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Mid-Morning Open Thread
David Hockney
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: sunny-dee at December 15, 2017 09:31 AM (QAOZh)
WRITER'S BLOCK - a limerick
This artwork is calming and sublime
It captures the spirit of our time
It's subtle but surreal
And evokes the way we feel
But I just cant make 'zeitgeist' rhyme
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:31 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2017 09:31 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Grey Fox at December 15, 2017 09:31 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 09:31 AM (GjTLE)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:32 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 09:32 AM (GjTLE)
Posted by: JT in KC at December 15, 2017 09:32 AM (WN4Rn)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 09:32 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: dantesed at December 15, 2017 09:33 AM (88xKn)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 09:33 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 15, 2017 09:33 AM (kqsXK)
In many ways, the old ways are best
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 09:33 AM (fA1SL)
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 09:33 AM (AM1GF)
Big Hockney retrospective at the Metropolitan in NYC through February.
This to me is a meh, but his SoCal swimming pool series is one of my inspirations for my current paintings.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2017 09:33 AM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at December 15, 2017 09:34 AM (Vzqe+)
Posted by: Cerdic519 at December 15, 2017 09:34 AM (rCCJo)
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (iiixZ)
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Gmac - 'All politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (xjiRE)
(Okay CBD, so what did we do THIS time?)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (QC/4S)
Yup....will be going next week.
I posted one of the pool series a few months (?) ago. I sort of liked it.
Sort of.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (lwiT4)
Like what? He's recused from the case.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 09:23 AM (/tuJf)
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I'm not a lawyer. I don't even play one on the internet. Can he un-recuse himself once it's shown that the entire thing is a witch hunt and that illegal activity set the Rube Goldberg device in motion? Who knows. Should he? Who also knows. Is he recused strictly from Russia!!!, or can he go into anything under his authority to start jailing people that are doing non-Russia!!! stuff. Who also knows again.
Serious question: What do you think the report will do?
I'm hoping we get a couple of federal agencies dismantled and a reset button pressed, but I'm not optimistic that it will actually happen.
Does anyone go to jail? Does anyone get fired? Heck, does anyone get a "does not meet expectations" on their annual review?
What do you think comes of the report?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 09:36 AM (Bdeb0)
The white lines are coke. (not diet)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 09:36 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 09:36 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: jwb7605 at December 15, 2017 09:36 AM (DofIg)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 09:36 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 15, 2017 09:36 AM (0ogQG)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 09:37 AM (QC/4S)
Wassup?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 09:37 AM (MINbv)
maybe that does make it art
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 09:37 AM (dab45)
WRITER'S BLOCK - a limerick
This artwork is calming and sublime
It captures the spirit of our time
It's subtle but surreal
And evokes the way we feel
But I just cant make 'zeitgeist' rhyme
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:31 AM (wPiJc)
Head lice
light mice
night, guys!
(Yeah, I got nothin'.)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 09:38 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 09:38 AM (Bdeb0)
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Hotel 'art' switched out every few years as the color scheme changes. Not sure what the prevailing color palette is right now, but I remember the blue/rust/gray for flowered bedspreads for a while.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 15, 2017 09:38 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (KP5rU)
The spiky things at the bottom must be ingrown hairs from his plugs.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 15, 2017 09:38 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: ScoggDog at December 15, 2017 09:38 AM (JpIFY)
Yup....will be going next week.
I posted one of the pool series a few months (?) ago. I sort of liked it.
Sort of.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 09:35 AM (wYseH)
Maybe I'll run into you. Look up "The Forger's Masterclass" on You Tube and Jon Myatt is having his students try to paint a Hockney pool picture.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2017 09:38 AM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Eli Cash at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (9UNsO)
Posted by: Jean at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (0WEph)
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (KP5rU)
We're not jailing Obama, Holder, Hillary, Comey, etc.
Will some middle management dot gov employee get fired?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (QC/4S)
Looks like James Clyburn's gerrymandered district.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (mbhDw)
Posted by: KWDreaming at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (PafTy)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 09:40 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 09:40 AM (xjiRE)
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (lwiT4)
That was the title of an unreleased Partridge Family tune...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2017 09:40 AM (mbhDw)
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (lwiT4)
I'm sorry, but that is not allowed.
Purity above all. There shall be no deviation from the orthodoxy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 09:40 AM (wYseH)
IF ABSTRACT ART WERE - a limerick
There was a young man from colormumble
Who didn't know quite how to rectanglesmear
He swervy perspectived
And vague shapified
Hang on the wall this => side up.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Eli Cash at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (9UNsO)
Rubio will cross him. I've basically concluded that the GOP has decided to throw the game and become a minority party again just to spite Trump.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 09:39 AM (QC/4S)
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Quit messing with people who don't realize it's one of those 3D magic-eye things where you have to cross your eyes to make a new picture appear.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2017 09:40 AM (mbhDw)
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Oh great. Now I'll have that song in my head all day. Well, better than Andy Kim I guess.
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Jean at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (0WEph)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 09:42 AM (fA1SL)
That's because the thorazine has just worn off.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 15, 2017 09:42 AM (0ogQG)
Posted by: Mornin' Miklos at December 15, 2017 09:42 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 15, 2017 09:42 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Mornin' Miklos #2 at December 15, 2017 09:43 AM (zCyNd)
Head lice
light mice
night, guys!
(Yeah, I got nothin'.)
******
Art heist?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:43 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 09:43 AM (9tO1t)
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Absolutely nothing. Hemming and hawing.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (r9UYA)
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Now now. We could get a new federal oversight agency with a $2B annual budget or something.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:43 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 09:43 AM (9tO1t)
Posted by: Alice in WonderZod at December 15, 2017 09:44 AM (Bdeb0)
Certain people go away and are rarely, if ever, heard from again, and a buttload of flunkys go away to happy fun camps for "just following orders"
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 09:45 AM (dab45)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:45 AM (wPiJc)
Finally, Jeff Sessions has accomplished something.
He's officially won the Guinness World for Most Consecutive Days Asleep.
300+ and still counting!!!
I think we should all congratulate Snoozy Jeff on his momentous achievement.
For as previous record holder, "Dreamy" Joe Wilhousen (21 days of consecutive sleep) said:
"Man! That guy can sleep! I thought I could sleep. But, Snoozy Jeff...Wow! There's a champion. It's like he's aggressively asleep or something!"
Or something, indeed, Dreamy Joe.
Well done, Snoozy Jeff.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2017 09:45 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: blaster at December 15, 2017 09:45 AM (WonQS)
Posted by: Mornin' Miklos #3 at December 15, 2017 09:45 AM (zCyNd)
What do you think comes of the report?
Nothing comes of it. It's all bukake theatre.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 09:46 AM (GjTLE)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
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A lot of commentary in one sentence.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 09:46 AM (9tO1t)
Posted by: yo at December 15, 2017 09:46 AM (MAstk)
Posted by: William "Miklos" Shatner at December 15, 2017 09:46 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: auscolpyr at December 15, 2017 09:46 AM (suO/a)
I love it! Looking forward to trying out the recipes from it. Seriously enjoying all the horde humor! Thanks for making my day
Posted by: Longtime lurkers mom on her cell phone at December 15, 2017 09:47 AM (RjMVc)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 09:47 AM (9tO1t)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:47 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 09:47 AM (QC/4S)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at December 15, 2017 09:48 AM (XvTYo)
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (lwiT4)
Dang it Grammie, I had successfully forgotten that that guy and his song existed, but noooooo
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 09:48 AM (dab45)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 09:48 AM (dab45)
I'd comment on it, but I'm all out of Purple Microdot.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 09:49 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 09:49 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:47 AM (wPiJc)
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You mean I'm supposed to try and cook something from it? The reviews said it was for wobbly tables. Have I been deceived?
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 15, 2017 09:49 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Dr. Rorschach at December 15, 2017 09:49 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: joncelli
if they do it, (imo) it would be to protect their uniparty/globalist crime syndicate.
They do have spite, but the driver is oligarch donors that want open borders and their CFR globalism ... which means surrender of sovereignty, destruction of traditional American culture. (hence their PC diversity/multi-culti weapon, now with blood in the streets)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 09:50 AM (otAqJ)
If you watch while you move around the room it looks like painting's eyes are actually following you. Try it.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:50 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:50 AM (wPiJc)
I'm afraid to open it. Expecting a popup boner or something.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 09:51 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 09:51 AM (/qEW2)
No wonder Roy Moore lost.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 15, 2017 09:51 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 09:51 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: Dorian Grey at December 15, 2017 09:51 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Alice in WonderZod at December 15, 2017 09:52 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: steevy at December 15, 2017 09:52 AM (LiyEm)
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 09:52 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 15, 2017 09:52 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at December 15, 2017 09:52 AM (hMwEB)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 09:53 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 09:52 AM (7HtZB)
That's what they WANT you to think!
Posted by: Art Bell's bartender at December 15, 2017 09:53 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Dorian Grey
*******
Subtle but effective. Possible threadwinner.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:53 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 15, 2017 09:53 AM (YV+SU)
Just don't do it. And certainly don't PAINT anything while you do it.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 15, 2017 09:53 AM (oyCqX)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (T4n7S)
1,2,3
German, French, Spanish.
No idea what the hell it means though....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (wYseH)
just curious
Peruvia is home to the world's largest known deposits of bitcoin.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (tRaq7)
==
all y'all superiors are under arrest, and you all are now field promoted
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (QC/4S)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (9n7Vc)
just curious
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at December 15, 2017 09:52 AM (hMwEB)
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You're way too late.
Enjoy the bubble popping from afar, and be happy you're not part of it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalos at December 15, 2017 09:55 AM (r9UYA)
that was 20 minutes ago ... sounds good.
Have Obama/Hillary moved to their estate where their is no extradition yet? heh
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 09:55 AM (otAqJ)
the GOP has decided to throw the game and become a minority party again
just to spite Trump.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (RD7QR)
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Basically agree but you have to through in fear of leading and timidness.
Posted by: Javems at December 15, 2017 09:55 AM (yOqwj)
"You're fired."
*mic drop*
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 09:56 AM (tRaq7)
just curious
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I know I should have gotten in on that about 5 years ago when I first heard about it.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 09:56 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 09:56 AM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (T4n7S)
We can hear the bubble popping from here.
