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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Linux Retranscode Video to Audio Script, Random Stuff, and More

- I recently ran out of storage space. I found out that the easiest way to deal with it (without deleting files) is to transcode video to audio only format. I built a script to deal with this problem since it's not as easy as it sounds. If you're interested I saved about 200GB in about 2-3 hours of processing. Download the script here:
- description as follows:
# Due to jittery network connections I often prefer to download rather
# then stream multimedia live from the Internet.
#
# Recently, I discovered that I ran out of storage space though.
# Obviously, I thought about deleting material but thought that an easier
# way to deal with it was to retranscode video to pure audio files.
#
# Obviously, you can save gigabytes in several minutes using this technique.
# In fact, I saved about 1GB per minute but it can be slow going if you have
# a large number of files. Run it overnight, regularly via a cron job (or 
# something similar), or in the background if that's the case.
#
# If you're wondering it's not as easy as it sounds. You need to change
# parameters from time to time. Hence, the size of this script.
#
# One bonus side effect of switching to m4a format is that it's supported
# by a lot of music players and smartphones out there.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy.
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
#
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- MOSCOW, September 21. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a telegram to General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Tr·ng, offering condolences over the death of Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, the Kremlin press service reported.

"Putin stressed that by his service as head of state, as well at other positions of trust, Tran Dai Quang earned due respect among his countrymen and prominent global stature, and did a lot to consolidate the country’s national security to protect Vietnam’s interests on the global stage," the report says. The head of state also lauded Tran Dai Quang’s personal contribution to cultivating the comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and Vietnam and bilateral cooperation in various spheres.

"The Russian president noted that he repeatedly met with Tran Dai Quang," the telegram says. "His political wisdom and shrewdness and the ability to understand the core of the most complicated things which drew the most sincere respect."
- So, what exactly is the U.S. grand strategy with regard to Russia?

What might be called the McCain wing of the Republican Party has sought to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, which would make the containment of Russia America’s policy in perpetuity.

Are the American people aware of the costs and risks inherent in such a policy? What are the prospects of Russia yielding always to U.S. demands? And are we not today stretched awfully thin?

Our share of the global economy is much shrunken from Reagan’s time.

Our deficit is approaching $1 trillion.

Our debt is surging toward 100 percent of GDP.

Entitlements are consuming our national wealth.

We are committed to containing the two other greatest powers, Russia and China.

We are tied down militarily in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, with the War Party beating the drums for another and larger war — with Iran.

And we are sanctioning adversaries and allies for not following our leadership of the West and the world.

In looking at America’s global commitments, greatly expanded since our Cold War victory, one word come to mind: unsustainable.
- (CNN) -- Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn't that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated -- we knew that already -- it's that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers.

In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access.

Google's system isn't unique. Democratic governments around the world -- in Sweden, Canada and the UK, for example -- are rushing to pass laws giving their police new powers of Internet surveillance, in many cases requiring communications system providers to redesign products and services they sell.
Many are also passing data retention laws, forcing companies to retain information on their customers. In the U.S., the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act required phone companies to facilitate FBI eavesdropping, and since 2001, the National Security Agency has built substantial eavesdropping systems with the help of those phone companies.

Systems like these invite misuse: criminal appropriation, government abuse and stretching by everyone possible to apply to situations that are applicable only by the most tortuous logic. The FBI illegally wiretapped the phones of Americans, often falsely invoking terrorism emergencies, 3,500 times between 2002 and 2006 without a warrant. Internet surveillance and control will be no different.

Official misuses are bad enough, but it's the unofficial uses that worry me more. Any surveillance and control system must itself be secured. An infrastructure conducive to surveillance and control invites surveillance and control, both by the people you expect and by the people you don't.
- We’re learning that people would prefer an authentic dickhead versus someone who is perceived inauthentic and controlled by shadowy vested interests that haven’t worked for the majority.”
- The Opposition’s shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland, together with shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus, and shadow human services minister Ed Husic, issued a statement that was basically a rap on the knuckles of the Government, admonishing them for rushing through the legislation.

“We saw what a mess the Liberals made with their half-baked metadata proposal and attempting to rush the encryption Bill in a similar way would be reckless.”

Indeed. What the statement did not say, however, was that the Labor “Opposition” ended up supporting that “half-baked metadata proposal” and thus was equally culpable in enabling that draconian piece of privacy destroying legislation to become law.

When pressed about the current bill before Parliament, the Labor Opposition has refused to rule out supporting it, indicating that it intends to once again act as a rubber stamp and thwart the will of the people.

