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Overnight Open Thread (9-17-2015)
The 10-month, $500 million U.S. effort to train and equip moderate Syria had yielded a "small number" of fighters, Austin said, far short of the 15,000 planned over a three-year period."The ones that are in the fight, we are talking four or five," Austin told the stunned committee.
The U.S. military has spent $43 million of the $500 million allotted by Congress, or roughly $9 million per fighter. (The U.S. had originally planned to have 5,400 fighters trained by now.) Wormuth said the U.S. military was considering alternative plans but refused to say what those plans were or when they may be rolled out.
"The new Syrian Force Program has gotten off to slow start," Austin deadpanned, in response to the 5,395-man deficit in the number of fighters the U.S. hoped to train this year.
-- From Army Gen. Lloyd Austin's testimony before Congress this week
"Germany isn't just the country of milk and honey, where everything you would want flies into your mouth like a fried pigeon," German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Shaefer said last week.
EU rules require member states to ensure "a dignified standard of living" for asylum-seekers. That includes housing, food, clothing, a daily allowance, and access to public health care, education and the job market while their claim is processed, which can take up to a year or more.
Brock explains how his conversations with Blumenthal, a man of "surpassing intellect and fervent devotion to the Clintons," were the inspiration for Hillary Clinton's infamous "vast right-wing conspiracy" comments in response to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Blumenthal later told Brock he "went straight to Hillary" after one of their phone chats about the Lewinsky story.Decades later, Brock and Blumenthal are two of the most loyal, if sometimes erratic, members of Hillary Clinton's inner circle of advisers. They have both parlayed this obsessive loyalty into massive personal fortunes. These are the people who will be running the country if Hillary avoids jail time and is elected president.
-- Andrew Stiles in How David Brock Became Sidney Blumenthal
Quote of the Day IV - Inverted Justice Edition
"If there are 10 people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all 10 people," Polis said. "We're not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we're talking about them being transferred to another university, for crying out loud."
-- U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)
We are raising a generation of young writers who are trashing their Google rankings in exchange for $100 and a tweetstorm, who are learning nothing about the craft of reporting except that their musings on incest go viral, who are generating #content without generating anything worthwhile or lasting.Anyway. You should read that piece and weep for the future or something. Or not. As a wise man once said, my strong suspicion is we get the world we deserve. And we probably deserve endless rivers of first person pieces about the horrible things we have done and had done to us. Selfie culture is all-consuming.
-- Sonny Bunch in First Person Essays Are Both Boring and Also Exploitative
John Hinderaker: More Bullshit From Bernie
He's had just about enough of Bernie Sanders' ignorant and dishonest radicalism and fisks his speech from earlier this week at Liberty University paragraph by paragraph. And it's a beautiful thing.
Bullshit. What does Sanders want to do about the fact that the people who founded Facebook have made a lot of money? Prohibit innovation? Limit the number of people who can access popular web sites? Make it illegal to sell advertising if the owners of the web site are already rich? The only "remedy" he can come up with is higher taxes, but America already has the most progressive income tax regime of any developed country-more progressive than Sweden, Denmark, you name it. And yet Democrats like Sanders keep telling us how awful things are for most Americans. Maybe we should try lower taxes on the "rich," since the world's highest taxes evidently haven't worked. By the way, when Democrats talk about rich people, they always use Mark Zuckerberg-a Democrat, no doubt-as an exemplar, but when I read the fine print, I always find that they mean me.
Nobel Committee Member: On Second Thought We Probably Shouldn't Have Given Obama That Peace Prize
But not for the reason you might think.
The Government Cracks Down on the Menace of Little Free Libraries
Daily Kos Founder Markos Moulitsas Beclowns Himself on Twitter
Breitbart writer arrested for terrorism, for trying to help terrorists build bomb http://t.co/R7ZM19cnSa via @thedailybeast
- Markos Moulitsas (@markos) September 12, 2015
Only it turns out that Joshua Goldberg never wrote for Breitbart. He did however write for a little left-wing blog called Daily Kos.
Detroit Neighborhoods Now Recruiting Squatters For Empty Homes
It's no joke. In a remote pocket of northwest Detroit along the Rouge River, neighbors are so desperate to stop a cycle of abandonment and blight they're recruiting a squatter to occupy a home whose longtime owners left last weekend.That's because neighbors fear the onetime farmhouse on Puritan and Hazelton will be stripped and torched if it remains empty for long. Eight nearby houses burned in the past two years. A few blocks away, there are more weedy lots than homes.
..."You want someone in the house when it's still functioning. Otherwise, it will be destroyed in 24 hours."
New British Carrier To Deploy With USMC Air Wing For Protection
Suppose you have a brand-new aircraft carrier, but the jets that will operate from that ship won't be available in sufficient quantities for another five years. How do you utilize that platform to its full capabilities in the interim, without its primary strike asset?For Britain's Royal Navy, that is the near-term challenge: their new fleet carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, is in the final stages of construction and will begin sea trials next summer, with initial flight training in 2017-2018. But with the RN's first F-35 squadrons not scheduled to achieve their initial operating capability until 2020 (at the earliest), the Brits are looking for aircraft that can embark earlier and provide a combat punch before their own Lightning IIs are ready for action.
The solution is a lesson in creativity and coalition warfare. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, the RN has reached agreement with the U.S. Marine Corps to deploy F-35 squadrons on the Queen Elizabeth until British units achieve their IOC in the jet
Leftwing Pacifica Radio Network Entering Final Stages of Death Spiral
Just five radio stations is a pretty small network.
The allegations were the latest convulsion in a simmering crisis at Pacifica Radio, a network of five independently operated, listener-supported radio stations, including New York's WBAI, which are known for liberal views.Founded in 1946 by conscientious objectors from the second world war, the network was an influential outlet for Beat poets, Bob Dylan and Vietnam war protesters but has in recent times suffered from dwindling ratings, in-fighting and financial hemorrhage.
The network's biggest star - Amy Goodman, host of the independently produced Democracy Now! - is also its biggest creditor. She is owed an estimated $2.1m in unpaid broadcast fees.
Strong Evidence For Cause of the Permian Extinction
A 252 million year old whodunnit may finally be solved.
The extinction at the end of the Permian is a major event in Earth's history. We define it as the boundary between two Eras, the second largest division in the geologic timeline.At that boundary, over 90% of all marine species went extinct. Some familiar life forms including the trilobites disappeared forever while other ecosystems shifted permanently; such as bivalves like clams suddenly becoming much more common in the oceans than the brachiopods that dominated the Paleozoic.
Since the scale of this mass extinction was realized in the 20th century, one of the enduring mysteries of geology has been its cause. Scientists have proposed impacts of asteroids, chemical catastrophes in the ocean or the atmosphere, and impacts from massive volcanic eruptions now called the Siberian traps.
For those who can't be bothered to read the article the killer was: The Jews....in the form of volcanoes. They're very crafty like that.
volcanoes
Film Footage of a Person Born in the 1700s
Maybe.
Being 114 in 1905 would place Despina's year of birth at around 1791, only a few years after the formation of the United States. There's no independent confirmation of her age outside of the film's original title and Milton Manaki's memoirs (published in Romanian), but even if she were only 102 at the time, she would best Clark's 1804 birth year
The Cocaine-Based Advertising of the Late 70s
Back when it was common enough to be effectively semi-legal which meant there was $$$ in coke and coke accessories.
But after pill number 35, laughter gave way to concern. After his vision turned green-a Viagra side effect known as cyanopsia-and he experienced what he described to The Sun as "a massive erection that would not go away," Medforth went home to his wife, who promptly redirected him to the hospital where he belonged. And there he stayed there for the next 36 hours-one hour for every year of his life that he almost threw away.
He told The Daily Beast that his wife was "a little mad" at him, which, one would hope, is an understatement.
Yahoo group. That is all.
Come on be a smartie and join the yahoo group party! For the children. Why do you hate children?
And my lo-fi Twitter spew.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Ann of the long legs at September 17, 2015 11:19 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 17, 2015 11:20 PM (9jeGC)
Posted by: Ann of the long legs at September 17, 2015 11:20 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:21 PM (vM+YG)
had yielded a "small number" of fighters, Austin said, far short of the
15,000 planned over a three-year period.
