Wednesday Morning Rant

Maximum Overdrive

In 1986's Maximum Overdrive, Earth's passage through a comet trail results in machinery of all kinds becoming sentient and then going on a global killing spree, bent on destroying all humans. This goes on for a few days, with everything from trucks to vending machines hunting down and killing people to the best of their ability. The movie was a flop, but also became a minor cultural reference. When machinery runs amok, it's "Maximum Overdrive."

There's no comet, but we may be engineering our way into a literal "Maximum Overdrive" scenario. That is, at least, a fear being discussed by the United States Department of Commerce. In a statement published by the White House on Monday, Commerce is planning to pursue a sweeping "rule change" for suppliers of "smart" vehicle technologies. The short version: no "smart" or autonomous vehicle tech from Red Chinese or Russian suppliers by model year 2027 (software) or 2030 (hardware).

The stated reason why is two-fold: espionage and sabotage. The espionage angle is probably the real purpose of the proposed rule changes. From the statement:

... vehicles' increasing connectivity creates opportunities to collect and exploit sensitive information. Certain hardware and software in connected vehicles enable the capture of information about geographic areas or critical infrastructure, and present opportunities for malicious actors to disrupt the operations of infrastructure or the vehicles themselves.

Well, yes. This has been obvious for years. "Smart" vehicle technologies are essentially a widely-distributed, mobile, high-speed, multi-factor, always-on sensor network. That's sort of the point. This sensor network is embedded into vehicles, which use and drive by a whole lot of infrastructure. That's sort of the point, too.

Knowing where those data are going, who is processing them, how access is controlled and the security of the collection and analysis systems is fairly important. It's obviously important. It's been important for years. The thought of, "wait a moment, rival - or even enemy - nations may be deploying a vast sensor network that can map most or all of the infrastructure in the country, not to mention the movement patterns of millions of American citizens" does not require a grand leap of logic. It's been obvious for years.

And that doesn't even touch on the risks of self-driving cars with bidirectional communication which can - by design or by accident, transparently or surreptitiously - permit remote control. The statement doesn't directly state that Commerce fears a doomsday scenario of autonomous cars being hijacked and smashing into citizens and infrastructure, but it does whisper it as implication (emphasis mine):

... Commerce has determined that certain technologies used in connected vehicles from the PRC and Russia present particularly acute threats. These countries of concern could use critical technologies within our supply chains for surveillance and sabotage to undermine national security.
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Specifically, the rule covers "vehicle connectivity systems" (VCS) -- that is, systems and components connecting the vehicle to the outside world, including via Bluetooth, cellular, satellite, and Wi-Fi modules -- and "automated driving systems" (ADS), which allow highly autonomous vehicles to operate without a driver behind the wheel.

Commerce isn't coming out and saying it bluntly, but it looks to me like it's worried about a "Maximum Overdrive" scenario realized through the hijacking of autonomous vehicles by foreign state actors.

Is that a real risk? I don't know. I could see it, but I suspect the espionage activity - robust mapping, knowledge of population movements in urban areas, supply chain flow analysis, etc. - is probably the greater risk. Either way, the proposed rule to ice Red China and Russia in these markets will be a heavy blow to those technologies if it goes into effect, and likely a boon to alternate suppliers while other enterprises and countries scramble to fill the void.

But will it work? Perhaps in part, but there's the other obvious problem: data and information security in general. Blocking Red Chinese or Russian hardware and software will remove an obvious vector for vulnerabilities and close off various entry points to those state actors, but so long as "smart" and "autonomous" cars are a thing, someone will have access to the data feeds and control mechanisms, and that someone will be responsible for securing them. If Red China or Russia are blocked from selling these technologies and systems in the US market, that will not stop them from trying to steal the data or identify and exploit non-deliberate vulnerabilities through cybercrime. Both countries have decent track records of doing just that, with big events like the OPM data breach in 2015, which was allegedly carried out by Red Chinese state actors.

This proposed rule is something I suspect will help at least somewhat if it's implemented, but "smart" stuff and "internet of things" stuff is also a Pandora's Box, and the box was opened long ago. I doubt it will turn into "Maximum Overdrive," but assessing and attempting to manage the espionage, privacy and security implications of these mushrooming sensor networks is an increasingly important area for both technology and policy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 10:45 AM

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

2 First!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 25, 2024 10:45 AM (PiwSw)

3 They are world building Eurasia versus Oceana. It's all fake

Posted by: Accomack at September 25, 2024 10:46 AM (+Bkka)

4 I liked the truck with the green demon face on it

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 10:49 AM (CIS44)

5

Autonomous gasoline tankers and nuclear waste transporters, FTW!

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 25, 2024 10:50 AM (HRQvT)

6 When I replaced my hvac a few years ago...tech asked if I wanted my T'stat 'net enabled...hell no.

Posted by: BignJames at September 25, 2024 10:50 AM (AwYPR)

7 I have a problem when I take my truck to the dealer and the first thing they do is plug a reader into the OBDII interface. For an oil change or tire rotation. "Standard practice" they say.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 25, 2024 10:50 AM (N39Ws)

8 I am unalterably OPPOSED TO ALL FEDERAL 'RULE-MAKING'

(capslock fail, not going back)

draft a bill and send it thru Congress, as God and the Founders intended

these assholes issuing these 'rules' are unelected persons not answerable to the public

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 10:51 AM (/7KEl)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 25, 2024 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

10 When I replaced my hvac a few years ago...tech asked if I wanted my T'stat 'net enabled...hell no.
Posted by: BignJames at September 25, 2024 10:50 AM (AwYPR)
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Ditto. IoT gives me the willies. Always has. I am not opposed to home automation, but if I implement something like that, it's going to be ring-fenced with no internet connection.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 10:51 AM (HnUIn)

11 Thx Joe. My paranoia is acting up. The Art thread was early . The Morning Rant is early . The world is going to end this afternoon and I think Ace and the COBS know it. This sucks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2024 10:51 AM (BVwxa)

12 "Let's not male our infrastructure dependent upon people who are probably going to try to kill us soon," is a much more reasonable policy than anyone could expect to come from the beltway.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2024 10:52 AM (jfvTO)

13 I've never seen the MO movie; I understaood it wasn't very good. But King based it on his early short story "Trucks," a sort of Twilight Zone tale. We are dropped into the middle of the catastrophe, and there's no hopeful ending in sight, much like the TZ episode with the Earth slowly approaching the sun so that every day is hotter than the last.

"Trucks" a a good short story -- emphasis on the "short." Expanding it into a ninety-minute movie? Bad move.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)

14 That movie peaked at the opening credits. A very high peak. And then…

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at September 25, 2024 10:52 AM (N3Q+W)

15 On that note, off to work.

Be excellent to each other.

Anger a libtard. It means you're doing things right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 25, 2024 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

16 Some folks saw this as a problem from the get-go. This smells like "well of course it can be used in that way, but we want to be the only ones who can do it" rather than any real concern for safety and security.

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at September 25, 2024 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

17 Wait does that mean I can't have my smart fridge that will automatically order more ho hos when I run low?

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

Posted by: Some lefty LIV at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (oZhjI)

18 When I replaced my hvac a few years ago...tech asked if I wanted my T'stat 'net enabled...hell no.
Posted by: BignJames

New construction in TX only allows for those (I believe), lots of people are ripping them out immediately and installing old school.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (CIS44)

19 Sponge, if you identify as first, it still counts and you get a medal.

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (P88/O)

20 draft a bill and send it thru Congress, as God and the Founders intended

these assholes issuing these 'rules' are unelected persons not answerable to the public
Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 10:51 AM (/7KEl)
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I agree. While I think this particular regulatory change has some upside, it is still absolutely the wrong approach and no agency should be able to implement sweeping, major, disruptive "rule changes" on its own, regardless of whether they're sensible or arbitrary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (HnUIn)

21 Joe, I seem to recall reading an article years ago wherein a hacker took over a car someone was driving, this was a test, and so screwed around with acceleration and braking, he freaked out the driver and the test had to be ended before the person in the car was killed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (tT6L1)

22 I'm sure the government is torn here. "We want to have that capability to control our serfs, but those non-globo homos out there might interfere with us!"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (faitJ)

23 4 I liked the truck with the green demon face on it
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 10:49 AM (CIS44)

Screw Maximum Overdrive. Give me Killdozer.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (6AJi+)

24 This scenario was used in one of James Wesley, Rawle's books in the Patriot series, except it was muslims out of Indonesia.

Posted by: Eromero at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (LHPAg)

25 Best part of Maximum Overdrive was that it's soundtrack was basically an AC/DC album. Who Made Who is a classic.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2024 10:54 AM (BVwxa)

26 "Trucks" a a good short story -- emphasis on the "short." Expanding it into a ninety-minute movie? Bad move.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)
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Especially when you put King in as the director.

Steven King is best suited to short stories and novellas. His longer stuff is tedious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 10:54 AM (HnUIn)

27 MO free on Amazon Prime.

Posted by: Accomack at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (+Bkka)

28 I'm less worried about "smart" vehicle technology from China or Russia than I am about stupid, dangerous drivers who haven't a clue about "the rules of the road" or proper vehicle operation.

Like, the Honda the other day with no front clip, one headlight, radiator visible, no bumper, etc. and a legit tag on the back.

Kid driving it was looking at his phone. For miles.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (Q4IgG)

29 27 MO free on Amazon Prime.
Posted by: Accomack at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (+Bkka)

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And I didn't think Missouri was up for sale.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

30 >I liked the truck with the green demon face on it

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Trucky McTruckface

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (/7KEl)

31 Morning.

Is it me or are the threads being posted 15 minutes early?

Does this mean we can expect Ace to be up early today?

Also, this is officially a movie thread.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (qK8o8)

32
Remember the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry dates Kamala Harris?

https://is.gd/aajAEu

/ 1:13 second video

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (RKVpM)

33 31 Also, this is officially a movie thread.
Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (qK8o

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About a movie I've never seen.

I have read the short story, though. It's kind of dumb. Day of the Triffids but with trucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

34 The video games say "Play me".

Posted by: spindrift at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (OguvZ)

35 17 Wait does that mean I can't have my smart fridge that will automatically order more ho hos when I run low?

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
Posted by: Some lefty LIV at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (oZhjI)

Unless you are in the middle of the desert in a house without air conditioning, you ho hos don't belong in the fríde anyway.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (jfvTO)

36 "The short version: no "smart" or autonomous vehicle tech from Red Chinese or Russian suppliers"

Only our Deep State (and Big Tech) is allowed to collect data and spy on us. They don't want anybody else infringing on their territory.

Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (GUOwU)

37 Like, the Honda the other day with no front clip, one headlight, radiator visible, no bumper, etc. and a legit tag on the back.

In my AO a girl got into a high speed rear ending accident because she was watching Stranger Things on her phone while driving...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (oZhjI)

38 >I liked the truck with the green demon face on it

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Trucky McTruckface
Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (/7KEl)

Green Goblin from the Spider-Man comics.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (qK8o8)

39 31 Morning.

Is it me or are the threads being posted 15 minutes early?

Does this mean we can expect Ace to be up early today?

Also, this is officially a movie thread.
Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (qK8o

Time change in quarter hour increments.

Posted by: Eromero at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (LHPAg)

40 Self-willowed:

{i] Best steaks I ate were in Florence and Buenos Aires.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 25, 2024 10:31 AM (x0n13)

Agree with you on Florence.

Beautiful, thick steaks with a nice hard sear on the outside. Rare on the inside.

Bistecca alla Fiorentina, bitchez! Basically, a porterhouse with a little salt and a little pepper, nothing else. Cuz the meat is just that good.

We ate at Trattoria Mario in Florence. Highly recommend it if you ever get the chance.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (eDfFs)

41 Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (c711F)

42 41 Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (c711F)

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Rubber.

French, I think.

Never seen it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

43 Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (c711F)
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Bouncing through the desert?

It was thoroughly bizarre. It was called "Rubber." I put it - but only just - in the "hell car" category of movies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (HnUIn)

44 "Trucks" a a good short story -- emphasis on the "short." Expanding it into a ninety-minute movie? Bad move.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)

i might just have bad taste, but as a kid, i thought it was a good movie. I didn't put too much thought into it, and you had robots taking over machines trying to kill people and then some pretty good explosions and such.

it was fun, it was cheesy, and it didn't try to be more than it was. but i also haven't seen the whole thing in years so who knows if it still stands up...

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (nXhwP)

45 >>> 8
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draft a bill and send it thru Congress, as God and the Founders intended

these assholes issuing these 'rules' are unelected persons not answerable to the public
Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 10:51 AM (/7KEl)

Don Black Johnson is right!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (FnneF)

46 Late to the party.

This basically means the U.S. is already using the technology tonspy on us, it's citizens and like a jealous ex girlfriend don't want to share.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (mTt0v)

47 Ah, Eromero. You read JW,R, too.

Posted by: RI Red at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (sGZEA)

48 "There's no comet, but"

The asteroid is the mother ship!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (w6EFb)

49 9mm or .45?...Ho ho's or Ding dong's?

