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Overnight Open Thread 08/11/16 - [Niedermeyer's Dead Horse]
Happy Thursday my peeps.
Some days you win, some days you lose. On this day, you get a Niedermeyer's ONT. I'll let you decide for yourselves which day today is.First up. Since it's the first official night of NFL football, let's start things off with a pretty girl.
Up next... If you had to guess when Hepatitis-C was first discovered, when would you guess it was? 1913? 1944? 1967?
How about 1989. Yes. 1989.
When i read this tonight, and then had it confirmed by a a virologist on Twitter, it blew me away. It just seems too... something. Too in-my-lifetime, perhaps. Then I thought of the first person I ever heard of having it, and it was Naomi Judd. I remember being shocked that she would retire over it because I had no idea what the hell it was. That was 1991. Well, now, thanks to some 60-year old blood samples, scientists have been able to trace it backwards and forwards. The samples were taken as part of a study to determine if Penicillin administered to Strep patients could prevent Rheumatic Fever. It did. Conducted on nearly 9,000 Air Force recruits during the 1940s, the samples were considered valuable so, following the Strep tests, the samples were locked away for safe-keeping for 40 years. In the 1990s an inquisitive Virologist wondered if he might detect Hep-C in them. His initial tests, which were never fully completed, aroused the interest of other scientists. Subsequent tests found that 17 samples among 8,500 tested were positive for Hep-C, proving that the virus had been in existence in the 1940s. Eight of the seventeen recruits who tested positive were still alive, so off the scientist went... It's a long, but interesting read. So, did you also think the discovery dated significantly farther back?Speaking of death and disease, we now have death as "performance art".
In early July, Molly Davis emailed her closest friends and relatives to invite them to a two-day party, telling them: 'These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness and openness.'I know that both life and death are more complicated than a bumper sticker, but, I just can't. I'll say nothing more at this time than to say that I don't know what to say.
And just one rule: No crying in front of her. ... Friends said it was the final performance for the artist, who once drew pictures on a stage with whipped cream.
'What Molly did gave her the most beautiful death that any person could ever wish for,' Alpert said. 'By taking charge, she turned her departure into a work of art.'
In lighter news, Greenland Sharks just might possibly live hundreds of years. Speculation is that the oldest tested is at least 272 years old and could be as old as 512 years old. They've estimated her age at 392 years.
has 41k followers at twitter and tweeted this clip of Today Show Australia wherein they played a video of a very impressive breach which aired on the Discovery Channel.
Never underestimate what you can do! #WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/kBtNyqxkgK
— Katharine The Shark (@Shark_Katharine) August 10, 2016
What do you think of this? I love it. Well, I love it now, but it took me a bit of time to figure it out.
Well, that's it for tonight. Play nice, and have a great night, folks.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:52 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:53 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:53 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 11, 2016 10:53 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:53 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 10:53 PM (LdMbv)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 11, 2016 10:54 PM (8JuQz)
And, got your lunch for the next few weeks:
Smashburger Printable Coupon - Buy One Entree, Get One Free
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Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 11, 2016 10:54 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 10:54 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 10:55 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:55 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 10:55 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 10:55 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:56 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 11, 2016 10:56 PM (oAY8z)
Posted by: a Moron Greenland shark at August 11, 2016 10:56 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:56 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 10:56 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 10:56 PM (EzgxV)
Woohoo for freedom even though I don't use Farcebook.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 10:57 PM (LdMbv)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2016 10:58 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 10:58 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 10:58 PM (PxeYh)
I've been watching men's gymnastics, swimming and synchronized diving. I feel like I've gone through the wardrobe and into Bruce Weber Land.
It's magical.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Monocle Popper at August 11, 2016 10:58 PM (jR7Wy)
Years ago I knew of one where the there was grade separation (bridges) on the secondary road (to eliminate those traffic lights) which gave it the appearance of a twisted rope.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 11, 2016 10:58 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: SCOAMF at August 11, 2016 10:58 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 10:59 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 10:59 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Billy D Williams at August 11, 2016 10:59 PM (07Q15)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 10:59 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Benny Hill at August 11, 2016 11:00 PM (nIGPZ)
Put some ham in there. Onion. Pepper.
Make you wanna slap yo' mama.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:00 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:00 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2016 11:00 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (PxeYh)
I have made bone broth twice. I last week I spoiled it with a bunch of unneeded salt. This week it is much better. I add an Au Jus Gravy packet to it. Yummy.
So the shark is very old. Two years ago I had a life extension treatment: the bariatric sleeve procedure. I have lost over 100lbs, put my diabetes and high blood pressure into remission, and improved all my lipid numbers dramatically.
After reading ace I decided to give high fat a try. When I had done Atkins in the past, I remember getting to the point where I was tired of all food and not hungry at all.
After bariatric you would think I would never be hungry, but I seemed hungry all the time, even though I did lose weight.
So I started the fat about a month ago, hoping to get the full sensation again, like last time with Atkins, and sure enough for the first time in two years I feel genuinely full and satisfied.
I also notice my skin and scalp are improving.
Also in the last month I have dropped two inches off round part of my belly. I am at 42 now. So happy.
I hope everyone is having a good night.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (0+srV)
I'm not making this shit up.
Washington Times:
http://tinyurl.com/gvvpzlt
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (LdMbv)
Taint true.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (rwI+c)
That beats throwing olives at Hope Solo's Butthole.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (NOIQH)
Fortunately, no. How stupid. I'm sure some 'planner' will give a big award for it, though.
Posted by: t-bird at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (w35Hj)
Hepatitus was first discovered by Hepatitus of Rhodes 670 BC.
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 10:55 PM
That was Hideous.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (IqV8l)
As if the author of a thousand redundant comments suddenly cried out ... and flounced.
Posted by: Mortimer at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (zu88C)
We have something similar a few miles away and, well, fustercluck. Not aware of specific stats, and it may in fact be perfectly safe, but completely counter-intuitive, confusing, just ... Stupid.
No strong opinion on it, of course.
Posted by: ibguy at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Slappy at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (rtfSu)
Posted by: Mortimer at August 11, 2016 11:01 PM (zu88C)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:02 PM (rwI+c)
Looks sort of stupid to me. Why are they hiding the traffic lights on the graphic?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 11, 2016 11:02 PM (zc3Db)
The focus this time: Me not know education? That's unpossible!
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12240
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2016 11:02 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 10:53 PM (LdMbv)
I think the way the Yankees - and Boston fans - have treated A-Rod is a disgrace. And I wasn't a fan of A-Rod's, but the man, albeit flawed, had incredible talents, and I would pay him honor for the mortality that all of us will experience. Even asshole Boston fans.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 11, 2016 11:02 PM (SRKgf)
Philippine President calls US Ambassador a "gay sonofabitch," prompting the State Dept charge d'affaires to summon the Philippine envoy "for a clarification."
Posted by: Cloyd Freud
"Ok, he's a very, very, VERY -- gay sonofabitch."
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 11, 2016 11:02 PM (kdS6q)
Solo's bum deserves only the finest champagne, mon amore!!
Posted by: Steve Kroft at August 11, 2016 11:03 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: t-bird at August 11, 2016 11:03 PM (w35Hj)
Posted by: figure 8 racing drivers at August 11, 2016 11:03 PM (H9MG5)
Little fucker ate all my brie & french bread while I was at work today. Asshole. Cats are mean, but dogs can be downright dirty rotten scoundrels.
Posted by: George Foreman, Jr. at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (o4KXN)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (m2sZd)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 10:56 PM
Aloha all. I need another glass of wine. BRB
Posted by: Farmer at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (FYrz1)
I hope he brings diagrams.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2016 11:05 PM (ngn8T)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud
Has he met Obongo?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 11, 2016 11:05 PM (SRKgf)
The cheerleader does look like Marie Osmond and that's not a bad thing. Yowza.
The Hep C article I shall read on the way to work. Interesting stuff. I thought it was a lot older but I do recall now the Momma Judd retiring.
The Philippines President makes me crack up for some reason. Friends over there love him. LOL
Posted by: turambar at August 11, 2016 11:05 PM (ur33b)
Posted by: Jimmy Car Black The Indian (feather not dot) Of The Group at August 11, 2016 11:06 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Chi at August 11, 2016 11:06 PM (o4KXN)
That beats throwing olives at Hope Solo's Butthole.
Posted by: garrett
Probably like skeeball. If you toss it straight in, it just ricochets straight out.
Have to bounce it in at a shallow angle, so the rim catches it.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 11, 2016 11:06 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:06 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 11:06 PM (LdMbv)
I've been watching men's gymnastics, swimming and synchronized diving. I feel like I've gone through the wardrobe and into Bruce Weber Land.
It's magical.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Monocle Popper at August 11, 2016 10:58 PM (jR7Wy)
Damnit I haven't found any men's gymnastics. I like the rings.
I did see the tie gold earlier in swimming which was cool. And now I'm going to watch some lady gymnastics but since I already know then ending I can't really care all that much.
Posted by: Lea at August 11, 2016 11:07 PM (vmMMi)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:07 PM (rwI+c)
His mother was a dog, and he likes hairy man ass.
Seems pretty self-explanatory to me.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 11, 2016 11:08 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 11, 2016 11:08 PM (voOPb)
Doubly stupid. Their point is, hey, you don't have to cross traffic! Yeah, that's because you put a fucking traffic light there.
For two highways, nothing stops with a cloverleaf. For highway + lesser road, the interchanges they have in So Cal are pretty space-efficient.
Posted by: t-bird at August 11, 2016 11:08 PM (w35Hj)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:09 PM (0mRoj)
She had her 3rd and final interview today with a major retailer to put her impending Marketing degree to use. Hope they make her a good employment offer. Time to launch her out of the nest and off the payroll!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2016 11:09 PM (JO9+V)
His mother was a dog, and he likes hairy man ass.
Seems pretty self-explanatory to me.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 11, 2016 11:08 PM (nIGPZ
No hamsters or elderberries?
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 11, 2016 11:09 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:09 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:09 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Hillary! at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (w35Hj)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (LdMbv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (oFSUK)
I know of a few. They're generally heavily directed so you don't get much opportunity to get confused.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (T/cxb)
Dealers are turbing themselves in across the nation, rsther than risk getting snuffed. And for the concerned out there, dude's pretty proggy in a lot of ways.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (jdwQK)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:11 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 11, 2016 11:11 PM (kP16F)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!
What he said.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at August 11, 2016 11:11 PM (07Q15)
So when I am on my phone reading the blog, as I usually am, I am always greatful to commenters who put those links like http://instapundit.com in the text of comment.
The phone makes life much tougher on the lazy.
Thank you though Andy, I am glad to drop the link into the sig. I better click yours in reciprocity.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:12 PM (0+srV)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:12 PM (l84gg)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:12 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:13 PM (l84gg)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:13 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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Specist!
Speciophobic!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:13 PM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (PxeYh)
Well, googling it will lay it out pretty well.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 11, 2016 11:13 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!
What he said.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at August 11, 2016 11:11 PM (07Q15)
Sassafrass!
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at August 11, 2016 11:13 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:14 PM (rwI+c)
How many more until we have a minyan?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Am Yisrael Hai at August 11, 2016 11:14 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Jake
I would use the DNC leaked emails to open a RICO investigation into every media company in the country.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 11, 2016 11:14 PM (07Q15)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 11:14 PM (LdMbv)
Speaking of NFL, I have a neighbor who plays in the league. Never meet him but have seen him a few times. He's not here much since he plays out of Texas. Going into his tenth season.
Posted by: lindafell-racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 11, 2016 11:14 PM (xVgrA)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (PxeYh)
Well, googling it will lay it out pretty well.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 11, 2016 11:13 PM (heN73)
Only her proctologist knows for sure.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:15 PM (0mRoj)
Once the lanes are marked, it looks stranger from above than it does from car level.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 11, 2016 11:15 PM (GTByf)
I did remember that it was new. It was a druggie thing and there was a scare in the blood supply back then.
Posted by: t-bird at August 11, 2016 11:15 PM (w35Hj)
Posted by: Grump928
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It's hip, edgy, cool.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:15 PM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Hope Solo at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:09 PM (PxeYh)
Go on.....
Posted by: Harry Reid at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (heN73)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (LdMbv)
Posted by: Grump928
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It's hip, edgy, cool.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:15 PM (oFSUK)
It's Eurofag. City traffic planners love Eurofag stuff.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (0mRoj)
Pretty sure that was the plot of the movie where that shark ate ll cool j. Or maybe Sam Jackson.
Posted by: Lea at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (vmMMi)
No, but anything has to be better than a roundabout.
Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (4+VII)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 11, 2016 11:17 PM (hVdx9)
I did some research, and the intertubes, notably Bill Quick, suggest that Godzilla is Robert Caldini. I saw it on reddit and 4chan as well whatever those are. I think ive seen kids from those places on my lawn.
you can wiki on Caldini if you havent heard of him.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:17 PM (0+srV)
Yeah. There wasn't an antibody test for it. (I presume there is one now but I don't know). Hence, the non-A-non-B. All they knew was you had the symptoms of Hep but no A or B antibodies.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:18 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Oedipus at August 11, 2016 11:18 PM (CXLVd)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:18 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 11, 2016 11:18 PM (AroJD)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:18 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Lea at August 11, 2016 11:16 PM (vmMMi)
Funny, I don't remember anything about that movie except Samuel L. Jackson getting eaten just as he was giving a rousing speech.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:18 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Oedipus at August 11, 2016 11:18 PM (CXLVd)
Does she resemble your mother by any chance?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:19 PM (0mRoj)
And I was listening to NVDA (Nvidia)'s earnings call today. The tech they are working on is spooky. Turns out your self-driving car won't require just one big huge smartchip CPU/GPU, it's going to require a whole network of them.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:19 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Locke Common at August 11, 2016 11:19 PM (Mruaf)
Posted by: Insomniac
So you're saying...I'm a freak?
Posted by: Oedipus at August 11, 2016 11:20 PM (CXLVd)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 11, 2016 11:20 PM (jdwQK)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 11, 2016 11:20 PM (w+Jhj)
Posted by: Grump928
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It's hip, edgy, cool.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:15 PM (oFSUK)
We just got one of those here; they're European, doncha know?
Except the retards here don't know how to deal with them, unlike the retards in Europe.
God, how I hate how the liberals worship everything European. Europe is full of dirtbags and shitheads, just like here.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 11, 2016 11:20 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:14 PM (rwI+c)
++++
They may be after the "traffic calming" effect. You stick one of those in an intersection of a couple of relatively small residential streets, and it forces traffic to slow down to maneuver around the damn thing.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 11:21 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Insomniac
So you're saying...I'm a freak?
Posted by: Oedipus at August 11, 2016 11:20 PM (CXLVd)
You are Oedipus after all.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:21 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Hank at August 11, 2016 11:21 PM (vqJ19)
It has *no* stoplights whatsoever, it's *entirely* on the honor system of yielding when you're supposed to yield.
Needless to say, it can get quite messy from time to time.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:21 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:22 PM (l84gg)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 11, 2016 11:22 PM (dULJN)
Ours is on the alternate hurricane evacuation route.
Smart.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:22 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: JoeF. at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (8HGb7)
My town put those in. While you should treat them as four-way stops...........it just confuses the shit out people. They make the circle too small. Oil field trucks are dragging their trailers all around the lip, tearing it up.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:14 PM (rwI+c)
++++
They may be after the "traffic calming" effect. You stick one of those in an intersection of a couple of relatively small residential streets, and it forces traffic to slow down to maneuver around the damn thing.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 11:21 PM (R+30W)
They put in a "traffic calming zone" in a small city/town here in Florida. Problem was the damn thing narrowed the streets so much fire trucks couldn't get through and had to drive halfway on top of the stupid thing. Tax dollars at work.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (PxeYh)
Well, googling it will lay it out pretty well.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 11, 2016 11:13 PM (heN73)
Nope. I know better than Googling something mentioned by the Horde.It never ends well.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (8JuQz)
We have one out in the middle of nowhere. If no one else is around I'll drift all the way thru that thing.
Posted by: freaked at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 11:21 PM (R+30W)
Fuck it - drive right over the damned thing.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 11, 2016 11:24 PM (SEXy3)
stick one of those in an intersection of a couple of relatively small
residential streets, and it forces traffic to slow down to maneuver
around the damn thing.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous"
DOOORRIIIFFFFTTTTOOOO!
Posted by: Fujiwara Takumi at August 11, 2016 11:24 PM (w+Jhj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:25 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:25 PM (l84gg)
and when?
Posted by: Jake
I don't remember the blokes name, but it was during the siege of Jerusalem.
Posted by: Richard the Lionheart at August 11, 2016 11:25 PM (07Q15)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:12 PM (l84gg)
Or mudsharks?
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 11, 2016 11:25 PM (voOPb)
I find that people I say that too immediately assume I'm an anti-science nut. Disregard that ad hominems aren't scientific, the people simply believe I'm not even worth talking to my position is so extreme.
So I've decided to try some nuance.
From now on I'm going to say that I can see the physical relationship between CO2 and warming, but that I don't currently accept the Grand Unified Theory of Climate Change.
That's not quite what I need. The unified holds me back a bit. Obviously I'm trying to borrow from physics and suggest that there are a range of phenomena that need explanations and that views in the field are more than simply binary yes/no which is what my previous response was suggesting.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (0+srV)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (kP16F)
You can still see the asphalt circle were it used to be.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (rwI+c)
The way everyone's been talking, I gather you couldn't miss it even if you were shooting a basketball.
