably unconstitutional policies such as civil forfeiture, employed thousands of very expensive agents to arrest and incarcerate citizens, prevented a multi-billion-dollar industry from arising to legally produce and distribute this product and pay possibly billions of dollars in taxes, and instead redirected all of this money into the hands of horrifically violent criminal gangs who pay no taxes... the largest cartels in Mexico, for example, started with and still distribute marijuana with the U.S. their biggest customer. And they will continue to do so regardless!

I'm glad Canada is finally legalizing possession and purchasing of cannabis for personal use (in July 2018.) Unfortunately this won't be as complete as it should be but it's still a huge step in the right direction. Meanwhile Attorney General Sessions is promising more arrests, convictions and ruined lives of citizens for growing and consuming a natural plant of their own free will, overriding the states that have voted to legalize it. Oh wait, aren't they the party against "nanny state" regulations telling people what to do, and for "state's rights" as well? So much for that if the states happen to choose something they don't agree with.

(If it matters I don't even like the stuff... I tried it a few times when I was young and it does nothing but make me paranoid and anxious. So I don't have any self-interested reason for despising the legislation.)
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I have yet to see any argument against cannabis that wouldn't apply tenfold to alcohol.

Edit: Just so I don't appear biased, I am also quite unhappy that the Democrats under Barack Obama had eight years in which they could have formally legalized, and did nothing. I also indicated that the "conservative" case for legalization is actually very strong, and the Republican Party is going directly against these principles to keep it illegal.

I also tend to use the term "cannabis" as this is the actual genus of the plant (Cannabis sativa) as well as the following:

Through the early 20th century, however, both the drug and the plant were more commonly known as "cannabis" or "hemp". "Marihuana"'s currency in American English increased dramatically in the 1930s, when it was preferred as an exotic-sounding alternative name during the debates of the drug's use. It has been suggested that it was promoted by opponents of the drug, who wanted to stigmatize it with a "foreign-sounding name". The word was codified into law and became part of common American English with the passing of the 1937 Marihuana tax act.


But to each their own. :^)
1973) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864139)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
and I have read others that claim beyond a couple dozen LY it's fruitless. and nobody knows for sure what's correct which is why there are multiple opinions.

You've proven your inability to actually discuss when you get some articulate opposition..sorry...


I just did... and you are dodging the question with excuses.

I would like you to please cite some of these "multiple opinions" from peer-reviewed sources, or even just reliable experts in radio astronomy.

Again:

Numerous actual radio astronomers have indicated that the Arecibo radio telescope could have a conversation with a similar device over about 50KLy, about halfway across the galaxy, through their respective atmospheres.

If you still adhere to your initial determination that the chance of this is zero, and exactly zero, that such transmissions could be received, please cite references of this. No off-the-cuff complaints about signal-to-noise problems or anything else. Please cite something that shows that this is impossible and that you were correct in that the chance is exactly zero as you initially indicated... and that all those radio astronomers, astrophysicists, exobiologists et al are wrong.

Your own direct quote from your own previous posting: "The odds of picking up any signals with a receiver at the bottom of our atmosphere were always zero."
1974) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864123)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, I posted that when I realized I wasn't getting anywhere and you didn't seem interested in discussing anything. Forgive my sense of humor. I'm still not getting anywhere it seems...

Numerous actual radio astronomers have indicated that the Arecibo radio telescope could have a conversation with a similar device over about 50KLy, about halfway across the galaxy, through their respective atmospheres.

If you still adhere to your initial determination that the chance of this is zero, and exactly zero, that such transmissions could be received, please cite references of this. No off-the-cuff complaints about signal-to-noise problems or anything else. Please cite something that shows that this is impossible and that you were correct in that the chance is exactly zero as you initially indicated... and that all those radio astronomers, astrophysicists, exobiologists et al are wrong.

Again, your own direct quote from your own previous posting: "The odds of picking up any signals with a receiver at the bottom of our atmosphere were always zero."
1975) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864116)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
do you REALLY think it's appropriate and seemly for a ''volunteer moderator'' to get so emotionally involved here as to be effectively trolling a user?
and THAT:S ''your kind''.
Just wanted to stay around long enough for you to prove it.


Strange, I don't think I'm being emotionally involved... I haven't insulted anyone and I certainly don't feel angry. I did try to point out some of the technical issues with your previous points about radio astronomy. The thread is called "sorry..must go" and all, so if you aren't leaving perhaps a change of title is in order?

I understand that you are not pleased with the political aspect of what is going in Berkeley right now, but this has absolutely nothing to do with science or SETI or this forum. If it matters, I don't like that radicals of any political stripe are causing these disturbances and stifling free expression either. Whatever happened to "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it." These aren't just pretty words... they are how civilized societies function.

That's "my kind" by the way.
1976) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864106)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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ah. you're just pouting. it's what your kind does best.


What is my kind?

You are certainly posting a lot for someone claiming to be leaving.
1977) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864103)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
you've been involved here for so long and can still make an apples and oranges comparison like that? amazing.


1978) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864100)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
LOL ''order of magnitude'' look it up, make the concept yours.


You would then have to deny all those extrasolar planets, you know. Orders of magnitude smaller dimming and all.
1979) Message boards : Politics : sorry..must go (Message 1864094)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The odds of picking up any signals with a receiver at the bottom of our atmosphere were always zero.


I think your calculator may need more digits. 😀 If you were correct, radio astronomy itself would never have detected anything, ever. It uses the same frequencies. The odds, to be certain, are very tiny, but very tiny != zero.
1980) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1864076)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The group mentioned by name, the Proud Boys, was founded by Gavin McInnes.

Here is an article on him: Gavin McInnes Wants You to Know He’s Totally Not a White Supremacist (NSFW language)

Briefly: he has said some rather offensive stuff about a few non-white people (and other groups) but the Proud Boys is otherwise not formally classed as a hate/white supremacist group. There are plenty of other alt-right groups planned to turn up which may include WS ones... I give Dr. K. the benefit of the doubt as he is the one who lives(?) and works in Berkeley so has first-hand info rather than that filtered through the internet; perhaps he confused this group with another?
1981) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1863998)
Posted 27 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Eric,
Just who do you refer to specifically as White Supremacists ? Do you have any names? Or is it a group of people that begins with a (C)? Conservatives perhaps? Just curious.


All of five posts after he just answered the question for you...

The hateful back and forth needs to Stop!


I totally agree... please do!
1982) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1863919)
Posted 27 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Digging up a month-old topic from this thread, I had written about the "far-right" using Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals... due to the News thread on free speech due to the possible unrest in Berkeley because of the planned Ann Coulter visit, while googling for info on what this was about I found this article How Ann Coulter and the Far Right Are Using the Lefty Playbook to Troll Berkeley.

It's worth a read for background on this issue though some may call it a "biased" source...

To clarify my point, it's interesting how the "radical right" and "radical left" end up becoming similar in many ways. This is because it's the "radical" part that ends up defining them. As soon as one is willing to throw away human rights or use violence against persons or their property to accomplish their means, they've lost any moral upper hand they may have had and become mere criminals. (I think that this is also the point that CLYDE has been trying to cryptically make many times, no?)

Regardless of how one feels about John Lennon, he summed it up well... and as of next year, half a century ago!

"You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
"

Even with the "Chairman Mao" reference, timeless wisdom nonetheless.
1983) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1863752)
Posted 26 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Obama's shadow government... liberal socialist globalist NWO revolution... Soros, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Illuminati.


1984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Are we notified directly? (Message 1863492)
Posted 24 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Your forgetting one small fact , what about the NSA , CIA and your government ( who think they know what's best for the world ) will " step in " and try to block any news of ET being released , put money on that happening no matter what ANYONE says if a signal is ever discoverd by this project ( or any other SETI project )


I doubt that is as much a fact as a common assumption that intelligence agencies care one way or another... as long as it's not a foreign power, espionage or otherwise hostile it's out of their jurisdiction. It would certainly be difficult to suppress any findings with Breakthrough Listen as the same radio telescope data we work on is available for download and analysis by anyone.

As well, there is no discovery without consensus, and this consensus would certainly come from countries other than the United States so the discovery would already be in multiple countries and continents by the time it was even determined to be a discovery.
1985) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1863397)
Posted 24 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, the party " of individual liberty'" wants to control the bedroom among other things.


The best example I can find of jaw-dropping hypocrisy I can think of is their stance on cannabis.

While simultaneously claiming to be the party of liberty, property rights, small government, tax savings, free enterprise and the reduction of crime, the prohibition of marijuana has jailed hundreds of thousands if not millions of citizens sometimes after no-knock raids on their private residences as if they were violent career criminals, deprived them of property through probably unconstitutional policies such as civil forfeiture, employed thousands of very expensive agents to arrest and incarcerate citizens, prevented a multi-billion-dollar industry from arising to legally produce and distribute this product and pay possibly billions of dollars in taxes, and instead redirected all of this money into the hands of horrifically violent criminal gangs who pay no taxes... the largest cartels in Mexico, for example, started with and still distribute marijuana with the U.S. their biggest customer. And they will continue to do so regardless!

I'm glad Canada is finally legalizing possession and purchasing of cannabis for personal use (in July 2018.) Unfortunately this won't be as complete as it should be but it's still a huge step in the right direction. Meanwhile Attorney General Sessions is promising more arrests, convictions and ruined lives of citizens for growing and consuming a natural plant of their own free will, overriding the states that have voted to legalize it. Oh wait, aren't they the party against "nanny state" regulations telling people what to do, and for "state's rights" as well? So much for that if the states happen to choose something they don't agree with.

(If it matters I don't even like the stuff... I tried it a few times when I was young and it does nothing but make me paranoid and anxious. So I don't have any self-interested reason for despising the legislation.)
1986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1863363)
Posted 23 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
tuercas


(Thanks... that word was missing from my vocab. Now that I added it, it fits in very well my wordplay answer)

Stuck between two cars = Stick between tuercas
1987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1863202)
Posted 23 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Cats were not put here by God to be food.
We have cows for that.
Cows were put here for food, not cats.


Just over a billion Hindus would like to have a word with you... 😀
1988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1863088)
Posted 22 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That is what she said. Coming from a 30yo some doctor./
Little does she know but what she has been taught.
She has no life experience, but I do trust that her advice is correct.


That is the power of a "good" education, Mark, in contrast to ideological indoctrination or whatever bad education is or good education is slandered as these days, but actual scientifically evidence-based learning firmly rooted in demonstrable reality.

A good example from history: thousands of great minds over centuries wasted their lives in alchemy trying to find the Philosopher's Stone which would turn lead or other metals into gold. One of them was arguably the greatest mind of all, Isaac Newton, who wasted about a decade on alchemy at a period of his life when he was still sharp enough to develop an entire new branch of mathematics in a weekend. Today, we can teach a grade-school child in an hour or so what we have learned since then, at least enough to demonstrate why their effort was wasted on the impossible; it's the same basis of your favorite TV show of course! There are noticeably hardly any people trying to do this anymore, so thousands or even millions of lives have been prevented from being wasted.

Thus sometimes education can override life experience as it can teach in minutes what others took lifetimes to discover. And this advice can save many lives, and vastly improve them, especially medical advice which affects our lives and quality of life very directly.
1989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Phone Scam. Pretending to be a telemarketer from a resort. (Message 1862936)
Posted 22 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Really sorry to hear of your misfortune. The whole point of a Debit card is that thieves can only get what is in the account. With a credit card they can go up to the credit limit. I only keep a bare minimum in my debit account, the rest is safely in a deposit account. And I check it weekly.


Thanks. :^) Happily it's all insured and covered. Usually I park the primary/debit account's funds elsewhere which is one of the reasons I was logging into it! It was time for a move... oh.... not so much to move there.
1990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Phone Scam. Pretending to be a telemarketer from a resort. (Message 1862930)
Posted 22 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Been monitoring my credit cards... No fraudulent charges, yet... Of all my cards, ONLY Citi-card allows me to "Lock" or "Unlock" my card at will. It's been locked since I opened this thread; and just today, I unlocked it. I will continue monitoring for a few more days.


Yesterday I logged into my banking site for the first time in two weeks and found nearly a grand worth of fraudulent charges on my Visa Debit card. Unfortunately being a debit card it sucks the $ right out of my account rather than accruing a separate balance that can be cleared without affecting one's "real" money.

The only bright side was that all the of the fraudulent purchases were on Amazon.co.jp making them easy to identify and reverse. I am Canadian since birth, so a weird pattern of suddenly buying from a Japanese site and delivering to an address that isn't remotely close to mine should have triggered one of their funky fraud-spotter algorithms but it doesn't seem to have. I reported it and I should have the money back in a week or so.

Check for $0.01 test transactions from unknown sources; they did one of those before they started the binge. I'll be checking my transactions much more often now.
1991) Message boards : News : Where we get the data (Message 1862513)
Posted 20 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That does not change the fact that ANY data that Seti obtains, back then or even now, is piggybacked from wherever the dish we use is pointing, and NOT in our control.


Only for the Arecibo data. All of the BLC work units from Green Bank are targeted and the instrument directed by the BL project at the time.
1992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1862418)
Posted 19 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The London Nunderground
1993) Message boards : Number crunching : Microsoft Monthly Rollups (Message 1862280)
Posted 19 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unofficial Windows 7/8.1 update workaround posted to GitHub

GitHub user Zeffy has created a patch that removes a limitation that Microsoft imposed on users of 7th generation processors, a limit that prevents users from receiving Windows updates if they still use Windows 7 and 8.1.

This limitation was delivered through Windows Update KB4012218 (March 2017 Patch Tuesday) and has made many owners of Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Bristol Ridge CPUs very angry last week, as they weren't able to install any Windows updates.


There is a link to the GitHub scripts in the article. Use at own risk. :^)

Caveat:

"The only downside of these solutions is you have to apply a new patch whenever wuaueng.dll gets updated," says Zeffy in his GitHub repo README. Fortunately, the entire task doesn't take long to complete.
1994) Message boards : Politics : I hope that this cop gets to feel the full force of the law. #4 (Message 1862277)
Posted 18 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just read this and thought of this thread...

A Woman's Quest to Prove Her Brother's Innocence Leads to a Discovery

If you want to save reading: the discovery was that they ended up with two differing copies of the same police report. The one that was given to the court for the defense to see had a section which would have exonerated her brother removed.

(I don't see any conclusion as to whether it was the police or the prosecutor who removed it, but it either way, it's a good example of corruption in the so-called justice system, and someone(s) should end up in jail for it... and probably won't.)
1995) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (105) Server Problems? (Message 1862245)
Posted 18 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This IS Tuesday, right...............?


Shh.... don't remind them and they might forget until next week. ;^)
1996) Message boards : Politics : Loadsa money (Message 1862206)
Posted 18 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Doctors have also been doing the same thing for probably much longer than the airlines. They overbook so that if a patient no-shows or cancels with short notice they won't be twiddling their thumbs unpaid. If too many patients show up then some will just have to wait longer.

Perhaps the fact that "patience" and "patients" are homophones is not coincidental!
1997) Message boards : Number crunching : Why are the benchmark results under Ubuntu/linux are nearby doubled ? (Message 1861866)
Posted 16 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Not right now, at the moment i am running only cuda 6.0 , hope there will be a 8.0 to crunch.


The work units are not marked by the project for CUDA version or even whether to run on CPU or GPU; your local BOINC client does that. It's only checked that the correct host is returning them and not the platform they were computed on.
1998) Message boards : Politics : North Korea (Message 1861748)
Posted 15 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In the world view, that failure may have been a very good thing.


Although I shudder to think of the fate of those responsible for the launch...
1999) Questions and Answers : Windows : Problem with BOINC and Windows 7 Ultimate (Message 1861731)
Posted 15 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Windows 7 is fine with any recent version of BOINC (as is 8/Vista/10). Go here and it will automatically pick the latest stable version for you. If you have an AMD 8 core (I have an FX series one myself) it seems from the symptoms as though the CPU is overheating. You can install CoreTemp or SpeedFan to monitor the temps. I like SpeedFan as it also shows the GPU temps.

If that is the case that it is overheating (if it goes over 100C it will usually turn off) you can throttle the CPU usage in BOINC under Tools > Computing Preferences > Processor Usage until you get a better cooler. The tiny stock heatsink and fan bundled with the AMD CPUs is completely insufficient for running at 100% for long periods. I recommend Noctua fan/heatsink combos myself, and have them on a few of my higher-end machines including the AMD FX 8-core. I recommend running at 60C or lower if you can.
2000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1861247)
Posted 13 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Edit: Never mind... scratching my answer as the one I picked could be misinterpreted.
2001) Message boards : Number crunching : Microsoft Monthly Rollups (Message 1861222)
Posted 13 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Trouble is that it IS a Wintel world out there and they know it. Basically they have us over a barrel, which of course was always their long term aim.


As long as this is believed, and repeated, then it will be. And when it is not, it will not be. :^)
2002) Message boards : Number crunching : Microsoft Monthly Rollups (Message 1861198)
Posted 13 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
An overlay screen just notified me Microsoft wants to install "Creators Update". Is this a bad thing?


You may want to avoid that update for now.
2003) Message boards : Technical News : Data Dump (May 17 2016) (Message 1861188)
Posted 13 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
just inquiring is there any one except remote volunteers still working this project ?

The whole world has volunteers but we have no one with a degree in Berkley that can type an update. Sorry but that is a measured fact.

Here is an update from someone in Berkeley from three days ago. Yes, you are correct that it is not typed. :^)

At least one person from SAH has indicated previously that Matt Lebofsky has been almost completely kept busy with the Breakthrough Listen project, so has had very little time for anything else (such as these updates.) But between the regular videos and Dr. Anderson's updates on Nebula there is plenty of info on progress.
2004) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1861053)
Posted 12 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My congratulations to whoever in Trump's circle of advisors that convinced him to go this way with his response.


May have been an unexpected advisor...

Also my apologies for being cliché but +1 KWSN-MK on that. :^)
2005) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1861036)
Posted 12 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mr. Kevvy and other warmongers:




Geez, agree with one little military action in, well... I can't remember since when... and I'm a "warmonger".

If it is fine, then perhaps Russia should lob some cruise missiles into Washington DC to force America to give up Bush jr to stand trial for Abu Ghrib and all the extra ordinary renditions, after all if one country can be a moral policeman then any other country should be able to as well.


Bad analogy as that would accomplish nothing as there is no immediate threat of another Iraq invasion. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell et al should have been impeached/fired and jailed for what they did to Iraq. It is not comparable to this at all as it was a full-scale invasion on very bad manufactured evidence linking to an unrelated event which (most of) the rest of the world could see was nothing more than a ruse to get at their oil reserves.

You are advocating that the USA enforce a Judaeo-christian moral code on others, who have a different code, by force


Again, the restriction against nerve-gassing civilians including children is not a "Judaeo-christian" moral code. It is a universal one.
2006) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1860965)
Posted 12 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here is an article from the Irish Times I share because it's pretty close to my take on the situation:

President Donald Trump’s airstrikes against Syria were of dubious legality. They were hypocritical. They were impulsive. They may have had political motivations. They create new risks for the United States.

But most of all, they were right.

I’m deeply suspicious of Trump’s policies and competence, but this is a case where he is right and Barack Obama was wrong. Indeed, many of us believe that Obama’s worst foreign policy mistake was his passivity in Syria.


I try to be pragmatic in my views on how a leader is doing based on their actions themselves, rather than tacitly either accepting or dismissing them because of their political "alignment" or their party. So far Donald Trump has done a lot I disagree with, but I do find myself agreeing with this as it seems to have put humanitarian concerns over political ones. Perhaps I am wrong, but that is my take on it. The most honest and reliable humanitarian groups (ie Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International) have been documenting the human rights abuses of the civil war and the al-Assad regime for six years. Chemical and other banned weapons have been used on civilians numerous times, four hundred thousand dead, six million refugees. If this can cause the regime to have second thoughts about using banned weapons again, or bring them to the negotiating table, then it was necessary.

Saving children from being nerve-gassed to death by their own government may be the best use of cruise missiles I have yet heard of. Better to use them on this than something more dubious.

Edit: Oh, a peaceful Syria is also essential to making ISIS/Daesh go away, so there is an actual benefit for the U.S. (and allies) in there too.
2007) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (105) Server Problems? (Message 1860930)
Posted 11 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is it just me? No one else has mentioned that uploads/downloads halted at right on 10AM UTC.


Yup... I see about two hours worth of uploads on all my machines giving "Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site" but bruno and everything else required appears OK. Ah well, it's Tuesday so it should come back up again after the outrage.
2008) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Could we communicate via radiowaves through interstellar space? (Message 1860809)
Posted 10 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

0000--- 0000
0010--- 0001
0100--- 0001
0110--- 0000
1000--- 0001
1010--- 0000
1100--- 0000


Left column is a simple binary count in the three leftmost bits with the least significant bit not used (or just counting by twos), the right column is an odd parity bit.
2009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1860730)
Posted 10 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You've really got to admire her tool use. I don't know what evolutionary pressure made raccoons, or raccoon ancestors, so darn smart. Makes me wonder.... Given their excellent problem solving abilities, it is no surprise that raccoons tend to do well wherever they live.


I would think it is the the hand-like dexterity of their front paws... using our hands for complex tasks (spurred by by walking upright freeing them for use) is one of the drivers of the growth of our brains and intelligence.



Give it a few thousand years. :^)
2010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1860428)
Posted 8 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anybody else realize what a significant moment of cinema this was?
It still, years later, brings me tears........of joy.


Yes... that was my favorite episode of the series with both that scene and the scene where she convinces the Unsullied to follow her (I think it was the same episode.) Just amazing. Close second is the last two episodes of season 7 (the last two out currently.) By far the best dramatic TV show I have seen, or I think am likely to.

(Then again I said the same about Breaking Bad until GoT came along.)
2011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1860115)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you... if you check my Friends list you're both on it, so it's no effort. :^)

A little empathy goes a long way.
2012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1860104)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
More for the benefit of readers who may be wondering than yourself who should know, but I will answer.

Mark, your contributions to this project are great, but this is not a two-tier system, and we all have exactly the same policies to follow.

This is because this board is the property of the University of California. Any post made in it outside of the private team rooms can be seen for literally years by anyone on Earth with an internet connection; there are no checks for membership nor age. That is why there are more conditions on posting here (ie no swearing, violence, etc.) than there may be on a forum that requires a logon.

And please stick around. :^)
2013) Message boards : Politics : Alternative Reality Health Care a/k/a tRump Care (Message 1860094)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I understand the point you are trying to make, but seriously...

Medical care for accidents is one thing...


Yes, it was farcical, but a projection of free market medicine to its absolute limit.
2014) Message boards : Politics : Alternative Reality Health Care a/k/a tRump Care (Message 1860077)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Dear Hit and Run Victim,

Your standing on the street corner waiting to cross the street was a result of poor life choices. Real people only travel in SUVs, limousines or private jets, and are not pedestrians.

As you have no health insurance, you may use the Free Market's gift of the Tort to sue the driver who drove over the sidewalk and hit you. Once this is done, we will then treat you. We do understand that they drove away and there were no witnesses and the police are unable to locate them so this may take quite a while, so until then, please apply pressure to the wound to prevent blood loss as we don't wish to lose a potential customer. That advice will be $282.50 due immediately. Please pay now so that we don't have to damage your credit rating.

Regards,
Natural Law Medicine"
2015) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1860071)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Guess they are finally understanding the Western Left and the Western Media, are really a bunch of frauds.


<<shrug>> I haven't seen a peep from the "Western Media frauds" yet saying this was a bad thing.
2016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1860028)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well aware, Chris, but thank you for your concern.

You and the mod team know...


Well then why are you telling us? 😀
2017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1860019)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have a simple, trusted .45 revolver.
...
Or, if long range is an issue, the M40.
One shot at a time, with careful thought. And precision. And accuracy.


New purchases within the last week?

I wish to remind you that I do not currently own a gun.
I did many years ago, and might again soon,.
2018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Phone Scam. Pretending to be a telemarketer from a resort. (Message 1860017)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have to say TL that half of this seems to be your own fault. Why did you hang on for so long trying to get a word in edgewise? it should have been obvious it was a scam call in a few seconds.


As I found out, this may be the only way to get rid of them forever. I went from getting several a week sometimes twice a day to not one in three years by deliberately wasting their time, pretending to be interested, going up to the progressively more expensive tiers (with better English), patiently letting them finish their spiels. At the end they asked for my credit card number; I feigned connection issues and hung up.

I did this three times and never got another call. Their margins are very tight due to having a very poor hit:miss ratio, so do likely track and probably even share the numbers of time-wasters to avoid. Nothing else (threats, Do Not Call lists, legal action) works as they are in a different continent.
2019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1860008)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Interestingly P&O deny this but it is still universally believed.


Sorry, not universally. The backronym story for "posh" unfortunately has no evidence for it (and some good evidence against), similar to "golf" and "cop" as noted. Here is another etymology.
2020) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1859960)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
However there is a big issue with that. The ones who don't want Assad left. That leaves the people who do want Assad.


That is also very true. So only time will tell if there are enough left who didn't support him but just didn't leave yet. As well if he is gone, many may return. Hard to tell. Complicated situation, thus as Mark noted all we can do is hope that this is the right decision.
2021) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1859955)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But I guess I have to ask the question.................
Where does one draw the line between keeping the peace, letting them just all kill themselves, and just where dos it endanger our own country if we just stand back and watch it go to hell?
At what point, really, do we need to step in, waste our resources, and go to war?
Is this really a threat to our national security? Could be. I am just asking.


There have been five million refugees out of Syria since the conflict began. Most have gone to Europe but many would like to come to the U.S. (and Canada) if possible. While the majority will be good people, this is a great opportunity for "bad actors" ie ISIS/Daesh to sneak in.

So, in addition to lessening the human tragedy, the U.S. and its allies do have a security interest in ending the conflict, and I doubt that will happen until Assad is gone. Assad's regime is also one of the prime raisons d'être for ISIS/Daesh being there.
2022) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1859936)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As in all matters of this kind..............
I hate war and all that it has done.


Absolutely... there are few times when it is justified, but I hope that the outcome may vindicate that this was one of them.
2023) Message boards : Politics : Hold on to your hats, we're bombing Syria. (Message 1859931)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


All we can hope is next time they are wary of massacring civilians indiscriminately for fear of consequences.

Go kick some Assad. :^)
2024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1859929)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I will and thank you. :^)

"We heard that to be adopted we had to radiate affection!"
2025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1859904)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Okay, judgment time: In order to be super-duper unbiased (hey, it's a moderator thing 😀) I showed only the captions and the picture to my missus, Barometer of the Public Taste, who has never visited here. Both her # 1 and # 3 picks were from the same respondent (nothing in the rules against multiple answers, right?)

# 1 - Jaundiced Eye "Wait 'til you see what I did on your bed............."
# 2 - Admiral Gloval "This is what I think about you and your book."
# 3 - Jaundiced Eye "Now you can use it in the bathroom............"

Congrats and PM sent.
2026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1859855)
Posted 6 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wasn't an outrage involved with that one?


Thanks... I will add 12 hours as that's about how long they last these days.
2027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1859848)
Posted 6 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I re-read the rules on post 1... it's gone over the 48 hour maximum to collect the first ten so I will collect all the responses posted within the first 48 hours and make a decision tonight.
(I think that is correct. I thought the last one went longer than 48 hours. Hrm.)
2028) Message boards : Politics : flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, (Message 1859816)
Posted 6 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I would say that all the victims of the Holocaust were murdered. Yet, their murderers were following the law of the land at the time, put forth by a legitimately elected party and leader.
2029) Message boards : Politics : flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, (Message 1859809)
Posted 6 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I can think of one definition of "Murder" that is a grey area that people do disagree legitimately over, so it is not as black-and-white as is being portrayed: capital punishment.

I consider capital punishment to be state-sanctioned murder, because it is the deliberate taking of a verified, viable human life of someone who is not currently a deadly threat to anyone (as the victim is already imprisoned) and this would fit the definition if committed by an individual. Yet, others do not see it that way and there is much debate over its ethos, validity and effectiveness. So, painting everyone else into an extremist corner with oneself as the only paragon of balance is at best an oversimplification.
2030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : So then....... (Message 1859692)
Posted 5 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The cliché answer is the long-awaited SETI@Home toaster. If you have poor CPU cooling you could probably make toast on that... for a short time.

Credits are for informational and/or entertainment purposes only, a metric of how many computations you have contributed. (One credit = 420 billion of them, by the way.)
2031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How to view a webcam remotely? (Message 1859624)
Posted 5 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 is a non-routable block, along with 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 and 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255. You won't be able to reach it from the internet (edit: by IP address!)
2032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1859464)
Posted 4 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2033) Message boards : Politics : flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, (Message 1859393)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's not even close to obama and his AG inciting violence against cops and riots in Ferguson MO.


Citation please... and not something pulled out of Alex Jones' backside, thank you.
2034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1859392)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Earl Grey for the Ladies, London Pride for the Gents.




Would like a word with you...
2035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1859374)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The $65,000 question is, by giving children younger than 2 years old puffed peanut snacks, do you consequently "train" their developing immune systems not to react to peanuts as allergens? Conversely, does withholding peanut products from children younger than 2 years old make their developing immune systems more prone to react adversely to peanuts when the children finally receive exposure? Third option, is there some shared trait common among people currently living in Israel that makes them genetically less likely to have peanut allergies? This last option is less likely, given the short history of Israel as a nation state.


I'll take small, unmarked bills please. :^)
2036) Message boards : Politics : Russia in the 21C (Message 1859190)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And now all of you know why tRump is in office. American's don't have a "NONE OF THE ABOVE nincompoops" choice.


I know (hope? well the reply was) you're kidding, but just for anyone outside the U.S. who might think this is actually true... the write-in candidate can be any "nincompoop" the voter chooses, and there is a list at the bottom of the article of candidates (some quite famous ones) who won though not on the ballot with write-in/sticker votes.
2037) Message boards : News : We're back online (Message 1859016)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How come i only get data from 2008?... got anything more recent to task?


The SETI@Home team is reanalyzing older Arecibo data as at least two significant changes were made since it was recorded. Autocorrelation analysis is now performed, and a bug with the Gaussian fit algorithm was corrected. So, it's actually a good thing, as we could find something that would otherwise have been missed.
2038) Message boards : News : We're back online (Message 1858942)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anyone idea ? i just installed an 2nd Nvidia card on one machine running fine and started working and new WU´s been downloaded, on other machine added an 2nd AMD card but it dont get work, log says requesting wu for ATI/AMD but server dont deliver ( 0 send ) ... can anyone using an AMD/ATI card confirm there are no WU avaible for that cards type ?


You may have to wait several hours to get any work until the splitters generating work catch up to the demand... just about everyone on the project emptied their work cache.
2039) Questions and Answers : Windows : No new task available (Message 1858912)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
SETI@Home was just recovered from a database corruption and was offline for about a day. Because of this we all ran out of work, so it may take a while before work generation fills up our caches so that there are work units available for everyone.

So please be patient and you will get some work soon. :^)
2040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1858799)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You don't think I have tried that?????????????


Not from your own request...

Please pass along anything you can find within the last few years.


So I did.
2041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1858790)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How to send Direct (private) Messages via Twitter

Combine with the Twitter feed below I posted... then you don't have to air it all here.
2042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If I get your goat :) (Message 1858787)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Aain't seen ya in a coon's age.....
Origin unknown.


At one time it was thought raccoons had a really long lifespan.
2043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1858781)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Her Twitter feed

She will be touring this summer starting in June.
2044) Message boards : News : Unexpected outage (March 30-31) (Message 1858745)
Posted 31 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just think on this: Ms. Mead was duped by the islanders because she wanted to believe the nonsense that they trolled her with about their lives. Especially the sex.




A person doesn't have to be perfect to make a great quotation. :^)
2045) Message boards : News : Unexpected outage (March 30-31) (Message 1858700)
Posted 31 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Olá... Desculpe mas eu não estou entendendo o que esta acontecendo e o que eu tenho de fazer, se puder me explicar melhor eu agradeço, Obrigado e um Abraço


O projeto é suspenso devido a um problema de banco de dados. Ele deve estar disponível em breve.

The project is suspended because of a database problem. It should be available soon.
2046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017 (Message 1858686)
Posted 31 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I see we both have a problem with canines.
2047) Message boards : News : Unexpected outage (March 30-31) (Message 1858681)
Posted 31 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I just continued working units after a longer break, now using 2 mac computers. Surprisingly I worked a lot of units compared to earlier times, but I don't think that I created corrupted data. If this is the case, please let me know about the machine.


it was the structure of the science database itself that was corrupted, not the data in it, so nothing that we did.

I am suspecting that the "classic" SETI@Home project (not Green Bank/Breakthrough) reaching the practical limits of what an Informix database can handle is one of the factors motivating Dr. Anderson to initiate closure of it.
2048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 91 (Message 1857706)
Posted 26 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Five
2049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1857572)
Posted 25 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I used to not like days like those. Now I consider them among the best... I don't take vacations so they are absolutely required to keep me from burning out.
2050) Message boards : Politics : Atheism is not a religion (Message 1857555)
Posted 25 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I know what I experienced. I do not know what someone in 600 AD experienced.


This is the crux of it. Our minds are not computers, our eyes not cameras, our ears not microphones. They quite often deceive us. The most popular religions were developed before there was any knowledge of schizophrenia or temporal lobe epilepsy or a host of other mental issues.

Thus, you understand you can't take on faith what went on in the head of someone else fifteen hundred years who claimed to have "visions", or to be "called", or "chosen". Yet people who claimed the same attributes wrote every religious book ever written, all based on things they claimed to see, in their minds that we now know can create believable illusions, illusions that can't be told apart from reality. If you can dismiss this person's religious experience out of hand as illusory, then it is no different than dismissing anyone else's.

As someone once put (or close to it):

"I propose we are both atheists. I only disbelieve one more god than you do. When you understand why you reject all the millions of possible gods that humanity has invented over thousands of years, then you will understand why I reject yours."
2051) Message boards : Number crunching : Anything relating to AstroPulse tasks (Message 1857533)
Posted 24 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Have you all forgotten the messages from DA, that this project is winding down?
Nebula is here to analyze the results we collected over the years, and then S@H as we know it will shut down.


Likewise, did you forget the post from Dr. K. shortly thereafter indicating that (as was noted) this is just the "classic" Arecibo part that is being completed? S@H has been tasked with processing the Breakthrough Listen data, and this part is just getting started. They're looking at entire new receivers/data sources for one...

I was worried that Dr. A.'s message wasn't clear enough and would be interpreted this way and it would cause the donations to dry up.
2052) Message boards : Politics : Atheism is not a religion (Message 1857448)
Posted 24 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Still searching for the "missing link."


The missing link? Which one is that? Thousands of transitional forms between hundreds of species have been found... problem is, when we find one, we create two more gaps for people to point at and say "Missing link!" :^p

At best, there's only anecdotal evidence of sub-atomic particles.


Then there's still only anecdotal evidence of gravity, electromagnetism and the existence of stars. Really, there's about equal evidence for all four.

All I know is I physically/mentally experienced something 300 miles away the moment a close relative died which can not be explained using the "scientific method."

It's better explained by some parables that have been around for centuries.


In 600, Mohammed had a similar revelation, being visited in the cave of Hira by the archangel Gabriel and gifted a verse of the Quran. This fulfills your criterion of being a parable that has existed for centuries.
Will you accept Islam because of this, or do you doubt it?
Is it any less valid than your premonition? If so, why?
If you don't believe it, why should anyone believe yours?

I have feelings like this often: deja vu, odd senses of dread, unexplained anxieties, a feeling like something bad has happened. But it never does. If something like a death of someone I know had happened around the same time, I might be inclined to associate that feeling with the death, forgetting all the times it was meaningless. This is "counting the hits and forgetting the misses", a well-documented phenomenon... it's what cold-reading "psychics" use. They will throw out a dozen bad guesses but when they get a good one they latch onto it and develop it, and the audience seems to forget all the bad ones.

You're right, atheism is not a religion; it's a very narrow view.


The path through an uncharted wasteland may be narrow, but it is well-trodden for a reason.
2053) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (105) Server Problems? (Message 1857419)
Posted 24 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And there's more chance of that happening than the " mods dropping their left wing leanings "


More for the benefit/information of others, as I've already indicated (OK, well... I tried!) but a lot of that may be due to the forum policies that we are required to enforce. We may or may not agree with them all, but there they are, and they are there for good intentions of keeping this a respectful and pleasant place.

And I'll refrain from any further comment as we don't want to stray into politics or discussion of moderator actions, do we? :^)
2054) Message boards : Politics : Atheism is not a religion (Message 1857276)
Posted 23 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Einstein's "religion" isn't much of one... he could be categorized, if even possible, as an agnostic pantheist or deist. He was certainly not an advocate of traditional revealed religion, as his recently auctioned letter indicated.

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me."

And when his quotes on religion were misused:

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

Scientists who are not religious but from a religious background are open to misinterpretation as they sometimes will use religious references ie "God" but in a different manner than we are used to. As with so much, Carl Sagan put it best:

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."
2055) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1857108)
Posted 22 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The difference here though is that the government says it is a foregone conclusion.


Geez, why do they need evidence and investigations and courts at all then for any crimes? Just get right to the foregone conclusions and lock 'em up. :^p
2056) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1857099)
Posted 22 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
No. Enter the information or sit in jail until you do. Not any different than when they jail a reporter who refuses to tell them who his source is.


There's a huge difference... the reporter is not being charged and not taking the fifth and refusing to self-incriminate. They are protecting someone else. The constitution (U.S. at least) is pretty clear about self-incrimination and the right to remain silent and not testify against oneself. There just hasn't been a good precedent case to SCOTUS on encryption passwords yet, but when US vs. Doe was appealed to the Eleventh Circuit it was overturned on fifth amendment grounds.

Edit: See the post after mine for that Fifth. :^)
2057) Message boards : Politics : Atheism is not a religion (Message 1857085)
Posted 22 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
[The sun will die one day - Fact or belief?


The sun is already dead... geez... what could live at that temperature? :^)

Real answer: There is much well-supported, peer-reviewed and tested scientific evidence to support the assertion that it will run out of energy and "die". It may be called "factual" insomuch as there is no similar evidence otherwise, but the event has not occurred yet. Oversimplification and misuse of meanings is what leads to these "issues:".
2058) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1857082)
Posted 22 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The US Gov't further asserts that he doesn't have to give up any of his passwords; he merely has to unlock his encrypted drives.


And if his encryption password is also his password for everything else...?

Some superb judicial reasoning right there from whoever came up with that one.
2059) Message boards : Politics : Atheism is not a religion (Message 1857077)
Posted 22 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Most atheists I know believes in evolution without the influence of a deity. No problem with that, but it is a belief.


Most people, atheists and otherwise, also believe that if you drop an apple, gravity pulls it down rather than an invisible angel pushing it. No problem with that, but it is a belief.

You can thus call anything a belief if you want to.
2060) Message boards : Politics : I am a Christ child, so therefore I shall attempt to save you as well. (Message 1856934)
Posted 20 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In some people their belief is so strong it overrides reality. I think they have a word for that. Delusion if I'm not mistaken.


Well, I wouldn't call it that. :^(

Stubborn, maybe?
2061) Message boards : Politics : I am a Christ child, so therefore I shall attempt to save you as well. (Message 1856921)
Posted 20 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I thought you said you were an atheist? Secular and Evil together? You have to be a theist.


I tried to explain the difference between secular governments (religiously neutral) and atheistic governments (religiously antagonistic) but it doesn't seem to have had an effect.

The fact that the United States is a secular nation doesn't seem to have either. Ah well.
2062) Message boards : Politics : Alternative Reality Health Care a/k/a tRump Care (Message 1856918)
Posted 20 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
KWSN - MajorKong,

I will restate what you just stated but with my "supreme being" substituted:

As you correctly point out, the existence of Oasdojhsekjf cannot be proven using any sort of Logic or Reason.

However, the lack of existence of Oasdojhsekjf cannot be proven using any sort of Logic or Reason either.

Therefore both Oasdojhsekjfism and aOasdojhsekjfism are equivalent belief systems. It is nonsense to argue one way or the other among ourselves (the sum total of Humanity).

The error is that BOTH the Oasdojhsekjfists and the aOasdojhsekjfists insist that they are correct and the other side should be forced to change their own beliefs.

Works just as well with Oasdojhsekjf as with any other deity...

Also, the sad fact that others have tried to force others to believe or disbelieve does not validate or invalidate any belief or lack thereof. It only invalidates their humanity. I have never met a single "atheist" nor "agnostic" who argued for the forceful change of anyone. The reason is: they know that being the minority, and due to some religions' disdain for disbelievers, they would most likely be the ones forced! Rather, they are the biggest supporters of the First Amendment and equivalent religious liberties.

Edit:

I think that most of this is due to the popular misuse of the words "atheist" and "agnostic".

Atheism/theism is about belief. If the answer is "no" to the question "Do you believe that there exists one or more supernatural, supreme beings?" then the person is an atheist, no ifs, ands or buts. Most people in this situation won't use the term these days as it's been so vilified, but abusus non tollit usum.

Agnosticism/gnosticism (from the Greek gnosis meaning having knowledge) is about knowledge, whether one thinks it is possible to know something, in this case whether a supreme being exists.

Most atheists are agnostic atheists... "I don't know, but I don't believe" as Robert Ingersoll put it. People who are religious believers but don't claim knowledge (isn't that what faith is?) are agnostic theists.
2063) Message boards : Politics : Alternative Reality Health Care a/k/a tRump Care (Message 1856885)
Posted 20 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't think people who believe in a certain thing are non-sensible any more than people who don't believe it. I'm just saying atheism is a belief or faith and that puts it in a religious category.


In informal logic, this is known as False Equivalence Fallacy.
I can clarify it by making up a clearly ridiculous "supreme being". I'll pick a random color: blue. A random food: broccoli. A random shape: cube. A random name: Oasdojhsekjf (yes I really randomly typed some giberish for that)

I propose that the universe and everything in it was created by a gigantic blue cube of sentient broccoli named Oasdojhsekjf. All hail Oasdojhsekjf!

Of course, seeing that I just made it up now (as opposed to an acceptable, mainstream supreme being made of pasta) you may retort that this is ridiculous, and Oasdojhsekjf couldn't have made anything as there is obviously no evidence for Oasdojhsekjf so it does not exist.

Now, using my false equivalence, I would reply:

Your absolute disbelief and denial of Oasdojhsekjf and my absolute belief in Oasdojhsekjf are both beliefs! Therefore, there is no way of telling the two apart! Therefore, (to also introduce Pascal's Wager) to be safe, you had best accept Oasdojhsekjf! All hail Oasdojhsekjf!

To put it more succinctly:

What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
-- Christopher Hitchens
2064) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1856693)
Posted 20 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Tucker Carlson speaks out on Trump's 'Sweden' remark
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5329816498001/#sp=show-clips
Simply said Fox News are IGNORANT!


I don't really count Tucker Carlson as "news" ... he's a commentator on the actual, formal news stories that Fox and other outlets run. However, the mistake was a misinterpretation by Donald Trump (or his speechwriter or fact-gatherer... who knows) of Carlson's show; they even mention this in the clip as well, and they are discussing this openly and not burying it. So I wouldn't call this Fox's issue.
2065) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1856684)
Posted 19 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Soon Fox News will be renamed to Trump News.


I don't get it... that wasn't a Fox News link. If you're saying Fox is a "fake news" site, it isn't even close. Sure it has a lot of "spin" and they don't try to hide or apologize for that, but all of its stories are verified and properly sourced, and they also make corrections when they are wrong (as in the link I just posted.) If we call any news we disagree with "fake news" it dilutes the term.

Another good example happened after the Montreal mosque massacre. The police initially thought one of the witnesses (a Moroccan) was a suspect due to the confusion, but quickly determined he wasn't. Fox still had the tweet active that they were searching for a Moroccan suspect a day or two later. When the Prime Minister's office notified them of the error, they corrected it within two hours. This is not "fake news" behavior.

In contrast, I have seen what passes for journalism in real "fake news" sites: two guys sitting in basements are chatting on Skype, one pulls a bizarre conspiracy idea out of his posterior with zero evidence or references to anything, the other one agrees with him and says how plausible it is, and now they are a majority of two against any individual who tells them otherwise or asks for references. :^p
2066) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1856681)
Posted 19 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wikipedia: where truth dies online


This particular article has complete citations to reputable sites, which (the few) fake ones don't. An example of these citations listed is from the "conservative"-leaning The Hill:

Sean Hannity apologizes for using fake news story to attack Obama

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity apologized on Tuesday for referencing a fake news article on his radio show that claimed that Michelle Obama was deleting tweets about Hillary Clinton.

“Correction. Live on radio I read a gateway pundit report that @MichelleObama had deleted mentions of HRC,” Hannity tweeted. “And a listener said [President Obama] and ... Elizabeth Warren did same. Fact is they didn't. I humbly apologize. Live radio.”
2067) Message boards : Politics : I am a Christ child, so therefore I shall attempt to save you as well. (Message 1856593)
Posted 19 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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... I have been interested in Hitler and his rise and fall and how one people could have murdered 6,000,000 others...


Also this is only the Jewish victims; there were about five million more as well (Soviet POWs, Poles, Serbs, Gypsies/Romani, LGBTQ people, handicapped people...)
2068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Chuck Berry (Message 1856450)
Posted 18 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Chuck Berry, the man who 'started rock and roll,' dead at 90

Legendary musician Chuck Berry died on Saturday, according to police in Missouri. He was 90 years old.

...

"Every riff and solo played by rock guitarists over the last 60 years contains DNA that can be traced right back to Chuck Berry," Sweden's esteemed Polar Music Prize Foundation stated emphatically when awarding Berry its rock music prize in 2014.

Berry burst onto the scene in the mid-1950s, cutting songs at Chess Records that are woven into the very fabric of what became known as rock 'n' roll: Maybellene, Roll Over Beethoven, Johnny B. Goode, School Days, Rock and Roll Music, Sweet Little Sixteen, and No Particular Place to Go.

Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry on Oct. 18, 1926, to middle-class parents in the black neighbourhood of The Ville in St. Louis, Mo., Berry would grow up to produce an infectious alchemy of blues, hillbilly music and Western swing.
2069) Message boards : Politics : Independence for Scotland, within the European Union (Message 1856296)
Posted 18 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If it passes. May Scotland eventually leave the EU?


Scotland already "left" the EU by being part of Britain which voted to. However the Scots voted 62%-38% to remain. This referendum is for further Scottish independence from Britain, quite possibly so they can rejoin the EU.
2070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If I get your goat :) (Message 1856291)
Posted 18 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's raining cats and dogs.


I know... I just stepped in a poodle. 😀
2071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1856230)
Posted 18 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I quit posting a week ago, and nobody noticed.


I noticed, but it was five days' gap from this to this.

You're usually quiet(er) during the week; I figured you'd be back Friday or Saturday. I don't think others would have concluded differently.
2072) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1856145)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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among other things it [saul alinksky rules for radicals] was central to organizing the Tea Party's strategy

You're hallucinations are just helping me come to the conclusion that we are in for another violent civil war. The only way I see one side (who's living is some sort of fantasy world and blocking out reality because it doesn't fit their snowflake world) and those who actually produce and made this country great (and will make this country great again) coming to some sort of understanding is through violence.

I still want to give a CONVENTION OF STATES a shot. And if that's not enough, there's nothing left but extreme violence.


Not sure where the "hallucinations" bit comes in...

Anyways, I'll elaborate: when Dick Armey was House Majority Leader he was also involved with FreedomWorks, a "right wing" grassroots advocacy group from which sprang the Tea Party. He gave a copy of Rules for Radicals to all the Tea Party leaders, and it's still required reading at FreedomWorks. So it turns out that this book was an important organizing tool for the movement that ended up being a large contributor to getting Donald Trump elected.

Also there's about as much need for violent civil war in the U.S. right now as there is in a town hall meeting to appoint the city dogcatcher. So much of this so-called divisiveness I see is much ado about very little, digitally magnified molehill mountains amplified by the internet, a double-edged sword if ever there was one. Unfortunately there are many vested interests who would like to see such divisiveness continue... it sells clicks. May the cooler heads prevail...
2073) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1856078)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Keep changing the subject. Saul Alinsky rules for radicals, #8.


You may want to reconsider your oft-stated disdain for this book... among other things it was central to organizing the Tea Party's strategy and protests, and William F. Buckley was a great admirer of Saul Alinsky. Note that it may be called "Rules for Radicals" but it doesn't qualify which radicals; it simply attempts to show how to overcome a moneyed, powerful opposition (these days they'd be called "the elite") while having neither.
2074) Message boards : Number crunching : Mikesworld has a new home (Message 1856003)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Can someone who has contacts ask the Powers That Be to make this thread a sticky?


Done... good idea and thanks.
2075) Message boards : Number crunching : From FX to Ryzen (Message 1855864)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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FYI if you like Windows 7 or 8(.1) and don't want to "up"grade: Microsoft is now denying updates to Ryzen and Kaby Lake platforms.

(Microsoft's page on this)

It looks like Microsoft is starting to lock down system updates for those using AMD’s Ryzen and Intel’s Kaby Lake processors on older versions of Windows, including Windows 7 and 8.1. Users are now starting to encounter the following error message: “Your PC uses a processor that isn’t supported on this version of Windows”. This message appears when a user attempts to update their OS and a quick look at Microsoft’s support page reveals upgrading to Windows 10 is the only resolution.

Microsoft’s support page on the matter says that Windows 10 is the ‘only’ OS to support these updated hardware configurations. You will need Windows 10 if running Kaby Lake or newer, AMD’s Bristol Ridge or newer (this includes Ryzen), or the Qualcomm 8996 and want to receive important updates in order to remain secure.
2076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1855860)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I represented the homeowner and argued that cedar was called out as the primary wood and that "other woods" was intended to allow for trim, door frames, eves, etc. I won.


Nice... and definitely seems like the correct judgment based on your summary. So it was an astounding coincidence after all. (Well at least to me.) :^)
2077) Message boards : Politics : How do you prepare for the end of the world? (Message 1855856)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't, because when our sun exits main sequence and its outer layers cross Earth's orbit, blow away the atmosphere and boil the oceans, I and everyone who ever remembered my existence will have been gone for about five billion years... and strangely this doesn't bother me at all. I didn't notice the eternity that passed before I was born; I won't notice that one either.
2078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1855850)
Posted 16 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That's why legal writing can be so much fun. I had a 2 day trial that turn on a comma. It can really change the meaning of something.

Is this an astounding coincidence or the trial you were involved in?
(You're in Cali; this is about as far as one can get in the same country (Maine) but would have been heard in the appellate court in Boston, so I am guessing the former.)

A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.

What ensued in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that could cost a dairy company in Portland, Me., an estimated $10 million.
2079) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1855800)
Posted 16 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Why do you folks outside the US have the most complaints about that which isn't affecting you?


Just to clarify, are you honestly claiming that the United States has no influence at all on the rest of the world?

I don't think you'd find much support for that claim on any political "side".
2080) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1855787)
Posted 16 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That's why legal writing can be so much fun. I had a 2 day trial that turn on a comma. It can really change the meaning of something.


Agreed!
2081) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1855677)
Posted 15 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I also found an error just within the past few minutes of a function that always worked: Top participants. The Total credit link is giving errors:

Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 85703 of 86016 bytes in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/user/top_users.php on line 95
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/user/top_users.php on line 113


Edit Adding &offset=0 to the link URL https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/top_users.php?sort_by=total_credit doesn't resolve it unfortunately.

Richard, I am amazed how quickly you found that!

Edit: 2017-Mar-20 Fixed!
2082) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1855601)
Posted 15 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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. . in the meantime, what are the chances of getting the Linux version of your rescheduler as is. :(


Odds are one in one. 100%. A sure thing! It's been linked in the first post since I made the thread. :^) Currently 0.51.

Haven't completed any functionality beyond that.
2083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If I get your goat :) (Message 1855541)
Posted 15 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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[quote]This reminds me... In Louisville, we have shotguns and camelbacks. Without looking it up, does anyone know what these are are referring to? (Hint: some people live in them)


Shacks? Only guessing due to Talking Heads' lyric "You may find yourself... living in a shotgun shack."
2084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The oldies fight back! (Message 1855451)
Posted 14 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I always thought messy doctor handwriting was a form of shorthand, so that a stolen prescription pad couldn't be used to get narcotics... nope. It's mainly due to being too busy to write neatly.

And it can be dangerous.

Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It's a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion prescriptions written in the U.S. every year.
2085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tullio joins the Mod team (Message 1855427)
Posted 14 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Nice... I can retire already! 😀

Welcome to the team Tullio!
2086) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1855056)
Posted 12 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I was awaiting this thread rising to to the top before writing anything (was stale for three months.)

I may possibly in the near future (no promises when...) start working on an update version. Here are some things possibly to incorporate from the list I have been keeping:


  • Writing GPU/CPU settings to file for when work units aren't available to read them from, rather than always reading from the current work unit set. This would be ideal for the Tuesday outrages when the GPU work is gone; CPU work could still be moved to GPUs to give them something to do
  • Reverse moving (for AMD) of VLARs to GPU and non-VLARs to CPU via command-line switch (AMDs actually process VLARs slightly faster)
  • Moving of VLARs to SoG exec. and non-VLAR to CUDA exec. via command-line option (this I doubt I will implement though as it would necessitate a very different Windows version)
  • Eliminating "Y/y" case sensitivity
  • Better "error" messages that are more like suggestions and don't make it seem the SETI@Home client is broken
  • Slight code optimizing (ie replacing one reverse find loop with a proper rfind)
  • Finally incorporating the OS X compile like I said would... sorry.



If there are any new/missed please let me know.

2087) Message boards : Number crunching : User achievements thread......... (Message 1855051)
Posted 12 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thank you Petri, Stephen, Clyde... I had no idea I was mentioned in here. Until now. :^) (I tend to use the "Milestones" thread.)

And extra-super-amazing thanks to Petri without whom I would probably have sold off my farm in disgust at its inefficiency with the the VLAR work. Instead I upgraded it.
2088) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1854618)
Posted 11 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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b) you act as if he's the first POTUS to sign off on someone's death outside of the rule of domestic or international law...


Certainly not... I'm sure other presidents have done worse. (Iraq, anyone?) But that doesn't excuse the act... I don't get to claim in court that I shouldn't be found guilty because other people did worse things. I'd be rightly laughed at... my actions must stand on their own.

Listening to "intel" over international law is what got the Iraq debacle started and Obama would have been wise to heed that lesson rather than violating domestic and international law for something that was highly unlikely to have been an immediate threat necessitating the response taken.
2089) Message boards : Politics : ....................45....................aka CITIZEN No. 1 Calls 'em RIGHT Every Time...Greatest LIARS In PREZ History: O'BLABBY; SHRUB II; SLICK WILLIE 9 to Zero WINNING!!! by American & BEST PREZ EVER (Message 1854573)
Posted 11 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Funny how you make the recipient at fault.


He does have a point though. Anwar Al-Aulaqi was a U.S. citizen. he was never convicted or even charged with a crime, yet President Obama ordered his assassination by the CIA, which was carried out by drone strike. (and yes, this is only one example.) Not something I would expect would qualify one for a Nobel Peace Prize.

(Note that I linked to the ACLU's edition of this deliberately to show agreement from disparate political stances that equally disagree with his actions.)
2090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mr. Kevvy is now a forum moderator (Message 1854470)
Posted 10 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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All mods, take a weeks vacation. First ban everyone from posting for a week. :-)

Sorry... two week minimum. ;^)

Buttons at the ready, Mr. Kevvy?

Even had a chance to break them in... no points for guessing where. It's too obvious. 😀

Welcome Mr. Kevvy!!! We are so happy to have you on our current team!!!

That is so nice and I am very happy to be here!
2091) Message boards : Politics : Ireland's Shame (Message 1854404)
Posted 10 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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2. The US is a country which does not "respect" any one religion but was formed on the basis of "the Law's of Nature" and "Nature's God." ...


The phrase "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" does appear in the Declaration of Independence, but this is not a legal document. An influential one to be sure, but has no actual legal standing. The formative document with supreme legal standing is the Constitution.
2092) Message boards : Politics : Ireland's Shame (Message 1854341)
Posted 10 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Somewhat less now http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/ 22.8% claim none.


Thanks... that is quite a large change from what I remembered a few years ago. (Also that is from Pew and they can't be said to be biased in that direction either.)
2093) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1854340)
Posted 10 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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That's it? Socialist supporter's reference Uruguay? OK, I will now modify, and say 99% of Socialist Leaders are Frauds.


Sorry, Clyde, you lost me... you asked for an example of a leader who lived as their people do, and I provided one.
Unsure what you mean.
(Also don't forget M. Gandhi, and he was also the leader of a movement too.)
2094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mr. Kevvy is now a forum moderator (Message 1854203)
Posted 9 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My condolences, Mr. Kevvy.

Congratz Mr. Kevvy! I hope they have your straight jacket ready. :-)

I also send my condolences.


Oh bah... it won't be that bad. If it is I can always just claim I wasn't around and let Bernie handle it. 😀

Politics, Where angels fear to tread.
Good luck Mr. Kevvy. I have been there, Done that, And have the T-shirt. Although after wading in the political thread it is now in shreds:)


I've actually started posting more in Politics just to lose my sometimes-deserved disdain for the cesspool place. It's much improved from a year or two ago!

Mr Kevvy - I think I've still got some of the funny shaped pills left. If so I'll send you them.
The burns from entering politics do heal - eventually.


Geez that place has a bad rep. :^)

Welcome to the team.
I believe Fred often starts new moderators near the weekend.
Can't think why😀


Because moderation is one long Friday to Monday party! ;^)

Has Cliff passed the big red button over to Mr.Kevvy?


I believe that it was Cliff's button, but I still don't even have it yet... hrm.

Well, congrats Mr. Kevvy!
I shall do my best not to give you too much to practice on this weekend.

Meow!


Thanks, Mark... I was hoping for that, but if I do ever get my buttons, I will do my best to clean up kitty's leavings of droppings outside the litterbox fast enough to alleviate "Caturday regrets". 😀

Congratulations Kevvy! Hope we don't take too much of your time.