Posted by: BignJames at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (AwYPR)

50 "Wait does that mean I can't have my smart fridge that will automatically order more ho hos when I run low?}

Your bathroom scale will take care of that if you fall below moderately obese.

Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (GUOwU)

51 Time change in quarter hour increments.
Posted by: Eromero at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (LHPAg)

Working up to the end of Daylight Savings.

Robert approves.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (qK8o8)

52 Especially when you put King in as the director.

Steven King is best suited to short stories and novellas. His longer stuff is tedious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024

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His long long stuff, especially in later years, kind of. Hard to beat Salem's Lot, The Shining, and The Dead Zone for both characterization and chills. And I love Firestarter, if only for the literally explosive climax.

His three non-horror tales, "The Body," "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Reemption," and "Apt Pupil" are novellas; they are as tight as one could wish.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

53 Ah, forgot the link:

http://www.trattoriamario.com

Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (eDfFs)

54 We don't have any vehicles younger than 2008, thank God. I will not have tracking crap on my car.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (w6EFb)

55 @26 Joe, agreed though the first several hundred pages of The Stand were good and then the book went off the rails. King might have a short attention span, in addition to being an asshole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (BVwxa)

56 I saw a judge is ordering Alex Jones to auction off all his Info Wars stuff, from the brand down to the office equipment, to pay off the Sandy Hook families. Has to donut by November I think.

Elon posted on X, saying basically "should I do the thing?" Which implied he'd buy it all and give it back to Jones, possibly. Do it Elon!

Considering Elon kept Alex Jones banned from X long after he should have been allowed back on, that's cool of him to recognize the injustice from the law fare scam that was Jones' trial.

But if it doesn't work out, O'Keefe proves you can rebuild from the buried ashes of your previously destroyed company and come back bigger than ever.

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (P2Ijl)

57 I think this movie may be germane:

https://is.gd/5i1uK0

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (PiwSw)

58 Your bathroom scale will take care of that if you fall below moderately obese.
Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (GUOwU)
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Of all the "smart" and "IoT" things that give me the willies, stuff that tracks vital stats gives me the biggest willies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (HnUIn)

59 Moral of the story? Don't buy a vehicle with any connectivity whatsoever. If you have a vehicle so equipped, disable it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (e+kKL)

60 Green Goblin from the Spider-Man comics.
Posted by: Robert

thats what it reminds me of

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (CIS44)

61 Helene now officially a hurricane.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

62 Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024

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Did it throw itself around your neck and then contract like a boa constrictor?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

63 Screw Maximum Overdrive. Give me Killdozer.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (6AJi+)

Killdozer was treated like a vampire- it was disassembled with parts disposed of in an assortment of scattered places to prevent reintegration.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (jfvTO)

64 Thank you Helena

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (/7KEl)

65 MO free on Amazon Prime.
Posted by: Accomack at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (+Bkka)

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And I didn't think Missouri was up for sale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

but would you really buy it...?

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (nXhwP)

66 >>> 18 When I replaced my hvac a few years ago...tech asked if I wanted my T'stat 'net enabled...hell no.
Posted by: BignJames

New construction in TX only allows for those (I believe), lots of people are ripping them out immediately and installing old school.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 10:53 AM (CIS44)

I hadn't heard of this, but wouldn't be surprised if the same GOPe scum who tried to impeach Paxton something this asinine.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (FnneF)

67 52 Especially when you put King in as the director.

Steven King is best suited to short stories and novellas. His longer stuff is tedious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024

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I recently finished Thinner, originally a Bachman book but has always been seen as a King book since pretty much publishing (the Bachman reveal happened shortly after it was published).

It's a novella stretched to the breaking point at novel length.

I think it was the cocaine. He just kept typing on his typewriter endlessly drawing out scenes.

Can't wait to start IT. I'm sure it'll be a tight 1000 pages.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

68 42 41 Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (c711F)

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Rubber.

French, I think.

Never seen it.
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I think you're rite. It was amusing. Low budget filmed somewhere around 29 Palms. I enjoyed it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (c711F)

69 It's also why someone like AOC driving across country and sarcastically saying we don't have room for more immigrants is so stupid. A lot of coastal and big city people have no clue how/why there's vast open space out West. Then there's water rights. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at September 25, 2024 09:44 AM (scDBq)

Are these open spaces where the gov keeps all that extra tax money to pay for housing, food, medical and tranny surgeries for illegals?

All commies do is lie, obfuscate and change the terms of any argument. Has ANYONE ever argued that we don't have "space" to accommodate people? These fucking Daily Show self appointed mic drops and funnyfaces are fucking tiresome.

Oh yeah, I know who made the argument about space - the overpopulation assholes that want to bitch about how people are a drain on all our "natural resources", ie AOC and clan. Or should that be klan.

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (LCr8f)

70 47 Ah, Eromero. You read JW,R, too.
Posted by: RI Red at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (sGZEA)
As should everybody have already done, cause we're fixin' to live it.

Posted by: Eromero at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (LHPAg)

71 65 And I didn't think Missouri was up for sale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

but would you really buy it...?
Posted by: SturmToddler at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (nXhwP)

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They'd have to show me it, first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

72 The video games say "Play me".
Posted by: spindrift at September 25, 2024 10:56 AM (OguvZ)

i'd play me so hard ...

/Centipede

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 25, 2024 11:02 AM (nXhwP)

73 ... It's a novella stretched to the breaking point at novel length. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
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This is one of the fundamental problems with Disney+ "Star Wars" and "Marvel" shows. They're basically movies, stretched out to 8ish hours.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

74 So, what, no one thought the ending of Stephen King's It where the 12 year old boys gang bang an 11 year old girl was hot?

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:02 AM (qK8o8)

75 A few in Congress are looking at limiting Chinese drone technology. DJI says they aren't doing it, but it looks like they were (or certainly were capable of) sending back everything collected by their drones while in flight.

Part of these drones' success is that they won't fly in restricted airspace, so it's always been partly beneficial for the machines to share their locations with a service that approves the airspace before the craft will fly. The problem is that this service is always in China...

Posted by: cpurick at September 25, 2024 11:02 AM (lNjg1)

76 Can't wait to start IT. I'm sure it'll be a tight 1000 pages.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

I read IT in middle school I enjoyed it, I stayed away from storm drains for awhile.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:03 AM (CIS44)

77 @26 Joe, agreed though the first several hundred pages of The Stand were good and then the book went off the rails. King might have a short attention span, in addition to being an asshole
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2024

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The Stand is pretty much two books. Both are good, and each needs the other to stand up. (Yes, I read his "un-edited" version released a few years ago. Except for one or two short scenes, the additional material should have stayed edited.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 11:03 AM (J2vNu)

78 Someone will look at the display in their smart car and ask what the "Kill all humans" button does.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2024 11:03 AM (BpO1e)

79 The thing I remember about MO was the trailer, where King points at the camera and says "I'm going to scare the hell out of you" in that squeeky Maine voice.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 25, 2024 11:03 AM (+uHnC)

80 The short version: no "smart" or autonomous vehicle tech from Red Chinese or Russian suppliers by model year 2027 (software) or 2030 (hardware).

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At least we don't have the technology for exploding cell phones, yet.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (/CBBp)

81 They'd have to show me it, first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
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* golf clap from MO *

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (7fElN)

82 Joe, agreed though the first several hundred pages of The Stand were good and then the book went off the rails. King might have a short attention span, in addition to being an asshole
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (BVwxa)

Really could of used a better ending. king should leave writing the last few chapters of his books to somebody else.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (89Sog)

83 ... vehicles' increasing connectivity creates opportunities to collect and exploit sensitive information.

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It is so disheartening knowing that kids are growing up in a world of constant monitoring and being bought and sold as a product, and the kids don't have a "pre-internet" (or even just a pre-2005 internet) perspective so they don't have any sense of it just how dark and oppressive it is.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (7Dy6w)

84 I hadn't heard of this, but wouldn't be surprised if the same GOPe scum who tried to impeach Paxton something this asinine.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Dad was mentioning it awhile back, there may be a bit more to it than just what I understood from him.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (CIS44)

85 >>> 54 We don't have any vehicles younger than 2008, thank God. I will not have tracking crap on my car.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (w6EFb)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (FnneF)

86 Can't wait to start IT. I'm sure it'll be a tight 1000 pages.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

Something was tight, alright.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (EphmS)

87 73 ... It's a novella stretched to the breaking point at novel length. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
++++
This is one of the fundamental problems with Disney+ "Star Wars" and "Marvel" shows. They're basically movies, stretched out to 8ish hours.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

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It's the fundamental problem with almost all serialized storytelling in America.

They've been weened on narrative framing of movies, not books, so they have literally no idea how to fill the narrative running time of more than 2 hours. They haven't been educated in it, and incurious as they are, they don't think they have to learn.

Japan has been making serialized television for decades (it's essentially where their movie makers went in the 70s), and they created season long arcs regularly for decades. They probably do it better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

88 This is one of the fundamental problems with Disney+ "Star Wars" and "Marvel" shows. They're basically movies, stretched out to 8ish hours.

Given that HWood has great difficulty making a movie that holds my attention for 2 hours, you'd think the problem was obvious. Nonetheless, it's true that most of what I find compelling anymore is in the longer format, which allows time for character development and a better plot. That assumes the studio is interested in those things, which increasingly, they are not.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:05 AM (xCA6C)

89 A few in Congress are looking at limiting Chinese drone technology. DJI says they aren't doing it, but it looks like they were (or certainly were capable of) sending back everything collected by their drones while in flight.

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Archimedes, you around?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:05 AM (7Dy6w)

90 9mm or .45?...Ho ho's or Ding dong's?
Posted by: BignJames at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (AwYPR)

zebra cakes

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 25, 2024 11:05 AM (nXhwP)

91 62 Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024

***
Did it throw itself around your neck and then contract like a boa constrictor?
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I don't remember any murder scenes. The tire just followed its prey and then dead people were found and the tire would roll along or watch TeeVee.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 11:06 AM (c711F)

92 Stephen King promised to lay off politics on X/Twitter all week. I joked that it's like The Bet in Seinfeld, and like Kramer he'll be first to fold. He just can't help himself!

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 11:06 AM (Pat4t)

93 The evil town of Derry and two of the characters from It, the girl Beverly and one of the boys, appear in King's 11/22/63. You don't need to have read the earlier book to enjoy the scenes, though; they're just small guest star roles.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 11:06 AM (J2vNu)

94 76 Can't wait to start IT. I'm sure it'll be a tight 1000 pages.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

I read IT in middle school I enjoyed it, I stayed away from storm drains for awhile.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:03 AM (CIS44)

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Back when I was reading The Shining, I was kind of amused at the idea of being scared of a book.

And then, I was reading too late and had to cross the hall to get to the bedroom. I paused...Nah, I'm not going to be scared of the dark, I lied to myself slightly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

95 Given that HWood has great difficulty making a movie that holds my attention for 2 hours, you'd think the problem was obvious. Nonetheless, it's true that most of what I find compelling anymore is in the longer format, which allows time for character development and a better plot. That assumes the studio is interested in those things, which increasingly, they are not.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:05 AM (xCA6C)
89 A few in Congress are looking at limiting Chinese drone technology. DJI says they aren't doing it, but it looks like they were (or certainly were capable of) sending back everything collected by their drones while in flight.

Archimedes, you around?

Yes.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (xCA6C)

96 I recently see a freaky Irish horror movie called The Oddity. Worth a watch if you like the non-gore horror movie genre

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (oZhjI)

97 I don't remember any murder scenes. The tire just followed its prey and then dead people were found and the tire would roll along or watch TeeVee.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024

***
That's a gyp if ever I heard of one!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (J2vNu)

98 Back when I was reading The Shining, I was kind of amused at the idea of being scared of a book.

And then, I was reading too late and had to cross the hall to get to the bedroom. I paused...Nah, I'm not going to be scared of the dark, I lied to myself slightly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But did you put it in the freezer.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (CIS44)

99 Saw a movie about a killer tire.

Mandela?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (fXRJa)

100 And then, I was reading too late and had to cross the hall to get to the bedroom. I paused...Nah, I'm not going to be scared of the dark, I lied to myself slightly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
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"Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was never able to cause fear of the dark.

That pinball episode was pretty cool, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)

101 67 I recently finished Thinner, originally a Bachman book but has always been seen as a King book since pretty much publishing (the Bachman reveal happened shortly after it was published).