Posted by: The Aliens from Nubiru at December 15, 2017 09:56 AM (zCyNd)
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/12/14/ family-bomber-visited-bangladesh- charity-work-rohingya-muslims/
Yeah, right. CAIR is right on top of it.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 15, 2017 09:56 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: geoffb at December 15, 2017 09:57 AM (zOpu5)
Random calculator grab:
https://tinyurl.com/y8lhljre
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:57 AM (T4n7S)
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public
This will be the first launch from Pad 40 since the little oopsie in Sept. 2016.
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 09:57 AM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Blake at December 15, 2017 09:57 AM (qC1Sy)
just curious
Mining? No.
Do know that crypto-coin is backed by nothing but ether.
It's the new tulip bulb, beanie-baby mania.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 09:58 AM (GjTLE)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 09:58 AM (fA1SL)
If you heard his remarks as he was about to board his helicopter for the trip to Quantico, probably not to far off.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 09:58 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:47 AM (wPiJc)
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Not yet, but we foisted one off on another unsuspecting soul this morning. Bwahahaha.
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 09:58 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 15, 2017 09:59 AM (8iiMU)
Best viewed while listening to Stockhausen.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (9n7Vc)
Because it makes about as much sense?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 09:59 AM (RD7QR)
DEUX: https://tinyurl.com/ycchapfc
TRES: https://tinyurl.com/ydyne9sf
Doesn't really help though.
Posted by: Off the reservation at December 15, 2017 09:59 AM (vWMNq)
But the concept of money from nothing is on display. It is why we have coastal elites and oligarchs taking over the world ... sorta. Blame that Christmas eve vote to install the private banker fed reserve in 2013? (iirc)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 09:59 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 15, 2017 09:59 AM (HQ28E)
Posted by: Mrs. Hockney at December 15, 2017 09:59 AM (zCyNd)
I know I should have gotten in on that about 5 years ago when I first heard about it.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 09:56 AM (KUaJL)
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I bought a bit, and now I suddenly have a LOT that I am mostly just happily donating to freeware/shareware software producers and such.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:59 AM (T4n7S)
Takes a lot of computing power to make anything at it.
Posted by: don't ask at December 15, 2017 10:00 AM (Fikbq)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 15, 2017 10:00 AM (N3JsI)
Cook him up and serve him hot!
( -- a response to the World Market "Golden Llama" promotion)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 15, 2017 10:00 AM (HQ28E)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 15, 2017 10:00 AM (8iiMU)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 09:58 AM (kNasr)
Ummm...should I contact WeirdDave about an insurance review?
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: A Stockhausen piece at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 09:58 AM (kNasr)
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How are sales overall?
Posted by: Blake at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (qC1Sy)
...wait for it...
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:02 AM (T4n7S)
Dr. Martin Sherman, executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, hit the nail on the head. He formulated the humanitarian paradigm (his term). Pay the Arabs to move out of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Subsidize new housing, somewhere in the 5,000,000 square miles of Arab territory, for them.
This is what Europe should have done for the "refugees", if they cared about helping so much. Maybe it's the type of thing we should do with our illegals.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:02 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
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Haven't finished first cup of coffee, lucky I can even see the screen.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 10:02 AM (c/EDo)
BTW, a less-colourful set went for >$6,000 over estimate at Christie's. (See the sock link.)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (QCX64)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (T4n7S)
Nothing happening is unacceptable. DJT was the next step of getting the GOP off their dead asses. The first step was the Tea Party and they effectively gelded that and thought nobody would notice. Those assholes never do things the easy way when given a chance. They only learn the hard way.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: steevy at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (LiyEm)
Posted by: JT in KC at December 15, 2017 09:32 AM (WN4Rn)
Yup, that's how I would have said it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (aMlLZ)
Dink. Dingledingledingle dingle.
[long rest]
Dink.
Dingledingledingle.
[long rest]
Dink.
*******
That sounds like the theme from Star Wars by Princess Onomatoleia.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (wPiJc)
Hockney needs to stick to hijacking trucks full of gun parts in Queens.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (veoSD)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (CXrpl)
I'm so tempted to send her a copy of the cookbook. However, she went off the rails last year and voted for she who will never be president. It's a dilemma.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (N3JsI)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (wPiJc)
Sir:
A formal complaint has been received and referred to our Technical Committee.
Posted by: the Geneva Conventions at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (T4n7S)
I answered you at the end of the last thread.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Javems at December 15, 2017 09:55 AM (yOqwj)
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Timidty was the word I was looking for.
Posted by: Javems at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (yOqwj)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:05 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:06 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:06 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Archer at December 15, 2017 10:06 AM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Smart people gathering sagely nodding at December 15, 2017 10:06 AM (ymnmz)
I'm so tempted to send her a copy of the cookbook. However, she went off the rails last year and voted for she who will never be president. It's a dilemma.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (N3JsI)
That's exactly why you SHOULD send her a cookbook.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2017 10:06 AM (veoSD)
That's awesome! It's well worth it just for the entertainment.
Posted by: Longtime lurkers mom on her cell phone at December 15, 2017 10:06 AM (RjMVc)
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:07 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Archer at December 15, 2017 10:07 AM (gbWkA)
.
.
.I think they print them up as needed. My BIL has a book like that on Amazon where you can get either option and they only print up the actual physical book when someone orders one.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 15, 2017 10:07 AM (+Dllb)
Posted by: JT in KC at December 15, 2017 09:32 AM (WN4Rn)
Yup, that's how I would have said it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (aMlLZ)
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Oh come on boys, it's not all bad. And the colors are often nice, like in this one. I have to admit that I appreciate CBD posting different kinds of things to make us stretch our minds a little bit. I suspect I'll always still prefer the Old Masters, but the variety can be nice once in a while.
Fat naked guys on white ottomans being the obvious exception, of course.
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:07 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: steevy at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (LiyEm)
If it's Earth gravity and in the Goldilocks zone then it actually IS a big deal. I'll have to look up the announcement.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
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I'm pretty sure Rubio is deeply committed to nothing. The good news is McCain may soon be dead so there's hope for progress.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 15, 2017 10:08 AM (YV+SU)
"refugees", if they cared about helping so much. Maybe it's the type of
thing we should do with our illegals. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:02 AM (/qEW2)
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If we are vewwy, vewwy, good and pay our jizzya like good little wabbits, maybe they'll be nice to us and let us live in peace.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 15, 2017 10:08 AM (MIKMs)
174 FBN Breaking: Rubio Yes on Tax Bill
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:07 AM (Enq6K)
Really.
I'm wondering what bit of pork/graft he got to switch his vote back.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2017 10:08 AM (veoSD)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (QCX64)
Posted by: Captain Hate
The next step, if it isn't shooting, is Bull Moose II.
I have screamed for years that unless the GOP was cast aside we could make no progress. Recent events have done nothing but borne that out.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (fuK7c)
Shocking. Hard to believe a politician would engage in politics.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (kNasr)
A doormat all covered with spikes
Vinyl siding with the skin of a pike
Designed by Dave Hockney
Who paints like Knute Rockne
A house that Cthulhu might like
Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (9q7Dl)
Trump has a more real vision ... men back to the moon, and prep a trip to Mars.
Having some vision is good, science gets advanced ... just so NASA stops adjusting old temps to try to fabricate global warming, and stops trying to make Muslims feel better about themselves.
But star wars defense systems are overdue.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (T4n7S)
The complete shiite losing on the MSM has been laughable.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: Burger Chef at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:07 AM (Enq6K)
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1 of 2 things just happened, then:
1.Rubio got reamed royally by TGE, his constituents, and/or McConnell
2. McConnell rolled over like a pansy and gave him what he wanted...
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (eaB6O)
Daily-mail says *eight* planets. New record. Same as solar system. Pluto haters.
Posted by: Off the reservation at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (vWMNq)
"...to know that the nation's law enforcement and security is in such capable hands. And as you embark on your careers, remember: Stoyich novgrovolo tacc vinishka datya valu. Congratulations to you, and I look forward to deploying you."
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:11 AM (BoMuO)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (kNasr)
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Be interesting to see if the Instamention makes a difference.
Very cool, though.
Posted by: Blake at December 15, 2017 10:11 AM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:11 AM (T4n7S)
We were told it was going down to defeat over and over and then one by one different senators got what they wanted and presto, the votes were there.
Rubio was always going to vote yes.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:11 AM (/tuJf)
German, French, Spanish.
No idea what the hell it means though....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (wYseH)
That's OK, neither does the artist.
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (7HtZB)
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Can I be the one that spears him once hoisted? Please!
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (YV+SU)
The genius that packed it, set it ON TOP of the bubble wrap. Dude...that's not how it works...that's not how any of this works....
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (Enq6K)
Dink. Dingledingledingle dingle.
[long rest]
Dink.
Dingledingledingle.
[long rest]
Dink.
Posted by: A Stockhausen piece at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (RD7QR)
No, that's Webern.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (dlcOm)
2. McConnell rolled over like a pansy and gave him what he wanted...
I'll take what's behind door #2.
Posted by: Jewells45 canhandleyourjewels at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (zRZaJ)
Posted by: Infidel at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (EGFUD)
Trump has a more real vision ... men back to the moon, and prep a trip to Mars.
Having some vision is good, science gets advanced ... just so NASA stops adjusting old temps to try to fabricate global warming, and stops trying to make Muslims feel better about themselves.
But star wars defense systems are overdue.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 10:09 AM (otAqJ)
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You'll know he's dead serious about NASA when and i he appoints an administrator with that kind of "real vision"...
Frankly, I'd have Newt do it...
He knows this stuff and he loves it...
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:13 AM (eaB6O)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:11 AM (/tuJf)
Yuip, just stupid DC/msm drama.
Posted by: yo at December 15, 2017 10:13 AM (MAstk)
Posted by: runner - art connoisseur at December 15, 2017 10:13 AM (QC/4S)
Christie's mis-spelled Homo. As in H is for ...
Posted by: Off the reservation at December 15, 2017 10:13 AM (vWMNq)
I did notice that all people of color were banned from Twatter this morning. Oh, they werent? Nothing has changed? My bad.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:13 AM (BoMuO)
It's much more shocking to believe there aren't a million or two of those out there.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:13 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (eaB6O)
My money is on that one....
