Daily Tech News 14 September 2021

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Facebook has unveiled a new compression algorithm called Superpack that produces files typically 20% smaller than Zip. (Facebook)

It does this not by using a smarter algorithm, but by generating and compiling a custom algorithm on the fly. If the file is large you can attach the code for the new algorithm to the compressed copy and still save space. The decompression side takes that same custom algorithm and runs it in reverse.

Not mentioned in the article: The terms safety, security, or buffer overflow. The words exploit and exploited do appear, but not in the context I'm concerned with.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done slowly or if possible not at all: Australia's digital vaccine passport is six months behind schedule and still nowhere in sight. (ZDNet)

This is the kind of government incompetence I can truly get behind.
Microsoft has announced its stance on Windows support for Arm-based Macs. (Thurrott.com)

And that stance is no.
Things are happening on Ethereum. (Tom's Hardware)

I work with blockchains on almost a daily basis and I'm hard-pressed to understand, let alone explain, what these idiots are doing.
YouTube improbably took down a stream of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes. (Improbably)

Over use of parts of a recording of Funiculi, Funicula from 1914.

Break Fast at Ye Tiffaine's Video of the Day

It was the best of tiffs; it was the worst of tiffs.

Disclaimer: You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:32 AM

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1 st

Posted by: a dude in MI at September 14, 2021 03:36 AM (+I6Y/)

2

I saw Funicular Railway open for Enormous Tracts of Land at Moundfest '69...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer, now with more Stunning and Brave at September 14, 2021 03:46 AM (GKpUA)

3 https://tinyurl.com/2zvre764
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2021 03:52 AM (2JoB8)

4 https://legalinsurrection.com report documents reveal facebook exempts a secret elite from the rules
https://tinyurl.com/ntzt9yed

My opinion is would be surprised if it wasn't the case

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2021 03:55 AM (2JoB8)

5 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 03:56 AM (arJlL)

6 I summoned the laggards.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2021 03:56 AM (ya129)

7 Mornin', all,

My older cat, Chekov (age 14), is not doing well since the return from B'ham. He is listless, not eating enthusiastically, drinking water (but not flooding the litterbox like a diabetic cat would). He usually sits on a pillow on my lap multiple times a day, but has not been doing that much. He's not stumbling as he did before his treatment in B'ham, but he just does not look good. I'm running him to the cat shop this morning. Think good thoughts, all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 14, 2021 04:01 AM (c6xtn)

8 >>>Australia's digital vaccine passport is six months behind schedule and still nowhere in sight.

I am hoping that England's abandonment of the vaccine passport will carry over to you guys.

https://tinyurl.com/mxze3y43

Posted by: m at September 14, 2021 04:02 AM (ya129)

9 The Tiffany video was interesting
Now do Jennifer

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2021 04:05 AM (2JoB8)

10 Wolfus good luck, but cats do like routine so that break migthe cause.
I'm out, but never miss a thread anymore

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2021 04:07 AM (2JoB8)

11 On top of it all, we have a new tropical storm which will brush the area. Flash flood warnings. Oh joy. However will I stand it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 14, 2021 04:09 AM (c6xtn)

12 Wolfus good luck, but cats do like routine so that break migthe cause.
I'm out, but never miss a thread anymore
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2021

***
That was part of it: The 6-hour trip to B'ham sent him into a kind of shock so that he hid in the hotel room and barely ate or drank. They treated him there, and he was doing quite well until today. His routine is back to his normal now, but I wonder if there is something else, or it's his age. He was frisking and playing and quite normal the day before the hurricane.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 14, 2021 04:11 AM (c6xtn)

13 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 14, 2021 04:14 AM (ju2Fy)

14 i AM so pissed at computers I could spit. I have had windows 8.1 forever, and know everyone says it sucks,. The one thing I learned was to stick with one thing as it gets better.

So i had some connection issues recently and then some other issues. I probably foolishly did a "refresh". I know I used to have restore points but not on a CD or flash drive. We did the windows updates and put them on the hard drive. I have had this one for years and at this time I am at a loss.

The refresh was likely a mistake though there is little I miss losing. Crap, even the fonts are not the same. What kills me is is a I am trying to get back basic stuff like proton VPN and it keeps failing. They keep mentioning some Microsoft .net file. Crap, I dont recall even getting a CD with this PC.