I remember reading that in the early 80s. He used Swedish to represent the gypsy language. It was hilarious.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (w6EFb)

102 Killdozer was treated like a vampire- it was disassembled with parts disposed of in an assortment of scattered places to prevent reintegration.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (jfvTO)

In the event of something like that actually happening, I would recommend throwing the individual parts into an electric furnace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (e+kKL)

103 Laziest King movie/book? The Mist.

The monsters are giant mosquitos and spiders. In Maine. I suspect he got the idea the first time he went into his shed in the evening.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (oZhjI)

104 96 I recently see a freaky Irish horror movie called The Oddity. Worth a watch if you like the non-gore horror movie genre
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (oZhjI)

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I'm growing fond of folk horror. I need to discover more.

I even thought Men was okay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

105 Word, Eromero. Add Matt Bracken and Kurt Schlichter to that list.
It’s only a matter of which scenario.
So be prepped for all.
As Weasel says, “. . .!”

Posted by: RI Red at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (sGZEA)

106 Really could of used a better ending. king should leave writing the last few chapters of his books to somebody else.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (89Sog)

I felt the same way about Michael Crichton.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (jfvTO)

107 I don't know about you but I can't wait for the June 2027 headlines "Did Democrats Lie? Whistleblower confirms Haitians really were eating pets in 2024, GOP vows to investigate" followed by "20% of Voters Would have Voted Trump Instead of Kamala if They Had Only Known About the Pet Eating".

And finally "Rolling Blackouts to Continue, Harris Administration announces that if your surname begins with A to L you can use your air conditioning on the first Wednesday of every month for three hours, M to Z can do so on the last Wednesday, GOP vows to get to bottom of energy crisis by first snowfall."

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (LCr8f)

108 Back when I was reading The Shining, I was kind of amused at the idea of being scared of a book.

And then, I was reading too late and had to cross the hall to get to the bedroom. I paused...Nah, I'm not going to be scared of the dark, I lied to myself slightly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

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The only book I got scared reading was The Exorcist. That stuff going on in the attic at the beginning...no bueno.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (JeYYB)

109 82 Really could of used a better ending. king should leave writing the last few chapters of his books to somebody else.

Brandon Sanderson. That man gets results.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (BpO1e)

110 101 I remember reading that in the early 80s. He used Swedish to represent the gypsy language. It was hilarious.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (w6EFb)

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I read that it's really, really bad Swedish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

111 I'm growing fond of folk horror. I need to discover more.

I even thought Men was okay.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Is the new Hellboy going to fall into that?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (CIS44)

112 The USA is a country of concern.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 25, 2024 11:09 AM (63Dwl)

113 87 Japan has been making serialized television for decades (it's essentially where their movie makers went in the 70s), and they created season long arcs regularly for decades. They probably do it better.

the secret is tentacles

Posted by: anachronda at September 25, 2024 11:09 AM (sGtp+)

114 The USA is a country of concern.

Half of it, anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:09 AM (xCA6C)

115 Oh and a great Horror movie I watched recently The Ritual. What does lie in the great Nordic forests?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:10 AM (oZhjI)

116 111 Is the new Hellboy going to fall into that?
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (CIS44)

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From what I understand, it does.

I saw a list of all the Hellboy movies a few weeks ago, including The Crooked Man. I was only interested because I hadn't seen any reviews for the movie at all.

They put it 3rd, above the other remake with David Harbor while also saying that being 3rd isn't meant as a knock on it because it's pretty good.

I'll check it out at some point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

117 >>> Your bathroom scale will take care of that if you fall below moderately obese.
Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (GUOwU)

A new ad for the Google smart thermostats proudly advertises they will adjust your home's temp without your permission to help save energy. As a feature not a bug.

We are ten years from them adjusting it without your consent, and you can't turn it back. So we'll all burn to death in the summer because they'll keep our homes at 85 so politicians can set their mansions to 60.

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 11:10 AM (uTEcG)

118 105 Word, Eromero. Add Matt Bracken and Kurt Schlichter to that list.
It’s only a matter of which scenario.
So be prepped for all.
As Weasel says, “. . .!”
Posted by: RI Red at September 25, 2024 11:08 AM (sGZEA)
Schlichter, The Attack next.

Posted by: Eromero at September 25, 2024 11:10 AM (LHPAg)

119 Back when I was reading The Shining, I was kind of amused at the idea of being scared of a book.

And then, I was reading too late and had to cross the hall to get to the bedroom. I paused...Nah, I'm not going to be scared of the dark, I lied to myself slightly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024

***
Salem's Lot got to me because the characters were relatable people. Not all likeable, you understand, but real-feeling people. And the vampires were personal. No strangers at your door, no Eastern Euro count in evening dress. You go to your best friend's funeral after he dies of some odd wasting disease. And two nights later you wake up to find him scratching at your second-floor window whispering, "Let me in!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 11:10 AM (J2vNu)

120 >>>I read IT in middle school I enjoyed it, I stayed away from storm drains for awhile.

************

After reading this...

https://tinyurl.com/mw2xhef5

...I only go poo in the woods now.

No, no pythons around me, but water moccasins are everywhere.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 25, 2024 11:11 AM (Y1sOo)

121 "It's also why someone like AOC driving across country and sarcastically saying we don't have room for more immigrants is so stupid."

The contradictions between the agenda of the sustainable green environmentalists and the open border crowd are huge and glaring. To any outside observer it is obvious and laughable if it weren't so dangerous. Yet the left just glosses it over and in fact is forbidden to mention it (Sierra Club made that mistake about 15 years ago and was told STFU). Everybody can have everything and somebody else will pay the price.

Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2024 11:11 AM (GUOwU)

122 From what I understand, it does.

I saw a list of all the Hellboy movies a few weeks ago, including The Crooked Man. I was only interested because I hadn't seen any reviews for the movie at all.

They put it 3rd, above the other remake with David Harbor while also saying that being 3rd isn't meant as a knock on it because it's pretty good.

I'll check it out at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, g

The final trailer looked good, sold me on it, looks very similar to the comic book arc, having Mignola make it probably helps in that regard. Ill see it once it comes out

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:11 AM (CIS44)

123 Really could of used a better ending. king should leave writing the last few chapters of his books to somebody else.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 25, 2024 11:04 AM (89Sog)

Every time King writes himself into a corner, he goes with "it was space aliens".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 25, 2024 11:11 AM (+uHnC)

124 I liked the previous Hellboy movies by Guillermo del Toro. The second one I remember really grabbed my interest.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:11 AM (oZhjI)

125 A King thread. Next we'll be talking about how we can't wait to watch DeNiro or listen to Streisand...lol

Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 25, 2024 11:12 AM (2NXcZ)

126 119 Salem's Lot got to me because the characters were relatable people. Not all likeable, you understand, but real-feeling people. And the vampires were personal. No strangers at your door, no Eastern Euro count in evening dress. You go to your best friend's funeral after he dies of some odd wasting disease. And two nights later you wake up to find him scratching at your second-floor window whispering, "Let me in!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 11:10 AM (J2vNu)

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Apparently, my grandfather only disallowed my mother from reading one book: Salem's Lot. He said it was too scary.

I thought it was pretty good. I like early King.

I have a 2nd draft of a book that's heavily inspired by 'Salem's Lot. Also The Fog. My mommy thought it was good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

127 Back when I was reading The Shining, I was kind of amused at the idea of being scared of a book.

And then, I was reading too late and had to cross the hall to get to the bedroom. I paused...Nah, I'm not going to be scared of the dark, I lied to myself slightly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

I was single...lived alone, out in the country, reading in bed before I went to sleep, I got to the bathroom scene where he hears the shower curtain open behind him...had to quit reading.

Posted by: BignJames at September 25, 2024 11:12 AM (AwYPR)

128 This is one of the fundamental problems with Disney+ "Star Wars" and "Marvel" shows. They're basically movies, stretched out to 8ish hours.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

The biggest problem by far with them is they are there to educate not entertain. And by educate I mean brainwash. And by problem I mean purpose.

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:12 AM (LCr8f)

129 I had to laugh this morning when droopy face Michael Cohen was interviewed by Nicole Wallace and said the following regarding if Trump wins the election:

Cohen said, “I’m out of here. I’m already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name. I don’t know how it is going to work as far as dealing with my wife and my children. I certainly don’t want them moving to where I’m looking to go.”

So he openly admits to attempting to commit several felonies. What a maroon. Unfortunately, he'll never leave. He and Wallace deserve each other.

Posted by: Cheri at September 25, 2024 11:12 AM (oiNtH)

130 Maximum Overdrive.

My brothers and I loved that movie. I had a crush on Emilio then.

I don't want any of that smart crap. No smart house. No smart car. No "Alexa". Nuh uh.

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (JCLJi)

131 This proposed rule is something I suspect will help at least somewhat if it's implemented, but "smart" stuff and "internet of things" stuff is also a Pandora's Box, and the box was opened long ago.

Let's hope an anti-industry develops to create Pandora's Lids. Imagine the money some privacy/security outfit or trade group could acquire creating the tools to block data transmission from the IoT. Whether on chips or inline serial devices, filters and blockers would be a money making machine. I don't even think warnings that "You will lose your warranty if you use a Pandora's Lid on our product blah blah blah..." will matter. Many consumers will say, "Screw the warranty. I'm out of your spying loop."

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (aXxgO)

132 But if it doesn't work out, O'Keefe proves you can rebuild from the buried ashes of your previously destroyed company and come back bigger than ever.
Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 10:59 AM (P2Ijl)
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That reminds me, wasn't O'Keefe suppose to have a big announcement yesterday. Anybody know what it was.

Posted by: WisRich at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (G0vdT)

133 A few in Congress are looking at limiting Chinese drone technology. DJI says they aren't doing it, but it looks like they were (or certainly were capable of) sending back everything collected by their drones while in flight.

Archimedes, you around?

Yes.
Posted by: Archimedes

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We had a conversation about something similar yesterday and I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this drone spying angle as it relates to it.

I'll go ahead and say that if it's worth banning the company in the US for spying by shipping this information overseas then round up the heads of the companies and execute them. That's the sticky part, though. Were they just making a better map program while obeying the law? Is obeying the law the only important part?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (7Dy6w)

134 I'm more concerned about "domestic interests" hacking the cars of their political opposition than the Russians or Chinese at this point. When the deep state is no longer a functional enemy of the people, I'll care about foreign actors again.

Posted by: Oldstoke at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (lvKkc)

135 Salem's Lot got to me because the characters were relatable people. Not all likeable, you understand, but real-feeling people. And the vampires were personal. No strangers at your door, no Eastern Euro count in evening dress. You go to your best friend's funeral after he dies of some odd wasting disease. And two nights later you wake up to find him scratching at your second-floor window whispering, "Let me in!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

There's a new movie version coming.

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

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (CIS44)

136 I keep remembering something a smart general (we used to have those) said: "That chicken walking across the barnyard has more intelligence and synaptic capability than our most 'brilliant' munitions."

Posted by: Diogenes at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (W/lyH)

137 Read “The Attack” before this coming October 7.
I have a bad feeling.

Posted by: RI Red at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (sGZEA)

138 132 That reminds me, wasn't O'Keefe suppose to have a big announcement yesterday. Anybody know what it was.
Posted by: WisRich at September 25, 2024 11:13 AM (G0vdT)

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I did see that there was another video of NYC sex partier where he said that things like the MPOX vaccine were shit and didn't do anything and that he was pressured to approve it (or something) by Big Pharma's dollars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

139 Not that anyone CAN obey the law any more, though. You do X and it's in violation of Y, same as the reverse.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (7Dy6w)

140 I'll check it out at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, g

The final trailer looked good, sold me on it, looks very similar to the comic book arc, having Mignola make it probably helps in that regard. Ill see it once it comes out
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:11 AM (CIS44)

The original comic miniseries is really good.

Richard Corben did the art.

Richard motherfucking Corben.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (EphmS)

141 Which is better, epub or kindle for pc? Anyone got an opinion?

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (89Sog)

142 I think the problem comes from the other direction, too. It isn't just that movies are stretched into 8 hour slog-fests and masquerade as a "series". Even when a season of a tv show was expected to be 23-odd episodes, the very idea of a series itself had already started to be mutilated into a long, meandering, made-up-on-the-spot arc of meaningless crap tumbling along and going nowhere in particular. All arc, no spark. I guess "Lost" would be the most glaring example.

Movies make TV worse, and TV makes movies worse. They're all the same people, with the same crappy, empty, interchangeable ideas and vision.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (VoAdT)

143 A King thread. Next we'll be talking about how we can't wait to watch DeNiro or listen to Streisand...lol
Posted by: Enough Bullshit at September 25, 2024 11:12 AM (2NXcZ)

Or using a commie internet provider to discuss politics or access the web. Can you imagine doing that?

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (LCr8f)

144 the secret is tentacles
Posted by: anachronda at September 25, 2024 11:09 AM (sGtp+)

You now have my interest.

Posted by: Kurt Eichwald at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (jfvTO)

145 Well, better than Taylor Swift.

https://is.gd/LDWsf6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

146 I think Lynda Carter may need to go to rehab.

https://tinyurl.com/3mbps446

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (Y8lzz)

147 141 Which is better, epub or kindle for pc? Anyone got an opinion?
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 25, 2024 11:14 AM (89Sog)

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epub is a file format. Kindle can read it.