"The ones that are in the fight, we are talking four or five," Austin told the stunned committee.
Kind of puts those $10,000 toilet seats into proper perspective now, eh? Bargain compared to the $100 million dollar Syrian men out there - tearing up the enemy I'm sure.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 17, 2015 11:22 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at September 17, 2015 11:23 PM (DfCQN)
I bet their bionic powers are awesome. And scare the hell out of the goats.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 17, 2015 11:23 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 17, 2015 11:23 PM (EzgxV)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 17, 2015 11:23 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:23 PM (XVBCD)
Posted by: Chi at September 17, 2015 11:24 PM (/eN7v)
Posted by: Danna P at September 17, 2015 11:25 PM (KtxUt)
"Rights" are usually divided into "negative rights" (i.e. natural rights) and "positive rights" (i.e. those granted by the state). Under the Constitution and the broader Common Law, inalienable rights used to be held supreme. Sadly, now it is those "rights" that require compulsion and coercion are considered sacrosanct.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=9947
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 17, 2015 11:25 PM (vBeA5)
http://tinyurl.com/nnfb3ty
It's Pooky and Pookette's favorite 3DS game. Someone, please save me........
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost run at September 17, 2015 11:26 PM (K27gs)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:26 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:26 PM (vM+YG)
Posted by: Secundus at September 17, 2015 11:27 PM (xsVNp)
Posted by: Eli Manning at September 17, 2015 11:27 PM (8CdUx)
Fucking progressive bullshit. And, ooh, even better yet, I am out of bourbon.
*heads for the cooking wine*
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 17, 2015 11:27 PM (frWac)
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 17, 2015 11:27 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:28 PM (zt+N6)
It looks like the sort described in the copies of Vetruvius I have looked through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgNlPOMOps0
(building a sort of range table. It can be boring)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 17, 2015 11:28 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: Ever at September 17, 2015 11:28 PM (QZdJj)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 17, 2015 11:29 PM (+W1gD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6mbW-jMtrY
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 17, 2015 11:29 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 17, 2015 11:29 PM (+W1gD)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 17, 2015 11:29 PM (VdICR)
Deflation.
Posted by: Lower Class person whose opinions need to be guided at September 17, 2015 11:30 PM (htXhe)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 17, 2015 11:30 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 17, 2015 11:30 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 17, 2015 11:30 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Punkin' Chunkin' at September 17, 2015 11:31 PM (XEzHf)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 17, 2015 11:31 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015 11:31 PM (FcR7P)
#29, how was the new South Park... heard it was taking on Caitlyn Jenner.
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at September 17, 2015 11:31 PM (teYv/)
Good evening from Hotel Hell.
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:23 PM (XVBCD)
****
You too, huh?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 17, 2015 11:32 PM (pg0FQ)
Fucking progressive bullshit. And, ooh, even better yet, I am out of bourbon.
*heads for the cooking wine*
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 17, 2015 11:27 PM (frWac)
That sodium will kill ya
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:32 PM (vM+YG)
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 17, 2015 11:32 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 17, 2015 11:33 PM (+W1gD)
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at September 17, 2015 11:33 PM (wKcQA)
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:28 PM (zt+N6)
Done and done.
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 17, 2015 11:34 PM (wqVD1)
I give you...the conspiracy whack jobs.
And these aren't just any whack jobs, oh no, they're so far out there that they're railing on Alex Jones. Yeah.
http://t.co/VKS3zRXJaW
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:35 PM (GEICT)
Still no passport.
Posted by: Ma Bell at September 17, 2015 11:35 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 17, 2015 11:27 PM (MQEz6)
IT'S A TRAP!
Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 17, 2015 11:36 PM (3pRHP)
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I'm right there with you. How did we get lumped in with the most awful Boulder people?? It's really a terrible situation for us.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 17, 2015 11:36 PM (y4bHB)
It's Pooky and Pookette's favorite 3DS game. Someone, please save me........
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost run at September 17, 2015 11:26 PM (K27gs)
Miku!
Posted by: The Vocaloid Hat at September 17, 2015 11:36 PM (vBeA5)
We'll see how creative college seniors can get when they realize the cash value of the degree they're about to be issued v. the $160,000 tab they've run-up in the previous 4 years.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 17, 2015 11:36 PM (EzgxV)
And, ironically enough...
1066 I'm keeping an eye out for 1066.
Posted by: zombie king harold at September 17, 2015 10:57 PM (+W1gD)
I'd give you a beer.....
Posted by: Draki at September 17, 2015 10:59 PM (TcC5T)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (+W1gD)
Yeppers. But this hotel hell has DirecTV. And I've got 2 beers left. So I'm good.
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (XVBCD)
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 17, 2015 11:34 PM (wqVD1)
Excellent.
*taunts happy fun ball*
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: michael scott at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (+W1gD)
Posted by: Chi at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (/eN7v)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (Z7G74)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:38 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:38 PM (vM+YG)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 17, 2015 11:38 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 17, 2015 11:39 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 17, 2015 11:39 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Andy Reid at September 17, 2015 11:39 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Chi at September 17, 2015 11:40 PM (/eN7v)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:41 PM (vM+YG)
Belle.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 17, 2015 11:41 PM (y4bHB)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:41 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 17, 2015 11:41 PM (dULJN)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 17, 2015 11:41 PM (+W1gD)
Still no passport.
Posted by: Ma Bell at September 17, 2015 11:35 PM (RLdcX)
Sucks that you can't be there, but you can celebrate your family's joy wherever you are.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 17, 2015 11:42 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 17, 2015 11:42 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Ma Bell at September 17, 2015 11:42 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:42 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: Secundus at September 17, 2015 11:27 PM (xsVNp)
Shit, you could hire a shitload of South African mercs for half that price, and they would have ISIS cleared out and dead in 6 months.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 17, 2015 11:42 PM (Z7G74)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:43 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:43 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 17, 2015 11:43 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:43 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Chi at September 17, 2015 11:40 PM (/eN7v)
Great idea, thank you
Posted by: GrandMa Bell at September 17, 2015 11:44 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost run at September 17, 2015 11:44 PM (K27gs)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at September 17, 2015 11:44 PM (2ToL9)
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:44 PM (zt+N6)
Each stupid little project of theirs costs us around a $Solyndra, doesn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015 11:44 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:45 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:37 PM (XVBCD)
*****
I'm at a Marriott branded hotel in Vegas. Won't get any more specific than that, although it may have a yard in which you could hold a legal proceeding.
Anyhoo, when I tried to check in yesterday at 3:00, I was told they were still getting my room ready. "Ok, how long?" "2 hours". Cool, off to the bar across the parking lot.
Call them at 5:00 to inquire about readiness. 2 more hours. Called them at 7:00. About another hour. I had already gotten my key, so I was kinda pissed and went to look at the room for myself.
They were assembling the bed and just needed to make it. They had been renovating and I am the first guest in this newly done wing of the hotel.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 17, 2015 11:45 PM (pg0FQ)
Um...wow. That guy is so sooper smart, we should hire him to find out who blew up the twin towers.
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:45 PM (XVBCD)
The 10-month, $500 million U.S. effort to train and equip moderate Syria had yielded a "small number" of fighters, Austin said, far short of the 15,000 planned over a three-year period.
"The ones that are in the fight, we are talking four or five," Austin told the stunned committee.
Posted by: ed gibbon at September 17, 2015 11:45 PM (vRNwc)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 17, 2015 11:46 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at September 17, 2015 11:46 PM (2ToL9)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 17, 2015 11:46 PM (+W1gD)
I give you...the conspiracy whack jobs.
And these aren't just any whack jobs, oh no, they're so far out there that they're railing on Alex Jones. Yeah.
http://t.co/VKS3zRXJaW
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:35 PM (GEICT)
That sounds like the guy the other week that wanted to claim a bunch of shootings were actually all fake. But he refused to tell us which ones were. He didn't like Alex Jones because he thought he was in on it.
