Daily Tech News 12 November 2021

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The US government has banned Chinese intelligence agencies Huawei and ZTC from receiving FCC licenses. (ZDNet)

This is one of those rare occasions - like the recent Australian deal for nuclear submarines - where the government does something so obviously correct that you are left wondering what the hell is going on.

But the move only comes after the FCC had already approved 3000 applications to use Huawei equipment in (presumably, the article doesn't specify) mobile networks. Which is a great - if cynical - full employment move by the networks given that the federal government has also announced that it will pay to have the spyware replaced.

Oh, and China Telecom has also been told to pack its bag and be out of the country by the end of the year.

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Patreon is building its own video platform to compete with YouTube. (The Verge)

Three or four years ago this wasn't really viable, and the competing platforms were mostly pretty dire. Now, for a whole range of technical reasons, smaller video streaming services are starting to wok pretty well.

The problem in this instance is that Patreon is just as much of a woke dumpster fire as YouTube but without the fading legacy of technical expertise. I doubt this will end well.
Microsoft is back to its old tricks. The ones that brought it antitrust attention way back in 2001. (The Register)

The latest update to Windows 11 hard codes the handler for certain URLs - ones used within other Microsoft apps - so that they can only be opened by Edge.

You used to be able to tweak a registry setting to override this, and Firefox and Brave could do it themselves. Now that process has been broken, and if you uninstall Edge then nothing can open those links at all.
There's more Alder Lake chips on the way . (WCCFTech)

This includes the 12900, 12700, and 12600 - which are not what we have now, because these are missing the K. The 12900 no-K will have a base TDP of 65W down from 125W, but how much power it actually uses is anyone's guess. This may or may not turn out to be a better deal than the K version, and it mostly depends on that full load power number.
If you couldn't get your hands on a PlayStation 5 for all of this year and were hoping to do better in 2022 you might want to cut your losses and get a Nintendo Switch. (Tom's Hardware)

Facing supply chain issues, Sony is further cutting production, which was already lagging behind demand.
Me: I don't need an Adobe subscription anymore.
Me: I have the Affinity range, all sorts of Corel products via Humble Bundle, Vegas and SoundForge also via Humble Bundle...
Adobe: 40% off?
Me: Sold.
Pyjion is a drop-in JIT compiler for Python 3.10. (TryPyjion)

It's not a standalone runtime like PyPy, but a library that installs into CPython. It also depends on .Net 6, which is a pretty hefty dependency.

But it does support the latest version of Python, which PyPy doesn't.

Except it doesn't support with blocks or async, which is a bit of a problem.
Speaking of problems Ars Technica tries to argue that zooming into an image doesn't generate artifacts that weren't present in the original. (Ars Technica)

Yeah, Rittenhouse trial. The article is pure garbage, and the initial comments are the usual mindless left-liberal pablum. But then some of the older Ars readers show up, from before the site turned to shit, and the comment section turns into a free-fire zone.

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1 yay, tech

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 03:10 AM (6dJKT)

2 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 12, 2021 03:12 AM (sAmhv)

3 Thanks for the Ars Technica link.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 03:12 AM (6dJKT)

4 "The discussion offers a glimpse into how criminal trials are affected by a judge's unfamiliarity with technology--even when that technology is a common consumer feature that's grasped intuitively by millions of people of all ages."

"grasped"

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 03:14 AM (6dJKT)

5 Mornin' horde!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:17 AM (dB4Iz)

6 Bah, tech-- a necessary evil.

Thanks for all you do, Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:18 AM (dB4Iz)

7 from the Ars Technica comments:

I cannot WAIT to see the absolutely hilarious video memes this is going to spawn, of people doing "pinch to zoom" and you zoom in and they edit something in that definitely wasn't in the video before the zoom.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 03:25 AM (6dJKT)

8 Good morning morons

Reg. Gas up 4 cents to $4.99

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 03:29 AM (EZebt)

9 Reg. Gas up 4 cents to $4.99

I did that!!!!

Posted by: F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2021 03:30 AM (dB4Iz)

10 Ack, I waded through two pages of wild and crazy comments on the Ars Technica article and maybe one tech person had shown up, and only lightly remonstrated the commenters. It's a swamp over there.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 03:32 AM (6dJKT)

11 7 from the Ars Technica comments:

I cannot WAIT to see the absolutely hilarious video memes this is going to spawn, of people doing "pinch to zoom" and you zoom in and they edit something in that definitely wasn't in the video before the zoom.
Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 03:25 AM (6dJKT)

Those comments are like radiation - the longer you linger, the worse it is for your iq

Posted by: a dude in MI at November 12, 2021 03:34 AM (+I6Y/)

12 This blog right here, has the only comments section I can stomach. It's just ghastly out there in cyber-hurled.

Gimme a bubble of like-minded peeps!

(Mommy! I want my mommy!)

Posted by: F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2021 03:36 AM (dB4Iz)

13 In the old days, a nerd free-fire zone was the sorority raid in "Revenge of the Nerds".

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 03:36 AM (KAi1n)

14 This one seems informed:

An iPad is a consumer-grade device. It is not a forensic tool. It doesn't have to do everything in a strictly unbiased manner. The prosecution does have access to an entire forensics department with tools that have survived previous Frye challenges. Using an iPad in the way described is NOT one of those tools - regardless how commonplace it may be in your everyday life.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 03:37 AM (6dJKT)

15 Meh, I hear the super deep thots from the Left at work. I don't need to read the AT comments section.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 12, 2021 03:38 AM (sAmhv)

16 >>Reg. Gas up 4 cents to $4.99
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 03:29 AM (EZebt)

Ouch. $3.09 - $3.19 around here

Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 03:38 AM (wL8Gk)

17 Hi, MLii!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:39 AM (dB4Iz)

18 Non-ethanol gas is $4.199 here.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:39 AM (dB4Iz)

19 $4.20, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:40 AM (dB4Iz)

20 Hey, JQ!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 03:40 AM (wL8Gk)

21 Inflation is rationing.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 03:41 AM (KAi1n)

22 The reason that Kamala put on that fake French accent is that she was raised in Montreal, and so it was just a reflex.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 03:44 AM (EZebt)

23 Inflation. Gah!

A ton of pellets is 10% more now, than one month ago.
One month ago, that ton of pellets was 10% more than last winter, approx. 8 months ago...

