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retrocgads · 1 year ago

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USA 1990

#USA1990 #SIMULATIONS CANADA #STRATEGY #WARGAME #APPLE #AMIGA #ATARIst #IBM #C64 #MALTA STORM #BATTLE TANK BARBAROSSA TO STALINGRAD

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jobstoday2024 · 3 months ago

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ibm careers 2024 worldwide

https://en.khalejy.com/ibm-careers-2024-worldwide-salary-95-3000-per-year/

#uae jobs #jobs in uae #usa jobs #ibm #jobs in canada #uk jobs #qatar jobs

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innonurse · 2 years ago

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Cleveland Clinic and IBM present the world's first quantum computer devoted to healthcare research

- By InnoNurse Staff -

On March 20, Cleveland Clinic and IBM announced the first onsite private sector IBM-managed quantum computer deployment in the United States.

The IBM Quantum System One deployed at Cleveland Clinic will be the world's first quantum computer dedicated only to healthcare research, with the goal of assisting Cleveland Clinic in accelerating biomedical discoveries.

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hellochildrenoftheatom · 5 months ago

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Queer Jews Project Day 25 - Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer

Edie and Thea first met in 1963 on the dance floor of a Greenwich Village restaurant. Edie was a computer programer at IBM, and Thea was a clinical psychologist. They started dating in 1965, and got engaged in 1967. Thea proposed with a circle diamond brooch because a ring would have led to questions and possible outing. Over the next several decades, they lived happy but hidden lives.

But Thea’s health started to decline.

So Edie and Thea got married in 2007 – in Canada – because same-sex marriage wasn’t legal in the United States. Thea died in 2008. Edie found herself with a literal broken heart – and a massive, unjust tax bill.

The Defense of Marriage Act prevented Edie from claiming the spousal inheritance tax exemption that heterosexual couples received. So Edie sued the United States Government. The case eventually made it to the U.S. Supreme Court – and Edie won. DOMA was struck down in 2013, and that set the stage for same-sex marriage to be legalized across the United States two years later.

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#queer jews project #judaism #jumblr #jewblr #pride #lgbtq #queer #edie windsor #thea spyer #lesbian #edie and thea #united states v. windsor #scotus #Youtube #supreme court

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jjmcquade-misc · 3 months ago

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We’re losing more and more of our land every year to corporations and foreign interests. Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land has increased by 66% since 2010. In 2021, it was reported that foreign investors owned approximately 40 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, which is more than the entire state of Iowa. By 2022 that number had grown to 43.4 million acres. The rate at which U.S. farmland is being bought up by foreign interests grew by 2.2 million acres per year from 2015 to 2021. The number of U.S. farm acres owned by foreign entities grew more than 8% (3.4 million acres) in 2022.

We’re losing more and more of our businesses every year to foreign corporations and interests. Although China owns a small fraction of foreign-owned U.S. land at 380,000 acres (less than the state of Rhode Island), Chinese companies and investors are also buying up major food companies, commercial and residential real estate, and other businesses. As RetailWire explains, “Currently, many brands started by early American pioneers now wave international flags. This revolution is a direct result of globalization.” The growing list of once-notable American brands that have been sold to foreign corporations includes: U.S. Steel (now Japanese-owned); General Electric (Chinese-owned); Budweiser (Belgium); Burger King (Canada); 7-Eleven (Japan); Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge (Netherlands); and IBM (China). Continue reading in the link below.

You have only one choice this time. Don't underestimate Democrats' ability to fucking things up.

#democrats #kamala harris #tim walz #republicans #donald trump #jd vance #maga

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shini--chan · 8 months ago

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Could I ask Charon and Guanyin for Yan!Canda and America? You could also just chose one, thank you.

It shall be both of them.

Yandere NA Brothers - Fouled Harvest

Charon - How would they deal with your death/departure?

America would have his own special ways of dealing with your death. In the beginning that would mean that he wouldn’t really deal with your death. Reality would only really kick in when he buries you. Part of this comes from his own experiences with death, as in death is usually very temporary for him. That is why he might just sit beside your cooled body for hours at a time, waiting for you to return to the land of the living. Death isn’t in his end game of a happily ever after, so he is in denial for as long as possible. Then the fact that you’re dead and never coming back hits him like an IBM and he finds himself overwhelmed with all the emotions that come crashing down on him.

