Daily Tech News 29 March 2024

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With Sam Bankman-Fraud headed to prison for 25 years, the era of blockchain grifters is over, and we are entering the era of blockchain grifters. (Tech Crunch)

And AI grifters as well.

The article tries to paint Bitcoin as something different and better because it is deliberately slow, painful, and expensive to use, but those aren't actually good qualities in a currency. You want something fast, simple, and cheap to use, and merely slow, painful, and expensive to fake, or to steal.

That's hard, and nobody has solved that problem yet.*

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FuryGPU is completely open-source - including the hardware - and can run Quake at 60 fps. (Tom's Hardware)

Not the 2021 version; the 1996 version. Which would run on most domestic appliances these days.
Unless you source your domestic appliances from Russia, where half the CPUs don't work. (Tom's Hardware)

Russia, like China, has been cut off from advanced chip production facilities.

China has its own 14nm production. That's a long way behind TSMC, Intel, or Samsung, but it's not terrible.

Russia is still at 90nm.
The race to replace Redis. (LWN)

Redis isn't a conventional database, but rather a kind of Swiss army chainsaw for short-term data storage and manipulation. It's extremely useful and justifiably popular and has been included in most Linux distributions for the past decade - and it just stopped being open source.

So the race is on to replace it because otherwise you won't be able to update to new Linux releases without things breaking.
The race to replace VMWare ESXi. (Serve the Home)

VMWare ESXi was a free, entry-level version of VMWare's enterprise platform, intended for engineers to run on their own computers so that they could experiment with the software and provide better support.

VMWare got bought by Broadcom, which appears determined to kill it.

Proxmox VE can now import and run your VMWare ESXi servers, which solves your problem if you were using it, but does nothing for Broadcom's self-inflicted wounds.
Oh, outrage. Cloud hosting provider Vultr has hastily removed some wording from its terms of service after users noticed. (The Register)

The legalese was supposed to grant Vultr rights to reproduce your content that you posted to their online support forums, which is normal because you can't run an online forum without that.

But the way it was worded made it look like they could just make off with the data on your servers. Which would be bad.

* Except maybe Robert L. Forward in his work Self-Limiting.**

** He proposed making currency out of plutonium.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 facts

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #171 at March 29, 2024 04:03 AM (qfLjt)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 04:03 AM (o3SCB)

4 No alarms and no surprises

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

5 Mornin' all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

6 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 04:04 AM (T4tVD)

7 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 29, 2024 04:05 AM (ju2Fy)

8 No alarms and no surprises
Posted by: Skip

Are you off today ?

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 04:06 AM (T4tVD)

9 The one good thing about having to work on weekends or public holidays is that there's no one around to bother you and you can actually get stuff done.

Which makes it doubly galling when other people show up and drag you into meetings that eat up half your day.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 04:08 AM (BLOW1)

10 I was supposed to have off, but have to go fix a few things that failed a inspection, little before 7am, hopefully only a couple hours

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 04:08 AM (fwDg9)

11 4 No alarms and no surprises
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

But maybe some donuts?

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 04:13 AM (o3SCB)

12 9 The one good thing about having to work on weekends or public holidays is that there's no one around to bother you and you can actually get stuff done.

Which makes it doubly galling when other people show up and drag you into meetings that eat up half your day.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 04:08 AM (BLOW1)

Condolences. "Galling" is putting it mildly.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 04:14 AM (o3SCB)

13 ... even "doubly galling" is putting it mildly.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 04:14 AM (o3SCB)

14 No donut shop is other direction

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 04:15 AM (fwDg9)

15 Maybe apple pancakes if I get up

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 04:26 AM (fwDg9)

16 Good morning morons

Local TV news reports a deadly shooting last night in Hallidie Plaza a major entrance to Powell St BART station. This is a very busy, touristy place downtown.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 04:28 AM (RIvkX)

17 Alice Springs, Northern Territories, pop. 25k has imposed 6 pm to 6 am curfew for peeps 18 and younger. It seems the youths have been terrorizing the town for months. What the hell?