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (2DOZq)
This is what Europe should have done for the "refugees", if they cared about helping so much. Maybe it's the type of thing we should do with our illegals."
As has been often pointed out, the Arabs would have to love their own children more than they hate the Jews for that to work. Not there yet, may never be there.
As for our illegals - I'm willing to give every one of them $1,000 cash and a free bus ticket to Sacramento, in exchange for a guarantee that they'll go to prison if they ever come back to my state.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (k1TUh)
Most of my time looking at pieces like this is spent pondering.....Is this art?
That Churchill piece form yesterday made me wonder about the place, wish I were there, how hot was it, was it cold? Great big lists of questions that make me wonder about the thoughts of the artist makes me interested in the piece.
This kind of stuff does not speak for itself it only raises the question, does the artist have a hidden skill set that he is hiding from the viewer?
I think most of the modern stuff is scam by artists to hide the lack of classical skill, whether they think its boring or just never could match the level of the great masters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (ymnmz)
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Yup. You've just been listening to one of my masterpieces.
You're welcome, bitchez!
Posted by: John Cage at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 09:54 AM (9n7Vc)
I don't generally care for Ravel, but the radio played my favorite piece by him, Pavane For A Dead Princess yesterday.
https://tinyurl.com/zflq5h7
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 15, 2017 10:15 AM (kqsXK)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Too busy hauling the money to the bank to feel bad.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 10:15 AM (5OO3x)
Holy crap. Nutella is made from nutrias?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:11 AM (T4n7S)
Only the vanilla flavor. You don't want to know what the chocolate is made from.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 15, 2017 10:15 AM (UBzPO)
We were told it was going down to defeat over and over and then one by one different senators got what they wanted and presto, the votes were there.
Rubio was always going to vote yes.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:11 AM (/tuJf)
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Honestly, I really don't care if it was a shovel full of pork that got him to flip. It's a watering down of the handful of actual reforms that would piss me off...
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:15 AM (eaB6O)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (MINbv)
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I'm pretty sure that nutria is the plural of nutrients. Therefore, Nutella is good for you.
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:15 AM (kNasr)
Is it worth pushing on to see if it improves?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at December 15, 2017 10:15 AM (/G1rZ)
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If he did, what's the downside? McConnell doesn't have a lot of votes.
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalos at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (Enq6K)
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Once I ordered a small box of Lego for a birthday present along with four 5 quart jugs of oil.
Guess what all arrived in the same box?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (T4n7S)
Yeah - one of the morning nets (NBC, IIRC) twatwaffles said something along those lines - her phone didn't seem any different - and the other blond went into what I call "chatter mode" - repeating the talking point time after time, until the next tale of woe came up on the teleprompter.
Funny, it was.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (MINbv)
Yeah, my reaction is as coherent as the painting.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (5OO3x)
In other news, Mrs. jwb sternly informed me that "a handful of salt" is too much. It's over 3 tablespoons!
It did not help matters when I asked her how she knew that.
Posted by: jwb7605 at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (DofIg)
Bitcoins, bluebell? You're rich!!!
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (QCX64)
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (zCyNd)
To me any announcement is interesting but just theory, with intent more to sell the program than to be "real science".
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: John Cage"
That's my work.
mic drop. (but you can't hear it)
Posted by: Philip Glass at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (MINbv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs
Still aiming for a 10:35 ET launch.
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (xjiRE)
Avhxfs: Tjdhuhcbjfs!
Hfgutbd: Ykdh jwgns, ukfjdjv
Ejvgjfh: 4hfhcg7gh
(from the libretto to a John Cage opera)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 10:18 AM (eIm1q)
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:10 AM (eaB6O)
My money is on that one....
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (Enq6K)
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Me too. The question is: what did he get? Pork is eye rolling but to be expected. I wouldn't consider that to be a real sellout. Watering down the handful of reforms in the bill? Yeah, that's a sellout.
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:18 AM (eaB6O)
How easily could an AI/ML system generate something like this?
At some point, and probably not very far into the future, the Mona Lisa will be generate-able using a software package. It will, via seeds, be able to generate infinite pieces of art similar in concept and content to Renaissance classics. With a bit of robotics, it will be able to render them as oil on canvas.
However, for "the good stuff" that day isn't here yet.
For this stuff? Easy-peasey. The gang at Pixar, ELM, etc. are already auto-generating far more complex and difficult (and attractive) "art."
Posted by: RobM1981 at December 15, 2017 10:18 AM (Jw49e)
Guess what all arrived in the same box?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (T4n7S)
EWWWWWW! Yuck!
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 10:18 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at December 15, 2017 10:15 AM (/G1rZ)
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I liked it, but I watched it years ago when I was on a British comedy kick.
If you've never seen it, go watch Blackadder and then come back to see if you can tolerate it any better.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:18 AM (T4n7S)
It probably had nothing to do with regulations. There are strict financial constraints put on the Senate during Budget Reconciliation negotiations. They can't have a bill that increases spending over a 10 year window based on stupid CBO models but there you go.
Rubio wanted more money for Child Tax Credits. Any increase was probably either balanced with other deductions or some financial slight of hand.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (BoMuO)
"That's my work. That's my work. That's my work. That's my work. That's my work. That's my work. That's my work. That's my work. That's my work. That's my work." - Philip Glass
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (eIm1q)
The successful artist sets a trap for a viewer's attention that succeeds. Yours was captured. Yes, it's art.
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (Bdeb0)
Whatever they're accusing the other side of doing, they are doing themselves.
I've seen that to be true with shitty people a few times in my life, and this is on the grandest scale evah.
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (CXrpl)
Sort of - but yes, the "wobble" is the first clue that there's something, well, there.
Wobble wobble.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: John Cage"
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Great. Now I have to sit here for 4 minutes...and 33 seconds.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (9tO1t)
Dink. Dingledingledingle dingle.
[long rest]
Dink.
Dingledingledingle.
[long rest]
Dink.
Posted by: A Stockhausen piece at December 15, 2017 10:01 AM (RD7QR)
No, that's Webern.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 10:12 AM (dlcOm)
Sure it's not Boulez? (Who, by the way, deserves to wear Crocs in hell for calling Shostakovich "the third or fourth pressing of Mahler." Friggin' Frog wannabe.)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (RD7QR)
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Thought Rubio wanted some sort of child tax credit against payroll taxes? Mike Lee was on board with it, so I'm willing to consider it somewhat favorable (or not all bad).
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: NFL art critic at December 15, 2017 10:20 AM (/qEW2)
Guess what all arrived in the same box?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (T4n7S)
I thought Lego were self-lubricating??
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:20 AM (zCyNd)
Does it look like the poo flinging monkey painted it? Yes? Very valuable.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:20 AM (BoMuO)
Of course other religious groups can be as political as they want ... no problemo.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 10:20 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 15, 2017 10:20 AM (sGSvK)
Posted by: Zod
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Pretty low bar.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (9tO1t)
Avhxfs: Tjdhuhcbjfs!
Hfgutbd: Ykdh jwgns, ukfjdjv
Ejvgjfh: 4hfhcg7gh
(from the libretto to a John Cage opera)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 10:18 AM (eIm1q)
Pretty sure that will summon the Great Old Ones.
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (2DOZq)
Posted by: steevy at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (LiyEm)
If it's Earth gravity and in the Goldilocks zone then it actually IS a big deal. I'll have to look up the announcement.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
Bastards found my man cave.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (+F0Wk)
http://www.ufunk.net/en/upublish/reimpressionism-matteo-mauro/
Don't think it is working.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (wiubB)
Guess what all arrived in the same box?"
Ah, 20 quarts of oil?
Okaaaaayyyyy
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (MINbv)
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This describes the whole process in a nutshell. The idea that these yahoos know what tax revenues will be in 10 years is mere fantasy.
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (zCyNd)
He fled to Finland in search of a vowel.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (RD7QR)
Europa. Arthur C. Clarke was all over that in 2010, the sequel to 2001.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: John Cage"
That's my work.
mic drop. (but you can't hear it)
Posted by: Philip Glass at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (MINbv)
Sorry, Phil.
You're off by 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
Posted by: John Cage at December 15, 2017 10:22 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 15, 2017 10:22 AM (y3aQB)
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Thought Rubio wanted some sort of child tax credit against payroll taxes? Mike Lee was on board with it, so I'm willing to consider it somewhat favorable (or not all bad).
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (sX1BW)
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Hmm. What about Cruz and Paul? What did they think of it? Not suprised Lee supported it, being from UT and all..
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:22 AM (eaB6O)
Guess what all arrived in the same box?"
Ah, 20 quarts of oil?
Okaaaaayyyyy
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (MINbv)
Could be flash frying a buffalo for Christmas dinner.
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 10:22 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (QCX64)
Hfgutbd: Ykdh jwgns, ukfjdjv
Ejvgjfh: 4hfhcg7gh
(from the libretto to a John Cage opera)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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But the artistry is in how you weave the teaspoons through the piano strings.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (9tO1t)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Off the reservation at December 15, 2017 10:13 AM (vWMNq)
Oh...absolutely! Reject his art simply because of who he bangs.
Might as well reject everything that any homosexual has ever done.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (QQ+il)
Invading force/ISIS Soldiers <---------------------------"Refugees"
But you knew that....EVeryone should know that given ISIS freakin' announced it loudly several summers ago.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (zCyNd)
He fled to Finland in search of a vowel.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (RD7QR)
Well what the hell was I supposed to do, you Mo-ron?
Posted by: Strzok at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (7HtZB)
So "boobeh Reindeer" = "art"?
I'm good with that.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (MINbv)
This is correct.
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (RD7QR)
But some of Hockney's other works? Seemingly, a sloppily executed afternoon paint sketch of his pet dog becomes touted as a masterwork. It isn't. It is what it looks like: garage sale dreck.
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (raGQi)
FBI Wray certainly has the gift of gab. Waiting for PDT to let out a big yawn.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (r9UYA)
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I thought Lego were self-lubricating??
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Turns out the oil jugs all arrived fine. The $20 box of Lego was crushed so badly we could slide it into a mailing envelope. Amazon ended up refunding the entire price for the Lego and didn't even want it back. That was nice since Lego is fairly indestructible by normal human measures and, other than the box, still functioned perfectly fine.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (raGQi)
Posted by: John Cage at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: redbanzai at December 15, 2017 10:25 AM (f5uaD)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2017 10:23 AM (QQ+il)
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It's okay. They'll just use mine. Again.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:25 AM (T4n7S)
In this case, yes, this is what I think of when I think of Hockney:
http://bit.ly/2AT4bsA
A lot of the guys who push the borders (Picasso) have all the skillz to do traditional art and choose to experiment.