Maybe he goes on a drinking binge, or fishes out the hard stuff he has hidden at the very back of the top shelf in the pantry. He goes on long walks, maybe dies himself because he is high and picks a fight with a grizzly or gets bitten by a rattlesnake. It really depends on where he is living at the moment. Then the tides turn, and a steely determination takes over and he launches himself with new found fevrour in various projects. Death is the final frontier and it is time to conquer it.

If you would just have departed and be out of his reach, then matters would look slightly different. Alfred would constantly be looking for you, at times more invested in the search and other times he would be distracted by other matters. If for some reason, he can’t get you back, he’ll be constantly looking for loopholes in order to do so. However, he considers himself above the laws of men and gods, so he might as well break a few treaties and bypass organisation structures and ignore reprimands if it means getting you back.

Should it not be in his power or abilities to get you back, then matters become dangerous. No matter how many times his politicians explain to him that it is not within the realm of possibility to get you back, that they don’t have the power or the mean, he simply won’t listen to them. He is bound to become impulsive in such a state, and do something very stupid.

Canada would have a far more sombre and realistic approach to the situation. It would also take a bit for the gravity of the matter to dawn on him, but not as long as it would take his brother. He'd store you in a cool space, and provide to clean up the property. Vacuum clean, and then wax the floors. Shake out every carpet, and prune and weed the garden, wash and polish the car, sort out old clothing. Your things wouldn't be packed away - he'll occasionally take a dress or suit of yours out and cuddle with it as he falls asleep. Perhaps he'll brush his teeth with your toothbrush when he is feeling down, or use the soap you preferred on himself.

Eventually you are buried in the garden. Beforehand, he'll perform the usual duties of a coroner, of washing and dressing the deceased. He wants you to look pretty for your own burial, so he might lay the make-up thick. It would be staged like the usual funeral, only he is playing all the parts. It would also be the only time he would allow himself to fully and truly grieve your passing. Afterwards, that particular door will be closed again.

Should you be alive and he just can't reach you, then he might just resort to waiting. It would bug him to no end, but he'll still do it. Matthew could get you to relax your guard and then he'll strike. Perhaps if he is patient enough you'll come back of your own accord. Or he'll track your every movement, stating himself temporarily by watching you. But in the long run, it wouldn't be enough.

Guanyin - What would cause them to feel regret for their actions? Do they know what they are doing is wrong?

It would take a lot to make Alfred regret his mistakes. A lot of the time, he is just so caught up in his own hype and so called heroism that he isn't able to be cognisant of his own wrong doings. He is the ultimate good guy, and he doesn't like getting called out on his own bs. The person who does that is either a villain or envious of him and his awesomeness. There would have to be black-on-white consequences to his actions, consequences that affect him greatly and negatively for reality to start to dawn. Even then, it would take a bit for it all to sink in. Only then would he regret his actions and vow to do better.

He might come to the conclusion that he is wrong in some aspects, and even try to make amends, but he would never go all the way. Alfred would be hard pressed to admit it aloud, and it wouldn't be for your sake. At the end of the day, he just wants to see himself as the good guy. You are just there to fulfil his wants and desires, so you as a person, as an individual with your own dreams, don't matter that much to him. If you have your own sway over the situation, or if you can even walk away if he crosses red lines, then he might push himself to make concessions. But it is a big "if".

Matthew would be more inclined to see the errors of his ways and the guilt would eat at him. However, he would decide to take a leaf out of his brother's book and be a bit selfish. The shame would always be there and even when he'd do his best to play cold and standoffish, he would still care deeply about your opinions. That way, you might be able to guilt him into doing things your way. You pointing out his wrongs and mistakes, would pain him - but that doesn't mean he'll act on the pain and automatically strive to make amends.

#yandere hetalia #yandere america #yandere canada #yandere alphabet #x reader #yandere

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saleintothe90s · 3 months ago

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500. The 1984 Olympics Sports Illustrated Preview Issue (July 18, 1984) Part 1.

I'm totally late, but aren't we all having a little bit of Olympic withdrawal? This was a big magazine for me as a kid, big. My mom got it for me at the thrift store in 1994 when I was 10 because at the time I collected old issues of Sports Illustrated for the figure skating articles. This issue was massive, about five hundred pages. Five hundred pages of ads and photos I still remember 30 years later.

