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Overnight Open Thread (12-13-2015)
Back in the 1980s, when I first heard Christians complain about "secular humanism," I thought they were crazy. To me, a atheist Jewish Democrat, the phrase simply meant an entire absence of faith in the public square - and wasn't that a good thing?It wasn't until I read Stephen L. Carter's The Culture of Disbelief that I understood that lack of faith is itself a belief system, complete with a doctrine predicated on Big Government, animism, Gaia-ism, the denial of biological reality, and sexual license. Moreover, the Left is using the government itself, as well as government-funded institutions, to enforce this new religion, thereby violating the First Amendment. I therefore wish young Mr. Dorman much luck in rallying the troops - but he's got a long, hard battle ahead of him.
-- Bookworm
Woo Hoo The Geminid Meteor Shower Is Here
It will peak tonight and tomorrow and should be starting...right about the time you read this. They appear to originate from the constellation Gemini and at their peak will have a meteor per minute on average.
Where do they come from? Well mainly from the asteroid Asteroid 3200 Phaethon which has an orbit that takes it very close to the sun where thermal stress causes pieces of it to crack off and trail behind the asteroid in orbit. When the Earth's orbit takes it through Phaeton's debris we get tonight's meteor shower.
White House Shocked, Mystified by Gun Sales Surge
President Obama's spokesman said Thursday that the record number of Americans seeking to buy guns in recent weeks is "a tragedy" that the White House is at a loss to explain."The more that we see this kind of violence on our streets, the more people go out and buy guns," said White House press secretary Josh Earnest. "That is both ironic and tragic."
The FBI conducted 185,345 firearms background checks on Black Friday, the most ever during a single day. The record number of gun sales came two weeks after the Islamic State's terrorist attacks in Paris, but before the terrorist massacre in San Bernardino, California.
Asked why he thinks so many Americans are buying guns, Mr. Earnest replied, "I don't know, I really don't."
Note also how Earnest and Obama conflate law-abiding citizens legally purchasing guns for their individual use with guns just being 'on the street'.
David French on the Hidden Reason Americans Dislike Islam
The standard leftist trope is that anti-Islam feeling is due to ignorance (and racism despite Islam not being a race). But in the 14 years since 9/11 the average American now knows far more about Islam than they did that day and is hardly ignorant about it - especially since 9/11 has required many Americans to have up and close and personal encounters with Islam as it's practiced in Islamic countries. So maybe we actually have good justified reasons for not liking it and aren't just acting out of ignorance.
There will be no doubt some hand-wringing about "Islamophobia" and further calls to continue the American elite's fourteen-year track record of whitewashing Islamic beliefs and culture, but I wonder if the media is missing a powerful, largely-uncovered influence on America's hearts and minds - the experience and testimony of the more than two million Americans who've served overseas since 9/11 and have experienced Islamic cultures up-close.Yes, they were in the middle of a war - but speaking from my own experience - the war was conducted from within a culture that was shockingly broken. I expected the jihadists to be evil, but even I couldn't fathom the depths of their depravity. And it was all occurring against the backdrop of a brutally violent and intolerant culture. Women were beaten almost as an afterthought, there was a near-total lack of empathy for even friends and neighbors, lying was endemic, and sexual abuse was rampant. Even more disturbingly, it seemed that every problem was exacerbated the more religious and pious a person (or village) became.
I spent enough time outside the wire and interacting with tribal leaders to get a sense of the reality around me, but the younger guys on the line spent weeks at a time living in the heart of the local community. I remember one young soldier, after describing the things he'd seen since the start of the deployment, gestured towards the village around us and said - in perfect Army English - "Sir, this s**t is f**ked up."
It is indeed. While it's certainly unfair to judge Indonesia or Malaysia by the standards of Iraq or Afghanistan, it's very hard to shake the power of lived experience, nor should we necessarily try. After all, when we hear stories from Syria, Yemen, Gaza, the Sinai, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, Pakistan, and elsewhere they all fit the same depressing template of the American conflict zones. Nor is the dazzlingly wealthy veneer of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or the other Gulf States all that impressive. Tens of thousands of soldiers have seen the veritable slave labor that toils within the oil empires and have witnessed first-hand their casual disregard for "lesser" life.
But this same experience has caused us to treasure the Muslim friends we do have - in part because we recognize the extreme risks of their loyalty and defiance of jihad. That's why American officers fiercely champion the immigration of local interpreters, even to the point of welcoming them into their own home. That's why there's often an intense connection with our Kurdish allies, the single-most effective ground fighting force against ISIS.
Two million Americans have been downrange, and they've come home and told families and friends stories the media rarely tells. Those stories have an impact, but because of the cultural distance between America's warriors and its media, academic, and political aristocracy, it's an impact the aristocracy hasn't been tracking. Experience trumps idealistic rhetoric, and I can't help but think that polls like YouGov's are at least partly registering the results of a uniquely grim American experience.
Tyler Cowen on Just How Martial of a Country Should the United States Be?
An interesting analysis where he points out that gun control does not exist in a vacuum and is connected to larger national politics and foreign policy.
If you think America can sustain its foreign policy interventionism, or threat of such, without a fairly martial culture at home, by all means make your case. But I am skeptical. I think it is far more likely that if you brought about gun control, and the cultural preconditions for successful gun control, America's world role would fundamentally change and America's would no longer play a global policeman role, for better or worse.
Professional 'journalists' are now mandated to hide pertinent facts from you (such as this one) lest you draw unapproved conclusions from them.
This appeared in the Globe and Mail on Dec. 9th:
And then the inevitable correction on Dec. 11:
The Most PC/Least American Elementary School in the US is...PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. "Harvest festival" has replaced Thanksgiving, and "winter celebrations" substitute for Christmas parties.New principal Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and parents.
"We definitely can't say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa," PTA President Mimi Ferrer said administrators told her. "No angels. We can't even have a star because it can represent a religious system, like the Star of David."
Kim, 33, did not return a call or e-mail seeking comment.
David Steinberg is far more restrained than I would be but it's an interesting analysis of exactly how Greenwald uses wordplay to dishonestly mislead his readers. Here he carefully responds to a strawman version of what PJM reported and proceeds to tear it apart in a 3000 word screed of righteous anger giving the impression that he's completely contradicted their report. But in fact he never actually contradicted anything they actually reported and that was by deliberate design since he is unable to.
Alexander Hamilton's Home on the $10 Bill is Safe...For Now
Treasury Secretary Lew discovered that DWM Hamilton still has defenders even two centuries after his death.
Scientists: Acetaminophen Does Not Reduce Fevers, Useless for Treating Flu
But it is cheap and does not cause bleeding or stomach upset. So it has that going for it.
Trooper Stan W Scott Demonstrates the Proper Use of the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
"Bit of a messy job, but that's it." His casual handling of the knife is both beautiful and terrifying.
Sadly Scott passed away in 2014 but you can watch his other videos recounting his training and experiences as a British Commando in WWII here. And here he was 1945.
Bill Burr's Epic Rant Against a Philly Audience
This happened at a 2006 Opie and Andy event in Philadelphia where the audience had gotten drunk and rowdy. After they had had heckled and booed the previous two comedians off the stage Bill Burr decided that he wasn't having any of that and proceeded to spend his 12 minute set taking a huge dump on the dumbass audience, their disease-ridden mothers, and their 'one-bridge-having POS city'. A thing of beauty.
Peak Buzzfeed Click-bait: This Color Test Will Reveal Your O-Face
An Updated Tin Foil Hat For the Hip, Stylish Set
They're already a quarter of the way to their Kickstarter goal.
Advanced Training Technique - Not Recommended For Dilettantes, Flammable Persons
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INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE Official Trailer (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZvqr53KyM
There's also a movie site:
warof1996.com
They kill off Will "Won't" Smith's character.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 13, 2015 10:53 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 13, 2015 10:53 PM (jR7Wy)
Also:
SNL: Bob Dole's Dream Debate
Bob Dole dreams that he's debating Thomas J. Whitmore, the fictitious president from Independence Day.
screen.yahoo.com/cold-opening-bob-doles-dream-000000277.html
"The average American is dead!"
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 13, 2015 10:54 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 13, 2015 10:54 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: profligatewaste at December 13, 2015 10:58 PM (+gatN)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 13, 2015 10:59 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: profligatewaste at December 13, 2015 10:58 PM (+gatN)
The NICS system is automated and is pretty much just a database check.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 13, 2015 11:00 PM (wqVD1)
Rainy day here in N IL, but warm. High 60s which awesome. TY Al Gore for the slight increase since the ending of the last Little Ice Age...you freaking idiot conman.
Posted by: Farmer at December 13, 2015 11:00 PM (o/90i)
And in space , well living space would be at a premium. Unless they were doing the wyld thang in a cargo area.'
Having read some I-assume-realistic descriptions of zero g sex ("Luna Marine"), I'm pleased to not see how that translates to the screen. Eww
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:01 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: otho at December 13, 2015 11:02 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 13, 2015 11:02 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 13, 2015 11:03 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2015 11:04 PM (EzgxV)
Anna Puma writes, "Newton and his laws would have them hitting a wall by the third thrust."
