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Daily Tech News 23 October 2025
Top Story
- A statement on superintelligence. (Superintelligence Statement)
These people are idiots. Or at least, suffering from an epidemic of Engineer's Disease.
If you outlaw AI that actually works, only outlaws will have AI that actually works.
And nobody is working in superintelligent AI because nobody is working on intelligent AI.
- Meta is laying off 600 people from its AI team. (CNBC) (archive site)
Certainly not those guys.
Tech News
- Will the $4500 price tag put people off Rivian's electric bicycle. (The Verge) (archive site)
(shake shake) Signs point to yes.
- Ring's CEO says his cameras could "almost zero out crime" within the next twelve months. (The Verge) (archive site)
I think that in most normal, average neighborhoods, with the right amount of technology - not too crazy - and with AI, that we can get very close to zero out crime.
Forward the Panopticon.
- Old-fashioned reliable IT systems - mostly COBOL - saved US states around $40 billion in nine months in 2020. (Financial Times)
The article comes to the opposite conclusion.
The article is written by an idiot.
Disclaimer: Sandwiches are OFF.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:03 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 23, 2025 04:04 AM (sAmhv)
The headline now is:
Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
Covid-19 put a lot of strain the US state benefit systems.
I mean, who wrote this.
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 23, 2025 04:09 AM (WjhjO)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 23, 2025 04:10 AM (WjhjO)
I'm detecting a pattern.
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:03 AM (RuTUS)
Idiots writing idiotically is the modern equivalent of the court jester and keeps us endlessly entertained.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 23, 2025 04:10 AM (JRP2U)
I'm detecting a pattern.
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:03 AM (RuTUS)
Idiots writing idiotically is the modern equivalent of the court jester and keeps us endlessly entertained.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 23, 2025 04:10 AM (JRP2U)
That, it do!
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)
noun
a computer programming language designed for use in commerce.
ORIGIN
1960s: from co(mmon) b(usiness) o(riented) l(anguage).
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 23, 2025 04:14 AM (AOqz4)
The article comes to the opposite conclusion.
The article is written by an idiot.
Often the problem is down to a poorly written headline. It could be both! In this case, the headline-writer appears to have had his wrist slapped and his headline revised.
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:17 AM (RuTUS)
Yeah, that’s just silly.
At most it might reduce burglaries and porch pirates.
You’ll still get the domestic stuff like somebody murdering their spouse for hogging the remote.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:18 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: OkJohn at October 23, 2025 04:26 AM (NC/it)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 04:28 AM (Nx5jP)
I think that in most normal, average neighborhoods, with the right amount of technology - not too crazy - and with AI, that we can get very close to zero out crime.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I couldn't get to the article so I don't know if it announces new software for cops to review and analyze the explosion of terabytes of video of guys in hoodies, masks, and dark clothes burglarizing and porch pirating. It turns out that observing it is only half the job.
I watched a professional burglar of posh neighborhoods being interviewed about her techniques, and in particular those "Neighborhood Watch" signs. "They watch you go in, and they watch you go out," she said.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 04:30 AM (ldc7S)
Devotional is followed by some insight and prayer:
https://tinyurl.com/yv36ndwz
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 04:34 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 04:30 AM (ldc7S)
They have added more features and a way for cops to request footage easier is one of them.
The only other new thing I saw in the article is an AI-powered “Search Party” feature which lets neighbors access pooled feeds to, according to the given example, look for a lost dog in the neighborhood.
Helpful features, no doubt, but nothing earth-shattering about it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:44 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:46 AM (hoCmQ)
See you when I get there hopefully
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 04:50 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:50 AM (hoCmQ)
e-bike.
It has some cool aspects to it, magnetic locks for the seat and handlebars making it too less to remove and replace them, a 5” screen, and a Zonal bike-lock that will unlock the wheels when the owner gets within 5’ of the bike.
The Chinese will copy everything and have a competitor on the market for $2500 by Christmas of ‘26.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:53 AM (6ydKt)
from Brave browser AI generated answer.
