text: Spedemix 6,721 Report post Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) I checked the thread history and saw no comprehensive suggestion thread about Hovers. We have one with Legs, so let's have another one with Hovers. Like ML 200, Icarus hovers suffer from some fundamental issues which prevent the movement part from being balanced corectly. Some deep under-the-hood changes are necessary before some real balance can be struck with both Legs and Hovers. Unlike with legs where these issues manifest themselves as legs always being somewhat underpowered, the problem with Hovers is the opposite where the fundamental design of hovers will always make them overpowered at some powerscore. Since no one is willing or able to document accurately what is exactly the problem with hovers, fine... I did with Legs, I'll do it again with Hovers if that's what's needed. Let's start with two basic suggestions. One deals with somewhat minor thing which ought to be relatively easy to correct. The other with one of the fundamental reasons why hovers are the way they are. 1. Change the acceleration curve to take drag into account. In other words: slow the acceleration down as the hovercraft approaches speed cap. Most crafts in this game have an acceleration curve where the acceleration slows down the closer you are to your craft's max speed. This simulates drag, aka air resistance due to fact how the craft is moving at high speeds. So acceleration starts out fast but then slows down as you reach higher speeds. Due to the bumpy terrain in this game, most wheeled crafts actually never spend any significant amount of time at their speed limit, especially the faster ones. Hovers' acceleration is completely linear. Their acceleration doesn't slow down as you near the max speed. Because of this even the heaviest Typhoon Hovers with an Echo cabin will accelerate to a max speed in under 50m: Spoiler This thing has 10 hovers which is is the highest amount people tend to use. 9 or 8 hovers with the corresponding weight would accelerate this craft even faster. I also took a popular shotgun wedge build from exhib for comparison: Spoiler It reaches 60km/h at 50m and 90km/h at 200m. It could probably catch up the Echo hover at the 200m mark provided the hover doesn't shoot the shotgunner and stun it. Maybe that'd happen in Narnia. Cars suffer from air resistance at high speeds, hovers should be no different. 2. Remove the "high resistance to flipping" or tone it down significantly especially on front-back axis. This is one of the major reasons why hovers are the way they are, both in high PS and low PS. In high PS people can get away with equipping high-recoil weapons onto hovers due to fact it is almost impossible to flip a hover onto its roof. On low PS, people create impossibly narrow sideways builds allowing them to seal-club on an unseen level. I mean look at this: Spoiler No other movement part is able to function like this, not even legs (if you make your sideways leg build too narrow it'll tip over to its side). When designing a build for any other movement type, you need to be mindful about designing the craft so that it doesn't flip over. You can't design a fast wheeled craft where the wheels are too narrow, otherwise the craft might tip over on sharp turns. When designing crafts for high-recoil weapons you need to be super mindful about how low can the center of weight to be placed. With hovercrafts all that goes out of the window since they just don't have to care about issues like high center of weight or high-recoil weapons flipping them over. If the resistance to flipping was to be removed it'd have few important effects. First of all, these tiny seal-clubbing hovers would be history as it is because no craft built like the one in the videoclip would stay upright. Sideways hovercrafts would still exist but now they'd be wider in order to provide more stability. People would be more wary about slapping Typhoons etc. on roofs of their hovercrafts since the high center of weight+recoil might throw them on their roofs. More importantly what this change would not affect are hovercrafts wielding Dawn Children weapons like Helios or Pulsar. These weapons have zero recoil so using them on hovers won't be a problem. Also front facing hovers would be largely unaffected. Due to the way Icarus is designed, even if you'd place place hovers along a 4 blocks wide frame, the overall width of the craft would end up being roughly the same as the current biggest sideways Typhoon hovers. This change would also not affect Faction and pack builds. All of the faction/pack designs (apart from Mercury XIII) have been built with stability in mind and show no signs of flipping over whatsoever. Edited October 28, 2019 by Spedemix typos and more typos 4 3 1 11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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U.S. officers believe the problem has political and sectarian roots: Many of the Iraqi soldiers here are Shiites recruited from the Baghdad area.
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About wireless access points and a DSL Connection..
By blindedfox
January 29, 2007 9:20am CST
I am setting up a network wherein all users are on wireless USB network adapters. I have two access points. Is it possible for one of my access points to get it's connection from the other? That way, the radius of the network's coverage will be increased? Is that possible?
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• Philippines
29 Jan 07
Yes it is possible all you have to do is point your clients to one of your access point and other clients to another and to maximize your coverage both of your access point should be seperated to enable wide coverage but of cors only the connectivity from clients and access point will be maximize and not you internet speed. =
• Philippines
30 Jan 07
But how will the other access point gain connection if it is far away from the main DSL modem? I meant for the 2nd access point to get it connection from the 1st access point, not thru a cable connected to a DSL modem..
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Well, in my case, I MUST set it up as a wireless network. My job requires me too so I have no choice. I prefer cable connections too but it can't be helped in this case. =/


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IN10 Media showcases its docu streaming platform at MIP Doc
MUMBAI: IN10 Media showcased an exclusive first look of DocuBay, its new, global, subscription-based streaming service and VOD platform featuring premium international documentaries, at MIPDOC to a select international community of documentary creators and distributors.
