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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (5/23/17)
The allurement that [women] hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. H.L. MenckenQuote II
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.… Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty. Herbert HooverQuote III
Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization — you can't just swallow it whole. Frank Zappa
He brought that showman's savvy to Fox. As Charles Krauthammer likes to say, Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes discovered an under-served niche market: 50 per cent of the American people. At the time Ailes was on my BBC show, Murdoch's new network was already in the works and the man he'd picked to run it was Andrew Neil, his editor at The Sunday Times in Britain (now at the Beeb and chairman of the Speccie). That fit a Murdoch pattern with his American ventures, of parachuting in someone he trusted from London or Oz (as at The Wall Street Journal and New York Post). This time, though, he had second thoughts: before the project got off the ground, Neil returned to the UK, and Murdoch let Ailes have a completely free hand in reinventing cable news. Within five years, the upstart had overtaken CNN, and never looked back.
Settled science? Settled dogma? Burying Benedict.
Though Benedict is still living, Francis is trying to bury him. Upon his election in 2013, Francis began to pursue an agenda that Joseph Ratzinger had opposed throughout his career. A stress on the pastoral over against the doctrinal, a promotion of diverse disciplinary and doctrinal approaches in local churches, the opening of communion to the divorced and remarried—all these proposals were weighed and rejected by Ratzinger more than ten years ago in a heated debate with Walter Kasper. For better or worse, Francis now seeks to reverse Ratzinger. The conflict began with a 1992 letter concerning “the fundamental elements that are to be considered already settled” when Catholic theologians do their work. Some theologians had suggested that while doctrine might be universal and unchanging, it could be bent to meet discrete pastoral realities—allowing for a liberal approach, say, in Western Europe and a more conservative one in Africa.As a conservative Protestant, I find this upheaval in the R.C.C quite interesting.
Do we have a constitutional crisis? The appointment of a special prosecutor may be one.
Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert Mueller to investigate wholly unsupported claims of “links and/or coordination between the Russian government and … the campaign of President Donald Trump” poses the most serious threat to American constitutional government and domestic peace since the Civil War.Funny, how the same old tired and worn political hacks resurface.
Sheer lunacy on college campuses.
In a recent New York Times op-ed, New York University provost Ulrich Baer argued: "The idea of freedom of speech does not mean a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks. It means balancing the inherent value of a given view with the obligation to ensure that other members of a given community can participate in discourse as fully recognized members of that community.
Heaven forbid we scapegoat them. College grad, eh? Soft pampered piece of crap. Quite frankly I wouldn't trust him with anything more than a broom and a dust pan.
In such a situation of shock and bewilderment, it was not obvious what the French should do. Overwhelmingly, they were patriotic, but where did patriotism lie? Most took the view that France had been undermined and betrayed by forces that were not properly French. These should be excluded to restore France’s health and vigour, and the nation’s fortunes should be entrusted to a real military hero, Marshal Pétain. The Marshal met Hitler in October 1940 and shook hands with him, announcing that he was embarking on a strategy of collaboration. This was not necessarily all bad. Its purpose was to bring POWs home sooner, to make it easier to cross the demarcation line between the occupied and non-occupied zones and to reduce some of the financial and economic burdens inflicted by Germany, although in practice the Germans made few concessions. Many people thought that Pétain, while working ostensibly with the Germans, was playing a double game – in secret contact with the British in order to eventually bring France back into the war against Germany.
Hero? Bum? Naked dude loses appeal of TSA fine.
Just over five years after John Brennan‘s heroic (and heroically naked) stand against TSA oppression, the Ninth Circuit has rejected his appeal. As you may recall, Brennan was arrested in April 2012 after he got fed up with TSA screening nonsense in Portland and decided to strip naked as a form of protest. Although obviously this greatly simplified the screening process—or it would have, if the goal were actually to determine whether a traveler is carrying anything dangerous—the TSA acted like it didn’t, and shut down the checkpoint.Win some. Lose some. The ONT is surprised that the 9th
In 2007, some UC Berkeley neuroscientists decided to work their students like dogs. They dipped twine in chocolate essence, zigzagged it across a grassy field, and instructed human volunteers to track the scent as if they were bloodhounds. To ensure that they were only relying on their sense of smell, the researchers had their subjects get down on all fours while blindfolded, ear-muffed and wearing thick knee pads and gloves.
May 23, 1970, Paul McCartney's debut solo album, 'McCartney', started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart. Apart from Linda McCartney's vocal contributions, McCartney performed (and recorded) the entire album solo. The album featured 'Maybe I'm Amazed', which Rod Stewart and The Faces featured on their 1971 album Long Player.
Just. Because.
You know who you are.
The Swiss have used their power of direct democracy to end nuclear power. In a referendum on Sunday (May 21), 58.2% voted in favor of a law that will not allow building of new nuclear plants. The country’s five nuclear plants can continue to operate as long as they are safe.
Classic literature and music. They have a lot in common. 20 bands named after classic literature. Can you think of others.
Ludwig van Beethoven, genius musician and sensitive man.
My dear good Emilie, my dear Friend! […] Do not only practice art, but get at the very heart of it; this it deserves, for only art and science raise men to the God-head. If, my dear Emilie, you at any time wish to know something, write without hesitation to me. The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Readers may disagree as to whether these changes represent social progress or cultural decline, but few will quarrel with the idea that America 1) is bifurcating; 2) has experienced a fundamental cultural transformation in just a few generations. Here are six statistics that drive home just how much things have changed in America in a little more than a half-century:
Karma, is a
Not all cops are out for the bust. The Feel Good Story of The Day
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 09:44 PM (tfQTV)
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 09:45 PM (gwPgz)
plants "an appeal to heaven" flag
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 09:46 PM (tfQTV)
Posted by: parsimony at May 23, 2017 09:47 PM (xEt5a)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 09:47 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 09:48 PM (RfzVr)
On a really hot summer day, Lake Michigan is like seventy degrees.
Lake superior is effing cold.
I don't know about Lake Erie. Polluted, I think.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 09:48 PM (+HRXN)
I'm taking names...
*scribbles on notepad*
Posted by: From Photo at May 23, 2017 09:48 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: parsimony at May 23, 2017 09:48 PM (xEt5a)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 09:48 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 09:48 PM (tfQTV)
Posted by: fluffy at May 23, 2017 09:50 PM (jw2Xw)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 09:50 PM (+HRXN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2017 09:51 PM (1OZio)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 09:51 PM (+HRXN)
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM (cAnNx)
Watched it happen.
Makes me sad for the future grandchildren.
Posted by: tbodie at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM (e9G8E)
maybe?
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 09:53 PM (tfQTV)
The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that set off alarm. Trump was elected less than two weeks later.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 23, 2017 09:53 PM (e8kgV)
Your dog is dead too?
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 09:53 PM (kufk0)
I have a dog unhappy about being in the cone of shame.
http://tinypic.com/r/11mdiex/9
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM (cAnNx)
Well, no shit. Looks like they gave him the giraffe size. Poor dog!
Posted by: Peaches at May 23, 2017 09:53 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD's work phone at May 23, 2017 09:54 PM (AEOkY)
Yeah, I know the political minefield that implies, but really, doesn't any "special counsel" ultimately work for the President?
Posted by: filbert at May 23, 2017 09:54 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 09:55 PM (+HRXN)
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 09:55 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 09:56 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 23, 2017 09:56 PM (nvMvs)
Yes. In fact, there were serious concerns about the "Independent Counsel Act" and the authority of a court to act as it's overseer.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 23, 2017 09:57 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: teej at May 23, 2017 09:57 PM (wedOa)
Sawsall slicing of a . . . ham loaf?
Well, it's called a 'sawsall' for a reason, after all.
Posted by: filbert at May 23, 2017 09:57 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 23, 2017 09:57 PM (6FqZa)
Thank you.
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 09:55 PM (sBOL1
You and the others are welcome
Glad you enjoy, somewhat
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 09:58 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Peaches at May 23, 2017 09:53 PM (EgOr3)
He's got a big neck. and has staples on his side and at the base of his tale so they probably wanted to ensure that he wouldn't be able to get to either of those.
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 09:58 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 09:58 PM (+HRXN)
Raining today again. Should I take of off Wed or Fri, which day will not rain? I need to do a lot of work outside.
And BTW that cokesucker Brennan is a Muzzie and a traitor.
Posted by: Farmer at May 23, 2017 09:59 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Gumby at May 23, 2017 10:00 PM (l7VdA)
Thanks to zebra mussels, Lake Erie is about as pristine as a lake downstream of that much population can be.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 23, 2017 10:00 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: No Yoko No Ringo at May 23, 2017 10:00 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 09:58 PM (ZTRlp)
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I enjoy, fully
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:00 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:01 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 10:01 PM (8O3HH)
I need to work out a better system of praying for Horde members. My memory just doesn't cut it.
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 23, 2017 10:01 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2017 10:02 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse
Not nearly as polluted as it used to be. The industries that used to line the shores of Lake Erie are mostly gone.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (+y0MR)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (vRcUp)
Thanks for that video - "My Sharona" was always a treat to hear on the car radio in the Summer of '79!
Posted by: Gref at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (AMIL/)
Please pass on to Mrs. MisHum our sincere appreciation for her support to you, that enables all the fine content you deliver consistently to Teh Horde!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Laura Petrie at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Farmer at May 23, 2017 09:59 PM (o/90i)
You can't mean that the John Brennan that referred to Jerusalem as al-Quds would be a muz!
http://tinyurl.com/kh9w3lp
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: thathalfrican - Luchini aka This Is It What at May 23, 2017 10:04 PM (/cEXt)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:04 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 23, 2017 10:04 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:04 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Gumby at May 23, 2017 10:00 PM (l7VdA)
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The NH State House? Well, I guess that means Rs nationwide at the Federal level will have an early night in 2018.
Posted by: GOULD at May 23, 2017 10:05 PM (Hj4t4)
teejPosted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 10:05 PM (tfQTV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (ZO497)
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You should have thought of that before we left the house.
Posted by: Mike Hammer's Mom at May 23, 2017 10:05 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Gumby at May 23, 2017 10:00 PM (l7VdA)
This leaves Trump's administration in utter ruins. For the good of the country he should resign.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2017 10:05 PM (1OZio)
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:05 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM
It could be worse; they could be a sockpuppeteer on the Wall of Shame.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 23, 2017 10:06 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Jmel at May 23, 2017 10:06 PM (OeWgo)
Posted by: Roland Martin at May 23, 2017 10:06 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 23, 2017 10:06 PM (d76uN)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 23, 2017 10:07 PM (hMwEB)
Another DNC convention so soon?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at May 23, 2017 10:07 PM (tbOMB)
Hey, Barack and Hillary, what's that on your hands?
Looks a lot like blood.
Posted by: gewa76 at May 23, 2017 10:07 PM (f4GSC)
That thing about dogs sense of smell that sounds like BS. I know my dogs can smell better than me. Who pays for stuff like that?
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:04 PM
That's why college is so expensive.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2017 10:07 PM (IqV8l)
She said "You're welcome" and gave you a fist bump.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:07 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Origional Jake at May 23, 2017 10:08 PM (x7PmF)
Good, but odd... didn't realize there'd be little (and not so little) chunks of peaches (not the 'Ette) that would be rocketing up the straw as I'm drinking.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at May 23, 2017 10:08 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 23, 2017 10:08 PM (di1hb)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 23, 2017 10:06 PM (d76uN)
You and the guy from last night can check out Chuckie's Little Green Balls music history.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:09 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Caleb Joshua Pine at May 23, 2017 10:09 PM (bc2Lc)
The students have gone from being bloodhounds to being pitbulls in just 10 years.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:09 PM (vRcUp)
Map of shipwrecks in the area:
http://tinyurl.com/ms2csob
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:10 PM (ZO497)
--I would not call To Kill A Mockingbird "classic" literature, although I love the Boo Radleys.
I thought Modest Mouse was named after the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:10 PM (GsAUU)
You should have thought of that before we left the house.
Posted by: Mike Hammer's Mom at May 23, 2017 10:05 PM (sBOL1)
LOL!!!
Posted by: Peaches at May 23, 2017 10:10 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2017 10:10 PM (XoldI)
That a challenge?
Posted by: Monica Lewinski at May 23, 2017 10:10 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:11 PM (RfzVr)
dose mother fucking moslems earned that scape goat title
right after they fucked that goat and blew up innocents
Posted by: Origional Jake at May 23, 2017 10:11 PM (x7PmF)
One of the favorite MTM stories. Carl Reiner used to allow a young, teenaged Meathead (Rob) to hang out on the set of the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Now, remember those Capri pants MTM use to wear. There were ... nice. Well, young Meathead, around 14 or so, couldn't resist them, and grabbed MTM right on the ass one day.
She told Carl. He had a talking with Meathead. Years later, at some reunion party for the cast, ol' Meathead was there. I think this was after the MTM show went off the air, but maybe during the run, I can't remember.
She offered her ass to Meathead again, as a joke. He grabbed it again, and she exclaimed "Oh Rob!"
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 10:11 PM (8O3HH)
Kids in college are not really anyone I have ever looked to for wisdom.
Posted by: Aetius451AD's work phone at May 23, 2017 10:11 PM (AEOkY)
Posted by: sticky blue dress at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 09:48 PM (+HRXN)
It had better not be polluted, I swim in it all the time.
Posted by: F.N.G. at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (kiSdp)
If you, human, live outside for a long period of time, several weeks, you begin to notice scent that you otherwise wouldn't.
I don't know about tracking the scent of a rope soaked in chocolate, but if you have ever been to Mackinac Island, you know what fudge and horse manure smells like.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (+HRXN)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (0mRoj)
Thanks for that video - "My Sharona" was always a treat to hear on the car radio in the Summer of '79!
Posted by: Gref at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (AMIL/)
--The lead singer of The Knack was related to the lawyer who defended the ghoul "Dr." Kevorkian.
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (GsAUU)
Your the Boss, I'll go check and see what chuckles is up to.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (d76uN)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Hillary! 2020 at May 23, 2017 10:13 PM (ev02w)
Posted by: Bwana Dik at May 23, 2017 10:13 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Aetius451AD's work phone at May 23, 2017 10:14 PM (AEOkY)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:14 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 23, 2017 10:15 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Aviator at May 23, 2017 10:15 PM (/Nite)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:15 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (KP5rU)
**Snort**
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:15 PM (ZTRlp)
But the thing about "female bond" is there are some (arguably) canon female 00 agents with interesting stories that could make great movie characters, espeically since we're all about "Creative Universes" now.
You could easily make one of those "short season" special productions on Netflix with Scarlett Papava (004) or Briony Thorne (013), or some new 00 agent, and you could even start with and deal extensively with selection and training.
And then that series (or series of movies) would be in the "00 Universe" but not (directly) about Bond.
And then we could have a Felix Leiter movie.
Yeah, these days, I'd rather read more stories set in the Hyborean Age than yet another Conan. I am definitely liking "Rogue One" more than most Star Wars since, oh, 1980.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 23, 2017 10:16 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:16 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 23, 2017 10:16 PM (G8B7r)
Your the Boss, I'll go check and see what chuckles is up to.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (d76uN)
Check out Puddles instead
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:16 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:11 PM (RfzVr)
Don't tell him that.