I have tried to update everything with Windows update but that has not been enough. Forget the CD i don't have it.

I was wondering if there was a way to go back to a few days ago or if all of that is lost. And if this .net file is so important, is there a way I can download it with not too much trouble?

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 04:16 AM (WAo1l)

15 I thought I was the only one to mention Tiffany on this board. It is pretty much the most not non Quint like thing to mention.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 04:18 AM (WAo1l)

16 most first names come from books that future mothers read. I guess everyone thinks they are being original. My advice is don't try to be original, and if you have to be so,give them a normal middle name.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 04:20 AM (WAo1l)

17 No comments on everything Apple being haxxored? Emergency updates, DON'T touch that dial...

Until you've been roundly mocked by Pixy, well, what kind of a company are you?

Oh yeah. Apple.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at September 14, 2021 04:27 AM (F0YaR)

18
Lots of rain here in Brazoria County. We're more or less in the eye right now. Breezy, but nothing extraordinary. Rain has let up and will largely end soon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2021 04:31 AM (/U27+)

19 My advice is don't try to be original, and if you have to be so,give them a normal middle name.
Posted by: Quint

Like Doo - Dah ?

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 04:33 AM (arJlL)

20 I think the Catholics had it right in the 60s, everyone was called Peter and Paul, their girls were all named Marie.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 04:38 AM (WAo1l)

21 What has six legs and a bra ?

Peter, Paul and Mary.

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 04:42 AM (arJlL)

22 Like Doo - Dah ?

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 04:33 AM (arJlL)

I do remember a certain donor to the TFG campaign, a certain person named

DooDad Pro. I'm sure it was totes legit, what with all tracking software set to OFF on CC donations from wherever.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at September 14, 2021 04:44 AM (F0YaR)

23 18
Lots of rain here in Brazoria County. We're more or less in the eye right now. Breezy, but nothing extraordinary. Rain has let up and will largely end soon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 14, 2021 04:31 AM (/U27+)

Near Johnson Space Center I have moderate rain. Wind has gone down a lot - I must be in the now large eye. Peak wind was about an hour ago. Five miles N of here, at Ellington, it was 38 mph steady, 53 mph gust. So far.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2021 04:49 AM (AMIL/)

24 Top o the morning. Just got up to check my racoons trap and to see if the damn bear pushed my bird feeder over again. It's that time of year.

Oh yeah, hiya Skip and everyone. I ain't been up this early in a coon's age.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 04:51 AM (R5lpX)

25 So, any raccoons in the trap ?

Did the bear tip over the bird feeder ?

Do we have to tune in tomorrow ?

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 04:54 AM (arJlL)

26 About 5.5 inches total rainfall from Nicholas, so far, at my location halfway between downtown Houston and Galveston.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2021 04:56 AM (AMIL/)

27 The IgNoble Awards are great Science comedy.

Most are classic, and the papers they cite are always interesting.

I gave a budding marine biologist a paper on the internal pressure needed for penguins to shoot it's poop, and the Sex in a MRI paper has the funniest experimental section ever.

The original Dunning - Kruger paper was an awardee one year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 14, 2021 04:56 AM (u82oZ)

28 Nah. Everything is good.

Something is nosing up the front yard, too. I'm guessing a possum or maybe Armadillo. Yeah, we now have them in the upstate of SC. We call them Possum on the half shell.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 04:59 AM (R5lpX)

29 Face Fart reinvents the wheel, it seems.

https://www.7-zip.org/

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 04:59 AM (nLrWw)

30 Pixy's up!
Posted by: m

I await the Rising of the Pommies

Last Night of the Poms

Posted by: Miklos knew Australians worthy of the name at September 14, 2021 05:00 AM (QzkSJ)

31 >>>Australia's digital vaccine passport is six months behind schedule and still nowhere in sight.

