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Occupy Silicon Valley? Tech Magnates Fear Next Campaign in Socialist War Might Target Them

And they've spent so many years courting them, promoting them, and even paying them a lot of money to act as "consultants" for their social media platforms -- what a shame if the alligator next turns to eat them.

It will be funny if that happens, because they'll try to rally public support -- from conservatives, the only people who would conceivably defend them -- and we'll be sitting here remembering their years and years of directing the left's terrorism against us.

Kind of like the Saudi princes pouring money to spread Wahabism -- direct the terrorism towards some convenient scapegoat, other than yourself.

So yeah, don't bother, Silicon Valley. If they come after you, you're on your own.

Tech stocks have surged, and Bank of America says it could lead to talk of wealth redistribution


Standout gains in large technology stocks like Amazon.com and Apple show just how much the sector is disconnected from the sluggish growth on the rest of Main Street, one notable strategist said in a report titled "Occupy Silicon Valley."

The tech stock rally "could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution of the increasingly concentrated wealth of Silicon Valley," Bank of America Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist, Michael Hartnett, said in a report released Monday.

Give the Social Justice Warriors space to destroy, I always say.

Posted by: Ace at 05:22 PM




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1 Foist!

Posted by: The Cookie Man at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (IoMkE)

2 I'll get the others

Posted by: The Cookie Man at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (IoMkE)

3 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (DQ4Fv)

4 Yea, I'm tired of the TruCon play of defending big business when it goes out of its way to shit on conservatives.

I wouldn't mind seeing Trump tease some antitrust action on companies like Amazon and Google.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:25 PM (zu/Gn)

5 I still can't believe he's here, in the White House. There, the disgusting clown standing on the same carpet on which walked so many truly good and honest people, paragons of integrity, like Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch and Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes.

Well anyway there's no way the president can see me. Except for my face! My face was not covered with matching blue cloth!

But then again, I am very tall. What if I stand on my tiptoes, perhaps my face would be mistaken for a bas-relief carving in the crown molding?

On the other hand, just by moving up to my tiptoes the movement might be noticed.

But suddenly, before I could resolve upon a tactic, the president called out to me: "Jim, come over here!"

How embarrassing! Here I am, the master FBI agent in deep cover of drapery, and my cover so easily blown!

Was the statement just uttered by the president an order or merely a suggestion, I wondered?

Would I be jeopardizing the independence of the FBI from the president if I complied?

The FBI had worked hard to separate ourselves from the executive branch and if we can successfully achieve the next phase of our strategy, self-funding, we will be able to achieve independence from the legislative branch as well. What kind of precedent would I be setting for future directors, if I so easily caved in to such a presidential directive?

"Comey! What the hell are you doing! Get over here!"

Well that was clearly an order.

I walked over and the president grabbed me by the elbow and pulled me forward. "Thanks for coming, Jim, and I appreciate all the great work you and your wonderful agents do," he said into my ear.

Or did he? Perhaps what he really said was, "Thanks for covering up for me, Jim, and I would appreciate it if you and your agents obstruct justice for me in my conspiracy with the Russian government." Damn, I wish I had worn a wire, just like McCabe suggested.

But wait, I thought, perhaps there was another tack here. I never consented to his grabbing me and pulling me forward like that. Was I just assaulted by the president of the United States?

But I would need evidence for such an explosive charge. I made a mental note to to check my arm later for bruises.

Posted by: Excerpts from James Comey's Diary at May 22, 2017 05:25 PM (m5dkR)

6 (Reads Post, blinks repeatedly) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (*GASP*) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 05:25 PM (NiR1r)

7 It would serve them right to get their "windows' broken...

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2017 05:26 PM (7uYFy)

8 "The tech stock rally "could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution of the increasingly concentrated wealth of Silicon Valley," Bank of America Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist, Michael Hartnett, said in a report released Monday.
"


The financial equivalent of the rapist saying, "Don't try to escape, or I'll just hurt you more."

Who is this Michael Hartnett that he gets to bring SJW ideology to the heart of a corporation?

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:26 PM (DQ4Fv)

9 Was I just assaulted by the president of the United States?

But I would need evidence for such an explosive charge. I made a mental note to to check my arm later for bruises.

Posted by: Excerpts from James Comey's Diary at May 22, 2017 05:25 PM (m5dkR)

---

Not just assaulted.

Raped.

Posted by: Super Mario Bastille Day at May 22, 2017 05:27 PM (fD1ST)

10 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.
--

Money and prestige for me, but not for thee, peons.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:27 PM (BPeNq)

11 Darned sock.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 05:27 PM (fD1ST)

12 We need the dues!

Posted by: California at May 22, 2017 05:27 PM (7utzD)

13 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.
Posted by: zombie

_____

Cultural Marxism


Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:27 PM (zu/Gn)

14 One thing about Leftism is it eventually turns in on itself, so sooner or later

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 05:27 PM (Ot7+c)

15 Clearly I was not truly first. Comey was here all along writing the February entries in his My Little Pony diary.

Posted by: The Cookie Man at May 22, 2017 05:27 PM (IoMkE)

16 lol I hope this happens

Posted by: thathalfrican - back at it at May 22, 2017 05:28 PM (gCuq+)

17 Wealth redistribution is great until it's your wealth being redistributed.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 22, 2017 05:28 PM (qJhUV)

18 Posted by: Excerpts from James Comey's Diary
===


Very nice!

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 05:28 PM (Uxokn)

19 All the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no."

Posted by: Rorschach at May 22, 2017 05:28 PM (7HtZB)

20 Oh my.

Posted by: Guess who at May 22, 2017 05:28 PM (HCnEB)

21 It will be great when the Indian guys farm out their protesting duties to $10/hour illegals.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 05:28 PM (fD1ST)

22 The left is never satisfied. It's impossible to be sufficiently woke. The key is to stop caring.

Posted by: Lauren at May 22, 2017 05:29 PM (1WYFF)

23 Or did he? Perhaps what he really said was, "Thanks for covering up for me, Jim, and I would appreciate it if you and your agents obstruct justice for me in my conspiracy with the Russian government."
---

Oh.My.God. Perhaps what he really said was "If you don't cover up for me Jim, I'll have my Russian friends in construction make you a permanent part of the cement infrastructure of the newest Trump building."

Posted by: James Comey's Other Diary at May 22, 2017 05:29 PM (BPeNq)

24 Tech stocks have surged, and Bank of America says it could lead to talk of wealth redistribution



We already have wealth redistribution. That is what the graduated income tax does.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2017 05:30 PM (mpXpK)

25 Let's start the ball rolling with that insufferable, thieving little prick at Facebook. Bad things should focus all their attention on him.

Posted by: pep at May 22, 2017 05:30 PM (LAe3v)

26 I say again, anything bad that happens to folks who get rich selling our personal data while spurning good American workers in favor of exploitable foreign labor is solely on them.

Karma. It's a bitch.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 22, 2017 05:30 PM (AM1GF)

27
I'm hoping they set up a go-fund-me.

I'm in for some tents and a porta potty.

What they have done to American tech workers is unconscionable.

Even reading here, I see the carnage. Was kind of hoping that Ace would some day set up a 'Situations Wanted' page for AoS tech people.

Some are on the edge of taking their own lives. I do not exaggerate.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 05:30 PM (HTdUD)

28 The tech stock rally "could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution of the increasingly concentrated wealth of Silicon Valley," Bank of America Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist, Michael Hartnett, said in a report released Monday.

"Could", but won't. Soros isn't the only source of sweet cash for the NGO's and SJW alphabet communist activist groups.

Even idiot snowflakes know not to bite the hand that's obviously feeding them, or at least their "facilitators" do.

Posted by: kbdabear at May 22, 2017 05:30 PM (AOrEZ)

29 Will there be signs reminiscent of Men's Wearhouse and the occupooper movement??

I've never spent a dime with them since no matter what I needed.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 05:30 PM (UmSfZ)

30 "occupy" will have harder time with Silicon Valley than they did with Wall Street

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 05:30 PM (c6/9Q)

31 The left looks at this like they always do, it's really our money so give it back.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 05:31 PM (SwNos)

32 I'll take the high road here. I'm ok with kicking Occupy to the ditch regardless of who they're targeting.

But if someone punches Mark Zuckerberg the way they went after Richard Spencer, I'm not going to deny a snicker or two.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 22, 2017 05:31 PM (3OIiX)

33 All the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no."
---

We're living in fairy tale times.

MSM: Boy Who Cried Wolf

Obama: Emperor's New Clothes

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:31 PM (BPeNq)

34 As Rorschach would put it: "The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the SJWs and Virtue Signaling Tech Tycoons will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (NiR1r)

35 Go get 'em @Rorschach

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (3OIiX)

36 Hey Berkeley-freaks?

Those tech guys in Silicon Valley?

*whispers*
*Stealth Trump supporters!*



GO GET EM!

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (Uxokn)

37 Idiot lefties will be all over their smartphones and social media promoting this.

Natural selection. I'm for it.

Posted by: The Cockroach at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (s8v1a)

38 Tech venture companies in "Silicon Valley" are notorious for taking the young .. sucking the life out of them in 'near slave' conditions ... then tossing them aside when they hit 30

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (e8kgV)

39 Oh.My.God. Perhaps what he really said was "If you don't cover up for me Jim, I'll have my Russian friends in construction make you a permanent part of the cement infrastructure of the newest Trump building."
Posted by: James Comey's Other Diary at May 22, 2017 05:29 PM (BPeNq)


Jimmy Hoffa is lonely in his concrete bunker underneath the NJ Turnpike.

Posted by: Basement Cat at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (3C9q2)

40 You know, if Trump wanted to play some smart politics, he should include with his tax cut plan some sort of "oligarch" tax where after like $100 million, any gains are simply taxed like regular income.

I do think these zillionaires would shut up about pushing socialism for a bit if they weren't only paying a 15% capital gains tax.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (zu/Gn)

41 Apple needs to do a one-time dividend distribution, again. A LARGE dividend distribution.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (OdK9v)

42 >>Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

The tech business is rife with cronyism. It's about capitalism only in that it is about making money but it is pretty far from the ideal of free enterprise.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (/tuJf)

43 Lights Out in London Silicon Valley...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-uFp0m2xNs

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (rUIbB)

44 DESTRUCT!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (e1mEI)

45
Plenty on good Indian restaurants in the area.
I think Silicon Valley has largest Indian population in the United States.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 22, 2017 05:33 PM (t6XCL)

46 "The tech stock rally "could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution" "

Any statement that contains the word "could" is automatically a bullshit statement.

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:33 PM (DQ4Fv)

47 34 As Rorschach would put it: "The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the SJWs and Virtue Signaling Tech Tycoons will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."
Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (NiR1r

Sheer poetry.

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 22, 2017 05:33 PM (nBr1j)

48 If I lived closer, I would happily join the protesters in San Jose. Just to see, feel, and observe such a fine cause in action, and to laugh my ass off.

But mostly to laugh my ass off.

Posted by: rd at May 22, 2017 05:33 PM (XSEwK)

49 Well, the tech companies first task should be to get the heck out of California.
The first place in this country that will grab and 'redistribute' wealth will be California. And it won't be going to the 'freeloaders' i.e. taxpayers or the illegal immigrants or the destitute. It will be going into the public union pensions.

Posted by: grayswindir at May 22, 2017 05:33 PM (NmR1a)

50 I've got a lot invested in the retail pharmacy chains. Amazon is trying to harsh my mellow.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 05:33 PM (Vnlws)

51 Idiot lefties will be all over their smartphones iPhones....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:34 PM (OdK9v)

52 I nominate Excerpts from James Comey's Diary for AoSHQ Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Lily Formerly of HotAir (Now from AoSHQ)assassin in the night at May 22, 2017 05:34 PM (vivhj)

53 Jimmy Hoffa is lonely in his concrete bunker underneath the NJ Turnpike.

==

Giants stadium...but i did not tell you that

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 05:34 PM (c6/9Q)

54 Actually, rather than whispering "no", I think it would be more fun to have a long pole and shove them back under the surface.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at May 22, 2017 05:34 PM (KGH7Z)

55 I'm not familiar with the nuances of predicting markets, making economic forecasts, etc. but is "wealth redistribution" now a legitimate factor to consider when engaging in said activities?

My, how far we've fallen.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 05:34 PM (nILVB)

56 OT: Kim Dotcom has tweeted "tomorrow"

Seth Rich?

Or Kim Dotcom going on Slimfast?

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:35 PM (BPeNq)

57 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

The tech business is rife with cronyism. It's about capitalism only in that it is about making money but it is pretty far from the ideal of free enterprise.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (/tuJf)


They are not Capitalist.

They are neo-Feudal.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/clkbq9s

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 22, 2017 05:35 PM (rUIbB)

58 Apple needs to do a one-time dividend distribution, again. A LARGE dividend distribution.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (OdK9v)

Yes !!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 05:35 PM (c6/9Q)

59 3 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (DQ4Fv)

You've been in the Bay Area long enough to know that rich leftists WORSHIP their own money. After all, it's pure and good money, not "evil" money.

Listen to any SJW complain about how the rich don't need all that money when so many don't have it. Then ask if they think Beyonce should fork over all her cash;

"BEYONCE IS LITERALLY SO TALENTED AND ITS HER MONEY SHE EARNED AND WHAT BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS YOUR JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE BEE IS SO TALENTED AND UR A HATER!!!!!"

Posted by: kbdabear at May 22, 2017 05:35 PM (AOrEZ)

60 Jimmy Hoffa is lonely in his concrete bunker underneath the NJ Turnpike.
==
Giants stadium...but i did not tell you that
Posted by: runner


I've heard he spends more time in the 'red zone' than the Giants

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 05:36 PM (HTdUD)

61 OT: Kim Dotcom has tweeted "tomorrow"

Seth Rich?

Or Kim Dotcom going on Slimfast?

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:35 PM (BPeNq)


What's the under/over on Kim Dotcom being found dead of a "suicide" before then?

Posted by: The Political Hat at May 22, 2017 05:36 PM (rUIbB)

62 The tech oligarchs will unleash their drone armies to crush the rabble. They've been planning this for awhile but figured such machinations would be used against conservatives first and not the useful idiots formerly in their throng.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at May 22, 2017 05:37 PM (JiRjB)

63 they had more anti white bullshit up today, Google did. this time a Mohawk activist.

I am perfectly fine with giving the whole fucking West Coast back to the Indians. reckon we'll let the Comanche clear the path first

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 22, 2017 05:37 PM (VI5X5)

64 Didn't Ace have an article or two where he said the ultra wealthy feel comfortable supporting all these left-wing causes because they know Republicans will never allow truly draconian taxes on them?



It's almost like the "47% problem" where people start to love Big Government when they are no longer really paying for it.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:37 PM (zu/Gn)

65 Was thinking today if Hillary would have won there wouldn't be a sentence heard about Russia, emails, of how the Clinton Foundation graft ment anything. It would be the most smooth sailing first 100 days ever done.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 05:38 PM (Ot7+c)

66 56 OT: Kim Dotcom has tweeted "tomorrow"

Seth Rich?

Or Kim Dotcom going on Slimfast?

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:35 PM (BPeNq)

Perhaps she's auditioning for the lead in "Annie"

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 05:39 PM (7HtZB)

67 let them eat facebook

Posted by: Lord Sir x at May 22, 2017 05:39 PM (nFwvY)

68 Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 22, 2017 05:37 PM (VI5X5)

Ask google why they are damming up former Native American fishing grounds so they can get cheap hydro electricity.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 05:39 PM (Vnlws)

69 they had more anti white bullshit up today, Google did. this time a Mohawk activist.
----------

I stopped using google a long time ago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:39 PM (OdK9v)

70 As Rorschach would put it: "The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the SJWs and Virtue Signaling Tech Tycoons will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."
Posted by: Jackal


Apropos to nothing, I've had in my head this monologue...as spoken by Donald Duck.

Seriously, you don't want into my head. It's fuckin' WEIRD in there.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 22, 2017 05:39 PM (AM1GF)

71 You've been in the Bay Area long enough to know that rich leftists WORSHIP their own money. After all, it's pure and good money, not "evil" money.

Posted by: kbdabear


About six years ago I went to a "book launch" release party held at a super-rich guy's house in Atherton. It was a mansion worth, at a minimum, about $8 million. Dude was some over-the-top wealthy venture capitalist.

And on the walls were framed -- Maoist posters!

I thought it was some kind of snarky "totalitarianism kitsch." But I needed to make sure before I congratulated him on his sense of humor.

Nope.

He revealed in conversation that he had those posters up because he loved Mao and his ideas.

Nuff said.

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:39 PM (DQ4Fv)

72 Note... Siillycone Valley is now White Tech Billionaires, exploiting Foreign Workers through the H1B program...

None of which does the average US Citizen any damn good...

They get access to our private information...

And we get to post cat pictures, for free...

Posted by: Don Q. at May 22, 2017 05:40 PM (NgKpN)

73 Ahhhhh...

Shibumi beat me to the Rorshach quote.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 22, 2017 05:40 PM (6n332)

74
"BEYONCE IS LITERALLY SO TALENTED AND ITS HER MONEY SHE EARNED AND WHAT BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS YOUR JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE BEE IS SO TALENTED AND UR A HATER!!!!!"
--

That is very excellent. I can actually hear the SJW screeching that.

In fact, I once had the same conversation with an old hippie years ago RE: U2 and their outrageous dressing room demands:

"BONO IS LITERALLY THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD AND HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR THE POOR EVERYWHERE, SO WHAT IF HE WANTS TO HAVE EXPENSIVE BRAND NEW FURNITURE, RARE TROPICAL PLANTS AND EXOTIC FOOD IN EVERY DRESSING ROOM IN EVERY CITY? HE IS A GIFT TO THE WORLD U R A HATER!!!"

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:40 PM (BPeNq)

75 Jimmy Hoffa is lonely in his concrete bunker underneath the NJ Turnpike.

==

Giants stadium...but i did not tell you that

Posted by: runner



I've heard he spends more time in the 'red zone' than the Giants

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 05:36 PM (HTdUD)

I do not know what you mean, at 10 yard line

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 05:40 PM (c6/9Q)

76 Power out. Bored and stuck in my office.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 05:41 PM (SmTGd)

77 Boy, this sucks on an iPhone

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (SmTGd)

78 About six years ago I went to a "book launch" release party held at a super-rich guy's house in Atherton. It was a mansion worth, at a minimum, about $8 million. Dude was some over-the-top wealthy venture capitalist.

And on the walls were framed -- Maoist posters!

I thought it was some kind of snarky "totalitarianism kitsch." But I needed to make sure before I congratulated him on his sense of humor.

Nope.

He revealed in conversation that he had those posters up because he loved Mao and his ideas.

Nuff said.
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:39 PM (DQ4Fv)

Sounds like Roland Emmerich's house.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (3OIiX)

79 I would pay money to see Bill Gates stripped nekkid and made to run the gauntlet.

He gets to keep his glasses on though.

Then that king of the fruits from Apple....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (5VlCp)

80 Jimmy Hoffa is lonely in his concrete bunker underneath the NJ Turnpike.

==

Giants stadium...but i did not tell you that

Posted by: runner
---
I've heard he spends more time in the 'red zone' than the Giants


Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 05:36 PM (HTdUD)
---
I do not know what you mean, at 10 yard line
--

You guys are totes wrong.

He's in Detroit right now. In the Renaissance Center (current GM HQ) cement.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (BPeNq)

81 May silicon valley become the new Venezuela


*Indian curse I just invented*

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (6Ll1u)

82 NGU electronic doors that won't open?

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (Ot7+c)

83 If they come after you, you're on your own.

Yep. You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 22, 2017 05:43 PM (LTHVh)

84 Everyone poops. Some animals eat it. Why?

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 05:43 PM (HgMAr)

85 Power out. Bored and stuck in my office.
Posted by: Nevergiveup
----------

Doesn't the Navy still use those foot-treadle powered drills?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:43 PM (OdK9v)

86 42 >>Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

The tech business is rife with cronyism. It's about capitalism only in that it is about making money but it is pretty far from the ideal of free enterprise.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (/tuJf)

Yep... Sillycone Valley pays more for Lobbyists than any other industry... by far...

Posted by: Don Q. at May 22, 2017 05:43 PM (NgKpN)

87 I recently had a conversation with my sister in law whose friend's daughter lived in San Francisco. White, middle class liberals are dispossessing poor people in Oakland as we speak.

Rent in San Francisco has become so high that a couple with a middle class income can't afford a crappy apartment without taking on roommates. So in order to have their own apartment they move to Oakland, causing housing costs there to go up for the low income minorities that have been living there.

When are black voters going to wise up to the fact that white liberals really don't give a shit about them.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (+lVUW)

88 Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (BPeNq

I think he's a little bit everywhere IYKWIM.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (Vnlws)

89 The big tech companies are often monopolies or oligopolies. They're not your father's capitalist companies.

Some of their founders have Master of the Universe Delusions of Grandeur, and inherently fascists.

They're on Bannon's long-term To Do List

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (+7/1f)

90 Both the Saudis and the tech moguls should have known, never call up a demon you can't also put down. China Russia should also think hard about a nuclear NK in that respect too.

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (d3wbb)

91 There must be some non power tool work to do, with a flashlight.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (Ot7+c)

92 You guys are totes wrong.

He's in Detroit right now. In the Renaissance Center (current GM HQ) cement.


Posted by: shibumi


Ummmm, no.

Posted by: Wood chipper at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (LAe3v)

93 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

Hmm. It's entrepreneurial, but there are too many rent seekers for it to be capitalism.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (LTHVh)

94 Everyone poops. Some animals eat it. Why?
Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 05:43 PM

Pet thread material

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 05:45 PM (Ot7+c)

95 Sounds like Roland Emmerich's house.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Jay Carney had Bolshevik posters, as I recall.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:46 PM (OdK9v)

96 The only thing more beautiful than this thought would be if it were to come true.

Maybe selling Apples on the street corner will be the touchstone of silicone valley falling into the pit it has dug for others.

I would love to see Elon Musk telling us why the teeming masses at his gate can't take back for the state what he built with borrowed and gifted tax dollars.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 22, 2017 05:46 PM (yL25O)

97 Just got back from teh gym. Did 225 last set 3 times. Began 5 weeks ago with last set of 135 last set 4 times. Pretty happy about teh GAINZZZ.

Oh and Twin Peaks terrifies the fuck out of me. I always thought there was 10 times more evil shit going on that I could not figure out. But again I was like 10 when I watched it.

Should I rewatch it and take the time to read all the cheat guides and sites? Should this be pursued? Is he combining universes with other films of his? .....which would activate my almonds btw

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 22, 2017 05:46 PM (2qHjF)

98 @Nevergiveup

Start writing some of those 'detective' novels from Wearing the Cat.

I want to read some of those...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 22, 2017 05:47 PM (3OIiX)

99 Jimmy Hoffa is lonely in his concrete bunker underneath the NJ Turnpike.

==

Giants stadium...but i did not tell you that

Posted by: runner
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I've heard he spends more time in the 'red zone' than the Giants



Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 05:36 PM (HTdUD)


No, he is buried beneath the Louvre, next to the Holy Grail.
---
I do not know what you mean, at 10 yard line
--

You guys are totes wrong.

He's in Detroit right now. In the Renaissance Center (current GM HQ) cement.


Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:42 PM (BPeNq)

Posted by: Robert Langdon at May 22, 2017 05:47 PM (JO9+V)

100 87
I recently had a conversation with my sister in law whose friend's
daughter lived in San Francisco. White, middle class liberals are
dispossessing poor people in Oakland as we speak.


I was chatting with my daughter last night, the one who went to UT Austin, and she said that the east side, in particular the Cesar Chavez portion, where nobody went voluntarily in her day (7 years ago), is now gentrified. It's the same everywhere. I think of it as appropriating the ghetto, without, you know, the ghetto culture.

Posted by: pep at May 22, 2017 05:47 PM (LAe3v)

101 >>Rent in San Francisco has become so high that a couple with a middle class income can't afford a crappy apartment without taking on roommates. So in order to have their own apartment they move to Oakland, causing housing costs there to go up for the low income minorities that have been living there.

This has actually been happening for a long time in the Valley, it just seems to be getting more play now that it's hitting San Francisco.

When I was working for Valley based companies, remotely, never at HQ cause California, there were many, many employees who had well over an hour and sometimes two hour commutes just so they could find affordable housing. This goes back over a decade so I was just a teenager then. Prodigy really.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:47 PM (/tuJf)

102 There's also an incredible amount of delusion that these companies are worth way more than they really are.

Amazon is a good example.

Supposedly since Amazon started, it has only "made" $2 billion total after all these years, but Bezos is "worth" $10 billion alone just as the founder.

Tesla is another good example. I believe its market cap is greater than GM or Ford.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:48 PM (zu/Gn)

103 Jay Carney had Bolshevik posters, as I recall.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:46 PM (OdK9v)

They're bad people and bad things should happen to them.

And to David Geffen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 22, 2017 05:48 PM (3OIiX)

104 It's capitalism in that profit is the catalyst for innovation or at least to the financial backers of the innovators .

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 05:48 PM (Vnlws)

105 Yep... Sillycone Valley pays more for Lobbyists than any other industry... by far...

Posted by: Don Q.


Well it's going to be an interesting battle. Bannon, who I believe is on the side of American tech workers, versus Silicon Valley lobbyists.

I really don't think Trump can be bought. Thank G-d.

But will they take their dollars to the legislature and f_ck over Trump that way? Yeah, I very much suspect they will.

All so that that the Silicon Valley peeps can distribute a dividend check .001% higher.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 05:48 PM (HTdUD)

106 I scanned the thread. I had no idea that the Native Americans had fisting grounds?!?!

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 22, 2017 05:49 PM (2qHjF)

107 "Kind of like the Saudi princes pouring money to spread Wahabism --
direct the terrorism towards some convenient scapegoat, other than
yourself."

On the subject of the House of Saud, it was proudly announced by Trump during his big anti-terrorism speech in Riyadh that the Saudis were going to be standing up two brand new organizations, alongside the USA authorities, to assist in the cause.

Those being: the "Global Center For Combating Extremist Ideology", and the "Terrorist Financing Targeting Center".

You can't miss them. They're located right down the block from the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Who Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 22, 2017 05:49 PM (ujwCG)

108 10 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

Kinda like the super-rich douchebags in the movie industry. Spouting BS about income inequality and carbon emissions while pulling in tens of millions of dollars for one movie and flying around in private/charter jets.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2017 05:50 PM (+lVUW)

109 Plenty of good Indian restaurants in the area.
I think Silicon Valley has largest Indian population in the United States.
Posted by: YIKES!


H1B and L1 visas, or just an unusual coincidence?

(scratches face pensively). 'Tis a puzzle.


In the land of other funny coincidences, Columbus has a lot of good Japanese restaurants. And Honda has a big plant that employs thousands just beyond Columbus in Marysville.
Coincidence again? Hmmmm.......

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 22, 2017 05:50 PM (RFeQD)

110 No, he is buried beneath the Louvre, next to the Holy Grail.

===

that is ridiculous ! the last Merovingian king is buried there

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 05:50 PM (c6/9Q)

111 Supposedly since Amazon started, it has only "made" $2 billion total
after all these years, but Bezos is "worth" $10 billion alone just as
the founder.


Not sure where you got that number. The latest estimate of his worth is $81.8B, behind only Gates, but he's catching up fast.

Posted by: pep at May 22, 2017 05:50 PM (LAe3v)

112 92,
"You guys are totes wrong.

He's in Detroit right now. In the Renaissance Center (current GM HQ) cement.




Posted by: shibumi"

Detroit is more into using plating shop tanks or scrap yards where the crush cars to be smelted back into new cars. Lake St. Clair is nice too.

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 22, 2017 05:50 PM (d3wbb)

113 Next up: the Social Justice Microprocessor.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 22, 2017 05:51 PM (Tyii7)

114 There is now an ideological test to get funding. If you are a conservative, you need not apply. Witness the recent hiring of Hillary's son in law to Social+Capital. He was a total failure even with inside information.

Many investors will not collaborate nor fund funds or ventures started by conservatives.

Posted by: Hillary at May 22, 2017 05:51 PM (EGHN7)

115 This is gonna be good!

Posted by: Izma at May 22, 2017 05:51 PM (jVlNS)

116 The Silicon Valley Titans of Tech have nothing to fear from Students of Mao's Red Guard.

Posted by: Avanti, le Carr at May 22, 2017 05:51 PM (cYDjN)

117 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (DQ4Fv)


Success came really fast and capriciously for some of those dickweeds. I don't think they had to suffer like earlier giants of capitalism and they really love having their knobs polished without considering who's doing it.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 22, 2017 05:51 PM (y7DUB)

118 Is zombie here?

Would love to hear some "on the ground" insight/incite....

Posted by: The Insightful Hat at May 22, 2017 05:52 PM (rUIbB)

119 OT: Kim Dotcom has tweeted "tomorrow"

Seth Rich?

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:35 PM (BPeNq)




Over the weekend he said (Tweeted) that he'd testify under oath that Seth Rich was the Wikileaks source, and that he had been involved. He then went on to say that he was consulting his legal team today and would be releasing a formal statement tomorrow.

Posted by: Country Singer at May 22, 2017 05:52 PM (yzxic)

120 Not sure where you got that number. The latest estimate of his worth is $81.8B, behind only Gates, but he's catching up fast.

Posted by: pep

_______

Must have been from a few years ago.

But Amazon has made very little money relative to the stock value of the company.

Right now it has a 181 P/E ratio

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:52 PM (zu/Gn)

121 Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:48 PM (zu/Gn)

Musk has admitted he has no business being compared or measured against the big three. He also admits that his companies are not profitable. Now that's not capitalism but he operates in an environment that allows innovation. I don't know what to call it.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 05:52 PM (Vnlws)

122 Next up: the Social Justice Microprocessor.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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The instruction set should be interesting. I suspect that it will be rather inefficient.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:52 PM (OdK9v)

123
86 42 >>Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

The tech business is rife with cronyism. It's about capitalism only in that it is about making money but it is pretty far from the ideal of free enterprise.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (/tuJf)

Yep... Sillycone Valley pays more for Lobbyists than any other industry... by far...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 22, 2017 05:43 PM (NgKpN)

Story was that Microsoft never had any lobbyists until our wonderful government started threatening Bill Gates' livelihood with antitrust investigations.

Bill learned fast, and hired the best to lobby everyone to leave him alone and go beat up on someone else.

Thanks to our too powerful government, businesses lobby as a survival tactic.

Try to stop lobbying? You will be destroyed.

Posted by: rd at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (XSEwK)

124 120 Not sure where you got that number. The latest estimate of his worth is $81.8B, behind only Gates, but he's catching up fast.

Posted by: pep

_______

Must have been from a few years ago.

But Amazon has made very little money relative to the stock value of the company.

Right now it has a 181 P/E ratio
Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:52 PM (zu/Gn)

When the House of Cards falls down, there will be pain.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (2qHjF)

125 He also admits that his companies are not profitable. Now that's not capitalism but he operates in an environment that allows innovation. I don't know what to call it.

The triumph of hope over experience?

Posted by: pep at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (LAe3v)

126 >>Musk has admitted he has no business being compared or measured against the big three. He also admits that his companies are not profitable. Now that's not capitalism but he operates in an environment that allows innovation. I don't know what to call it.

Uncle Sugar Cronyism. It's a lot easier to be innovative and entrepreneurial when you are getting big government checks.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (/tuJf)

127 Right now it has a 181 P/E ratio
Posted by: Maritime
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Yikes!
Pullup...pull up!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (OdK9v)

128 Musk has admitted he has no business being compared or measured against the big three. He also admits that his companies are not profitable. Now that's not capitalism but he operates in an environment that allows innovation. I don't know what to call it.
Posted by: Jack Sock

_____

I'd say its called Bullshit

But the house of cards will eventually come down, especially as other car makers start making electric cars.

Every Musk business model basically has taxpayer graft funding it.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (zu/Gn)

129 I scanned the thread. I had no idea that the Native Americans had fisting grounds?!?!

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 22, 2017 05:49 PM (2qHjF)


According the Academic Left, all brown people were queer until eeevil White people came over and imposed heterosexuality, which White people invented for the sole purpose of oppressing people, on all the queer, peaceful, and utopian noble savages...

Posted by: Cirtical Native Fisting Major (with a minor in dingleberries) at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (rUIbB)

130 The instruction set should be interesting. I suspect that it will be rather inefficient.

There will be twos randomly mixed in with the zeros and ones. Binary math is hard.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (Tyii7)

131 When the House of Cards falls down, there will be pain.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe



Yeah, that's what it is. A House of Cards.

Posted by: Sears at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (LAe3v)

132 Fairness requires a windfall profits tax. For fairness.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 22, 2017 05:55 PM (25N3O)

133 Silicon Valley oligarchs never include themselves in their political speech, they're special don't ya know.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 05:55 PM (6Ll1u)

134 127 Right now it has a 181 P/E ratio
Posted by: Maritime
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Yikes!
Pullup...pull up!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (OdK9v)


Perfect time to buy more and go long.

Posted by: Jim Cramer at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (2qHjF)

135 You think the Twitoglezon throttles Right Wingers wait til we see how many bars of wifi Occupy Silicon Valley gets.

Is there a FuckYouPayMe code in the RFCs?

Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (FhXTo)

136 Jay Carney had Bolshevik posters, as I recall.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:46 PM (OdK9v)
They're bad people and bad things should happen to them.
And to David Geffen.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 22, 2017 05:48 PM (3OIiX)

Yup....Like Lester Long said, "Some people just need-NEED-killing."

Throw that Weinstein fellow in there too while we're at it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (5VlCp)

137 "BEYONCE IS LITERALLY SO TALENTED AND ITS HER MONEY SHE EARNED AND WHAT
BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS YOUR JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE BEE IS SO TALENTED AND
UR A HATER!!!!!"
--

That is very excellent. I can actually hear the SJW screeching that.