Posted by: t-bird at August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (ZxmMG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (oFSUK)
They may be after the "traffic calming" effect. You stick one of those in an intersection of a couple of relatively small residential streets, and it forces traffic to slow down to maneuver around the damn thing.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 11:21 PM
They had those slow-down-things in some intersection in Columbus, Ohio where my mom used to live. Had pretty flowers in it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2016 11:27 PM (IqV8l)
I did some research, and the intertubes, notably Bill Quick, suggest that Godzilla is Robert Caldini. I saw it on reddit and 4chan as well whatever those are. I think ive seen kids from those places on my lawn.
you can wiki on Caldini if you havent heard of him.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf
****
Perhaps I need to read the book, but the Wiki of his theories make them sound like pseudo science.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 11, 2016 11:27 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:27 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 11, 2016 11:27 PM (w+Jhj)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at August 11, 2016 11:27 PM (bkFnH)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:12 PM (l84gg)
Or mudsharks?
Posted by: Mis. Hum.
How bout mudsquids? Don't know how old Granny is, but that bitch been around for a while.
Posted by: Early Cuyler at August 11, 2016 11:28 PM (07Q15)
Posted by: dagny at August 11, 2016 11:28 PM (eSQgj)
Sharks live a long time? I did not know that.
Sharks still circling the oceans looking for slaves being thrown overboard? I read that somewhere.
Posted by: J. Lusting at August 11, 2016 11:28 PM (jw09+)
....
That was one of the interesting parts of the article for me as well. My mother died of complications due to Hep-C. She contracted it decades earlier and didn't show any signs... until she did. It was awful. The acids eat the brain.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 11, 2016 11:29 PM (SEXy3)
make the circle too small. Oil field trucks are dragging their trailers
all around the lip, tearing it up.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (PxeYh)
^^^THIS. The idiots seem to forget that semis also use the road, and they like, uh, have to have clearance.
Posted by: Ian Galt at August 11, 2016 11:29 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:29 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Carl Black The Indian (Feather not dot) Of The Group at August 11, 2016 11:29 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2016 11:27 PM (IqV8l)
Go on.
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:29 PM (SRKgf)
But strangers who are passing through and trying to get from point A to point B will probably find them utterly confusing.
I'm a pretty good driver when I know where I'm going. But when I get lost and frustrated, that's when I'm likely to make a sudden right turn from the left lane or vice versa.
Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2016 11:29 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Hope Solo's Squeakhole at August 11, 2016 11:30 PM (WYh6/)
You stick one of those in an intersection of a couple of relatively
small residential streets, and it forces traffic to slow down to
maneuver around the damn thing.
Ours is on the alternate hurricane evacuation route.
Smart.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:22 PM (rwI+c)
Very. Everybody is calm during one of those.
Posted by: Hurricane Rita Evacuee stuck in traffic with a million plus others at August 11, 2016 11:30 PM (JO9+V)
It's hard to escape the Vortex of Hope's Rolo.
If you see it, it's likely too late.
The only way to escape it is to ride the outer rim until you pick up enough speed.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:30 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:30 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: vivi at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (11H2y)
I am *not* a Meryl fan (IMHO the all-time best thing she did was Death Becomes Her, where she spoofed herself the whole way through). But after reading about the plot-- about a wealthy society matron who deluded herself into believing she was a great operatic singer-- I think there could be a great allegory in the film about how our "elites" have deluded themselves for so many years, decades, etc about their competence to run our society.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (q7T0y)
Once the lanes are marked, it looks stranger from above than it does from car level.
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FM 1431 and IH 35?
Posted by: auscolpyr at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (Ht/4p)
Posted by: Ian Galt at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: J. Lusting at August 11, 2016 11:28 PM (jw09+)
Well, this proves it. They're the same sharks, and they have good memories.
Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (PxeYh)
I had the privilege of driving down Sublett last week to/from 287 for the first time with all those. Sheesh. They're not all the same kind. Yes I messed up on a couple of them.
Posted by: Harry Reid at August 11, 2016 11:32 PM (heN73)
This is hilarious.- my dog is 18" away, but won't make eye contact with me as I eat my White Castle frozen burgers.
Little fucker ate all my brie french bread while I was at work
today. Asshole. Cats are mean, but dogs can be downright dirty rotten
scoundrels.
Posted by: George Foreman, Jr. at August 11, 2016 11:04 PM (o4KXN)
He's your buddy. I scored some more of the large white type recently, so he'll get a care package when[/if] I get my shit together.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 11:33 PM (EzgxV)
Mud-sharks?
Goddamit.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
That's usually what I say when that happens. Oh wait...that's sharks not sharts.
Posted by: Hillary! (Pandering, Drunk or both?) at August 11, 2016 11:33 PM (07Q15)
The ol' slingshot orbit.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:33 PM (rwI+c)
I concur, completely.
Excellent ONT, NieDH. Very Well Done.
Hope the Powers That Be put ya in the Startin Rotation.
Evenin Horde oh Plenty..... Hope alls well
Posted by: Hillbillyking at August 11, 2016 11:33 PM (a+Olp)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (PxeYh)
My inference: traffic engineering schools have been infected with liberals, too. The first time I saw this "traffic calming" shit was in Berkeley, in 1978. It's apparently now spread fucking everywhere.
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:34 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 11, 2016 11:34 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: garrett
---------------
Ah. You haven't taken into account the Coriolis force.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:34 PM (oFSUK)
back a bit. Obviously I'm trying to borrow from physics and suggest that
there are a range of phenomena that need explanations and that views in
the field are more than simply binary yes/no which is what my previous
response was suggesting.
Posted by: August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (0+srV)
Human activity can certainly affect climate on a micro scale but the effects wash out of the equation on a global scale. For example, city heat islands are obvious in that city, and in theory may affect Antarctica, but in reality other natural impacts make the distant city impact impossible to actually measure.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (P/kVC)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763769155833171968
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763769304722579457
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763769433714225153
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763769569785839617
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763769775059329024
Posted by: kbdabear at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: vivi at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (11H2y)
Yep.
You need to time the exit right or you'll end up flying straight into the Crab Cluster.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: Ram A Lam A Ding Dong at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (Sda6L)
Sharks still circling the oceans looking for slaves being thrown overboard? I read that somewhere.
Posted by: J. Lusting
As it happens, sharks have been the focus of a bit of political controversy when it comes to the slave trade. Nine years ago Congress passed a resolution commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the trade’s abolition. On the floor of the House, Representative Donald M. Payne of New Jersey said the following:
The transatlantic slave trade is known as the largest forced migration in the history of the world. Estimates range from 25 to 50 million Africans were forcibly brought to the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America and to Europe. Sharks[‘] migratory patters were changed because these predators followed the ships in the Middle Passage because when a slave died they were thrown overboard, or if they were killed because they were protesting of if they committed suicide, the sharks knew that they could follow the ships, and it changed the migratory patterns of sharks during this period of time.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (rwI+c)
HR, that's a sock. Come of it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:36 PM (l84gg)
I wonder if they'll have any opportunity to study those sharks to see what gives them that kind of longevity.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 11, 2016 11:10 PM (0mRoj)
Living half-frozen with antifreeze as blood will do that....
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 11:36 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: ibguy at August 11, 2016 11:36 PM (vUcdz)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763769947361251329
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763770101032255488
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763770288878317569
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763770479782027269
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/763770628574941184
Posted by: kbdabear at August 11, 2016 11:36 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:37 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 11, 2016 11:37 PM (SEnIW)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:23 PM (PxeYh)
Oops damn sock.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 11, 2016 11:37 PM (heN73)
I am looking for a way to troll some argument out of them that makes them unable to dismiss me as anti-science. I need a good opener.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:38 PM (0+srV)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:38 PM (l84gg)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (PxeYh)
I do that all the time.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 11, 2016 11:38 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2016 11:38 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:39 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (IqV8l)
Damn, those sharks caught on quickly. A lot faster than their prey have done since.
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:39 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:39 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: JSchuler at August 11, 2016 11:39 PM (HlV/4)
Roundabouts: about 6 years ago KDOT decided to slap a roundabout on US-400 at Fredonia, Kansas, to allow locals to more easily cross a congested, high-speed highway. Last time I was in the neighborhood I inquired how it was working - it's not uncommon for semi-drivers to doze off and plow right over it in the dark. Some local yahoos were even kidding about putting up a sign in the middle (advertising their business) and over-insuring it.
Posted by: P at August 11, 2016 11:39 PM (ATuUs)
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:34 PM (SRKgf)
++++
Yep. I liked it better when the traffic engineers were all about getting traffic moving. These days their job is to slow you down. Or figure out ways to get people out of their cars into mass transit.
Build more roads! And get off my lawn.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 11:40 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM (l84gg)
Posted by: kbdabear at August 11, 2016 11:35 PM (GrXXa)
I saw a ginger at the pharmacy tonight after work who was prettier than all of them put together.
Stole my soul, she did. *sigh*
Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM (sdi6R)
Ah. You haven't taken into account the Coriolis force.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:34 PM (oFSUK
What does the God Father movies have to do with it?
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM (voOPb)
I predict mayhem for the first couple years. City planners doing what they do worst...
Posted by: Chi at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM (o4KXN)
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:34 PM (SRKgf)
Does that mean we can look forward to Bubble Ladies and Cat Guys popping up everywhere soon?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM (PxeYh)
How well were sharks migratory habits known before say 1500?
Seeing as we barely know them today?
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:42 PM (c1srJ)
Stole my soul, she did. *sigh*
She woulda just broke your heart.
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:43 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at August 11, 2016 11:43 PM (a+Olp)
Posted by: Jake
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I would think shooting N/S or S/N would cause more of a problem.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2016 11:43 PM (oFSUK)
155
The city installed a circle in the middle of one of residential
intersection a few years back. It was a flower garden with a curb
around it. The 2nd weekend, I think, that it was in, a car hit it head
on and flipped over. The next week it was gone.
You can still see the asphalt circle were it used to be.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (rwI+c)
I'm about 4 blocks from the first traffic circle in my city. It was put in in 2012 after my city hired a traffic engineer from another local city that already had a bunch. An obvious management fail.
Should have been: "so, does the city where you work now have traffic circles?" "Yes." "Oh, gee, how the time does fly. We'll be getting back to you in a couple of weeks....."
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 11:44 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:44 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (q7T0y)
---
Years ago a classical music station played some of Florence's skull-shattering performances and I found it oddly endearing. Plus, her accompanist had the wonderful nom de peen Cosmo McMoon.
So yeah, I'll probably see it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Monocle Popper at August 11, 2016 11:44 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:44 PM (l84gg)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM (zc3Db)
Yes. Of course.
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:44 PM (SRKgf)
I hope it works out, because I shudder at all the senior drivers trying to figure out where they are and where they should be headed.
Posted by: kbdabear at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:44 PM (l84gg)
Yes, by a lot.
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: freaked at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (BO/km)
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Tree ring data.
And, no, you can't see the data.
Posted by: Michael Mann at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (oFSUK)
Posted by: otho at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 11, 2016 11:46 PM (zc3Db)
............
that gets blurred by wind calls
If the target is moving toward/away from you that will be noticeable
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:47 PM (l84gg)
Yup.
May as well end it after a trip in that gullwing SUV abomination.
Posted by: scottst at August 11, 2016 11:47 PM (v+8+I)
They had to do something after they exterminated the natives.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:47 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:47 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 11, 2016 11:47 PM (07Q15)
https://vimeo.com/176201581
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:48 PM (0+srV)
Uh... you got it backwards.
CO2 IS a greenhouse gas BUT it reached it peak of effectiveness long ago.
Gases only absorb certain wavelengths of IR energy, from either the Sun, or Blackbody radiation of the Earth itself.
All the IR energy in CO2s abosorbtion band is already accounted for by a combination of water vapor, and CO2....
Adding more CO2 will not add to global warming... to do that you'd have to add IR energy in those specific wavelengths.
There ARE things to worry about with global warming... CO2 is not one of them.
Posted by: Don Q. at August 11, 2016 11:48 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at August 11, 2016 11:48 PM (bkFnH)
Ok, I see it. N/S and your bullet will drift left or right.
E/W and your bullet drop is different depending.
Posted by: J. Lusting at August 11, 2016 11:48 PM (jw09+)
Posted by: otho at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (EWg9n)
Sharknado 5
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 11, 2016 11:48 PM (voOPb)
Hard to blame them. The Natives were Revolting.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:48 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:44 PM (l84gg)
Yes, by a lot.
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (SRKgf)
Which explains the relative fortunes of Brazil and the U.S.
Posted by: Roundup at August 11, 2016 11:49 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Farmer at August 11, 2016 11:49 PM (o/90i)
so they say.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 11, 2016 11:49 PM (89T5c)
I've been on a two week course since last Monday and I haven't felt right since.
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:49 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: garrett
You're telling me. They stunk on ice.
Posted by: Zombie Louis XVI at August 11, 2016 11:50 PM (07Q15)
So. If I drive on the opposite side of the road........everything's okay, right?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:50 PM (PxeYh)
The good ones kill everything but you.
So, yes.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:50 PM (c1srJ)
Stole my soul, she did. *sigh*
She woulda just broke your heart.
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:43 PM (qUNWi)
She looked better in a white lab coat than most others would look in a bikini.
*sigh*
Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2016 11:50 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Jake at August 11, 2016 11:51 PM (l84gg)
I think US gets gold and silver in the female all-around.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 11, 2016 11:51 PM (zc3Db)
Ok, I see it. N/S and your bullet will drift left or right.
E/W and your bullet drop is different depending.
Posted by: J. Lusting at August 11, 2016 11:48 PM (jw09+)
And the spin is reversed down under.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 11, 2016 11:52 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:52 PM (rwI+c)
There are some spots where traffic circles make a lot of sense. Thinking of a couple in the foothills above Santa Barbara where more than four roads converge, and there's no large truck traffic (the lower roads are configured such that big trucks couldn't get through to the traffic circle anyway). Things can still get a bit sporty, but the alternative would be much worse.
The problem is shoehorning them into places where they're totally inappropriate, just because "ooooooo, they're European!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 11, 2016 11:53 PM (LuZz8)
I think the competition ended at around 3:30 this afternoon...results have been all over the air since then.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:53 PM (c1srJ)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:53 PM (0+srV)
Quite possibly. They introduce a small dose of pathogen to your body....small enough to let your body develop and defence but no so large to kill you.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:54 PM (PxeYh)
Posted by: kbdabear at August 11, 2016 11:54 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:53 PM (c1srJ)
This is a replay? That's bogus. They should at least put that in a chyron on the screen or something.
I feel like I was raped, now.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 11, 2016 11:54 PM (zc3Db)
I was young and needed the money to buy my first vessel.
Posted by: han solo at August 11, 2016 11:55 PM (LdMbv)
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Tree ring data.
And, no, you can't see the data.
Posted by: Michael Mann at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (oFSUK)
++++
The piece about the old shark had a link to a piece about an old clam. Scientists determined it to be over 500 years old by prying it open to count the rings.
Oh, and the clam was killed by the procedure.
http://tinyurl.com/zam6bv9
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 11:55 PM (R+30W)
Not quite. There's still a bit of radiation that misses absorption. However, to absorb enough of it to do anything more climate-wise, you would have so much in the atmosphere that every land-based animal would be dead from CO2 poisoning anyway.
Posted by: JSchuler at August 11, 2016 11:55 PM (HlV/4)
I predict mayhem for the first couple years. City planners doing what they do worst...
Posted by: Chi at August 11, 2016 11:41 PM
Good luck Chi. Hope our town isn't that stupid. They were shit when we went thru in the UK and also when we went to Wickenberg, AZ.
Posted by: Farmer at August 11, 2016 11:55 PM (o/90i)
No shit. I would have just watched it tomorrow on the interwebz rather than stay up past my bedtime.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 11, 2016 11:55 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 11, 2016 11:55 PM (39g3+)
And, no, you can't see the data.
Posted by: Michael Mann at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM
I'll see you in Court.
In 2025......hopefully.
Posted by: Mark Steyn at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (a+Olp)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:54 PM (PxeYh)
I think you're thinking of immunizations.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (kP16F)
No. They are just playing it for the first time, now. ...because, Retarded Olympics.
Spoiler Alert : Don't go to Weasel Zippers.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (c1srJ)
Frankly she sounds like she was a nasty piece of work, a wealthy sheltered cocooned idiot who just wouldn't accept criticism. Interesting that the real FFJ died just a month after a *real* music critic heard her "singing" and told the truth about her horrendous lack of talent.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
Word.
Posted by: Roger Goodell at August 11, 2016 11:57 PM (07Q15)
So if you are a gang banger in a black mini van traveling east at 60mpm along side a rival gang in a black mercedes how much do you have to lead your target to compensate for your targets forward motion?
Posted by: J. Lusting at August 11, 2016 11:57 PM (jw09+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:54 PM (PxeYh)
No. That's raising antibodies. Antibiotics could potentially make you feel worse because the death and lysis of bacterial cells could itself provoke an immune response.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 11, 2016 11:57 PM (SRKgf)
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How well were sharks migratory habits known before say 1500?
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Tree ring data.
And, no, you can't see the data.