Amazon tried to force its proprietary format on the world (the mobi file), but they discontinued it over the last couple of years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

148 115 Oh and a great Horror movie I watched recently The Ritual. What does lie in the great Nordic forests?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:10 AM (oZhjI)

We were camping up north in Sweden, at a skiing place that was closed for summer. It was like the Overlook Hotel, only in the summer. I was a little creeped out.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (w6EFb)

149 I think Lynda Carter may need to go to rehab.

https://tinyurl.com/3mbps446

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Wow. And she's the one I'm supposed to be taking advice from?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (7Dy6w)

150 The point in the best King books, as in the best horror or SF by anyone, is not whether the monsters are original or better than cheesy. It's the effect they have on the people in the story. "The Mist" works because of the people and the everyday setting -- a supermarket, not a gloomy old castle.

Long before King, Richard Matheson pointed the way. You plunk your surrealistic, SF or horror element down in the middle of an everyday location -- and then don't explain it or apologize for it. Like the kids in a suburban family playing on the den rug with their pet dinosaur. It just *is*, and then you do something with it.

I guess this is akin to what is called "magical realism"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (J2vNu)

151 90 9mm or .45?...Ho ho's or Ding dong's?
Posted by: BignJames at September 25, 2024 10:58 AM (AwYPR)

zebra cakes
Posted by: SturmToddler at September 25, 2024 11:05 AM (nXhwP)

Funny, because Little Debby also makes a Swiss roll version of zebra cakes, so we can have the same argument there.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (jfvTO)

152
Put Timpon in one of the PRC-mobiles for an extended drive of, say, three months or so after he shits himself in public on October 1.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (xG4kz)

153 > A few in Congress are looking at limiting Chinese drone technology. DJI says they aren't doing it, but it looks like they were (or certainly were capable of) sending back everything collected by their drones while in flight.
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I have a DJI drone. It's in storage. DJI uses an app on your phone or tablet to operate the drone in conjunction with a controller. All of your video and flight info via GPS is uploaded into the DJI cloud.

So, yea, the Chinese are getting all of the data and video from these drones.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

154 My most worstest horror movie evah would be "Fiend Without a Face" mixed with mutant okra to take over the world.
*shudders*

Posted by: Diogenes at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (W/lyH)

155 The biggest problem by far with them is they are there to educate not entertain. And by educate I mean brainwash. And by problem I mean purpose.
Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:12 AM (LCr8f)
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That is also a serious problem. But even something started out as a *good* 90-minute movie (maybe two hours), stretching it into something 3-6 times longer is going to turn it into a slogfest.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (HnUIn)

156 When I was just a dumb young'un I got through four pages of The Stand before I realized what a bloated self-aggrandizing talent thirsty POS King was.

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:17 AM (LCr8f)

157 63 Killdozer was treated like a vampire- it was disassembled with parts disposed of in an assortment of scattered places to prevent reintegration.

that just leaves the door open for a dragonball-type sequel

Posted by: anachronda at September 25, 2024 11:17 AM (sGtp+)

158 Not sure on the timing, but it seems odd that this sort of regulation is only now in the news -- right after hundreds of Hezza goat-fellators got their filthy nuts blown off by pagers and communicators.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

159 "The Mist" works because of the people and the everyday setting -- a supermarket, not a gloomy old castle.
/i]

Well, the characters in the Mist were all pretty one dimensional as well.

The ending though was both horrible and well done but the rest of it? Not good.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:17 AM (oZhjI)

160 epub is a file format. Kindle can read it.

Amazon tried to force its proprietary format on the world (the mobi file), but they discontinued it over the last couple of years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott
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WAIT! Kindle can read epub? Just convert the format in calibre and it sees it?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:17 AM (7Dy6w)

161
MO free on Amazon Prime.
Posted by: Accomack at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (+Bkka)

And I didn't think Missouri was up for sale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

You were looking in the wrong place. It was under 'curb find"

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 25, 2024 11:18 AM (NMT5x)

162 "Cohen said, 'I'm out of here. I'm already working on a foreign passport with a completely different name..."

Why doesn't he just pay a cartel to escort him to any other country on the planet and adopt a new citizenship? Oh yeah. A) He's doing no such thing and not actually going to leave because he's lying in order to get sympathy from the propaganda media. B) No other country on Earth would permit such entry; none are as foolish as the Open Borders USA.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 25, 2024 11:18 AM (aXxgO)

163 155 That is also a serious problem. But even something started out as a *good* 90-minute movie (maybe two hours), stretching it into something 3-6 times longer is going to turn it into a slogfest.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (HnUIn)

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I've told this before, but...

Roughly at the same point a few years ago, I read War and Peace and watched the 7 hour adaptation made in the Soviet Union, and I tried to watch the first season of Daredevil which was 10 episodes, so roughly 10 hours.

The War and Peace adaptation was packed, flowed well, and never bored.

Daredevil bored from the first episode, stretching a small story of fighting some mobsters in Hell's Kitchen well beyond the breaking point.

Why does Daredevil need more screentime than War and Peace?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

164 I have a DJI drone. It's in storage. DJI uses an app on your phone or tablet to operate the drone in conjunction with a controller. All of your video and flight info via GPS is uploaded into the DJI cloud.

So, yea, the Chinese are getting all of the data and video from these drones.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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(reads this on my (imaginary) LG phone with TOS allowing much, much more spying than Google)

OH NO!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:18 AM (7Dy6w)

165 After Pagers Explode, Hezbollah Scrambles to Find New Communication Method

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Smoke signals?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

166 I think Lynda Carter may need to go to rehab.

https://tinyurl.com/3mbps446
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (Y8lzz)

The Wall, she has hit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (e+kKL)

167 I recently see a freaky Irish horror movie called The Oddity. Worth a watch if you like the non-gore horror movie genre
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (oZhjI)
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Just watched that movie. It was great. I hope more people see it. I've been recommending it to everyone.

Posted by: Megthered at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (VihIQ)

168 epub is a file format. Kindle can read it.

Amazon tried to force its proprietary format on the world (the mobi file), but they discontinued it over the last couple of years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
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They still use AZW3, which is DRM-protected. I forget whether it's derived from MOBI or EPUB.

But EPUB is more or less universal. Any e-reader or e-reader software on a PC or phone should be able to handle it. Some features are better on MOBI and its derivatives (like estimation for time remaining in chapter, etc.), but EPUB should provide maximal compatibility IIRC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)

169 In Slavic mythology you killed a vampire by digging up its corpse and taking its clothes off...and it literally died of embarrassment.

Which makes me think long ago there was one really disgusting and perverted Slavic vampirehunter.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (oZhjI)

170 Tesla vehicles are prohibited from parking near many Chinese government buildings because ... well .. they are covered with cameras.

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

171 Sorry, it was TCL that was so bad, not LG.

Seriously, the TCL terms of service are really bad. Take a look if you have one. Disturbingly intrusive.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (7Dy6w)

172 Someone will look at the display in their smart car and ask what the "Kill all humans" button does.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2024 11:03 AM (BpO1e)

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Old & Busted: Arkancides.
New Hotness: Autocides.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (DZmmX)

173 160 WAIT! Kindle can read epub? Just convert the format in calibre and it sees it?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:17 AM (7Dy6w)

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Yup.

I'd held onto my Sony eReader for years because all of my files were epub and I'd had only trouble getting conversions to work well. And then I read that Kindle could read the format and Amazon was stopping mobi support. That's when I got a Kindle, porting over everything without conversion straight to the Kindle.

So, you can convert mobi files to epub, but most places you download ebook files default to epub now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

174 137 Read “The Attack” before this coming October 7.
I have a bad feeling.

chipotle for lunch?

Posted by: anachronda at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (sGtp+)

175 Dear comment 156,
Well said! That attribute is present in a great deal of writing, typing and "literature" as well.

Bravo!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (QSrLX)

176 And I didn't think Missouri was up for sale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott

Well, you can forget about free delivery.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (L/fGl)

177
Saw "The Substance" this weekend.

Have you ever thought to yourself- "Well, "All About Eve" is a pretty good movie but what it really needs is a big heaping bowl of Cronenbergian body horror!!!"

Well, then pardner, have I got a movie for you!

Basically, the story is about an aging movie actress think Jane Fonda) with an exercise show she's been fired from for being too old. Hijinks ensue and she's given a chance to be young again(in the worst possible way) by using a drug called "The Substance". There are rules which must be followed or else! More hijinks ensue. Rules aren't followed and then hijinks really ensue.

Now, for the twist.

This is a gloppy horror movie for the Ladies!.

Yes, your wife or GF is more likely to like this film than you. Not becuz of a lot of feminist cant, but becuz it very cleverly notes the concerns of aging women in an intelligent and more importantly cinematic way.

Unfortunately, the movie tips into feminist messaging at the climax overtly. It's not enough to kill the movie but it's an irritation that drags down the film from a potential horror classic to a good horror movie. Let your damn movie speak for itself. Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (eDfFs)

178 I think Lynda Carter may need to go to rehab.

https://tinyurl.com/3mbps446

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Wow. And she's the one I'm supposed to be taking advice from?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (7Dy6w)
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Holy shit. I thought that was a heavily-filtered Nancy Pelosi!

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

179 The single most astroturfed Presidential campaign in modern U.S. history.

The stunning endorsement that “normally backs Trump?”

They are referring to the Police Leaders for Community Safety, which was founded in March of THIS YEAR.

It’s a fake group.

https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1838566325133754373

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at September 25, 2024 11:21 AM (RHGPo)

180 Another great non-gore horror movie - The Endless. And it sort of has a prequel in Resolution

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:21 AM (oZhjI)

181 42 41 Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (c711F)

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Rubber.

French, I think.

Never seen it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

French Rubber? Titled as French Tickler in the USA. Mainly at truckstops.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 25, 2024 11:21 AM (NMT5x)

182 I have a DJI drone. It's in storage. DJI uses an app on your phone or tablet to operate the drone in conjunction with a controller. All of your video and flight info via GPS is uploaded into the DJI cloud.

So, yea, the Chinese are getting all of the data and video from these drones.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2024 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

Can one still buy drones that are controlled by by a dedicated hand-held remote, with no cellular connectivity at all?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 11:21 AM (e+kKL)

183 168 But EPUB is more or less universal. Any e-reader or e-reader software on a PC or phone should be able to handle it. Some features are better on MOBI and its derivatives (like estimation for time remaining in chapter, etc.), but EPUB should provide maximal compatibility IIRC.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)

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Is that estimate tied to the format? I read epubs almost exclusively on my Kindle, and I still get those estimates. I've never actually timed it to see if it's right, or not, though.

Though, reading Chapterhouse Dune, which doesn't have chapter titles, the Kindle thinks the whole book is one chapter. 4 hours and 40 minutes to go!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

184 Sorry, it was TCL that was so bad, not LG.

Seriously, the TCL terms of service are really bad. Take a look if you have one. Disturbingly intrusive.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (7Dy6w)
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About as bad as Samsung, less bad than Vizio.

I have smart TVs. They are not allowed on my real network. They get a ring-fenced environment that is allowed to access the internet, but nothing real in the house. They are incredibly invasive, and silently map everything on the network and listen in on traffic wherever possible. I also block most of the outbound calls to both Roku and TCL themselves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (HnUIn)

185 Yup.

I'd held onto my Sony eReader for years because all of my files were epub and I'd had only trouble getting conversions to work well. And then I read that Kindle could read the format and Amazon was stopping mobi support. That's when I got a Kindle, porting over everything without conversion straight to the Kindle.

So, you can convert mobi files to epub, but most places you download ebook files default to epub now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott

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Thanks TJM. I've been holding on to an old 2017 or so Kindle in hopes that I could root it and make it a dedicated ereader one day, but I might not have to.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (7Dy6w)

186 epub is a file format. Kindle can read it.

Amazon tried to force its proprietary format on the world (the mobi file), but they discontinued it over the last couple of years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

The books I want are offered in both epub and kindle format. Am I missing something? They appear to be different but I know nothing about this subject.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (89Sog)

187 I wonder if all the activity trackers used by servicemen all around the world might be used to gather the layout of every military base?
Naw, that would be SciFi, right?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (uUfCm)

188 After Pagers Explode, Hezbollah Scrambles to Find New Communication Method

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Smoke signals?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

Might have difficulty distinguishing the smoke from smoke signals from the smoke from all the burning building.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (ohEXX)

189 146 I think Lynda Carter may need to go to rehab.

She sounds like she's 95 years old.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (w6EFb)

190 LMAO this is from that same stream and I think I now know why James Carville was cussing out campaign staffers and calling them f*ggots.

https://tinyurl.com/5264t56x

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (Y8lzz)

191
Zingers

accept no substitute

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (/7KEl)

192 Autonomous vehicles? Another loser like EVs. Unless the infinite number of variables can be controlled this is a no go.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (hKoQL)

193 We had a conversation about something similar yesterday and I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this drone spying angle as it relates to it.

