The speaker's previous presentation at a different year of the same conference, about using online records to fabricate your own death or the birth of a made-up baby, is also worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs.
Thank you very much for posting this. This is nearly unbelievably bad and also reminded me of last weekend's discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511202 and brings that into a completely new light: Why even bother trying to vanish in order to fake your death when you might just as well just fill out the required forms on your own.
Just as a heads up, the adjustment of putting your heels on a 5lb plate is actually used to train depth in the squat. "Ass-to-grass" is the squat standard for weightlifting (i.e., like in a 3rd world squat, you should want to be able to sit down on your heels comfortably), and the idea is that squatting a bit higher weights than you can do without the heels elevated with the heels elevated trains that depth in the movement. Point being, eventually you might be able to get to just under parallel if you keep working on the heel-elevated squats!
Also, re toes slightly out, this is how you should squat, you shouldn't square up with the rack or keep your feet parallel, because (again, referencing the 3rd world squat) if you were to sit down on your heels, mobility permitting, you would basically have to have your toes slightly outward.
Sure. What was especially unusual about Obama is that he had taken absolutely no action as a president and got the prize in a pre-emptive way. Which is, honestly, stupid, there is no other way to put it.
Consider that the election of Obama is the first time ever I have seen such outpourings of joy at the election of a US president in Europe. Not because it was Obama, but because it represented a return to normality after GWB.
The second term election of GWB was so surreal by European eyes that it seemed like some collective insanity had gripped large parts of American voters.
In response, when Obama was elected, there were election day parties many places in Europe. Some Americans celebrating always happens, of course, but this time you had Europeans going to parties to celebrate a US president.
The relief was the election of Obama brought was immense, and the Nobel prize is a reflection of just how deep felt it was in certain circles.
He had made a nice speech about improving relations between the West and the Arab world. It's a bit thin for a Nobel, though.
I like to see that Nobel Prize as having been awarded to the American voter. Electing a black president in a country with such a racist past is a fantastic milestone.
I read an NYT article a while ago that made the argument that the effect of people who did not support the Vietnam War evading the draft was a military that was, twenty or so years later, when the people who did join became senior, very conservative or willing to wage war. Along the lines of the critical theory idea that some of the Left have become ineffective by not involving themselves in actual politics, I think it's important to not be deterred by this idea of war, as the only way the military-industrial complex will change is if people with better values come to make up more of the military. Maybe this will come to be the case as younger people see decreasing future job prospects and turn to the military as a career.
Interesting that you imply that Left would like less war.
It seems to me that the progressives main thing is to tell and enforce how others should live and behave, that is the core of the left, the other ideas are just branches. Evidence is the congress votes in USA by Left to start wars and votes by Taxed Enough Already (TEA) to defund the wars.
If you are anti war, I invite you to check out the Right, Libertarian POV.
The left main thing is mostly about making sure there is a "floor", meaning that even if you are poor and on min wage you don't die on the street or bankrupt at the first opportunity.
Usually, countries where the right is in power (take the US for example) have a terrible living for their poorest population.
And this is not something you want because the guy having the shitty min wage job might tomorrow be you, one of your kids, your best friend, or someone in your family.
This reminds me of the Fleming Bond novel Moonraker, in which a whole chapter is devoted to the idiosyncrasies of the villain who is being challenged by Bond via bridge.
At first glance there seems to be pieces that could be simplified. E.g., in this image http://community.wolfram.com//c/portal/getImageAttachment?fi..., there are 2 1x1 bricks in multiple places (on the top level at the "nearest" corner, for instance) that could be replaced with a 2x1 brick. I wonder what part of the program results in this.
Clapper came to my school to talk and I asked him "to speak about the allegations of perjury". He was not amused, and repeated the line about having forgotten about the PATRIOT Act.
An interesting problem that came up during development of the Navy version, which has to land on carriers: when the landing gear and hooks were first tested, the placement of the back wheels was such that they created a sine wave in the arresting cable which just happened to be "down" when the hook moved over the cable, meaning the hook wouldn't catch and the plane could never land this way. They then had to go back and redesign the arrangement of the landing gear and hook.
