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Coming soon (maybe) to toyshops – AI doll that can read kids’ emotions 2017-06-23 12:57:11 Post No.151440
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There’s a new contestant in the competition to see what kind of Hell-spawn, technologically enhanced doll can freak us out the most.
As New Scientist reports, this one’s fitted with a camera and an artificial intelligence (AI) chip that can interpret children’s emotions. Eight of them, to be precise, including surprise and happiness, which it gleans from a camera in the doll’s head.
The doll is just one of a host of devices equipped with computer vision that are described in a paper titled Eyes of Things from a team at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, in Ciudad Real, Spain.
New Scientist quotes project leader Oscar Deniz:
In the near future, we will see a myriad of eyes everywhere that will not just be watching us, but trying to help us. [As AI chips get cheaper], we will have wearable devices, toys, drones, small robots, and things we can’t even imagine yet that will all have basic artificial intelligence.
The paper describes a new computer vision platform called Eyes of Things that could enable new applications and technologies such as deep learning, drones, home robotics, intelligent surveillance, wearable cameras, and yes, intelligent toys.
The emotion-reading doll described in the paper differs from its progenitor Hell-spawns in that it doesn’t need to send data off for processing in the cloud, where the privacy of children comes into play and breaches threaten exposure of things like children’s data and voices.
We saw that happen with CloudPets teddy toys around Christmas, with all user accounts and potentially up to 2.2m voice messages compromised by hackers who found the data, unprotected, using nothing more complicated than the Shodan IoT search engine.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/06/22/coming-soon-maybe-to-toyshops-ai-doll-that-can-read-kids-emotions/
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A doll called Cayla suffered from noxious cloud syndrome, too: for one thing, it had a software vulnerability that allowed Cayla to be programmed to say anything – from Hannibal Lecter quotes to lines from 50 Shades Of Grey. In addition, according to security researcher Ken Munro, any device could connect with the doll via Bluetooth and therefore communicate with your child.
Good times, good times. Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur, the telecoms watchdog, called Cayla an “illegal espionage apparatus” that parents should destroy.
Other dolls that have raised privacy concerns include the internet-enabled, speech recognizing, joke-telling Barbie.
“Hello Barbie,” it was dubbed. That was followed by “Hell No Barbie”: the social media campaign that called Hello Barbie an “eavesdropping doll” that raised privacy concerns because recordings of children’s conversations are stored by the company – ToyTalk – that makes the voice recognition technology.
The emotion-reading doll would focus on data from cameras, rather than microphones. But as New Scientist notes, many of the issues around data privacy would be the same.
Just because emotions aren’t being analyzed in the cloud doesn’t mean that the relevant data couldn’t wind up being intercepted. The team’s paper doesn’t go into detail about how such a doll would work – they came up with a chip and put it into a doll, but that doll apparently hasn’t been turned into a retail toy yet – but it does mention low-power Wi-Fi technologies such as Bluetooth.
Bluetooth, as in, the way that you could pwn Cayla and get her to talk about a nice Chianti and fava beans.
The paper also mentions a series of API-based activities, including examples such as IF Angry face from EoT-1 email to my_address@my_company.com.
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Oh? Meaning that the app/doll/platform/whatever device equipped with Eyes of Things computer vision chips can be set to recognize an angry face and trigger an email about it? Interesting!
The emotion-recognizing doll isn’t on shelves yet. It’s just a glint in the eye of its AI-programming parents at this point. Let’s hope that if and when it gets turned into a Christmas best-seller, all potential privacy and security issues have been ironed out beforehand.
We do not need another seed of Chucky or Twin Sister of Cayla!
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But will it have a tasteful feminine penis?
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‘Wonder Woman’ audience given cleaning supplies and diet pill pamphlets at women-only showing 2017-06-19 04:56:04 Post No.150278
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According to Dutch news organization NOS, attendees of an all-woman Wonder Woman preview screening in Leuven, Belgium, were gifted bags of dish sponges, squeegees, and diet pill informational pamphlets.
The gift bags, handed out at the Tuesday, June 6, screening, also contained chips, noodles, and chocolate.
“Actually, it felt a little absurd,” Diana Goodwin, a screening attendee, told Belgian news organization VRT, calling the gifts “ironic and inappropriate.”
“Especially when you’re watching a movie that completely revolves around a strong female superheroine,” Goodwin elaborated.