So what we have now is a Government hell bent on pursuing a wildly unpopular policy at the behest of local and foreign spy and law enforcement agencies within the five-eyes community of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. And we have a weak-kneed Opposition equally beholden to those very same forces.

What the Government and Opposition seem to have forgotten is that their charter is to enact the will of the Australian people. They are supposed to work for us. They were not vested with power to do the bidding of local and foreign intelligence agencies.

In the case of the Labor Opposition, this perhaps their last real chance to prove that they are a real opposition force in the Australian Parliament by helping to quash this deeply flawed piece of legislation. However, judging by their past actions, one can forgiven for not holding out much hope.
- The other day I awoke to find that after months of constant nagging my phone had managed to slip under my guard and upgrade my operating system. I noticed that along with the new software I now had Apple Pay and thus would be able to use my phone in lieu of my credit/debit card.

This I realised was yet another peg in the road that leads to the end game – total dependency on our smartphone. We will no longer need, cash, cards, cars, wallets, passports or keys to our home because everything will be accessible from our phone. It sounds wonderful because my benevolent government will never lose track of me, or my personal data – even if I turn my phone off.

There are now very few people in first and second world countries that do not own a smartphone and who do not carry it with them at all times. With the current pace of development – and with 5G around the corner - all of the scenarios described in the preceding paragraphs, as well as a large basket of technologies not even touched upon, will be in force before this decade is out.

Finally, some words of wisdom from long-time anti-smartphones campaigner and American actor Denzel Washington: “If you don’t think you’re addicted, see if you can turn it off for a week.”
- Polling conducted this year by Griffith University and Transparency International Australia found that 85 per cent of respondents believe at least some federal Members of Parliament are corrupt. This is up 9 points just since 2016. It includes 18 per cent who believe most or all federal politicians are corrupt.
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Fully 62 per cent of respondents believe officials or politicians use their positions to benefit themselves or their family, while 56 per cent believe officials or politicians favour businesses and individuals in return for political donations or support.

I can’t prove it, but I doubt it’s nearly that bad. Cases of money in paper bags changing hands would be few and far between. Such personal corruption as exists would usually be more subtle: hospitality in corporate boxes at sporting events and sponsored international travel.

Plus the risk that senior politicians and bureaucrats go easy on interest groups in the hope that, when they retire or leave the parliament, those groups will show their gratitude by giving them a cushy job.

But it’s institutional, not personal, corruption that’s the bigger problem. Businesses, unions and others give money to political parties in the hope of gaining access to decision makers and influence over their decisions.
- Former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United States’ healthcare system as being “unethical”, “unfair” and outright “wrong."

The South Korean politician said, “Nobody would imagine that there should be so many people – 30 million people – who would be left behind” in America.

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian newspaper published on Tuesday, he insisted that not providing healthcare, especially in a rich countries like the US, was “unethical” and “politically wrong, morally wrong”.

Ban, who said as secretary general he had pledged to make the world a better place for all, highlighted the importance of universal health coverage.

He said it was still his duty and part of his work with The Elders -- a group founded by Nelson Mandela -- to tackle world problems, to address the issue of inadequate universal health coverage.  

“Nobody would understand why almost 30 million [American] people are not covered by insurance,” he noted.

The US lags behind almost a dozen other countries on measures of affordability, access, health outcomes, and equality between the rich and poor, according to a recent study.

Since US President Donald Trump came to power, an additional 4 million people have lost health coverage, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

    “This is for the people. Leaders are elected because they vowed that they would work for the people,” said Ban. “They are abandoning people because they are poor, then these poor people cannot find a proper medical support.”

“It’s not easy to understand why such a country like the United States, the most resourceful and richest country in the world, does not introduce universal health coverage,” he said.  

Ban accused the “powerful” corporations of having prevented the US from moving towards universal healthcare.

Despite huge spending on health, millions in the US live entirely outside the health system.

Many poor Americans are uninsured and unable to go to pursue medical treatment for ailments, according to reports.

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Linux File Organiser Script, Random Stuff, and More

- built a script to automatically organise folders. Download it here:
- description is as follows:
# The point of this script is to organise folders which are a mess and which
# can be (within reasonable bounds) automatically organised.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy. 
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
#

Random Stuff:
- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services
- latest in science and technology
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- (Newser) – Tesla's stock was dropping Monday, but this time it had nothing to do with a controversial tweet from CEO Elon Musk. Instead, the Wall Street Journal got its hands on a memo that suggests the company's cash troubles remain significant. In the memo, sent by an unnamed global supply manager to an unnamed parts supplier, Tesla asks for money back on deals struck as far back as 2016. The pitch is that Tesla needs the cash to become profitable and that the supplier should see the give-back as an investment in a long-term partnership. The memo says other suppliers were getting the same message. The Journal notes that while it's not unusual for car companies to seek discounts, it is unusual to seek a discount on past deals.