Along with this early preview for MIPDOC (April 6-7) and MIPTV (April 8-11) attendees, DocuBay also partnered with MIPDOC to present The Pitch, a blitz kreig documentary pitching session that acknowledges the most promising documentaries in the making for the year.
Amongst, if not the most anticipated documentary event in the documentary fraternity, the judges for the pitches included Chris Hoelzl from Smithsonian Channel, Axel Arno from SVT, Bernadette McDaid from National Geographic and DocuBay COO Akul Tripathi.
Congratulating Fairouz El-Baz; winner of the pitch for the Science and Technology category, and Zed Films; winner of the pitch for the Current Affairs & Investigation category, Akul Tripathi stated, "We are thrilled to introduce DocuBay to the global content community attending MIP, and to share our great passion for documentary films with audiences around the world. Humankind, as a race, has always had the uncontrollable desire to tell their tale. To save it for posterity. Etched in stone, sketched on rock, sung through the ages, engraved, embossed, stitched, typed, recorded, photographed and now filmed – documentaries are just the latest in a long series of the preferred repository of human experience. These cumulative/many experiences unite us as One Tribe, which is at the core of DocuBay philosophy."
DocuBay will be available in India with a distinctive global catalogue for Indian audiences, and several titles exclusive to the country. The global consumer premiere is scheduled for the summer of 2019 and will include India in it's first phase.
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IN10 Media is a network with diverse offerings in the media and entertainment sector. With deeply entrenched roots in the creative community and a long association with premium content, the brands in its folds—including Epic TV, DocuBay, and Showbox cover every aspect of the content life-cycle across platforms. Led by entrepreneur, Aditya Pittie, IN10 Media has its efforts focused on building world-class brands.


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Executive President of Nigeria – Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said that supplying the government with modern information systems will allow it to better manage its resources, therefore such systems should be installed in every state of the federation. The first land Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) was issued to the President by the state government.
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A new poll says parental concerns about kids being injured while playing sports are prevalent, but not much is being done about it.
FOX News Radio's Tonya J. Powers has details:
The Associated Press - GfK Poll says while parents are worried about their kids playing football, they're not stopping them from strapping on a helmet and getting onto the field.
44% of parents were not only uncomfortable with their child playing football, but also ice hockey and 45% were uncomfortable with them wrestling.
But only 5% have discouraged their child from playing their sport in the last two years.
Most parents surveyed say they're okay with their kids playing other sports like swimming, track and field, basketball, and others.
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Welcome to Item Island, a new way of playing skyblock!
Inspired by Wilbur Soot's skyblock series, McMCPE presents a new and twisted version of one of the most classical Minecraft maps to date.
The gameplay is usual skyblock survival. However, your continuation of survival may depend on what lies inside in what are called "item chests". These chests have a random item that corresponds to the biome theme of the islands. For example, the starting island is basically a normal forest biome so you'll receive items such as wood, sticks, flowers, etc. The chests will receive a random item every 30 seconds which is shown on a scoreboard. Be careful of putting items inside these chests or else you'll lose them after 30 seconds is up (since the chests replace anything inside with a new random item). Every island has an "item chest" except for the End Island.
The game starts off by putting the players on an grass island with a tree. Players have access to the item chest of the island and an actual chest that contains a goal book and a music disk (I'll let you figure out which disk it is ;> ). Players can use the goal book to give themselves an objective to accomplish while surviving. The rest is up to you.
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I have several clients who have eliminated or dramatically improved their travel related discomfort by receiving BodyTalk sessions.
Why am I so anxious?
All of us have an automatic process which learns from and creates adaptive responses to our life experiences. We learn at an accelerated rate before age 5, and then continue to learn throughout life. The things that we learn can't be manipulated and changed by our "thinking" mind. Rather, they become automatic responses to keep us safe when we encounter certain sensory stimulus or thoughts in the future. Being automatic – you can't just "wish" your way out of these responses. Anxiety is an adaptive response to be hyper-vigilant in perceived dangerous situations.
Travel sickness and anxiety
People who experience travel nausea or heightened anxiety have created these specific responses from life experiences. Fortunately, we can use BodyTalk to turn these responses off and travel comfortably without nausea or anxiety. Techniques in PaRama BodyTalk and BodyTalk help to restore more functional travel responses instead of the learned nausea or anxiety responses.
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BodyTalk sessions address how your body and mind respond to memories of past experiences. Your learned responses to travel – both actual experience or fears instilled by other well-meaning people can be turned off, allowing you to travel without discomfort. BodyTalk can help you dis-empower crippling belief systems around travel. Beliefs that; "planes are dangerous"; "strangers are not safe"; "I just know I am going to have an accident!"; are a small sampling of crippling beliefs that can sabotage your travel. BodyTalk can unwind these beliefs to allow you to enjoy your trip.