Now, what this velcro collage is supposed to be I have no idea.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 10:25 AM (fuK7c)
https://tinyurl.com/ycnkebrs
Swamp draining continues.
And yesterday Zinke fired 4 employees for harassment.
https://tinyurl.com/y9xynqko
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:25 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:25 AM (wiubB)
It's a design for a very elaborate home defense system. You've got a moat and spikes ringing the place and very well concealed sniper holes throughout
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 15, 2017 10:25 AM (493sH)
Posted by: steevy at December 15, 2017 10:03 AM (LiyEm)
If it's Earth gravity and in the Goldilocks zone then it actually IS a big deal. I'll have to look up the announcement.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
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Hmpf. Call me when they find one circling a G-Type Yellow Dwarf with a large gas giant about 500,000,000-ish miles out. That would be worth notice. If its just confirmation about the planets they've found circling some red dwarfs, then its a nothingburger.
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (eaB6O)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (MINbv)
Oh, and my employer's chief accountant is walking around the building wearing bright orange Crocs. We're talking traffic cone orange. Should this concern me?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (RD7QR)
If you own company stock, sell it immediately.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (F76Nd)
saying some moon in our solar system could have life in water still
geologically warmed."
Europa. Arthur C. Clarke was all over that in 2010, the sequel to 2001.
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.I must have read half a dozen SF books that had some form of life on one of Jupiter's moons. I can't recall the title but there was one book that had an intelligent race living on Europa at the pre industrial level.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (+Dllb)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (N3JsI)
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (CXrpl)
Okaaaaayyyyy
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:21 AM (MINbv)
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Ha. I change the oil in all of our cars, and someone had a crazy rebate a year or so ago. Penzoil IIRC. dropped the price of each down to $6 or so.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (T4n7S)
What is that mess up top other than a jangled mess of color and shapes?
That's modern art, right?
Posted by: irongrampa at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Sharkman at December 15, 2017 10:27 AM (k2Hcx)
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (raGQi)
Hah!
Full disclosure: I was mostly attracted to the title of today's piece, which made no fvcking sense at all to me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 10:27 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:27 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 15, 2017 10:27 AM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:25 AM (wiubB)
All your vowels are belong to Sonobi
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 15, 2017 10:27 AM (493sH)
Saw on of the Science Channel's little interstitial ads about going to Mars - and they noted that Trump is doing it, pimping going to the Moon as a step.
On SCIENCE channel.
Posted by: blaster at December 15, 2017 10:27 AM (WonQS)
mic drop. (but you can't hear it)
Posted by: Philip Glass at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (MINbv)
Philip Glass buys a loaf of bread:
https://tinyurl.com/yaqkjr9o
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 15, 2017 10:27 AM (kqsXK)
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:28 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:28 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:29 AM (ddhPP)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (RD7QR)
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When he starts wearing the matching jumper, yes.
Posted by: Blake at December 15, 2017 10:29 AM (qC1Sy)
Ryk E. Spoor's Boundaryverse
The third and forth novels. Castaway Planet &
Castaway Odyssey.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:29 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:26 AM (eaB6O)
I don't know. I get bedazzled by just the thought of the bazillion planets out there, circling those distant suns--and that we even know they're out there and can even determine what kind of planets they are.
As a child, I saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin et al bouncing around on the Moon. That sense of wonder has never left me.
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:29 AM (raGQi)
Not really. The headline should be "EPA not hiring to replace retirees" - about 500 or so (IIRC) of the fifteen thousand plus employees aren't being replaced, a few have taken buyouts...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:29 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM (N3JsI)
Give it to her as a stealth red-pill, may get her to realize that all righties aren't evil RWNJs
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 10:29 AM (dab45)
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:29 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 15, 2017 10:30 AM (N3JsI)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:30 AM (T4n7S)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:30 AM (MINbv)
Oh, and my employer's chief accountant is walking around the building
wearing bright orange Crocs. We're talking traffic cone orange. Should
this concern me?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (RD7QR)
Did he spend the night in lockup? That's what they give you in jail.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 15, 2017 10:30 AM (UBzPO)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:30 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (2DOZq)
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The headline should be the EPA has 15,000 employees. Strikes me as about 14,999 too many. Need one to turn out the lights.
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (TisfY)
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:28 AM (sX1BW)
No. Takes effect Jan 1st, 2018.
What they've been touting is the actual $$ increase people will see on their take-home checks.
Excellent strategy, methinks.
Posted by: jwb7605 at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (DofIg)
Or you can always use the Kragle.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (r9UYA)
Same outcome.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:30 AM (MINbv)
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Big badaboom.
Posted by: Blake at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: pincorrect at December 15, 2017 10:31 AM (c0sWZ)
What they've been touting is the actual $$ increase people will see on their take-home checks.
Excellent strategy, methinks.
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I guess. Doesn't help me this year though.
Posted by: SH at December 15, 2017 10:32 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 15, 2017 10:32 AM (ZM2xo)
To me any announcement is interesting but just theory, with intent more to sell the program than to be "real science".
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 10:17 AM (otAqJ)
That and periodic dimming of the star.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 15, 2017 10:32 AM (di1hb)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (r9UYA)
It's surprising. Her dad is a big time lefty. Campaigned for Hillary and Obama. She always seemed so level headed about these things and always voted conservative. Her husband said she was totally grossed out by the pussy tape. Cannot believe she so naive in thinking that talk like that isn't common when men get together. Especially as PDT didn't say he did what he talked about.
I'm blaming menopause.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (N3JsI)
Call me when we get an Earth gravity planet in the Goldilocks zone, with oxygen lines in the spectra. FIFY.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:30 AM (wiubB)
I met Larry Niven once many years ago at a science fiction convention in St. Louis. He's such an incredibly nice man, and as smart and kind as they come.
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (raGQi)
Most modern art like this exhibits a high school level of skill to complete.
Most of my time looking at pieces like this is spent pondering.....Is this art?
That
Churchill piece form yesterday made me wonder about the place, wish I
were there, how hot was it, was it cold? Great big lists of questions
that make me wonder about the thoughts of the artist makes me interested
in the piece.
This kind of stuff does not speak for itself it
only raises the question, does the artist have a hidden skill set that
he is hiding from the viewer?
I think most of the modern stuff is
scam by artists to hide the lack of classical skill, whether they think
its boring or just never could match the level of the great masters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (ymnmz)
EXACTLY this. Most of these guys couldn't paint a straight line to save their lives. Anyone who has read the story about the emperor's new clothes will understand what's going on with this kind of art. And certain kinds of music as well...
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (oyCqX)
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:28 AM (RD7QR)
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Oh, so just formal confirmation of what we already know about Kepler-80? A M-type star where the planets are likely gravitationally locked? Nothingburger. It's probably a flare star and the planets are airless and sterile.
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:34 AM (eaB6O)
https://paddle8.com/work/david-hockney/97620-eine-deux-and-trs-three-works
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:34 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 15, 2017 10:32 AM (di1hb)
It boggles my mind that we're able to detect a .01% or whatever change in the brightness of a star that's many light years away at a regular interval and conclude "oh, yep. this means that there's a planet there." Like, I get the science behind it, but the fact that our technology has the precision is incredible.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (opC6e)
No teleprompter, no notes.
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (zCyNd)
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Clear indicator of strokin' out and major health problems.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (T4n7S)
Also, arrows come from Arizona. Pencils from Pennsylvania.
Vests from West Virginia. Tents from Tennessee.
But You! You come from Rhode Island! And little old Rhode Island is famous,
for
You.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (H5rtT)
That's why I typed out the number. I'm guessing that most folks would drastically underestimate the number of FedGov employees at pretty much every agency.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (MINbv)
Um, I think it's not finished. The artist forgot to paint in the naked
lady which would have justified the existence of the rest of the
painting.
Hold my beer...
Posted by: Carroll Dunham, Artiste at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (W+vEI)
Call me when we get an Earth gravity planet in the Goldilocks zone, with oxygen lines in the spectra. FIFY.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (hyuyC)
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Now THAT would be a BFD as Joey the Paste Eater would say. Only way you get that is life!
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (eaB6O)
Posted by: Rockysan99 at December 15, 2017 10:36 AM (m7LQK)
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (zCyNd)
He's got teleprompters. But the bringing out Peter Strzok to draw and quarter him on live TV is more than I expected.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 15, 2017 10:36 AM (493sH)
Posted by: zombie Salvador Dali at December 15, 2017 10:36 AM (326rv)
That's why I typed out the number. I'm guessing that most folks would drastically underestimate the number of FedGov employees at pretty much every agency.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (MINbv)
And this exacty why a government shutdown is no big deal.
Posted by: Infidel at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (EGFUD)
Cloaked Bazinga!
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (r9UYA)
scam by artists to hide the lack of classical skill, whether they think
its boring or just never could match the level of the great masters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (ymnmz)
Note that when you're looking at a painting by one of the masters that there were thousands of absolutely terrible paintings done in their era by those who weren't masters. We're seeing the very best of that era's work, the top 1%.
There's always been bad art, lots and lots of it. Great art is the art that lasts, that people over the centuries would risk life and limb to preserve and protect.
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (raGQi)
Monkeys typing Shakespear again I suppose.
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (2DOZq)
joncelli, because somebody had to at
Call me when we get an Earth gravity planet in the Goldilocks zone, with oxygen lines in the spectra. FIFY.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (hyuyC)
You can find a planet exactly the size of Earth, with lots of water and even oxygen, with pretty blue skies and 70 degree temps year round, smack dab in the middle of the goldilocks zone and still have nothing. Because most of these planets are sizzling with radiation and unable to support a speck of life. Earth has a built in radiation shield, which may be an extremely rare occurence, happening almost never by chance, and that may very well be the answer to the fermi paradox.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (oyCqX)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (opC6e)
Thanks! Passed on to Mrs. jwb7605. She will approve of that.