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:47 PM (zt+N6)
80 You could hire a shitload of mercenaries for 500 mil.
Each stupid little project of theirs costs us around a $Solyndra, doesn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015
For $500 mil you could've paid Assad to leave the damn place
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:47 PM (2wfWs)
"But the White House says it is not to blame. The finger, it says, should be pointed not at Mr. Obama but at those who pressed him to attempt training Syrian rebels in the first place - a group that, in addition to congressional Republicans, happened to include former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton."
http://tinyurl.com/qbumwfy
Obama gets a two-fer here: he gets to absolve himself of any responsibility and also throw the Hill-dawg under the bus at the same time.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 17, 2015 11:47 PM (wZ2hu)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:48 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015 11:48 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 17, 2015 11:49 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost rum run at September 17, 2015 11:49 PM (K27gs)
Each stupid little project of theirs costs us around a $Solyndra, doesn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015
For $500 mil you could've paid Assad to leave the damn place
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:47 PM (2wfWs)
Even worse, Obama rejected a Russian plan floated around in 2012 to facilitate removing Assad:
http://tinyurl.com/pn4jxbn
Posted by: Thrawn at September 17, 2015 11:49 PM (wZ2hu)
I give you...the conspiracy whack jobs.
And these aren't just any whack jobs, oh no, they're so far out there that they're railing on Alex Jones. Yeah.
http://t.co/VKS3zRXJa
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:35 PM (GEICT)
So you're part of the disinformation campaign!
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 17, 2015 11:49 PM (9jeGC)
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:45 PM (XVBCD)
Yeah, somebody over at TDB brought this guy in for an interview. "Dude, I know this guy, the fiancé of the reporter shot. We went to school together. We did a radio show together. What you're doing is incredibly harmful and hurtful. You're just wrong."
.....*pause*....."Well I say one or both of you is being duped."
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:49 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:50 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: Eromero at September 17, 2015 11:50 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: Punkin' Chunkin' at September 17, 2015 11:31 PM (XEzHf)
It shoots yard and a half arrows 300 yards.
Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 17, 2015 11:50 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 17, 2015 11:22 PM (AC0lD)
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Inflation.
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 17, 2015 11:51 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Ma Bell
Hey Grandma!
https://youtu.be/jdI7uqCBKd0
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 17, 2015 11:51 PM (W5DcG)
Yeah, somebody over at TDB brought this guy in for an interview. "Dude, I know this guy, the fianc of the reporter shot. We went to school together. We did a radio show together. What you're doing is incredibly harmful and hurtful. You're just wrong."
.....*pause*....."Well I say one or both of you is being duped."
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:49 PM (GEICT)
Yep, sounds just like that nutcase that was here.
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:51 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 17, 2015 11:52 PM (3pRHP)
For those who can't be bothered to read the article the killer was:
Ghey geologists fingering rocks?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 17, 2015 11:52 PM (JmGFJ)
******
Oh my, the Serbian just will not stop taunting happy fun ball.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 17, 2015 11:53 PM (pg0FQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:53 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 17, 2015 11:53 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 17, 2015 11:53 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:54 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 17, 2015 11:54 PM (9mTYi)
http://tinyurl.com/pn4jxbn
Posted by: Thrawn at September 17
But I drew the red line.
Posted by: President Pouty Face
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 17, 2015 11:54 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 17, 2015 11:54 PM (pbKEy)
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 17, 2015 11:53 PM (ucDmr)
None. But he took one right before Manning threw the game tying touchdown.
Posted by: buzzion at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 17, 2015 11:52 PM (JmGFJ)
The universe likely started because some white guy dropped something.
-Earth Scientist
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Kindltot
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I read that as 'rock'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Dante at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (xRA8Q)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (Ii765)
Has to be Global Warming- there's nothing worse than that!
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 17, 2015 11:56 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 17, 2015 11:56 PM (dULJN)
And those eruptions don't come from "volcanoes" as we know them. They are "fissure eruptions", and tend to be pretty placid, as such things go. Big crack in the crust opens up as a result of tension, and basaltic magma wells up and floods over the plain.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2015 11:56 PM (7MWCL)
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015 11:55 PM (FcR7P)
Except racism. Murder comes in way below those.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 17, 2015 11:57 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2015 11:57 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 17, 2015 11:57 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:57 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: President Pouty Face
His response to that was no, the world drew the red line.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 17, 2015 11:57 PM (W5DcG)
It's hopeless.
Almost as difficult as convincing a woman there is such a thing as too many shoes.
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 17, 2015 11:57 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 17, 2015 11:45 PM (pg0FQ)
Are you staying at the Sunray Motel?
Maybe Hector the Toad took a chainsaw to Angel in the room.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 17, 2015 11:58 PM (Z7G74)
Ugh. Well, at least now we know you're One Of Them. You just believe whatever your lizard overlords tell you to, huh?
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:58 PM (XVBCD)
Next stop, Air Americaville! All aboooooooard!
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 17, 2015 11:58 PM (oKE6c)
Hearing good things about a new movie with Tobey Macguire that's coming out, "Pawn Sacrifice," about Bobby Fischer (and his paranoia) during the time he was slated to face Boris Spassky for the US/USSR chess duels of 1972. Getting good reviews too. May have to shell out some bucks to see this one.
Anyone else heard of it or seen a preview or anything?
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 17, 2015 11:58 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: DC in River City at September 17, 2015 11:58 PM (XVBCD)
A man needs three basic needs met in order to live. The truth isn't one of them.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (GEICT)
(which I am aware is called something else now and I don't care those killjoys can try to bugger a Brontosaurus for all I care)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (3pRHP)
Hate you. I don't have an Ambien scrip since the move, so I just don't sleep much. I like the chemically induced 8 hours much better.
Posted by: DC in River City at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (XVBCD)
Posted by: Ivan Pavlov at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (Ii765)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644558558814732288
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644558742508412929
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644558916551098368
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644559635551244288
Posted by: kbdabear at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (GrXXa)
Agree - given a correlation between events A and B, A could have caused B, B could have caused A, A and B could have been caused by unknown event C (or combo of C, D, E, etc), or A and B could having nothing to do with each other whatsoever.
Having said that, paleogeology is not my field and I haven't read the paper. But, Gell -Mann, so...
Posted by: Dante at September 18, 2015 12:01 AM (IRqa0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 18, 2015 12:01 AM (W5DcG)
I just looked at mine - 5 pages, and the only thing I see of any value is "born alive."
Well, thank you very much, US Navy! Good to know!
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 12:01 AM (/eN7v)
Awwww.....there are the pharmaceuticals kicking in. Hello ambien,
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 17, 2015 11:57 PM (GEICT)
And hello Grey Goose! How are you doing, ye of the Compatible Podcast?
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost rum run at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (K27gs)
Still, I think that is a better job per dollar average than the Recovery Act of 2009. That was a TRILLION dollars blown, and we didn't even get t-shirts.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (gyKtp)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644560194664570880
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644560515528851456
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644560773273010176
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/644561027351375879
Posted by: kbdabear at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (GrXXa)
And those eruptions don't come from "volcanoes" as we know them. They are "fissure eruptions", and tend to be pretty placid, as such things go. Big crack in the crust opens up as a result of tension, and basaltic magma wells up and floods over the plain.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2015 11:56 PM (7MWCL)
Speaking of which, couldn't the fissures have been opened by the arrival of a SMOD?
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (GEICT)
I think I need another drink
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (2wfWs)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 18, 2015 12:03 AM (+W1gD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:03 AM (9mTYi)
Like I wrote about it about a week ago, the network is the logical extension of too much leftism: everyone hates everyone else.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 18, 2015 12:03 AM (ntObR)
Not so yay, my fantasy football team sucks a fat one this year. C.J. Anderson was my first-round pick. Sigh.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:03 AM (wKc1L)
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost rum run at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (K27gs)
I am doing fine. Hoping to get back to regular
podcasting here shortly.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 18, 2015 12:04 AM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (GEICT)
I think I need another drink
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (2wfWs)
Alcohol is certainly one of those three.