Posted by: Michael Mann at August 11, 2016 11:45 PM (oFSUK)
Obligatory Gary Larson
http://tinyurl.com/j492l4g
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 11, 2016 11:57 PM (LuZz8)
Posted by: No one at at August 11, 2016 11:57 PM (EdXI9)
Posted by: cthulhu
----------------
Do you realize what brie costs these days?
That bastard just ate $15 worth of cheese!
He's lucky that I spend that on heartworm pills every month. He doesn't deserve any presents!
Posted by: Chi at August 11, 2016 11:58 PM (o4KXN)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:58 PM (q7T0y)
Posted by: scrood at August 11, 2016 11:58 PM (3b9U4)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:59 PM (q7T0y)
So Don you are saying there is NO relationship between CO2 in the atmosphere and any warming on earth is that correct?
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:53 PM (0+srV)
Not Don, but: of course, yes, there is some relationship. But it is complicated, and NOT well understood. The science is definitely not settled. FFS we cannot even properly model clouds. You'd think that would be important.
Posted by: chemjeff at August 11, 2016 11:59 PM (uAvJJ)
There are some spots where traffic circles make a lot of sense.
Thinking of a couple in the foothills above Santa Barbara where more
than four roads converge, and there's no large truck traffic (the lower
roads are configured such that big trucks couldn't get through to the
traffic circle anyway). Things can still get a bit sporty, but the
alternative would be much worse.
The problem is shoehorning them into places where they're totally inappropriate, just because "ooooooo, they're European!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 11, 2016 11:53 PM (LuZz
....like down lower in Santa Barbara, near the beach.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 11:59 PM (EzgxV)
Fuck that shit. I'm with Grump. I'll just watch what I want at my own convenience, if it's all on tape, anyway.
Spoiler Alert : Don't go to Weasel Zippers.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (c1srJ)
I don't care about spoilers so much as broadcasters who try to pass taped action off as live.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:00 AM (zc3Db)
For most people they just stop with a naive version:
CO2 is a greenhouse gas
Green house gases cause warming
Humans activity increases CO2
Therefore humans cause global warming
To deny this is seems on its face to the people making this argument is to proclaim yourself an anti-science nut.
What I am looking for is a good short phrase to indicate to people that A) its not as simple as this B) I deny most of the theory put forth by the Hockey Team.
So for now I reject the Grand Unified Climate Change Theory is the best I can come up with as a troll.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:00 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:00 AM (PxeYh)
I've been on a two week course since last Monday and I haven't felt right since.
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 11:49 PM (qUNWi)
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In addition to wiping out the bad bacteria, they can also do some damage to the good bacteria in your gut. That too shall pass.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 12:00 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 12, 2016 12:01 AM (SEnIW)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 11, 2016 11:50 PM (PxeYh)
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Latest thing around here is turning right from the left lane. And left from the right lane.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2016 12:02 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:02 AM (0+srV)
I think the whole thing was taped live and aired now.
It's the talking head in the Studio who didn't tell you this was old shit.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:02 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:02 AM (0+srV)
I'm more into intralocuting.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:03 AM (zc3Db)
I think they would have been called the Freedom Games. Of course Europe wouldn't play ball.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2016 12:03 AM (q7T0y)
Muzzies, to be sure.
Amazing, ain't it? Whenever followers of Muhammad slam up against those who choose a different path to the Almighty, there always seem to be bombs.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 12, 2016 12:03 AM (4EKP/)
....like down lower in Santa Barbara, near the beach.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 11:59 PM (EzgxV)
So you've been to the one on Milpas, next to Trader Joes and the freeway......
That one's horrid.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2016 12:03 AM (LuZz8)
Posted by: Miam Bialik at August 12, 2016 12:04 AM (07Q15)
Posted by: torabora at August 12, 2016 12:04 AM (Hmx40)
Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2016 12:04 AM (11H2y)
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He would fuck up a wet dream.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2016 12:05 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 12, 2016 12:05 AM (SEnIW)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:05 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:06 AM (c1srJ)
The relationship appears to be not causal though. As in: CO2 in the atmosphere varies based on other forces, and is a result of changes, not the driving force. Greenhouse effect was so simple and elegant in 1985, but today scientists have discovered its massively more complicated far beyond anything they'd hoped.
The ocean, for instance, acts like a huge CO2 battery, absorbing and releasing the gas depending on overall climate forces. The sun appears to be the primary engine behind climate change, and no one is exactly sure why it behaves the way it does or how that precisely works.
Basically, we're a bunch of apes with a bone staring in wonder as it flies through the air when it comes to climate science. But some of the apes get real rich and can leverage politics by claiming they got it all figured out.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:07 AM (39g3+)
It's not a roundabout or a diverging diamond, but "Kamikaze Curve" at
the junction of three interstates near BANGhamton, NY is the most
terrifying stretch of roadway I've ever driven... It's undergone
significant remodeling in recent years to make the slaughter so much
more efficient!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (kP16F)
There are a couple of "decreasing radius curves" near here that spiral inward to a near u-turn. One is SB 880 @ 101, and another is SB 17 @ 1. Comes from trying to overlay an highway onto an old farm road without buying up adjacent properties.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:07 AM (EzgxV)
Don't forget to visit the snack bar in the Divergent Diamond!
Posted by: Hope Solo at August 12, 2016 12:07 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:07 AM (PxeYh)
They did some shark tagging out in the Gulf and put out a nice video about how important the gulf oil rigs are for fish habitat.
Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 12, 2016 12:09 AM (ozZau)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:05 AM (PxeYh)
Basically. Antibiotics directly kill cells, themselves. That is their main function.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:09 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (bMG0w)
But then, I once got stuck in a roundabout in front of the capitol building in Annapolis. Drove in circles for 15 minutes. I'm not what you'd call an assertive driver.
Posted by: NavyMom at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (Oelm8)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (c1srJ)
313 thanks for the lively commentary...'night all. wish me luck at the doc's tomorrow...best v/
Posted by: vivi at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (11H2y)
Best wishes!!!!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (voOPb)
Does anyone see that I have read ClimateAudit for years and understand
the complexities involved and am trying to troll my potential
interlocutors into actually interlocuting?
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:02 AM (0+srV)
Okay then maybe you can help me understand. This is my relatively naive view of things. Perhaps you can set me on the right path where I am wrong.
If atmospheric CO2 rises, then yes the atmospheric temperature rises. It then leads to:
(1) more cloud formation, which decreases subsequent CO2 absorption due to the albedo effect; and
(2) more precipitation, which leads to more vegetation, which is a CO2 sink.
Then when vegetation gets too numerous, it decomposes, releasing more CO2, and the cycle repeats again.
What do you think?
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (uAvJJ)
But this year, the Chinese teams have been very sub-par in quite a few international meets, so of course, the Chinese government now wants the money back.
Hey, China, don't give Hillary more ideas!!!!!!
Posted by: dwagyak at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (e3psR)
Oh, and the clam was killed by the procedure.
http://tinyurl.com/zam6bv9
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 11, 2016 11:55 PM
Holy crap. TY misguided enviro idiots. The clam was fine until you drug it up in your misguided attempts to "save" the planet, you f...ing idiots.
Posted by: Farmer at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (o/90i)
Not the fact that understanding the earth's climate is much more complex
than the physical properties of a particular gas taken in isolation.
The third thing I get.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (0+srV)
Any argument with one of the Warmists needs to include the phrase "sod off, swampy!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (LuZz8)
Good evening, all.
I've been cut off from ace comments at work, on top of which there's a crunch so I could only get some glancing glimpses at Ace's Post of Awesome.
I've finally read the whole thing and I'm at #106 in the comments now.
Awesome. I think we ought to keep it up.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (5o5ek)
THX for your responses peoples.
I feel like I ate bad dates.
Can't wait for this shit to be over with. All for a cracked tooth.
Cripes.
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (qUNWi)
Then they double down: things are even worse than we thought! Hottest July 7-15th on record ever, swearsies!!! We're all doomed!!!
They have computer model after computer model that utterly fails in a spectacular repeated display of humiliation, yet they keep going back to them. Its like a religion of retards.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:12 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:13 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2016 10:55 PM (qUNWi)
I thought it was by Hepatitia Lee in the June, 1975 issue of Penthouse.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 12:13 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:14 AM (0+srV)
The thing I can't work out is that climate change
guys keep being not just a little bit off, but massively, constantly,
humiliatingly wrong. Over and over and over again. They make
prediction after prediction and find out they're full of crap, utterly
wrong.
Then they double down: things are even worse than we thought!
Hottest July 7-15th on record ever, swearsies!!! We're all doomed!!!
They have computer model after computer model that utterly fails in a
spectacular repeated display of humiliation, yet they keep going back
to them. Its like a religion of retards.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:12 AM (39g3+)
Because they're not scientists. They're commie cocksuckers who think Stalin and Lysenko were just peachy-keen doods.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2016 12:15 AM (LuZz8)
omg, the Greenland whale! I've been listening to Moby Dick on tape having abandoned news and talk, and "Ishmael" was just cataloguing that very whale. Small world inside my ... mind. Yessir.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 12, 2016 12:15 AM (5o5ek)
The roundabouts (4 of them) that eliminated the backups at 15/50 Gilberts Corner, VA have worked very well.
The ones in Maryland have tighter radius curves and don't seem to work as well, but I suspect there was a 'traffic calming' element in their design.
The crazy intersection at 15 and 64 works surprisingly well. The inverted diamond design eliminates a cycle of left turn arrows and speeds up the traffic flow.
Did take some getting use to.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 12, 2016 12:16 AM (TnUKj)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (0+srV)
Rhetorically, you should point out the irony that it was a "climatologist" (as it were) who helped to found the study of dynamical systems (Lorenz) whose discovery was that due to the highly sensitive and complex nature of the Earth's weather systems (not climate, but that's what they were doing at the time) you could never be able to predict mid term weather patterns no matter how much computational power you had. The sensitive dependence on initial conditions just precluded such forecasting, with any accuracy.
And now, after all these years, it is the academic descendants of Lorentz who are running around claiming that they know, with full certainty, what the climate will be in 100 years ... based on computer models! The irony is really just too thick and juicy.
The other rhetorical part is that the same turds' argument for global cooling in the 70s was based on ... burning fossil fuels, which is the exact same cause, now, for their alleged global warming. It seems that their only real concern is about burning fossil fuels and they will fashion whatever argument they need to be against that.
Those are a couple of rhetorical tidbits for the fight.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:16 AM (zc3Db)
Caps. Syntax. Verb-noun agreement. Punctuation. Understanding the Roman/German synergy that evolved the mongrel English language.
Ah, it's nothing.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:16 AM (PxeYh)
Prednisone made my insomnia 10x worse.
That stuff really messed me up.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:16 AM (c1srJ)
He's your buddy. I scored some more of the large white type recently, so
he'll get a care package when[/if] I get my shit together.
Posted by: cthulhu
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Do you realize what brie costs these days?
That bastard just ate $15 worth of cheese!
He's lucky that I spend that on heartworm pills every month. He doesn't deserve any presents!
Posted by: Chi at August 11, 2016 11:58 PM (o4KXN)
Look, you're the one who raised him with expensive food tastes and TV cartoons. You can hardly complain now. If you'd been sensible, wired a sheet of aluminum foil on your countertop to neutral, put your Brie on top of the foil on a sheet of waxed paper 1" larger than the cheese, then stuck a live wire from an outlet into the cheese, he would have stopped molesting Brie by now.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:16 AM (EzgxV)
Anyway, it seems to work against the antibiotic resistant strains of staph.
This is good because there hasn't been a new antibiotic discovered in a long time, and the bugs are getting more and more resistant. As that saying goes, life, it will find a way.
That said, I wonder if they'd find anything interesting in Hope Solo's bunghole?
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:17 AM (DW+jj)
That bastard just ate $15 worth of cheese!
He's lucky that I spend that on heartworm pills every month. He doesn't deserve any presents!
Posted by: Chi at August 11, 2016 11:58 PM
LMAO. Reminds me of when Bailey ate half a pound of Blue Cheese as a pup. Sick for several days.
Posted by: Farmer at August 12, 2016 12:18 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:14 AM (0+srV)
The folks at Climate Audit would know more about that than me.
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:18 AM (uAvJJ)
285
I also want it to become illegal for NFL to shake down local governments for stadium funds.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:59 PM (q7T0y)
I'd rather it were death-penalty worthy for local government officials to spend taxpayer money on such boondoggles.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:18 AM (EzgxV)
Then the Media would feature her hard work and desire as center pieces to her success.
Sadly, Simone will be a victim of her own success during the Reign of The O....
Her Singular Greatness just doesn't fit the narrative.
What a world.......
Posted by: Hillbillyking at August 12, 2016 12:19 AM (a+Olp)
Them: blah blah blah fossil fuel climate change
Me: I don't believe in the climate change theory
Them: That statement is so stupid I refuse to address it
Them walks away.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:20 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:20 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:20 AM (0+srV)
Consider yourself lucky.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:21 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:21 AM (qUNWi)
....like down lower in Santa Barbara, near the beach.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2016 11:59 PM (EzgxV)
So you've been to the one on Milpas, next to Trader Joes and the freeway......
That one's horrid.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2016 12:03 AM (LuZz
*ding*, *ding*, *ding*, *ding*, *ding*, *ding*.... We have a winnah!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:21 AM (EzgxV)
Look up the Lake Vostok ice core sample reports. The graphs were used in Am Inconvenient Truth, I believe...
The point is they show temperature change predating co2 change by 800-1500 years over hundreds of thousands of years.
That should give your interlocutors something on which to chew...
Posted by: Slash Buzz at August 12, 2016 12:22 AM (caNqy)
Posted by: lindafell-racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 12, 2016 12:22 AM (xVgrA)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 11, 2016 11:17 PM (hVdx9)
Saw it in half, and count the rings!
Posted by: Michael Mann at August 12, 2016 12:22 AM (oqkO3)
Probably, although as Primordial notes, you may be better off not suffering through their stupidity until they get to the same point after days later of argument.
Starting out with reasonable questions like "why do computer models keep getting it wrong" and "how much effect does the sun have on climate" are possible other options. Even things like "I'd trust this more if they had more weather stations south of the equator." These are generally things that the climate cultist isn't even aware of.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:23 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (EzgxV)
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Comments are working... well kind of. My first comment the other night showed up and immediately disappeared. He was on the ONT and I mentioned it. He checked it out and said his spam filter was working overtime. He did something and the comment came back. I just commented there now with no problem.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 12:23 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:24 AM (qUNWi)
speller. Instead what I stick with is empiricism. I am much more
concerned with how we can measure the temperature of the earth. Can you
tell me how that is accomplished?
Posted by: at August 12, 2016 12:14 AM (0+srV)
You need a really long thermometer inserted deep into the core.Maybe about 10,000 F.
I figure all that heat seeps out into the cold void of space, but nobody really knows.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 12, 2016 12:24 AM (P/kVC)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:24 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: beavis at August 12, 2016 12:25 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:20 AM
It affected my wife that way. Not me, we've both been on it but it really bugged her that way. Everyone is different.
Posted by: Farmer at August 12, 2016 12:25 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 12, 2016 12:25 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:26 AM (0+srV)
I suspect strongly that they realized talking about that Bill reminded people of another Bill. I personally had several breakthrough moments teaching younger Hillary fans about what a disgusting predatorial monster her husband is. They literally had no idea, no clue. Totally unaware he was accused by half a dozen women of rape and a dozen more of sexual harassment and abuse.
When you give them the info they get reeeaal quiet.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:26 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:26 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2016 12:02 AM (EZebt)
That's how they do it in Mexico.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 12, 2016 12:26 AM (sqHNm)
Careful, some weird side effects to eating a lot of yogurt.
Posted by: Jamie Lee Curtis for Atcivia at August 12, 2016 12:27 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:27 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:28 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:28 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:28 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:23 AM (39g3+)
Clouds, too. They don't have any clouds in their "models" and clouds are among the most important elements.
It's also a fact that they don't even really have "models". Their computer "simulations" aren't making any real attempts to faithfully portray the Earth's climate. They have just built curve fitting programs with some inputs that sound like climate attributes and factors and have tons of arbitrary fudge factors to shape the curves however they feel. That was one of the big things to come out of the e-mail dump back a few years with the "hide the decline" stuff.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:29 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:29 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (q7T0y)
You can find Florence Foster Jenkins recordings on Youtube. They are unintentionally hilarious.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 12:29 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 12, 2016 12:30 AM (FYrz1)
I think the competition ended at around 3:30 this afternoon...results have been all over the air since then.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2016 11:53 PM (c1srJ)
Fucking killjoy
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:30 AM (voOPb)
LMAO. Reminds me of when Bailey ate half a pound of Blue Cheese as a pup. Sick for several days.
Posted by: Farmer
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You don't even know --- he's still right here beside me, but won't look me in the eye. Hilarious.
Did I ever tell you about the time he ate a pound of raw hamburger meat? He was maybe 4 months old at the time ...
Posted by: Chi at August 12, 2016 12:31 AM (o4KXN)
The stuff struck me as just damned nasty, but I actually got to drinking a little bit every so often.
Kefir bacteria are actually able to colonize a human gut on their own. The bugs in regular yogurt can't do this much at all, I don't think.
This is not my bag at all, so I don't know enough to form my own opinion on this at all.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:31 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:31 AM (39g3+)
The problem is your use of the term "theory." A theory is nothing more an explanation about the world that has been confirmed through repeated observation. Global warming has never been confirmed through a single observation, let alone multiple. At best, it is an hypothesis; an unsupported supposition of why something is. More likely, it's a hokum; an explanation about the world that has been confirmed through shouting real loud and securing grant money.