Like this Levi's ad! I still remember the lady in her maternity jeans, and how the kids couldn't wear riveted Levi's to school because they'd scratch up the desks.

There were several extended profiles of athletes that were expected to win big in Los Angeles, such as Carl Lewis.

Carl Lewis: mall lover.

Embarrassing baby photos of the athletes were a common occurrence.

I forgot to mention the Renault Fuego when I did that write up on Renault's short lived visit in the States.

I thought the Chrysler Laser was a thing in Canada, and we in the U.S. had the Plymouth Laser. No! We had the Chrysler first for a couple of years and then we had the Plymouth for a few years? That Lee Iacocca made things so confusing. I've mentioned before that I grew up alongside my niece and when we were in high school, she bought a used green Laser, and I was so jealous.

Autoweek went looking for one of the special 1984 Olympic edition GMC Jimmys, but couldn't find one.

I love that its a heartwarming story about how Bill Toomey almost didn't win the 1968 decathlon, and then its just ...screwdrivers at Sears.

I've spent thirty years trying to figure out what album German swimmer Michael Gross has against his stereo. Bap? Rap? I'm gonna eBay image search it. Okay, so it is a German album by Bap.

1984 was definitely the first 'puter Olympics. Not the first internet Olympics like Atlanta or Nagano, but one where computers were definitely advertised. Looks like the closest Sears Business Systems Center to me was in Virginia Beach where a Shake Shack is today.

When I was a kid looking at this ad, I thought that was the real Charlie Chaplin, and he was still alive in 1984 selling IBM PCJr computers with those awful keyboards. Clint from LGR called the space bar a "gooey celery stick".

This was a sweet section about athletes reminiscing about their time during the first Olympics held in LA back in 1932. The hop step and jump is what we would call the triple jump today. The Sports Illustrated vault is absolute garbage now, but you can still read the text from the other athletes profiled. Ellen Preis the Frencer from Austria had a heck of a story:

ELLEN PREIS AUSTRIA FENCING, INDIVIDUAL FOIL

When we arrived in the United States, we met the mayor of New York. I can't remember his name [it was Jimmy Walker], but I remember he made a lot of funny jokes. He took us to Sing Sing, which was both interesting and a great shock. We sat in the electric chair. It felt awful. Afterward we saw criminals on Death Row, and I felt very sorry for them. Then they took us to a laboratory, and we saw 42 jars containing the brains of criminals who had died in the chair. I was very young, and it made a strong impression.

I still haven't forgotten this ad, Fisher. It totally worked.

Part 2 coming soon.

#1984 #1984 summer Olympics #carl lewis #old magazines #Bap #sears #ibm pcjr

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yesterdays-xkcd · 1 year ago

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For the IPv6 map just imagine the XP default desktop picture.

Map of the Internet [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Map of the Internet The IPv4 Space, 2006This chart shows the IP address space on a plane using a fractal mapping which preserves grouping--any consecutive string of IPs will translate to a single, compact, contiguous region on the map. Each of the 256 numbered blocks represents one 8 subnet (containing all IPs that start with that number). The upper left section shows the blocks sold directly to corporations and goverments in the 1990's before the RIRs took over allocation.

Diagram showing IP ownership:

0: Local

1-2: Unallocated

3: General Electric

4: BB&N INC

5: Unallocated

6: Army AISC

7: Unallocated

8: BB&N INC

9: IBM

10: VPNs

11: DoD Intel

12: Bell Labs

13: Xerox

14: Public data nets

15: HP

16: DEC

17: Apple

18: MIT

19: Ford

20: CSC

21: DDN-RYN

22: DISA

23: Unallocated

24: Cable TV

25: UK MoD

26: DISA

27: Unallocated

28: DSI

29-30: DISA

31: Unallocated

32: NORSK

33: DLA

34: Halliburton

35: Merit

36-37: Unallocated

38: PSI

39: Unallocated

40: Eli Lily

41: ARINIC

42: Unallocated

43: Japan INET

44: HAM Radio

45: INTEROP

46: BB&N INC

47: Bell North

48: Prudential

49-50: Unallocated

51: UK Social Security

52: duPont

55: Boeing

56: USPS

57: SITA

58-61: Asia-Pacific

62: Europe

63-76: USA & Canada (contains: UUNET, Google, Digg, Slashdot, Ebay, Craigslist, XKCD, Flickr)