Posted by: jwb7605 at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (DofIg)
Watt said that he didn't know but he would make sure it would happen. Someone tweeted that Watt should buy this guy a pair. Watt responded "Great idea!" and then asked the soldier to get shoe sizes for his whole unit and he would send them all a pair - gratis.
Kapernick isn't qualified to wash this man's jock strap.
Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2017 10:38 AM (oiNtH)
No teleprompter, no notes.
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar"
Unprofessional, undignified., lightweight. Shows he is unfit for the job.
Posted by: Ripley at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (MxEKc)
That drives the numbers up, that is why it matters.
We have a planetary scientist in our church. He said a couple of years at a talk about reconciling science and religion that planets are ubiquitous.
And he also hinted - but would not openly declare - that he believes that we have evidence of life on Mars. Not that it is some big secret covered up, but rather that the available evidence lends itself to that conclusion.
Posted by: blaster at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (WonQS)
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (r9UYA)
scam by artists to hide the lack of classical skill, whether they think
its boring or just never could match the level of the great masters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
Or it's a scam to part fools from their money. Which at least that I can approve of.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (AM1GF)
Call me when we get an Earth gravity planet in the Goldilocks zone, with oxygen lines in the spectra. FIFY.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (hyuyC)
True enough. I hope to live long enough to see an actual picture of an actual Earth-type extrasolar planet but at this pace my heart will give out first.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (RD7QR)
CNN: Trump is speaking to a group of people. Do you know WHO else spoke to groups of people?!?!? (foams at mouth)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (493sH)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (/tuJf)
It doesn't make sense to itself. 'Eine' needs something that follows it, "a or an something", otherwise it's eins. Deux is a regular word. Tres with the backway mark, accent grave, doesn't mean anything at all that I can tell.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (fuK7c)
That drives the numbers up, that is why it matters.
This is a mixed thing. It makes the question of the "Great Filter" that much more alarming and urgent.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (AM1GF)
Watt said that he didn't know but he would make sure it would happen. Someone tweeted that Watt should buy this guy a pair. Watt responded "Great idea!" and then asked the soldier to get shoe sizes for his whole unit and he would send them all a pair - gratis.
Kapernick isn't qualified to wash this man's jock strap.
Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2017 10:38 AM (oiNtH)
JJ Watt raised $37 million for the victims of Hurricane Harvy. Kapernick bitched about oppression.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (KUaJL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ym3RlvVR9M
SFW - Rock Me Gently. One of the great keyboard licks...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (oiNtH)
Hear that Rahm?
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (r9UYA)
Someone in Chicago floated the idea of bringing in UN peace keeping troops to certain areas of Chicago.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (493sH)
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (CXrpl)
Posted by: Ivan Spotnicov at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (KdDCu)
Posted by: bluebell at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (opC6e)
Oh.
I thought there was a third: "Bourbon For Bluebell."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (S/hVx)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNR-sy8N5A
Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: TheQuietMan
Insurrection Act.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (gfU6H)
But the tides would be huge. (Or is it "tidal locked", if that is the right expression, for when the same side faces the planet all the time) Makes good sci-fi for sure.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (raGQi)
Maybe you would ...
Posted by: ScoggDog at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (JpIFY)
joncelli, because somebody had to at
Call me when we get an Earth gravity planet in the Goldilocks zone, with oxygen lines in the spectra. FIFY.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (hyuyC)
You can find a planet exactly the size of Earth, with lots of water and even oxygen, with pretty blue skies and 70 degree temps year round, smack dab in the middle of the goldilocks zone and still have nothing. Because most of these planets are sizzling with radiation and unable to support a speck of life. Earth has a built in radiation shield, which may be an extremely rare occurence, happening almost never by chance, and that may very well be the answer to the fermi paradox.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (oyCqX)
I prefer "after a certain point in AI research the AI kills off all the meat sacks" but your explanation is more likely, but less amenable to novelization.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (gfU6H)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: joe, living
But Kapernick is so BRAVE! What a useless tool both on and off the field.
Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (oiNtH)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (wYseH)
Allowable expenses.
Allowable. Expenses.
Posted by: blaster at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (WonQS)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (S/hVx)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (QCX64)
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:43 AM (gfU6H)
https://tinyurl.com/y8lhljre
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 15, 2017 09:57 AM (T4n7S)
Thanks! That's helpful.
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at December 15, 2017 10:43 AM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 15, 2017 10:32 AM (di1hb)
It boggles my mind that we're able to detect a .01% or whatever change in the brightness of a star that's many light years away at a regular interval and conclude "oh, yep. this means that there's a planet there." Like, I get the science behind it, but the fact that our technology has the precision is incredible.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:35 AM (KUaJL)
And that technology is cheap enough that hobbyists contribute data. Automated telescopes out in the backyard.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 15, 2017 10:43 AM (di1hb)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:44 AM (r9UYA)
Standards. Does Art have them any more?
*Only 24 living recipients, and is the personal gift of Queen Elizabeth II.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:44 AM (hyuyC)
https://tinyurl.com/ycvdujff
#winning
Posted by: MAGA at December 15, 2017 10:44 AM (vLsUj)
Posted by: TheQuietMan
Insurrection Act.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:41 AM (AM1GF)
That should be applied to California.
Posted by: Strzok at December 15, 2017 10:44 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (gfU6H)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (BoMuO)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
Plus folks can host stuff on their computers to help crunch the data. SETI did that for a while, some cancer research outfits do too.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (AM1GF)
joncelli, because somebody had to at
Call me when we get an Earth gravity planet in the Goldilocks zone, with oxygen lines in the spectra. FIFY.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2017 10:33 AM (hyuyC)
You can find a planet exactly the size of Earth, with lots of water and even oxygen, with pretty blue skies and 70 degree temps year round, smack dab in the middle of the goldilocks zone and still have nothing. Because most of these planets are sizzling with radiation and unable to support a speck of life. Earth has a built in radiation shield, which may be an extremely rare occurence, happening almost never by chance, and that may very well be the answer to the fermi paradox.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (oyCqX)
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If you're referring to the earth's magnetic field, then if you have all of those things the planet will HAVE to have a strong magnetic field, otherwise everything gets stripped away by solar wind within a few million years. O2 lines in the spectria would say the following:
1. There is a functional magnetic field, othewise it would have been stripped away fairly quickly
2. There is likely a Ozone layer, because O2 + UV radiation = Ozone. You don't need much, around 0.02 percent iirc.
3. Strongly suggestive of Photosynthetic life producing O2. Oxygen is, in general, way too reactive to be persistent over geological time scales, hence, if its seen in a planet's spectrum, something has to be making it. Even low levels are suggestive of cyanobacteria.
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (eaB6O)
>>Most of my time looking at pieces like this is spent
pondering.....Is this art? Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December
15, 2017 10:14 AM (ymnmz)
The successful artist sets a trap for a viewer's attention that succeeds. Yours was captured. Yes, it's art.
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 10:19 AM (Bdeb0)
Maybe. Trap setting by artist, though as a way to engage? In this instance the trap is showing a low level of skill in the artistic "strokes" but massive amounts of "conceptual skill" to get the viewer to look at his art and wonder if there is any skill involved? Seems more like a marketing exercise and not an art exercise.
I suppose there are two types of art. One where the artists seeks to make representation of the world as he/she see's it and uses craftsmanship and technique to convey the mood, setting and other smart stuff, and another kind of art that "makes you think".
I was at an art gallery in Denver and one of the pieces was essentially a garbage can behind a row of yellow safety tape. There was a card on the wall explaining the piece. It was either a sick joke or a real piece of art, but there was no way to tell. You would then take a colored ball from a box that matched the emotion that the art brought out in you; fve colors corresponding to five emotions. You put a marble in the bucket and it was to represent something and you became part of the art. Of course the emotion I felt wasn't one of the named marbles, you were only allowed five emotions, and contempt was not one of them.
Art or a joke.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (ymnmz)
just curious
Mining? No.
Do know that crypto-coin is backed by nothing but ether.
It's the new tulip bulb, beanie-baby mania.
It's too late to do other than via custom machines.
It's as real and as backed up as any other money.
It paid for my cousins TransAm.
Posted by: DaveA at December 15, 2017 10:46 AM (FhXTo)
God Bless you!! My daughter is a retail manager at our local mall and it is really tough to keep the Christmas spirit. She says the worse is actually the piped in Christmas music that plays non-stop that started right after Thanksgiving. How many times can you hear Jingle Bells before you want to throat punch someone.
Diversity Class - can you bring a pillow and a sleep mask?
Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2017 10:46 AM (oiNtH)
Posted by: KWDreaming at December 15, 2017 10:46 AM (PafTy)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:44 AM (r9UYA)
Somethings the GOPe types are quite happy to leave in place.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 15, 2017 10:46 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (BoMuO)
Yeah, that bit about alien life forms travelling across oceans of space and time only to crash in an experimental aircraft testing facility in a Nevada desert just doesn't seem plausible. Maybe it's just me.
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:47 AM (raGQi)
There are an uncountable number of stars in our galaxy and an uncountable number of galaxies in the universe. There are probably many planets with life. Now, is that intelligent life like humans, and has that life found us and travelled the vast distance to visit us? Prolly not.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (BoMuO)
The distances make contact impossible. An insurmountable problem for living organisms.
Posted by: kraken at December 15, 2017 10:47 AM (zSVEm)
I would say that I went to a Houston Grand Opera performance of Turandot with sets designed by Hockney and they were pretty damn good.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2017 10:48 AM (5BYNT)
I'm really lucky with my retail job--it's at a quilt shop in a country town, inside a working grain elevator, and often I'm by myself, listening to my own Pandora stations. Lately, blues and bluegrass Christmas.
again, I am blessed.
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 10:48 AM (CXrpl)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (8iiMU)
Posted by: #FakirNews at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (QCX64)
I suppose there are two types of art. One where the artists seeks to make representation of the world as he/she see's it and uses craftsmanship and technique to convey the mood, setting and other smart stuff, and another kind of art that "makes you think".
I was at an art gallery in Denver and one of the pieces was essentially a garbage can behind a row of yellow safety tape. There was a card on the wall explaining the piece. It was either a sick joke or a real piece of art, but there was no way to tell. You would then take a colored ball from a box that matched the emotion that the art brought out in you; fve colors corresponding to five emotions. You put a marble in the bucket and it was to represent something and you became part of the art. Of course the emotion I felt wasn't one of the named marbles, you were only allowed five emotions, and contempt was not one of them.