Posted by: buzzion at September 18, 2015 12:04 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 18, 2015 12:01 AM (W5DcG)
Actually, those fuckers are usually baked. My grandmother always tried to get me to eat them (she loved them), but those things have no meat on them and taste like shit
Posted by: GrandMa Bell at September 18, 2015 12:05 AM (RLdcX)
And those eruptions don't come from "volcanoes" as we know them. They are "fissure eruptions", and tend to be pretty placid, as such things go. Big crack in the crust opens up as a result of tension, and basaltic magma wells up and floods over the plain.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2015 11:56 PM (7MWCL)
The new bit of information is they have finally established the timeline. The Siberian Traps were a plausible cause, but the timing could not be pinned down.
The eruptions themselves were not enough to alter the atmosphere enough to cause an extinction, instead the eruptions caused very old carbonate deposits to decompose to seeohtoo and that is what conked life on the head.
I also don't think the Traps provide a full explanation. I think migration of benthic low-oxygen water and massive releases of hydrogen cyanide happened at the same time.
I faver the perfect shit storm hypothesis.
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 18, 2015 12:05 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 18, 2015 12:06 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:03 AM (wKc1L)
A big shout out to Emmanuel Sanders starting my week off right.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 18, 2015 12:06 AM (GEICT)
Posted by: kbdabear at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (GrXXa)
Well, I'm glad I'm going to Kroger tomorrow night because I'm now out of hand lotion and tissues.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 18, 2015 12:06 AM (Z7G74)
Posted by: Bertram
------------------
I saw that. Just accepted it, because German. Land of fahrvergnügen.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:06 AM (9mTYi)
There's also moving in and out of spiral arms, with significant variations in the interstellar environment.
I've read theories that this could explain the long-term climate changes, as well as some big extinction events. But it's all just fuzzy guessing at this point.
Posted by: Bawney Fwank at September 18, 2015 12:06 AM (dvuhZ)
And what proof do we have of Hydrogen Cyanide? That is a new one to me.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2015 12:08 AM (3pRHP)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 18, 2015 12:08 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 18, 2015 12:08 AM (+W1gD)
The eurotrash , and our leadership , doesn't like to be reminded of that real capability . Rangers , Seals , Force Recon , SAS , SBS , Grom , the worlds rough men . Same , same .
Those kind of fighters make their shriveled nuts draw up .
Unless and until the west unleashes their tame killers, the scum of the earth will continue to advance .
Now , that's out of the way .
Hearty congratulations to the new parents and grandparents . You good people are why the rough men stand on the wall .
I raise my glass to you .
Confusion to the enemy .
Posted by: awkward davies at September 18, 2015 12:08 AM (Jws+u)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Never Forget. Never Forgive at September 18, 2015 12:00 AM (GEICT)
Ummm, I was taught Safety and Security. What were you taught?
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost rum run at September 18, 2015 12:09 AM (K27gs)
So the Pentagon has morphed the US Military, into Mercs.....
What happens when the Brits want to do something with them the US does not want them to do????
Posted by: BB Wolf at September 18, 2015 12:09 AM (qh617)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 18, 2015 12:08 AM (dvuhZ)
******
She bought a house our family owned in Park Ridge, IL. Never did get to meet her though, damnit.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 18, 2015 12:10 AM (pg0FQ)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 18, 2015 12:10 AM (Ii765)
Lord, just call me home, already! I'm ready to leave this world behind.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:10 AM (wKc1L)
Where my money at??
Posted by: PJ at September 18, 2015 12:11 AM (cHuNI)
I just looked at mine - 5 pages, and the only thing I see of any value is "born alive."
Well, thank you very much, US Navy! Good to know!
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 12:01 AM (/eN7v)
Well, it confirms your suspicion.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:12 AM (EzgxV)
But no one would have the balls to use it as it's a nuke. But get them massed somehow, fire off one of those, and fucking sterilize 'em, over a one mile radius or so. And not much nasty fallout afterwards. A little, but not too bad.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 18, 2015 12:12 AM (dvuhZ)
161 Mechanims, Postive Waves?
And what proof do we have of Hydrogen Cyanide? That is a new one to me.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2015 12:08 AM (3pRHP)
HCN from anerobic bacteria that dominated low-oxygen ocean water. There is evidence fir low oxygen, but I don't remember if they found direct evidence of HCN.
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 18, 2015 12:12 AM (MQEz6)
price, and they would have ISIS cleared out and dead in 6 months."
The Nigerian military were proving utterly incapable of getting to grips with Boko Haram, so, very quietly, units of South African mercenaries were brought in. And they quickly sorted the situation and put Boko on the back foot with disciplined, proven counterinsurgency tactics. Raids on villages went down to effectively zero.
Except that this constituted poor optics for the Nigerians, so they quit paying and sent the mercs back to South Africa. Now, the Boko bunch are back on the rampage again, and are back to carrying off entire villages of schoolgirls as slaves. Schoolboys? They have no resale value and are all killed outright.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 18, 2015 12:12 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 18, 2015 12:14 AM (ntObR)
is it just me or is the modern-day GOP looking more and more these days like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in the old classic "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane"???
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 18, 2015 12:15 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 18, 2015 12:16 AM (ucDmr)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 18, 2015 12:16 AM (+W1gD)
Evening everyone!
Drove 22 hours yesterday from Colorado to Wisconsin. Spent all day today in classes on longsword and Italian grappling. Now I'm trying to shade in a rather large drawing for my art class. It's been a long day, I'm exhausted, and it's not over any time soon.
Bcoch, I saw your post over at the H2 the other night. You're welcome, but I'm not sure what I did.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 18, 2015 12:17 AM (z42ZY)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:17 AM (wKc1L)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (EzgxV)
Yes, I think if a big enough SMOD smacked into the Earth, you might get fissures opening up at the antipodes to the impact site. but plain old tensional tectonics, like what created the Basin and Range province of the Western Cordillera, can also open up mantle-deep cracks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2015 12:17 AM (CPHkQ)
Some may recall the utter paranoic hysteria which neutron bombs created among the European left during the early 1980s.
Americans, they said, were maliciously introducing these things, which would all be secretly set off one day, killing all of the local European population but leaving all of the housing and infrastructure intact, so that Americans (presumably Texas rednecks and other such alien species) could come take over and repopulate the place.
Fast forward a couple of decades. Now there's an alien species taking over and repopulating Europe, all right. Except it's not an American one.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 18, 2015 12:17 AM (noWW6)
Anyhow...
Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2015 12:19 AM (3pRHP)
Waxing Poetics - Baby Jane
A band I used to hang out with way back when. They should've been a much bigger deal than they were. Great live shows...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrin5z6uDYc
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 12:20 AM (/eN7v)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 18, 2015 12:20 AM (ucDmr)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 18, 2015 12:21 AM (9jeGC)
Posted by: GBruno at September 18, 2015 12:21 AM (u49WF)
The precise end of the Permian stratigraphic layers are not commonly preserved widespread. Out here in West Texas, we have a huge Permian section, but the last couple of million years are completely missing..
Posted by: TexasJew at September 18, 2015 12:22 AM (YVhBO)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:02 AM (EzgxV)
Yes, I think if a big enough SMOD smacked into the Earth, you might get fissures opening up at the antipodes to the impact site. but plain old tensional tectonics, like what created the Basin and Range province of the Western Cordillera, can also open up mantle-deep cracks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2015 12:17 AM (CPHkQ)
Isn't Siberia sort of antipodal from Chicxulub?
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:23 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Chavez
---------------
So the guy was right about the pigeons.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:23 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 18, 2015 12:23 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 18, 2015 12:24 AM (ucDmr)
What a fucked up world .
Posted by: awkward davies at September 18, 2015 12:25 AM (Jws+u)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:25 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: DC in River City at September 18, 2015 12:27 AM (XVBCD)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 18, 2015 12:28 AM (pg0FQ)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:28 AM (wKc1L)
Posted by: awkward davies at September 18, 2015 12:28 AM (Jws+u)
Posted by: Nobel Prize Committee at September 18, 2015 12:28 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 18, 2015 12:29 AM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:29 AM (wKc1L)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:29 AM (wKc1L)
Posted by: GBruno at September 18, 2015 12:30 AM (u49WF)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:31 AM (wKc1L)
Americans, they said, were maliciously introducing these things, which would all be secretly set off one day, killing all of the local European population but leaving all of the housing and infrastructure intact, so that Americans (presumably Texas rednecks and other such alien species) could come take over and repopulate the place.