In all honesty, your approach is wrong. You have to flip the script and dismiss them as anti-science dolts first.
Posted by: JSchuler at August 12, 2016 12:31 AM (HlV/4)
I am *not* a Meryl fan (IMHO the all-time best thing she did was Death Becomes Her, where she spoofed herself the whole way through). But after reading about the plot-- about a wealthy society matron who deluded herself into believing she was a great operatic singer-- I think there could be a great allegory in the film about how our "elites" have deluded themselves for so many years, decades, etc about their competence to run our society.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:31 PM (q7T0y)
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I liked her in Silkwood. Of course, I'm easy. Flash me a little tit and I'm putty.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 12:32 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:32 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:32 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (DW+jj)
You can find Florence Foster Jenkins recordings on Youtube. They are unintentionally hilarious.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 12:29 AM
What about Mrs. Miller from the 1960's?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (kP16F)
For you, maybe. I'm filling a bag with ice, you sonofabitch!
Damn, this hurts!
Posted by: Mike Hammer's ISP at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (PxeYh)
The key is to KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING.
But a lot (uh, most) Americans just don't get it.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (o+SC1)
I thought Hartman did the voice of Brannigan?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:31 AM
No. It was meant for Hartman, but, he died before it was done. Billy West did Brannigan in a very good Hartman impression.
Posted by: otho at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (uAvJJ)
It is a good thing to get checked though.
Posted by: FCF at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (kejii)
Posted by: lindafell-racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (xVgrA)
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:35 AM (bMG0w)
That's not quite what I need. The unified holds
me back a bit. Obviously I'm trying to borrow from physics and suggest
that there are a range of phenomena that need explanations and that
views in the field are more than simply binary yes/no which is what my
previous response was suggesting.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 11, 2016 11:26 PM (0+srV)
I don't believe the causality between CO2 and warming has been fully described as to the actual degree of impact, no matter how settled the science.
Secondarily the historical modelling requires special pleading to match the historical climate history which indicates that the information on climate history is not as complete as we are told.
You can also go into: I am concerned that the impact of solar sunspot cycles on deflection of cosmic rays penetrating to the inner solar system that would otherwise contribute to cloud formation have not been considered in the computer models, and that might be what is throwing off the historical modelling.
Until these elements are understood or discarded for reason, any pronouncement on the severity of AGW is probably premature.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2016 12:36 AM (ry34m)
Did I ever tell you about the time he ate a pound of raw hamburger meat? He was maybe 4 months old at the time ...
Posted by: Chi at August 12, 2016 12:31 AM (o4KXN
Darby, our female setter perfectly nabbed a baking pan of meatloaf tonight off the counter. Perfect grab caught her carrying it. There went dinner
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:36 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:36 AM (uAvJJ)
Calm down, calm down.
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Sometimes you just have to slap the cyber bitch around a little bit.
Posted by: Ike Turner at August 12, 2016 12:36 AM (9mTYi)
90 percent of scientists got -- argument from authority is not science
anti-science got -- ad hominems are not science
which finally resulted in:
I don't know enough about it--to which I said, I didn't either but I decided I would not take it on faith and learn as much as I could about the issue since nothing less than the fate of the earth is supposed to be at stake
then I asked for nude selfies but I'm not sure that was the right closer
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:37 AM (0+srV)
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Does anyone see that I have read ClimateAudit for years and understand
the complexities involved and am trying to troll my potential
interlocutors into actually interlocuting?
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:02 AM (0+srV)
Okay
then maybe you can help me understand. This is my relatively naive view
of things. Perhaps you can set me on the right path where I am wrong.
If atmospheric CO2 rises, then yes the atmospheric temperature rises. It then leads to:
(1) more cloud formation, which decreases subsequent CO2 absorption due to the albedo effect; and
(2) more precipitation, which leads to more vegetation, which is a CO2 sink.
Then when vegetation gets too numerous, it decomposes, releasing more CO2, and the cycle repeats again.
What do you think?
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (uAvJJ)
It's worse than that. Early, early, way too early research seemed to show that CO2 preceded global warming. Closer and more honest analysis showed that global warming precedes CO2 levels. Thus, events like the Maunder minimum could show strong indications of AGW when the timeline was bollixed.....but actually argue for MINIMAL human involvement now. The fact that every one of the original IPCC models are currently more than six sigmas off of observed data proves they were, are, and ever will be total garbage.
Subsequent IPCC kludges have all been trying to place the cart before the horse. The major takeaway is that the sun changes climate between ice ages and temperate times, CO2 follows behind, and trying to blame humans for a climate that constantly changes through a mechanism of fossil-fuels combustion is pushing on a rope.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:37 AM (EzgxV)
Chipotle is getting desperate for customers. 4 hours on Thursday
offering reduced price alcoholic beverages in Ohio and Chicago markets.
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:35 AM (bMG0w)
reduced price booze you say? hmm maybe it's worth a small case of the runs...
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:37 AM (uAvJJ)
Some idiot is building a new Chipotle in town here. I would never build a new restaurant in this economy, and not a Mexican one in this town, and never a Chipotle. I cannot even guess what is going through this person's head.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:37 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (DW+jj)
Switch to public DNS servers when that happens.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:38 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:32 AM (9mTYi
Oh-oh, cool, calm, collected Mr. Hammer is perturbed
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:38 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:37 AM (0+srV)
so you ARE a moron...
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:39 AM (uAvJJ)
The ice cores lay out fairly well. First it warms up, then after a slight delay, there's more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 12, 2016 12:39 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Ike Turner at August 12, 2016 12:36 AM (9mTYi"
*punches Ike in the balls*
Get him on the ground.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:39 AM (PxeYh)
There was a terrific meme here some years ago, the gist of which was "but it would require an enormous power source, on the magnitude of our own sun."
''Twas brilliant - wish I could recall the exact wording.
Buzzion?
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:39 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2016 11:56 PM (q7T0y)
From what I have heard, she was a harmless eccentric with a wealthy husband who indulged her in her fantasy that she was a fine singer. She managed to put food on the tables of a number of musicians and recording engineers, so what's the harm?
A Mary-Sue of the opera.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 12:40 AM (oqkO3)
You shut your mouth.
* impatiently waiting for new chick-fil-a across state from work to finish*
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:40 AM (bMG0w)
Curiousity re: Hope Solo's pics overcame me and I went to 4 Chan. I did not find the infamous pics. After 3 minutes there, I felt like a sleazeball and was ashamed of myself or even looking. That's one slimy little corner of the Internet.
Now I'm afraid I'm going to get weird popups and ads.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 12:41 AM (P8951)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:37 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 12, 2016 12:39 AM (T/cxb)
hmmmmm, that is good to know.
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:41 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:41 AM (PxeYh)
>> on Thursday offering reduced price alcoholic
>> beverages in Ohio and Chicago markets.
I like Chipotle well enough. And I'm still alive, so...
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 12:41 AM (o+SC1)
It is a good thing to get checked though.
Posted by: FCF at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (kejii)
Glad you kicked its ass.
One of my best friends caught it from a blood transfusion during childbirth in Houston in the 80s, and it was diagnosed years later. She went through a series of nasty chemo-like infusions that cured it. She was lucky--my BIL's sister, who had surgery in Houston in the same era, caught AIDs and died. She was a lovely person, inside and out.
Yeah, for awhile I wasn't too keen on the folks who introduced those viruses to the blood supply.
Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (ozZau)
315 Maet has new content at https://maetenloch.blogspot.com/ -- unfortunately, his comments are still schnartzenfugled.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:10 AM (EzgxV)
++++
Comments
are working... well kind of. My first comment the other night showed up
and immediately disappeared. He was on the ONT and I mentioned it. He
checked it out and said his spam filter was working overtime. He did
something and the comment came back. I just commented there now with no
problem.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 12:23 AM (R+30W)
You got way farther than I did. I can't even get a comments box (which is odd, 'cause I could immediately after 'Goodbye').
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:32 AM (9mTYi
Oh-oh, cool, calm, collected Mr. Hammer is perturbed
Posted by: Mis. Hum
---------------
They were screwing with my hash. What choice did I have? Some times, war IS the answer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (9mTYi)
See, I don't get this. People have pets that take their food? Never, ever touch my food. NEVER. My cats know to not even come near. I cannot even imagine how enraged I would be at a pet that took dinner and ate it or ruined it. That's not funny. That's not cute. That's not "oopsie." That's time to live outdoors for the rest of your life.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (vUcdz)
Such a hypothetical source of warming would have to be massive, however. On the order of magnitude of our own Sun.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/285328.php
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (bMG0w)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
-------------------
I would leave him alone. Just saying...
Posted by: The Prednisone at August 12, 2016 12:43 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:43 AM (bMG0w)
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (vUcdz)
From what I've read, a lot of these probiotic products out there, marketed as such, especially the pills, are incapable of independently colonizing the human gut by themselves. The bacteria just can't take hold.
Now, that doesn't mean there isn't a benefit to them, of course, but kefir products are capable of colonizing a human gut on their own. The bacteria can survive and colonize.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (DW+jj)
a new restaurant in this economy, and not a Mexican one in this town,
and never a Chipotle. I cannot even guess what is going through this
person's head.
Try lower down to gauge the flow.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (LTMJL)
Wow, I drank a whole bottle of wine tonight.
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:28 AM (uAvJJ)
That's dinner, just to help with digestion.... Settling in with the ONT is another matter.....
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (EzgxV)
offering reduced price alcoholic beverages in Ohio and Chicago markets.
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:35 AM (bMG0w)
reduced price booze you say? hmm maybe it's worth a small case of the runs...
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:37 AM (uAvJJ)<<<
We should do a tie-in with the Rio games.
"Feel like you're Olympian as you experience the same stomach viruses as gold medal athletes!"
Posted by: Chipotle marketing team at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 12, 2016 12:03 AM (4EKP/)
islam has bloody borders, since 632 A.D., or thereabouts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:45 AM (vUcdz)
>> place the cart before the horse.
The whole ice-core thing is crap. Ice cores are very accurate re atmospheric content, but not on date.
So you have a really good idea that there was X% CO2 in the atmosphere at some point, but that point can be +/- 2000 years.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 12:45 AM (o+SC1)
Standing right here. Know who it was?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:45 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:46 AM (uAvJJ)
Curiousity re: Hope Solo's pics overcame me and I went to 4 Chan. I did not find the infamous pics. After 3 minutes there, I felt like a sleazeball and was ashamed of myself or even looking. That's one slimy little corner of the Internet.
Now I'm afraid I'm going to get weird popups and ads.
Posted by: DonnaV (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 12:41 AM (P8951)
++++
Go to google images. Search hope solo nude. You won't have to look hard.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 12:46 AM (R+30W)
You say that now....you say that now...
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:46 AM (qUNWi)
If you leave food within reach of a dog, it's entirely natural for the dog to take it. So you don't leave food within reach of the dog. Of course, it's also a good idea to train the dog not to jump up on kitchen chairs or lunge for food on the counter. With medium -sized and small dogs that's usually not a problem.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 12:46 AM (P8951)
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:47 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (EzgxV)
Yeah but "digestion" is bound to be expensive if it's 1 bottle per night
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:47 AM (uAvJJ)
The damned DNS servers at Charter here went down for a couple of hours, and just came back up a few minutes ago.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (DW+jj)
You can always use Google's at 8.8.8.8 (I think they also have 8.8.4.4, but it's harder to remember). Once you have minimalist DNS, you can climb to better.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:47 AM (EzgxV)
Nope. You're being reactive and trying to use reason against people that are not interested in reason. That's still going with the script.
Instead, they are the ones who need to be on the defensive. They are the ones who need to be talked down to as if they were inbred trailer trash. Equate them with creationists; whether or not you believe in Creationism, the point is, that is the worst thing they can imagine being. You need to strike at their social standing, as that is why they hold to AGW, not because of any commitment to scientific inquiry.
So, someone says "Can you believe this global warming?"
"Oh, don't get me started. These neo-Creationists with their carbon worship. It's 2016, I would have thought we'd have left such superstitions in the Dark Ages."
Posted by: JSchuler at August 12, 2016 12:47 AM (HlV/4)
>> Do they have low-carb hate shakes?
I'm going to have to make sure my next road trip routes me past a Chick-Fil-A. Never been to one.
The last time I was near one was on a Sunday. That didn't help.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 12:47 AM (o+SC1)
Thanks. From the descriptions I've read, I don't know that I want to do that right before bed.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 12:48 AM (P8951)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
-----------------
Meh. This browser occasionally switches proxies and lands on one that is banned.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:48 AM (9mTYi)
Intergalactic Truckstop Egg Salad Sandwiches do that, too.
Posted by: Phillip J Fry at August 12, 2016 12:48 AM (c1srJ)
Meatloaf is more valuable to me, by weight, than gold.
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:48 AM (qUNWi)
As far as interchanges go, I'm a fan of the big roundabouts the Brits use at their freeway (uh, motorway) interchanges.
The key is to KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING.
But a lot (uh, most) Americans just don't get it.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (o+SC1)
Roundabouts with a diameter of more than a mile are fine.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:48 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:49 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:17 AM (DW+jj)
A set of car keys?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 12:49 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:49 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:50 AM (c1srJ)
It's hard for me to put trust in any theory at all really. Gravity, relativity, anything. It's a failing I guess. The whole reason I started eating low carb in the nineties was because I wanted to see what it would do to my body.
Do you any of you remember Susan Powter? Stop the insanity! FAT MAKES YOU FAT!
Did you ever read the Ender's Game sequels? I didn't get through them all but what struck me as interesting was the relationship between the piggies behavior and the planets climate. The piggies, if I remember correctly, were agents of teraforming. What chemjeff and cthulu were saying reminded me of that book in particular.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:50 AM (0+srV)
That's a good point. Never can tell where there this is gonna dump off.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 12:50 AM (PxeYh)
Don't give him any ideas! He's done enough damage for one night.
Posted by: Mike Hammer's ISP at August 12, 2016 12:51 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:51 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:51 AM (9mTYi)
I figure all that heat seeps out into the cold void of space, but nobody really knows.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 12, 2016 12:24 AM (P/kVC)
Man, everybody knows it's millions of degrees down there! (I really said this.)
Posted by: Al Gore at August 12, 2016 12:52 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:17 AM (DW+jj)<<<
Somebody throw in a rope... we're trapped!
Posted by: the entire Fiji rugby team celebrating their gold medal at August 12, 2016 12:52 AM (H9MG5)
I did not know that existed. I didn't figure anyone would do that for free with any capacity. But I don't know much.
How much load can they handle? Pinging, I get about 13ms average time.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:52 AM (DW+jj)
440 But seriously...if a dog ate my meatloaf that dog would...well...not be my dog anymore.
Meatloaf is more valuable to me, by weight, than gold.
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:48 AM (qUNWi)
over the years we have lost numerous dinners
oh well what is one more?
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:53 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (EzgxV)
++++
You have to allow blogger.com and google.com to see the comment box. You also have to enable gstatic.com to get the CAPTCHA.
But, I may have spoke too soon. The comment I made the other night is still there, but the one I made tonight is gone. Must be socializing with the other captives in the spam filter.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 12:53 AM (R+30W)
Yeah exactly. Don't come between me and my food. Ever. Its not natural for anyone to take a human's food. Animals need to learn the pecking order.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:53 AM (39g3+)
I re-read EG annually, it's one of my all-time favorites (although there are those among the Horde who vehemently disagree), and I liked the sequel that told the story from Bean's POV.
After that, though, I kinda felt that Card was milking it.
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:53 AM (vUcdz)
>> natural for the dog to take it. So you don't leave
>> food within reach of the dog. Of course, it's also a
>> good idea to train the dog not to jump up on
>> kitchen chairs or lunge for food on the counter.
>> With medium -sized and small dogs that's usually
>> not a problem.
We have two medium-sized dogs.
One can sense the presence of carbohydrates on the kitchen counter through three layers of plastic. Leaving naan on the kitchen island means an empty plastic bag on the floor when one gets home. I wish we could break him of that habit.
The other has a nest established on the counter on my wife's side of the master bedroom closet, behind where all the clothes hang. It took us a long time to figure out where she was hiding. It's rather amazing she can actually get up there, she's not very big and not very tall.
Now that we know, we just clean the dog hair off the counter every week.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 12:54 AM (o+SC1)
I've never shweatted it. Some ettes are closet ettes and don't want to be "outed".
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 12:54 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 12, 2016 12:34 AM (IqV8l)
Mrs. Miller was much more talented than FFJ.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 12:55 AM (oqkO3)
Is there bubble gum involved?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:51 AM (vUcdz
Bazooka Joe
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:55 AM (voOPb)
414
Darby, our female setter perfectly nabbed a baking pan of meatloaf
tonight off the counter. Perfect grab caught her carrying it. There went
dinner
See, I don't get this. People have pets that take their food? Never, ever touch my food. NEVER.
My cats know to not even come near. I cannot even imagine how enraged
I would be at a pet that took dinner and ate it or ruined it. That's
not funny. That's not cute. That's not "oopsie." That's time to live
outdoors for the rest of your life.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (39g3+)
....and it's funny how pets totally grok the concept of "consequences" once it's clearly explained to them.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:55 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: the entire Fiji rugby team celebrating their gold medal at August 12, 2016 12:52 AM (H9MG5)
Colonize me, babies!