In fact, I once had the same conversation with an old hippie years ago RE: U2 and their outrageous dressing room demands:

"BONO
IS LITERALLY THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD AND HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR THE
POOR EVERYWHERE, SO WHAT IF HE WANTS TO HAVE EXPENSIVE BRAND NEW
FURNITURE, RARE TROPICAL PLANTS AND EXOTIC FOOD IN EVERY DRESSING ROOM
IN EVERY CITY? HE IS A GIFT TO THE WORLD U R A HATER!!!"

"BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS THE VOICE AND HERO OF THE COMMON MAN AND SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO FLY TO ENGLAND IN HIS PRIVATE JET TO BUY HORSES OFF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND FOR HIS DAUGHTER !!! TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER AND I AM SHAKING!!!"

Posted by: tu3031 at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (qJhUV)

138 3 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (DQ4Fv)

Because most of them are conniving, self-centered douchenozzles so they assume everyone pursuing a profit must be like them. They also think they will be the ones in charge or favored by the government as essential products and services, while their smaller competitors will be left out in the cold when the government monopolizes everything. There is a word for when the government colludes with industry...a specific form of government...used to great effect by some guys with funny names like Broccolini and Hitther...I can't remember what it is though.

Posted by: Ken in NH at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (gDMFf)

139 117 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (DQ4Fv)

Success came really fast and capriciously for some of those dickweeds. I don't think they had to suffer like earlier giants of capitalism and they really love having their knobs polished without considering who's doing it.
Posted by: Captain Hate at May 22, 2017 05:51 PM (y7DUB)


Most of the biggies got their start and first billion before they hit 25 years old. Of course they have no, zero, zippo perspective. And no parental guidance.

Posted by: rd at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (XSEwK)

140 Or maybe Hoffa is buried with St. Peter at the Vatican. I get mixed up.

Posted by: Robert Langdon at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (JO9+V)

141 "He also admits that his companies are not profitable"
His enterprises are kept afloat by Your tax dollars through direct and indirect subsidies. Call it crony klepto-capitalism.

Posted by: Western Slope Mope at May 22, 2017 05:57 PM (WrMht)

142 The instruction set should be interesting. I suspect that it will be rather inefficient.

There will be twos randomly mixed in with the zeros and ones. Binary math is hard.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Multiple 'shift left' instructions, no 'shift right' instructions.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:57 PM (OdK9v)

143 113 Next up: the Social Justice Microprocessor.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 22, 2017 05:51 PM (Tyii7)

What.... it whines and bitches but never accomplishes a damn thing.... except pissing people off?

OHHHHHH... Windows 10!

Posted by: Don Q. at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (NgKpN)

144 Sally Kohn Valley.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (vRcUp)

145 Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM (/tuJf)

No doubt but did we just transfer these non profitable but innovative ventures out to the private sector instead of making another government agency , i.e.; NASA?

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (Vnlws)

146 P/E is an interesting number, but you really need to look other financial ratios to actually understand if the co is doing well or not, and that includes looking at its peers and their performance as well

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (c6/9Q)

147 I've got your back!

"On 22 November 1995, during air-intercept training over the Sea of Japan, a Japanese F-15J flown by Lt. Tatsumi Higuchi was shot down by a AIM-9L Sidewinder missile accidentally fired by his wingman, Cpt. Hino Junya (flying in F-15J 62-8870).Both F-15Js involved were from JASDF 303rd Squadron, Komatsu AFB."

http://tinyurl.com/n69ps5v

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (Nwg0u)

148 Do it assholes. And the cis-whitey pressholes while you are at it.

Posted by: pissed off oddnot at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (g1MTt)

149
Over the weekend he said (Tweeted) that he'd testify under oath that Seth Rich was the Wikileaks source, and that he had been involved. He then went on to say that he was consulting his legal team today and would be releasing a formal statement tomorrow.
--

Many asking.. .why now?

Best answer I've heard is "Comey is gone."

Anecdotally, a CNN reporterdude saying that 3 WH leakers have been identified.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (BPeNq)

150 On the inside of James Comey's trapper keeper:

James Trump

Mrs Donald Trump

Mrs James Comey-Trump

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 22, 2017 05:58 PM (kTF2Z)

151 Looks like they have found the "leakers" at the WH...Will be fired according to One News, whatever that is... Also looks like Comey has "postponed" his testimony and wants to speak "privately" first...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 05:59 PM (O2RFr)

152 Posted by: rd at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM (XSEwK)

By golly, I think we figured it out for zombie.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (y7DUB)

153 There is a word for when the government colludes with industry...a specific form of government...used to great effect by some guys with funny names like Broccolini and Hitther...I can't remember what it is though.
Posted by: Ken in NH
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"I can't be a fascist...I drive a Tesla !"

Posted by: Typical wealthy Lefty at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (OdK9v)

154 42 >>Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

The tech business is rife with cronyism. It's about capitalism only in that it is about making money but it is pretty far from the ideal of free enterprise.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 05:32 PM (/tuJf)

"Capitalism" itself is a Marxist construct ("Das Kapital") created in the disparagement of free market economics in favor of socialism and the Labor Theory of Value. So consider, when you are discussing "capitalism," you are already arguing on Marx's dialectical terms.

Posted by: Not Adam Smith at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (wNxxH)

155 Ask Dr. Frankenstein what happens next.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (IqV8l)

156 They have yet to invent a machine that can measure how little I care about SJWs turning and rending Silicon Valley jackwads.

I hope they put Zuckerberg's head on a pike at some point - he's a jerk

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (Fb9aZ)

157 Or maybe Hoffa is buried with St. Peter at the Vatican. I get mixed up.


Posted by: Robert Langdon at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM


You dolt. He's buried under the Trinity Church with the National Treasure.

Posted by: Benjamin Franklin Gates at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (JO9+V)

158 154 42 >>Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

Easy. Making huge amounts of money is good. As long as it's them...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:01 PM (O2RFr)

159 >>No doubt but did we just transfer these non profitable but innovative ventures out to the private sector instead of making another government agency , i.e.; NASA?

Pretty much. I read an interesting piece not to long ago about Musk and the pseudo monopoly he is in with NASA. I think Lockheed is the only other company with the ability to bid on a lot of these rocket launch contracts. And Musk got both federal and state money and services to build his facilities and companies.

I give the guy a lot of credit for seeing opportunities and going after them but I doubt he would be nearly as successful without government cheese on many fronts.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 06:01 PM (/tuJf)

160 the "leakers" at the WH...Will be fired

Damn. I was hoping for a little waterboarding, at the very least.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 22, 2017 06:01 PM (Tyii7)

161 Anecdotally, a CNN reporterdude saying that 3 WH leakers have been identified.
Posted by: shibumi


Sounds like a job for.....a plumber.

Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy, a very old man now at May 22, 2017 06:02 PM (RFeQD)

162 "144 Sally Kohn Valley.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear"


We may have a threadwinner !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at May 22, 2017 06:02 PM (KGH7Z)

163
I can't think of any other enterprise in this country permitted to advertise for jobs for Americans that they have absolutely no intention whatsoever to provide to Americans.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 06:02 PM (HTdUD)

164 160 the "leakers" at the WH...Will be fired

Damn. I was hoping for a little waterboarding, at the very least.

I think they are going to be "referred" for possible charges too...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:02 PM (O2RFr)

165 My demands for my dressing room are sjmple. Pizza and whore.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 06:03 PM (Nwg0u)

166 "Apparently White House Leakers Have Been Caught"

http://tinyurl.com/l2oobev

Posted by: kallisto at May 22, 2017 06:03 PM (kD8Fh)

167 On a side note.... Fox is now # 3 behind MSNBC and CNN.... Way to go Murdoch boys!

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:03 PM (O2RFr)

168 P/E is an interesting number, but you really need to look other financial ratios to actually understand if the co is doing well or not, and that includes looking at its peers and their performance as well
Posted by: runner
---------

Well, if earnings will cover dividends, that's a positive sign. Oh, wait...Amazon doesn't pay a dividend. Never mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 06:03 PM (NBHj5)

169 Hoffa's not dead.
He' with Elvis.

Posted by: Avanti, le Carr at May 22, 2017 06:04 PM (cYDjN)

170 I recommend reading "The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce" by Tom Wolf for a snapshot of pre-millenial Silicon Valley.

Posted by: goodluckduck at May 22, 2017 06:04 PM (yqvys)

171 They threw their lot in with the fascists. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 06:04 PM (0mRoj)

172 ""Capitalism" itself is a Marxist construct ("Das Kapital") created in the disparagement of free market economics in favor of socialism and the Labor Theory of Value. So consider, when you are discussing "capitalism," you are already arguing on Marx's dialectical terms.

Posted by: Not Adam Smith"


Yes ! ^^^This !^^^

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at May 22, 2017 06:04 PM (KGH7Z)

173 When actual people die going into space in the bloated billionaire dreams, will it make a difference?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 06:04 PM (6Ll1u)

174 Sounds like a job for.....a plumber.
Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy
-----

Wet work.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 06:05 PM (OdK9v)

175 When are black voters going to wise up to the fact that white liberals really don't give a shit about them.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2017 05:44 PM (+lVUW)

Who do you think picks and pays the "Black Leaders"?

Posted by: kbdabear at May 22, 2017 06:05 PM (AOrEZ)

176 "a 181 P/E ratio"

Hard to justify for a large company like Amazon. To justify it, you'd need to expect enormous growth in bottom line earnings.

It's been a momentum stock. It goes up because it's been going up. There's a real risk that if it starts to under-perform there'll be a rush to the exits, and the stock will drop 50% quickly

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 06:05 PM (+7/1f)

177 158 154 42 >>Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

Easy. Making huge amounts of money is good. As long as it's them...
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:01 PM (O2RFr)

My older Brother suddenly realized he is in the 1%.... and has been a Liberal his entire life...

He now says WE have to do more....

I pointed out if HE wishes to give his money to help people... that's up to him...but when you use the Power of Government, which is the power of Violence to force OTHERS to give... its not Charity... its Theft...

It was funny to actually see the light suddenly go on.... and his response of 'oh..... shit...'

It will be interesting to hear his views during our next political conversation...

Posted by: Don Q. at May 22, 2017 06:05 PM (NgKpN)

178 Maybe we can bring back keelhauling...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 22, 2017 06:05 PM (Tyii7)

179 On the radio, I think more than 1 talk show host has pointed out Leftists have flocked to their leaders in the MSM since the election.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:06 PM (Ot7+c)

180 I give the guy a lot of credit for seeing opportunities and going after them but I doubt he would be nearly as successful without government cheese on many fronts.
Posted by: JackStraw

Musk has actually raised a lot of matching private venture capital. It was part of the deal in getting some of the Federal/NASA money for Space-X.
I think Tesla is a lot of BS, but he has gotten a tremendous amount of results in Space -X with spending a lot less than NASA has in a comparable program. He has a lot of smart young (and old) engineers who are very enthused about the whole venture, working their nuts off.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 22, 2017 06:06 PM (RFeQD)

181 I recommend reading "The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce" by Tom Wolf for a snapshot of pre-millenial Silicon Valley.
Posted by: goodluckduck
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Here, have a nice op amp.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 06:06 PM (OdK9v)

182 They have yet to invent a machine that can measure how little I care about SJWs turning and rending Silicon Valley jackwads.