https://youtu.be/6NHGV-2lMVg

Posted by: Lost in Space at March 29, 2024 04:31 AM (iB6b2)

18 Being retired means no more having to say TGIF, Friday now is just one more day to enjoy.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 29, 2024 04:32 AM (KATBx)

19 Local TV news reports the city is issuing code violations to people who have placed sidewalk planters to stop homeless from setting up camp outside their homes and businesses. Homeless advocates are filing complaints. When the sidewalks are blocked with tents, no one cares.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 04:33 AM (RIvkX)

20 Being retired means no more having to say TGIF, Friday now is just one more day to enjoy.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 29, 2024 04:32 AM (KATBx)
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My friends inform me I "suck" at retiring, since my retirement lasted only 8 months.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 04:35 AM (RIvkX)

21 My friends inform me I "suck" at retiring, since my retirement lasted only 8 months. Posted by: San Franpsycho

Interesting. What else are your friends saying about you?

Posted by: Lost in Space at March 29, 2024 04:38 AM (iB6b2)

22 They have known me since I was 5 years old so there is literally nothing they don't know and wouldn't hesitate disclosing if it is even slightly embarrassing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 04:42 AM (RIvkX)

23 Honesty compels me to admit that for the first year of retirement I gave serious thought to returning to work. Figured it might be the only way to get some rest, having gone a bit nuts with the "enjoy your life" thing.

For all the new retirees, it ain't old age that kills us, it's the honey do list.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 29, 2024 05:00 AM (KATBx)

24 17 Alice Springs, Northern Territories, pop. 25k has imposed 6 pm to 6 am curfew for peeps 18 and younger. It seems the youths have been terrorizing the town for months. What the hell?

https://youtu.be/6NHGV-2lMVg
Posted by: Lost in Space

Trump's fault.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 29, 2024 05:07 AM (pLaQB)

25 Coffee is done, it's a start

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 05:10 AM (fwDg9)

26 Went to get coffee only to learn I never turned it on. Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 05:15 AM (RIvkX)

27 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ reporting stations scattered throughout the System! (Yeah, Io, I know you're tired of looking at that Giant Red Spot. It'll go away in, oh, 36,000 Earth years, okay?)

I actually slept okay last night. Maybe because I was rested from a half-hour's nap in the afternoon, maybe because the last two nights I was short on sleep. Howzaboutchoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:19 AM (omVj0)

28 17 Alice Springs, Northern Territories, pop. 25k has imposed 6 pm to 6 am curfew for peeps 18 and younger. It seems the youths have been terrorizing the town for months. What the hell?

Nothing to do and nowhere to go. The nearest city is Darwin, and that's a thousand miles away and only has a population of 140,000.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 05:19 AM (BLOW1)

29 I downloaded the Audacy app onto my phone yesterday thinking I'd just bluetooth my phone and speakers and enjoy the Rangers biesbol broadcast out on the patio. You have to give it a name, gender, an email and your birthdate in order for them to 'personalize' your experience, assumably with advertising crap. Can't get past that screen. Scratch that app.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 29, 2024 05:22 AM (YRsIm)

30 * Except maybe Robert L. Forward in his work Self-Limiting.**

** He proposed making currency out of plutonium.

***
I think Larry Niven picked up on that and mentioned it in an essay. He knew Forward. He explained that having a currency made from uranium or plutonium would ensure a rapid turnover in "bullion" and "coins"; nobody would hold onto it for long, thanks to radiation, and nobody would dare amass huge amounts in one place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:24 AM (omVj0)

31 17 Alice Springs, Northern Territories, pop. 25k has imposed 6 pm to 6 am curfew for peeps 18 and younger. It seems the youths have been terrorizing the town for months. What the hell?

https://youtu.be/6NHGV-2lMVg
Posted by: Lost in Space at March 29, 2024 04:31 AM (iB6b2)

Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 05:24 AM (o3SCB)

32 18 Being retired means no more having to say TGIF, Friday now is just one more day to enjoy.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 29, 2024 04:32 AM (KATBx)

How's the fog this morning?