Not in a coupled system. It would be like trying to move the Earth by jumping up and down.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 13, 2015 11:05 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Closed hole at December 13, 2015 11:05 PM (FkBIv)
FUBARed, my tab situation is.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2015 11:05 PM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2015 11:05 PM (yfeci)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 13, 2015 11:05 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:06 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:06 PM (/ciMI)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:06 PM (nXxF1)
Not all snowflakes go to college to throw temper-tantrums. Some snowflakes are literal snowflakes.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10581
Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2015 11:06 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: The Political Hat at December 13, 2015 11:07 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Old man bang gang at December 13, 2015 11:07 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:07 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:07 PM (/ciMI)
Posted by: Caitlyn at December 13, 2015 11:08 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2015 11:08 PM (yfeci)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:09 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: TXT Translator at December 13, 2015 11:09 PM (/ciMI)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:10 PM (uZNvH)
But it is cheap and does not cause bleeding or stomach upset. So it has that going for it. <<<
Yeah, but it can make you sick or kill you.
Posted by: @BC Powder at December 13, 2015 11:10 PM (Q0dwZ)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:10 PM
I got a hot sausage that needs to be eaten.
Posted by: otho at December 13, 2015 11:11 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: chemjeff
It's when you cut off the wiener of the man who had sex with your fiance and cook it up to eat it.
Posted by: Remember that story out of India? at December 13, 2015 11:11 PM (/ciMI)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 13, 2015 11:11 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: eman at December 13, 2015 11:12 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: @BC Powder at December 13, 2015 11:10 PM (Q0dwZ)
Only if you take slightly too much.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 13, 2015 11:12 PM (wqVD1)
--But good for wrecking your liver.
Posted by: logprof at December 13, 2015 11:12 PM (vsbNu)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:13 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2015 11:13 PM (QSnYu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2015 11:14 PM (yfeci)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:14 PM (/ciMI)
Because Jackson hated the notion of a central American bank. He'd never have supported the Federal Reserve. It's a disrespect to his memory to keep him on it.
So there won't be serious opposition, if he's taken off it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:14 PM (vjWed)
*thud*
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (yfeci)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (QSnYu)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (/ciMI)
Posted by: irright at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:10 PM (uZNvH)
Yeah, anything involving cooking AND your dick should be cause to worry for you, chemmy.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (gyKtp)
Question:
"Has Donald Trump gone too far with his plan to ban all Muslims?"
Caucasians: no, 69%, yes 31%.
Hispanic: no, 87%. Yes, 13%.
African-American: no, 96%. Yes 4%.
That's some strong stuff.
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (Q0dwZ)
The guys bring the meat and girls bring the buns.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2015 11:16 PM (QSnYu)
#dearnextpresident
Where they ask their new Santa for gifts.
Posted by: Willy J. at December 13, 2015 11:16 PM (wHX4r)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:16 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bill Burr at December 13, 2015 11:17 PM (ZsN9X)
Let's not get that debate going again. Willow almost killed me over that one.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:17 PM (nXxF1)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:17 PM (uZNvH)
In weightlessness, you can't "swim" in air like you do in water at all. Not enough reaction mass to push against. Someone floating around can flail about all they want and do very little but look stupid.
Now two people together could push off each other and launch themselves in opposite directions, which is what would likely happen. The vagaries of angular momentum conservation means they likely would get themselves tumbling uncontrollably as well.
It would be fun to develop the proper protocols and techniques, of course.
I actually wonder if it's been tried. Of course, it would be very hush hush, as it is officially verbotten, but women have been on the space station regularly for long stints with men.
Put men and women together, shit happens.
The striking thing with women is the hair. Those with longer hair look awful as the hair just goes wild, floating everywhere.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 13, 2015 11:17 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2015 11:18 PM (EzgxV)
Yeah, anything involving cooking AND your dick should be cause to worry for you, chemmy.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (gyKtp)
well, that goes without saying.
that is why I always remember to cook with pants on
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:18 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:18 PM (39g3+)
Blacks: longer than that of getting kidnapped by Arab and Berber and black-Muslim slavers.
Yeah, Trump putting that shit to those constituencies for a vote, that might not work so well for da Demz.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:18 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: Jake at December 13, 2015 11:18 PM (QelBn)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:18 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Barney Frank at December 13, 2015 11:19 PM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:19 PM (Q0dwZ)
Especially with female cosmonauts.
Oh. You meant on their heads.
Never mind.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2015 11:19 PM (QSnYu)
Posted by: thathalfrican at December 13, 2015 11:20 PM (R5HRU)
Maybe not.
Posted by: eman at December 13, 2015 11:12 PM (MQEz6)
As everyone who has heard my rant too many times can attest, I refuse to have it in my house.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2015 11:20 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:17 PM (uZNvH)
Better yet, Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation and a GOP Vice-President of the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis
Posted by: The Veep Hat at December 13, 2015 11:20 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:20 PM (/ciMI)
We need empirical testing...
Posted by: Anna Puma
A close analogy to the Puma Drive is the Dean Drive from back in the day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive
Same principle.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 13, 2015 11:21 PM (kdS6q)
Because Jackson hated the notion of a central American bank. He'd never have supported the Federal Reserve. It's a disrespect to his memory to keep him on it.
So there won't be serious opposition, if he's taken off it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:14 PM (vjWed)
I figured that Congress put him there to remind the Federal Reserve Board that they were expendable.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2015 11:21 PM (EzgxV)
But if you got a spare dollar or two, buy my book please. Or hit up my GoFundMe. I need the money to see me through.
https://www.gofundme.com/8k4zdgw9
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 13, 2015 11:21 PM (yfeci)
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:22 PM (Q0dwZ)
Posted by: Jake at December 13, 2015 11:22 PM (QelBn)
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:22 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:23 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:23 PM (nXxF1)
Put men and women together, shit happens.
The striking thing with women is the hair. Those with longer hair look awful as the hair just goes wild, floating everywhere.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 13, 2015 11:17 PM (dvuhZ)
The History Channel had a series about the History of Sex or something like that a few years ago. One of the episodes did have a discussion on sex in space and if its possible, how to do it. I think one idea pretty much boiled down to doing it in a sleeping bag.
Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2015 11:23 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:23 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo watches Kingsman at December 13, 2015 11:23 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 13, 2015 11:24 PM (cdYPW)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:24 PM (uZNvH)
because there is not pound town in zero gravity.....
Posted by: Jake at December 13, 2015 11:24 PM (QelBn)
Posted by: Prizzy of the Stizzy at December 13, 2015 11:24 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:23 PM (39g3+)
Hi there!
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at December 13, 2015 11:25 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2015 11:25 PM (sdi6R)
I may be its last friend, but I'll stand with it to the end.
Posted by: AD at December 13, 2015 11:25 PM (AAnyj)
Posted by: Women in space at December 13, 2015 11:26 PM (/ciMI)
sex barbecue
Noun. an event where multiple people (4+) engage in sexual activity at a
barbecue. Involving high volumes of barbecue sauce (3 quarts)
hey Rob, you going with Rachel to the sex barbecue?
Curious that the definition involves a precise amount of BBQ sauce
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:26 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2015 11:26 PM (QSnYu)
An increasingly popular form of party, like a bonfire with alcohol, but with food and sex as well.
Never heard of it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:26 PM (nXxF1)
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:26 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Bears in space at December 13, 2015 11:27 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:27 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Q at December 13, 2015 11:27 PM (QSnYu)
And regardless of what they say now about not "over" controlling temperature rise during a fever if you've ever had to deal with your child in a febrile seizure from fever you'll damn sure prevent it from happening again. Scared the hell out of us.
Posted by: BananaDream at December 13, 2015 11:28 PM (Ag8Mw)
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 13, 2015 11:28 PM (NGd+i)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2suit
So all I need is a 2suit, a Kate Upton sexbot, and a sufficiently powerful rocket.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (gyKtp)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 13, 2015 11:17 PM (dvuhZ)
Braces, stirrups.... Maybe a bridle or halter or something.
Of course if CA-OSHA gets involved, goggles or face-shields, and elbow-pads will be required.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (q2o38)
If they want a new face on a bill they should print a new denomination.
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (Q0dwZ)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (39g3+)
I don't understand those words in that order.
RIP Judith Resnick.
https://tinyurl.com/jk44ol9
Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (/ciMI)
What was strange about it? War hero. President. Frontiersman.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (nXxF1)
Posted by: Horses at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (uZNvH)
I think he's trying to seduce her. Although he wants to be with his team mates.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...not Spartacus at December 13, 2015 11:30 PM (+1T7c)
If you don't mind doin' it to zombie clowns, but hey, rule-34
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:31 PM (vjWed)
/rant on
It's in nearly every OTC cold remedy, so it's a PITA to get Only What's Necessary To Treat My Symptoms --about once a year-- without having to take a potentially lethal dose of the crap.
/rant off
Ibuprofen works better for me IF I need pain or fever relief.
Posted by: JQ Flyover at December 13, 2015 11:31 PM (044Fx)
Posted by: JQ Flyover at December 13, 2015 11:31 PM (044Fx)
millennials=kids who know jack shit about history
Posted by: Jake at December 13, 2015 11:31 PM (QelBn)
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 13, 2015 11:31 PM (NGd+i)
Posted by: JQ Flyover at December 13, 2015 11:32 PM (044Fx)
Posted by: Grump928(C) has pictures at December 13, 2015 11:32 PM (rwI+c)
Along with the rest of the supersized ONT he already was bringing.
Posted by: Bete as collateral at December 13, 2015 11:32 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:32 PM (/ciMI)
Posted by: the barrel at December 13, 2015 11:32 PM (QSnYu)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:32 PM (vjWed)
Or in their strange, frightening text speech, KWKJSAH
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:32 PM (39g3+)
Maybe in the NFL he can have it both ways.
Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2015 11:33 PM (J3phO)
Posted by: Tmitsss at December 13, 2015 11:33 PM (Pa9vP)
Posted by: Teh Barrel at December 13, 2015 11:33 PM (uZNvH)
Grog, turkey legs, and, baby-making really are old human pass-times.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:33 PM (nXxF1)
Posted by: JQ Flyover at December 13, 2015 11:33 PM (044Fx)
Of course, if all the participants want to go is get each other off, there's no need to really go for the thrusting.
With 6 month stints, I'm very sure just about all them have to "let off some steam", by themselves if nothing else. And we don't want any globs of loose bodily fluids floating around. Imagine motoring around and something hits you in the face. What's that? OMG!
There's a funny bit in one of the Apollo mission transcripts which involved some stuff we never heard about. One of the three noticed something floating around in the capsule. Something disgusting. All three then denied it was their own.
Back then, toilet facilities consisted of little more than a plastic bag, and someone had a little accident and let something not get in the bag properly.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 13, 2015 11:34 PM (dvuhZ)
Also anti-elitist, generally regarded as our first true small-d democratic president.
But besides the Trail of Tears, the guy was corrupt and caused a depression. I honestly think you could make at least as good if not a better case for sticking Herbert Hoover on our currency as Jackson.
Posted by: AD at December 13, 2015 11:34 PM (AAnyj)
Posted by: JQ Flyover at December 13, 2015 11:34 PM (044Fx)
It would be fun to develop the proper protocols
Braces, stirrups.... Maybe a bridle or halter or something.
Posted by: Kindltot
Or as well call it, the Wednesday "Date Night"....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 13, 2015 11:34 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 13, 2015 11:34 PM (cdYPW)
Posted by: SMFH at December 13, 2015 11:34 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:35 PM (Q0dwZ)
Posted by: Tmitsss at December 13, 2015 11:35 PM (Pa9vP)
yeah Andrew Jackson was basically the 19th century version of Trump
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:35 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:35 PM (39g3+)
Yeah. I haven't been able to smoke a cigar since they got rid of them.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (QSnYu)
Also, good news - the hardest working man in show business is taking some "me time":
President Barack Obama and his family to spend Christmas in Hawaii for eighth consecutive year. The White House confirmed Friday that the Obama are due to leave Washington for the island on December 18. This year will be their eighth festive trip - and last as the first family - to the island
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (RU5ki)
Posted by: Grump928(C) has pictures at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (rwI+c)
That way it's actually in circulation much more, unlike the $50 or $100
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (uZNvH)
I may be its last friend, but I'll stand with it to the end.
Posted by: AD at December 13, 2015 11:25 PM (AAnyj)
I've been using it and a tag team of Asprin or Ibuprofen (not at the same time) to fight this bizarre inflammation thing my body has been doing since the start of August. Was able to use it addition to what the doctor I eventually saw prescribed (except when using Vicodin of course which he gave me a few pills of as well).
Posted by: Bete as collateral at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Jake at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (QelBn)
President Jeb will put Morrissey on it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: JQ Flyover at December 13, 2015 11:36 PM (044Fx)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 13, 2015 11:37 PM (YJmuy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2suit
So all I need is a 2suit, a Kate Upton sexbot, and a sufficiently powerful rocket.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (gyKtp)
Ah yeah that's the thing I saw. I remember now. Huh so it was actually on their "Universe" program.
"Let me put my Velcro on you"
Posted by: buzzion at December 13, 2015 11:37 PM (zt+N6)
I've taken LySDexia but it shousn't do, write?
(Obviously, I've got nothing. Now to read content.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - yaay! at December 13, 2015 11:38 PM (3rpCw)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else.
Posted by: Morrissey at December 13, 2015 11:38 PM (/ciMI)
Man, he never takes time off.
Work, work, work!
And the Secret Service just loves that, being 5000 miles away from home at Christmas.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...not Spartacus at December 13, 2015 11:38 PM (+1T7c)
nah President Jeb would put something like a tree on the $20 bill
an inanimate object, much like his campaign
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:38 PM (uZNvH)
I remember how you inserted the "smoke two joints" earworm into me way back... sweet sweet revenge is this ;^)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 13, 2015 11:38 PM (vjWed)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:39 PM (uZNvH)
OOh, lanai, why don't you go and play the grande piano!
Andrew Jackson was basically the 19th century version of Trump
Yeah, that's a pretty good way of putting it.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:39 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:35 PM (uZNvH) <<<
If Trump keeps his word as Jackson did he will make America great again.
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:40 PM (Q0dwZ)
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:40 PM (qUNWi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEbEHiPcO-8
I'm not about to watch a whole hour of that, but the first ten minutes was good.
Dang, she is a cutie.
Posted by: rickl at December 13, 2015 11:40 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:18 PM (uZNvH)
One suspects a bunk with an elastic net would suffice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 13, 2015 11:41 PM (CPHkQ)
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:41 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 13, 2015 11:41 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) has pictures at December 13, 2015 11:42 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:40 PM (Q0dwZ)
oh, don't get me started
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:42 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:40 PM (qUNWi)
I'd have to drive 40 minutes or more to evaluate a K-Mart. They have been dying off in this area for better than 15 years, leaving giant corpses in a number of places.
Posted by: Bete as collateral at December 13, 2015 11:42 PM (F9322)
It does not do anything for inflammation but may help the pain. Of course Viicodin already has acetaminophen in it.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 13, 2015 11:42 PM (cdYPW)
Posted by: tbodie at December 13, 2015 11:42 PM (L9GR7)
I don't consider it an aspirin or ibuprofen alternative.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:43 PM (nXxF1)
Are we talking Chelsea Clinton-level horrifying, or what?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 13, 2015 11:43 PM (RU5ki)
What about the Mir space rats? I've always assumed that they're developing of super intelligence is what led to the destruction of the space station.
Posted by: Grump928(C) has pictures at December 13, 2015 11:43 PM (rwI+c)
why hasn't there been a SyFy movie about this yet?
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:44 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at December 13, 2015 11:44 PM (/ciMI)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 13, 2015 11:44 PM (39g3+)
No, the Russians destroyed it, to eliminate the competitive species.
Posted by: Grump928(C) has pictures at December 13, 2015 11:45 PM (rwI+c)
More like Scuzzlebutt with a Patrick Duffy leg.
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:45 PM (qUNWi)
Sure sounds genuine to me.
Ha
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 13, 2015 11:46 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:46 PM (Q0dwZ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) has pictures at December 13, 2015 11:45 PM (rwI+c)
clever!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:46 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:46 PM (nXxF1)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 13, 2015 11:42 PM (cdYPW)
Yep. Didn't find that out until a few days after I had surgery as I had someone else pick up the Vicodin for me as I was not able to deal with driving- or being a passenger- for a couple days. Obviously I'm not dead like buzzion so I somehow didn't cross the streams in use.
Posted by: Bete as collateral at December 13, 2015 11:46 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:47 PM (Q0dwZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Sure, but as a wise man just told me, "Sometimes, you have to drill for reasons other than obtaining production immediately."
That's a relief. I was worried about how long I'd have to keep that one on file.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 13, 2015 11:47 PM (xq1UY)
What was strange about it? War hero. President. Frontiersman.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (nXxF1)
Vetoing the re-authorization of the Second National Bank of the United States:
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.
Nor is our Government to be maintained or our Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several States. In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves-in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence; not in its control, but in its protection; not in binding the States more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.
Experience should teach us wisdom. Most of the difficulties our Government now encounters and most of the dangers which impend over our Union have sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate objects of Government by our national legislation, and the adoption of such principles as are embodied in this act. Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress. By attempting to gratify their desires we have in the results of our legislation arrayed section against section, interest against interest, and man against man, in a fearful commotion which threatens to shake the foundations of our Union. It is time to pause in our career to review our principles, and if possible revive that devoted patriotism and spirit of compromise which distinguished the sages of the Revolution and the fathers of our Union. If we can not at once, in justice to interests vested under improvident legislation, make our Government what it ought to be, we can at least take a stand against all new grants of monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our Government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy.
I have now done my duty to my country. If sustained by my fellow citizens, I shall be grateful and happy; if not, I shall find in the motives which impel me ample grounds for contentment and peace. In the difficulties which surround us and the dangers which threaten our institutions there is cause for neither dismay nor alarm. For relief and deliverance let us firmly rely on that kind Providence which I am sure watches with peculiar care over the destinies of our Republic, and on the intelligence and wisdom of our countrymen. Through His abundant goodness and heir patriotic devotion our liberty and Union will be preserved."
Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2015 11:47 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH at December 13, 2015 11:48 PM (zyIlW)
When the quarter ended, Referee Jess Kersey conferred with Erving and Bird, the team captains, in an attempt to prevent any problems.
He should have also talked to one of the dozen or so men dressed as Santa Claus who were in attendance for a Sixers promotion. With 11 seconds left, several Santas standing in an aisle began fighting with fans, some of whose views had been blocked. Security guards had to escort the Santas out of the arena.
And to all a good night
Posted by: Tom Ridge at December 13, 2015 11:48 PM (e8kgV)
Are we talking Chelsea Clinton-level horrifying, or what?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 13, 2015 11:43 PM (RU5ki)
Carottop or Lena Dunham levels perhaps.
Posted by: Bete as collateral at December 13, 2015 11:48 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:48 PM (nXxF1)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:42 PM (uZNvH)
******
Best not, Jeff. You have eaten up enough ONT time with your agendas.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 13, 2015 11:49 PM (Bi1Tt)
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:49 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 13, 2015 11:50 PM (lWaEx)
Jake the Snake was asked if he would ever Haku. He said:
"If I had a gun and was sitting inside a tank with one shell left and Meng is 300 yards away, he's mine, right? Well the first thing I'm going to do is jump out of the tank and shoot myself because I don't want to wound that son of a bitch and have him pissed off at me."