"This is troubling for us to hear," a Morningstar analyst wrote in a note to clients, per the Guardian. Shares in the company dropped about 5% after the story broke. Tesla confirmed it was seeking price cuts on old deals but said it was a standard business practice. Not everyone agrees. "It's simply ludicrous and it just shows that Tesla is desperate right now," a manufacturing consultant tells the Journal. "They're worried about their profitability but they don't care about their suppliers' profitability." Tesla hit a manufacturing milestone on the Model 3 earlier this month, prompting Musk to say it had "become a real car company." But Tesla is burning through about $1 billion in cash per quarter, and the San Jose Mercury News notes that it just slashed 9% of its workforce to cut costs.
http://www.newser.com/story/262333/new-tesla-trouble-a-leaked-memo.html
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is under no illusions about the catastrophe that would befall his nation if Israel let its guard down for one second. He once insightfully observed that “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.” As a result, the Netanyahu-led government has invested heavily in defense. Nearly 6 percent of Israel’s GDP, or $19.6b was allocated toward defense spending in 2017.
- "There is no need to release this," said Richard Bejtlich, founder of Tao Security, via Twitter. "The tie to Shodan puts it over the edge. There is no legitimate reason to put mass exploitation of public systems within the reach of script kiddies. Just because you can do something doesn't make it wise to do so. This will end in tears."

At the same time, there may be some value in explicitly connecting the dots between vulnerability scanning and vulnerability exploitation. The exercise makes it clear that automation defeats security through obscurity.

Vector, reached via Twitter, told The Register that the code has been received fairly well in the security community.

"I have seen comments critical of the tool for sure as well, but what they say can be said for every other attack tool that implements automation to some end," Vector said.

"As with anything, it can be used for good or bad," the security researcher added. "The responsibility is with the person using it. I am not going to play gatekeeper to information. I believe information should be free and I am a fan of open source in general."
- "Peace through power is the unwavering security strategy of this government."
- Amazon.com Inc. is conducting an investigation into employees that are said to offer sellers on its e-commerce program with an advantage by providing confidential internal data and other services in exchange for a fee.

Employees are allegedly selling information on sales and searches to the independent merchants that operate on the site and providing a way to delete negative reviews, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. These practices may help sellers' products appear higher in search results, bettering their chances of attracting customers. The newspaper cited brokers who act as intermediaries between employees and merchants, individuals who bought the services, and people familiar with the investigations.
- Faith helps us deal with life and death, and the Anglican Communion, for all its wounds, remains a repository of culture and ethics. Remember: it is beauty and kindness that keep us from sliding into barbarism.
- Technology is all about helping people. However, technology development is not driven to maximise all of society's goals. Applications that make money get built, while application that don't make money don't get built. Bridging the gap between the possible and the profitable in socially beneficial application of technology is crucial, and it is an important effort that require the attention of the technology community.
The opportunities are many and the needs are great. Technologist love to solve problems and that's what we do best. We need to provide new models for how to accomplish great things with technology. How many inventors have placed back their ideas on the shelf when it became apparent that their great social idea might not have been a great business idea? When you solve a billion dollar problem then you will at least worth a third of that value. The possible market failure is not the final answer: just because something isn't financially lucrative is no reason not to do it.
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.[73]
— Whoopi Goldberg
- Honesty might be the best policy, but that doesn't stop jobseekers from stretching the truth. According to Ron Friedman, an award-winning social psychologist and author of "The Best Place to Work, a whopping 81 percent of people lie during interviews.

That's likely why SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk asks one simple interview question to catch a candidate's bluff: What were the most difficult problems you faced and how did you solve them?

Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, the tech billionaire said that this "very important" question reveals the role an applicant had at a project or company. From this question, Musk says he can tell whether the applicant was truly the one who took ownership and found solutions to a problem as opposed to simply being a member on a team that did so.

"People [who] really solved the problem, they know exactly how they solved it," Musk explained. "They know the little details." These candidates are able to talk in-depth about the struggles that they faced and the strategies they used. Says Musk, great candidates can answer this question on "multiple levels."

Conversely, those who "pretend" that they were the problem-solvers can "maybe go one level and then they get stuck," said the billionaire.

When candidates can't talk at length, he knows they weren't really the one to work on the challenge. "Anyone who struggles hard with a problem never forgets it," Musk said, touching on this topic at a separate conference.
- It is possible that one of the reasons for such unprofessional behaviour of Russian military intelligence officers is that they do not feel the need to cover up their trail.