Nah... there are enough of us that I can take a breather if it gets weird.
2095) Message boards : Politics : Ireland's Shame (Message 1854194)
Posted 9 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I think Mr kevvy is 1/2 right at least about Russia China and Nth Korea but the other so call secular states aren't really secular even if we tell our self's they are .

Queen of England is head of state and head of the Church of England so not really truly secular
American has "In god we trust " in big letter behind the speaker chair and well I think every one knows the Bible belt has a lot of influence


if you re-read my post, I was pretty clear that Great Britain (including England) is not secular. It has an official state church as you noted, which even has seats in parliament (I see Bobby already also noted this.) Religious Americans should relish their secularity, as an official state religion in Britain has caused Christianity to decline to 42% of the population... fully half now identify as non-religious/atheist/agnostic, whereas in the U.S. about 90% identify as religious. This is simple human nature... people tend to dislike being told what to think/believe (isn't this supposed to be a "conservative" tenet as well?)


As far as IGWT and the "under God" in the Pledge, SCOTUS has ruled that this is "ceremonial deism" (where's the balancing ceremonial adeism, hmm?) So this would be the "official religion" of the U.S.... it has no worshippers, no buildings, no holy book, no holidays, and consists merely of putting the word "God" in places it wasn't. Not much of a religion I would conclude,
2096) Message boards : Politics : Ireland's Shame (Message 1854147)
Posted 9 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Secular Theology (Ideology) becoming The State. The same Evil.
...
100% agree. Just ask the Over 1 Billion People Murdered and Enslaved over the past 100 years, by Non Religious States.


Secular/non-religious states are capital-E Evil? I hope you don't include your own... yes, the United States of America is a secular state. So is Canada. So are the vast majority of countries. Some exceptions: an east-west swath of north Africa and the middle east in which the official state religion is Islam, and Great Britain, you know... that country yours declared independence from? And of course, Ireland.

Some criteria for the U.S. being secular: it has no official state religion, it has constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religious worship and expression, its constitution's only references to religion are exclusionary: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" / "there shall be no religious test for public office."

I think that you may be conflating officially atheistic states (ie the U.S.S.R.) where religion is/was actively suppressed and there is/was no religious liberty, with officially secular states where the government is (at least supposed to be) religiously neutral, neither advancing nor impeding, and with religious liberty guaranteed for all. It is a common enough error, but you are the first self-identified atheist I have known to do so...
2097) Message boards : Number crunching : Using data mining devices ? (Message 1854125)
Posted 9 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Antminer and other dedicated miners are ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) so they have dedicated hardware optimized for hashing and little or nothing else. Assuming they could even do SETI@home tasks, I'd expect their performance would be rather poor compared to a general-purpose CPU.
2098) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1854089)
Posted 9 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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When the Leaders of Movements, who state they are for Economic Equality, really live as those they Control. Then they can then be considered Non-Frauds.


May I present, Jose Mujica, president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.

Laundry is strung outside the house. The water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a three-legged dog, keep watch outside.

This is the residence of the president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, whose lifestyle clearly differs sharply from that of most other world leaders.

President Mujica has shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan state provides for its leaders and opted to stay at his wife's farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.

The president and his wife work the land themselves, growing flowers.

This austere lifestyle - and the fact that Mujica donates about 90% of his monthly salary, equivalent to $12,000 (£7,500), to charity - has led him to be labelled the poorest president in the world.


I can't think of many other examples of high-ranking politicians.
Edit: ... recent. There was Mohandas Gandhi of course.
2099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mr. Kevvy is now a forum moderator (Message 1853966)
Posted 9 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Welcome Mr. Kevvy.


Thanks Gary. :^) I won't be up to speed for a day or two (don''t even have my tag yet)... best enjoy the quiet while I can!

Congrats Mr Kevvy.


Thanks! Hope it stays congrat-worthy. Can get messy out there at times. ;^)
2100) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Why do we keep listening to an "illegal" frequency? (Message 1853891)
Posted 8 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm trying to figure out why the radio frequency is 1420 MHz so often are used when searching for alien transmissions.
Is that band somehow better than other bands to make an carrier wave that could include any messages?


The "Water Hole".

The waterhole, or water hole, is an especially quiet band of the electromagnetic spectrum between 1,420 and 1,666 megahertz, corresponding to wavelengths of 21 and 18 centimeters respectively. It is a popular observing frequency used by radio telescopes in radio astronomy. The term was coined by Bernard Oliver in 1971. The strongest hydroxyl radical spectral line radiates at 18 centimeters, and hydrogen at 21 centimeters. These two molecules, which combined form water, are widespread in interstellar gas, and their presence radiates radio noise at these frequencies. Therefore, the spectrum between these frequencies form a "quiet" channel in the interstellar radio noise background. Bernard M. Oliver theorized that the waterhole would be an obvious band for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence, hence the name, which is a form of pun: in English, a watering hole is a vernacular reference to a common place to meet and talk. Several programs involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including SETI@home, search in the waterhole radio frequencies.
2101) Message boards : Politics : 44 GOING TO JAIL CONmutiny DESTRUCTIONizer to Have Teachable 'Moments' fO a 'CAPTIVE' Audience (Message 1853637)
Posted 7 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
http://www.infowars.com/obama-expanded-nsa-powers-days-before-leaving-office-now-theyre-being-used-to-sabotage-trump/


Your statement is factually correct, but linking to Infowars undermines it. Please keep in mind that this is the site that claims, among many others equally outlandish , and with zero actual evidence whatsoever, that the government murdered innocent schoolchildren and made it look like it was the work of a lone psychopath in order to pass firearm legislation. Yikes. Also yuck.

Here is a link to a somewhat more reputable site with the same story.

I find this graphic quite useful, and as close to unbiased as I can get:

2102) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1853256)
Posted 5 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I much prefer the American saying:

"I may not like what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it".


Er... English, and often mis-attributed French but agreeable nonetheless!
2103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1853225)
Posted 5 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Everybody knows that we currently have a left wing oriented management here.

But he has been a complete idiot over recent days with the gender bending cross dressing business.

2104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1853216)
Posted 5 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's unfortunate that some of us don't have enough empathy with people with a mental illness to avoid getting angry at or insulting them for something they have no control over. If yelling at a person with Down syndrome to smarten up or having a group laugh at the delusions of a schizophrenic seems like cruelty, this quite possibly should too.

As the moderators should not have to repeatedly point out to we old-timers, if anyone here gets under our skin enough that we become angry with them, simply find their "User ID" from their profile (I bet we've memorized Mark's by now), go into your account then Community Preferences and add their ID # to Filtered Users. Then you will never see a PM or thread or post from them again, only quoted text from others. I know, simple and obvious and common knowledge... so why not being done? And if they are making us angry because they've posted something contrary to the policies, hit the red X anonymously and let the impartial cooler heads of the moderators who can actually fix the problem handle it better than arguing can.
2105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852958)
Posted 4 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mark, that's a middle-school teaching aid Google doc placed there for K-12 students. It only discusses issues since the 1970s and doesn't claim that is where they were invented. (I'd wager this is because anything before the 1970s would be considered prehistoric by the intended very young audience...) Etymology Online shows the word in use since 1936 with its current meaning.

Edit: @janneseti <<shaking tiny internet fist>> Darn you and your faster typing. :^)

Edit2: Sorry Bernie hope this doesn't qualify.... avoided any hot-button terms.
2106) Message boards : Politics : Windows 10? (Message 1852903)
Posted 4 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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One other point about OS upgrades. A lot of friends have used the typical "Microsoft scare tactic" to encourage me to upgrade ... namely to suggest that the older an OS is, the more at-risk users are to malware. Actually (and I could be wrong), I think the truth is the opposite. Malware creators and hackers tend to follow "the flock."


Absolutely... install base is everything. Another plus for Linux; I dunno if it can be said to be "more secure" anymore as Windows has vastly improved over the years, but there's simply almost no (platform-specific) malware for it because there are so few desktop installs. It seems logarithmic ie 1/10 the install base = 1/100 the malware, as they only target the most popular platform. If it catches on this will change; we have already seen cross-platform malware based in Java and Python so that Linux and Mac will get infected.

Also the fake honeypot folder to catch the last distro's malware is a great idea.

Edit: Also I shouldn't really imply that since I don't game anymore that Linux is a good fit. In the last year it's progressed tremendously... Steam and GOG have hundreds of Linux games offered and video driver updates are now automatic (for NVidia at least.) I'm betting that gaming availability is what is going to drive desktop Linux into the mainstream, and what has been holding it back thus far.
2107) Message boards : Politics : Windows 10? (Message 1852872)
Posted 4 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I actually have a 3rd computer upon which I "experiment" with Linux distros. My next experiment will be with the latest version of Linux Mint. If I ever find a Linux distro that will do everything I want to do with a computer, I'll switch all of my computers over to the OS ... divorcing myself from Microsoft OSs completely. So far, I've not found one that will do everything I want to do on my computer. But (grin), hope springs eternal.


Your experience (and outlook on OS upgrades) is pretty much similar to mine. What Linux Mint did for me that caused me to switch over all of machines was do SETI@Home twice as fast/productive on the same hardware as Windows... if one has Maxwell card or higher. I also only upgraded Windows versions before when necessary, when I hit a limitation of the current OS with what I needed it for. Conservative upgrading also prevents installing an OS with severe unpatched bugs and security holes.

I don't play games anymore so it was an easy switch, including the machine I actually use. I need a modern, standards-compatible browser (Firefox is built-in and Chrome is a very easy install) with Netflix a bonus (Chrome does as default with HTML5), file sharing to LAN (SAMBA is integral to Linux), office suite (LibreOffice is built-in), image editing (GIMP is built-in), video playback for the widest variety of formats/containers (VLC is built-in), audio playback (Audacious), onscreen OCR (Tesseract and some support utils. via a batch file), backup (FreeFileSync). Also installed Blueman for better Bluetooth (I could never get it working in Windows properly). So Mint does everything I need. Hope your experience is as good.

(And what is this thread doing in Politics anyways?)
2108) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1852370)
Posted 2 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
molecule


Other than this word, good scientific word salad. Should be "atom" unless Pelosium is diatomic and does not exhibit the mass-increasing property in the monatomic state.

I was rather surprised that the first person to propose an atomic theory wasn't shoehorned into there due to his name's similarity to a certain political party: Democritus. :^D
2109) Message boards : Politics : I am now very sad to have watched the Oscars. (Message 1852351)
Posted 2 Mar 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If this Clyde guy believes he and the cross dressing cat guy possess the high ground where ethics, morality and tolerance are concerned, carry on fools.
Robert Waite...

You believe that "cross dressing" is a negative?

To this Pro LGBTQ Poster. Your Anti-LGBTQ Hate Speech is disgusting.


There's a very valid point that Robert is making there, and it has nothing to do with hate speech at all. [ Did you just go all nasty lefty toilet on us and invoke hate speech where there was none? Political correctness run amok! This is sarcasm by the way, just in case you were wondering. :^) ]

Mark has made numerous posts and started entire threads trying to convert people here. As an example see "I am a Christ child, so therefore I shall attempt to save you as well." in this very forum. He also (surprisingly to me at least) declared himself a Catholic in that very same thread.

Yet, he has also admitted to transvestism. This is considered a sin in the Catholic church, as well as many other denominations. It was used, for example, to convict Joan of Arc of heresy. This is mostly due to Deuteronomy 22:5:

"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination to the Lord thy God."

Thus Robert may well have just been pointing this quite possibly accidental oversight.
2110) Message boards : Politics : The US has elected its most dangerous leader. We all have plenty to fear. (Message 1851580)
Posted 26 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I believe, other than the muslim faith, that most of us are invoking the same deity.


Islam is an Abrahamic religion as are Christianity and Judaism... Abraham, Moses, Mary and Jesus all appear in the Quran (Mary is the only woman named in it.) Moses and Jesus are also revered as major prophets (there also are a bunch of minor ones.)

So, same deity. Unless it's that other singular omnipotent omnipresent eternal all-creator. :^D

(Edit: also "Allah" is simply Arabic for "the god"... it is not a name per se.)
2111) Message boards : Politics : The US has elected its most dangerous leader. We all have plenty to fear. (Message 1851508)
Posted 26 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Christophobic, are we?
LOL.


Er... not even close on that one. Rather, not the denomination I ever would have guessed.
(Edit: especially with the current pope...)
2112) Message boards : Politics : The US has elected its most dangerous leader. We all have plenty to fear. (Message 1851506)
Posted 26 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I am a Catholic.


2113) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Trappist-1 - did we really search it? (Message 1851502)
Posted 26 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
First of all, spell your word correctly.


Thiss foreum iz yoozed buy peeple fraum awl owever Urth, phor whoom Nglish mae knot bee they're furst langwaje. Sew yew shud bee aybull tew handel erors wihtout caling thm owt awnn itt... att leest thy ar tryng.
2114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1851140)
Posted 25 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I, personally, believe that life as we know it, could have been seeded by either other life visiting us, or by cosmic remnants from a comet that crashed into us billions of light years ago.
Or by God, who I also believe in.


One can certainly accept both simultaneously...

... I like the idea that we were seeded by a meteorite from Mars when it had liquid water and an atmosphere. (This is actually plausible as Earth wasn't as conducive to the formation of life at the time, and of course the meteorite from Mars found in Antarctica with organic molecules and possible microbes in it.)

Means that we're all really Martians. Makes us a little more exotic.
2115) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Trappist-1 - did we really search it? (Message 1850595)
Posted 22 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
IHow much did we really listen it?


Given what we now know to be there, I think the answer must be:
"Not nearly enough."

Hard to starboard on the Robert C. Byrd, mateys. :^)
2116) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Planet Hunters Report Record-Breaking Discovery, Search for other habitable planets (Message 1850585)
Posted 22 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Today NASA is holding a press conference on exoplanets at 1 PM EST, 19 CEST, to be published in "Nature" magazine.
Tullio


Streaming now from NASA. This one isn't working for me for some reason (probably blocked at work) so watching on CTV. Dunno if that works outside Canada.

Summary: There are seven earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 39.1 LY away and three of them are in the liquid-water habitable zone.
2117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1849705)
Posted 18 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... 40 years ago.


Well I'm not surprised it wasn't successful... that was quite a long time ago and a lot has been learned since then and the therapies are much more effective (and less hit-and-miss of not knowing which to use.)

And there was another drug they gave me...........
Cannot remember the name, but it was evil sh-t.
Years ago I read that it is usually reserved for the clinically insane.


Er... Haldol?
2118) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1849694)
Posted 18 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The PC term of the day does not change it's effect on one's life.


It wasn't changed due to hypersensitivity or political correctness or any other reason than simple accuracy; "bipolar" was initially introduced to differentiate it from unipolar chronic depression and then it was officially changed because bipolar cyclothymia wasn't included in manic depression so it was an incomplete designation.

(FYI My mother is bipolar, although after two decades tweaking her meds. someone who had just met her would never know, so I look into these things. :^) )
2119) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1849503)
Posted 18 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mark, I've seen you say several times that you are a George Carlin fan. What material have you seen by him... Hippy-Dippy Weatherman? A Place For My Stuff?

The skit he's probably best known for is this one. And on the subject, this one is essential. Seems like you may be badly in need of them.

(NSFW language in links, of course.)

//back to lurking
2120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1849335)
Posted 17 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


"Fake mews!"


:^)
2121) Message boards : News : Problems with centurion (Message 1847770)
Posted 10 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If you really had CDO you would have put the letters in their correct order. ;-)


They are already... they are sorted by roundness in descending order! :^)

And to anyone not getting work for days try restarting the BOINC client, check over your preferences, maybe even reboot. There's no way it should have been this long for anyone, at most a few hours on all of my machines (and this is without "micromanaging" their requesting.) The client will sometimes just get stuck where it is not requesting work every five minutes if it doesn't have enough on either platform.
2122) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1847215)
Posted 7 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The rotating star that a few of us have was designed for a light background so has light fade pixels that stand out rather poorly on the new dark background. I corrected this and here's an updated one:



Please feel free to save and use this one to replace the existing file.
2123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : IS it allowed to discuss moderating on the boards? (Message 1846299)
Posted 3 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : IS it allowed to discuss moderating on the boards? (Message 1846296)
Posted 3 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

I live in a home bought and paid for by my grandparents, and then bought and paid for again with my sweat and spriit and pain.
I now own it outright, by God.
Only He can take it from me.
Are not MY standards of what is right and wrong applicable?


Absolutely! In your own home bought and paid for by you, you set the standard.

However this forum is not owned by any one person, but is a "home" for all of us. So there are different standards and different people to set them.

P.S. Unsure why you haven't tried blogging yet as depending on the policies of your blogging host you can write an unlimited amount of just about anything you like (unless it's illegal of course!)

Edit: Heading home now... everyone play nice. :^p
2125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : IS it allowed to discuss moderating on the boards? (Message 1846290)
Posted 3 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
WHO's standards should be applied?

I know 'kid freiendly' applies.

Who's kids? ...


Just pretend you're writing for these ones and you will be fine:



Hey it's kept me out of trouble so far. Also on the left of every of the thousands of posts you make is:

The moderators may be contacted at seti_moderators@ssl.berkeley.edu

It's always better to use that.

P.S. Yes, I know that you know this. :^)
2126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1845869)
Posted 2 Feb 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Speaking of donations, and because it's tax time here in the USA:
Those donations are tax deductible, right? Seti@home is a non-profit
organization, isn't it?


Yes, they certainly are...

Q: Is my donation tax deductible?
A: If you are in the United States and Canada, your donation is tax-deductible. The University of California is a nonprofit educational and research organization governed by the provisions of Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The University's Federal Identification number for reporting and tax purposes is 94-6002


Nice that they updated the page to show it's also tax deductible for Canadians (There are many Canadians who attend U.S. universities so gifts to them are exempted.)
2127) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1845555)
Posted 31 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Maybe Trump has business interests in those countries not banned...

Not just 'maybe'.
2128) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1845247)
Posted 29 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Love dA Mooslims at US Airports and Around The Vrold Airports STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKs. SAAAAAWeeeEEEETness.


Here are some other "Mooslims" that were also "stopped in their tracks":



REAL AMERICAN Yap


Really? You gave your life for your country like they did too? Wow! It's amazing that you can still type. It's unfortunate that you waste this beyond-the-grave gift on posts that, in my humble opinion are a hair's-breadth from violating the forum policy on abusive posts targeted towards a specific group, if not beyond it.

However, it turns out that you've actually accomplished something good. Given enough time, most of the people who clamor about "national security" or "terrorism" end up just outing themselves as plain old bigots (yeah, I didn't misuse the word "racism" so don't tar me with the SJW brush, thanks.) To oppose bigotry and uphold the United States Constitution (a document I have much respect for) I've just donated $20 U.S. to the A.C.L.U. as they have recently and once again demonstrated that they have the fortitude and legal acumen to actually do something about unconstitutional "executive orders" and other violations. I suggest anyone else who is concerned about the current situation to do the same.

Further spittle-flecked authentic frontier gibberish promoting bigotry will result in further A.C.LU. donations. Keep up the good work.

P.S. I actually agree with some of POTUS Trump's policies, especially the jobs/trade/economics ones.... but not this one! He and you have gone too far.

OK it's back to lurking. I need a shower after posting in Politics. :^p
2129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Actor John Hurt has passed. (Message 1844980)
Posted 28 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Along with The Elephant Man, another favourite of mine he starred in was 10 Rillington Place. Not just brilliantly acted by Richard Attenborough and him, but also a very accurate true story of historical importance.

Another light has gone out...
2130) Message boards : Number crunching : Cruncher Down (Message 1844756)
Posted 27 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I was looking at the label on the Thermaltake TR2 430W and I see it has 2 12V rails. First one is 18 A, second is 17 A. I'll be buying only single 12 V rail PS from now on.


I personally haven't had good experiences with Thermaltake... ironic that they make the "Dr. Power" PSU tester as their own PSUs are the ones I have most needed to use it on when they failed. :^p

I personally have had good experiences with Corsair, eVGA and Seasonic PSUs.... I'd recommend those brands.
2131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What do you do with Christmas trees afterwards (Message 1844325)
Posted 25 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Launch them of course.


♪ "And the rockets' red glare,
Tannenbaums bursting in air..." ♫
2132) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Breakthrough listen (Message 1843249)
Posted 20 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here is a document on it in PDF format. Linked from here.

I had thought that the Kepler objects would be given priority. <shrug>
2133) Message boards : Number crunching : Cruncher Down (Message 1842871)
Posted 18 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But I have never had a bad ASUS.


Mine went from bad to worse... received the RMA replacement, put everything together and then "the lights went on but no one was home": when it blew, it took out the AMD FX 8-core CPU. This is exactly what the MSI boards kept doing. And its warranty had expired.

So, about $300 (Canbucks) later as I bought a three-year in-store replacement warranty, I have a new CPU on the RMA board in case it dies the same way and fries another one. Funny... the fellow at the store mentioned just this, the some people just have more luck with certain brands of boards and swear by them whereas others have endless problems. I hope this was my only ASUS lemon.
2134) Message boards : Number crunching : Cruncher Down (Message 1841953)
Posted 13 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't doubt they make many fine boards, but they definitely do have a few lemons in there as well.
2135) Message boards : Number crunching : Cruncher Down (Message 1841917)
Posted 13 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I didn't want to start another "Apologies to wingies..." thread for it so was waiting for another one to appear to use... this machine has been dead since New Year's Eve. I should be picking up the replacement motherboard tonight and it should be up and running by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Caveat: ASUS has an (overly?) good reputation for motherboards, but on some of them they used bad capacitors. This is the second M5A78L-M LX I have had fail due to a blown 5KT38 270μF 16V (Chinese-made capacitors get a bad rap but these are made by Samwha in SK.)
2136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1841847)
Posted 13 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You almost certainly had a night terror aka sleep terror. Used to have them myself when life was not so good, ie when I was a young substance-abuser without a stable relationship; this was about thirty years ago. I can almost guarantee they are caused by the alcohol. Mine were similar: brief nightmarish episodes often with loud voices and a feeling of paralysis or suffocation. I could describe waking from them was akin to swimming to the surface from deep underwater.

The paralysis and suffocation effects are illusions caused by being asleep enough that the locus coeruleus is active inhibiting voluntary muscle control: you're unable to will yourself to move so you feel paralyzed, and although you are breathing just fine autonomically, you don't realize this and because you can't control it/feel it you think you are suffocating. Once I realized this was illusory and my life stabilized, the night terrors went away. I still get one very occasionally (perhaps one every few years) versus nightly, sometimes several times, when they were at their worst. I thus look at them as a learning experience.

I started this thread a bit ago and somebody had the audacity to dissolve it.


Well, you do have your own thread already very close to this one. As it doesn't have a set subject, this could very well have gone into it without needing another. Perhaps this thread will be merged in now... I hope this post isn't deleted as it may possibly be helpful to someone else having these attacks.

Edit: As a footnote, this function of the locus coeruleus was first discovered in your favorite animals. It was found that cats with lesions on or near this area, or when it had been removed, would not lie still but instead "act out" their dreaming. (Which also conclusively showed that animals dream too of course.) Thus, because this finding fixed my night terrors, I was indirectly saved by cats. I guess you were right. :^)
2137) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : How to find intelligent life on planet Mars! (Message 1841646)
Posted 12 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"If the planet ever is terraformed, it will be done by human beings whose permanent residence and planetary affiliation is Mars. The Martians will be us."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Chapter V "Blues for a Red Planet"

Thus there will be intelligent life found on Mars. The sooner the better!
2138) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC client isn't downloading new S@H workunits on S6 Android (Message 1840841)
Posted 8 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Finally, I just noticed my Samsung Galaxy S6 Android 6.0.1 is downloading and running tasks properly, so it looks as though the problem has been resolved.
2139) Message boards : Number crunching : Merging Hosts (Message 1840165)
Posted 5 Jan 2017 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"So I upgraded one of my hosts operating system"

I'm not sure how fine-grained the back-end is on OS version changes, but this is almost certainly the cause of it not allowing the merge.
2140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Message 1838403)
Posted 29 Dec 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'd like to, but I don't see any way of editing the thread title anymore, unlike with the last schema. I'll ask a moderator.

Never mind... figured it out!
2141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Message 1838234)
Posted 28 Dec 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you for your dedication to Bipolar Disorder, and progressing the knowledge of Mental Issues of all types.


One of the better tributes on this I have seen...
2142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Message 1838121)
Posted 28 Dec 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Carrie Fisher dies at 60

Carrie Fisher, the brash and witty Hollywood princess who became a galactic princess in Star Wars and later found acclaim as an author and screenwriter, died on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on Friday. She was 60.


May The Force be with you, Carrie...
2143) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1837417)
Posted 23 Dec 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Damn, I haven't posted in almost four months. I think to say "I've been busy" is a bit of an understatement. :^p I have a lot of catch-up reading to do.

On March 19, I wrote:

Took sixteen years to get this done...
I'll double it in only one!


Happy to have done it and 85 days ahead of schedule... sixteen years to my first hundred million, and just 280 days to the second. Onward to the third!
2144) Message boards : News : "Baffling" "signal" "from HD 164595" is probably none of the above. (Message 1813618)
Posted 29 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In other words, then, it's a lot like the very un-"WOW" signal which was never reobserved or confirmed as well as missing other essential criteria applied to the SET@Home signals.

Isn't it also strange that the news is coming out now, pretty close to the "WOW" Aug. 15th anniversary considering that the Russians sat on the news for over a year, which in itself adds to the dubiousness (independent confirmation should be almost immediate.)
2145) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1812003)
Posted 24 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You're welcome! Thanks for the nice feedback. :^)

And now on to the not-so-good: I did eliminate the possible endless loop bilbg pointed out, but with plenty of "ap" work in the cache when I ran it recently, it hung on the first line. I looked over the source and I am not sure why... it should break out either to terminate or continue. However this was a one-off: I launched BOINC and retried a few minutes later and it worked (moved all of one work unit... bloody GUPPIs. :^p)

So if anyone else has this, break out of it with Ctrl+c and please let me know if a retry doesn't fix it a bit later. I'll be having a look at this. Right now unfortunately it's bedtime!
2146) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1811954)
Posted 24 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Finally, not sure if this is intentional, but the "Y" to proceed in 0.51 is case sensitive. Not sure if you intended that. That got me a couple times, when I wasn't looking closely, thought it had run and it hadn't due to my "y" instead of "Y" response. Dunno if you're willing to Case that?
Thanks, !!


Being a newly-"Minted" Linux junkie I'm used to excessive case sensitivity and wondered if anyone would be thrown by that in Windows. I'll add that into the next version... assuming there is one! :^)

I've run the 0.51 rescheduler now several times on all three crunchers that have had AP work on board and haven't ghosted any tasks. Looks like the bug is squashed to me.


Excellent... I can sleep better now. ;^) Thank you for your feedback as it was quite helpful.
2147) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1811878)
Posted 23 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mr. Kevvy's GUPPI Rescheduler v0.4


Current one is v0.51 and any work unit loss should be resolved. Download.

If BOINC Manager hangs and doesn't display anything when it's started, it means that it wasn't quit for long enough when GUPPIRescheduler was run and files were in use. Quit it, make sure to check the box to quit running apps., wait at least ten seconds (on Linux this is when the command prompt cursor stops flashing... a handy timer) run GUPPIRescheduler again (as it did nothing the last time with the files open) and relaunch BOINC.

Edit: I would also suggest to keep any discussion of it in its own thread to keep the board tidier without numerous threads about the same app.
2148) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1810926)
Posted 21 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Sigh... version 0.51 uploaded... please update and my apologies.

Thank you BilBg for catching my bonehead errors. I shouldn't code on a Saturday night even when sober. :^p

Or maybe at any other time... lol. Maybe I can finally sleep now. Happily my response time is now much faster.
2149) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1810888)
Posted 21 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Version 0.5 uploaded which should address the AP work unit issue... not a lot of AP work right now so it's hard to verify with live data.

Bonus: Added --b (Linux) and -b (Windows) command line switch to skip the warning that SETI Beta is present; helpful for automating GUPPIRescheduler ie with Stubbles' script. I would have liked to work on other things ie the AMD variation that reverses the reassignment direction, but I have to get the fix posted ASAP.

I'll be watching this thread now that an issue was noted, so please post for any issues and PM me if there's no response. If any problems are noted I should now be able to resolve the same day.
2150) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1810125)
Posted 18 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
MB work (for me at least) seems to have completely dried up, so if you're getting errors using this app. it may mean there's simply nothing to move right now.
2151) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1810059)
Posted 18 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I think that perhaps what Richard was getting at was not so much that the actual identification of tasks to be rescheduled has a problem, but rather that the initial identification of app version and plan class might have a problem when the first task that is found in the scheduler request file happens to be an AP. In other words, could:

currentposition = sched_request.find("</app_version>\n        <plan_class>");		// Now do the same as the block above but for app_versionGPU

result in the extraction of the app_version (and, subsequently, the plan class) for an AP instead of for an MB? I don't know that you're checking for APs at that point. Just a thought.


Thanks... I will have a look at that. Will have time this weekend to check it over in detail (thankfully no plans for a change.)
2152) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1810053)
Posted 18 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Haven't been watching this thread much but was advised of issues...

The app. doesn't check for AP tasks but does the opposite: the MB mover checks for the task name starting with ##xx two digit-day and month:

		if (isdigit(client_state[currentposition])) {
			if (isdigit(client_state[currentposition + 1])) {
				if (isalpha(client_state[currentposition + 2])) {
					if (isalpha(client_state[currentposition + 3])) {


And the GUPPI mover checks for the WU name task name starting with "blc":
	if ( client_state.substr(currentposition, 3) == "blc" ) {


So it should never touch AP work as neither would match as they start with "ap_"

I apologize if the app. doesn't work for anyone (especially if it drops work units) but I am unsure why it does this, as it worked for me the Windows and several Linux machines I tested it and continue to use it on. I think this is due to BOINC using multiple platforms simultaneously for the same type of work for some people's builds. (I even ran it on the client_state files that people who had issues sent me, and it worked on them, so I'm still in the dark as to the cause.) As noted in the readme, back up your client_state.xml before first use, and hopefully if it works the first time it will keep working if you don't go and change platforms ie by installing a third-party client.
2153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A happy monument (Message 1807216)
Posted 5 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I also intended for the sun on the horizon to be ambiguous. Is it setting or rising?


I would say it's more likely to be rising, as many flowers are heliotropic and follow the sun, but four of the five shown are pointed in the opposite direction, where it would have set.
2154) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1806688)
Posted 2 Aug 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
@Mr. Kevvy: Has your GUPPIrescheduler ever been tried with stock?


Yes, and for most people it should work with it.
2155) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Interesting (Message 1805503)
Posted 29 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
♫♩ "My name is Luca
I live on the ocean floor
I evolved into you
Yes, I think you've been me before..."
♪♫

With apologies to Suzanne Vega. :^)
2156) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1804910)
Posted 26 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just some quick feedback. App working well. First time I ran it on my 3 crunchers, it moved about 60-70 workunits to and fro on each machine. I just ran it again on each machine when I shut them down for peak power usage interval and it moved about 15 workunits. Seems to move a 1:1 swap of VLAR-non- guppi workunits. Already noticed a nice bump in RAC on each machine. Now just need to create a batch file for the app to make it easier to run instead of using the command prompt interface. Good job Mr. Kevvy!


Thank you. :^) It's much appreciated especially from someone all-Windows as I'm more concerned about it working on that platform (already pretty sure of Linux.) I did link to Stubbles' CMD in the first post at the bottom. Stubbles also indicated another one in development so hoping will reply here.

One thing I should put in the To Do list is to allow a command line parameter to prevent the "Y" requirement for if it detects SETI Beta.
2157) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1804679)
Posted 24 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This can happen if there aren't enough of a certain work unit type in your queue for it to make a determination. Give it a few hours until the queue is different and it should clear up, if not please advise.
2158) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1804284)
Posted 22 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I obviously don't get something. Why not use Linux?
(...or am I asking a Q that was answered many times before)


2159) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to swap a guppi assigned to GPU with a Arecibo assigned to CPU? (Message 1804171)
Posted 22 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is there any news from any front ?


Possibly.
2160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1804044)
Posted 22 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What is Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s middle name? Benoit B. Mandelbrot


Seen it before, but kudos on including this best-of the-best. Not just sublimely witty, but non-nerds just don't get it... it's a Definitive Geek Joke. :^)

My oldie but goodie favorite in the same category:

Why do nerds confuse Hallowe'en with Christmas? Because OCT 31 = DEC 25.
2161) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1804018)
Posted 21 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I see a BLC GUPPI assigned to GPU in there which could be moved, but keep in mind that the determinant is the number of non-VLAR MB assigned to CPU. IF there are none, it won't do anything. Check for work units starting with a two digit and two letter month abbreviation without VLAR at the end and no plan_class ie cuda60 showing in parenthesis after the Application. If there are none, the program is working.
2162) Message boards : Number crunching : GUPPI Rescheduler for Linux and Windows - Move GUPPI work to CPU and non-GUPPI to GPU (Message 1803817)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
GUPPI Rescheduler is a small, simple command-line application for Linux and Windows designed to partially address the issue with SETI@Home GUPPI VLAR workunits, namely, that they run much more slowly on NVidia GPUs than "traditional" Arecibo multi-beam (MB) work units do, taking far longer to complete while resulting in the same credit, whereas if assigned to CPU they actually complete slightly faster than non-GUPPI, non-VLAR work. Thus for both credit and efficiency purposes it's optimal to reassign each work type to the platform that handles it best. I'm hoping that having the application available will also help to mitigate people aborting or deleting GUPPI work.

What GUPPI Rescheduler does is to move these GUPPI work units that are assigned to the GPU to CPU assignment, and vice-versa for the non-GUPPI, non-VLAR units which are moved from CPU to GPU assignment. Astropulse (ap) work units are not moved either way. When GUPPI Rescheduler is launched, it:


  • Scans client_state.xml and sched_request_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml to determine the client's platform and applications names/versions
  • Finds and counts all non-started, non-GUPPI, non-VLAR MB work units assigned to CPU and reassigns them to GPU
  • Finds up to that number of non-started GUPPI VLAR MB work units assigned to GPU and reassigns them to CPU (the reason for the "up to" is so that the client's queue won't grow without limit on successive runs by the slower CPU queue filling up with excessive GUPPI work units)
  • Writes the changes to client_state.xml and exits (this is the only file that it changes... nothing is written unless there are changes so it can be run as often as wished. I suggest every few hours, or as long as it takes the machine's GPU or CPU to clear its queue, as optimal.)



GUPPI Rescheduler v0.4 download link - includes Linux and Windows versions and a ReadMe. More importantly, it includes the C++ source code (compiles in g++ in the gcc suite on Linux and Dev-C++ on Windows. Only one tiny change documented in the source needs to be made on the Windows build... CR/LF of course!) I release it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. You may post it anywhere you like but please keep it in the original unmodified .7z. You may use the source code as you wish; I would be very happy to see improvements and bugfixes, but of course under the terms of the GPL please include the source code with any public releases.

(I wrote this because I couldn't find Fred's Rescheduler, a similar app. that seems to have disappeared from the web. I'll keep mine available as long as possible, and it would be nice to have it added to any repositories ie Lunatics' for future reference. It may not be perfect, but at least it's something to build on which may help future development.)

Caveats:


  • GUPPI Rescheduler will almost certainly work for you on Linux, but may not work on Windows. This is because the Linux GPU platforms are much fewer and thus the app. has a much higher chance of finding the right one and reassigning work to it, whereas on Windows there are an excess of platforms and several of them may be assigned to active GPU work at any time for some unknown reason. Please follow the ReadMe and back up client_state.xml on first run just in case it doesn't work, so that work is not lost.

  • GUPPI Rescheduler will warn/terminate if it is run from the wrong folder, but it will not notice as it should if the client_state.xml file is still open. Therefore you should wait ten seconds after quitting BOINC Manager before running it (make sure to quit running apps. too! This is also in the ReadMe.)

  • You can post in here if it does/doesn't work for you, but I may not make any updates to it in future. It works for me on both Linux and Windows, and did almost right away, and 90% or more of my development time was trying to make it work for everyone else, so I'm a little tired of fiddling with it and need to move on to other projects. You have the source code and are welcome to work on it. It's actually quite easy... I kept this a very simple program by not using headers, pointers or classes... just file I/O, variables/strings and string functions.



GUPPI Rescheduler v0.4 download link again in case you missed it the first time!

Stubbles69 has written a front-end .CMD batch file for Windows which works with GUPPI Rescheduler. This automates terminating BOINC Manager and also backing up client_state.xml. I haven't tested it so please contact Stubbles directly for any feedback. :^)

2163) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Kepler Mission Discovers 1,284 New Planets! (Message 1803765)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
(Mr.Kevvy' link is to a page that does not accept users who are using add blockers)


FWIW I'm using AdBlock Plus (FF) on both the Linux machine I posted it on and the Windows machine I'm on now, and both load it fine. There's a blurb line at the top about it but that is all.
2164) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Kepler Mission Discovers 1,284 New Planets! (Message 1803491)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another hundred-plus exoplanets announced to add to these 1,284.
2165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Name your top 3+ music artists (Message 1801587)
Posted 8 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here are my three, one per genre...

Classical/baroque: Johann Sebastian Bach (IMHO the greatest musical mind who ever lived)

Rock: Rush

Jazz: Paul Desmond / Oscar Peterson (tied and can't decide between them; now there would have been a duet)
2166) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to swap a guppi assigned to GPU with a Arecibo assigned to CPU? (Message 1801355)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some updates: the work-in-progress detection is fixed now. The app. works fine on Linux and our Windows 64-bit box, but a couple of the testers didn't have good results on Windows possibly 32-bit. One of them indicated that the file(s?) have a different format in Win32 which I had no idea of.

I was in a conundrum until I remembered I have a spare machine and a small PCIe-powered card to go in it. So I will be imaging that with Win7 32-bit this weekend starting Friday evening, and then I can finally test it properly with stock and Lunatics. Let's hope I can finally get it out there this weekend.
2167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 4th of July..... (Message 1800644)
Posted 4 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Smile and a handshake then? Works for me.


Me too! Enjoy your holiday. :^) Wish I had a chance to enjoy mine but I was too busy.
2168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 4th of July..... (Message 1800641)
Posted 4 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
One nation, under GOD CANADA.

Fixed that for you.

Regards,

2169) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to swap a guppi assigned to GPU with a Arecibo assigned to CPU? (Message 1800230)
Posted 3 Jul 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
@Mr Kevvy:
is there an ETA for a beta test of your Windows script?
...cuz my Pavlov dog saliva is starting to run dry! ;-)


Well, given you have the same little red and white icon on your profile that I do, you know what weekend this. Yes, it's a weekend of rest, relaxation, good food preferably around a BBQ, and a celebration of what it is to be Canadian...

...for other people. For me, it's time to be put to be work for a hellish three days of dust, dirt, sweat and moving heavy objects, most of which try to crush my fingers and toes.

Hoping to have it ready sometime next week. :^p
2170) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to swap a guppi assigned to GPU with a Arecibo assigned to CPU? (Message 1799694)
Posted 30 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Matching client state changes to scheduler files...

The only thing your script need to edit is client_state.xml


I will try that out... early in testing I found it was losing work when client_state was out of synch with sched_request and sched_reply but that may have been another cause then. Thank you.
2171) Message boards : News : Arecibo still threatened with closure. (Message 1799539)
Posted 30 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Why are you assuming that not buying the 6-day-6,000-year-we're-individually-handcrafted mythos = atheism? False dichotomy. The Fallacy of The Excluded Middle.

You may find more religious people reject it than accept it. Perhaps not those holding the purse strings in American politics though... at least so they claim... especially near election time.

Perhaps this is why they see SETI as a threat. Might find something upsetting (ie we aren't the end-all and be-all one-and-only... perhaps not even in the running. And the rest of the universe wasn't plopped here to give us, all 0.00000000000000000000001% of it, something pretty to look at. That kind of upsetting.)
2172) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to swap a guppi assigned to GPU with a Arecibo assigned to CPU? (Message 1799286)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In the spirit of clarity, I would like to point out that I am looking for a "fairly simple way" of swapping x WUs assigned to GPU with x WUs assigned to GPU so that there is always a 1:1 swap.
...
To me it seems like a simple scheduling exercise taught in a CS201 courses!


What I have so far working on Linux is a simple commmand-line app. It does do an almost 1:1... it moves all the non-VLAR non-GUPPI MB work units assigned to the CPU to the GPU. It then moves up to that many GPU-assigned GUPPI work units to CPU assignment. The "up to" keeps the queue from growing without limit, and the faster GPU will run down a slightly overloaded MB queue. It's required to quit BOINC manager first and restart it after so that the files are not in use.

Here is what the output currently looks like on Linux moving actual work around:

kevin@KevsNewToy /media/kevin/SSD/BOINC $ ./GUPPIRescheduler
Mr. Kevvy's GUPPI Rescheduler v0.3 - (c)2016 Kevin Dorner

Reading configuration files...
Found sched_request app_version for GPU=1 version_num=800, CPU=0 version_num=800 and plan_class=opencl_nvidia_sah
Searching for and moving work units in client state...
Matching client state changes to scheduler files...
Writing updated configuration files...
Done: 2 non-GUPPI workunits moved to GPU and 2 GUPPI workunits moved to CPU.
2173) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to swap a guppi assigned to GPU with a Arecibo assigned to CPU? (Message 1799198)
Posted 28 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You don't need to create such a tool.

If you make a forum search with 'rescheduler' you will find such tool.


I doubt it... I Googled extensively before working on this. If you're referring to Fred's Rescheduler, it was only hosted at its forum here and appears to have been taken offline as it wasn't maintained so was no longer compatible. So please provide a link.

There's no possible way that I can think of that this will affect anyone's credit when the entire premise it is based on, which is pretty well documented, is that the problem with the GUPPI work units is that they pay the same credit as the non-GUPPIs, but take 3x or more the time to complete on GPUs, thus the large RAC hit and correspondingly much less work done. Again a link to any data supporting this would be appreciated (to add to this, any corroborative statement to the the effect "the admins aren't pleased about the usage of such tools" would be good too. If there was such then I won't be releasing this.)

I did make some progress on the weekend, it now preserves the version number but have to add preservation of the platform name as well. (Also been rather busy including receiving the replacement board and getting the failed machine back.) So it will be another couple of days at least before I may have anything worth putting out for testing.
2174) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1798986)
Posted 27 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
MS pays out $10K to Windows 10 victim

A few days after Microsoft released Windows 10 to the public last year, Teri Goldstein’s computer started trying to download and install the new operating system.

The update, which she says she didn’t authorize, failed. Instead, the computer she uses to run her Sausalito, Calif., travel-agency business slowed to a crawl. It would crash, she says, and be unusable for days at a time.

“I had never heard of Windows 10,” Goldstein said. “Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to update.”

When outreach to Microsoft’s customer support didn’t fix the issue, Goldstein took the software giant to court, seeking compensation for lost wages and the cost of a new computer. She won. Last month, Microsoft dropped an appeal and Goldstein collected a $10,000 judgment from the company.


So, for any inconvenienced folks needing some extra cash, you have your precedent. ;^)
2175) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to swap a guppi assigned to GPU with a Arecibo assigned to CPU? (Message 1798559)
Posted 24 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Indeed it is... I have been working on a program to do just this. It works fine and dandy in Linux but because of SoG changing the version numbers I have to get it working 100% in Windows and test.

I'm hoping that will finally be done this weekend. I will be starting a thread here for it. It's a simple command-line utility that needs to be run manually after closing BOINC, but it doesn't need to be done more than a few times a day and the command window can be left open so it's not much work.

Good timing asking this. :^)

Edit: I may PM you... actually I am pretty sure of it... lol... when I think it's ready for actual use to give it a try. If not the thread will be called "GUPPI Rescheduler". Short of witty names these days.
2176) Message boards : Number crunching : Anyone else get SPAMMed by berkeley.edu today? (Message 1797819)
Posted 22 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wondering why after 18 years of being with this proghram, they felt to utilize the SETI@home mailing list to send out unsolicited e-mails?


You have a green star, ergo you donated through berkeley.edu. UBC only sees you as a donor to UBC, not that it was specifically for the SETI@Home program.

There is an Unsubscribe at the bottom, of course.

Last thing I wanted to see was that face in my email from Berkeley


2177) Message boards : News : Arecibo still threatened with closure. (Message 1797435)
Posted 19 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How does one 'turn off' the Green Star?


There's an "Are all your donations anonymous?" setting in your account settings, bottom-left. You can turn off individual donations there. If you turn off enough of them that there's less than $10 in the last calendar year the star should disappear.
2178) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Scientist Michio Kaku Finally Proves God Exist (Message 1797178)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm wondering how long before this thread having wandered off, wanders into Politics.

This isn't about culture or art or religion. It's simply a scientist making bad scientific pronouncements based on shaky hypotheses on a controversial subject he has no business using his scientific authority on, and nothing else.

Show me a Divina Commedia or a Mattheus Passio written by an atheist and I shall become an atheist too.


Did you forget the works of Giuseppe Verdi? (Including a very nice Requiem.)

You are right, but I was not the first to speak of "fairy tales".
Tullio


DNFTT. :^)
2179) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Scientist Michio Kaku Finally Proves God Exist (Message 1797115)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A lot of people also have had close encounters with Santa Claus.


Even more in context with this place: how many people have claimed to been abducted by aliens, including the requisite nasty medical exams? This is about as far from the actual science of SETI as one can get, just as Michio Kaku has just gotten about as far from the actual science of physics as one can get.

Strange that so many "media" outlets are writing about this now.


The repetition of bad ideas is certainly nothing new, especially ones where a seeming scientific authority figure claims to be able prove unprovable things ie the existence or non-existence of god(s) etc. Of course some parts of the media are going to forgo due diligence and jump at some guaranteed clicks or newspaper sales (we've already seen one misleading headline from it in the linked article.)
2180) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Scientist Michio Kaku Finally Proves God Exist (Message 1797041)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Poorly-written article, ie "After running some tests on these particles..." Those hypothetical, never-observed, staple-of-cheap-sci-fi particles, the tachyons? How is anyone "running some tests" on them? Oh, thought experiments. The title is also clickbait with a typo: "Scientist Michio Kaku Finally Proves God Exist" (yes, there's a missing "s" at the end) but then the first sentence "The existence of God may be proven with a theory..." Uh huh.

I guess he's angling for a Templeton. :^p I'm betting this line of inquiry won't result in anything else.
2181) Message boards : Number crunching : Apologies to my wing persons (Message 1796892)
Posted 17 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My post below re: mainboard failure, well, I got it going, and in the process noticed something I had missed when I bought it: it has two PCIe slots! So I threw a second 970 in and ended up with a much more productive system!

But alas to all wingies expecting results from 7945042, this was definitely a motherboard failure as a capacitor blew right off it and was found stuck to the exhaust fan. Made it easy to find the cause at least. Hope the RMA comes through before the work units time out.
2182) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : New Calculation Shows We’ll Make Contact With Aliens in About 1,500 Years (Message 1796636)
Posted 16 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As usual, XKCD to the rescue...

2183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Something kitty this way comes....the kitties are back. (Message 1796418)
Posted 15 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hmmmm....
The kitty banner has gone away again.


I see it to the left of BOINCStats in your sig. Browser cache needs clearing perhaps?
2184) Message boards : Number crunching : Computer ID Number (Message 1796361)
Posted 15 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If you use the merge method as Kevvy states, the merge function always retires the original number and keeps the new number, so you would lose your original computer ID if you did it that way.


You're right... would keep the old machine stats. but the ID number would change. That's what I get for posting before the coffee hits. :^)
2185) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1796358)
Posted 15 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Have we hit the bottom?
All my RACs stopped dropping. Some may be moving upwards :)


We did have a few days of much more Arecibo than GBT work, and now an AP run, so everyone's seems to be on the rise.
2186) Message boards : Number crunching : Computer ID Number (Message 1796337)
Posted 15 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Give it the same computer name/hostname as the previous computer and ensure it's the same (or as close to) operating system, then after it's submitted a work unit and appears in Account->Computers on this account try "Merge computers by name" at the bottom-left. And hope for the best!
2187) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home v8.12 Windows GPU applications support thread (Message 1795350)
Posted 11 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

. . For some reason unable to access that url. It times out.


Appears that lunatics.kwsn.info is down (I would imagine temporarily.)
2188) Message boards : News : Arecibo still threatened with closure. (Message 1795252)
Posted 11 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Obviously I'm confused, Eric. I thought SETI@home and Breakthrough were part of the same effort. I take it they're not. (?)


Just in case Dr. K. doesn't reply: They are allied but different projects. The crossover is that SETI@Home is doing the data processing for BL. That's the best of my understanding. This is worth a read.
2189) Message boards : News : Arecibo still threatened with closure. (Message 1795250)
Posted 11 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If we overstay our welcome at AEI we'll probably have to search out cloud resources for the runs.


Nice that it's finally out there... thanks! Good that we have something to direct all the inquiries to.

I know that one reason that a super/cloud computing facility was required is that the algorithms haven't been finalized and are still being improved (ie for RFI removal) so it needs a complete run every time.

Perhaps if and when that welcome is worn out, they will have been tuned enough for the long-term that the idea of an incremental NTPCkr that builds on the existing run results will be doable. Then NTPCkr will finally be near-time and local, and can possibly be built for under $10K.
2190) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI applications for NVIDIA GPU improvement - how you can help (Message 1795069)
Posted 10 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm always interested in #3 and #4 though have only two Windows hosts; please ask me anytime (I think you have my e-mail.) I also have some spare cards (ie 2xGTX480, 2xGTX460, GTX570, 9800GT) but I think the postage to Russia would be more than they are worth!
2191) Message boards : News : Arecibo still threatened with closure. (Message 1795010)
Posted 10 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Now why isn't there enough money for the wealthiest nation to keep a world-class and potentially Earth-saving scientific facility open when it costs a tiny percentage of, say, CERN's Large Hadron Collider?







Ah, right... priorities.
2192) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1794853)
Posted 9 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As I said (please re-read) update was installed in automatic mode w/o user consent. That's the issue.


Ah, then they must have consented then prior. The EULA is presented during the install process. It's the only way to back out at that point without it installing and requiring reversion.
2193) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1794842)
Posted 9 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fortunately I was able to revert update back to Windows 8.1 (by stock means, it's still allowed) filling questionary why I reverting back and hitting quite a lot confirmation buttons that "I'm sure I wanna drop wonderful Win10 and return to stone age of Win8.1" so to speak.


You can also revert by just clicking Decline on the EULA then confirming:

2194) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia GPU tasks cause screen response delay (Message 1794760)
Posted 9 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Are you running more than one GPU task at a time via editing app_config.xml or some other means?

Does this happens on work units that start with blc and end with vlar, or all of them? (The other kind starts with a number.)
2195) Message boards : Number crunching : Are some gpu tasks longer now? (Message 1794720)
Posted 9 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thats definitely not the case.

Speaking from my own experience with NVidia cards and CUDA applications. GBT 'guppi' VLARs are settling around 53 minutes (two at a time) on GTX 750Ti. Will start GTX 970 test in about two hours' time.


980 11-13 mins., 970 13-16 mins. with 0.2 core one at a time. Does about the same regardless of the CPU or PCIe revision. Non-VLArs are/were 3-4 mins.
2196) Message boards : Number crunching : Are some gpu tasks longer now? (Message 1794711)
Posted 9 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Perhaps the powers to be will change the programs and not schedule vlars in the near future.


Dr. Korpela indicated that it was tried on Beta to add a setting to the Project Preferences to allow/disallow GPU VLAR, but that this resulted in no GPU work at all. I'm puzzled by this, as the code with no option to disallow them was in placed and worked just fine for a while; something must have been done incorrectly so I'm still hopeful that they are working on it and a solution is forthcoming. I keep seeing that it's a non-issue because non-VLAR Arecibo work is going away, but I don't see any evidence of this (edit: Richard H. posted some above... damn) and the team has indicated otherwise (about equal amounts of work will be distributed from each source.)

I'm now finding that the newer blc6 and blc7 VLARs now run about 2x slower on my GTX 750Ti with cuda50 - it was closer to your 4x at the start of the run.


I noticed today that my RAC started rising after over a month of fall. It should have bottomed out around 260K. So it does appear that some (welcome) change was made. (Edit: maybe it was just the recent AP run.)
2197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1794532)
Posted 8 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
P.S. There's a chance that a personal appearance may also happen this evening.


Nice... a perthornal appearance. :^D
2198) Message boards : Number crunching : Tried to free up all tasks, but I screwed up; how to fix? (Message 1794495)
Posted 8 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
They are now "ghosts" and will have to time out. In future, you can abort the tasks then update the project and then they will be immediately reassigned.

(Edit: Ensure "No new tasks" is on when this is done of course!)
2199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1794264)
Posted 7 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
(Warning: NSFW language in a large font if clicked!)

(2016 June 7) Today's joke is the User of the Day on the main page, bottom-left. As well, click his profile (if no one's around) and check his team name. Interesting random pick...

It may not last, so if it's someone nondescript now, it's been changed. :^)
2200) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (103) Server Problems? (Message 1794102)
Posted 6 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You don not have to restart BOINC, just suspend/resume the task and it will run fine on next run.


Didn't work. Um... Linux!
2201) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (103) Server Problems? (Message 1794017)
Posted 6 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
No, I am using a SSE2 client.


Thanks... that was the only thing I did differently from this machine than several others so no idea why it's the only one with this problem.
2202) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (103) Server Problems? (Message 1794008)
Posted 6 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...but CPU only tasks have a glitch. Sometimes they do not make any checkpoint and seem to go on forever, so I have to abort them.
Tullio


If this is on one of your Linux machines, I have the same problem only on this computer. However you may not have to abort the the stuck work units. When I quit the BOINC Manager including terminating apps. and relaunch BOINC they complete normally; I checked them and they are valid and get credited. I need to do this a couple of times a day to clear one or two stuck ones. I was wondering when I would see someone else with the same issue.

Are you using the AVX MB client?
2203) Message boards : Number crunching : vlar data and breakthrough listen (Message 1793917)
Posted 6 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In short - both lists most probably intersect.


Only slightly... there are (edit: were prior to the May announcement) 460 stars with Kepler object planets, the furthest being 8kLy away, but there are 600M stars within 5kLy from earth, so less than one millionth contain Kepler planets.

Thus, if not looking at confirmed planetary systems we may as well stay with random searches as the search has been essentially randomized.
2204) Message boards : Number crunching : vlar data and breakthrough listen (Message 1793910)
Posted 6 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The Greenbank telescope does mainly close observations of suns that may have planets around them (therefore more likely to have aliens).


That was the initial idea (to observe Kepler objects) but doesn't seem to have carried through to the Breakthrough Listen observation plan:

1. Green Bank Radio Telescope

World’s deepest searches for artificial signals in five key samples (Northern Hemisphere):

All 43 stars within 5 parsecs, at 1-15 GHz. First-ever complete SETI survey within 5 parsecs. Sensitive to “Earth-leakage” levels of radio transmission.
1000 stars of all spectral-types (OBAFGKM). Within 50 parsecs. 1-15 GHz.
One Million Nearby Stars. In 2016, first 5,000 stars; 1 minute exposure (1-15 GHz)
Centers of 100 nearby galaxies: spirals, ellipticals, dwarfs, irregulars (1-15 GHz)
Exotic Stars: 20 White Dwarfs, 20 Neutron stars, 20 black holes

2. Parkes Radio Telescope

World’s deepest searches for artificial signals in six key samples (Southern Hemisphere):

All 43 stars (at south declinations) within 5 parsecs, at 1-15 GHz. First-ever complete SETI survey within 5 parsecs. Sensitive to “Earth-leakage” levels of radio transmission.
1000 stars (south) of all spectral-types (OBAFGKM). Within 50 parsecs. (1-4 GHz)
One Million Nearby Stars (south). In 2016-2017, first 5,000 stars; 1 minute exposure (1-4 GHz)
Galactic plane and Center (1-4 GHz)
Centers of 100 nearby galaxies (south declinations): spirals, ellipticals, dwarfs, irregulars (1-4 GHz)
Exotica: 20 White Dwarfs, 20 Neutron stars, 20 black holes
2205) Message boards : Number crunching : No more guppi's=vlars on the gpu please (Message 1793667)
Posted 5 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Each major iteration in the MB application has seen an increase in the amount of calculation performed. With that an the increased complexity of the calculations required for the guppi data it is hardly surprising that these take longer to run.


That isn't the issue here... GUPPIs don't do any more calculation or take any longer to run on CPUs than Arecibo VHARs; they usually end up a little faster. They only run very slowly on GPUs due to architecture issues.
2206) Message boards : Number crunching : No more guppi's=vlars on the gpu please (Message 1793566)
Posted 5 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
. . Now a magic app that would turn a GPU VLAR WU into a CPU WU and a CPU based nonVLAR WU into a GPU WU would go down well :)


Thank you for the below. :^)

I thought about writing this as a practice app, but quickly realized that with it, all the existing MB work units would be shuffled to the GPU and complete quickly, while the work would still be randomly assigned as half-and-half GUPPI VLAR. Soon, the machine would have nothing but GUPPI VLAR work units so would be in the same situation, unless the owner starting aborting them. And this even assumes that the validators allow a CPU-assigned work unit to be completed by a GPU or vice versa. That I don't know. Raistmer mentioned a rescheduling app so I think he does...
2207) Message boards : Number crunching : No more guppi's=vlars on the gpu please (Message 1793363)
Posted 4 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If the option arrives to disallow that, I'll be in something of a dilemma - to switch or not to switch.


Having initiated the fundraiser for the receiver, I'd probably be the last person one would expect to throw the switch, but I might. That decision comes not from credit or technical issues, but from the observation plan

All 43 stars within 5 parsecs, at 1-15 GHz. First-ever complete SETI survey within 5 parsecs. Sensitive to “Earth-leakage” levels of radio transmission.
1000 stars of all spectral-types (OBAFGKM). Within 50 parsecs. 1-15 GHz.
One Million Nearby Stars. In 2016, first 5,000 stars; 1 minute exposure (1-15 GHz)
Centers of 100 nearby galaxies: spirals, ellipticals, dwarfs, irregulars (1-15 GHz)
Exotic Stars: 20 White Dwarfs, 20 Neutron stars, 20 black holes


The bill of sale on this new data was that it would be focusing on the habitable planets discovered by the Kepler mission. I don't see that anywhere in the BL list.