I'll go ahead and say that if it's worth banning the company in the US for spying by shipping this information overseas then round up the heads of the companies and execute them. That's the sticky part, though. Were they just making a better map program while obeying the law? Is obeying the law the only important part?

I'm not sure I get your question, but IMHO, if a company, foreign or domestic, is making spyware and disguises it, it's espionage, and the company should be banned as a legitimate national security threat. This is an area in which the Euros are ahead of us.

That's a very different proposition than "I'm the president, and I'll decide where your company does business".

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

194 @132 I think O'Keefe announced he was doing some kind of show on Tucker Carlson's network or whatever he's running

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (BVwxa)

195 It is my belief that one day all the "smart" cars, appliances, whatevers are going to be rejected in favor of simpler, repairable things.
Some people, like me, already reject that shit.
More people will be doing so before too long.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (4XwPj)

196 168 They still use AZW3, which is DRM-protected. I forget whether it's derived from MOBI or EPUB.

pretty sure it's based on mobi. i used to be up on this stuff; whenever i bought something, i'd put it through calibre to make certain i had a local backup. until that one night mrs. chronda was bored and bought about a hundred free e-books and sent them all to my kindle.

Posted by: anachronda at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (sGtp+)

197 Why does Daredevil need more screentime than War and Peace?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

So the movie can happen.

Kidding but not. The answer to your rhetorical question is 💰💰💰

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (LCr8f)

198 Geeks & Nerds for Harris

Um, what the hell was that from Lynda Carter? She's exactly as coherent as Harris.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (aXxgO)

199 I'm not sure I get your question, but IMHO, if a company, foreign or domestic, is making spyware and disguises it, it's espionage, and the company should be banned as a legitimate national security threat.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

Which brings up the obvious question. Why would the people directing them ban them?

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (LCr8f)

200 I'm not sure I get your question, but IMHO, if a company, foreign or domestic, is making spyware and disguises it, it's espionage, and the company should be banned as a legitimate national security threat. This is an area in which the Euros are ahead of us.

That's a very different proposition than "I'm the president, and I'll decide where your company does business".
Posted by: Archimedes

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I think that's the key, though, and I mentioned it above. If they're just attempting to do something like make a better mapping program - and obeying all laws with restricted flight space, which they seem to be - then they're not breaking any laws, and our representatives are deciding where they do business.

Again, I'm fine with charging and executing the leadership IF they're spying. If they're not? Gotta let them continue doing business. It's one or the other.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (7Dy6w)

201 190 LMAO this is from that same stream and I think I now know why James Carville was cussing out campaign staffers and calling them f*ggots.

https://tinyurl.com/5264t56x
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (Y8lzz)

All I can say after watching that is that men have seriously, seriously failed a generation or two of children.

The evidence is all around us. But it's mostly in that video.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (KbCG3)

202 Biggest threat to the liberty of the American car owner: rising, rapacious insurance rates. Cripes.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (wU1J3)

203 Is that estimate tied to the format? I read epubs almost exclusively on my Kindle, and I still get those estimates. I've never actually timed it to see if it's right, or not, though. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)
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It's both. The estimates are determined by the reader software, but the input data is a combination of book-specific metadata (chapter length, word count, complexity markers, etc.) and the clock (elapsed time).

MOBI has more and better metadata markers, and so the estimates tend to be more accurate. Font embedding and image handling are also better in my opinion. But EPUB is universal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (HnUIn)

204 I have smart TVs. They are not allowed on my real network. They get a ring-fenced environment that is allowed to access the internet, but nothing real in the house.

I'd really appreciate a primer on how one does this.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:26 AM (xCA6C)

205 Walz Education Appointee Calls for the Overthrow of the U.S.

@ NR

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:26 AM (/7KEl)

206 After Pagers Explode, Hezbollah Scrambles to Find New Communication Method

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Smoke signals?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

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BREAKING: Biden/Harris Airlift Thousands of Pallets to Hezbollah Containing Tin Cans & String. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 25, 2024 11:26 AM (DZmmX)

207 Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (eDfFs)

I saw that trailer with the new Beatlejuice. I was leery because while it seemed like a decent hook the trailer littered with blurbs swearing up and down it was great, great, super great.

It's nice seeing a real opinion. Thank you, monsieur.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:26 AM (ohEXX)

208 On Windows, PDF readers like Foxit and Sumatra can also read .mobi. In addition, Sumatra can read epub.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 25, 2024 11:26 AM (PiwSw)

209 I'd really appreciate a primer on how one does this.
Posted by: Archimedes

Same. I just dont hook up my TVs to wifi period.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:26 AM (CIS44)

210 >>So he openly admits to attempting to commit several felonies. What a maroon. Unfortunately, he'll never leave. He and Wallace deserve each other.

Saw a great ad from a real estate agent in Texas on Twitter the other day that was making the retweet rounds. She said something like:

So you're leaving the country if Trump gets elected. Contact me and let's get your house sold!

Posted by: JackStraw at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (LkLld)

211 This chilly brunette is amused that I accidentally wrote a movie thread:
http://tiny.cc/axhnzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

212 I liked "Needful Things". The movie was well done.

Posted by: Ciampino - what? You thought no rockets today? Right. at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (qfLjt)

213 I'm just gonna say it...I've never been a Lynda Carter fan. I always thought she was off putting.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (W/lyH)

214 I have smart TVs. They are not allowed on my real network. They get a ring-fenced environment that is allowed to access the internet, but nothing real in the house.

I'd really appreciate a primer on how one does this.
Posted by: Archimedes

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+1

That would be good content one day.

I'm also trying to set up a router with a VPN strictly to block nekkid pictures and such, which doesn't seem like it's going to be too hard. When I finish I can give my input if anyone is interested.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (7Dy6w)

215 Biggest threat to the liberty of the American car owner: rising, rapacious insurance rates. Cripes.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (wU1J3)

And why are insurance rates rising? Millions of illegals on the road, with no licence, no insurance, and no fucks to give. Millions of electric cars that have to be totaled if they get a fender bent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (e+kKL)

216 I think Lynda Carter may need to go to rehab.

https://tinyurl.com/3mbps446

That bitch is crazy!

Posted by: Marianne Williamson at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (JCZqz)

217 Going waaaay back, I used to love to watch Creature Features on Saturday afternoons which showcased cheesy horror movies. One of my favorites was the 1962 "The Brain the Wouldn't Die". The film focuses upon a mad doctor who develops a means of keeping human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, along with a lumbering, malformed brute (one of his earlier failed experiments) imprisoned in a closet.

Good times.

Posted by: Cheri at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (oiNtH)

218 Biggest threat to the liberty of the American car owner: rising, rapacious insurance rates. Cripes.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (wU1J3)

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Haitian drivers.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (DZmmX)

219 Saw a great ad from a real estate agent in Texas on Twitter the other day that was making the retweet rounds. She said something like:

So you're leaving the country if Trump gets elected. Contact me and let's get your house sold!

Posted by: JackStraw at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (LkLld)

Smart except none of them actually will leave.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (KbCG3)

220 This chilly brunette is amused that I accidentally wrote a movie thread:
http://tiny.cc/axhnzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

Dang...she could be a twin for a friend of mine's daughter.
Hmmmm....

Posted by: Diogenes at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (W/lyH)

221 This chilly brunette is amused that I accidentally wrote a movie thread:
http://tiny.cc/axhnzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Those are some big eyebrows she has.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (CIS44)

222 At LEAST as big a problem is that many, perhaps most, of our defense platforms have chips in them from Red China. Doubtless, ALL of these chips have a remotely-controlled "off" switch. In the event of hostilities with Red China, they won't need to rely on DEI hires running USN ships aground or driving them into each other, they can just ensure the chips in all the fighters and missiles are turned off.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (029Oi)

223 It is my belief that one day all the "smart" cars, appliances, whatevers are going to be rejected in favor of simpler, repairable things.
Some people, like me, already reject that shit.
More people will be doing so before too long.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (4XwPj)

You are a crazy-intelligent lady but I personally don't see it. And that's because less and less is the "market" or actually demand driving anything. We are in a top down economy (emphasis on down) and that means directives will drive availability. You then also have the price of convenience which is often unseen and unfelt and that's a further recipe for the masses imprisoning themselves.

Who knew back in 2000, we would one day in the not far off future walk around with our own always-on, battery locked in, self-spying devices?

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (LCr8f)

224 http://tiny.cc/axhnzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

Nice tits, but does she realize that caterpillars are occupying the space where her eyebrows should be?

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (ohEXX)

225 He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, along with a lumbering, malformed brute (one of his earlier failed experiments) imprisoned in a closet.

Good times.
Posted by: Cheri at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (oiNtH)

Jan in the Pan! (MST3k reference).

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (PiwSw)

226 I think that's the key, though, and I mentioned it above. If they're just attempting to do something like make a better mapping program - and obeying all laws with restricted flight space, which they seem to be - then they're not breaking any laws, and our representatives are deciding where they do business.

Again, I'm fine with charging and executing the leadership IF they're spying. If they're not? Gotta let them continue doing business. It's one or the other.

There are two ways it could go. The first is that the companies are forced to tell you in CLEAR, CONCISE, English, not legalese, what they will collect and what they will do with it. Then, it's caveat emptor.

In the second case, the government simply bans specific types of data collection (again, this is more the European model). This has the virtue of making the companies obey what most of us would prefer, but OTOH, it gives more power to the government, which I generally oppose. I guess we have to pick our poison.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (xCA6C)

227 Smart except none of them actually will leave.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (KbCG3)
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Some will look into it.

Then they will learn that other countries have pretty strict immigration rules, and they don't qualify for (or can't afford to buy) residency there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (HnUIn)

228 I've never had a Kindle, I use my Samsung tablet as my ereader. I've never bought an ebook from Amazon since I found out Amazon can take my ebook if they don't like it or it becomes subversive.

Posted by: Megthered at September 25, 2024 11:30 AM (VihIQ)

229
I think Lynda Carter may need to go to rehab.

https://tinyurl.com/3mbps446
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:15 AM (Y8lzz)

The Wall, she has hit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

She sounds like Granny on "The Beverly Hillbillies".

No, I take that back -- too insulting to Irene Ryan. My bad.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 25, 2024 11:30 AM (RlQ2m)

230 Thanks Joe!

I read the content and most comments. Good for me.

These days, I'm almost more scared of our own companies.

Wasn't Ford looking into that new feature all of us have been clamoring for where the vehicle will note our speed and then report us to the cops? Finally giving the consumers what they want.

Enemies everywhere. I'm indifferent if Russia or China takes out half of Canada's population.

And I watched 'Children of the Corn' 2 nights ago. That was a steaming pile of shit.

Posted by: Stateless at September 25, 2024 11:30 AM (jvJvP)

231 I saw An American Werewolf in London for the first time the other day.

I like that the guy gets attacked (by something), his best friend is killed, and he's in the hospital for weeks but his family doesn't come over to visit or check in on him.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2024 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

232 It would be so easy for the Chinese to imbed a small device or chip into all the stuff we buy from them that would start a fire all at once everywhere. Most homes and business would burn along with people who carry phone, cars etc. It would make a war with China very short.

Posted by: Colin at September 25, 2024 11:30 AM (e8qy3)

233 228 I've never had a Kindle, I use my Samsung tablet as my ereader. I've never bought an ebook from Amazon since I found out Amazon can take my ebook if they don't like it or it becomes subversive.
Posted by: Megthered at September 25, 2024 11:30 AM (VihIQ)

======

Everyone who owned movies through Redbox lost their entire libraries when Redbox filed for bankruptcy.

You own a license. You don't own the actual content.

Physical media for the win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

234 BREAKING: Biden/Harris Airlift Thousands of Pallets to Hezbollah Containing Tin Cans & String. Developing ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 25, 2024 11:26 AM (DZmmX)

USSS leaked that it only took them three hours to show her how they worked.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (W/lyH)

235 I've never had a Kindle, I use my Samsung tablet as my ereader. I've never bought an ebook from Amazon since I found out Amazon can take my ebook if they don't like it or it becomes subversive.
Posted by: Megthered

-

(looks at the ebooks from the Napster / Kazaa era)

Hmm...

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (7Dy6w)

236 It is my belief that one day all the "smart" cars, appliances, whatevers are going to be rejected in favor of simpler, repairable things.
Some people, like me, already reject that shit.
More people will be doing so before too long.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 25, 2024 11:23 AM (4XwPj)
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We will see. Without something to incentivize that, I don't think it will happen.

A great thing that would incentivize building for repairability and durability as well as provide much better fairness would be to forbid the levying of sales taxes on used goods.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (HnUIn)

237 I'm not sure I get your question, but IMHO, if a company, foreign or domestic, is making spyware and disguises it, it's espionage, and the company should be banned as a legitimate national security threat.

