We all remember exactly the day it occurred and what we were doing that day. For many people my age, it was symbolic of the state of affairs, America was a different country. The transformation is anything but complete.

I was vaguely bringing up this documentary on YouTube which clearly shows that all the big broadcasting agencies streamed one channel; they all shared the signal, which is interesting, because in 2001 video processing was pretty lame, you could lose pixels by merely moving a camera too much. This happened many times during the broadcast, when one of the planes hits one of the towers, and before the first plane. You couldn't really tell what was in the sky, but you couldn't really see other viewpoints because only one stream was made available. Now we have spatio temporal nerual nets which throw away pixels that are useless. Hybrid learning on rasters and salient blockcodes bring you Suicide Squad on DVD today. Then I got this idea, you know how in Contact the aliens sent a message embedded in a video? I wonder how many messages are encrypted in the media we so gleefully consume.

I wanted to put Trump on the title because he is on record, "There must have been bombs on those planes". "I can tell this from my experience with skycrapers" - he went on to discuss the foundation of the Twin Towers -- we all know what people used to say. We also know what the commission printed out. The documentary alleges there were no planes. Some conspiracy theorists allege that a missile was directed at one of the Towers. I don't condone or promote this, but if our president elect has something to say about 911 he should reopen the investigation into the collapse of the towers and building seven.

I don't dig enough on things that will get me in trouble, some knowledge is forbidden for a reason. For once, stop saying the russian leaks are unsubstantiated claims, when Donald Trump, our president, has made a career founded on unsubstantiated claims.





You're not so slick, Donald. Getting caught by Entertainment Weekly renders enough suspicion on everything you denied at the press conference. You didn't have all the angles covered, most arrogant people act and think like this because they feel like they can glide through life with their Arthurian privilege. Trump is clearly lying, and I wouldn't believe a word the Kremlin says. The russians are a brilliant beautiful people who I adore and have had the pleasure work and get to know. The men are gorgeous, the women are dazzling....The governments of Russia and America have gradually detached from their original role. It started since World War 1 when we told Germany they could no longer be. Something's got to give.

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Last edited by ViceroySF on Jan-14-2017 at 18:05

Just why?