My reasoning behind wanting it is that, unfortunately and I am hoping temporarily, we only have a sample size of one. We know that life can form and evolve to intelligence on a planet large enough to have a magnetic field in the >273K <373K "goldilocks zone" in a system with a "good jupiter" around a class G2V star. As we know nothing about other possibilities, this is what we should be looking at. If the response is that because we don't know what else is out there then we are limiting our chances of discovery, then we must stick to doing random searches a la Arecibo as we have until now; anything else is making a decision as to what we expect to find thus limiting the possibilities. The furthest Kepler object is 8K Ly away, and there are six hundred million stars within 5K Ly. There's just too much to look at without narrowing it down to the best possibilities of what we currently know in order to maximize our odds (which is why we got interested in GBT in the first place, right?)

There isn't much chance of life around an "exotic" because it fried any planets around it on its way to becoming "exotic" so this is designed to look for deliberate beacons (is it?), but as we don't know what logic alien intelligence follows, we may as well look anywhere... they may decide to put beacons around habitable planets, because that is where we should be looking, except unfortunately they're from a Jupiter-sized world with oceans of liquid that to us would be gas, so we don't bother looking there because it isn't habitable to us and miss it by doing targeted searches.

I hope to be proven wrong. And I would still probably add a multi-CPU Xeon box or two to the mix to work on the GUPPIs.
2208) Message boards : Number crunching : No more guppi's=vlars on the gpu please (Message 1793346)
Posted 4 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The problem is this isn't just "RAC-obsession". VLARs were kept off the NVidia GPUs for a long time because they can cause the machine to stutter or hang or the work unit to crash. ie my wife's machine starting generating piles of errors as every time she watched any sort of streaming video ie YouTube or Facebook the VLAR work unit in progress would crash.

Even if the volunteer chooses not to accept them, their machine(s) will still get them on their CPUs where they will run just fine and cause no issues (for some, even faster than non-VLARs) rather than 2.5x or more slower, at least while there are some non-VLARs. (I keep reading that they are going away, but I haven't seen any indication when. The indication from the team was that it was going to remain about half and half.) If the more efficient GPUs stick to the non-VLAR work, this frees up more CPUs out there for the VLARs (even on my own machine I see this with the GPUs choking on a stack of GUPPIs while the CPUs have all the regular non-VLAR MB work they should be getting. Random scheduling is inefficient.) It's possible that the net result of allowing them on NVidia GPUs is hardly any improvement in compute capacity, just an increase in grief and people leaving the project... yes, some have over it.

I'm still puzzled that the code to keep the GUPPIs away was already in place and worked just fine for months(?), but apparently when it was put back on Beta with a setting in the project prefs. to allow or deny them, the result was no GPU work at all. Something must have not been done the same, because the code was already in place and working. I hope it is retried, so this issue can finally be put to rest.
2209) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1792943)
Posted 2 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
1 Credit or 1,000,000 RAC. Wat's Da Bigggeee?


I can live with it (though it's kind of a pain) but there are volunteers either leaving the project over it or aborting GUPPI work units by the thousands, neither being good for the long-term. I can empathize as they are/were spending not only thousands on hardware, but for many similar amounts on power to do a certain amount of work. And now suddenly that is cut in half...

As well, as SETI@Home has been tapped to do the processing for BreakThrough Listen, there is now too much work available, but this work is being done at roughly a third the speed it should/could by volunteers' GPUs. If this bottleneck could be reduced or eliminated, we may be able to keep up.

OK, got the obvious out of the way. :^)


I don't care if it's me, Petri, Raistmer, or someone else entirely. Everyone involved in some small way will have to do the 'jiggly worm EUREKA dash'


So it turns out to be a software issue after all. :^D
2210) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1792891)
Posted 2 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I had a look at 30-40 AMD GPU machines' tasks, and as far as I can tell, it looks as though new AMDs are similarly affected. I was unable to find any that didn't take 2-4x as long to complete a GUPPI VLAR work unit. This includes with and without SoG. Maybe I just didn't look in the right place, so if anyone has any URLs otherwise they would be welcome.

Old AMDs I saw were very slow but they were consistently very slow with the VLARs, and this would reinforce that it's an issue with the VLAR results exceeding cache size, as the old cards would have hardly any cache so both VLAR and non-VLAR work would exceed it so have about the same runtimes.

If correct, this would seem to imply that the only resolution for this is going to be a workaround redesign of the pulsefinding algorithm, if this is even possible.
2211) Message boards : Number crunching : nvidia_opencl taking 100% of a core? (Message 1792741)
Posted 2 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A few threads down: GPU tasks taking 100% cpu.
2212) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1792583)
Posted 1 Jun 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There is nothing wrong with old technology if it works as designed and does its job. If you over-complicate with the "newest and latest and greatest" you introduce the potential for bugs and errors and security holes and malware, and the more components a thing has, the more there is to fail.

Example: homeowners who weren't happy with a simple mechanical thermostat that works for decades, and needed a Nest "smart" thermostat connected to the internet. Except now it goes and updates its firmware without asking anyone, and the update fails, and it doesn't work anymore which means the furnace is off and perhaps the water pipes will freeze and burst when the owner is away... now imagine this is the cooling system of a nuclear power plant instead.

Some of these "old tech" systems were engineered to a much higher standard of uptime reliability and real-time operation than any consumer-grade OS. Replacing them with a general-purpose machine could compromise this, ie "Sorry... can we put off the imminent attack for an hour? Windows is upgrading again."
2213) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1792091)
Posted 30 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
. . But is that option to refuse all GPU based Guppi WU's? It would be effective but a little drastic.


That may be, but it would offer an alternative to those who are aborting GUPPI work units by the thousands, which is far more drastic. And since the SAH team is apparently working on it, it's "approved".
2214) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1792074)
Posted 30 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
re:
a solution to allow GUPPI VLAR GPU work units to be refused in the Project Prefs. is being worked on...


Since I posted this, I've been more and more mystified by one facet of it:

It was indicated that this was tried on Beta and the result was no GPU work at all, which is why it isn't already implemented here. However, the code to do this here was already in place and was working properly before (as we had no GUPPI work on NVidia for weeks)... it just needs to be put back to the way it was, with one added check for the participant's profile setting added.
2215) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Kepler Mission Discovers 1,284 New Planets! (Message 1791194)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I hope that this one (Kepler-62f) is being looked at...
2216) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1791142)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Perhaps it's just my ignorance showing again. but to somewhat improve the situation, would it not be possible to undo the misassignment of GUPPI VLARs to GPUs while CPUs are getting Arecibo MB tasks?

It appears that the file that controls this is sched_request_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml in the project folder. As well, there are boinc_task_state.xml state files while they are processing.

GPU-assigned work units show:
<app_version>1</app_version>
<plan_class>opencl_nvidia_sah</plan_class>


whereas CPU-assigned show simply:

<app_version>0</app_version>


It would appear that if this file were loaded, instances of each counted and then switched if there were both GPU "guppi" units and non-guppi CPU units (as the count has to remain the same of each... 100 max. per CPU and GPU), ensuring that they weren't present in any of the boinc_task_state.xml.

Problem is if this was being done constantly we'd wind up in the same situation because eventually they would be all slow guppis, the faster non-guppis having been reassigned to GPUs and completed. So, maybe every few hours would be ideal.
2217) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Wars 2016: GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050: October 25th (Message 1791000)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That would be excellent and thank you. Stock is fine so whatever the project installs automatically, as there's no known optimization specifically for the VLARs currently anyways.
2218) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Wars 2016: GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050: October 25th (Message 1790987)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If anyone obtains a 1080 (or even a 1070) and starts using it on this project, please let us know here. I'm interested (and probably many others!) to know whether the changes in the Pascal architecture mitigate the VLAR issue at all. If your computer(s) aren't hidden, we can have a look.
2219) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1790326)
Posted 25 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Microsoft has backtracked on the "clicking the 'X' indicates acceptance" upgrade notification

Microsoft has u-turned over changes it made to a pop-up encouraging users to upgrade to Windows 10.

Users were angry that clicking the cross to dismiss the box meant that they had agreed to the upgrade.

Based on "customer feedback", Microsoft said it would add another notification that provided customers with "an additional opportunity for cancelling the upgrade".

The pop-up design had been described as a "nasty trick".

Microsoft told the BBC it had modified the pop-up as a result of criticism: "We've added another notification that confirms the time of the scheduled upgrade and provides the customer an additional opportunity for cancelling or rescheduling the upgrade.
2220) Message boards : Number crunching : Decided to Bail Out on SETI for a Short While (Message 1790131)
Posted 25 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The symptom is abandoning work because of the of the flawed credit system.


As noted too often (including in point #5 below) the people who are doing this inevitably have NVidia cards, which are processing the GUPPI VLAR work slowly due to a design flaw in the memory architecture. Unfortunately, the credit system won't fix that. The only way of doing that would be to have a special multiplier to arbitrarily grant 2.5x the credit for a GUPPI VLAR work unit if it's done on an NVidia card. If that is done, then why shouldn't every other sub-optimally slow platform get its multiplier?
2221) Message boards : Number crunching : Decided to Bail Out on SETI for a Short While (Message 1790125)
Posted 25 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In case it was missed in the decreasing credit thread:

I was able to contact Dr. Eric Korpela. He indicated that a solution to allow GUPPI VLAR GPU work units to be refused in the Project Prefs. is being worked on. Please pass it along...

Hope this alleviates any of the misgivings that the project admins. aren't aware of this issue or don't care about it.


They know. I'm in the same boat... I just spent thousands to upgrade the farm to all Maxwells plus a new four-card cruncher and this happens. I try to look at the bright side. Here's the bright side:

1) The work we're doing is far more likely to find something, being targeted at known nearby planetary systems with planets as similar to ours as possible.

2) We've gone from a work shortage to too much work; there's always enough now.

3) Because this project is being scrutinized as part of Breakthrough Listen, this work is going to be used, analyzed and searched. It is not going to sit in a database collecting digital dust. I can't tell you how I know this, but I do. This work is worthwhile.

4) My GPUs don't run dry of work on short outages (ie Tuesdays) because the VLAR work units take longer.

5) This problem is due to the memory architecture of NVidia cards. It isn't the SETI@Home team's fault, so at least there's that. There's no malice or sloppy coding etc. behind it. If anything we should complain to NVidia as they are pushing CUDA as a scientific computing platform.

6) The GPUs run cooler and so will probably last longer.

7) Half the world can't even get enough food to eat, so we're pretty well off if this is all we have to worry about. Gotta mention this. :^)
2222) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1789620)
Posted 22 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I was able to contact Dr. Eric Korpela. He indicated that a solution to allow GUPPI VLAR GPU work units to be refused in the Project Prefs. is being worked on. Please pass it along...

Hope this alleviates any of the misgivings that the project admins. aren't aware of this issue or don't care about it.
2223) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI E.T. Search Radio Interference ?? (Message 1789591)
Posted 22 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Radiotelescopes are usually located in radio-quiet zones to prevent interference, ie Green Bank's location was chosen as it is surrounded by hills. There are special restrictions in place ie no cell phones, diesel vehicles only (no spark plugs). Any machine noise in the area would be either below the horizon of the telescope or not be concentrated by the dish; it would have to strike the receiver directly and thus, at such a distance with inverse square propagation would be very weak perhaps even below the noise threshold. That frequency range doesn't bounce off the ionosphere either so wouldn't hit the dish by reflection.

So, I don't think it's much of an issue. I'm sure it would have been taken into account! :^)
2224) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1789560)
Posted 22 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Since he is a member of the GPU Users Group perhaps some one with diplomatic skills could PM him and explain to him how is is screwing up SETI.


I'll pass the word. I thought it was this machine's owner but it turns out this is someone else doing the same thing. Shows 824 aborted GUPPIs.
2225) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1789284)
Posted 21 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
To add to what Chris wrote: at first there was much complaining that there was never enough work.... we were running out every Tuesday and not catching up until the next day, and plenty of other times as well.
Solved: the SETI@Home scientists built the GBT receiver and a new splitter and got on the Breakthrough Listen initiative, and now we have enough work (possibly even too much!)

Next, there was much complaining (including from myself) that CUDA GPUs weren't being assigned the new GBT work, though it's possibly far more likely to contain a candidate signal, and thus find something.
Solved: the same group beta-tested the impact to system stability/usability of these work units being run on CUDA GPUs and then released them (this was also probably necessary, because there is so much work and CUDA GPUs make up such a significant fraction of machines available to do it.)

Now, there is much complaining that this work is causing a reduction of credit. Sure, it's sad that our RAC is dropping, but it isn't anyone's "fault" except the NVidia engineers who designed the memory architecture of the CUDA-enabled cards, and it's the unintended side effect of something that was asked for. It isn't CreditNew or Dr. David Anderson's doing. Fixed credit won't solve it as 3x the complete speed still equals 1/3 the fixed credit over time. It needs a possibly complex, and possibly impossible, workaround in the SETI@Home client itself.

So, in the interim, be patient, enjoy the new science, and be happy that those GUPPI work units trade off three times the compute time for... I dunno... thousands of times the chance of actually finding something, and I'll take that tradeoff any day!
2226) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 17 Year Club! (Message 1788987)
Posted 20 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Missed mine five days ago... better late than never. Story of my life. :^)
2227) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1788817)
Posted 19 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm just crunching for Milkyway for a week and already have a higher RAC, than i had here before...


And if I move to Mexico and get a job as a janitor my paycheque in pesos will be larger than it is currently in dollars.

There won't ever be a BOINC consistent credit payment across projects, because smaller or startup projects or those with not-so-interesting (or nigh-incomprehensible) goals overpay to attract volunteers, and will continue to do so.
2228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1788769)
Posted 19 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes Thor wants enthusiastic support.


Enthorsiastic!
2229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1788737)
Posted 19 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ever sense you put this thread up my
province has had nothing but bad luck.
Please take it down!


Ahem. The Designer frowns upon being blamed for it. It's practically... Inthorbordination! :^D
2230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1788529)
Posted 18 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This thread needs to be warmed up...


Add Thormal energy to crank up the Thormometer! :^)
2231) Message boards : Technical News : Data Dump (May 17 2016) (Message 1788250)
Posted 18 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Dunno if you will see this, but may as well ask: with this huge volume of data, how much of it are we volunteers currently able to process? Are we keeping up or falling behind to what fraction?

And, sorry to sound like a broken record, but please let GPUUG know of any hardware needs! Haven't been tapped for a good fundraiser in a while, even though those we did were quite successful.
2232) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1787922)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
very short version:
low AR => longer time to stare at same point => bigger data array for single PoT search => failure to fit cache, failure to get enough parallel data to fill all CUs (longer single array = less number of such arrays cause 1M matrix of data point remains constant)


OK, this helps. Since slewing Arecibo work units don't do this, the AR must be greater than the scope's "aperture". Let's say that the AR is 3x the size of the aperture of the scope.

Then why not break the WU into that ratio of pieces (in this case 3) and run the pulsefind on each piece, then add the results? That way each piece being of the same timebase as an Arecibo Gaussian won't overload the cache.

Edit: This will take some tinkering due to pulses at the edge of each piece that and up in both of them...
2233) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1787907)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
For explanations why VLAR relatively harder for GPU vs CPU vs other ARs look few my recent posts for example (actually it was repeated few times through years).


Thanks for the details... do you have a link to any of these posts?
2234) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1787894)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is it more of a driver issue (where we would have to wait for Nvidia to get their act together before there is any relief), the way that the Guppies are configured when they are split (something that can be addressed internally, though with the manpower crunch, is that likely anytime soon?), or something else that causes such a penalty for them on Nvidia hardware? Are things much better in the AMD world? I haven't ran a AMD card for probably 15+ years, so I basically have no experience with them.


I haven't checked the source code enough yet to know for sure, but I have a suspicion:

There's something in the CUDA framework that doesn't like that VLAR work units have negligibly small angular size. This should exclude them from even checking for Gaussians because the telescope is not crossing the signal which is what causes one, so any code which checks for Gaussians shouldn't even run in a VLAR.

The fact that it is running really slowly means that something in there is still using that angular size (what else but a Gaussian would need to use it?), and very likely shouldn't be. So, to find what the code is that does it, and don't run it if the angular width is below the VLAR threshold.

I'm going to try to bring myself up to speed to fix this thing, but I'm hoping someone will beat me to it... it's a lot of work getting there. :^)
Edit: Also when I get there I am not sure I will even recognize it when I see it...lol.
2235) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1787881)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Every time I look and see my rac dropping I keep thinking there's a problem then I remember Credit Screw


Not the cause anymore... it's now due to your exclusively NVidia farm receiving GUPPI VLAR work units on the GPUs. As noted much elsewhere, they process much more slowly than Arecibo MBs but pay the same credit.
2236) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10, Chrome, Netflix stuttering now (Message 1787758)
Posted 15 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As you have a 980 which is an NVidia card, the recent release of VLAR GUPPI work units for NVidia CUDA is probably causing the stuttering.

You can fix this under Tools:Computing Preferences by unchecking "Use GPU while computer is in use" and setting an appropriate time below. If you want the GPU computing to occur while the machine is being used, if you have edited app_config.xml and changed the <count> parameter to allow multiple work units to run on the GPU at once, it is suggested to increase the number to reduce the number of work units at once.
2237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1787618)
Posted 15 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, I know, and I'm sorry, but once Mark's post from that original thread re-emerges here, the context will be more clear.


Hey don't be... was just explaining for anyone who wondered what Carlos was doing randomly inserting that. :^)
2238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1787613)
Posted 15 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
People keep asking this question. What would Jesus Drive.


This post was spot-on in the now-hidden (and at the time empty) WWJD thread, but now makes no contextual sense whatsoever merged into this one.
2239) Message boards : Number crunching : Question Of Meaning = SETI Is Useful Currently : Yes Or No? (Message 1787420)
Posted 14 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wait... they had a budget for duck tape?




Is this how scientific inducktion and deducktion is developed?
2240) Message boards : Number crunching : GBT ('guppi') .vlar tasks will be send to GPUs, what you think about this? (Message 1786705)
Posted 11 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So just checking some of the GUPPI from yesterday for validation.

I'm noticing a large swing in credit from 199 down to 29.

...

Can that be right? I didn't think that was supposed to do that.

I hope I am looking at this wrong, lack of sleep and such...


It looks that way; my RAC, which was rising, has tanked 3K since yesterday, so now we have both this and CreditEw/Pew/Screw dragging it down. And since we are finally getting GUPPI Kepler candidates on our NVidia GPUs, I'm overjoyed! :^D

Edit: This may be due to the longer processing time causing a longer return time for wingies. RAC may rise again.
2241) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Kepler Mission Discovers 1,284 New Planets! (Message 1786681)
Posted 11 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So many planets and no way to get there.


...yet.
2242) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Kepler Mission Discovers 1,284 New Planets! (Message 1786467)
Posted 10 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
NASA's Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered

NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date.

“This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth.”

Analysis was performed on the Kepler space telescope’s July 2015 planet candidate catalog, which identified 4,302 potential planets. For 1,284 of the candidates, the probability of being a planet is greater than 99 percent – the minimum required to earn the status of “planet.” An additional 1,327 candidates are more likely than not to be actual planets, but they do not meet the 99 percent threshold and will require additional study. The remaining 707 are more likely to be some other astrophysical phenomena. This analysis also validated 984 candidates previously verified by other techniques.


This is fantastic news for us as some of these new worlds are candidates for monitoring with the new GUPPI GBT receiver... looking forward to many happy years of searching (maybe a discovery would be nice too!)
2243) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1786437)
Posted 10 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The kitties like to call their credits....kibblestones.


CreditMew. :^D
2244) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1785328)
Posted 6 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Avoid Windows 7 KB 3133977 on ASUS motherboards. May prevent your system from booting. Was an Optional but recently made Recommended though the issue was known.

If it boots to a red "Secure Boot Violation" screen, ASUS has posted a solution. (MS page now links to this as well... at one point their "solution" was to install Windows 10.)
2245) Message boards : News : Thanks for helping! (Message 1785247)
Posted 6 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Please, send how can i help with a little funds.


This campaign may have ended, but donations to SETI@Home are always welcome and appreciated through this link. You can also get there by clicking the SETI@Home logo at the top-right of this page to go to the site's main page, then the "SETI@Home Needs your Help" image at the top-left there.

If you donate $10 or more, for one year you'll get the little green star next to your name indicating you're a donor.
2246) Message boards : Number crunching : GBT ('guppi') .vlar tasks will be send to GPUs, what you think about this? (Message 1785064)
Posted 5 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
AFAIK there is no technical possibility currently to implement VLAR as "checkbox". So no opt-in or opt-out possible.


Is there any detailed reason why it wouldn't be possible?
2247) Message boards : Number crunching : GBT ('guppi') .vlar tasks will be send to GPUs, what you think about this? (Message 1784930)
Posted 5 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Repost of what I wrote here:

I proposed in the Breakthrough Listen News thread that a checkbox be added to our project preferences akin to "Allow VLAR work on GPU" with an appropriate caveat ie if run on CUDA may complete slowly for less credit, cause machine slowness/lockup or work unit failure, etc.

The box would be initially off, so no one would get them and risk issue(s) unless they chose to do so. Einstein@Home has similar controls with similar caveats in their project preferences page for setting the Count parameter to allow multiple concurrent work units on GPU (which has the same risks of instability plus added bonus of hardware failure risk if the GPU overheats) and they seem to do just fine with the disclaimer, so no reason it wouldn't work here. Volunteers with mixed work and dedicated cruncher machines could set home/work/school profiles and put the machine types in them so computers they actually use wouldn't be slowed.

All I can suggest is that if you would like this to be implemented to post in that thread. If enough of us ask, it may be.


If there is a control for it, from a support and user-friendliness standpoint, it should definitely be implemented as an opt-in rather than an opt-out.
2248) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1784787)
Posted 4 May 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hey - I just noticed that I have NO GBT WUs on my GPUs now. Is this because all the current GBT WUs are VLARs, or did somebody at SETI make a surreptitious change to keep them off the GPUs for RAC purposes?


I proposed in the Breakthrough Listen News thread that a checkbox be added to our project preferences akin to "Allow VLAR work on GPU" with an appropriate caveat ie if run on CUDA may complete slowly for less credit, cause machine slowness/lockup or work unit failure, etc.

The box would be initially off, so no one would get them and risk issue(s) unless they chose to do so. Einstein@Home has similar controls with similar caveats in their project preferences page for setting the Count parameter to allow multiple concurrent work units on GPU (which has the same risks of instability plus added bonus of hardware failure risk if the GPU overheats) and they seem to do just fine with the disclaimer, so no reason it wouldn't work here. Volunteers with mixed work and dedicated cruncher machines could set home/work/school profiles and put the machine types in them so computers they actually use wouldn't be slowed.

All I can suggest is that if you would like this to be implemented to post in that thread. If enough of us ask, it may be.

Edit: Someone could also donate to Berkeley SETI Research Center to get an answer... $350 for an e-mail and $750 for a video reply. I already kicked in... sorry. :^)
2249) Message boards : Number crunching : V8 CUDA for Linux? (Message 1783434)
Posted 29 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, it looks as though Modprobe is back in the repository with 16.04, as we know, it's Not in the Mint repository.


It just appeared for me last night (Mint 17.3); packages are cuda-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-352, nvidia-modprobe and nvidia-settings in the Mint Update Manager all 352.93. I installed them on this machine and no known issues thus far. I'll probably do the rest whenever I have my next scheduled "patch Tuesday" clean day.
2250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1783211)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Boo Thor!


Every superhero requires an opposing supervillain. Superman has his Luthor...

... Thor has his Boothor.
2251) Message boards : Number crunching : RAC is Tanking (Message 1783187)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Please see this thread about five down from this one currently.
2252) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1783002)
Posted 27 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I used to get spammed with telemarketers. I don't anymore. I was called definitely over 50x, maybe up to 100x before I figured it out. There's a simple secret to making them stop, because threats, anger, hangups don't work:

You have to waste as much of their time as possible.

Their hit to miss rate is so bad that their margins are always close to not making money, so they have internal do-not-call lists and the only thing on them are waste-of-time numbers. They'd rather keep calling multiple quick disconnects at the same number in the hopes they will get a sucker, but a few large wastes of their time and suddenly they stop calling.

I was being called by the vacation scammers, so I would press whatever number the robocaller asked to get a person who would barely speak English, then answer their questions up to the next (and most expensive!) level of the person who could speak reasonably good English and do their spiel.

I made sure I was free ie waiting or relaxing or on transit at the time so that I could stay on the line as long as it took while they babbled, always responding positively when prompted. It took over ten minutes each time. They left the credit card part to the last, and then I would feign bad signal and hang up.

I had to do this three times, and I never got one again, and this is going on five months, whereas I was getting two or three a week for months. Hope this helps someone.
2253) Message boards : Number crunching : Apologies to my wing persons (Message 1782768)
Posted 27 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ah thats terrible, sorry to hear that..


Thanks. :^) I'd probably be despondent if it wasn't under warranty, but I'll just Cross Ship and make do with a cruddy 570 in the interim.

This hobby certainly keeps me busy... lol.
2254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1782761)
Posted 27 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Why not hail Thor today?
Hail Thor and his ways



Oh my... you run the risk of offending Týr on his day (Old English Tiw, Tiw's Day modernized to Tuesday.) Since his domain includes war, you don't want to get him mad.
2255) Message boards : Number crunching : Apologies to my wing persons (Message 1782760)
Posted 27 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Beater Cruncher #1 lost both a hard drive and a GTX980... good thing the card is still under warranty. Unfortunately all the cached work units were lost.
2256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1782733)
Posted 27 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And thanks, folks, for pointing the thread in a more uplifting direction.


Hey, that's what we do and thanks for noticing. But you seem to be trying to point it back again. :^)

Please listen to what I sent clear through... it may prove helpful.
2257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1782656)
Posted 26 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
For readers of this thread who are a bit tired of melodrama, I offer unto you a small giggle today.


When I saw it, was sure it was going to be this version... was nominated for an Oscar and won a Genie for best animated short. (Probably just my Canadian biases showing... hah.) Didn't realize the song existed before the short.

Also please see this short by the same animator which won about fifty awards (no Oscar though) and is a must-see... especially for married couples. :^)
2258) Message boards : News : Thanks for helping! (Message 1782521)
Posted 26 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I would like to donate but unfortunately the only way I can send money abroad is via PeyPal.
Why contribution via PayPal is not possible ?


You can donate to SETI@Home via PayPal through the GPU Users Group (GPUUG). Just click the banner at the bottom of this post. (Or here is a direct link).Note that this is recognized by SETI@Home as the way to do so (read the PayPal users section).
2259) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1782337)
Posted 25 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Validation pending is approaching 2000 due to these things, lol


7942 currently. :^)
2260) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1781949)
Posted 24 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I remember reading that Green Bank will scan the local group of galaxies, including the Maffei galaxies.


I thought the targeted search would only be the most promising Kepler objects... the furthest I know of is Kepler-40B at 8,800 ly. M31 is about 2.5Mly, so a signal from M31 would have to be at least (2.5M/8800)^2 ~ 80,700x stronger to be detected. Assuming evenly distributed signal power, we're the reciprocal of this as likely to discover something at that distance. If signal powers are more commonly what we can produce (into the megawatt range) it's even more unlikely or impossible (plus at that angular resolution isn't it going to be drowned out by the rest of the galaxy?) Hrm.

Edit: Maybe for these observations SAH is just "going along for the ride" as we do with Arecibo.
2261) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1781684)
Posted 23 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
BTW, the MESSIER031 tasks are non-VLAR as far as I see and can be crunched on GPU, so no one is excluded.


Yes, getting them and very happy about that. :^) Unfortunately about 90% of them are going into -9 due to 30 or more triplets... hope it's just an initial hiccup. (These results are matching up with others', so not just my machines.)

I'm also curious what "MESSIER031" really means... Messier catalog object 31 is the Andromeda galaxy, and I doubt we are looking for ETI signals from that distance! Perhaps the area of?
2262) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1781007)
Posted 21 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've been watching this for a week or so, and there's no way it's an illusion. I started because I was trying to figure out why mine was dropping... ie machines not getting GPU work due to GUPPI? Technical issues ie bad cruncher spitting out Invalids? One of the ways it can be seen that RAC is constantly falling is to check the Top participants. This list updates infrequently, so is a snapshot of participant RAC at that point in time. Going into each profile shows their current RAC.

Here's what we see from the top 12 at the time I posted this:

Name		TP RAC		Current RAC	Change
Lee Klopp	714,808		714,145		-663
MJS		543,177		540,824		-2,353
BojanR		455,817		454,691		-1,126
WB5TUF - Glenn	449,755		448,701		-1,054
Igor_b		426,679		426,241		-438
Fawkesguy	381,914		381,269		-645
Mr. Kevvy	375,483		374,294		-1,189
msattler	308,949		308,329		-620
DARRENS		283,672		283,181		-491
Charles Long	270,878		271,526		+648
TSTC - Cloud...	270,009 	269,847		-162
toaster		260,086		259,899		-187


One increase and 11 decreases. Usually I don't even see the one increase, either. And this has been pretty much constant for over a week.
2263) Message boards : Number crunching : Average Credit Decreasing? (Message 1780995)
Posted 21 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Hopefully you will see the graph which shows you what I am seeing

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=sah&name=71946


Don't see it there. I tried to post a graph but had the wrong one... I'll see if I can dig one one up, but yes, something has definitely changed.

Edit: The decrease can be seen here. Note the Credit per Day fall. (Ignore the Wednesdays as there is always a huge drop after the Tuesday outages.)
2264) Message boards : Number crunching : Can Seti@home keep up with Breakthrough Listen data? (Message 1780679)
Posted 20 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well we can try to keep up


Ironic, as NVidia devices aren't getting any Breakthrough Listen data currently. Hope we are allowed to change that soon.
2265) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1780366)
Posted 19 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't see why someone would want to do only 1/3 or 1/4 of what he can actually do for the project.


I estimate we have from hundreds to thousands of times greater of a chance finding ETI in a GBT work unit than an Arecibo one, because it is targeted to stars that are nearby, known to have exoplanets, and known (or thought) to have them in favourable positions for life (as we know it, Jim.)

It comes down to quality over quantity. And it's rather sadly ironic that the people who have contributed to this project the most over the years in terms of work done and time/money/effort invested in doing so are now mostly excluded from its most anticipated and promising venture.
2266) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1780362)
Posted 19 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Efficient is to send a task to a processing unit, which can process it fastest compared to other type of work on the same PU. Sending a VLAR to a GPU, which could crunch 3-4 mid-AR tasks (according to message 1779961) in the same time is waisting of ressources, since a CPU does the VLAR in nearly same time as a mid-AR WU.


Again, this is only correct for CUDA. The VLAR issue does not affect OpenCL so GUPPI work units would complete in about the same time. Most people are going to have both platforms available, as far as I know. All we ask for is to be able to make the decision to run them ourselves.
2267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1780168)
Posted 18 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
In 1966, the mean temperature on earth was 58.6 degrees.
In 2016, the mean temperature on earth is still 58.6 degrees.

God bless Al Gore, the idiot.






This is mainstream-science, peer-reviewed, universally accepted (among scientists at least) data correlated from about 6,300 weather stations worldwide. It's also published by NASA. (Source)

If you don't trust this level of reliability, what will you do when SETI@Home detects and verifies an ETI signal using the same level of rigor, the same scientific principles, the same methodology of peer review? Why would it be any more reliable than this?

I'm sure when it happens you won't take kindly to the people who found it being called idiots by outsiders.
2268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What If... (Message 1779785)
Posted 16 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone´s leaving the project ? (Message 1779514)
Posted 16 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mark,

If one of the criteria of this decision is that you feel left out of the GBT data as you have an exclusively NVidia farm, as I do, I'd request you add your voice to the Breakthrough Listen News thread asking that we have the option to allow it on NVidia if we choose to. I think by now we know the risks. :^)

I hope you can stick around though. As I have told myself many time, at this points: what's left to do? You could dial it back a bit and save some $ though... I wouldn't be able to stomach those power bills.
2270) Message boards : News : Crowdfunding to support our undergrads (Message 1779495)
Posted 16 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks for noticing. :^) Glad it's over the $5K threshold for at least a basic setup.
2271) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1779282)
Posted 15 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
To be able to run VLARs on my Nvidia GPUs I'd live with a "health warning" as suggested by Mr.Kevvy. Although I suspect some would just ignore the warning and moan like crazy.


Enstein@Home, rather than using app_info.xml to set the <count> parameter, has it in the project preferences as follows:

GPU utilization factor of BRP apps
DANGEROUS! Only touch this if you are absolutely sure of what you are doing!
Wrong setting might even damage your computer! Use solely on your own risk!
Min: -1.0 / Max: 1.0 / Default: 1.0


This seems to mitigate the moaning, so a similar caveat would certainly be sufficient here where there's less chance of overheating/hardware damage.

(My Linux machines have both CUDA and OpenCL. If they were given GUPPI VLARs, wondering how it is determined which of the two would pick them up.)
2272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1779208)
Posted 15 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thor flunked grade three twice...


He passed the thord time!

(You're making this too easy for me. :^D)
2273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1779185)
Posted 14 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As a warning you should not be so flippant, remember Thor's power. As an example the poster known as ID left the project after Thor arrived.


He underestimated the power of Nathoral Thorlection!
2274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone´s leaving the project ? (Message 1779041)
Posted 14 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Credits at different projects are very much like national currencies: I could make a higher number elsewhere, but as they are worth correspondingly less, it isn't worth moving there over. :^)

When I was crunching for Einstein@Home, for example, I noticed that my daily production/RAC topped out at almost exactly 4x what it peaked at here with the same farm. SETI@Home, being run by the developers of BOINC, uses a credit system based the actual FLOP count of the work unit (you can see how many operations it took in your account -> valid tasks). Some projects pay a flat rate per work unit, and of course this is open to inflation.
2275) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1778572)
Posted 13 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The VLARs go out to ATI GPUs, but are held back from NVIDIA. If I could find a way to send VLAR to only NVIDIA OpenCL and not NVIDIA CUDA, I would...


What would be a possible workaround in the interim (until someone cracks the issue of why VLAR/VHAR(?) bogs CUDA pulse detection) is a default-off setting in SETI@Home Preferences ie "Accept VLAR work units on NVidia CUDA (warning: these units may complete very slowly and cause the computer to become unresponsive)"

(Those with both dedicated crunchers and workstation computers they actually use could prevent the ones they use from slowing down by adding "home"/"school"/"work" separate preferences, putting the dedicated crunchers in one "location" setting with accepting VLAR on CUDA on, and the workstations in another "location" setting with it off.)

Here's to hoping someday someone can figure out a way to make that happen. In the meantime, looks like the need for some CPU heavy rig building.


I'll have to look at it that if the work that my NVidia GPUs do frees up CPUs and AMDs to do the work to make The Great Discovery, it's still worth it... I'll be happy if anyone makes it. :^)
2276) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1778415)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'd expect about 50/50 for the time being.


Unexpectedly large amount... excellent: doubled workload (hope the infrastructure can keep up.)

Also it was noted in NC that much of this may be VLAR due to being targeted so may be minimal(?) GPU involvement.
2277) Message boards : Number crunching : New Greenbank Files (Message 1778410)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Guess it's time for me to invest in a CPU only cruncher, lol...


This thread may prove helpful :^)
2278) Message boards : News : Crowdfunding to support our undergrads (Message 1778396)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I noticed that possibly because this campaign uses crowdfund.berkeley.edu rather than give.berkeley.edu that the donation doesn't seem to cross over to our profile... mine still shows the same number and amount of donations as before I donated, and this means that our regular "little green star" probably won't appear or be extended by it (is this correct?)
2279) Message boards : News : Breakthrough Listen data now flowing. (Message 1778391)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fantastic news... thank you!

Is there any estimate on what volume of workload is going to be released in comparison to the current MB workload from Arecibo?
2280) Message boards : Number crunching : New Greenbank Files (Message 1778383)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here you go.

Edit: Hoping that "new GBT files" means Lunatics v0.44, which is the release that supports MB v8 which supports GBT.
2281) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1778336)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Oh, Martin. Scan the QR code, infect your android phone.


Anyone using this exploit would ensure that their payload would affect as many platforms as possible.
2282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1777256)
Posted 8 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
With this move possibly more people will realize the importance of Thor and his design especially to Canada, eh?


Yeth thor, his thorvice will thortainly enthor our thorvival.
2283) Message boards : News : Crowdfunding to support our undergrads (Message 1777219)
Posted 8 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Have donated 250, wonder how my "special" star will look like :)


That's excellent, John. I remember you were also the final donor for my fundraiser for the GBT GPUs... your generosity is amplified by the fact that your donations aren't tax-deductible as mine are (are they?)

Now that I am certain of someone picking up a "special" star I can see what it is like; I may want one too. :^)
2284) Message boards : News : Crowdfunding to support our undergrads (Message 1777152)
Posted 8 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes indeed a noble initiative, but there is no way to physically donate any money.


The "Claim" buttons on the right.

Well there's my annual contribution; was waiting for a need... and finally achieved a lifelong goal of being in a peer-reviewed published scientific research paper. Unfortunately I had to buy my way in, but that will have to do. ;^)

And I loved this part:

But we still suffer by association with the tin foil hat brigade, who post shaky videos of unidentified lights in the sky to YouTube, write polemics about how the government are hiding alien spacecraft at Roswell, and circulate kooky manuscripts about how ET built the pyramids.


About time!
2285) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Is a highly advanced radio signal indistinguishable from noise? (Message 1776178)
Posted 4 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Also any intentional signal would not be encrypted whatsoever.


Why not? Could be an intelligence test... an easy-to-find signal containing a cryptic message. Break the code and receive a copy of the Encyclopedia Galactica, membership in the Galactic Federation, etc.

We just don't know.
2286) Message boards : Number crunching : April 1 (Message 1775600)
Posted 1 Apr 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
i was expecting april fools


Then it would appear you got one. :^)
2287) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (102) Server Problems? (Message 1775050)
Posted 30 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unofficially, as it's third-hand, today's outrage was caused by BOINC database replica server Carolyn crashing last night, possibly due to a RAID card issue. This was from the SETI Is Down Cafe which we flock to when we can't flock to here. :^)
2288) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics Help (Message 1774436)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Before I think up a way of kludging that, would you mind doing a speed test on the Yonah, comparing both SSE2 and SSE3 with the stock app (both exist for 32-bit - I'll make up packs for you, suitable for the Main project (the ones I got for the installer were configured for Beta testing).

Edit - do you have experience of using the Lunatics 'knabench' - I can perhaps make up a barebones copy for this specific test?


Sure... would be happy to test. I've used that for testing (for raistmer) but it was scripted so I didn't need to do much but copypaste. I'll PM you with contact info so you can send files.
2289) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics Help (Message 1774430)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
See my edit to the last post - please try the 32-bit installer first.


Apologies... I really have to avoid writing these things up in the wee hours before I've been sufficiently caffeinated... lol.

I uploaded the correct screenshot replacing the existing one. The problem (which as noted has been ongoing for a few Lunatics versions) is that that it allows only SSE for both MB and AP though both SSE2 and SSE3 are available.

Recap:

2290) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics Help (Message 1774426)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That's very odd - also odd that it's enabled SSE2 for AP, but not SSE3. That looks like a bug in my code: hang on while I check it out, and if that doesn't work, I'll dig out the SSE3 apps for manual installation.


Thanks for the fast reply... it's been like this for at least two, possibly three or four revisions of the Lunatics installer on this machine. Just finally decided to do something about it. :^)

I`m not very familiar with Intel CPU`s but SSE3 and AVX version can be downloaded from my website for manual installation.


Ah right, forgot about Mike's World... thanks. I'll mute my audio and then go there... lol.
Edit: I see only SSE for x86... SSE2 and 3 are both x64 only. Are there 32- bit versions?
2291) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics Help (Message 1774416)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I just reinstalled Lunatics on this laptop and the v0.44 installer still doesn't give me the option for SSE2 or SSE3 MB.



CPU-Z shows that this CPU does support both:



If there even is an MB executable that will support this CPU, is there a link to it anywhere? I don't see anything for it at the Lunatics download page nor could I register there to ask. Thanks.
2292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My niece is evil (grin). (Message 1773702)
Posted 24 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Occasionally, pregnancy test jokes can have profound results.
2293) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : RFID skimming - or, the best DEfense is a good OFfense. (Message 1772932)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
FWIW, I know a theater manager in Portland, Oregon who uses a base-station-sized jammer on the property. He says it works like a charm.


You may want to let him know that it's quite illegal.

The use of "cell jammers" or similar devices designed to intentionally block, jam, or interfere with authorized radio communications (signal blockers, GPS jammers, or text stoppers, etc.) is a violation of federal law. Also, it is unlawful to advertise, sell, distribute, or otherwise market these devices to consumers in the United States. These devices pose serious risks to critical public safety communications, and can prevent you and others from making 9-1-1 and other emergency calls. Jammers can also interfere with law enforcement communications. Operation of a jammer in the United States may subject you to substantial monetary penalties, seizure of the unlawful equipment, and criminal sanctions including imprisonment.


A highly populated public place such as a cinema increases the odds of a 911 call requirement ie for a medical emergency. When this eventually happens and several bystanders find their cell. phones can't call 911...

What cinemas I've been to do is simply run a short PSA before the show reminding people to mute their ringer and don't talk or text during the show. Anyone doesn't follow this gets shown the door and no refund. Works, and without causing any issues.
2294) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1772896)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well the top user, with a RAC of 621813, represents 0.001849% of the daily work done here & the combined RAC of the top 20 users comes to 0.02034%. So we are all just drops in the bucket.


I understand that the 9000 series is incapable of error, but it is possible you were looking at total work instead of total RAC...

Total RAC: 175,911,927
Top RAC (currently MJS): 621,813
Top divided by Total ≅ 0.00353 = 0.353%... MJS is doing about 0.353% of the entire project.

The sum of the top 20 contributors is 6,217,815 (very close to ten times that... nice even distribution over twenty.) This is 0.0353 or 3.53% of the total production of the project.
2295) Message boards : Number crunching : Apologies to my wing persons (Message 1772824)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My apologies as well for those awaiting the work units from Beater Cruncher #3... finally succumbed to mainboard failure. It was my first multi-core machine from 8 or 9 years ago when I had just found such things existed (conversation prior to buy was basically "It has four real cores??!" "It does." "I gotta have one!") Its tiny amount of work done belies the 27 million it racked up while on Windows. (Also did a huge amount of hobbyist mod debugging work on several games on it as well.) So long, old timer.
2296) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1772814)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Are low analysing rate users like myself really welcome or should SETI work be left to the rapid analysing users only?


I hope this answers your question.
2297) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1772620)
Posted 19 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Finally reached a hundred mil,
For what discovered? Not much, still.

And many here the same time for,
I'm humbled they've done so much more.

But it hasn't dampened my insistence:
Nothing's found without persistence.

Took sixteen years to get this done...
I'll double it in only one!

I hope. :^)
2298) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1772456)
Posted 18 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I suppose I might consider Linux...but for now that learning curve is far too great for me to address.


Linux was quite difficult for while, but it's a doddle these days with the graphic desktops. I found it easier to install than Windows (the fact that I installed it on six different boards with four different WLAN devices and it flawlessly got both the wired/wireless networking, and audio, running on all of them was a deciding factor.) You can solve 90% or more of any issues you may have with a quick Google, and it's well-known for having a very helpful online community if you're really stuck.

Come to the Dark Side... we have cookies. :^)
2299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman fundraiser.........yes, on gofundme. (Message 1771736)
Posted 15 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Those of us who know you well know your heart is in the right place and you're trustworthy, but for others who don't, since this fundraiser is a conduit to FVHA, they do have their own donation page already so you could refer any interested donors there.
2300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring forward..........reset your clocks. (Message 1771609)
Posted 14 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I wouldn't mind getting rid of the spring and fall time changes if it were DST all year round. But the whole point is the extra hour of evening time in the spring and summer when it's enjoyable, so we aren't getting home from work and it's too close to darkness to do anything outdoors... I wouldn't call that a silly or bad idea. I also wouldn't want to give that up, just as some don't like like going to work or school in pre-dawn darkness. I consider it an excellent tradeoff, having an extra hour of daylight for half a year - like an entire week of enjoyable spring and summer evenings - added for the price of fiddling with a couple of clocks and watches for a couple of minutes twice a year, and I'd rather lose an hour of morning light wasted either asleep on weekends or commuting on weekdays.
2301) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1771259)
Posted 12 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've seen numerous reports that if you have Windows 7 and previously noted KB3035583 installed, it is now starting to install Windows 10 automatically, without any notification or permission being given. It does give a 30-day opt-out option after the restart... but really.

Great time to get GWX Control Panel if you haven't already.
2302) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : What is this mathematical concept called? (Message 1771056)
Posted 11 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Bin packing problem.
2303) Message boards : Number crunching : My Titan why so bad results (Message 1770430)
Posted 8 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If both CPU and GPU work is slow but the CPU itself is sufficient, perhaps cheap memory with a low clock rate is holding it back?

Mainboard make/model and RAM info from CPU-Z would be great.
2304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1770340)
Posted 8 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I just saw this UFO prank. Had to share.


Unfortunately getting:

This video does not exist.
Sorry about that.


:^(
2305) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1770228)
Posted 7 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Can a single update be uninstalled in Window$ 10? If so I'll have him do that.


Yes... How-To Geek to the rescue again.

I thought the only "choice" one has when it comes to Window$ 10 updates was to schedule a reboot. I didn't know that Window$ 10 had anything other than automatic updates.


Correct... this is a workaround to prevent them by telling Windows that one's connection is metered so that it won't download them until you specify otherwise.
2306) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1770180)
Posted 7 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is anyone having a problem with an update that came out on Wednesday March 2? Here's why I ask:

A friend of mine is running 10 and he has been having nothing but problems since Wednesday. Just now, while we were in voice chat, his PC rebooted out of the blue. He has Window$ update schedule a reboot instead of just rebooting when it wants to.


I had wanted to post something about this a couple of days ago but forgot to... thanks for the reminder. :^)

It's probably update KB3140743 which has been implicated in causing many problems including BSODs, inability to boot even into Safe Mode, extreme slowdowns, etc.

Hope this helps, and would advise to disable automatic updates.
2307) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1769468)
Posted 4 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
@Cosmic_Ocean: Yup I ran into the RTL issue with Mint's default drivers... they last about 15 mins. then need a reboot. Not good for the 2GB apt-get of CUDA!

I tried NFS, but I couldn't get it working either. One of my favourite sites for easy walkthroughs (HowToGeek) came up in my Google results for Samba, so I tried this article and finally the shares appeared and they work perfectly. I finally ran a backup and it was at least as fast as doing so over a Windows share before.

Also ran into my 64GB USB flash drive not mounting. This was solved easily by installing exfat-fuse and exfat-utils; didn't need a reboot and it then mounted and could read/write.
2308) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1769286)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
17.3 Rosa for a couple of weeks. It was recommended by a friend here, and I went for it because, for someone who last installed Linux nigh two decades ago and gave up on it as unusable, it was easy and comes with most things one needs preinstalled and preconfigured, and makes it very easy with the package manager to add more. This is a Linux to answer those who say that it's still not ready for the desktop because it's too complicated. Anyone who can install Windows can install this... it's even easier because of not requiring W/LAN drivers before connecting to the internet.

There are a pile of security updates available from the update manager (another excellent feature which makes the transition from Windows easier) so they must be addressing the security concerns; I would say that they are (were?) behind only because its popularity exceeded expectations. I don't know if they host their own site so I can't blame them offhand for getting hacked, but I got it from the torrent anyways due to them being cryptographically secure as well as using no provider's bandwidth. I'm not worried... already behind a firewall, don't run as root, don't visit malware-laden sites or install dodgy crap from untrusted sources, installing AdBlock/No-Script is the first thing I do after firing up the Fox.
2309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say fare thee well to Tigger gurl. (Message 1769271)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Reposting as it seems to be required now:

I dunno whether this will help, but, hey, it's what works for me:

I don't get too broken up when one of our cats goes over the rainbow bridge because:

... without us, they'd live half as long, sleep outdoors in the bitter winter, get fleas and rabies and scars from innumerable fights, starve most of the time, and live always in fear of when the next meal or threat will be.

... with us, their lives are filled with cuddles, kibbles, being brushed, twenty hours of catnaps some days, and their biggest fear is a smack or a squirt for ripping up the furniture.

So, knowing that their lives are so brief, when they go I am glad to have made their existence so much longer and happier than it would have been otherwise. If I got broken up about it I'd probably switch to turtles; they live a long time and aren't very cuddly.


You have two who need you more than ever, so keep well and think of them. And look for her somewhere warm.
2310) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1769224)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm a windows guy from the beginning, but now i'm exploring LinuxMint: https://linuxmint.com/ with the cinnamon desktop in a VirtualBox.
I have to say, i'm very pleased, everything, including M$ office documents, ran out of the box and every "normal" window$ user should feel at home at once, except for the games. If M$ continues to threat privacy and sovereign control of *MY* PC, i'll finally make the swap.


I've moved... OK... upgraded 5/8 of my farm and personal machines to Mint with one more due soon. So far it's been easy and seamless. I was impressed that it automatically installed WLAN drivers (although watch out for RTL drivers as there's an issue with the built-in ones where they stop working after a short time until a restart... the rest are fine) for multiple USB devices, including USB audio (and onboard), automatically detects and mounts NTFS partitions, and Cinnamon is very easy to adapt to as an interface. Oh and one other hurdle is passed: Netflix now works natively in Linux by installing the latest Chrome... Silverlight is no longer required due to HTML5 support.

My only complaint is setting up network shares/drives... it's (still) terribly overcomplicated. You can create "shares" easily through Cinnamon (uses underlying Samba and creates SMB shares) that then nothing else either Windows or *ux can connect to. I've tried making Samba accounts, setting volume permissions and it just doesn't want to work. I'm also not the only one with this issue. If Linux really wants to go "mainstream" and compete with Windows as a desktop OS, it needs a simple, universal, graphic way of configuring shares that works... this is a basic OS function these days.
2311) Message boards : Number crunching : TIME FOR A NEW FUND DRIVE. (Message 1769110)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Egads... I just noticed my star had fallen off. Should be much more but it doesn't seem like there's any pressing need for new hardware. Well, this will keep the star on for another year until the need arises.

You gave $20.00
to SETI@home
on March 2, 2016
via Visa
Your confirmation number is 177770


If I were superstitious I would like all those 7s, though. :^)
2312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New v8 apps, new kittyman thread. (Message 1767838)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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You shall now know me as 'Heisenberg'.


Good moniker; surprised it is unused.

Are you going to keep it permanently, or is there some... Uncertainty? :^D

Edit: Come to think if it, for early 20th century theoretical physicists Schrödinger would be a good or even better fit, being the Schrödinger's Cat guy and all.
2313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New v8 apps, new kittyman thread. (Message 1764505)
Posted 13 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And not one of you has anything to say about my impending loss of Tigger.


I dunno whether this will help, but, hey, it's what works for me:

I don't get too broken up when one of our cats goes over the rainbow bridge because:

... without us, they'd live half as long, sleep outdoors in the bitter winter, get fleas and rabies and scars from innumerable fights, starve most of the time, and live always in fear of when the next meal or threat will be.

... with us, their lives are filled with kisses and cuddles, kibbles and treats, being brushed, twenty hours of catnaps some days, and their biggest fear is a smack on the bum or a squirt for ripping up the furniture.

So, knowing that their lives are so brief, when they go I am glad to have made their existence so much happier than it would have been otherwise. If I got broken up about it I'd probably switch to turtles; they live a long time and aren't very cuddly.
2314) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Scientific Value of Processing (Message 1763324)
Posted 8 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If you go into Account and then SETI@Home Preferences you can edit them and set them to:

SETI@home v7: no
AstroPulse v7: yes
SETI@home v8: no

And your computer will only receive AstroPulse work. Caveat: there is not always a run of AstroPulse work with any available, and because it "pays" more credit for the same amount of processing, a lot of people have set their machines to AstroPulse-only and when there is any it is quickly assigned.
2315) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Scientific Value of Processing (Message 1763294)
Posted 8 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
By the way i tried clicking the link you provided but it was blocked on my end.


It's using a self-signed SSL certificate, so this needs to be allowed in your browser.

If humans are literally the ONLY intelligent life in the entire universe (which I don't believe, but lets just assume so for question's sake), what other ares could these "triplets" we find help?


Triplets could(?) discover pulsars although the spike duration appears to be too short. But there is an entire area of SETI@Home designed to discover astrophysical phenomena like this: Astropulse. So even if there's nothing intelligent out there, it is still valid and its data could still produce useful discoveries.
2316) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Scientific Value of Processing (Message 1763195)
Posted 7 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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SETI@Home's Dr. Eric Korpela and Dan Wertheimer completed a project to map neutral hydrogen distribution in the Milky Way using data on the SETI@Home tapes. I could be wrong but I don't think that this was based on our processing, however it was still using the same data that wouldn't be there otherwise.

Edit: If SETI@Home shut down today, I don't doubt the data would be handed over to other group(s) who would perform a far more comprehensive correlation and re-observation than has been done until present. Don't get me started on NTPCkr again... ;^)
2317) Message boards : Number crunching : Running a test: An ARM with a cracked screen. (Message 1762302)
Posted 5 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have one like that too: 7518526.

Its SIM slot failed making it useless as a phone, so I bought it from my missus as it can still connect to WiFi. I put it behind the bedroom TV and forgot about it. I eventually found that it had fallen behind the dresser and been crushed, probably when the dresser was moved. But I dusted it off and got it working again, and found it took a licking and keeps on ticking; I'm amazed that the touchscreen still works under all the crackle.

I hope if I ever discover anything that it's this device that does it... there's a lesson in there about not wasting or overlooking potential.

Here it is crunching away as of a couple minutes ago:

2318) Message boards : Number crunching : Proposal/idea for a near-real-time, low-resource, inexpensive NTPCkr (Message 1762076)
Posted 4 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The type of queries that NTPCkr needs to run.. needs access to the entire database..for one single query, that could take hours or even days to finish running.


It doesn't seem that way... again it takes 5,000 CPU days to correlate 2,113 actual days' results, so 2.64 or more cores could do it in real time. The queries must be returning smaller results and I expect that as much as possible of that database is in RAM thus the huge memory requirement. I would imagine that the sky map is "pixellized" so that each object has a hard-and-fast location that can be indexed for instantaeous retrieval, rather than everything having a long decimal RA + Dec. location that requires extensive searching to find nearby objects that may be matches... it would just be too slow.

This would be an ideal question for the SAH team to provide more info on...

Well I would be interested if and when it's decided.


I will definitely pass the word. :^)

Considering the cost of RAM, have things moved forward enough now that its reasonable to run an application like this from an SSD? I read an article earlier where 3 Samsung M.2 950 pro SSDs were run in RAID on an Asus board getting insane bandwidth of around 3 GB/s. That's about a 1/4 of the speed of DDR3 but at a much smaller fraction of the cost.


The original spec. for NTPCkr was for 512GB of RAM and 10TB of SSD, and as you noted since RAIDed SSD is so fast I'm wondering why both. Then again that spec. is for that NTPCkr to do it all.

I think Mr. Kevvy has a good plan, but then... what do I know?


Enough that I say thank you. :^)

Honestly, I think there is a general lack of urgency. You would think that someone would have just "floated a trial balloon" to see if the hardware was doable if they really wanted it.


I agree in that I think they are just too busy elsewhere and will be so for the immediate future with all of the changes happening. The "cloud" NTPCkr happened because an intern worked on it, but there is a substantial investment in development for a local one that I doubt can be fulfilled right now. Still, may as well float this idea if it can be done for a small fraction of the cost... may be an ideal project for the next intern or post-grad.
2319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #63 (Message 1762066)
Posted 4 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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On reconsideration I think I will change my response to "Mirror, me roar..."

Missed it by that much. :^)
2320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #63 (Message 1761982)
Posted 3 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


"Mirroar, mirroar..."
2321) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home Version 8 for GPU (Message 1761939)
Posted 3 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here are the Lunatics installers. You'll want 0.44.
2322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1761898)
Posted 3 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Raccoon tries to catch the subway at Spadina station


Mask Transit?

<<ducks>>
2323) Message boards : Number crunching : Proposal/idea for a near-real-time, low-resource, inexpensive NTPCkr (Message 1761584)
Posted 2 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If you ever wanted to cringe at a price tag... go look at server boards that can handle 512-1024 GB of RAM. THEN...go look up how much it would cost to get the ECC Registered RAM to get at least 512GB of it (in the module size needed for the board.. probably 8 or 16GB modules, times however many). That's painful.


Both of those were in the price spec. at the bottom. As Chris noted the RAM would be in 16x32GB sticks. Here is an example dual-Xeon board rackmount for the quoted cost. It actually has 1TB of max. RAM capacity in 16 DIMM slots whereas the one I had seen originally had 512GB, and also has 10GBit Ethernet.

I guess someone from the SAH team would be the only ones who could say one way or another if the capped "catch-up" rate of 64 queries/sec. to the science server would cause an issue, but as indicated the BOINC database can be seen to get 1,200+ queries/sec. on the server status page (when I looked at it right now it was 1,360.)
2324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1761422)
Posted 1 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have this strange sense of deja vu...
2325) Message boards : Number crunching : Proposal/idea for a near-real-time, low-resource, inexpensive NTPCkr (Message 1761389)
Posted 1 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Too late. Already on the way.