Posted by: Archimedes

Now look again at car makers who download software updates and upload all your driving information to themselves... and sell that data.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (uUfCm)

238 231 I saw An American Werewolf in London for the first time the other day.

I like that the guy gets attacked (by something), his best friend is killed, and he's in the hospital for weeks but his family doesn't come over to visit or check in on him.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2024 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

=======

The werewolf transformation in The Howling > The werewolf transformation in An American Werewolf in London

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

239
65 MO free on Amazon Prime.
Posted by: Accomack at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (+Bkka)

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And I didn't think Missouri was up for sale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 25, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

but would you really buy it...?

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 25, 2024 11:00 AM (nXhwP)
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Could you show it to me first?

Posted by: Ciampino - what? You want a demo first? at September 25, 2024 11:32 AM (qfLjt)

240 Biggest threat to the liberty of the American car owner: rising, rapacious insurance rates. Cripes.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 25, 2024 11:25 AM (wU1J3)

And why are insurance rates rising? Millions of illegals on the road, with no licence, no insurance, and no fucks to give. Millions of electric cars that have to be totaled if they get a fender bent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (e+kKL)
_____

Al that plus rapidly rising repair and replacement rates even in gas vehicles. The repair rates have gotten so high that in many instances the insurer will total the car when 15 years ago they would pay to fix it. Happened to me a few years ago when some idiot in a X5 swerved over and hit me. His insurer accepted liability and cut me a check for $60k rather than pay to fix my car. The car was definitely fixable, but the cost would have been very high.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

241 227 Smart except none of them actually will leave.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2024 11:28 AM (KbCG3)
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Some will look into it.

Then they will learn that other countries have pretty strict immigration rules, and they don't qualify for (or can't afford to buy) residency there.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (HnUIn)

They'll look into moving to Canada. For five seconds

Then they'll realize that moving takes a lot of work, especially moving out of the country.

And it's expensive.

Trump may be an existential threat to their very existence but who wants to go through the hassle of packing and finding a new place, selling an old place, and dear lord, have you seen interest rates on mortgages?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2024 11:32 AM (KbCG3)

242 Haiti and Liechtenstein used to have the exact same flag. One day they agreed to each slap a little device of their own on their flags to make them different. I think it was in the 70's or something. Liechtenstein has a little gold crown on it. Haiti has some goofy ass seal or crest with cartoons of who the hell knows what on it. The hell i'm gonna look it up. But yeah. None of that has anything to do with anything. I just thought it was amusing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2024 11:32 AM (VoAdT)

243 Yep, Wisrich, O'Keefe did his announcement, it's a movie exposing the border stuff and it'll be on Tucker's network.

Investigative journalist James O’Keefe has announced his latest film, Line in the Sand, which will premiere on October 10 on the Tucker Carlson Network. The film, over a year in the making, chronicles O’Keefe’s investigative efforts into the complex network surrounding illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border.

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 11:32 AM (jrYI0)

244 >This chilly brunette is amused...

---

her eyebrow game is on point

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (/7KEl)

245 >>Smart except none of them actually will leave.

I don't she was being serious. Just having some fun at leftist's expense.

They will never leave. Many are 100% dependent on the state and can't survive in the wild.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (LkLld)

246 Now look again at car makers who download software updates and upload all your driving information to themselves... and sell that data.

I'm well aware of it. Cars, TVs, you name it. Everything is collecting your data. I wonder, though, when it might become apparent that all that data collection doesn't really provide much of value.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (xCA6C)

247 FedGov, specifically the FAA got into the drone business as a licensing body. To fly a drone you have to have a license. They also put in place a bunch of "no-fly" zones in the US. Area that make sense; airports, military sites, sports venues, urban areas, etc.

But... with a certain license you may still fly. Drones are used in most sports, make commercials, assist LE, etc. Other uses are less "professional" like doing TicTok videos or other recordings for social media.

So, if DJI or some other entity is pulling all the data off the drone and parking it in a cloud that's managed and housed by the CCP there's a problem, potentially.

This is not widespread. Because most commercial drones used in what I described above have their own recording ability and transmit to a base station, not the cloud. They're also hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And, DJI has, or had a near monopoly on consumer drones. That's really the core issue.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (Q4IgG)

248 I don't think the brunette's eyebrows are unattractive at all. They're not subtle, but that doesn't make them ugly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (HnUIn)

249 Physical media for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

That's my justification for the large DVD and Blu-ray collection. It keeps all the fine, sexy ladies at bay but I got me some great high def movies.

Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:34 AM (ohEXX)

250 I recently see a freaky Irish horror movie called The Oddity. Worth a watch if you like the non-gore horror movie genre
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (oZhjI)
***
Just watched that movie. It was great. I hope more people see it. I've been recommending it to everyone.

==

Where did you watch it? Sounds interesting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2024 11:34 AM (N2zvp)

251 249 That's my justification for the large DVD and Blu-ray collection. It keeps all the fine, sexy ladies at bay but I got me some great high def movies.
Posted by: Robert at September 25, 2024 11:34 AM (ohEXX)

=======

"You got another movie!"
-Junior when I go to get the mail

*heavy groan*
-Dolley, who has given up on fighting it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

252 When all the computer enabled cars get taken over by the CCCP, I hope there's room in AOP's Suburban for me!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 25, 2024 11:35 AM (NMT5x)

253 one day all the "smart" cars, appliances, whatevers are going to be rejected in favor of simpler, repairable things.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 25, 2024 11:35 AM (fXRJa)

254 This chilly brunette is amused that I accidentally wrote a movie thread:
http://tiny.cc/axhnzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

The eyebrows. Why?!?!?!?

Posted by: Doof at September 25, 2024 11:35 AM (RhGG0)

255 248 I don't think the brunette's eyebrows are unattractive at all. They're not subtle, but that doesn't make them ugly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Strongly concur.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

256 I recently see a freaky Irish horror movie called The Oddity. Worth a watch if you like the non-gore horror movie genre
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:07 AM (oZhjI)
***
Just watched that movie. It was great. I hope more people see it. I've been recommending it to everyone.

==

Where did you watch it? Sounds interesting.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Are we talking THE Oddity or Oddity both sounded interesting on iMDB

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:35 AM (CIS44)

257 I like eyebrows

never cared for the pencil-thin look

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:36 AM (/7KEl)

258 My next big purchase may be coming next week, Columbia Classics 4K Volume 5 which will include All the King's Men, On the Waterfront, A Man for all Seasons, Tootsie, The Age of Innocence, and Little Women.

And then I'm gonna get the newly announced Frank Capra at Columbia set. More than 20 movies, including the one extant Capra I couldn't find upon my revue (The Way of the Strong).

And in between...the Criterion flash sale.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

259 {the set of everything} > werewolf movies.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at September 25, 2024 11:36 AM (wU1J3)

260 her eyebrow game is on point
Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (/7KEl)

You misspelled paint. I think she used an 18 inch roller.

Posted by: Doof at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (RhGG0)

261 Physical media for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
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Absolutely. I subscribe to this fully.

With physical media, I can buy used and so if I like a movie but don't like the studio, I can buy it without the studio being involved. If the studio or record label doesn't like what I bought, it can't take the thing away from me with the flip of a switch.

Because the license is perpetual and - crucially - transferable. The license is bound to the disc or tape or paper in the book or whatever. I can buy, sell or destroy that license as I see fit.

You can't bequeath digital licenses, either, much of the time. Have that big music library you want to leave to your kid? That library had better be on physical media.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (HnUIn)

262 248 I don't think the brunette's eyebrows are unattractive at all. They're not subtle, but that doesn't make them ugly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (HnUIn

I watched 1978's 'I Spit on your Grave' yesterday enbiggening my view of female body hair.

Man, that was a lot of pubic hair.....
Pretty woman though...

Posted by: Stateless at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (jvJvP)

263 The stated reason why is two-fold: espionage and sabotage.

There's a danger that Russian and Chinese suppliers wouldn't build in the correct technologies. What good is a device if we can't use it to spy with or to explode?

Posted by: Deep Dept. of Commerce at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (L3CGb)

264 LMAO this is from that same stream and I think I now know why James Carville was cussing out campaign staffers and calling them f*ggots.

https://tinyurl.com/5264t56x
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM (Y8lzz)

OMFG, dude ...

If I were that guy I'd set myself on fire.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (0FoWg)

265 >Saw a movie about a killer tire. It was pretty good. Bet TJM knows what its called.

Rubber

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (cf/0E)

266 Was the Green Goblin head wind tunnel tested?

Everything is aero now.

Posted by: DaveA at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (FhXTo)

267 232 It would be so easy for the Chinese to imbed a small device or chip into all the stuff we buy from them that would start a fire all at once everywhere. Most homes and business would burn along with people who carry phone, cars etc. It would make a war with China very short.
---------------
Safest route is to buy ChiCom junk from Temu. Everything they sell doesn't work. One exception, my new Kimono. That works.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (c711F)

268 Joe Biden at the UN:

“We the People.” These are the first words of our Constitution, the very idea of America. And they inspired the opening words of the U.N. Charter.

I’ve made the preservation of democracy the central cause of my presidency.

This summer, I faced a decision whether to seek a second term as president. It was a difficult decision. Being president has been the honor of my life. There is so much more I want to get done. But as much as I love the job, I love my country more. I decided, after 50 years of public service, it’s time for a new generation of leadership to take my nation forward.

My fellow leaders, let us never forget, some things are more important than staying in power. It’s your people — (applause) — it’s your people that matter the most.

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (RHGPo)

269 Thanks all of you that replied about the e-reader. I appreciate it. But surprise of surprises, all you need to read a epub file is included with the edge browser.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (89Sog)

270 You misspelled paint. I think she used an 18 inch roller.
Posted by: Doof

and 25 coats.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (CIS44)

271 Ooooh, Roger Stone now is saying he's getting a group of investors together to buy the auctioned off Infowars. They'll own it, but have Jones operate it.

Elon and Roger Stone, do it!!

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (UMJ6s)

272
"Oddity" starts streaming this week on Shudder if you have it.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (eDfFs)

273 Unless something's changed, Kindle does not read the epub format directly. Meaning, you can't copy an epub file straight from your computer to a kindle and expect the Kindle to read it. (Just tried it a few minutes ago and my Kindle didn't see the file.) You can convert an epub to a mobi format or an azw format and copy it from your computer to the Kindle and it'll be happy. Amazon's Send to Kindle feature will let you take your epub file, purchased from any vendor, and send it to your Kindle; the StK feature will convert the epub to a format the Kindle will read.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (q3u5l)

274 261 You can't bequeath digital licenses, either, much of the time. Have that big music library you want to leave to your kid? That library had better be on physical media.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (HnUIn)

========

The only argument against physical media that I can't really counter is locally stored digital media (preferably with a backup).

Rip everything. Or, sail the high seas on the Internet, get the files, and put them on a couple of hard drives. Less space.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

275 Speaking of DVDs, watched the "special features" disk from my copy of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly the other day. It included a bit entitled "The Man Who Lost the Civil War" and tried to argue that Henry Sibley did so by failing to open his supply route to the Pacific.

No, he didn't. WHY must they overhype these things?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 25, 2024 11:39 AM (LxER7)

276 OMFG, dude ...

Are we absolutely sure about that?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

277 Rubber
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (cf/0E)

And its sequel - Rubber II: I Didn't Even Know Her

Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:39 AM (LCr8f)

278 I don't think the brunette's eyebrows are unattractive at all. They're not subtle, but that doesn't make them ugly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (HnUIn)

I just don't get how/why this has become an area of focus for women. Eyebrows have become the equivalent of decorative pillows. More is not necessary!!!!!

Posted by: Doof at September 25, 2024 11:39 AM (RhGG0)

279 Bioengineered heart samples on ISS confirm that weightlessness weakens and ages the heart

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Then I'll live forever!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

280 273 Unless something's changed, Kindle does not read the epub format directly. Meaning, you can't copy an epub file straight from your computer to a kindle and expect the Kindle to read it. (Just tried it a few minutes ago and my Kindle didn't see the file.) You can convert an epub to a mobi format or an azw format and copy it from your computer to the Kindle and it'll be happy. Amazon's Send to Kindle feature will let you take your epub file, purchased from any vendor, and send it to your Kindle; the StK feature will convert the epub to a format the Kindle will read.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (q3u5l)

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Age of the Kindle probably has something to do with it.

Newer Kindles definitely can. It's the only file format I put directly on the Kindle, but it's only a couple of years old.

Heck, Junior's Kindle can't even do night mode, and it's much older than mine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

281 I’ll be the 600 th commenter to say that I am a hell of lot more worried about the Commerce department and their masters having access to my vehicle than the Russians and the Chinese.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 25, 2024 11:39 AM (VK1eQ)

282 The only argument against physical media that I can't really counter is locally stored digital media (preferably with a backup).