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 05:25 AM (o3SCB)

33 DC Fox Newz affiliate: Montgomery County residents encouraged to FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE!!

With what? A cricket bat? A lead pipe? A stern lecture to stop being naughty, climate?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 29, 2024 05:27 AM (pLaQB)

34 DC Fox Newz affiliate: Montgomery County residents encouraged to FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE!!

With what? A cricket bat? A lead pipe? A stern lecture to stop being naughty, climate?

Posted by: Puddleglum

Give the naughty Klimate Khange a time out first,

Then the cricket bat.

Posted by: Bruce at March 29, 2024 05:29 AM (vd8XM)

35 Oh, that's right (as if I could have forgotten) -- I'm off today. A workout is on the schedule, followed by breakfast and washing the car, and then Miss Linda and I plan to go see Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. There's an 11:15 show at the cineplex near us.

Come to think of it, I haven't been to a movie theatre in a coon's age. (Izzat racist? If so, fuggit.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:29 AM (omVj0)

36 28 17 Alice Springs, Northern Territories, pop. 25k has imposed 6 pm to 6 am curfew for peeps 18 and younger. It seems the youths have been terrorizing the town for months. What the hell?

Nothing to do and nowhere to go. The nearest city is Darwin, and that's a thousand miles away and only has a population of 140,000.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 05:19 AM (BLOW1)

How's their Internet connectivity?

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 05:29 AM (o3SCB)

37 Nevil Shute Norway Foundation
A Town Like Alice

https://www.nevilshute.org/Reviews/alice2.php

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 05:31 AM (o3SCB)

38 28 17 Alice Springs, Northern Territories

Nothing to do and nowhere to go. The nearest city is Darwin, and that's a thousand miles away and only has a population of 140,000.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 05:19 AM (BLOW1)
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Sounds like Pofadder in Namaqualand (Northern Cape, South Africa ). Small, nothing to do on a Saturday night, maybe just go round and round the roundabout that is the town 'square'. In quiz shows for laughs First Prize is 1 week in Pofadder, Second Prize is 2 weeks in Pofadder.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #172 at March 29, 2024 05:33 AM (qfLjt)

39 'Tis 56 F. here, humidity kinda low, almost no wind. Don't wanna waste those conditions, esp. since it will be up to 82 and more humid by Monday.

Right now, though, I've got to feed two thuggish furballs and grab some more coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:34 AM (omVj0)

40 1st cup is gone and didn't make my pancakes yet, have to go in little over a hour.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 05:34 AM (fwDg9)

41 33 DC Fox Newz affiliate: Montgomery County residents encouraged to FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE!!

With what? A cricket bat? A lead pipe? A stern lecture to stop being naughty, climate?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 29, 2024 05:27 AM (pLaQB)

Moral equivalent of war.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 29, 2024 05:36 AM (di6C2)

42 The last movie I saw in a theater was Top Gun last summer. There three people. Me Boy F. and some other dude.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 05:36 AM (RIvkX)

43 Sounds like Pofadder in Namaqualand (Northern Cape, South Africa ). Small, nothing to do on a Saturday night, maybe just go round and round the roundabout that is the town 'square'. In quiz shows for laughs First Prize is 1 week in Pofadder, Second Prize is 2 weeks in Pofadder.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #172 at March 29, 2024

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C., there's a country song with lyrics that remind me of that. "They drive 90 miles an hour to the city limit sign, put the pedal to the metal 'fore they change their mind . . ." and "Lucy, you know the world must be flat, 'cause when people leave town they never come back."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:39 AM (omVj0)

44 wikipedia

Alice Springs
population 25,912 (2021)

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 05:39 AM (o3SCB)

45 ikipedia

Alice Springs
population 25,912 (2021)
Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 05:39 AM

***
But do they understand about and have air-conditioning in the summer?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:41 AM (omVj0)

46
SlowJoe hasn't hesitatingly, shakily, and on the verge of tearfully, told us that Beau died in the wreckage of the Key Bridge.