Mention, in that article, of an Australian "Deregulation Taskforce," about which I know nothing (except that it was "created in July 2019 as part of the federal government's efforts to reduce regulatory barriers and attempt to spur job creation" and a bit more at a link, touting "cutting red tape"), but I laugh to think of a government *decreasing* regulations. Streamlining, maybe; modernizing, maybe.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2021 05:00 AM (ya129)

32 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 14, 2021 05:01 AM (u82oZ)

33 Ding ding ding ding ding ding...Six bells and all's well.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:01 AM (R5lpX)

34 Good morning morons

F*ck Gavin Newsom!
(Trying to make this a thing.)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2021 05:02 AM (EZebt)

35 Posted by: Miklos knew Australians worthy of the name at September 14, 2021 05:00 AM (QzkSJ)

I thought that is what the Aussies called the Brits!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2021 05:02 AM (Q9lwr)

36 I spent a semester at a religious school for reasons. The academic adviser was new at his job and to be honest, not that great. He convinced me to take Zoology as my elective. I was the only one in that class who was not a Zoology major. But to be fair,that was a fun and difficult class.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 05:03 AM (WAo1l)

37 F*ck Gavin Newsom

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:03 AM (R5lpX)

38 35 I thought that is what the Aussies called the Brits!

They used to 35 years ago ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 05:04 AM (nLrWw)

39 I thought that is what the Aussies called the Brits!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Avvvabee

Posted by: Miklos, in perfect Ozziesprache at September 14, 2021 05:04 AM (QzkSJ)

40 Is today the day y'all run that scrumbag outta office?

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:05 AM (R5lpX)

41 F*ck Gavin Newsom!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2021 05:02 AM (EZebt)

I like it!

What's the tone in SF? Any chance the recall will succeed?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 14, 2021 05:05 AM (Q9lwr)

42 Yahoo already has Newsom winning the recall election. I guess they must have a crystal ball up and running or know of the inside fix coming.

Posted by: Colin at September 14, 2021 05:06 AM (sUl9n)

43 in many ways, the Aussies are wannabe Brits. If there aren't a 50,000 of them living and working in Britain for the experience in a given year, I would be shocked.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 05:07 AM (WAo1l)

44 F*ck Gavin Newsom! and his corrupt vote counters.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 14, 2021 05:07 AM (u82oZ)

45 41 Any chance the recall will succeed?

Last I heard it was a done deal but I made the mistake of attempting to consult duck duck go last night and it seems that the margin of fraud has grown substantially. I also learned that the counting won't be done until mid-October.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 05:08 AM (nLrWw)

46 It would just tickle my fancy to see Nuisance run outta town on a rail.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:09 AM (R5lpX)

47 They put that reject Arnold in. Now is there chance to say things have changed. I doubt it because i know too much about them. It is like thinking Younkin can defeat the carpet bagger. It comes down to a numbers game. Oh I hope I am wrong, nothing would make me happier.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 05:10 AM (WAo1l)

48 42 Yahoo already has Newsom winning the recall election. I guess they must have a crystal ball up and running or know of the inside fix coming.

Posted by: Colin at September 14, 2021 05:06 AM (sUl9n)

THAT is voter suppression. Try to make YES voters stay home by telling them they'll waste their time voting. Yahoo hopes this will work.

Posted by: Gref at September 14, 2021 05:10 AM (AMIL/)

49
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Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:10 AM (pNxlR)

50 FUCK JOE BIDEN

Ima do this, because I got the List

Posted by: Miklos, on behalf of Old Papa who gave Duke basketball beaucous at September 14, 2021 05:10 AM (QzkSJ)

51 Perhaps they haven't been able to import enough Nevadans and Oregonians to turn the tide for Newsom.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:11 AM (R5lpX)

52 CLASSES START SIX TIMES PER YEAR FOR ULTIMATE FLEXIBILITY

Choose carefully, and remained Healed and Blessed.

ALL MODALITIES MODALIZED

Posted by: University of Miklos at September 14, 2021 05:13 AM (QzkSJ)

53
Face Fart reinvents the wheel, it seems.

And here I thought FF referred to Slow Joe -imagine my disappointment

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:14 AM (pNxlR)

54 I have no illusions that elections, ballots, and voting in California are pointless.

But I have been surprised at the diversity of people who are supporting the recall, and every single one is voting for Elder. The chance is greater than zero.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2021 05:16 AM (EZebt)

55
CLASSES START SIX TIMES PER YEAR FOR ULTIMATE FLEXIBILITY

I call bullshit. You have not reached Ultimate Flexibility (a suburb of Ultima Thule) until you are starting classes every second of every day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:17 AM (pNxlR)

56
Yahoo already has Newsom winning the recall election. I guess they must have a crystal ball up and running or know of the inside fix coming.
Posted by: Colin

Yahoo News is the wet dream news for statist Karens everywhere.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:19 AM (pNxlR)

57 So evidently, Larry Elder is to the right of President Trump and is a combination of Hitler and Stalin personified.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:20 AM (R5lpX)

58 It must be a mystery to Good and Loyal Pixy, to see such
Morons (Halleluiah, say Halleluiah) who do, in fact, sing and pray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDvDGE7zk

"When the code works, oh when it works"

Posted by: Miklos encourages re-purposing of lyrics at September 14, 2021 05:21 AM (QzkSJ)

59 CNN also says Newsom has it in the bag because of Elder entering the race.

I so hope they're way wrong. I pray a supermajority of Californians send the Nuisance packing.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:22 AM (R5lpX)

60 modern estimates of Aussies living in the UK go up to about 400,000 and that was about fifteen years ago. One thing I do know is Aussies love to travel. They come here,but not even close to the numbers they do in the UK and the rest of Western Europe.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 05:22 AM (WAo1l)

61 That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM

Eventually, the people in the wagon can not be pulled by the people outside the wagon. I feel that is close to happening.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 14, 2021 05:23 AM (u82oZ)

62 Pixy, that Tiffany video was intriguing.

Thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 14, 2021 05:24 AM (u82oZ)

63 The masses in California are brainwashed to the point this sort of character assassination is very effective.

This has been a one party state for at least 30 years.
.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2021 05:24 AM (EZebt)

64 Super Fast!!! Custom Code!!! Works Both Ways!!!

Guaranteed Smaller Files!!!!

Whenever someone comes out with this sort of code, You can just about be guaranteed that it will break YOUR code. Or EAT your files.

Hype in tech never works out.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:25 AM (z0px1)

65
Newsom's wife tried to bribe Harvey Weinstein's victim Into recanting. Because she too is married to a scumbag.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2021 05:26 AM (EZebt)

66 Have a great day, everyone.

May Nature get you to say Oooh, Ah, not ouch.

What if all the idiots in all the villages left their villages and formed their own village of idiots? In that concentrated village of idiots, PM Justin Trudeau would fight Joe Biden to be the village idiot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 14, 2021 05:26 AM (u82oZ)

67 CA was lefty when it was conservative. I don't mean to be a dick about it but it is the truth. Even when it was the state of Nixon,Reagan, Pete Wilson,Bomber Bob Dornan and Dana Rorbacher, it was still a lefty,statist state. For a major change to happen would be something out of the ether.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 05:26 AM (WAo1l)

68 Audrey Hepburn was thinner than that.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:27 AM (z0px1)

69
Tiffin's first(?) appearance in great literature:

The next day, handicapped by near-fatal hangovers and the loss of all our bodily hair (but that's another story), we sat down at two supercharged, fuel-injected, 345-hp Smith-Coronas and knocked off the opus you're about to read before tiffin. (And we take tiffin pretty durn early in these parts, buckaroo.) The result, as you are about to see for yourself, was a book as readable as Linear A and of about the same literary value as an autographed gatefold of St. Simon Stylites.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:27 AM (pNxlR)

70 Seriously

Drink from that which shall never be empty.

The day has begun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDvDGE7zk

Posted by: Miklos, apprentice Cistercian at September 14, 2021 05:28 AM (QzkSJ)

71
What if all the idiots in all the villages left their villages and formed their own village of idiots? In that concentrated village of idiots, PM Justin Trudeau would fight Joe Biden to be the village idiot.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ)

It would become the Black Hole of Idiocy and would consume everything in its neighborhood. That is why you do not see local COC's falling over one another to win the right to host Village Idiots' conventions.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:31 AM (pNxlR)

72 For a major change to happen would be something out of the ether.
Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 05:26 AM (WAo1l)

===
Plenty of ether around here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2021 05:33 AM (EZebt)

73 Where do these guys get these super loyal chicks?

And I mean by super that they will help you dodge rape charges and go out and find other chicks for you and then groom them so you don't have to bother.

Clinton; Epstein, Newsom, Who's next? Plus this one was helping ANOTHER guy avoid a rape charge? What kind of woman does that?

Is it money, is it fear, is it Stockholm syndrome?

It gives me large doubts of the morality of women these days.