Not even talking about freeeking *petroleum* product!

F*CK JOE BIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:45 AM (dB4Iz)

24 You have non-ethanol gas? Luxury.

Have to drive into next county to get that, and it's offered as 93 octane, so extra pricey

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 03:46 AM (wL8Gk)

25 93 Octane? Luxury!

Ours is only 91. And still very pricey.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:48 AM (dB4Iz)

26 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 03:49 AM (arJlL)

27 Hiya, JT! Missed ya on earlier thread. Hubby had late afternooon appt & Dr was waaaayy behind so we didn't get out until nearly 6pm! Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:51 AM (dB4Iz)

28 We call our 87 octane "regular" even though it has ethanol. It all is required to have ethanol in SE WI counties.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 03:52 AM (wL8Gk)

29 So another case of Team Joe hastily doing away with something Trump did (banning Huawei) then months later reinstating it as if they did something special.

The comments about the Rittenhouse trial, on that site, are hilarious in their stupidity. First they will all deny reality all because of their political bias. They'll act as if they know better than a federal judge, because huffpo told them so. And they'll happily support and lionize a f'in pedo and racist who is on camera screaming the N Word, all because they dislike some kid who the media spent a year lying about. If I had one super power it might be the power to erase people from existence based on thier internet posts.....oooo and x-ray vision, but like selective x-ray vision.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 12, 2021 03:53 AM (PWPnu)

30 God bless Kyle Rittenhouse! May he prevail in court!

That kid... wow.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:57 AM (dB4Iz)

31 One day i learned the hard way what regular coffee in massachusetts is.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 04:06 AM (KAi1n)

32 Hiya JQ !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 04:07 AM (arJlL)

33 Hiya MLiiGRAM !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 04:07 AM (arJlL)

34 We're going to have Thanksgiving- supper- for- two this year... Cornish Hens FTW!

Maybe one sibling can also attend; will merely thaw an extra birdy in that case, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 04:12 AM (dB4Iz)

35 I got was caught in traffic last night and learn this morning it was caused by an anti-vax mandate protest and unrelated collision on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 04:13 AM (EZebt)

36 Hey, JT!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 04:14 AM (wL8Gk)

37 That's interesting.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 04:14 AM (KAi1n)

38 The FNM isn't too good at relaying "anti-narrative" news, huh?

If I knew of any local anti-vaxxxxxxxx protest, would for sure attend.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 04:15 AM (dB4Iz)

39 Bought a small turkey (14 lb) but there probably won't be be anyone coming over. Not a big deal, it'll be just like any other weekday around here, as I have to work T-day morning and then spend the afternoon at mom's.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 04:18 AM (wL8Gk)

40 I may make the dinner earlier in week and eat leftovers on "The Day"

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 04:19 AM (wL8Gk)

41 Sometimes I really miss the huge fambly gatherings. But then I remember the rest of the story and sigh with relief...

It's bittersweet.

I miss a lot of folks who are now gone.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 04:21 AM (dB4Iz)

42 I'm here, late start so should have slept in longer.
But Maet came back so want to go see what he put up

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 04:22 AM (2JoB8)

43 Or get a Switch cause Sony has gone full woke and pressures developers to put out games that meet those marks for woke Twitter points. Been a Sony fan since early PS1, and their politics in trying to manage games has me not trying to go PS5.

Posted by: Bete at November 12, 2021 04:22 AM (Ojki1)

44 Mornin', volk,

I'm trying to motivate myself to get up and work out. It's Friday, it's not hot outside and not cold, not raining. So I really have no excuse. Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat is here and has been moving more. He . . . That's a good excuse! I need to spend more time with him!

Got to go vote in the local election tomorrow. We need to get someone to challenge LaToya the Destroya and if possible get her out of office. The rest of the slate, city council and so forth, are all Ds, so I dunno what difference voting for them will make. Oh, and there are 4 amendments to the "constitution" on the ballot. Only 1 makes any sense; the others need a "no" vote.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 12, 2021 04:23 AM (c6xtn)

45 Tgiving was just the 5 of us and my mother made a fantastic dinner. Didn't have to watch Uncle Walter.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 04:23 AM (KAi1n)

46 LOL, MLii! If you're the cook, you make the holiday schedule. Period!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 04:24 AM (dB4Iz)

47 Family usually gathers at my oldest brother's home. Big ol' farm house, so he has the space. When dad was alive, there would never have been a thought that all wouldn't show up. Who knew that he was the glue that would keep us all together!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 04:26 AM (wL8Gk)

48 I always roast the Turkey the day before and carve it cold, reheated in its own drippings and juices on the day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 04:26 AM (EZebt)

49 As for T-Day, Miss Linda and I are going to an upscale (but not *too* upscale) restaurant in the 'burbs we haven't been to before. Cheaper than the place at the edge of the Quarter we have gone to for years, but the city and that restaurant still have that boilerplate about "ya gotta have the shot or a recent test to get in" on their websites. This suburban restaurant tells me they aren't worried about it.

It'll be an easier drive and park as well. And sometime before then we'll go to the nearer Cracker Barrel -- they are offering "traditional" T-giving fare.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 12, 2021 04:27 AM (c6xtn)

50 Exactly JQ! And if anyone wants to see mom, they get to come to her, she's no longer able to go out and about.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 04:28 AM (wL8Gk)

51 Elections on Saturdays... how Napoleonic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 04:29 AM (EZebt)

52 Mom was our family's "glue" and she passed nearly 20 years ago. The Holidays have been chaos ever since.

Meh. My jerb usually screwed up travel plans-- either mandatory OT or layoff (which meant staying home to retain eligibility for UE bennies).

Wish I could've retired *before* everyone died!!!