According to the Kinepolis Theater in Leuven, the gift bags weren’t intended to come across as sexist—the gifts were actually products from the theater’s sponsors and weren’t chosen by the theater staff.
At least the all-woman screening wasn’t spoiled by a crowd of crying man-children, instead.
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/wonder-woman-sexist-gift-bags/?fb=dd%3Dreshare
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>ironic and inappropriate
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/william_marston/
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Funny shit
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The ignorance of people baffles me anew on a daily basis
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Bill Cosby case:Mistrial declared after jury deadlocks 2017-06-18 12:01:20 Post No.149967
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>The judge says he'll try to schedule new trial within 120 days
>(CNN) The high-profile case accusing Bill Cosby of aggravated indecent assault ended in a mistrial Saturday after a Pennsylvania jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision.
>The outcome leaves one of America's most recognized entertainers as well as his accusers without vindication, but prosecutors immediately announced they will retry the case.
Well, /pol/fags, is he a "dindu" since he is black or is this case an example of feminist propaganda like "rape culture?"
My opinion: Even if the women are telling the truth, they shot themselves and this case in the foot when they decided not to bring this up earlier. I don't care what the reasons were. Feminists need to stop defending this kind of irresponsible behavior over "muh rape culture."
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It's a difficult case because there is no physical evidence and it comes down to a case of hearsay. It really sucks if these women were raped, but unfortunately it is just not right to convict someone for something which may have happened 50 years ago with no solid evidence.
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>Well, /pol/fags
Go ask /pol/ then.
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I only did that because I expected those idiots to surface with one of the 2 of those phrases I posted. It was a preemptive response. /pol/invades every board, you know.
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Nebraska Democratic Party official ousted after controversial audio recording surfaces 2017-06-23 07:16:56 Post No.151632
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Nebraska Democratic Party official ousted after controversial audio recording surfaces
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A Nebraska Democratic Party official is now in hot water. An audio recording was posted on YouTube Thursday with Phil Montag, a technology chairman, voicing how glad he was Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise got shot last week at a baseball practice. Nebraska Democratic Party chairwoman Jane Kleeb confirmed to FOX 42 News Thursday it was really his voice.
"His whole job is to get people, convince Republicans to (expletive) kick people off (expletive) health care. I'm glad he got shot," said Montag in the audio recording.
Montag is now looking for a new job. Kleeb let him go after the recording became public.
"I wish he was (expletive) dead," said Montag in the recording.
"We obviously condemn any kind of violence, whether it's comments on Facebook or comments in a meeting," said Kleeb when reached by phone Thursday.
FOX 42 News tried several times to reach out to Montag Thursday. We e-mailed, sent text messages and called. We also tried to see him in person, but we could not reach him.
"Our country is better than the political rhetoric that is out there from both the far right and the far left," said Kleeb.
The audio that was released Thursday comes about one week after a Nebraska state Democratic leader was asked to resign. Chelsey Gentry-Tipton was involved in a controversy over a Facebook post about Congressman Scalise.
http://fox42kptm.com/news/local/nebraska-democratic-party-official-ousted-after-controversial-audio-recording-surfaces
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Ah yes, the usual "We are sorry". Not sorry it was said, just sorry that people found out.
>"Our country is better than the political rhetoric that is out there from both the far right and the far left,"
And ending the whole charade with a good old "but the right does it too!". Fuck off.
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Really can't wait for the civil war. At this point we deserve it.
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>Thread about Democrat hypocrisy
>two replies
>"TRUMP CAN STILL LOSE GUYS"
>Still being bumped after 16 days
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Senate announces probe Lorretta Lynch Partisan Buzzword 2017-06-23 06:15:59 Post No.151618
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Senate announces probe Lorretta Lynch Partisan Buzzword
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http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/23/senate-announced-probe-loretta-lynch-behavior-2016/
The Senate Judiciary Committee has opened a probe into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s efforts to shape the FBI’s investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the committee’s chairman announced Friday.
In a letter to Ms. Lynch, the committee asks her to detail the depths of her involvement in the FBI’s investigation, including whether she ever assured Clinton confidantes that the probe wouldn’t “push too deeply into the matter.”