Our senses are largely the result of interpretation – NOT sensory stimulus from our sense organs. 70 – 90% of the reality we perceive is created in our mind from past experiences. This process allows us to respond rapidly to our changing environment, however, it can be uncomfortable in the case of sensory input that is interpreted as being unreasonably dangerous. BodyTalk sessions can address how you interpret and integrate your senses to allow a less scary and urgent interpretation about your travel environment.
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Why do we have to suffer? What is the purpose of suffering? Why does a good and merciful God allow suffering?
These questions are significant for many people, believers and non-believers alike, for they could easily lead believers astray and they are often used by non-believers as core objections to an all-powerful, merciful, and good God.
I was reading the story of David, Bathsheba, and Absalom in 2 Samuel. That David had sinned greatly, in the eyes of both God and men, as a result of sleeping with Bathsheba and killing her husband Uriah the Hittite to cover up his crime, is unquestionable. Nathan fumed with indignation at David: "Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes?…" (2 Samuel 12:9) God promised that David would pay for his gross transgressions: "…out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you…" (2 Samuel 12:11) Interestingly, and as an aside, I saw a clear distinction between crime and sin here. David's crimes were rape (of Bathsheba) and pre-meditated murder (of Uriah). Yes, he was clearly guilty of both and would have been tried and convicted for these crimes in the court of men. But in 2 Samuel 12, both through Nathan's parable and through God's own indictment, it was clear that David's sins were that of greed (i.e. not satisfied with the abundance that God had provided for him) and disobedience to God (i.e. by abusing those whom God had entrusted him), neither of which would've been enough even to open a case in a court of law. So while crimes are judged by men, sins are judged by God. And even though no man was able to punish David for his heinous crimes (because he had absolute power), God made sure that David would be punished for his wilful sins.
So David had it coming and he knew it. He knew he would suffer greatly and he even knew the source whence his suffering would come: his own household. Perhaps being able to anticipate his suffering would've taken the edge off for David a bit. Perhaps, but probably not much. Knowing when or how suffering will arise doesn't ease one's mind as much as knowing when or how suffering will end.
So what happened next? David's firstborn son with Bathsheba died in infancy and he was overwhelmed with grief. Later, one of David's sons, Amnon, raped his half-sister Tamar. As a result, Tamar's blood-brother Absalom killed Amnon and then fled Jerusalem in order to hide from David. At this point of the story, one can only imagine the bitter brew of shock, disgust, anger, shame, and grief that was roiling inside David. And although I haven't finished the rest of the story yet, I know that incest and fratricide were not the worst of it – more tragedy would befall the House of David.
But it was from this part of the story of David and Absalom that I had gained some insights about suffering.
A Play within a Play
At this point, David seemed to have had no choice: for the sake of upholding justice, he must punish Absalom for his transgression, even though "the king's heart longed for Absalom." (2 Samuel 14:1) Joab, one of David's trusted generals, knowing how tormented the king must have been, came up with a plan to remedy the situation. He stole a plotline from the future – more than a thousand years before Shakespeare popularized it. As Hamlet would do, Joab staged a play for the king and "the play is the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." (Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 604–605) Joab sent for a "wise woman" and told her to pretend to be in mourning, utterly overwhelmed by grief. He then told this woman to appear before David and to relate to him a fictitious account of her family saga. Her made-up story was in many ways a carbon-copy of what had just happened in the House of David: fratricide, an angry and bereaved parent, an enraged populace that demanded justice, i.e. that the guilty son must die. The woman pleaded with David to grant his remaining son an amnesty, despite his obvious guilt; she was seeking the king's mercy for her son's transgression.
Does this sound familiar?
It does because the implication of the judgment that David was about to make resonates with us on two different levels. The obvious implication, one that David should have recognized right away (but didn't), is that if he pardoned the woman's son who committed fratricide, he would be setting a precedent that would lead to a pardon for his own son. Equal justice for all. Absalom would then be reconciled with David; case closed. That was what Joab had hoped for by staging the play-within-the-play for the king.
There is a less obvious implication of David's decision which requires us to take a deeper look at the situation and at the Bible: Here we have before us an all-powerful lord whose subject has committed a capital offense. Despite an irreparable transgression (an unpardonable sin), he needed to show mercy so that his subjects can be reconciled with each other (through a categorical pardon) and with the parent and he can only show his mercy by foregoing (or sacrificing) one of his own subject, a murdered son. And if David were to ultimately forgive Absalom, he would have, in effect, agreed to sacrifice his own murdered son (Amnon) in order to put things to right in his kingdom. Framed this way, does the situation sound familiar?
Isn't this what God (the all-powerful Lord) would ultimately do (sacrifice His own son) in order to reconcile us (His sinful subjects) with each other and with the "Parent" (God Himself)? And when Jesus was crucified, didn't we all, like Absalom, commit fratricide (along with regicide to boot) since Jesus is the "firstborn of all creation" (and so we are his younger siblings)?