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 10:16 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: mark1971 at May 23, 2017 10:17 PM (xPl2J)
As a conservative Jew, I must remind conservative Protestants and conservative Catholics that if you would only return to your roots, everything would work out fine.
And by roots I mean Judaism.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (rF0hx)
Posted by: Bwana Dik at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (BO/km)
Again.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (d76uN)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (tfQTV)
If you, human, live outside for a long period of time, several weeks, you begin to notice scent that you otherwise wouldn't.
That could just be Hillary wandering around the woods.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:19 PM (vRcUp)
-Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 23, 2017 10:01 PM (nvMvs)
-Bebe's has had a fight with her Sister over a house.
-ibguy's younger Sister has Cancer.
-Iron Mike Golf's Granddaughter has been troubled.
-Pookysgirl's Husband has been in treatment after a suicide attempt.
-Jade Sea's Husband has Cancer.
-tcn's Husband had a tumor.
-Anna Puma is looking to advance at Wal Mart.
-junior is looking for employment.
-Moron Pundit's Father-In-Law had heart surgery.
-thathalfrican's Mother and Aunt had Cancer.
-Insomniac is looking for sleep and employment.
-Duke Lowell has a Son in need of prayer.
-Captain Whitebread was in need of another job.
-IC is in need of employment.
-Mortimer was also looking for a job.
-JinX's Mother passed away.
-Emmie would like a better relationship with her Daughter.
-Vic had the return of cancer.
-ReneeTX... terminal brain cancer is what I have written down. Might our prayers find you and might you find comfort in The Lord.
-Booknlass would like a better relationship with her Daughter.
...as would Ladylibertarian.
-Brother Cavil has legal issues after the death of his Father.
-Fenelonspoke prays for her Husband's empolyment.
(I have more, but they're buried under paper.)
My sincere apologies for being unorganized.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:19 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 23, 2017 10:19 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Caleb Joshua Pine at May 23, 2017 10:09 PM (bc2Lc)
No, I don't want fries with that.
Shithead.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 23, 2017 10:19 PM (SRKgf)
This post calls for the tangentially related and hilarious Peter's Evil Overlord List:
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
RIP Sir Roger Moore.
(And sadly, RIP Hall of Fame Seahawk Cortez Kennedy).
Posted by: Sharkman
Posted by: Sharkman at May 23, 2017 10:19 PM (9ZsgB)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 23, 2017 10:19 PM (89T5c)
Thanks for the smile.
Posted by: teej at May 23, 2017 10:19 PM (wedOa)
My Sawsall manual does not specify which blade is the correct one to use when slicing a ham.
*rubs chin thoughtfully*
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM (tr2D7)
As a conservative Jew, I must remind conservative Protestants and conservative Catholics that if you would only return to your roots, everything would work out fine.
And by roots I mean Judaism.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (rF0hx)
Let us discuss this over a dinner of some bacon wrapped scallops with bacon chocolate chip cookies for dessert.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD's work phone at May 23, 2017 10:14 PM (AEOkY)
Yes, I found I could not take looking at those pictures and stayed off the internet for most of the day. I can't imagine the heartbreak those families are facing, all because their own government has abandoned them!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: eleven at May 23, 2017 10:21 PM (qUNWi)
I've been thinking a lot of old testament thoughts lately.
Does that count?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 10:21 PM (+HRXN)
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:21 PM (kufk0)
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 10:21 PM (tfQTV)
And by roots I mean Judaism.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2017 10:18 PM (rF0hx)
Friendly suggestion: start with secular Jews.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 23, 2017 10:22 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:23 PM (IDPbH)
I use the fine tooth metal cutting blade so as not to shred the meat!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:23 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at May 23, 2017 10:23 PM (+tRIN)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:23 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Hrothgar
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Are we not doing the 'phrasing' thing?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:12 PM (0mRoj)
--The St. Augustine quote is epic as hell and deserves a repeat:
"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (GsAUU)
some (arguably) canon female 00 agents with interesting stories that
could make great movie characters, espeically since we're all about
"Creative Universes" now.<<<
The female 00s make my sandwiches.
Put that down, 007! That's my lunch!!!
Posted by: Q at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM (ZTRlp)
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Ooh. Ooh. Invite me. Can I be the token conservative Catholic?
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (sBOL1)
I've been on a boat on a Great lake.
Those lakes are not fucking around.
Posted by: eleven at May 23, 2017 10:21 PM (qUNWi)
I live on Lake Superior. Not to be taken lightly.
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (XoldI)
I've always thought the Swiss were a smart people.
Well, maybe they are. I've noticed that smart people sometimes do very stupid things.
Posted by: Meremortal at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (O4wiF)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 10:25 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:21 PM (kufk0)
Will do, even though I'm not Slap.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 23, 2017 10:25 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 10:25 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2017 10:25 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM (ZTRlp)
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Ooh. Ooh. Invite me. Can I be the token conservative Catholic?
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (sBOL1
Only if you leave the ruler at home.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (JyFLk)
-Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:21 PM (kufk0)
Yes Ma'am. Let's pray together.
Dear Lord, might our prayers Lift the Faithful and Buoy the Souls of those who surround our beloved.
Might our prayers find You, Dear Lord and comfort the despair with hope and light.
In Jesus' name, I pray...
*amen*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (XoldI)
^^^this^^^
Posted by: Edmund Fitzgerald at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (kufk0)
Thanks again.
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (tfQTV)
Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2017 10:02 PM (zLDYs)
Best guitar solo
Posted by: josephistan at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Gumby at May 23, 2017 10:00 PM (l7VdA)
My ultimate plan to become POTUS is coming into place.
Posted by: Marc Fuckerberg at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (E/ibL)
It may be inarticulately worded, but the metal cutting blade works better than the brush cutting blade, just sayin'!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 10:16 PM (cAnNx)
If he hates it, I bet you could use it as a training device when he is done wearing it. "Settle down or into the cone for you!"
Kinda like shaking the squirter bottle at my cats when they're misbehaving.
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:27 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 10:27 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 10:27 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:27 PM (kufk0)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 23, 2017 10:22 PM (SRKgf)
Absolutely not!
They are exactly the sort of people that we do not want as members of the tribe.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2017 10:27 PM (rF0hx)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:28 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: josephistan at May 23, 2017 10:28 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (ZTRlp)
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Deal. As long as you leave the jello mold at home.
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:28 PM (sBOL1)
When you can't figure out the difference between your bastards and theirs, it is hard to gin up much support for anything, more so when you have been informed that your job is not to figure these things out, but to obey.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2017 10:28 PM (mkDpn)
They are exactly the sort of people that we do not want as members of the tribe.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 23, 2017 10:27 PM (rF0hx)
You do not want them to return to their roots?
I wish they would. It would obviate a lot of problems in this country.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Marc Fuckerberg at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (E/ibL)
Yeah right
Posted by: The Rock
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (ZTRlp)
When I was a kid, we lived about 30 miles from a store. Our closest neighbors were about 1/4 mile away, and were an older couple. They didn't use much milk, and when they bought a 1/2 gallon carton and kept it in their deep freezer. We don't have cartons anymore, but that is how it was commonly sold then.
When they needed milk, the guy would take the carton out and saw a pint off with his bandsaw, wrap up the carton, and stick it back in the freezer. It never occurred to me to ask about how he cleaned the saw.
Wh
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (ZO497)
What is a Eurocratic overlord to do when the peasants start complaining too loudly about being replaced by an imported population that is encouraged to NOT assimilate? Why, pelt them with a poorly animated piece of propaganda about oppressed refugees who are saved from... Eastern Europe... by a fairy who appears to be an upper-middle class college educated woke girl... on a magical carpet.
http://politicalhat.com/?p=13478
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (vBeA5)
Jesus fucking Christ.
Western civilization ends not with a bang but with a whimper.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (qZZ7M)
Posted by: Origional Jake at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (x7PmF)
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:29 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (ZTRlp)
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Deal. As long as you leave the jello mold at home.
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:28 PM (sBOL1)
I broke the mold
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:30 PM (ZTRlp)
Progressives are complaining of shadowy groups and seemingly innocuous organizations playing off each other to achieve political transformation... and success. Oh, they aren't complaining about their own success, but of conservative groups elbowing in on their racket...
http://politicalhat.com/?p=13412
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 10:30 PM (vBeA5)
LOL!!!
Posted by: Peaches
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I'll remember that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:30 PM (ZO497)
Thanks for the list Slap.
MisHum, is there a way to get that on the sidebar?
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:30 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:30 PM (ZTRlp)
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Indeed you did.
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:31 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: votermom
I've heard that. Ostensibly it was about his health, but there was talk of a financial scandal of some sort.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:31 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: josephistan
Not unfamiliar with teabagging either.
Posted by: Aviator at May 23, 2017 10:31 PM (/Nite)
Posted by: josephistan at May 23, 2017 10:31 PM (ANIFC)
Obviously they followed the 5 second rule diagram from last night
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:31 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:32 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:26 PM (kufk0)
Thank you!
Posted by: Country Boy at May 23, 2017 10:32 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Meremortal at May 23, 2017 10:32 PM (O4wiF)
I sincerely apologize and should you wish to be added to The Prayer List, please let me know.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:32 PM (6gk0M)
Mine is that the Italians are notoriously anti-PC, so it's harder for the terrorists to hide while claiming racial profiling.
Posted by: gewa76 at May 23, 2017 10:33 PM (f4GSC)
Posted by: freaked
There was also a Dylan song by that name. I always assumed they were named from that.
And because Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, his works could be considered literary classics.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:33 PM (vRcUp)
Just employ the 'Feces Occurs' defense and quote the mayor at your trial.
Posted by: JB1000 at May 23, 2017 10:33 PM (6+oyq)
Jethro Tull
Tesla
Marshall Tucker Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 10:33 PM (xPl2J)
Nice list, Slap. A few there I have missed. Thank you.
I keep a piece of paper that I write nics and needs on and I try to be specific when I pray during the day, but at night sometimes I just hold the list and tell the Lord he knows who's on it and for what.
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:34 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: gewa76 at May 23, 2017 10:33 PM (f4GSC)
Racial profiling = competent police work.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 23, 2017 10:34 PM (SRKgf)
Thanks, but no.
Everything spoken of by the prophets concerning Messiah's first coming was fulfilled in the life of Jesus, the Annointed One.
I'll stick with what I've got.
But thanks for the offer.
Posted by: teej at May 23, 2017 10:34 PM (wedOa)
I understand that bribery is always an option with him.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 23, 2017 10:34 PM (d76uN)
Well, maybe they are. I've noticed that smart people sometimes do very stupid things.
Posted by: Meremortal
Maybe they're afraid Muslim terrorists will get into the nuclear facilities and do something.
And that dumb little brat from Notre Dame is more concerned about the Muslims' feelings being hurt than he's concerned about lives of innocent victims like those people in Manchester, Paris, the Boston Marathon, Fort Hood, California, and on and on.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 23, 2017 10:34 PM (+lVUW)
Jesus fucking Christ.
Western civilization ends not with a bang but with a whimper.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens
It ends with "Aloha Snackbar".
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:34 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 23, 2017 10:35 PM (89T5c)
Nope. The mag and the band are both named after the Muddy Waters song.
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:35 PM (BO/km)
I sincerely apologize and should you wish to be added to The Prayer List, please let me know.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:32 PM (6gk0M)
--I shall flood you with my latest history references forthwith. . . .
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:35 PM (GsAUU)
It pains me that any innocents suffer.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2017 10:35 PM (tr2D7)
Why not just freeze it in ice cube trays?
Posted by: Chuck C at May 23, 2017 10:35 PM (h99GH)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:35 PM (6gk0M)
There were rumors that they didn't have their deck covers securely fastened. Like 'C' Clamps that have to be hand tightened, and there are a lot of them on each cover, and a six hundred foot long ore boat has a lot of hatch covers. You can get lazy.
But when you have solid water coming over the side, those hatch covers probably won't stay on with only a half dozen C Clamps fastened.
search the images if you haven't seen boats in big waves.
Another ONT topic that might be interesting is lighthouse. Some people collect lighthouses the way train spotters collect trains. We have a lot of maritime history that is interesting.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 23, 2017 10:36 PM (+HRXN)
Thats ok. The winters are pretty mild there now. Globull Warmening and all that.
Right?
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2017 10:36 PM (+y0MR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:30 PM (ZTRlp)
The Jello Mold.
Posted by: Edmund Fitzgerald at May 23, 2017 10:36 PM (ppSwc)
So anyway, one time Idi Amin and I were at a concert - Throbbing Gristle was opening for Boy George - when Idi wanted an Orange Whip. I walked off to get us a couple when there was a HUGE bang behind me! Yuge!
I spun around to see Idi standing there, his pants in tatters. Everyone looked OK, albeit with parts of Idi's pants and what looked to be bits of furry hot dog stuck to them.
Come to find out Idi not only had been farting in his pants all day - more so than usual due to his afternoon snack of lentil and Brussels Sprout BBQ sandwiches - he ALSO had a weasel in his pants for, ah, shall we say amusement purposes.
And a couple of 9 volt batteries wired up to the weasel to shock him occasionally to keep said weasel, ah, shall we say frisky.
Forensic reconstruction suggested that the weasel, not being best pleased with this situation, was chewing on the wires when they shorted and the methane got 'splody.
I thought for sure we'd be arrested but the nice policeman said it happened all the time at Throbbing Gristle concerts...
Posted by: Mirror Universe Massive Methane at May 23, 2017 10:36 PM (39ewW)
When you can't figure out the difference between your bastards and theirs, it is hard to gin up much support for anything, more so when you have been informed that your job is not to figure these things out, but to obey.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2017 10:28 PM (mkDpn)
I opined this afternoon that France could be blamed for creating the atmosphere that gave birth to WWII. They were sore winners and it back fired.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (ZO497)
I thought scapegoats took the sins of another upon themselves. I didn't think people who suffered for their own sins could be scapegoats.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: freaked
It's a throwaway line in the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2hygHu8CI
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (89VjS)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (BO/km)
-Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:35 PM (GsAUU)
Please do. There are two sides to any given piece of paper.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (0mRoj)
The country's five nuclear plants can continue to operate as long as they are safe.
Which means until the Totalitarian State in Switzerland deems them unsafe.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 23, 2017 10:38 PM (xeiq6)
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This one can be pulled off the list. I found a new job a few months ago (and mentioned it here at the time).
Posted by: junior at May 23, 2017 10:38 PM (deapv)
Posted by: bluebell
Thank you, sweet lady. I was so surprised. at an outdoor graduation party on my brother's farm, just an hour before sunset, my youngest came from nowhere, hurried up to me and hugged my neck.
so happy. it's 100 times better than it was in November.
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 10:38 PM (tfQTV)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 10:38 PM (7dpmG)
I played it at a talent show when I was about 15 and got laughed off the stage.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM (ZTRlp)
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Ooh. Ooh. Invite me. Can I be the token conservative Catholic?
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:24 PM (sBOL1)
Would you deign to tolerate a lapsed Protestant? I'll bring bourbon!