Fired FBI Director James B. Comey has said publicly that Ms. Lynch tried to shape the way he talked about the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s emails, and he also hinted at other behavior “which I cannot talk about yet” that made him worried about Ms. Lynch’s ability to make impartial decisions.
Mr. Comey said that was one reason why he took it upon himself to buck Justice Department tradition and reveal his findings about Mrs. Clinton last year.
The probe into Ms. Lynch comes as the Judiciary Committee is already looking at President Trump’s firing of Mr. Comey.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the committee, said the investigation is bipartisan. The letter to Ms. Lynch is signed by ranking Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and also by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse, the chairman and ranking member of the key investigative subcommittee.
Letters also went to Clinton campaign staffer Amanda Renteria and Leonard Benardo and Gail Scovell at the Open Society Foundations. Mr. Benardo was reportedly on an email chain from the then-head of the Democratic National Committee suggesting Ms. Lynch had given assurances to Ms. Renteria, the campaign staffer, that the Clinton probe wouldn’t “go too far.”
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At a Senate hearing earlier this month, Mr. Comey told lawmakers that Ms. Lynch had attempted to change the way the FBI described its probe of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server. The change appeared to dovetail with how Mrs. Clinton’s supporters were characterizing the probe.
“At one point, [Ms. Lynch] directed me not to call it an ‘investigation’ but instead to call it a ‘matter,’ which confused me and concerned me,” Mr. Comey said during his June 8 testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “That was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we are to close this case credibly.”
Acknowledging that he didn’t know whether it was intentional, Mr. Comey said Ms. Lynch’s request “gave the impression the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our investigation with the way a political campaign was describing the same activity.”
Mr. Comey said the language suggested by Ms. Lynch was troublesome because it closely mirrored what the Clinton campaign was using. Despite his discomfort, Mr. Comey said, he agreed to Ms. Lynch’s language.
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In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control 2017-06-21 11:34:54 Post No.151126
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In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control
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Want to understand what is wrong with the American left these days? Watch Chelsea Handler rant on her Netflix show.
The progessive comic’s latest painfully unfunny monologue was a full four minute rant ripping into Ivanka Trump, the President and even her own father, while neglecting to make a single coherent political point.
Like so many others—left-leaning mainstream media pundits, newscasters, celebrities and comedians—Handler uses vile language, puerile toilet humor, crass incest innuendo and utter disrespect not only toward the President and his daughter, but toward her own family. Yet her ”edginess” is more desperate than most celebrity ‘Resistance’ liberals.
This type of insulting language by progressives is so strikingly common nowadays that it no longer has any shock value. Once you strip away the facile attempt to be cool, edgy or hip by using insults and four-letter words all you’re actually left with is an angry woman being crass, crude and downright disgusting.
Let’s not pretend that sneering diatribes by Handler and her ilk are anything new. Progressivism has dominated the media and driven popular culture ever since the 1960s. But the abuse has increased in its shrillness and shocking tone since Donald Trump became President.
What may have begun as questioning the status quo and the establishment has now descended into an all-out assault on civility, decency and morality. Anyone with a conservative viewpoint is considered a deserving target of the Left’s attack dogs.
Liberal celebrities now vent fury with smug, self-righteous glee on national TV, on newer venues like Netflix and Amazon, and in the old print media. In place of sophisticated political satire or any attempt at arguing ideas in an informed manner, the cultural apparatchiks of the media/entertainment complex have instead adopted the put-down tactics of 14 year old bullies.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/in-trump-era-the-mean-streak-of-the-celebrity-liberal-is-out-of-control/
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They use lame insults and f-bombs to both amuse their fan base and to shut down any attempt at rational debate.
Some examples:
Actress Patti LuPone recently said on live TV on the Tony Awards red carpet that Trump shouldn’t see her show: “Well I hope he doesn’t, because I won’t perform if he does…Because I hate the motherf—er. How’s that?”
CBS talk show host Stephen Colbert: “The only thing [Trump’s] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c*ck holster.”
HBO’s Bill Maher speaking to Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine, used suggestive hand gestures to insinuate that Ivanka performs sex acts on her father.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper to Jeff Lord: “If [Trump] took a dump on your desk, you would defend him.”
Director Joss Whedon: “I want a rhino to f*ck [Paul] Ryan to death with its horn because it’s funny.”