If he were to show mercy to his own fratricidal son, David would in effect be previewing to the world at large what God had planned to do to reconcile fallen humanity with Himself!
Lest you think this is a stretch, a mere flight of fancy, here is what the wise woman actually said to David as she was revealing to him the purpose of her act: "Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him." (2 Samuel 14:14)
She said to David:
- "Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die.": The deed was done – Absalom had killed his own brother; Adam had sinned; humanity had fallen; we are all convicted and condemned to die.
- "But that is not what God desires": God, because of the love and mercy for His subjects, did not want us to perish.
- "…he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him": God would come up with a way to reconcile us with Him.
In essence, she was telling David this: "The tragedy had happened. What's done is done. You are in agony and torment. But if you do this David: if you show Absalom mercy and grant him amnesty, then despite your pain, despite your loss, despite your anguish, despite your grief, despite your torment, you will have revealed the character of God to the world."
Amidst all his personal loss and suffering, God gave David a prime opportunity to reveal His character and His planned rescue operation for the world! It's no coincidence that the Chinese characters for crisis (危机) also contains the word for opportunity (机).
The Purpose of Suffering
That's when it occurred to me: God allows us to suffer so that we would have a chance to reveal His character to us. This answered many questions I had about suffering: Why do we have to suffer? What is the purpose of suffering? Why does a good and merciful God allow suffering?
For all of us who have ever lost a loved one, or our livelihood, our home, our life saving, relationship, identity; have suffered prolonged illnesses, or debilitating accidents; have been swindled, abused, mocked, it is very comforting to know that we never suffer in vain – that God does have a purpose for our suffering: to reveal His character to us. Take an extreme example and the logic would become more apparent: think of the suffering of Christian martyrs. Whether they succeeded or not in reaching their goals, God was there in every case, using their trials and tribulations, to reveal His character to us: Dr Martin Luther King, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oscar Romero. God gave these men a unique opportunity to reveal His character to us as they "carried their crosses" faithfully and heroically. And the result? God was able to use their suffering and pain to show Himself through the barriers of time, language, and culture; to erect a beacon of hope for our darkest hours; to reflect His glory through His creation.
We were made in the image of God to do things that glorify Him, day and night, in good times and in bad. But even the most stalwart among us sometimes get discouraged because we can't possibly see how God is using our suffering to His glory. It's natural for us under duress to focus inward on ourselves, rather than to look outward at the big picture. But the more we do that, the more we'll feel distanced from God's purpose and the less we'll be able to figure out the reason for our suffering.
Of course, the frustrating part is that even if we do look at the big picture, we might still not see which part of God's character He wants to show us with our suffering until later; perhaps much later; or in some cases, never. For example, even if David had granted an amnesty to Absalom, he would still not have known in his lifetime that God would use his suffering to give the world a glimpse of His plan for the salvation of the fallen world. For that to happen, David would have had to know about the work of Jesus. Be that as it may, bear in mind that we are not entitled to an answer to this question in the first place: If we accepted God as our Lord, the only one who knows the answer to that question or who even has the rights to know, is God.
So in the pit of our suffering, when we feel the most vulnerable, trapped, helpless, or lost, when we're tempted to ask the proverbial: "Why God, why?", try asking instead: "God, which part of You am I suppose to see in this?" For when we choose to ask the latter question, we are already getting away from ourselves (the flesh) and getting closer to Him. And although we might not get an answer right away, we are at least heading in the right direction: the direction that leads to a destination, His purpose. And, ultimately, whichever path that leads us closer to Him will also lead us closer to restoration: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)
A Stark Reminder
So did David seize the opportunity-of-a-lifetime to reveal God's character amidst his pain and suffering? Did he pardon his son Absalom? Yes and no.
David said to Joab grudgingly: "Very well, I will do it. Go bring back the young man Absalom." (2 Samuel 14:21) And so, he seemed to have pardoned Absalom. But David placed two stringent conditions on Absalom's pardon – he said that Absalom "must go to his own house; he must not see my face." (2 Samuel 14:24) In other words, even though Absalom was allowed to come back, he would be put under semi-house arrest and wouldn't be able to see his own father. Was this the kind of pardon that God intended to show? Is this a true amnesty (which contains the root word amnesia – i.e. not only to forgive but also to forget)? Or would God rather want to show, through his beloved servant David, the "man after His own heart", a categorical pardon and the resultant reconciliation, a foretaste of the Atonement and Justification?
And why did David specifically say that "he must not see my face"? Perhaps he felt ashamed – by pardoning Absalom, David was probably concerned that he was showing nepotism rather than mercy. Instead of a display of absolute power and royal retribution, David had shown a soft spot for one of his own. We can infer, more or less, that David felt he had "lost face" by pardoning Absalom. For David, fear and wrath befit a king more than love and mercy. Again, is this consistent with a display of God's character? If so, would there ever be the Atonement? And how many times in our lives (especially for men and for Asians) do we fail to show God's character just because we don't want to "lose face"?