Rip everything. Or, sail the high seas on the Internet, get the files, and put them on a couple of hard drives. Less space.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
++++
I have a very big CD collection and a pretty small movie and TV collection. All of it is also ripped and sitting on a server in my house. I use both. I rarely put in a Blu-Ray or DVD to watch (smart TV is easier) and I do a lot of both physical CD listening and streaming. But I control the streaming apparatus and library in both cases.

Best of both worlds, if you're willing to run it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

283 The name is "Oddity"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (oZhjI)

284 I was watching Court TV last night and they had a Detective on and he said that charging cables store data and if investigating a crime, if you can get the cables the person used for their phone/tablet (assuming you can't get ahold of the devices), you can get a forensic data guru download whatever data is stored in them.

True? First I've ever heard of this.

Posted by: Cheri at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (oiNtH)

285
USSS leaked that it only took them three hours to show her how they worked.
Posted by: Diogenes

Red Kammie kept asking, Which one is Can "B"

USSS was like, WTF? Whatever are you talking about?

Red Kammie replied, You know, Can "B", from my favorite phrase '... unburdened by Can "B"'!

USSS ** rolls eys, considers slitting wrists **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (RlQ2m)

286 Posted by: ... at September 25, 2024 11:29 AM (LCr8f)

Aww thank you for the compliment dotty!
I am the mom to one almost 30 year old millennial fella and an eighteen year old zoomer girl spawn. Those two groups are all in for smart tech doing everything for them. My two? Nope. I have heard them both say, I want the stupid version at least it works. And their friends are sick of that crap too. Too expensive, if it doesn't work you can't fix it, etc is what they're saying.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (4XwPj)

287 282 I have a very big CD collection and a pretty small movie and TV collection. All of it is also ripped and sitting on a server in my house. I use both. I rarely put in a Blu-Ray or DVD to watch (smart TV is easier) and I do a lot of both physical CD listening and streaming. But I control the streaming apparatus and library in both cases.

Best of both worlds, if you're willing to run it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

======

I like digital footlockers like VUDU (now Fandango at Home). I see them as backups and just easier to throw on while working (for instance, I am currently watching The Batman through Fandango).

But, they're not primary ownership in my mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

288
The eyebrows. Why?!?!?!?
Posted by: Doof

Probably could find the reason in her DNA.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 25, 2024 11:41 AM (uUfCm)

289 You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait

… still true 56 years later

Posted by: SMOD at September 25, 2024 11:41 AM (RHGPo)

290 you guys are mean
if she so much as winked at you, you'd melt

you know it
I know it
Bob Dole knows it
the American people know it

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:41 AM (/7KEl)

291 Movie-making peaked with The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob in 1973. Been all downhill since then.

Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at September 25, 2024 11:41 AM (CV8a5)

292 291 Movie-making peaked with The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob in 1973. Been all downhill since then.
Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at September 25, 2024 11:41 AM (CV8a5)

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This is an insult to Hellzapoppin'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

293 The eyebrows. Why?!?!?!?
Posted by: Doof

Probably could find the reason in her DNA.

Oh, of course, blame it on the "cave man".

Posted by: Neanderthals at September 25, 2024 11:42 AM (xCA6C)

294 Colin: "It would be so easy for the Chinese to imbed a small device or chip into all the stuff we buy from them that would start a fire all at once everywhere..."

They don't even need to do that to be incredibly disruptive. Imagine a Kill Chip that simply disables the function of any device into which it is installed. A single On/Off signal hidden anywhere in any chip or part of a chip. A simple trace would be enough.

Imagine all electronic devices failing in our tech dependent world. A Doomsday Circuit as it were.

Incomprehensibly cheap and effective if a device were capable of receiving an "external" signal. Or even one that wasn't tethered to anything but had a timed date of action (self-destruct) command.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 25, 2024 11:42 AM (aXxgO)

295 >>> 246
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I'm well aware of it. Cars, TVs, you name it. Everything is collecting your data. I wonder, though, when it might become apparent that all that data collection doesn't really provide much of value.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2024 11:33 AM (xCA6C)

It has value.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at September 25, 2024 11:42 AM (FnneF)

296 >

John Nolte sold off most of his physical library, thinking digital was the way to go. Then he saw, to his horror, that they are censuring the digital copies of everything. Even digital movies you bought. So he's been working to rebuild his physical collection.

It's ironic because he's the reason I own physical copies of movies like blazing saddles and gone with the wind. He warned us to get those because Hollywood will try to destroy them.

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 11:42 AM (olRfD)

297 171 Sorry, it was TCL that was so bad, not LG.

Seriously, the TCL terms of service are really bad. Take a look if you have one. Disturbingly intrusive.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:20 AM (7Dy6w)

I used a TCL Tracfone for a while. One of its shitty, pre-installed, un-installable, non-disableable apps (purportedly for making the display prettier) would murder the battery within 36 hours. Perhaps that was its primary exfiltration mechanism and it was in a tizzy trying and failing to connect to the mothership.

First and last time buying anything TCL.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 25, 2024 11:42 AM (DTX3h)

298 The Confederates lost the Civil War because they couldn't win support from a foreign power and couldn't win a decisive battle in the East by enough to make the Union tired of the war before the '64 election.

The Union had more men and industry so a straight up victory would have had to have happened early on say - marching on DC right after Bull Run (which could have happened if the Confederates had been a little more organized)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2024 11:43 AM (oZhjI)

299 Oh, of course, blame it on the "cave man".
Posted by: Neanderthals at September 25, 2024 11:42 AM (xCA6C)

So that's why her friends all call her Geico.

Her mom's so easy, even a caveman could do her.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2024 11:43 AM (VoAdT)

300 LMAO this is from that same stream and I think I now know why James Carville was cussing out campaign staffers and calling them f*ggots.

https://tinyurl.com/5264t56x
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM

My phone just spontaneously combusted out of sympathetic embarrassment. Thanks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 25, 2024 11:43 AM (ZANHd)

301 The NYT Poll Was An Outlier. Am I to believe that since the debate that TSF gained 10 points in Arizona? Don't insult my intelligence, what little I have.

NYT is deliberately changing methodology to put out polls bad for Kamala. They're trying to sane wash Pantload 45.

Quinnipiac has Trump +1. Trump leads in AZ and GA. NC and Nevada are really close. The good news? Harris is opening sizeable leads in MI, WI, and PA. She wins those 3 and she's the next President.

That Quinnipiac poll is highly questionable. They released state polls for PA, MI & WI just a few days ago which showed a 6 point lead for Harris in PA, 5 points in MI and 1 point in WI. No way Harris has leads like that while trailing nationwide.

The other evidence, from number of donors to voter registration information, shows Kamala heading toward winning a landslide.

NYT moves further to the right over time. They push the narrative that Kamala isn't specific enough about her policies, but it says nothing when TSF says he will be a protector of his women.

Trump is like an 80s horror figure, freddie kruger, jason voorhees. You think he's dead and he comes back to life

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 25, 2024 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

302 Old and busted: sharp elbows

New and cool: prominent eyebrows

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:46 AM (L/fGl)

303 >The Confederates lost the Civil War because ......
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aaand now it's a Civil War thread
been a while

Posted by: Don Black at September 25, 2024 11:46 AM (/7KEl)

304 Trump is like an 80s horror figure, freddie kruger, jason voorhees. You think he's dead and he comes back to life
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 25, 2024 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

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Please. Don't make me want to vote for him even more!

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

305 "They're trying to sane wash Pantload 45."

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 25, 2024 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

and people say the chans are weird and incomprehensible...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (VoAdT)

306 32
‘ Remember the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry dates Kamala Harris?’

Cruel but funny. And that’s my favorite kind of funny.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (VK1eQ)

307 I was watching Court TV last night and they had a Detective on and he said that charging cables store data and if investigating a crime, if you can get the cables the person used for their phone/tablet (assuming you can't get ahold of the devices), you can get a forensic data guru download whatever data is stored in them.

True? First I've ever heard of this.
Posted by: Cheri at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (oiNtH)

Sounds like complete BS to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (e+kKL)

308 LMAO this is from that same stream and I think I now know why James Carville was cussing out campaign staffers and calling them f*ggots.

https://tinyurl.com/5264t56x
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at September 25, 2024 11:22 AM

My phone just spontaneously combusted out of sympathetic embarrassment. Thanks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 25, 2024 11:43 AM (ZANHd)
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That dude is seriously mentally ill

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

309 >>NYT moves further to the right over time.

What a weird universe these people live in.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (LkLld)

310 I have smart TVs. They are not allowed on my real network. They get a ring-fenced environment that is allowed to access the internet, but nothing real in the house. They are incredibly invasive, and silently map everything on the network and listen in on traffic wherever possible. I also block most of the outbound calls to both Roku and TCL themselves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

If you really want to know how bad consumer electronics has gotten, take a gander at Louis Rossman's YouTube channel. He doesn't mince words. Not very happy with Amazon either.

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (OUMaO)

311 The other evidence, from number of donors to voter registration information, shows Kamala heading toward winning a landslide.

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How is it possible for both sides to believe the same thing?

(full disclosure: They wouldn't be shooting Trump in the head if they actually believed it)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (7Dy6w)

312 Who did it.

https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/ATMOS

Posted by: DaveA at September 25, 2024 11:48 AM (FhXTo)

313 Ahem.
War Of Northern Aggression.

Posted by: Getting my dander up at September 25, 2024 11:48 AM (DobEs)

314 That dude is seriously mentally ill
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM

I work in Boston. There are thousands of this guy within a few hundred yards. *shudders*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 25, 2024 11:48 AM (ZANHd)

315 I was watching Court TV last night and they had a Detective on and he said that charging cables store data and if investigating a crime, if you can get the cables the person used for their phone/tablet (assuming you can't get ahold of the devices), you can get a forensic data guru download whatever data is stored in them.

True? First I've ever heard of this.
Posted by: Cheri at September 25, 2024 11:40 AM (oiNtH)

Sounds like complete BS to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

There are some purpose-made ones that do exactly this, but by and large the ones you're getting at the stop-and-rob don't.

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at September 25, 2024 11:49 AM (OUMaO)

316 9mm or .45?...Ho ho's or Ding dong's?
Posted by: BignJames

9mm and Ding dongs. Except for my "thinks its smart" phone, my world is mute.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 25, 2024 11:49 AM (sGu9u)

317 TJM -- I was using a Kindle Oasis for that, and it didn't see the epub. Will try it with the Scribe.

These days, almost all my reading is on the Kindle (print size, weight of tome, etc). But there's a bookcase and a couple of boxes of print editions that I just ain't gonna get rid of even though I've found ebooks of practically all of them. I may be crazy, but I'm not yet out of my mind.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 25, 2024 11:49 AM (q3u5l)

318 301 That Quinnipiac poll is highly questionable. They released state polls for PA, MI & WI just a few days ago which showed a 6 point lead for Harris in PA, 5 points in MI and 1 point in WI. No way Harris has leads like that while trailing nationwide.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 25, 2024 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

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Quinnipac generally sucks, but if you have to choose their national or their state polling, you go with national.

State polling generally sucks even more than national polls except by firms that really know how to do it within those specific states.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

319 314 That dude is seriously mentally ill
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM

I work in Boston. There are thousands of this guy within a few hundred yards. *shudders*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Where could I meet these fine, strapping physical specimens? And do they charge the same as out of town?

Posted by: Tim Walz at September 25, 2024 11:50 AM (JCZqz)

320 I was using a Kindle Oasis for that, and it didn't see the epub. Will try it with the Scribe. ...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 25, 2024 11:49 AM (q3u5l)
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The Kindle Oasis was, in my opinion, the single best eReader ever made and well worth its premium.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 25, 2024 11:50 AM (HnUIn)

321 312 Who did it.

https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/ATMOS
Posted by: DaveA at September 25, 2024 11:48 AM (FhXTo)

First base!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 25, 2024 11:50 AM (LxER7)

322 I work in Boston. There are thousands of this guy within a few hundred yards. *shudders*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 25, 2024 11:48 AM (ZANHd)

Think of the poor young women. You're coming into your own, entering the dating pool, and what are your options?

A bar full of danger-hair bull dykes, fake chads, and... this guy.

No wonder birth rates are so low.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2024 11:50 AM (VoAdT)

323 >>(full disclosure: They wouldn't be shooting Trump in the head if they actually believed it)

Harris wouldn't be doing her MSNBC interview tonight if she was winning nor would she be now begging for another rigged debate.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 25, 2024 11:50 AM (LkLld)

324 316 9mm or .45?...Ho ho's or Ding dong's?

Beatles or Stones?

Posted by: Oh, no... at September 25, 2024 11:51 AM (DobEs)

325 311 The other evidence, from number of donors to voter registration information, shows Kamala heading toward winning a landslide.

-

How is it possible for both sides to believe the same thing?