I doubt that is going to be used long-term as it would be prohibitively expensive (I had a gander at Amazon's rates recently.) Also, as indicated, even with a run of a few weeks it's anything but "Near Time" ie you can click on your recently completed work after a few minutes to see how it matches up with others' in NTPCkr.
2326) Message boards : Number crunching : Proposal/idea for a near-real-time, low-resource, inexpensive NTPCkr (Message 1761382)
Posted 1 Feb 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This thread is intended as a discussion to bat ideas around and get feedback. I've posted it in Number Crunching, rather than SETI@Home Science where the other NTPCkr thread is, because this is a computing rather than astrophysical topic, and this forum seems to be where the most technically savvy folks with the greatest knowledge of SETI@Home's infrastructure can be found.

I hope that it proves fruitful, as I think that a working NTPCkr or equivalent is very important to the future of this project. If is seems to pass muster, or if any flaws found with it seem to be reasonably solvable, it could certainly be proposed to the SETI@Home team for consideration.

Note: Please do not reply quoting this entire post unless you are inserting commentary throughout! I will become rather annoyed. :^p

First, we need some preliminaries, of course, for new volunteers:

What is NTPCkr?
NTPCkr is Near-Time Persistency Checker. Simply, it's a server/computer that takes our crunched results and quickly matches them up (correlates them) with the billions of other results on file to see if multiple interesting signals have been found at one point in the sky. Ideally, we also could access it through our browsers and see where work units we've crunched are located on a sky map, and whether other interesting results have been found there.

Why is NTPCkr so important to SETI@Home?
NTPCkr's importance is two-fold:

1) Science: By virtue of being near-real-time, NTPCkr offers to project scientists much faster responsiveness should a transient signal be detected, so that it can be investigated further in a minimal amount of time before it is gone. Responsiveness is now easier and thus this has become a priority due to SETI@Home's access to the Green Bank Telescope, which can be pointed at interesting locations, in contrast to Arecibo's constraint of only listening at whatever location the telescope happens to be "pointing" to for other research.

2) Project participation and long-term success: One of the statistics I've seen the project team use is the unfortunate 8% retain rate of SETI@Home volunteers. This means that 92% of everyone who ever did any project work is now gone, or at least isn't doing any more work. Over the years I've seen several BOINC and other distributed computing projects fail or stagger because of lack of participant enthusiasm, and the biggest contributing factor is always that participants don't think that their work is valuable to the project and being used. With the flood of new Breakthrough Listen data from Green Bank and possibly elsewhere requiring maximum participation, providing a captivating way of showing volunteers that their results are being analyzed and that they possibly contain interesting data would not only prevent them from leaving, but may also convince those who have left to return.

What's passing for NTPCkr now?
Currently, NTPCkr requires the entire science database to be exported and then the job run on a supercomputer or cloud computing facility. This takes weeks, so it should be just called "PCkr" as it's anything but Near-Time. (Perhaps Far-Time, which would make it FTPCkr, so would ideally be run on the IBM computing cluster in Poughkeepsie... and props to anyone who gets the reference.) The cost estimate for a NTPCkr owned by and local to the SETI@Home facility to replace this was initially $30-40K. I hope to demonstrate that it can be done for far less cost.

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Synopsis
Doing a complete run of the entire SETI@Home science database to find persistent signals more than once is unnecessary and inefficient. Instead, only one initial run is required, because, as the result is a database itself, further runs can build on it incrementally (much like backing up a hard disk only copying new/changed files since the last backup) only adding new results since the last run, rather than starting from scratch. These further runs can be done on a much smaller/cheaper computer at the SETI@Home facility than initially estimated, and eventually this process would catch up to the newest results in the science database, so would fulfill the "Near Time" requirement of correlating results almost as soon as they are received.

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Methodology


paddym is the SETI@Home science server for the SETI@Home science database of MB (Multi-Beam) results which NTPCkr would be looking at. While I don't know the exact number of results it has, we know that the total credit in SETI@Home's results is about 3.2 x 1011. This grows by about 1.5 x 108 credits per day. Thus assuming the MB/AP credit ratio hasn't changed too drastically averaged over time, the science database contains 3.2 x 1011/1.5 x 108 ≈ 2,130 days worth of work. We can thus estimate the number of results paddym holds, knowing that about 92,000 results are returned per hour (which means 25 writes/second to the science database.) This works out to (2.2 x 106 per day x 2,133 days' worth) / 2 results per work unit ~ 2.3 x 109 results in total.



The current time/date is noted as the checkpoint time for use later, and the SETI@Home science database is exported and sent to a cloud or supercomputing facility to run the NTPCkr job. Note that in this time the SETI@Home science database has grown as it has been collecting results continuously (I show new results as halftone at the bottom.) This initial run needs to be done elsewhere as it is computationally unfeasible to perform with SETI@Home's in-house computing resources (it also can't be distributed to volunteers as each would need enough of a percentage of the science database in local storage that there is not enough network bandwidth to distribute it.) The actual time requirement for the job to run is 35 days. The processing requirement for this job is about 5,000 CPU days... ie a quad-core desktop would take about 5,000/4 = 1,250 days — 3 years and 3 months — to complete it.



The resulting NTPCkr database from the run is returned to SETI@Home and installed in the NTPCkr computer. With the 35 day run time, plus an estimated week of transport and setup each way, 49 days have elapsed, with the SETI@Home science database growing continuously during this time.



The cloud or supercomputing facility is no longer required. The SETI@Home science database is then copied to NTPCkr so that the complete database is available locally as otherwise the correlations would be too slow.



NTPCkr is now started up and runs the same correlation job that was run on the cloud or supercomputing facility, correlating its local replica copy of the science database. The critical difference is that NTPCkr only runs the job on results that arrived between the checkpoint time/date noted above and the current time/date.



NTPCkr has now finished additions to its result database. However, it hasn't caught up with the science database yet, because in the time it took to do this plenty of new results arrived.



NTPCkr now sets the checkpoint time as the previous current time, and runs the job again. However from this point forward copying the entire science database over is no longer required. Instead, NTPCkr directly queries paddym for the new results since checkpoint and adds them to its local copy of the science database, then correlates them into the NTPCkr database.
This process repeats with NTPCkr converging on the state of the science database with each iteration. The time to convergence can be easily determined... no calculus required!
We know in the initial run that 5,000 CPU days correlated 2,133 days' worth of science database results, so results accumulate at the rate of 5,000/2,133 = 2.34 CPU days per day. Thus, a NTPCkr with only 3 or more CPU cores could keep with the science database results as they arrive.
We need to allow for NTPCkr outages requiring catch-up to the last checkpoint, sub-optimal utilization and other issues, and that the NTPCkr computer is also expected to serve out local and web queries. I would therefore expect a minimum of a six-core Xeon.
There is initially a 49-day offset between the science database and the NTPCkr database. This is 49 x 2.34 = 114.66 CPU days of computation.
Every day the science database adds 2.34 CPU days of results to correlate, and NTPCkr's six-core Xeon reduces this by 6 CPU days, a net reduction of 6-2.34 = 3.66 days' offset.
NTPCkr would thus catch up to the science database in 114.66/3.66 ≈ 31.3 days.
During this time it can be limited to querying the science database (6 / 2.34) x 25 = 64 queries/sec. (The 25 is the number of new results/second written to the science database.) This should not present an issue, considering the BOINC database receives 20x as many queries/sec. with fewer resources.



After the 31.3 days, NTPCkr would then be near-real-time, checkpointing perhaps once per minute or whatever is determined to be a proper interval. At this point, it could be linked with muarae1 to serve web queries from anyone interested in checking results for correlation. if NTPCkr crashed or was otherwise cut off from the science database, it would catch up in 2.34 / 6 = 0.39 of the time offset, so for example if it was down for a day it would catch up in just over nine hours.

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Proposed Costing/parts list

The initial NTPCkr spec. indicated 10TB of SSD and 512GB RAM. Given the differing methodology, with only 64 queries/sec. to the science database it doesn't seem that SSDs would be required. (This would also be 180 MBits/sec. even if complete work units were being extracted, which they aren't, so the built-in GBit networking on the mainboard would be more than sufficient.) A single six-core CPU has been demonstrated to be enough, but eight-cores are only a couple of hundred dollars more so would be worth the difference. As well to facilitate further upgrades and mitigate possible lack of resources, a dual-CPU board would be ideal. Not knowing how the requirements would change, the original 512GB RAM spec. should also be kept.

SuperMicro rackmount with dual-Xeon LGA2011 mainboard and 950W PSU: $1,850
Xeon eight-core CPU: $700
512GB memory (32GB DDR4 ECC DIMM server memory @ $300 x 16) = $4,800 (well over half the cost... it appears that the price-fixing convictions haven't stopped RAM from being way too expensive!)
12TB hard disk (3 TB NAS SATA III HD @ $120 x 5 [one as a parity drive]) = $600

Total: $7,950. (This is between one-fifth and one-quarter the cost of full-correlation NTPCkr estimated at $30-40K. It also matches the actual cost of equivalent SETI@Home servers that I know of.)

Time estimate for raising this amount: One week with matching fundraising.
2327) Message boards : Number crunching : Its breaking my Heart but I may have to bow out of SETI@Home .. (Message 1760803)
Posted 30 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
“It is the greatest of mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.”
--- Sydney Smith
2328) Message boards : SETI@home Science : First Signs of the NTPCkr (Message 1760743)
Posted 30 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have no doubt that Matt could easily lay out the specs for such a m/c, but where would the money come from to fund its purchase?


Already made it clear to the team several times that I'd be more than happy to raise the funds via matching fundraiser or equivalent as per Matt's spec. and cost estimate, so that isn't an issue. With the v8 transition, building instruments at Green Bank, integrating Breakthrough Listen and all of their other duties, I think that they're just too busy right now.

So, I will remind them from time to time.... gently. :^)

I'm working on a writeup of an idea for NTPCkr that I will shortly post in Number Crunching, perhaps this weekend...
2329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Abe Vigoda (for real this time) (Message 1759474)
Posted 26 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fish sleeps with the Tessios.

Abe Vigoda, the sad-faced actor who emerged from a workmanlike stage career to find belated fame in the 1970s as the earnest mobster Tessio in “The Godfather” and the dyspeptic Detective Phil Fish on the hit sitcom “Barney Miller,” died on Tuesday morning in Woodland Park, N.J. He was 94, having outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure.

His daughter Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told The Associated Press that Mr. Vigoda had died in his sleep at her home.


I am working through the complete Barney Miller and just got through all of his episodes only days ago, and wondered when he would be gone for real. It's amazing that he was playing a retiree over forty years ago yet was still around. So long, Abe, for the last time.
2330) Message boards : Number crunching : Abandoned Tasks (Message 1758628)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You have some marked 'Abandoned' I see.


Same thing here across several machines at the same time.
2331) Message boards : Number crunching : AVG detecting IDP.AREW.Generic (Message 1758475)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anybody else seeing that?


Yes, or similar false positive.

Edit: Options>Advanced Settings>Exceptions, Add Exception, select Folder and add the BOINC program folder.
2332) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics Windows Installer v0.44 - new release for v8 (required upgrade) (Message 1758433)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
After installing the client reports missing files, but I am crunching away normally.

22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_8.00_windows_intelx86.exe not found
22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setigraphics_8.00_windows_intelx86.exe not found
22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_8.00_windows_intelx86__cuda50.exe not found
22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_8.00_windows_intelx86__cuda42.exe not found
22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/cudart32_42_9.dll not found
22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/cufft32_42_9.dll not found
22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86__cuda42.exe not found
22/01/2016 7:30:47 PM | SETI@home | File projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_7.00_windows_intelx86__cuda50.exe not found


In order to clear out any old junk, I detached/reattached to clear the folder when v8 GPU client was released and ran stock with no app_info.xml until installing Lunatics 0.44, so nothing I did (I think!) But it seems to be working.

Edit: After quitting/restarting the client (which I am doing often tweaking app_info) seems to have gone away.
2333) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics Windows Installer v0.44 - new release for v8 (required upgrade) (Message 1758166)
Posted 22 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And by lunchtime Friday. Very well done to those that had a hand in it, Richard, William, and others.


Absolutely... I thought I'd at least have to wait a few days. I guess it helps that the unofficial developers have become the official developers. :^) Excellent job and thanks!
2334) Message boards : Number crunching : Virus warning in SETI through Boinc... (Message 1758163)
Posted 22 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have had that AVG "Identity Protection" component flag BOINC files (and others) as suspicious for years. It's also responsible for most of the reboot requirements whenever it updates. My conclusion: it's crap and disable it.

As Wiggo noted, you'll have to restore that file under Options > Virus Vault.
2335) Message boards : Number crunching : How far out is gpu processing weeks months ? (Message 1757768)
Posted 21 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Tomorrow.

And not a minute too soon...
2336) Message boards : Number crunching : Gripes and Kudos V (Message 1757107)
Posted 17 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Gripe: People such as myself who miss the obviously posted rules and guidelines. Apologies.

Kudos: Our unpaid and oft unappreciated team of volunteer moderators, without whom I shudder to think what this forum would be like.
2337) Message boards : Number crunching : Gripes and Kudos V (Message 1756854)
Posted 16 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
does "patiently" include those of us who are mumbling under our breaths as they watch their average count go down daily?... my shiny new 980Ti's are chomping at the bit to take off and run again... ;)


After about a day of similar mumbling, I attached all my GPU hosts to Beta and am helping out all I can. The more assistance we provide, the faster and better the v8 apps can be released. Of course, there are also plenty of other BOINC projects with GPU apps to keep us busy in the interim. The most popular secondary project around here is Einstein@Home, as it is both astrophysical and uses Arecibo data.

Certainly a better use of one's time than mumbling. :^)
2338) Message boards : Number crunching : Dumb Question(s) About Seti v8 (Message 1755230)
Posted 10 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If you only want v8 work, go to Beta then into Your Account and then SETI@home/AstroPulse Beta preferences. Click Edit Preferences and uncheck SETI@home v7 and AstroPulse v7, then click Update Preferences.

Edit: Going to drink beer and watch movies now so anything else will have to wait until tomorrow. :^D
2339) Message boards : Number crunching : Dumb Question(s) About Seti v8 (Message 1755217)
Posted 10 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Which CUDA?


Wasn't specified but I picked up CUDA42 and CUDA50 work units along with assoc. apps. Was just announced as "A big pile of new GPU apps for Windows, MacOS and Linux are now available."
2340) Message boards : Number crunching : Dumb Question(s) About Seti v8 (Message 1755213)
Posted 10 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
We have apps in alpha, we will be moving to beta and hand them over to Eric for public release when we are confident they work properly.


v8 CUDA is now live on Beta.
2341) Message boards : Number crunching : New work for Nvidia GPUs? When? (Message 1755110)
Posted 9 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

To get the latest and greatest app do I need to do anything or will they install automatically?

I am running as installed, no command line, app_info, or other changes. Should I be trying something? If so, I need directions,


That's all... you'll see posts for manually installed update apps but you can just wait for the automatic updates through BOINC when the official betas are released. I am doing that and running absolutely stock is no app_info.xml etc.

It's recommended to read through the News thread to know the caveats (any important updates will also appear in your BOINC client), check your Tasks to see if there are excessive Invalids/Errors/Inconclusives and post if you find anything wrong that isn't covered.
2342) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1754750)
Posted 8 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I will investigate the News thread and see just how technical I need to be to get this done properly. Since I have just reset everything today I want to make sure that everything is running smoothly before I try to help out.


You don't have to be very technical... don't let some of the development posts in News scare you off. :^) As noted just report any issues (not already known) if you have them.

Also it's an open/public beta so I'm just a cruncher rather than a concierge. :^D
2343) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1754729)
Posted 7 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I may try to get my GPU back to work, but on another project. *:)


If you're that enthusiastic to keep your GPUs busy and crunch v8 early (can't blame you for that) and want to help the project, why not join us in Beta? Just connect BOINC to http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/

It's recommended to read through the News thread to know the caveats (any important updates will also appear in your BOINC client), check your Tasks to see if there are excessive Invalids/Errors/Inconclusives and post if you find anything wrong that isn't covered.

(edit: and no tinkering... lol)

By helping there, you'll help get the v8 GPU clients released sooner here...
2344) Message boards : Number crunching : Dumb Question(s) About Seti v8 (Message 1754029)
Posted 5 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My dumb question, which I still didn't get a straight answer to from yesterday:

Is there currently any v8 GPU work available?
(for those who have installed one of the third-party beta clients)

I'm guessing it's a "no" but just want to make sure. I'm fine with keeping the GPUs busy on Einstein until it goes "yes". Thanks in advance.
2345) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1753775)
Posted 4 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I see that Raistmer (thank you as always) linked to fresh v8 MB apps including an NV OpenCL. Before I go tinkering to get it working, is there actually any work available for it currently?

Just don't want to install it untested and then in a worst case scenario trash hundreds of work units while I'm off working tomorrow. :^p
2346) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1753372)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No mine will not sit idle but will find their way to Einstein if necessary.


Thanks for the reply. The only way I can interpret this is that yes, as I was hoping otherwise: v7 CUDA work has been turned off without any v8 CUDA work to replace it. To confirm, my main machine with three 980s sitting idle finally picked up a solitary CUDA WU, and it was a resend inconclusive.

So I went into Einstein's project prefs., disabled CPU and immediately got a full cache of GPU work. Can (almost) always rely on that project for work.
2347) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1753340)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just to clarify: it looks as though v7 CUDA work has run out, and v8 has yet to be generated (and no app. for it either yet) so everyone's GPUs are going to sit idle for a while when their v7 work is done... correct?
2348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you Sleep well. (Message 1749660)
Posted 16 Dec 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I have (well... had) sleep issues... I would wake up at or after the "witching hour" of 3:30 in the morning and then couldn't get back to sleep again. There's a reason for this (other than your house in Amityville being possessed by a demon... heh) : it's apparently when our circadian rhythm changes days.

I had read that valerian was an effective sleep-aid so I tried it with great success. It's been used for thousands of years and is sometimes called "natural valium" and prescribed in place of it or other tranquilizers. Many sleepytime teas have a little, but these tiny amounts didn't interest me. Instead I buy bags of pure valerian root at health food stores.

Caveats: These are very tough little lumps (I powder them in a coffee grinder) and they have an odor, only made stronger when powdered, variously described as moldy, musty, fecal, or even gym socks. So I brew a pot of this tea (sold at the very same store the valerian is found) which masks the odor, adding a rounded teaspoon of ground valerian root. As a bonus, this tea also contains the well-known sleep-aid camomile: insomnia hasn't a chance. And of course: please consult a doctor if you're on any medication before using valerian (or anything else); for example it's apparently not a good idea to use it if you're taking St. John's Wort.

Most nights with it I sleep like a rock until I'm supposed to wake up, even if I napped first, and feel refreshed. If I do happen to wake up in the middle of the night, I can just go right back to sleep again which I couldn't do otherwise. Hope this helps someone escape the insomnia misery. :^)
2349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What would you like to see for XMAS under the proverbial tree? (Message 1740574)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Green Bank work units!

(I keep asking SETI Claus... eventually he will bring them.)
2350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hide computers (Message 1721741)
Posted 3 Sep 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Knew it wouldn't be popular!


It's not merely unpopular... it's downright weird. It makes as much sense as an obscure municipal bylaw that says I need a restaurant license for my home if I own more than five toasters. :^p
2351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hide computers (Message 1721537)
Posted 3 Sep 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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??????????


You must be new here. ;^)

Edit: Even after so long he is still #6. Story gets it wrong and calls them "hours" rather than "credits" though.
2352) Message boards : News : Big boost for SETI@home from Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen Initiative (Message 1703354)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is fantastic news and I hope we can start getting Green Bank results and get NTPICKR up and running.

I'm glad someone with serious capital has finally stepped up to the challenge, and even more so that SETI@Home is going to be involved in it.

Looking forward to moving the farm "back home" to work on this, and I'm still interested in fundraising NTPCKR if this new development doesn't happen. :^)
2353) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (95) Server Problems? (Message 1647608)
Posted 28 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Have a nice and fan noise free weekend folks.


Nah, that's what Einstein@Home is there for. Spent too much on this farm to keep it idle. I did plan on hanging there until Green Bank was online but of course they had to go have their first outage ever there shortly after I went over... typical. Well I'll hang out there again and see if my presence still proves as destabilizing.

It would be wonderful if there was crosstalk between the two projects as they both use Arecibo's data; Einstein is far smoother and less labour-intensive: ie no tiny work cache limit (you ask for two days' cache you get two days' cache not four hours' cache and your client hammering the scheduler every five minutes for more) it doesn't go planned offline for hours every Tuesday and then be unreachable for about the same after getting hammered with thousands of requests playing catchup, and it hardly goes offline unplanned as well. So ideally there would just be one set of Arecibo data and we'd search it for both ETI and pulsars or whatever else. But dream on Mr. Kevvy. :^)
2354) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (95) Server Problems? (Message 1647520)
Posted 27 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Help us Obi-Wan Korpela, you're our only hope...


Lol... excellent. My mail to him probably joined a dozen or so others.

The only good side to this is now I can watch a movie without it being all stuttery from the GPUs being overworked. So I'll take a breather and if it isn't fixed by the time I'm done then S@H's loss is E@H's gain... sigh.

The cricket just made a huge jump, this must mean something.


It saw a frog?
2355) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (95) Server Problems? (Message 1647490)
Posted 27 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Something is definitely wrong with the scheduler as I finally got through to report 345 tasks, and rather than them all disappearing there were ~80 still sitting as Ready to report.
Oh, and of course Project has no tasks available to top it off. :^p
Edit: Never mind, I remembered there's a limit on how many the client will report at once.
2356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (Message 1647356)
Posted 27 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.


We have lost an icon.
2357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say E.T. lands, does SETI go on? (Message 1647325)
Posted 27 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It depends on what the results of the first contact are. If we can communicate, being interstellar travelers we could just ask them where other inhabited worlds are. But if they didn't know then I don't doubt we would keep looking, and at a much greater scale than privately-funded projects running on a shoestring budget.

If we just found a confirmed signal the same effect would happen with SETI getting vastly more funding and resources, so I don't think we'd have to keep crunching. That would be enough of a world-changer.
2358) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : What does loss of net neutrality mean for volunteer computing? (Message 1646429)
Posted 25 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The peanut gallery is affirmed... F.C.C. Net Neutrality Rules Clear Hurdle and net neutrality is on its way to being enforced by the F.C.C.

Senior Republicans conceded on Tuesday that the grueling fight with President Obama over the regulation of Internet service appears over, with the president and an army of Internet activists victorious.

The Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to approve regulating Internet service like a public utility, prohibiting companies from paying for faster lanes on the Internet. While the two Democratic commissioners are negotiating over technical details, they are widely expected to side with the Democratic chairman, Tom Wheeler, against the two Republican commissioners.
2359) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (95) Server Problems? (Message 1646151)
Posted 25 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Out of work; RAC falls,
Crunchers idle: can't connect.
Damn, I hate Tuesdays...

//Haiku! Gesundheit.
2360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet....part II....the rest of the story. (Message 1646008)
Posted 24 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Now that it's no longer Monday anywhere on Earth: I'm quite surprised and happy to have lost this bet.

You gave $100.00
to SETI@home
on February 24, 2015
via Visa
Your confirmation number is 151750
2361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet....part II....the rest of the story. (Message 1645351)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What did stay my hand last night was that Mark appeared to listen to my warning.


Good... there is still hope then.

Edit: As per the latest addition to the thread, I'm editing out the rest and will say nothing more until Monday.
2362) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Question for astronomers (Message 1645108)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Artificial gravity is not the same force as gravity.


Actually in G.R. the Equivalence principle shows the two as the same, with the caveat that it holds true for point-sized samples. (You can tell if your local "gravity" is due to "upwards" acceleration through space or acceleration due to gravity by whether it has tidal falloff by the square of the distance from the hypothesized other mass.)

This equivalence is strong enough that it was used by Einstein to deduce the bending of light rays by gravitational fields. The equivalency is that a beam of light traveling across a room accelerating "upwards" will curve "downwards", so the exact same curve should appear under acceleration due to gravity. That it did was yet another confirmation of G.R.
2363) Message boards : Number crunching : Superfish (Message 1644943)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For anyone with a Lenovo, they have posted an automated uninstaller to get rid of Superfish.

Of course, just in case you are justifiably dubious running it given that it was also developed by Lenovo, there are manual uninstall directions there too. :^)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security alert on Superfish. This is worth a read as you should also uninstall "Komodo redirector" if present.
2364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet....part II....the rest of the story. (Message 1644559)
Posted 20 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I pledge a donation of $100 to SETI@Home on Monday 2015-Feb.-23 if, and only if, userID 421968 is able to post to these forums under the name "msattler" on that date. So, his choice.

(Edit: Just so it isn't misinterpreted, I'm offering an incentive to Mark to stay within the guidelines... not bribing the moderators to not enforce them! Yes, I know it's obvious to most.)
2365) Message boards : SETI@home Science : ET, is that you? Scientists launch plan to beam welcome messages to far-off star systems (Message 1644243)
Posted 19 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The whales are much smarter than humans.


"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons."

--- Douglas Adams
2366) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (95) Server Problems? (Message 1643534)
Posted 18 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Oh for the old days when things ran well after an outrage. ;-)


Ran out hours ago... guess I go begging some Einstein work. This is becoming a regular Tuesday occurrence.
2367) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Question for astronomers (Message 1643458)
Posted 17 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"Yes", if by "display any motion" you mean that photographs over time within the range of a human lifetime will show that they moved.

"No" if you meant you'll see them move by looking at them, unless you can look at them without averting your eyes or sleeping for a year or so. :^)
The fastest, Barnard's Star, has this note: "The 10.3 seconds of arc it travels annually amounts to a quarter of a degree in a human lifetime, roughly half the angular diameter of the full Moon."

Caveat: I am not astronomer, nor do I play one on TV.
2368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Let me ask a bold question........... (Message 1641872)
Posted 14 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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One of the reasons I've stuck with this apartment for so long is that I don't pay for utilities. One rent bill covers heat, hot water and of course electricity. I'm only using about $100 a month worth of it for crunching so it's not like I'm bankrupting the property managers (also don't need the heat from the radiators as the computers take care of that)... slightly less than a tenth of the rent. There are still plenty of apartments like this, and if this one ever goes to metering, I will be moving immediately.
2369) Message boards : Number crunching : near vlar? (AR 0.01) super slow on NVIDIA gtx 780 (Message 1641860)
Posted 14 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I wondered why my whole computer was running like a bag of goo since yesterday. VLAR CUDA work units not only were taking 1.5 hours to complete, but the system was unusably slow with a screen updates, even as simple as scrolling browser window, hanging... watching any video was a hopeless mass of chunky pixel artifacts. CPU usage which usually is rock-steady at 99.5%-100% with a flat ceiling was spiky/choppy and below 90%. They really brick the whole works, so I aborted the lot of them.
2370) Message boards : Number crunching : New system many invalids and errors (Message 1641292)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Here is you on BOINCStats which shows your actual daily production not just RAC which is averaged. Daily. prod. there total is 21,283 which is >100 GFlOps... this is more reasonable.
2371) Message boards : Number crunching : New system many invalids and errors (Message 1641282)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The "Cobblestone": One GFlOp running 24x7 will earn 200 credits per day. Your current RAC at the present is exactly 2,000 = 10 GFlOps.

Just to show how far computing has come, when I was a young'un in the 1980's the ultimate supercomputer was the Cray X-MP, worth about $15 million at the time. It does 400 MFlOps, so if you put it to work on a BOINC project it would have a rather underwhelming RAC of.... 80.
2372) Message boards : Number crunching : New system many invalids and errors (Message 1641273)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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a bit over 5 teraflops per GPU???


Egads... 5 teraflops would result in a RAC of one million. I think that may be a tad overstated. ;^)
2373) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The computer that crunches cloud data to heat your home (Message 1640696)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've been doing this for years... turned off all the radiators in our apartment and it's been heated by computers ever since. Not pleasant in the summer though. :^)
2374) Message boards : Number crunching : >1 Task per CPU? (Ans: Probably Not) (Message 1639610)
Posted 10 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How did you measure % utilization on the GPU?


EVGA Precision. Essential in the cruncher toolkit. :^)
2375) Message boards : Number crunching : >1 Task per CPU? (Ans: Probably Not) (Message 1639606)
Posted 10 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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However doing so will likely have little to no gains. More than likely it would just result in less work done in a given time if gone to far. Much like I suspect is likely happening with the iGPU running 5 tasks at once.


This is pretty much it. CPUs run BOINC code natively so are always very close to 100% utilization; there's no need to run >1 instance per core.

Conversely, GPUs have to be loaded with work by the CPU; you can see these helper processes feeding work to the GPU in Task Manager->Processes when you have BOINC GPU work running. If they aren't allocated enough due to the CPU core running the process not getting enough timeslices, being too slow, or due to bus overloading, the GPU will run at less than 100% utilization. In this case, running >1 instance per GPU does have significant gains. When I got my first 980, I tested it. With 0.4 cores reserved per GPU thread, I found with 1 instance on the GPU there was 45-55% utilization, with 2 was 70-75% and 3 is 95-100%. So I stuck with 3. Anything more than this is just going to slow it down and waste memory, as the GPU is always maxed out and then other factors such as bus oversaturation can occur. If someone has a slow CPU and a fast GPU, 5 instances could actually be worthwhile, if 4 are tested to be consistently and significantly less than 100% utilization, but this would usually be unlikely.
2376) Message boards : SETI@home Science : ET, is that you? Scientists launch plan to beam welcome messages to far-off star systems (Message 1639573)
Posted 10 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A statement on this just went on the main page with an associated thread. I recognize three of the signatories are from this project (Andrew P. V. Siemion, Eric J. Korpela, Dan Werthimer).
2377) Message boards : SETI@home Science : ET, is that you? Scientists launch plan to beam welcome messages to far-off star systems (Message 1639388)
Posted 9 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Agreed, but a century is such a short time, astronomically speaking.


It is, but it's nigh-impossible for us to ever make those signals unbroadcast, so probably too late to worry. That ship has sailed, barn door horse etc.
2378) Message boards : SETI@home Science : ET, is that you? Scientists launch plan to beam welcome messages to far-off star systems (Message 1639382)
Posted 9 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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If there is an alien species out there who runs contrary to the "default position of the egghead set"* and is both technologically sophisticated enough that we have no chance of defeating them, and are still merciless usurpers of other species' planets, then it's too late already to cower in the dark, as they would also be sophisticated enough that our leakage of everything from morse code crackles to thousands of simultaneous digital video broadcasts has been whetting their appetites for a century.

*Contact, 1997
2379) Message boards : Number crunching : Will switching from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS help? (Message 1638046)
Posted 6 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks for the explanation. :^)

32 bit ? well 4Gig Video RAM equipped cards need more than that, simple as that really.


They are all 2048MB or less, being Beaters and all.
2380) Message boards : Number crunching : Will switching from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS help? (Message 1637978)
Posted 6 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Now that I think of it, there are two problems that I constantly and regularly used to have with the "Beater Crunchers" with XP that I have yet to experience once since reimaging them with 7 (32-bit for both) and that did actually negatively affect crunching performance. Your mileage may vary of course... personal experience only:

First, every few weeks, they would exhaust some sort of system resource (I don't think it was memory... handles perhaps?) and every work unit would crash, menus wouldn't display properly, and I'd even get "Access Denied" trying to reboot. This was a definite detriment to crunching as it would lose all the work units in progress (very sad with the AP ones with >10 hours on them) plus being unable to do anything more and sitting idle if this wasn't caught. It happened on all of the XP boxes and pretty regularly. Of course as luck would have it the cycle time was just shy of the monthly "Patch Tuesday" which is the only time they were ever rebooted, and mostly then just to power down to blow the dust out of them. So my long uptimes with heavy processing was exposing some bug that most others would never see.

Secondly, every few days, the wireless LAN/WiFi drivers would fail and the machine would no longer be able to connect to upload/download work until the connection was disabled and re-enabled. This also happened on all of the WiFi XP boxes, though all of their WiFi cards and thus drivers were different. Again, long uptimes were probably exposing a bug that shorter sessions would obscure.

Of course, in a perfect world, these bugfixes would have just been rolled into XP and it would have continued on its merry way. But Windows isn't Linux, and Microsoft eventually decides that the bugfixes are going to go into the newer OS to encourage paid upgrades and because fixing an old OS just isn't as profitable.
2381) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : What does loss of net neutrality mean for volunteer computing? (Message 1637414)
Posted 4 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

The important bit:

That is why I am proposing that the FCC use its Title II authority to implement and enforce open internet protections.

Using this authority, I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC. These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services. I propose to fully apply—for the first time ever—those bright-line rules to mobile broadband. My proposal assures the rights of internet users to go where they want, when they want, and the rights of innovators to introduce new products without asking anyone’s permission.


Yay! :^)
2382) Message boards : Politics : The Venus Project-The Choice Is Ours (Message 1636993)
Posted 3 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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@Sarge (et al): Just to explain my now oddly out of place post, the person's name that prompted it has changed, so it may be disregarded. :^)
2383) Message boards : Number crunching : Will switching from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS help? (Message 1636752)
Posted 2 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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XP-32 drivers certainly exist for the first round of mid-range Maxwells - I'm running three GTX 750 Ti cards in old hosts upgraded from 9800 GT doorstops (four times the productivity at half the power).


Heh... didn't even know they were Maxwells (thinking of the 9x0 series.) And yeah the old 9800s are doorstops now. Have two of them in the closet as they aren't even worth the power and the PCIe slot.
2384) Message boards : Politics : The Venus Project-The Choice Is Ours (Message 1636668)
Posted 2 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2385) Message boards : Number crunching : Will switching from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS help? (Message 1636349)
Posted 2 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I do hope to catch up with the rest of you one fine day.


<<Looks at Mark's RAC>>

Um, I think it's the other way around. ;^)
2386) Message boards : Number crunching : Will switching from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS help? (Message 1636347)
Posted 2 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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For crunch only rigs, there is only XP as the best option...


There are no XP NVidia drivers (32 or 64-bit) that will support any of the Maxwell cards. (Pretty sure of this... please let me know if there's any out there.)

I know that this planned obsolescence is done on purpose with hardware and OS companies (OK, who am I fooling... there is only one "OS company": Microsoft... the other OSes are free with the hardware or to download) symbiotically dropping support for older products to force upgrades but, well, there it is.
2387) Message boards : Number crunching : Lots of invalid results? (Message 1636095)
Posted 1 Feb 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm happy to report, for this problem at least, that the problem is definitely solved and it was an insufficient power supply/PSU.

This machine which generated well over a hundred Invalid results a day on its GTX980 (until throttled) as of this writing hasn't generated a single one in two days on a new PSU, moving from a no-name 680W PSU to one of these.

Note the NVidia GTX 980 specs.:

Thermal and Power Specs:
Graphics Card Power (W) 165 W
Minimum System Power Requirement (W) 500 W


For most if not all 500W PSUs for anything but casual gaming, this is underrated, as the quality of power they are going to deliver is going to be poor close to their limits (read this article on PSU Ripple for an example... as Mark so appropriately puts it they "cough up a furball" on your work units.) So if you are having this issue I would suggest getting a better PSU. Do some research on the make/model and of course: you get what you pay for. There are numerous quality brands and models (for example I've had very good performance for years and recently with 2x980s on this PSU) but two brands that seem to be mentioned the most are Corsair and Seasonic, for consistency at least (some makers have good high-end PSUs but their lower-end are substandard.)

(If you can't afford a new one, you can get a good used one (scored two excellent ones this way including the RM850) by being a "smart shopper" and following a few common-sense guidelines: buy from a seller in their residence not from "meetups", make sure it comes with a sales receipt to allow RMAing if it fails and show when it was bought, which also shows that it isn't stolen property... hot PSU in any sense is bad! (original box and all packaging/cabling is good too), bring a PSU tester (I paid $12 for mine years ago and it's been a very useful investment) or demo it running a system under load, should be clean/scratchless and of course not make any odours!)

And as noted earlier, for some reason, MB (multibeam=standard SETI) CUDA work is the only thing that has pushed the GPU/PSU over the threshold and caused this effect, on both stock and anonymous/Lunatics platforms. Astropulse CUDA doesn't seem to and neither did any Einstein@Home CUDA application. MB CUDA is the vast majority (95% or more) of what our GPUs will be doing here of course.

Hope this helps. :^)
2388) Message boards : Number crunching : Main cruncher dead (Message 1634565)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX AC


If it does turn out to be the motherboard, please give this a read. I will personally never buy an MSI product again.
2389) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1634162)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Discovery of Extraterrestrial Intelligence - 15 years (and counting) :^)
(But I don't count not being a Brit. Commonwealth with the Queen as head of state close enough?)
2390) Message boards : Number crunching : Lots of invalid results? (Message 1628225)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I think I have part of the answer here. It's just a matter of the server not taking no for an answer. I am the 8th one to get this work unit and in about 2 days it will be crunched and I will get no credit for it.


I think this is a different issue... that one is a bunch from one day. This issue is Maxwell 970/980 cards generating 80% invalids from any time.

I guess the MB CUDA just stresses the GPU more than AP or the Einstein code.
2391) Message boards : Number crunching : Lots of invalid results? (Message 1628221)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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OK, I moved both 980s to my main machine. In doing so I noticed the elephant in the room that seems to have been overlooked:

Power.

I had one on a 525W named PSU and another on a 680W no-name, but I bet neither one could deliver the sustained ripple-free 14A the cards need. (Also NVidia has really pushed the reduced power requirements of the Maxwells... maybe to the point of "exaggeration.") Now that they are on the 1000W Azza Titan with the 86A 12V rail, all the work units are completing.

What make/model of PSU do you have Ryan?
2392) Message boards : Number crunching : Lots of invalid results? (Message 1627514)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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how much CPU are you giving each MB?


0.4 on both. GPU util. usually about 78-80%.
(Edit: running with count=0.5 as they aren't very powerful.)
2393) Message boards : Number crunching : Lots of invalid results? (Message 1627499)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm having the same issue on two machines, this one (Win32) and this one (Win64). They are both generating hundreds of invalids.

* Both of them have GTX980s. (Hope this gets fixed or I've just wasted a lot of money. :^p )
* This happened running 100% stock on a fresh install of Windows with only the latest NVidia driver set (347.09), and continued once Lunatics with MB CUDA50 was installed.
* As indicated above, 32-bit/64-bit OS doesn't seem to make a difference.
* It doesn't seem to affect CUDA AP... the results are validated.
* It didn't affect E@H CUDA when I was running that. This host had zero invalids.

Here's a comparison of the bad result from mine and the good result from someone else of the same MB CUDA work unit. The others I checked also shows these excessive results. From watching them, they complete (sometimes long) before reaching 100% of course.

So this seems to be just an incompatibility in MB CUDA on Maxwells which is part of the stock code and hasn't been altered by Lunatics yet.

Hope this is of some use and if I can help out with any testing, etc. if there's a fix in the works please let me know... one of those machines is just a cruncher so I don't mind breaking it for a good cause. :^)
2394) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Were we contacted by aliens in 1977? (Message 1626649)
Posted 12 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The "WOW" signal is anything but; it's an old, tiresome, overblown nothing. Nothing was recorded, as noted, so it's only a lump on a graph. It was never seen again and not from lack of trying. It wasn't confirmed by anyone else. Because of this, it also wasn't rigorously confirmed to be of distant extraterrestrial origin, either.

It wouldn't pass SETI@Home muster, and with SAH's fifteen years of accumulating a billion results there are probably thousands in there as good or better which did pass muster and still didn't amount to anything.
2395) Message boards : Politics : Atheists New ten Commandments (Message 1625978)
Posted 10 Jan 2015 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in any god or gods, an Agnostic is someone who doesn't claim to know for sure that any gods exist or not. A subtle difference. I think I'm a cross between the two. I'm damn sure that no Gods exist, but if I get incontrovertible proof that they do, then so be it. Yep 75% Atheist, 25% Agnostic.


Actually, you can be (and appear to be) 100% both. Atheist = lack of belief, and agnostic = lack of any claim of knowledge one way or another.



"Don't murder", "don't steal" and "don't bear false witness" is taken into account:

7. Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated. Think about their perspective.

It's not called the "Golden Rule" for nothing, you know. :^)

Also I'm predicting this is gonna end up in Politics.
2396) Message boards : Number crunching : Update for contributors to GBT SERENDIP receiver - Cards obtained (Message 1616523)
Posted 20 Dec 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There hasn't been any update from the SAH team in a long time on the Green Bank Telescope SERENDIP receiver, which will bring a second source of SETI@Home work online...

... So to anyone who contributed in the unofficial matching fundraiser here on March 20th of this year, the fundraised cards were finally purchased today. Your contributions made this project possible and were very much appreciated.

The delay was mostly due to the team evaluating the new NVidia offerings, ie the Maxwell cards such as the 980. In the end, they did what I hoped they would and stuck with the original requirement of the GTX780ti, most likely because this is what is being already used in the Arecibo SERENDIP receiver so is both proven and will provide consistency in results.

Hope there will be further updates in the near future. If they don't go into the News section I will try to post them here, if this thread doesn't go stale.
2397) Message boards : News : New Data from AO (Message 1609526)
Posted 5 Dec 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Nice... finally dry spell coming to an end (it will be difficult leaving E@H home though with the higher RAC!)

Two queries:

1) Is there enough storage (ie drive units) with this sudden amount of work? (Money burning hole in my pocket... heh.)

2) Is there going to be any Green Bank work mixed in, now or in the near future?
2398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Talk about your profile pic (Message 1602196)
Posted 18 Nov 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My avatar isn't in my profile, but if it were here it is enlarged:



It's the cover of this album.

I picked this for several reasons (aside from just liking it)... it's electronic and depicts a world dominated by computers, which pretty much happened, for us at least (one of the tracks, Computer Love, seems to predict social media and using one's computer to find partners.) And it was released in 1981 which when I started using computers and programming them at school, so is nostalgic; the computer is the old monolithic style with the integrated monochrome monitor and keyboard that I started with.
2399) Message boards : News : Running out of workunits (Message 1602156)
Posted 18 Nov 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Just an idea but have you all ever considered trying one of the crowd funding site to get donations for the sole purpose of buying time on telescopes for the Seti project.


The upcoming Green Bank project will be dedicated time observing the Kepler Field. We're already going to be getting some prelim. data from it to crunch soon (I hope.)
2400) Message boards : News : Running out of workunits (Message 1600872)
Posted 14 Nov 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"...developing a new splitter so we can start processing our Green Bank Telescope data..."


What the...? The receiver is done? Or is this just "interim" data from the test setup.

The last I had heard the team hadn't even settled on the GPU type, and that was only a week ago. If the receiver is well and truly built and we'll be getting Green Bank data finally (and long term) then this is wonderful news and I can finally splurge on new cards.
2401) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Skunkworks breakthrough (Message 1588209)
Posted 17 Oct 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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We are going to laugh and ridicule every new fusion concept right up to the one that works.


The laughter is an earnest requirement; ideally it should be loud enough that it is heard by bamboozled politicians about to throw more money their way.

I'm all for fusion research, but when groups start making the kinds of pronouncements I quoted, it sounds as though they are fleecing a public desperate for an alternative energy source to preserve its future. Or perhaps they just need a better press agent. :^p
2402) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Skunkworks breakthrough (Message 1588049)
Posted 17 Oct 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is yet another of a similar series of announcements this year from the 'secretive' 'Skunkworks'...

My suspicions are similarly suspicious for such grand claims with nothing of substance to believe...


All a game of funding?...


And there is this similarly dubious recent release which contained this absolute doozy:

Researchers ... say they have detected significant numbers of neutrons—byproducts of fusion reactions—coming from the experiment. This, they say, demonstrates the viability of their approach and marks progress toward the ultimate goal of producing more energy than the fusion device takes in.


Any bright middle-schooler can tell you this is utter twaddle... hundred-dollar tabletop Farnsworth fusors (including home-made) do fusion and produce neutrons, and have for seventy(?) years, and none of them have even approached an order of magnitude of closeness to breaking even. And theoretically, they couldn't no matter how they are designed.
2403) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Skunkworks breakthrough (Message 1587808)
Posted 16 Oct 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I get the feeling that Tullio has a very low opinion of the work being done by the engineers and scientists under the employ of Lockheed/Martin in their quest for a working fusion reactor.


Tullio is skeptical and rightly so. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Let's see a dozen independent analyses confirm that this device produces more energy via nuclear fusion than it consumes, and then we can break out the champagne and thank Lockheed Martin's scientists and engineers for saving humanity's future.

Until then, as you noted, it's yet another in a long line of failed attempts.
2404) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : NASA confirms ‘impossible’ thruster actually works, could revolutionize space travel (Message 1582329)
Posted 5 Oct 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This is either the most amazing discovery in physics since, well, ever, which will force the rewriting of kinematics and other branches... or it's "Cold Propulsion." More confirmation and testing required. But definitely thanks for the heads-up. :^)

Due to relativity's mass/energy equivalence, emission of EM has "kickback" and a photon drive would work in under our current understanding of physcics, but to the tune of 150 megawatts per Newton of force (as a minimum; twice that if not reflected.) The Chinese team claimed 720 millinewtons which should require 108 megawatts of power. I rather doubt it was that high!
2405) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : This message board (Message 1577765)
Posted 25 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Can I redeem these at my local store?


Only for one product:



:^)
2406) Questions and Answers : Web site : FORUM_QA_MERGED_MODE (Message 1577069)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I'm seeing this too but only from the SETI@home Message boards panel.
2407) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Time Travel (Message 1568730)
Posted 7 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I think that the best argument against travel backwards in time ever being invented is the lack of time travelers from some unforeseen future turning up now at important events. Perhaps they are just good at hiding. :^)

Of course, there are the paradoxes as well. Once a time machine is invented, at at any time after that someone who didn't like time machines could prevent this from happening by going back in time and murdering the inventor(s).
2408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What does being GREENmean to you? (Message 1568465)
Posted 7 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not a good idea for a septic tank system


Correct, but a great one for a building with wide pipes that won't clog.
2409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fundraising time again..... (Message 1568110)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I love a theme!!!


Your donation was far more generous than mine, so it deserves a raccoon trying to be Jean-Michel Jarre:

2410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fundraising time again..... (Message 1567990)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Edited: never mind... got an answer and it was a misunderstanding. Let's return to fundraising.

Thank you for your gift of $10.00 via Visa on 09/05/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $10.00

Your confirmation number is: 136706


Not much, I know, but >$0.
2411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What does being GREENmean to you? (Message 1567845)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I do have a compost bin!


I have a compost bin... in a way. I was given a green one by the city, which was too small, stunk, was a pain to empty (and was probably being landfilled by our building anways) and required a big diesel-burning truck to move the collected organic waste around.

Then I realized I had a much better one already: It's powered by gravity, it's great at hiding the smells, and everything that goes into it gets returned to the earth or turned into mulch. Just about everyone else has one too.

It's called a "toilet" in case you were still wondering. :^) So I chop up the waste until it's small enough and down it goes. And I don't do a special flush for it either.
2412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fundraising time again..... (Message 1567812)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"The fundraisers you host interfere with the staff-supported fundraising schedule."


I agree that is weird... is the money going to go stale and have to be thrown out? Didn't realize that this project was so well-off as to refuse donations or any efforts to raise them. Hrm.

Hope that next time there's a major server failure it occurs during the staff-supported fundraising schedule. :^p
2413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What does being GREENmean to you? (Message 1567626)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I only eat meat because I believe my body needs the proteins. We evolved from hunters and still need the protein.


Some complete protein sources from plants:

Soy ferments (miso, tofu, etc.)
Quinoa (is pricey though but needs to be eaten only occasionally to get anything missing.)
Mixed beans and rice (yes, that is enough. Rice should be brown of course!)
GABA/GBR (germinated brown rice): Simply soak brown rice for 1-2 days in near-body-temperature water and then cook normally.

You only need these if your diet is otherwise monotonic. If you're eating a variety of vegetables, grains, legumes and fruits you don't have to worry about protein.

The bigger concern is lack of vitamins D and B12. You can get D from shiitake mushrooms but B12 is only from animal sources (milk and eggs are good non-meat sources) or chemically synthesized supplements.
2414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What does being GREENmean to you? (Message 1567574)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No vehicle; moved to an optimally public-transit-accessible locale to allow this.
No children of my own; raised two though.
Live in an apartment instead of a house.
Recycle whatever I can; this includes diverting any recyclables I find in our building in the trash to the right place.
Eat little meat, and no mammals (exception occasionally only at restaurants.)
Try to save energy by minimizing use of AC/heat, shorter showers with a low-flow showerhead, non-incandescent lighting, etc. Major exception: SETI@Home obviously. :^)

...none of us is being totally green because we burn excess carbon cycles searching for ET.


Nuclear here.
2415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Actor-Director Richard Attenborough Dies at 90 (Message 1561743)
Posted 24 Aug 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The linked BBC article doesn't mention the role of his which was my favourite, but this one does:

The role he found the most personally disturbing was that of murderer John Christie in 10 Rillington Place.


Important movie very accurately based on a true story... must-see. R.I.P. Lord Attenborough.
2416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : We all haz badges! (Message 1558707)
Posted 18 Aug 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't have a badge.


If you want one, you'll need a higher RAC than my cell. phone's. ;^)
2417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : We all haz badges! (Message 1557313)
Posted 15 Aug 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Well as I cannot remove my "badge"...


I would also like the idea one can disable it...


The badges are easy to remove with the browser plugin AdBlock Plus (available for FireFox and Chrome... unsure of others.) I don't mind them but I'm too used to the look of the site as it was and found they cluttered it so I removed them. Did I mention AdBlock will also remove 99%+ of all web advertising everywhere as well and it's the first essential plugin I grab on a new install? But I digress...

With the plugin installed just right-click on a badge image, choose AdBlock Plus: Block image from the context menu. Do not accept the default selection of what to block on the window that appears, or all images on this site will disappear; instead choose the one just above. The three images are:

setiathome.berkeley.edu/img/pct_25.png
setiathome.berkeley.edu/img/pct_5.png
setiathome.berkeley.edu/img/pct_1.png


Once you've added them, refresh the page and they will disappear. Note that this will also remove the badge from your own profile page, but I imagine you probably know your standing there already. :^)
2418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1546581)
Posted 24 Jul 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :) I think it is Mr Kevvy - thank you! :)


You're welcome. :^) One of our cats was found as a stray kitten in the winter under a highway overpass. When we brought her home we wondered if the adult male would accept her. Soon we found them curled up in the pet bed cleaning each other like this. They are certainly endearing beasties, aren't they?
2419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1546575)
Posted 24 Jul 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I came across a really cute clip recently. Sadly it was of a lonely Lynx in a zoo but it had been befriended by a stray domestic cat...


Could this be it?
2420) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Jupiter's Red Spot is shrinking. (Message 1544608)
Posted 19 Jul 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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researchers aren't certain of the cause


Chandra: Can you analyse the image on monitor circuit 2?
HAL: Yes. There is a circular object near the equator. It is twenty-two thousand kilometres in diameter. It is comprised of rectangular objects.
Chandra: How many?
HAL: One million, three hundred and fifty five thousand, plus or minus one thousand.
Chandra: And what is the proportion of the objects in question?
HAL: One by four by nine.
Chandra: Do you recognise these objects?
HAL: Yes. They are identical in size and shape to the object you call the monolith. Ten minutes to ignition. All systems nominal.
Chandra: Is the number of monoliths constant?
HAL: No, they are increasing.
Chandra: At what rate?
HAL: Once every two minutes.
Curnow: Look closely. Tell me I'm nuts - are the cloud formations going towards the spot?
Floyd: You're not nuts.
Orlov: Looks like the thing is eating the planet.
Floyd: I think it is.

Arthur C. Clarke was sure of the cause. ;^)
2421) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Science Channel's THROUGH THE WORMHOLE with Morgan Freeman Returns 6/4 (Message 1542694)
Posted 16 Jul 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Isaac Newton — 'What goes up must come down.'


Even Newton knew that wasn't true. :^)
2422) Message boards : SETI@home Science : First detection of fast radio bursts outside Parkes Observatory (Message 1540089)
Posted 12 Jul 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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A link to the story from the Max Planck Institute

Since the discovery was made from Arecibo data, and this is just the kind of thing that Astropulse is designed to find, so I wonder if we'll discover any of these bursts in our results...

Edit: Looks like this was already mentioned. :^)
2423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodsearch - donnation to S@H (Message 1529490)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Can't seem to get signed in here at work, will try it at home later on, thanx for the link Rob:)


I do use Goodsearch often, but be aware that it does set two tracking cookies (which are widely decided to be Not Good Indeed.) If you have anything that blocks tracking cookies ie realtime antivirus/malware detector, firewall, browser plugin (Privacy Badger is an example) you either won't be able to sign in or search results will be blank.

Guess it's the price we pay for their donations. :^)
2424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Donated Computers in Canada and elsewhere (Message 1523818)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Two locations in the Toronto area I like are FreeGeek and Reboot Canada.

Reboot no longer has a retail store but takes donated computers and parts, in any condition working or not. The working parts/machines get built into computers for charitable causes/foundations, and the non-working are recycled properly.

FreeGeek is very similar, and also has a retail store chockablock with computers and parts. Scored some nice parts and even small systems from there at prices as good as anything you'll find on Kijiji or Craigslist.
2425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1523802)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What do they see in this horrible show???!!!


I guess it helps to have a medieval fantasy/adventure/RPG background or be interested in that era, but it's so far becoming my favorite fictional show ever. Didn't think anything could displace Breaking Bad and House.... just started season two.

Tyrion is The Only Reason I watch the tv show. Tyrion 'is' dA Man.


Hey, something we can agree on... strongly. :^) So far loving that little guy, and we aren't the only ones: as good as the rest of the actors are, he's the only one who's picked up any (and several) awards. Can hardly wait for the next episode and no spoilers please!
2426) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1523661)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Not to undervalue the effort that you put into that collection of citations, but the data (and conclusions) are rather old. AR4 was from 2007 and the rest are older (back to 1998). The NOAA report I linked is from last year, The ScienceDaily article (directly extracted from journals) was from 2008. A more recent citation in the NOAA:

Nghiem, S. V., and 8 others, 2012: The extreme melt across the Greenland ice sheet in 2012. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, doi: 10.1029/2012GL053611.

I don't usually chip in one way or another either unless I see factual errors or misrepresentations. As the old saw goes: "You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts."

As for the future effects of HCGW, I'm far less concerned about them than I am that the science's detractors are doing so to shackle the entire human race's food supply, economy and mobility to a resource whose own industry estimates will be gone in about forty years.
2427) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1523551)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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GreenLand has 3.5 MILLION MORE Sq. Miles of Sheet Ice Added since GW/CC Hype Started.


I would like to see a peer-reviewed citation for this, please, as it's complete and utter hogwash. If you can't come up with one, then I would like this retracted, and you to stop denying/spreading falsehoods about peer-reviewed science in anywhere but the Politics forum. Thank you.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080930081355.htm

Greenland lost an average of 195 cubic kilometres of ice per year between 2003 and 2008


http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/greenland_ice_sheet.html



Edit: Wouldn't also mind seeing a list of these "scientists coming out in droves" too.
2428) Message boards : Politics : UK Food Warning (Message 1513671)
Posted 8 May 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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To a non Muslim it makes not a smidgeon of difference.


Not true. Halal slaughtering involves cutting the animal's throat and letting it bleed out while conscious, instead of using a compressed-air bolt to the head or otherwise stunning the animal beforehand into unconsciousness. There is some controversy around this as to whether the animal suffers so some people may not want to eat it.

Also a religious non-Muslim may object to having the animal slaughtered by a Muslim with the requisite Islamic invocations, etc. (also required for the meat to be deemed Halal.) Doesn't make any difference to me (I only eat chicken and fish anyways) but it may to some.

(But I agree this thread would be a better fit in Politics.)

Edit: Forgot one thing... for those who like to eat mammals: during the Mad Cow scare when BSE-tainted beef was being discovered, Halal meat was actually safer, because the bolt method dislodges possibly infected neural tissue into the animal's bloodstream, which circulates and can contaminate the entire animal with prions in seconds. So, it can also be a positive benefit to have Halal meat properly noted should this happen again.
2429) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1512886)
Posted 6 May 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I doubt that any scientist predicts our effects will be at the same level, ie 90% of all species extinct.

Geez, you'd best avoid the finale episode if it's anything like Carl Sagan's was; might cause an aneurysm... heh.
2430) Message boards : Number crunching : Going Away (Message 1508831)
Posted 26 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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And yes, we DO get violent thunderstorms. This is reputed to be the lightning capitol of the world


If you're worried about lightning damage, don't just shut down, but unplug from everything that runs to the outside (power especially and network/phone as well.) Systems only "soft off" these days and are drawing trickle power when "off" for wake-on-LAN and other functions.
2431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next......kittyman.......please try to understand where I come from thread. (Message 1508617)
Posted 26 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It's hard to believe that such an iconic line could possibly be improvised on the spot, but it was. Rutger Hauer added the "like tears in rain" on his own.
2432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter dead at 76 (Message 1507037)
Posted 21 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Robbed of 19 years of his life and Denzel robbed of an Oscar.


Thank you for posting this (missed the blurb in Wiggo's OP.) When I saw this I realized I had it in the "to see" pile forgotten as I didn't know what it was. Needless to say, it isn't there anymore.

The saddest part watching it is realizing that he was fortunate enough to live in a state where capital punishment wasn't in effect. It could have easily been otherwise, and yet another innocent man would have been put to death and his story may never have been told, nor would he have been there to help the dozen or so other wrongly convicted people who he helped overturn the convictions of. I'm quite happy to be a Canadian after watching it though! :^)

I'm also amazed I'd never heard of him before and he even lived in Toronto, where I live!
2433) Message boards : Politics : Au Revoir (Message 1501368)
Posted 8 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't post in Politics either... I'll lurk and read with a good deal of shuddering and facepalm, but getting into a discussion there is a sure-fire way to get your blood pressure up and become generally annoyed at humanity. This is why politics and religion are the two big no-nos for most places and get confined to one walled-off compound here! (We could add a third: CreditNew! Heh... )

So, I suggest to just stick around in the outside of the asylum with the rest of us and you'll be fine. :^)

Edit: Ha! While I was posting this the thread was moved to Politics. Nice irony!
2434) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Can missing matter be something unsupected (Message 1501191)
Posted 8 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There's a very high deja-vu with all that...