The Russian government has always denied any allegations of its agents being involved in special operations abroad, even when the facts were clear. Yet, it very much enjoys all the publicity it gets with each new spy scandal.

After all, if your aim is to scare off other countries, then the more hysteria there is about your special ops abroad, the better, even if they are failed ones.
- Tech billionaire Elon Musk has had a big week, and it’s only Tuesday.

In a bizarre speech, delivered to a crowd gathered beside his commercial space ship, known as BFR, Musk warned his guests that Earth needed to become a “multi-planet civilisation”, and we need to do it right now.

“There could be some natural event or some man-made event that ends civilization as we know it, and ends life as we know it,?” Musk rambled into a microphone.

“And so it’s important that we try to become a multi-planet civilization, extend life beyond earth and to do so as quickly as we can.”

His strange comments came during an opening address at an event hosted by his company SpaceX, in which he announced the very first “paying customer of BFR” selected for a journey to the Moon and back.

The event, called #dearMoon, revealed that the commercial site seeing expedition would take about a week to travel the 480,000 mile round trip to the moon and back and would take place in 2023.

Throughout the speech the Tesla chief appeared jittery and would look off into the distance, often leaving sentences unfinished and sweating before having to remove his jacket.

“We want … to ultimately have life on Mars, the Moon, maybe Venus, the Moons Jupiter, throughout the solar system, and then ultimately extend life beyond the solar system to other star systems,” he said.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Seek Email Crawler, Random Stuff, and More

- built a Seek email extractor to deal with recruiters who often post 'fake jobs'. Download it here:
- description is as follows:
# If you don't already know a lot of job boards have 'fake jobs'. These
# 'fake jobs' are posted by recruiters who are looking to increase the
# size of their candidate databases. To get around this particular
# problem I built this script. Just run with the correct parameters
# to extract relevant email addresses so that you can bulk email them.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program (and I didn't have
# access to the original server while I was cleaning this up it may 
# be VERY buggy). Please test prior to deployment in a production 
# environment.

Random Stuff:
- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services
- latest in science and technology
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- latest in finance and politics

Random Quotes:
- "It seemed like better karma at $US420 than at $US419," he said in the interview. "But I was not on weed, to be clear. Weed is not helpful for productivity. There's a reason for the word 'stoned.' You just sit there like a stone on weed."
- "It has been said that to one who is good, the whole world becomes good. This is true so far as the individual is concerned. But goodness becomes dynamic only when it is practised in the face of evil. If you return good for good only, it is a bargain and carries no merit, but if you return good for evil, it becomes a redeeming force. The evil ceases before it and it goes on gathering volume and momentum like a snow-ball till it becomes irresistible." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"There is no sense in trying to do anything unless you give it your maximum effort. You may not succeed but at least the dedication and effort and interest should be there." -- John F. Kennedy (JFK)

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose." -- G. K. Nielson

"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do." -- John R. Amos

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I don't have it in the beginning." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him -- Swami Chinmayananda.

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein.
"Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." -- Albert Einstein.
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts bcome your words, Your words become your action, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, You values become your destiny" - Mahatma Gandhi
The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. - Albert Einstein.
"If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions." - Albert Einstein.
"I learned much about my academic colleagues. They fell into three categories. The first, and by far the most numerous, wanted only to be left alone to get on with their own work. But they were like hermit crabs: if you were foolish enough to tread on them, they nipped painfully. The second were intelligent and public-spirited, understood the problems and were positively helpful in solving them. Finally there was a tiny but inescapable minority of menacing nuisances who expressed their egos by causing trouble. The proble was how to avoid antagonizing the first group, to enlist the support of the second and to neutralize the third." Sir Michael Howard, Regis Professor of Modern History, Oxford (source: Randy H. Katz, UC Berkley website).
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." -- Thomas A. Edison 
- I say to CxOs your transformation won't change culture unless you personally change. What does that look like and feel like? Very few companies recognise culture isn't a problem with people but you as a leader. That's not saying people are bad - I spoke to the CEO of a very large bank a couple of weeks ago and he said we want to pick two or three digital initiatives and make a team and drive success with resources behind the projects. I said no, you're a bank, people are afraid to do the wrong thing and it will be watered down.

Instead, pick the people who lead your initiatives and say "I want to see 10 proof of concepts in 90 days. We'll kill nine of them. Then let's see another 10 in 90 days, maybe some out to demo stage, but with the learnings built-in from the first 10." This tells the organisation it's ok to fail and to set up a structure where it's not a big high-stakes thing.