Amidst his suffering, David was given a prime opportunity to reveal God's character and he blew it. Imagine what would have happened if David did absolve Absalom unconditionally? Not only would David have been able to preview God's character to the world, Absalom would probably not have held a grudge against his own father and so most likely would not have conspired against him later: further disasters in the House of David could have been averted.
The story of David and Absalom is a stark reminder that we should always be on the lookout for an opportunity to reveal God's character, especially in the midst of our suffering. For if we are diligent and obedient, even during our "dark night of the soul", we can help to fulfill God's purpose for our suffering and in the process, we might very well be made whole again.
Future article: The Gifts of Suffering


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Sports betting has been around for hundreds of years since the times when people started to be interested in sports. Not only does that add to the overall excitement although also allows winning some cash. Today, it is possible to place wagers in the most convenient way, due to all these gambling websites. In addition, there are so many options available that playing has become even more engaging. Located sports betting is one of the greatest options that gamblers have today, and if you enjoy betting on sports, you should try it.
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West Basin Road intersection with Del. 141 and U.S. 202 reopens after crash
Here are some of the top stories we're following for Thursday, November 21, 2019. Wochit
Traffic has resumed after a four-vehicle accident on West Basin Road where Del. 141 and U.S. 202 meet closed part of the road.
Wilmington Manor Fire Company responded to the crash at 3:37 p.m., according to their live call log.
Delaware State Police said the crash involved a 2015 Subaru Forester, a 2014 Mazda CX-5, a 2014 RAM 1500 and a 2010 Ford Econoline.
The Subaru and Mazda received the most damage from the crash.
Emergency personnel and tow trucks cleared the scene at around 6:30 p.m.
Injuries are unknown at this time.
No further information was released at this time, said state police.
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Not Terrorists? Gulf Cartel Threatens to Wipe out Mexican Town
The Gulf Cartel just threatened to wipe out a town in southern Mexico. Why should Americans care? That same cartel also controls Mexico's northeast border with the U.S. and controls the busiest illegal alien smuggling routes into our country. They tie down Border Patrol and bring their assassins, financiers, drug runners, and general criminals over our border. They are every bit as terroristic as Islamic terrorist groups in the Middle East, and they're in our own yard. Why won't the State Department designate them as terrorists?
According to Borderland Beat, which monitors daily cartel activities, Gulf Cartel assassins entered the town of Asuncion Ixtaltepec in broad daylight with long guns to murder a resident on Wednesday. These types of assassinations happen every day. But lest people think this is limited to targeted cartel-on-cartel violence, the Gulf assassins left a "narco message" at the site of the assassination that read: "This is for El Burro, Pollito, and his people. And for all the town who covers for them. You will all die. Sincerely, Comandante Jaguar. CDG."
This is the dictionary and statutory definition of terrorism that continues to be ignored by the State Department, which refuses to designate these cartels as such. These cartels seek to control territory through the use of terror! They are not simply crime syndicates that just want to earn money quietly.
The Mexican cartel culture is similar to the ideology of ISIS and al Qaeda in the sense that they seek "to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) or to effect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping," which is the definition of international terrorism under 18 U.S.C. § 2331.
If anything, they now have more impact on our country than Islamic terrorists and certainly more than FARC, the Colombian drug cartel that is already designated by the State Department. Why is this administration not unleashing the Defense Department and the intelligence assets to be used against the cartels on both sides of our border?
Rather than lambast our government agencies for committing human rights violations against illegal aliens, Jaeson Jones, former captain in the Texas Department of Public Safety's intel and counterterrorism division, believes we should be criticizing them for ignoring the human rights violations of the cartels, which affect both our security and the survival of the migrants.
"The weaponization of migration has masked a dark truth," said the retired counter-cartel operative. "Massive human rights violations have been and are being committed in Mexico. All of the three-letter agencies of the United States government have become complicit for failing to do everything in their power to protect the American people and to secure our border. The State Department refuses to designate the Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), and the FBI, DEA, and Department of Defense (DOD) refuse to support CBP and finally secure our border."
Jones believes that these agencies are stuck in the past and just don't have the stomach to reorient our threat assessments to focus on the border and the cartels as a national security issue. "I get it, it sucks that these agencies will have to change their current priorities, but good intel analysts don't look at the evolving threat landscape the way they wish it was, they look at it for what it is and what most reasonable Americans believe. The threat to our southern border is substantial, and we must protect our country from the out-of-control violence plaguing Mexico and our nation."
Jones noted how high-ranking Gulf leaders are living in the Rio Grande Valley – on our side of the border. "They often live lives of wealth and comfort and might pick their kids up from school on our side of the border before they travel back over to Tamaulipas and torture some people, then come right back over."
Indeed, just last week, a Gulf Cartel leader was caught crossing over our border by Border Patrol in La Paloma, Texas, according to Breitbart Texas. How many more does Border Patrol miss because our political leaders prioritize care for illegals over national security, especially in these parts of the Rio Grande Valley where there is no border wall? Without a wall, the cartels use the bends in the river to easily cross undetected and disappear into the population because the populated towns are right on the border without any buffer of wall or desert.