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I've been losing sleep worrying about the pirated Pirate movie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 06:07 PM (Nwg0u)

183 "Global Center For Combating Extremist Ideology",
and the "Terrorist Financing Targeting Center".


New names for the

Wahhabi Center for making sure no Real Translation Appears,
Al-Saud Center for Hiding Royal Money Transfers

Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2017 06:07 PM (FhXTo)

184 New mixed drink: The "Pills Cosby"

https://twitter.com/Coach_JoX/status/866737038623690754

And yes, there are pills floating in the drink...

Posted by: Mickey at May 22, 2017 06:07 PM (rUIbB)

185 166 I bet the Donald just wants to do the dead.u

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:09 PM (Ot7+c)

186 Maybe we can bring back keelhauling...
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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There's a Barnacle Bill joke in there somewhere, but I'm sensitive to the presence of Navy Vets here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 06:09 PM (OdK9v)

187 One of the major but much lesser known aspects of Amazon is the building and operation of big server farms, that are a big part of the Internet backbone in the US.

Their operation (by Amazon) is a big part of recurring income for Amazon.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 22, 2017 06:09 PM (RFeQD)

188 "Looks like they have found the 'leakers' at the WH...Will be fired according to One News, whatever that is..."

I had Dina Powell in the betting pool.

Although let's recall that they were *sure* they'd found and plugged the leak when they eased Katie Walsh out of her WH post.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 22, 2017 06:10 PM (ujwCG)

189 Hoffa's not dead.
He' with Elvis.

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Collaborating on a truck driving song album.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 06:10 PM (Nwg0u)

190 185 laying down typing is tough

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:10 PM (Ot7+c)

191 A Smart Republican party would have already gone after the tech gaints.

For example pass the "Data Privacy Act" - force Facebook and Google to get explicit permission for any piece of data about you they share before they are allowed to do so.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2017 06:10 PM (aZq03)

192 On a side note.... Fox is now # 3 behind MSNBC and CNN.... Way to go Murdoch boys!
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:03 PM (O2RFr)


The brats have fucked up things in record time while they're snorting blow off their stepmom's knockers. I hope Ailes kid spends every fucking penny of the settlement money making those cocksuckers lives miserable along with that dried up Retchin Carlson.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 22, 2017 06:10 PM (y7DUB)

193 176 "a 181 P/E ratio"

Hard to justify for a large company like Amazon. To justify it, you'd need to expect enormous growth in bottom line earnings.

It's been a momentum stock. It goes up because it's been going up. There's a real risk that if it starts to under-perform there'll be a rush to the exits, and the stock will drop 50% quickly
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 06:05 PM (+7/1f)

You mean like if Interest rates rise amd we can't fund our company with loans with close to zero percent interest?

Posted by: Netflix at May 22, 2017 06:10 PM (2qHjF)

194 Bald Bond villain is going to end up like the doctor at the end of The Evil That Men Do.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:11 PM (4ErVI)

195 "the "leakers" at the WH...Will be fired"

More than that. Let us pray!

Depending who they are and what they leaked, this could get quite interesting, as leaking classified documents can incur lengthy jail time and can be relatively easy to prove.

Which means Sessions will roast them over coals until they give up co-conspirators.

The likes of the NYT and WaPo want to think they have some kind of immunity to print leaks of classified documents. They don't. No more than you or I. That's not what the Pentagon Papers SCOTUS decision said

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 06:11 PM (+7/1f)

196 >>Musk has actually raised a lot of matching private venture capital. It was part of the deal in getting some of the Federal/NASA money for Space-X.
I think Tesla is a lot of BS, but he has gotten a tremendous amount of results in Space -X with spending a lot less than NASA has in a comparable program. He has a lot of smart young (and old) engineers who are very enthused about the whole venture, working their nuts off.


The key word in your first sentence is matching. I've done a number of VC funded startups and if you want to see a lot of sharks start drooling start mentioning matching government funds. It isn't so much the funds as the implicit message that the government will be using the products or services. That's gold, Jerry.

And that doesn't include things like big infrastructure that Musk got from states like Texas to build his launch facility.

Again, I have no doubt he's talented and has some cracker jack engineers but the world is full of smart, talented people who have great ideas that never, ahem, get off the ground because of money. The real power in SV isn't with guys Gates, it's the money guys.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 06:11 PM (/tuJf)

197 In other words, Let it Burn.

Posted by: rayj at May 22, 2017 06:12 PM (pI/IV)

198 There will be twos randomly mixed in with the zeros and ones. Binary math is hard.

Here's a math puzzler.
Everything digital comes in an even number of bits of data - 8, 32, 1024, etc.
The average of a bunch of 1s and 0s divided by 2 is 1/2.
1/2 isn't a valid binary number.
On average nothing on the computer is valid.

Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2017 06:12 PM (FhXTo)

199 I'm surprised they haven't leaked the names of the leakers...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:12 PM (O2RFr)

200 4 Yea, I'm tired of the TruCon play of defending big business when it goes out of its way to shit on conservatives.

I wouldn't mind seeing Trump tease some antitrust action on companies like Amazon and Google.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 05:25 PM (zu/Gn)

I don't see much of it here nowadays. Not even like two years ago. Maybe they moved on to some libertarian site.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:12 PM (4ErVI)

201 You mean like if Interest rates rise amd we can't fund our company with loans with close to zero percent interest?

Posted by: Netflix

Is that sound distant thunder, or the beginning of bubbles bursting alllllll over?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 22, 2017 06:12 PM (RFeQD)

202 If I remember right from A Sea of Words keel hauling was a Dutch invented punishment

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:13 PM (Ot7+c)

203
I hope they put Zuckerberg's head on a pike at some point - he's a jerk
Posted by: Publius Redux


Like this?

https://youtu.be/qWE43m9SL4I

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:13 PM (IqV8l)

204 Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:12 PM (O2RFr)

I heard there's a room in the White House basement where the leakers get punished. Miss Melania is the one who administers the discipline.

Posted by: kallisto at May 22, 2017 06:13 PM (kD8Fh)

205 The leftism is fake. They are hardcore robber barons who do the fake piety and buy indulgences with fake charities and lots of blah-blah. They need anti-trust busting.

Posted by: Lester at May 22, 2017 06:13 PM (LfJIn)

206 /me watching the Left eat itself...

pass the popcorn please.

we should all chip in a few $$ to the guy who's going to primary Pelousy.

just for shits and giggles.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 22, 2017 06:14 PM (YBR3Y)

207 Binary math is hard.

But there are 10 kinds of people who either understand it, or don't.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 06:14 PM (HTdUD)

208 Is there a dungeon in the White house were they can be kept, food and water only I hope.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:14 PM (Ot7+c)

209 @202 Dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 22, 2017 06:14 PM (woKq6)

210 It's already started.

Look at the hatred toward them in San Fran.

They've only staved off the beast because they've the cash to buy off state and local government.

Which they've encouraged to grow--to the point that it's getting desperate for more cash.

And they're the only bank left to rob.

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 06:15 PM (ZQpd0)

211 I partly understand why Silicon Valley is universally leftist. They've suck on the tit of socialism every day of their lives. Socialism is the bubble they live in and have always lived in and as technology brilliant as they are unable to think outside their bubble.
I also have no doubt they benefit from big government.
And yet they built wealth through the free market. It still puzzles me they would deny others the same opportunity.
The other thing that puzzles is this--the tech revolution seems, to this little grey duck at least, to be fundamentally libertarian. It seems to me that the Whole Earth Catalogue was libertarian, even if it was based in acid.
I can't help but think SV has turned on its own roots.
Just my two cents worth.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at May 22, 2017 06:15 PM (nBr1j)

212 So if the leakers are "charged" shouldn't those who were leaked to also be charged?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:15 PM (O2RFr)

213 When are black voters going to wise up to the fact that white liberals really don't give a shit about them.
___
Yep, shocking when a group of people doesn't realize their leaders don't give a shit about them isn't it.

Now watch these sick arm curls bro.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at May 22, 2017 06:15 PM (aZq03)

214 If I remember right from A Sea of Words keel hauling was a Dutch invented punishment

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Wooden-shoed scalawags!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 06:15 PM (Nwg0u)

215 Again, I have no doubt he's talented and has some cracker jack engineers but the world is full of smart, talented people who have great ideas that never, ahem, get off the ground because of money. The real power in SV isn't with guys Gates, it's the money guys.
Posted by: JackStraw

Oh yeah. Getting Federal "matching funds" is like chum in the water. It is an almost sure thing to make your investment back and then get out. Leave Uncle Sugar holding a bag of something foul smelling when things go south.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 22, 2017 06:15 PM (RFeQD)

216 Is there a dungeon in the White house were they can be kept, food and water only I hope.


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yes, and it leaks ! knee deep in water and rats !

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 06:15 PM (c6/9Q)

217 "A Smart Republican party would have already gone after the tech gaints. For example pass the 'Data Privacy Act' - force Facebook and Google
to get explicit permission for any piece of data about you they share
before they are allowed to do so."

Instead, in their time-honored spirit of never failing to fail, the Beltway Republicans have so far gone on a vector 180 degrees opposite from pro-data-privacy bills.

Passing legislation earlier this session to allow your Internet service provider to collect detailed information on your browsing history and to sell it for profit.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 22, 2017 06:16 PM (ujwCG)

218 1/2 isn't a valid binary number. On average nothing on the computer is valid.

Half-words will get them nowhere.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 22, 2017 06:17 PM (Tyii7)

219 205 You are right, Leftists are in it for the power grab, and use the population as a army to get their way. The crap they spew is the carrot, the stick is for their opponents.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:17 PM (Ot7+c)

220 When are black voters going to wise up to the fact that white liberals really don't give a shit about them.

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The day after the wymyn realize that the fymynysts are screwing over the feminine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 06:17 PM (Nwg0u)

221 "Here, have a nice op amp."

I don't know anything about that. I'll just stick to me digital bit-flippin'.

Posted by: goodluckduck at May 22, 2017 06:18 PM (yqvys)

222 "Their operation (by Amazon) is a big part of recurring income for Amazon."

Recurring revenue, yes. I don't know how profitable this business line is, so I don't know if it's recurring income. If it is profitable, it's subsidizing Bezos' efforts to put every brick and mortar retailer in America out of business.

Moore's Law is also a risk in running big server farms

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 06:18 PM (+7/1f)

223 Yeah, that's what it is. A House of Cards.


Posted by: Sears at May 22, 2017 05:54 PM


You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 22, 2017 06:18 PM (p+Wdc)

224 Sound of explosions reported in Manchester, U.K....

Posted by: The Manchester Hat at May 22, 2017 06:18 PM (rUIbB)

225 OT - CNN article - Saudis' loved Melania because she represents 'submission to men'. Breitbart has the story.




Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:18 PM (a0IVu)

226 It still puzzles me they would deny others the same opportunity.
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Because they do not really care. Totalitarians never do care. They only regard the rabble as useful idiots.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (OdK9v)

227
If I remember right from A Sea of Words keel hauling was a Dutch invented punishment

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Wooden-shoed scalawags!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

The Dutch!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ882QYzr-M

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (RFeQD)

228 Posted by: torquewrench at May 22, 2017 06:16 PM (ujwCG)

Doesn't Europe require them to take search results down for any person who requests it?

I think it's actually a pretty good idea. Say someone got a dui five years ago but a search for their name still brings up articles or arrest records or the like. Why should that happen after the person already did the sentence and moved on?