Leaders need to change, but they don't have to go through a personal epiphany and be a different person, but change what you ask for and accept failure and drive experimentation - this will drive your culture. Instead of saying "come back with two projects" say "come back with 10 and we will kill most of these" is a small tweak how you to talk to the organisation but it's one example of the 100 things you have to do to get a cultural change to happen.

This is more effective than hiring a consultant to convince people they should be willing to take risks. You don't change culture directly, but you do things that start to get culture change.

The writer attended Red Hat Summit 2018 as a guest of the company.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Quick Code Ranker Script, Random Stuff, and More

- sometimes you need to quickly appraise a code repository. The following script does just that:
- description is as follows:
# Sometimes you just want to get an idea of what someone's
# code repository is like as opposed to running a full blown CI/CD
# type environment such as Jenkins or TravisCI. That's the point
# of this script. I use in combination with by github_downloader.sh
# script in order to get a quick idea of what a developer's code
# repository is like
#
# As this is the very first version of the program (and I didn't have
# access to the original server while I was cleaning this up it may 
# be VERY buggy). Please test prior to deployment in a production 
# environment.
#

Random Stuff:
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- latest in science and technology
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Random Quotes:
- The Palestinians have argued that since the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been stalled for many years, they have no choice but to proceed in other ways in their quest to gain statehood.

"They're still denying we are a state," Mansour said. "We walk like a state. We quack like a state. Therefore we are a state."
- A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and Warsaw University of Life Sciences has found that dairy cows are willing to expend energy to gain access to a grooming brush. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes experiments they carried out with dairy cows and a large grooming brush and what they found.

While it may look like cows in a field do nothing but stand around eating or chewing their cud, they also do something else—they rub themselves on virtually any object they can find, such as trees, fence posts and even a tractor if the opportunity arises. They rub themselves as part of grooming—exposure to the elements can cause an itchy hide. Rubbing not only feels good, it helps to remove dirt, feces and insects, and perhaps reduces stress. Unfortunately, dairy cows do not get to wander around in pastures that have places for rubbing—they are kept in the barn most of the time, where they have no way to engage in grooming. Noting that it must be frustrating for the cows, the researchers set up an experiment to determine if a large rotating bristly brush might help.

After noting that test cows seemed to enjoy pushing themselves against the brush, the researchers set up an experiment to measure how much they enjoyed it. The experiment consisted of training several dairy cows to push against a gate to open it, allowing them access to one of three options: an empty enclosure, a bucket of feed, or the giant brush. They also rigged the gate to require different amounts of pushing to get through. After testing multiple cows with their gate, the researchers found that they would push just as hard to gain access to the brush as they would for the feed. They also discovered that most of the cows were not willing to work very hard to gain access to the empty enclosure.

The researchers conclude by suggesting that the brush appears to be a viable option for allowing dairy cows to groom themselves.
- Now, the original team has published another paper claiming that additional research they conducted showed that their original claims were correct. But others in the field are still not convinced. One team published a paper in the same journal issue outlining their experience attempting the same procedure on mice. They claim that large, undesired deletions occurred in the embryo genome. Another team pointed out in their paper that the technique used by the original researchers could not work because DNA from the male and female in the embryo is physically separated during early development—because of that, there would be no way for the embryo to use the mother's DNA to repair the section cut out using CRISPR. Others have also noted that there is no way to tell for sure if the technique used by the original research team made other cuts that could not be seen, leading to other possible birth defects.
To date, no other team has attempted to replicate the original team's efforts due to governmental restrictions or outright bans on working with human embryos.
- The human psyche hates any form of cognitive dissonance – or challenge to ingrained beliefs – and so scientists think the struggles through which born-again Christians go in order to overcome their old modes of thinking cause severe stress to their brains. 
- Rush: The Ancients did not devote the efforts of an entire generation to build this ship on a whim. Neither was Destiny named on a whim. Over a million years ago, the Ancients discovered the complex structure buried deep within the background radiation. The fingerprints of an intelligence that existed very near the beginning of time itself. Destiny was launched in search of that intelligence. Who knows how close we are to finding it. How close we are to learning, in the Ancients' words, "the destiny of all things." I don't pretend to know when that's going to be, in which stars it will happen, or even how that will change our view of the universe. I only know that Destiny has come this far and if we abandon her now, there'll be no coming back. All of that knowledge will be lost, forever. I believe this journey is the reason I'm here, but I can't hope to do it alone. I ask you to come with me.

Fixing Cheap Hurricane Gen850 and Scorpion ET950L Power Generators, Microwave Rice, and More

Fixing Cheap Hurricane Gen850 and Scorpion ET950L Power Generators: - I've obviously been playing around with small ICE engines of late....