Maybe I'm just too naive. (well USED to be)

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:33 AM (z0px1)

74 Well hell. Here I sit with no coffee. Reckon I'd best get up and make a pot.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:33 AM (R5lpX)

75 Down with Gavin Newsom, down!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2021 05:33 AM (ya129)

76 I summoned the laggards.
Posted by: m at September 14, 2021 03:56 AM (ya129)

the Tech Post Deniers.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:34 AM (z0px1)

77 Tiffin's first(?) appearance in great literature:

The next day, handicapped by near-fatal hangovers and the loss of all our bodily hair (but that's another story), we sat down at two supercharged, fuel-injected, 345-hp Smith-Coronas and knocked off the opus you're about to read before tiffin. (And we take tiffin pretty durn early in these parts, buckaroo.) The result, as you are about to see for yourself, was a book as readable as Linear A and of about the same literary value as an autographed gatefold of St. Simon Stylites.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021

***
Bored of the Rings!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 14, 2021 05:34 AM (c6xtn)

78 Pamela Tiffin >>> tiffin in Bored of the Rings

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 14, 2021 05:36 AM (c6xtn)

79 Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 04:16 AM (WAo1l)

If it's a Dell they usually have a part of the hard disk set aside to restore factory installation of windows. You will lose all user data tho.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:37 AM (z0px1)

80 Morning all.

Any spare rain you don't want, please send it up to me.
Nothing in the forecast for another 10 days.

Posted by: Bruce at September 14, 2021 05:39 AM (vd8XM)

81
Pamela Tiffin >>> tiffin in Bored of the Rings
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Star of "Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:39 AM (pNxlR)

82 Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 04:16 AM (WAo1l)

If it's a Dell they usually have a part of the hard disk set aside to restore factory installation of windows. You will lose all user data tho.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:37 AM (z0px1)

it is a Dell.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 05:40 AM (WAo1l)

83 70 Seriously

Drink from that which shall never be empty.

The day has begun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDvDGE7zk
Posted by: Miklos, apprentice Cistercian at September 14, 2021 05:28 AM (QzkSJ)

I'd like an alarm clock that played that, please?

Posted by: m at September 14, 2021 05:43 AM (ya129)

84 change windows so you get a boot screen menu. There should be a field that says something like reload factory defaults or something.

It will be in the section for trouble shooting.

However I think I recall you have to have your dell disk.

Dell might provide you with one for a price. Use your service code and go online and see.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:48 AM (z0px1)

85 Oh and if you've installed any 3rd party gear, you might have to load up the drivers for that.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:49 AM (z0px1)

86 They don't give discs with computers anymore, do they? My new one, bought two years ago, didn't come with one. Hell, it doesn't even have a disc drive.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:50 AM (R5lpX)

87 Good morning all.

Posted by: Rosasharn at September 14, 2021 05:51 AM (yEBFM)

88
From the ONT:

841 And luckily, taking "blankets" to "Afghans" creates huge possibilities for puns.
Posted by: m

Like taking coals to Newcastle
Posted by: Miklos notes that it is already past 10 AM at Lake Balton

The bonus is there's no need to infect the blankets with smallpox!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:51 AM (pNxlR)

89 G'day.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:51 AM (R5lpX)

90 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 05:52 AM (arJlL)

91 The bonus is there's no need to infect the blankets with smallpox!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 14, 2021 05:51 AM (pNxlR)

So launder them in Pork fat?

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:52 AM (R5lpX)

92 The bonus is there's no need to infect the blankets with smallpox!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Smallpox? We're soaking in it!

Posted by: Bruce at September 14, 2021 05:55 AM (vd8XM)

93 Facebook has unveiled a new compression algorithm called Superpack that produces files typically 20% smaller than Zip. (Facebook)

**

And all you've got to do is check the "yes" radio box when it asks if it can phone home to improve services for everyone.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 05:55 AM (mlBAr)

94 In other sad news, some sorry sumbitch stole my lawn tractor from my other property last week. I've got it narrowed down to one of four people, one of whom is in jail as we speak for thievery and outstanding warrants.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:57 AM (R5lpX)

95 I'm still interested in how the indians were purposely infected with smallpox before germ theory was developed and even slightly understood.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 05:58 AM (mlBAr)

96 Most of the country is liberal. Not leftist. Not conservative. Liberal. The founding documents of the republic are inherently liberal. A lot of us here, if we really get down to brass tacks, are really liberal. Voters often identify as progressive or conservative because they have been convinced by the kayfabe of the Worldwide News Federation that one or the other is the closest remaining representative of Liberalism.

And yet Liberalism as a political force is almost completely dead, at least at the federal level. The only ideologies remaining in DC are revolutionary totalitarianism in one party, and a gutless barbarism in the other.

A new party that embraced Liberalism and rejected naked power-grab barbarity could gain momentum shockingly fast. I would say that Trump is evidence of this.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2021 05:58 AM (uSL1/)

97 Hi JT!

Posted by: Rosasharn at September 14, 2021 05:58 AM (yEBFM)

98 A few minutes' read, but describes the incrementalism that "guided" German citizens into their horrifically depraved attitudes:

https://tinyurl.com/f24nj4w8

It's an old playbook, and looks to have been dusted off by our betters...

Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 14, 2021 06:00 AM (SQsJE)

99 95 I'm still interested in how the indians were purposely infected with smallpox before germ theory was developed and even slightly understood.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 05:58 AM (mlBAr)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner

Neither Bruce nor Caitlin.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 06:00 AM (nLrWw)

100 Ha. From that wikipedia link:

Inoculation was already pioneered in Asian and African medicine and was a standard practice but involved serious risks, one of which was the fear that those inoculated would then transfer the disease to those around them due to their becoming carriers of the disease

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That's not going to be there for long.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 06:01 AM (mlBAr)

101 In other sad news, some sorry sumbitch stole my lawn tractor from my other property last week. I've got it narrowed down to one of four people, one of whom is in jail as we speak for thievery and outstanding warrants.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy

Didja call the cops and file a police report ?

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 06:01 AM (arJlL)

102 In other sad news, some sorry sumbitch stole my lawn tractor from my other property last week. I've got it narrowed down to one of four people, one of whom is in jail as we speak for thievery and outstanding warrants.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 05:57 AM (R5lpX)

You might wanna check the parking lot at the jail it's probably pulled upfront.

Posted by: WeBoned! at September 14, 2021 06:02 AM (8k7U7)

103 what warai-otoko said.

g'mornin' everyone !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (Seiya) at September 14, 2021 06:02 AM (Seiya)

104 Yes I did. Not that it will do any good.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 06:02 AM (R5lpX)

105 From the wiki article on Edward Jenner

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Voltaire also states that the Circassians used the inoculation from times immemorial, and the custom may have been borrowed by the Turks from the Circassians.
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Though I discount this as largely woke/feminist propaganda (some female is reputed to have anticipated Jenner ... you can read about it on wikipedia).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 06:03 AM (nLrWw)

106 Yes I did. Not that it will do any good.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy

Weeeellllll, ya never know.

Its not like on tv,

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 06:04 AM (arJlL)

107 HOW could you pretend to do a thing about the awesomeness of Tiffany, and NOT talk about
The Hottest Redhead, to EVER Divorce her Mom???
(okay, technically; she Didn't divorce her mom, she emancipated herself... But Still!)

Posted by: gilbar at September 14, 2021 06:05 AM (9H0g+)

108 I put a reward poster up at the country store and three or people watching me put it up, all said the same four names. Every one of them Meth Heads.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 06:05 AM (R5lpX)

109 So the wikipedia article proves my point. The injuns died because they hadn't been exposed and had zero natural immunity, and not because there were purposeful efforts to murder them by controlled release of a bioweapon, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 06:07 AM (mlBAr)

110 Edit:

Not because there were purposeful efforts to murder them, destroy their economy, replace their leadership, and make overseas investors and nations more wealthy by controlled release of a bioweapon, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 06:08 AM (mlBAr)

111 @63

Most voting is rigged and has been for some time.

The first thing the Donks do when they get in power is start expanding mail in voting and vote by other means and turn Election Day into election quarter and open up the avenues of cheating.

Elder never stood a chance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender, 25 years until the next Tool album. at September 14, 2021 06:08 AM (MzmuA)

112 There's a green stegasaurus eating papyri in that Tiffany video.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 06:10 AM (nLrWw)

113 And yet Liberalism as a political force is almost completely dead, at least at the federal level. The only ideologies remaining in DC are revolutionary totalitarianism in one party, and a gutless barbarism in the other.

A new party that embraced Liberalism and rejected naked power-grab barbarity could gain momentum shockingly fast. I would say that Trump is evidence of this.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2021 05:58 AM (uSL1/)

What you be talkin' about is called Classical Liberalism.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 06:11 AM (R5lpX)

114
A new party that embraced Liberalism and rejected naked power-grab barbarity could gain momentum shockingly fast. I would say that Trump is evidence of this.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2021 05:58 AM (uSL1/)

I am trying to undserstand you and want to go along with it. This goes back to "classical liberalism" and also the types like Rand Paul could win if they reminded people about small government and maximum liberty.

I would be shocked it that platform won even two percent in the next ten elections. I like it, I believe in it, but that won't 'make it popular.

The Left is statist now, they are authoritarians and even accept jackboots. I don't think conservatives are even close to that. Their problem is they are scared and don't know what to do. The Left has made such inroads is it almost impossible to fight back. Some choose one item or the other but they know the overton window has been moved so far it is almost unbelievable.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 06:13 AM (WAo1l)

115 Well, Biden, its a fine mess you've got us into.

Posted by: American citizens in Kabul at September 14, 2021 06:13 AM (HoQbP)

116 What you be talkin' about is called Classical Liberalism.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy

And of course, the qualifier "classical" has to be added because the leftists gutted it and started wearing its skin long ago...

Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 14, 2021 06:14 AM (SQsJE)

117 I put a reward poster up at the country store and three or people watching me put it up, all said the same four names. Every one of them Meth Heads.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at September 14, 2021 06:05 AM (R5lpX)

*

Neighbor went through that. You might try watching craigslist ads just across the state line, but it's probably gone for good. Sold for fifty dollars and a ride to Walmart.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 06:16 AM (mlBAr)

118 Boker Tov Patriots

I hate the left so much

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 14, 2021 06:16 AM (Irn0L)

119 Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Are Congressional workplaces subject to OSHA regulations? at September 14, 2021 05:58 AM (mlBAr)

this is always the problem with the left. they conflate science from today or recent past being thoroughly understood and in use back before it was acted on.

Oh someone might have noticed that using the same stuff as an infected person would cause the disease in others but probably thought that a good washing or hanging in the sun would take care of that.

Besides the Indians were also wiped out in the east just by being around Europeans with their diseases that the Indians had no immunity for as they'd never gotten infected by them.

Correlation does not mean causation.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 06:19 AM (z0px1)

120 Hiya Captain !

Posted by: JT at September 14, 2021 06:19 AM (arJlL)

121 AOC is living large. Last night she attended the "Met Gala", a big red carpet event celebrating incredibly expensive dresses.

The perfect spot for a young socialist wannabe firebrand.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2021 06:20 AM (HoQbP)

122 Just wanted to check on Hadrian and Wolfus.
Have a good day, all.

Posted by: sal at September 14, 2021 06:20 AM (3c1fY)

123 yup, liberal, and liberalism, were some of the first words corrupted into an opposite meaning in the semantic campaign of the memetic war against America and liberty.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (Seiya) at September 14, 2021 06:22 AM (Seiya)

124 Our company is taking a new direction in Public Safety.

Posted by: Acme Shark Proof Cages and Vaccines at September 14, 2021 06:23 AM (Tnijr)

125 AOCs dress was also an advertisement for her clothing line. She is a shameless hussy for sho.

Posted by: normal isn't coming back at September 14, 2021 06:25 AM (oWBc3)

126 Their problem is they are scared and don't know what to do. The Left has made such inroads is it almost impossible to fight back. Some choose one item or the other but they know the overton window has been moved so far it is almost unbelievable.
Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 06:13 AM (WAo1l)

Given my situation, my personal plan is supporting my young friends who are counter-cultural and squirreling away things that might be useful in a re-build. Until they are lost in a tragic boating accident.

Posted by: sal at September 14, 2021 06:25 AM (3c1fY)

127 Newsome claims a vote for Elder is a vote against diversity. And yet the majority of POC in California will continue the madness.