OldJoe is slipping ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 29, 2024 05:41 AM (xG4kz)

47 wikipedia

Nevil Shute's novel A Town Like Alice, and the resulting film and television mini-series, take their name from Alice Springs, although little of the action takes place there, because part of the story is set in Willstown (possibly modelled on Burketown) situated north of Alice Springs, near the Gulf of Carpentaria. The heroine, Jean, wants to change Willstown into a town "like" Alice. The local library in Alice Springs is named after Nevil Shute: the Nevil Shute Memorial Library.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 05:41 AM (o3SCB)

48
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 29, 2024 05:44 AM (2WOOS)

49 Reading that the bridge is going to be doomed for rebuilding by woke governments, Baltimore and Maryland, everything will be DIE, nothing will get done in a timely fashion.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 05:47 AM (fwDg9)

50 A Town Called Malice
https://youtu.be/YfpRm-p7qlY

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 05:47 AM (RIvkX)

51 Wolfus if that nap is needed try a very short one sometime.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 05:48 AM (fwDg9)

52 I read all of Shute's books, then moved on to Alistair MacLean and so on. This was in the 1960s and 1970s.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #173 at March 29, 2024 05:49 AM (qfLjt)

53 They love the idea of monolithic cultural unity that is also activated to action for some common goal. WWII in America is the positive example of this.

The negative examples are a lot more numerous. Cultural Revolution. Khymer Rouge. Jonestown.

They never see the trap implicit in the historical reality. If they see it as a trap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 29, 2024 05:51 AM (di6C2)

54 Sounds like Pofadder in Namaqualand (Northern Cape, South Africa ). Small, nothing to do on a Saturday night, maybe just go round and round the roundabout that is the town 'square'. In quiz shows for laughs First Prize is 1 week in Pofadder, Second Prize is 2 weeks in Pofadder.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #172 at March 29, 2024

***
I used to say the same thing about Hobbs, New Mexico. Completely unfair of me, as I passed through it all of once in 1993, didn't even buy gas, on my way to Carlsbad. I was much more of a bigger city person then, with Albuquerque or Santa Fe being my ideal towns. As of 2020 Hobbs had 40K people; that sounds good to me now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:51 AM (omVj0)

55
Our domestic enemies speak of, and fervently wish for, this country to become a Nation of Marx. Now we see that we misunderstood them, and their design is becoming clear -- this country, via them, is to become a Nation of Marks.

"You gonna get an EV, soon (mark)?"

"You gonna get your clot jab, soon (mark)?"

"You gonna cast that ballot, soon (mark)?"

"You gonna be out of that house, soon (mark)?"

"You're never gonna figure out our whole scam, soon, are you (mark)?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 29, 2024 05:52 AM (xG4kz)

56 The Gulf of Carpentaria is where you go when Alice Springs is too crowded and fast-paced for you.

I'd like to catch the Gulflander, a tourist train that runs a hundred miles from Normanton (pop. 1300) on the gulf coast to Croydon (pop. 250) inland.

Closest I've got so far is Kuranda.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 05:53 AM (BLOW1)

57 If you haven't listened yet the CJN Speaks is a good one this week about the JAn6 political prisoners

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 05:53 AM (fwDg9)

58 Wolfus if that nap is needed try a very short one sometime.
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024

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Skip, I thought about your advice yesterday. It was only a thirty-minute deal. Unfortunately I was lying on my back with one hand behind my head, not expecting to drop off at all. When I woke up that arm ached, and that lasted most of the evening. Still, that half hour worked great. I wasn't dropping off to sleep in front of the TV yesterday evening. (Watched a 1965 I Spy episode on DVD, in fact. Good stuff.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)

59 My grandparents got to visit Alice Springs, wish I did go along on their 3 month tour

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 05:55 AM (fwDg9)

60 A somewhat harmonious, unified culture is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is usually best when it is not activated towards a certain goal. When it gives it's citizens space and breathing room to pursue their own goals and acts as a buffer against the inherent uncertainties of life.