77-79: Europe (unused)

80-91: Europe

92-95: Unallocated

96-99: North America

100-120: Unallocated

121-125: Asia-Pacific

126: Japan

127: Loopback

128-132: Various Registrars

133: Japan

134-172: Various Registrars

173-189: Unallocated

188: Various

189-190: Latin America & Caribbean

191-192: Various (contains Private (RFC 1918))

193-195: Europe

196: Africa

197: Unallocated

198: US & Various

199: North America

200-201: Latin America & Caribbean

202-203: Asia-Pacific

204-209: North America (contains Suicide Girls, BoingBoing)

210-211: Asia-Pacific

212-213: Europe

214-215: U.S. Department of Defense

216: North America (Contains Myspace, SomethingAwful)

217: Europe

218-222: Asia-Pacific

223: Unallocated

224-239: Multicast

240-255: Unallocated

#xkcd #xkcd 195 #map of the internet #2000s #2006

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year ago

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This day in history

#20yrsago SCO sends IBM 1,000,000 pieces of paper https://memex.craphound.com/2003/12/10/sco-sends-ibm-1000000-pieces-of-paper/

#20yrsago Urban farmers reclaim Detroit https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/garden/in-the-capital-of-the-car-nature-stakes-a-claim.html

#15yrsago What the hell is a Credit Default Swap? https://web.archive.org/web/20090421013937/https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=365

#15yrsago EFF (cautiously) optimistic at record labels’ offering of a blanket license to universities https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/labels-open-collective-licensing-campus

#15yrsago Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because “No software is free” https://web.archive.org/web/20081212115427/https://www.austinist.com/2008/12/10/aisd_teacher_throws_fit_over_studen.php

#10yrsago FreeBSD won’t use Intel & Via’s hardware random number generators, believes NSA has compromised them https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-intel-and-vias-chip-based-crypto-freebsd-developers-say/

#10yrsago UK kids have the right to opt out of school fingerprinting (even if their parents are OK with it) https://informationrightsandwrongs.com/2013/12/07/the-kids-all-have-rights/

#10yrsago Canada’s spooks were NSA bagmen, established spy-posts in 20+ countries and “transnational targets” https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/snowden-document-shows-canada-set-up-spy-posts-for-nsa-1.2456886

#10yrsago Peak indifference to surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/09/internet-surveillance-spying

#10yrsago Tech giants call for global surveillance law reform https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/eight-tech-giants-call-reform-surveillance-law

#10yrsago Cyanogenmod adds encrypted SMS from WhisperSystems https://web.archive.org/web/20131211063720/http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/whisperpush-secure-messaging-integration

#10yrsago Life from the near future of location surveillance https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-tracking/meet-jack?redirect=meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data

#5yrsago Syndicated columnist censored for writing about the risks of hedge funds and billionaires buying papers https://www.texasobserver.org/the-jim-hightower-column-they-dont-want-you-to-read/

#5yrsago Rhode Island lawsuit argues that the Constitution guarantees a right to sufficient education to be an informed citizen https://theconversation.com/fight-for-federal-right-to-education-takes-a-new-turn-108322

#5yrsago Costa Rica abolished its army in 1949 and thereafter enjoyed the best per-capita GDP growth in the region https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/file/paper/594eced12c818.pdf

#pluralistic

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govindhtech · 8 months ago

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University’s First IBM Quantum system One Computer At RPI

IBM Quantum System One RPI IBM and RPI launch the first university-lot IBM Quantum System One. RPI and IBM launched the first IBM quantum computer on a university lot. structure on RPI’s bicentennial festivity of 200 times of firsts, IBM Quantum System One will meliorate educational and disquisition possibilities for the university and other New York academic institutions and organizations who want to engage with RPI. Faculty, researchers, scholars, and collaborators using the system will meliorate quantum computing disquisition, including the hunt for quantum algorithms that might lead to quantum advantage, and develop the future quantum pool with IBM.

The CurtisR. Priem Constellation focuses on the IBM Quantum System One and endowed professor speakers in the university’s major Voorhees Computing Centre Tabernacle. CurtisR. Priem’ 82, vice chairman of RPI’s Board of Trustees, bestowed to the constellation, which will allow collaborative quantum calculating disquisition at RPI.

