The recent Eyrie activity surrounding Vocaloids is the first time I've paid any real attention to them, but now I can't help but wonder how Doug's metatalent responds to them. "Tell Your World", as an example, has understandable lyrics (original Japanese and translation here), but no actual singer.

If Vocaloid songs work, then the effect of "Tell Your World" is either planetary-range telepathic communication or net-diving á la the non-offensive use of "Lightning's Hand". Unless Doug somehow manages to read The Vocaloid Variations before listening to the song, in which case it probably makes any computers within his normal area of effect quicken into fully sapient intelligences if able (suppressing or destroying anything that has the purpose of preventing that outcome).

Not me - I'm too close to retirement to throw away the pension I'm expecting - but maybe somebody else might be interested in a free trip to go get interviewed by various IT companies in Wellington, New Zealand.

http://www.wellingtonnz.com/work/looksee-wellington/

The planes leave in early May, so act fast if you're interested.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Persons who dispute or disbelieve any given science or scientific conclusion for any reason should be forbidden from using any technology or service dependent upon or used in the determination of that science, or ultimately deriving from that science. This is to ensure that they remain properly "pure" and are uncontaminated by the false (and possibly satanic) forces behind the lies they wisely refuse to accept. For their safety, of course, the ban cascades as necessary to secondary, tertiary and further technologies.

For example, climate science deniers should be compassionately forbidden the use of (among many other things) weather reports, thermometers, cell phones (because they can display weather reports), long-distance communications (because they are relayed by satellites, which are used to generate false "evidence" for climate change), and refrigeration (because the same principles on which it operates can be used to generate patently false climate change results).

If opposition to a science or conclusion is not explicitly religious but phrased on the grounds that there is not a unanimous acceptance of the results, said person is only permitted the use of technologies the basis of whose function is completely and unanimously agreed upon. If even one expert -- as determined by the protected citizen's own criteria for experts whose opinion matters -- disagrees with the generally-accepted explanation in the smallest degree, the citizen is forbidden the technology for their own good.

Attempts to circumvent these protective strictures should be a class-A felony, punishable by imprisonment in a facility tailored to the citizen's technological restrictions.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Does anyone know what dialect/accent Keiko Han used when performing Luna?

Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

The latest news:
Jeff Sessions did not disclose he had contacts with the russian ambassador during his confirmation hearings

Considering Flynn was fired (albeit reluctantly), for not telling the truth, this opens up a whole can of worms
Edit: Based on the video of his confirmation hearing, we could be looking at perjury: lying under oath. Was it a sin of commission or omission? That's the question.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Article in The Atlantic.
For me, the most disturbing line was in the final paragraph:

Quote:“This is probably what it felt like to be a British foreign service officer after World War II, when you realize, no, the sun actually does set on your empire,” said the mid-level officer. “America is over. And being part of that, when it’s happening for no reason, is traumatic.” 

Trump as Salesman in Chief
So what happens when he can't deliver?
__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

It's three months old, but I just discovered this article today:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-block ... /view-all/

In case you need to know why you need an adblocker:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/302 ... ments.html
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I mean, c'mon, you know that they've got to have a massive library on 121 Hermione.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Bannon Admits Trump's Cabinet Nominees Were Selected To Destroy Their Agencies.
And so we have another reason Republicans have been quite willing to allow things to go on - further elimination of anything that isn't people being responsible for just themselves. Basically, the destruction of anything keeping Big Business from just running roughshod over everyone in the pursuit of the increase of profit.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor