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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25320 on:** July 24, 2015, 05:13:53 PM »

http://i.imgur.com/zhTFkhl.gifv

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25321 on:** July 24, 2015, 09:52:34 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25322 on:** July 24, 2015, 10:15:20 PM »

http://imgur.com/a/9yGzq

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #25323 on:** July 24, 2015, 10:35:40 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25324 on:** July 24, 2015, 11:45:52 PM »

http://gawker.com/30-rock-fcc-complaints-vodka-tampons-are-obscene-and-i-1704813657?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

toku · « **Reply #25325 on:** July 25, 2015, 12:04:37 AM »

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #25326 on:** July 25, 2015, 12:27:50 AM »

http://darksilenceinsuburbia.tumblr.com/post/124464085423/bruce-gilden-portraits-from-the-book-face-website

benjipwns · « **Reply #25327 on:** July 25, 2015, 11:57:40 AM »

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/07/living-with-a-computer/306063/

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What was so exciting? Merely the elimination of all drudgery, except for the fundamental drudgery of figuring out what to say, from the business of writing. The process works this way.

When I sit down to write a letter or start the first draft of an article, I simply type on the keyboard and the words appear on the screen. For six months, I found it awkward to compose first drafts on the computer. Now I can hardly do it any other way. It is faster to type this way than with a normal typewriter, because you don't need to stop at the end of the line for a carriage return (the computer automatically "wraps" the words onto the next line when you reach the right-hand margin), and you never come to the end of the page, because the material on the screen keeps sliding up to make room for each new line. It is also more satisfying to the soul, because each maimed and misconceived passage can be made to vanish instantly, by the word or by the paragraph, leaving a pristine green field on which to make the next attempt.

My computer has a 48K memory. Since each K represents 1,024 bytes of information—each byte representing one character or digit—the machine can manipulate more than 49,000 items of information at a time. In practice, after allowing for the space that The Electric Pencil's programming instructions occupy in the computer's memory, the machine can handle documents 6,500 to 7,500 words long, or a little longer than this article. I break anything longer into chunks or chapters and work with them one at a time.

When I've finished with such a chunk, I press another series of buttons and store what I have written on my disk drive. This is a cigar-box-shaped unit that sits next to my computer, connected through a shocking-pink ribbon cable containing thirty-four separate strands. Inside the drive is the floppy disk, which is essentially magnetic recording tape pressed into the shape of a small record and then enclosed in a square cardboard envelope, 5 1/4 inches on each side. The system transfers data from the computer to the disk, or vice versa, at about 1,000 words per second, so it is no nuisance to pause after each fifteen or twenty minutes of writing to store what I've just done. Each of the disks in my system can hold about 100K of information, or more than twice as much as a full load from the computer memory. If one disk is full, I pull it out and snap another in.

When I finish what I'm working on, I switch on my printer. If I'm sending a letter, I load the stationery into the printer and push the print button, and then fish each piece of paper out of the printer when it is done. There are machines that automatically feed single sheets of paper into the printer, but that takes us back to big slices of the income pie. If I am printing a draft of an article, I can hook up my tractor feed, push the print button, and go out for a beer. The tractor pulls an endless sheet of paper through the printer—and the perforated paper can be separated into pages when the printing is done, so it looks like a normal manuscript.

The system prints about thirty characters per second, which means it takes less than a minute per double-spaced page. When it has completed its work, I take the manuscript and start working it over with a pencil, just as I did in days of old. The difference is that after I've made my changes, I have only to type in the changes I have made and start the printer up again—rather than retype the whole mess.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #25328 on:** July 25, 2015, 11:34:34 PM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #25329 on:** July 26, 2015, 04:08:20 PM »

chronovore · « **Reply #25330 on:** July 26, 2015, 08:21:18 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25331 on:** July 26, 2015, 09:12:05 PM »

https://i.imgur.com/qs8wL8j.jpg

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25332 on:** July 26, 2015, 09:17:24 PM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on July 26, 2015, 09:12:05 PM

https://i.imgur.com/qs8wL8j.jpg

Chad Hitler

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25333 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:13:27 AM »

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/do-colored-people-exist-if-there-are-no-white-people-to-observe-them/

I haven;t read the article because it is long and I no longer feel the need to impress people, but I liked the title.

chronovore · « **Reply #25334 on:** July 27, 2015, 04:18:02 AM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on July 26, 2015, 09:12:05 PM

https://i.imgur.com/qs8wL8j.jpg

I'd bet money that this is a college kid thinking he's being clever and challenging societal norms.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #25335 on:** July 27, 2015, 07:36:03 AM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25336 on:** July 27, 2015, 04:47:18 PM »

http://i.imgur.com/HvdwCya.gifv

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25337 on:** July 27, 2015, 05:12:30 PM »

http://mk.christogenea.org/sites/default/files/styles/node_gallery_display/public/node_gallery/anticommipostirusso01.jpg?itok=H3zoQmK3

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25338 on:** July 27, 2015, 06:46:02 PM »

https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/3esgd8/damn_autistic_brother_has_a_huge_dick/

benjipwns · « **Reply #25339 on:** July 27, 2015, 09:25:43 PM »

wall street journal headline

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REVIEW & OUTLOOK

Mad Tax Fury Road
In which we try to make sense of the highway bill’s bizarre politics.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #25340 on:** July 28, 2015, 05:10:14 AM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25341 on:** July 28, 2015, 01:26:57 PM »

http://imgur.com/gallery/KgsYK

Maths how do they work?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25342 on:** July 28, 2015, 01:42:06 PM »

This wouldn't have happened had the German's won.

king of the internet · « **Reply #25343 on:** July 28, 2015, 01:56:15 PM »

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #25344 on:** July 28, 2015, 01:59:21 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 28, 2015, 01:26:57 PM

http://imgur.com/gallery/KgsYK

Maths how do they work?

14th in education

Rufus · « **Reply #25345 on:** July 28, 2015, 01:59:47 PM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on July 28, 2015, 01:42:06 PM

This wouldn't have happened had the German's won.

If current trends are any indication, it would have happened anyway.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25346 on:** July 28, 2015, 02:49:16 PM »

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogs/comments/3evvjq/help_why_did_my_dog_pee_on_my_rabbit/

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25347 on:** July 28, 2015, 10:09:59 PM »

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #25348 on:** July 28, 2015, 10:14:59 PM »

Wait, how were these taken again? Dual cameras don't make them look like regular dashcams.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25349 on:** July 28, 2015, 10:24:31 PM »

Quote from: http://newsroom.aaa.com/2015/03/distraction-teen-crashes-even-worse-thought/

Lytx™, Inc., a global leader in video-based driver safety technology using in-vehicle event recorders, provided the collision videos. The Lytx DriveCam program collects video, audio and accelerometer data when a driver triggers an in-vehicle device by hard braking, fast cornering or an impact that exceeds a certain g-force. Each video is 12-seconds long and provides information from before and after the trigger. The videos are used in the DriveCam Program for coaching drivers to improve behavior and reduce collisions.

http://www.lytx.com/