RPI’s part as the first institution to host an IBM Quantum System One is an applicable commemoration of IBM’s bicentennial” President MartyA. Schmidt stated.” With trustee Curtis Priem’s backing and IBM’s long- term cooperation with IBM, they’ll use sophisticated computing for global problem- working and educate future quantum specialists to produce the Capital Region’s own’ Quantum Valley’ IBM’s scholars want to use quantum computing to break IBM’s biggest problems, and I’m interested to see how IBM’s instructors and scholars use quantum to meliorate the future.

IBM is happy to strengthen its RPI cooperation. Together, IBM can advance quantum wisdom, engineering, and disquisition’, IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna stated.” This collaboration will help explore some of the world’s most complex problems and train the coming generation of quantum experts.

A 127- qubit IBM Quantum’ Eagle’ processor powers RPI’s new IBM Quantum System One, giving researchers, scholars, and mates direct access to a avail- scale quantum computer. IBM Eagle performed more accurate computations than brute- force simulations in 2023. This marked the morning of quantum avail, an period in which quantum systems can be used as scientific tools to study problems in chemistry, medicines, paraphernalia, and other fields to find quantum advantage the point at which a quantum computer can break a problem better than any classical system.

The RPI system joins IBM’s worldwide line of avail- scale quantum computers in the pall and at specialized customer locales, including systems in the US, Canada, Germany, Japan, and South Korea and Spain. IBM’s world- class scholars, researchers, and instructors will drive the worldwide race to uncover more complicated quantum as quantum computing technology and software evolve. Quantum technology is creating a new computer branch for the first time.” IBM can’t do this alone,” said IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research and RPI board member Dario Gil.”

IBM must unite with worldwide network of mates, including top sodalities and disquisition institutes like RPI, to find and develop new algorithms for quantum computers’ hardest problems. IBM will achieve this by creating a quantum pool and training the coming generation how to use these bias.” RPI and IBM have a rich history of technical cooperation.

RPI houses the AI Multiprocessing Optimised System. AiMOS, the most important classical supercomputer at a private institution in the US, uses POWER9 CPU and NVIDIA GPU technologies to probe new AI operations.” As an RPI graduate and a trustee deeply invested in RPI’s charge and future, partnering with IBM to introduce quantum computing on IBM’s lot was a natural step forward,” said RPI vice chairman CurtisR. Priem, Class of 1982.” RPI’s commitment to furnishing scholars with access to slice- edge tools and ubiquitous computing is consummate, and integrating an IBM Quantum System One helps ensure doing are part to develop hereafter’s quantum pool.”

Unveiling the IBM Quantum System One during RPI’s bicentennial time is a befitting statement about IBM’s commitment to technological leadership and invention during the university’s third century,” John Kelly, RPI Class of 1978.” The RPI community looks forward to seeing how IBM’s faculty, scholars, mates will work together to explore quantum computing’s operations in health, medicinals, sustainability, artificial intelligence, public security, and more.” RPI has the first IBM Quantum System One on lot and may design new quantum classes and educational programmes to upskill the quantum pool.

This innovative cooperation will expedite quantum computing disquisition and educate the coming generation of computer workers, as well as strengthen IBM’s region’s standing as a worldwide centre for slice- edge technology. Through sweats like the CHIPS and Science Act and collaborations like this one, IBM are paving the road for invention and high- tech manufacturing in IBM’s Capital Region, keeping IBM’s cosmopolises at the van of technology.”

Since June 2023, RPI has hosted IBM experts for introductory lectures and forums to help scholars comprehend quantum computing’s eventuality. Now, devoted access to leading quantum attack and software, important supercomputing resources, and educational and technical support from IBM will help scholars develop chops across quantum and classical computing paradigms, accelerating New York’s coming- generation computing leadership.

About RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824 to” making wisdom applicable to everyday life,” was the first US technical disquisition organization. Its comprehensive and holistic knowledge community that integrates creativity, wisdom, and technology makes it a top institution. RPI shapes the scientists, engineers, technicians, masterminds, and entrepreneurs who will shape humanity’s future and conductscross-corrective disquisition to attack the world’s biggest issues.