Fast forward a couple of decades. Now there's an alien species taking over and repopulating Europe, all right. Except it's not an American one.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 18, 2015 12:17 AM (noWW6)
Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I
Posted by: The n Hat at September 18, 2015 12:31 AM (vBeA5)
Correlation is not causation. Sad to say.
But the science is settled. There is a consensus.
And the Earth does move.
Posted by: Karl Bogendegia at September 18, 2015 12:31 AM (qY5Sl)
Not that I'm complaining. It's merely that it's far beyond a grep but just as sure.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:32 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Karl Bogendegia at September 18, 2015 12:32 AM (qY5Sl)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Cruz 2016! at September 18, 2015 12:34 AM (wKc1L)
Posted by: logprof at September 18, 2015 12:34 AM (vsbNu)
Darwin wins.
Posted by: Karl Bogendegia at September 18, 2015 12:35 AM (qY5Sl)
Posted by: logprof at September 18, 2015 12:35 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 12:35 AM (AkOaV)
But Imma one up you --
http://tinyurl.com/d98ncuu
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 12:37 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 18, 2015 12:37 AM (Ii765)
Once they were our Imperial masters. Now they're reduced to providing taxis for US Marines.
Posted by: junior at September 18, 2015 12:37 AM (PVi+Q)
--------------------
There were constant ads for it during the debate last night. My Dad thought he might like to see it.
Posted by: junior at September 18, 2015 12:38 AM (PVi+Q)
Posted by: logprof at September 18, 2015 12:35 AM (vsbNu)
The Win10 fiasco might just finally sink Microsoft. In my jaded view, they haven't added anything to Office 97 in the last two decades that was worth putting up with their security "features", and while Win7 was nice, it wasn't all that much better than XP.
Going the corporate totalitarianism route might just wake up the sheep.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:39 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:40 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:41 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:41 AM (9mTYi)
--Do that but stop at 7.
Posted by: logprof at September 18, 2015 12:42 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:41 AM (9mTYi)
Uh, you're kidding right?
Should you go from the shittiest version of Windows since ME to the most stable platform since... well, XP?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 12:42 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Karl Bogendegia at September 18, 2015 12:43 AM (qY5Sl)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 18, 2015 12:44 AM (dULJN)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 18, 2015 12:44 AM (GdFQh)
Adjusting for inflation, that's not even close to Six Million Dollars. But that's ok, because we don't want to give them all our technology in case they turn later and use it against us. It should be enough.
Posted by: Severely Conservative at September 18, 2015 12:44 AM (p6UPL)
Breitbart writer arrested for terrorism
Markos Moulitsas (@markos) September 12, 2015
Only it turns out that Joshua Goldberg never wrote for Breitbart. He did however write for a little left-wing blog called Daily Kos.
"Editor's Note: This story was updated throughout."
How? Oh, we're just to bashful to say.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 18, 2015 12:46 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at September 18, 2015 12:47 AM (uPxUo)
I am still putting off my 'free' upgrade from 8.0, logprof. Tell what sucks about 10 from your pov.
And yes, I miss Win 7.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2015 12:50 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Joey B. at September 18, 2015 12:51 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Joey Biden at September 18, 2015 12:53 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 18, 2015 12:41 AM (9mTYi)
Seven was reasonably nice, but I hear they've preloaded spyware from 10 all over it. Vista was a piece of shit on a cow-pie. Consider upgrading to 7, but start moving to a Linux distro like Mint. When they obsolete 7, you'll have to move anyway.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 12:54 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Blano at September 18, 2015 12:54 AM (aeRWb)
And yes, I miss Win 7.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2015 12:50 AM (gyKtp)
--Randomly clearing out tasks --especially internet tabs-- and forcing you to restart to get back on full speed.
Posted by: logprof at September 18, 2015 12:55 AM (vsbNu)
I walk past the place from time to time and have thought of taking the Commie books out of the little nook and replacing them with Adam Smith and PJ O'Rourke tomes but I don't want to waste money on items the Commie dolt will undoubtedly toss the second he or she spots them.
Now I don't have to - all I have to do (if I ever actually lay eyes on the Commie dolt and not just his Volvo) is be a a Friendly Neighborhood Concern Troll: "Hey, do you know that the government wants to shut these things down? Can you believe it? That's what happens when you get a monster-sized government, right? Question authority, man!"
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at September 18, 2015 12:55 AM (P8951)
1. Free utilities.
2. A budget for installing burglar bars on every entrance, plus a camera system and a monitored alarm system.
3. A $1000 ammo allowance.
4. Bullet proof glass.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2015 12:57 AM (gyKtp)
Same here, broadcom isn't interested in updating my wifi card drivers for 10, or 8 for that matter, for whatever reason, so i'm sticking with 7 on my work laptop. I do have 10 on an old tower and like it, if you have to be on Windows it's better than 8, but like cthulhu pointed out, you're ultimately better off going to linux.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 01:02 AM (VviqM)
Leftwing Pacifica Radio Network Entering Final Stages of Death Spiral
And at this point, not exactly lamented. The stations are mostly fundraising, charlatans hawking lawn trimming in pills as wonder cures, and frothing Black and Mexican hate Whitey separatists.
But back in the day, it was an important outlet for left liberal speech, back when the media were still kinda conservative. I know, kids ask your grandparents.
Was a regular listener of the station in my precocious youth. Mostly for the SF show Hour 25, rip Mike and Mitch, but was also first exposed to Libertarian politics thru Lowell Ponte's show, a left-wing news perspective thru reporters like Marc Cooper who were left but not crazy, and parts of society I knew nothing about thru shows like IMRU.
Will be mourned, not for what it is now, but for what it was and what it gave to listeners.
http://tinyurl.com/nux8yqp
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 18, 2015 01:03 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo
Europe is toast? Man, we're gonna need a shitload of butter.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...a rube in America at September 18, 2015 01:06 AM (+1T7c)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
A guy that works for me and is pretty knowledgeable in IT, says that Windows 10 is great....if you have a touch screen computer.
Otherwise, not.
I have one PC at work on 8.1, and it is fine; there is an interface software addition that makes the GUI behave more like Windows 7. The tiles, etc are dumb unless you have a touch screen PC, and even then, it's annoying.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...a rube in America at September 18, 2015 01:10 AM (+1T7c)
Posted by: Steve Holt at September 18, 2015 01:14 AM (vsbNu)
Sorry. Forgot to mention 211.
Keep waiting for Dr Klahn to say "Take him to Detroit" while waiting to board.
Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at September 18, 2015 01:15 AM (uPxUo)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 18, 2015 01:15 AM (J+mig)
8/8.1 was always a waste. Phone OS. 10 too.
Posted by: mojo at September 18, 2015 01:18 AM (OmBeX)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 18, 2015 01:15 AM (J+
You probably would have been a late adopter to the whole horseless carriage thing too, eh?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 01:18 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Hillary! at September 18, 2015 01:18 AM (vsbNu)
Here's a piece in American Thinker explaining why the Left wants to re-impose the "Fairness Doctrine" using Pacifica's audiences in comparison to Rush Limbaugh's as examples:
http://tinyurl.com/nszt322
Posted by: Whitehall at September 18, 2015 01:19 AM (u6y+O)
Damn, I just pissed off teh Moron Horde. I denounce myself.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 18, 2015 01:20 AM (McRlu)
Posted by: logprof, published on Amazon at September 18, 2015 01:20 AM (vsbNu)
Same here, broadcom isn't interested in updating my wifi card drivers for 10, or 8 for that matter, for whatever reason, so i'm sticking with 7 on my work laptop. I do have 10 on an old tower and like it, if you have to be on Windows it's better than 8, but like cthulhu pointed out, you're ultimately better off going to linux.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 01:02 AM (VviqM)
I checked out the current state of Linux a number of years back (and I'm thinking maybe a 2-digit number), and it struck me that it was about as polished and easy-to-deal-with as MSDOS 5. At the time, IIRC, everyone was all cool about how Win98 finally made USB usable.....so -- even though I loved BSD Unix in the early 80's -- I passed on by.