Posted by: the real ch3 at December 13, 2015 11:50 PM (eSGMg)
Posted by: Jake at December 13, 2015 11:50 PM (QelBn)
At least up here in the leftist Northeast, those of us who know the truth about Islam are treated as paranoid Cassandras at best, racist hypocrite Islamophobes at worst who want to help Trump round up all the brown people and send them to camps. They basically react to any criticism of Islam as Ben Affleck did on he Bill Maher show, when Maher, in a rare moment of clarity, noted that Islam actually does the things that most libs accuse the Christians of wanting to do.
Posted by: Biff Boffo at December 13, 2015 11:50 PM (Y0FCw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:51 PM (nXxF1)
Heh. I change my nic's tag line on every comment, and I've made lots more than 30 comments in the past week, I'd think, but the variable IP on my cell probably masks that most of the time. (Presuming I have any idea how the list is counted.)
O, Glorious fifteen seconds of fame!
Posted by: mindful webworker - yaay! ^2 at December 13, 2015 11:52 PM (3rpCw)
hmmm, I did not know this.
PJ Media link: (Richard Fernandez article)
http://tinyurl.com/h6fbcua
The referred to Reason article:
http://tinyurl.com/jfmn3mt
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 13, 2015 11:52 PM (gyKtp)
Something also interesting is the miscarriage rate among women who've been in space is much higher than normal, but they can't really pin it down on the space/weightlessness exposure.
Basically, everything we're learning shows that zero-g is very bad for us. Not just zero-g, but anything different from 1g +/- some small tolerance.
1g has been the background against which life has developed here for billions of years. It's a basic "given" to everything, and changing it does all sorts of things.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 13, 2015 11:52 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 13, 2015 11:52 PM (RU5ki)
there is no way I will ever vote for Trump for anything, not even dogcatcher. he is not even worth that vote. that doesn't mean I would vote for Jeb! or for Hillary! because I wouldn't, I would vote for the Libertarian before that. and that is all I will say on the matter.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:53 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2015 11:54 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:54 PM (uZNvH)
Hey Writy.
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2015 11:49 PM (qUNWi)
That's "Quotey" to you.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 13, 2015 11:55 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Grump928(C) has pictures at December 13, 2015 11:45 PM (rwI+c)
they mutated into Watchmakers?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2015 11:56 PM (q2o38)
Posted by: Biff Boffo at December 13, 2015 11:56 PM (Y0FCw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:56 PM (nXxF1)
OMG the angular momentum of zero-G sex would cause people to just be spinning in circles
Sure, sure. Next you'll be claiming about that scene in Kingsmen where the wench with the blades for feet jumps down from the control room, shooting her gun at Eggsie while in the air.
I suspect she might be a bit surprised about how that would work in real life.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 13, 2015 11:56 PM (o78gS)
yeah the Klan was bigger than just the South.
when I lived in Oregon people wanted all of the landmarks and monuments named after the Oregon KKK governor whitewashed from history
and Oregon wasn't exactly Southern
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:57 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Anachronda at December 13, 2015 11:57 PM (o78gS)
Posted by: eman at December 13, 2015 11:57 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: DC in River City at December 13, 2015 11:58 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:58 PM (uZNvH)
So there may be some trends there that no one knows about.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 13, 2015 11:58 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 13, 2015 11:53 PM (uZNvH)
******
Yeah, not exactly a shocker, CJ. It would be awesome if you would actually stick to where you said you would STFD and STFU.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 13, 2015 11:58 PM (tz46A)
Jackson better hope for a major revival of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" soon.
(By the way, if you're willing to dare an earworm infection, search for the latter musical's song "The Corrupt Bargain".)
Posted by: Sister Sestina at December 13, 2015 11:59 PM (/R4ru)
Chicken fingers fried nicely, w "Jan's Sauce", to die for. W/ a wedge salad, awesome.
I think I've been over served so I'm off to bed.
T
Posted by: Farmer at December 14, 2015 12:00 AM (o/90i)
wait, super-intelligent space rats destroyed a space station?
why hasn't there been a SyFy movie about this yet?
I hear it's a major subplot of Sharknado 4.
Posted by: Anachronda at December 14, 2015 12:00 AM (o78gS)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:51 PM (nXxF1)
Them's Andy Jackson's words, and they're meaty -- and every one applies today. You can be grateful that I merely quoted the summaration and discarded 3/4 of the entire address.
But if you want the real Reader's Digest version, AJ said "FYNQ".
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 12:00 AM (EzgxV)
HHHeeey! I made the Top 10 Socks list for the first time in ages!
Posted by: mindful webworker
You know what's good for treating Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Acetaminophen.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 14, 2015 12:00 AM (kdS6q)
Yeah, not exactly a shocker, CJ. It would be awesome if you would actually stick to where you said you would STFD and STFU.
Hey, Ricardo asked and so I answered.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
I would not think about taking away your right to believe what you want to believe.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:00 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: thathalfrican at December 14, 2015 12:01 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 13, 2015 11:58 PM (tz46A)
How about you be nice and mind the new banning policy.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 14, 2015 12:02 AM (wqVD1)
Chemjeff! I'm glad you're around more lately.
I've had a few beers, now Cougar and I are having some wine and watching Longmire.pretty good way to end a Sunday Funday.
Posted by: DC in River City at December 14, 2015 12:03 AM (e+1S5)
Hehehe.
That's about what I gathered but wasn't sure if there was something I was missing.l
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:03 AM (nXxF1)
But it is cheap and does not cause bleeding or stomach upset. So it has that going for it.
Yeah, but it can make you sick or kill you.
Posted by: @BC Powder at December 13, 2015 11:10 PM (Q0dwZ)
And most important for the Moron Lifestyle(tm), it will tear up your liver.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer, FCCS(SW/AW) (ret) at December 14, 2015 12:03 AM (E1IKf)
I am drinking some Miller Lite myself
not exactly hoity-toity but it gets the job done
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:04 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 14, 2015 12:02 AM (wqVD1)
***
I was responding to a post. Is that now somehow a problem?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (06b4v)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zjzaaz8
Posted by: The Electoral Hat-Off at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (06b4v)
Yes because you're clearly trying to start something.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 14, 2015 12:07 AM (wqVD1)
I guess you can't fix froggy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 14, 2015 12:07 AM (FkBIv)
You nerds got your light sabres ready?
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (MQEz6)
I have a laser pointer, is that close enough?
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:07 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 13, 2015 11:58 PM (tz46A)
How about you be nice and mind the new banning policy.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 14, 2015 12:02 AM
I'm not being a suckup, but Maet...you do do an awesome job sometimes. TY
Posted by: Farmer at December 14, 2015 12:08 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: DC in River City at December 14, 2015 12:08 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Ralph at December 14, 2015 12:08 AM (3wfnv)
you don't see anything wrong with your post?
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 14, 2015 12:08 AM (cdYPW)
Miller Lite? Like making love in a canoe. They're both fucking close to water.
Posted by: DC in River City at December 14, 2015 12:08 AM (e+1S5)
yeah I know.
I save the hard stuff for important occasions
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:09 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:10 AM (uZNvH)
Probably about as effective according to science as we know it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:10 AM (nXxF1)
Marine Le Pen said this was "intellectual terrorism".
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 14, 2015 12:11 AM (dvuhZ)
228 224
You nerds got your light sabres ready?
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:05 AM (MQEz6)
I have a laser pointer, is that close enough?
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:07 AM (uZNvH)
It's a start.
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:11 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 14, 2015 12:07 AM (wqVD1)
******
Good grief. Uummm...no.,
BTW, can you please fix the enwidening some douchebag decided to visit upon us?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 14, 2015 12:12 AM (Bi1Tt)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:12 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: DC in River City at December 14, 2015 12:12 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 12:12 AM (zyIlW)
Hehehe.
That's about what I gathered but wasn't sure if there was something I was missing.l
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:03 AM (nXxF1)
It's a bit of a slog but there's not a wasted word in the part I quoted. There's a reason that "Jacksonian" describes a thread of politics that has endured for nearly two centuries -- occasionally hopping from party to party. Just read the first couple of sentences -- can you imagine an official or candidate from either party including that much truth in a speech, today?
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 12:12 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:14 AM (uZNvH)
re: angular momentum
Mechanics really threw me for a loop at first because the symbols look very like the symbols for good ol algebra, but aren't. Slowed me down for a bit until it clicked.
w *grumble* X *grrrrrr*
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 14, 2015 12:14 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 14, 2015 12:15 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:15 AM (MQEz6)
Only Platinum Members get the actual Preview ViewŪ and see what they've written.
Everyone else sees what they want to see.
And disregards the rest.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 14, 2015 12:15 AM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:16 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:17 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:17 AM (uZNvH)
http://tinyurl.com/jrbcezx
It appears that the embryos from the mice were reabsorbed.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 12:17 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:18 AM (uZNvH)
Although a Packer fan, I would not bet against Oakland
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:18 AM (voOPb)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676078626710888448
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676079785173385216
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676079987875667968
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676080154385375232
Posted by: kbdabear at December 14, 2015 12:18 AM (mMd+8)
The parts about money overtaking policy and the word of the people being drowned. Yes. Clearly, it's not a new problem today but we, our parents and grandparents, may have thought it mildly subdued for decades before us.
We see now.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:18 AM (nXxF1)
256 sould lost their lives, including 248 soldiers from 101st Airborne, who were coming home from a mission in the Sinai.