Posted by: Hope's Butthole Springs Eternal at August 12, 2016 12:55 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 12:56 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:56 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:57 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 12:57 AM (P8951)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:55 AM (EzgxV
My bad, i never taught her for every action there is an equal reaction.
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:57 AM (voOPb)
450 Today I made a comment to Oregon Muse using a male-gendered pronoun. It didn't occur to me until later, is OM a Moron , or an Ette?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2016 12:51 AM (9mTYi)
How dare you binary-ize Oregonmuse.
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 12:58 AM (bMG0w)
Mafia Princess just called and, well, Iron Fist is no more with us the living. I couldn't make it in time. so, for Fist, here https://youtu.be/Vab3tX49Lm0
McGyver, out
Posted by: Mcgyver at August 12, 2016 12:58 AM (6hAG+)
You know how animals display anger and bad behavior punishment to each other? If they don't get that from you they don't take you seriously. I'll smack my kitty if he's really bad. He understands it because that's what he does to other kitties. Not hard, just hard enough to make sure he gets the point.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 12, 2016 12:58 AM (39g3+)
Until my ex-wife moved in with her dog and they learned all sorts of bad habits. Among them, poaching food off the kitchen table.
Took me a little while to catch each of them in the act, but I put a quick stop to that shit.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 12:59 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 12:55 AM (voOPb)
Weirdest cartoons ever. WTF was it with that dude with the sweater pulled halfway up his face?
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 12:59 AM (P8951)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 12:03 AM (zc3Db)
Use the interocitor
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2016 12:59 AM (ry34m)
I did date a Japanese girl for a little while. That was fun. She was very interested in American elections. She had a hard time pronouncing election.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 12:59 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2016 12:59 AM (q7T0y)
oh well what lis one more? "
Got dinner baking. Watching the game. Wife says....look at this sunset! You run outside. View the sunset.
Little asshole's eating dinner.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:00 AM (PxeYh)
>> are fine.
A diameter of a mile would be, what, a 3-mile roundy-round track? Daytona with exits. A yield sign at the pit-out.
I'm not aware of anything like that, the biggest elevated Brit roundabouts are maybe 3/8 mile across.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:00 AM (o+SC1)
You know, I have not been to Chick Fil A in a while. Do they have low-carb hate shakes?
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:46 AM (uAvJJ)
Southwest chicken salad with 2x high-fat salsa dressing. Served by clean and polite youths with a smile. I'm so happy we're finally getting some local ones.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:01 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 01:01 AM (c1srJ)
I'm going to assume lesbian, just to be safe.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 12, 2016 01:02 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 01:02 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:02 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:03 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:04 AM (kP16F)
(2) more precipitation, which leads to more vegetation, which is a CO2 sink.
Then when vegetation gets too numerous, it decomposes, releasing more CO2, and the cycle repeats again.
What do you think?
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:11 AM (uAvJJ)
You miss two points.... most water in the atmosphere itself is in the form of invisible humidity... not clouds.
Its that Humidty that is absorbing the IR energy in the same bands as CO2...
Now, IR energy from the sum will either bounce back to space, be absorbed by the atmosphere, or be absorbed the the ground itself.. but conduction and convection are also in play, so that heat energy gets moved around...
This IR energy can be measured... and has been... for years... we KNOW that all the IR energy in the CO2 bands is being absorbed already...
Thus, adding CO2 will do nothing... CO2 has already reached it peak of effectiveness on the atmosphere...
Idiots will point to Venus, saying, well Venus has more CO2 and gets more warming than the Earth... not understanding that its closer to the Sun (square of the distance law) and thus has MUCH more energy in those particular IR bands than the Earth does... thus CO2 WILL have more of an effect there.
Posted by: Don Q. at August 12, 2016 01:04 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: MH53J at August 12, 2016 01:04 AM (ThW3U)
Mafia Princess just called and, well, Iron Fist is no more with us the living. I couldn't make it in time. so, for Fist, here https://youtu.be/Vab3tX49Lm0
McGyver, out
Posted by: Mcgyver at August 12, 2016 12:58 AM (6hAG+)
Condolences to all. And it is never bad form to report news of that nature, (or good news, for that matter) on an ONT.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 01:05 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: Old man Parker at August 12, 2016 01:05 AM (H9MG5)
I didn't realize they were in Fremont now. I actually get over there fairly routinely at times they might, you know, be open.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:06 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:06 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: ibguy at August 12, 2016 01:07 AM (vUcdz)
dressing. Served by clean and polite youths with a smile. I'm so happy
we're finally getting some local ones.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:01 AM (EzgxV)
mmm that does sound good, actually
Don Q., thank you
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 01:07 AM (uAvJJ)
thank you all for putting up with me, I know I can be difficult at times
good night all, thanks for being around
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 01:08 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:09 AM (0+srV)
That's dinner, just to help with digestion.... Settling in with the ONT is another matter.....
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:44 AM (EzgxV)
Yeah but "digestion" is bound to be expensive if it's 1 bottle per night
Posted by: chemjeff at August 12, 2016 12:47 AM (uAvJJ)
I've been to Italy. You go into an osteria or trattoria, and you're charged for "pan e cubierto" -- bread and cover. From there, they put a jug of wine on the table and bread and wine are free. If you want tap water, they will look at you funny but provide some (when I was 15, it wasn't safe). If you want drinking water, they'll charge for that -- flat or fizzy. If you want a Coke, that will cost you big time.
My current "pan e cubierto" wine is Trader Joe's Grifone Sangiovese. It's $3.99 a bottle and just about what you'd expect at a Tuscan sandwich shop. Like the Romans, I'll drink it with water while dining.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:09 AM (EzgxV)
He's a guy.
If he's not a guy I'll putz myself.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:10 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Don Q. at August 12, 2016 01:04 AM (qf6WZ)
And the "greenhouse effect" as it is normally stated cannot work on Venus by reason of the simple fact that the atmosphere of that planet is so dense, that sunlight never reaches the surface. It's blacker than the inside of a black cat in a coal mine at midnight down there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 01:10 AM (oqkO3)
Pro Tip : if you put a steak on the grill before you go to bed it will be perfectly ruined by the time you get up in the morning.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 01:10 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: Chi at August 12, 2016 01:10 AM (o4KXN)
If he's not a guy I'll putz myself.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:10 AM (PxeYh)<<<
Good. 'Cause she. sounds. hideous.
Posted by: some cranky wife at 3AM at August 12, 2016 01:11 AM (H9MG5)
Be well
Posted by: Mis. Hum. at August 12, 2016 01:12 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:06 AM (0+srV)
Yup.... and Sun Spot activity...
Seems a much more likely culprit than something that is already disproven....
Posted by: Don Q. at August 12, 2016 01:12 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:12 AM (PxeYh)
They got the BO105 life-flight helo up from Stanford (roadbound ambulance in or out of here during commute hours? Yeah, right...), over my yard at 100 feet to plop down at an intersection in front of the apartments.
Probably won't find out any more about the case unless it's bad news, so I will hope not to hear anything more.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:13 AM (o+SC1)
We'll call it the Hope Diamond Butt Plug. The gold-medal themed models as well. It's a gold mine. We can get Shep Smith and maybe even Barky himself to endorse it.
Maybe we can even get Goldman-Sachs to finance it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 01:15 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:15 AM (kP16F)
"8.8.8.8", Google DNS.
I did not know that existed. I didn't figure anyone would do that for free with any capacity. But I don't know much.
How much load can they handle? Pinging, I get about 13ms average time.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 12:52 AM (DW+jj)
You get what you get. It's not supposed to be your primary DNS server. They also have a "cloud DNS" service at about $1/month that is supposed to be solid, hardened, and fast. They have little incentive to make 8.8.8.8 too easy.
But when you're clawing back from a DNS failure, you have to appreciate that they're putting 8.8.8.8 out there.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:15 AM (EzgxV)
I am bemused by that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:12 AM (PxeYh)
Of course, there are exceptions to the rule, but generally speaking chess nerds like OM are male
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 01:17 AM (P8951)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:15 AM (kP16F)<<<
I'm not saying it's aliens, but...
Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukookoolos at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (H9MG5)
455
You got way farther than I did. I can't even get a comments box (which is odd, 'cause I could immediately after 'Goodbye').
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 12:42 AM (EzgxV)
++++
You have to allow blogger.com and google.com to see the comment box. You also have to enable gstatic.com to get the CAPTCHA.
But,
I may have spoke too soon. The comment I made the other night is still
there, but the one I made tonight is gone. Must be socializing with the
other captives in the spam filter.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 12:53 AM (R+30W)
This is a big problem out there -- I think I can trust A, but what if his site wants me to trust B, C, D, E, F, G, and H -- and I know that C and F have fucked-up recently and served malware?
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:15 AM (kP16F)
It's the secret graveyard of the incandescent light bulbs!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (oqkO3)
>> you have to appreciate that they're putting 8.8.8.8
>> out there.
A lot of ISPs have publicly-available DNSes you can plug in when necessary. Just about anything will work in a pinch.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:19 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:19 AM (kP16F)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 01:19 AM (P8951)
Really when I ask how hard would it be, what I really mean to ask can you run microsoft dns server on a windows client system? I could google that for me.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:20 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (EzgxV)
Just get a throwaway laptop and use that for your internet surfing and commenting. Then you don't have to worry about anything, since it will just be a throwaway (run off a boot DVD, to make things super easy) that you can let all manner of pest onto without ever having anything at risk.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 01:20 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:19 AM (kP16F)
A bookish, chess playing hyena....
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 01:21 AM (P8951)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 01:21 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:21 AM (kP16F)
I am bemused by that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:12 AM (PxeYh)
++++
Muse \Muse\, n. [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. ?. Cf. Mosaic, n.,
Music.]
1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine goddesses, daughters of
Zeus and Mnemosyne, who presided over song and the
different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences;
-- often used in the plural. At one time certain other
goddesses were considered as muses.
[1913 Webster]
A muse doesn't have to be female, but the word is frequently used that way when it is used as a noun. The verb usage is gender neutral.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 01:21 AM (R+30W)
>> Roundabouts with a diameter of more than a mile
>> are fine.
A diameter of a mile would be, what, a 3-mile roundy-round track? Daytona with exits. A yield sign at the pit-out.
I'm not aware of anything like that, the biggest elevated Brit roundabouts are maybe 3/8 mile across.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:00 AM (o+SC1)
Yup, and I hate the fuckin' things.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:21 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 12, 2016 01:22 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:22 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:23 AM (kP16F)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 01:23 AM (P8951)
Pretty sure that's what Elton John's 'Candle in the Wind' was about.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 01:23 AM (c1srJ)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 01:23 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:24 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:22 AM (0+srV)<<<
Yeah, that's still us. We lit a signal fire in here, hoping someone would get around to rescuing us.
Posted by: the entire Fiji rugby team celebrating their gold medal at August 12, 2016 01:24 AM (H9MG5)
My welding skills are barbaric, at best. I can run a cutting torch with the best of 'em, but lack the knowledge and still to run much beyond a 7018 rod on a simple farm gate or trailer.
I'm wanting to buy a relatively versatile, but not "pro-grade" machine to carry on the acquisition of tools to constitute a well stocked garage.
So, the choices abound. New or used, 110v or 220v, classic buzz box like a Lincoln red doghouse, or the newer, wire-feed wonders.
Inert gas, or not? MIG, TiG, or ?
I have fair stick skills, but just want to get decent versatility and usefulness, from a stationary, non-commercial, non-production situation, electric welding setup.
Oxy/Acetylene stuff, I can source and buy, no worries.
It's the overly vast selection of electric stuff from the Horror Freight bottom end, to gold plated Pro gear, that's the boggy pond to wade.
Budget will be a factor, but I don't want to buy the "cheapest" if it's pure crap, etc.
Your thoughts, sir?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 12, 2016 01:25 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (EzgxV)
++++
I hear what you are saying. But, he is blogging on Google's Blogger platform. So, if you are going to trust his site in the first place, maetenloch.blogspot.com, you are already a bit pregnant as far as google goes. You might as well allow blogger.com, google.com and gstatic.com, cause they are all google as well. Google does not serve ads from any of those domains, but I'm sure they are scarfing up all the tracking info they can.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 01:27 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 01:27 AM (c1srJ)
I love 'em. The key is that if there's a space four times the length of your vehicle you are expected to merge into it. Keep moving.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:28 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:28 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 12, 2016 01:29 AM (T/cxb)
I wish I could make myself pay for vpn.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:29 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:15 AM (kP16F)
I'm not saying it's aliens, but...
Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukookoolos at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (H9MG5)
Damn Straight Skippy....
Posted by: Carson, of Venus at August 12, 2016 01:30 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:28 AM (qUNWi)
Just wait until her whole family album hits the net. Man ... something the likes of which the world has never seen (except for some Germans, perhaps).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 01:30 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:31 AM (0+srV)
Maybe before.
Butt, not now.
She's made a deep impression on the Horde.
Posted by: garrett at August 12, 2016 01:31 AM (c1srJ)
How hard would it be to run your own DNS server? It needs upstream
right? Does that put you back in the same predicament? I remember
granite canyon used to maintain public DNS and I google searched and I
see there are tons and tons of public dns now.
Really when I ask how hard would it be, what I really mean to ask
can you run microsoft dns server on a windows client system? I could
google that for me.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:20 AM (0+srV)
It's actually a "thing" to have a DNS server on your LAN that caches DNS lookups, and only hits an outside DNS server if they're old. That way, if four computers on your LAN each hit nubiles.net sixteen times a day, you only have to look it up from your ISP's server once.
And, BTW -- yeah, you can do it with Microsoft, but doing it with Linux is easier......after all, that's what the internet backbone is running on in the first place. Your ISP's DNS server is Linux; Google's DNS server is Linux; your local router is embedded Linux; Comcast's DNS server is Linux.....rolling your own with Linux is easier than grafting-on something from Microsoft.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:32 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:33 AM (qUNWi)
Sorry to jump in here, Jim. Farm/ranch welding I used a lot of 2011/2013.
2011 will weld harder. 2013 is easier to arch. A modern self shielding hood is fantastic.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:34 AM (PxeYh)
What is it you want to do?
MIG is how idiots like me can glue together medium-thickness (3/32in-up) steel with a reasonable degree of quality. With some changes in configuration, additional equipment (a spool gun) and more practice you can also do comparably thick aluminum.
TIG requires a lot more work, but can produce beautiful work in thinner materials, etc.
I should learn how to TIG, but I've got a guy whose business is doing biotech production-line equipment, and he does beautiful work for modest amounts of cash, so for anything that's not 1/8-1/4in steel I just take it to him.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:34 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:28 AM (qUNWi)<<<
Nothing escapes a black hole. Just ask the experts at CNN.
Posted by: lost Malaysian airliner at August 12, 2016 01:34 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:35 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:36 AM (0+srV)
It's an oddball. It's rotation period is longer than it's orbital period. Thus it's sidereal day is longer than its year. And it does that slow rotation backwards relative to the other planets.
The Rooskies sent several "Venera" probes to Venus over the years, and several landed and some sent back pictures. None of them lasted over a couple of hours on the surface, so hot and high pressure the atmosphere is.
Sunlight does make it to the surface of Venus. I looked it up, and the figure is an average of 14,000 lux, about that on earth with a heavy overcast. About 3% of the direct sunlight makes it through. But slightly more light than that gets to the surface from scattering.
They even think there's some sort of hellish "snow" on the mountain peaks of Venus, some very high temperature snow-like precipitate of some sort.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 01:36 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:37 AM (0+srV)
They didn't want me to play with one because they didn't want to replace the nozzle thingy, which is the first thing a newbie fries.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2016 01:38 AM (ry34m)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:38 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:39 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:39 AM (kP16F)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:35 AM (0+srV)
To what end? I don't get your point. The big thing about a DNS is the table. If you don't have any data for site names/addresses then you have nothing to serve on your DNS.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 01:41 AM (zc3Db)
Fuck...is the whole planet made of compacted Herpes?
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:42 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:43 AM (qUNWi)
This is a big problem out there -- I think I can trust A, but what if
his site wants me to trust B, C, D, E, F, G, and H -- and I know that C
and F have fucked-up recently and served malware?
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (EzgxV)
Just get a throwaway laptop and use that for your internet surfing
and commenting. Then you don't have to worry about anything, since it
will just be a throwaway (run off a boot DVD, to make things super easy)
that you can let all manner of pest onto without ever having anything
at risk.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 12, 2016 01:20 AM (zc3Db)
I'm currently in the process of building LookingGlass 1 and 2 -- each built with dual 4-core Xeon processors (total of 8 cores) with 12G of memory. Why have a throwaway actual machine when I can spin up a virtual machine in seconds?
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:43 AM (EzgxV)
Well, let's not stick our dick in it.
There are girls on Craiglist.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:43 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:28 AM (qUNWi)
It's not good to live your life with no Hope.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 12, 2016 01:44 AM (Idu2i)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:43 AM (PxeYh)
Tried that once. Never again.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 12, 2016 01:45 AM (Idu2i)
Feasibly you could still use your hosts file and program in the static ip addresses for sites you absolutely want to maintain access to working under the assumption their IPs wont change enough to matter.
Anyway, I had a number two purpose for that post which was to insert more hope solo crap.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:45 AM (0+srV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:46 AM (PxeYh)
Oxy/Acetylene stuff, I can source and buy, no worries.