Posted by: normal isn't coming back at September 14, 2021 06:26 AM (oWBc3)

128 Image search of 'aoc met gala' turns up a white dress with red text ... seems to say 'tap the bitch' ... but it might be my poor eyesight.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 06:27 AM (nLrWw)

129 Newsome claims a vote for Elder is a vote against diversity.

**

Literally a black man with different political thoughts than the establishment whites. Amazing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 14, 2021 06:27 AM (9ULwW)

130 Here's AOC in her Tax The Rich dress at the Met Gala

https://tinyurl.com/yzfzyhsu

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 14, 2021 06:28 AM (HoQbP)

131 Pixy is the real MVP

Posted by: ghost of kari at September 14, 2021 06:29 AM (OVQc5)

132 I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago, but I saw a new Audi Q7 with a bumper sticker bashing the 1%.

AOC will have no pushback for this silliness.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 14, 2021 06:30 AM (9ULwW)

133 Photo shopped AOC dress:

https://tinyurl.com/45t6mpmj

They had to widen her ass to fit the new message in.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 06:30 AM (nLrWw)

134 Biden is right. We have never lived up to the ideal that all men are created equal. The Democrats have made sure of that.

Posted by: f'd at September 14, 2021 06:35 AM (Tnijr)

135
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 14, 2021 06:36 AM (0a84r)

136 Morning peeps.

Mz. Cortez apparently doesn't understand the meaning of hypocrisy. It's on full display right there on her ass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2021 06:36 AM (BFigT)

137 Democrats do not know hypocrisy. It ain't in 'em.

Posted by: f'd at September 14, 2021 06:39 AM (Tnijr)

138 Hiphopcracy in the Dem way. Money, power, gaudy bling and fame are their main concerns.

Posted by: f'd at September 14, 2021 06:41 AM (Tnijr)

139 Just read the funniest story, apparently everyone is pissed at Gavin Newsom for turning their states in the hellscape it is but he will easily survive the recall.

The article ends with a refrain I've heard from many quarters, Californians deserve better.

Why do Californians deserve better, they apparently voted for what they want and what are apparently their interests.

As TJM said, Newsome will probably go medieval on the state now that he's apparently "won."

In the immortal words of Ed Koch, the voters have spoken and now they must suffer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender, 25 years until the next Tool album. at September 14, 2021 06:41 AM (MzmuA)

140 Back from the local Walmart. Its website says open at 6 am. Ha. Nobody bothered to update the site to say that "since the hurricane" the opening time is 7 am.

Tell me again why I live here.

I'm going to photograph all the repairs needed in this apartment, some of which pre-date Ida, and send it to the office; and then I'm going to photograph all the trash heaps in the parking areas and send them to the Department of Sanitation and the state department of public health. I doubt anything will happen, of course.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 14, 2021 06:41 AM (c6xtn)

141 JJ has arrived.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2021 06:41 AM (U7wke)

142 Mz. Cortez apparently doesn't understand the meaning of hypocrisy. It's on full display right there on her ass.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2021 06:36 AM (BFigT)

I am sure her ass get's pounded often

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 14, 2021 06:41 AM (Irn0L)

143 Photo shopped AOC dress:

https://tinyurl.com/45t6mpmj

They had to widen her ass to fit the new message in.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021

***
"Build the" -- what?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 14, 2021 06:42 AM (c6xtn)

144 People showing up to vote in California are being told they already voted. It's going to be the same pattern of fraud and nothing will happen.

Posted by: f'd at September 14, 2021 06:43 AM (Tnijr)

145 Nood JJ

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 14, 2021 06:45 AM (xopIz)

146 "Build the" -- what?

It's pictured ... possibly from a pink floyd album ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 14, 2021 06:57 AM (nLrWw)

147 111 @63

Most voting is rigged and has been for some time.

The first thing the Donks do when they get in power is start expanding mail in voting and vote by other means and turn Election Day into election quarter and open up the avenues of cheating.

Elder never stood a chance.
Posted by: Thomas Bender, 25 years until the next Tool album. at September 14, 2021 06:08 AM (MzmuA)

Aagghh, I'm not ready for this to be in past tense!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2021 07:33 AM (ya129)

148 change windows so you get a boot screen menu. There should be a field that says something like reload factory defaults or something.

It will be in the section for trouble shooting.

However I think I recall you have to have your dell disk.

Dell might provide you with one for a price. Use your service code and go online and see.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 14, 2021 05:48 AM (z0px1)

thanks for following up on this. I am going to look back at it and try to work it out.

Posted by: Quint at September 14, 2021 08:38 AM (WAo1l)

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