(full disclosure: They wouldn't be shooting Trump in the head if they actually believed it)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (7Dy6w)

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Donors...sure. She gets most big dollar donors. Rich people love her.

But the voter registration? Like where PA is steadily turning red? Like where FL has more than 1 million more Republicans than Democrats now?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

326 The other evidence, from number of donors to voter registration information, shows Kamala heading toward winning a landslide.

-

How is it possible for both sides to believe the same thing?

(full disclosure: They wouldn't be shooting Trump in the head if they actually believed it)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (7Dy6w)
_________

They don't believe it. Their internal polls are catastrophic, which is why Kumswala is relegated to pathetic sus pandering on dumb issues like the filibuster. No way a candidate who believes she's ahead would do that.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

327 Who Made Who

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at September 25, 2024 11:52 AM (5C4od)

328
We've been plowing through the "Dexter" series again.

More or less confirmed what I thought at the time.

Season 1-4 pretty great

Season 5-8 variable, with Season 6 (Tom Hanks Spawn) as the nadir.

Season 7-8 slow improvement with massive crapping of the bed in the last episode and Deb's death.

"Dexter: New Blood" In Season 1-4 territory until last episode where it craps the bed mightily.

Apparently, a new season coming Summer 2025.

Not for everyone but one of the better made for cable shows. Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 11:52 AM (eDfFs)

329 326 They don't believe it. Their internal polls are catastrophic, which is why Kumswala is relegated to pathetic sus pandering on dumb issues like the filibuster. No way a candidate who believes she's ahead would do that.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

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At least she stopped stealing Trump's issues and bragging about waving guns around and is instead telling college educated white women that their husbands will be able to get abortions for their au pairs under her administration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

330 324 316 9mm or .45?...Ho ho's or Ding dong's?

Beatles or Stones?
Posted by: Oh, no... at September 25, 2024 11:51 AM (DobEs)

.22LR
Herman's Hermits
Gilligan

Posted by: That guy from that video at September 25, 2024 11:52 AM (VoAdT)

331
Season 7-8 slow improvement with massive crapping of the bed in the last episode and Deb's death.
_

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:53 AM (7Dy6w)

332 Ain't Nobody Told You

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at September 25, 2024 11:53 AM (5C4od)

333 You misspelled paint. I think she used an 18 inch roller.
Posted by: Doof at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (RhGG0)

I never look at these links, but that comment made me laugh.

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 25, 2024 11:54 AM (JCLJi)

334 That Quinnipiac poll is highly questionable. They released state polls for PA, MI & WI just a few days ago which showed a 6 point lead for Harris in PA, 5 points in MI and 1 point in WI. No way Harris has leads like that while trailing nationwide.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 25, 2024 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

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Quinnipac generally sucks, but if you have to choose their national or their state polling, you go with national.

State polling generally sucks even more than national polls except by firms that really know how to do it within those specific states.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Lotsa polling firms I've never heard of with odd-sounding names suddenly releasing polls that show Whore-swalla with big leads. Very sus. I personally think true polls would show Trump with yuge leads everywhere. I think that's what Whore-swalla's internal polls show, which is why she's freaking out.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

335 >>> https://tinyurl.com/5264t56x

That guy is trying to ride off the "Kamala man" song's coattails, but it's so sad.

He's trying to do the hinting at a naughty word and subbing a take words at the last minute, but his timing is all off, and it's cringe not funny. Is he supposed to be a comedian? Because his timing sucks.

This song does the subbing bad words timing much, much better:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=enS9YUAmoOg

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 11:54 AM (olRfD)

336 Donors...sure. She gets most big dollar donors. Rich people love her.

But the voter registration? Like where PA is steadily turning red? Like where FL has more than 1 million more Republicans than Democrats now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

Quibble: Rich people may not actually love her. All those checks were already handed over blank in exchange for whatever else they were allowed to get their filthy snoots into, so there's sweet FA they can do about it now except play along.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2024 11:55 AM (VoAdT)

337 calibre e-library management software with conversions.

Posted by: DaveA at September 25, 2024 11:55 AM (FhXTo)

338 Ginger or Mary Ann?

Posted by: Might as well at September 25, 2024 11:55 AM (DobEs)

339 334 Lotsa polling firms I've never heard of with odd-sounding names suddenly releasing polls that show Whore-swalla with big leads. Very sus. I personally think true polls would show Trump with yuge leads everywhere. I think that's what Whore-swalla's internal polls show, which is why she's freaking out.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

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Her "huge leads" are a third as big as Biden's were in 2020 and smaller than Hillary's were in 2016.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

340 67
‘ Can't wait to start IT. I'm sure it'll be a tight 1000 pages’

Expect to be disgusted by a scene towards the end.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 25, 2024 11:56 AM (VK1eQ)

341 Kamalla should start courting the male vote and come out and say she supports ending permanent alimony.

See how the chicks respond.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:56 AM (7Dy6w)

342 Sounds like complete BS to me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I don't think standard cables have that capability but I listened to a hacker on a Shawn Ryan interview talk about cables that had that capability. They also had internet connectivity. Readily available. This guy was legit.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 25, 2024 11:56 AM (sGu9u)

343 340 67
‘ Can't wait to start IT. I'm sure it'll be a tight 1000 pages’

Expect to be disgusted by a scene towards the end.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 25, 2024 11:56 AM (VK1eQ)

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Where all the kids have a very chaste series of hugs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

344 Alex Soros
@AlexanderSoros
Honored to host Governor @Tim_Walz at my home in New York City!

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I'll bet you are!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

345 My favourite song on the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack is "DT". This is the song playing when the kid is bicycling around the neighbourhood looking at all the people killed by the machines.

https://youtu.be/eAF5bz8mjls

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2024 11:57 AM (O7YUW)

346 They don't believe it. Their internal polls are catastrophic, which is why Kumswala is relegated to pathetic sus pandering on dumb issues like the filibuster. No way a candidate who believes she's ahead would do that.
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

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At least she stopped stealing Trump's issues and bragging about waving guns around and is instead telling college educated white women that their husbands will be able to get abortions for their au pairs under her administration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Yup. She's resorting to groveling pandering to the demos in her base she should have locked down months ago. Hate to say it, but the wives who allow young hot foreign girls to be their au pairs get what they deserve. Their husbands are creepy scum, they must know it, and yet they parade around nubile young -- and often willing -- girls in the house. Genius!

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

347 Ginger or Mary Ann?
Posted by: Might as well

Mrs. Howell. That broad has the dough.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 25, 2024 11:57 AM (sGu9u)

348 344 Alex Soros
@AlexanderSoros
Honored to host Governor @Tim_Walz at my home in New York City!

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I'll bet you are!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

He's building emolumentum!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2024 11:58 AM (VoAdT)

349 That dude is seriously mentally ill

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

I'd like to see the stats on what percentage of Americans are psychoactively medicated.

It's time to open the mental institutions back up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 25, 2024 11:58 AM (i24o9)

350 >>Quibble: Rich people may not actually love her. All those checks were already handed over blank in exchange for whatever else they were allowed to get their filthy snoots into, so there's sweet FA they can do about it now except play along.

Bigger quibble. Many of those donations are fake. Act Blue is currently under investigation for money laundering in a few states including Virginia.

Harris is losing right now and has zero momentum.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 25, 2024 11:58 AM (LkLld)

351 Season 7-8 slow improvement with massive crapping of the bed in the last episode and Deb's death.
_

SPOILER ALERT!!!!
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 11:53 AM (7Dy6w)

Ah...yeah. Sorry, but the series is 11 years old.

I thought everyone who wanted to see it had.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 11:58 AM (eDfFs)

352 I thought it was an alien spacecraft taking control of machinery..

Posted by: Tom at September 25, 2024 11:58 AM (RsuQR)

353 302 Old and busted: sharp elbows

New and cool: prominent eyebrows
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The eyebrows that creep me out are the ladies that pluck all their natural eyebrows and pencil in a pair high on their forehead. I don't get it. It is skeevy. They also seem to polish their forehead as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 25, 2024 11:59 AM (c711F)

354 ‘ Can't wait to start IT. I'm sure it'll be a tight 1000 pages’

Expect to be disgusted by a scene towards the end.

Really? That was my favorite part!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at September 25, 2024 11:59 AM (oZhjI)

355 351 Ah...yeah. Sorry, but the series is 11 years old.

I thought everyone who wanted to see it had.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2024 11:58 AM (eDfFs)

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My personal philosophy is that a story that doesn't work spoiled, doesn't work. I don't mind spoilers.

But many others do. I try to avoid them in conversation generally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 25, 2024 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

356 .
NOOD

Confirmed Dum-Dum and 9/10 Republican Bill Barr "Dumbfounded" at DOJ Releasing "Finish the Job" Letter of Incitement from Second Assassin

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2024 12:00 PM (O7YUW)

357 That dude is seriously mentally ill

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

I'd like to see the stats on what percentage of Americans are psychoactively medicated.

It's time to open the mental institutions back up.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 25, 2024 11:58 AM (i24o9)
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A shockingly high percentage. Just like everyone on the left -- and increasingly on the right -- is in some kind of therapy. It's gotten to be such a yuge and lucrative market that there are now a dozen apps and online "therapists" to ask you on the doll where the Bad Orange Man touched you.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 25, 2024 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

358 TJM, thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 25, 2024 12:01 PM (I1GXe)

359 I don't think standard cables have that capability but I listened to a hacker on a Shawn Ryan interview talk about cables that had that capability. They also had internet connectivity. Readily available. This guy was legit.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 25, 2024 11:56 AM (sGu9u)

Who would buy such a thing? And I would assume the cables would have to have a "lump" in them somewhere to house the memory chips and processor needed to communicate with the device and download its stored data. And with many phones, I think it would need root authorization to do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2024 12:01 PM (e+kKL)

360 You misspelled paint. I think she used an 18 inch roller.
Posted by: Doof at September 25, 2024 11:37 AM (RhGG0)

I never look at these links, but that comment made me laugh.
Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 25, 2024 11:54 AM (JCLJi)

I have my moments

Posted by: Doof at September 25, 2024 12:02 PM (RhGG0)

361 Oh geez, Lynda Carter. She's like Gretchen Whitmer and Caitlin Jenner morphed into one person, with Kamala's intolerance for alcohol.

Geeks for Kamala... bless DDay Cobra for bringing the cringe to us.

Posted by: LizLem at September 25, 2024 12:03 PM (olRfD)

362 Matthew Foldi
@MatthewFoldi
You obviously have to laugh at the Palestinian flag next to the LGBT flag outside Rashida Tlaib’s office

https://is.gd/N5qEzd

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There's nothing like a coherent political philosophy and that’s nothing like a coherent political philosophy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 25, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

363 I just wanted to make the "spoilers" joke about an old series.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men don't care about women's jobs, $, house, etc, only looks and kindness at September 25, 2024 12:05 PM (7Dy6w)

364 I knew Adolf Hitler. He was my friend.
You are no Hitler.
More like an Idee Aiming.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 25, 2024 12:09 PM (CpTFW)

365 Who would buy such a thing? And I would assume the cables would have to have a "lump" in them somewhere to house the memory chips and processor needed to communicate with the device and download its stored data. And with many phones, I think it would need root authorization to do that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

This particular kid used them in his penetration tests for corporate clients that were testing/upgrading their security. There was no discernable difference in the cables. Eye opening. He basically said if he wanted access to your data, he could get it. It was a very interesting interview.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 25, 2024 12:17 PM (sGu9u)

366 I can't remember which one off the top of my head, but one of the earlier books in Johnathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series had this situation as a brief subplot to add to the general carnage created by the Big Bad.

Posted by: Octochicken at September 25, 2024 12:18 PM (oCS0o)

367 @311 In Trump's case, those are real figures, in Harris' case they're fiction. I am wondering just how far he can exceed the fraud numbers, though.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 25, 2024 12:21 PM (hKoQL)

368 It takes processors and memory to convert lets say a document into a serial data stream. Recording it in real-time with all the control characters checksums etc would be possible but memory that fast requires power for the information to be retained.

This would be a VERY custom cable and would really be basically another computer with two cables sticking out of it.

Posted by: pawn at September 25, 2024 12:41 PM (QB+5g)

369 The US Dept of Commerce brings an attempt to thwart the PRC and Russia from conducting a "Maximum Overdrive" event. Fair enough. But who is going to stop the most feared entity from gaining the same access: the US Government????

Posted by: Theoden at September 25, 2024 01:17 PM (4Ymiq)

370 Can't believe that nobody has mentioned that the "comet" is actually from "Night of the Comet". "Maximum Overdrive" is caused by an alien probe, as speculated in one of the worst pieces of "tell, not show" in film history and confirmed by the closing text crawl, in which a Russian "weather satellite" shoots down an alien probe, ending the disaster.

Both are great '80s cheese; the former of which takes itself *far* less seriously.

Posted by: Big D at September 25, 2024 07:12 PM (6xxny)

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