There at least used to be a sense that focusing on anything in such an all consuming way was a bad thing. Remember when we looked sideways at say the Clintons for 'making politics Holy War.' There is a reason for that. We understood the fundamental dangers of zealotry. It had a negative connotation.

We have removed or just moved past that fundamental understanding of a core part of human nature. That it was wise NOT to feed that beast. Now we have millions of blue eyed zealots happily feeding it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 29, 2024 05:57 AM (di6C2)

61 I read all of Shute's books, then moved on to Alistair MacLean and so on. This was in the 1960s and 1970s.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #173 at March 29, 2024

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This week I ordered a paperback edition of Shute's' No Highway, the basis of the great little British-made film with James Stewart and Glynis Johns, from ThriftBooks. Looking forward to the novel, and comparing book and film.

I too was a devotee of MacLean in my teen years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 05:57 AM (omVj0)

62
Reading that the bridge is going to be doomed for rebuilding by woke governments, Baltimore and Maryland, everything will be DIE, nothing will get done in a timely fashion.
Posted by: Skip

"HOW CAN YOU even THINK ABOUT building that, that, BRIDGE, when this INCREDIBLY DIVERSE and talented WORK GROUP hasn't HEARD AND SHARED one another's LIVED TRUTH, you BIGOTED BRUTES?!!!!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 29, 2024 05:58 AM (xG4kz)

63 I didn't make enough coffee, it's gone and pancakes almost done

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 05:58 AM (fwDg9)

64
Strelnikoff!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 29, 2024 06:02 AM (xG4kz)

65 Good morning everyone. Thank you Pixy Misa.

Good Friday

On the Friday of the Lord’s Passion (Good Friday) the Church commemorates the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross for the sins of all mankind, at the same time the Passover lamb was being killed and prepared for consumption among the Jewish people. On this day the Church does not celebrate Mass. The main altar remains completely bare, and the Tabernacle is empty. It is at the 3 o’clock hour on Good Friday that Jesus expired on the Cross, His Divine Mercy being poured out on the whole world. At this hour the Christian faithful should observe a solemn and prayerful silence in memory of the hour in which our salvation was won at so great a price.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:02 AM (WXNFJ)

66 Thanks Tonypete I did not know that

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 06:09 AM (RIvkX)

67 As of 2020 Hobbs had 40K people; that sounds good to me now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I went even smaller - less than 10,000 in my community. When we go into the county seat to see the stop lights, there's another 12,000. And a Lowes, Waffle House and a few dozen Dollar Generals/Dollar Trees.

I do not miss my old city at all.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:09 AM (WXNFJ)

68 Zealotry short circuits introspection and empathy. Measured consideration of not just whether what you are doing will hurt someone else unjustly, but whether it is a good idea to begin with.

THAT is what they desire. THAT is why we keep seeing them trying to remove other independent measures of morality (Christianity/Judaism.) Because they are a check on the worst excesses of human nature. They are not trying to set out to create a Holocaust, it is just that they want that activated, monolithic movement to accomplish their goals. They want to feel a part of that terrible movement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 29, 2024 06:11 AM (di6C2)

69 They are not trying to set out to create a Holocaust, it is just that they want that activated, monolithic movement to accomplish their goals. They want to feel a part of that terrible movement.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

In other words, a mob.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:13 AM (WXNFJ)

70 Zealotry is a sin one must confess on Yom Kippur.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 06:22 AM (RIvkX)

71 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 06:23 AM (T4tVD)

72 65
Tonypete, thank you.
At 3pm some baseball team is going to start their season. Now choosing Good Friday and 3 o'clock seemed to me purposeful and giving the finger to Christians. If it's true that it was planned then I hope they have a terrible season.

Posted by: Ciampino - comment on this important day at March 29, 2024 06:23 AM (qfLjt)

73 A Town Like Alice huh ?

She must be a good time if the whole town likes her.

