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2017-05-02 at 3:19 AM UTC in Bill nye the science guy is a tosserbill nye the degenerate guy
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2017-05-02 at 3:14 AM UTC in Conflict Shitpile II - Sarin-like Substance EditionSYRIA - 23 dead children have 'disappeared' from an Idlib hospital. Expect to see another 'chemical weapons' attack soon.
***UPDATE: Gas masks being handed out in Sarqeb
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2017-05-02 at 2:48 AM UTC in Getting ready for a new pc build.
Originally posted by Fox Paws Or SLI GTX 1080 Ti. And I would go with i7 personally.
depends on what you want it for really, typically Xeons have larger cache so they tend to be better for multitasking (at a level way above what standard users would need) but toward the high end they're pretty similar; Xeons are just tested to be more reliable under stress and heat.
Is the performance difference between a standard reference 1080 and the Ti worth the price difference? Last generation I don't think it was.
@OP You only really need 2x 1080s if you plan on gaming in 4k; if you're happy with standard 1080p or even VR a single one will do you fine - I have a reference GTX1070 and I've not come across anything it doesn't play smoothly. -
2017-05-02 at 2:29 AM UTC in Getting ready for a new pc build.What form factor would you prefer? ATX (full tower), Micro ATX (smaller) or Mini-ITX (mini box).
I put one together recently so I'm familiar with what's currently available - for $5k you can get pretty much top end everything, dual/SLI 1080s and an i7/xeon, you'll probably even have enough left for a high-end 4k gaming monitor -
2017-05-02 at 1:22 AM UTC in horror moviesThe Ring was actually one of the few Hollywood remakes of an Asian film that wasn't total shit.
I haven't watched much horror in a long time, but I tend to like Japanese films because like Bill Krozby said, they focus more on psychology, symbolism and atmosphere. The Eye was one of my favourites (though it's Thai or something), but the scariest movie I've seen lately wasn't even a horror film - check out The Divide for something properly disturbing. -
2017-05-01 at 8:02 AM UTC in Conflict Shitpile II - Sarin-like Substance EditionSYRIA - More on the rebels cannibalising each other. In Ghouta the infighting has become so serious that civilians have protested and blocked rebel vehicles to try to get them to cut it out, many were shot as a result.
Al-Qaeda's essentially being starved - munitions and more basic supplies like food are drying up with all their supply lines being cut which is prompting a lot of the infighting (The majority of rebel groups operate independently but still report to either Al-Qaeda or ISIS), and has even led to Saudi Arabia offering to support the group if they fight for KSA in Yemen. -
2017-05-01 at 7:55 AM UTC in Conflict Shitpile II - Sarin-like Substance EditionYEMEN - Forgot about this - apparently UAE and possibly other gulf states have begun conscripting people for the Yemen front.
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2017-05-01 at 7:53 AM UTC in Conflict Shitpile II - Sarin-like Substance Edition
Quick rundown of current 'hotspots':
YEMEN - Basically, Saudi Arabia got a puppet ruler instated so that they could ransack Yemen's energy industry. The army expelled and forced him into exile, and KSA is using that as pretext to bomb the fuck out of the country on behalf of the 'legitimate government'. They're currently sending mercenaries (they don't have much of a standing army) backed by US Marines to attack and ideally claim Hodeidah Port -this is significant because it's the largest port in Yemen, and since KSA destroyed it's machinery 2 years ago, it's been unable to take food and medicine deliveries.
Saudi Arabia destroyed the port's loading/unloading cranes in 2015, intensiifying the famine across the country and blockaded it so that the cranes couldn't be repaired or replaced. At the same time they've been petitioning the UN to take administrative control of the port to 'alleviate suffering', but after being rebuffed multiple times they've decided to take it militarily.
This is literally like beating your neighbour's kid and barricading the door so that he can't seek medical treatment, between blows attempting to forcibly adopt him because 'his parents can't guarantee his safety'.
KOREA - Korea's been testing nuclear weapons for the last decade or so, in Kim's own words 'because we don't want to get Libya'd'. The US has not liked it very much in general, but really shit the bed when they started testing ICBMs that could potentially deliver nuclear weapons. At the moment, President Trump's sent a carrier group to threaten NK, and it's been joined by several Japanese vessels. It hasn't arrived yet, but given the inclusion of a few special-purpose ships, the purpose may be to insert special forces into NK as well as a misguided attempt to intimidate. NK's apparently sped up it's missile testing schedule, but all of their recent launches have been reported as failures.
SYRIA - Syria was a textbook colour-revolution - the US created and amplified dissent against the country's government and armed anti-government groups (who just happen to be extreme Islamists) in order to bring the government down in favour of a US-friendly puppet. It was going to plan until Russia, Iran and Lebanon/Hezbullah joined the conflict on the government's side (US analysts believed that Russia would not involve itself, citing Libya), turning the war around. The rebels are now in complete disarray with the factions essentially cannibalising each other, and Turkey is seeing it as an opportunity to strike. Erdogan, Ottoman Sultan-Lite that he is, aims to grab as much land and influence as he can after being raked over the coals for his support for the US' regime change antics... and then being shafted by the US in favour of the Kurds as 'boots on the ground'.
The Turkish military have started bombing the fuck out the the so-called SDF, the Kurdish militias laying siege to Raqqa, and have put serious dents in the US' plan to take the city before the SAA shows up. Both the US and Russia have dumped troops between the Turkforce and the SDF as a sort of human-shield bufferzone.