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 04:31 AM (dB4Iz)

53 I've looked at the images, they are completely devoid of information or context.

Judge should have never let them be admitted as evidence.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2021 04:32 AM (oHeld)

54 Gotta go now-- tomorrow starts early, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 04:37 AM (dB4Iz)

55 Sleep well, JQ

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 04:40 AM (wL8Gk)

56 22 The reason that Kamala put on that fake French accent is that she was raised in Montreal, and so it was just a reflex.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 03:44 AM (EZebt)

She was raised in a barn.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 04:40 AM (6dJKT)

57 23 Inflation. Gah!

A ton of pellets is 10% more now, than one month ago.
One month ago, that ton of pellets was 10% more than last winter, approx. 8 months ago...
Posted by: JQ at November 12, 2021 03:45 AM (dB4Iz)

Like, for hampsters?

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 04:41 AM (6dJKT)

58 Elections on Saturdays... how Napoleonic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021

***
Appropriate. That's the legal code around here -- completely different from the other 49 states.

If somebody makes a good showing against the Destroya, there'll be a runoff in December. The lone R in the race at this point is a former businesswoman, Vietnamese ancestry, who has said she is against vaccine and mask mandates. So have several of the other candidates. But knowing how complacent and sheep-like people are here, I'm not too hopeful of a decent change.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 12, 2021 04:42 AM (c6xtn)

59 31 One day i learned the hard way what regular coffee in massachusetts is.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 04:06 AM (KAi1n)

What is it?

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 04:43 AM (6dJKT)

60 One day i learned the hard way what regular coffee in massachusetts is.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021
*
What is it?
Posted by: m at November 12, 2021

***
Eyewash with iodine for coloring?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 12, 2021 04:44 AM (c6xtn)

61 Tomorrow is going to be Napoleonic, going to war game convention. Can't wait.

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 04:46 AM (2JoB8)

62 https://tinyurl.com/5dcb3fd5

Branco does San Francisco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 04:47 AM (EZebt)

63 Sounds pretty cool, Skip

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 04:52 AM (wL8Gk)

64 I've had a lot of good food in Boston, can't say much about the coffee. Wicked bad?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 04:54 AM (EZebt)

65 Coffee with lots of cream and sugar. I was expecting black coffee.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 04:56 AM (KAi1n)

66 French Toast this morning

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 04:59 AM (2JoB8)

67 I love going to Mexico with Mrs. F. and her family who like their coffee black. The comical look on the servers' face when he looks at them like they are maniacs as they turn away his offer of milk when pouring coffee.

"No leche??"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 05:00 AM (EZebt)

68 Coffee with lots of cream and sugar is more like a dessert. I need my coffee black

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 05:00 AM (wL8Gk)

69 Heading out with my to go mug full.

Later all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 05:01 AM (wL8Gk)

70 Safe travels

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 05:03 AM (EZebt)

71 I know this will sound Californian but I use a mix of coconut and almond milk.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 05:05 AM (EZebt)

72 30 years ago I was using big dollops of condensed milk like they do in Saigon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 05:06 AM (EZebt)

73 65 Coffee with lots of cream and sugar. I was expecting black coffee.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 04:56 AM (KAi1n)

That sounds southern.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 05:12 AM (6dJKT)

74 So another case of Team Joe hastily doing away with something Trump did (banning Huawei) then months later reinstating it as if they did something special.

And Trump was probably called a racist when he did it.

And Morning all!!

Posted by: Kamala at November 12, 2021 05:14 AM (vd8XM)

75 72 30 years ago I was using big dollops of condensed milk like they do in Saigon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 05:06 AM (EZebt)

I use condensed milk in coffee at home. It saves my stomach.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 05:15 AM (6dJKT)

76
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 12, 2021 05:20 AM (DUIap)

77 https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2021/11/
top-20-tweets-from-badblue-tonight_11.html

I am assuming #20 young Indian woman was one crushed to death in that concert tragedy

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 05:23 AM (2JoB8)

78 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 12, 2021 05:28 AM (UnQlg)

79 I spoze the real deal is that Huawei won't share all the intel they hoover up and the 3-letter-agency boys are pouting & flouncing.

trying to blackmail your owners, lol, thats gonna work just fine.

g'mornin' everyone !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 12, 2021 05:28 AM (ahosz)

80 Rainy, slick roads. Arrived at work to see a large straight truck had slid off the road into the ditch/grass portion of our lot.

Police just got here. Thankfully driver is ok

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 12, 2021 05:29 AM (fInJv)

81 Jeez, I still had my Le Kamala sock on....

As the French say....Man-Do

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 05:31 AM (vd8XM)

82 https://legalinsurrection.com/rittenhouse trial day 8 prosecutions last desperate lunge for evidence of guilt
https://tinyurl.com/8nzexe95

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 05:35 AM (2JoB8)

83 Wesley Crusher broke a greenhouse window, and now he must be put to death.

Too bad the people of that planet will fail.

Season 1 Ep 8 of TNG on Pluto, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 12, 2021 05:38 AM (ufFY8)

84 https://legalinsurrection.com/rittenhouse trial day 8 prosecutions last desperate lunge for evidence of guilt
https://tinyurl.com/8nzexe95
Posted by: Skip

And if that doesn't work, Mayor Groot of Chicago has got the cops ready to stand by and watch while the youts pillage Michigan Ave again.

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 05:39 AM (vd8XM)

85 Pink Floyd - Childhood's End

https://youtu.be/SnTz09-nk9c

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 05:46 AM (SH2Zi)

86 I finally figured out who I think Binger looks like, Gary Oldman, or at least Gary could be made up to look like Binger.

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 05:47 AM (2JoB8)

87
Gas prices may have declined a bit around here. Seeing more 2.89 instead of 2.99.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 05:48 AM (/U27+)

88 Rainy, slick roads. Arrived at work to see a large straight truck had slid off the road into the ditch/grass portion of our lot.

Slud ?

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 05:48 AM (arJlL)

89 Rainy, slick roads. Arrived at work to see a large straight truck had slid off the road into the ditch/grass portion of our lot.

Slud ?
Posted by: JT

Slided?