Jones believes that designating the cartels as terrorists will open up many more investigative tools against those operators inside our country in addition to using DOD assets to combat them at the border itself.
This is happening all across our border, not just with the Gulf Cartel. Sinaloa, which is still the largest cartel, controls most of the territory on both sides of the Mexican border with California and Arizona. Last month, there was a Sinaloa shootout a half a block away from Arizona's Cochise County. But that narco culture and all the violence that comes along with it is creeping into Arizona itself.
"Most Americans would be shocked to know how deeply entrenched the cartels are throughout this country," warned Mark Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona. "We fight against the cartels every day to uproot their scouts living in the mountains and to disrupt and dismantle their drug and human trafficking operations. Though we are 70 miles off the border, we are one of the last lines of defense, fighting to protect communities and families across this great country that will be negatively impacted, including the lives of those being exploited by the cartels."
Even though Pinal County is not even on the border itself, Sheriff Lamb told me Sinaloa knows his county through and through and has a lot of operational control of the smuggling routes deep into U.S. territory.
Clearly, the root of the problem at the border is the national security problem of the actual people engaging in the smuggling of illegal immigrants. Were the State Department to finally designate the cartels and treat them the same way we would treat al Qaeda at our border, it would not only solve the security problem but would pre-empt the humanitarian problem.
This is exactly why Sergio Tinoco, a supervisor border agent in the Rio Grande Valley, believes that Border Patrol must be unshackled to actually deal with the mission at hand instead of serving as babysitters. "So long as we continue focusing solely on the needs of illegal immigrants and the humanitarian issue without dealing with the cartels and the security problem, we will continue playing into the hands of the cartels," warned the exasperated agent on my podcast.
After holding numerous hearings about the needs and wants of illegal immigrants, Congress is on vacation until September. Meanwhile, agents like Tinoco are forced to deal with these brutal cartels alone, without backup, and with two hands tied behind their backs in 105-degree heat in dangerous territory. Decisions made in the air-conditioned halls of Congress and the State Department could change all of that. (For more from the author of "Not Terrorists? Gulf Cartel Threatens to Wipe out Mexican Town" please click HERE)
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Inland Professional SATA III SSD: $75 For 480GB Madness (Page 3)
Product Comparison
In this section, we look at both the 240GB and 120GB Inland Professional SATA III SSDs. We typically don't review 128GB class SSDs but added the $25 SATA III to the charts to see how well it would perform for users building secondary or special use systems, like a media center with a large mechanical drive to store cold data but a small low-cost SSD for the operating system.
In the 256GB class, the other products lose some performance due to decreased flash parallelization but the DRAMless drives generally increase performance due to fewer cells for the table map to track. It's a very interesting phenomenon.
Sequential Read Performance
The 240GB and 120GB driver performance much better in the sequential read test compared to the drives we're comparing them to. There is still a performance gap, especially in the low queue depth areas, but the results are more competitive than what we saw on the previous page.
Sequential Write Performance
We can say the same about the sequential write performance, but to a lesser degree. Here the Inland drives have a much lower queue depth 1 write speed but several transfers at one time will move data at nearly the same rate.
Sustained Sequential Write Performance
In this test, we see why it's possible to use these drives for heavy sequential data and it not seem like you lost performance. The two smaller Inland SATA III SSDs actually write sequential data very well. Sequential data with larger block sizes than random data do not increase the table map as rapidly because there are less block to track.
Sequential data is often stored in a 128KB size. Your map table is kind of like an Excel workbook. If you just map a single 128KB block, it will use one Excel cell. Random data is often in 4KB blocks and it takes 32 cells on the Excel sheet to map the same about of data as a single 128KB block. Thirty-two cell entries increase the size of the map file, just like an Excel workbook. DRAMless SSDs work better, and with less latency, with a smaller table map since only a small amount of the map is in a small cache on the controller and not in a much larger DRAM-based cache.
Random Read Performance
Random read performance is the most important metrics for a Windows boot drive. Your boot drive reads random data more than any other type of data. The two smaller Inland SATA III SSDs deliver the same performance at queue depth 1, but some of the other mainstream series don't scale as well.
Random Write Performance
With a DRAMless design we're not surprised to see the Inland drives at the bottom of the bar chart prioritized by queue depth 1 random writes. This is the area where DRAMless SSDs have the most trouble simply due to the architecture.
70% Read Sequential Performance
Again, we see low performance with mixed workloads. To be clear, these are reads and writes taking place at the same time. SATA technically can't do this, unlike PCIe-based devices. The SATA drives build a queue and execute the commands. Sometimes the drives will execute the commands out of order using native command queueing (NCQ).
70% Read Random Performance
Some SSDs will use a portion of the DRAM to cache user data but DRAMless SSDs don't have the DRAM to use as a cache for the data or the map table. That's why we see such a large gap in mixed random data between the DRAM and DRAMless SSDs.