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 06:24 AM (T4tVD)

74 In other words, a mob.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:13 AM (WXNFJ)

Yes. Good Friday is the ultimate expression of 'Stop. Think about the consequences of your actions.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 29, 2024 06:25 AM (di6C2)

75 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 29, 2024 06:28 AM (86W+h)

76 Fury as photo of Hamas victim Shani Louk's naked and mutilated body being paraded by terrorists wins top award

https://mol.im/a/13251559

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #168 at March 29, 2024 06:30 AM (qfLjt)

77 The ONT must have been a bloodbath.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2024 06:31 AM (o2ZRX)

78 Italy races to stop leaning tower in Bologna from collapsing

https://tinyurl.com/shdybdfp

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #174 at March 29, 2024 06:33 AM (qfLjt)

79 Well there are vampires commenting on ONT so wouldn't doubt it

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 06:33 AM (fwDg9)

80 Glenn Greenwald's self-loathing is showing again.
https://tinyurl.com/mthuajwt

Goes to Rumble

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 06:33 AM (RIvkX)

81 50 A Town Called Malice
https://youtu.be/YfpRm-p7qlY
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 05:47 AM (RIvkX)

I ... don't know what to say.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 06:34 AM (o3SCB)

82 Read some time ago, it's not if but when the Leaning Tower goes over

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 06:35 AM (fwDg9)

83 I ... don't know what to say.
Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 06:34 AM (o3SCB)
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I had that album.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 06:37 AM (RIvkX)

84 73 A Town Like Alice huh ?

She must be a good time if the whole town likes her.

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 06:24 AM (T4tVD)
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Since 'like Alice' was used instead of 'likes Alice', I surmised it was a Vietnamese speaking. That was then followed by "Alice love you long time!"

Posted by: Ciampino - I heard that in a movie /LOL at March 29, 2024 06:37 AM (qfLjt)

85 Should start to get out of here, hopefully a couple hours at most, at least not going far, and need to go to Lowes for plumbing parts afterwards.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 06:37 AM (fwDg9)

86 Italy races to stop leaning tower in Bologna from collapsing

Is it beef baloney ?

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 06:40 AM (T4tVD)

87 I learned something this morning during my readings: Remember the story of Veronica? After she offered her veil to wipe the face of Jesus during His Passion, His image was left imprinted on the veil. Well, we really don't know the name of the woman. But, the “true image,” or vera icona, of Christ was left on this veil or cloth. This is thought to be the origin of the name “Veronica” for this pious woman, and not just for the cloth itself bearing the True Image of Jesus.

I did not know that.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:41 AM (WXNFJ)

88 DC Fox Newz affiliate: Montgomery County residents encouraged to FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE!!

With what? A cricket bat? A lead pipe? A stern lecture to stop being naughty, climate?

Posted by: Puddleglum

Give the naughty Klimate Khange a time out first,

Then the cricket bat.

Posted by: Bruce

I'm all in.

Posted by: Zoot at March 29, 2024 06:41 AM (MsrgL)

89 Don’t ‘skip’ the liquor store, Skip.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2024 06:41 AM (o2ZRX)

90 56 The Gulf of Carpentaria is where you go when Alice Springs is too crowded and fast-paced for you.

I'd like to catch the Gulflander, a tourist train that runs a hundred miles from Normanton (pop. 1300) on the gulf coast to Croydon (pop. 250) inland.

Closest I've got so far is Kuranda.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 29, 2024 05:53 AM (BLOW1)

Take that train trip! Report back!
At one point--in the 70s?--Australia welcomed non-Aussies to take up residence. Not any more, I don't think.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 06:42 AM (o3SCB)

91 86 Italy races to stop leaning tower in Bologna from collapsing

Is it beef baloney ?

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 06:40 AM (T4tVD)
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Probably mortadella or salame.