Indeed.
2435) Message boards : Number crunching : WinXP EOS -> it's really unsafe after April 08, 2014? (Message 1500661)
Posted 6 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How Microsoft can keep Win XP alive – and WHY: A real-world example


There's more to it than just an example... Microsoft is quietly extending the EOS for paying enterprises. Perhaps this will expand. Hey, if I could pay maybe $5-10 for extended support per machine for a few more years of patches etc. this would be ideal.

Unless the bad people are sitting on an unknown XP zero-day privilege escalation, there hasn't been a good one of those discovered in years and they were all promptly patched. So, as well as other best practices such as minimizing internet access to trusted sites and ensuring you have a current antivirus/firewall always active, you can significantly harden XP by not logging in as an administrator account unless you need the privileges ie for (un)installation. This goes for just about all other OSes as well.
2436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A bit difficult language, perhaps (Message 1499890)
Posted 4 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there.
And dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose --
Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Why, man alive,
I'd learned to talk it when I was five,
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!


Not mine. :^) Although, I do play at recitals yet recite at plays. My house may burn up or it may burn down, but my computer may burn out if I don't give it a thorough burn in. My alarm goes off by going on. I fill out forms by filling them in. I'm a vegetarian because I eat vegetables, so don't think I want to be a humanitarian. And why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
2437) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : sugar the bitter truth (Message 1498030)
Posted 1 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...I halved the recipe so we don't have a whole lot of extra cake around the house. I also added a third cup of extra rhubarb and I doubled the walnuts in the topping - two changes which should up the fiber content a little bit. Ol' Pookers probably won't even notice those tiny changes.


Don't forget you can bake with Splenda, unlike many of the other sweeteners, so can go sugar-free.
2438) Message boards : Number crunching : Letter to Professor Stuart Bale, Director SSL (Message 1498024)
Posted 1 Apr 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
One thing to add to this is that the current system is encouraging AP hoarders who dump MB work units. This wastes project bandwidth and other resources, and further irritates the top contributors who do their workload fairly. Many of them have left SETI@Home or devote only a small fraction of their computing resources to the project because of the credit system.

Hope it can get fixed eventually in-house without needing any pressure from elsewhere.
2439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1497250)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
From the pinned Information Regarding Forum Moderation - Updated 10th of January, 2013

If you are receiving any unwated [sic] private messages (PMs), feel free to add their User ID to your Filtered Users list in Community Preferences.


If you have been threatened, your next step should be law enforcement. The moderators only have access to the public forums.
2440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1497137)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I still feel he should be subject to longer bans, nothing will change until that happens. It may of course be too late.


They don't seem to be working and I've seen about twenty of them (haven't we all?) and they just keep reoccurring. I always hoped there would be two-tier banishment ie one day or overnight "sober ups" plus the two-week ones, but it doesn't seem that's in the policies. We also confirmed he can't be confined to the team forum either... board app. doesn't have that ability. Mark writes us e-mails when he's sober and you wouldn't believe it was the same person.

I know it's his responsibility to control himself (ie we keep suggesting to him to keep it to our team forum) but having lived with both an alcoholic father (who lost almost all of his friends due to it) and a bipolar mother, both of whom were eventually able to get the better of it (unfortunately too late for dad as the years of drinking had taken their toll) when someone is in that state it's very difficult to talk them out of it. It takes many years... your words are drops of water on stone, but with patience those drops do get through the stone. And once the stone is eroded away an extraordinary person may be revealed under it.

Does anyone remember that Mark once had fundraising threads going in several forums to try to get as many people as possible wearing the star? That when we had servers fail that he was the one to start the threads to raise money to fix them? I know that even with the $600+ electric bills that he pays every month to keep crunching that he's always first to chip in whenever there's a campaign. And his "FreeKibble" thread to buy food for cats and dogs still goes, but with Donald Johnson at the helm as Mark is around too little to maintain it. So I remember this as the real Mark whenever I see the Friday night screeds.
2441) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496915)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The original Cosmos was so much better than this "sequel". Nothing against Neil deGrasse Tyson, but he's no Carl Sagan, and the production of this new series is rather lackluster. I'm surprised - I was hoping and expecting something that would grab me. I guess you can't beat the charisma of Carl Sagan and a late 70's soundtrack. ;~}


You have to factor your age into it... I'm also deeply enamored of the original series and book as they appeared during my "formative years" when everything was new and exciting, but young people seem as excited by this one as we were. I'm getting older and harder to impress these days too. :^)

Goldurn dagnab music these days is all noise too and we don't have any good movies or TV any more grumblegrumble the onion fell out of my belt...
2442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1496869)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't get it... I hadn't seen any posts from him for hours.
Can't fault me for not trying. :^(
2443) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496825)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
+1 I like them scientific minds here at Seti:) Hard to express myself sometimes here, the language difference, you know:) Ok, it's Friday evening...anyway...Carry on guys:)


Votre Anglais est tres superieure que mon petit peu de Francais.
So no worries. :^)
2444) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496810)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Questions scientists will have answers to, in time.


Well, I'm no professional, but if I was responsible for allocating research moneys I'd been looking at something like clean thorium fission, fusion or other alternatives for long-term sustainability and I doubt anything else will happen with this, certainly not for fueling Earth.

As far as being a refueling point for "out there" who knows... that may be viable.
2445) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496801)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't think it would be a very good idea importing even more carbon from elsewhere to turn into CO2 and put into the atmosphere. And I consider the cost not be in money but in materials, effort and energy. Even if you burned it to propel it here, what will you react it with? A huge quantity of oxygen would have to be transported there or split off. Suppose you transported it in a huge spherical blob and managed to get it into Earth orbit. How do you get it to the surface without it burning up on descent?
2446) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496778)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
but all these hydrocarbures cant be a solution for mankind exploration fuel / or even to be used on earth ?


How would you get it here, cost-effectively?
Using it out there to go further may be an idea.
2447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1496716)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Coming from me that would still register low.


Forgive my misinterpretation then... seen this all too many times.
2448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1496711)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You understand and like that?


Your Sarcasmeter may need new batteries.
2449) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496626)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There was no negative or anthropocentric implication in using "smog" in this context at all. It simply meant an opaque haziness in an atmosphere caused by simple colorless gaseous compounds being split by sunlight and reforming as more complex and coloured compounds.

You could always spin it the other way as this seems to indicate that smog and atmospheric hydrocarbons in general are perfectly natural. :^p
2450) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496592)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
NGT said as He 'is' hurtling 100s of Km throught Titan's 'Smog'. Smog? Is a Human/Earth Construct. A Scientist knows Titan's Atmosphere is not Smog.

And why does Titan have 'Smog'? NGT also says, 'the Oil Coloured Darkened lakes when refering to Titan's Lakes. Nope, not Oil as he stated earlier, but methane, so why say Oil?


Because that is the color of complex liquid hydrocarbons, perhaps?

In the Wikipedia article on Titan you can find:

The atmosphere of Titan is largely composed of nitrogen; minor components lead to the formation of methane and ethane clouds and nitrogen-rich organic smog.


The hydrocarbons are thought to form in Titan's upper atmosphere in reactions resulting from the breakup of methane by the Sun's ultraviolet light, producing a thick orange smog.


Linked NASA JPL article:

The dark brown sands appear to be made up of the same kind of complex organic chemicals that dominate Titan's smoggy atmosphere.


Gots tO Make Christians and GOPTers LOok Bad befO dee Election.


If you consider yourself representative of one or both of these, then by radicalizing a science thread and dragging politics into it for completely factually incorrect reasons you're doing a good enough job of that on your own. If you wish to keep politicizing, please start a thread in Politics for this where it belongs!
2451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1496560)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
<<checks calendar>> Yup, it's Friday.

I see you've started two new threads in the Cafe including this one. If you start any more threads I can guarantee someone is going to red X them and then we get to miss you again. :^(

Please remember that's far less likely to happen (probability approaching zero) in the GPUUG forum among friends and teammates.
2452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1495815)
Posted 26 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Okay, this thread has sat idly for five days... so it's time: to finally post Mr. Kevvy's Ãœberlame SETI/BOINC-related Jokes! I've posted a few before but I think they're worth a repeat now that I have ten of them as:

1) They are slightly rewritten.
2) They are original, as far as I know.
3) They are actually on-topic with the theme of this site. Some may be technical but if you don't understand them they are probably too lame to bother researching. :^)

So clear your throat with some olive-flavoured mouthwash because you're going to be groaning soon! (My missus even warned me they were too lame for public release, at least the ones she understood, but I say what the heck! It's not like anyone knows where I live!)

-----------

BOINC is like modeling... it takes a lot of expensive silicon to have a nice RAC.

I asked some of the top contributors what would be the best way to find intelligent extraterrestrials and they said I needed a good video card, so I got one. I ended up renting E.T., Contact and Close Encounters with it, so I guess they were right.

A noted SETI astronomer said that they are looking for extraterrestrial civilizations by searching for hot Dyson spheres. After giving the house a good clean with my Ball Vac, I found that it was rather warm. Should I advise NASA or the SETI Institute first?

I built a new cruncher rig to go higher in the rankings, but I forgot to buy any NVidia cards for it. I CUDA been a contender!

D = (Total # of rap stars) * (Fraction of rap stars who are Canadian) * (Fraction of rap stars of mixed ethnicity)
The Drake Equation

What's the difference between the world's largest radio telescope and the movie "10"?
One is Arecibo, the other is where I see Bo.

At first I thought BOINC was only for Apple Macintosh computers, as it requires at least one core.

Even with 128 million simultaneous channels SERENDIP V still hasn't found any sign of intelligence in five years. So, it has about the same track record as cable TV.

It must be true that aliens want to eat us if we can communicate with them in microwaves through dishes and a giant bowl.

We finally discovered intelligent extraterrestrial beings. Coincidentally, they strongly resemble the platypus, an animal with both bird and mammal features. This made their communications complex and hard to analyze, but we soon figured out all we had to do was find the beak amplitude and dechirp with a fast Furrier transform.

-----------

Hope that wasn't too painful. :^D

Edit: Also, thank you to the previous posters for the many smiles'n'guffaws that this thread and its predecessors have brought me.
2453) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Press Conference in Brazil to Announce Discovery in Outer Solar System (Message 1495383)
Posted 26 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It makes one wonder what we are taught today will be proven wrong tomorrow.


This wasn't an error or "wrong"... it was simply a redefinition/reclassification of what a planet is.
2454) Message boards : Number crunching : My little milestone (Message 1493116)
Posted 22 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The average participant's RAC, project-wide, is almost exactly one thousand... yes, 1,000. 1K.

So, in fact, you're doing over six times the average, which is why you're in the 5% elite (silver badge.) Congrats on your first million. :^)

Edit: And your first post... welcome to the forums. And you're even a donor... talk about elite: only 0.19%, or about 1 in 500, of participants are also donors.
2455) Message boards : News : Friday March 21 SETI talks to be webcast live. (Message 1492913)
Posted 21 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So sad I missed it. Is it by any chance recorded or reviewable?


It was being recorded and someone indicated near the beginning that it would be posted. I don't doubt that the link(s) will be added to this thread when that happens.

Imagine how it is for us. Jill is a hard act to follow.


Your presentation was, for me, more rewarding as I now know that SERENDIP VI outperforms what was initially indicated by, oh, about twelve times!

Worth the investment I'd say. ;^)
2456) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1492289)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That was fast!!!


Indeed! Open less than a day and the goal reached... still hasn't sunk in yet.
Now what do I do? :^)

So I'll ask a moderator to unpin and close it now.

Note to moderators in future: The SETI@Home team may change the hardware required, so more funds may be needed and I'll ask that it be unlocked and pinned again.
2457) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1492155)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you for your gift of $203.00 via Visa on 03/20/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $203.00

Your confirmation number is: 130700


YEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Thank you John!

Ahem... I think I earned an over-the-top there. :^) That was about the most amazing thread less than one day old I've ever seen.


Thank you for your gift of $203.00 via Visa on 03/20/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $203.00

Your confirmation number is: 130701


And we're done here. I'll ask that the moderators keep it open in case there are any questions or feedback; if it's still open in a few hours I'll request it be closed. I need to archive it as well!
2458) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1492100)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Oh, I really didn't need to eat this month, anyway.
"You sent a payment of $248.00 USD to GPU Users Group, Inc."


From the Beverages thread we have going I was starting to suspect that GPUUG didn't think food was important. ;^)
And thank you! Now that is a little better than the ten bucks I was expecting.


@{BDC} Thomas Dupont: Very nice and thank you... another team founder donated. :^)

Here's mine, (I'm almost skint so have been putting it off):


Nah, your timing couldn't have been better. Happy you put it off for this and thank you!

Here's mine to match your three:

Thank you for your gift of $293.00 via Visa on 03/20/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $293.00

Your confirmation number is: 130698



We are down to $406 remaining or $203 from you with my matching... one nice donation could end this!
2459) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1491947)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ok here is mine:
Dear -= Vyper =-,
Thank you for your gift of $234.00 via Visa on 03/20/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:
SETI@home - $234.00
Your confirmation number is: 130690
I targeted the donation to the GPUUG Campaign!


Salut and thank you, founder of GPUUG. I never would have done anything like this without this team that you started. :^)

And here is mine in return...

Thank you for your gift of $234.00 via Visa on 03/20/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $234.00

Your confirmation number is: 130694


Could be a little out topic, but may i sugest give Mr. Kevvy the right to choose the server name of the: SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver?
As as a symbolic prize for his nice work in raising the funds.


Lol... I am still awaiting the same thing promised from the last fundraiser, so not holding my breath.


OK we are under a thousand left...$992 remaining, so only $496 in contributions left to make!
2460) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1491850)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here's mine:
Your order is complete! Your order number is 1331.

That was for $50.



Excellent and thank you!

Well, we won't be needing a fundraising weekend anymore. Fellow GPUUG member, Robert M. Deller, just remembered he hadn't made his annual donation to SETI@Home, so he did so and swung it our way. It's for $1,000 and was placed through GiveToCal, confirmation number: 130686. This was sent to me in a PM. Just astounding! Oh and @MarkJ, he's a fellow Canadian, so it's a tax writeoff... I'm quite moved that you donate as much as you do without any deductions!

So here's my matching donation for Robert and Fred:

Thank you for your gift of $1,050.00 via Visa on 03/20/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $1,050.00

Your confirmation number is: 130689


We're now only $1,460 from completion! That's only $730 in donations left which I will match to reach our goal (and let's hope those goalposts don't move too much!)
2461) Message boards : Number crunching : Adding ssd to speed up projects (Message 1491823)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Make sure to click the Advanced button on the panel with the folders and checkboxes, then set the Program directory to the BOINC folder you just moved.


Egads... you know you're getting old when you think one thing when typing and something else appears. It's the Data directory! :^p Hope that mistake was obvious to anyone following it!
2462) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1491798)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Your order is complete! Your order number is 1330.
$490 so it should be down to $4000 left now, except gpuug.org isn't updating the amount


For the second time in as many campaigns you've utterly astounded me with your generosity. Thank you! :^)

Regarding the totals: for some reason it was decided to rename the GPUUG fundraiser entry with a "SETI@Home - " prefix which has caused the totals to go wonky when a donation is made; notice that a second entry with only $490 of $6600 appeared below. I've written to the site admin. and he'll merge the two as has been done the other times. I'm watching the totals and logging all donations so all's well.

And I can't let a contribution so large go unanswered, so;

Thank you for your gift of $490.00 via Visa on 03/20/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $490.00

Your confirmation number is: 130685


There's my bit with the GPUUG special designation, leaving $3,510 left to raise in total, $1,755 from everyone else and the same amount from me.
2463) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1491591)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Oh, it helps to know how much is required, doesn't it? :^) It's posted on gpuug.org, but just in case that's overlooked, currently $2,110 raised of $6,600 required, so $4,490 to go. That's $2,245 from you and $2,245 from me to match it.
2464) Message boards : Number crunching : The (Preliminary and Premature) Green Bank SERENDIP Fundraiser - Help SETI@Home Build a New (non-Arecibo) Receiver! (Message 1491559)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You may remember our last fundraiser, the Green Bank Transport Project, to purchase hard drives for transporting data from the observatory (and which ended up fulfilling another drive requirement on the same day.) Well, just in case you’re wondering what happened with it and why I’m back with another fundraiser, yes, it was very successful and has been put to good use:

  • The Green Bank project has been in development for over a year using the first set of drives, with preliminary observations completed (and published)
  • Dr. Eric Korpela completed his galactic hydrogen survey using the second set of drives for data storage
  • Many of the drives were put to use in a storage array for SETI@Home, saving thousands of dollars annually in offsite storage costs
  • Some of the drives temporarily filled in when SETI@Home servers had several fail in a short time, preventing outages


All in all, an excellent result, but it was just the beginning of getting Green Bank off the ground. This component is the finale, so I am hoping this will be just as successful! We have been chartered by the SETI@Home team to raise funds and purchase...



10 x GTX780ti cards for SETI@Home’s new Green Bank SERENDIP Receiver (And what more appropriate of a fundraiser for the GPU Users group than buying GPUs, no?)

OK, we're going to need a little clarification as to what this is and how it's going to (tremendously) help us and the SETI@Home team achieve the goals of the project, so I've put together a little Q & A in the hopes that this will spur your generosity!

----------------------------------------------

Q: Are you matching funds again?
A: Yes! I am matching all donations up to half of the target amount.

Q: Will this give us plenty more work to do?
A: Yes! This will probably double our effective crunching workload. Thanks to the very welcome recent move to the colocation facility, SETI@Home can handle that now.

Q: What is SERENDIP?
A: SERENDIP is SETI@Home's inseparable sibling project. The SERENDIP receiver at Arecibo is also the SETI@Home receiver that collects all the data we crunch looking for signals. SERENDIP is a "shallow and wide" real-time search of millions of radio channels and SETI@Home is a "narrow and deep" slow and very thorough search of a selected subset of these frequencies.

Q: Why is it so important to get a new receiver at Green Bank?
A: Arecibo, the only source of all the SETI@Home work units for the near fifteen year duration of the project, as large and sensitive and wonderful as it is, has the unfortunate drawback of being only "semi-steerable." As it’s a fixed dish with a somewhat movable receiver mechanism, it can only cover about one third of the sky, and it can't see any of the earth-like planets that the Kepler mission found, which are our highest priority to search, because they are all in high northern latitudes. On the other hand, the Green Bank observatory, the world's largest completely steerable radio telescope, can cover about 90% of the sky... three times as much as Arecibo, and this includes all of the target Kepler systems. So we’ll have at least three times as many star systems to search for signals, and possibly many more than that, plus the targeted search of the best candidates we know!

Q: What does SERENDIP need with video cards?
A: As the GPU Users Group and a lot of other top crunchers are demonstrating daily, GPUs, the processors in video cards, now have far more processing power than computers’ CPUs, so they make a very cost-effective way of analyzing huge amounts of digital signal data in real-time. The SETI@Home team has decided to harness this power for the next SERENDIP by using GPUs. In order to make it worthwhile to build new receivers, we need top-of-the-line video cards to maximize the amount of searching that can be done. The current SERENDIP V searches 128 million channels over 200 MHz; using GPUs for SERENDIP VI should allow 350 million channels over 300 MHz.

Q: Who on the SETI@Home team is working on the new receivers?
A: Dan Werthimer and Jeff Cobb are working on them, set the specs., and indicated the hardware requirements.

Q: Why is the the "Preliminary and Premature" fundraiser?
A: Well, it seems the SETI@Home team are just as enamored of the latest and greatest tech as we are. Initially it had been settled that the receivers would use GTX 780ti cards, but then NVidia went and released the titles of some of the up-and-coming cards... names such as Titan Black and 790, so it was decided to hold off on buying the cards until these new models are released. Of course, regardless of what cards are finally decided on, the funds will still be required, and it doesn't look as though the cost is going to go anywhere but up! Currently as of this writing, we still need about $4,500 (half from you, half from me) which is a little too much for one fundraising weekend. I've been hoping to get that down to under four thousand, but the donations seem to have dried up without a little publicity, thus it’s time to get this thread going and keep it relevant! (Plus I’ve never been one to wait around when there’s fundraising to do!) Once the team decides, then we’ll have an “official” fundraiser weekend with more pinned threads and an announcement on the main page.

Q: Will Arecibo get a new SERENDIP receiver too?
A: Yes. For consistency and ease of development and testing, both receivers have to be exactly the same, so twin receivers are being built for both Green Bank and Arecibo. Of course, the Green Bank one is completely new, whereas Arecibo's will be an upgrade.

Q: When will the Green Bank project start?
A: The team is looking at getting the completed receiver in place and data collection going within a few months (early summer 2014.) It's definitely a matter of "when" and not "if" as all the arrangements have been made with the facility.

Q: I don't have much cash to spare... can I still help?
A: Certainly! The SETI@Home GiveToCal donation portal has a $10 minimum, but GPUUG's minimum is $0.01... yes, one cent. I'm hoping not to get swamped with penny donations of course; please try to keep the minimum to a dollar!

Q: Will I get a green star if I donate through GPUUG?
A: Yes! As long as you donate $10 or more, you should get your star. There will be a delay as the payment transfers from GPUUG to SETI@Home happen at the beginning of each month, so your star should appear in the first week of the following month of your donation. Please let me know if it hasn’t appeared by then.

Q: Can I donate with PayPal?
A: Yes! The GPUUG donation portal accepts PayPal (which is one of the reasons we've been chartered with fundraising by the SETI@Home team, as UC Berkeley's GiveToCal portal does not and never has.)


So, to summarize, here’s what a donation of a few dollars will provide to SETI@Home and you:


  • Three times the sky coverage, and much more than three times the number of star systems to search, compared to Arecibo
  • A targeted search for ETI signals of the most Earth-like planets ever found, courtesy of NASA’s wildly successful Kepler mission
  • Double the work units to do, thus double the signals to search for possible ETI
  • A source of work independent from Arecibo should an unexpected problem (such as the recent earthquake) take it offline


And finally, after much blathering from Mr. Kevvy, we get to the good part…

Q: How do I donate to this fantastic and exciting new project?

A: For U.S. residents, or residents of any other country that doesn’t qualify for U.S. tax exemptions, please donate through GPUUG. If you are a U.S. resident or qualify for U.S. tax exemptions, GPUUG is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit as is UC Berkeley, so your donation is completely tax-deductible.

For Canadians, or residents of any other country that does qualify for tax exemptions for donations to U.S. universities (like me) if you would like your donation to be tax-deductible, please donate through UC Berkeley’s GiveToCal. In the field “Special instructions or designations for this gift:” at the bottom of the form, please enter “GPUUG” in order that your donation be earmarked for this project. Please note as indicated above that PayPal is not accepted there; donate through GPUUG if you wish to use PayPal.

Once your donation is completed, please post the confirmation response here including the confirmation number, so that the donation can be matched and the totals updated (and so you can get a thank-you for your generosity too, of course!)

And of course, ask me in this thread anytime if you have any questions about this campaign.

2465) Message boards : Number crunching : Adding ssd to speed up projects (Message 1491491)
Posted 19 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Perhaps my warning came off as a bit scarier than intended, but it still something to keep in mind that all things fail.


Well I'd rather have my backed-up spinning data drive fail than my SSD OS boot drive and have to go through hours and hours of reinstall and config.

So, thanks for the reminder as I wanted to move the BOINC data folder for a long time... if anyone wants to it's very easy and takes all of a minute:

Have the BOINC installer handy.
Browse to the data folder. For Windows 7 its default location is C:\Users\All Users\BOINC
Quit BOINC. I know this is terrifying, but it has to happen sometimes, right? ;^)
Move the entire BOINC data folder to the destination. If you get any errors that file(s) are in use go into Task Manager->Processes and kill any boinc*.* processes. Or just Copy and you can delete the old one later.
Uninstall BOINC from the Control Panel->Programs.
Launch the BOINC installer.
Make sure to click the Advanced button on the panel with the folders and checkboxes, then set the Program directory to the BOINC folder you just moved.
Complete the install keeping all other settings default and you should see all your projects and work as they were.

Note: You have to do the uninstall/reinstall or the permissions will be wrong and all work units will fail. Thanks to Ageless for figuring out these steps.
2466) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : BOINC Projects and Legitimacy (Message 1490991)
Posted 19 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Oh my I didn't think about that.


Well I hope no one else does either... in a bad way. :^)

I assume even a legitimate project could slip a few BitCoin programs in.


Ya know... that's a good idea for smaller distributed computing projects to meet expenses, as long as they are very up-front about it that a portion of participant crunching will be used to generate bitcoin to pay the essential bills, and declare all the revenue. If it was credited like the rest of the work, I don't see why any one would object if it was for the good of the project.
2467) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : BOINC Projects and Legitimacy (Message 1490966)
Posted 18 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
BitCoin supposedly benefits the cruncher directly; it is like a job.


Not what I meant... the algorithm and source code for BitCoin mining is available on the internet. Programmer(s) could create a fake BOINC distributed computing project which pretended to do something but then mined and uploaded the "coins" to them.

There has already been malware found in the wild that does exactly this. Of course, it's quicker to steal already mined BitCoins so that kind is far more prevalent...
2468) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : BOINC Projects and Legitimacy (Message 1490687)
Posted 18 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The reason I only crunch SETI is I can't see how anyone can make money from this.


BitCoin mining would be an obvious way a DC project could make money from sneaky crunching... the mined coins could be immediately turned into cash.

One of the reasons that I stick with SAH is that UC Berkeley's, and the team's, stature in the scientific and academic community (ie as the developer of the entire BOINC platform) makes this one of the, if not the, most trustworthy project and the least likely to be abused.
2469) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Major Astrophysics Discovery to be Announced on Monday (Message 1490625)
Posted 18 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...and bingo, in a trillionth of a second or less, we have an entire universe complete with galaxies of stars, with nebulae and planets and suns and black holes etc. How does any of that seem plausible.


It doesn't... but fortunately, that isn't the timeline. Give it almost half a billion years before even the first stars form. Before that is just a coalescing haze of hydrogen, which isn't so implausible. :^)
2470) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Major Astrophysics Discovery to be Announced on Monday (Message 1490142)
Posted 17 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
http://www.space.com/25078-universe-inflation-gravitational-waves-discovery.html


From the article:

A team led by John Kovac, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is announcing the results today (March 17), unveiling two manuscripts that have not yet been submitted to peer-reviewed journals.


Hrm. Well, I'm sure they did their homework a little more rigorously than, say, Fleischmann and Pons*. :^)
*(The cold fusion duo.)

Edit: Between the time I posted this and now, they already changed the wording; now says "...that have been submitted to the prestigious journal Nature."
2471) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Major Astrophysics Discovery to be Announced on Monday (Message 1489915)
Posted 17 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm confused, how can they time to 34 decimal places when time is not constant.


10^-34 seconds is the (extremely short) time after the Big Bang when gravity decoupled from the other three fundamental forces, being the weakest and most different. Grand Unification predicts that as energy increases the forces merge. This has been been confirmed experimentally so far for every force except gravity.
2472) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Major Astrophysics Discovery to be Announced on Monday (Message 1489858)
Posted 16 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So will this be the end of Einstein@home?


From the little I know of this, I highly doubt it. These are indirectly detected waves from 13.8 billion years ago, whereas E@H is looking for direct detections of recent (well, cosmically) events in the hopes that wave events could be used as a sort of telescope to indicate phenomena.
2473) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : sugar the bitter truth (Message 1489818)
Posted 16 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Stevia is much better than sugar, much sweeter too and it's 100% natural.


I've been using Stevia for about nine months now and it satisfies my sweetening needs completely.


Trying to cut sugar out of my diet... I used to bring a 1.5L thermos of coffee to work daily with 12 teaspoons of the white death in in... eagh. I switched from that to a Crystal Light type of sugarless instant iced tea singles. Bonus: I don't have to haul it every day, just fill up the bottle at work and add it.

However, I tried stevia for my usual coffee/tea/cappuccino and detested it. It has (for me at least) the same chemically, bitter pseudo-sweetness as saccharine. So I'll stick with Splenda aka sucralose, which may be superficially scary as it's an organochloride, but so is one of the enzymes in peas and beans, and it was pretty thoroughly tested. It goes with everything I've tried it in, and it can even be baked with as it's stable at oven temperatures.
2474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm going to bed now...night night everone. (Message 1489612)
Posted 16 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...and ruled the world! :)


Hah... yes, I had shades of Leo at the prow of the Titanic while I was writing that, but I'm sure I looked more like Star Wars Kid to any passersby.

Edit: Oh, and in keeping with the theme of the thread, g'night!
2475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm going to bed now...night night everone. (Message 1489608)
Posted 16 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
When I was at college we had a field trip to the Drax powerstaion. The finale was ending up at the point where the output is fed into the national grid. Stood under power lines at 400 kilo-volts (no mention of not opening an umbrella) we were told that at such a high voltage, the bonds between the atoms of hydrogen and oxygen at those voltages break down. And that is why they "crackle".


I used to walk home from school under Toronto's largest high-tension power corridor (four pylons wide.) When the day was rainy/foggy/misty the lines would hiss with electrolyzed water. I walked under them with an umbrella open once and noticed a coronal discharge in the apex of the umbrella, where the spokes meet the shaft.

So, I did what any STEM-interested kid would do: returned at dusk with a fluorescent tube, which obligingly glowed a flickering green in the intense fields, and waved it around like a light sabre. :^)
2476) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1489439)
Posted 15 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Someone also donated $25.00 anonymously through GPUUG to the campaign, just the right amount and at the right time that I would think that it was my matching donation being manually added... it wasn't.

So, thank you muchly to whoever who you are and here's my matching donation to cover it:

Thank you for your gift of $25.00 via Visa on 03/15/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $25.00

Your confirmation number is: 130574
2477) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1489311)
Posted 15 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You may put the donation in any SETI fund you wish.


Thanks! Moved it to the SERENDIP campaign and that just effectively doubled your contribution as I can match it, and Roy's too...

Thank you for your gift of $25.00 via Visa on 03/15/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $25.00

Your confirmation number is: 130569


This wasn't easy on mobile... Lol. But it's great that it works..
2478) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1488882)
Posted 14 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A little OT, but I really like the idea of tax deductible donations. We have that in Norway to, but only for a few, gouvernment choosen, norwegian associations. No foreign donations, or donations that's not on their list, are tax deductible.


Well, most countries don't consider donations to foreign universities tax-deductible. I'm very fortunate (or maybe I should say that SETI@Home is... heh) that I live in one that does. Was ecstatic when I discovered this accidentally and it motivated me to donate a lot more; previously was just enough to keep the star on.

I would check with your tax authority and you may end up surprised... I certainly was!
2479) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1488843)
Posted 14 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
OK, I just donated 5% of what I used in electricity crunching the last three months.

Paid to
GPU Users Group, Inc.
gpuugmain@****.com
314 9560812


That's fantastic... thanks! :^)

You donated through the general donation to SETI@Home... if you wanted it to go to the SERENDIP campaign please advise (only matching that one) but it's all excellent. Transfers from GPUUG to SAH are done at the end of the month, so you should get your star first week of April. Please let me know if you don't, and yes, it's tax deductible of course.
2480) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1488827)
Posted 14 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Maybe we need a thread to discuss the revival of the GPUUG fundraising...


The SAH team is awaiting the specs of the new NVidia offerings (Titan Black, 790, etc.) that should be out this month so may change the requirement, so I thought I'd see if we could get the total down a bit on my own in the interim as >$4K is a lot for a weekend.

However, once they've finalized, then we'll have a fundraiser weekend as we did with the hard drives/case and sticky threads, put it on the main page and so forth. And yes, I'll be matching... I earmarked $3K for this so it's well within the budget (hope that doesn't change!)
2481) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1488817)
Posted 14 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I will not donate...


RAC: 154,906? It appears you do donate. We all have our different parts to play. :^)
2482) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1488683)
Posted 14 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well, I did donate directly to SETI@home when I first joined last month, but I just donated a few bucks towards the hardware as well. Since my mouth is so big.


Thank you. :^) And you you're only the fourth donor not counting my matches (two of the donors are the #2 and #4 ranked crunchers so it's not like they haven't paid their dues either... heh.) Don't worry about the amount as it's all good and all welcome and if everyone chipped in a little it would be done in days.

I make my donations through the Berkeley portal (use an earmark code so the right project gets the funds) as it's the only way as a Canadian that I can qualify for the tax deduction (GPUUG is registered in the U.S. only) and they have a $10 minimum. So when any more come in I'll match and post it here. The other $10 collected today was a direct donation to SAH through the GPUUG portal.
2483) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1488669)
Posted 14 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The only break to the cycle is for people to realize that donating to the project is a long-term investment that may never show results in their own lifetime, and many simply refuse to accept that.


Well said. Good funding is essential. Everybody needs money to get s**t done. SETI included. Personnel and hardware ain't cheap.


OK, let's see if you two click the banner below and donate to the Green Bank SERENDIP receiver then. Break the cycle! Provide that essential good funding! :^)
(I am matching all donations!)

(Note that this is an official SETI@Home requirement... GPUUG handles the fundraising and acquiring the needed hardware because among other things UC Berkeley doesn't take PayPal.)
2484) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1488191)
Posted 13 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If memory serves, when v6(?) was released with significantly more processing per work unit, Dr. Anderson put out a mass mailing to current and former crunchers indicating that there was more work than processing capacity allowed. It had a good effect and many people came back. I returned, if not then, for another similar entreaty.

When (not saying "if"!) the Green Bank receiver is finally done, I highly suspect there will be another one as, since it's going to be an exact duplicate of the Arecibo one, it could double the amount of work units to process. Unlike before, the infrastructure is now equipped for this as well due to the much-appreciated CoLo facility move. I know that quite a few people left SETI@Home when were having months of snail's-pace downloads and server downs prior to CoLo; they may return if they know these problems are solved.
2485) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1487980)
Posted 12 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What I started off to say, before I distracted myself, was that while "the signal" could come in 100 years or tomorrow, we would all find it rather frustrating if it turned out it came and we crunched it 3 years ago and the lab didn't analyze the results right away.


Ah... noted and agreed. :^)
2486) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1487970)
Posted 12 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't think they would even go public (in a big way at least) with something that old. Anything interesting would require recent reobservation to confirm, first by the SAH team and then confirmation by different astronomers on different receivers to rule out near sources through parallax and equipment weirdness...

Which is why I stick to my estimate that there may be a hundred signals as good as the "WOW" buried in the SAH results over time. It's just that with the vast number of completed work, the criteria are so much stricter that WOW, being a one-off, would never have seen the light of day... anything even considered for manual observation in the biannual or so candidate checks has to have been reobserved broadcasting at least once.
2487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why do you run SETI@home? (Message 1487941)
Posted 12 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Because I want to make a difference and make things better for humanity. My ordinary life wont make that happen, but by participating in S@H I believe I am making things better by furthering human knowledge. S@H is real science. It produces results: hydrogen density was mapped from its data, micro black-holes were theorized and proven (Astropulse) and then S@H spawned BOINC.

S@H advanced radio astronomy, distributed computing, probably cryptography and other stuff by motivating GPU use outside of graphics, got the public interested in science again, made incredible resources available to other real and valid projects, allowed many of those projects to be possible in the first place while operating on a budget that would not have covered the coffee and donuts for the project that designed your MP3 player. Go ahead and compare the science per dollar that happend through S@H to anything else being done in the world... And I Helped.

I will be with the project for as long as I can because it matters.


Now there's another profile that could use an update... that's inspirational. "PIGS IN SPAAAACE!"... er... not so much :^)
2488) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1487795)
Posted 12 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That's a big, bold statement. Can you substantiate it?


The SETI@Home receiver at Arecibo is also the receiver used by the SERENDIP project which does real-time analysis of basically the same area of the radio spectrum... it does "shallow and wide" and we do "deep and narrow". So anything SERENDIP found would be known immediately on receiving the signal, whereas our findings wouldn't be known for weeks/months.

Wouldn't call it "chaff" though... lol. IIRC the frequencies we do the deep analysis on are considered the most promising.
2489) Message boards : Number crunching : Results/Finds page? (Message 1487596)
Posted 12 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This thread may prove useful.
2490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why do you run SETI@home? (Message 1487590)
Posted 12 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...but I haven't done one yet...


Well, if it's written like the rest of your post it's about time!
2491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why do you run SETI@home? (Message 1487571)
Posted 12 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Maybe the different user profiles could help you.


I have one, so I volunteer it. :^)
(I've had it basically unchanged since the beginning too.)
2492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1486000)
Posted 8 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I tried to post this to another thread, but I was too late. Another Friday night...

You already have four threads on the main page. How many do you need? Why not keep it to one?

Others may have just as many or more but they were designated as the "keepers" of other people's threads so they keep going. If you keep starting these you're going to end up on vacation again.
2493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Quip Of The Day (Message 1484581)
Posted 4 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Why do we sing Hymns and not Hers then?


To expand on that:

In every church wedding, the bride always has three things found there on her mind: Aisle, Altar, Hymn. :^)
2494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Quip Of The Day (Message 1484176)
Posted 3 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Behind every great man is a great woman. And behind her is his wife."
--- Groucho Marx

Always a favorite. :^)
2495) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : BOINC Projects and Legitimacy (Message 1484159)
Posted 3 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I agree with you Bob. I do the same thing, but I have to keep wondering if there are projects that are 'listed' as legitimate projects, but are feeding research in terrorist activities.

I don't have tin foil hats in my wardrobe, but this is the conservative side of me given the trend of Internet activities.


The risk is there with any application... BOINC-based ones are no different. Only way to avoid it is to compile your own OS, drivers and apps. from code you audited yourself. I think that's a bit much for most of us.
(And even then, the compiler and/or BIOS may still compromise you.)
2496) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (87) Server Problems? (Message 1484063)
Posted 3 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But at least with the bandwidth available at the Colo, it can eventually work itself out.


Agreed... happens far less often than it used to (remember when it was almost daily?) CoLo move was quite the improvement.
2497) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (87) Server Problems? (Message 1483593)
Posted 2 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There's also an issue with the upload server that is, as far as I know, unresolved since BOINC started, in that it will accept more connections than it can service when it is overloaded. Uploads then time out and need to be restarted and all that bandwidth is thus wasted. So, once it starts getting overloaded the overload snowballs from the wasted bandwidth and retries.

You can see this easily in the BOINC client transfers tab by noting all the failed uploads with a significant percentage of completion. All of that is wasted bandwidth as they don't resume, unlike the downloads which do.
2498) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (87) Server Problems? (Message 1483307)
Posted 1 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Uploads just started (slowly) completing.
Try to not all stampede them through at once. :^)

Edit: <<shakes tiny internet fist at Claggy>>
2499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How could verizon's plans affect seti? (Message 1483295)
Posted 1 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't think it would affect SETI much if at all. The SETI servers connect through dedicated infrastructure on a dedicated commercial-grade connection not a public ISP, and the amount of bandwidth we end-users need is minimal; it's designed to be resilient for low/irregular bandwidth and poor connections.

What it will really affect if it goes through is streaming services especially Netflix.
2500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How could verizon's plans affect seti? (Message 1483288)
Posted 1 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What exactly is this? Hijackers? Free internet? Verizon? A link would be nice. I see you tried to provide one... you can just paste it right in and the forum will convert it to BBCode.
2501) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (87) Server Problems? (Message 1483229)
Posted 1 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Probably another hour before anyone in CA is awake enough to even remote in, if that's all it needs.


CoLo facility is staffed 24x7 to prevent these outages... guess it just hasn't been noticed (or someone's nodded off... lol.) I have seen outages resolve in the wee hours before so it usually works.
Edit: OK... sometimes. :^)
2502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1483078)
Posted 1 Mar 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I saw the car, but didn't notice the dog.


There was a car?
2503) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1482491)
Posted 27 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Add to that, I suspect the typical volunteer is a tech AND science enthusiast WITH computer resources to spare, which I further suspect is a limited demographic.


Rather than suspecting (ie guessing), the data is available:
Total project RAC: 134,260,841
Active volunteers: 133,257

So the average RAC is about 1K, which is what you get from a standard desktop without a compatible GPU crunching a few hours a day... hardly a tech with resources to spare. Folks like me that build multiple or high-end PCs with GPUs just to crunch are not typical of the volunteers, which is really what the whole project is about: it's so that anyone with an interest can contribute. In that it has attracted many people to so do with limited resources, I call it a success.
2504) Message boards : Number crunching : Wierdest thing happened (Message 1482454)
Posted 27 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Closed it once-brought it up-same response. Did it again & it was fine.


That usually does it for me as well. :^)
2505) Message boards : Number crunching : Wierdest thing happened (Message 1482418)
Posted 27 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have seen this happen if more than one instance of Boincmgr.exe starts. Ensure that there isn't two in Task Manager -> Processes and that two aren't trying to start up with Windows.
2506) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Controlled Fusion (Message 1482378)
Posted 27 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I would favor proceeding with getting breeder reactors to work to supply limitless fissionable material (i.e. Plutonium)


The best untapped source of nuclear power is probably thorium. It occurs naturally, is far less dangerous, there's enough for thousands of years of reliance, etc.

Edit: Here's a good overview article. I like this:

What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles? And what if the waste produced by such a reactor was radioactive for a mere few hundred years rather than tens of thousands? It may sound too good to be true, but such a reactor is indeed possible, and a number of teams around the world are now working to make it a reality. What makes this incredible reactor so different is its fuel source: thorium.


I think we should be throwing money at this technology, rather than building more particle accelerators and oil pipelines. :^p
2507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 'Ghostbusters' star Harold Ramis dead at 69 (Message 1481513)
Posted 25 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He was also the (brilliant) scriptwriter for Groundhog Day (and has a cameo in it.) That's what I remember him for and what made it one of my personal favorites... top 10 at least, and an absolute must-see especially at this time of year and with someone special if you've somehow missed this gem.
2508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1481241)
Posted 24 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
@Sirius B: Well that made my day... thanks. :^)
2509) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Tech specs for SERENDIP VI? (Message 1480996)
Posted 23 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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The current SERENDIP V is FPGA-based, 128 million channels over 200 MHz. Jeff Cobb advised that the proposed estimate for the new SERENDIP VI receivers is 350 million channels over 300 MHz... there will be two as one is going to Green Bank. They are going to use commercial GPUs as well as FPGAs. The team is still finalizing which type of video card/GPU to use; GTX780ti's were initially proposed.

We do have the fundraiser for it going already and I am matching the contributions if anyone wants to chip in. It will hit the forums when the cards and thus amounts are finalized, if the team does decide to change them (and if so they will inevitably be more expensive!) but I'm hoping to bring the amount down to less than $4K so it can be done in one fundraiser weekend when this happens.
2510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti@home beard survey (Message 1480209)
Posted 21 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Anyone called Steve already ?


Paged. :^)
2511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another kittyman moment to share.... (Message 1479277)
Posted 19 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Love that sig Mr. Kevvy!


Thanks. :^) Though... sure, we can change the world. That's easy. But can we change Mark? Now there's a challenge.

I settled hours ago.


Your last several posts and yet another thread that will be hidden by the moderators who give you far more grace and leeway than you will ever acknowledge tell us otherwise.
2512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another kittyman moment to share.... (Message 1479219)
Posted 19 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I tried PMs... all I can do is sit and helplessly watch.
Is it Friday already?
2513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1478867)
Posted 18 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I wonder how many times Eric has tripped over something, ended up with a bin on one foot, a box on the other and falling out the window.


He would do that if wearing a pair of boots...

Because dual boot is a box with /bin/ and Windows.
<<Bah dum tish>> I'll be here all week, folks. :^)
2514) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are we intelligent enought to even acknowledge an ET call? (Message 1478093)
Posted 16 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Run that by me again in English?


I'd be interested in a citation for this supposed biologist who claims all of that as well, especially the five fingers part.
2515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another kittyman moment to share.... (Message 1477301)
Posted 14 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I don't get it... I PM'ed him so he stopped posting before it got bad. Guess he started up again when I was in transit and I didn't see those.
Always a bitter start to a weekend. :^(
2516) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Controlled Fusion (Message 1477191)
Posted 14 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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What you get from fusion are 14 MeV neutrons. Then you must use them to heat water and get vapor to power the turbines. There must be a simpler way to boil water.


I was going to reply about neutron damage but then I saw you covered that...

...There are huge engineering problems, because every material bombarded by neutrons is damaged and must be substituted after a period...


Neutron damage is the kiss of death for Deuterium + Tritium fusion like this to be a viable energy source. As noted, the entire reactor would have to be replaced every few years(?) to prevent it from breaking spontaneously.

Happily, there are plenty of energetic reactions that don't have a high neutron flux to research. The Proton + Boron one is considered promising. Perhaps the discoveries and techniques of this project are applicable to future projects that could be used for practical power generation.
2517) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1476672)
Posted 13 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It seems to me that a while back when my computer was unable to do any crunching (and I was unaware of the problem) for several weeks my access to post on the boards was suspended.


Minimum posting RAC is 1. If you're ever in that situation message a friend and they can crunch a few units for you using your "weak account key" which will buy you a couple of weeks.
2518) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are we intelligent enought to even acknowledge an ET call? (Message 1476541)
Posted 13 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
prime numbers (assumes our counting system)


It would be pointless trying to structure radio communications with a society that didn't have a the concept of number (how would they tune their radios without the understanding of frequency?) but you can communicate primeness to them and they may already understand primeness this way... geometrically:

Imagine a society with no sense of counting numbers... all they know is "one" and "more than one".

Here is a line of dots:

●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

Try to split that line into more than one line so that:
- Every line is the same length
- Every line contains more than one dot
- No dot is a member of more than one line (ie no sneaky intersections.)
- Dots can't be split or merged

This of course can't be done, so we call this line's length "prime". Other lines of different length can be split this way so we call their lengths "composite".

(Incidentally the ancient Greeks started out like this because they lacked a useful algebraic notation; their algebraic proofs and concepts were expressed geometrically.)
2519) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1475872)
Posted 12 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Somewhere near the beginning of this thread, a suggestion was made to start a funding drive to get a dedicated programmer to work on the Nitpicker. Most universities will provide matched funding for specific projects, so SETIzens might only have to come up with half the funding. This programming work could likely be done either by a good PhD student within 3 years, or by an excellent post-doc or specialist programmer on a 1 year contract.
It would first be essential to have an update from the staff on the status of the Nitpicker and their ideas on how to get it running again, and whether a dedicated programmer is what's required, or if they have all of that in-hand.


That's an excellent idea, and I'll certainly see if UC Berkeley has such a program when I pass this idea by the SAH team.

Right now, though, I'm still awaiting for over a day a reply on whether we can do the matching fundraiser for the Green Bank SERENDIP receiver this weekend, and this is after over a year of waiting for the requirements, etc. I've never had to work this hard to give money away... hah. For all the well-known limitations of this project's budgets I would have thought it would be easier...

Once the Green Bank SERENDIP receiver is in place and we are steady-state crunching data from it, then I'll write up the idea for NTPCKR.
2520) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : CERN (Message 1475737)
Posted 11 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I've read that CERN is planning a 100 km track accelerator at Geneva. That is the standard reaction of the physicists to a bunch of problems. Let's build a bigger accelerator.


And as much as I love physics, it's annoying that they will get billions for this to find arcane particles that the vast majority of taxpayers footing the bill couldn't care less about, yet the question "are there other intelligences in the universe" which potentially could be of far more interest to humanity and runs on a shoestring budget compared to what particle accelerators cost these days can't get a dime of public support.
2521) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are we intelligent enought to even acknowledge an ET call? (Message 1475702)
Posted 11 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Therefore life of whatever kind has a common factor in the value of Pi. "they" may choose to give it a different name, and call it whatever they wish, it is still a universal constant, and a starting point for discussion.


I like the idea that was used in Contact of searching for intelligent signals at "hydrogen times Pi" (about 4.46 GHz) the most important astronomical frequency multiplied by the most important constant, a great place for an intelligence to make itself known. As far as I know it's a pretty quiet area of the spectrum too. I wonder if any SETI projects are listening there.
2522) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are we intelligent enought to even acknowledge an ET call? (Message 1474800)
Posted 9 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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we are maybe the only ones in the universe who 'invented' these radio-waves transmitters and 'invented' these decimal "prime numbers'

maybe there are no aliens with only 10 fingers :P


Er... primes are primes in any base, and I didn't mention base-10. That would be ridiculous.
2523) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are we intelligent enought to even acknowledge an ET call? (Message 1474657)
Posted 9 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Actually, you mean on/off keying of what is now known as a blank (or silent A.M.) carrier.


That was the start but I don't think it's an over-assumption to be limited to spark-gap transmitters. ;^)
2524) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (86) Server Problems? (Message 1474655)
Posted 9 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Uploads just started working for me; retry and they should be fine. Yay CoLo. :^)

Edit: Logjammed already... heh.
2525) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Are we intelligent enought to even acknowledge an ET call? (Message 1474640)
Posted 9 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well, let's hope if anyone is out there trying to communicate with us, that if they are intelligent and advanced enough to use tachyons or entangled pairs or some other exotic form of communication we don't know of, that they are also intelligent enough to know how to "talk down" to us by broadcasting their hello in the first form of wireless electronic communication we discovered: amplitude-modulated narrowband radio, and they start off their communication with the most basic mathematical idea: the prime number... basically exactly what we have done and are looking for now.

Even if we never decoded the rest, at least we would know they were there.
2526) Message boards : Number crunching : What's the fastest GPU at the moment? (Message 1473438)
Posted 6 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This may help. And the top of the pack is indeed the GTX 780ti.
2527) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Slate article: "Terra Nova: When will we find another Earth?" (Message 1472372)
Posted 3 Feb 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Link to article. It's written by the well-known astronomer Phil Plait of "Bad Astronomy" fame (now has a regular Slate column.)

May be of interest as it's about the search (especially via Kepler) for earth-like exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone" for liquid water, ie the best possible SETI candidates we know of... yes, those same candidates we hope to get the Green Bank receiver online for... someday... I hope.
2528) Message boards : Number crunching : Show and tell your machine. Here's mine. (Message 1470982)
Posted 31 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Not related to the thread so it´s just curiosity, what is this thing beyound the number 04 on the date? Looks like a snake?


From his profile:

I have kept snakes since I was 7 years old, and currently have 14 of them...


Going with snakeskin.

Oh, and @Steve, whether you own that "rack" machine or not that you linked to, I'm glad you did, as I've never seen cabled off-board PCIe, so should I ever win a lotto and decide to build something way into the four figures, I've got some inspiration now. And it's nice to finally see Piggy*. :^)

(* who seems to be taking it easy these days.)
2529) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Magnetic monopoles are no longer just theoretical (Message 1470757)
Posted 30 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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"The creation of a synthetic magnetic monopole should provide us with unprecedented insight into aspects of the natural magnetic monopole—if indeed it exists...


I moved the emphasis to the correct word. :^)
2530) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Magnetic monopoles are no longer just theoretical (Message 1470740)
Posted 30 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Physicists create synthetic magnetic monopole predicted more than 80 years ago

Nearly 85 years after pioneering theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicted the possibility of their existence, an international collaboration led by Amherst College Physics Professor David S. Hall '91 and Aalto University (Finland) Academy Research Fellow Mikko Möttönen has created, identified and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles in Hall's laboratory on the Amherst campus. The groundbreaking accomplishment paves the way for the detection of the particles in nature, which would be a revolutionary development comparable to the discovery of the electron.
...
Hall's team adopted an innovative approach to investigating Dirac's theory, creating and identifying synthetic magnetic monopoles in an artificial magnetic field generated by a Bose-Einstein condensate, an extremely cold atomic gas tens of billionths of a degree warmer than absolute zero.


If they were only found in a Bose-Einstein condensate, I wonder if they will ever be found in nature, but I'm amazed they were found (er... made) at all. :^)
2531) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Black Holes part 2 (Message 1468718)
Posted 25 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Probably mentioned it before (maybe even in this thread... heh) but I have no idea why physicists/cosmologists don't seem to consider GR time dilation in the collapse when an object nears its Schwarzchild radius/event horizon. From our perspective, it would asymptotically approach this size and never reach it, never mind collapse to a point of infinite density. Any "true" black holes inside their own event horizons would have to be primordial.

The non-primordial ones, then, could be 99.99% or whatever arbitrary closeness time permits of the way there and have all the effects that black holes are supposed to have on the space and matter around them, but could never attain that last fraction in finite time. No infinite densities thus no breakdown of physical laws to have to deal with.
2532) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1465969)
Posted 18 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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i have a question for Mr. Kevvy

Do you think they still have ALL the original files they got so far ?
And how many Terabytes / Hard drives they have stocked in a closet or somewhere, filled with all the beams/data we got from the observatory?


I don't think so. There are the original tapes from Arecibo but I am unsure how often they are reused and overwritten.
So, more reason to get the results posted and correlated ASAP so that possible findings aren't lost.
2533) Message boards : SETI@home Science : NTPCKR Status (Message 1465389)
Posted 17 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Any further info?


Not that I know of at least. If we don't have any other updates, I'm not going to bother the SAH team about it until the SERENDIP VI receivers are built and we're happily into steady-state crunching of Green Bank data.

Then I'm going to bother them about it a lot. :^)
2534) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1465037)
Posted 16 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'll throw my evidence-free speculation on the pile of them accumulating in this thread:

I think the chance of an extraterrestrial species finding us both delicious and nutritious (or vice versa) is about the same as us finding the same from the sludge at the bottom of an crude oil tank.
2535) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1464687)
Posted 15 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He was a genuine scientist though imo!


Not just an opinion...

He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books.
2536) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1464626)
Posted 15 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
more religious and metaphysical than scientific... popular psuedo-science...



Ouch.

If you can find a single pseudo-scientific idea promoted by either of these gentlemen, I'd be certainly interested in a reference. Sagan, specifically, wrote "The Demon-Haunted World" exactly to counter pseudo-science.

Note: making science fun, interesting, passionate and wonderful does not make it into "pseudo-science". That term is specifically reserved for demonstrably incorrect information masquerading as science (phrenology, creationism, vitalism, etc.)
2537) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Is S.E.T.I. Real or Fake? (Message 1463971)
Posted 13 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I Am Doing My Life's Work by Crunching. My Life: A Total Waste of Time and Money.


Sorry that you feel your life has been wasted...
2538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodsearch..... (Message 1463122)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wow... Dr. K. has raised an astounding $177.

I use it always when I can but you won't see my profile as me though as I use a throwaway mail address/profile; have no interest in making some of my searches public... hah.
2539) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1462850)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Imagine if SETI doesn't find the signal in another 100 years. How much interest would there be then? Most people will say, "we've been looking for over 100 years, it's a wasted effort!" It could just as easily be seen as a marketing gimmick that people will start to get sick of hearing.


Given the scale of the cosmos and the number of planets out there, a hundred years is in the realm of possibility to find something. So is a thousand. So is tomorrow... we have no idea right now. I think we'll always keep looking as enough of us will realize that the chance of finding something may be very small, but it's zero if we don't look, or listen.

It took 358 years of improvements in technique to crack Fermat's Last "Theorem" but mathematicians persevered... we need that level of patience.
2540) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti, you need to give Standard Credit to GPUs (Message 1462837)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The fact is many projects overpay- way too much.


Which is why it will stay broken: even if it were standardized across all projects, a new project would come along. How to get volunteers to crunch? Madly overpay, as many do.

Again, to analogize to currency, I don't feel bad about Ecuadorians having far larger bank balances than I do as their Sucre is worth $0.0004. I can only compare my "income" with other Canadians number-for-number, just as I can only compare my credit number-for-number with other SAH participants.

And if I cared about the numbers more than the science, I'd be crunching elsewhere or, more likely, mining BitCoin. :^)
2541) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti, you need to give Standard Credit to GPUs (Message 1462816)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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My take on it is that the credit system is like a national currency. Some nations' currencies are worth more than others, so you may earn "less" there numerically, but what you earn is worth more so it balances out. This project may pay less credits, but they are similarly "worth" more by requiring more work to earn.
2542) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Let's see some results! (Message 1462678)
Posted 10 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Right now the team's focus is to get the two new SERENDIP receivers up and running at the Green Bank facility and to replace the Arecibo one. Then we'll have a new and targeted source of data.

The problem with the NTPCKR is that it needs reprogramming as it doesn't effectively reject known RFI sources, as well as other issues, so isn't public-facing as there are too many erroneous results.

So, the next thing I've also been thinking of as a fundraiser is one to get NTPCKR completely up and running. The SAH team has taken on grad. students so perhaps raising funds to hire one for a sufficient duration to resolve the NTPCKR issues may be in order. And, someone's already indicated they'd contribute matching funds for it... bonus!

I'm completely in agreement that it's essential as there's no point in processing all these millions of work units if they just sit in a database and aren't analyzed thoroughly. I bet there are at least a hundred "WOW signals" in there to be found.
2543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can't do mathematics. (Message 1462004)
Posted 9 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I was taking an advanced calculus class and the prof started off with a pop quiz. I had no idea how to solve or even approach one of the problems, so I wrote "Arrrggghhh!!!" I got full credit for the problem.


Nice... I tried to make a calculus equation as a reply where this was the answer but messed it badly. Appropriate for this thread. :^)
2544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can't do mathematics. (Message 1461988)
Posted 9 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2545) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (86) Server Problems? (Message 1461180)
Posted 6 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My only beef with the servers running out of work is that my i7 will then go to Einstein and download a huge pile of work, so then even when the Seti servers recover, it won't ask for new CPU work for the next week or so.


If you haven't already, under Project preferences in your Account panel for each project, set SETI@Home's Resource share to 100 and Einstein@Home's to 0 (zero.) Then you'll get a minimal amount of work from Einstein for your CPU and/or GPU only when there's none for that platform from SAH.
2546) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Earliest Signs of Life on Earth (Message 1460946)
Posted 5 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
SETI should implement a search strategy of the nearest neighbors first if we are ever to find ET. Nor any idea of wasting resources on galaxies 1-2 billion light years away.


This is what the upcoming Kepler project is all about... a targeted search of the most Earth-like nearby (well, cosmically at least) planets found by NASA's Kepler mission, to be run via a new SERENDIP receiver at the Robert C. Byrd telescope at Green Bank observatory in West Virginia.

The existing setup would be extremely unlikely to pick up anything outside our galaxy anyways. An Arecibo observatory could communicate with its twin about 50K light years away, about halfway across the galaxy.
2547) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (86) Server Problems? (Message 1459763)
Posted 2 Jan 2014 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This was one of the benefits of moving to the colo facility: it's where all the Berkeley servers are as far as I know, so there's always someone there to monitor and restart them if needed, 24x7, even on holidays.

Something Sten-Arne may be able to relate to also being in the northerly latitudes: I knew something was wrong with SETI@Home work production as my apartment was chilly. :^)
2548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 2014 everyone. (Message 1459196)
Posted 31 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Well it's after 1am 1/1/14 (that date even works for you Yanks, but the day is implied 1st not the month).


Thus why putting the year first is better... no ambiguity there. ;^)

Looking forward to to some very nice new developments on this project in 2014. Happy New Year! (about 10.5 hours left in 2013 for me.)
2549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Worst Christmas Jokes (Message 1458298)
Posted 28 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Why are nerds always confusing Hallowe'en and Christmas?

(No, not because of The Nightmare Before Christmas, though that was a contributing factor...)

Because OCT 31 = DEC 25.

If you still don't get that, please ask a nerd (possibly myself) to explain. :^)
2550) Message boards : Number crunching : Best Dedicated Seti Computer (Message 1457998)
Posted 27 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Does seti@home still use video cards, I heard that their are no boinc projects that use video cards but that may be world community grid.


<<shudder>> Someone's giving you some bad info.

Here are some BOINC projects. The ones with GPU support have NVidia and/or AMD logos.

If you're concerned about power usage fewer newer cards are going to be more power efficient than more from days of yore.
2551) Message boards : Number crunching : Error while computing (Message 1454217)
Posted 15 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
All my Windows XP 32-bit boxes with any type of GPUs will do this every week or so. I think it's just bugs with the OS or the XP drivers (which I expect aren't as heavily QAed anymore as XP is now functionally obsolete...) It runs out of system resources being up 24/7 crunching at 100% and needs to be rebooted. After the reboot it is always fine again.

Whatever it is seems to have been fixed in Windows 7 as I haven't seen it there.
2552) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD ATI work Units finished after 0.018% work finished? That can't be right? (Message 1454201)
Posted 15 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What's your PSU like? I just had the same problem with a GTX480 which was working perfectly fine on a Corsair 750 but would do the same thing when I moved it to a different system with a Corsair 650.

Because the card is verified fine, everything is up to date, and the problem went away when I dialed everything down to minimum (GPU and memory clocks as low as possible) it looks like the PSU... it's possible if it can't put out the power the GPU requires it may go flaky and error out.
2553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Tree (Message 1452007)
Posted 9 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
♪ "O Chemis-Tree, O Chemis-Tree,
Your leaves are liquid, but not tea.
But if strong tea they were made from,
Then we would sing: O Tannin-baum." ♫

:^)
2554) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The James Webb Space Telescope (Message 1450840)
Posted 6 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thought it was going to be run until it failed, but considering how amazing it's been even being that old, and how far technology has advanced since it was launched, this one should be a worthy successor.
2555) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The James Webb Space Telescope (Message 1450774)
Posted 6 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I will miss Hubble :(


What?!? No Hubble?!?

<<checks Hubble pages>>

Possibly you meant Kepler? (But it may be workable still...)
2556) Message boards : Politics : Why is teaching atheism good? (Message 1450748)
Posted 6 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
No prose, no bull, just facts.

No prose, no bull, just facts please.

You have no proof. Or, do you?


Sometimes the only way to answer ridiculousness is with humor. Contrary to your unfounded assertion that it marks someone as a "radical", humor can be a valuable tool to convey ideas and provide perspective.

In this case, the webcomic Jesus & Mo comes to the rescue...



Sort of sums it up perfectly, no?

What does this illustrate in a humorous manner? That no matter how much peer-reviewed, accepted, tested, scientific evidence we trot out, you'll just blithely ignore it and repeat the same tiresome and meaningless rhetoric and links to pseudoscience and political ideologue sites over, and over, and over, indefinitely, no matter how many "vacations" it results in and how much ill-will you gather from the other members of this forum.

I can guarantee you, whatever cause you think are helping: your efforts are having the opposite effect.

//Only posting here because thread is getting locked anyways as per below. May not reply.
2557) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The James Webb Space Telescope (Message 1450674)
Posted 6 Dec 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Nice! Hadn't heard of this before (well, maybe, but I didn't know what it was.)
This looks like it will do for infrared what Hubble did for visible. Thanks Julie. :^)
2558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Juan ! (Message 1447952)
Posted 28 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Have a Juan-derful birthday. :^)
2559) Message boards : Politics : Why is teaching atheism good? (Message 1446483)
Posted 25 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Then define the belief in atheism.


And you've managed to get it backwards and illustrate that deliberate(?) misdefinition I mentioned earlier.

I'll post again in this forum when another thread is split off, and not before.
2560) Message boards : Politics : Why is teaching atheism good? (Message 1446477)
Posted 25 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
At most, or at least, 1/62 advocate educating the public about what they cannot prove. Is that a good thing?


I wouldn't say that's even a close number. I can dig up enough surveys that show there is a much higher percentage of non-believers.

ie Many people avoid the "atheist" label because it's been so stigmatized so call themselves agnostics or non-religious instead, the word "atheist" has been so deliberately misdefined that many don't think it applies to them, many non-religious people born into a religion who no longer believe it or practice it still mark themselves as "nominal" members on a census.

Too complex of an issue for such a seemingly precise answer as "1/62".
2561) Message boards : Politics : Why is teaching atheism good? (Message 1446469)
Posted 25 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
At most, according to the latest information, there are about 5 million folks trained in science and engineering in the U.S. Now, assuming they are *all* atheists because of their academic training, then that means at most 1 out of every 62 people in America is an atheist because of their academic education.

How hard should we push those other 61 poeple into believing there is nothing to life except what we experience in our short lives? How hard should we push our media into repetatively broadcasting that when life ends, we end? How hard should we push that the religions of America are nothing more than a scam? How hard should we push that the leaders of our country (Like Obama) are ultimately in charge of our short lives and that we should put our faith in people like President Obama for our short lives and the more we put our faith into him, the better our lives will be and the better the lives of our children will be?

Eh? Serious questions.

EH? Does putting effort into the believers into NOT believing make any sense what so ever?

Anybody who thinks this makes sense, please explain to me why putting effort into FORCING 61 out of 62 people in America into believing that life is meaningless makes sense.

Standing by for real, serious answers.....


I don't usually post in this forum, but I wrote this for when it was in the Science (non-SETI) forum and then got an error when it saved... found that the last few posts starting with this one had been split off into this thread in Politics. So, I may not reply again...

When there are shows all over your TV on Sunday mornings telling you there is no God,
When people knock on your doors to "spread the good news" of there being no God,
When "In no God we trust" replaces the two-centuries-old neutral national motto "Out of many, unity", gets printed on all the money, hung on school walls and in courtrooms, and everyone pretends it was there all along,
When the Pledge of Allegiance recited by millions of schoolchildren, most of whom think they have to, has "one nation, under no God, indivisible..." added two centuries after the nation is founded and everyone pretends it was there all along,
When politicians and witnesses are sworn in with their right hand on a copy of The God Delusion and take the oath to perform their duties "so help me no God",
When two of the national holidays are Madalyn Murray O'Hair's and Richard Dawkins' birthdays,
When atheist lobbyists all over the country are telling schools to teach Unintelligent Design, a pseudoscience which claims science has found proof that there is no God that scientists are conspiring to hide,
When non-believers etch the Atheist Manifesto on large granite slabs and donate them to courthouses in the hopes that they'll be put on display on public land, unconstitutionally, and ironically by the very entity that is supposed to best understand and uphold the constitution,
When Christian soldiers have to litigate for decades to be buried with a cross marking their graves when they give their lives for their countries, and watch their fellow soldiers get special leave and privileges to attend atheist meetings, often hosted by their superiors...

...then maybe you'll have something to complain about. Until then, everything above is a reversal of the way things really are.
2562) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED (Message 1446190)
Posted 24 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fifty million credits by,
Haven't yet found ETI.
Conclusion: nothing's yet been done,
So onwards, then, to fifty-one.
2563) Message boards : Politics : ID = circular reasoning NOT= science (Message 1444263)
Posted 20 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It is not science to attack anothers belief in science... This has been posted here for only one reason to attack my belief which most of you don't believe is science... my science, that is really science...


Ah... your science is really science and all those silly old scientists are wrong. How modest.

Here is one of the world's leading organizations of those silly old scientists.

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. The NAS is committed to furthering science in America, and its members are active contributors to the international scientific community. Nearly 500 members of the NAS have won Nobel Prizes, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, founded in 1914, is today one of the premier international journals publishing the results of original research.


And here is what they have to say about Intelligent Design:

"Intelligent design" creationism is not supported by scientific evidence... the claims of intelligent design creationists are disproven by the findings of modern biology... In addition to its scientific failings, this and other standard creationist arguments are fallacious in that they are based on a false dichotomy... Intelligent design is not a scientific concept because it cannot be empirically tested... That there are no viable alternatives to evolution in the scientific literature is not because of vested interests or censorship but because evolution has been and continues to be solidly supported by evidence... The arguments of creationists reverse the scientific process. They begin with an explanation that they are unwilling to alter - that supernatural forces have shaped biological or Earth systems - rejecting the basic requirements of science that hypotheses must be restricted to testable natural explanations. Their beliefs cannot be tested, modified, or rejected by scientific means and thus cannot be a part of the processes of science... Despite the lack of scientific evidence for creationist positions, some advocates continue to demand that various forms of creationism be taught together with or in place of evolution in science classes...."


Please read the original so it doesn't appear that any of those statements are out of context.

Since the world's leading scientific organization has determined that Intelligent Design is non-scientific, I don't think we're attacking anything agreeing with them. You and other Intelligent Design advocates and supporters should be pitching to them to convince them why they are incorrect, not in internet forums.

You do have a valid point that it probably would be better to keep anything about ID in Politics though.
2564) Message boards : Politics : "Bad Design" Debunked in a Fish: It Actually Achieves the Impossible (Message 1443949)
Posted 19 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
impossible (adj.)
1) Incapable of having existence or of occurring.
2) Not capable of being accomplished.


The fish exists. The fish occurred. The fish has been accomplished.

Therefore, not impossible.

Q.E.D.?
2565) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Maven Mission (Message 1443867)
Posted 18 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's a shame we can't send a maned mission to Mars.


Here's one. ;^)
2566) Message boards : SETI@home Science : NTPCKR Status (Message 1443407)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Has there ever been an explanation of what the project needs to get the NTPCKR (fully) operational? I know the short answer is: time &/or money. But, is there a more detailed explanation?


Development. It's been indicated (by the SAH team of course) that it isn't ready for "prime time". I remember when it was public-facing it was indicating stupendous results of repeating gaussians all over the place, so the results aren't reliable. So it's been moved offline until the programming can be fixed (and possibly code added to filter out the known RFI sources.)

They also directly confirmed that the hardware is now up to the job at the colo facility which is why the new NTPCKR server GPUUG fundraiser project was scrapped, with the funds to be moved to the upcoming SERENDIP receiver project.

(Edit: You probably already know this but I post for those who may not.) :^)
2567) Message boards : SETI@home Science : NTPCKR Status (Message 1443242)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ntpckr.php


That link gives "The public version of this page is currently offline, as we are still developing large parts of the code."

And, that's exactly the status of NTPCKR as well.
2568) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Moon Mnemonics (Message 1443196)
Posted 16 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2569) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Maven Mission (Message 1443169)
Posted 16 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some say that as the sun cools down, Venus is like earth was, and Mars is like earth will be.


G-type main sequence stars like the Sun get hotter and more luminous through their main sequence, about 10% every billion years. The Sun has about five billion years left to go on it before it goes all red gianty.

I think that the cause is the accumulation of fusing helium at their cores driving the temperature up. Could be wrong.
2570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1442507)
Posted 14 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't have many friends on my list, but John is/was there, and one of the first.

I know when it's our turn to go, that if my wife goes first, that I'll soon join her, whatever may be after. I won't need any artificial hastening to do so; nature will do as nature does. Even an eternity of oblivion would be preferable to living knowing she is forever gone.

So it may be with me, as it was with my grandfather, as it may have been with John. Some losses are too much for any mortal mind to bear. And the most Curmudgeonly hearts on the outside so often prove the tenderest inside.

Eternal peace, Curmudgeon.
2571) Message boards : Politics : ID = circular reasoning NOT= science (Message 1442479)
Posted 14 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
And so it remains a point of discussion...


So what? Denying the holocaust remains a point of discussion to holocaust deniers, the earth being flat remains a point of discussion to flat-earthers.

This proves nothing of the validity or evidence behind their arguments, only of the tenacity of humans to cling to discredited and disproven ideas contrary to the best available evidence for ideological purposes.
2572) Message boards : Politics : ID = circular reasoning NOT= science (Message 1442370)
Posted 14 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
An interesting stance on ID and science:


Rather than an "interesting stance", I would call it "a steaming pile" containing such gems as:

Johnson is not, but as a lawyer he has considerable skill at criticizing arguments, and he has used that skill impressively in debunking Darwinist claims.


Johnson and the rest of them have only "debunked" evolutionary biology (as soon as someone uses the term "Darwinist" this is a clue that they are either a non-scientist or are talking down to their audience) to the same degree that Jenny McCarthy has "debunked" virology and immunology. They write a bunch of nonsense to swindle non-scientists (such as the author of the article) and nothing more. They are "bunking", if the verb can be used in a positive tense.

If they have any valid points or ideas, they should publish them in peer-reviewed, legitimate scientific journals or present them before scientific panels. But they can't and won't, not because of some tinfoil-hat conspiracy, but because they know well it's perfectly laughable grade-school-level pseudoscience (more like anti-science) about as likely to ever replace evolutionary theory in the scientific community as alchemy is to replace modern chemistry.

More gems:

Most neo-Darwinism today is explicitly anti-theistic.


Funny, I never saw any books or papers in evolutionary biology argue that there was no God. Deliberately misinterpreting neutrality as opposition is a favorite tactic of these cranks, just as they do with church-state separation.

So Darwinism, in some senses, is religious, and ID is scientific.


And there's the other tactic.
2573) Message boards : News : NRAO telescopes will be taken offline due to government shutdown (Message 1441598)
Posted 12 Nov 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Arecibo didn't shut down and I checked pages of it, VLA and Green Bank and they are all normal now.
2574) Message boards : News : NRAO telescopes will be taken offline due to government shutdown (Message 1424576)
Posted 5 Oct 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Arecibo will shut down soon if this continues.

The upcoming anniversary of an iconic radio telescope could be tarnished by the ongoing shutdown of the U.S. federal government, as the observatory plans to furlough essentially all of its employees and stop observations by the middle of October.


And the VLA has been shut down already.
2575) Message boards : News : We are now mostly recovered from a campus wide power outage. (Message 1423131)
Posted 2 Oct 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Last night there was a power outage that affected the entire Berkeley campus.


Considering that both NASA and the NSF are down right now due to the Fed shutdown, this outage was more than a little disturbing at the time, and I'm glad it was only a coincidence!

Hope the NSF downtime doesn't impact this project.

All of our servers seem to be OK with exception of marvin, the AstroPulse database server.


And to add to the coincidence, there's the NSF-funded part of the project, too.
2576) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1422443)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to the GPUUG for maintaining kitty crunching privileges.


Thanks, Angela... there's my official confirmation, and thanks for keeping everything positive! Time for me to pay up.

Thank you for your gift of $430.00 via Visa on 09/30/2013.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $430.00

Your confirmation number is: 117759


Now that I've spent a bunch your hubby will probably hit me up for the Green Bank requirements in a couple of days... heh. That would be typical for my timing.

And Raccoon Lovers will get a couple of weeks of Mark crunching for you, so raccoons can still get some quality kitty time. :^)

2577) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421672)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

You made the decision, GPUUG won!


Yay GPUUG! I apologize that it had to be coloured with this confusion though but that's the way these things go sometimes. It's all for the project so I hope there's no resentment.

I would have suggested Eric, but Angela has a iron in the fire.


Ah crap... Dr. K has an iron in the fire himself! But he outranks everyone here. :^)

I'll wait a while until I call it settled and the squabbling is over and then pay up.
2578) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421653)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
OK I cancelled leaving. So much for my Saturday night. :^p

Dutch Power Cows a bid of $400, then [DPC] hansR upped it by $100, so $500.00 total


Raccoon Lovers
Angela $300 #117525
Danimal $10 #117487
Chris S $30 #117528
Thomas $30 #117530
Rob $30
Uli $10 #117553
Mike $50 #117573
Richard H $50 #117557
Mark Stevenson $50 #117570
Joe Segur $300 #117581
Thomas $30 #117603
Chris S $20 #117610
Julie $20
Bernie Vine $50 #117622
Rob $21
Eyrie $30 #117652
Zapped $10 #117653
Mark Stevenson $50 #117650
Placeholder Donna $10
James Sotherden $25 #117691
MJS $200 #117707
Total $1,326

GPUUG
Jason_Gee $200
MJS $200
Mr Kevvy $200
Graham Middleton $150
Eric $342 #117688
MSattler $205
andybutt $100 $117696

Total $1.397

So the Raccoon Lovers get the additional $300


Which means their bid was $1,626.

IF AND ONLY IF the total Raccoon Lovers bid is $1626 as I can't get an answer then I pledge $430. Otherwise if it's $1326 I leave my bid at $200.


I added $230 to my $200 initial bid. $1,397 + $230 = $1,627, $1 ahead.
I think Mark understood. I never saw the conditions on that $300 bid which is why I covered in case it was valid. I was on a tablet at a friend's place... can't exactly read all those pages.

Anyways, I've made my point and will abide by whatever decision is agreed on. If it goes to Raccoon Lovers although that's $430 less from me for SAH I've still earmarked a bunch for Green Bank for this year (hope I hear back finally on it) so no loss.

If there is no agreement then I think Dr. Korpela should be the ultimate arbiter.
2579) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421621)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What changed?

Nothing except no one understood the way it was supposed to work
Because you DIDN'T increase your bid the $300 went to The Raccoons
But your intention was for GPUUG to win!!


I'm even more confused now. My team is GPUUG. I bid on GPUUG originally. There should be no ambiguity who I intended the pledges for.

Anyway it should be clear to the "officials". I gotta sign off now.
2580) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421609)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mark reread Mr Kevvy's post. He stated he would pledge an additional $230 if the Raccoon Lovers bid included the $300 from petri33. It did not.
Sorry pal, get used to crunching for the Raccoon Lovers.


Confused. Your last totals:

GPUUG $1397
Raccoon Lovers $1326
Dutch Power Cows $500

So without the $300 petri33 pledge that you indicated wasn't included, GPUUG was in the lead. What changed?

Edit: Heading home and AFK for a couple of hours... I'll check in when I get there.
2581) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421599)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
IF AND ONLY IF the total Raccoon Lovers bid is $1626 as I can't get an answer then I pledge $430. Otherwise if it's $1326 I leave my bid at $200.

And, by cracky, you made it just under the 20;22 deadline.......just barely.

You were playing it mighty close to the wire there, kid.


The Raccoon Lovers pledged $1326


Excellent... let's make the results and totals owing official so I can pay up, and thanks. :^)

As Mr Kevvy did not state where the bid was for I was totally confused.


Sorry... didn't mean to throw anyone off. Posting from a friend's place on their computer and was in a bit of a rush. It was a change of an existing bid for GPUUG and I'm a GPUUG member in my profile so thought it was obvious.
2582) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421590)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

Unless I missing a last minute bid...


I think you may have.
2583) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421584)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
IF AND ONLY IF the total Raccoon Lovers bid is $1626 as I can't get an answer then I pledge $430. Otherwise if it's $1326 I leave my bid at $200.
2584) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421575)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

GPUUG $1397
Raccoon Lovers $1326
Dutch Power Cows $500

These do not include petri33 $300 pledge for the second place team.


So Raccoon Lovers is $1626 or $1326?
2585) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421564)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Patience Grasshopper, Patience.

The time is not yet up...


And this is the point... Bids can still be modified. Totals please.

You wanna bid once more in the next 10 seconds or not?


21 minutes actually...
2586) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421548)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What are the totals? Getting confused by some of the bids and unsure. Thanks.
2587) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420697)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'll up my pledge/bid by $100 to $200 bringing GPUUG to $750, but I'm hoping some of my teammates can step up or we're going to lose this.
2588) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419934)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks.

OK, I'm pledging $100 towards GPUUG, paid if and when GPUUG wins the bidding. Please message me at this point; I'm not around much these days.
2589) Message boards : Number crunching : Sorry wingpersons, cruncher died for good (Message 1419932)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That cooler has a 2 year warranty, my friend.
I'd contact the manufacturer and push the issue to see if you can get them to foot the bill for the destroyed components.


I went through several hundred receipts and couldn't find the one for the cooler. Ah well. On the positive side, I'd been planning on going through them for a while as about 2/3 are in the to-shred bin, so that's out of the way.

Sorry to hear it.
How come you did not use air?


Air? That's so... 1990's, so... reliable. C'mon, nothing cools a hot piece of tech like throwing liquid on it. Then it never works again, and so it's always at ambient temperature. Mission accomplished I'd say.
2590) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419931)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What are the totals so far by team?
2591) Message boards : Number crunching : Sorry wingpersons, cruncher died for good (Message 1419070)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
BeaterCruncher4 is no more and its work units will time out.

As with other bad things in life, a positive lesson can come out of it. The lesson learned here is never buy CoolIT CPU coolers. Too bad I didn't read these reviews first; as happened to so many others, after less than a year, more like half a year, the cooler suddenly leaked its complete load of coolant all over the CPU, motherboard and video card. They're all fried. So, I'm not even bothering to fix this, and will just use what's left as spare parts.
2592) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419060)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How long is the duration that you crunch for the winner?

If I were to win, I'd like to keep you on GPUUG of course, but crunching for me (ie attaching your crunchers to my account with my weak account key.) Just had a cruncher die badly so that would take the edge off. :^)

Thanks!
2593) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI Hardware Fundraisers: 2013 The Year of the Servers (Message 1398094)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What would it take to enable caches to be made large enough to get through the weekly outage again? And large enough to cover a day or two of down time?
A four day cache would be ideal- large enough to get through a long weekend outage & not require the staff to intervene during the break to keep crunchers crunching.


Unfortunately, nothing that we could fix... as far as I know it wasn't a storage/hardware limitation but instead was imposed due to some hosts filling the database with ghosted workunits. I know they're aware of the ever-present requests to enlarge the cache... don't know if it can be done without causing the same problems to reoccur.

I'd like to see the limits increased as well, but then one of my cheapo crunchers needing a reboot flips out and errors out every WU in its cache so I can understand why the limit is there. :^)
2594) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI Hardware Fundraisers: 2013 The Year of the Servers (Message 1398066)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unfortunately, it appears that Brad/Slavac isn't going to be returning. So, his roles will be distributed amongst other GPUUG members.

I've unofficially picked up a couple of them... I've been communicating with the SAH team regarding fundraising requirements, due to my interest in doing another matching-fundraiser weekend to get the Green Bank project operational ASAP, and since there have been some changes to the GPUUG site I think the info on recent updates should be passed on...

---

The project for the Upload / Download / NTPCKR servers has been removed from the GPUUG site as they are no longer required. In addition to numerous other benefits provided by the recent move to the colocation facility, there is now sufficient hardware to perform these functions. NTPCKR is, as far as I know, still in the development phase, which is why the existing data is not accessible, but when it goes public there should also be sufficient hardware to get it going. If not, the SAH team should certainly pass on any requirements for it.

The donations to GPUUG for the servers will be applied to a future project or to the "General Donation to The GPU Users Group" fund, which is used for emergency requirements such as hardware to repair server breakdowns. If you were a donor to the server project and wish to choose where your funds are directed, please advise and I will pass on the info.

As far as (near) future fundraising goes, the SAH team is working out the requirements. Right now, it appears as though (finally!) there is enough hardware in Berkeley to keep everyone's crunchers happy with work and handle the incoming data from Arecibo. The focus is therefore to get the Green Bank project up and running. The previous fundraiser's goal to buy hard drives et al for this has been put to good use. The SAH team released some preliminary Green Bank results in February. So, to those that donated, soon we should be seeing some actual work units from this!

It would appear that what is currently required to finalize Green Bank, with sufficient capacity to provide us with enough work, is a spectrometer array for processing the signals so that they can be analyzed and eventually divvied up into work units. At first it looked like this would require about 8 cores worth of machines plus GPUs to be purchased, but this requirement may have been mostly fulfilled with machines donated from another project.

So, we're (unofficially!) currently looking at only needing about 8 GPUs worth of compute requirement at the Green Bank site to get the project underway. This would be ideal for a matching weekend fundraiser.

---

I'm going to try to update this thread as things progress. It isn't pinned anymore, so this will also prevent it from getting locked again due to inactivity!

If anyone has any inquiries, I'll try to answer them as best as I can, or pass them on. The site admin. (Deltoid) just left for vacation so I can't promise promptness. :^)
2595) Message boards : Politics : Famous Atheists (Message 1374503)
Posted 31 May 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Apples and oranges.

BIG difference between Atheists and Jews. One believes, the other does not.

How would you feel if someone said something supporting Mr. Kevvy, and an overwhelming majority stated they disagree?


Sugar coat it however you like, you are still wrong. And your point is ridiculous, as Jews don't believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, which is why they were persecuted for hundreds of years and hounded out of "Christian" countries all over the world, and eventually into gas chambers.

[Edited to tone it down.]

It was a mistake visiting this forum, so I'll undo that now and won't see your reply.
2596) Message boards : Politics : Famous Atheists (Message 1374493)
Posted 31 May 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I am rather tired right now,
But I am sure there is somebody that could start a thread about 'Famous believers'
And kids.....we outnumber you both in quantity and quality.


See! Billions and Billions and Billions of atheists! (At least that's the impression you atheists are trying to create in order to fool more and more low information voters.)


No wonder I usually just lurk in this forum and don't post. The hatred, vitriol and out-and-out bigotry here is appalling. You should both be ashamed of yourselves.

If you want to understand why, let's change it up a bit. Imagine that Steve started a thread called "Famous Jews", and I replied with nothing more than a link to the "Celeb Jews" site... I didn't even say that I was Jewish! And you replied with:

I am rather tired right now,
But I am sure there is somebody that could start a thread about 'Famous Christians'
And kids.....we outnumber you both in quantity and quality.


See! Billions and Billions and Billions of Jews! (At least that's the impression you Jews are trying to create in order to fool more and more low information voters.)


How do you feel about your words now?

It sucks to be a member of the last religious group that people think it's OK to be openly bigoted and hateful against, I can tell you.

I think I'll lurk elsewhere.

Edit: P.S. Both of those lists are missing Dr. Eric Korpela and probably others on the SETI@Home team. Are they not "quality" people too?
2597) Message boards : Politics : Famous Atheists (Message 1373203)
Posted 30 May 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
{/lurk}

I'll just leave this here.

{lurk}
2598) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Near Time Persistency Checker (Message 1372502)
Posted 27 May 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I understand that it is something that costs money/people and that there is unlimited fundage, and that is an obvious valid issue.


Unlimited funds would be nice. :^) Take it that was "limited".

There is a GPUUG project to raise funds for a dedicated 24/7 public NTPCKR. I did a weekend fundraiser a while ago that was very successful, so have been trying to find out from the SAH team if they need this, or any other hardware to get the Kepler survey at Green Bank going, which I've earmarked funds for to do another weekend fundraiser or equivalent, but so far I've been waiting a few months to find out.

What I (think I) know thus far:

1) Things are up in the air since the colo move, and the staff are very busy. Things should settle down soon and we'll know what's required.

2) The private NTPCKR is thus because the code isn't completely functional enough to call it production for public viewing. Once it's completed we should start seeing it again.
2599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1365198)
Posted 6 May 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't understand why they would even want to install Windows 7. My Windows is 91 versions more up to date!
2600) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The Tunguska Event in June 1908 (Message 1365125)
Posted 6 May 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks. :^)

Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy blog published a nice piece on this today: Have Tunguska Meteorites Been Found? I Have My Doubts. Definitely worth reading.
2601) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The Tunguska Event in June 1908 (Message 1364937)
Posted 5 May 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This is widely regarded as a meteorite exploding in the air before hitting the ground.


I think that the consensus among astronomers is that it was a piece of a comet. Comets are mostly made of ices... frozen water, methane etc. When they hit earth's atmosphere, the water and other ices turn into superheated steam causing a steam explosion, and of course flammable methane would then explosively react with the oxygen in the atmosphere. There would be little to no residue and a very small (considering the size of the explosion) or no impact crater.

This fits what happened at Tunguska best, and as a bonus satisfies Occam's Razor. :^)
2602) Message boards : Number crunching : I was having a problem w/gpu downclocks while doing S@H wu's[solved] (Message 1360685)
Posted 24 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've occasionally had a card downclock to 405MHz even after I solved the overheating issue; was able to get it to stop doing this by reinstalling the drivers using the clean install option.

And I wouldn't run a card 24/7 over 70C either unless it's an old one you can do without.
2603) Message boards : Number crunching : AVG is flagging AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_NV_r1761.exe (Message 1359853)
Posted 22 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
AVG gave false positives before too.
I would use some another scanner, like Avira or NOD32 or DrWEB.
Also you could upload this binary to online service and check with few dozens different antiviruses available there.
Until that I will not bother to check. I refused to use AVG long ago.


Yup, I linked to VirusTotal's results in the OP... no detections, even from AVG's main engine. But I think it's still better to have this info posted so it's a known issue.
2604) Message boards : Number crunching : AVG is flagging AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_NV_r1761.exe (Message 1359812)
Posted 22 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
mm no prob's here with AVG I noticed it says reboot to finish action !! AVG hadn't just done a update did it just before it flaged it ?????


I think it means by that because it's a running process that it needs a reboot to remove or quarantine it.

Always exclude the entire BOINC data directory from scanning, that keeps all problems regarding AV away.


I'm sure the developers are trustworthy, but what if their compilers are compromised, for example? (Yes, this has happened.)
2605) Message boards : Number crunching : AVG is flagging AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_NV_r1761.exe (Message 1359803)
Posted 22 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:


Using Lunatics platform. The module catching this is Identity Protection. Unfortunately there are no details provided. (The field cut off on the right edge just says "File or folder" as the object type, not what is triggering the detection.)

I ensured it wasn't quarantined, yet I can no longer find this file at the location indicated, but instead in the oldApp_backup subfolder. For some reason the C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu has become read-only.

I ran it through VirusTotal after re-extracting it from the original download archive, verified it has the same hash as the one in oldApp_backup, and it came up clean with 0/46. So it's probably a false positive.
2606) Message boards : SETI@home Science : 3 earth like planets discovered. (Message 1358211)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Awesome! Three more good candidates for the Green Bank project to look at... er... when it finally gets going more than a preliminary search. :^)
2607) Message boards : Number crunching : Win 7 update bomb... (Message 1357014)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Linux has been very successful... just not on the place it was expected to be: desktops. But you may have heard of this variant of it called "Android" among others. :^)
2608) Message boards : Number crunching : Win 7 update bomb... (Message 1356571)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fastest / lowest-impact way of getting rid of the bad update on Vista/7/8/2008/2012 (not XP):

Open a command prompt (CMD in the program name if you can't find it; admin. privileges required obviously) Then type in or paste:

wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:2823324 /quiet /norestart

Press Enter and you're done. Could be turned into a tiny .BAT of course too.
2609) Message boards : News : Server Relocation (Message 1356562)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Also perhaps the fora name of Number Crunching should be changed to Number Crunching & Assistance.


The "Politics" forum would also benefit from being renamed to "Politics and Religion" as this is where the threads on the latter either start or get moved to. Most forums have them clumped like this as they are the inflammatory subjects that need constant watch from the moderators.
2610) Message boards : News : Server Relocation (Message 1353236)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
... 900+ kBps...


Fixed that for ya. :^)

Mine also going, oh, about a hundred times the speed. I'd say the move was worth it!
2611) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Where is THIS Seti's science ? (Message 1351966)
Posted 29 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've been trying to start a fundraiser for whatever hardware would be required to get the Green Bank project going (there was some data collection and analysis but it wasn't distributed to us so was very small-scale and preliminary.) So far, I've never had to work so hard to give money away. :^) Things are in transition so I'll have to sit tight until they settle down.

What I'd really like to do, though: The GPUUG upload/download servers which also include NTPCKR are just about $19K away. I could definitely commit $5K to a matching fundraiser once they are closer to $15K. It would have to be a 2-for-1 ie for every $2 donated I would donate $1... just a poor working IT man. :^)

But before I ponied up that kind of change, I would need assurance that it would be put to use, ie that NTPCKR would run 24/7 and also be run on all the years of archival data, and of course that the results would be used! Once the project is settled into its new home, I'll see if that can happen. I'm not interested in just chucking results in a database to collect dust either, and although I love astronomy and all the science, that isn't the primary reason that I'm here. I think that the assurance would go a long way to keeping many of the volunteers on the project as well, never mind just my donation.
2612) Message boards : Number crunching : All this work...nothing to show.... (Message 1351780)
Posted 29 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This thread is along the same lines.
2613) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Planck results (Message 1351566)
Posted 28 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Gravitational lensing has been observed. Indeed, it has become an important tool in the astronomer's kit-bag.


Ah... I knew there was one I was missing from gravitational redshift, time dilation, the equivalence principle and relativistic frame-dragging, all predicted by G.R. and confirmed by observation (some of which to a high degree of accuracy.)
2614) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Planck results (Message 1350830)
Posted 26 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You can start by watching the following:


Doesn't really lead anywhere. His main point is that Einstein's field equations are a one-body solution, but the universe isn't one-body, so therefore they don't work. He doesn't explain why they don't. You can determine the gravitational attraction of a single mass in G.R. because it is a factor of the curvature of spacetime, without needing a second unit mass to pull against as Newton's gravity does.

He's also forgetting the ample confirmation that Einstein's field equations do work. Attempting to disprove General Relativity mathematically is all well and good, but it has so far passed every test that has been thrown at it (ie gravitational redshift, time dilation, the equivalence principle, relativistic frame-dragging.) If he has a good point, he should publish and be subjected to peer review, also explaining why experiments that confirmed G. R. are wrong, or how his hypothesis could explain them better. This is how science is done, not by making YouTube videos.

He does have a point about black holes though: they don't *really* happen, and I'd better qualify a blanket statement like that... there's nothing wrong with the General Relativity behind them, rather, there's a component of General Relativity itself that scientists who discuss black holes always overlook for simplicity's sake: gravitational time dilation!

Here's the not-too-difficult equation for gravitational time dilation:



r0 is the Schwarzchild radius of the body, at which point the escape velocity becomes c, the speed of light, r is the radius of the body (the collapsing star in this case), t0 is the passage of time within the star and tf is time outside. The important component of the equation is the last one. As the star collapses, r approaches r0 so the fraction approaches 1, and thus t0 approaches zero, asymptotically. Why asymptotically? Because t0 is the passage of time within the star, which is approaching zero.

So, seen from the outside, a collapsing star would *appear* to form a black hole. As it collapsed, it would appear to do so more and more slowly, and get redder and dimmer until it was invisible, at progressively lower frequencies until it was completely undetectable by emission. It would be a tiny fraction away from being inside its own event horizon/Schwarzchild radius, but to actually get there would take an infinite amount of time. It would have all of the properties associated with a black hole by being a few billionths or so of a part away from actually being one, but it could never actually get there for an outside observer. The only way to even to try see it get there would be to jump into one! The observer (assuming they weren't instantly ripped to pieces by the tidal forces) would catch up to the timeframe of the collapsing star, which then could be seen to enter its own Schwarzchild radius. By doing this, an eternity would then pass outside and the universe would end! So it may not be possible at all. Do primordial true black holes exist? I'm not sure. But the math is pretty clear that point masses and infinite gravitational densities can't form, at least while we are watching!

Because of this effect, the astrophysicist George Greenstein proposed that black holes be called "frozen stars" instead.

So, it turns out both "sides" are correct. Black holes do exist as collapsed stars where the escape velocity is 99.9...% of c (and you can pile as many 9s after that as you like), the emission of photons is an undetectable few per year (also approaching zero as time passes) and all the other properties assigned to and confirmed through observation from black holes are there (gravitational lensing, jets, emissions of X-rays from matter pulled into it, etc.) as well as the (asymptotic) approach of infinite density and gravitational field strength, but they don't exist insofar as we can never have enough time to actually get to that last tiny fraction of completeness, never mind infinite density!

I hope this puts the "controversy" to rest but I doubt it will. ;^)
2615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : LOL...here's a true whiskey lover. (Message 1349675)
Posted 23 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
At least he drank it in moderation...

2616) Message boards : News : Server Relocation (Message 1349224)
Posted 21 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If I remember correctly the original announcement about the possibility of making this move, it would allow for more bandwidth for downloads (I could be wrong).


I hope so... there ends up being even more traffic if there isn't enough bandwidth due to all the retries (ie uploads don't resume.) That would be a great improvement and well worth the outage.
2617) Message boards : News : Server Relocation (Message 1349125)
Posted 21 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Let Einstein have a burst. Just put it on NNT after one work request.


I just set it to a resource share of zero. Then it only grabs work units when SAH doesn't have anything to do for either CPU or GPU. Sometimes E@H is a little too generous on the CPU side but the GPU side units will only download one at a time like this, and never if SAH has one ready.
2618) Message boards : Number crunching : Limits and 19/20 March Outage (Message 1348701)
Posted 20 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Whatever was done last night, I had a load of downloads in queue at 17h00 PDT and although the upload server went offline, the downloads stayed going for hours and they all completed. So no complaints here. :^) That was an unexpected bonus.
2619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SHGb02+14a (Message 1348478)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Google is your friend. :^)
2620) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Where is THIS Seti's science ? (Message 1348151)
Posted 18 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
At least one member doesn't even believe that life in any form exists off of Earth.


Depending on your definition, I don't either (was I that one? I doubt it.) To "believe" it, is to be able to answer the question "Is there extraterrestrial life?" with a definite "Yes."

Although it seems likely there is something else out there given the number of worlds, the isotropy of the universe and the confirmed uniformity of physical and chemical laws throughout, it's not scientific to pretend to information we don't have. So my honest answer would be that it's very possible, and I'm happy to help with the search, but we just don't know yet.

Definite answers without evidence is the realm of religion, not science. And, being uncommitted to certainty avoids dogmatism and disappointment should we not find anything. I want to know, not believe.
2621) Message boards : Number crunching : upgrading to 7.0.56 (Message 1347937)
Posted 18 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Richard, what benefits would 7.0.56 give over 7.0.28?


There's a bug in 7.0.28 where it doesn't identify GPUs that are suitable for OpenCL AstroPulse. I have one box formerly on 7.0.28 that would consistently download an OpenCL unit, then report that there were no available compatible GPUs and abort it, then download it again, ad infinitum. 7.0.56 fixed this, so this is one reason to use it.

Also 7.0.56 seems to have fixed the bug in earlier RCs where it would abort CUDA units after a few seconds indicating that they were taking too long! So far, it seems good.
2622) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Where is THIS Seti's science ? (Message 1347482)
Posted 16 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
eric's hydrogen project is about all the science getting done...but this is seti at home...not hydrogen clouds at home. the web page says the project is for looking for signals from et. that has been missing for a long long time.


I can live with this, and with Astropulse (and I make sure to do as many Astropulse work units as I can by enabling CUDA AP on all the machines that support it) as these two projects are paying the bills and keeping the SETI part of the project going. It's always been difficult for SETI to obtain funding, so if "traditional" radio astronomy can be run on the same infrastructure, it will enable the SETI. Even if the results are just going in the database *for now* at least they are being recorded.

Eventually one of us will win the lottery and then we get enough NTPCKR horsepower to run through the billion archived results as well as keeping up with the incoming. Either that or Paul Allen happens by. :^)
2623) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : God of the Gaps? (Message 1346569)
Posted 14 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You can lead an atheist to evidence, but you can't make him think...


Yeah. Crick, Einstein, Feynman, Gates, Sagan, Weinberg... unthinking boneheads all.

The reason you get banished isn't because "socialist don't understand free speech", but because you insult people... even in your signature. It's called ad hominem. I'm sure you already know that.
2624) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : God of the Gaps? (Message 1346552)
Posted 14 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
impossible, they are millions and millions out there in the universe !


We don't know that. Given the number of possible inhabited worlds, it's unlikely, but we may be the first. Someone has to be first, right?

It's more productive to search for evidence than speculate. Leads to fewer arguments too. ;^)
2625) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : God of the Gaps? (Message 1346540)
Posted 14 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Over 40 years and no ET


Over two thousand and no second coming either. Difference is, I can admit there may be nothing out there.
2626) Message boards : Number crunching : Please rise the limits... just a little... (Message 1346309)
Posted 13 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
For those of us who think visually... :^)

2627) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows TCP Settings - Follow up - Help with server communication (Message 1345315)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another happy customer for the Tcp1323Opts registry fix. Gave it a try and it seems to have fixed the download issues. Of course, I didn't get any AP units after I tried it but things were so bad even the 300Kb non-AP ones were timing out. Not one timeout after the fix, and the affected host has been getting two minute CUDA shorties so has been constantly downloading since then.
2628) Message boards : Number crunching : Fingers gettin sore and calloused? (Message 1343472)
Posted 6 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Read the thread - the whole thread.

It's gone beyond MTU, and into a discussion of RFC 1323, window scaling and timestamps. Timestamp enabling, or not, might well be the difference between your two rigs.


OK... this would explain why MTU wasn't affecting it. I will give it a read (when not so busy!) and thanks. :^)
2629) Message boards : Number crunching : Fingers gettin sore and calloused? (Message 1343461)
Posted 6 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Or read the adjacent Windows TCP settings thread.


I know of the MTU issue but I'd rather not mess with TCP settings. I have complex networking things on the affected rig and I'd prefer not to break them. Also another rig with the same default MTU and same OS seems to download just fine for some reason.
2630) Message boards : Number crunching : Fingers gettin sore and calloused? (Message 1343458)
Posted 6 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I use TinyTask. It's a simple mouse record/playback that can be configured in a few seconds. Only caveat is ensure the BOINC window is in the same place on playback. The recording can be saved. I just disable and enable network, let it sit for a minute and then stop the recording, choose 9999 reiterations and let it run. It will run once a minute and in a few hours all the downloads are usually done and I can turn it off.
2631) Message boards : Number crunching : My American Friends !!! (Message 1343271)
Posted 5 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Cool... Canadians not mentioned. The disable/enable of network connections shall continue, eh!
2632) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@HOME -- A Victim of it's Own Success?!? (Message 1342671)
Posted 3 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have been running SETI@home for over 13 years. I am unemployed. I have a hard time paying for my internet service. After what I have read here about donations, I amd quitting the project.


The quote I linked was:

"It is the greatest mistake to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can."
--- Sidney Smith

So, hope you can stick around and do what you can. Every little bit helps.
2633) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@HOME -- A Victim of it's Own Success?!? (Message 1342074)
Posted 1 Mar 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I started my 84 cents a month fundraiser to appeal to folks that think they cannot make a difference by donating a small amount to the project.


Something possibly sig-worthy along this line. :^) That whole site is sig-worthy.

Hope they finally get back to me on what's needed for the next fundraiser... been waiting for months.
2634) Message boards : Number crunching : Fundraising Ideas (Message 1341651)
Posted 28 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A quick read of GPUUG past projects will show that quite a lot has been done... one man show is better then none, right? :^)

Also the current issues with failing downloads are due to bandwidth, so the new servers haven't helped. I can live with that. What I can't live with it all our results sitting unused and unanalyzed, so I think it's a high priority to get NTPCKR running constantly and the archived results looked at... who knows what's in those dozen years' of findings.
2635) Message boards : Number crunching : Fundraising Ideas (Message 1341437)
Posted 27 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
GPUUG (GPU Users' Group) is currently fundraising for a combination upload/download/NTPCKR server. It's currently over $19K away from goal, only just over $1K raised, so that would be ideal. It's also tax-deductible (for you at least... not me. I have to donate through the SAH page but I'm quite happy that that is a tax writeoff for Canadians.)

If I can ever find out what's required for the Green Bank Project I'd like to have a fundraiser, probably a weekend for that. But if nothing needed, I might kick in for this server package... it's badly needed as the downloads are swamped and NTPCKR isn't being run enough, as you noted.
2636) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@HOME -- A Victim of it's Own Success?!? (Message 1341322)
Posted 27 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fourteen years later, I think we can trust 8-bit data ;). In theory, the MB application is fully compatible with the 8-bit binary data format used by AP files: some months ago, Eric put a test of this theory on his ever-lengthening Beta 'to-do' list. If that works out, a simple change to the splitter configuration will allow the generation of smaller (denser) data files, without any extra compression/decompression stages - that way, we get almost the same benefit as compression, practically for free. But we do have to find time to test it first...


Nice... had no idea they were using 6-bit characters. If there is a time to make the change, this would be it: the AP units are apparently having a "shorty storm" that's plugging up the bandwidth and aborting downloads for everyone, and it doesn't seem to be going away.
2637) Message boards : Number crunching : Transfers stalled and the click retry and there's instant BW, why is this...? (Message 1340675)
Posted 25 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Seems that what's ruining it for me is the Astropulse work units. They are so large that they inevitably time out 1-2% in to the download. Their time is estimate is also ridiculous... for me they show 159 hours, but they take about 1-2% of that to complete! So, since the BOINC client thinks there's enough GPU work it won't request it for any other projects, and the GPUs sit idle.

So much for my wanting to get GPU Astropulse running. :^p I've just babysat two GPU AP downloads turning off/on network connectivity about twenty times in twenty minutes to restart it and have yet to complete one...
2638) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics NVidia OpenCL AstroPulse 6.04 not getting tasks (Message 1339713)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Oh, I can misread just about anything. ;^)
2639) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics NVidia OpenCL AstroPulse 6.04 not getting tasks (Message 1339653)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Did you add an entry for AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_NV_r1761 in your app_info.xml file?


That was it. I re-read the directions and realized that they made it sound that the entry could be put into ap_cmdline.txt instead (which I preferred as was afraid of messing up app_info) but that was for the parameters only... heh. Finally downloading some 6.04 work. Haven't run any yet but I bet it will work. :^)

Thanks!
2640) Message boards : Number crunching : NVidea GPU doesn't support openCL message; missing GPU (Message 1339546)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Try upgrading to the latest beta version which also has a lot of other fixes and see if that fixes the problem


I tried 7.0.52 to fix the problem in my other thread where I don't get AstroPulse 6.04 OpenCL work. Immediately, all my CUDA 6.10 tasks started aborting after a few minutes saying they were taking too long. As soon as I reinstalled 7.0.38 they all started completing normally.

I copied the event log text to paste in here but it was lost. If this isn't a known issue and it would help, I can reinstall it again to capture the abort text.
2641) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics NVidia OpenCL AstroPulse 6.04 not getting tasks (Message 1339528)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I installed it as follows but don't seem to be getting these tasks. Was getting them running "stock" before installing Lunatics_Win32_v0.40. I followed the directions as best as I could. :^p

1) Downloaded AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_NV_r1761

2) Extracted all files with extensions to the SAH directory, in my case C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu

3) As per AstroPulse_OpenCL_ReadMe.txt, created a file ap_cmdline.txt in this same folder and containing the "For NV GPU" code block from the readme. No need to add it here too.

Did I miss anything? I still only get AP 6.01, SAH 6.03 and CUDA 6.10 WUs as on all my other machines (checked it for days to ensure it wasn't working.) Thanks. :^)
2642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I know, I always ask these quetions nobody wishes or dares to...... (Message 1338643)
Posted 15 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I met my missus at work too. We've been together for sixteen years. We had a not-so-good year in there but we weathered the storm.

I think the workplace is a pretty common meeting place, especially for those who don't like hanging around in bars.
2643) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Where is THIS Seti's science ? (Message 1335580)
Posted 7 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It seems to me that a number of people are willing to drop quite abit of money on high performance hardware for the purpose of crunching more work units, but, if the objective is scientific results, a better use of funds would be contributing to the project for upgraded hardware. I assume part of the reason for investing in your own hardware rather than contributing towards upgrading the project's hardware is that: 1) you'll own the hardware 2) the pursuit of work credits.


Correct... I did run a fundraiser that took in about $4K for hardware for the Green Bank project (which is on track... see the thread on the initial results paper) and I'll probably do another one soon. Money is better spent on the infrastructure as there's no shortage of crunchers, but my primary PC is about six years old and needs an upgrade, so may as well get something good. :^)

I don't think running NTPCKR as as distributed project is viable, as it needs fast, local access to the entire SAH results database, but I could be wrong.
2644) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Possible Signal (Message 1335321)
Posted 7 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The Science status page demonstrates why every signal isn't checked. Currently:

Table	#	Last 24 hours
Spikes	3,604,522,513	1,855,793
Gaussians	590,955,345	206,870
Pulses	1,700,282,859	1,139,935
Triplets	1,547,444,710	790,328
Workunits	1,302,786,897	621,056
Results	1,291,971,534	506,762


There are about two million spikes received daily. Today there are almost four per work unit. Gaussians are a better probability, but almost half of all work units have one. There's just too much to look at. It's computationally infeasible.

The only way to pare them down is to find correlating observations of the same place showing the same result. This is exactly what NTPCKR is supposed to do. And, it was finding them when it was first being implemented, but it doesn't seem to be run nearly as much as it should be. Again, it all comes down to a lack of funding.
2645) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI Hardware Fundraisers: 2013 The Year of the Servers (Message 1335248)
Posted 6 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I was able to get a reply from Brad as I was wondering myself... he's working out of town and offline. He should be back on Friday and will check in then, if not earlier.
2646) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Possible Signal (Message 1335184)
Posted 6 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Maybe, but about 99.9999% of the time, it's going to be something else, ie terrestrial radio or interstellar noise, or even a hoax.

Only way to eliminate those is through reobservation, preferably from multiple receivers spaced widely enough to show parallax if the source is close.
2647) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Where is THIS Seti's science ? (Message 1334947)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There are quite a few PhDs involved with the project; I think that their other academic responsibilities take up most of their time. It's true that the NTPCKR system hasn't been used as much as it should have been... hardly. I think that this is because it is integrated with the upload/download servers that are badly in need of an upgrade, however if I remember correctly GPUUG contributed a NTPCKR server and it's usually inactive. There's a GPUUG fundraiser to get a new upload/download/NTPCKR server which will (we hope) run all the time. But it's going to need $20K and only about 3% of this has been raised.

The problem always has been, and continues to be, that SETI is poorly funded worldwide and this project runs on a shoestring budget, which leaves it vulnerable to outages and means there isn't enough processing of the results. Remember the WOW signal that everyone still makes a fuss over and even celebrates the anniversary of? This was a one-off, with no audio, never confirmed by any other location or by re-observation. In other words, I'd bet there are a hundred, if not a thousand signals somewhere in billion-plus SETI@Home results database that far exceed the WOW signal.

I just dropped two grand on a new cruncher to be starting up soon (I hope) but my investment is only minor compared to that of others. For example, msattler has probably twenty grand worth of computers and pays a few hundred a month in electricity bills. It would be beyond a shame if this was all going to waste. Considering the importance that it would have to all of humanity and the future of our species if a confirmed extraterrestrial intelligence was discovered, it's even more of a shame that SETI programs have everywhere been blocked, marginalized, defunded and deprioritized.

So, I will have to make up for this however I can. This project isn't perfect or optimal, but it's the best we have right now, so I keep at it.
2648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi Gang! (Message 1332903)
Posted 30 Jan 2013 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Can I get a spritzer or coffee?




That sufficiently capitalist for ya? ;^)

And welcome back.
2649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Requests for donations from Seti@home (Message 1300757)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Uli pointed out to me several weeks ago that my green star had lapsed. Eric said the GPU donations were still being processed. I'm green really. I swear it.


I can vouch for you, as you contributed to my fundraiser a couple of weeks ago. :^) If it was through GPUUG that could explain why it wasn't updated.

The kitties are waiting for their last GPUUG donation to be updated as well, or their little green start will dim in about 20 days....


And you contributed too!

Thanks again to both of you.
2650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296628)
Posted 18 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
That is a Citrus Reamer.





Excellent work.
2651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296558)
Posted 18 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Nope x 4. :^)

(Just so you don't think I've wandered off and forgotten this thread.)
2652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296418)
Posted 18 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Don't let appearances fool you... this really is a kitchen tool. What could it be? Exact wording please. :^)

2653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296412)
Posted 18 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Can You be more specific? Please.


Potato peeler?
2654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296401)
Posted 17 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Vegetable peeler?

(Can't be that easy...)
2655) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : The Code (Message 1295743)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just watched the first two of the series, probably see # 3 tonight.

# 1 - Numbers was alright, maybe even good, but # 2 - Shapes was among the best science(ish) shows I've ever seen.

Even just for that episode alone I'd recommend the series.
2656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What is "(banished: ID 421968)" (Message 1294204)
Posted 12 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Oh, and in 3 weeks, it was wonderful to see the PMs from those who missed me......NONE.


Didn't know it was possible to PM someone in that state, as I was going to say thanks for kicking in for the Green Bank fundraiser even being in... er... that state. :^)

Here's to not being in it.
2657) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti at home takes a lot of power (Message 1292838)
Posted 8 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another reason I'm glad I rent instead of own: included unmetered electricity (and hot/cold water.)
2658) Message boards : Number crunching : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1292666)
Posted 8 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What can I say... this fundraising weekend has completely exceeded my expectations.

I expected that maybe we'd collect $930 for the Green Bank Data Transport package in three days. Instead, that was collected in only a few hours, and we've taken in...

$3419.43

Not only was the Green Bank Package taken care of completely by donors without me having to match donations, but we're only a few hundred from also getting the Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage System, and it isn't even Monday yet! This would leave me nothing to kick in for.

The original promise was that I would match contributions up to $930, half of the original amount required for the Green Bank Package. Even though far less than this is now required, I would be doing a disservice to this awesomely generous community if I did any less, so...

Thank you for your gift of $930.00 via Visa on 10/07/2012.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $930.00

Your confirmation number is:
98420


Any excess funds donated through GPUUG can be put to work on the next project by Slavac, who I'd like to thank for doing an amazing and diligent job tracking all the donations while I was busy with other things this weekend.

Thank you again to everyone who donated!
2659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1292665)
Posted 8 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What can I say... this fundraising weekend has completely exceeded my expectations.

I expected that maybe we'd collect $930 for the Green Bank Data Transport package in three days. Instead, that was collected in only a few hours, and we've taken in...

$3419.43

Not only was the Green Bank Package taken care of completely by donors without me having to match donations, but we're only a few hundred from also getting the Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage System, and it isn't even Monday yet! This would leave me nothing to kick in for.

The original promise was that I would match contributions up to $930, half of the original amount required for the Green Bank Package. Even though far less than this is now required, I would be doing a disservice to this awesomely generous community if I did any less, so...

Thank you for your gift of $930.00 via Visa on 10/07/2012.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $930.00

Your confirmation number is:
98420


Any excess funds donated through GPUUG can be put to work on the next project by Slavac, who I'd like to thank for doing an amazing and diligent job tracking all the donations while I was busy with other things this weekend.

Thank you again to everyone who donated!
2660) Message boards : Number crunching : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1292107)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Totals thus far:

$1644.43 donated through GPUUG
$330 donated through Berkeley

Total: $1974.43

We've already overshot the total $1860 by $174 and I haven't had to donate anything yet!

So, anything over $1860 is going to this project: The Hydrogen Survey / SETI Storage Array
Please use that link to donate from now on for donations through GPUUG! If you're donating through the Berkeley donation page in the Special instructions or designations for this gift text field, please put HI so that it's earmarked properly.

x 40

This project will obtain 40 2TB drives, 24 for data storage for SETI@Home, saving $12-15 thousand annually in storage costs, and 16 for Dr. Eric Korpela's hydrogen survey project. Currently needs $1775, and I will contribute matching unless, of course, your donations go over 50% again!

Since there's no more to donate to for the Green Bank Data Transport project, I'll be contributing to this one instead. Try to leave me something to do. ;^)
2661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1292105)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Totals thus far:

$1644.43 donated through GPUUG
$330 donated through Berkeley

Total: $1974.43

We've already overshot the total $1860 by $174 and I haven't had to donate anything yet!

So, anything over $1860 is going to this project: The Hydrogen Survey / SETI Storage Array
Please use that link to donate from now on for donations through GPUUG! If you're donating through the Berkeley donation page in the Special instructions or designations for this gift text field, please put HI so that it's earmarked properly.

x 40

This project will obtain 40 2TB drives, 24 for data storage for SETI@Home, saving $12-15 thousand annually in storage costs, and 16 for Dr. Eric Korpela's hydrogen survey project. Currently needs $1775, and I will contribute matching unless, of course, your donations go over 50% again!

Since there's no more to donate to for the Green Bank Data Transport project, I'll be contributing to this one instead. Try to leave me something to do. ;^)
2662) Message boards : Number crunching : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291917)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Unfortunately not


Well that only makes it all the more impressive.

The goal has been reached, and surpassed.

In only 6 hours, we've gone $100 over requirement... there are some fantastically generous people out there.

Cumulative Donors + Totals.

GamerNetz - $60
MarkJ - $500
Mark S. - $100
Angela Korpela - $100
Minitor - $10
Fred E. - $50
Speedbump - $100
Paul - $50
Geyser - $10
Arvid - $50
-----------------------------------------
Goal for contributions = $930
Total collected for this fundraiser = $1030
Total Over Goal = $100

So if you want to keep donating, as detailed above, it will be only benefitting me by lightening my contribution which currently stands at $1860 - $1030 = $830

I certainly won't complain, but I want to make this clear. I'll keep the original timeline and make my donation Monday night.