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (0mRoj)
Jethro Tull
Tesla
Marshall Tucker Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Posted by: Mark1971
Paul Revere and the Midnight Riders.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (vRcUp)
I played in a band like that. It was called the Lester Lee Band. The guy who named the band knew a guy named Lester Lee and thought it was a cool band name.
Posted by: Meremortal at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (O4wiF)
-Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM (0mRoj)
I'm just a guy with a keyboard. No more, no less.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (6gk0M)
Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send
Ten dollars to the church of the Sacred Bleeding Heart Of Jesus
Located somewhere in Los Angeles, California
And next week they'd say my prayer on the radio
And all my dreams would come true
Probably not Hrothgar
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: gewa76 at May 23, 2017 10:33 PM (f4GSC)
Decades of fighting the Mafia Crime families will harden you.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2017 10:40 PM (+y0MR)
Are you still interested in your dice probability question? I've been a-cipherin' on that in the back of my mind.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 10:40 PM (8O3HH)
-Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 10:38 PM (tfQTV)
Continued Blessings and Moar Daughter Hugz!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:41 PM (6gk0M)
Mannheim Steamroller:
The name "Mannheim Steamroller" comes from an 18th-century German musical technique, Mannheim roller (German: Mannheimer Walze), a crescendo passage having a rising melodic line over an ostinato bass line, popularized by the Mannheim school of composition.
--Wikipedia
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:41 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 10:41 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 23, 2017 10:34 PM (SRKgf)
Today, Sherlock Holmes would be in jail for following the clues!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:42 PM (gwPgz)
-Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (ppSwc)
*HAH!*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:42 PM (6gk0M)
http://tinypic.com/r/11mdiex/9
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM (cAnNx)
Bad human! Errr...ghost?!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 23, 2017 10:42 PM (hscyr)
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:42 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Slapweasel,
But can you play it like Jan Hammer?
Posted by: Meremortal at May 23, 2017 10:42 PM (O4wiF)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:43 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: eleven at May 23, 2017 10:43 PM (qUNWi)
So you're saying that $20 should do the trick?
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:43 PM (gwPgz)
I mean, he could accidentally discover the two speeches Bill Clinton gave in Moscow. I think he got paid 700 small ones. (100,000 dollars, small ones in the Clinton Global Initiative).
Or he could trip over the Uranium Deal where Russia got 25% of US Uranium production in exchange for a few medium sized ones. (Million dollars in the CGI).
Heck, he could even trip over evidence of Obama being 'more flexible' after the 2012 election, Hillary 'accidentally' exposing classified information on her Commodore VIC-20 email server or even Ted Kennedy's negotiations with the Russians in an attempt to deny Reagan a second term.
Yessir, investigating Russian collaboration with anyone from Washington is mighty dangerous. Step carefully, Mr. Mueller, step carefully!
Posted by: JB1000 at May 23, 2017 10:44 PM (6+oyq)
Posted by: Jack Sock
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De Gaulle, et al, didn't help much in the aftermath of WWII.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:44 PM (ZO497)
-Posted by: Meremortal at May 23, 2017 10:42 PM (O4wiF)
I cannot play "The Miami Vice Theme" on this keyboard, no.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:44 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:44 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:44 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (IDPbH)
Are you still interested in your dice probability question? I've been a-cipherin' on that in the back of my mind.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 10:40 PM (8O3HH)
Yup.
Looking for a generic equation.
To requote for the nightwalkers on the ONT:
"If I has X number of dice, what would be the probability of having at least Y number of them be a certain number? More broadly What would the probability of having at least Y number of dice be a certain number or higher.
"For example, if I had 12 six-sided dice, what would be the probability that three of the dice would come up five, or alternately, five or six."
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: t-bird at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (eeTCA)
Posted by: Vendette
Hang around, it will swing back to boobs and BJs eventually.
Posted by: Aviator at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (/Nite)
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (aPEpX)
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:44 PM (gwPgz)
It's Tuesday! Harumph.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (ppSwc)
Hey now, I will not abide any shit-talking about the VIC-20. That was a fun little computer.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 23, 2017 10:46 PM (0mRoj)
Mine is that the Italians are notoriously anti-PC, so it's harder for the terrorists to hide while claiming racial profiling.
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It's possible.
As an alternative theory, iirc all of the attacks lately in Europe have been from people legally living inside the country. How many refugees stop in Italy when they could move on to richer countries like France and Germany?
There was a parody article I read a while back that had the government in Romania (one of the poorer nations in Europe) excited because they'd gotten their first two refugees from the Middle East - a couple of guys who'd gotten lost while attempting to follow a route through Hungary that led to the richer European nations.
Posted by: junior at May 23, 2017 10:46 PM (deapv)
Posted by: Aviator at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (/Nite)
Like the sun rising in the east
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:47 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:47 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:37 PM
Ahem.
Posted by: Mobius Strip at May 23, 2017 10:47 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 10:48 PM (BO/km)
-Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:39 PM (ppSwc)
Where's the coffee?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:48 PM (ZTRlp)
-Posted by: Mobius Strip at May 23, 2017 10:47 PM (DMUuz)
Still on two planes. Nice try, Moby.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:48 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (ppSwc)
True dat, but look at the bright side, it could be Monday!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:49 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Aviator at May 23, 2017 10:45 PM (/Nite)
Like the sun rising in the east
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:47 PM (gwPgz)
in other news, water is wet.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:49 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 10:49 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:49 PM (kufk0)
Ten dollars to the church of the Sacred Bleeding Heart Of Jesus
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Most of you are too young to have heard of Reverend Ike, and his hawking of 'Prayer Shawls' on radio.
http://tinyurl.com/kf2jluk
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:50 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:50 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:50 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:50 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: tbodie at May 23, 2017 10:50 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: lindameh now flinging poo at May 23, 2017 10:49 PM (kufk0)
Higher power and all I thought there would be some available.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:51 PM (ZTRlp)
Gosh, I love playoff hockey
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:50 PM (ZTRlp)
They did?
*Rewinds ignored part of the DVD*
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:51 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at May 23, 2017 10:51 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:52 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 10:52 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 10:53 PM (vRcUp)
There was a first grade boy who had a neck tatoo (about 4 inches long and an inch high) and I was close enough to see it was not a fake one.
Who in the hell does this?!!! Am I being silly? It just screams *gang culture* to me. But I'm old. Have I missed something? Is this common now? I still have a hard time accepting tats and piercings that GenXers think nothing of. But it just seems way out there to tatoo your six year old. When kids want to go to each other's house to play, well, just don't want my grandson anywhere near folks who might be bangers. That is my concern.
I am serious 'rons. I truly don't know what's *normal* anymore.
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:53 PM (RfzVr)
Sooner or later, this will get around to stage names, it always does. I'm going to put in a premptive bid for my favorite example: Rip Torn
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:54 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin
It's about a hard on, OK?
Deliberately vulgar and profain, but...we have lived through it all.
And the Doors?
The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley.
A bit of a hat tip to the druggy life.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:51 PM (ZTRlp)
But, can we at least smoke in here?
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: cfo mom
--------------
Welcome to the era of the normalization of the abnormal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (eeTCA)
Not clear enough, I guess.
Another known wolf. Imagine that.
Posted by: gewa76 at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (f4GSC)
There was a first grade boy who had a neck tatoo (about 4 inches long and an inch high) and I was close enough to see it was not a fake one.
Who in the hell does this?!!! Am I being silly? It just screams *gang culture* to me. But I'm old. Have I missed something? Is this common now? I still have a hard time accepting tats and piercings that GenXers think nothing of. But it just seems way out there to tatoo your six year old. When kids want to go to each other's house to play, well, just don't want my grandson anywhere near folks who might be bangers. That is my concern.
I am serious 'rons. I truly don't know what's *normal* anymore."
-Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:53 PM (RfzVr)
If it wasn't a "Cracker Jack" tattoo? We've turned a corner.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (GsAUU)
Bettman's nightmare.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 10:53 PM (RfzVr)*
Crazy seems to have taken root. Does not mean crazy is normal. Hang in there.
Posted by: tbodie at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (+y0MR)
Those were the days. Everyone smoked. And smoking was cheap.
When I was in college (decades ago) the teacher smoked, a lot of the students smoked. I remember one teacher that thought a student's paper was so poor, he held it over the ashtray and set it alight.
While smoking.
Posted by: navybrat at May 23, 2017 10:57 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 10:20 PM
They may not be able to see their feet, but at least they can smell them.
Posted by: Joe Biden at May 23, 2017 10:57 PM (DMUuz)
Please add people to the Prayer List and I'll continue to present them to The Horde.
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 10:57 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin
named after a sex toy in Naked Lunch
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 10:58 PM (tfQTV)
Another known wolf. Imagine that.
Posted by: gewa76
But why?
Why?
I think we will never know.
But for some reason, I have read that the military and SAS have actually been deployed within the UK.
Why? Can we name the reason?
It's a mystery.
Even college educated kids from Notre Dame can't figure out what's going on.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 23, 2017 10:58 PM (S6Pax)
I'm sure that has been done somewhere, but I'm too lazy to try to find it. But in the back of my mind, I've been working on it. So far. We have m n-sided dice. Now, look at the probability of getting 1 or more of certain number.
As before, M = 2, n = 6. Total number of states = n^M = 6^2 = 36. Now, look at counting the desired states, which is any state with 1 or more of certain number, say 5.
In your mind, line up the dice. Now, if the first die gets a 5, then we have a hit, not matter what the next (M - 1 ) turns up. So that gives us 1 * n^(M -1). That includes all the possibilities with one 5 on the first and everything else, inlcuding all the multiple hits, 5, 5, 5....
Now, we consider if the first die is not a five. That gives us (n -1) states times an M-1 recursion. That is, (n - 1) times the number of states of M - 1 dice with one of more 5s.
We got a recurrence. The sum of states for the first two times is:
1*n^(M - 1) + (n - 1)*[ 1*n^(M - 2) + (n - 2)*[......].
See the recursion?
This is just for the case of 1 or more of single number. For two or more of single number, that will have to modified. But it will likely be a more general version of the above.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 10:58 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:51 PM (ZTRlp)
But, can we at least smoke in here?
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (gwPgz
Slides ashtray to Hrothgar
Sure, why not, might as well live on the wild and illegal side.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 10:58 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 10:59 PM (OwNJe)
"Funny watching Johnny Carson. All of the guests are smoking."
There's a classic moment from that show where Dean Martin is flicking ashes in George Gobel's drink and he doesn't know it.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 10:59 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (GsAUU)
Bettman's nightmare.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (ppSwc)
--Maybe. It's been 11 years since a team based in a Canadian city (as distinguished from a "Canadian team," since many NHL teams have a majority of Canadian players) has been in the Stanley Cup Final. If Ottawa were to win, that'd keep Buttman's head off the chopping block for a while, if not forever.
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: tbodie at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (GsAUU)
Bettman's nightmare.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (ppSwc
Screw Bettman
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: josephistan at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (ANIFC)
Not clear enough, I guess.
Another known wolf. Imagine that.
Posted by: gewa76 at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (f4GSC)
Did he have to wear a sandwich board sign?
Apparently so.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 23, 2017 11:01 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 11:01 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: cfo mom at May 23, 2017 11:01 PM (RfzVr)
Canadian city (as distinguished from a "Canadian team," since many NHL
teams have a majority of Canadian players) has been in the Stanley Cup
Final. If Ottawa were to win, that'd keep Buttman's head off the
chopping block for a while, if not forever.
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (GsAUU)
Think of the US ratings. Worse if the Oilers had figured out how to sustain leads. Harumph.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 11:01 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:02 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 11:02 PM (tfQTV)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:02 PM (7dpmG)
*waves to Vendette*
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:02 PM (OwNJe)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:03 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:03 PM (vRcUp)
Who hung out with Jesus Christ for $500?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:04 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 23, 2017 11:05 PM (IDPbH)
I bet they waste a fuckton of money doing it so they can be the virtuest of virtue signalers.
Posted by: Kreplach at May 23, 2017 11:05 PM (9A6UB)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 10:58 PM (8O3HH)
It's the general one for some reason I'm not getting.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 11:05 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 11:05 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 23, 2017 11:05 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 11:06 PM (GsAUU)
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Hm. Will not the total number of states depend upon the number of states for each die? I.e., 6x6 = 36
Same number, but not for the same reason.
*scratches head*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 11:06 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 23, 2017 11:07 PM (hscyr)
Looking at my copy of the Constitution, I see that the President is the chief of the executive branch.
Congress has the authority to impeach him, or presumably investigate him or the executive branch as a whole as a coequal branch.
However...no where do I see where random hacks in the executive get to investigate the president...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:07 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:03 PM (vRcUp)
Who hung out with Jesus Christ for $500?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:04 PM (ZTRlp)<<<
Who are three people who've never been in my kitchen.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin at May 23, 2017 11:08 PM (nHbAq)
dat Vader doe
***
The first time since 1984 he's been portrayed as anything other then a mewling quim...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:08 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:08 PM (OwNJe)
I saw my name on Slap's prayer list, and I wanted to clarity something. I still have a full-time job; I left my part-time job at the karaoke bar because I was tired of effectively working seven days a week.
Still having health issues, though, so you can pray those get resolved if you want.
Off to bed. Have a good night, y'all.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 23, 2017 11:08 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 23, 2017 11:08 PM (hscyr)
Posted by: josephistan at May 23, 2017 11:08 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 11:08 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2017 11:09 PM (IqV8l)
***
I am bemused that we finally have an answer to;
Is the Pope Catholic?
that isn't yes.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:09 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 11:09 PM (ppSwc)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:07 PM (aZq03)*
Racist hater!
/s, just to be clear.
Posted by: tbodie at May 23, 2017 11:09 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:10 PM (OwNJe)
Posted by: josephistan at May 23, 2017 11:10 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 11:11 PM (xPl2J)
Is the Pope Catholic?
that isn't yes.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:09 PM (aZq03)
Bears still shit in the woods, though. So we got that going for us.
Posted by: josephistan at May 23, 2017 11:11 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Bomber
----------
Hold it...he's a kid.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 11:11 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 23, 2017 11:12 PM (smD62)
Posted by: tbodie at May 23, 2017 11:12 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Kreplach at May 23, 2017 11:12 PM (9A6UB)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:13 PM (7dpmG)
Because of my name IRL, my approximate age and my geographic location, I have actually convinced people "My Sharona" was written about me.
/hahahaha. My parents paid a lot of money for me to go to Catholic school so I would not meet pervy musicians.
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:13 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 11:09 PM (ppSwc)
waves back
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:13 PM (ZTRlp)
>>> Is the Pope Catholic?
>>> that isn't yes.
But, does he shit in the woods?
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:13 PM (OwNJe)
Actually the record company made them change. They were just "The Mothers". FZ then borrowed that from the P-man.
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 11:13 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:10 PM (OwNJe)
I'm old...
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 11:14 PM (ppSwc)
She is such a chunk and sooooooo cute.
Can't wait to see her!
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 23, 2017 11:14 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2017 11:14 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:03 PM (vRcUp)
Who hung out with Jesus Christ for $500?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:04 PM (ZTRlp)
Who are three people who've never been in my kitchen.
--Paul never hung out with JC.