Or the Justine Sacco incident. Why should that shit still be showing up years later?

It's too bad it took government to do it, but it's not a bad thing imo.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (4ErVI)

229 Posted by: shibumi

===


This is going to get interesting. I am following your updates.

Even if not a homicide? It shows that the Media/DNC colluded to fabricate a story to take down Trump.

Stay on it.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (Uxokn)

230 "Oh yeah. Getting Federal 'matching funds' is like chum in the water.
It is an almost sure thing to make your investment back and then get
out. Leave Uncle Sugar holding a bag of something foul smelling when
things go south."

For a while there, I was driving past Solyndra's empty headquarters complex, in federal receivership, and thinking as I did that it would be fun to make a small national park out of the place.

A permanent instructive monument for the general public as to why Fedzilla should not be engaging in "venture socialism".

Seagate eventually bought the place for a song and moved in. Drat.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (ujwCG)

231 Or maybe Hoffa is buried with St. Peter at the Vatican. I get mixed up.
Posted by: Robert Langdon at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM
You dolt. He's buried under the Trinity Church with the National Treasure.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin Gates at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (JO9+V)

Negative.....Hoffa lives on Oak Island deep underground with Hitler, zombies, Bigfoot and the aliens.

Sheesh.....keep up people!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (5VlCp)

232 I partly understand why Silicon Valley is universally leftist.

The leadership is leftist to keep down labor costs (H1Bs for the win!) and to stop competition from having a chance to start up.

Why the average software developer goes along with it isn't as clear, but it seems to be because they admire the tech leaders, way, way too much.

Someone like a Bezos or a Zuckerberg is certainly smart, but why so many people in their industry seem them as modern day prophets is a problem - on a personal level both are assholes, and Zuckerberg stole is big idea.



Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2017 06:20 PM (aZq03)

233 Police warn people to avoid area around Manchester Arena amid reports of an "explosion"

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/866780227900510208

Posted by: The Manchester Hat at May 22, 2017 06:20 PM (rUIbB)

234 If the leaker is a woman, wouldn't there be a long snail trail that would lead right to her?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 22, 2017 06:20 PM (2qHjF)

235 234 If the leaker is a woman, wouldn't there be a long snail trail that would lead right to her?


Eeeeeeew...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:20 PM (O2RFr)

236 Half-words will get them nowhere.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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But, a nybble here, a nybble there...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 06:21 PM (OdK9v)

237 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 22, 2017 06:21 PM (aW17o)

238 I'll shall be dipping my conceptual scrotum in hand-squeezed margaritas fashioned by unemployed H1-B visa holders from Asia.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 06:21 PM (TNQMS)

239 If I remember right from A Sea of Words keel hauling was a Dutch invented punishment
Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:13 PM (Ot7+c)


If a nationality can understand the punitive characteristics of water, it would be the Dutch.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (y7DUB)

240 I thought their reoccurring income came from the sweet sweet close to 0% loans that literally nobody has access to?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (2qHjF)

241 "I think it's actually a pretty good idea. Say someone got a dui five years ago but a search for their name still brings up articles or arrest records or the like."

We know a wonderful young woman from a humble background who made her way to one of the very elite colleges because of sports/brains. If you google her name the first things that pop up is her being arrested by the local fuzz for having booze and a fake ID. It's an outrage.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (+7/1f)

242 Switzerland says they will kill the nuke plants just like Germany did, say hello to more coal powered plants just like Germany had to do when they couldn't run the country on wind and solar. And the new president of France just appointed a watermelon to make sure they do the same, if we can't kill ourselves by bringing masses of immigrants then we will do it this way seems to have taken hold.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (6Ll1u)

243 What was going on in the Manchester arena prior to the explosion? Its not their soccer stadium is it?

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (a0IVu)

244 Negative.....Hoffa lives on Oak Island deep underground with Hitler, zombies, Bigfoot and the aliens.



Sheesh.....keep up people!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (5VlCp)

what nonsense, how can he "live" there, if his ghost is roaming Giants stadium ??

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (c6/9Q)

245 "1/2 isn't a valid binary number."

Just shift right.

Posted by: goodluckduck at May 22, 2017 06:23 PM (yqvys)

246 ..........if we can't kill ourselves by bringing masses of immigrants then we will do it this way seems to have taken hold.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby


I give you a civilization of stupid bints with a death wish!

Ta-da!!

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 22, 2017 06:24 PM (RFeQD)

247 Police confirm they are responding to a "serious incident" at the Manchester Arena; there are reports of injuries

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/866783755800891393

Posted by: The Manchester Hat at May 22, 2017 06:24 PM (rUIbB)

248 Hackers and leakers and assassins, Oh My

Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2017 06:24 PM (nQ3uL)

249 Just shift right.
Posted by: goodluckduck
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Sorry. Our new Social Justice uP doesn't have a right-shift instruction.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 06:24 PM (OdK9v)

250 I keep having this dream.
It's about a week after the balloon went up, and I hear this shrieking mixed in with rattling from the chain link fence. I approach and this ragged threesome is huddled near the gate under the security light. "Open up, you've got to let us in," screams the short one with disheveled pink hair, her grubby fingers locked in a death grip on the fence. "We've been driving for days till the Audi overheated, and then these people started shooting at us and we ran up into the woods. I think they are still right behind us! Help us!"
And I just smile and say, "Zuckerberg," as I shoulder my rifle and walk away into the night.

Posted by: Western Slope Mope at May 22, 2017 06:24 PM (WrMht)

251 What was going on in the Manchester arena prior to the explosion? Its not their soccer stadium is it?

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (a0IVu)


Ariana Grande concert.

Posted by: The Manchester Hat at May 22, 2017 06:25 PM (rUIbB)

252 225 OT - CNN article - Saudis' loved Melania because she represents 'submission to men'. Breitbart has the story.

Figure it out obamunists: she's either submissive or the Big Helga who bitch-slapped her husband on the tarmac today. She can't be both.

Get your freakin' story straight.

Posted by: kallisto at May 22, 2017 06:25 PM (kD8Fh)

253 One of the base motivations of Silicon Valley is like so many of the established rich;

They climbed to the top of that ladder and they're going to make damn sure to kick the ladder out of the way to ensure that no competitor can climb up after him and knock his smug secure ass off

Posted by: kbdabear at May 22, 2017 06:25 PM (AOrEZ)

254 They will sell the usb cables with which we will hang them.

Posted by: The Left at May 22, 2017 06:25 PM (1CtvB)

255 Ariana Grande concert.

Seriously? I would probably blow that up too...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:26 PM (O2RFr)

256
"Here, have a nice op amp."

I don't know anything about that. I'll just stick to me digital bit-flippin'.


There's a whole world in between zero and five volts.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:27 PM (IqV8l)

257 I think it's actually a pretty good idea. Say someone got a dui five years ago but a search for their name still brings up articles or arrest records or the like. Why should that happen after the person already did the sentence and moved on?

It's too bad it took government to do it, but it's not a bad thing imo.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis


I have an extended family member who got away with murder. Twice. No charges were ever filed. He joked about one vehicular homicide with the police -- high as a kite on some combination of drugs and alcohol. He stabbed someone else more then 10 times, but never charged, because the dude died of something else -- possibly OD -- shortly after.

It was so shocking to the sensibilities of people in the Philadelphia area that the major daily had an editorial about how the hell did this POS get away with this?

Nope. I want that editorial to follow him around the rest of his life, with rope in hand.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 06:27 PM (HTdUD)

258 Ariana Grande concert.

Seriously? I would probably blow that up too...
Posted by: It's Me donna

No donuts for you!!

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 22, 2017 06:27 PM (RFeQD)

259 As for worrying about a big drop in Amazon stock you have to consider the role that the Central Banks now play in stock market demand. Zero Hedge had a chart last week that showed Central Bank financial assets rising from about 4 trillion to 27 trillion in the last 15 years. Most of that (and all of our Feds assets) is government debt but a lot of it is stock. And when the most valuable company in the world, Apple, isn't yet worth a trillion dollars that's considerable firepower.

IIRC the central bank of Switzerland owns more FB stock than Zuckerberg (but thru non voting shares). If FB drops, why not 'print' more Swiss Francs and bid the price back up? It's why the Zero Hedge folks are fond of saying we haven't had real price discovery - real 'ask-bid' action leading to a market price - in 9 years.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at May 22, 2017 06:27 PM (PvCxa)

260 The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's wealth to redistribute.

Posted by: Zombie Margaret's Saved Email at May 22, 2017 06:27 PM (XoldI)

261 Fuckin' California.

Posted by: John McClane at May 22, 2017 06:27 PM (1CtvB)

262 >>Police confirm they are responding to a "serious incident" at the Manchester Arena; there are reports of injuries

Damn. One of my good friends and his family live in Manchester.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 06:28 PM (/tuJf)

263 The likes of Zuckerburg aren't classic Leftists. They're BigGov Globalist Fascists.

Many of their businesses depend on government protection of IP rights. These businesses often are quasi-monopolies or oligopolies.

I like Netflix but its business depends on cable companies giving it bandwidth because of "net neutrality."

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 06:28 PM (+7/1f)

264 Does a "social construct" penis sire "social construct" babies?

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at May 22, 2017 06:28 PM (LQLeS)

265 Fuckin' California.

Posted by: Hey, I'm doing the best I can to do that Gov. Moonbeam at May 22, 2017 06:28 PM (O2RFr)

266 Just remember, when you are talking about terrorists with the Saudis, they don't think of themselves as 'terrorists'.

The Iranians don't think of themselves as 'terrorists'. The Iranians are Holy Men on a Mission From God doing God's Will.

Posted by: Avanti, le Carr at May 22, 2017 06:28 PM (cYDjN)

267 Negative.....Hoffa lives on Oak Island deep underground with Hitler, zombies, Bigfoot and the aliens.
..............

I saw that on Cooper's Treasure.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 06:29 PM (HgMAr)

268 157 Or maybe Hoffa is buried with St. Peter at the Vatican. I get mixed up.


Posted by: Robert Langdon at May 22, 2017 05:56 PM


You dolt. He's buried under the Trinity Church with the National Treasure.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin Gates at May 22, 2017 06:00 PM (JO9+V)

The only possible explanation; ALIENS!

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalos at May 22, 2017 06:30 PM (AOrEZ)

269 154 "The myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an 'ism' at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone."--Arnold Beichmen

You're right about the dialectic, the terms of the debate (and debate is cancelled when Commies get in}.

That's why "socialism" was invented--to be the "reasonable" middle between communism and "capitalism". Which is not really an 'ism' at all.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 22, 2017 06:30 PM (Ndje9)

270 A special mention to the bank, BB\T for having the most asinine "Help Line"
You need a password to use the "Help Line"

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at May 22, 2017 06:31 PM (e8kgV)

271
I prefer to deny reality, which is why I avoid ZeroHedge.

Unless I'm in a really, really, really good mood.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 06:31 PM (HTdUD)

272 Negative.....Hoffa lives on Oak Island deep underground with Hitler, zombies, Bigfoot and the aliens.
Sheesh.....keep up people!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2017 06:19 PM (5VlCp)
what nonsense, how can he "live" there, if his ghost is roaming Giants stadium ??
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 06:22 PM (c6/9Q)

Nope...the aliens shared their transportation beam with him and he comes and goes at will....he just looks ghostly. Something about Gamma Rays WTF?