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 05:49 AM (vd8XM)

90 Thanks Skip !

Have fun at the whaddyacallit !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 05:49 AM (arJlL)

91 I cannot understand how the BLM guy who walked out of a meeting with the mayor elect and threatened violence is not arrested for incitement or making terroristic threats.

Oh yeah. It's because the justice system has been hopelessly corrupted and politicized.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 05:50 AM (EZebt)

92 Hunter's wife says the laptop doesn't exist, Joe didn't call anyone negro, Kamala didn't use a French accent, and in and on. They control the majority of the media, so most people believe these things. How many of the aware will opt to go back into the Matrix?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at November 12, 2021 05:50 AM (TKwk8)

93 thx for that link, Skip, interesting stuff, in its way ... funny how little I care about that trial, or indeed much of anything, anymore ...the trajectory of everything is not about to be deflected by raindrops or falling leaves ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 12, 2021 05:51 AM (ahosz)

94 I just went to the bathroom.

I thought about acting Presidential and shitting my pants; but decided against it.

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 05:52 AM (arJlL)

95 What MS is up to its tricks with edge? Does it have so little confidence on its new browser based on Chromium?
Too bad the Justice department won't rebook at Office's hard coding with Windows. Yeah too late to save the Lotus and Wordperfect. But still a nice cash infusion and the cheat sheet for programmers to neutralize those hard codes

Posted by: Xavier Basora at November 12, 2021 05:53 AM (HZCl6)

96 whereas I am about to be deflected by the thought of a cuppa coffee & a bowla oatmeal; maybe even live large & have a hardboiled egg !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 12, 2021 05:54 AM (ahosz)

97 I should have gone back to bed, still have 1/2hr till leave time.
Oh and it's pouring down here, should have cleaned gutters yesterday.

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 05:56 AM (2JoB8)

98 Horizon 5 asked me what my preferred pronouns are during character setup...wtf Microsoft?

Posted by: CanuckJack at November 12, 2021 05:56 AM (nFIoF)

99 whereas I am about to be deflected by the thought of a cuppa coffee & a bowla oatmeal; maybe even live large & have a hardboiled egg !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

You so craaaazy

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 05:57 AM (vd8XM)

100 Coffee with lots of cream and sugar. I was expecting black coffee.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2021 04:56 AM (KAi1n)

I am literally shaking.

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 05:58 AM (SH2Zi)

101 I see the nyt is publishing stuff from james okeefe's phones the fbi seized in the raid the other day. That didn't take long.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2021 06:00 AM (bVYXr)

102 The article is pure garbage, and the initial comments are the usual mindless left-liberal pablum. But then some of the older Ars readers show up, from before the site turned to shit, and the comment section turns into a free-fire zone.

Trying to get to that part in the comments, but got distracted by Skip's link.

Posted by: pookysgirl.... SQUIRREL!!!! at November 12, 2021 06:03 AM (XKZwp)

103 The FBI is another branch of the Democrats Propaganda Ministry

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 06:04 AM (2JoB8)

104 @101

>>That didn't take long.

That has to be illegal, they should get Durham to look into it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2021 06:04 AM (oHeld)

105 >>> I am literally shaking.

That is a lot of sugar.

Posted by: fluffy at November 12, 2021 06:05 AM (UnQlg)

106 Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like

https://youtu.be/y-mGcfWXe0Y

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 06:05 AM (SH2Zi)

107 101 "I see the nyt is publishing stuff from james okeefe's phones the fbi seized in the raid the other day. That didn't take long."

Looks like we're going to need more training seminars..

Posted by: Christopher Wray at November 12, 2021 06:06 AM (4thlk)

108 wtf Microsoft?

Posted by: CanuckJack at November 12, 2021 05:56 AM (nFIoF)

Dude. That's the woke center of the Universe.

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 06:07 AM (SH2Zi)

109 The FBI has been passing information to the Democrats Propaganda Ministry since Watergate break in

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 06:09 AM (2JoB8)

110 Pink Floyd - Free Four

https://youtu.be/FPSb5QjgjAc

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 06:17 AM (SH2Zi)

111 Within the Infrastructure bill is the provision to equip all new cars with a alcohol sensor to make sure if you drink you don't drive. There might be a lot of people who can't get home from a party, because there car won't start someday. It all depends on how low they set the limit on the sensor. Interesting times..not.

Posted by: Colin at November 12, 2021 06:18 AM (D2nFQ)

112 There might be a lot of people who can't get home from a party, because there car won't start someday. It all depends on how low they set the limit on the sensor. Interesting times..not.
Posted by: Colin

And of course, it will never ever malfunction.
And there will not be ways to hack it available

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:20 AM (vd8XM)

113 Interesting times..not.

Posted by: Colin at November 12, 2021 06:18 AM (D2nFQ)

This government, brought to you by Uber.

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 06:20 AM (SH2Zi)

114 There might be a lot of people who can't get home from a party, because there car won't start someday. It all depends on how low they set the limit on the sensor. Interesting times..not.
Posted by: Colin

And of course, it will never ever malfunction.
And there will not be ways to hack it available

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:20 AM

And it won't add a dime to the cost of a car, and we will not have to go back and retrofit every single car on the road with one either.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2021 06:21 AM (bVYXr)

115
Even with my limited technical knowledge of imaging technology and digital filters, I found the "expert" the Kenosha Klown Show prosecutors trotted out to try to get their sasquatch photo introduced into evidence came across as "local rube in over his head".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 12, 2021 06:25 AM (3l5Yq)

116 112 There might be a lot of people who can't get home from a party, because there car won't start someday. It all depends on how low they set the limit on the sensor. Interesting times..not.
Posted by: Colin

And of course, it will never ever malfunction.
And there will not be ways to hack it available
Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:20 AM (vd8XM)

And it totally won't ever trigger when you're the DD and you have four drunk dummies in your car all moving around before you finally try to start the car.

Posted by: Buzzion at November 12, 2021 06:26 AM (G2zl5)

117 No rain here.

Yet.