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 11:15 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:15 PM (aT+Bx)
(a bit of contemptuous sarcasm the youngsters don't get, of course - but also literally my usual pattern)
Last year I think I forgot, or was busy with something, and saw one game of the finals. Next season I'll definitely finally get to the local minor league game a few times. Not ridiculously expensive.
More importantly, the pace at Friday scrimmages is picking up again, as some better skaters return, so it's much more fun and a better work-out.
Gotta load some 9mm. Will check back later.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 23, 2017 11:15 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 23, 2017 11:15 PM (6FqZa)
http://tinyurl.com/m8j7ra2
I can't say the coming drive to legalize polyamory bothers me all that much.
Yes, I understand the advantages that monogamy gives society (hell it is clearly one of the reasons Christendom finally beat Islam...), but the damage from gay marriage, transgenderism and abortion dwarf these concerns to such an extent...who cares anymore?
Single American women are married to Uncle Sam right now...let's let them marry Hollywood celebs and athletes in mass. We already have pseudo-polygamy with "side chicks" common and in many cultural segments accepted.
I don't think young women are going to like the impacts...but why not let them have it good and hard?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:16 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:17 PM (vRcUp)
(a bit of contemptuous sarcasm the youngsters don't get, of course - but also literally my usual pattern)
Last
year I think I forgot, or was busy with something, and saw one game of
the finals. Next season I'll definitely finally get to the local minor
league game a few times. Not ridiculously expensive.
More
importantly, the pace at Friday scrimmages is picking up again, as some
better skaters return, so it's much more fun and a better work-out.
Gotta load some 9mm. Will check back later.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 23, 2017 11:15 PM (QDnY+)
Well, there was a Memorial Tournament score the other day of 12-5: Erie vs. St. Johns.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 11:17 PM (ppSwc)
Beverly Hills had him beat by a mile. Especially since she lived up to her name.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2017 11:17 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at May 23, 2017 11:17 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: parsimony at May 23, 2017 11:17 PM (xEt5a)
Posted by: logprof
He knocked him off his horse in Acts, but he was named Saul then.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:18 PM (vRcUp)
'scuse me, typing this out on the fly. No (n - 2) progression, but this
1*n^(M - 1) + (n - 1)*[ 1*n^(M - 2) + (n - 1)*[1*n^(M - 3) + (n -1) *[......]
For two dice, that series is (M = 2), n = 6.
1*6^(1) + (6 - 1) *[1*2^0]. The series ends when you get to 0 exponent.
And that is 6 + 5 *(1) = 11. Total number of states is n^M = 6^2 = 36. SO our probability of getting at least one 5 is 11/36 = 30.56%
-------------
Now for three dice, M = 6
1* 6^(3- 1) + (6-1)*[6^(3 -2) + (6 - 1)*[6^(3 - 3)]] =
36 + 5 * [6 + 5*[1]] = 36 + 5*11 = 91. Total number of states is 6^3 = 216. So the probability here is 91/216 = 42.1%
Now, do a sanity check on that. Probability is increasing and from that crude series recurrence above, the probability will increase towards 100% as M increases. The more times we role, the probability of getting at least one or more of a certain number approached 1. That makes sense.
The next step is to clean up that recurrence series. It has a binomial expansion sort of look to me at first blush.
Then, we'd tackle the probability of getting two or more. Formula will get more complex, but will likely be a generalization of the above.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 11:18 PM (8O3HH)
Weird.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin
And they wrote a song "Tom Sawyer".
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:19 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: The Eagles at May 23, 2017 11:19 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 11:19 PM (tfQTV)
The band 1975 was named after a flavor of Jello.
No, wait, that was Bill Cosby.
No Cosby was named after the pudding invented in 1975.
Which means the band was named after Jimmy Carter's smegma.
I think.
My brain hurts...
Posted by: Ricky Retardo at May 23, 2017 11:20 PM (39ewW)
Oh, you no worry, Abdul has big bang for you!
Posted by: Abdul alShull what bombs at Midnight at May 23, 2017 11:20 PM (q177U)
Posted by: parsimony at May 23, 2017 11:20 PM (xEt5a)
***
Modern American society is designed to use men as a source of wealth and then throw them away when they are no longer useful.
It should hardly be surprising that the impact of that is suicide in cases where men hit a slump.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:20 PM (aZq03)
For M n-sided dice, the probability of any specific sequence showing up is (1/n)^M.
For M n-sided dice, the probability of M occurrences of the same value is (1/n)^(M-1).
Lights cigar and runs away!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 23, 2017 11:20 PM (gwPgz)
--
The Horde is WAY better than pervy musicians. They're all drug addled woke liberals. What would one converse about?
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:21 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: logprof
Except on the road to Damascus
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 11:19 PM (tfQTV)
--Would not call that a hangout.
Even if you want to go into mystical shit.
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 11:21 PM (GsAUU)
First those outfits do NOT work for her but on others they could be cute.
Second those outfits do not work on any woman visiting duomos and cathedrals in Italy. That would get you turned away at the door of the Vatican guaranteed. If I knew this protocol when I was I Italy and at churches, she surely does.
Wonder if she'd try this at a mosque in Saudi or Iran.....
Posted by: keena at May 23, 2017 11:21 PM (RiTnx)
Posted by: Keith Moon at May 23, 2017 11:21 PM (f4GSC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2017 11:21 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 11:22 PM (BO/km)
I've always said that anyone that supported gay marriage cannot intellectually go against any other push to leaglize their flavor of marriage.
Once you start playing with words be prepared for the consequences.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Luchini aka This Is It What at May 23, 2017 11:22 PM (/cEXt)
***
The *only* way to stop this is to use it against the people currently making the argument.
Some conservative state needs to arrest a liberal academic for some form of hate speech and let the case run its course.
And if judges make the argument that you can't prosecute someone for making the sorts of threats the left incessantly makes because only white cis-males can be haters...impeach the judges.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:23 PM (aZq03)
n^M . FOr two dice, that n^2 = 6 * 6. Three dice, 6^3 = 6 * 6 * 6
10 dice, 6^10.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 11:23 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: 18-1
NY Post had an article about Polyamory too. They had a blandly, slightly effeminate, handsome man with his 2 reasonably attractive 'wives'. Trying to put a pretty face on an ancient barbaric practice. Everything old is new again! The article mentioned that all three of them still see other people. Open marriage. Boy oh boy! I Can't wait for the Gods of the Copybook Headings to show up again.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2017 11:23 PM (+y0MR)
Posted by: Ricky Retardo at May 23, 2017 11:24 PM (39ewW)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 11:24 PM (6gk0M)
T. S. Eliot had a cat named mungojerry (and rumpleteazer) in his work Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:24 PM (vRcUp)
Single American women are married to Uncle Sam right now...let's let them marry Hollywood celebs and athletes in mass. We already have pseudo-polygamy with "side chicks" common and in many cultural segments accepted.
---
I think it weakens the family, and a weak family means a weak society.
When there's two or three mommies or daddies, there is no moral clarity.
Also, I think there are lot of liberal women that would accept this becuase... amoral/ stupid.
Amoral/stupid is not going to be helpful to children.
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:24 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 11:24 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 23, 2017 11:25 PM (mMeIQ)
Anthem (Ayn Rand)
Xanadu (from Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Rivendell (from Tolkien)
and probably a hundred more
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2017 11:25 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: parsimony at May 23, 2017 11:25 PM (xEt5a)
***
I can't wait for the follow up article;
What to do when your open marriage spouse gives you the gift of syphilis.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:25 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:13 PM (OwNJe)
--
no, and apparently no where else either.
which explains why he's so full of shit.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:27 PM (Nbzu/)
Posted by: keena at May 23, 2017 11:21 PM (RiTn
I hope she does.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:27 PM (ZTRlp)
----
Yeah, we're not going to see articles about that.
Just "modern, wonderful, not jealous, superior" articles.
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:27 PM (aT+Bx)
Consider this: Can a man and a woman live together and have an ongoing sexual relationship if they're not married? Well of course, no argument today.
How about a man and 2 women? Or 2 men and 1 woman? Or 5 men and 5 women, as long as no one says the magic word "marriage"?
Obviously, yes, there are no laws left against those situations anymore.
Consider if 1 man lives with 4 women, and they tell each other that they're all committed to each other and living as a family unit, but they lie to everyone outside about what they privately think and say publicly that they are not married? As long as they make no public and open claim of marriage, then what they do is completely legal.
So, a polygamous relationship between several people today is the only Legal situation I can think that is completely legal under current law as long as everyone publicly and conspicuously lies about it, and which only becomes illegal if one or more of the accused slips and tells the truth about the way they feel about each other.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2017 11:27 PM (V2Yro)
Did I miss something?
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:27 PM (OwNJe)
Posted by: JoeF. at May 23, 2017 11:27 PM (ACxf3)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 23, 2017 11:28 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (7dpmG)
I have, but I can't put my finger on the exact verse that inspired it.
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (tfQTV)
***
Hypergamy makes most women think they'd be happier being one of several wives as long as it is to an ultra alpha.
In practice they aren't going to be. Your average 40 year old wife to an ultra alpha isn't happy when he trades her in for a younger model now. Polygamy means he can still marry that younger model and sideline her...and original wifey can't even divorce him and take him to the cleaners for it...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (aZq03)
NY Post had an article about Polyamory too. They had a blandly, slightly effeminate, handsome man with his 2 reasonably attractive 'wives'. Trying to put a pretty face on an ancient barbaric practice. Everything old is new again! The article mentioned that all three of them still see other people. Open marriage. Boy oh boy! I Can't wait for the Gods of the Copybook Headings to show up again.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 23, 2017 11:23 PM (+y0MR)
Good Lord, 1 wife is enough
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (ZTRlp)
I wanted the general formula so that I could allocate total starting dice and how many dice to do various levels of achievement.
Each time they roll, they lose one of the die regardless of the outcome. That way it is easy to use it early one, especially with low ranked powers, however it makes it harder to use it later one, especially for the more difficult powers.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (OwNJe)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (BO/km)
I met a girl so fair
But Gollum and the Evil One
Crept up and slipped away with her
So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains
Over the hills where the spirits fly
Posted by: Robert Plant at May 23, 2017 11:30 PM (f4GSC)
Also I've been to Europe several times and there are dress codes posted at many churches & cathedrals. Would she have worn that slutty blouse to Jeremiah Wright's so-called church? I think not.
Posted by: Boots at May 23, 2017 11:31 PM (EBwPV)
I played it at a talent show when I was about 15 and got laughed off the stage.
Where was this talent show, at a Country-Western bar?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 23, 2017 11:31 PM (xeiq6)
Posted by: parsimony at May 23, 2017 11:25 PM (xEt5a)
Long day, so my brain is fried, but what does "p" and "C" indicate again?
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 11:31 PM (vBeA5)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/kb6qym9
A more subdued Tommy Robinson later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=855O06GZE90
Posted by: X-ray at May 23, 2017 11:32 PM (ebKLp)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:32 PM (OwNJe)
You noticed the crotch bulge too huh?
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 11:32 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 10:55 PM (GsAUU)
Bettman's nightmare.
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:56 PM (ppSwc)
--Maybe. It's been 11 years since a team based in a Canadian city (as distinguished from a "Canadian team," since many NHL teams have a majority of Canadian players) has been in the Stanley Cup Final. If Ottawa were to win, that'd keep Buttman's head off the chopping block for a while, if not forever.
Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2017 11:00 PM (GsAUU)
Guess we're chopped liver or something.
Posted by: 2011 Vancouver Canucks at May 23, 2017 11:32 PM (1JnAL)
The Rolling Stones were named after a Muddy Waters tune. Does that count?
Posted by: freaked
Robert Heinlein wrote the book "The Rolling Stones" in 1952.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2017 11:32 PM (IqV8l)
***
Compare Western Christendom v Islam before the 1050s (when the RCC got serious about polygamy) and after...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:33 PM (aZq03)
For M n-sided dice, the probability of any specific sequence showing up is (1/n)^M.
For M n-sided dice, the probability of M occurrences of the same value is (1/n)^(M-1).
Lights cigar and runs away!
Posted by: Hrothgar
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But, in the general case, the number of combinations will be n1 * n2 * n3 * nx.... where each nx represents a varying number of faces.
What is it with you guys and your insistence on cis-normative dice?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2017 11:33 PM (ZO497)
Fortunately I'm a mathematician so I can go the imaginary route, with square root of minus-one wife
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 23, 2017 11:33 PM (6FqZa)
marriage cannot intellectually go against any other push to legalize
their flavor of marriage.
Once you start playing with words be prepared for the consequences.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Luchini"
The proponents of gay marriage did not "extend the right to marriage" as they like to say. They destroyed the definition of marriage, which used to be bringing together of two distinct entities so form a third that is better than the two separate. You used to hear the expression frequently in metal working such as "the marriage of copper to zinc is used to make brass." Gay marriage is like combining copper with copper to get twice as much copper.
Posted by: Ripley at May 23, 2017 11:33 PM (NbRJx)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 11:34 PM (BO/km)
"it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:34 PM (OwNJe)
mirror? That outfit doesn't even fit properly, and highlights her
'problem' areas. The goal is to hide problems not point them out.<<<
To hide her problem areas she would need to be wearing the spring/summer line from Jegs*.
*car cover collection
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at May 23, 2017 11:34 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:34 PM (Nbzu/)
Posted by: garrett at May 23, 2017 11:34 PM (vMqHe)
Fortunately I'm a mathematician so I can go the imaginary route, with square root of minus-one wife
--
LOL. I am not a mathematician, however I have zero husbands!
/hahahaha, my significant other is my cat.
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:35 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Ricky Retardo at May 23, 2017 11:35 PM (39ewW)
___
So you are saying if I married Reggie I could lay twice as much pipe?
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 23, 2017 11:35 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:36 PM (OwNJe)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:36 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 11:31 PM (vBeA5)
p = probability of the event
C is the combination possibilities ( xCy is choosing y elements out of a set of x things) xCy = x!/(x-y)!y! ... if I recall correctly.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 23, 2017 11:37 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie
There's a narrative here and you're not keeping up.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 23, 2017 11:37 PM (S6Pax)
Monogamy is when a man has too many wives...
Posted by: Ricky Retardo at May 23, 2017 11:37 PM (39ewW)
___
One has an R and the other a D.
Duh.
Posted by: The Fake News Media at May 23, 2017 11:37 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 23, 2017 11:37 PM (mMeIQ)
I have, but I can't put my finger on the exact verse that inspired it.
Posted by: booknlass
Sounds like an embellishment of 2 Corinthians 12.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+co+12&version=KJV
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:37 PM (vRcUp)
---
a body bag would also accomplish the same thing.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:38 PM (Nbzu/)
*car cover collection
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you are VERY wrong.
It is the 2017 collection from Omar the Tentmaker.
/she buys only the best imports!
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:38 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: garrett at May 23, 2017 11:38 PM (vMqHe)
Not really appropriate for taking her little boy around town, either. Hold it- oh, man, that was Barack!
Posted by: t-bird at May 23, 2017 11:38 PM (eeTCA)
***
Err...that was also the case in the 1050s.
