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One of the most amazing light shows in a live concert - NIN 2013

My good friend, a musician, cites this NIN show he witnessed as one of the best ever in his many decades.

Their video does an excellent job capturing that mesmerizing magic moment.

Tho... of course...
IF you can view it on a big TV in a darkened room, with your most optimal mellow mental state of well being, I'd be the last to dissuade ya

Here is one song from that show (I'll post a comment below with a link to the entire show for those interested).:

Nine Inch Nails - Disappointed

Posted by Pluvious | Fri Jul 13, 2018, 01:18 PM (1 replies)

WTF Would It Take ?!!

I just forced myself to watch R. Maddow's piece "We Hope it's Going to be Very Big" (link below).

She walks down the list of all the policy gifts The Asset has provided Putin, and speculates on what others might be forthcoming.

I grew up under the real fear of the USSR, and Reagan's "Trust, Yet Verify" approach to dealing with the "Evil Empire." Watching this shit unfolding now, I'm quite horrified, and wonder WTF happened to the Republican Party ?!!

WTF would it take to give us that "HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF HUMAN DECENCY?!" moment from the GOP ?

Seriously, if His Anusface ordered the Department of the Treasury to begin making $100 billion monthly payments to Moscow, WOULD THAT DO IT ?!!

The fact I'm genuinely not sure, just terrifies me.

#SOMEBODYDOSOMETHING

Rachel vid: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017499666

Posted by Pluvious | Wed Jul 4, 2018, 06:54 PM (2 replies)

The Speech Nixon Never Gave (in event of men stranded on Moon)

I'd never seen this before, I thought I'd share it here.
(found on Reddit in a random comment)

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations.

In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.

Another person remarked how vast and amazing our changes were which occurred in the 1900's by noting that:

I was at the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kitty Hawk just this week and the ranger giving the presentation mentioned that the 16-year old who took that photo of the first flight lived to see the moon landing.

Posted by Pluvious | Sun Jul 1, 2018, 12:51 PM (7 replies)

FLOTUS Toon Of The Day

It's not "just a jacket,"
it's a way of life.

Posted by Pluvious | Fri Jun 22, 2018, 04:50 PM (21 replies)

Awesome music collage of dancing clips from 292 movies !!

Something uplifting to give your spirit a short break...

( this is really a work of art )

Posted by Pluvious | Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:31 PM (18 replies)

Ok, this AI stuff is starting to get creepy (Google's Duplex)

We truly are living in the SciFi age !!!

Just listen to a few of these clips...
If you only listen to one, choose "Duplex calling a restaurant"
She had no clue...

I'm telling ya:
We're leaving the Twilight Zone, and descending into the Uncanny Valley !

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

Posted by Pluvious | Fri May 11, 2018, 11:17 AM (3 replies)

Helpful info on crypto currencies and personal data security

Recently, I've been "evangelizing" proper practices for personal data security to 100s of people from the poker table to the dinner table the last few years.

Too often I'm horrified at the lack of understanding and carelessness so many regard this important topic.

My top three harping points are:

1) Disaster Recovery - Have a data recovery plan in case of total loss of your phone, laptop, house, etc.

2) Use a dedicated, and properly maintained "banking" laptop used ONLY to visit safe websites and applications, no email, no searching, etc.

3) Digital Estate Planning - Do your care what becames of your digital assets and accounts access in the event of your incapacitation or demise ? What is your provisioning for this unwanted, and inevitable occurrence ?

Now that more people are jumping on the Cryptocurrencies bandwagon, good personal data security has become even more complex, and more important !

The blog entry below, kindly authored by the helpful Hodor, is an excellent starting point...

Good luck, and ALWAYS backup

https://xrphodor.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/security-tips-for-crypto-newbies/

Posted by Pluvious | Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:01 PM (1 replies)

The shocking truth about the universe - We shouldn't exist !!

In those rare moments, where I've tried to wrap my head around the vastness of the Universe, and conceive its origins, I always find myself frustrated with failing to understand why matter exists at all. I'm unable to grasp the timelessness of matter's existence, that it has no origin, that there is no "before."

Maybe, just maybe, science and technology will one day puzzle this mystery all out...

An exciting new avenue of research has opened up that could help us unlock the secrets to the universe itself.

It is the age old question about our universe, and that is why there exists anything at all. It is a question that has vexed philosophers and scientists alike since the beginning of time, and now researchers think they have come up with a rather disturbing conclusion: we should not exist at all.

There is one major problem with that conclusion, in that we do exist, and that is why the question is so intriguing. While every piece of evidence suggests that the universe should be a totally featureless expanse of nothingness, it is filled with stars and planets and even life forms capable of contemplating their own existence.

And that is where we get to the latest breakthrough. Scientists took 65 pounds of germanium, a rare isotope, and cooled it to extremely cold temperatures about a mile underground in some gold mine that has long sing been abandoned. They call it the Majorana Demonstrator, and it is located in South Dakota at the super secret Sanford Underground Research Facility.

https://www.morningticker.com/2018/03/the-shocking-truth-about-the-universe/

Posted by Pluvious | Sun Apr 1, 2018, 12:30 PM (7 replies)

I predict this whole mess will end up being a five-movie series

It can't possibly be adequately be covered in just one film.

We'll have:

1) The Campaign: Rise Of The Deplorables
2) The Inauguration: Putin's Asset Is Installed
3) That First Year: Shock And Tumult, The New Normal
4) The Investigation: A Man Called Mueller
5) The Trial: The Republic Is Saved

Posted by Pluvious | Mon Mar 5, 2018, 05:00 PM (6 replies)

What is that creature outside, above us?

They seem just as curious about humans as we are of them lol

Experiences like this last a lifetime (for the human).

Posted by Pluvious | Sun Jul 2, 2017, 10:20 AM (4 replies)

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