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  • Virtual Reality is Astounding!

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    Warning: Oculus, the makers of the Rift and the Gear VR, is unfortunately owned by Facebook. My recommendation is to purchase an alternative product such as the HTC Vive which will be coming out soon or the Zeiss VR One Today I immersed in my second ever virtual reality experience, this time with the Oculus…

  • Congratulations everyone!

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    Without anyone really noting it, we have changed. Everyone has changed. If, say 10 years ago, a person went up to someone and recorded video of them, a normal reaction would be to flip out. But today its so commonplace that people don’t even blink an eye. Everyone has accepted that being recorded is just…

  • I was just going to write about the future of global mass enslavement

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    I was just going to write about the future of global mass enslavement, of how that is the path that American society is locked into, when today this article appeared: scmp.com: Elite 1 per cent hold almost half the world’s wealth. The path that is being chosen now is the path of mass enslavement on…

  • Election afterthoughts: California is an infection

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    What this election made perfectly clear is that a large, permanently brain-damaged segment of the population is willing to accept the victimization and murder of people in order to satisfy their egoistic “need” to score humanitarian points. As such, it is now overwhelmingly clear that this region is a hostile, violent environment unsuitable for living. …

  • Vote

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  • Fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of extreme-scale computing and the role of key/value servers

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    If you wonder what a key/value server is and why they are increasingly important, watch this video. It also provides insight into extreme-scale computing environments from the perspective of a brilliant engineer. The video is here: infoq.com: Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a Higher Level The slides are unfortunately off-screen in the video, but…

  • Hilary Clinton just pissed on California and on democracy

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    The oligarchy-manipulated Big Media is running a story – a “headline” – the day before the primary election in California – that Hilary Clinton has won the primary. What an appalling outrage. It is spitting in the face of every Californian and pissing on American democracy. What could be more disrespectful to the millions of…

  • You *have* to try this ASAP: Virtual Reality Headset!

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    Ok, so yesterday I had some extra time and was just browsing around in a Best Buy store as I sometimes like to do. With the pace of change in technology, even if I’m not actively looking to get something, I still like to see what all the latest stuff is and try things out.…

  • SOL: Extract the mp3 audio from a YouTube (or other) video file

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    This is part of my Simple One-Liners (SOL) series of useful commands. Today I would like to discuss an easy way, using the command line and the extremely powerful tool ffmpeg to extract the audio track from a YouTube or other video. First, to actually get the video file from YouTube, I highly recommend the…

  • Cancer.

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    In Vancouver, house owners earned more sitting on their assets than everyone did by actually working last year Rising land value of single family homes earned owners about C$25billion in 2015 in Vancouver, exceeding all employment earnings in the city, according to mathematician Jens von Bergmann source: South China Morning Post This cancer, this betrayal…