When in 2008 Sandra Bernhard expressed hope that Sarah Palin was “gang raped in NYC by my black brothers.” The Washington Post called it—the left’s favorite word—“edgy”! Now such sentiments are increasing in number and frequency.
It’s not as if these celebrity interventions are effective. Doomed Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff enjoyed support from Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Fonda, George Takei and, of course, Handler. He still lost the Georgia House race. Ossoff even pathetically confessed to MSNBC’ s Nicole Wallace: “Celebrities across the country? That’s not what animates people in Georgia. ”
Furthermore, these guilt-ridden pop-cultural progressive influencers of Western culture obscure the fact that they are part of an obscenely wealthy elite by directing envy and class rage away from themselves and onto anyone seen as promoting conservative values or beliefs.
Those who are untouched by the average person’s reality preach to their audience that walls are wrong, before driving home to their gated communities or guarded mansions. Yet they believe that crass comments and personal insults make them “down with the people”.
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Perhaps they’re hoping that if there is a real revolution, the starving masses will burn down their Beverly Hills and Hamptons homes last!
I keep hoping their followers will grow up and see the light; that Handler and Colbert and the others will check their own moral compass, mislaid by all that vile abuse, before prioritizing helping the poor, fighting injustice and making the world a better place.
But it seems that sneering cruel sarcastic variants of President Obama’s 2008 comment that midwest voters “cling to guns or religion” are now the default setting in the battle of ideas.
I’m not sure how we as a society deal with this kind of visceral hatred. But with every Handler rant and every Colbert crudity another brick drops from the wall that holds the center together. When that wall collapses no amount of sneering opinion pieces, foul-mouthed rants or abusive put-downs will be able to fix things.
The final irony is that the mega-rich wanna-be revolutionaries of the cultural-media class love to preach the virtues of positive discrimination but they might soon find out societal chaos is an equal opportunity destroyer of peoples lives.
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>people are being mean, waah waah
>i care so much about what celebrities say, boo hoo
>comedians aren't political philosophers, how can i survive in this world
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Grenfell Tower fire in London, England
>Fire reported at Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road at 00:54 BST
>Forty fire engines, and around 200 firefighters tackle blaze; cause unknown
>London Fire Brigade confirms fatalities but cannot give a number
>Thirty people have been taken to five London hospitals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-london-40239008
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>More than 50 people are being treated in hospital, says London Ambulance.
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Any engineer anon over here? Just wondering if the fires on this building could be compared to the ones on the WTC, materials are probably different, but the one in London burned for 4 hours, roughly 80% of the building in flames and no collapse, vs WTC burning for less than 2 hours and crumbles... Am I delusional?
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>WTC
Jetfuel melts steel beams
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Gianforte pleads guilty to assault in incident with reporter 2017-06-13 01:03:17 Post No.148795
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Gianforte pleads guilty to assault in incident with reporter
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>Greg Gianforte, the Montana congressman-elect who was accused of "body slamming" a reporter, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault Monday morning.
Judge Rick West sentenced Gianforte to a 180-day deferred sentence, 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management and a $300 fine along with a $85 court fee.
>Gianforte has apologized to the journalist, Ben Jacobs, and also pledged to donate $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization that promotes press freedom, "in the hope that perhaps some good can come of these events."
>"My physical response to your legitimate question was unprofessional, unacceptable, and unlawful," Gianforte said in the letter.
">I made a mistake and humbly ask for your forgiveness."
>Jacobs accepted the apology.
>Jacobs was present and made a statement in the courtroom. Gianforte later asked if he could address Jacobs directly and apologized again.
>"I just want to say I'm sorry and if and when you're ready, I look forward to sitting down with you in DC," he said.
>In his letter, Gianforte stated: "I had no right to respond the way did to your legitimate question about health care policy. You were doing your job."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/greg-gianforte-assault-plea/index.html
Don't fuck with the left. We will take you down.
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>Don't fuck with the left, we'll take you down
Guy still gets elected
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Not really he still won.
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Yeah, no, the Left lost, if you want to even divide it into Left Vs Right, personally I see it as the "everyday American" lost and the "rich political cunt with political connections with the fucking chief Chief of Police" won.
Fucking misdemeanor for tackling and punching someone in the face for asking a question about your shitty policy?