RIP Soldiers.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=63268
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 12:18 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:19 AM (MQEz6)
That is truly it in a nutshell.
Until we make up our minds that
1. Islam is at war with the world
2. Islam wants to kill any disbelievers and their assistants.
3. Many Muslims believe in Islam
4. Many Muslims do not believe in Islam but will go along
5. The ones that believe in Islam are dangerous and homicidal
6. Their numbers are large enough for them to be a concern
7. That concern is great enough to desire Muslims to be isolated
8. That necessary isolation is important enough to send soldiers or police to accomplish
9. We will spend money to make that happen.
Not as nushelly but here goes: Islam needs to die.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 14, 2015 12:20 AM (Xo1Rt)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676080314414854144
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676080525509955585
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676080693823205376
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/676080824366686208
Posted by: kbdabear at December 14, 2015 12:20 AM (mMd+8)
They sucked.
Especially compared to Linear Momentum, or even worse, Classical Mechanics
I mean, WTF????
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:20 AM (uZNvH)
He's much less funny.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) at December 14, 2015 12:20 AM (ymbWD)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2015 12:21 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 14, 2015 12:21 AM (l3vZN)
that is so sad.
I am so sad that we have someone in charge who does not honor their memories even in the slightest.
it is all very terrible.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:21 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 14, 2015 12:22 AM (PyTHB)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:22 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 14, 2015 12:21 AM (l3vZN)
Good question, it's been awhile since I've seen dude.
Posted by: thathalfrican at December 14, 2015 12:22 AM (R5HRU)
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SMFH, I saw that on Air Disasters on the Smithsonian Channel last night. A major controversy over whether it was a bomb or ordnance on board, or something as simple as they didn't de-ice the plane before takeoff.
The controversy destroyed the Canadian Air Safety Board.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 12:23 AM (9iR5/)
Does Chi ever frequent the establishment anymore?"
Howdy, Jinxy. Havnen't seen Chi in a while. Months it seems.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:23 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: DC in River City at December 14, 2015 12:24 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:24 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:24 AM (uZNvH)
You liked the guy and he doesn't deserve to die but neither dot he people he's killing so he's most likely going to have to be shot.
I believe that the Government won't take action until the man in the street does and then only to restrain the man in the street.
We will then be forced into a Civil War with the common man against the government protecting the Muslims.
It will be very ugly and very messy. The country will never be the same again unless someone takes charge and stops any further invasion by those who's very being is inimical to the Constitution or to any peaceful prosperous life.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 14, 2015 12:25 AM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 12:25 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 14, 2015 12:25 AM (l3vZN)
Heh. Offense was shit and defense wore the Hell out. Cassel is useless. G.B. found a ground game.
May G.B. via con Dios.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:26 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:27 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:27 AM (uZNvH)
That sucks. If I lived in France, I would absolutely be voting for the National Front.
Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2015 12:27 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 14, 2015 12:27 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: thathalfrican at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (R5HRU)
Posted by: Grumpy old man at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (E/zpo)
Question:
"Has Donald Trump gone too far with his plan to ban all Muslims?"
Caucasians: no, 69%, yes 31%.
Hispanic: no, 87%. Yes, 13%.
African-American: no, 96%. Yes 4%.
That's some strong stuff.
Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2015 11:15 PM (Q0dwZ)
Late to the party... that is overwhelming.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (T78UI)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (uZNvH)
= That blue bald guy whose face looks like he's smelling a bad turd, his voice sounds like Captain Avatar from Star Bylasrs. (Actually a lot of the males here enunciate like that.)
= She can rock the black space bikini.
= Opening scene is ripped off Star Wars so bad, it's impossible to see that ship without seeing the Spaceball bumpersticker "we brake for nobody" behind it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2015 12:29 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:29 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:30 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (uZNvH)
Only on the shady side. But then every side of the Hillaroid is shady.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2015 12:30 AM (CPHkQ)
chemjeff
You my friend have never been to Wisconsin in January
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who
drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:30 AM (voOPb)
lol I imagine it's cold but not that cold Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:30 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 14, 2015 12:30 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:32 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:32 AM (uZNvH)
287 Because everyone knows it's impossible to get to absolute zero
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (uZNvH)
Stand still you little fuckers!!
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:32 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Ralph at December 14, 2015 12:33 AM (3wfnv)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 14, 2015 12:33 AM (Xo1Rt)
287 Because everyone knows it's impossible to get to absolute zero
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (uZNvH)
Stand still you little fuckers!!
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:32 AM (MQEz6)
oh you should know that 'standing still' isn't enough
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:33 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:34 AM (nXxF1)
wall of shame again. thank god my boss doesn't know about the 'hq or she'd be PISSED if she found out what I do during the day.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:34 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: beavis at December 14, 2015 12:34 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:34 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:35 AM (uZNvH)
i get grouchy when i don't choke people on a regular basis
Posted by: the real ch3 at December 14, 2015 12:35 AM (YukGa)
I'm for bed, 5 stupid work days left this year. You kids have fun.
Posted by: DC in River City at December 14, 2015 12:36 AM (e+1S5)
hmm so how is life as a real methyl?
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:36 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:36 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:37 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 12:37 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:37 AM (AkOaV)
287 Because everyone knows it's impossible to get to absolute zero
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:28 AM (uZNvH)
Stand still you little fuckers!!
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:32 AM (MQEz6)
oh you should know that 'standing still' isn't enough
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:33 AM (uZNvH)
Don't go all QM on us, dude.
Posted by: eman at December 14, 2015 12:37 AM (MQEz6)
Thanks, thanks. I might print this extra-packed ONT out and put it on my fridge.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:38 AM (AkOaV)
Tonight's Bond flick: "Tomorrow Never Dies". I admit this time I gave up on the plot somewhere midway and just enjoyed the spectacle of it all. Not horrible but certainly far from the best. "Goldeneye" last week was much better IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 14, 2015 12:38 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:41 AM (AkOaV)
this time I gave up on the plot somewhere midway and just enjoyed the
spectacle of it all. Not horrible but certainly far from the best.
"Goldeneye" last week was much better IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 14, 2015 12:38 AM
Yeah, it's not really bad. It's just something of a let down. The premise was a terrific one, yet it just doesn't do anything much with it. Just a bunch of faffing around on a boat. But, it's light years ahead of what follows from here on in.
Posted by: otho at December 14, 2015 12:43 AM (EWg9n)
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No. You have to push the little button on the side UP. Then you can talk and people can hear you.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 12:43 AM (9iR5/)
Whoa! Time for me to head for the exit.
Seriously, I just realized, if I don't log off, I can't go to bed, and if I can't go to bed, then I can't get to sleep, and if I don't get to sleep, I won't wake up in the morning, and if I don't wake up in the morning, I can't have breakfast while reading Vic's newsbits. So...
Good night, Gracies.
Posted by: mindful webworker - whoa! at December 14, 2015 12:44 AM (3rpCw)
Gotta choke a bitch, gotta choke a bitch.
You could probably drag the body out away from the rig and the coyotes and buzzards would do their thing. Rig worker don't show up?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:44 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:45 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:45 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:46 AM (voOPb)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVv8-PFYN0c
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 12:47 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:47 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:47 AM (uZNvH)
It didn't hurt that the bad guy in Tomorrow Never Dies was a megalomaniacal media mogul. Unfortunately he reminded me far more of Rupert Murdoch than Ted Turner.
Which reminds me, who wants to bet the next Bond flick will have a villain modeled after Trump?
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 14, 2015 12:48 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:48 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:48 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:49 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:49 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:50 AM (uZNvH)
Does Chi ever frequent the establishment anymore?
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 14, 2015 12:21 AM (l3vZN)
He was on not too long ago.
We also had a talk today. The fiancee had her annual candy-making extravaganza (where I hide out in the other side of the house), and had just sent me out for another container of cream. Chi's comment -- "locked out of half the house until sent to the store for heavy cream? You're lookin' whipped."
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 12:51 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:51 AM (uZNvH)
Okay, you're a chemist. You're body will tell you when you can't have anymore. It will shut down. You still typing?
Duh.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:52 AM (nXxF1)
Wow really that dumb? Ahh Mr. Smarty Pantz ordinary honest folk are afraid that you and your boss want to take our legal rights away.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:53 AM (voOPb)
Thursday I went to a presentation, but we couldn't deploy our telescopes due to the weather, but we still set them up in the meeting room for the students and their parents. After we did the presentation, we had a lot of kids come up and ask questions about our equipment, stars, planets and all sorts of things. I'm still a rank amateur, but I answered as best I could.
Tonight I did another presentation with another more experienced astronomer and it was great. Clear skies, and a good crowd of kids and adults. I even got to see a couple of things I'd never seen before with my telescope thanks to the more experienced member.
I had a blast. Didn't see any of the Geminid meteors though. Did see my first double star.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 12:53 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 14, 2015 12:53 AM (ntObR)
Ponder that a while. Actually, negative temperature is a quantum phenomenon, a condition that is impossible classically. That is to say, what we think of as "temperature" in macroscopic experience is impossible to be negative.
But some quantum tricks make it possible. Basically, it's a relationship where temperature has a mathematical definition, a statistical one, and quantum weirdness turns that definition on it's head.
Actually, negative temperature is more "hotter than infinitely hot", than colder than absolute zero, but this is just word games you can play from the equations.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 14, 2015 12:54 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:54 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:54 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:55 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:55 AM (nXxF1)
Posted by: Old Blue
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You sure you're not with chemjeff?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2015 12:56 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:56 AM (AkOaV)
people only get "negative temperature" by applying an equilibrium thermodynamic model to a nonequilibrium system.