It's the overly vast selection of electric stuff from the Horror Freight bottom end, to gold plated Pro gear, that's the boggy pond to wade.
Budget will be a factor, but I don't want to buy the "cheapest" if it's pure crap, etc.
Your thoughts, sir?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 12, 2016 01:25 AM (v5iqM)
My almost-daily go-to welder is a 140 amp, Daytona MIG, sold by a company in Daytona Beach, Florida, but manufactured in Italy. I got it in the late 1980's, and am still using it. The range switch burned out a few years ago, and I puzzled out its truth table, and realized that three heavy duty DPDT toggle switches could be wired to do the same work. Both down = low heat, one up, one down = second range, one down, one up = third range (and the one I most often use, both up = hottest range.
I use straight CO2 as shielding gas, as advised by a friend who is a pro welder; leaves a bit more spatter, "but", he said, "you are going to be grinding your welds anyway, if they are where people will see them." Much cheaper than the Argon/CO2 blend, and because CO2 is liquid in the cylinder, a cylinder holds a lot .
I also own a hundred-dollar Harbor Freight flux-core wire feed welder, and I am quite happy with it. Gets the job done, but it is messy. Still, it's a cheap way to get hands-on experience with the gas-shielded arc process, and you can do useful work with it.
Do buy a good quality auto-darkening welding helmet, which might cost near as much as the welder, but worth every penny.
Lincoln and ESAB are domestic makers of good-quality welders, but a pro-hobbyist class machine is likely to run you $700 or so. I have been promising myself a newer, better MIG for several years now, but the old orange Daytona MIG just keeps soldiering on. It is now an old friend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 01:46 AM (oqkO3)
It's an oddball. It's rotation period is longer than it's orbital period. Thus it's sidereal day is longer than its year. And it does that slow rotation backwards relative to the other planets.
The Rooskies sent several "Venera" probes to Venus over the years, and several landed and some sent back pictures. None of them lasted over a couple of hours on the surface, so hot and high pressure the atmosphere is.
Sunlight does make it to the surface of Venus. I looked it up, and the figure is an average of 14,000 lux, about that on earth with a heavy overcast. About 3% of the direct sunlight makes it through. But slightly more light than that gets to the surface from scattering.
They even think there's some sort of hellish "snow" on the mountain peaks of Venus, some very high temperature snow-like precipitate of some sort.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 01:36 AM (DW+jj)
The thing is, that 30 miles up in the atmosphere is the most Earth-like environment in the Solar system outside of Earth. You could float a city using N2 and/or O2 as a lifting gas. The temperature and pressure are Earthlike. Aside from the sulphuric acid outside, it'd be quite comfortable.
Honestly, it is our best bet for colonization in outer space.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z88d6mw
Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 01:47 AM (vBeA5)
>> didn't want to replace the nozzle thingy, which is
>> the first thing a newbie fries.
Most serious welding-supply places will let you try things out first (and you'll probably need one, 'cause you'll need an Ar/CO2 bottle etc.) The tip is cheap.
I've got a smallish 220V Miller that's now just short of 20 years old, gets used on average maybe once a week.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:48 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:48 AM (0+srV)
Venus has hellish winds as well, in the high atmosphere, up to 60x the damn planet's rotation speed, which is crazy. However, it doesn't extend down to the surface, and there's barely a breeze much there at all.
The atmosphere is so thick that the little breeze is enough to knock a human over, however, the force being so great against a human sized surface.
Of course, that would be the least of one's worries, if one managed to land. I don't think we have any technology that could keep a human alive there for any time at all.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 01:49 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:49 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 12, 2016 01:50 AM (T/cxb)
>> if they are where people will see them."
Grinding a weld is an admission of failure.
Yeah, sometimes you gotta, but it shouldn't be routine.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:50 AM (o+SC1)
This is a big problem out there -- I think I can trust A, but what if
his site wants me to trust B, C, D, E, F, G, and H -- and I know that C
and F have fucked-up recently and served malware?
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:18 AM (EzgxV)
++++
I
hear what you are saying. But, he is blogging on Google's Blogger
platform. So, if you are going to trust his site in the first place,
maetenloch.blogspot.com, you are already a bit pregnant as far as google
goes. You might as well allow blogger.com, google.com and gstatic.com,
cause they are all google as well. Google does not serve ads from any of
those domains, but I'm sure they are scarfing up all the tracking info
they can.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 12, 2016 01:27 AM (R+30W)
This is further complicated by the fact that gmail.com is exceptionally good on actually being secure (although they read your shit -- they just guard it very well from everyone else).
I'm not sure I buy: "[Y]ou might as well allow blogger.com, google.com and gstatic.com"....
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 01:50 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Country Boy
------------------------
Hope springs eternal
Posted by: Alexander Pope. at August 12, 2016 01:50 AM (Z58Xa)
Don't give them a real address or name. You are "Bob Jonsohn.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:49 AM (PxeYh)
I've concluded that's exactly what she did to me. Among other things.
On that note, off to bed. My first day off in 26 days. 'Night all.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 12, 2016 01:51 AM (Idu2i)
Posted by: Noah Bawdy at August 12, 2016 01:51 AM (1aDmL)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:52 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:52 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:53 AM (qUNWi)
On that note, off to bed. "
Holy shit. She double-crossed you?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:54 AM (PxeYh)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 12, 2016 01:39 AM (PxeYh)
Stick welding is great for structural steel with a section thickness of 1/8" or more. MIG is ideal for auto body metal, and light steel 3/16" section thickness or less. You will note there is overlap there, and indeed, bigger MIG machines can weld even heavier steel, but I'm talking the sort of machines that you or I might care to own.
New cars, these days, they recommend TIG welding for any body or structural work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 01:54 AM (oqkO3)
Which brings up another point: preparation.
Getting a good weld means clean and well-prepped material, good clamping, steady hands, and a whole lot of light to see what your're doing.
Auto-darkening helmet good, but if you're working indoors you need big halogen or etc. lights because when it goes dark you STILL need to see the work.
When possible I like to work outdoors in the sun because of that, but if it's windy you get crap results 'cause the shield gas blows away...
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:55 AM (o+SC1)
Well, it broke the shell, and bent a brass pipe thing that attaches to the wire feed unit. It broke my heart. He, of course, as he always does, blames me. I put the thing in his way.
It's one hell of fancy machine. It's got an "idiot mode", but you can put in manual and control all sorts of parameters. Even inductance (this is simulated by the inverter control circuitry, not a real variable coil of some sort).
It's capable of spray-arc mode, in addition to regular short/arc mode, but I've never tried that. I'd need some bigger wire and other things which cost money, of course.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 01:55 AM (DW+jj)
AGW people on forums are aggressive and condescending, and I think it's helpful to tell them that they are. Make them understand that luke-warmists, who disagree with one part of the maybe four parts of AGW, are treated the same as raptor-jesus.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2016 01:56 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 01:57 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 01:52 AM (qUNWi)<<<
That sulfuric acid rain will make the field to sticky. So... no.
Posted by: the NFL at August 12, 2016 01:57 AM (H9MG5)
>> 3/16" section thickness or less.
MIG sucks for auto body sheet metal. You can do a bunch of tacks, but otherwise on 18-19ga steel you just get burn-thru.
If you want a bead on auto body sheet metal you've got to do TIG or gas and you've got to be good at it.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:58 AM (o+SC1)
Yeah, sometimes you gotta, but it shouldn't be routine.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:50 AM (o+SC1)
Well, he was talking in the context of using the MIG welder to install patch panels in car bodies, and you do indeed have to grind there, because the entire panel has to be finished.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 01:58 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 12, 2016 01:58 AM (kP16F)
I have a linux server here behind me, and I could use Bind, butt I was
thinking that for the average user, possibly a GUI configurable windows
option might be worth exploring in the end.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:35 AM (0+srV)
One fun thing is that a DNS server is just about the right size of thing for a Raspberry Pi to handle at 100-base-T (and even if most of your internal net works on Gigabit -- most likely, local cached DNS at 100 is faster than you'll get from outside).
Here's a howto:
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialWebSiteConfig.html#DNS
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 02:00 AM (EzgxV)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z88d6mw Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 01:47 AM (vBeA5)
If there's sulphuric acid at that level, it'd be a continual source of erosion on your vehicles, and a maintenance nightmare. Plus, there's the problem of resources. Since the surface is so hellish, mining is impossible, which would make the Venusian colonies dependent on either asteroid mining or Earth for all materials. Space tourism and content creation does not sound like the basis for a strong economy to me.
Sealing up and pressurizing a cave system on Mars would be a lot easier, oxygen would be obtainable from water in the soil, as would water itself. And given that 6 feet of soil is good enough radiation protection for a bomb shelter, there'd be no radiation problem even deeper. The only real issue from a technological standpoint is simply that it's unknown is how well the human body would adapt to 1/3 gravity for extended periods of time.
Since the entire planet's surface is exposed, that would be a mineral windfall. You'd have at least several decades worth of surface ore deposits that would simplify mining to the point of allowing settlers to spend more efforts bootstrapping their industry to the point where they could maintain the climate control technology and computer infrastructure necessary to maintain their civilization.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:01 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at August 12, 2016 01:48 AM (0+srV)
H8r!
Posted by: Michael Valentine Smith at August 12, 2016 02:02 AM (vBeA5)
That is one thing I've always to learn to do, TIG that is. But I never got the chance. A neighbor of mine is a magician with one, but he's had a stroke now, and couldn't weld squat.
Another neighbor has a big TIG machine he acquired years ago, an original "Heli-arc" machine, I think. But he can't use it for anything other than stick.
That neighbor who can has used that many times in the past, and has done downright beautiful artwork welding aluminum tanks and crap for all of us.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 02:02 AM (DW+jj)
Just some good, basic, all around welding equipment, both 'letcric and gas, will come pretty close to rounding out my basic garage equipment, and let me tackle about 95% or more of what projects might come my way.
That's all I ask.
If I need milling machine work, I'll send it out. Same with exotic welding.
Only so much one can do with a one car garage.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 12, 2016 02:02 AM (v5iqM)
If you want a bead on auto body sheet metal you've got to do TIG or gas and you've got to be good at it.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 01:58 AM (o+SC1)
I work on real cars, not the new ones made of starched Kleenex. I can lay down a bead with the MIG, no problem, providing the metal is clean. I do make a series of tacks first, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 02:03 AM (oqkO3)
>> welder to install patch panels in car bodies, and you
>> do indeed have to grind there, because the entire
>> panel has to be finished.
Yeah, been there, done that.
But with a MIG you're doing a bunch of tacks, and you've got to be super super careful not to put enough heat into the panel to warp everything, both during the welding and the grinding.
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 02:04 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 12, 2016 02:06 AM (q7T0y)
>> starched Kleenex.
1930s? 'Cause it's been 18-19ga since the '50s. I've done a fair bit of panel replacement on '60s hardware. Maybe I'm just not good enough...
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 02:07 AM (o+SC1)
Sealing up and pressurizing a cave system on Mars would be a lot easier, oxygen would be obtainable from water in the soil, as would water itself. And given that 6 feet of soil is good enough radiation protection for a bomb shelter, there'd be no radiation problem even deeper. The only real issue from a technological standpoint is simply that it's unknown is how well the human body would adapt to 1/3 gravity for extended periods of time.
Since the entire planet's surface is exposed, that would be a mineral windfall. You'd have at least several decades worth of surface ore deposits that would simplify mining to the point of allowing settlers to spend more efforts bootstrapping their industry to the point where they could maintain the climate control technology and computer infrastructure necessary to maintain their civilization.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:01 AM (HalrA)
Long term low gravity is a problem. The gravity on and above Venus is relatively close to Earth's. The temperature and outside pressure is also similar to Earth. Aside from the sulfuric acid outside and the need to import hydrogen, it is actually far more likely to succeed.
As for lack of resources, imagine a myriad number of floating city states similar to all the medieval cities such as Venice, Genoa, and the cities of the Hanseatic league.
Also, IIRC, but the conditions near the poles are not quite as hellish elsewhere.
Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 02:07 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: JROD at August 12, 2016 02:08 AM (wnwJC)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:08 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 02:11 AM (ngn8T)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:08 AM (HalrA)
IIRC, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have Earth-like gravity on their cloudy "surface", suggesting that floating city states would be the preferred model for colonization of the solar system.
Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 02:11 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:11 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 02:04 AM (o+SC1)
Yes. I understand that. If I am doing a patch panel in a visible place, I will carefully set it up, and do tacks at widely-separated points, stopping frequently to check that the alignment has shifted. Then a few more tacks, again skipping around. Then a short bead between two tacks; let it cool, then a short bead elsewhere on the panel, let it cool, and so on. You would do the same with TIG, or with oxy-acetylene. Don't get too much heat in one place, and "pull" the panel. And since I am normally doing butt-welds with special butt-welding clamps, it follows that part of the bead will be higher than the surface of the panel, and will have to be ground down. Again, distribute the grinding around, so that heat warpage doesn't occur.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 02:12 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 02:11 AM (vBeA5)
I'm definitely not against the idea and I'd happily go live in one if they were available, but I'm just saying, the lack of raw materials is a significant drawback and there has to be a source. New parts have to be fabricated to replace failed ones. New airships / skycities have to be made as the population grows, and so on.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:13 AM (HalrA)
Reserve fuel is spent, the gauge is bouncing offa the pin at E, and I'm done for the evening.
Hasta la nite nite, Horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 12, 2016 02:13 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: JROD at August 12, 2016 02:14 AM (wnwJC)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:13 AM (HalrA)
That's what the moons of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are for.
Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 02:15 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2016 02:07 AM (o+SC1)
Body metal got a lot thinner in the 1990's. My '96 Suburban got dented badly in a hailstorm a few years ago. A 1964 Studebaker station wagon parked nearby? Nary a mark.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 02:16 AM (oqkO3)
Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 02:15 AM (vBeA5)
That would follow the same model of interdependent colonies offworld mining camps that the Venus/Mars idea had. I think we might be onto something here.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:17 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: cthulhu
Because the base visor isn't immune from threats ... hard ROM based system touches this infected, oozing pus sore of an internet.
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 02:18 AM (ngn8T)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 12, 2016 02:18 AM (HalrA)
Posted by: The Cytherean Hat at August 12, 2016 02:15 AM (vBeA5)<<<
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE
Posted by: HAL at August 12, 2016 02:22 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2016 02:23 AM (oqkO3)
All that is well and good, but for life, we only have one data point so far, here on earth. No idea what, if anything, might be out there.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 12, 2016 02:23 AM (DW+jj)
On another note, when did Hot Air go lib? It is damn near unreadable. All Trump Trash all the time. Good grief.
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at August 12, 2016 02:27 AM (teYv/)
Hope Solo's butthole has a cameo as the Sarlacc pit in the next Star Wars movie
Posted by: wooga at August 12, 2016 02:29 AM (n5VsB)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 12, 2016 02:31 AM (KSKy7)
I'm currently in the process of building LookingGlass 1 and 2 -- each
built with dual 4-core Xeon processors (total of 8 cores) with 12G of
memory. Why have a throwaway actual machine when I can spin up a virtual
machine in seconds?
Posted by: cthulhu
Because the base visor isn't immune from threats ... hard ROM based
system touches this infected, oozing pus sore of an internet.
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 02:18 AM (ngn8T)
Yeah, well.....Xen bare-metal hypervisor, Ubuntu dom0 for their hardware library, five gigabit ports each -- 1 for SAN red, 1 for SAN blue, one for apt-get via internet, and two for ssh in on the LAN. LookingGlass 1 and 2 will both have 480G SSDs and 4 RAID5 2T drives (giving 12T, net).
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 02:34 AM (EzgxV)
Simply ask the following to challenge........
On a Planet with a Recorded temp(F) range of 260plus..
And today its 214.....(think about that......the difference between measured HIGH and LOW Temp on The PLANET...TODAY, is 214, 214, 214 degrees...look it up).....
What difference does that "average" degree increase Worldwide really mean?...... Make them explain "their" "science" and provide repeatable PROOF....
They can't.
Its because it's not Science. It's just that obvious. THEY CANNOT accurately/precisely predict a fuckin thing.
It won't snow in July in WV....Whoa, let me set down Nostradamus an Marvel at your Clairvoyance.
Truly Impressive.
Ummm....Not.
Science is Gravity....pick up your mouse and let it drop 1000 times......whats the result?
Science in action and demonstrated ad infinitum is the BENCH MARK. Battin 1000%...provides proof.
AGW/Climate Science.....a travesty.
If it was SCIENCE, They could prove it......
Get 365 of 365 FORECASTS Correct for.......Anywhere?
Within a degree, hell I'll give ya 3 to work with plus/minus.......just do it. If it is SCIENCE.....
DONE!!!!!
Science Settled Luddites!!!! Buy your CC's an revel an cherish your part in saving the planet... it'll make the lack of an Air Conditioner easier to bear, promise.
The AGW Cult is Insanity In Action.
I'm gonna go turn the ac down, just cause I still can.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at August 12, 2016 02:42 AM (a+Olp)
Internet --> LiPo ROM from spi.dod.mil [trusted source] (AIR GAP) SOHO Network
Internet --> VPN port/encrypted tunnel --> Work network
Internet --> VPN port/encrypted tunnel --> Hosted email
Internet (2) --> WiFi Mac locked kids stuff and phones
I have several test machines still on XP on my internal network; if they touched the internet they would wilt. SO I keep everything separate.