Art or a joke.
Another captive.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:44 AM (r9UYA)
Somethings the GOPe types are quite happy to leave in place.
Its almost like they are the true enemy of the nation.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (r9UYA)
https://tinyurl.com/ycvdujff
#winning
Posted by: MAGA at December 15, 2017 10:44 AM (vLsUj)
What was that 500,000 spike in mid 2010? Census?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (BoMuO)
apparently today is National Free Shipping day for a bunch of online stores
Barnes & Noble, Gap, Old Navy, etc
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Cheri at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (oiNtH)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y85y93qj
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (r9UYA)
I like the bed nails in the foreground. I can like down on one of those without getting injured.
Posted by: #FakirNews at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (/qEW2)
Hey! Get off my lawn!
Posted by: weirdly deformed woman on couch at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (8iiMU)
I always kinda liked The Hispanic Maverick as a nickname for Marco Rubio.
Posted by: Blanco at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (QGdDN)
You, sir, had skillz. Dali's "Last Supper" was a popular dorm room kind of poster in the 70s. Interesting effect, looked like it was made by the poster genies with poster magic.
I saw it in person with a diminutive 'ette a couple of years ago. We'd spent all day at the National Gallery leaning in and looking at the brushstrokes of Rembrandts trying to understand how it's done.
I have no phooking idea how Dali did that. From 2" away with reading glasses on I couldn't figure out the technique.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (fuK7c)
That drives the numbers up, that is why it matters.
We have a planetary scientist in our church. He said a couple of years at a talk about reconciling science and religion that planets are ubiquitous.
And he also hinted - but would not openly declare - that he believes that we have evidence of life on Mars. Not that it is some big secret covered up, but rather that the available evidence lends itself to that conclusion.
Posted by: blaster at December 15, 2017 10:39 AM (WonQS)
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Thing is, the Drake didn't take into account things that we know now might be needed for complex life to evolve. Things like a large moon to stablize rotational wobble, a large gas giant to act as a sink for asteroids and comets, etc. It does suggest that life is likely ubiquitous, if only on the bacterial level.
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (eaB6O)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (BoMuO)
I get a kick out of listening to paranormal stuff, there's some fun podcasts in that vein. It seems to me that the prevailing thought in circles that believe in that sort of thing are that aliens aren't actually from other planets within our physical universe (that;s just a cover story that is easier for our puny earth brains to understand), but they're sort of beings that exist from different dimensions or something. So they haven't traveled a great distance, but they do like phase in and out of our reality.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (KUaJL)
I think most of the modern stuff is
scam by artists to hide the lack of classical skill, whether they think
its boring or just never could match the level of the great masters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (ymnmz)
Note that when you're looking at a painting by one of the masters
that there were thousands of absolutely terrible paintings done in their
era by those who weren't masters. We're seeing the very best of that
era's work, the top 1%.
There's always been bad art, lots and lots of it. Great art is the
art that lasts, that people over the centuries would risk life and limb
to preserve and protect.
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (raGQi)
OK, Point made and noted.
I always try to be thoughtful of my critiques and not to just dispel whole categories of art because I don't like the style. But, I struggle with modern art. I can't name a piece that I would say is a slam dunk for and all-time classic of the style, while I suppose that impressionism is not my favorite style, I can certainly understand the skill and see the difference between the great impressionist and the high school level ones. Modern art, not so much.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (ymnmz)
scam by artists to hide the lack of classical skill, whether they think
its boring or just never could match the level of the great masters.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:14 AM (ymnmz)
Note that when you're looking at a painting by one of the masters that there were thousands of absolutely terrible paintings done in their era by those who weren't masters. We're seeing the very best of that era's work, the top 1%.
There's always been bad art, lots and lots of it. Great art is the art that lasts, that people over the centuries would risk life and limb to preserve and protect.
Posted by: troyriser at December 15, 2017 10:37 AM (raGQi)
^^
This.
And it's interesting how many modern art galleries poo-poo this fact. During docent training a story was told about a guest saying that exact thing to a tour-guide. The reactions were... interesting.
Posted by: Kris at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (nwqNw)
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (CXrpl)
Not much of a spike. It's the BLS's "total" figures chart, you can find it here and set your own parameters. Try from 1992 to today for a real eye opener...
https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (IqV8l)
AI kills off all the meat sacks" but your explanation is more likely,
but less amenable to novelization.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:42 AM (RD7QR)
Everybody forgets the radiation. The universe outside our little protected rock is glowing hot with deadly radiation. You can't have life on another planet or even consider long term space travel to that planet until you solve the radiation problem.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 15, 2017 10:52 AM (oyCqX)
Posted by: Eli Cash at December 15, 2017 10:52 AM (a+WIL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
The distances make contact impossible. An insurmountable problem for living organisms.
Posted by: kraken
At our current skillset level.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 10:52 AM (GjTLE)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 10:53 AM (r9UYA)
Some art and music is a pretty good argument for the existence of God, and the idea that he works through the hand of Man.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 10:53 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 15, 2017 10:53 AM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Peaches at December 15, 2017 10:54 AM (14URa)
+5 Vorpal blade
Antje Traue
50 lb. bag of Haribo gummi-bears
Switzerland
A re-education TrumpCamp of his very own
iPhone X
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 10:54 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Eli Cash
Can you just "unplug" the internet? Before AI gets "out of control", it will have secured it's own means of protecting it's self.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 10:54 AM (GjTLE)
Posted by: Eli Cash at December 15, 2017 10:52 AM (a+WIL)
Well, the general line of thought is that it's going to be difficult to know when exactly an AI becomes sentient, and if it's smart enough, then it could become sentient more quickly than we realize and possibly "hide" it's intelligence. From there, it's sort of handwaving to say "well a sufficiently intelligent AI would figure out how to get a copy of itself uploaded into the internet, and then hack into various systems without us knowing."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (KUaJL)
color scheme changes. Not sure what the prevailing color palette is
right now, but I remember the blue/rust/gray for flowered bedspreads for
a while.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 15, 2017 09:38 AM (MIKMs)
It might make a pleasing pattern for bathroom tiles in a Chipotles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (BoMuO)
I get a kick out of listening to paranormal stuff, there's some fun podcasts in that vein. It seems to me that the prevailing thought in circles that believe in that sort of thing are that aliens aren't actually from other planets within our physical universe (that;s just a cover story that is easier for our puny earth brains to understand), but they're sort of beings that exist from different dimensions or something. So they haven't traveled a great distance, but they do like phase in and out of our reality.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (KUaJL)
There's a school of thought that thinks they're demonic manifestations.
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (7HtZB)
and time only to crash in an experimental aircraft testing facility in a
Nevada desert just doesn't seem plausible. Maybe it's just me.
Another one? First the Roswell crash and now this? It's practically an invasion!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (IcT7t)
When a planet can no longer pay the EBT cards then there is a great filtering. Many advanced civilizations don't survive it.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: Eli Cash
That assumes it's point-based, that is, just in one machine. A distributed intelligence could hide itself in untold devices worldwide--the same way a zombie botnet does--and might get degraded, but be theoretically near-impossible to root out without destroying the Internet entirely, or at least crippling it.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 09:40 AM (fA1SL)
Then he should not listen to Yoko while he paints.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (oPNmq)
http://bit.ly/2kxrPzU
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 15, 2017 10:56 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (7HtZB)
The alien believers are under the impression that it's the other way around.
But yeah, I'm familiar with that theory as well.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:56 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:56 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: dr leonard mccoy at December 15, 2017 10:57 AM (QCX64)
Every 10 years, there is the census spike.
This chart is total government employment in local, state and federal.
Posted by: MAGA at December 15, 2017 10:57 AM (vLsUj)
Another captive.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:45 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 10:49 AM (Bdeb0)
Hence my scorn. The artist seems to hate the viewer. I suppose the feeling is mutual.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 10:57 AM (ymnmz)
I always kinda liked The Hispanic Maverick as a nickname for Marco Rubio.
Posted by: Blanco
The Cuban Jackass?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 10:57 AM (GjTLE)
Who didn't know quite how to rectanglesmear
He swervy perspectived
And vague shapified
Hang on the wall this => side up.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 09:41 AM (wPiJc)
Works for me.
Posted by: Hikaru at December 15, 2017 10:58 AM (WDCYi)
Posted by: Anna Puma
You jest, but I suspect something like that is close to the truth--when a culture turns from expansion to just maintenance, as we're in danger of doing completely, it's dying. Socialism and its likes is a trap in that regard.
I'll probably never see proof of my suspicion, but there it is.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:58 AM (AM1GF)
Oh, and my employer's chief accountant is walking around the building wearing bright orange Crocs. We're talking traffic cone orange. Should this concern me?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 10:24 AM (RD7QR)
Watch out for your cornhole, bud.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2017 10:58 AM (veoSD)
At some point we will be forced to make some terrible choices and take some horrible actions and I hate them for forcing those choices on us because of their own greed and stupidity.
I guess I am looking for some concrete good news that shows the tide is starting to turn.
Posted by: southdakotaconservative at December 15, 2017 11:00 AM (CuDAv)
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:00 AM (eO5CB)
there's some fun podcasts in that vein. It seems to me that the
prevailing thought in circles that believe in that sort of thing are
that aliens aren't actually from other planets within our physical
universe (that;s just a cover story that is easier for our puny earth
brains to understand), but they're sort of beings that exist from
different dimensions or something. So they haven't traveled a great
distance, but they do like phase in and out of our reality.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:51 AM (KUaJL)
I find it interesting that now that everyone has high-definition video cameras in their pockets we don't get many UFO photos any more. Remember when those would be on the tabloids about once a week?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (UBzPO)
Posted by: Eli Cash at December 15, 2017 10:52 AM (a+WIL)
Well, the general line of thought is that it's going to be difficult to know when exactly an AI becomes sentient, and if it's smart enough, then it could become sentient more quickly than we realize and possibly "hide" it's intelligence. From there, it's sort of handwaving to say "well a sufficiently intelligent AI would figure out how to get a copy of itself uploaded into the internet, and then hack into various systems without us knowing."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (KUaJL)
According to the book Life 3.0 people need to get any notion of robots out of their minds. It would be some kind of cloud based AI.