Yes you can get population inversions, and if you apply the boltzmann distribution to a population inversion you get a "negative temperature" but those are not equilibrium systems.
so the whole "negative temperature" stuff is crap.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:57 AM (uZNvH)
also, they walk "radians" from one point to another.
kind of puts that ol' Kessel Run into perspective.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2015 12:57 AM (6FqZa)
people only get "negative temperature" by applying an equilibrium thermodynamic model to a nonequilibrium system.
Yes you can get population inversions, and if you apply the boltzmann distribution to a population inversion you get a "negative temperature" but those are not equilibrium systems.
so the whole "negative temperature" stuff is crap.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:57 AM (uZNvH)
....nerd
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:57 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2015 12:57 AM (6FqZa)
Shit, I could do that in less than 12 parsecs.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:58 AM (AkOaV)
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Sort of like one electron can be in two places at the same time, or how the spin of one electron can affect the spin of another electron separated by a large distance. Or how an electron can exhibit a wave function at one time, but a particle function another time and that the difference between the two functions is actually the act of observing the function. That kind of quantum weirdness?
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 12:58 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Brian McKim at December 14, 2015 12:58 AM (21wQW)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 12:58 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:57 AM (AkOaV)
and this is after 10 beers
can you imagine what an awesome date I am when I am totally sober?????
<sob>
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:59 AM (uZNvH)
can you imagine what an awesome date I am when I am totally sober?????
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:59 AM (uZNvH)
ha!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 12:59 AM (AkOaV)
[/rimshot]
But hey, I love cheesy humor.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 14, 2015 12:53 AM (ntObR)
I'm just the reporter here. It was really chi's-y humor.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 01:00 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2015 01:01 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 01:02 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:36 AM (uZNvH)
it's not too shabby
Posted by: the real ch3 at December 14, 2015 01:03 AM (YukGa)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2015 12:56 AM (9mTYi)-------The double star was in the constellation Cygnus. It's called Albireo. It has a yellowish main star and a smaller blue star companion. And I waited to start drinking until I got home. Pretty awesome.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:03 AM (9iR5/)
2. Islam wants to kill any disbelievers and their assistants.
3. Many Muslims believe in Islam
4. Many Muslims do not believe in Islam but will go along
5. The ones that believe in Islam are dangerous and homicidal
6. Their numbers are large enough for them to be a concern
7. That concern is great enough to desire Muslims to be isolated
8. That necessary isolation is important enough to send soldiers or police to accomplish
9. We will spend money to make that happen.
If I may add,
10. The Leftists are using the Islamic hammer to rid the world of Christianity and Jews because they are too big of pussies to do it themselves, thus achieving their so-called secular humanist utopia.
Posted by: Snicklefritz at December 14, 2015 01:03 AM (Moh0M)
er, all Muslims believe in Islam.
It's part of the definition of "islam"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 01:04 AM (AkOaV)
Next week my goal is to get on the sock board, not just the wall of shame.
Maybe I'll just add nonsensical letters and words to my posts.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes, eh? at December 14, 2015 01:05 AM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes, nah at December 14, 2015 01:05 AM (AkOaV)
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Right up until the very moment when they either have to submit or die. That will be their Aw Shit moment. Then and only then will they realize that they fucked up.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:06 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Snicklefritz at December 14, 2015 01:07 AM (Moh0M)
It's part of the definition of "islam"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 14, 2015 01:04 AM (AkOaV)
I was about to make the same comment. I guess it depends upon whether you call indifferent or "cultural" muslims, muslims.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2015 01:09 AM (CPHkQ)
Posted by: B. McKim at December 14, 2015 01:09 AM (21wQW)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 14, 2015 01:09 AM (kpqmD)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes, nah at December 14, 2015 01:05 AM (AkOaV)
It has been my experience that drawing two socks never gets you a pair.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 01:09 AM (EzgxV)
thus achieving their so-called secular humanist utopia.
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Right
up until the very moment when they either have to submit or die. That
will be their Aw Shit moment. Then and only then will they realize that
they fucked up.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:06 AM (9iR5/)
It's as I've been saying, they think they're smart enough to harness chaos and ride it as a wave into power. Chaos is giggling with anticipation, because it has other plans that are served by their naivete.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 14, 2015 01:10 AM (J+mig)
It's not crap, it's just something very exotic beyond classical experience.
You've got a definition of something, in this case temperature, and you produce exotic conditions where that definition gets turned into something very weird.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 14, 2015 01:11 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Snicklefritz at December 14, 2015 01:12 AM (Moh0M)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2015 01:13 AM (CPHkQ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 14, 2015 01:13 AM (YJmuy)
Personally, I think a house full of pretty women making candy sounds like heaven - but I can see where it might make one want to hide out, to...
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 01:13 AM (oLne9)
that would be a violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 01:14 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 01:14 AM (voOPb)
It's as I've been saying, they think they're smart enough to harness chaos and ride it as a wave into power. Chaos is giggling with anticipation, because it has other plans that are served by their naivete.
You are spot on! Great way to put it, giggling with anticipation.
Posted by: Snicklefritz at December 14, 2015 01:15 AM (Moh0M)
that would be a violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Posted by: chemjeff
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You can get a $200 ticket for that.
Posted by: RKae at December 14, 2015 01:15 AM (HiSOA)
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Sort of like the center of a black hole where both Eisenstein physics and quantum physics completely fall apart. When you have a radius of zero as the denominator in the equation everything falls to absolute crap.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:16 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 01:17 AM (uZNvH)
Be well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 14, 2015 01:17 AM (voOPb)
Well, that explains Starcrash.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 14, 2015 01:17 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Tmitsss at December 13, 2015 11:33 PM (Pa9vP)
Bring back that AND the $1,000 bill. I'm old enough to remember both.
Because inflation and stuff.
Posted by: Blano at December 14, 2015 01:19 AM (C3E0x)
Here, I found a good little primer on the subject:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/8mym
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 14, 2015 01:19 AM (dvuhZ)
that would be a violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 01:14 AM (uZNvH)
Not at all. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that a closed system increases in entropy UNLESS outside energy is introduced. Of course, adding energy is no guarantee of lowering entropy, but not having any energy to add is a guarantee of increasing entropy over time.
Only systems that have new energy being introduced can lower entropy over time.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2015 01:20 AM (zc3Db)
Another few years of Obama policies, whether continued by His Imperial Self or either of the nursing home rejects pursuing his title will see to it that those not only return, but also the million and billion denominations, which you will require several of to buy a spiced Chai latte at Starbucks.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 14, 2015 01:21 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:22 AM (9iR5/)
Only systems that have new energy being introduced can lower entropy over time.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2015 01:20 AM (zc3Db)
Would you like to make a contract?
Posted by: ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ at December 14, 2015 01:22 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at December 14, 2015 01:23 AM (3e+65)
Posted by: Brian McKim at December 14, 2015 01:24 AM (21wQW)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 14, 2015 01:24 AM (dvuhZ)
Damn it. Moose out front didn't say there would be physics here.
Posted by: Hanoverfist at December 14, 2015 01:23 AM (3e+65)
-----------He just wanted to collect the cover charge.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:25 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 01:25 AM (BHl9S)
Hi, Jinx (yes, that is still very funny to me). Chi is still alive. And still thinks quite highly of you.
Had a Clint Eastwood kind of day. There was Good, Bad, and Ugly.
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 01:26 AM (oLne9)
http://tinyurl.com/gtfljkd
*Baby talk creeps me out, but less so than the imagery in this music video.*
Posted by: Thrawn at December 14, 2015 01:28 AM (wZ2hu)
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes......
Damn, that was a helluva speech. Too bad we don't hear stuff like that anymore.
Posted by: Blano at December 14, 2015 01:29 AM (C3E0x)
Personally, I think a house full of pretty women making candy sounds like heaven - but I can see where it might make one want to hide out, to...
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 01:13 AM (oLne9)
Oh, yeah -- been released for a while.....now that things need cleaned-up. Not sorry I missed the hours they were here, though -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvhFs2bdRpE
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 01:29 AM (EzgxV)
mirror, on I-10 about 20 miles south of Phoenix. Sonofabitch
deliberately drove his car into the path of a tractor trailer that was
going 80 mph... we were the car in front of the truck.
Any idea how the driver of the truck is?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 14, 2015 01:29 AM (YJmuy)
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Brian, I'm sorry that you had to see that, and I'm even sorrier for the truck driver. He never wanted to be part of that. Almost like suicide by cop. I drove over the road for over twenty years, and you hear stories like that all the time. I've never understood why, if you are going to take your own life, that you feel that you have to involve some innocent person.
It's one of those things that you will never forget. It will come to you when you least expect it. And it is also something that you will never understand. You have my prayers, Brother.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:31 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 01:32 AM (BHl9S)
Another few years of Obama policies, whether continued by His Imperial Self or either of the nursing home rejects pursuing his title will see to it that those not only return, but also the million and billion denominations, which you will require several of to buy a spiced Chai latte at Starbucks.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 14, 2015 01:21 AM (J+mig)
We'll never see high-denomination banknotes again. Everything is going electronic so that skimming your wealth can happen at the speed of light, without notice, and without recourse.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 01:33 AM (EzgxV)
If ya gotta go camp, go Flash Gordon
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2015 01:33 AM (6FqZa)
I save the hard stuff for important occasions
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 12:09 AM
BWwwaaaahhhhh. Thanks Chemmie, I lol'd.