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 02:46 AM (ngn8T)
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 02:48 AM (qUNWi)
It was horrible but the Dental was amazing....
Ringo lost his legs. That was the first day....
Posted by: eleven at August 12, 2016 02:51 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 12, 2016 02:51 AM (vBeA5)
Yeah, well....
Internet --> LiPo ROM from spi.dod.mil [trusted source] (AIR GAP) SOHO Network
Internet --> VPN port/encrypted tunnel --> Work network
Internet --> VPN port/encrypted tunnel --> Hosted email
Internet (2) --> WiFi Mac locked kids stuff and phones
I have several test machines still on XP on my internal network; if
they touched the internet they would wilt. SO I keep everything
separate.
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 02:46 AM (ngn8T)
Essentially, you have to observe rigid protocols for everything connected to the internet. I'm allowing sync with repositories on one interface. Two others are dedicated to SAN. The other two are intended to connect VMs to the internet
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 02:53 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 12, 2016 02:53 AM (KSKy7)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 12, 2016 02:54 AM (KSKy7)
Posted by: Continental drift at August 12, 2016 02:56 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 12, 2016 03:00 AM (KSKy7)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 02:53 AM (EzgxV)
what does any of that mean in engrish?
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 12, 2016 02:54 AM (KSKy7)
In May of 2015, a poster on AoS using the nic 'Ira Weatheral' thought it would be funny to jack my identity online. He used Amazon's incredibly lax security to take over my email, and sent threatening emails to the fiancee. He used a tinyurl on an ONT to get me to open a jacked image that loaded malware on my main computer and keylogged passwords to financial accounts.
Although he didn't get a dime from all this mischief, I accurately observed that it would take at least a year and thousands of dollars for me to be safe from such abuse in the future.....
....and with what I've learned about common security weaknesses in the time since, I was probably off by at least 100%. Internet security is a shit sandwich served on a bun of shit with shit condiments.
I believe that I can secure my data by interacting with websites through Virtual Machines who are limited to outward-facing gigabit ethernet connections.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 03:11 AM (EzgxV)
Ans as a result, I can no longer see the sky, starting right about...now.
But I should count myself lucky, because for about two or three brief hours tonight, the fog cleared unexpectedly -- it was socked in until about 8pm, then started to clear, then from about nine til now it was mostly clear.
Which means (of course that I could see -- the meteor shower! Woo-hoo!
But sadly I live in a fairly urban area (SF Bay Area), so the lighting/haze was a bit of a problem, but I'm not in the core of the urban light-pollution zone, but in a darker zone where it's not so bad.
As a result, I saw about ten shooting stars in all during a 45-minute viewing "party" -- three of which were fireballs!
The very first one I saw was the best -- an orange-colored fireball that traversed about one-third of the sky very slowly, leaving a trail.
Later, two nearly as good but not a long fireballs also zoomed by.
But the rate was about one shooting star per five minutes, which frankly was pretty slow and not as impressive as I had been led to believe.
But it was still worth it. Especially considering that I thought I was going to be subsumed in fog all night, as is most of the Bay Area. I just got lucky with a freakish clearing.
Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2016 03:16 AM (jBuUi)
The gal on the front page. Well she is the splitting image of Hillary when she was younger. Now I know that Ace made a great post about being honest with ourselves but in this case I feel that I must overlook that.
Posted by: Drider at August 12, 2016 03:18 AM (6Xbsz)
That's the Bay Area for ya.
Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2016 03:19 AM (jBuUi)
I'd pulled the plug of every computer I owned ten days prior. Ira had been rummaging around my accounts the day before.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2016 03:24 AM (EzgxV)
Winning the Cultural War
https://youtu.be/TTmr442fiaM
Conservatives Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klaven among other talk about winning the culture war. This is from three years ago. It occurs to me that Shapiro is asking for someone to cut through the Gordian Knot of liberal media hegemony. But how could he know? ...that this means going from argument (something he excels at like no other) to rhetoric, that he has no talent for.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2016 03:25 AM (VdICR)
That's the Bay Area for ya.
Posted by: zombie at August 12, 2016 03:19 AM (jBuUi)
It's The Nothing!
Sebastian, give her a name!!1!
Posted by: Atreyu at August 12, 2016 03:26 AM (vBeA5)
You're supposed to be in bed young man.
Me too, but that made me lol!
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 03:41 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Noah Bawdy at August 12, 2016 03:53 AM (kI9U5)
-Posted by: Noah Bawdy at August 12, 2016 03:53 AM (kI9U5)
Fix'd! Be happy, amigo!
It could be worse...
You could have insomnia --or have played soccer.
Posted by: Captain Crayola at August 12, 2016 03:58 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 03:58 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 03:59 AM (6gk0M)
Purple and orange and blue
Ate a box of crayons, Crayola crayons
Now it's in my poo
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2016 04:02 AM (mgbwf)
A wax and fecal Shel Silverstein, you are!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:03 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 12, 2016 04:13 AM (KSKy7)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:15 AM (6gk0M)
I don't believe in any specific government rules about it being made into law. And certainly no group of other people no matter the amount of degrees and reputation they have should be allowed to decide on whether someone should have life giving treatment removed so as to let them die.
Part of admission to any hospital should be a form signed by the patient stating what their wishes are as to resuscitation and end of life requirements. (no doesn't matter if they're ignorant or don't want to decide they must answer the questions)
Some of the stories coming out of Britain and the Netherlands give me the heebie jeebies. With doctors and panels of so called experts deciding to withdraw treatment because in their opinion the persons possible enjoyment of life is diminished and it's okay to kill them through neglect.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 12, 2016 04:17 AM (ECJ+C)
I'm still grateful for the four hours I've gotten!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:18 AM (6gk0M)
There are actually legal documents for that you can complete at most hospitals. They are called "living wills". Both my wife and I just completed those at my doctor's office. They are 100% covered by insurance too.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 04:22 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 04:25 AM (bksJQ)
said our black lab one day
so she chomped on a crayon
magenta by name
...and let me tell ya, she was scary looking with those painted teeth and she didn't get why we were all freaking out trying to figure out what in the...
Then we found the pieces.
Oy vey!
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 04:28 AM (GzDYP)
I gave-up football as a passion four years ago. Then-again, I was a Browns fan.
...so there's that.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:30 AM (6gk0M)
She could have done the service of partaking in a green crayon, right? ... lol.
Perhaps purple would have been better than a bloody magenta!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:33 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 04:38 AM (bksJQ)
Like I said, it was fun to watch, but it wouldn't last. Still... you're seeing some fun Starting Pitchers to come out of this season.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:41 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 04:42 AM (bksJQ)
She was hideous! I always pictured her sitting there, picking her color.
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 04:38 AM (bksJQ)
At least you're not a Skins fan.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 04:43 AM (GzDYP)
Thanks for some good reads, NDH.
Oh, and good morning, horde.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 04:45 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:46 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 04:47 AM (x2V6c)
-Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 04:43 AM (GzDYP)
*HAH!*
Doggeh: ..."this one smells like chaos".
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:48 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 04:50 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 04:50 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 04:50 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 04:53 AM (x2V6c)
Creeper will you get another pet? Even if someday?
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 04:57 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 04:58 AM (GzDYP)
Even at that tender age I knew enough to hate all Philly teams and especially fans and to cling to my Red Sox.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2016 05:00 AM (mgbwf)
Grief takes time and ultimately, your love matters.
You trudge through the tears and eventually, you move-on.
Look through the pictures and cry your eyes-out. It'll take some "me-time", as it is colloquially called, nowadays.
Eventually, you'll see another puppy that just warms your heart and allows you to love again.
...eventually.
I've lost two good dogs in my forty-five years. Two more in my childhood. They were all special, but different.
I'll pray for your healing of the heart.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:03 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: buzzion at August 12, 2016 05:07 AM (bMG0w)
If I could fly over Philadelphia with my ass hanging-out of a plane?
...I'd offer some "Brotherly Love" to those below.
-I'd fart in their general direction.
...what did you think I meant?
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:10 AM (6gk0M)
;(
Creeper will you get another pet? Even if someday?
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 04:57 AM (bksJQ)
I have four cats, Skip. They'll keep me busy. Doubt I'd get another dog, though there was a Standard Poodle puppy in the vet's office yesterday that could have changed my mind.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:10 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 05:12 AM (bksJQ)
I hope I did the right thing, ODM. Her pain was under control but she fell down the stairs yesterday morning. She wasn't walking well before and that pretty much took care of her mobility.
She didn't want to go. Fought the sedative they gave her first. That was hard.
But then, it was never going to be easy.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:13 AM (x2V6c)
Oh, I don't know. You hit my "I hate Philly" button and everything after that is just autopilot.
I grew up in Doylestown, where are you?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2016 05:14 AM (mgbwf)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:03 AM (6gk0M)
Thanks, you old marshmallow.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:14 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 05:16 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:19 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2016 05:20 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:21 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:24 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:24 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:26 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:27 AM (6gk0M)
I know what you mean. Teeka looked at me like, "Help!" and struggled to get up. But she couldn't so I hugged her and told her I loved her. After a year and a half of dementia, she seemed to have one very lucid moment and I'll carry the doubt, even tho I know the rational decision was made. We do what we can.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 05:28 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:29 AM (x2V6c)
I'm so sorry, ODM. But I have to thank you for sharing this. It helped.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:30 AM (x2V6c)
OK, I thought someone upthread said your were near Philly. (Scrolling up is way to hard and no I won't do it, dammit).
So, here I shall rant about my sort-of home town.
It always had a beautiful housing stock in the downtown area. Victorian architecture, stone buildings, classy looking as hell.
But in the 70s there was nothing there. Vacant retail. A handful of shops. The big excitement was when we got a Sciillian pizza shop that sold pizza in squares that were deep instead of triangles that were shallow.
Now it's got no-shit Afghan tchotschke shops, Ethiopian restauraunts, an art house movie theater (refurbished from the 30s, it was idle in the 70s), everything a super-quaint charming shopping and cultural desitnation should have.
So when I occasionally go back and tell people the place used to suck they don't believe me.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2016 05:31 AM (mgbwf)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 05:33 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 05:39 AM (GzDYP)
What you describe is like nothing I've ever seen. ...like an Ethiopian Restaurant.
I wouldn't know an Afghan tchotchke-shop from a Polish knick-knack operation... lol.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 05:42 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 05:45 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:50 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2016 05:51 AM (zLDYs)
http://tinyurl.com/zufqn2p
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:52 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Drill at August 12, 2016 05:53 AM (DN9jO)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:53 AM (x2V6c)
Why not elevate the cross overs, thus eliminating the traffic lights?
Posted by: Drill at August 12, 2016 05:53 AM (DN9jO)
My first thought. The object should be to eliminate gas-hogging stops. This does not appear to be an improvement.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:54 AM (x2V6c)
DDDI. Dumb Divergent Diamond Interchange
Posted by: Drill at August 12, 2016 05:56 AM (DN9jO)
I got an email from Zillow this morning and I guess they had a big drink of the Klimate Khange Kool-Aid.
The email subject was "Rising tides: Will homes near you survive or submerge?"
"It's not a matter of if, but how much climate change will alter our country; especially the coastal regions. A new study projects sea levels will rise 6 feet over the next century. We looked at which homes will be most affected and how some cities are preparing."
Posted by: Bruce at August 12, 2016 05:56 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 06:01 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:01 AM (WVsWD)
{gently shakes Vic's shoulder}
Vic? You up yet?
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 05:53 AM (x2V6c)
I've been up since about 1:30 am. Reading and waiting on 6 am. VNN is done already and ready to go.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:01 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Bruce at August 12, 2016 06:03 AM (8ikIW)
That's all I have."
-Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:01 AM (WVsWD)
That'll do, pig.
...that'll do"
G'Mornin', Tim.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 06:07 AM (6gk0M)
But I did anyway
Posted by: Bruce at August 12, 2016 06:07 AM (8ikIW)
The email subject was "Rising tides: Will homes near you survive or submerge?"
"It's
not a matter of if, but how much climate change will alter our country;
especially the coastal regions. A new study projects sea levels will
rise 6 feet over the next century. We looked at which homes will be most
affected and how some cities are preparing."
Posted by: Bruce at August 12, 2016 05:56 AM (8ikIW)
Standard tactic of the AGW scammers. Start with the assumption that the earth is warming out of control and look at the impact.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:08 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:09 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 06:09 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:09 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:09 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:10 AM (mpXpK)
There is something not right about this ruling. Why in the hell is Obama emptying the prisons from so-called non-violent drug users while at the same time refusing to reclassify marijuana? Could this be just a means to maintain draconian sentences for "enemies of the State" when they want to impose them?
And, as I told that federal judge several years ago, I think all federal laws on drugs are unconstitutional anyway. And no, I am not a druggie or a supporter of the idiot drug Libertarian Party. I simply believe that the government is obligated to follow the Constitution as it is written. If you don't like it there is a way to change it that is legal.
http://tinyurl.com/jr2e832
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:10 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:10 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/j4kr5ck
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/jbvz6mx
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/hb57mcy
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/zqqthda
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)
Intelligence reports produced by U.S. Central Command that tracked the Islamic State's 2014-15 rise in Iraq and Syria were skewed to present a rosier picture of the situation on the ground, according to a bombshell report released Thursday by a House Republican task force.
So what does the liar 'n chief say?
When the allegations initially surfaced last year, the White House insisted no one in the administration pressured anyone, and suggested blame may rest with the military.
IOW didntdunothin. Also note that a brief search on this does reveal a few major newspapers are reporting it (didn't check them to see slant) but none of the alphabet news channels are covering it.
http://tinyurl.com/hxm44cg
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:12 AM (mpXpK)
6 secrets of Bewitched revealed. No mention is made here that the show to me looked like a rip-off of the Jimmy Stewart/Kim Novak movie Bell Book and Candle. Also no mention of the horrid 2005 remake movie starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. Kidman was fine playing her normal eye candy part; Ferrell was unwatchable. He was so bad he ruined the whole movie.
http://tinyurl.com/zyjhsl3
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:12 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/h4scgff
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:12 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/hxpwpy7
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:13 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/zt22hgn
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:13 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:13 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:13 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/js7pcvh
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:14 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/zv2ruvw
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:14 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/gml93qa
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:14 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:15 AM (mpXpK)
So they disappointed me by winning last night.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 06:18 AM (ZnIt3)
Accu weather isn't calling for rain here today or tomorrow. That means we will get drenched.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:18 AM (WVsWD)
Just like our Founders, we have no place to flee. We are flanked by hostiles on all sides.
Choice time is coming. The sckank will make sure of it.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:21 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 06:21 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: Golfman at August 12, 2016 06:21 AM (9HX7k)
Which would only continue under Hillary Clinton. I'm seeing some poll numbers that show the republican ticket getting 20% black support. There's no 'path to the white house' for Hillary Clinton losing any percentage of that bloc of voters.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 06:21 AM (ZnIt3)
scientists who show clear evidence that sun activity, not CO2 is what is
causing the fluctuations in earth's climate.
Somebody had posted a while back, a website called Suspicious Observers. After watching his daily update on the sun and the weather, it gave me a new perspective on how the sun controls the show. Especially the videos he has showing flares or eruptions on the sun with a earth image for scale.
We are but a pimple in the solar system
Posted by: Bruce at August 12, 2016 06:23 AM (8ikIW)
I'm trying to think of a polite word for "insane".
Hillary is worse than awful and she's going to win because she's less awful than Trump.
We had 17 better choices.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2016 06:25 AM (mgbwf)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:26 AM (mpXpK)
http://tinyurl.com/navzbxx
We are SOooo screwed.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 06:28 AM (x2V6c)
Sure they did. Right up into the FDR era. "Something changed..."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 12, 2016 06:31 AM (tIja6)
Here in Pennsylvania, it took record black turnout for 0bama to take the state by 200, 000 votes against Romney. That's not going to happen again.
The #NeverTrump brigade need to embrace reality and get over their juvenile temper tantrum. Their guy lost for a reason.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 06:32 AM (ZnIt3)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 12, 2016 06:25 AM (mgbwf)
Like Jeb! or the son of a mailman. Give it a rest. You have to choose between crooked Hillarity! and Trump. Pick one but pick wisely.
Let's face it, Hillarity! will continue Obozo's policies -- without the restraint of Congress. Trump will have no such leeway.
Posted by: RickZ at August 12, 2016 06:34 AM (o+O5j)
There is an appeal to be forever "the loyal opposition"
I don't know who coined the label but it's called "battered conservative syndrome"
They keep wanting more.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:36 AM (WVsWD)
Trump was in Florida yesterday. In the fashion of Ross Perot was using some visual effects. Damming stuff.
Betcha never see one of his graphs/charts on the news. There's a picture of one over at BB.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 06:37 AM (ZnIt3)
I'm surprised they haven't come after the racing sausages at Miller Park. There's a hot dog, a bratwurst, an Italian sausage, a Polish sausage and a sombrero wearing Chorizo running around the field after the 6th inning - the first of all these racing mascots at mlb parks. They're quite stereotypical and yet no Mexican - no anybody- has ever thought to complain about them, which means that sooner or later one of those huge butt aches known as SJWs will raise a stink.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 06:38 AM (P8951)
Depressing article here on why the GOP won't challenge voter fraud.
http://tinyurl.com/navzbxx
We are SOooo screwed.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 06:28 AM (x2V6c)
That is an old story and the agreement is not as bad as that article makes it out to be. I did a thorough investigation of that agreement a while back. It is odious and blatantly unconstitutional but not as bad as it is made out to be. They can always get third parties to challenge vote fraud by the Democrats.