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Fear Grips Villagers As Sheep Gives Birth To Half-Human, Half-Beast 2017-06-24 12:10:40 Post No.151674
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Fear Grips Villagers As Sheep Gives Birth To Half-Human, Half-Beast
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>All but one in a backwards african tribe are horrified at a half human lamb thing
>The one breathes a sigh of relief
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A backpacker is traveling through Ireland when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby pub. The only other person at the bar is an older man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Irish accent:
"You see this bar? I built this bar with my own bare hands. I cut down every tree and made the lumber myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me McGreggor the bar builder? No."
He continued "Do you see that stone wall out there? I built that wall with my own bare hands. I found every stone and placed them just right through the rain and the mud, but do they call me McGreggor the wall builder? No."
"Do ya see that pier out there on the lake? I built that pier with my own bare hands, driving each piling deep into ground so that it would last a lifetime. Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No."
"But ya fuck one goat.."
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Topkek
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A Daily Cheese Auction Is Going Electronic 2017-06-24 02:16:58 Post No.151701
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People wearing colored jackets in Chicago were shouting at each other about cheese for the final time on Friday.
A daily 10-minute auction in Chicago that helps set the national price of cheese will go electronic on Monday, after being held in a traditional open-outcry format for decades. CME Group Inc., CME 0.05% the exchange operator that oversees the auction, ran it Friday in its old form for the last time.
“We’re all going to miss the yelling and the screaming,” said Dean Kinnas, a dairy options trader at the CME-owned Chicago Board of Trade, or CBOT, exchange.
The “spot call” cheese auction is among the smaller and more obscure markets in CME’s empire. Until Friday, it was held in a corner of the CBOT trading floor in downtown Chicago each weekday at 10:45 a.m. Central time. There are often only a handful of trades—each representing a “carload” of 40,000 to 44,000 pounds of cheddar—executed each day by a small group of dairy brokers.
CME hopes the electronic platform will boost participation, with companies able to access the auction and monitor prices from anywhere in the world.
Earlier this year, CME shifted similar auctions for butter and nonfat dry milk to the new format, and it said participation has increased.
Increasing volumes could also bolster confidence in the benchmark cheese price that is determined by the auction. The cheese benchmark has been dogged by allegations of market manipulation over its centurylong history.
Last year, around 50 million pounds of cheese were traded in the auction, less than 1% of total U.S. cheese production, dairy-market observers say. Despite the relatively small volumes, the daily spot price from the auction is widely used in the U.S. cheese business.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-better-cheddar-benchmark-a-daily-cheese-auction-is-going-electronic-1498219200
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More than 80% of the wholesale cheese transactions in the U.S. are priced off the CME spot cheddar price, said Dave Kurzawski, a senior dairy broker at INTL FCStone Inc.
Other types of cheese are typically bought and sold at a premium or discount to cheddar. For instance, a dairy-plant operator might agree to sell mozzarella for 10 cents a pound above the average price of CME spot cheddar from the previous week.
“Cheddar is kind of the lowest common denominator of cheeses,” Mr. Kurzawski said.
The number of open-outcry trading floors has dwindled amid the inexorable shift to electronic markets. In December, CME shut down the trading floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange in Manhattan, the longtime home of pits for oil and gold futures, following a long decline in open-outcry volumes.
At the spot cheese auction on Thursday, some 20 brokers barked and haggled, phones pressed to their ears as they relayed orders from customers such as dairy plants and food processors.
Factors that could affect the price include demand from food processors for cheese, as well as the cost of milk.
Cheese at the auction is traded in both barrels and blocks at different prices. Both have fallen this year. A barrel of cheddar, which is used primarily for processing, rose 2.2% to $1.37 a pound on Friday but was down 14% for the year. A block of cheddar, used for cutting, fell 0.3% to $1.54 a pound, down 7% for the year so far.
Pete Turk, a co-owner of Rice Dairy LLC who has been a broker at the cheese auction since 2005, said that going electronic would deprive the market of the emotional buzz that comes with face-to-face trading. “You can’t feel a screen,” he said on the sidelines of the auction on Thursday. “People like to see and feel that emotion to understand what’s going on.”
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The cheese auction traces its history back to the founding of the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange in 1918. Later renamed the National Cheese Exchange, it was based for decades in Green Bay, Wis. In 1997, it closed down, and the market shifted to Chicago.