And thanks Maet. I lurk more than post since I went back to work cause I'm wiped out ,and seeing the same bs from the same peeps nightly doesn't make me try real hard to stay awake & post.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destriy at December 14, 2015 01:34 AM (Vm8WO)
"I don't mind Andy Jackson getting the boot, his popularity was always strange to me anyway. "
What was strange about it? War hero. President. Frontiersman.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 13, 2015 11:29 PM (nXxF1)
And all around total badass... He nearly beat the guy who tried to assassinate him to death with his cane.
Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2015 01:34 AM (NPofj)
again. Everything is going electronic so that skimming your wealth can
happen at the speed of light, without notice, and without recourse.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 01:33 AM (EzgxV)
So basically Zimbabwe 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 14, 2015 01:34 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Brian McKim at December 14, 2015 01:24 AM (21wQW)
How are you guys doing? Did you learn the fate of the truck driver?
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 01:36 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 01:38 AM (BHl9S)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 01:43 AM (BHl9S)
I got to see my grandnephew today. He's great. Perfect, in fact. Walking, talking (well, sort of) and being every bit of 14 months old.
Niece is still a beautiful young woman, her husband seems like a real good kid, life is OK for them.
The Bad:
I tried to take Mom out for lunch. Everywhere we decided to go was closed on Sunday. Couldn't even find a hot dog joint to sit down in. Then, we decided on an old friend's sub shop nearby as a last ditch effort. Not only was he closed, but there was a "for lease" sign in the window. And I can't find a good phone number for him anywhere - 30 fucking years, and now gone...
The Ugly:
Almost got into a knock-down, drag-out scrapper with my brother today. It was bad. Stupid bad. Bad enough that people cried. Mom, sis, nieces, baby, etc..
I've never done that. I'm embarassed. He deserved to be beaten into a pile of pulp, but probably not in front of Mom. Hell, he's needed that shit for quite a while now, I was just kind of waiting for the chance to do it privately. He wanted to make it public, though.
Meh. Another day scratched off the calendar, right?
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 01:47 AM (oLne9)
You ain't worth a shit but where at?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 14, 2015 12:37 AM (nXxF1)
LMAO.
Posted by: Blano at December 14, 2015 01:47 AM (C3E0x)
Posted by: Kara at December 14, 2015 01:48 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Brian McKim at December 14, 2015 01:24 AM (21wQW)
Welcome, newcomer. (at least, your nic is new to me)
Second, Ho Lee Fuk. Suicide by truck. Not too unlike suicide by train, car, etc. But this brought to mind a statistic the BLM crowd and Progressives like to bandy about -- The number of citizens killed by cops vs vice versa. About 7:1 iirc. Anyhow, I wonder just how many of those 'killings' are planned suicides by cop.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2015 01:49 AM (gyKtp)
The Boltzmann distribution can be used as a definition of temperature when everything is at thermal equilibrium *and there are no external forces*. (Generally gravity is neglected.)
When that is the case, then you have the normal relationships of thermodynamics.
But when you apply external forces such as a strong magnetic field, then the Boltzmann distribution no longer applies. So if you apply the Boltzmann distribution to such a system even if it is at equilibrium *under the influence of a field*, you will get seemingly absurd results like "negative temperature".
That is because the wrong model is being applied to the system, not because the system actually does have negative temperature.
When there is a population inversion due to the presence of a strong field such as a magnetic field, the system still has a finite positive temperature. That temperature would be attributed from the average kinetic energy that is derived from the statistical mechanical partition function *most appropriate for that system*.
I will confess that this is not my area of strength, but I'm pretty confident that the temperature, as a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles of a system, will always be a positive finite number, and never negative, not even for a quantum system.
That is how I understand things anyway.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 01:50 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 01:55 AM (uZNvH)
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Isn't it interesting that gravity is such a weak force until you apply it to mass. I had this odd thought the other night. I have mass, therefore I have gravity. Plop me into deep space where nothing is around and I could actually bend light around my mass. Probably not by enough to measure, but I could.
Drop me into a nebulae with a lot of dust and gas, and I could become the center of a star. My mass, over time, would attract enough gas and dust to become the heart of a star.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:58 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 14, 2015 01:59 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 14, 2015 01:59 AM (YJmuy)
The trick is you create a system that has a maximum energy possible and you have a finite number of possible states. In the normal world, there are an infinite number of states, and one never can get to the point where temperature flips to negative.
But in these special systems, you can. You reach a point of maximum entropy, statistically defined. Adding more energy *reduces* the entropy of the system. IOW, the system becomes "more ordered" as you add energy. At that point, dS/dQ becomes negative. This is inverse temperature.
Thus the transition to negative temperature is like, in a normal system, getting to infinite temperature, then getting hotter. WIth an infinite number of states, you can't do it, but when you have a finite number, you can.
That's all it is.
You can say it's meaningless, that under those conditions, the definition of temperature being used in no longer acceptable or something. But that definition works, and acts just like a negative absolute temperature.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 14, 2015 01:59 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: oltzmann's ex-wife at December 14, 2015 02:01 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 02:01 AM (9iR5/)
So you want to be a star...
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2015 02:03 AM (gyKtp)
Because you would have more particles in the upper states rather than the lower states.
anyway I am going to bed, good night all
thanks publius for the interesting discussion
and thanks everyone for being exactly who you are, even MWNP
Posted by: chemjeff at December 14, 2015 02:05 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 02:05 AM (BHl9S)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 01:58 AM (9iR5/)
The unique nature of gravity - it is always and only attractive for any mass.and at any distance.
The unstoppable force.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2015 02:05 AM (zc3Db)
I hate when I catch up with the ONT comments and am not ready to go to sleep.
Well, The next guest on Coast to Coast is an Ancient Alien skeptic. Could be interesting...
Posted by: Spun and Murky at December 14, 2015 02:06 AM (4DCSq)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 14, 2015 02:01 AM (9iR5/)
Wait 'til you get the opportunity to meet one of them in person - I highly recommend going to break bread with anyone you meet here. I have never been disappointed.
BTW, Hi to chemmie, halfrican, jinx, DC, RK, and anyone i may have missed...
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 02:08 AM (oLne9)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 02:10 AM (BHl9S)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 02:14 AM (BHl9S)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 02:15 AM (zyIlW)
Dang. A central coast CA momee? I'm not "central" but it's my favorite part of the state, so I might find myself in the area with some planning .....
CaliGirl, how was the Christmas party (Buellton, or Casmalia, Hitching Post?)
And danggit, getting hungry here just thinking (again) about a steak from that open wood grill at #1.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2015 02:16 AM (QDnY+)
Well, with "willow-like" precision, looks like I missed the person I was addressing a comment to. So signing off and heading to some reading.
The Goebbels bio is getting pretty good. Though I'll have to consult a different sourceto better explain the chaos that led to Hitler's appointment as chancellor by Hindenburg. The bio mostly builds itself around Goebbels'diary entries, andthe maneuvering among the players that led to Hitler's appointment is pretty dizzying when recounted in condensed form.
Still hungry for the wood-grilled steak though.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2015 02:25 AM (QDnY+)
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes......
Damn, that was a helluva speech. Too bad we don't hear stuff like that anymore.
Posted by: Blano at December 14, 2015 01:29 AM (C3E0x)
It's thick, but it's chewy.
BTW -- when I was born, copyrights required that you mark the work with the date of publication and continued for 28 years, which could be extended by another 28 years if you bothered, under the Copyright Act of 1909, which was just over 50 years old at the time.
Well, I'm now just over 50 years old. During my lifetime, the Copyright Act of 1976 removed "publication" from being an issue, eliminated the marking requirement, and punted expiration until 50 years after an author's death (or 75 years after the creation of an anonymous work). The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 extended this to the life of the author plus 70 years, 95 years from publication of corporate or anonymous works, or 120 years from creation for corporate or anonymous works.
Something copyrightable that was created on my birthday should have been in the public domain within 30 years. When I was in my teens, it got kicked out to 50 years + lifespan -- same work. When I was in my 30s, it got kicked out to 70 years + lifespan -- same work, still created on my birthday.
To understand how outrageous this is, you have to delve into the nature of copyright (or patent, they're very similar).
Here is the basic deal -- you create something worthwhile that can be copied. You can (1) keep it secret, and maintain that secret through your own security and contractual obligations [Note -- this is "Trade Secret" law]; or (2) disclose it fully, so that any idiot could copy it, in return for a period of government protection. After that period, any idiot can copy it freely [Patent or copyright]. There is a yin and a yang -- the full force and power of the government is at your beck-and-call during the term of your deal.....but you get nothing the day after.
This was completely understood between 1909 and 1976. The day a 1960 copyright was extended from 1988 to (a minimum of, assuming the artist died immediately afterward) 2010, you are clearly in "but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful" territory.
There's a lot to unpack in Jackson's words.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 02:25 AM (EzgxV)
Or, a boring story that is funny to me (and maybe one old guy here).
You know that old toy that your dog won't give up? That one stinky thing that always shows up like a bad penny?
Well, here, it was a duck. Some $5 duck that I brought home one day long ago. I swear, the little shithead loves it.
Anyway, it looks and smells like old crack whore underwear these days, so I've been on a mission to find a replacement. For weeks, I have looked in every store, to no avail.
Finally, yesterday, I bought what I thought was close enough at the dollar store. Came home, presented it to the mutt with a big, happy ceremony, and proudly walked away.
What does he wake me up with at 3 AM last night? Shaking it in my face, no less?
Some stuffed rat toy that I haven't seen in 6 months. I forgot that this thing even existed. A special Moron mailed him this thing as a gift last year, and he apparently buried it somewhere - only to go get it when the favored duck went into the trashcan.