The current state of Linux is much like Win98. You still have to drill down to a shell sometimes to make things work right, but most of the time you can flounce around with a GUI. A lot of hardware just works. Doing standard things isn't all-that difficult. Releases like Mint are real easy to move to.....and full-scale implementations like Ubuntu are more user-friendly than ever.
I'm currently going virtual with anything I can, so as to be further protected, but if you're looking at learning Win7 or Linux Mint 17.2 for your next OS, I'd say it's a toss-up. If it's learning Mint or Win10, go for the Mint.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:21 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 18, 2015 01:15 AM (J+mig)
Touch-screen computers won't be popular with the fapping crowd until they touch you back. Otherwise, it's just random page-changes.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:24 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu
Disagree. Linux flavors still require a lot of hand-holding and looking up line commands.
If someone is looking to upgrade from Win XP, Win 7 is the best answer.
Linux still isn't close to being a non-techie OS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2015 01:28 AM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:24 AM (EzgxV)
Ummm....
New Video Game Operated with Penis Control
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nspkjxm
I'll give you one guess as to which country invented this...
Posted by: The USB Hat at September 18, 2015 01:28 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: The USB Hat at September 18, 2015 01:28 AM (vBeA5)
Couldn't be the Japs. I'd say Ghana, maybe?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 01:30 AM (AkOaV)
LDC, interesting re Pacifica. Years ago there was a time I listened to it too, but almost solely for the music. Local shows, maybe (DC). But incredible.
Blues show (forget name) - host, Jerry Something - "the 'bama" (pronounced like Alabama - you-know-who was an entirely unknown lowly functionary at some stupid community agitation operation or something). The host sounded like he really had lived the central-casting blues life he described - in/out of jail, broke, transient, etc. Knew a lot of the blues guys, would drop little anecdotes about being chased out of town or thrown in jail with some singers when he'd intro their song.
Haitian music - "Bombash (sp?)Creole". And African Rhythms and Vibrations (shit, I remember most of these names). And Latin shows. This was the 80s, before music was so accessible, this was "world music" before that term was being used much.
The "reporting" and politics were of course idiotic. But that could be fun too. Still clearly remember one talk show where the host asked the guest on the phone, who was a mine expert, what role the US played in this really awful icky bad bad land mine situation in such places as Angola, Cambodia, etc., and how that would affect the US position on the then-developing land mine convention.
Classic. A bit of dead air, as the guest (surely) tried to formulate a response that wasn't too humiliating to the idiot host. "Well, the US isn't really a cause of any of the problems you mentioned, the US doesn't export mines and along with its allies uses them in normal military fashion which is completely different than these situations we're seeing" (or words to this effect).
Now - dead air on the other side. Entire premise of show segment, entire "opinion" of host and like-mindless types, obliterated as being completely contrary to actual facts. Hilarious.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 18, 2015 01:31 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:31 AM (PEFlK)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 01:18 AM (AkOaV)
****
*Shrugs*
Sometimes less is more.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 18, 2015 01:32 AM (pg0FQ)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:31 AM (PEFlK)
what schoolin' you doin'?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 01:32 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 01:33 AM (YJmuy)
I figure someone who works in a library should be able to point kids to conservative writers.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:34 AM (PEFlK)
Posted by: cthulhu
Disagree. Linux flavors still require a lot of hand-holding and looking up line commands.
If someone is looking to upgrade from Win XP, Win 7 is the best answer.
Linux still isn't close to being a non-techie OS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2015 01:28 AM (JmGFJ)
(a) I secretly substituted Linux Mint for the fiancee's Win7 system while I took her disk away to be sanitized.....let's see if she noticed..... [Yes, she did, but it hasn't been a huge deal -- and I've been doing minimal maintenance in that room 'cause she's a quilter and has pins all over the place while I'm phobic about being punctured.] (b) the unstated assumption in your comment is that Windows works properly without similar hand-holding, looking-up line commands, and minutiae -- I consider this false.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:35 AM (EzgxV)
Make that Jerry Washington, "The 'Bama", and African Rhythms and Extensions. Just remembered these details, didn't look them up.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 18, 2015 01:35 AM (QDnY+)
I figure someone who works in a library should be able to point kids to conservative writers.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:34 AM (PEFlK)
Nerd.
(I kid, I kid)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 01:35 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:37 AM (PEFlK)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:38 AM (PEFlK)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:38 AM (PEFlK)
'Tain't broke -- just bent.....
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:39 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:39 AM (PEFlK)
Posted by: cthulhu
When was the last time you had to look up Win line commands?
Last time I had to go to terminal in Win was Win2k for repairing the 5 sys files after a virus.
The two flavors I currently maintain require line shit every other upgrade.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2015 01:39 AM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:21 AM (EzgxV)
Yep, and if you absolutely need Windows, just pop it into a VM like you said. The hardest thing about Mint is choosing KDE or Cinnamon (i like Cinnamon).
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 01:42 AM (VviqM)
----
My favorite flavors? Probably cookies'n'cream and mint chocolate chip.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:43 AM (PEFlK)
268 the unstated assumption in your comment is that Windows works properly without similar hand-holding, looking-up line commands, and minutiae -- I consider this false.
Posted by: cthulhu
When was the last time you had to look up Win line commands?
Last time I had to go to terminal in Win was Win2k for repairing the 5 sys files after a virus.
The two flavors I currently maintain require line shit every other upgrade.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2015 01:39 AM (JmGFJ)
Well, first, I don't have to look up all that much, being as I was there when it was invented and had to learn the internals to make it work right in the first place. On the other hand, I've lost many an hour to dicking around with the internals of Win7 because Microsoft keeps moving things around in Control Panel. It's not exactly a CLI, but it might as well be.
And, second, there have been numerous occasions when I've had to get into things and twiddle the knobs....and when I had to do online research to find the knobs to twiddle.....mostly relating to networks and security. It's part of life with Microsoft, I'm afraid.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:47 AM (EzgxV)
Me, I just like having an OS I can always fix unless the hard drive is dead.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 01:47 AM (YJmuy)
Me, I just like having an OS I can always fix unless the hard drive is dead.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 01:47 AM (YJmuy)
Not a fan of the Windows registry?
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:49 AM (EzgxV)
What are you running?
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 01:49 AM (VviqM)
And y'all are talking foreign languages again...
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 01:51 AM (/eN7v)
Not at all. It's like someone took AIX's ODM database and tried to reimplement it after dropping the brown acid.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 01:51 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:21 AM (EzgxV)
Yep, and if you absolutely need Windows, just pop it into a VM like you said. The hardest thing about Mint is choosing KDE or Cinnamon (i like Cinnamon).
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 01:42 AM (VviqM)
There are other alternatives -- e.g. Linuxplay and Wine -- and you have to have certain levels of resources to make it work gracefully.....but, yeah, the more you can virtualize, the more your problems go away.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:52 AM (EzgxV)
---
Can you virtualize Obama, please?
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 18, 2015 01:54 AM (PEFlK)
Posted by: All Teh Meh
Currently Lu and U. Tried Xu, Mint and another .. can't remember which one as it didn't even load.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2015 01:56 AM (JmGFJ)
And y'all are talking foreign languages again...
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 01:51 AM (/eN7v)
It only seems slow to you because you've got, what -- 14 hours to go? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLsjCLF_CtM
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
Not at all. It's like someone took AIX's ODM database and tried to reimplement it after dropping the brown acid.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 01:51 AM (YJmuy)
Linux scatters important shit all over the place.....Windows puts it all in a blender....
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:57 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
nice reference!
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 01:58 AM (AkOaV)
Oh, that's right. Hope you've been doing a good pre-trip hydration regimen Chi.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 01:58 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: logprof, now published on Amazon at September 18, 2015 02:02 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:02 AM (EzgxV)
That's an excellent analogy. Mind if I steal it for work discussions? Unattributed, of course.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 02:03 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:02 AM (EzgxV)
I feel like this is more representative of my IT situation:
http://tinyurl.com/qcq449o
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 02:05 AM (AkOaV)
That's an excellent analogy. Mind if I steal it for work discussions? Unattributed, of course.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 02:03 AM (YJmuy)
Steal all you want, and attribute all you feel like attributing.....to the nic. Used to be, you could drop a copy of Wordstar or any other program anywhere and it ran fine. Then stuff wouldn't run if you changed the directory it was in....