Rumors of market manipulation tarnished the reputation of the National Cheese Exchange, with dairy farmers accusing Kraft Foods Inc. and other big food companies of using it to keep prices artificially low. Multiple lawsuits filed by farmers against Kraft in the late 1990s were all eventually thrown out, and regulators never filed charges against the food company, which denied the accusations.
Moving the market to Chicago put the cheese auction under CME’s surveillance and regulation, but that didn’t end concerns about possible manipulation. In 2008, the Dairy Farmers of America Inc. and two of its former executives paid $12 million to settle allegations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that they had attempted to manipulate the price of milk futures by repeatedly buying cheddar in the auction. DFA, a nationwide farmers’ cooperative, neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.
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Pepper jack is bomb as fuck on a sandwich with bacon, avocado and tomato.
What's your favorite cheese OP?
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Leftists Destroy Female Business Owners' Burrito Stand Because They're White 2017-05-24 09:11:31 Post No.143036
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Leftists Destroy Female Business Owners' Burrito Stand Because They're White
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2017-05-24 09:11:31
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Two women were recently driven out of business for serving burritos while white.
Millennials Kali Wilgus and Liz “LC” Connelly tasted success for a short while after opening Kooks Burritos in Portland, Oregon, but after their business was featured in a local paper, the duo was hit with an onslaught of negative media attention filled with accusations of "cultural appropriation" from your standard miserable social justice warriors.
Apparently Wilgus and Connelly infringed on the non-existent copyright on burritos.
The women explained to Willamette Week that they traveled to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, and became obsessed with tortillas, speaking with the local "tortilla ladies" for ingredients and tips.
"I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did," said Connelly. "They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out with rolling pins.”
After creating their own spin on the tortilla via a trial-and-error process, the women decided to engage in the American dream and open their own pop-up shop on the weekends. Kooks Burritos was born, and they thrived.
Enter: social justice warriors.
Getting a whiff of Wilgus and Connelly's process of creating tortilla recipes, leftist outlets like Mic.com and The Portland Mercury pounced: painting the female entrepreneurs contributing to society as racist, sticky-fingered villains.
"Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly. These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise," accused The Portland Mercury.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/16832/leftists-destroy-female-business-owners-burrito-amanda-prestigiacomo
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"People of color are nothing more than an afterthought when the white perpetrators of this tradition continue to do this on a regular basis. While Portland is supposedly a progressive place, super liberal white people usually only have other super white liberal people to answer to—which means this cycle of cultural appropriation will never end until people of color call attention to it," the piece continued.
"These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise," added the outlet.
Soon after, the business was forced into closing its doors, and its online presence has all but disappeared. The Portland Mercury called the closure a "victory."
The closing of Kooks Burritos is deeply disturbing but unsurprising that it was caused by the social justice left. As noted by Ryan James Girdusky of Red Alter Politics, the crusade to punish alleged "cultural appropriation" merely deepens divides and actually works to destroy American culture, rather than enhance it:
By sectioning off ideas deemed “non-white,” social justice warriors are dividing people and destroying culture by forbidding it to blend, evolve, and become embraced as inherently American. ... The war on food is social Marxism masked as a campaign for economic populism and cultural purity. It is just another failed theory that the left has embraced and tried to sell to the masses.
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>>143036
>Leftists
Great /pol/bait, Ben.
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>>143040
SJW not leftist
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Ex-U.S. Attorney Bharara tells of 'unusual' calls he received from Trump 2017-06-11 11:20:59 Post No.148569
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Ex-U.S. Attorney Bharara tells of 'unusual' calls he received from Trump
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2017-06-11 11:20:59
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bharara-idUSKBN19211S
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara revealed on Sunday that he received a handful of "unusual" phone calls from Donald Trump after the November election that made him feel uncomfortable, and said he was fired after declining to take the third call.
Speaking on ABC News' "This Week" in his first televised interview since Trump fired him in March as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Bharara said he believed Trump's calls to him violated the usual boundaries between the executive branch and independent criminal investigators.
"It's a very weird and peculiar thing for a one-on-one conversation without the attorney general, without warning between the president and me or any United States attorney who has been asked to investigate various things and is in a position hypothetically to investigate business interests and associates of the president," Bharara said.
He added that during President Barack Obama's tenure, Obama never called him directly.