He is likes to fish, tan on the beach and he plays poker with Bigfoot and Hitler and that fellow with the hair from "Ancient Aliens" when he's not running the backhoe for those brothers who keep digging and digging. HE was a teamster, after all.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2017 06:31 PM (5VlCp)

273 Two obvious things the left ignores.

1) The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.

2) The purpose of business is to make money.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 06:31 PM (Nwg0u)

274 Ariana Grande concert.

She licked the donuts one time too many.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 22, 2017 06:31 PM (Tyii7)

275 Please Lord don't let anybody get assassinated.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 22, 2017 06:31 PM (2qHjF)

276 I hope it targets them. And the fucktards occupy their offices and threaten their families. I will laugh my fucking ass off.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2017 06:33 PM (89T5c)

277 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY AR SUCH INSUFFERABLE PRICKS!

Posted by: BEN RORSCHACHLISBERGER at May 22, 2017 06:33 PM (5iPiH)

278 Please Lord don't let anybody get assassinated.


?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:33 PM (O2RFr)

279 And why the hell aren't we actively sicking the SJWs on them?

Posted by: southdakotaboy at May 22, 2017 06:33 PM (hJovR)

280 Now Horde, behave your selves, this thread is being promoted by Instapundit. No more talking Richards.

Posted by: Avanti, le Carr at May 22, 2017 06:34 PM (cYDjN)

281 New leak from Wapo... Trump asked to security officials to deny collusion with Russia...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:34 PM (O2RFr)

282 Thing about an Ariana Grande concert is that there are probably lots of tweets/teens there.

Posted by: Lauren at May 22, 2017 06:35 PM (1WYFF)

283 to= two

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:35 PM (O2RFr)

284 This a job for.....

Posted by: SUPER PENIS at May 22, 2017 06:35 PM (89T5c)

285 #263 Zuckerberg et al are crony capitalists--the corporatist/statist villains that Rand wrote about. The biggest villains in her novels were businessmen who allied themselves with crooked and power-hungry politicians so as to stifle competition and accrue govt. largess.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at May 22, 2017 06:36 PM (LQLeS)

286 282 Thing about an Ariana Grande concert is that there are probably lots of tweets/teens there.
Posted by: Lauren

You're right... haven't seen it mentioned anywhere yet...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:36 PM (O2RFr)

287 Tax the rich! Take all the bananas!

Posted by: The gorilla at May 22, 2017 06:36 PM (BO/km)

288 255 Ariana Grande concert.

Seriously? I would probably blow that up too...
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:26 PM (O2RFr)

I'd lick her donut.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 06:36 PM (0mRoj)

289 Ariana Grande concert? Ugh - talentless bint - but hope no one is seriously injured.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:37 PM (a0IVu)

290 279 And why the hell aren't we actively sicking the SJWs on them?

Posted by: southdakotaboy at May 22, 2017 06:33 PM (hJovR)

We could do a lot with the Let's You and Him Fight technique perfected by the British long ago.

You could probably have all of the various subgroups in the Left's coalition at each other's throats through a concerted online effort of concern trolling coupled with a ruthlessness to "go there" and not worry about any taboo whatsoever.

If it was done right it would be easy. You wouldn't even break a sweat. Most of it could be done from behind a keyboard while drinking your morning coffee.

But apparently no one is ready yet. Probably Muh Decorum and Muh Principles or something is stopping the whole thing.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:37 PM (4ErVI)

291 159
I read an interesting piece not to long ago about Musk and the pseudo monopoly he is in with NASA. I think Lockheed is the only other company with the ability to bid on a lot of these rocket launch contracts. And Musk got both federal and state money and services to build his facilities and companies.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 06:01 PM (/tuJf)


United Launch Alliance, a consortium of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is a literal government monopoly. Its ONLY customer is the U.S. government. Their launches are so expensive that they lost the commercial satellite market to the European Space Agency and Russia. For the first time in many years, SpaceX is getting some of those launches back.

NASA provided some development funding to SpaceX for cargo (and eventually crew) resupply missions to the ISS. Most of that money was to be sure the vehicle could integrate smoothly with ISS, such as docking mechanism, electrical connections, etc. They also needed to ensure that Dragon could maneuver safely in the vicinity of the ISS. SpaceX had to jump a lot of hurdles before they became certified to fly to the ISS. It makes sense, because that's a $100 billion asset with astronauts on board. They don't want any Tom, Dick, and Harry shooting rockets at it willy-nilly.

But the amount of government funding to SpaceX is a drop in the bucket compared to the money spent on ULA launches, or what they used to spend on the Space Shuttle.

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2017 06:38 PM (sdi6R)

292 I'd lick her donut.

Limber up the custard cannon!

Posted by: Admiral Snackbar at May 22, 2017 06:38 PM (Tyii7)

293 Silicon Valley is capitalist in the same sense that the ChiComs are capitalist.

Posted by: Memories at May 22, 2017 06:38 PM (mwcEF)

294 "Seriously? I would probably blow that up too...
Posted by: It's Me donna"

Is this Me Donna or Ma Donna?

Posted by: The gorilla at May 22, 2017 06:39 PM (BO/km)

295 292 I'd lick her donut.

Limber up the custard cannon!
Posted by: Admiral Snackbar at May 22, 2017 06:38 PM (Tyii7)

Coordinates are locked and meat missile is a go.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 06:39 PM (0mRoj)

296 FNC just mentioned the explosion. No details

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:39 PM (IqV8l)

297 There will be a shooting by a leftist, blamed on the tea party, again. Will this country recover? I think not, we are past that point.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 06:40 PM (6Ll1u)

298 294 "Seriously? I would probably blow that up too...
Posted by: It's Me donna"

Is this Me Donna or Ma Donna?

It's me and I probably shouldn't have said that because it looks like there are injuries...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:40 PM (O2RFr)

299 I volunteer to comfort Ms. Grande in this time of crisis.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 06:41 PM (0mRoj)

300 Confirmed fatalities due to explosion at #Manchester Arena

https://twitter.com/UKDefJournal/status/866788004404355073

Posted by: The Manchester Hat at May 22, 2017 06:41 PM (rUIbB)

301 Maybe it's just someone who really doesn't like Ariana Grande's music.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:41 PM (4ErVI)

302 Confirmed fatalities due to explosion at #Manchester Arena



Terrible... Hope is was an accident of some kind...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:42 PM (O2RFr)

303 280 Now Horde, behave your selves, this thread is being promoted by Instapundit. No more talking Richards.
Posted by: Avanti, le Carr at May 22, 2017 06:34 PM (cYDjN)

Asking the horde to behave itself is like trying the Red Sea to Part....

ie... you'd need an Act of God...

Posted by: Don Q. at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (NgKpN)

304 Official police statement confirms fatalities.

https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866786909544230912

Posted by: The Manchester Hat at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (rUIbB)

305 "Negative.....Hoffa lives on Oak Island......"

That's where Mel's hole ends up at?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (d76uN)

306 Fatalities...damn....

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (a0IVu)

307 The explosion was bad enough to bring out Shep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (IqV8l)

308 This thread is being promoted by some online muckety muck?

And here I am with no pants.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (4ErVI)

309 Reports of multiple fatalities and injuries at the concert. Damn.

Posted by: no good deed at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (hJamr)

310 Let's Play 'Pretend It Wasn't Terrorism' . Ready GO!

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 06:44 PM (Uxokn)

311 I denounce myself, as well.

Posted by: Admiral Snackbar at May 22, 2017 06:44 PM (Tyii7)

312 229 Posted by: shibumi

A lot of head games goin' on.

When Hillary mentioned Seth Rich a few days after his Arkancide, she was trying to plant the "move along, nothing to see here"-seed in the public mind.

Trump was playing head games with Hillary at Hofstra a month later when he mentioned a 400-lb. blogger. Message: "You know who I'm talking about. I know you're lying about Russia. And you know I know." Hillary was undoubtedly plugged in to all the relevant Deep State surveillance on DotCom, who she had already previously tried to have extradited to an American prison.

Every time the Clintons break a law, somebody else gets in trouble. They're trying to take that principle all the way to Trump now--but this time, they will fail.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 22, 2017 06:44 PM (Ndje9)

313 "And here I am with no pants"

Do what I'm doing. Moon 'em.

Posted by: The gorilla at May 22, 2017 06:44 PM (BO/km)

314 304 Official police statement confirms fatalities.

https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866786909544230912
Posted by: The Manchester Hat at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM (rUIbB)

Shit. OK, I'm done joking. Well, for now.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 06:45 PM (0mRoj)

315 Let's see, so they have Amish in Britain?

Posted by: Aetius451AD's work phone at May 22, 2017 06:45 PM (W0ZYU)

316 I went searching at duckduckgo and the concert explosion in Manchester sounds like real injuries. A.G. is a spoiled bint but if cukfing terrorists attacked kids attending a concert I hope the Brits get serious about hitting back.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 22, 2017 06:45 PM (eASYU)

317 Maybe it's just someone who really doesn't like Ariana Grande's music.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:41 PM (4ErVI)
..............

Narrows it down to about 7 billion suspects.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 06:46 PM (HgMAr)

318
Let's Play 'Pretend It Wasn't Terrorism' . Ready GO!
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her!


They already mentioned the possibility of a "popping balloon." How does a popping balloon kill people?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:46 PM (IqV8l)

319 Apple has more cash liquidity than the USA.
No printing presses, true, but still...

Posted by: navybrat at May 22, 2017 06:46 PM (w7KSn)

320 Modern day savages destroy civilization. Doing islam's work. Which is shaitan's work. Wake up, America.

Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2017 06:46 PM (zLDYs)

321 Its bloody ISIS inspired, isn't it? That's my default until proven otherwise.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:47 PM (a0IVu)

322 Narrows it down to about 7 billion suspects.
Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 06:46 PM


What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Nickleback at May 22, 2017 06:47 PM (DMUuz)

323 >>Let's see, so they have Amish in Britain?

A few years ago I was on a connecting flight from Amsterdam to Manchester. There were probably 50 or so of us on the flight and close to half were young, Muslim guys supposedly going to Manchester for school.

Whole lotta Muslims in the UK.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 06:47 PM (/tuJf)

324 A popping balloon may have caused multiple fatalities at an arena in Manchester, England.

After the break, we will speak to area Muslims concerned about a possible backlash of Islamophobia.

Posted by: Shepard Smith at May 22, 2017 06:47 PM (m5dkR)

325 "I hope the Brits get serious about hitting back. "

Are you kidding? If you put the words terror and islam together in Britain, you are looking at jail time.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 22, 2017 06:48 PM (d76uN)

326 323, Whole lotta Muslims in the UK.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 06:47 PM (/tuJf)
Was in London last year and for a surreal minute, I thought I was in Kabul with all the burka covered women everywhere. Its pathetic.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:48 PM (a0IVu)

327 Hoffa's not dead.
He' with Elvis.

-
Collaborating on a truck driving song album.

--------------------------------------

I hear the wheels a turnin,
turnin round the bend.

And I'm stuck here, since,
since I don't know when.
Stuck at Ace of Spades,
it's where I want to be.

All I ever wanted,
was to set those truckers freeeeeeee.