Game Load Time
The two smaller Inland SATA III SSDs take nearly four seconds longer to load our Final Fantasy: Stormblood benchmark than the Crucial MX500. The drives are nearly ten seconds faster than the Seagate BarraCuda Pro HDD in our testing but fall to the lower-end of the performance scale when comparing just SSDs. You can read more about this test and see over 125 results here.
PCMark 8 Total Storage Bandwidth
The smaller Inland drives trail the more powerful ones in the PCMark 8 Storage Test. The Samsung 860 EVO delivers nearly twice the bandwidth of the Inlands, but it also costs significantly more.
PCMark 8 Extended Storage Test
Through most of this section of the review, the 240GB and 120GB Inland drives delivered nearly the same performance. That won't always be the case under real use. The smaller drive holds less data so most users with fill a larger percentage of the available space. The 120GB Inland in a little slower with a lot of data on the flash compared to the 240GB.
System Responsiveness and Power
There is a lot of latency with this series. In our responsiveness test with the drives running in a Lenovo Y700-17, there is a massive fifty point gap between them and an OEM Samsung 850 EVO (the baseline score of 1000).
Notebook Battery Life
In another Lenovo Y700-17 we measure the notebook battery life using BAPCo's MobileMark software. The two smaller Inland SATA III SSDs don't fulfill the promise of DRAMless battery life nirvana but they do give you more battery life than a mechanical HDD.
Final Thoughts
The Inland Professional SATA III SSDs are some of the cheapest SSDs you can buy today but they are far from the fastest. For many, the almighty Dollar means more than breaking performance records. This series gives you a better experience than mechanical disks for around the same price. Some may hate that this product exists but for others this is exactly what they want in a SSD.
After going two years with inflated SSD prices, the Inland Professional SATA III is a welcome change. For our readers this isn't what you put your operating system. The series works best as an insanely cheap SSD to load your games and other less-frequently used software on as a secondary drive. It is also a good drive for a second system that you may otherwise use an older HDD for. This series keeps you away from disks because at these prices there simply isn't an excuse to use a mechanical drive in anything but network storage.
Network storage is also another possibility. Most data held on a NAS is written once and read back often. We would like to see 1TB class drive to increase the flash capacity in a NAS, but Inland Professional doesn't offer the SATA III in that size. With more NAS shipping with 10GbE network capabilities, the move to flash as a cache or for data is soon to follow.
When we first found this series, the 480GB model was the fifth bestselling SSD on Amazon. It's clear that others like the idea of low-cost SSDs with some degree of reliability. If SATA isn't your cup of tea, then Inland Professional has another option that only costs a little more.
In an upcoming review, we will look at an Inland Professional NVMe SSD based on the Phison E8 controller. The drive is nearly identical to the new Corsair MP300, Kingston A1000, Patriot Scorch M.2, and MyDigitalSSD SBX.
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46. 'We're not coming back here, are we?'
The march on the Capital City -- Moder City, "City of Mothers," though always spoken of by the people of the current age simply as "the Capital" -- drew everyone.
Two ancient Jin-Giants lumbered up from the center of the urth, pulling their lost continental bodies from the steep rifts in the inter-polar ocean, like mountains formed by underwater volcanoes. Emerging in fiery spouts of wind-water-urth and fruity-smelling smoke formed into gigantic numinous cloud-like substances that exploded with cracks heard across the continents of the middle world, both east and west, turning water to blood, urth to sinew, cloud to mentis, the green shit of a billion-krillion krill to the brain-like matter that surged from side to side in the slush of their enormous, otherwise empty cranial cavities. Made of saltwater and volcanoes, fish blood and ash, the pair of titans trooped heavy-limbed across seabed, shoal and oceanic shelf and emerged dripping super-storms of invisible proportions that no one predicted, that grabbed land masses lying on the all the sides of all the oceans between the teeth of fiery elements, igneous winds, and otherworldly jaws and shook them...
shook them...
to their roots in the millennia of buried lives, hominid, mammalia, saurian, invertebrate, fossilfy, coprolites.
Troglodytes danced in the streets. Clouds of dragon flies spun like dragons in the noon light and scorched the neural systems of erstwhile higher-life forms. Men crawled on the floor and chewed their own shoes, the thick boots deposited in the backs of the closet for the long, cold winter. Women called their mothers. Children grew extra legs and arms and whirled them about, gathering unto themselves all they thought they would ever need and prepared to depart on the lifelong journey to the better place, where they would climb mountain peaks, sprout wings, and soar to eternity.
Wisdom bloomed on street corners. The faint of heart grew strong and stubborn and full of their own certain course. Knives were sharpened. Women and men of a certain age kissed their loved ones and bought tickets to places they had never set eyes on, where they knew no one, and were met in travel stations by grinning faces holding huge placards stating "Vote for--" with the names of former, long forgotten candidates X-ed out and their own names, the names of the new race of far-travelers written in permanent marker in their place.
Others called it a war, a revolution, a civil upheaval, a popular explosion, an aroused citizenry, a potentially irreconcilable division, a national heart attack.