With the current FEC tough it is virtually impossible to get a ruling against Democrats regardless of who challenges them. And even if a local court hits someone for obvious vote fraud like that black woman who openly bragged about voting 5 times on TV, the punishment is usually a "please don't do that again" thing. Unless you are a Republican.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:39 AM (mpXpK)
I disagree with that. Trump is a carney barker show man right? I can see him putting one on. I can see his AG marching onto the floor of the House, Several Federal Marshalls in tow, and arresting several members for corruption on live teevee.
It's the kind of thing he would do too and people would love him for it.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:39 AM (WVsWD)
letter sent to Penis from 70 different GOP hacks and former lawmakers
urging Penis to cut off funding to Trump because they were worried about
down ticket races and that Penis is standing behind Trump. I guess time
will tell here, but we don't need any of this kind of shit while
battling the queen of scank.
.
.
.NBC news dutifully reported this very morning that 70 Republican US Senators wrote that letter. Oh and Trump is mean and losing the election.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 12, 2016 06:41 AM (iONHu)
Well, that's somewhat reassuring. But not much.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 06:42 AM (x2V6c)
BY 'leeway', Tim, I mean Trump will not have a Congress rolling over and playing (?) dead if Trump uses a phone and a pen to make 'law'. Congress will suddenly find its backbone when it comes to their Constitutional duties.
Posted by: RickZ at August 12, 2016 06:43 AM (o+O5j)
Milo over at BB is funny as hell this morning. While supporting Trump he also compares him to an-stage drag queen.
I don't care who joins the fight I'm 1000% #NeverHillary.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 06:43 AM (ZnIt3)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 12, 2016 06:43 AM (6gk0M)
But that would never happen, first off because congress critters are protected on the floors of congress by the Constitution and because no Republican has the balls to do something like that.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:44 AM (mpXpK)
But I did anyway
Posted by: Bruce at August 12, 2016 06:07 AM (8ikIW)
When it's good - yum, yum, yum.
One of the best things of summer. You've inspired me to go see if I can find a roadside stand selling sweet corn today after work.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 06:45 AM (P8951)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 12, 2016 06:45 AM (iONHu)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:46 AM (mpXpK)
I understood, I think, what you meant Rick. My point should have said simply, is that with Trump, he will be able to use fear to get what he wants.
How many hastert types are still hiding within the gopE halls of power?
I will say enough to where Trump will have no fear of them and do as he pleases.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 06:48 AM (WVsWD)
Wow there is a Joint probe into the Clinton Foundation by the US Attorneys office in NY and the FBI.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 12, 2016 06:45 AM (iONHu)
I don't believe that, especially about the FBI. The corrupt DOJ has already refused any investigation of Scankles' sham charity and I doubt that Democrat NY will do anything.
Now if you were talking about an investigation by the Texas Rangers I could believe it.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 06:50 AM (mpXpK)
And folks, this is after every single news source and pundit has been hammering Trump negatively 24/7 without mercy. Imagine what the race would look like if we actually had an unbiased press.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 12, 2016 06:54 AM (iONHu)
said our black lab one day
so she chomped on a crayon
magenta by name
...and let me tell ya, she was scary looking with those painted teeth and she didn't get why we were all freaking out trying to figure out what in the...
Then we found the pieces.
Oy vey!
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 12, 2016 04:28 AM (GzDYP)
That's a great story!
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 12, 2016 06:57 AM (P8951)
Got free drinks, a nice mess of bbq brisket, the chance to mingle with some fine folks, AND got paid cash. Sometimes, life can be beautiful.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 12, 2016 06:57 AM (4EKP/)
Hillary Clinton $48, 500, 000
Donald Trump $19, 000
Guaranteed not to appear on CNN.
Then, in a sign that he's learning, he mentions, 'we could have used a less attractive picture' but he says he overruled that.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 06:59 AM (ZnIt3)
Posted by: blaster at August 12, 2016 07:04 AM (ACqhm)
http://tinyurl.com/hllcept
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:05 AM (x2V6c)
Now if the election were held today, Trump and a rep that's running for an open seat would be the only votes the rebublicans could get. There are zero pro-Liberty/ constitution
Types down ticket. I'm being generous by even giving the new guy a chance.
Not interested at all in providing Bitch and Paul with more numbers for their worthless, but less majorities. Cruz was option 1a, Trump IS option 1b.
Posted by: Cooldawg at August 12, 2016 07:07 AM (Qks3J)
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 07:07 AM (ngn8T)
Ego. Virtue signaling.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 12, 2016 07:09 AM (UYkjZ)
September 25th. Philadelphia Eagles v Pittsburgh Steelers. Home game for the Eagles. Let the trash talk begin. :-)
Though I seem to notice more eastern Pennsylvania morons. Represent?
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 07:11 AM (ZnIt3)
These states are at the greatest risk of having their voting process hacked.
http://tinyurl.com/hllcept
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:05 AM (x2V6c)
That site is not wholly accurate on absentee balloting by e-mail or fax in SC. You can obtain your application for an absentee ballot on the internet but it is only a "form". You print the form, then complete it, sign it, and return it to the county registrar in person, by e-mail, or by fax. That is not the same thing. You are returning a photocopy of the signed form.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:13 AM (mpXpK)
I imagine there may have been several states with situations like that that don't completely conform to the options in the map.
Interesting to see the states with NO outside voting. I knew there was a reason to move to Oklahoma.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:16 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 07:17 AM (ZnIt3)
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 07:07 AM (ngn8T)
He is not a member of the establishment. He doesn't hold the socially correct ideas of that tribe. If you hold the right ideas, you are good and smart. If you hold other ideas, you are evil and stupid.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 12, 2016 07:18 AM (Ee2nz)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:18 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic the hobbit at August 12, 2016 07:20 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:22 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 12, 2016 06:54 AM (iONHu)
If we had an unbiased press, Hillary would have had an "accident" by now and Kaine would be the nominee.
I liked how Beck was lamenting that Trump is behind in certain key states and he just can't win because he is so incompetent. Of course Beck doesn't mention that he himself spent the primaries calling Trump the reincarnation of Mussolini.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 12, 2016 07:22 AM (Ee2nz)
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2016 07:24 AM (805dc)
Posted by: blaster at August 12, 2016 07:25 AM (ACqhm)
That's why I changed my nic to current a couple weeks ago. Let the 'true' conservatives hold that high moral ground.
I want to stop the third term of the progressive agenda:
Global warming
Higher energy costs
No vetting of islamists
Border insecurity
Moribund economy
Deficit spending with no end in sight
Lawlessness
There's more... but none so blind
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 07:27 AM (ZnIt3)
creeper,, do I understand correctly that you had to let your doggy go yesterday? If so, I'm sorry - I know you'll miss Sasha.
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2016 07:24 AM (805dc)
You do, bluebell. It was a bad day. mr. creeper died in January, so I've had a double whammy. The last thing I said to Sasha, who has never quit looking for him, was "Go see Russ."I hope she did.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:28 AM (x2V6c)
Guess what - I took your advice and went back to the bookstore to meet the owner and follow up on my application.
They lost my application! But the owner talked to me a bit, then I emailed him a new resume, and he called and wants to see me today.
*fingers crossed*
(Also I was wrong about the hours - looks like it's second shift, which sucks, but I'm willing to make it work if they hire me)
Posted by: @votermom at August 12, 2016 07:29 AM (7lVbc)
Posted by: Hillary "Felon" Clinton at August 12, 2016 07:31 AM (22uju)
Posted by: creeper
Can we get housekeeping in here? Ace's place is dusty.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 12, 2016 07:32 AM (UYkjZ)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:32 AM (x2V6c)
So we are in post Rynd Atlas Shrugged territory. Gulp.
Just another day in our stroll through Mordor.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2016 07:32 AM (hyuyC)
I'm sorry that Sasha had to go, but you always have us
And some kitties too, as I recall. Not the same thing, I know, but still.
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2016 07:32 AM (805dc)
Hugs & prayers.
You are having a very bad year so far, but I pray it will turn around soon.
My best friend was having a bad year too - last year she lost her job, then her dog, then her cat. But she always stayed positive and now it's turned around - she just got a great new job up north a bit. I'm so happy for her.
I'll be praying hard for you too, just like I did for her.
Posted by: @votermom at August 12, 2016 07:33 AM (7lVbc)
766
OK, I understand not liking Trump, but what's the point of the
backstabbing? He loses, you get blamed; he wins and youve got troubles.
Ego. Virtue signaling.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 12, 2016 07:09 AM (UYkjZ)
Stirring up enough shit that it gets people to temporarily quit politics for the season. We've already seen that here, with several long-time commenters leaving the blog (that's over and above the bannings when folks cross the line).
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2016 07:33 AM (LuZz8)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 12, 2016 07:34 AM (4EKP/)
Hey, if he offers you a job and if it's a good fit, take it, even if it's not the shift you want. Because I would bet that eventually you'd be able to change shifts when something new opened up.
Be sure to keep us informed!
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2016 07:34 AM (805dc)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:32 AM (x2V6c)
Thank you creeper!
Btw I started reading your friend's book. Interesting but slow going - need to look up the book he's referencing.
Posted by: @votermom at August 12, 2016 07:34 AM (7lVbc)
The cats will keep me plenty busy and they're probably looking forward to a little more attention from their human than they've been getting lately.
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:35 AM (x2V6c)
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 12, 2016 07:32 AM (UYkjZ)
-----------------
Here I am. Have a tissue.
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2016 07:36 AM (805dc)
Just another day in our stroll through Mordor.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2016 07:32 AM (hyuyC)
As I said, at least in Atlas Shrugged the good guys had a place to go so the looters could stew in their own juices. We don't have that.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:36 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at August 12, 2016 07:36 AM (SXa8W)
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Holy geez!
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at August 12, 2016 07:37 AM (+FSld)
Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2016 07:37 AM (x2V6c)
I am so glad I listened to you guys and went back!
We'll see what happens.
Posted by: @votermom at August 12, 2016 07:37 AM (7lVbc)
Posted by: Killerdog at August 12, 2016 07:37 AM (TBmsQ)
Posted by: Colin at August 12, 2016 07:38 AM (tVUA+)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 12, 2016 07:34 AM (4EKP/)
Vic the Hobbit does the opposite. I am hungry ALL the time since I quit smoking.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:38 AM (mpXpK)
We'll see what happens.
Posted by: @votermom at August 12, 2016 07:37 AM (7lVbc)
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Fingers crossed and more importantly - prayers up!
Posted by: bluebell at August 12, 2016 07:38 AM (805dc)
I don't know what the answer is going forward but something has to happen quick.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 12, 2016 07:39 AM (qQkQd)
6 secrets of Bewitched revealed. No mention is made here that the show to me looked like a rip-off of the Jimmy Stewart/Kim Novak movie Bell Book and Candle. Also no mention of the horrid 2005 remake movie starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. Kidman was fine playing her normal eye candy part; Ferrell was unwatchable. He was so bad he ruined the whole movie.
Elizabeth Montgomery was smokin'! Never a fan of the show though. Never saw the movie either. I don't see the big deal about Will Ferrell.
Posted by: Puddleglum is on vacation, Weeeee at August 12, 2016 07:40 AM (rJxzw)
I hope that Hillary's e-mails keep dribbling out over the next several
weeks. We know she is crooked and it doesn't hurt to be reminded every
day until the election. In the meantime she will keep lying and lying.
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at August 12, 2016 07:36 AM (SXa8W)
The problem is that the LIVs are not getting exposed to those e-mails.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:40 AM (mpXpK)
We have to make our own Gulch out of friends, family and neighbors.
I should look at parallel societies, like Mormons and Amish. Power generation, green houses and good fields of fire seem to rise in importance.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2016 07:41 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Corona at August 12, 2016 07:41 AM (ragzU)
Posted by: @votermom at August 12, 2016 07:42 AM (7lVbc)
Posted by: @votermom at August 12, 2016 07:43 AM (7lVbc)
Enough to give him a pass if he can somehow extract his head from his anus.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 07:44 AM (WVsWD)
I just checked to see what he's up to. Surprise, surprise. Pushing Evan McMuffin. The Mormons want to tank Utah for the republicans.
Six electoral votes for Hillary. With Beck's record of 'helping' Cruz, which I thought not the least bit helpful, who knows though?
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 07:45 AM (ZnIt3)
Here in Pennsylvania, it took record black turnout for 0bama to take the state by 200, 000 votes against Romney. That's not going to happen again.
The #NeverTrump brigade need to embrace reality and get over their juvenile temper tantrum. Their guy lost for a reason.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative
Which explains the whe blm BS, the dims are desperately trying to whip the black vote.
Posted by: Jean at August 12, 2016 07:46 AM (ngn8T)
show though. Never saw the movie either. I don't see the big deal about
Will Ferrell.
Posted by: Puddleglum is on vacation, Weeeee at August 12, 2016 07:40 AM (rJxzw)
I have only seen one movie by him that I liked, that was Elf. But since it has been shown now every Christmas for ten billion years even that has been worn out. Even a blond hottie version of Zoey Deschanel can't save that one after 10 showings.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:47 AM (mpXpK)
If we had an investigating media, I'll bet the extra PA turnout was partially fraud. If.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2016 07:48 AM (hyuyC)
Though I seem to notice more eastern Pennsylvania morons. Represent?
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative
GO STEELERS!!! BOOO EAGLES!!!! PHILLY BELONGS IN JERSEY!!!
Best that I can do at the moment, I'm still drinking coffee. I'm currently in Western PA on my exotic golf vacation and I'm enjoying my time away from the DC hell.
Posted by: Puddleglum is on vacation, Weeeee at August 12, 2016 07:49 AM (rJxzw)
Keep in mind that link I had a few days ago that said a LOT of these "never Trumpers" are trolls paid for by the DNC and the Scankles campaign. And some of them are from those 70 RNCe stooges linked above who are STILL trying to get the RNC to dump Trump.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:50 AM (mpXpK)
Last poll I saw had Trump up by 12 points in Utah. Theres a link at CTH a couple threads down.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at August 12, 2016 07:52 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at August 12, 2016 07:53 AM (SXa8W)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 12, 2016 07:53 AM (mpXpK)
Found it...
Trump, the billionaire businessman, was at 37 percent in the new poll, and Clinton, the former secretary of state, at 25 percent. That's a 1-point gain for Trump, who was at 36 percent in June, and a 2-point drop for Clinton, who was at 27 percent.
Yeah, but McMuffin could make that 12 points disappear.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 12, 2016 08:04 AM (ZnIt3)
"Scientist were able to determine these sharks were 400 years old by capturing them and running then through a deli slicer"
Okay it's not that bad, but still, they accidentally catch them and kill them while researching other animals, just to find "Oops just killed the oldest living animals on earth, mah bad"
If this was done in the name of feeding the world there would be outrage, fines and people screaming that the offender be jailed, but since it's in the name of science its all peaches and cream.
Posted by: Rbastid at August 12, 2016 09:55 AM (XwTyM)
Well no crap, they need to raise the conservation efforts to offset the several hundred you just killed dummy.
Posted by: Rbastid at August 12, 2016 09:57 AM (XwTyM)
Posted by: Vmaximus at August 12, 2016 10:31 AM (nD95h)
of times although she really gets around, moving up and down the coast
from Florida to New England."
Snrk.
The last i had heard of a gal named Mary Lee in my high school class (this was many years ago), she was in law school.
Guess she graduated with honors...
Posted by: another lurking lurker what lurks at August 12, 2016 10:40 AM (hfFmT)
On a side note, I live in the outskirts of the burbs where semi rural travel is normal until last year, when they installed several traffic circles on a nearby two lane highway which is the main drag connecting the burb to access to the 'city'. They're poorly designed, you have to travel at a crawl, with some ignoring safety and they just bomb through it. They've planted tall ornamental grass in the middle of them, and now it's impossible to see the other side, so when you come around the curve, you're blind to anyone else in the circle. Glad that I'm cautious because about a week ago, I came creeping around the inner portion, and came upon an elderly lady, obviously confused, driving a Cube, who was coming at me head on in MY lane. She was entering from a side road, and didn't know where the hell that she was supposed to go. Had I been going the speed limit of 20, that could have been a head on collision. So much for improving 'safety'. And the yahoo powers that be want more of them out here. Some residents are fighting it, but you know what is going to happen. City Hall will get what it wants and only having a pile of dead people will give them pause from promoting their agenda.
Posted by: tired at August 12, 2016 11:01 AM (kOGRT)
Traffic circles go like this.
Land Planner: We want organic curving streets, that look pretty.
Engineer: the more uniform the street the higher lot yield.
Developer: Pretty sells go with curves.
Planner: We want a pretty traffic circle here that will flow into these organic streets and look fabulous.
Engineer: That street has a 45 mph design speed, the minimum design radius is 1,148' so...
Developer: What? That is huge I am not giving that much land...
Engineer: If we make it that small you will need a big clear zone for trucks and mountable curbs for the trailers to go over and...
Developer: We will put up a no trucks sign, go with pretty, pretty sells.
Posted by: Vmaximus at August 12, 2016 11:32 AM (nD95h)
Hey, that's my local ddi! Seems to work OK but you do have to watch the traffic lights and lane markings.
George V.
Posted by: George V. at August 12, 2016 09:10 PM (LUHWu)
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