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 06:26 AM (arJlL)

118 TGIF
Have a great day, and see you from the road.

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 06:27 AM (2JoB8)

119 And it totally won't ever trigger when you're the DD and you have four drunk dummies in your car all moving around before you finally try to start the car.
Posted by: Buzzion

People hanging around bars to give your car a blow job so you can get home.

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:28 AM (vd8XM)

120 It might get mighty expensive to heat your home in Europe this winter. With the strife at the Polish border over the poor immigrants who just want a better life and of course some free stuff. Belarus is telling the EU they better except the poor immigrants, or some pipe lines may be shut down that run through that country. Hey, whats a few hundred thousand poor people into Poland, why won't Poland accept these people.....we would....

Posted by: Colin at November 12, 2021 06:29 AM (D2nFQ)

121 I finally figured out who I think Binger looks like, Gary Oldman, or at least Gary could be made up to look like Binger.
Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021

***
Skip, I said that yesterday! Gary Oldman when he played Lee Harvey Oswald!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 12, 2021 06:30 AM (c6xtn)

122 Hey, whats a few hundred thousand poor people into Poland, why won't Poland accept these people.....we would....
Posted by: Colin

I will go to Poland and talk to them in their native accent.

...Kamalaski...

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:30 AM (vd8XM)

123 Stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 06:31 AM (arJlL)

124
"But Your Honor, zoomify and enhance technology has been the gold standard of forensic imaging practice ever since the time of the "Blade Runner" documentary back in 1982!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 12, 2021 06:32 AM (3l5Yq)

125 So grandma will have to blow into a tube to get her car to run. All she did was have some elderberry wine before she left her sons Christmas party.

Posted by: Colin at November 12, 2021 06:34 AM (D2nFQ)

126 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 12, 2021 06:36 AM (ju2Fy)

127 So grandma will have to blow into a tube to get her car to run. All she did was have some elderberry wine before she left her sons Christmas party.
Posted by: Colin

And whatever device it is that you blow into will not, under any circumstances, harbor or grow any kind of bacteria or virus. Especially in a multi user family.

Ewwww....Rental cars!

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:38 AM (vd8XM)

128 This non-binary assistant professor at Old Dominion University is trying to normalize the term MAP (Minor Attracted Persons)

Child Fucker works too

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 06:38 AM (yrol0)

129 Child Fucker works too
Posted by: rhennigantx

Language please!

Kiddy Diddler

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:39 AM (vd8XM)

130 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 12, 2021 06:40 AM (u82oZ)

131 I'm watching the All in the Family where they mock Pres. Ford's idea to end inflation:

Wear a button that said "WIN" for whip inflation now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 06:40 AM (EZebt)

132 There might be a lot of people who ~~can't get home from a party, because there car won't start someday~~ get to the party and leave the car running.
Posted by: Colin at November 12, 2021 06:18 AM (D2nFQ)

FIFMe

Posted by: Deep State 910 at November 12, 2021 06:42 AM (HwtiA)

133 It's Friday! It's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirls*

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 12, 2021 06:43 AM (yEBFM)

134 It's just one more method of making private autos a thing of the past. By annoyances.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 06:43 AM (EZebt)

135 There we go.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 06:44 AM (EZebt)

136 Just a drive-by this morning.

Have a fantastic day, everyone. Don't be ... that guy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 12, 2021 06:44 AM (u82oZ)

137 You had me at "grandma will have to blow."

Posted by: Creepy McCreepyface at November 12, 2021 06:45 AM (jYQlA)

138 It's just one more method of making private autos a thing of the past. By annoyances.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I thought that was already covered by a-hole drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:45 AM (vd8XM)

139 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 06:46 AM (arJlL)

140 Hiya Salty !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 06:46 AM (arJlL)

141 I'm reading selected prose-meditations, sermons, prayers- of John Donne who was an English metaphysical poet (1572-1631) who wrote among poems "The Flea", "Death Be Not Proud and the canonization. He became an Anglican priest. This is from a sermon he preached on Christmas Day, 1624:

He [God} brought light out of darkness, not out of a lesser light. He can bring thy Summer out of Winter, though thou have no Spring, though in ways of fortune, or understanding or conscience, thou have been benighted till now, wintred and frozen, clouded and eclysed, damped and benumbed, smothered and stupified till now, now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the Sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies and all times are his seasons.

The most convenient Hieroglyphicks of God is a Circle, and the circle is endless; Whom God loves he loves till the end: and not only to their own end, to their death, but to his end, and his end is that he might love them still.

***********

I thought it was very beautiful and meaningful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2021 06:47 AM (YK8CE)

142 No Vax Requirement

https://tinyurl.com/adhm5t49

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 06:48 AM (yrol0)

143 The owner of Amazon via his proganda mill Washington Post claims that the Rittenhouse Judge has a bias toward the Defense.

A spin through the Ars Tecnica comments boils down to whining about why a 17 year old would bring a gun to a riot. Nobody seems to ask why looters and rioters would bring guns to the same riot.

Eric Adams wants to reinstate an ant-crime unit in NYC. The local BLM Warlord threatens bloodshed. Sort of implies crminal intent on the part of the BLM paramiltaries.

A Jan 6 prisoner is released after promising not to watch the news. Enforced ignorance.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 12, 2021 06:49 AM (zO9D/)

144 In response to attorneys FOIA request, US CDC admits that it has no record of an unvaccinated person spreading COVID after recovering from COVID.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 06:51 AM (yrol0)

145 Prank dog call makes woman laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/3rj86yzj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2021 06:52 AM (YK8CE)

146
The good news on my dead laptop is that the hard drive is actually working fine. The bad news is that the motherboard failed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 06:52 AM (/U27+)

147 Nobody seems to ask why looters and rioters would bring guns to the same riot.

Rules is rules.
WE bring the guns to the riots.
You guys are supposed to bring the potato salad.

...BLM...

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:53 AM (vd8XM)

148 I'm "off duty" today. *frolics*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 06:53 AM (EZebt)

149 I'm "off duty" today. *frolics*
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Too bad it's a No Frolic Friday.