Muslims ruled most of Iberia, parts of Italy, and were busy engaging in slave raids in the other parts of the Mediterranean.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:39 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: CMU VET at May 23, 2017 11:39 PM (C+wjz)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:40 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: freaked at May 23, 2017 11:40 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 23, 2017 11:40 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 11:40 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: John McClane at May 23, 2017 11:40 PM (rv0Fo)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867078556752502784
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867078650172252161
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867078748948115456
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867078855571460096
Posted by: kbdabear at May 23, 2017 11:41 PM (AOrEZ)
And God also answers prayers by having there be such wonderful people as here at Ace's who care so much for strangers on the net. You are all so amazing and I can't be the only one your kindness has helped through some very dark waters (knock on wood that the worst is past).
Posted by: Bete the Deplorable at May 23, 2017 11:41 PM (Ojki1)
--------
Coeds blindfolded and told to get on all fours? Sounds pretty hot! Is there video?
Posted by: Serious Cat at May 23, 2017 11:41 PM (FzmdB)
It is the 2017 collection from Omar the Tentmaker.
/she buys only the best imports!
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:38 PM (aT+Bx)<<<
With Ringling Bros shut down, they'd probably have a few she in her size she could pick up at a discount.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at May 23, 2017 11:41 PM (nHbAq)
Steve and, isn't that passage trippy? and ofcourse, with God, all things are possible.
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 11:42 PM (tfQTV)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867078957618933761
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867079061797040129
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867079146559746049
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/867079215841259520
Posted by: kbdabear at May 23, 2017 11:42 PM (AOrEZ)
***
Dammit, all of the magazines we have in the camps have pictures of Hillary Clinton and not Gal Gadot!
Posted by: 18-1 (in the Awful Alternate Universe) at May 23, 2017 11:42 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: GK Chesterton at May 23, 2017 11:42 PM (JNqRY)
... yeah, she's the Wonder Woman all right.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 23, 2017 11:42 PM (6FqZa)
***
Err...that was also the case in the 1050s.
Muslims ruled most of Iberia, parts of Italy, and were busy engaging in slave raids in the other parts of the Mediterranean.
--
I don't know if they're killing more of us at the present time. Seems like we're bombing the sh*t out of certain parts of the middle east.
Muslim casualties are never noted, but every American death is a grim milestone.
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:42 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:43 PM (Nbzu/)
Posted by: The Political Hat
Permutations and combinations? n! / (n - r)! is the number of permutations of n distinct things taken r at a time.
n! / r! (n - r)! is the number of combinations of n distinct objects taken r at a time.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:43 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:43 PM (Nbzu/)
articles coming soon about how President Hillary is the "Real Life
Wonder Woman". Liberals are bizarrely mentally ill.
--
http://www.momentmag.com/opinion-wonder-woman-tells-us-hillary/
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:44 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: GK Chesterton at May 23, 2017 11:44 PM (JNqRY)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 11:40 PM (8O3HH)<<<
What about Romphim Room, huh?!
Posted by: GQ at May 23, 2017 11:44 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:45 PM (7dpmG)
Sounds like what Reggie and I called "Saturday night at the White House"
Posted by: Barry at May 23, 2017 11:45 PM (/Nite)
Most muslim casualties were killed by other muslims. We go way out of our way not to kill them.
Posted by: Bomber at May 23, 2017 11:45 PM (OwNJe)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 23, 2017 11:45 PM (LMcFk)
***
They've managed to mostly ethnically cleanse Christians from the middle east over the last 50 years - something they didn't manage to do even under the Caliphate...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2017 11:46 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: steevy at May 23, 2017 11:46 PM (rmVvL)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:47 PM (Nbzu/)
For the dice, p = 1/n.
What I was going for was the probability of at least k hits. Not just exactly k hits. So there's going to be a sum of binomial terms there.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 11:47 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 11:48 PM (tfQTV)
The Time of Readiness
"Now comes the Time of Readiness," one said,
The time I never/always knew would come
Not even knowing which (exactly) way it would reveal
itself.
But hearing still the music that is always there,
I hastily assemble all my tools
For that fierce task which we (each) have at hand:
To carefully commit to memory
The fall of light upon your face,
The subtle movement of your hands.
To memorize the constant courage of your almost
smile,
The strength that lies behind each gaze.
I conscientiously record
The timbre of your each and every word,
And measure (to remember) with great care
The touch of your sure hand in mine,
my hand in yours,
As we each took our turns, gifting the world into each
other's life.
For I have need to memorize these certain things
As we complete this (just most recent)
Transformation of our lives.
And so I sear into my consciousness
(For all the time there is)
The clear dimensions of the calm "you-me"
To be the guide through this constricted time.
And, yet, you still surprise me with what I have
always known with you:
"All time is privileged" and all we have to do
(trained as we were),
Is simply, with the gentle and perfected grace,
(trained as we are),
Play out, for all eternity, our ceremony of pledged
love, of fealty, of truth.
And then, beyond all time and space,
Exchange the bright persistent blessing that we share
As we quite clearly come to know and love our own
"becoming"
Now, Here, in this precise and silent gifting of each
each other to the world.
Anne R. Abler,
May 23, 2017
Posted by: Anne R. Abler at May 23, 2017 11:48 PM (Fq0e/)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:29 PM (ZTRlp)
:::nods head in approval while strolling past:::
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 23, 2017 11:48 PM (1JnAL)
--
Part of me hates U2 with the white hot rage of a thousand suns. Mostly Bono.
Sanctimonious @sshole.
Also... Roger Waters is out this summer, the tour is Us vs. Them. I expect it to be 100% Trump hate.
/why are they all insane?
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:49 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: redc1c4
See? I said we would get back around to BJs.
Posted by: Aviator at May 23, 2017 11:49 PM (/Nite)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:49 PM (7dpmG)
Life is harder when you are impatient, spastic and incompetent
https://youtu.be/EumR6luhwME
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2017 11:52 PM (mkDpn)
Posted by: Bomber
Since forever.
Some years ago, I read a biography written at the end of the 19th century about Salah eh Din (Saladin), the famous Kurdish Muslim general and conqueror.
Skipping over a lot of details, not much has really changed for Muslim in a thousand years. They were bothered that the Christian women in the Christian towns sometimes walked about and spoke without their husbands around.
And Saladin actually tried to live up to Islam ideals, and actually died almost a pauper, because he gave away most of his wealth the indigent Muslims. And as soon as he died, the Muslim Arabs all started to fight over the empire he created and ruled.
Green on Green killin'.
And he was a Kurd, not an Arab.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 23, 2017 11:52 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: redc1c4
I think testosterone is bad for the heart, so women in general live longer. Now that Bruce Jenner removed the source I predict he will live as long or longer than Kris. I guess he decided it was worth it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 23, 2017 11:53 PM (vRcUp)
One Last Thing...
I see myself as The Kid in this scenario.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qW9wqUI4Lg
"You are Home".
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 23, 2017 11:53 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:44 PM (aT+Bx)
Nice find. Jesus. Whenever I get down, I think about the nuke we dodged, and how she was 100% certain for the last eight years that it was going to be Her Turn. HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA
Posted by: Mega at May 23, 2017 11:53 PM (rv0Fo)
east over the last 50 years - something they didn't manage to do even
under the Caliphate...
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and the Jews as well.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:53 PM (Nbzu/)
Posted by: 18-1 (in the Awful Alternate Universe) at May 23, 2017 11:42 PM (aZq03)
:::fap fap fap fap:::
Posted by: Webb Hubbell at May 23, 2017 11:53 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 23, 2017 11:54 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: booknlass at May 23, 2017 11:48 PM (tfQTV)
Trying to work on my gratitude skills and focus on what I have, not what I wish I had/didn't have as much.
Again, trying.
Has to be mentally more healthy...which is probably why it is so hard for me.
Posted by: Bete the Deplorable at May 23, 2017 11:54 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: bluebell at May 23, 2017 10:03 PM (sBOL1)
I'm doing well, Bluebell. Thanks for asking.
How are you?
Sorry that I to fold laundry and do other things right after the ONT started.
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 23, 2017 11:54 PM (nvMvs)
Via GLP. And reddit. So, grain of salt.
Via a Wikileaks email...
Doctor who was assigned to Seth Rich when he died is married.
HIs wife hosted a special event with John and Tony Podesta.
Interesting, huh?
So.. Seth Rich knows things, and John Podesta wanted to make an example of a leaker. Things go bad, and voila! He dies at the hospital while supposedly under the care of his friends husband.
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:54 PM (aT+Bx)
For a specific example. What is the probability I will get exactly three 5's in 10 throws of a six-sided dice? Binomial distribution with k = 3, M = 10 and p = 1/6
Now, for the probability of at least 3 5's, we get a sum of the binomial terms of k =3, 4, 5, and 6.
And that should expand to that mess I was working on, which I hope I would've recognized as a binomial expansion/distribution thing. It was already smelling like it. But I'm getting very rusty.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 23, 2017 11:55 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:43 PM (Nbzu/
The same reason we don't check for traffic when crossing the road. We just don't care.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:56 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Just wondering at May 23, 2017 11:56 PM (WBYpW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2017 11:57 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:57 PM (aT+Bx)
Who informed me today we met 35 years ago today. I don't remember what was for dinner Sunday night.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:57 PM (ZTRlp)
longer. Now that Bruce Jenner removed the source I predict he will live
as long or longer than Kris. I guess he decided it was worth it.
---
close but no cigar for you or It....
husbands die before their wives because they can.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:57 PM (Nbzu/)
Pre-ordered a game (that had already been released in Japan) that came out today through Best Buy. I got the digital download version. Plus it had a pre-order bonus.
Late last night, Best Buy e-mailed me the download code for the pre-order bonus. That's the code I need to enter into my video game console to let the online console store know that I've purchased the product, and am allowed to download it.
While I was at work today, they e-mailed me the download code for the actual game.
So far, so good.
But when I got home today, and tried the download code for the game, I got an error informing me that the code was bad (the actual terminology used was something along the lines of, "This code either no longer works, or has already been used.").
Joy.
I mean, if it had been the pre-order code that was bad, then I could have at least started downloading the game.
So I called Best Buy. After bouncing me around to a few different people, I finally spoke to someone who assured me that a new code would be e-mailed to me to replace the one that was bad.
About forty-five minutes later, I got two new e-mails, both containing codes. One was for the pre-order bonus, and the other was for the actual game. Both of them were the exact same codes that I'd already received for the respective downloads.
So I called Best Buy back again. When someone picked up the phone, I explained that I was calling them back regarding a service request that was already open. He promised to transfer me to the group I needed to speak with... and sent me to an automated system that asks for the extension of the person you want to talk to. After sitting through repeated requests for the extension, a real person finally picked up and transferred my call to the proper department. The person I spoke with got the last few digits of the bad download code from me, and assured me that a new code would be sent to me.
About half an hour later, I received an e-mail with a code. It contained an exact copy of the pre-order code that I'd already received. As of this time, which is now roughly an hour and a half later, I still have not received any additional e-mails - say, for instance, an e-mail containing a new game download code.
Why yes, I'm a bit irritated. Why do you ask?
Posted by: junior at May 23, 2017 11:58 PM (deapv)
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.
3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 23, 2017 11:58 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 23, 2017 11:54 PM (nvMvs)
A good topic for the future, chores to do and avoid the ONT
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 23, 2017 11:58 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: shibumi
Darlin', that is the $64,000 Dollar question.
Sometimes I wonder if I am insane, because, isn't the majority ALWAYS right?
I think it is the slow, steady drip, drip, drip of cultural Marxism that has been infused into the American consciousness by way of popular entertainment.
People in this country won't embrace open socialism/communism, but they will constantly give lip service to the ideas that bring that kind of totalitarian nonsense to life, because they have been "programmed" to say this stuff.
Unthinkingly, in an unexamined manner.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 23, 2017 11:59 PM (S6Pax)
Via GLP. And reddit. So, grain of salt.
Via a Wikileaks email...
Doctor who was assigned to Seth Rich when he died is married.
HIs wife hosted a special event with John and Tony Podesta.
Interesting, huh?
Posted by: shibumi at May 23, 2017 11:54 PM (aT+Bx)<<<
Was the event a pizza party?
Posted by: guy wearing a tinfoil tuque at May 23, 2017 11:59 PM (nHbAq)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 23, 2017 11:59 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 23, 2017 11:59 PM (Nbzu/)
Great ONT, as usual, Mr. and Mrs. Misanthropic Humanitarian. Appreciate your work, especially as it brings out the great responses, and in such a great number!! Full marks!!!!
Anne R. Abler at "The Edge"
Posted by: Anne R. Abler at May 24, 2017 12:02 AM (Fq0e/)
Posted by: junior at May 23, 2017 11:58 PM (deapv)
Which game?
And this is (part) of why I like physical vs digital...though the amount of hard drive I have -or rather don't- on my PS4 is part as well.
Posted by: Bete the Deplorable at May 24, 2017 12:02 AM (Ojki1)
---
Dear Bono:
Shut up you pomous @sshole.
People pay good money to hear you sing, not prattle on like a pious pseudo priest.
Sing liberal monkey boy! Sing!
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:02 AM (aT+Bx)
Skipping over a lot of details, not much has really changed for Muslim in a thousand years. They were bothered that the Christian women in the Christian towns sometimes walked about and spoke without their husbands around.
And Saladin actually tried to live up to Islam ideals, and actually died almost a pauper, because he gave away most of his wealth the indigent Muslims. And as soon as he died, the Muslim Arabs all started to fight over the empire he created and ruled.
Green on Green killin'.
And he was a Kurd, not an Arab.
-----------------------
Yup.
The Arabs like to conveniently forget that little detail when they talk about old Saladin.
It's probably also worth noting that it wasn't the Arabs that brought down the Byzantine Empire. It was the Turks (with some Genoese assistance...).
The only big military win that the Arabs have ever managed to pull off was the destruction of the Sassanid Persian empire. And even that was only pulled off because of decades of a combination of civil war (competing claims to the throne) and plague outbreaks, which badly weakened the Persians just before the Arabs showed up.
Posted by: junior at May 24, 2017 12:02 AM (deapv)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 12:03 AM (Nbzu/)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 23, 2017 11:31 PM (vBeA5)
p = probability of the event
C is the combination possibilities ( xCy is choosing y elements out of a set of x things) xCy = x!/(x-y)!y! ... if I recall correctly.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 23, 2017 11:37 PM (zc3Db)
If I drop the number of possible dice to 11, while keeping the number of needed dice (i.e. from 12C3 to 11C3), the probability goes up with that equation...
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:03 AM (vBeA5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU86F44tqDE
Posted by: goodluckduck at May 24, 2017 12:04 AM (V8zw+)
In my opinion there is quite a bit of difference between someone who sneaked into a country, is living and working there under the radar, and someone who no fault of their own is deemed to be unfit and to be killed.
Speaking of illegals why is it, when they have been here for over ten years, they still have not bothered to apply for citizenship? It is like they want the benefits of living and working in the US, but do not want to be part of our nation? Why should we let them stay when there are millions of people who bothered to apply waiting for a decade or more for their chance?
Posted by: Deathknyte at May 24, 2017 12:04 AM (BDA6O)
Posted by: Bomber at May 24, 2017 12:04 AM (OwNJe)
Shut up you pomous @sshole.