It will be really interesting when machines are self replicating, self improving and capable of setting independent goals.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (TisfY)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 10:40 AM (fuK7c)
Look at the painting, you want that guy to use proper grammar in three foreign languages?
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (dab45)
Posted by: red speck at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (6Krd7)
Posted by: JT in KC at December 15, 2017 09:32 AM
My favorite so far remains a large canvas square, half yellow and half white. The title? Yellow-White, of course. And this thing was in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. WTAF, people?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (8bEU0)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (fA1SL)
wearing bright orange Crocs. We're talking traffic cone orange. Should
this concern me?
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My favorite pair! Must read here and know there are stealth croc-wearers infiltrating corporate America. Yeah, I'm one of them.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: southdakotaconservative at December 15, 2017 11:00 AM (CuDAv)
Saban seems confident they'll have a few starters back by the Clemson game.
Posted by: ScoggDog at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (JpIFY)
Nobody on the Hill likes him, and now I really know why.
We are talking about a tax cut, and he's looking to provide more handouts to people who don't pay any.
Douche.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (VpIIl)
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If any of the values plugged into the Drake equation is zero then the result is zero.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (YV+SU)
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:03 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: Archer at December 15, 2017 11:03 AM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 11:03 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:03 AM (fA1SL)
Nobody on the Hill likes him, and now I really know why.
We are talking about a tax cut, and he's looking to provide more handouts to people who don't pay any.
Douche.
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Much like Jeb, Rubio dreamed of becoming the Emperor of the Western Hemisphere. He just needs a lot more American taxpayers to seal the deal.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 15, 2017 11:04 AM (YV+SU)
You jest, but I suspect something like that is close to the truth--when a culture turns from expansion to just maintenance, as we're in danger of doing completely, it's dying. Socialism and its likes is a trap in that regard.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 10:58 AM (AM1GF)
I wonder if any civilizations get completely conquered by an Islam-like cult and permanently turn their backs on modernity.
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 11:04 AM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Eli Cash at December 15, 2017 10:52 AM (a+WIL)
Well, the general line of thought is that it's going to be difficult to know when exactly an AI becomes sentient, and if it's smart enough, then it could become sentient more quickly than we realize and possibly "hide" it's intelligence. From there, it's sort of handwaving to say "well a sufficiently intelligent AI would figure out how to get a copy of itself uploaded into the internet, and then hack into various systems without us knowing."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 10:55 AM (KUaJL)
According to the book Life 3.0 people need to get any notion of robots out of their minds. It would be some kind of cloud based AI.
It will be really interesting when machines are self replicating, self improving and capable of setting independent goals.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 11:01 AM (TisfY)
And the independent goal will be self-defense and building a castle. You could put a castle anywhere, even on another planet. Maybe the AI would use its computing power to come up with a viable stardrive, pick up stakes, and head out. And now I need to do some outlining.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 11:04 AM (RD7QR)
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Cubism sucks
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:00 AM
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You said it. That Fidel was a real dick.
Posted by: Oppressed Cubins at December 15, 2017 11:04 AM (pMGkg)
Posted by: Archer at December 15, 2017 11:04 AM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:05 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 11:05 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 11:04 AM (RD7QR)
So long and thanks for all the fish electrons?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (KUaJL)
https://tinyurl.com/y8278utj
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Shoey at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (bBE6d)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (QCX64)
Posted by: southdakotaconservative at December 15, 2017 11:00 AM (CuDAv)
Last year, Zod supplied the dozen neighbors on his street with holiday gift-baskets that included Trump Winery chardonnay. Scowling Aztecs were hired to stand in the street until the packages were received. Ingrates suffered broken car windows. This season, all recipients seemed sullen, but resigned.
The times, they are a-changin'.
Posted by: Zod at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (6FqZa)
Could they put in you must be so tall signs?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (TisfY)
Gibbons covered it pretty well. But he was white, so "rayciss"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (MINbv)
Like what? He's recused from the case.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 09:23 AM (/tuJf)
Yeah, he can "unrecuse" himself, he can also investigate Mueller's team which has zip to do with Sessions being part of the campaign being investigated for being "in collusion" with Russia. Also, since the 'investigation' has had shit to do with "collusion" and has only produced process crimes created by Mueller's corrupt group, he can step back in on that pretext. Hillary's collusion with Russia/FBI/DoJ/Obama admin has nothing to do with Sessions.
Sessions, apparently, is fast asleep or dead.
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (eO5CB)
Posted by: rickl
Islam, progtardianism, eco-madness, any number of ways it can happen.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:03 AM (fA1SL)
Jeeves is his prophet.
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (7HtZB)
Douche.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (VpIIl)
Heh, remember all those people all over the interwebz blabbing about what a staunch conservative Little Marco was/is? Good times, good times
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (dab45)
Crazy new Berkeley City Councilwoman is a Jew-hating lunatic, interrogates all her underlings if they are "Zionists," and if they even hesitate or say "I dunno," she fires them:
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/12/14/ views-israel-determine-sit-berkeley-commissions-one-council-member-may-think/
Needless to say, anyone who says "Yes, I am a Zionist" is immediately fired as well. One guy -- a transportation commissioner -- is pretty sure he fired her because he merely had a Jewish-sounding name and sidestepped her "Do you support the illegal settler state of Israel?" question, because it had absolutely nothing to do with his job.
Meanwhile, this councilwoman's district in Berkeley is the town's most crime-ridden slum, and she skips or storms out of every meeting to address the issue, deeming the proceedings "racist."
Her campaign was funded by Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Israel groups, even though thee is no connection between her job description and international politics. She is so obsessed over hating Jews that she ran for the City Council in the first place because she had been fired from her previous job as an assistant to the previous Councilman due her relentless obsession with Jews and Israel -- so she decided to get revenge and steal his job away -- and succeeded, with funding from Arab groups -- even though she is black and her district is mostly black.
Wehn the local paper exposed all this, she wrote a "rebuttal" which said,
"This is one disgruntled guy, who disagrees with my position on Palestine. For this to be considered news worthy is another reflection of the ongoing suppression campaigns to smear anyone who supports Palestine. The campaign to silence support for Palestinian rights is how I came to be a councilmember in the first place."
Uh huh.
Meanwhile, her district is a cesspit and she does nothing to do address the issue.
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (42M22)
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (eaB6O)
Drake's Equation is one big fudge.
We don't have any idea the correct values. Like I said, it seems like f sub p approaches 1.
I think that saying "well you need a big moon" or whatever is not really appropriate. We know the conditions here, and then we are extrapolating well you need all these conditions here to have intelligent life.
Okay. Maybe. Maybe not.
Posted by: blaster at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (WonQS)
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Maybe you can't count them but Obama can.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 15, 2017 11:08 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:08 AM (42M22)
Yeah, right. CAIR is right on top of it.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 15, 2017 09:56 AM (MIKMs)
I appreciate that you inserted spaces in the link so it won't blow the margins for those people using lame smartphones instead of real computers to read the HQ. How about inserting those spaces in the middle of actual words in the link, so it's easier to spot them, instead of next to slashes and dashes?
Like this:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-sec urity/2017/12/14/family-bomber-visited-bangladesh-charity-w ork-rohingya-muslims/
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2017 11:08 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 15, 2017 11:08 AM (+y/Ru)
I can't count them if my view is ear flap blocked.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 11:09 AM (TisfY)
https://tinyurl.com/y8278utj
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (/tuJf)
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This is a big reason why I don't buy the theory that some have about the current sexual harrassment kerfluffle being expressly provoked to get Moore. Its hitting the left just as hard if not harder than the right. Moore was them making a little lemonade out of a shipping container of lemons.
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 11:09 AM (eaB6O)
Zombie, the link no work for me...What is her name?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 15, 2017 11:10 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:10 AM (eO5CB)
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (42M22)
Southwest Berkeley? Or have the Hills become just as bad.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 11:10 AM (wYseH)
https://tinyurl.com/y8278utj
What's good for the Gander is good for the Goose...so to speak.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 11:10 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 11:04 AM (xjiRE)
Well, just keep watching Sweden, we'll find out soon enough.
Posted by: random lurker commenter at December 15, 2017 11:10 AM (dab45)
Posted by: kraken at December 15, 2017 11:10 AM (zSVEm)
Zombie, the link no work for me...What is her name?
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Remove the space in the URL (before "views"):
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/12/14/ views-israel-determine-sit-berkeley-commissions-one-council-member-may-think/
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (42M22)
https://tinyurl.com/y8278utj
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Sad thing is, I'd do her.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Archer at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (gbWkA)
https://tinyurl.com/y8245qqw
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (wiubB)
Well, shit.
Posted by: the Persians at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (eO5CB)
Okay. Maybe. Maybe not.
Posted by: blaster
It's a starting point for intelligent life as we know it. Since we don't really have data for other paradigms yet, we can't make an educated guess.
Aside from that, from a practical standpoint, it's pretty much a parlor game until we find something more solid.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (TisfY)
I think this painting does prove one thing, Vogons do more than write bad poetry.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:05 AM (wiubB)
They paint with hammers.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (42M22)
Southwest Berkeley? Or have the Hills become just as bad.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Yup, west Berkeley, below San Pablo -- you nailed it.
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:12 AM (42M22)
Posted by: ScoggDog at December 15, 2017 11:12 AM (JpIFY)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 15, 2017 11:12 AM (3myMJ)
Sessions, apparently, is fast asleep or dead.
Posted by: dagny
Or in on it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 11:12 AM (GjTLE)
First you have to allow families to start.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 11:13 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 15, 2017 11:13 AM (5y11N)
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 10:50 AM (eaB6O)
Drake's Equation is one big fudge.
We don't have any idea the correct values. Like I said, it seems like f sub p approaches 1.
I think that saying "well you need a big moon" or whatever is not really appropriate. We know the conditions here, and then we are extrapolating well you need all these conditions here to have intelligent life.
Okay. Maybe. Maybe not.
Posted by: blaster at December 15, 2017 11:07 AM (WonQS)
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I was just spitballing various variables he didn't have any way of knowing about at the time. The more we learn about extrasolar systems and the conditions therin as well as how life evolved on Earth, the more plausible the various "Rare Earth" theories look.
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 11:13 AM (eaB6O)
We're on a 5 bn year old rock in a 13 bn year old universe. The rock has had life for 1 bn years. It's had us for 200K.