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:54 AM (vd8XM)

150 Breakfast time!
Looking at all the leaves that came down in yesterdays rain.....yeesh

Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:56 AM (vd8XM)

151 Hi JT!

Good morning all!

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 12, 2021 06:57 AM (yEBFM)

152 mornin yall. I'm off today too. I get to go drive a Ferrari 488.

F' Whorywood and everyone associated with that cesspool. If I never go to a movie again it will be fine with me because I want nothing to do with those assholes.

Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 06:57 AM (Tnijr)

153 Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There - Nobody Home

https://youtu.be/p2kjbpEKD4M

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 06:58 AM (SH2Zi)

154 A spin through the Ars Tecnica comments boils down to whining about why a 17 year old would bring a gun to a riot. Nobody seems to ask why looters and rioters would bring guns to the same riot.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 12, 2021 06:49 AM (zO9D/)

I'm glad someone else is suffering their way through the comments on that site. When someone said "bringing an assault weapon" I really wanted to reply, "Like a skateboard?"

Posted by: pookysgirl and her toilet-drinking cat at November 12, 2021 06:58 AM (XKZwp)

155 @144 And the PfizerF�hrer administration is going to cancel the hysteria as a result of this information?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 12, 2021 06:58 AM (zO9D/)

156 Breakfast time!
Looking at all the leaves that came down in yesterdays rain.....yeesh
Posted by: Bruce

Press the back arrow on yer keyboard; see if the leaves go back up.

Its worth a try !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 06:58 AM (arJlL)

157 Too bad it's a No Frolic Friday.
Posted by: Bruce at November 12, 2021 06:54 AM (vd8XM)
===

I think we'll let Rosasharn rule on this one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2021 06:59 AM (EZebt)

158 Let us tell you about Mondays.

https://youtu.be/SsmVgoXDq2w

Posted by: The Bangles at November 12, 2021 07:01 AM (jYQlA)

159 well duh!

An attorney for the founder of Project Veritas has accused the Department of Justice of tipping off the New York Times about recent raids on current and former employees, while suggesting federal prosecutors may have also leaked the group's legal communications.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:01 AM (yrol0)

160 as long as you are super woke you can be as monopolistic as you want...

who is the bigger hypocrite Microshaft for wanting permission to be a monopoly or "looking out for the little guy" donks who look the other way?

Posted by: sven at November 12, 2021 07:02 AM (Lzpvj)

161 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:03 AM (GPwVZ)

162 My 5 year plan took a positive turn yesterday. Now all I have to do is live 5 more years.

Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:04 AM (Tnijr)

163 Democrats want to raise the cap of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction from $10,000 to $80,000

Under that plan, households earning $1 million or more could get a break on their taxes that is 10 times that of households earning $50,000-$100,000

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:06 AM (yrol0)

164 Hiya Captain !

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 07:07 AM (arJlL)

165 163 Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:06 AM (yrol0)

Yup...

Saints and Serfs

Posted by: sven at November 12, 2021 07:07 AM (Lzpvj)

166 Hunters art will probably soon be available from a art house for your Christmas card or whatever. They will be reproductions, but printed on the finest paper money can buy. And then you won't have to pay all those bucks for the real thing. Available in China first.
And the big guy will get his 10 percent.

Posted by: Colin at November 12, 2021 07:08 AM (D2nFQ)

167
Democrats want to raise the cap of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction from $10,000 to $80,000

_________

Loophole for the wealthy. I thought the Democrats were against that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 07:08 AM (/U27+)

168 The Tax Policy Center says "Taking into account all major tax provisions, roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of middle-income households would pay more in taxes in 2022"

That does not account for the higher taxation thru inflation. When you pay more for something you also pay more taxes on that something.

Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:09 AM (Tnijr)

169 Loophole for the wealthy. I thought the Democrats were against that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... takes breath...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Mornin' Hadrian. You ARE a funny guy!

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 12, 2021 07:10 AM (yEBFM)

170 Good morning! 27 degrees outside and I have to go in to prep for a briefing on Monday. Gonna be a chilly ride...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 12, 2021 07:11 AM (cp7Tl)

171 Has Biden signed the spending bill yet? Must not be that urgent.

Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:12 AM (Tnijr)

172 ha!

Whats more, the Biden boondoggle would waive the restriction on granting assistance to those whove been evicted for drug crimes. Ex-offenders should, to be sure, get a second chance at employment.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:12 AM (yrol0)

173 Who knew that clog dancing would be become so mainstream?

Someone needs to do something about this cultural appropriation from white hillbillies.

Posted by: QT 3.14159 at November 12, 2021 07:12 AM (mSEtp)

174 168 The Tax Policy Center says "Taking into account all major tax provisions, roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of middle-income households would pay more in taxes in 2022"

That does not account for the higher taxation thru inflation. When you pay more for something you also pay more taxes on that something.
Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:09 AM (Tnijr)

October the gov collected more taxes in a single month that ever. Just what PDT said!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:13 AM (yrol0)

175 In other words... trump was right. Now that be has been gone a sufficient amount of time, biden can do the same thing and pretend it was his idea.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:14 AM (0ryfU)

176 Loophole for the wealthy. I thought the Democrats were against that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 07:08 AM (/U27+)

You must remember all Dems believe the in the pie. It can only be cut into so many slices. They do not recognize cakes, cookies, and other treat, just the pie.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:15 AM (yrol0)

177 Let us tell you about Mondays.

https://youtu.be/SsmVgoXDq2w

Posted by: The Bangles at November 12, 2021 07:01 AM (jYQlA)

I don't like Mondays.

https://youtu.be/VPtu5V3kHTM

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:15 AM (SH2Zi)

178
October the gov collected more taxes in a single month that ever. Just what PDT said!
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:13 AM (yrol0)

_______

Repeat after me: we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 07:15 AM (/U27+)

179 Repeat after me: we have a revenue problem, and we have a spending problem.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Fify.