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:08 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu
--------------------
Yeah, something like 14 hours before wheels up.
Look up procrastinator in Websters, and you'll see my pic.
Still re-re-re- packing a carryon. (90+ degrees? Really? Fall has fell here already, Texas! - well, almost).
At least I have a go bag ready for the little stinker...
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 02:14 AM (/eN7v)
Does 10 beers since 7pm count?
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 02:17 AM (/eN7v)
Posted by: cthulhu
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Yeah, something like 14 hours before wheels up.
Look up procrastinator in Websters, and you'll see my pic.
Still re-re-re- packing a carryon. (90+ degrees? Really? Fall has fell here already, Texas! - well, almost).
At least I have a go bag ready for the little stinker...
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 02:14 AM (/eN7v)
Just remember, when the situation gets too weird and out-of-control......there's always miniature golf.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:17 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:02 AM (EzgxV)
I feel like this is more representative of my IT situation:
http://tinyurl.com/qcq449o
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 02:05 AM (AkOaV)
That was an odd link for IT.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:19 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at September 18, 2015 02:19 AM (nJvB1)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at September 18, 2015 02:19 AM (nJvB1)
What makes you think that?
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:20 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at September 18, 2015 02:23 AM (nJvB1)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at September 18, 2015 02:19 AM (nJvB1)
Maybe because you're only seventeen?
Posted by: logprof, now on Amazon at September 18, 2015 02:24 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:20 AM (EzgxV)
*********
I tried to post a comment and kept getting internal server error.
Seems OK now.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at September 18, 2015 02:24 AM (nJvB1)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Piercello at September 18, 2015 02:28 AM (RXfvh)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at September 18, 2015 02:28 AM (75uvI)
Posted by: logprof
---------------
Golf clap.
Well played, sir. Well played.
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 02:30 AM (/eN7v)
Hmm, i can't even remember the last time i tried Lu and Xu. I have run into some problems with Mint Debian, but that's it.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 02:31 AM (VviqM)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 02:31 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 18, 2015 02:34 AM (75uvI)
Posted by: logprof, now on Amazon at September 18, 2015 02:36 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
I'm still here, cooth.
Just had to walk out for a cigarette. Old lady won't let me smoke 'em inside anymore.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 02:39 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:41 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:46 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 18, 2015 02:47 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 18, 2015 02:47 AM (zyIlW)
Hello, Sweetie! Howya doin'??? Chi esta enscrambladoro with anticipation, and I can't imagine you're much less keyed-up.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:51 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 18, 2015 02:52 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: logprof, now published on Amazon at September 18, 2015 02:53 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
I'm still here, cooth.
Just had to walk out for a cigarette. Old lady won't let me smoke 'em inside anymore.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 02:39 AM (AkOaV)
....and, now, Dancing Queen goes quiet. Hmmm....
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:53 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 18, 2015 02:52 AM (zyIlW)
Just remember that there are random diversionary activities that can be used to defuse tensions and provide helpful pauses in interactions.....like, perhaps, miniature golf. [If you've been watching my interactions with Chi, I've been ribbing him about this since he said "putt-putt"....and if you actually play a round, I'm going to ask for the score and the course.]
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:59 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: logprof, now published author on Amazon at September 18, 2015 03:00 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:53 AM (EzgxV)
Well, I, for one, am suspicious.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 03:03 AM (AkOaV)
https://youtu.be/V3P9nUxY2Mg
Only listened to the first few minutes of that, but really liking it. You might check out these guys, kind of similar, just no vocals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMwcSXxALY
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 03:04 AM (VviqM)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 02:53 AM (EzgxV)
Well, I, for one, am suspicious.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 18, 2015 03:03 AM (AkOaV)
Call me back when you're paranoid.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:05 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:12 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 18, 2015 03:20 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 18, 2015 03:22 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:23 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: logprof, now a published author on Amazon at September 18, 2015 03:25 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:25 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:28 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:38 AM (EzgxV)
FIFY.
Posted by: Resurgemus at September 18, 2015 03:42 AM (4Boke)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 18, 2015 03:45 AM (pbKEy)
FIFY.
Posted by: Resurgemus at September 18, 2015 03:42 AM (4Boke)
I had a suggestion for this @47 on this thread.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:49 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:49 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 18, 2015 03:51 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: logprof, now an author on Amazon at September 18, 2015 03:52 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 18, 2015 03:51 AM (J+mig)
There's always the classics -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aizzH_JMU3c
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 03:54 AM (EzgxV)
"If there are 10 people who have made an accusation, and under a
reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two are lying about it, it
seems better to get rid of all 10 people," Polis said. "We're not
talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we're talking about
them being transferred to another university, for crying out loud."
FIFY.
Posted by: Resurgemus at September 18, 2015 03:42 AM (4Boke)
University of Siberia has facilities for people without proper goodthink!
Please remember to plant more potatoes for 5 year plan. Nobody wants to go through Communism sober.
Posted by: Commissar Cato, Communism Coping Coordinator at September 18, 2015 03:54 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 18, 2015 03:56 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Chi at September 18, 2015 03:56 AM (/eN7v)
Posted by: logprof, now on Amazon Kindle at September 18, 2015 03:57 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 18, 2015 04:02 AM (pbKEy)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 04:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 18, 2015 04:02 AM (pbKEy)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 04:19 AM (EzgxV)
Good morning horde
Posted by: skip at September 18, 2015 04:26 AM (hHTGU)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2015 05:08 AM (EzgxV)
When there was no UI to speak beyond the command line, it was easy to have everything self-contained. But this also meant other joys like have separate print drivers for every program instead of telling the OS about the printer once.
Over the decades, every few years somebody claims they have a system that will have all the bells and whistles but also be really hard to break if you just do whatever you feel like. There was always some horrible drawback to these systems that doomed them in the cradle. Like trading zero dependencies for applications using absurd amounts of memory because they duplicated huge chunks of the OS GUI elements for each app.
Instead we've made the consumers happy by taking more and more control out of their hands and doing everything in a black box. Phones, tablets, and game consoles. Slowly but surely I'm encountering more and more people who own no device whose software isn't delivered from a single central outlet. It's like discovering you're the only person in the room who knows how to drive a stick.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2015 05:25 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: fastfreefall at September 18, 2015 05:48 AM (n8ePM)
Is he projecting violent sexual dysfunctions onto other men?
http://twitter.com/PeeteySDee/status/644815029452337152/photo/1
Posted by: @PeeteySDee at September 18, 2015 06:07 AM (B77dy)
Was she hot?
I'm imagining Roz, the undercover chick from Monsters, Inc.
Her name was Roz, right, in the cartoon?
I'm also imagining she looked like Al Pacino as the blinds, drunk, LTC in Scent of a Woman.
But I hope she was hot.
Posted by: @PeeteySDee at September 18, 2015 06:10 AM (B77dy)
Posted by: Colin at September 18, 2015 06:23 AM (eoM8x)
Posted by: Jean at September 18, 2015 06:35 AM (ztOda)
Always nice to go to a community meeting, and find out what our local government is giving away to developers in exchange for, well, we don't know what they are getting in return.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 18, 2015 06:38 AM (VPLuQ)
A more crowded neighborhood with more traffic.
Posted by: fluffy at September 18, 2015 06:58 AM (2iV3X)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 18, 2015 07:08 AM (bZ7mE)
*************
Is this even English?
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at September 18, 2015 07:10 AM (yxw0r)
Wheres Frikkin Andy?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 18, 2015 07:10 AM (yBiXO)
The GOP is dead, conservatism is ineffective and largely dead itself.
To think the strongest most vocal and powerful voice in defense of America is a billionaire carnival barker.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2015 07:10 AM (Hs5z+)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You're being facetious, right?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 18, 2015 07:19 AM (vZ9f2)
Posted by: RedDish at September 18, 2015 07:21 AM (5eXg1)
Posted by: Gem at September 18, 2015 07:23 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: RedDish at September 18, 2015 07:21 AM (5eXg1)
It's all about the money, honey
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 18, 2015 07:24 AM (DUoqb)
That's okay. They were probably replaced by the finest H1bs the company falsify documents for.