Thank you to everyone who donated!
2663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291915)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The goal has been reached, and surpassed.

In only 6 hours, we've gone $100 over requirement... there are some fantastically generous people out there.

Cumulative Donors + Totals.

GamerNetz - $60
MarkJ - $500
Mark S. - $100
Angela Korpela - $100
Minitor - $10
Fred E. - $50
Speedbump - $100
Paul - $50
Geyser - $10
Arvid - $50
-----------------------------------------
Goal for contributions = $930
Total collected for this fundraiser = $1030
Total Over Goal = $100

So if you want to keep donating, as detailed above, it will be only benefitting me by lightening my contribution which currently stands at $1860 - $1030 = $830

I certainly won't complain, but I want to make this clear. I'll keep the original timeline and make my donation Monday night.

Thank you to everyone who donated!
2664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291895)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
MarkJ has just donated $500!

This is utterly amazing! Only $180 more needed and three days to do it in!
2665) Message boards : Number crunching : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291894)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't think I'll let him get away with it. Just donated $500 via GPUUG (donation #605)
Cheers,
MarkJ


That is absolutely staggering and thank you! I hope you can at least write some of that off. :^)

Unbelievable... only a few hours into this (with three days allotted) and we're already 80% done, with only $180 left to raise (and of course, any overage that only I will be thankful for!)
2666) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI Hardware Fundraisers (With Big News Inside) (Message 1291887)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I assume that this helps SETI@Home in some way? Because there is no explanation as to what this does.


Explanation... must-read. New 'scope, new receiver, new project coming online in about 5 months as part of SETI@Home. I'm raising funds for it in the other pinned thread.

Edit: Didn't see this thread had a second page. :^) It's been answered already.
2667) Message boards : Number crunching : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291842)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Angela has contributed $100!

$830 (or more if you want to save me some cash... heh) left to go.
2668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291838)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You just made a payment of
$100.00 USD
Paid to
GPU Users Group, Inc.
gpuugmain@gmail.com


I don't know what to say, except thank you... that is just awesome. :^)

$100 down, $830 left to go, and mere minutes after we started.
2669) Message boards : Number crunching : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291830)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've always wanted to donate more to SETI@Home, but being a Canadian, I didn't think it would be tax-deductible. Amazingly I happened to stumble on this page and found I was incorrect. Yes, donations to SETI@Home are tax-deductible for Canadians if they are made through UC Berkeley.

So, when I later found out that the Green Bank SETI@Home project needs this I was motivated to finally donate.


What's this fundraiser for?

The Green Bank Project is set to start early next year, and will bring a new radio telescope's data online for us to analyze. A new SETI@Home receiver at the Robert C. Byrd telescope at Green Bank (which is, incidentally, one of the largest, if not the largest, movable terrestrial objects ever built) will search for signals from star systems with extrasolar planets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission.

As always, our help is needed to get this underway by providing one of the critical components for the project. The terabytes of data collected need to be transported safely to SETI@Home's Berkeley Space Sciences Lab for processing and distribution to us to analyze. Due to the prohibitive cost and/or unavailablity of bandwidth at this location preventing using the internet for this, we need the Green Bank Data Transport Package, an array of 20 x 2 Terabyte hard drives, and a rugged, waterproof case to transport them in.



Currently, the GPU Users' Group has collected $800 of the $2660 required for this, leaving $1860 left to raise.

In this weekend challenge, I will match other SETI@Home contributors' donations up to half of the required amount minus overage, so that the exact total of $1860 is reached. So, if donations are:

  • $0 to $930, I will contribute the same amount in one donation.
  • >$930, I will contribute $1860 - Donations, so that the total is $1860.



Why is this important?

Firstly, the Green Bank observatory may lose its funding due to proposed cuts. As the SETI@Home team has already booked time there and only a few components of the project are still required, it is vital that the project be able to start on schedule in order not to miss out on any observations. We don't know how long this facility may be available, as although the current proposal is complete defunding in five years, funding may be cut back severely before then. So, let's not waste any time getting started!

Secondly, I think that this project has a proportionately higher chance of succeeding than SETI@Home "classic" for the amount of observations and crunching, given that it is a targeted search, whereas the SETI@Home "classic" recorders perform a semi-random search and go "along for the ride" at whatever Arecibo happens to be observing. It could be listening to "nothing", ie no stars or galaxies or other point radio sources, such as when performing Dr. Korpela's neutral hydrogen survey. It could be listening to an object too far away (which the vast majority are) to receive intelligent signals from, or at a star without planets, or at an object that isn't a star at all... a huge amount of data must be collected and processed to have the hope of any with a possible life-bearing world in it.

In contrast, the Green Bank Project will be a directed search, listening to star systems that are nearby, confirmed to have planets, and whose planets are in the "Goldilocks zone" (not too hot, not too cold) ie the right temperature for liquid water to exist. Whereas Arecibo is a fixed-dish, the Robert C. Byrd telescope can tilt completely on its side, for a far wider field of coverage (120 degrees vs. Arecibo's 40 degrees.) Combined with Green Bank's more northerly latitude, and much larger area of sky coverage, a vast number of stars and their potential planets that were previously unobservable can now be investigated.


How can you contribute?

There are two ways to contribute. The recommended way, unless you are both donating from outside the U.S. and have confirmed that donations to UC Berkeley are tax-deductible is to donate though the GPU Users' Group (GPPUG). GPUUG is registered as a 501(c) charitable foundation, so for U.S. residents, or residents of countries that recognize U.S. charitable foundations, your donation will be completely tax-deductible.
This is the recommended way of donating because GPUUG is able to obtain discounts and specials on hardware purchases.

If, and only if, you are donating from outside the U.S. and donations to UC Berkeley are tax deductible for you (and you would like to take advantage of this) then you should donate to UC Berkeley through the SETI@Home donations page. This is the route I will be taking, as noted above, and I recommend other Canadians also take, as it has been verified that this donation will be fully tax-deductible.
Important info for donations through Berkeley::
1) At the end of the Berkeley donation form there is a text field called Special instructions or designations for this gift. Put GBTP in this field so that the funds are properly earmarked for this project.
2) Post a reply in this thread with your donation's confirmation number and amount so that I can track and update the totals. Slavac of the GPUUG will be updating me on donations made through there.


How long will this challenge last?

It will run from approx. 20h00 EDT on Friday October 8th until 23h59 EDT Monday October 12th. I'll monitor and update the totals as I can, while still trying to visit family and other Thanksgiving things! At the conclusion, I'll make my donation, as detailed above, matching your donations' total from $0 to $930 or making up the difference from $1,860 if you've gone over $930. I'm just a working IT guy in an apartment, so I won't complain about any overage. ;^)

I thank you for any and all contributions... no donation is too big or too small!

2670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291829)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've always wanted to donate more to SETI@Home, but being a Canadian, I didn't think it would be tax-deductible. Amazingly I happened to stumble on this page and found I was incorrect. Yes, donations to SETI@Home are tax-deductible for Canadians if they are made through UC Berkeley.

So, when I later found out that the Green Bank SETI@Home project needs this I was motivated to finally donate.


What's this fundraiser for?

The Green Bank Project is set to start early next year, and will bring a new radio telescope's data online for us to analyze. A new SETI@Home receiver at the Robert C. Byrd telescope at Green Bank (which is, incidentally, one of the largest, if not the largest, movable terrestrial objects ever built) will search for signals from star systems with extrasolar planets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission.

As always, our help is needed to get this underway by providing one of the critical components for the project. The terabytes of data collected need to be transported safely to SETI@Home's Berkeley Space Sciences Lab for processing and distribution to us to analyze. Due to the prohibitive cost and/or unavailablity of bandwidth at this location preventing using the internet for this, we need the Green Bank Data Transport Package, an array of 20 x 2 Terabyte hard drives, and a rugged, waterproof case to transport them in.



Currently, the GPU Users' Group has collected $800 of the $2660 required for this, leaving $1860 left to raise.

In this weekend challenge, I will match other SETI@Home contributors' donations up to half of the required amount minus overage, so that the exact total of $1860 is reached. So, if donations are:

  • $0 to $930, I will contribute the same amount in one donation.
  • >$930, I will contribute $1860 - Donations, so that the total is $1860.



Why is this important?

Firstly, the Green Bank observatory may lose its funding due to proposed cuts. As the SETI@Home team has already booked time there and only a few components of the project are still required, it is vital that the project be able to start on schedule in order not to miss out on any observations. We don't know how long this facility may be available, as although the current proposal is complete defunding in five years, funding may be cut back severely before then. So, let's not waste any time getting started!

Secondly, I think that this project has a proportionately higher chance of succeeding than SETI@Home "classic" for the amount of observations and crunching, given that it is a targeted search, whereas the SETI@Home "classic" recorders perform a semi-random search and go "along for the ride" at whatever Arecibo happens to be observing. It could be listening to "nothing", ie no stars or galaxies or other point radio sources, such as when performing Dr. Korpela's neutral hydrogen survey. It could be listening to an object too far away (which the vast majority are) to receive intelligent signals from, or at a star without planets, or at an object that isn't a star at all... a huge amount of data must be collected and processed to have the hope of any with a possible life-bearing world in it.

In contrast, the Green Bank Project will be a directed search, listening to star systems that are nearby, confirmed to have planets, and whose planets are in the "Goldilocks zone" (not too hot, not too cold) ie the right temperature for liquid water to exist. Whereas Arecibo is a fixed-dish, the Robert C. Byrd telescope can tilt completely on its side, for a far wider field of coverage (120 degrees vs. Arecibo's 40 degrees.) Combined with Green Bank's more northerly latitude, and much larger area of sky coverage, a vast number of stars and their potential planets that were previously unobservable can now be investigated.


How can you contribute?

There are two ways to contribute. The recommended way, unless you are both donating from outside the U.S. and have confirmed that donations to UC Berkeley are tax-deductible is to donate though the GPU Users' Group (GPPUG). GPUUG is registered as a 501(c) charitable foundation, so for U.S. residents, or residents of countries that recognize U.S. charitable foundations, your donation will be completely tax-deductible.
This is the recommended way of donating because GPUUG is able to obtain discounts and specials on hardware purchases.

If, and only if, you are donating from outside the U.S. and donations to UC Berkeley are tax deductible for you (and you would like to take advantage of this) then you should donate to UC Berkeley through the SETI@Home donations page. This is the route I will be taking, as noted above, and I recommend other Canadians also take, as it has been verified that this donation will be fully tax-deductible.
Important info for donations through Berkeley::
1) At the end of the Berkeley donation form there is a text field called Special instructions or designations for this gift. Put GBTP in this field so that the funds are properly earmarked for this project.
2) Post a reply in this thread with your donation's confirmation number and amount so that I can track and update the totals. Slavac of the GPUUG will be updating me on donations made through there.


How long will this challenge last?

It will run from approx. 20h00 EDT on Friday October 8th until 23h59 EDT Monday October 12th. I'll monitor and update the totals as I can, while still trying to visit family and other Thanksgiving things! At the conclusion, I'll make my donation, as detailed above, matching your donations' total from $0 to $930 or making up the difference from $1,860 if you've gone over $930. I'm just a working IT guy in an apartment, so I won't complain about any overage. ;^)

I thank you for any and all contributions... no donation is too big or too small!

2671) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Ancient aliens "scientist" has, in my opinion, lost last trace of credibility (Message 1290756)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He had a trace of credibility to lose?

2672) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload server - disabled ? (Message 1289883)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Seems to be fixed... all my hundreds of queued uploads went through and most of the downloads are working (albeit slowly but the server is getting hammered due to the completed uploads.)

Kudos to whoever went in and fixed this on a weekend (if anyone.) :^)
2673) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Possibly bad news for Green Bank and other U.S. astronomical facilities (Message 1288949)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Another article on this appeared a few days ago. Looks like the recommendation is complete defunding in five years. It's been linked on Slashdot today.

Now why can't the U.S. find money for science, health, infrastructure or anything else? I wonder...

    - Spends more on the military than the rest of the top 15 spenders combined
    - Spends about 4x more on the military than China, but with about 1/4 of the population, so around 16x as much per citizen
    - The U.S. military expenditure is almost half of the entire world's
    - This one, failed, project to develop software radios for the military wasted $6 billion so far. This is close to NASAs annual budget, and 3x the NSFs annual budget.

2674) Message boards : Number crunching : No work? (Message 1288822)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

Scheduler will keep filling gpu requests first so long as BOINC is asking for GPU work. You can lower the cache setting until BOINC thinks it has enough gpu work and only asks for cpu work. But the quickest fix is to turn off gpu fetch in your S@H preferences (use Nvidia GPU). That only impacts work fetch, not the processing of work on hand. Change it back when you have enough cpu work.


Very nice tip and thank you. :^)
2675) Message boards : Number crunching : No work? (Message 1288813)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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There seems to be a shortage of CPU WUs. I have one box at least whose CPU cores are sitting idle (and not for a lack of requesting as I've watched the log) and although it gets GPU WUs whenever it asks, not a single CPU one in nigh two days.
2676) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What am I doing? (Message 1287983)
Posted 26 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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BOINC credit.

A brief (I hope) explanation:

1 GFlOp = 1 billion floating point operations/calculations per second.... how fast your CPU (or video GPU) works.

The BOINC credit, the "Cobblestone" (so named as invented by Jeff Cobb, a play on the "Whetstone" term for benchmarking processing speed) is: a 1 GFlOp computer working a full day of 24 hours will do 200 Cobblestones' worth of calculations, so earn 200 credits.

So each Cobblestone/BOINC credit point is (1 billion ops per second x 24 hours per day x 3600 seconds per hour) / 200 = 432 billion floating point operations (this also nicely illustrates just how inexpensive computing is these days.)

Your RAC (recent average credit) is 5,676, so your computer is doing 5,676 / 200 = about 28 GFlOps, 28 billion floating point operations per second.

Hope this is correct... haven't had my coffee yet. :^)
2677) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Alien body examination by Stevan Greer (Message 1287489)
Posted 24 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Radio astronomy is left wing when its used to search for aliens!


Er... have another Guinness. :^p
2678) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Alien body examination by Stevan Greer (Message 1287482)
Posted 24 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Yes, us babbling about the project in the forum isn't science/scientific. Certainly I doubt anyone will have any beef with that. Unfortunately, that isn't what you wrote:

The direct quote of your own words again:

The science that is carried out by the people who run this project is very left wing. Its NOT mainstream science.
(emphasis mine.)

And how the heck is radio astronomy "very left wing"? Talk about politicizing...
2679) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Alien body examination by Stevan Greer (Message 1287421)
Posted 24 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The science that is carried out by the people who run this project is very left wing. Its NOT mainstream science. So don't be putting yourselves up on a pedestal thinking what goes on here is normal, because its not! Its hunting for aliens, no matter what way you look at it!


Radio receivers and signal analysis are left-wing now? Someone better tell Mark when he comes back. Oh, and the military. :^p Completely ridiculous statement.

As for your second ridiculous statement: Why would you think that this project is in any way not "mainstream science" when it's being
- run by a major, public, accredited university that has produced 22 Nobel laureates (Gee, ya think they might know what science is and isn't?)
- by scientists
- using scientific methodology and open platforms
- funded by scientific institutions
- and all findings are to be published and subject to peer review?

What's abnormal about digital analysis on radio telescope data looking for narrowband signals? Heck, they teach it in electrical engineering.

Sigh.
2680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Home made beer (Message 1287393)
Posted 24 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I make mine at a "U-Brew" aka brew-on-premises. I've had only good experiences with such places, as they are mostly run by people passionate about good beer (and wine.) It costs a little more than making your own at home but they have the resources (ie huge walk-in fridge at the perfect temperature 24x7, automatic bottling and sanitizing machines) to end up with a better result. Ends up being better than what's available retail (more flavour as it's unpasteurized, no additives or preservatives) and much cheaper.

Cheers!
2681) Message boards : Number crunching : A link that needs to be removed (Message 1285682)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I did a screenshot of the main page and sent it to webmaster@setiusa.net (that e-mail address is on the bottom left.) They've been hacked or equivalent, probably using SQL injection. Had my site compromised probably by the same douchenozzles a few months ago.

All I see is a bunch of links in "Recent Popular Topic" that definitely should not be there, no pictures or anything (probably Ad-Block doing its job... thank you again Ad-Block.)
2682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone using IE9 should read this. (Message 1285596)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I use IE8 and FF 64 bit Aurora. No probs here.


Thread title is only partially correct. All IE versions from 6 to 9 are affected. IE8 is vulnerable.
2683) Message boards : Number crunching : GTX 570 Classified Spontaneously Down-clocking. (Message 1284500)
Posted 16 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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See my posts in this thread. Had the same issue. Was either Precision or drivers (uninstall of Precision and clean reinstall of drivers fixed it.)
2684) Message boards : Number crunching : Reserve a part of the CPU only for GPU support? (Message 1283621)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Wasn't overheating... both Precision and SpeedFan agreed that the GPU was underutilized at 44°C. It's now about 65°C. Yeah, that's where I want it... it's a beater cruncher. :^)

Don't know about the rest, but I did find the 405MhZ thing mentioned elsewhere on the internet when I was trying to find the cause of this. Google "cuda 405MhZ" and there will be others who noted the same problem. It was probably drivers, as at least one other indicated just a reinstall with the "Clean install option" fixed it. YMMV. Worked for me at least.
2685) Message boards : Number crunching : Reserve a part of the CPU only for GPU support? (Message 1283556)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It's possible to reserve a part of the CPU only for GPU support?


How come? Is the GPU not being properly utilized?

I was having this problem on my newest system. It turned out to not be scheduling of the GPU app. Instead, the NVidia drivers and EVGA Precision were conspiring to throttle the GPU to 405MhZ always, regardless of the clock speed I chose.

I uninstalled EVGA Precision and reinstalled the NVidia drivers using "Clean install" mode to get rid of any previous settings, and went from 45 mins. per CUDA WU to about 11.5 mins.

Hope this helps. :^)
2686) Message boards : Number crunching : What Motherboards are you using? (Message 1282253)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Although my rig is still under construction, due to a previous motherboard failure...


My condolences over the loss of Piggy. May she(?) be bacon the job soon. :^)
2687) Message boards : Number crunching : MSI 760GM-E51 (FX) Mainboard no good for BOINC; can/will fry at 100% use (admitted by manufacturer) (Message 1281036)
Posted 7 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Yes, kind of ironic that on the same page that warns against running the board full at 100%, it also advertises how easy it makes it to run it >100%. This is a feature? Now our easy burnout switch can help you burn out your board faster and with less effort? Eagh.

I wrote a letter to the retailer (TigerDirect) describing my experiences, so I hope that it gets passed on. If a major retailer or two stop selling MSI boards because of unreliability, this can only be a good thing. I'm also flabbergasted that MSI would just put a silly caveat (which most buyers won't see until it's too late) up rather than doing the decent thing and recalling the boards to replace them with ones with proper components rated to 120% not 80%!

For my letter I searched all of the MSI boards that TigerDirect sells and managed to find four more with the same blue warning:

760GM-P21 (FX)
760GM-P23 (FX)
890FXA-GD70
970A-G45

Not like specifics matter to me anymore, but there they are. :^)
2688) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIV *CLOSED (Message 1280380)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Just crossed 290 Million, hopefully I can get to 300M by the end of the month.


You are going to pass NEZ in about 192 days if you keep the RAC that high. That's astounding.

Oh, and I just passed 20 million. Big ol' hairy whoop deal. :^)

Edit: Adding this in to avoid adding an off-topic post. Please see this for another take on NEZ.
2689) Message boards : Number crunching : MSI 760GM-E51 (FX) Mainboard no good for BOINC; can/will fry at 100% use (admitted by manufacturer) (Message 1277114)
Posted 29 Aug 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wow; thanks for all the replies. So there are other MSI boards with the same ... er... issues.



Just amazing. I'm glad they don't make vehicles. Imagine "Please do not drive your MSI vehicle at the maximum legal speed, ie on a freeway, to prevent engine burnout."

satisfried cursetomers


I am so stealing that. :^)
2690) Message boards : Number crunching : MSI 760GM-E51 (FX) Mainboard no good for BOINC; can/will fry at 100% use (admitted by manufacturer) (Message 1276819)
Posted 28 Aug 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
For mainboards, MSI has firmly joined ECS on my No Buy List.

As documented in this thread I went through hell getting a new cruncher going. It ended up blowing three boards, and when these boards blow, they take the CPU with them, in this case, three AMD FX-8120 8-core CPU's... such a sad waste. On the third time, I concluded that at least this make of MSI board is a lemon and got my money back rather than RMAing for another lemon. The Gigabyte I replaced it with is doing just fine. I did switch the CPU to a 6-core as well, fearing another blowout.

I couldn't understand why, as my temps. were all good (50-56C for the CPU, case about 40C, GPU about 47C) when they fried. The PSU was a high-end Thermaltake 650W and the system was only drawing 330W. I replaced the PSU twice and swapped out all parts not from the same retailer, so that I'd be able to claim a refund if required.

Well, today, while RMAing yet another MSI mainboard... sigh... I happened to load MSI's 760GM-E51 (FX) page. Here's a screenshot of it in case they change it:



Notice the part with the blue background: "Due to power design specifications, we strongly advise against running heavy burn in tools on this mainboard to protect your system from heat damage."

So, in other words, the manufacturer has stated that this mainboard will burn out if run at 100%! I've never seen anything like this from any other mainboard manufacturer. Boards are supposed to be run at 100% for years with proper system cooling. This is ridiculous.

And before saying that BOINC did it and home systems weren't designed for 100% utilization for months: one of the three burnouts happened in only five minutes of 100%, and multi-core optimized video encoders can push a system to 100% and keep it there for hours. Is video encoding now forbidden too?

I hope that this helps steer someone away from the very bad experience I've had with this product.
2691) Message boards : Number crunching : Sorry, wingmen/wingwomen :^( (Message 1272292)
Posted 17 Aug 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It died again. Thankfully I only put 2 or 3 days of cache on it fearing it might.

I pleaded my case and got a refund on the board and CPU. I won't buy another MSI board again, or another Thermaltake PSU. :^p

Off to dump some more $ for a Gigabyte board this time and mail off the dead tech. for my refund.
2692) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Possibly bad news for Green Bank and other U.S. astronomical facilities (Message 1272291)
Posted 17 Aug 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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US Astronomy Facing Severe Budget Cuts and Facility Closures

"The US astronomy budget is facing unprecedented cuts with potential closures of several facilities. A new report by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences says that available funding for ground-based astronomy could undershoot projected budgets by as much as 50%. The report recommends the closure – called “divestment” in the new document — of iconic facilities such as the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Green Bank Radio Telescope, as well as shutting down four different telescopes at the Kitt Peak Observatory by 2017."

The Kepler observations were supposed to be happening at a new receiver at Green Bank, so this is not good.
2693) Message boards : News : Recovering from power outage. (Message 1271640)
Posted 16 Aug 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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It would be good if there was a placeholder page (outside the affected SSL network) up at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu during these outages.

The last one in May was three or four days long. There was no notice that I can remember...

Though my modest boxes are nothing special, given the time, effort and money I've put into them (due to my rather poor luck) I like keeping them all occupied. :^)

Glad to see the project back online.
2694) Message boards : Number crunching : Sorry, wingmen/wingwomen :^( (Message 1270818)
Posted 12 Aug 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
My wife thanks you for the 'wingmen/wingwomen' reference.


Heh... that's cute. Thanks. Seems to be catching on as I see "wingpeoples" on the first page thread title.

Well I finally got it running... er... the first failed box, the 8-core with the GTX 460. The good one! If it failed this time, it would have had to go back to the store (4 months after buying it.)

But, I ended up being vindicated and the problem was a bad (brand new) power supply frying the motherboard and CPU. I'd steer clear of the Thermaltake 650W (and possibly the 750W is no better.)

If didn't find this rather difficult-to-isolate cause, I think I would have completely lost confidence. :^p
2695) Message boards : News : New AstroPulse applications for GPUs. (Message 1270807)
Posted 12 Aug 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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This thread about automatically distributed app. No user action required.
If you want to go to anonymous platform and can't get familiar with Lunatics installer then it's better to write in this http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=67407 or this http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68675 thread.
This one about so called stock app that doesn't require to be downloaded by user, it will be downloaded automatically as long as host meets requirements.


I think he was asking (as I am) if we're already running the Lunatics platform, should we just stick with it or revert to the official platform so that it updates to the new optimized one? And will Lunatics continue to be updated in parallel with the official one?

I will have a look at those other two threads but as this one is directly linked from the Notices entry in the BOINC client it would be good to have the info here.
2696) Message boards : Number crunching : Sorry, wingmen/wingwomen :^( (Message 1259380)
Posted 12 Jul 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Quick and painless is not my specialty, unfortunately. :^)

Second motherboard blew, in this machine one day after I'd finally sent off the first one. So now I'm down two machines. More apologies.

Sigh...
2697) Message boards : Number crunching : Resending LOST tasks? (Message 1250377)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It will get fixed eventually but don't hold your breath waiting.


Appears to have been for several days. Have reported numerous >64 clumps in that time that I've seen without disabling fetch and they all completely reported (not missing the >64 component), no lost tasks errors in the log, and also fetched work.
2698) Message boards : Number crunching : Sorry, wingmen/wingwomen :^( (Message 1246939)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I got the new board... and the CPU had been fried. I then did another RMA and replaced the CPU.

I finally got it all hooked up, it booted like a charm. Five minutes later the replacement board (and possibly the replacement CPU... can't tell) fried and I'm back to square zero. So it comes down to the PSU or CPU fan being bad. As I didn't buy them from the same place I got the rest of the system, now I'm looking forward to support hell of trying to convince them to give me my money back, and trying to convince the other place to RMA again when with the same failure on new parts it definitely indicates they aren't and weren't ever the problem.

I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
2699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beer Drinkers thread part 5 (Message 1246068)
Posted 14 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I do like a good Belgian beer.


Give this a try if you haven't and can...
Can't find it in Ontario as far as I know but it's available in Quebec (of course.)

2700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Free kibble...for cats and dogs. (Message 1245932)
Posted 14 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
First day I ever got both...

2701) Message boards : Politics : Athiest ministers (Message 1245667)
Posted 14 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mother Theresa also accepted several million dollars from a man who embezelded it from innocent people in a way similar to Bernie Madoff. When the man was caught and on trial, Mother Theresa sent a letter on his behalf to the court. The court sent back a letter asking her for the money to be returned, as many people lost everything they had. Mother Theresa never replied.



Hadn't read about that before... thanks.

"Mother Theresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
--- Christopher Hitchens

Side note: One of the interesting celebrities who recently "came out" as a non-believer is Morgan Freeman... interesting because he played God twice. :^)
2702) Message boards : Politics : Athiest ministers (Message 1245509)
Posted 13 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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He isn't just Athi, he's the Athiest! :^D

<<<ducks>>>

Dan Barker is another noted example (author of "Losing Faith in Faith" and with the FRFF.) It would seem that the more passionate believer, the more passionate the disbeliever when they lose it.

//dispassionate disbeliever
2703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lord Stanley's Cup (Message 1243050)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
They gave me some Labatt's Maximum Ice beer after the game. Man, did I have a hangover...


I stopped drinking Canadian commercial beer (ie Labatt's and Molson's) because I was getting a hangover, not from the alcohol, but from all the aging chemicals and preservatives that they're allowed to put in it.

I'm positive it's that, as two pints of it will inevitably give me a hangover, whereas four or more pints of you-brew or German or any other four-ingredient beer won't.
2704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Texting while driving is dangerous. (Message 1243039)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This story was just played on the national news. The person killed was my wife's ex-husband.


Wow... was just reading this story yesterday (and today)... small world indeed.

I'm surprised that the charge is murder rather than manslaughter though as murder is deliberate vs. manslaughter being accidental or through negligence. I guess whatever deters others from doing it.

Also the biggest danger in texting while driving (and I tested this in a safe situation once) seems to be that as soon as you look at the device you're texting on, your eyes refocus and the road and everything on it becomes a peripheral vision blur. I found it impossible to drive in the circumstance and was amazed anyone would even try it on a highway.

Yet another reason I'm glad I don't drive anymore... transit is much safer.
2705) Message boards : Number crunching : Sorry, wingmen/wingwomen :^( (Message 1242288)
Posted 6 Jun 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Finally built a 4th box destined for the S.O., this one. Worked great too...

... for 4 hours. Then the motherboard fried. Great. Still waiting for UPS to pick it up for warranty RMA. Hope the replacement arrives in time.

My apologies for any missed credit.
2706) Message boards : Number crunching : Resending LOST tasks? (Message 1238679)
Posted 29 May 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Figured others were getting it... I've been seeing it for several days/occurrences too:

28/05/2012 20:31:05 | SETI@home | Resent lost task 30ja10ab.10032.13977.11.10.142_0
28/05/2012 20:31:05 | SETI@home | Resent lost task 16dc10ac.29188.10955.6.10.164_0
...{snip}...
28/05/2012 20:31:05 | SETI@home | [error] Already have task 30ja10ab.10032.13977.11.10.142_0
28/05/2012 20:31:05 | SETI@home | [error] Already have task 16dc10ac.29188.10955.6.10.164_0

2707) Message boards : Number crunching : One Billionth (1e+9) WU is Approaching.. (Message 1238070)
Posted 27 May 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Would a thousand million pound prize for a snooker tournament be a billiard?

<<ducks>>
2708) Message boards : Number crunching : Since the last outage... (Message 1236021)
Posted 24 May 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Does the BOINC worklog say it's requesting work for both CPU and GPU?
If so, GPU work (of course) tends to get assigned faster as GPUs are more powerful so clients pick up more units of it.
Strangely after the outage I had one box that wouldn't get any CPU units for over a day. Had to pick up some Einstein work to keep it busy.
2709) Message boards : Number crunching : The Kitty smoke stop fundraiser....... (Message 1227849)
Posted 5 May 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I finally quit about four years ago, so if you can benefit from my experience, all the better.

Nicotine consistently gets ranked as the most addictive drug we know of. This is partially because of its availability (most cities don't have heroin and cocaine shops on every corner. :^p ) But there's more to it than that. It gets into your brain chemistry in subtle and devious ways.

For me, it was a depression two months into it that drove me back the first couple of attempts, the last gasp of the dying addiction that told me that the rest of my life would be worthless if I wasn't sucking on burning leaves several times a day. So I beat this by deliberately quitting when I was at one of my lowest points, when my wife and I had split up and I was losing the house and broke (is all good... we got back together eventually.) When the two-month depression came around, it couldn't touch me as I was already there.

So don't take it personally if you don't stick with it first time. If you're hard on yourself it will only depress you and make it worse. It may take you a couple of tries to learn all the tricks nicotine has up its sleeve. Get back on the horse as soon as you can.

One of the ways that nicotine addicts you is causing you to associate all your favorite things with it. That first morning smoke with a coffee, or driving, or using the computer, or with a cold beer, all get tied to smoking in your head. You may need to change your "rituals" or habits or hobbies to avoid the cravings, such as by finding new ones that are anathema to smoking (ie exercise, swimming. etc.)

You'll inevitably gain some weight if you don't exercise, but given you'll now have the lung capacity and stamina you had when you were ten years younger, this would be an ideal time to hit the gym. This helped me tremendously to stick with it and stay away from tobacco. You won't feel like destroying your bod when you've put all that effort in to build it up.

I also suggest you give this page a read. As a fan of classic cinema and TV, I think you'll find the number of its icons who lost their lives to tobacco use staggering. I certainly did.

I quit by using Nicoderm patches. I found all of the other patches (ie store brand) were crap as they were too weak to alleviate the early-morning all-over tingles of a maximal craving. One bonus of using patches is that you'll have amazing vivid and for some lucid dreams.

Here's to you quitting for good. :^)

Edit: I think I can kick in $20 if you stick with it.
2710) Message boards : Number crunching : boinc 7.0.x - not requesting tasks (Message 1220295)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Thanks... I'll give that a try.
2711) Message boards : SETI@home Science : SETI science update (Message 1220161)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'd bet there are a thousand WOW signals buried in what we've analyzed. SAH just passed two billion completed work units and results.

Problem is, no one's looking. I just happened to read a NTPCKR post from Matt (right at the top of this forum.) It's four years old. Four years just came and went and I haven't seen anything indicating that there's a concerted effort to put these two billion results to use.

I don't blame the SAH team as they are already overworked having academic careers outside of SAH, it's terribly underfunded, and the majority of the effort expended on it is just keeping it going.

I just keep crunching away hoping they have enough of a windfall that they can catch up on the tremendous backlog and sift through these billions of results, finally putting them to use. Either that or Kepler data will provide a fresh start and it won't all go into backlog.

Edit: And it appears Michel448a already covered all this two posts ago. :^)
2712) Message boards : Number crunching : boinc 7.0.x - not requesting tasks (Message 1220140)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Since "upgrading" to 7.0 (the quotes are due to the inevitable problems like this that make me question if these version increases really are :^p) I'm having the same issue.

Currently SAH is the only project I'm doing. I have less than a day's work cached on my fastest box. BOINC was always lax on requesting work due to the overestimated completion times on the CUDA WUs. Now it's worse. I'm constantly seeing the Status column blank (not requesting or backing off.) I hit Update and it connects and, voila, downloads a bunch of tasks. Still not even remotely close to being full. On the 6.x clients, this would at least kick start it and it would start requesting when the 5 minute countdown expired. But not now. I have to manually request again.

I notice that the download speeds are about 5x or more what they were before 7.x... getting over 100kbps. This tells me that possibly a lot of the power crunchers (who would know about and have installed the "upgrade") have stopped requesting work as well.
2713) Message boards : Number crunching : "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of AstroPulse v6" (Message 1218747)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I've tried several times over the course of years to register at Lunatics to get on a mailing list so I know when there are updates (is there one?) but:

Sorry, registration is currently disabled.
2714) Message boards : Number crunching : "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of AstroPulse v6" (Message 1218710)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Excellent... glad that I posted this then and thanks for the reply.
And, of course, thanks for all the work on the Lunatics platform from the team. It's an amazing piece of work.
2715) Message boards : Number crunching : Lunatics Question from an Idiot. (Message 1218535)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Mine still shows (cuda_fermi) in the application column; this is OK.

Near the top of your event log (Advanced->Event Log) you should see "Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform" If it's there, you're using it. If anything was missing from it you'd see error notifications under Notices so if you're not getting those it's being used.

Also check Task Manager (right click the taskbar) Processes tab and see what's running. I have 4 instances of AK_v8b_SSE_p3.exe and a Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe which tells me it's being used. Sort by CPU usage by clicking the CPU column heading and they'll all sort together.
2716) Message boards : Number crunching : "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of AstroPulse v6" (Message 1218508)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks for the reply... I installed the latest unified installer and it updated app_info.xml and BOINC no longer complains about the missing 6.01 app.

The problem, or why I didn't install 0.40 already: It appears that the Lunatics download page needs an update:

1 - Windows Seti@Home apps - The current Berkeley stock application version is 6.03 for multibeam and 5.05 for astropulse.
(emphasis mine)

Similary, the Windows app. page linked from the above indicates 5.05. However, when it's installed, it indicates 6.01 instead (and, its version of libfftw3f-3.dll is more recent than the version in the stand-alone AP 6.01... so what purpose does the standalone serve?)

Hope this helps.
2717) Message boards : Number crunching : "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of AstroPulse v6" (Message 1218450)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I realize that this is because I'm using the Lunatics platform and the AP 6.01 app. doesn't have an installer that adds the relevant entries into app_info.xml; it's just an EXE and DLL that get dropped into \Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu.

What I have in app_info.xml for 5.05 is:

    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name>
        <version_num>505</version_num>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version> 


If I just copy this block in app_info.xml and adjust for 6.01 accordingly will this work? I'd rather ask first just to avoid breaking anything. :^) (Also surprised that this isn't in the app.'s ZIP or a forum post there or here...) Thanks.
2718) Message boards : News : Your chance to be famous. (Message 1218360)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Registering for SETILive yielded interesting results. Coincidentally, a reporter from the Chicago Tribune is doing a story on it, so I agreed to be interviewed about it.

We ended up probably talking more about SETI@Home and the BOINC platform than SETILive. I'll post here when I find out when the story will run and any link to it.
2719) Message boards : News : First Look at Kepler SETI Candidate Signals (Message 1213579)
Posted 3 Apr 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you. :^)

Guess I'll put off putting together another box.
2720) Message boards : News : First Look at Kepler SETI Candidate Signals (Message 1211989)
Posted 30 Mar 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I did check around before asking this, but couldn't find anything, so...

Is there an ETA for when we start getting Kepler and/or Green Bank work units?

Thanks!
2721) Message boards : News : Your chance to be famous. (Message 1210460)
Posted 26 Mar 2012 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't think I have enough computers to qualify (and 2/3 are crunching Einstein data) but at least it reminded me to register for SETILive. Much more productive use of idle time at work than surfing. :^)

I also thought of Mark...
2722) Message boards : Number crunching : To the Seti unfaithful........... (Message 1178733)
Posted 17 Dec 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I think I'm going to crunch Einstein for a while until the project supplies enough work...

This is where my heart is too, but the BOINC client (in my experience at least) still can't reliably schedule work (for example, it keeps asking for CPU work when when the GPU has been sitting idle for a day and there's nothing but CPU work, then I run into the "This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress" when I have a tenth of the work units I had only a few days ago, then it's "Last request too recent" when no work was even requested the last time.)

Tired of having to micromanage sitting there clicking Retry because all the uploads and downloads will sit for hours if three time out (which they do constantly) and then I'll run out of work while it waits because when it finally retries all the work is gone.

(Also Einstein has made a few actual discoveries. With a pool of over two billion completed work units, when's NITPickr going to become a priority?)

Probably come back when the Green Bank work starts up. I hope things are a little more reliable then.
2723) Message boards : News : Fall Funding Drive (Message 1165194)
Posted 25 Oct 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Duped this over in the Cafe a while ago as I didn't find this thread...

Thank you for your gift of $30.00 via Mastercard on 10/05/2011.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $30.00

Your confirmation number is:
78739


OK, there's your donation. Now I can submit the list o'demands: Green Bank work by year's end and confirmed sentient signal for 2012. And not a minute sooner! ;^)

Thanks for a dozen years of hard work to keep this project going.
2724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@home Needs Your Help -- Recent donation e-mail (Message 1160551)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Did you see This Thread in Number Crunching?


Yes... er... just now. Ahem.
I even searched and didn't find it before I posted this.
(Why would it be in Number Crunching?)
2725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@home Needs Your Help -- Recent donation e-mail (Message 1160189)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I received the following e-mail a few days ago. I thought I'd see it mirrored or mentioned on the forums, but I don't. I'll repost it for anyone that didn't get it, and maybe we can list donations below.

-----------------------------------------------------------------



SETI@home needs your help!

In the last year, SETI@home has made great steps forward thanks to the generosity of volunteers like you. Earlier this year we were able to use the Green Bank Telescope (pictured) in West Virginia to expand our search to include the nearly 100 potentially habitable planets found by the Kepler Mission. We've also re-observed seventy two of the 102 sources of unidentified radio pulses found with our Astropulse search. We hope to observe the remaining sources soon. While it's likely that these pulses are a natural phenomenon, we don't yet know what we will find. Data from both these projects have arrived or are on their way to Berkeley and will be sent to our volunteers in the coming months. Without the support of user donations, these major new extensions to the SETI@home experiment would not have been possible.

Though the SETI@home experiment has been active for over eleven years, we are still branching out and exploring new scientific directions. As you may know, the data that your computer analyzes comes principally from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. While Arecibo is an immensely powerful telescope, it cannot see the entire sky. In the past we have been able to perform short duration observations at the Green Bank Telescope. But in the coming year, we plan to start continuous collection of data at the Green Bank Telescope, allowing us to listen in on parts of the sky that, up until now, we have not been able to reach.

We're also in the process of adding a new search algorithm to the SETI@home application. This new algorithm, called autocorrelation, will make us sensitive to certain broad band or spread spectrum transmissions without predicting their characteristics beforehand. No SETI sky survey has utilized this type of algorithm before.

SETI@home has always been a collaborative effort on a global scale; there is no other project on Earth that is quite as dependent on the help and contributions of the citizens of Earth at-large. In order to keep SETI@home up and running, as well as accomplish this year's scientific goals, we need your help. To make a secure tax-deductible donation click here, which will take you to a page of instructions on how to donate online or through mail via check. Any amount that you are willing to donate this holiday season would be a great help. Your contribution will not only allow SETI@home to continue to run as it has for the past eleven years, but also provide the opportunity to expand the search for intelligent life in exciting new directions. These efforts represent our best chance at answering the ever-elusive question: Are we alone?

Thank you for your support and continuing dedication to SETI@Home.

Sincerely,

Dr. Eric Korpela, Project Scientist

-----------------------------------------------------------------

So here's my bit:

Thank you for your gift of $30.00 via Mastercard on 10/05/2011.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $30.00

Your confirmation number is:
78739

Amazingly, I haven't been able to get a full cache on all my boxen in literally months. Sometimes they ran dry too. However. shortly after donating the caches filled up. Coincidence? Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Must be some new two-tier system. ;^)

I'm really looking forward to the Kepler/Green Bank work. Let's see some other donations to make it happen.
2726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Time to go away for a while........ (Message 1160182)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Lack of Marmite maybe?


Can't be... Marmite is a brown, smelly substance. ;^)
2727) Message boards : Number crunching : Happy happy joy joy. Upload/download success (Message 1157675)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm amazed you got any, but perhaps I will win tonight's lottery instead. :^) I guess the crash is fixed... excellent. Might be a while before there's enough work to go around though.
2728) Message boards : Number crunching : Happy happy joy joy. Upload/download success (Message 1157665)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Uploads just started going through at least.
2729) Message boards : Number crunching : Can not get ANY Cache built up ! (Message 1156737)
Posted 28 Sep 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I see the kitties were not too successful in their WU hunt while I was out for the evening.

I guess we'll just limp along and hope that some repair work can be put in place during next Tuesday's outage.


The CUDA kibbles are arriving... finally building up a cache, so get while the getting's good.

Try to leave some for the rest of us! :^D
2730) Message boards : Number crunching : Can not get ANY Cache built up ! (Message 1156478)
Posted 27 Sep 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is there some limit on the number of times the BOINC client will request work in one day?

I still have only about 80 WU's both CPU and GPU in total on the primary, and it won't request work at all, just crunches what it has until it will inevitably run out again. If I manually hit Update now, I get:

26/09/2011 20:18:36 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
26/09/2011 20:18:36 | SETI@home | Not reporting or requesting tasks


This is with maybe a few hours of GPU work cached, though my cache is supposed to be 8 days!

I've tried quitting and restarting, even changing the system clock to tomorrow, everything but resetting the project. Probably some INI setting but I couldn't find it reading the documentation.
2731) Message boards : Number crunching : Can not get ANY Cache built up ! (Message 1156261)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Work fetch still has issues even in the latest client. My primary host (GTX460) has no GPU work at all and about 20 CPU WU's, yet I see see it requesting CPU work only after the 5 min. interval, and sometimes nothing and I have to manually hit Update (usually to find there's nothing but sometimes I'll pick up a few WU's.) So been basically idle for over a day.

Also I don't think enough work is being generated, especially CUDA WU's to keep up with the demand of more and faster cards. Thought that there were all these tapes split and uploaded as an available pool to prevent shortages...
2732) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (55) Server problems? (Message 1154666)
Posted 21 Sep 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Whatever you just did, It's now faster than I've seen it for... years, upstream and down. I think it's because everyone else's client is waiting due to the outage.

Get while the getting's good!
2733) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit (Message 1125414)
Posted 7 Jul 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You should check in for the Friday night pun session in the cafe....LOL.


Been there, done that. ;^)

No toaster, thanks... too darn hot!
2734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Films that make you go hmmmm (Message 1125167)
Posted 6 Jul 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Costner spent MILLIONS on this flick.
MILLIONs.......

I think hhe had a clue.
I do too.

There is a simple truth that belies all you have ever been told about JFK.......

All you have ever been lied to ab......all you have ever seem or heard.


One of my favorites movies as well...

Long before people who doubted the "official" story were branded "conspiracy theorists" to marginalize them, I was all of 13 years old in the early 1980s when I figured out that something was very, very wrong.

That year, my father applied for an electrician's post at Alert Bay, the northernmost settlement on Earth, where there's a NATO radar installation. He was denied because... in the early 1960s, two decades earlier, he'd subscribed to a mildly socialist newspaper. That's how closely people were (are?) being monitored, even in Canada.

Later that year, in school, we studied the J.F.K. assassination and were told that during the same timeframe, Oswald had defected from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R. while working at a radar installation with access to classified information. When he came back to the U.S., this was well-known and they just let him in. Huh? No arrest? No trial? Nothing? There was no explanation why this occurred.

At that point I knew something was up, and nothing since has convinced me otherwise.

Also, that there was a conspiracy in the assassination, and it wasn't the work of a "lone nut" is the official position of the U.S. federal government and has been since 1979.
2735) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit (Message 1125146)
Posted 6 Jul 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I am here to make the greatest discovery ever.

Until I get paid for it, credit is just a distRACtion. :^)
2736) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't report or get new tasks (Message 1124642)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
No doubt they'll fix it in the outrage tomorrow.


Faux pas. :^)
2737) Message boards : Number crunching : GTS450 card, compared to other GPUs (Message 1123236)
Posted 1 Jul 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It didn't take long for the sale I was waiting for, very similar to the one perryjay pointed out:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=6976278&sku=E145-0475&SRCCODE=CANEM2172&cm_mmc=EML-_-CanadaMain-_-CANEM2172

$134.99. Use coupon code AGW35350 and it goes down to $99.99. Just the card I wanted for a hundred bucks. Of course you have to wait for the rebate but EVGA is good with their rebates.

I can't even hear the fan on it. It comes with EVGA Precision which makes overclocking the GPU, RAM and fan as simple as dragging sliders. Currently at 1508MHz. I upped the fan to 55% to keep the GPU below 70C.

I watched several CUDA work units go by.
Three minutes each.
I couldn't believe it... must be a run of short ones, so I watched a few more. Three minutes, with an occasional eight minutes. Even with the fewer cores.

The verdict: happy shopper. :^)

I needed this after the nightmare I went through with the third/spare system. I should have just upgraded the GPU and forget the rest. Live and learn.

Thank you all again for your assistance!
2738) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU downclocks itself (Message 1121734)
Posted 26 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I found this about a year ago on a Windows XP Home SP3 machine even with "Blank" as my screensaver, so disabled screensaver timeouts on all machines.

I had noticed that much less GPU work seemed to be getting done than I expected. What told me it was the screensaver was a simple audio clue: whenever it started by itself via the timeout, the video card's fan would turn off a few seconds later.

Yet, starting the same screensaver without the timer did not turn off the GPU, so if I want to blank the screen I just press a programmable key on my Microsoft keyboard I have tied to "Start my default screensaver".
2739) Message boards : Number crunching : GTS450 card, compared to other GPUs (Message 1121585)
Posted 25 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks for the replies. :^) I will hold off for now and see if any GTX models go on sale.

The NVidia naming convention is rather confusing, for example, a 460 GTX is more powerful, it would seem, than a 550 GTX. The best indicator seems to be price alone! NVidia should be publishing descriptive and easy-to-understand benchmarks like this one to make it easier (unfortunately that one needs to be updated. Really the GPU makers should be doing them...)
2740) Message boards : Number crunching : GTS450 card, compared to other GPUs (Message 1121297)
Posted 25 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Was thinking of buying this GTS450 card (not only for the CUDA but also for Skyrim in November... heh.)

For a Fermi card, at $130 with a $30 rebate I'm wondering why it's so cheap. Good "bang for buck"? I notice it has "only" 192 cores but maybe it gets more out of 'em than other cards. How would it stack up to, say, an equivalent GTX? (Same store has this EVGA GTX 550 Ti for the same price but no rebate, for example.)

Thanks in advance. :^)
2741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman lost another one.....Gary Moore. (Message 1118071)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ya might be meaning this version..


That would be the one...
It's guys like that wot made me hang up my guitars. :^)
2742) Message boards : SETI@home Science : China building world’s biggest radio telescope (Message 1117974)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
http://www.gizmag.com/five-hundred-meter-aperture-spherical-radio-telescope/18930/

Sorry, Arecibo, you're soon to be # 2. I've read of this telescope being built before but this is an update today with some data on it and a rendering. It's only a model... shhhh. ;^)

"Since its completion in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, with a diameter of 305 m (1,000 ft) and a collecting area of 73,000 square meters (790,000 sq ft), has been the largest single-aperture radio telescope ever constructed. But Arecibo is set to lose its title with construction now underway in Guizhou Province in southern China of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Upon its expected completion in 2016, FAST will be able to see more than three times further into space and survey the skies ten times faster than Arecibo."


And further:

Using FAST's unparalleled sensitivity and high surveying speed, the project is expected to enable the surveying of neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way and other galaxies, the detection of new pulsars (both galactic and extragalactic), the search for the first shining stars, and of perhaps most interest to many people, the search for extraterrestrial life. It is expected to be able to detect transmissions from over 1,000 light years away.


I hope that the SAH folks can get a receiver in there.
2743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman lost another one.....Gary Moore. (Message 1117814)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I am so sorry I was unaware, Gary...


Yikes, that makes two of us. :^(

I'm sure you've seen/heard it already, but if not, check his live cover of "Red House" on YouTube (at work right now so can't go there to find it, sorry.) Phenomenal.
2744) Message boards : Number crunching : New Video Card (Message 1117424)
Posted 15 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks for the fast replies. :^)

At least I didn't miss out all this time!
2745) Message boards : Number crunching : New Video Card (Message 1117420)
Posted 15 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Huh... all this time I did not know that one could crunch more than one WU concurrently per GPU.

I have two 9800GT cards (the third one is going back to EVGA for being naughty and frying one motherboard and several PSU's and driving me bonkers for two weeks.

Would running more than one at a time be beneficial?

Edit: Oh great.. and I go post in the wrong thread. My mind is as broken as that card. :^)
2746) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 12 year club (Message 1114298)
Posted 7 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So here is my question for each of you. What did you start crunching with?
I used a Pentium II. I still have it on my desk as a paper weight.


That was my first SETI CPU as well. Just remembered that my 12th anniversary passed when I saw this thread.

Also just completed a third box around a "spare" mainboard and GPU hoping for some Green Bank work. What a nightmare that was (mainboard was a warranty replacement, lemon right out of the box with a short in it, and blew three power supplies.) So even after a dozen years, the interest is is still strong. :^)
2747) Message boards : Number crunching : Struggling Downloads!! (Message 1113881)
Posted 6 Jun 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
To some it matters, to some it doesn't. What's so difficult in accepting differences in what we perceive as important?


I think you may have missed the joke (opportunity). I'll demonstrate...

I have always been proud of my RAC.


It takes a lot of silicon to make a nice RAC.
2748) Message boards : News : Green Bank Telescope observations to start Saturday. (Message 1104705)
Posted 9 May 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Excellent news!

Will these new workunits require a science app. update?

Just checking as then folks such as myself using non-standard/optimized science apps. (ie Lunatics) can watch for the new apps. so we can process Kepler work.
2749) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Q&A about the ATA shutdown. (Message 1103913)
Posted 6 May 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Andrew Siemion with help from early AstroPulse author Paul Demorest (now at NRAO Green Bank) just finished the software modification necessary for the GUPPI instrument there to write 4 bit/complex sample data at 800 MHz. Data collection will start very soon. As soon as we enter some info into the scheduling software. We're excited!

Now it's time to get started on writing a splitter to put that data in something that S@H can handle and run some tests to find what, if any, changes to the S@H application are needed. I'm pointing my finger at Andrew, but thinking that I'll have to do a lot of the header fixup code.


Also excited! Thanks for the detailed reply! Guess I'll be putting that next cruncherbox together for it. :^)
2750) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Q&A about the ATA shutdown. (Message 1103589)
Posted 5 May 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The Green Bank data is sure to happen...


Excellent. I'd been wondering whether this was still ongoing as hadn't seen any updates since the original notification from Dec. 2010.

I guess there's no timeframe yet, but it's good to know it's still planned.
2751) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Kepler and the Green Bank Telescope (Message 1103294)
Posted 4 May 2011 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'd guess that it's being asked whether there are any developments for the Kepler/Green Bank project, as I came here to ask precisely this as well...

Any official news/updates?

I'll bring another cruncher box online just for it. :)

Edit: WTH happened to my BOINC stats. sig? Lol.
2752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bet you didn't know this shXX (Message 1061580)
Posted 30 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The electric guitar was not invented by your hero.

I think most people know that.


If the "hero" was Les Paul, actually he did invent, or at least build, the first solid-body electric ever, the first true electric. Previous electrics were acoustics with retrofitted electronics.

He couldn't sell it though (it was just an unaesthetic prototype he called the "log".) Soon after in 1950 Leo Fender made the first commercial solid-body electric: the Telecaster. It did very well, so when Les improved his design and went back to Gibson they accepted and released the first Les Paul in 1952.

Enough trivia for one day... I'm sure a Google will find all this and more. :^)
2753) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Is there a plan to not only use Arecibo data? (Message 1061257)
Posted 30 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
SAH has plans to start collecting data from this telescope starting in 2011. This will be to survey the exoplanets found by the Kepler mission which NASA will release the data of in February.

Pretty exciting stuff (at least for someone who's been following the project this long!) I found out about it from an e-mail asking for donations. Given the recent server problems as well, I kicked in a few $. Hope everyone else does too. :^)
2754) Message boards : Number crunching : Emergency fund drive for the project............. (Message 1060349)
Posted 28 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thank you for your gift of $20.00 via Visa on 12/27/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $20.00

Your confirmation number is:
68329


The green of my little star was fading. I restored the green for Green Bank. Consider it a belated Christmas present. Green is a good colour for that too.

...in February of 2011, NASA is slated to release data from the Kepler Mission, containing the location of several new exoplanets that could potentially be home to intelligent life. In 2011, we hope to perform a targeted search of the Kepler field, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. This search would also be done at the Green Bank Telescope.

In order to carry out these exciting new plans, we would like to ask you again for your support.


You have it. :^)

It may not be much, but if everyone running SAH gave $5, there would be no funding shortage.
Happily taking up the slack for three others.
2755) Message boards : Number crunching : too much work being downloaded...sometimes.. (Message 1056377)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Einstein thread on this problem...

Worst project for this to happen on for the admins. as the WU's are 10MB (10x1MB files.) All that wasted on aborts.
2756) Message boards : News : Workunit Shortage (Message 1056311)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Missed that... thank you.
2757) Message boards : News : Workunit Shortage (Message 1056293)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wednesday and all the splitters are down yet everything else is working; the original problem in this thread was solved days ago. One host is about to run out of work again. Wonder what's causing it...
2758) Message boards : Number crunching : Time has come 2 this (Message 1056085)
Posted 14 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I like how Carl Sagan put it as it's non-numeric. The quantities are difficult to imagine. :^)

The energy from all the extraterrestrial signals ever collected and analyzed at all the radio telescopes worldwide is less than that of a single snowflake striking the ground.
2759) Message boards : Number crunching : New server problems (Dec 11) ? (Message 1055841)
Posted 14 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'd wager that a man on a rifle range is more apt to be a defender than an offender, so I wrote to the owner of 5293938 as well. It's been nice knowing you all. ;^)
2760) Message boards : Number crunching : New server problems (Dec 11) ? (Message 1055514)
Posted 12 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm not going to waste my time sending him/her a PM. Anyone else is welcome to - but keep it civil, please.


Done and done... I've probably sent over ten for the same reason (I was checking my machines for bad results and in the process finding others out there.)

So far, quite a few pleased replies and no displeased.
2761) Message boards : Politics : NEZ (Message 1055167)
Posted 11 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...projects that hand out credit like candy.


Hand out? As in... distribute? ;^)
2762) Message boards : Politics : NEZ (Message 1055100)
Posted 11 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As of this moment NEZ has 579,769,461 credits.


Indeed, still the leader by a factor of over two.

I'll pass him in about sixty years at this rate. Given Moore's Law, more like fifteen.
2763) Message boards : Politics : NEZ (Message 1055077)
Posted 11 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As far as I could find or ever heard, he resigned and that was the end of it.
2764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1054271)
Posted 9 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What if santa goes bonkers


He'll be Nicked and confined to a santarium. Living that far north can drive one bi-pole-ar. All that ice can cause skatesophrenia.
2765) Message boards : Number crunching : Splitters is now running. New work is coming. (Message 1054158)
Posted 9 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
crunch...crunch.............belly full yeah.thanks


08/12/2010 9:42:27 PM SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
08/12/2010 9:42:27 PM SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress


Ah, finally.
2766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1054145)
Posted 9 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
as they make toys, they sing "Love Me Tender."


Specifically toy trains? :^)
2767) Message boards : Number crunching : Splitters is now running. New work is coming. (Message 1053923)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I hope everyone returning here from Einstein does it the graceful way - set 'No New Tasks' for Einstein, and let the ones you already have crunch out in the fullness of time.


Well, I wanted to, but...
2768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1053710)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I don't recall seeing that Santa's elves are subordinate clauses yet. So I mention it, just beclause. That was so bad, I may clause my own face off. Is it too early for a mod to clause this thread? Stuck in this sentence, I'm developing clausetrophobia, though most get it from being trapped in a clauset.
2769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It's been a month and half!! where r thoes servers?! (Message 1053651)
Posted 7 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Looks like it's back up... http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

Over half the splitters up, 24 WU's a second being created. Of course they are being picked up as soon as they are made. I did get a trickle of CUDA tasks on one box.

Don't hammer on the Update as there's now a five minute request time limit. :^)

Thanks Kittyman. Wouldn't be here without your efforts.
2770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It's been a month and half!! where r thoes servers?! (Message 1053565)
Posted 7 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Duct tape is like the Force: it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
2771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1053020)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What do you call a person upchucking in a coma? -- VOMITOSE.


Nice astronomical reference there... the coma is the gaseous envelope around the nucleus of a comet. That would make it the Vomit Comet.