People pay good money to hear you sing, not prattle on like a pious pseudo priest.
Sing liberal monkey boy! Sing!
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:02 AM (aT+Bx)
And stick mainly to to the pre mid 90s songs please.
Posted by: Bete the Deplorable at May 24, 2017 12:04 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:05 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Doctor Who at May 24, 2017 12:05 AM (vRcUp)
Which game?
And this is (part) of why I like physical vs digital...though the amount of hard drive I have -or rather don't- on my PS4 is part as well.
--------------------
The new Samurai Warriors.
I ordinarily go for the physical copy, but I wanted the pre-order bonus (a few new outfits for some of the characters; not a big deal, but kind of cool). And for some reason the pre-order option for the physical version on the Best Buy website was disabled. I would have just purchased the game on the PlayStation store, but for some reason the game literally didn't go on sale on the store until it went live (which is odd - games almost always go on sale on PSN before they go live). I suspect that I would have been fine waiting until the release date, ordering a physical copy, and having it delivered to my local Best Buy (since the Samurai Warriors series doesn't usually attract enough attention to justify stocking it in the store).
Too late now, though.
It's worth noting that now that the game has finally gone up for sale on the PlayStation Network, there's a note indicating that the "pre-order" bonus will actually be available for free for everyone who purchases the game in the first month after release.
Posted by: junior at May 24, 2017 12:08 AM (deapv)
east over the last 50 years - .....
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and the Jews as well.
Posted by: redc1c4
But not yet from the US, which is where our greatest importance lies.
We are the remnant-- believers--
and if we're united with Israel
(and with President Trump in office, we ARE)
since the battle's the Lord's,
we're winners.
The fight's just not over yet.
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:08 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: redc1c4
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Nagged to death.
Burn this post.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 12:08 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 24, 2017 12:08 AM (7dpmG)
Shut up you pomous @sshole.
People pay good money to hear you sing, not prattle on like a pious pseudo priest.
Sing liberal monkey boy! Sing!
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:02 AM (aT+Bx)
And stick mainly to to the pre mid 90s songs please.
Posted by: Bete the Deplorable at May 24, 2017 12:04 AM (Ojki1
one of 2 reasons i don't see Neil Young in concert anymore
That and 2 tickets cost more than the mortgage payment
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:08 AM (ZTRlp)
But inside the Beltway liberals are like spiders.
You are never more than 3 feet from one no matter where you go.
Not saying there's nothing to all this, I have no idea. Just pointing out that the whole area is a hotbed of interconnected liberals. Which could be a point in your favor, depending on how you look at it.
Posted by: Meremortal at May 24, 2017 12:10 AM (O4wiF)
Can you share this with The James Madison:
https://www.writersstore.com/2017-for-your-consideration-screenplays/
He might like it for one of his movie threads.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:12 AM (aT+Bx)
You are never more than 3 feet from one no matter where you go.
As Bertie Wooster would say, you can't throw a brick without hitting one.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 12:13 AM (vRcUp)
Each team has a 2 hitter. 1-0 Doesn't get much better than that.
Sucks when you are on the losing end though.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 24, 2017 12:13 AM (smD62)
***
NAZI Germany specifically blamed Jews for all the problems of the world. They didn't publicly admit to genocide though when, for example, FDR sent a group of Jewish refugees home he knew bad things would happen to them.
While much of the Arab world is at war with itself, the "refugees" showing up in the west are not an identifiable subgroup. Some are ISIS/AQ leaning, some fascist leaning/and some "moderate".
For those from Iraq, Syria and other hot spots actually at war sending them home would force them to join their "side". If the left is correct, this would be a boon for the moderates as they claim most, if not all, of them are moderate muslims.
Traditionally, young men whose compatriots are fighting for them aren't considered refugees and it is perplexing that we wouldn't immediately execute the Islamists, intern fascists, and send the "moderates" back home with some army surplus gear.
Most of the "refugees" aren't from war zones though anyway. The Muslim world sucks because of Islam. And they are fleeing it while bringing it with them, much like plague victims fleeing Caffa and bringing it to the core of Europe (note this was also caused by Muslims as they used biological warfare against Caffa).
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:13 AM (aZq03)
Posted by: junior at May 24, 2017 12:08 AM (deapv)
Ugh. Been there. You'd think companies would have more sense then to try things like that.
But then, Best Buy.
Posted by: Bete the Deplorable at May 24, 2017 12:14 AM (Ojki1)
Re: Niagara Falls / Region on the Canadian side. Great golf courses, wine trails, Theatre, Casinos, The Royal Botanical Gardens and Butterfly Conservatory are a treat...horse racing at a wonderful track in Fort Erie if you're into that. And the Falls, just cause it's there - take the Jet Boat tour of the lower gorge, forget the Maid of the Mist - that's lame in comparison.
O/T - going radio silent through Tuesdays as the bride and I head of to Wisconsin for our son's wedding in Wasau. Driving though Canada, into the U.P. and across the top of Lake Michigan and then down into the land of the cheese people.
Y'all be good and play nice...
Posted by: browndog at May 24, 2017 12:14 AM (bGMOs)
R.I.P. Sir Roger
His last request was to be cremated. "Baken, not interred".
Posted by: Deacon Blues formerly known as whatmeworry at May 24, 2017 12:14 AM (dZGNV)
A special kind of stupid asshole. This is from some award show your watching? May I suggest you turn it off. Much better for one's soul.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 24, 2017 12:15 AM (+y0MR)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:15 AM (aZq03)
Posted by: Meremortal at May 24, 2017 12:15 AM (O4wiF)
Shut up you pomous @sshole.
People pay good money to hear you sing, not prattle on like a pious pseudo priest.
Sing liberal monkey boy! Sing!
Posted by: shibumi
If he wants to harangue a captive audience, he should do it on the subway and get it out of his system.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 12:16 AM (vRcUp)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
You may ask yourself "why are concert tickets so high?"
The ONLY place artists make money is on concerts. That's all. People don't buy albums, they just download songs.
So artists have to make up the money they lost on album sales. To do that, they put together large concerts and charge exorbitant ticket prices.
Also... IMHO the best place to sit at the concert is near the center of the back of the main floor. Near the sound/lighting boards. That's the position the designers use when creating the shows.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:16 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:03 AM (vBeA5)
No. p (in the equation) stays the same (same event) and 11C3 < 12C3.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:17 AM (zc3Db)
One of Boyt's quotes goes like this, if memory serves me right - "I'm really sorry they are agonizing over clean underwear."
That idiot at Notre Dame has his clean tighty whities all nunched up over nothing.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:19 AM (N7Wva)
Maybe he was but didn't realize it.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2017 12:19 AM (9ZsgB)
sha-sha-shibumi consider it done my Michigander or would it be Michigoose friend?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:21 AM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 24, 2017 12:21 AM (v9gSJ)
So, it's be a sum of 12C3 to 12C12.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:21 AM (vBeA5)
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from the CIB holders i served with, apparently grunts didn't bother with underwear...
it was just an additional opportunity to get crotch rot and other assorted skin fungi infections.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 12:21 AM (Nbzu/)
So artists have to make up the money they lost on album sales. To do that, they put together large concerts and charge exorbitant ticket prices.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:16 AM (aT+Bx)
Yeah, creative talent (musicians and authors especially) seem to be taking tech advances in the shorts these days.
Posted by: Bete the Deplorable at May 24, 2017 12:22 AM (Ojki1)
I like fishing the Lake Ontario Bay of Quinte back in the 70s-80s for walleye.
Posted by: geoffb5 at May 24, 2017 12:22 AM (d3wbb)
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Don't know about Tolkien. But Islam seems to be touched on in the Narnia books. The Calormen seem to borrow a lot from the Middle-Eastern culture.
Posted by: junior at May 24, 2017 12:24 AM (deapv)
LOl. I've done both. Tahoe is warmer.
/and... Michigoose is fine!
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:24 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Locarno at May 24, 2017 12:24 AM (HhYvn)
Maybe he was but didn't realize it.
Posted by: Sharkman
I've wondered similarly. those orks are ugly sumbeaches. and the swords of the WEST resemble crosses, so often.
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:24 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:03 AM (vBeA5)
No. p (in the equation) stays the same (same event) and 11C3
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:17 AM (zc3Db)
I might be mistyping something but 12C3 in this case is 0.212 and 11C3 is 0.238.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:25 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:25 AM (0tfLf)
The ONLY place artists make money is on concerts. That's all. People don't buy albums, they just download songs.
It used to be the other way around. Concerts were almost money losers in order to sell albums. But people are still paying tons of money to download music (those who pay for it). In fact, the margin on streaming and music file sales are far in excess of what they were for physical albums, cassettes, or CDs. The fact is that songs should cost less than 2 cents to buy but they still charge, basically, the same price per song that they were 40 years ago when you buying stamped albums.
So artists have to make up the money they lost on album sales. To do that, they put together large concerts and charge exorbitant ticket prices.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:16 AM (aT+Bx)
Concert prices started rising long before music files and (illegal) downloading) were a big thing. Heck, there were always cassettes that friends would make for you ... The change in concert ticket prices happened when they stopped artificially keeping the prices down and let the almost free market take them over. Tickets are worth whatever a bunch of fools are willing to pay for them ... and there are a lot of fools willing to put out a ton of money for certain tickets.
And illegal downloading never hurt any artists. The more people who illegally download their songs the more people who pay highway robbery prices for them.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:26 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Locarno at May 24, 2017 12:24 AM (HhYvn)
Moose out front should have told you this is a "No Math Zone"
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:26 AM (ZTRlp)
***
The Haradrim who are almost certainly intended to be Arabs, fight on the side of Sauron in the LotR
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:27 AM (aZq03)
Posted by: Bomber at May 24, 2017 12:04 AM (OwNJe)
Stopping the Iran-Iraq war was one of the dumbest moves, ever.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:27 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 24, 2017 12:29 AM (+y0MR)
If we could get the arabs and the persians to fight each other to mutual extinction, the world would be a better place.
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Well, do you really think the time Trump spent in Saudi Arabia was because he's always dreamed of visiting the Kingdom?
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:29 AM (aT+Bx)
Much like the ChiCom attacks along the MLR during the peace talks at Panmunjom.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:29 AM (N7Wva)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:25 AM (0tfLf)
Right Off The Crotch? ROTC
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:30 AM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:31 AM (N7Wva)
i could deceive you
and if you were here
you would believe
but would you suspect
my emotion wandering, yeah
do not want a part of this anymore
The rain water drips
through a crack in the ceiling
and i'll have to spend
my time on repair
But just like the rain
i'll be always falling, yeah
only to rise and fall again...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 24, 2017 12:31 AM (eMKNe)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:25 AM (vBeA5)
You're doing something else. There are no cases with combinations.
12C3 = 12*11*10/3*2*1 = 220
11C3 = 11*10*9/3*2*1 = 165
Combinations are whole numbers - xCy = the number of (unordered) sets of y elements taken out of a set of x elements.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:33 AM (zc3Db)
The ONLY place artists make money is on concerts. That's all. People don't buy albums, they just download songs.
It used to be the other way around. Concerts were almost money losers in order to sell albums. But people are still paying tons of money to download music (those who pay for it). In fact, the margin on streaming and music file sales are far in excess of what they were for physical albums, cassettes, or CDs. The fact is that songs should cost less than 2 cents to buy but they still charge, basically, the same price per song that they were 40 years ago when you buying stamped albums.
So artists have to make up the money they lost on album sales. To do that, they put together large concerts and charge exorbitant ticket prices.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:16 AM (aT+Bx)
Not all concerts are expensive.
Sure, the big stadium ones can command big prices, but middle-sized venues are still cheap. Just saw Testament, Sepultura, and Prong at a medium sized venue for only $25.
A lot of medium and small sized bands can make more money off of selling vinyl records, CDs, t-shirts, patches, &c. than they make off of the concert.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:33 AM (vBeA5)
Pinch of Larceny -
http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/B071NQQMPK
Golden Isis -
http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/B014BTSEYO
Thanks.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:33 AM (N7Wva)
Look up the binomial distribution function. All this ASCII equation typing is a mess and error prone. Make sure you've using the exact thing.
The Binomial distribution can be defined as B(k, n, p). That gives us the probability of k "hits" in n (independent) trials, with the individual probability of hit being p.
B(k, n, p) = [nCk] * p^k * (1 - p)^(n - k)
For our dice, p = 1/6 for a given number. k is the number of times, and n is the total number of throws.
The probability of getting 3 '5's in 12 throws is thus:
12C3*(1/6)^3 * (5/6)^(9)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 24, 2017 12:34 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 12:35 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 24, 2017 12:35 AM (mMeIQ)
1. Told Narcissistic remote co-worker I won't deal with him anymore. He can go directly to our boss or whoever the boss designates as babysitter. Haven't heard a word since then.
2. Crazy gay guy at work is staying away from me s long as I stay away from His Man, which is fine.
3. Boss is in Europe, not answering emails. Yay!
4. Have not heard from horrible ex bosses in a few weeks. Am pretending I will not have to deal with them until next year. If.. ever.
5. Installed ceiling fan today.
It's a Personal Best day at Shibumi's house!
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:35 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:37 AM (TwwWO)
Don't know about Tolkien. But Islam seems to be touched on in the Narnia books. The Calormen seem to borrow a lot from the Middle-Eastern culture.
***
Spoilers...
The Calormenes are basically Turks, but more notable, their god Tash, which is Turkish for rock, is actually a demon. Now, what religious figure do we know of that is worshiped in the form of a rock?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:37 AM (aZq03)
the one time I changed my own oil, I torqued the head off the bolt holding on the oil pan.
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:37 AM (tfQTV)
******
So you're saying Section 12, Row C, Seat 3
at the Faith Hill concert would be $220???
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:38 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:38 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: Bomber at May 24, 2017 12:39 AM (OwNJe)
at the Faith Hill concert would be $220???
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:38 AM (0tfLf)
10 years ago ... and worth it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:39 AM (zc3Db)
"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things; it has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits.
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."-- What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear, 'Democracy in America'
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 24, 2017 12:40 AM (Ndje9)
.I'd give better odds than that!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:40 AM (TwwWO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 12:35 AM (OdK9v
good observation Mike, I caught it Sunday and it made the sidebar.
Fucking spawn of the 1%ers
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:40 AM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Locarno at May 24, 2017 12:40 AM (HhYvn)
**
Back in the 80s and very early 90s, the left mocked Reagan for helping the Iranians during that war.
After Gulf War I they started mocking him for helping the Iraqis during the same war.
I imagine when we end up at war with Iran in the near future they will go back to mocking him for supporting the Iranians again.
Overall, his policy of trying to keep that war going seems in retrospect brilliant...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:40 AM (aZq03)
They want white men to despair and kill themselves. Don't give the bastards a win!
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 24, 2017 12:41 AM (P8951)
***
You win 72 virgins.
Oh sorry raisins.
You win 72 raisins.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:41 AM (aZq03)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:42 AM (N7Wva)
the one time I changed my own oil, I torqued the head off the bolt holding on the oil pan.
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Oil change? No dice, LOL.
Here's the key to installing a ceiling fan yourself: get the right size for the room, but make sure it's not heavy.