Hooray for U.S. stamped and approved globalized indentured servitude.
Posted by: Mortimer at September 18, 2015 07:31 AM (0dcbp)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:31 AM (t2KH5)
Friday. Thank heavens. This has been an awful week for so many people. I
know three people who were canned this week - all engineers! WTF?
When I was working I saw that happen..The company had various ways of letting people know they were done, the worse was by email. We had a meeting and they told everyone to go back to their office and check their email...I survived that one.
Posted by: Colin at September 18, 2015 07:31 AM (eoM8x)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:35 AM (t2KH5)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 18, 2015 06:38 AM (VPLuQ)
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That's pretty much EVERY community meeting.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 18, 2015 07:35 AM (LXJ1e)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...a rube in America at September 18, 2015 07:35 AM (+1T7c)
http://fxn.ws/1OBh6ye
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:36 AM (t2KH5)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 18, 2015 07:36 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 18, 2015 07:36 AM (ZQfW9)
http://fxn.ws/1QlLvim
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:36 AM (t2KH5)
http://fxn.ws/1gwe7co
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:36 AM (t2KH5)
The Union dominated (3-1) Obama NLRB is pushing out new union friendly/management unfriendly regulations like mad before Obama leaves and the board is made more even. This type of situation clearly exemplifies why this corrupt organization should be eliminated. There should never be a situation where a government authorized board is made of a 3-1 balance when it is supposed to be "fair and balanced" as the saying goes.
http://fxn.ws/1KUNdZO
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:37 AM (t2KH5)
http://fxn.ws/1KUNxYO
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:37 AM (t2KH5)
One of the judges has penned an article here which says they got axed because they would not conform to the "Obama pushed" Orwellian doublespeak. He explains in detail why the new PC terms being bandied about by the Obamanites and the liberal media are a distortion of the facts. This is a good read folks.
http://fxn.ws/1FQfrNR
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:38 AM (t2KH5)
Posted by: Kreplach
It used to be a B - movie actor. Hope springs eternal.
This show ain't quite over yet.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...a rube in America at September 18, 2015 07:38 AM (+1T7c)
http://fxn.ws/1LAX0yB
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:38 AM (t2KH5)
The GOP is dead, conservatism is ineffective and largely dead itself.
To think the strongest most vocal and powerful voice in defense of America is a billionaire carnival barker.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2015 07:10 AM (Hs5z+)
Don't forget they have purposely settled these people in areas to dilute the rural, small town vote.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 18, 2015 07:38 AM (LXJ1e)
Wow, that is chickenshit. I've had to lay people off before and it was one of the worst things I've had to do. But I did it in person, people deserve that much respect.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 18, 2015 07:39 AM (OGm46)
http://fxn.ws/1QlLvim
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:36 AM (t2KH5)
would sure be a shame if some Soldier on Base took it upon himself to meet out punishment wouldn't it?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 18, 2015 07:39 AM (DUoqb)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 18, 2015 07:42 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:43 AM (t2KH5)
Well Mr. Zeid Raad al-Hussein; how about you get someone over there in the ME to quit sending these migrants who are looking for a free lunch in Germany across the borders. Better yet, how about you get some of these other countries in the ME to start taking them?
http://fxn.ws/1Fkd7nu
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:43 AM (t2KH5)
Nice story. I thought they were pretty sure the concussion from the explosion started it to leak?
Posted by: Nip Sip at September 18, 2015 07:44 AM (jJRIy)
http://bit.ly/1YivOOS
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:44 AM (t2KH5)
http://bloom.bg/1QjxYrC
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:44 AM (t2KH5)
http://reut.rs/1UZyt0E
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:44 AM (t2KH5)
http://nyti.ms/1UYM1JL
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:45 AM (t2KH5)
http://washex.am/1iB7uHD
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:45 AM (t2KH5)
-
More fun than a barrel of monkeys?
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 18, 2015 07:46 AM (Nwg0u)
So what are these 280,000/yr muzzies that Obama is bring in doing here now? How about this.
http://bit.ly/1Fkacv5
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:46 AM (t2KH5)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:46 AM (t2KH5)
http://bit.ly/1FkeHpp
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:47 AM (t2KH5)
So-called climate scientists want Obama to go after AGW deniers using the RICO Act. Not only to these phony scientists know nothing about science, they don't know anything about the law either. But I have a better idea. Let's go after them for fraud.
http://bit.ly/1NGQWe4
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:47 AM (t2KH5)
http://bit.ly/1FR1ejQ
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:47 AM (t2KH5)
http://bit.ly/1Muo6gQ
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:48 AM (t2KH5)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:48 AM (t2KH5)
http://bit.ly/1UZAE4g
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:49 AM (t2KH5)
Posted by: dc at September 18, 2015 07:49 AM (oY/R7)
Amazing, court says NJ Casino can fire waitresses over weight issues. This after a host of court rulings that say you can't fire people over their "looks". One wonders if this weight "thingy" was in their hiring contracts or personnel manuals?
http://fxn.ws/1W6A5mv
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:49 AM (t2KH5)
There's a "Republican Leadership* Conference" on the island this weekend & most of the candidates will be there.
* I know, I used "republican" & "leadership" in conjunction.
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 18, 2015 07:50 AM (ZQfW9)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:50 AM (t2KH5)
rules for Cuba. These are laws passed by Congress many years ago and he
has no intention of going to Congress because he knows they will not
approve it. So he will once again just ignore the law because
impeachment is off the table.
http://reut.rs/1UZyt0E
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:44 AM (t2KH5)
The commie bastard is flagrantly violating the laws and he knows he can get away with it because of his skin color and his Praetorian Guard of the MFM
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 18, 2015 07:50 AM (DiZBp)
Posted by: fastfreefall at September 18, 2015 05:48 AM (n8ePM)
Is this in 'Merica!?
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at September 18, 2015 07:52 AM (sJuWI)
http://bit.ly/1Fkacv5
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:46 AM (t2KH5)
But all we'll see or hear about his some rotten kid and his phony clock
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 18, 2015 07:52 AM (DiZBp)
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I thought Kasich (I think) did a good job explaining that at the Great Debate. We need more taxpayers or Social Security and the rest of socialist Ponzi scheme will collapse. We must destroy the country in order to protect socialism.
Question: In a couple of decades, when we have a population of 500,000,000, will we need another 500,000,000 hydro-dorsal Americans to prop it all up?
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 18, 2015 07:53 AM (Nwg0u)
They already vote, the first person you see at my polling place every year is the spanish interpreter, pretty sure that interpreter isn't there for the legal immigrants who took the time to learn a modicum of english so they could asimilate or become a citizen.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 18, 2015 07:54 AM (VviqM)
http://fxn.ws/1W6A5mv
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 07:49 AM (t2KH5)
Casinos call them server/entertainers - there is an exemption for performers that need to fill a role. Art, donchano?
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at September 18, 2015 07:54 AM (sJuWI)
and he knows he can get away with it because of his skin color and his
Praetorian Guard of the MFM
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 18, 2015 07:50 AM (DiZBp)
I'm sure any day now, El Drunko and Yertle will stage a massive Congressional Rebuke to the President's illegal and unConstitutional actions, and after that, they'll go cash their latest CoC campaign donation checks!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 18, 2015 07:57 AM (ftVQq)
More meaninful to seize the restaurants and shut them down under asset forfiture.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 18, 2015 07:59 AM (rIQuo)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 18, 2015 07:59 AM (Nwg0u)
Question: In a couple of decades, when we have a population of 500,000,000, will we need another 500,000,000 hydro-dorsal Americans to prop it all up?
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 18, 2015 07:53 AM (Nwg0u)
Yes, we have to import people because we abort so many of our own.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 18, 2015 07:59 AM (LXJ1e)
Without the Stupid Party component, there'd be no Republican Party!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 18, 2015 08:01 AM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 18, 2015 08:02 AM (t2KH5)
Pretty damn good news coverage for a guy who's been drinking since 3 AM. Reminds me of the old days when there were real reporters. They drank a little.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 18, 2015 08:06 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 18, 2015 08:07 AM (rIQuo)
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