The revenue problem is we collect too much of it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:16 AM (0ryfU)

180 Has Biden signed the spending bill yet? Must not be that urgent.
Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:12 AM (Tnijr)

They have to find the shovel for them shovel ready projects from the obama admin

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:17 AM (GPwVZ)

181 But Huiwei has said they are not chinese spyware. Why does the government not believe them?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:19 AM (0ryfU)

182 hey y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at November 12, 2021 07:21 AM (Adlwz)

183 Not only does the enlargement processes being used in the Rittenhouse trial cause image distortion, the original video recording is also full of image distortion. I watched the portion of the trial looking at the image in question and I could not even tell there were people in the shot let alone what any of them may be doing. We are talking of images shot on go-pro's, cell phones, small format drone cameras at night. Not only resolution issues from the Bayer arrays, lens aberrations, but also massive noise reduction, massive data reduction plus the fact the camera software is trying to make the most visible pleasing image it can, not the most accurate. under those conditions trying to tell what a person is doing that is less than 1/10th the original frame size is close to impossible. Dr. Black was using similar tech, but only to discern timing not actions.

Posted by: Fred at November 12, 2021 07:21 AM (wgxgK)

184 hey CBD

A Vincent van Gogh landscape seized by the Nazis during their Second World War occupation of France has sold at auction in New York for $35.9 million

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:22 AM (yrol0)

185 I hate software-as-a-subscription. I'll sign up for Adobe when the cost for the full suite is $5 per month. Until then, my CS6 does just fine, thanks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 12, 2021 07:24 AM (p+1gI)

186 175 In other words... trump was right. Now that be has been gone a sufficient amount of time, biden can do the same thing and pretend it was his idea.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Giggity...

Posted by: Year Zero at November 12, 2021 07:28 AM (g/54t)

187 So the submarine steel strength test fraud was going on for 40 years because the metallurgist (female) in charge of the strength tests was supposed to perform a test at -100C but did not. She couldn't think of any reason that the strength test had to be performed for such a cold temperature, therefore no reason could possibly exist. So instead of performing the test and collecting her paycheck, she faked the result.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:28 AM (0ryfU)

188 So the submarine steel strength test fraud was going on for 40 years because the metallurgist (female) in charge of the strength tests was supposed to perform a test at -100C but did not. She couldn't think of any reason that the strength test had to be performed for such a cold temperature, therefore no reason could possibly exist. So instead of performing the test and collecting her paycheck, she faked the result.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:28 AM (0ryfU)

She should hang

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:29 AM (GPwVZ)

189 The government "spending bill".

I like how an actual budget is no longer part of the narrative. Partly because they haven't passed one in several years. It's just this nebulous thing. The money is just there, I guess, waitin' to be spent on wunnerful wunnerful things.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 12, 2021 07:29 AM (c25ja)

190 Morning y'all.

Could be worse...you could be in China.

https://youtu.be/khSxvhjqKCI

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 12, 2021 07:30 AM (W+kMI)

191 ... and for 40 years nobody verified her work

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at November 12, 2021 07:30 AM (EcHpA)

192 David Gilmour - Cry From The Street

https://youtu.be/WMfAdYnFaAc

Short and Sweet

https://youtu.be/2vQTuCwpbIc

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:30 AM (SH2Zi)

193 Could be worse...you could be in China.

What's the coffee like in China?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:31 AM (GPwVZ)

194 And she was caught because she was training her replacement before retirement, and the replacement said "WTF? You just make up a number?"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:31 AM (0ryfU)

195 and for 40 years nobody verified her work
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at November 12, 2021 07:30 AM (EcHpA)

Gov work

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:32 AM (GPwVZ)

196 And she was caught because she was training her replacement before retirement, and the replacement said "WTF? You just make up a number?"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:31 AM (0ryfU)

Memo to Nevergiveup: When you hand over in 11 months, be careful

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:33 AM (GPwVZ)

197 and for 40 years nobody verified her work
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey

I wish I could say, how astonishing! it's not, really.

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 12, 2021 07:33 AM (yEBFM)

198 NGU doesn't see the point of drilling small cavities, so he just marks on the dental records that he did.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:33 AM (0ryfU)

199 Hey! Good Morning Morons! I like my coffee like I like my Negros. Compliant and beat down. No joke.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at November 12, 2021 07:34 AM (Tnijr)

200 So instead of performing the test and collecting her paycheck, she faked the result.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:28 AM (0ryfU)

She should hang

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:29 AM (GPwVZ)

Diversity is our str

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:35 AM (SH2Zi)

201 @ElectionWiz
New Jersey Senator-Elect Ed Durr: "He (Senate President Sweeney) was fine. I just told him if he needed anything to give me a call, since I'm his representative now."

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:35 AM (YZG/i)

202 *implosion*

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:35 AM (SH2Zi)

203 Russias deputy U.N. ambassador said Thursday that Moscow will never invade Ukraine unless it is first provoked by its neighbor or someone else, then cited what he called many threats from Ukraine and provocative actions by U.S. warships in the Black Sea.

I think that is what Tojo said about America in 1941

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 12, 2021 07:35 AM (GPwVZ)

204 I am not going to punch you in the face unless you look at me with that punchable face.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:37 AM (0ryfU)

205 So instead of performing the test and collecting her paycheck, she faked the result.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:28 AM (0ryfU)

She should hang
Posted by: Nevergiveup

keelhaul, walk the plank, then hang

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:37 AM (YZG/i)

206 Will she fit in a torpedo tube?

Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:37 AM (Tnijr)

207 Not My Lane John Kerry Chuckles When Pressed on Chinas Use of Slave Labor to Build Solar Panels

Solar=Slave

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:38 AM (yrol0)

208 Pink Floyd - Fearless

https://youtu.be/sl_apx8JoMw

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:39 AM (SH2Zi)

209 I assume most of the people who lived in Kenosha referred to what happened as a "riot". That's why it sounds ludicrous when the prosecutor in the Rittenhouse case says to a witness, "what you refer to as a riot." It's as stupid as the reporter standing somewhere in front of burning buildings saying a "mostly peaceful protest."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2021 07:39 AM (YK8CE)

210 And she was caught because she was training her replacement before retirement, and the replacement said "WTF? You just make up a number?"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

This is why Dems like Nanzi never give up power - too risky.