When you go to somewhere like Home Depot and get a $100+ fan, it's going to weigh a lot, and you need two people to do it.
I got an inexpensive fan ($40) at Kmart, and it was the easiest I've ever put up. Plus.. only 12lbs. Looks fantastic. This is the third or fourth I've done.
/when the winter comes and there are no more outside tasks to be done, I'm going to replace my doorbell transformer.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:42 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 24, 2017 12:44 AM (eMKNe)
They want white men to despair and kill themselves. Don't give the bastards a win!
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 24, 2017 12:41 AM (P8951
^^^^^THIS^^^^^ Thanks Donna
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:44 AM (ZTRlp)
I am so very moved that Slap put together a prayer list for the Horde. I wish I had been able to get here earlier so I could have thanked him.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 24, 2017 12:44 AM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:45 AM (N7Wva)
which bring me to something else: a woman spoke to tucker last night about demonstrations across America, which are against Islam's treatment of women, I believe.
When do people begin to understand demonstrations are stupid, that they don't change a friggen thing?
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:45 AM (tfQTV)
Ed Sheeran
The Weeknd
Maybe Bruno Mars.
If you're a Depeche Mode fan, they're coming here later this summer. Their show is pretty interesting.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:45 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 12:46 AM (IqV8l)
Signs EVERYWHERE at Harrahs Laughlin: Brian Wilson, May 20. I would have loved to come back to see him.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 24, 2017 12:46 AM (eMKNe)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 24, 2017 12:47 AM (TdMsT)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:25 AM (vBeA5)
You're doing something else. There are no cases with combinations.
12C3 = 12*11*10/3*2*1 = 220
11C3 = 11*10*9/3*2*1 = 165
Combinations are whole numbers - xCy = the number of (unordered) sets of y elements taken out of a set of x elements.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:33 AM (zc3Db)
I was referred to the overall probability of the dice, not the combination alone.
Sorry for not being clear.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:47 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:47 AM (N7Wva)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:48 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 24, 2017 12:40 AM (Ndje9)
His book "The Old Regime and the Revolution" is far more relevant today than "Democracy in America"...
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:49 AM (vBeA5)
LOl. I've done both. Tahoe is warmer.
/and... Michigoose is fine!
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:24 AM (aT+Bx)<<<
I swim with the fishes in Lake Tahoe. It's not so bad.
Posted by: zombie Fredo Corleone at May 24, 2017 12:49 AM (nHbAq)
Ed Sheeran
The Weeknd
Maybe Bruno Mars.
If you're a Depeche Mode fan, they're coming here later this summer. Their show is pretty interesting.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:45 AM (aT+Bx
Fishing
Fishing
Prostrate exam
Oh bummer 4 wheeling with the atvs.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:49 AM (ZTRlp)
Because that's how you get a Yoko ONT.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:50 AM (TwwWO)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at May 24, 2017 12:50 AM (P8951)
Fishing
Fishing
Prostrate exam
Oh bummer
4 wheeling with the atvs.
--
That's a better plan.
/RE: prostate exam, if your doctor is a muslim woman, you might have to marry her afterwords!
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:51 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:40 AM (aZq03)
It was the best move possible. As much as I disliked the idea of dealing with the iranians it was more important to keep the two sides close to even and beating the shit out of each other.
The minute the Iran-Iraq war stopped the other hussein turned around and invaded Kuwait, with an eye to the rest of the arab gulf oil fields.
In the end, all threats from the arab/persian/muslim world start and stop with control of the gulf oil fields. If we hadn't let them steal the fields in the forced nationalization waves of the 50s and 60s we wouldn't be facing any of the problems we have from them, now. The quick solution (and, interestingly, the least bloody) is to take the gulf fields. Once those fields are out of APM control they will have nothing. No money. No political power. No strategic power. Nothing. They will be completely neutered and will go back to just stabbing each other in their asses as they are want to do.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:51 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:53 AM (TwwWO)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:24 AM (tfQTV)
Orcs also carry scimitars.
Having said that, Tolkien was likely not intentionally using allegory.
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 24, 2017 12:53 AM (nvMvs)
Posted by: 18-1
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If FDR had pulled the lend/lease plug on Stalin at the right moment, I might actually have admired him.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 12:53 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:51 AM (aT+B
No he's a former farmer with fingers the size of pistons.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:53 AM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 12:53 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 12:49 AM (ZTRlp)<<<
Learning how to bow? I can teach you a thing or two.
Posted by: SCOAMF at May 24, 2017 12:54 AM (nHbAq)
Sorry for not being clear.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:47 AM (vBeA5)
I see. I'm not sure which equation you are working with. There might be a typo in it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:57 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:58 AM (tfQTV)
Why yes, I'm a bit irritated. Why do you ask?
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A new (and different!) download code just arrived.
Unfortunately, it *also* doesn't work.
And Best Buy's phone-based customer support has shut down for the evening.
Posted by: junior at May 24, 2017 12:58 AM (deapv)
Posted by: shibumi
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Did I tell you about the time that I wired the doorbell transformer to the circuit for the switched basement stair light?
*scratches head*
Why does the damn doorbell work some times, and not others?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 12:59 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2017 12:37 AM (aZq03)
Duane Johnson?
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 24, 2017 01:00 AM (nvMvs)
money. No political power. No strategic power. Nothing. They will be
completely neutered and will go back to just stabbing each other in
their asses as they are want to do.
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i remember reading a techno-thriller back in the 70's/80's where everyone was trying to figure out what this one character was doing, without success.
he had amassed a fleet of cargo aircraft, and everyone was sure he was up to no good, but couldn't prove shit.
i forget the rest, but the end of the book had some poor schmuck, flying in, IIRC, a Yak-36 (?) behind this formation of remotely piloted cargo AC, which were flying along in stately formation, not bothering anything, nor making threatening maneuvers.
that is, of course, until our intrepid birdman happened to glance at the radiation monitor in the cockpit, which was well into the red zone of a lethal dose.
the a/c were spraying long half life nuclear waste on the oil fields.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 01:00 AM (Nbzu/)
Anybody that feels that bad? Call me. I Shit You Not that I can have you feeling "better" in one phone call.
home made gravy, (all one word) at the hoo-yeah dot com.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 24, 2017 01:00 AM (6gk0M)
605 /when the winter comes and there are no more outside tasks to be done, I'm going to replace my doorbell transformer.
Posted by: shibumi
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Did I tell you about the time that I wired the doorbell transformer to the circuit for the switched basement stair light?
*scratches head*
Why does the damn doorbell work some times, and not others?
Dog is easier. It would go well with the hittehs
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 01:01 AM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:53 AM (TwwWO)
Heh. Thanks, palp. It's an old rant of mine. I had hopes that that was what Bush (W) was thinking when he went into Iraq ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 01:01 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 24, 2017 01:02 AM (6gk0M)
Sorry for not being clear.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:47 AM (vBeA5)
I see. I'm not sure which equation you are working with. There might be a typo in it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:57 AM (zc3Db)
No, it actually makes sense. At first, the more dice you add, the likelier you are to get a given number of dice at or above a certain value because you have more opportunities, but once you start adding more and more dice, it becomes less likely because the chance of any dice in excess of your given number all NOT being the certain value drops down like a rock.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 01:02 AM (vBeA5)
- "Hello, Health Department? I want to report poor cleanliness at a restaurant I'm inside of right now! There's a giant rat!!"
- "Okay, ma'am. What restaurant are you at?"
- "Chuck E. Cheese!"
- "Is the rat singing and dancing?"
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 24, 2017 01:02 AM (eMKNe)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:58 AM (tfQTV)
Because that's what it was written to say?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2017 01:03 AM (NXsWM)
It's pretty bad when an ex-KGB thug sounds more patriotic than your average Democrat "current and former officials". Vlad:
"You know what surprises me? They are destabilizing the internal political situation in the United States under anti-Russian slogans," Putin said, according to Tass, "They either do not understand that they are harming their own country, which means they are just shortsighted. or they understand everything. and that means that they are dangerous and unscrupulous people."
"Or"? Why choose? They're all of the above.
I would never quote Putin on the time of day. But, on this alone, he's absolutely correct.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 24, 2017 01:03 AM (Ndje9)
Sure, the big stadium ones can command big prices, but middle-sized venues are still cheap. Just saw Testament, Sepultura, and Prong at a medium sized venue for only $25.
A lot of medium and small sized bands can make more money off of selling vinyl records, CDs, t-shirts, patches, &c. than they make off of the concert.
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 24, 2017 12:33 AM
My view, for what it's worth and that may not be much... Bar the top headliners (and I'm not sure they're excluded either)...
Nobody really knows anymore.
It all used to be pretty straightforward regarding how to make money off recordings, shows, merch and whatnot. The landscape has changed so much, so quickly (relatively speaking)that there aren't really any acknowledged ways forward. It's pretty much a crapshoot and nobody really knows if they're gonna actually make $$$ off anything, even if it's a success. The general view amongst people is that it's more about having the planets line up, than anything else.
You CAN make good $$$ off this, that or that other, but will you? No idea. Either that, or EVERYONE is keeping their cards close to their chest and not talking about it. All those "how to" opinions on blogs etc are useful info, but won't necessarily work. You've pretty much got to find your own combination of factors and your own path. Too many variables these days for hard and fast "do's" and "don'ts".
Posted by: otho at May 24, 2017 01:03 AM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 24, 2017 01:05 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 01:06 AM (TwwWO)
I'm going to save your email for the next time the blues waylay me. They do that sometimes.
Hopefully I can help you in return.
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:08 AM (tfQTV)
Uriah Heep
Marillion (Originally named Silmarillion)
Posted by: mark1971
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You beat me to it! ...But I was out at the movies and just got home.
Posted by: RKae at May 24, 2017 01:10 AM (i3rHh)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:10 AM (tfQTV)
Nice, meaty ONT, Mis Hum. Much less taxing than that probability conversation they've got going over on the Yahoo group.
{hoping Witopia slips this comment in while Pixy's not looking}
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 01:10 AM (voYu7)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 01:06 AM (TwwWO)
Yep. And it is not safe with them, either. They are more than willing to destroy the fields. They don't actually use the fields for anything other than military might. They have no industry, don't build anything, don't do anything useful. When the fields serve them a better weapon in their destruction they are happy to blow them away to hurt us. Saddam showed what the arabs think about the oil fields when he intentionally dumped over 40 million barrels of oil into the gulf and lit just about every oil well in Kuwait on fire (all as we were letting him retreat in one of the most humiliating military losses in all of recorded history).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 01:13 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 12:37 AM (tfQTV)
Ummm... You take the oil pan off to change the oil? You mean I've been doing it wrong all these years?
Posted by: Average Guy at May 24, 2017 01:14 AM (LMcFk)
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It's happening in parallel.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 01:15 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Average Guy
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Makes the process...more interesting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 01:16 AM (OdK9v)
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we're going to get at least one AR-10 style lower ($11
and maybe some AR-15 uppers, with the fiddly bits installed. just got 2 AR-15 lowers from them the other day, because funny markings...
both my gunsmiths say they make quality stuff.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 01:17 AM (Nbzu/)
Okay. I don't even know what actual problem you are working on. I just jumped in, in the middle, to answer your post about "p" and "C".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 01:17 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Average Guy
I may be misnaming the thing. I was lying under a VW. was attempting to loosen a bolt so that a dish shaped thing would drop, so I could drain the oil?
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:18 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:20 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: gracepc at May 24, 2017 01:22 AM (OU4q6)
http://tinypic.com/r/11mdiex/9
Posted by: buzzion at May 23, 2017 09:52 PM (cAnNx)
Your dog looks quite a lot like mine. She is a Basset X Border Collie, but has the tricolor hound coloration. Longer legs than a Basset, though. And Pogo wore the cone of shame for two weeks after a surgery on her ear.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 01:22 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 01:25 AM (voYu7)
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 01:26 AM (voYu7)
Posted by: MAx at May 24, 2017 01:26 AM (9TR2V)
Posted by: filbert
One lawyer/analyst has said that Trump could fire Mueller at will, at least theoretically. But politically, it would probably trigger impeachment.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 24, 2017 01:28 AM (wTwJ2)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:28 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 01:29 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:30 AM (tfQTV)
Despite Islamists constantly reminding us how much they hate Western decadence and immorality, you never hear the left saying we have to start rejecting the promotion of homosexuality and other offensive to Muslims.
Posted by: Biscuits Mahoney at May 24, 2017 01:30 AM (ABWXA)
Posted by: Vendette at May 23, 2017 10:14 PM (ppSwc)
My university degree came in the mail. No steenkin' ceremony for me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 01:31 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:31 AM (tfQTV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVevvbFNKiY
For the first 40 seconds, he is singing alone, but at 0:40 start watching him very closely -- something very surprising happens! I guarantee you'll rewind it back to see how that was possible -- was there a jump cut? Nope -- there all the time. Amazing.
Posted by: zombie at May 24, 2017 01:32 AM (DQ4Fv)
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 24, 2017 01:33 AM (wTwJ2)
I've got to get some sleep. substitute teaching in a room of 13 toddlers tomorrow.
good relaxing talk, thanks.
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:37 AM (tfQTV)
Posted by: booknlass
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I was told there would be no wordplay.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 01:40 AM (OdK9v)
*scratches head*
Why does the damn doorbell work some times, and not others?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 12:59 AM (OdK9v)
Here's a story for you...
My wife and I, newly married, living in our little 900 sf rental house. One day I was going to vacuum, but the vacuum cleaner (flea market purchase) didn't work. Worked fine the previous time I used it. Well, being a fix-it guy, I get out the screw driver & pliers, and proceed to take the thing apart, hoping to find a loose or shorted wire or something like that. All disassembled, dust & parts all over the place... no obvious signs of damage. #*%^#. Put it all back together; still doesn't work.
Then I had a bright idea (my only one in this whole episode). I unplugged the vacuum cleaner, then plugged it in to another outlet. Voila!
But wait, it gets worse...
So why wasn't that outlet working? It worked before...
So I called the landlord and told him one of the outlets stopped working. He said he'd call an electrician.
The electrician comes over the next day. Checks the outlet, confirms there's no power. So he goes up into the attic to check out the wiring. This is in the middle of Summer. He come out of the attic a few minutes later, all grimy and sweaty. Says the wiring is older knob & tube, but he couldn't find any problems with it. He said he'd contact the landlord and work out a time to do a more thorough inspection, and then he left.
Ten minutes later the doorbell rings. It's the electrician. He said he wanted to check one more thing. "OK", I said.
He walks across our little living room, and flips a switch on the wall. Tests the outlet - Bingo.
What the...? We never gave that switch a second thought; never touched it. Well, apparently one of us had...
Posted by: Average Guy at May 24, 2017 01:42 AM (LMcFk)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:42 AM (tfQTV)
♫
By now a crowd had gathered
and it seemed that all was lost
In the anger of the moment
I had diced with death and lost
♫
Procol Harum - Rambling On
https://youtu.be/wc-gjz5jZs0
Posted by: mindful webworker - rambler gambler at May 24, 2017 01:45 AM (HdZcn)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:30 AM (tfQTV)
I figured that... just havin' some fun.