Posted by: Ciampino - I could do with a baguette stuffed with mortadella & cheese at March 29, 2024 06:42 AM (qfLjt)

92 37 degrees and clear
Forward Dog 9 reluctantly hitting the road

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2024 06:44 AM (fwDg9)

93 My mind also went immediately to mortadella

Mmm deli

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

94 Should start to get out of here, hopefully a couple hours at most, at least not going far, and need to go to Lowes for plumbing parts afterwards.
Posted by: Skip

In my vast bins of gas plumbing parts, do you think I could find a 1/2 Inch OD Flare x 1/2 Inch FIP Gas Fitting?

NO! Everything else but not that. I hate when that happens. I rest assured though that whomever puts all my cans and bins of parts in the garage sale after I go to the choir eternal will find a few.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:45 AM (WXNFJ)

95 Most games started at 3:10 yesterday. I don't think MLB is quiet that informed to know that Jesus died @3. Baltimore started at 1 ish and a bunch after 3.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 29, 2024 06:45 AM (IG7T0)

96 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

(watch out for falling bridges !)

Posted by: JT at March 29, 2024 06:46 AM (T4tVD)

97 Climate change is like the Terminator to the left dunderhead voters. Picture Gerta Throngbeard running with pigtails flailing from Aaahhold.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2024 06:46 AM (o2ZRX)

98 Probably mortadella or salame.
Posted by: Ciampino

But certainly NOT pepperoni!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:47 AM (WXNFJ)

99 76 Fury as photo of Hamas victim Shani Louk's naked and mutilated body being paraded by terrorists wins top award

https://mol.im/a/13251559
Posted by: Ciampino

Didn't the male member of 'The Squad' vomit out some truther Oct 7 crap? That it didn't happen and a lie? Wouldn't this picture kind of refute this congresscritter? Eh, something like that. The nuclear grade garbage flies out of this town so fast, it's hard to keep up.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 29, 2024 06:49 AM (sAmhv)

100 65 Good morning everyone. Thank you Pixy Misa.

Good Friday

On the Friday of the Lord’s Passion (Good Friday) the Church commemorates the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross for the sins of all mankind, at the same time the Passover lamb was being killed and prepared for consumption among the Jewish people. On this day the Church does not celebrate Mass. The main altar remains completely bare, and the Tabernacle is empty. It is at the 3 o’clock hour on Good Friday that Jesus expired on the Cross, His Divine Mercy being poured out on the whole world. At this hour the Christian faithful should observe a solemn and prayerful silence in memory of the hour in which our salvation was won at so great a price.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:02 AM (WXNFJ)

Thank you so much, Tonypete!

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 06:50 AM (o3SCB)

101 Well somebody on an AoS blog a couple of days ago mentioned that their home team was starting today (maybe first home game? ) at 3 o'clock and that's why my mind went there.

Temperature here in S. IL is 46°F

Posted by: Ciampino - Update @100 at March 29, 2024 06:51 AM (qfLjt)

102 68 Zealotry short circuits introspection and empathy. Measured consideration of not just whether what you are doing will hurt someone else unjustly, but whether it is a good idea to begin with.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 29, 2024 06:11 AM (di6C2)

See "Chesterton's Fence."

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 06:53 AM (o3SCB)

103 NO! Everything else but not that. I hate when that happens. I rest assured though that whomever puts all my cans and bins of parts in the garage sale after I go to the choir eternal will find a few.

Posted by: Tonypete

Maybe a 10mm socket? Those things are rare, and some are beginning to show up on Antique Roadshow episodes. Listening o the provenance stories are riveting for some of the finds.

"My father carried this 10mm 1/4" drive socket from Home Depot in a plastic bag, used it once, and never saw it again until we cleaned out the shoe shine box in his closet. We have no idea how it got there."