Posted by: Avanti, le Carr at May 22, 2017 06:48 PM (cYDjN)

328 We don't know that it's Islam yet and, if the MSM had anything to say about it, we never will.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 06:49 PM (Nwg0u)

329 So, let me get this right. Somebody blew up people at an concert that only teenage girls go to? Who would want to do that?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 06:49 PM (6Ll1u)

330 Seems the concert was over and the lights came on and them boom... Doesn't sound like an accident to me...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:49 PM (O2RFr)

331 Yeah, if the Brits haven't gotten serious by now, they never will.

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2017 06:49 PM (sdi6R)

332 A popping balloon? How would that cause fatalities unless it was panic followed by a stampede..

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:49 PM (a0IVu)

333 This thread is being promoted by some online muckety muck?
And here I am with no pants.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:43 PM


It's cool. The Book Thread is the only AoSHQ Thread that requires pants.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2017 06:50 PM (DMUuz)

334 Have BBC news on top of the hour

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:50 PM (Ot7+c)

335 They already mentioned the possibility of a "popping balloon." How does a popping balloon kill people?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:46 PM (IqV8l)
..........

It flies around in circles, hits you in the eye, you raise up your hands to cover them too late, and a white cop shoots you.
Happens all the time.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 06:50 PM (HgMAr)

336 Yeah I'm not a conspiracy nut per se (I like reading about them because of them are so delightfully out there it's pure entertainment), but I think the Seth Rich thing is a thing.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:50 PM (4ErVI)

337 332 A popping balloon? How would that cause fatalities unless it was panic followed by a stampede..


A stampede could do it, but it was said to be a loud boom so it would have to be a huge balloon

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:50 PM (O2RFr)

338 Popping balloon

gunshots


Mom drops dish in kitchen


thunderstorm


very loud farts?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 06:51 PM (Uxokn)

339 332 A popping balloon? How would that cause fatalities unless it was panic followed by a stampede..
Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:49 PM (a0IVu)


A stampede certainly can cause fatalities. Remember that Who concert back in 1979. Or any number of Muslim or Hindu religious festivals.

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2017 06:51 PM (sdi6R)

340 99 Luft Balloons

Posted by: Nina at May 22, 2017 06:51 PM (JO9+V)

341 BAN BALLOONS

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 22, 2017 06:52 PM (oVJmc)

342 Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2017 06:46 PM (zLDYs)

Yup, every time I hear about anything from "driver passed out and plowed into a store" locally to "explosion in some city" I now go to "terrorism until proven otherwise" rather than thinking it could be just a horrible accident.

But until I start joining a mob that forms to exact revenge on the nearest proxy I will not denounce myself.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 22, 2017 06:52 PM (eASYU)

343 A shop teacher once showed our class that a balloon filled with acetylene and oxygen will go big boom.

Posted by: davidt at May 22, 2017 06:52 PM (XoldI)

344 If only enough people were making those heart symbols with their hands, this wouldn't happen.

Also, Trump. Surely he's responsible for this somehow. I heard he hates balloons too.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:52 PM (4ErVI)

345 Fox News reporting a bomb at Arianna Grande concert in Manchester. Several casualties.

Posted by: rd at May 22, 2017 06:52 PM (XSEwK)

346 Number of fatalities BBC is saying

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:52 PM (Ot7+c)

347 Seriously , proggie assholes.


Political correctness gets 51% of the blame for all injuries or God forbid , fatalities.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 06:53 PM (Uxokn)

348 Read a description by a concert goer saying there was a loud bang behind her and people covered in blood and lots of smoke... Doesn't sound like a balloon to me...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:53 PM (O2RFr)

349 Where do I sign up?

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (hKi6n)

350 Fox News reporting a bomb at Arianna Grande concert in Manchester. Several casualties.

Posted by: rd at May 22, 2017 06:52 PM (XSEwK)

---

When will the they come to their senses and finally outlaw bombs and killing people?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (fD1ST)

351 The casualties very likely could have been from a stampede.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (4ErVI)

352 CNN and Drudge do not have Manchester bombing.

Hmmm.

Posted by: blaster at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (tFx3r)

353 >>A stampede certainly can cause fatalities. Remember that Who concert back in 1979. Or any number of Muslim or Hindu religious festivals.

Station nightclub fire here in RI back in 2003. The band's pyrotechnics ignited a fire and that caused a stampede. 100 killed, 230 injured, many by the stampede and not the fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (/tuJf)

354 Another possible explanation is a pyrotechnic mishap.

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (sdi6R)

355 How does a popping balloon kill people?
..........

Is that before or after you suck some helium out of it and talk like Donald Duck?

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (HgMAr)

356 Drudge do not have Manchester bombing.

Hmmm.

Drudge does

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (O2RFr)

357 Seeing as how it just happened you can't really make any guesses about what happened other than one based on recent past events. That may give one a clue as to where to start investigating the origin of the the culprits.

Posted by: freaked at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (BO/km)

358 Beat me to it, JackStraw.

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (sdi6R)

359 front and center at Drudge in red

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (c6/9Q)

360 "Imagine" queued up and standing by.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (qJhUV)

361 Sounding more like a bomb. Bombing an Ariana Grande concert is so bizarre.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (a0IVu)

362 Licking Donuts

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (e8kgV)

363 "Imagine" queued up and standing by.

I'm ready

Posted by: John Kerry at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (O2RFr)

364 Seems like the concert injuries are stampede related.

Those were balloons, and Ariana Grande fans are... prone to herd mentality?

Posted by: wooga at May 22, 2017 06:56 PM (7utzD)

365 Let's not go off half baked.

Wait until the newsies get their story straight,
then we can go full baked.

Posted by: Avanti, le Carr at May 22, 2017 06:56 PM (cYDjN)

366 It must be blasphemy to "lick donuts"

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 22, 2017 06:56 PM (e8kgV)

367 Somehow, Trump is to blame.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:56 PM (a0IVu)

368 The explosion/bombing in Manchester, duly followed up with;

Tweets from celebrities expressing their sorrow for those killed along with "Only Love Can Destroy Hate" platitudes

#WeStandWithManchester and #LoveConquersHate hashtags

Union Jacks superimposed over profile pics

Agreement by the Left that Trump is at fault

Posted by: kbdabear at May 22, 2017 06:56 PM (AOrEZ)

369 361 Sounding more like a bomb. Bombing an Ariana Grande concert is so bizarre.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (a0IVu)

It is. Her career is likely to explode all on its own within five years.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2017 06:57 PM (4ErVI)

370 New thread for the incident in Manchester.

Posted by: no good deed at May 22, 2017 06:57 PM (hJamr)

371 "explosion rocked nearby apartments"


"balloons"

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 06:57 PM (Uxokn)

372 FOXNews reporting that neighbors outside of the arena heard the explosion also. That would have to be one giant balloon to make that kind of noise.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 22, 2017 06:57 PM (62eBc)

373 368
The explosion/bombing in Manchester, duly followed up with;



Tweets from celebrities expressing their sorrow for those killed along with "Only Love Can Destroy Hate" platitudes



#WeStandWithManchester and #LoveConquersHate hashtags



Union Jacks superimposed over profile pics



Agreement by the Left that Trump is at fault



Posted by: kbdabear at May 22, 2017 06:56 PM (AOrEZ)

Candlelight vigil.

Posted by: davidt at May 22, 2017 06:57 PM (XoldI)

374 A,A, A.......Jihadism...( sorry had to sneeze there) A BBC not sure of cause, wonderinb if desths were from explosion or stampede.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2017 06:58 PM (Ot7+c)

375 It must be a huge .. almost vast story.

To report now would be ... half vast

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 22, 2017 06:58 PM (e8kgV)

376 I dunno. The cops don't look too concerned.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 22, 2017 06:58 PM (qJhUV)

377 361. Well I have no idea of the infrastructure in Manchester or at the arena. So for all I know it could have been a natural gas leak.

But I know that radical muzzie terrorists hate for anyone to be having fun and especially girls so really it is a totally logical target if it was cufking ISIS (inspired) terrorists.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 22, 2017 06:58 PM (eASYU)

378 I'm pretty sure that the three leakers found are only a tithe of how many that will be found. These three will lead to others.

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 22, 2017 06:58 PM (d3wbb)

379 Welcome to the new normal, we can absorb these attacks. Right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 22, 2017 06:59 PM (6Ll1u)

380 Balloons,
birthday balloons,
birthday cake,
ice cream,
two scoops:

TRUMP

WE MUST GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2017 06:59 PM (HgMAr)

381
FNC and CNN International covering Manchester.
CNN and MSNBC whining about Trump.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 06:59 PM (IqV8l)

382 If love concurred hate we wouldn't need your stupid hashtag.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2017 06:59 PM (nQ3uL)

383 99 Luft Balloons

Posted by: Nina at May 22, 2017 06:51 PM (JO9+V)


I blame Captain Kirk...

Posted by: Nena at May 22, 2017 07:00 PM (rUIbB)

384 The weird part will be when that Dotcom guy was at the concert and is unexpectedly dead now.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 07:00 PM (fD1ST)

385
So basically this is shaping up to be a war between SJW vs Nerds.
The biggest slap fight evah.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 22, 2017 07:00 PM (t6XCL)

386 Horrible stuff. One minute some little pop tart is sing-songing about getting her mish squished and then in a instant people are dying.

Our craven globalist leaders are craven.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 07:02 PM (TNQMS)

387 Doesn't the Navy still use those foot-treadle powered drills?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 05:43 PM (OdK9v)

Only when working on Marines.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 22, 2017 07:03 PM (a94gW)

388 A.G. is a spoiled bint but if cukfing terrorists attacked kids attending a concert I hope the Brits get serious about hitting back.
***
I have a strange suspicion that ISIS or the like killing a prominent member of lefty culture would stir them to anger, like after 9/11, for a little while.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2017 07:15 PM (aZq03)

389 Not me. I'll gladly welcome any chastened tech companies who are suddenly surprised when the unbalanced turn on them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2017 07:26 PM (2mC6G)

390 362
Licking Donuts

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 22, 2017 06:55 PM (e8kgV)


I saw Licking Donuts open for Crotchless Pancakes at Oz Fest back in '98.

Posted by: Smokin' Bob at May 22, 2017 07:32 PM (n3hky)

391 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (DQ4Fv)
---
That would be a puzzler, if you expected consistency out of a lib. I don't any longer. In fact, I'm pretty sure I expect the opposite: people who call themselves Anti-fascists who act like brownshirts, people who have long been cozy with Russia suddenly being alarmed that somebody might collude with Russia.

The answer is "Yes, they do".

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2017 07:32 PM (2mC6G)

392 When will the they come to their senses and finally outlaw bombs and killing people?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 06:54 PM (fD1ST)
---
Teach men not to bomb.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2017 07:39 PM (2mC6G)

393 Silicon Valley is incomprehensibly leftist. Yet is the heart of capitalism. Figure that one out.



Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2017 05:24 PM (DQ4Fv)



It's like they never heard of Lenin and the rope he was planning to sell them.

"Those who don't learn history are doomed to...", eh....never mind. It would be lost on these assholes.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 22, 2017 07:51 PM (nGMLA)

394 Madam Defarge just smiled and kept on knitting.

Posted by: Dave72 at May 22, 2017 08:02 PM (0J7A2)

395 While it would be painful if something bad happened to Apple's value, it would be worth it to knock these smug commies down a peg or three.

Posted by: Anna Mac at May 22, 2017 08:25 PM (xujfC)

396 The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed.

Posted by: mig0 at May 22, 2017 10:10 PM (GfWEp)

397 Bank of America can also eat shit and die. One of the most unscrupulous financial institutions in the world who regularly engages in the most revolting conduct to screw over as many average joe customers as they can.

Posted by: S at May 23, 2017 11:44 AM (poT2p)

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