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:41 AM (YZG/i)

211 Posted by: vmom - 2, 2021 07:35 AM (YZG/i)

He also said in response to "The Atlantic" left wing magazine that Mr. Durr "didn't know how to govern in the NJ State Legislature": "How much worse could I make it?"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2021 07:43 AM (YK8CE)

212
And she was caught because she was training her replacement before retirement, and the replacement said "WTF? You just make up a number?"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:31 AM (0ryfU)

_________

"Sure, I trained at the Treasury Department."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 07:44 AM (/U27+)

213 Reg. Gas up 4 cents to $4.99

I did that!!!!
Posted by: F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2021 03:30 AM (dB4Iz)

I helped!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at November 12, 2021 07:45 AM (yQpMk)

214 He also said in response to "The Atlantic" left wing magazine that Mr. Durr "didn't know how to govern in the NJ State Legislature": "How much worse could I make it?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2021 07:43 AM (YK8CE)

I would say at least you know my real name unlike people in Congress.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:46 AM (yrol0)

215 He also said in response to "The Atlantic" left wing magazine that Mr. Durr "didn't know how to govern in the NJ State Legislature": "How much worse could I make it?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2021 07:43 AM (YK8CE)

Every time they make a claim like that it is an admittance that they believe there should be a nobility with a divine right to rule.

Posted by: Buzzion at November 12, 2021 07:46 AM (G2zl5)

216
Mr. Durr "didn't know how to govern in the NJ State Legislature"

__________

That's why we need politicians' kids to take over their seats (see: the Dingel family, US representatives since 1933).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 07:46 AM (/U27+)

217 That is the point, atlantic. Our representatives are supposed to be "us".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 12, 2021 07:46 AM (0ryfU)

218 193 - Nevergiveup

Coffee production without electricity is rather problematic...

...and I'm not sure coal smoke (the other source of home heating in China) adds a positive bouquet to your coffee.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 12, 2021 07:47 AM (W+kMI)

219 "How much worse could I make it?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2021 07:43 AM (YK8CE)

Honorary Moron for sure

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:47 AM (YZG/i)

220 What this country needs is good Thanksgiving weekend airline strike.

Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:48 AM (Tnijr)

221 @189

>> they haven't passed one in several years.

The last legit budget was passed in 2008/2009.

A tad more than several.

Hey Paul Rhino, what happened to regular order?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2021 07:48 AM (OupRL)

222
Used to be that legislators came from some productive background, served a few terms, then resumed their previous occupation. Now they're elected for life after being groomed for the job.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 07:49 AM (/U27+)

223 Measurung at -100C is rayciss

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:50 AM (YZG/i)

224 Hey Paul Rhino, what happened to regular order?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2021 07:48 AM (OupRL)

People that need a dick punch!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:50 AM (yrol0)

225 Re: Submarine steel foundry. Fraud is fraud. But it sounds like the fraud concerned steel castings, which does not strike me as hull pressure vessel related, FWIW. Who knows with the brain damaged media?

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:51 AM (SH2Zi)

226 Reg. Gas up 4 cents to $4.99

I did that!!!!
Posted by: F*ck Joe Biden at November 12, 2021 03:30 AM (dB4Iz)

I helped!
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at November 12, 2021 07:45 AM (yQpMk)

I just suck.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at November 12, 2021 07:51 AM (yQpMk)

227 Now they're elected for life after being groomed for the job.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2021 07:49 AM (/U27+

My doggeh would be a better speaker if the house than Nanzi

(any time I hear the word groom I think of doggeh)

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:53 AM (YZG/i)

228 (any time I hear the word groom I think of doggeh)
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser

He married the bride ?

Posted by: JT at November 12, 2021 07:54 AM (arJlL)

229 (any time I hear the word groom I think of doggeh)

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:53 AM (YZG/i)

I think National Man Boy Lincoln Association.

Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:54 AM (SH2Zi)

230 On Thursday, a Hong Kong court sentenced him to five years and nine months in prison, with the judge accusing Ma of showing no remorse.

I think the horned beast at the Capital got the same sentence.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:54 AM (yrol0)

231 Hey Paul Rhino, what happened to regular order?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2021 07:48 AM (OupRL)

People that need a dick punch!
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 12, 2021 07:50 AM (yrol0)

That pencil necked fraud became Speaker because of the budgetary ins and outs learned sitting on Barney Frank's lap.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at November 12, 2021 07:55 AM (g5I2H)

232 It is my sad duty to inform that Chuck Cunningham, Ritchie's brother on the execrable Happy Days, has passed. He appeared in a couple episodes, and then disappeared without comment.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 12, 2021 07:57 AM (c25ja)

233 230 On Thursday, a Hong Kong court sentenced him to five years and nine months in prison, with the judge accusing Ma of showing no remorse.

==

What was his crime? Not bribing enough?

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 07:57 AM (YZG/i)

234 I think National Man Boy Lincoln Association.
Posted by: flounder at November 12, 2021 07:54 AM (SH2Zi)

Why doesn't Faux investigate the relationship between Johnnycakes Katshit and John Weaver?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at November 12, 2021 07:57 AM (g5I2H)

235 NOOD

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at November 12, 2021 07:58 AM (EcHpA)

236 He married the bride ?
Posted by: JT

He just always needs grooming
5 minutes after a haircut he's fluffy again

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 12, 2021 08:00 AM (YZG/i)

237 Thanks for the telecom and microsoft news. I'm gonna keep delaying that windows update.

Posted by: Draki at November 12, 2021 08:28 AM (gxyqK)

238 86 I finally figured out who I think Binger looks like, Gary Oldman, or at least Gary could be made up to look like Binger.
Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2021 05:47 AM (2JoB

Yes. Absolutely.

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 01:04 PM (RYc1G)

239 220 What this country needs is good Thanksgiving weekend airline strike.
Posted by: f'd at November 12, 2021 07:48 AM (Tnijr)

hmm

Posted by: m at November 12, 2021 01:55 PM (RYc1G)

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