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 29, 2024 06:53 AM (MsrgL)

104 Ciampino

re: Patriot Games. Forget the movie version of Sum of All Fears because those who created the movie decided to not offend the Muslims. In the book Patriot Games it starts in London but the climatic ending happens in Baltimore and Annapolis, the Francis Scott Key bridge even makes an appearance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2024 06:53 AM (6TXCu)

105 Good morning to one and all. Today I will once again watch " The Passon of the Christ".

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2024 06:54 AM (kCvJX)

106 81 50 A Town Called Malice
https://youtu.be/YfpRm-p7qlY
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2024 05:47 AM (RIvkX)

I ... don't know what to say.
Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 06:34 AM (o3SCB)

And, here, twenty minutes later, the tune is still playing away in my brain! A nice little ditty.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 06:56 AM (o3SCB)

107 Passion. Bad place for a typo.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2024 06:57 AM (kCvJX)

108 Jamal 'Fire Alarm' Bowman is an execrable walking pile of sh1t who used Holocaust denying rhetoric when talking about Oct. 7th to fellow 7th Century savages.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2024 06:57 AM (6TXCu)

109 104 Ciampino

re: Patriot Games. Forget the movie version of Sum of All Fears because those who created the movie decided to not offend the Muslims. In the book Patriot Games it starts in London but the climatic ending happens in Baltimore and Annapolis, the Francis Scott Key bridge even makes an appearance.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yep. The books were really good. Red Storm Rising was Clancy's best book though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 29, 2024 06:58 AM (sAmhv)

110 98 Probably mortadella or salame.
Posted by: Ciampino

But certainly NOT pepperoni!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2024 06:47 AM (WXNFJ)
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Man, that 'pepperoni' is garbage.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update @101 at March 29, 2024 06:59 AM (qfLjt)

111 Some figures in the Passion accounts have been given names by tradition. The Good Thief is known as Dismas, and IIRC the soldier who pierced the Lord's side is known as Longinus.

Posted by: logprof at March 29, 2024 07:01 AM (7goQf)

112 early nood

Posted by: fd at March 29, 2024 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

113
Yep. The books were really good. Red Storm Rising was Clancy's best book though.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 29, 2024

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Did Clancy improve as a storyteller after Hunt for Red October? That novel is one of the very few that is improved by a movie version. The book had so many lectures, and not the fascinating kind as with Michael Crichton.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 29, 2024 07:01 AM (omVj0)

114 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 29, 2024 07:04 AM (a1415)

115 104 Ciampino

re: Patriot Games. Forget the movie version of Sum of All Fears because those who created the movie decided to not offend the Muslims. In the book Patriot Games it starts in London but the climatic ending happens in Baltimore and Annapolis, the Francis Scott Key bridge even makes an appearance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2024 06:53 AM (6TXCu)
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You are correct of course. I'm not familiar with the DC-Maryland area. Went to Washington for a few days to visit the Smithsonian in 1975 and stayed overnight in a motel in Baltimore on my way back to Boston. That's it.
Didn't think much of SOAF movie principally because of the change you mention, but I had read the book.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update @102 at March 29, 2024 07:08 AM (qfLjt)

116 490 Ciampino, I think that you are reading The Cardinal of the Kremlin, it was a good read. Off with me now.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 29, 2024 02:50 AM (Sgq8y)
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Yep, I got the title wrong. I had not read that Clancy book yet.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update @103 at March 29, 2024 07:13 AM (qfLjt)

117 An article in the local weekly paper says that new nuclear plants are light years better the the older ones of years ago.
Right away the letters to the editor were aflame in no way should we build those ticking time bombs. So I guess we will just have to import electricity from somewhere, probably out of state. EV's do need power, and we will have to have them selling at 50 percent by 2032 if Biden gets re-elected.

Posted by: Colin at March 29, 2024 07:15 AM (/z/eU)

118 Where's our SFGoth?

Posted by: m at March 29, 2024 07:43 AM (o3SCB)

119 Related to the lead in Daily Tech News - everyone should begin taking the time to study and learn about bitcoin. It's real. I'm an old guy but have been buying bitcoin for almost 2 years. I'd also suggest that you - perhaps first, understand and learn about our current monetary system. If there ever was a scam it's our FED, Gov., and fiat currency system. You have to know where you've been to understand the future. Best wishes.

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