The new duck? Still lying on the floor where I tossed it. Ignored like a bastard, red-headed stepchild...
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 02:27 AM (oLne9)
again. Everything is going electronic so that skimming your wealth can
happen at the speed of light, without notice, and without recourse.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 01:33 AM (EzgxV)
So basically Zimbabwe 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 14, 2015 01:34 AM (J+mig)
Probably more like Argentina -- a previously well-run, wealthy, resourceful place tipping into bullshit. It'll have a US twist, as well.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: the real ch3 at December 14, 2015 02:30 AM (YukGa)
409 The Good:
I got to see my grandnephew today. He's great. Perfect, in fact. Walking, talking (well, sort of) and being every bit of 14 months old.
Niece is still a beautiful young woman, her husband seems like a real good kid, life is OK for them.
The Bad:
I tried to take Mom out for lunch. Everywhere we decided to go was closed on Sunday. Couldn't even find a hot dog joint to sit down in. Then, we decided on an old friend's sub shop nearby as a last ditch effort. Not only was he closed, but there was a "for lease" sign in the window. And I can't find a good phone number for him anywhere - 30 fucking years, and now gone...
The Ugly:
Almost got into a knock-down, drag-out scrapper with my brother today. It was bad. Stupid bad. Bad enough that people cried. Mom, sis, nieces, baby, etc..
I've never done that. I'm embarassed. He deserved to be beaten into a pile of pulp, but probably not in front of Mom. Hell, he's needed that shit for quite a while now, I was just kind of waiting for the chance to do it privately. He wanted to make it public, though.
Meh. Another day scratched off the calendar, right?
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 01:47 AM (oLne9)
You do the best you can with what you have, each and every day. Once the sun comes up the next day, only memories that will help you matter -- what happened is merely the past. If you need to learn from it or if it's worth treasuring, keep it.....otherwise, it is what it is.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 02:32 AM (EzgxV)
the pics are here!
http://tinyurl.com/zs9sazm
Posted by: the real ch3 at December 14, 2015 02:33 AM (YukGa)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 02:33 AM (zyIlW)
We had buses. Cocktail party at the office first. I started drinking @ 4:30. Dinner @ 7:30 I was drunk. Artichokes, linguica, I ordered a 7 oz top. I didn't even eat it. I was home by eleven.
I was embarrassed cause I was fighting with the office manager's husband the whole night. He went to a company BBQ @ lunch. He started drinking @ noon. He is a perpetual 10 year old. 20 years ago he put his ass on me and farted. I am the owner. The boss's wife. I got aggressive. It's all good.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 02:38 AM (BHl9S)
the pics are here!
http://tinyurl.com/zs9sazm
Posted by: the real ch3 at December 14, 2015 02:33 AM (YukGa)
Nice pics, congrats!!
Love that last commenter's name too, lol.
Posted by: Blano at December 14, 2015 02:40 AM (C3E0x)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 02:41 AM (zyIlW)
The clouds finally parted just enough here to catch a glimpse of one anemic meteor. Only had to wait about a minute though...
Posted by: Spun and Murky at December 14, 2015 02:41 AM (4DCSq)
It's kinda cool (51), but other than that, a perfect night to stargaze...
And pray for SMOD
.Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 02:43 AM (zyIlW)
Goodnight all, take care.
Posted by: Blano at December 14, 2015 02:48 AM (C3E0x)
Posted by: Spun and Murky at December 14, 2015 02:50 AM (4DCSq)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 14, 2015 02:51 AM (BHl9S)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 02:51 AM (zyIlW)
Where are all the boys at? Your men, I want to buy your men! Sell me your little boy!
Posted by: Jihadi Camel Raper at December 14, 2015 02:58 AM (qul7b)
Hi to you, too.
I love you, SMFH. Dearly.
Nothing said or done (past, future, whatever) can or will change that. I hope you know that.
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 03:03 AM (oLne9)
Ooh. The sky is really clearing up now. On the last trip off the porch to, um, recycle some rum, I saw 5 streaks in under a minute!
Too bad the storms finally left TX this morning and came this way. Too soggy to drag a chaise out into the yard to see the show. They all seem to be directly overhead...
Posted by: Spun and Murky at December 14, 2015 03:04 AM (4DCSq)
Why do so many Americans hate me? Racists!
I have NEVER had sex with a dead camel, that is a complete lie, spread by Juice!
Posted by: Jihadi Camel Raper at December 14, 2015 03:05 AM (qul7b)
Here is "Tonight we ride" by Unleash the Archers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOvZKJlrtk8
Posted by: The Political Hat at December 14, 2015 03:12 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: The Chairman Of The Bored at December 14, 2015 03:28 AM (oLne9)
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 03:39 AM (EzgxV)
Cth:
We had the meeting. Everyone was late. Several demos, then food. I managed to get a look at the new CNC plasma cutter. Real neat, but pricey.
Posted by: Arbalest at December 14, 2015 03:42 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: SMFH at December 14, 2015 03:46 AM (zyIlW)
Sometimes it's nice to follow the ONT until the predawn...
Posted by: Been there, ... at December 14, 2015 04:04 AM (4DCSq)
Posted by: jc at December 14, 2015 04:09 AM (iRJ+A)
Cth:
We had the meeting. Everyone was late. Several demos, then food. I managed to get a look at the new CNC plasma cutter. Real neat, but pricey.
Posted by: Arbalest at December 14, 2015 03:42 AM (FlRtG)
Are you talking a plasma cutter or laser cutter?
The industry standard 40W CO2 benchtop laser cutter is an Epilog.....runs about $12K. If you look into the competition, you find that Full Spectrum Laser in Las Vegas, NV, has a 40W unit for about $4,000. Then you look into the corporate history of Full Spectrum and discover that their initial business model was to get cheap Chinese laser units in and upgrade them to something that First World Companies might consider a product.
The upshot being, I now own a cheap Chinese 40W cutting laser that won't even shut-off if I open the access hatch, doesn't deal with thermal overload gracefully, has a manual translated from Chinese by amateurs, and runs off a controller that people love to hate.....but.......was only $600. I can shove a lot of arduinos in the gap between $600 and $4000.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 04:18 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 04:19 AM (EzgxV)
Are you talking a plasma cutter or laser cutter?
This one has interchangeable heads: plasma, waterjet, etc., so it's not a low-end unit ... about $20,000. But to use it ... it's only available in a welding class.
In other news, several engines ran. Only one did not, and it was likely out of gas.
Posted by: Arbalest at December 14, 2015 04:22 AM (FlRtG)
are you still up?
Posted by: jc at December 14, 2015 04:09 AM (iRJ+A)
Maybe.....
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 04:19 AM (EzgxV)
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I tried to send you an email at your huge mountain addy but never heard back. do you still use that one?
Posted by: jc at December 14, 2015 04:25 AM (iRJ+A)
are you still up?
Posted by: jc at December 14, 2015 04:09 AM (iRJ+A)
Maybe.....
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 04:19 AM (EzgxV)
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I tried to send you an email at your huge mountain addy but never heard back. do you still use that one?
Posted by: jc at December 14, 2015 04:25 AM (iRJ+A)
I can't recall ever using a huge mountain addy.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 04:32 AM (EzgxV)
Then gen stuck reading the comments,
And almost forgot to post,
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2015 04:34 AM (k0xxN)
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 04:34 AM (EzgxV)
I can't recall ever using a huge mountain addy.
Posted by: cthulhu at December 14, 2015 04:32 AM (EzgxV)
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well one has to spell it backwards.
Posted by: jc at December 14, 2015 04:34 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at December 14, 2015 04:44 AM (XgfBI)
Posted by: Barney F. at December 14, 2015 05:11 AM (FJH98)
Posted by: Barney F. at December 14, 2015 05:11 AM (FJH9
Which is where we will be sending our "operatives"
Posted by: Eks Cdr. Popular front to liberate politicains from their (our) money at December 14, 2015 05:19 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Barney F. at December 14, 2015 05:30 AM (FJH98)
Hope in one hand. Poop in the other.
The PFLPFT(O)M only aim is to reclaim wealth that is unearned by the one percenters. dee cee and the six surronding counties has more of those than any other area in the Country.
Once The PFLPFT(O)M has reduced that area to a poverty level unseen since Dustbowl, Oklahoma we have plans for silly con valley.
Posted by: Eks Cdr. Popular front to liberate politicains from their (our) money at December 14, 2015 05:40 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: fluffy at December 14, 2015 05:52 AM (AfsKp)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 14, 2015 06:11 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: Tim in Illinios Old and Unimproved but reduced in Price. at December 14, 2015 06:18 AM (WVsWD)
We could see a verdict as early as Wednesday, almost certainly by Friday.
Rumor is that the State did not really make a strong case to support the charges against the Officer.
I would suspect that all serving Members of the Maryland National Guard are on standby.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 14, 2015 06:22 AM (ptqRm)
Standby to do what? Make sure no one interferes with looting and arson?
Just my dark side showing but there is precedent.
Posted by: Tim in Illinios Old and Unimproved but reduced in Price. at December 14, 2015 06:26 AM (WVsWD)
Welcome to Monday Daywalkers, so far here it's been windy with broken overcast. Just enough to screw up the meteor showers. The wind is really howling and the few leaves that were left on the trees are very gone and possibly in someone's yard a county or so over.
Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Columbus at December 14, 2015 06:31 AM (4pjhs)
LooterCard. It's everywhere you want to be.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 14, 2015 06:41 AM (xq1UY)
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