Posted by: Average Guy at May 24, 2017 01:48 AM (LMcFk)
Saw your note, belatedly, the other day. Thanks 4 it.
Curious if you managed to navigate all the way to the drunken conclusion of Invulnerable?
Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at May 24, 2017 01:49 AM (HdZcn)
just got a bounce from that addy... no such addy
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 01:49 AM (zUoxk)
Posted by: Average Guy
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Switched outlets are almost a thing of the past. In our last house, there were some recessed in the floor of the living room, for controlling lamps on side tables beside the sofa.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 01:53 AM (OdK9v)
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when we re-wired our house after moving in (2nd legal owners, previous residents had been renters since family moved out/died) we found all sorts of strange things, to include some they were lucky hadn't burned down the house.
power to the garage? they just strung a hot wire out to the garage, and tied everything into that.
need moar circuits? they pulled a second box through the first, exceeding rated power... the main contacts were scorched, etc.
installing a new light fixture in the dining room? hell yes scotch tape is acceptable, if you don't have anything else to use...
very scary.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 01:57 AM (zUoxk)
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 24, 2017 01:33 AM (wTwJ2)
Always fun on a Harley, which have at least 2-3 of them. The chuckleheads that own them think they're tightening a head bolt the way they muscle down on them. Then they have the nerve to looked surprised when they go away.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 24, 2017 01:58 AM (aMlLZ)
was watching, because VA waiting room (at least it wasn't news) some car show.
behind schedule, they had a body guy installing the oil pan.
so he's torquing down the bolts, having snugged them up, and snaps the first one clean off.
it seems in/pounds and ft/pounds are NOT interchangeable.
who knew?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 02:01 AM (zUoxk)
Posted by: mindful webworker - bounding the pusheries at May 24, 2017 02:02 AM (HdZcn)
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pro tip: copying and pasting the symbols gets you a Pixy server error and hitting "back" takes you several pages back in time too.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 02:05 AM (zUoxk)
Goodnight all, thanks for the chat.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 24, 2017 02:06 AM (eMKNe)
In my opinion there is quite a bit of difference between someone who sneaked into a country, is living and working there under the radar, and someone who no fault of their own is deemed to be unfit and to be killed.
Speaking of illegals why is it, when they have been here for over ten years, they still have not bothered to apply for citizenship? It is like they want the benefits of living and working in the US, but do not want to be part of our nation? Why should we let them stay when there are millions of people who bothered to apply waiting for a decade or more for their chance?
Posted by: Deathknyte at May 24, 2017 12:04 AM (BDA6O)
Good catch. I got to that part, and said to myself, "fucking Commie".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 02:08 AM (0deF2)
All because of a little bitty line up in the invisible header - same one that causes the dreaded BLACK DIAMONDS OF DOOM.
Ah, 1990s tech!
More tips & tricks at the still-needs-updating Ace of Spades Blog Commenters Survival Guide at my website:
http://bit.ly/aoshq-csg
Posted by: mindful webworker - click here or else at May 24, 2017 02:11 AM (HdZcn)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 2little 2late 2louse 2trek at May 24, 2017 02:12 AM (HdZcn)
Posted by: mindful webworker - cautiously at May 24, 2017 02:14 AM (HdZcn)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 01:57 AM (zUoxk)
Well, I've learned a few things since then and I'm now a home inspector... I see plenty of scary electrical stuff. One house had K&T wiring in the attic. The old stuff, with cracked, crumbling, rodent-gnawed insulation. The attic was insulated with old cellulose insulation, and to make everything neat someone had put in a vapor barrier made of metal foil. When I opened the scuttle to inspect the attic, I disturbed the foil enough to cause actual sparks to fly. I quickly exited the attic & shut off all the power to the house.
Posted by: Average Guy at May 24, 2017 02:14 AM (LMcFk)
Posted by: jbspry at May 24, 2017 02:16 AM (IhKmM)
Posted by: mindful webworker - etc at May 24, 2017 02:17 AM (HdZcn)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 02:20 AM (zUoxk)
fortunately, a COB figured out i was just socking, so unblocked that hash (they change about once a day, gawd knows why) and told me it was NOT a good idea to do that again.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 02:25 AM (zUoxk)
Posted by: booknlass at May 24, 2017 01:18 AM (tfQTV)
Yeah. The old air-cooled VW classic Beetles, and their non-Beetle stablemates have an "oil strainer" under a dish-shaped cover on the bottom of the engine. It's about five inches in diameter, and held on by 6 M6 screws. The oil drain plug is in the center of that dish-shaped cover.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 02:28 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: socalcon at May 24, 2017 02:28 AM (WAnre)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2017 02:31 AM (LtuZ9)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 24, 2017 02:35 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 02:39 AM (wPiJc)
Be well, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 02:39 AM (0deF2)
641 My university degree came in the mail. No steenkin' ceremony for me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 01:31 AM (0deF2)
Ditto. I had already move on to my first job. Paycheck wasn't going to a roundtrip cross country jaunt just to pick up some paper.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2017 02:45 AM (pNxlR)
Hi y'all. Work is going well. Wishing the very best from you, too.
And I'll be here all Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz -- snooze.
G'night and God bless.
Posted by: micky at May 24, 2017 02:48 AM (dF9Lb)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at May 24, 2017 02:50 AM (HdZcn)
Posted by: Anachronda at May 24, 2017 03:02 AM (rM1DU)
made the one at Ft Sam, which was a joke, but the high point was my asshole DS calling my name after they said dismissed and i just walked the F away, like i hadn't heard his ignorant racist ass.
got to tell him a few days later than he'd fucked up my paperw*rk, so i was having it fixed.
he couldn't say shit to a civilian.
UCLA extension grad was for my parents, who will never see me graduate college, as they had apparently hoped all these years.
better luck next time, and try and make better choices for your kids.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 03:32 AM (zUoxk)
plus 2 medical appointment.
on the upside, once i'm home from them, i can have alcohol!
it's the little things that keep me going.
that and the new rescue kitty is acclimating quickly.
for only 3 days, we're doing great.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 03:39 AM (zUoxk)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 03:47 AM (wPiJc)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2017 03:52 AM (Ot7+c)
Posted by: Skip
******
Heh. "Horde".
That implies much greater numbers than seem to be evident at present. You, me and red1c4
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 03:59 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:00 AM (wPiJc)
Congratulations on the new rescue kitty.
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 04:02 AM (voYu7)
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 04:03 AM (voYu7)
"When an unattainable notion of "the Perfect" becomes the enemy of "the Good", at some point "the Good" decides to just stop trying. -Geoffrey Chaucer 1480.
This thought keeps bouncing around in my head.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:03 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 04:05 AM (voYu7)
***
No worries. What's your take on things in the world? Any great thoughts?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:07 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2017 04:09 AM (Ot7+c)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 24, 2017 04:09 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:11 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2017 04:23 AM (Ot7+c)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2017 04:23 AM (Ot7+c)
They are the cult of an Almighty State, to be composed of the enlightened (IE, those who think as they do), which they see as the salvation of mankind and the bringer of an Earthly Paradise.
Anyone who opposes their agenda, they see as denying them paradise.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 24, 2017 04:30 AM (J+mig)
Not a thought in the world. Been busy deleting bookmarks as fast as I can. It's my way of stuffing my head in the sand. Happily, the Morons saw fit to stash me out here in the middle of nowhere so blissful ignorance is a way of life.
But the ammo got wet in a flood.
Waking up at midnight does nothing for a coherent train of thought.
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 04:35 AM (voYu7)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 24, 2017 04:35 AM (vRcUp)
Anyone who opposes their agenda, they see as denying them paradise.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel
****
To be as God.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:36 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 24, 2017 04:36 AM (vRcUp)
*****
Heh. In my case I'm not sure waking at 8:00 am does anything for a coherent train of thought.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:39 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:36 AM (wPiJc)
But only one person gets that level of authority, so it makes you wonder why all of the useful idiots are so bent on following along. Do they all honestly think they're going to get cushy inner-party jobs? Have they not realized that there are only thousands of those jobs, and tens of millions of them?
The miscalculation of scale is mind-boggling.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 24, 2017 04:40 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 04:41 AM (voYu7)
The drive to achieve total perfection, and the meddlesome nature that comes along with it, was viewed as creating disaster and bringing greater evils than those they tried to solve.
A good example from more recent history would be Prohibition. In order to combat a relatively moderate alcohol problem, the Temperance Movement ended up turning millions of law-abiding citizens into criminals overnight, fostering a disrespect for the law, and opening the door to hard drugs... problems we're still dealing with today.
In the pursuit of perfect goodness, they brought more evil into the world. When you can settle for "good enough", you can be happy.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 24, 2017 04:48 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2017 04:51 AM (Ot7+c)
*****
I think this concept applies on multiple levels in various ways. For example, the notion of Deplorables. Most of middle America is honest, hard-working, dependable, and lives their life with integrity. Comes the Left, with notions of "you don't live up to our made-up standards of decency, therefore you are Deplorable." At some point, the Deplorables say, ckuf this noise. I quit! A John Galt response. I no longer voluntarily give of my talents to people who consider me less than perfect. Even though I'm pretty damn good.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:51 AM (wPiJc)
I think that applies here but I'm not sure how.
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 04:53 AM (voYu7)
*****
Yeah. That's the kind of stuff I have in mind.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:54 AM (wPiJc)
(Exits stage left)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2017 04:57 AM (Ot7+c)
*****
Nice!
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 04:59 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 24, 2017 05:00 AM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 05:14 AM (wPiJc)
Puddles is one clown I wouldn't mind inviting to my party.
Can we sign him up for the Vegas MoMee?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2017 05:15 AM (NT3RT)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2017 05:19 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2017 05:20 AM (u82oZ)
May you and yours have a wonderful day.
Its early, but I have to jump on some end-of-school chores. So may every traffic light turn green as you approach.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2017 05:22 AM (u82oZ)
I keep telling myself he's just a lousy rodent. Doesn't help.
Posted by: creeper, doing the Witopia crawl at May 24, 2017 05:33 AM (voYu7)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2017 05:39 AM (+wT2f)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2017 05:40 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 24, 2017 05:43 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2017 05:44 AM (NT3RT)
I love you too, and added you to the list, for your Dad and Mom, and for your fortitude :-)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 24, 2017 05:48 AM (tHwdc)
Morrissey wrote a ckufing song about *beheading Margaret Thatcher*, so I'm not ready to throw accolades at him because he talked semi-tough on Islamic terrorism. Maybe if he was to disown "Margaret on the Guillotine" and apologize for it...
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 24, 2017 06:03 AM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 24, 2017 06:11 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Hugh Jackman at May 24, 2017 06:18 AM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 24, 2017 06:20 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: wing at May 24, 2017 06:26 AM (Ohl7S)
But...some jackass does something evil with a firearm, and it's Katy Bar The Door for non stop anti gun rhetoric.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 24, 2017 06:29 AM (J+eG2)
We can't have progress without overthrowing the old order of capitalist bourgeoisie who oppress the worker, the woman, and the indigenous minority. And for that, there must be revolution.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 24, 2017 06:29 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at May 24, 2017 06:31 AM (KGH7Z)
Posted by: wing at May 24, 2017 06:33 AM (Ohl7S)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 06:33 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Hugh Jackman
Do you really jack men?
Posted by: Shep Smith at May 24, 2017 06:34 AM (vRcUp)
He became the adopted mascot of our trio when you brought him up with you.
Posted by: teej at May 24, 2017 06:36 AM (wedOa)
My corollary to this, somewhat in line with the Chaucer quote above, is
"So is 'The Good Enough'"
and good morning, all
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 24, 2017 06:40 AM (BXC+l)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 24, 2017 06:42 AM (vRcUp)
While wishing Muldoon was still here for his input
I work in a lab. Accurate results are important.
In every step in the process of an analysis a little error is introduced.
It is only by trying to be perfect in each step that you can achieve "good enough."
That's what I was taught by a fine chemist. Thank you John.
Pretty sure he was correct.
Posted by: teej at May 24, 2017 06:44 AM (wedOa)
The Go-Betweens. Great late '70s - early '80s band from Australia.
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley (1959, I think).
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
Posted by: Love Gun at May 24, 2017 06:46 AM (no0Da)
STAY AWAY FROM HUMA, MORRISSEY. THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND ONLY WARNING.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 24, 2017 06:48 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: vivi at May 24, 2017 06:51 AM (11H2y)
OW!!!
HEY!!!!
What up my bitches?!??!?!!
*spins around, shuffles across stage doing jazz hands*
HEY!!!
Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at May 24, 2017 06:51 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Shep Smith at May 24, 2017 06:53 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: KWDreaming at May 24, 2017 06:54 AM (lLOfk)
Posted by: Colin at May 24, 2017 06:54 AM (UhuW/)
Posted by: Shep Smith at May 24, 2017 06:54 AM (vRcUp)
You morons just don't get it, do you? It's not that we have any great love for stinky immigrants. Not in the least.
It's about control. Controlling you. Making sure that you stay under the thumbs of your betters like me.
If you challenge us, we'll cut you down, by some method or another. To prove we can and serve as warning to others who might consider challenging our authority.
So take your punishment. Stand in line. Let authorities grope your private parts. Let your phone and computer be tapped. Shut up about it too when some stinking nut case kills. If you know whats good for you.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton, Arms Racketeer, Uranium Peddler at May 24, 2017 06:55 AM (HTdUD)
Do you want ONLY number of fives ? Number of fives and sixes ? Exactly three out of twelve - or at least three out of twelve ?
I do better with gambling questions.
Posted by: ScoggDog at May 24, 2017 06:56 AM (fiGNd)
SJW's should try another way to feel good about themselves = one that doesn't risk the lives of children.
Also, where's the FCC lawsuit against the nets?
Posted by: vivi at May 24, 2017 06:56 AM (11H2y)
etc on the show to explain the newsblackout about teen and pre teen
girls killed and mutilated by ISIS in the UK ?
Posted by: vivi at May 24, 2017 06:56 AM (11H2y)
That's yesterdays news. They have moved on to the latest of what damage they can do to Trump this week. Mid week time for another secret informer telling all about the evil that is going on in the WH.
Posted by: Colin at May 24, 2017 07:01 AM (UhuW/)
But they seem to avoid the overarching organization which both teams play for.
Team Islam.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 24, 2017 07:02 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 07:04 AM (HTdUD)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at May 24, 2017 07:06 AM (KGH7Z)
In the lab and in the real world are entirely different things, and trying to have too much of a lab mentality where the real world is involved invites disaster.
A real world example of this would be our torpedoes in WWII. They had a problem, in that they simply didn't work right. Our advanced fuses weren't going off properly, and a vast number of easy kills got away from our submarines and torpedo bombers because of it. Even worse, we lost ships we shouldn't have.
What was Washington's response? Since they couldn't replicate the problem in the lab, they kept blaming the users, until it there was such a mountain of evidence that the problem was undeniable.
Perfect solutions work in perfect environments. The world outside of the lab is not perfect, and can not be perfected.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 24, 2017 07:08 AM (J+mig)
He just played Houston last weekend and from what I heard it was a great show. Mike Love's son is in his band too. Wish I'd seen it.
Posted by: DanMan at May 24, 2017 10:19 AM (XTiHL)
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