Bharara's comments came just a few days after former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey testified at a congressional panel that Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into former Trump aide Michael Flynn and his alleged ties to Russia.
Comey also said he believed he was subsequently fired in an effort to undermine the investigation into possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Trump has denied allegations of collusion between his campaign and Russia and said he never directed Comey to drop the Flynn probe.
A White House spokeswoman could not immediately be reached for comment.
Bharara said on Sunday that Trump called him twice after the November election "ostensibly just to shoot the breeze."
"It was a little bit uncomfortable, but he was not the president. He was only the president-elect," Bharara said.
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The third call, however, came two days after Trump's inauguration. That time, he said, he refused to call back.
"The call came in. I got a message. We deliberated over it, thought it was inappropriate to return the call. And 22 hours later I was asked to resign along with 45 other people," he said.
Bharara stopped short of saying whether he thought Trump had obstructed justice in his conversations and subsequent firing of Comey.
However, he said he thought there was "absolutely evidence to begin a case" into the matter.
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Who cares
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Gets fired with 45 other dep ag's and thinks it's all about him and trump.
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Congrats 4chan, you made it on Sky News. http://news.sky.com/story/research-examines-fake-news-hate-speech-and-4chan-10910915
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The hacker 4chan?
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>4chan in the news
This article from 2011 in the Moot era provides some historical perspective before /pol/ took over . ..
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/04/4chan-201104
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The hacker known as 4chan.
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Trump’s bluff on White House tapes wasn’t just dishonest — it was also a failure 2017-06-23 04:51:11 Post No.151506
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Trump’s bluff on White House tapes wasn’t just dishonest — it was also a failure
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2017-06-23 04:51:11
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President Trump acknowledged Thursday that he doesn't have any tapes of conversations with former FBI director James B. Comey, finally coming clean after playing a nearly six-week-long game.
And in the end, it wasn't just another bluff from Trump; it was another bluff that was called and that continued to chip away at Trump's honesty and credibility, for no discernible benefit.
The president last month wielded those potential tapes as a very thinly veiled threat against Comey. And ever since then, Trump and the White House have decided to withhold the truth from the American people, refusing to answer a simple yes-or-no question about whether they had tapes.
This is just the latest in a long line of Trump bluffs. There was the time he was going to force the House to vote on its health-care bill, pass or fail, until he urged that it be delayed in the face of defeat. There was the time during the spending debate when the White House signaled that Trump would allow a shutdown if the bill didn't fund his border wall, only to back down a couple of days later. More examples abound.
But this has been a particularly brazen brand of bluffing from the president of the United States. Trump threatened a former top government official using a falsehood to try to get him to soften his testimony. It's not difficult to attach this to the lengthening list of things suggesting that Trump has tampered in the Russia investigation or even obstructed justice in doing so.
So Trump appears to have not only done something dishonest that undermines his credibility going forward, but it didn't even work. At least the charade is over.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/22/gingrich-just-admitted-trump-was-being-dishonest-about-white-house-tapes-because-nothing-matters/
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Keyword, "Tapes."
When is the last time you recorded something on tape? This isn't 1980.
Trump didn't say he didn't have digital recordings, and Trump was the one to put the word "Tapes" out there in the first place.
4D chess indeed.
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He also put in in quotes, just like he did with "wiretapped".
He's a 70 year old senile, semi-literate grandpa.
Of course he's still using 80's terms for modern technology, he wouldn't know an MP4 from a colonoscopy.
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>>151536
>he's still using 80's terms for modern technology
Or he could be using old terminology so he can lie by telling the truth. He didn't get all that money by being stupid.
When he was asked if he had a tape he said he would answer that question later in the week. By having someone else release a statement later he eliminated the possibility of a follow up question that would force him to lie or else expose the truth.
Why would anyone need that much time to tell a simple truth? Trump needed time to consult with his lawyers for a reason. The reason is pretty obvious, and keeping the public focused on the word "Tapes" instead of recordings only helps him when real senile Congressmen like Lewis try to question him.
**BREAKER**
Suicide bomber attempts to blow up Mecca - but goes off early when cornered by police.
Why is a muzzie trying to TK his own spawn?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40390010
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Ain't nothing new.
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They dont tend to try to blow up their own base.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/isis-grand-mosque-al-nuri-blow-up-destroy-mosul-caliphate-al-baghdadi-latest-a7801846.html