It's had us with the ability to look out there with science for 50 or 400 years, depending on how you look at it.
And who knows how long we will last? So some intelligence from millions of light years away is going to have to get awfully lucky to meet us in our prime. Heck, my prime was 20 years ago and I'm fading fast.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 11:13 AM (fuK7c)
Kind of like he's straight most of the week except for a couple hours every other Saturday night.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 11:13 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:12 AM (42M22)
But it was bad in the 1980s and the city council assured me that it would be cleaned up as a result of their far-reaching progressive polices with respect to policing, education and the environment!
I'm confused.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2017 11:14 AM (wYseH)
Is inflated scrotum man running for mayor now that Lee has passed his best buy date in the grocery?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:14 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: Archer at December 15, 2017 11:14 AM (gbWkA)
>>Sessions, apparently, is fast asleep or dead.
What exactly do you think the DOJ OIG has been doing over the last year? Do you think Strzok and McCabe and all the others were outed by magic fairies? What would Sessions being doing any differently?
Why some continue to hang on to the myth that because one person has stepped aside that means there is no investigation is a mystery to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:14 AM (/tuJf)
Well, it's emily's list, so "family" means "single white women, bottle blond, with cats"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 11:15 AM (MINbv)
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Well, just a few minutes ago, I heard a heavy lift helicopter going over the house, so I grabbed my camera and ran to the door, but, at first, I couldn't find the aircraft even though the rotor and engine noise was very loud.
Then I had to step out into the snow and finally saw two little dots up in the sky. When I tried to get the camera on the dots, my pants fell down because the elastic in the waistband is shot and I couldn't stand out in the front yard with my pants around my ankles and my bare bum hanging out because of the traffic on the highway going by the house.
I'm not making this up. True story. So you see how difficult it can be to get a camera on a UFO.
Posted by: Ivan Spotnicov at December 15, 2017 11:15 AM (KdDCu)
Posted by: ScoggDog at December 15, 2017 11:12 AM (JpIFY)
What if the rogue AI used contact with a sexbot as a means of inserting a piece of itself in Humans? It could distribute itself across 5 billion male humans and thus always be assured of being able to access most of itself when they bang the bot and complete the contact. Got to make another outline.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 11:15 AM (RD7QR)
Foam party?
Saw that RedState and Fox say he's a yes. They didn't know if he'd gotten anything out of his little tantrum.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (3myMJ)
I'm confused.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Here, wear these magic Progressive Fantasyworld Glasses, and you will see nothing but unicorns and happy-faces!!!
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (42M22)
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (TisfY)
473 FBN: Refundale portion of the child tax credit will be raised from $1100 to $1400.
Posted by: Tami at December 15, 2017 11:02 AM (Enq6K)
The worst part about Rubio's dilly-dallying about is that he isn't even smart enough to balance the risks against a big political payoff. All of that shit for a $300 increase in the refundable amount? Fucking small potatoes.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (veoSD)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2017 11:12 AM (GjTLE)
Not by choice. He may have been threatened. I think that has happened a lot with Obama/Hillary. He does seem obsessed with 1975 weed law though.
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (eO5CB)
https://tinyurl.com/y8245qqw
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (/tuJf)
Isn't this against the law? Shouldn't she be stripped of her Bar license?
Posted by: Randy West at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (fvkPE)
https://tinyurl.com/y8278utj
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:06 AM (/tuJf)
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Still waiting for Tammy Baldwin to get her turn.
Posted by: #FakirNews at December 15, 2017 11:17 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:17 AM (eO5CB)
"And next, on ABC 13, Naked photo taking stops traffic on highway!!!!!"
Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 11:17 AM (MINbv)
>>Yeah, he can "unrecuse" himself, he can also investigate
Mueller's team which has zip to do with Sessions being part of the
campaign being investigated for being "in collusion" with Russia. Also,
since the 'investigation' has had shit to do with "collusion" and has
only produced process crimes created by Mueller's corrupt group, he can
step back in on that pretext. Hillary's collusion with
Russia/FBI/DoJ/Obama admin has nothing to do with Sessions.
>>Sessions, apparently, is fast asleep or dead.
What exactly do you think the DOJ OIG has been doing over the last
year? Do you think Strzok and McCabe and all the others were outed by
magic fairies? What would Sessions being doing any differently?
Why some continue to hang on to the myth that because one person has
stepped aside that means there is no investigation is a mystery to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:14 AM (/tuJf)
So you agree that Sessions is working the OIG and back channels? (Please forgive me for be a non lawyer)
Earlier this week you indicated that you were on the original team "Sessions ain't got nothing, and no hammer to swing" . Is that still your read on this matter?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 11:17 AM (ymnmz)
Is inflated scrotum man running for mayor now that Lee has passed his best buy date in the grocery?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR)
Sad to say, but I was told that Inflated Scrotum Man passed away a few years ago (after moving out of the Bay Area). I think he never knew what a legend he had become.
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:18 AM (42M22)
Sex-Bot Succubus
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (wiubB)
Oooh, Anna goes on the Acknowledgments page!
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 15, 2017 11:18 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 15, 2017 11:19 AM (ul9CR)
Drake took "life as we know it" too seriously, and was imagining something exactly like Earth. Well, it doesn't have to be exactly like Earth.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 11:19 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:19 AM (wiubB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 15, 2017 10:16 AM (5OO3x)
Yet another bitcoin miner cashing out, and buying something of enduring value.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2017 11:19 AM (oPNmq)
Well, he certainly isn't a motivational speaker.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 15, 2017 11:19 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Jackal at December 15, 2017 11:09 AM (eaB6O)
It's the Rahm Emmanuel "don't let a good crisis go to waste" tactic. Lefties got gobsmacked by the Pervnado, but are trying to twist it to their advantage.
Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:20 AM (EzdLW)
But that clears the field for Rainbow Dash Pony Grrl to run.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:19 AM (wiubB)
The greatest argument for SMOD yet...
Posted by: Hikaru at December 15, 2017 11:20 AM (WDCYi)
Zombie, the link no work for me...What is her name?
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Remove the space in the URL (before "views"):
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/12/14/ views-israel-determine-sit-berkeley-commissions-one-council-member-may-think/
Posted by: zombie at December 15, 2017 11:11 AM (42M22)
Reading the comments, I found this interesting (aside from no one supporting her except some guy with Yemen as his avatar, which was interesting) - she came in 3rd place in votes, yet somehow won the seat.
Posted by: josephistan at December 15, 2017 11:20 AM (7HtZB)
omg! Anna Puma has the keys to the HQ car!
Can I take it for a ride, please please please?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 11:20 AM (fuK7c)
Stephen King@StephenKing
The pending tax bill is basically Republican piggery; another case of the rich man dancing while the poor man pays the band.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 15, 2017 11:20 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 11:16 AM (TisfY)
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Whether by AI or cryo, who cares about launching a probe if it will take a really long time to reach the destination? By the time the aliens get back here, we'll have degenerated to a planet of savages who will welcome them by groping them. And then they'll nuke the planet from orbit.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 11:21 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 15, 2017 11:24 AM (MIKMs)
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He's gone into hibernation, but when he wakes, he's going to be grizzly mean.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 15, 2017 11:24 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at December 15, 2017 11:24 AM (9BLnV)
>>Earlier this week you indicated that you were on the original team "Sessions ain't got nothing, and no hammer to swing" . Is that still your read on this matter?
I think from Day 1 it was know that this investigation was going on since it was announced on January 12th, before Trump was even sworn in. I don't know how many times I can post the the January 12th OIG announcement before some will actually read it and see that he clearly laid out the scope of the investigation he is doing.
It focuses on the actions of the DOJ and the FBI during Hillary's email investigation and that investigation is why we know what we do about all the players who are now being outed.
What I indicated earlier this week is I have been saying this for months and it is all happening right in front of us right now.
The OIG released a letter to Congress yesterday indicating he is still doing interviews and finishing up his report. While that investigation is ongoing we will only get drips of information because unlike some politicized investigations, this one doesn't leak.
In the meantime, Sessions along with DNI Coates have organized a separate unit to investigate leaks which probably overlaps the OIG investigation. That started in August.
Just be patient a little longer. This is an enormous scandal which strikes at the heart of our federal law enforcement agencies at the highest levels. It has to be done completely and comprehensively if we are going to get all the player and have evidence that can withstand the partisan blowback that is guaranteed to hit when the report does.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2017 11:26 AM (/tuJf)
I liked that one better than When Harlie was One .
The Two Faces of Tomorrow is pretty good. I recall a series about a von Neumann machine that crashes on Ganymede and develops into an entire ecosystem, including intelligent machines at a roughly Renaissance level of technology.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 15, 2017 11:29 AM (pKqmv)
Main point of this comment though: thanks for taking the time to write clearly and at length. I read you and nod in agreement
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 11:31 AM (CXrpl)
Heck, my prime was 20 years ago and I'm fading fast.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 15, 2017 11:13 AM (fuK7c)
You were in your prime at 9 yrs old? Dood.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2017 11:32 AM (veoSD)
Anything at all. Just wiggle your foot. Blink.
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:34 AM (eO5CB)
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:34 AM (eO5CB)
Posted by: dagny at December 15, 2017 11:17 AM (eO5CB)
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Your forgiven.
You didn't know, except for Trump supporters daily pointing it out. But at least you voted for Trump in the general.
Sorry, had to get a little dig in.
Posted by: MAGA at December 15, 2017 11:35 AM (vLsUj)
naysaying is easily said.
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 11:42 AM (CXrpl)
Well said JackStraw. I share your frustration about including links in your comments and discovering that few read them.
Main point of this comment though: thanks for taking the time to write clearly and at length. I read you and nod in agreement
Posted by: booknlass at December 15, 2017 11:31 AM (CXrpl)
I read his links because he has proven himself to be well read regarding the detail of the matter. There was a moment earlier this week, where he indicated that he thought Session had no hammer in this matter because of his recusal, so I was basically confused by that comment and thought I misunderstood everything he was saying (prolly did, this the legal wrangling is confusing). It seems to me now that there are two activities going on that I had conflated to one in my head. The Big GIANT MUELLER PROBE vs the OIG investigation of the Hillary Probe. The overlap in the two seems huge though.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2017 11:46 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 15, 2017 12:13 PM (CPk08)
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