And thanks for the welcome. :^)
2772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1053011)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Here are my horrid, and original as far as I know, contributions that are themed to SETI and SAH. Enjoy if possible. :^D

-----------

I built a new rig to go higher in the rankings, but forgot the NVidia video card. I CUDA been a contender.

I'd overclock if I could find the time.

D = (# of rap stars) * (Fraction of rap stars who are Canadian) * (Fraction of rap stars of mixed ancestry)
The Drake Equation

What's the difference between the world's largest radio telescope and the movie "10"?
One is Arecibo, the other is where I see Bo.

At first I thought BOINC was only for Apple computers as it requires at least one core.

I think the notion that aliens might want to eat us must be true if they talk to us in microwaves.
2773) Message boards : Number crunching : Just got 3 WU's for GPU! (Message 1052775)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
While it has not gotten any new WUs, my credit has gone up by 400 in the past week. How is that possible?


All WU's are sent to at least two computers for validation and ones you did earlier finally got validated by someone else so you were now awarded the credit.

Since I was so close to five million I was able to see mine go up by about 20K since the outage... bonus. I didn't think I'd break that barrier.
2774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My clock runneth backwards! (Message 1052749)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some projects have been known to be off by 10 orders of magnitude in their initial estimate.


{Stickler}That would be like giving an estimate of one minute but instead it takes over 19,000 years.

One order of magnitude perhaps?{/Stickler}
2775) Message boards : Number crunching : whilst SETIs been off.... (Message 1052222)
Posted 1 Dec 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
TigerDirect had a sale... whole quad-core AMD built-it-yourself system for $200. So I got one and threw a $49 9800GT card in it. Currently burning it in on Einstein@Home awaiting the proverbial floodgates to open here.

The GF thinks it was for her. ;^)
2776) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 11 year club (Message 1051913)
Posted 29 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Still around... got distracted with other projects, but when the SAH admins. put out the call a few years ago asking for us to return to handle the increased workload, I gladly rejoined the fold.

I notice that dcappello seems to be the earliest joining Apr. 3rd of 1999. I wonder what took me a month... there must have been a test pilot. I know that I was very much anticipating the project going public and have lost none of that enthusiasm as I have just as much anticipation for the end of the current outage!

Though our years number elevens,
We still listen to the heavens.
Great discoveries require
Patient minds that never tire.
2777) Message boards : Number crunching : lack of work (Message 1051873)
Posted 29 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Main page: "The project is down while we remodel our database servers." Been down for a month. Might be back up this week. Any work you may get is a resend.
2778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beer Drinkers thread part 3 (Message 1051211)
Posted 26 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Ah, a beer thread. If there's one thing I like as much as SAH and BOINC...

I sing the praises of U-Brew aka brew-on-premises. Of course, your mileage may vary given the skill of the brewmeister, but I've been frequenting one for several years now and find it perfect.

For those unfamiliar with this, you pay for (reusable) bottles, the brewmeister makes your beer in a keg on the premises with your minimal involvement (some places have laws that you must at least pitch the yeast) and you bottle it yourself with onsite equipment.

Why I love it:

1) It's phenomenally good. Most make all-natural four-ingredient ("Reinheitsgebot") unpasteurized beers, as fresh and tasty as beer can get. If the brewmeister is skilled it's pure heaven and better than what you can get at the beer store, due to bring absolutely fresh and not being pasteurized which kills a lot of the flavour.

2) It's inexpensive. I pay about $1.10 a pint for the best beer I've ever had, which is 30-40% less than even crappy chemically domestic blah commercial beer costs. The reusable bottles (plastic, never glass as they can explode when being filled) can be rinsed and refilled hundreds of times.

3) It's customizable. Most places have dozens of recipes, all manners of ales, lagers, darks, lights and exotics that you can't buy in the beer store (ie low-carb beer for reduced weight gain.) Plus since it's made on premises to order, your brewmeister will usually be happy to tailor your beer to your taste.

For anyone in the Toronto area, the one I like is called Mister Beer U-Brew and has locations in Scarborough and Thornhill. Should you frequent there please tell Nick and/or Nick Jr. that Kevin sends his highest regards. I'll be bottling this weekend and the anticipation is almost too much.

Cheers! :^)
2779) Message boards : Technical News : oscar is now running informix (Message 1051098)
Posted 25 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
To the SAH folks there at Berkeley,
All the best... Enjoy your turkley,
And please send us some workley. :^)
2780) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : This universe of ours is interesting (Message 1051083)
Posted 25 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
A top British scientist says we may never know all the secrets of the universe because, quite simply, we're just not smart enough.

"Just as Einstein's ideas would baffle a chimpanzee," said President of the Royal Society Lord Martin Rees, gaining a full understanding of how the universe works might not be possible "simply because they're beyond human brains."


"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
--- Arthur C. Clarke
2781) Message boards : Number crunching : Return of Seti Pool (Message 1050833)
Posted 24 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Right now. :^)

(I just got 20 WU's.)
2782) Message boards : Number crunching : What is your power bill (Message 1050497)
Posted 23 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"What is your power bill?"

$0.00

There are some benefits to apartment living. :^)
2783) Message boards : Technical News : Welcome Carolyn and Oscar (Nov 17 2010) (Message 1049626)
Posted 19 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Wouldn't it have made sense, while the space was available, and before you installed the new computers, to have un-snarled that ball of cable sitting on top?


I thought those were a server room requirement...
2784) Message boards : Number crunching : lack of work killed my video card (Message 1047727)
Posted 12 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
i mean in humour!!


Hah... yes, figured that. ;^)

I'd guessed you were British before I saw the little flag. Wordplay is appreciated there. I should move someday!

I hope that the SETI@Home admins. are true to their word about these new servers giving the project more capacity (read: no more running out of work.) I've ordered a new quaddie for the occasion and hope it won't sit idle.

I guess it could crunch other projects, but none of them seem to have both unofficial optimized clients and CUDA like this one does so the credits are half or less. And finding ETI is the most inspirational of them all IMHO.
2785) Message boards : Number crunching : lack of work killed my video card (Message 1047708)
Posted 12 Nov 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Since SETI workunits are radio-frequency, I think there's a song in there...

♪ "No radio killed the video card..." ♫ :^p
2786) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows screensavers may stop CUDA processing (Message 1043431)
Posted 21 Oct 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Windows XP SP3 with all updates.
I noticed this because when the screensaver came on the GPU fan stopped. So I Googled and found this and this among others.

I was using "Blank" as a screensaver (obviously for no CPU load) and it still happened. There was no CPU throttling that I know of. This only happened when the timed screensaver kicked in. If I started it myself with a extended keyboard button, the GPU fan would run until the screensaver timeout expired.

Known issue?
2787) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems... (Message 979228)
Posted 16 Mar 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
The same thing is yet again happening. Uploads mostly failing at 0%, but some are completing to 100% and still failing and needing to be retried. It appears uploads have been broken for about a day, and they won't fix until the server is reset.

Edit: Three days as per below, which is the same duration as the last time.
2788) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems... (Message 972267)
Posted 20 Feb 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Could very well be a network problem. I can't tell. All I know is that there is a problem, and it's been around since Day 1, and I hope someone "official" can have a look at it as it's severely wasting the already-limited resources of this project. <<shrug>>

Thanks again. :^)
2789) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems... (Message 972261)
Posted 20 Feb 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Bits in and out is never equal, because the wast difference in size of what we download and upload.


You're right... I forgot the disparate sizes. IIRC the outbound workunits are, what, about 300KB, but the inbound results are about... 30KB? So bits in should be about one-tenth of bits out. Instead the average is that it's four times bits out, or about forty times too large. So that equates to about 98% wasted bandwidth, or about one workunit completing for every forty that get to 100% and then need to be retried.

Houston, do we have a problem? :^p
2790) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems... (Message 972254)
Posted 20 Feb 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks! That will get a bookmark.

From TFU:

Values at last update:

Average bits in (for the day):
Cur: 14.92 Mbits/sec
Avg: 31.15 Mbits/sec
Max: 74.39 Mbits/sec

Average bits out (for the day):
Cur: 4.53 Mbits/sec
Avg: 5.67 Mbits/sec
Max: 10.20 Mbits/sec


This pretty well shows there's a problem... bits in and out should be roughly equal. But bits in is respectively 3, 5 and 7 times what bits out is. There's all the wasted bandwidth from incomplete uploads.
2791) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems... (Message 972245)
Posted 20 Feb 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
After a normal weekly outage though, the bandwidth is maxed out. Now it isn't even used 25%.


Got an URL for this? Thanks.
2792) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems... (Message 972243)
Posted 20 Feb 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But the cricket graphs show the bandwidth utilization to be much lower than normal. The issue is IMO something else. A router or a switch, either on the SETI side, or in between the users and SETI.


Likely (I don't even know where to find that) but whatever it is, it's been happening from the first outage since BOINC was released. Just retried my pending uploads. Two got to 100% and then timed out, the next two failed and then the client went into "Project Backoff."
2793) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems... (Message 972229)
Posted 20 Feb 2010 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'm hoping that this may be actually seen by a bona fide BOINC developer. Maybe I should post in a BOINC forum but that isn't where the outage happened.

So, the most recent outage happened on Feb. 17th. It's now Feb. 20th and I still have 24 workunits that won't upload. I can't get new ones until they do so my clients are idle. I have seen this happen on perhaps a dozen outages as I've been running SAH with BOINC (and without) since their day of release.

The problem seems to be on the upload server side. The server seems to accept so many connections for upload that it has none left to send the required confirmations to the clients. Whatever the mechanism that is causing it, the results can be seen on the client plainly: uploads partially or even completely finish but they still time out and then need to be restarted from zero. This saturates the upload server's bandwidth.

I sometimes see half or more of the "Upload Pending" workunits with 50%-100% progress bars. So all of that is wasted bandwidth. Multiply that by a few thousand clients constantly hammering the server and it's no wonder that an outage will knock out the uploads for days. The inbound connections and bandwidth is maxed but the vast majority of it is being wasted. This is the longest that I have ever seen it happen for.

If BOINC is to be touted as a viable platform for scientific computing I think that this issue really should be addressed. It makes the problems caused by outages last several times longer than they should.

Thank you and flame away. :^p

Edit: All of the uploads seem to be failing at 100% from the most recent outage. I've seen perhaps one or two exceptions to the hundreds(?) of failures at 100%.
2794) Questions and Answers : Windows : Errors Uploading data (Message 918429)
Posted 16 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
But in any way, what you're doing is showing signs that you think you are more important than anyone else. Like driving over the emergency lane to by-pass a queue, or taking the off-ramp and the on-ramp again to skip ahead in a queue, or cutting in line at the supermarket, bank or any store... with enough people doing it that way, the time will come that the option will be removed from BOINC Manager... What makes your returned work more important than that of others?


Your post is rude, arrogant and self-righteous. Who the hell do you think you are talking to someone like this? You've belittled me in the past (check the posting history) every time I've said anything. I don't know what I've ever done to deserve your vitriol, but I suggest you complain to the BOINC developers if you don't like that function being there. I'm surprised you didn't go full Godwin on me and tell me that Hitler liked to push through his workunits too. Really.

Oh, and when I got to my other machine, exactly as I said, the client had run out of work because it had too many queued uploads so I had to do this to clear them like this. That is why I suggested this if you would bother to read what I said, not because I somehow think my workunits are better than other people's! How childish.
2795) Questions and Answers : Windows : Errors Uploading data (Message 918338)
Posted 16 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If you're O.C. about S@H like I am, click Advanced -> Do network communication. That will change all the queued WU's to upload from "Retry in ##:##:##" to "Upload pending" state. I'll do this whenever they've all gone back to "Retry..." I cleared off about two hundred queued on my primary machine this way. The problem is that the client doesn't seem to want to download any work if there are too many queued transfers, so if there are continuously the client will run out of work, especially as there's a shortage of work recently to add to the problem.
2796) Questions and Answers : Windows : Errors Uploading data (Message 918252)
Posted 15 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Boinc will show 100% uploaded even if only the connection request fails. It only indicates how much of the file was buffered for upload. It doesn't mean that any part of the file has been uploaded. If the connection succeeds the file will upload.


Sorry, but I have to disagree, as I see some of the files go to fractional percentages, ie 62.77% or equivalent. And if it was true that the 100% is it showing pre-buffering before it even contacts the server, why don't they all do that instead of mostly sit at 0%? And why do the ones that go to 100% go to it at the same rate as the upload takes place, ie you can watch it increment?
2797) Questions and Answers : Windows : Errors Uploading data (Message 918218)
Posted 15 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I can't understand why SETI@home have in general more problems on upload than on download server if the size of uploaded result (MultiBeam) is ~ 30/300 KB = 10% of the downloaded WorkUnit.


I know it may be disagreed with, but I can guaran-frickin-tee that there is something wrong with the upload server, perhaps with its coding. I've watched it happen dozens of times that workunits will pile up in my upload queue but many of them have uploaded to 100% and the confirmation never gets back to client so the upload fails; this happens to many clients that then keep retrying their uploads to 100% completion, bandwidth gets saturated from the retried uploads and then the downloads don't work either. Again, this has been happening once or twice a week. Only this time has bruno's status changed so perhaps it was finally brought offline and fixed.

I wonder if anything is actually getting uploaded.


On the status page under Data Distribution State is Results received in last hour. It was around 3K last time I checked and now it's around 9K, or about 3 results/sec.
2798) Questions and Answers : Windows : Errors Uploading data (Message 918098)
Posted 15 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Bruno the upload server is back up, but still getting all my uploads failing (it must be at least partly up as they no longer fail instantly but time out.) It will probably be quite a long time before the queue is cleared given that several times a week it gets swamped and drops connections even with not having been down for a day!

Edit: Yup, on this machine (about sixty queued uploads) only one partially went through and the rest timed out at zero progress.
2799) Questions and Answers : Windows : Errors Uploading data (Message 917964)
Posted 15 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If you check the server status page you'll see that the upload server "bruno" (not named from the recent film :^D ) is offline. There are often problems uploading when it isn't but in this case it's completely down and has been since yesterday.
2800) Questions and Answers : Preferences : I can't Get Boinc to upload (Message 914350)
Posted 5 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
As the graph shows, the bandwidth has been pegged at almost max for many hours now. And until Seti can get a new line in/out of the building, this won't change much.


But why is the bandwidth maxed? Because the clients are retrying their uploads over and over, they go to 100% and then fail because they don't get the confirmation, so they retry.

Again, it took ten tries or more when I manually retried the uploads before they would complete. And much of the time, rather than failing at 0% they uploaded completely to 100% and then failed. So with hundreds of clients doing this simultaneously with the same WU's to be uploaded, all the bandwidth is being wasted on repeated failed uploads. Seen this happen dozens of times. <<shrug>>
2801) Questions and Answers : Preferences : I can't Get Boinc to upload (Message 914340)
Posted 5 Jul 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This problem with the upload server seems to happen every couple of days. Eventually the WUs get through; however it takes so many retries that on a fast/multiprocessor PC, queued uploads accumulate faster than they are uploaded so the client doesn't request more WU's and eventually runs out of them.

I merely manually retry the upload repeatedly until the queue is gone. Some of them take ten or more retries unfortunately.

The problem seems to be that the confirmation of completed upload never gets from the server to the client; I see many of the uploads get to 100% but they still fail and are retried. When this happens, with hundreds of clients repeating their uploads over and over, the server gets swamped and then new uploads won't even start properly. Hoping that it will finally get fixed eventually!
2802) Questions and Answers : Windows : Cannot download WUs! (Message 911419)
Posted 25 Jun 2009 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I think that the problem is the same one that was happening before (last week?) when uploads/downloads were hanging. I have exclusively uploads that are stuck, and many of them are getting to 100% and then reporting "Temporarily failed upload of {WU name}HTTP error" rather than failing at 0%.

This would seem to indicate that perhaps there is a problem with the confirmation of completion not getting to the clients, so all the clients retry the same uploads/downloads over and over and the server(s) end up getting swamped so then some uploads/downloads can't even start.

I've seen this happen in every one of these outages so it may be worth investigating.
2803) Questions and Answers : Windows : Upload server(?) still borked (Message 797917)
Posted 14 Aug 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
See this post from Eric...


Ah, thank you. As long as it's known about that's fine.
2804) Questions and Answers : Windows : Upload server(?) still borked (Message 797896)
Posted 14 Aug 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
All my WU's are uploading (very slowly) but then once they hit 100% I imagine whatever confirmation of completion isn't being received as they then fail, ie:

14/08/2008 2:11:39 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 2 min 49 sec on upload of 14mr08aa.31716.6616.3.8.44_0_0
14/08/2008 2:11:40 PM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.

This is even at 100% upload completion. This is probably going to choke the upload server as every WU needs to be completely resent and inevitably fails again.

Although I'm posting this in "Windows" there's no general forum fo the SAH infrastructure (this isn't a website problem) so no other place I can see to put it. Hope it can be seen.
2805) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can't get extra work units (Message 772438)
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Thanks for the answers here as I was having the same problem even though I have BOINC running 24/7 and have for months. Somehow it was not updating client_state.xml properly. When I checked it yesterday it was saying communication to the SAH server was deferred for 2,800+ hours (!) and it would not pick up any WU's. I checked client_state.xml and my <active_frac> was set to 0.000101 though it's been on 24/7 (other than during power failures) for months. I manually edited that to 0.99 and now it's fine.
2806) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Study: Alien life might be non-existent (Message 750709)
Posted 10 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I merely disagree with making premature conclusions about cutting out vast amounts of stars from the pool of possibilities based on outdated or incomplete research.


Again, I'm not saying life is impossible near anything but a G class main sequence star, but if we want to maximize our chances of finding it, that's where we should be looking.

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star..." said Carl Sagan. Unfortunately, as much as I admire him, that's outdated. We now know that the sun is in the top 15% in terms of size and brightness; as noted earlier, most stars are red dwarfs, and only one in a thousand stars in our galaxy are G2's like old Sol.
2807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 749045)
Posted 6 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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19. Three people (A, B, and C) need to cross a bridge. A can cross the bridge in 10 minutes, B can cross in 5 minutes, and C can cross in 2 minutes. There is also a bicycle available and any person can cross the bridge in 1 minute with the bicycle. What is the shortest time that all men can get across the bridge? Each man travels at their own constant rate.

A is the slowpoke, so give A the bicycle, he arrives at the end in 1 minute.
C arrives at the end in 2 minutes, takes the bicycle, rides back to B who is currently at the 2/5 mark so they have to cover 3/5 in total to intersect.
B covers 1/5 of the bridge per minute, C on bicycle covers 5/5 per minute, so they intersect in (3/5)/(1/5+5/5) = 1/2 minute. Time now 2 1/2 minutes.
B takes bicycle and goes to end; don't have to calculate that as C is now the bottleneck.
B was (2 1/2)/(5) or 1/2 of the way across the bridge leaving 1/2 left. C runs back to end in 1 minute and all have crossed.
Total time is 3 1/2 minutes or 3 mins. 30 seconds.
2808) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending Credit (Message 748913)
Posted 6 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Now here's some pending credit.
2809) Message boards : Number crunching : Special thanks for AK V8 application (Message 748255)
Posted 4 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Phenomenal! Q6600 Kentsfield here. Just started using the SSE3 client today and my average WU times have gone from about 2.5 hours to just over an hour, less than half the time. Core temps. have gone up a degree or two as noted. Was running about 60C on all cores, now 61-62C.

All WU's thus submitted that were quorum validated were good, no errors in the client, everything looks fine at twice the speed.

Thank you!
2810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 747635)
Posted 3 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Is Q17 an "Easy" or "Hard"? ie, do Mr. Rothamel and myself get to answer it?
2811) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Study: Alien life might be non-existent (Message 747562)
Posted 3 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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...Furthermore, if life were found on Europa, it would suggest that our current notions of a "habitable zone" must be vastly and dramatically expanded and that surface water or even direct access to sunlight need not be present for life to evolve...


And individual stars have their own "habitable zones" which aren't conducive to life.

There are at least 200 billion, and perhaps 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. We'll go with the middle ground of 300 billion.

First, we're not in the galactic core, but out in a spiral arm. The core of a galaxy probably isn't a good place for any sort of life to form. It's certainly possible, but it's less likely. For any sort of life that we can imagine, chemicals have to get together in replicating patterns, and such patterns are fragile. In the core, the stellar density is much higher. Too many nearby stars going "foom" would sterilize nearby planets with radiation. Plus there's a supermassive black hole in there, and probably in the cores of most if not all galaxies; matter falling into a black hole sings a swan song in sterilizing X-rays. So although it's possible, it's less likely to find life in the core. Because the stellar density in the bulge and core of the Milky Way is much higher than out here in the suburbs, about half the stars in the galaxy are there (if I remember correctly... I couldn't find much data on this.) We're down to 150 billion stars where life is likely.

About 85% of stars are red dwarfs. They are tiny and dim. Although they do produce enough energy to support planets with life, there are two problems. First, because they are so tiny, their habitable zone (the orbital radius of a planet which leads to temperatures agreeable with life) is very narrow, so any planets are likely to be baked or frozen. Secondly, because they are tiny, the orbital radius of planets in the habitable zone will be correspondingly smaller. Tidal locking, where the rotation of an orbiting body gradually becomes the same as its orbital period due to tidal friction, increases as a high power of the inverse radius of the orbit. There are numerous examples in our own solar system: our moon, Mercury and many of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter are tidally locked so that the same side faces the larger body. One side will freeze and one will bake. Although there will be a narrow band of intermediate temperature around the night/day interface, it would be very small and thus reduce the chance for life to form, and certainly for it to propagate. If the planet has an atmosphere, because of the turbulence between the cold night side and the hot day side, it would be a climate of perpetual storm. So, red dwarfs aren't a good place to look for life either. Again, it's certainly possible, but it's not very probable. If we want to maximize our chances of finding life, we can't waste effort on them. We're down to 22 billion stars.

About 6% of that original 150 billion are white dwarfs. These are the cores of stars that finished their main sequences, expanded to red giants and blew off their outer layers. The white dwarf is the slowly cooling remnant. In blowing off their outer layers, any planets that were in the habitable zone were baked. Any atmosphere they had was blown away, any oceans boiled, any life on or near the surface sterilized. So we'll have to subtract a futher 9 billion and are down to 13 billion stars. (Red giants (not including stars at the end of their main sequence) are also not good (rather... very poor) candidates because of their short life, which won't allow enough time for life to get started. However, there aren't enough of them to be included.)

About three-quarters of these remaining stars are in binary systems. Only about half of those can have planets with stable orbits; binary systems are a "three-body" problem which leads to unstable orbits and planets being flung off into deep space. So we're down to 8 billion stars.

We've gone down from 300 billion to only 8 billion, 2.6% of the original total in a few steps. There are plenty more steps but I don't have time to continue. :^) Also I am avoiding any sort of anthropism by eliminating metal-poor systems, etc.

There are still some nice possibilities. Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away and is a star pretty similar to our sun (and it's appropriately named... ie Tau Seti. Heh.) But it's a hard universe out there so we shouldn't expect life everywhere we look.
2812) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Fresnel telescope in development (Message 747171)
Posted 2 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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I had thought that Fresnel lenses, even though flat and thin, had concentric zones that had progressively steeper inclines to duplicate the function of a heavy thick lens. Maybe the ones in this discussion are completely different.


Correct... they're Fresnel zone plates that use diffraction so are flat.

This is what makes me so absolutely 100% certain that any older civilization in our galaxy (if they exist) would have to be aware of the fact that there's life on Earth right this very minute as you read this;

We more or less have the technology to detect the same fact in other star systems right now!


Good point. And an older civilization might want to send a beacon to any planets like this that they find. I'm glad we're finally listening.
2813) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Fresnel telescope in development (Message 747015)
Posted 2 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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While there are many technical hurdles (especially regarding focusing) to overcome, this is an interesting project.

Telescope could focus light without a mirror or lens

"A proposed space telescope would focus light primarily with a patterned sheet of metal rather than a large mirror or lens. The telescope would have amazingly sharp vision and could spot Earth-size planets around other stars, its backers say.
...
A 30-metre Fresnel imager would be powerful enough to see Earth-sized planets within 30 light years of Earth, and measure the planets' light spectrum to look for signs of life, such as atmospheric oxygen. The Fresnel imager could also measure the properties of very young galaxies in the distant universe and take detailed images of objects in our own solar system."
2814) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mmm pfmppfpmfmfffmpmpp mmmpppffmfmpmfpmffpppmfm mfmppfmppfmm fmpmfppffmppmmmmpm (Message 746581)
Posted 1 May 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Mmm mfmppfppfmpm mpmmmmffm mpfppfpff mmmpmfpmf mffppp Fmfpppmfffmpmppmpm Ppmmmmmmffmm, mmmpppmpm ppmmmmffm fmpmfpmpp pffmmmmffppp pmpmppmpppfm ppfmpfmpf ffmppffmfpff fppppfpffpmpmffpppmfmfmm


Mff fppppfpppmpmmpppff mfpppffpp ppmmmmpppffm ppffmffmpfmmmffmpmmpp Mpppppmfmpmfmmmpppmpm fppmffpmfpmf mfmmppfmp fmpmfpmmmfmp.
2815) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Study: Alien life might be non-existent (Message 746278)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Is the data used by SETI@Home sensitive enough to capture and detect leakage from alien TV and cellphone systems?


Cell phone is out of the question as transmitters are not strong, only having to cover a line of sight cell. It's said that Arecibo could listen to a cell phone call on Saturn, but the stars are orders of magnitude further, and remember that signal strength drops by the square of the distance.

Even a signal similar in strength to a TV broadcast, even from a close star, which given the surmised rarity of intelligent life makes it unlikely, would be too weak.

Some numbers: an omnidirectional signal from a star 4 light years away would be a spread out over a spherical shell with an area of about 1.8x10^34 square metres. A 1 megawatt omnidirectional TV signal at that distance would provide only 5.5x10^-29 watts per square metre. While the SETI@Home receiver is extraordinarily sensitive, the weakest signal that will be processed is about 5.3x10^-25 watts per square metre, the level used in finding triplets, which is only about 8 times stronger than the noise background beneath which no signal can be extracted. So our extraterrestrial TV broadcast would be ten thousand times too weak to be detected.

What we could find at these distances is a tightly focused, short-duration beacon. But, as you've noted, there haven't been many sent from here, so can we expect anyone else out there to?

Perhaps, if someone is out there, they aren't as fearful as humanity seems to be.
2816) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Study: Alien life might be non-existent (Message 746094)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Something I always wonder... Are we *sending* loads of radio signals to space?


Only unintentionally... leakage of radio, TV, cell phone, radar, if they can get through the atmosphere. The only deliberate and sufficiently powerful beacon signal I know of that was ever sent to space was this famous one sent from the very same Arecibo observatory that gathers the SETI@Home signals. And that was 34 years ago.
2817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745975)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Great link WinterKnight!
@Mr. Kevvy, I would like people to try and use pencil + paper.... but there is no way of knowing if people do it with a calculator....
So using a calculator is discouraged but not breaking any rules.....


Geez, I wrote a Python script for # 10. :^)
2818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745972)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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No answers today, just dropped in to post this link Mental workout 'boosts the brain'.


Good link... and exactly why I'm here: keep brain from turning into mush.
2819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745970)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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By any chance, were you using a calculator?


Yes, for the division. Did we have to use pencil and paper for the arithmetic? ;^)
2820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745967)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Umm.... I'm sorta looking for a decimal figure....
SO I'll have to say that's incorrect....


OK... 1 in 13 is 0.0(769230)
(just 1 divided by 13.)
2821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745963)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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17. A standard pack of cards is thrown into the air in such a way that each card, independently, is equally likely to land face up or face down. The total value of the cards which landed face up is then calculated. (Card values are assigned as follows: Ace=1, 2=2, ... , 10=10, Jack=11, Queen=12, King=13. There are no jokers.) What is the probability that the total value is divisible by 13?


It's equally probable that the cards land face up or face down, so that doesn't change the outcome, and there's an equal distribution of all the values (as opposed to card games such as cribbage where all the face cards are worth 10, or having more of one value card than another, etc.) So I'll go with the simple answer: 1 in 13, or 13 to 1. I can't see how it could be otherwise.
2822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745651)
Posted 29 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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15. HARD -The police commissioner hired a mathematician to help at a crime scene. At the scene were between 100 and 200 glasses of wine. Exactly one glass was poisoned. The police lab could test any sampling for poison. A group of glasses could be tested simultaneously by mixing a sample from each glass. The police commissioner desires only to minimize the maximum possible tests required to determine which exact glass was poisoned. The mathematician started by asking a detective to select a single glass at random for testing. "Wouldn't that waste a test?", the detective asked. "No, besides I'm in a gambling mood.", the mathematician replied. How many glasses were there?


I go with 129 glasses. 128 is a power of 2, and he wants the group to be an even power of two for elimination-by-halves testing, so the 129th is the odd one out.

14. EASY - You have two blocks of clay in cube form and the edges are 10 cm. How many spheres with a radius of 5 cm can you make with that amount of clay?


You have 2x10^3 or 2,000cc of clay. Volume of sphere is 4/3 Pi r^3 so for a 5cm radius sphere is ~523cc. So you could make only 3 spheres and have about 430cc of clay left over.
2823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745629)
Posted 28 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
10. Partial differential equations required.
Water flows into a tank at a rate of 1 gallon per second. Water leaves the tank at a rate of 1 gallon per second for each 100 gallons in the tank.
The tank is initially empty. How long will it take for the tank to fill with 50 gallons of water?


Phooey on partial differential equations! :^p Tried this several times with calculus and gave up getting as far as integrating both sides. Too rusty I am. I settled for an imperfect numerical analysis by writing a tiny Python script:

def fill(n):
	V, t = 0.000000, 0.000000
	while V < 50:
		V, t = V-((V*n)/100)+n, t+n
	print V, t


This will provide a closer and closer approximation with smaller values of n.

>>> fill(1)
50.0162970101 69.0
69 seconds there...

>>> fill(.001)
50.0003142596 69.315
69.315 seconds there, now have perhaps four digits correct.

>>> fill(0.000001)
50.0000000894 69.314717917
This took about 15 seconds even on a quad, sucking cycles from SAH. Notice how close the V value now is to 50. I found what that t value is. ln(2) is 0.69314718055994530941723212145818 to as many digits as Windows calculator will deliver. t is close enough to 100ln(2) (which would make perfect sense as the natural log turns up in the integral) that I can call that the answer.

Yes, these problems are not easy. :^)
2824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745265)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Never mind... I just duplicated ScaryCapitalist's answer, so I retract mine. Guess I have to do it the hard way. :^p
2825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 745251)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
12a. Which Chess Square will contain 4096 grains of rice.?
12b. How many grains are on the 18th square?
12c. Which Chess Square will contain 32768 grains of rice?
12d. How much rice does the first half of the Chessboard Contain?
12e. How much rice is there the 64th Square alone?
12f. How much rice is there on the whole chessboard?


12a. Which Chess Square will contain 4096 grains of rice.?
The 13th square.

12b. How many grains are on the 18th square?
131,072

12c. Which Chess Square will contain 32768 grains of rice?
The 16th

12d. How much rice does the first half of the Chessboard Contain?
That would be the first 32 squares, up to 2^31, which sums to 2^32-1 grains (because sum from 0 to n of 2^n is 2^(n+1)-1) or
4,294,967,295 grains

12e. How much rice is there the 64th Square alone?
9,223,372,036,854,775,808 grains

12f. How much rice is there on the whole chessboard?
As above, 2^64-1 grains or
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains
2826) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mmm pfmppfpmfmfffmpmpp mmmpppffmfmpmfpmffpppmfm mfmppfmppfmm fmpmfppffmppmmmmpm (Message 745085)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Double post due to a massive thunderstorm here


Fppmfpmmmfmp fmmppfpfffmp ppfmpf fmmfmppffmmmpppmfmmpp mmfppfmpmmpp mfffmm fmpmfpmfffmm?

Fmpmfpmpp pmfppfpppmfm mffpppmmfppfppmpfmpffmppmfpmpppppfmmmffmmppmfmpp ppfpppmpp.


Fmpmfpmppffm mmmpffmpp mmmpmfpmf pmfppfpppmfm mmmpppmpm mffpppmmfppfppmpfmpffmppmfpmpppppfmmmffmmppmfmpp.
2827) Message boards : Number crunching : Recent price cuts on Intel CPUs (Message 745076)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Correct, it's more a testbed on how to get the cores communicating fast enough to justify the huge number of cores. Plus the cores are pretty simple compared to modern ones, so they are slower, cooler and probably smarter when it comes to power and heat


Yup, it's experimental, but it's an indication of what's coming down the, er... "pipes" in a few years. Quads are selling like hotcakes, so there's an demonstrated market for processors as powerful as can be made.

Also each core may be slower than a production unit, but it still does a teraflop. Can't complain about that.
2828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ~ WARNING SIGNS ~ (Message 745064)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2829) Message boards : Number crunching : Recent price cuts on Intel CPUs (Message 745040)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So, you got the Q6600?


Aye. But no matter when you buy there's always something better in the works. Such as this... a prototype 80-core that uses less power than a 6700. Let the drooling commence!
2830) Message boards : Number crunching : Recent price cuts on Intel CPUs (Message 744866)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What is the differance from q6600 and q6700? besides 2.6 vs 2.4, is their a different multiplyer? does it oc better? I'm pretty pleased with my 6600.


Other than the stock clock being 2.40GHz on the 6600 and 2.66GHz on the 6700 I don't think there's any difference. The 6700 uses slightly less power and can run slightly hotter but no other performance changes.

Edit: scratch that... the multiplier is one higher. 9 on the 6600 and 10 on the 6700. I should have waited to buy. :^)

Specs for comparison: Q6600 and Q6700
2831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mmm pfmppfpmfmfffmpmpp mmmpppffmfmpmfpmffpppmfm mfmppfmppfmm fmpmfppffmppmmmmpm (Message 744825)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

??????????????


It's a puzzle. :^)
2832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mmm pfmppfpmfmfffmpmpp mmmpppffmfmpmfpmffpppmfm mfmppfmppfmm fmpmfppffmppmmmmpm (Message 744815)
Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Fmmfmmmmffmmffpffpfmmfmmmmfffpffpfmmffpffpfmmfmmffpffpfmmffpffpfmmfmmmmfffpffpfmmfmmfmmmmffmmfmmmmffmmffpffpfmmfmmmmffmmffpffpffpffpfmmfmmfmmmmffmmfmmmmffmmfmmmmf!
2833) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Gravity Waves... (Message 744604)
Posted 26 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Two stationary objects do attract. believe it or not the Gravitational constant was measured fairly accurately in the lab. They had a large metal sphere (400 lbs or so) and a much smaller one suspended from a boom hanging from a wire whose twist or torque could be measured.

This means that the heavy ball is like the bowling ball on the trampoline. It will warp the space round it forming a "Gravity Potential well"--the other mass would roll in towards it and hit it.


That much is beyond question, but the unanswered question is where the force comes from. One can describe it as space itself pushing the masses together, but forces need particles, so a particle (the graviton) was proposed as a carrier. If the virtual particle pairs already premeating all of space are doing the pushing, gravitons become an "unnecessary entity."
2834) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Gravity Waves... (Message 744514)
Posted 26 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
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Ah good... the thread's been cleaned up. For what it's worth, I had an idea as well when I was posting earlier and reading over some of the ideas here. So here's my untested gravity speculation o'the day.

I've always wondered where the force aspect of gravity emerges from. For orbiting bodies already in motion relative to each other, visualizing them as taking the shortest path through curved spacetime is well and good and explains their motion.

However, it doesn't explain why two bodies initially at rest with each other feel a force and start moving towards each other, whereas they were initially at rest. For that, to agree with the rest of quantum mechanics we need a force exchange particle, which has been theorized to be the graviton.

Well, maybe we don't need gravitons.

"Empty" space is currently accepted to be anything but. Instead it's a sea of barely-there virtual particle pairs that come into existence and annihilate each other, in such a small amount of time and with such small energies that they can't be directly detected, because their energy/time of existence is less than Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle allows for the detection of.

These virtual particles already power one of the better-known ideas of theoretical physics: Hawking Radiation. If a particle pair comes into existence at the event horizon of a black hole. it's possible that one particle may be inside and one outside. The one inside can never escape. The one outside does as its partner particle is no longer there to annihilate with, so it appears as though the black hole has emitted a particle. In order for the energy budget to be balanced, the mass-energy of the black hole has to decrease by the amount of the particle emitted, so the black hole slowly (or quickly for tiny ones) loses mass.

Any object is constantly being bombarded by these particles. However, because it is being bombarded from all directions evenly, there is no net force.

The object, by virtue of its mass, is distorting space. This perturbs the virtual particle pairs' motion slightly. If a second object is introduced, which also distorts space, its distortion of space will intersect with the first object's, and the particles will be perturbed more on one side of each object than the other. The bombardment of particles is no longer balanced; there is now a net force on the objects pushing them closer together.

I have no idea how to start mathematically developing this. :^)
2835) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Study: Alien life might be non-existent (Message 744197)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
So far, every "uniqueness" we've had over time has been overthrown. Earth is no longer the center of the universe, "the" sun is one of billions, even the galaxy isn't unique. I don't see why this would be any different. Sure, intelligent life may be rare, but why life itself? All that's needed is a replicator to get it started.

We've found proteins that replicate themselves (prions) life existing where it was thought to be impossible (hydrothermal vents at temperatures above the surface boiling point of water) life that feeds on substances toxic to us (methane, nylon and carbon monoxide for example.)

As far as the conclusion that it's 0.01 percent, that his figure for intelligent life, not life itself, so the headline is misleading. Alien life may be common, which says nothing about the rarity of alien intelligent life.

Also, our sun is like any other main-sequence star of its mass. Life on Earth survived its gradual increase in energy production, so why not elsewhere?
2836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mmm pfmppfpmfmfffmpmpp mmmpppffmfmpmfpmffpppmfm mfmppfmppfmm fmpmfppffmppmmmmpm (Message 744099)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
You're welcome. "arferedig" seems closest to "adferedig" which is "restored", and "fudwr" seems to mean "traveler" so the question would be closer to "Why is the Borg Collective restored by the consumption/use of innocent travelers?"
2837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mmm pfmppfpmfmfffmpmpp mmmpppffmfmpmfpmffpppmfm mfmppfmppfmm fmpmfppffmppmmmmpm (Message 744093)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Translation:

This thread is designed to invite posters to post polite nonsense or whatever they wish to post, within the rules.

Please proceed with caution!

I will start by asking a question.

Paham ca 'r borg collןective arferedig 'n hwy allu erbyn an 'n ddieuog ddefnyddiwr a fudwr 'i?


The intro has been Kennified.
The question seems to be in inverted Welsh, and looks something like "Why is the Borg Collective innocent of their consumption?" I don't know as I don't speak Welsh. :^p
2838) Message boards : SETI@home Science : First Signs of the NTPCkr (Message 744061)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
2. If you watch the page, you'll note that "multiplets" (groups of similar signals of similar frequency seen over multiple observations) are rather common. So don't get too excited about those, either. This is all BEFORE we remove RFI and other garbage from the database.


Hard not to get excited when there are so many of them. :^) I've peeked at the page a few times, and just on the last peek, was showing 27 multiplet Gaussians where it happened to be looking.

If anything, considering how tiny of a patch of sky that is, it illustrates how vast is the amount of data this project has accumulated and processed. Should provide years of possibilities for findings. Thanks for the always appreciated updates.
2839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : THE Joke Thread . . . CLOSED (Message 743774)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Something on-topic for the theme of this site... I hope. :^)

2840) Message boards : Politics : Hard Line, Donations (Message 743684)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Who is John Galt?


I've been asking that for twelve years.
2841) Message boards : Politics : Hard Line, Donations (Message 743542)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'll be updating that when I catch up with Eric in the next few days. I believe we now have such a machine


I guess that's the one "John Galt" donated... nice that it's up to the task.
2842) Message boards : Politics : Hard Line, Donations (Message 743412)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Isn't that an argument to shelve the entire project until processors are up to the task, crunching and all?


I think that they're more than up to the task, to the point that the SAH infrastructure has to catch up with the volume. According to the hardware donations page, there isn't even a viable NITPKR machine yet (needs 8 cores.)
2843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 743375)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
9. Calculus required - What is the value of $1, invested for one year at 100% interest, compounded infinitely?


e bucks! Or $2.72 (2.718 rounded up to the nearest cent) for people who like the imperfection of decimals. :^)
2844) Message boards : Politics : Hard Line, Donations (Message 743349)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I'd prefer that they took their time and got it right, rather than rush the job, either missing a good candidate signal, or worse, finding false positives. Enough misinformed people already think the whole SETI idea is "flaky" without adding to it. This is a scientific project, and thus has to have high standards of accuracy in its results.

At least we're kept updated almost daily with technical news, etc. (I left the last project I was on (SHA-1) when there wasn't a single progress update, bugfix or sign of admin. presence in five months.)

When I started contributing to this project in '99, I figured it would take about twenty years before anything interesting was found, so I'm not disappointed. The longer our findings sit, the more powerful the machine that correlates them is going to be, and the more candidates there will be for it to find. There's no hurry.
2845) Message boards : Politics : If you can't convince 'em, mislead 'em. (Message 743319)
Posted 23 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
If that's right from SCIAM, they made a slight booboo. Ken Miller's technically a cellular biologist, not an evolutionary biologist, but he certainly needs to know and use many facets of evolutionary biology in his work, and has testified in court (ie in Kitzmiller vs. Dover) as an expert witness on it.

Also they left out one of the best examples: Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project, which found hundreds of genetic leftovers of our common ancestry (ie endogenous retroviruses and pseudogenes) is an evangelical.
2846) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Gravity Waves... (Message 743203)
Posted 23 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What I was driving at is the question of whether or not Gravity is a form of electromagnetic radiation.


Nope, it's not. It's a completely different force which so far has resisted unification with the other three (electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.) It's by a factor of a hundred billion billion times weaker than EM but unlike it and the other forces is universal when there's mass present and doesn't fall off by a large power over distance, so it dominates the structure of the universe.

To give you an idea of how fantastically weak gravity is, if you replaced the sun with a basketball-sized ball of solid protons, and the Earth with a marble-sized ball of solid electrons (if you could pin them down) keeping them at the same distance, there would still be the same force between them.

I predict that gravity will eventually turn out to be something weirder than the other forces which is why it doesn't seem to want to unify with them.

Edit to add: gravity does have one similarity with EM and that is the "inverse square" law, where the force between two bodies is proportional to the square of the distance between them, ie if you double the distance, the force becomes one-quarter of what it was.
2847) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Gravity Waves... (Message 743153)
Posted 23 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
How do we know that the effect of gravity travels at the speed of light ??


It's required for General Relativity to work properly, and one of the main things that distinguishes G.R. from Newtonian gravity, which considered gravity's effects as instantaneous.
2848) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Gravity Waves... (Message 742999)
Posted 23 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
...Phase modulation of intelligence using a G-Wave carrier?


Obligatory Douglas Adams:
"A big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere...and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."

They'd need to be some mighty big rocks.

Me, until gravitational waves are demonstrated, I'm sticking to my pet hypothesis, namely, that the detector and the light beams will be perturbed as much as the space they occupy, thus the wave is indetectable. It may be wrong, but has yet to be proven so.
2849) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Out of this world (Message 742855)
Posted 22 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Astronomy is looking up!

(Bah dum tish.) :^)
2850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "Simple" Maths Problems - CLOSED! (Message 742257)
Posted 21 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Actually #2 looks the easiest... straightforward integral. The other two look tedious. :^p

An airplane weighs 10,000 pounds, has a 1000 gallon tank, burns fuel at a rate of 5 gallons per minute, and has a speed in miles per hour of 6,000,000 divided by the sum of weight of the plane and remaining fuel. Each gallon of fuel weighs 10 pounds. With a full tank how far can the plane fly?

5 gals./min. fixed consumption rate is 1000/5 = 200 mins. flying time. Divide 6,000,000 by 60 = 100,000 for miles per minute.

V = 100,000 / ( 10,000 + (10,000 - 50T))
  = 100,000 / ( 20,000 - 50T )
  = 2,000 / 400 - T

When velocity is integrated over time, distance is the area under the curve, so


	200
	/
D =	| (2,000 / (400 - T)) dT
	/
	0
		
		200
		/
 =	2,000	| (1 / (400 - T)) dT
		/
		0
		
Integral of 1/(ax+b)dx is (1/a)(ln |ax+b|), so:

D = 2,000 ((1/-1) ln (|(-T + 400|)
	= (2,000 * -1 * ln|-200 + 400|) - (120,000 * -1 * ln|-0 + 400|)
	= 1386.2943611198906188344642429164
	~	1386.29 miles


Miles? Gallons? Must be some made-up units to make the question more abstract. ;^)
2851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Myths, Legends, Conspiracies ( 12 ) (Message 741719)
Posted 20 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
There was a show on Discovery Channel a while ago that took a very in depth look at the original film of Bigfoot....they came to the conclusion that it wasn't a man in a suit.


Great. Thanks a lot, so-called Discovery Channel. :^p

Then again, they also feature A Haunting which is, as you can guess, about ghosts. Yes, ghosts.
2852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Myths, Legends, Conspiracies ( 12 ) (Message 741709)
Posted 20 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:

Not necessarily. It has been shown ( where exactly I can't remember off hand ) that in rare cases a shot from behind can cause that kind of physical reaction.


The unfortunate gruesome details: Kennedy's bloody brains blow out the back of his head away from the camera POV, indicating the shot was fired from behind the camera. You won't see this in the YouTube Zapruder very well (I don't know if it was intentionally obscured for being disturbing, which would rather ruin the whole point of the film as evidence) but will in the original.

From the Wiki article: "In March 1975, on the ABC late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera), assassination researchers Robert Groden and Dick Gregory presented the first-ever network television showing of the Zapruder home movie. The public's response and outrage to that first television showing quickly led to the forming of the Hart-Schweiker investigation, contributed to the Church Committee Investigation on Intelligence Activities by the United States, and resulted in the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation."

So it clearly had some effect. It had never been seen on television in a dozen years, so it was a dozen years too late.

And hello. :^)
2853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Myths, Legends, Conspiracies ( 12 ) (Message 741702)
Posted 20 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
"Think JFK was assassinated by more than one guy??"

Unlike the others, there is a rather good piece of evidence for this one, entered into record in the Warren Commission, and then conveniently ignored: the Zapruder film which currently resides in the National Film Registry. (Zapruder's camera is also in the National Archives.) So it's a little more validated than Bigfoot. :^p

The rather gruesome sequence immortalized in the movie JFK ("Back and to the left... back and to the left") shows that the fatal shot was fired from the side of the limo, not from behind.
2854) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Study: Alien life might be non-existent (Message 740855)
Posted 18 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Saying that things had to be a certain way, and that it's unlikely that it happened elsewhere...sure sounds like an argument for intelligent design to me.


Not at all. Saying that intelligent life is impossible without some sort of outside assistance or that Earth was somehow deliberately engineered for us would be, but I don't see that's been even implied.
2855) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Study: Alien life might be non-existent (Message 740611)
Posted 17 Apr 2008 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in this subject.

Its premise is that life may be more common than expected in the universe (based on the varieties and habitats of extremophilic organisms on Earth) but that complex and especially intelligent life is very rare.

I read it when it was published (and even worked it into my profile). It's well-presented and compelling, but, as I also note in my profile, one discovery can overturn a thousand hypotheses. So I've come back to SETI@Home to keep up the search after receiving the recent e-mail indicating a shortage of volunteers.

(Note that one of the scientists that the authors consulted is an ID proponent but there's nothing but science in this book. The acknowledgment doesn't appear in the Google preview.)

I don't think that there's anything idiotic about suggesting that complex life may be rare. We have only one example of life anywhere, so it's an open question.
2856) Message boards : Technical News : Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007) (Message 563874)
Posted 9 May 2007 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
What I do hate is when you install them, and tell it "Reboot Later" every 5 or 10 min. the dialog box pops back up asking to reboot. And sometimes it switches the Reboot now and reboot later buttons, so if you get used to being in one spot, it tricks you into blidly hitting reboot now. Now that's a pain, cause it forces everything closed, saved or not.


Start->Settings->Control Panel->Adminstrative Tools->Services. Find "Automatic Updates" and click "Stop" next to it. It will restart when you reboot, when you *want* to.
2857) Questions and Answers : Windows : Removing Boinc icon from system tray (Message 506972)
Posted 22 Jan 2007 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I have had the same problem for years, and I was never able to get BOINC to install as a service on either machine, I ended up accidentally stumbling on another way of getting it out of the system tray without it being installed as a service.

Summary: Launch BOINC as a Scheduled Task under a different administrator-level account and it won't show up in the system tray.

Steps:

Go to the User Manager. In XP Pro: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Local Users. In XP Home: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> User Accounts. Make sure there is another password-protected Administrator-level account other than the logged-in user that you know the password to. If there isn't, add one (ie Administrator) and set a password.

Start Scheduled Tasks: Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Scheduled Tasks.

Add a task: Click File -> New -> Scheduled Task. Give it a name. Right-click the task, click Properties. Click the Browse button on the settings dialog (should start on the Task tab) and browse to the location of boinc_gui.exe (for BOINC 4.x and older) or boincmgr.exe (for BOINC 5.x). When the path appears in the Run field put quotes around it and -min (for BOINC 4.x and older) or /s after to make it start minimized (invisible) ie:
"C:\\Program Files\\BOINC\\boinc_gui.exe" -min
for BOINC 4.x or
"C:\\Program Files\\BOINC\\boincmgr.exe" /s
for BOINC 5.x.
In the Start in field type (or cut and paste from above) the path to the BOINC executable ie:
C:\\Program Files\\BOINC\\
In the Run As box on the same Task tab type the computer name if it isn't already there and the name of that other account separated by a backslash ie:
MYPCNAME\\Administrator
Click the Set password button and enter the password twice in the fields. Click the Schedule tab at the top and choose when it is to start. I set mine at 04:00 (4 am) so it isn't likely to be noticed. You can also set other options in the Settings tab but they aren't necessary. Click OK at the bottom when done.

Now when the scheduled task runs at the set time, BOINC will launch invisibly and there won't be a system tray icon nor will it show in Tasks Manager Applications. Of course it will still appear in the Processes tab but BOINC is so unobtrusive that so far no one who kept closing it has thought of looking there. :^) Hope this helps. I've verified it on two machines with Windows XP Pro and one with XP Home, running BOINC 4.19 and 5.4.11; your results may vary.
2858) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Intergalactic messages 'in a bottle' are best (Message 22460)
Posted 5 Sep 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
> Launched in 1972 and 1973... Pioneer 10 -- our first spacecraft to leave the
> solar system, now 6.6 billion miles away...

This kinda hammers home why nothing comes close to radio, new (and I think soon to be old) ideas regardless. It took Pioneer, the fastest object ever launched from Earth by us, 32 years to get this far. A radio signal emitted right now from Earth will pass pokey Pioneer in only 10 hours.

As Carl Sagan also noted, all the energy of all the signals ever studied at all the radio telescopes on Earth since the dawn of radio astronomy is less than that of a single snowflake striking the ground (OK, that was a quarter century ago, so I'll raise the ante one snowflake.) The distances involved team up with inverse square propagation to reduce the mightiest signal to a faint whimper, but a whimper is all a good receiver needs. The receiver on Arecibo, for example, is also a transmitter. It is a sensitive enough receiver that it could listen to broadcasts from its twin ten light years (sixty trillion miles, ninety trillion km) away.

Unless one is willing to wait forty thousand years at Pioneer velocities to get a package to even the nearest stars (at just over four light years away) radio is the only way to go, for now. If we wanted to accelerate a 1 kg package (ie just the Voyager interstellar record) to half the speed of light, this would need 1.4*10^17 J of energy because of relativistic effects: Ek = (1/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2))mc^2. This is about the same amount of energy as that produced by a 25 megaton hydrogen bomb.

I'll keep my money on radio.
2859) Message boards : SETI@home Science : How hard can this be? (Message 22011)
Posted 3 Sep 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
> How come Predictor and Climateprediction can get this working, but Seti is
> having numerous, NUMEROUS problems?

ClimatePrediction.net = 6,537 PC's
Predictor@Home = 13,609 PC's
SETI@Home = 83,381 PC's

( from http://www.setisynergy.com/stats/index.php )

I would imagine it's a matter of scale, and that some of the outages were due to the upgrades to prevent even more problems when the *450,000* SAH Classic participants switch over. Ouch.
2860) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away... (Message 21486)
Posted 2 Sep 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
> Sorry to burst the bubble!

No bubble to burst really... just an "interesting signal", but the media as usual doesn't emphasize that properly so it gets blown out of proportion.

I am still curious if anyone else at another radio facility has checked it out.
2861) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away... (Message 21221)
Posted 2 Sep 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Some snippets of this story that has a lot of familiar names in it (link has been mirrored on Drudge Report so it will doubtless go to other media and the SAH guys are probably going to be deluged with questions... the NewScientist article is "slashdotted" right now.)

Edit: it's "slashdotted" due to... Slashdot! Should have guessed.

Here's another version of it: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1028302004

-----
"“It’s the most interesting signal from SETI@home,” says Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief scientist for SETI@home. “We’re not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it."
...
Named SHGb02+14a, the signal has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz. This happens to be one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy."
...
“We are looking for something that screams out ‘artificial’,” says UCB researcher Eric Korpela, who completed the analysis of the signal in April. “This just doesn’t do that, but it could be because it is distant.
...
"What is more, if telescopes are observing a signal that is drifting in frequency, then each time they look for it they should most likely encounter it at a slightly different frequency. But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting. “It just boggles my mind,” Korpela says."
...
David Anderson, director of SETI@home, remains sceptical but curious about the signal. ”It’s unlikely to be real but we will definitely be re-observing it.”
-----

Is this the now-famous WU? I think so: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/Candidates/SHGb02+14a/SHGb02+14a.html

Has any other radio observatory had a listen to rule out this being LO interference or anything else local to Arecibo?
2862) Questions and Answers : Getting started : BOINC download links all bad (404) (Message 8076)
Posted 15 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
It looks like the links have all been fixed.
2863) Message boards : Number crunching : Bad URL for new OS X version (3.20) of Seti BOINC (Message 7486)
Posted 14 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
All four of the file download links are bad... I started a thread here about it as it's not platform-specific (something tells me it's not going to get read by anyone who could fix it. Seems like a slow forum.)
2864) Questions and Answers : Getting started : BOINC download links all bad (404) (Message 7479)
Posted 14 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
All the file URLs on the the download page at http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.php are 404's.

(It appears that all the versions changed to 3.20.)

The links are:
"Linux/x86" pointing to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download/boinc_3.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz
"Mac OS/X 10.3+" pointing to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download/boinc_3.20_powerpc-apple-darwin.gz
"SPARC/Solaris" pointing to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download/boinc_3.20_sparc-sun-solaris2.7.gz
and "Windows/x86" pointing to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download/boinc_3.20_windows_intelx86.exe

I noticed that they all seem to be redirected so that the http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah part of the URL is replaced with http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu when the link is used, and then the error message only shows the part not replaced, as follows for the "Windows/x86" link:

Not Found
The requested URL /download/boinc_3.20_windows_intelx86.exe was not found on this server.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.31 Server at setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu Port 80
2865) Questions and Answers : Windows : Time to completion? (Message 7133)
Posted 12 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I hope that this wasn't done on purpose... I can't get any Predictor@Home work because I have two SAH WU's sitting at the bottom that have an estimated completion time of 35 hours, which is 8-10 times longer than they take, so BOINC thinks I have enough WU's to last 3 days when it's more like 8 hours.

The SAH WU's that I had prior have estimated completion times of 5:52. Now they are up to 35:12 which is exactly 6 times as long (to the second.... no rounding at all.) The SAH project code did not change during this time. This is affecting two machines (one WinXP on BOINC 3.20 and one Win2K on BOINC 3.19) so it doesn't seem like a BOINC problem or a SAH project code problem.
2866) Questions and Answers : Windows : Benchmark for Win2k and Linux (Message 7112)
Posted 12 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
I am having a similar problem, but the benchmarks on SAH WU's just went to about 7-8 times what they were. I think I will put this in its own thread.
2867) Questions and Answers : Windows : "Go to blank screen" setting is not checked for "message" screensaver (Message 4200)
Posted 4 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
Windows XP Home SP1, BOINC 3.19 running SAH 3.08 & PAH mfoldB110 3.06.

I have BOINC set to "Go to blank screen" from screensaver settings at 0 minutes (more crunching and less graphics.) This works fine on SETI@Home as it actually has a screensaver to go to blank on. (I had the problem with it not liking the "Password" option as many other posters had but I fixed that by just turning that checkbox off and making sure to manually Ctrl-Alt-Delete lock my workstation when I leave it; it has the same effect. This is a different issue.)

However, for projects such as Predictor@Home that don't have any graphics yet, or if there is no work available in ones that do have graphics, I get the "message" screensaver with a bouncing "B" icon and scrolling message (ie "No graphics-capable applications running.") It doesn't check that I have "Go to blank screen" enabled.
2868) Message boards : Number crunching : Deferring communication with project for 9 minutes and 5 seconds (Message 3230)
Posted 1 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
> http://predictor.scripps.edu/

I had no idea any non-Berkeley projects were on the BOINC platform already.

If this project is going to catch on, the BOINC main page should have a directory of all BOINC projects with URL's and descriptions of what they do, so that interested contributors can choose which projects to donate computing resources to, and more importantly, so that we don't get frustrated and uninstall BOINC because there is nothing for it to do on SAH right now. What's the point of having BOINC as a universal client for all projects if no one knows where they are?

Currently happily filling up my hard disk with Predictor@Home WU's...
2869) Message boards : Number crunching : Deferring communication with project for 9 minutes and 5 seconds (Message 3229)
Posted 1 Jul 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
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2870) Questions and Answers : Wish list : BOINC Security (Message 2394)
Posted 26 Jun 2004 by Profile Mr. Kevvy Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $250 donor
Post:
[Edited by poster]

I had hoped that automatic code updates could be turned off in future editions of the BOINC client (ie prompt when installing them,) but I've decided it's secure enough and of minimal risk.


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