There are some important things going on involving Deir ez Zor relating specifically to ISIS but I'll get to that later.
IRAQ - TBA, Mosul still under siege, business as usual. I don't know of any new developments.
UKRAINE - TBA, haven't seen much lately. The government in Kiev have been inching their hardware up to the contact line, contravening the Minsk accords and trying to draw Europe/NATO into the conflict but it's been somewhat quiet these last few weeks. -
2017-05-01 at 6:59 AM UTC in is xanax stronger than kpinKlono gently makes you more and more retarded, Xanax makes you feel fine for a little while then surprise blackout and you wake up 12 hours later with a broken arm, no pants and a lifetime ban from your local shopping centre
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2017-05-01 at 6:51 AM UTC in Chuck Norris once received from a horse.
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2017-05-01 at 5:29 AM UTC in fucking psychiatrists
Originally posted by infinityshock the authors/contributors to the DSM literally make up fantasy bullshit that once published magically becomes scripture that disputing causes the invocation of charges of heresy.
I thought the DSM would be fun to read but it's not, it's just boring nonsense. last time I checked the clinical diagnosis for depression was 'feeling sad for more than two weeks at a time'. -
2017-05-01 at 4:54 AM UTC in Most of you are pathetic losers
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2017-05-01 at 4:31 AM UTC in Mecha's are stupid fucking childish bullshityeah, that's the rational position
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2017-05-01 at 4:30 AM UTC in MY IMPERATIVELY HEALING TAJIKISTAN
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2017-05-01 at 4:14 AM UTC in NK showing off again
Originally posted by infinityshock itd just be a matter of getting the source code…analyzing it…and finding the ideal counter to what they want to get done.
it's more complicated than that - with Stuxnet for example they first needed to get admin/root so they needed a working exploit in whatever OS they were using (I think it was Windows), but that was the easy part - they also needed to know the exact pieces of hardware Iran were using in the facility, when discovered they would've needed help from the manufacturers (it's possible to buy the hardware, dump the firmware on it and decode it that way but it would take literally years) to release their source code and expertise to write firmware that'd cause it to fail, then they needed a way to silently flash the new firmware to every device in the facility... Rumour is they actually built a replica of the facility's machinery in order to test the virus.
I just looked up the OS, they've written Red Star, which is apparently a standard Linux distro with user privileges reworked - the OS is available but not the source, it stands to reason that exploits in the core Linux kernel would work against RS though.
I think there are too many unknowns for a Stuxnet-like attack to work here. -
2017-05-01 at 3:37 AM UTC in NK showing off again
Originally posted by infinityshock ECM…no. its too broad and imprecise of a method to cause the type of catastrophic failures seen. a cyber-bomb…like stuxnet, where software caused a hardware failure is feasible.
I'm not sure what operating system NK uses on military systems, but I've heard it's nonstandard so something like that would be extremely difficult to pull off. Not impossible, but it's strange it didn't happen earlier if that is the case.the best method is the simplest…offer a NK pogue sanctuary in the south, and a few shekels, in exchange for leaving a few screws loose or wire jackets stripped. cheap and effective
They've been trying that for a long time, not had much luck with inserting their own people or creating defectors. -
2017-05-01 at 3:15 AM UTC in NK showing off again
Originally posted by infinityshock I'm curious if these recent failures were intentional sabotage
I dunno, I've heard people suggest that NK is intentionally failing them to give the US no pretext to invade, but I'd seriously doubt it.
It's possible they're being hacked/attacked with ECM, but that seems unlikely too considering US/SK's abject failure to interfere with the missile program up until now. -
2017-05-01 at 3:10 AM UTC in is xanax stronger than kpinclonazepam is relatively subtle, compared to alprazolam anyway
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2017-05-01 at 3 AM UTC in Your apolcayplse plan?
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2017-05-01 at 2:58 AM UTC in Mecha's are stupid fucking childish bullshit
Originally posted by The Self Taught Man What war are you talking about?
World War II
Originally posted by Captain Falcon None of the "great powers" will ever engage in a direct conventional war… Ever.
I'm not so sure. There are powerful groups within the US that would rather see the world burn than lose their status as 'the indespensable nation', and the recent missile/antimissile deployments indicate that they think a nuclear exchange is 'winnable'.
As for drone/mech techh, modern warfare is scaling down - the focus is on small teams establishing strategic objectives over large forces completely destroying one another... Kind of like a scalpel vs. a hammer. It's cheaper and invites less political backlash. This approach would be highly situational if used against a peer-army though.
Drones specifically - like I mentioned before the Yemenis have been using them to great effect against KSA, but that's not specific to drones... It's using a cheap weapon to force the enemy to expend their expensive weapons; financial attrition.
In general I've been thinking drones won't be especially effective in warfare. They're relatively short range, slow, carry small payloads and aren't able to carry the defensive equipment or perform the maneouvres of traditional planes. They're also generally unshielded, leaving them open to EM or HERF warfare.
Their real benefit is political and psychological. Their use allows the user to essentially 'go to war' without sending troops - the general populace doesn't historically care about participation in foreign conflicts until soldiers, ie. people they know, start dying. In that sense, drone warfare begins to blur the line between peace and war - even today, drone operations are carried out in countries that the military hasn't officially been deployed to and as such, worked around the need to officially go to war before launching attacks on 'enemies'.
In a more personal sense, using a remote controlled weapon allows the user to distance himself from the responsibility of killing. Drone operators are generally given a target and told to terminate - they have no input or knowledge of the acquisition process.