The Giants turned on the faucets and the massed individuals of the dominant life form tumbled like chemical compounds knitted together by minuscule electrical charges to the places seemingly prepared for them. Then, with scant understanding of how they got there, they joined one of the two continentally-cleaved currents that flowed from the new Continental Division toward a common destination. The Capital City of Bon-Hombri (as its antiquarian devotees called it), homequarters of the ancient power source of all things sound and secular, where the ruling forces of the Commonhope of UZ had for centuries spread their tents of historical wealth and institutional solidity.
A place of stone buildings, ancient words. Mountains of paper. Armies of hired men and women who appeared to do nothing and were paid enormous salaries. Of invisible pyres of electronified backs-and-forths. Daily sacrifices to the gods of Communication and Arm-twisting, offered in un-traceable blood. And on and on...
But Mrs. Nathan could not go. It was a world too far.
Nothing, however, could stop the Kevvens.
Those who had hunkered in the bunker with her during the long winter of national diminution and slow bleeding -- following the progress of the Pigglies from triumph to triumph, the despoliation of autonomous power blocs in the districts where the Voting Days were held after blatantly fraudulent methods of cooking the vote and intimidation of opposition voters -- could not wait to join forces with all the enemies of the Inevitability of Pig and the Tyranny of the bloated Animal Firm, that arm-twisting, suborning phalanx of honey-spreaders and money suckers who were determined to undermine the disinterested authority of the Sacred Commission.
Trench, the graybeard, the screen jockey, the natural leader of all-thing-engineering, led the others to the place where they had last seen the van, before they buried it. The morning was clear, with the damp smell of early spring and the promise of warming in the air.
His hand still bandaged, he paused before a darkening glade, where conifers held hands and moss grew in a rocky floor at their roots. The others came up to stand beside him, though they saw no reason for stopping here.
"Hmm," he said, softly, as if talking to himself. "Better than I remembered."
The others shifted their weight, a few of them guessing.
"And that means worse for us." He gave his companions a pitying glance.
The old woman had helped disguise the place, summoning subtle influences to ask the trees to move their branches, funguses to grow anew, mossy minions to change the faces of the rocks and hide the burial mound from even a sharp-eyed hunter. The place had been a bear cave at one time, wedged beneath a gigantic glacial erratic. They had chosen it to meet a need -- not of preserving the plus-size vehicle for future use so much as hiding it effectively from both aerial surveillance and ground-footed search. But now they sought to unearth it.
They needed to move rock, with pick axes, levers and winches. Dig away the mound of loose soil, scree, the growing influences of roots. They sweated in the weak spring sunshine of early afternoon, shedding outer layers and draping them on dried grass hummocks a fair distance away from the work. The trees, though, were the real problem, worse than the stones. They were loath to harm the trees who had shifted limbs and grown roots at their bidding.
"That's enough for today," Trench said when the first of their metal tools struck the mineral surface of the van.
He stepped back from the crypt and sank his spade into the slag pile. I'll talk to her first, he thought.
The next morning they found that the trees had moved, branches shifted subtly. No eye other than one that had studied the position the day before could register the change, but Trench saw the crucial differences. They would now be able to get at the last of the stony fill with their shovels, and use the heavy trunks of the trees for their winches.
When after considerable labor the vehicle (an e-van) was removed, Trench insisted on refilling the gap as much as they could with mulch and rock and smoothing over the rent they had made in the landscape.
"We won't need that hole again?" someone queried, but was not answered.
Fama turned from scraping dirt off the vehicle's camouflaged surface to study Trench. "We're not coming back here," she said, "are we?"
"Probably not."
With the van recovered and made serviceable, the Kevvens borrowed money from anyone who still remembered who they were, the grinning youthful hustler Kristo proving particularly adept at inventing plausible excuses for the sudden need for liquid asset from family and older ancestral connections who kept their liquid capital in institutions known as 'rabbit holes.' He told his donors that he had decided to become a nuclear surgeon and needed to purchase supplies of scarce, high-priced materials on which to practice the techniques of his masters.
His 'masters' were the fates, though.
And he would practice their lessons, as would his comrades, in the super-human task of building a wall of flesh.
Mrs. Nathan saw them off, watching from one of the bunker's narrow windows, as her comrades and protectors filled the e-van with the few useful possessions that remained to them, barely remembering where they had come from, what former lives they had dropped when they flowed secretly and individually into the cadre that served and protected her in their fortress in the hills. They had watched the world for her in their ways, as she had watched it in hers. A few, such as the fiercely solitary Fama had proved adept at carrying messages, when bodies rather than minds must be relied on. One of them, the worldly Kevven who had discovered the Dormand-Pig connection and ultimately brought Keel into her orbit, had disappeared, presumably lost to Pig's devastation. She hoped he had slipped away easily, and sometimes searched for his imprint late at night.
All five of the departees, before settling themselves into the vehicle, turned to stare at bunker. Were they looking for her? Or saying goodbye to their refuge?
She watched them turn away and begin their journey, without responding. She hoped to be able to keep them in her mind.


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