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:54 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:50 AM (hoCmQ)
Apparently they are still chugging along making e-Vans for Amazon. This Also bike company is a bought-out subsidiary it seems.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:55 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: The Heavy at October 23, 2025 04:56 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 23, 2025 04:57 AM (O7YUW)
https://tinyurl.com/5n7kb442
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 05:05 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:06 AM (7NHGZ)
I've lived in my normal, average neighborhood for over 23 years. No doubt there are some ring cameras, probably not much AI involved. Insofar as I know, during that time... zero crime.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 23, 2025 05:08 AM (ExV1e)
I've seen your reviews and comments about the low end NAS boxes available now and I was thinking of getting one to archive my astro photos.
I was hoping for it to have some level of RAID function and be pretty easy to setup and run and of course be secure.
What's out there now that is reasonable and has decent performance?
Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:10 AM (tqkKb)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 23, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)
The term has also been applied to specific individuals and cases, such as Sam Bankman-Fried, whose approach to complex societal and economic problems was seen as emblematic of this syndrome.
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 05:14 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 23, 2025 05:15 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:17 AM (7NHGZ)
Were you able to get some sleep last night, Boss Moss?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 05:18 AM (ZeH0U)
Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:18 AM (7NHGZ)
Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:19 AM (7NHGZ)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 23, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 23, 2025 05:20 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025 05:21 AM (7NHGZ)
I've been using Grok for over a year. Asside from using it as a reference tool , I've been trying to get a handle on it's capabilities.
I'm not a "coder" in the traditional sense and my academic background is in physics.
So I decided to try to see how well it could handle graduate level physics problems. Obscure one. Hard ones. One's that I had experience with.
I took a couple of problems from Goldstein's "Classical Mechanics" and it actually solved them.
It first set up the problem mathematically resolving the vectors and their interactions.
Then it did a search to see if it could find any references to the problem as it was now stated in general mathematical terms. I purposely chose obscure problems and it wasn't able to find any references in the searches it did.
Then it proceeded with a pretty straight forward brute force solution that gave the proper equations of motion.
After it had done that, I told Grok where the problems were from. It then found where the problems were in the book and ,get this, solved them using the methods covered in the specific chapter the problems were from.
And it solved them correctly.
Graduate Physics problems.
Yikes!
Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:25 AM (tqkKb)
I've seen your reviews and comments about the low end NAS boxes available now and I was thinking of getting one to archive my astro photos.
I was hoping for it to have some level of RAID function and be pretty easy to setup and run and of course be secure.
What's out there now that is reasonable and has decent performance?
Posted by: pawn
The Beelink Me Mini is pretty good (at least the reviews are good; mine is still in its box). It only takes SSDs, so not good for huge amounts of storage, but small, quiet, fast, and cheap.
It comes with Windows pre-installed, so you'd probably want to scrub that and install your preferred flavour of Linux, or maybe something task-specific like TrueNAS CE.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 23, 2025 05:30 AM (BLOW1)
I'm not really much of a coder or computer person, just use the applications as tools, so anything beyond Windows will involve a learning cure.
I'm already on a steep learning curve in advanced image processing so I would prefer a Windows box even though I know it probably is not the best thing to use.
Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:34 AM (tqkKb)
Words can be used as weapons to destroy people or as tools to heal and build them up. Sadly, many people receive more destructive comments than comments that heal and edify. You can treat every person you meet today as either a demolition site or a construction opportunity. Your words will make a difference. Will they be weapons for destruction or tools for construction?. What you say to others matters more than you can imagine.
I apologize for ways I have not used constructive words on here.
Have a good day, everyone.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 05:36 AM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:18 AM (6ydKt)
Which really shouldn't be a crime anyway.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 23, 2025 05:37 AM (n9ltV)
Thankfully I was not too far from home when that kicked in and yes, my stove was turned off.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 05:38 AM (99eI0)
I've seen that before. And I found out years after the fact that I'd helped someone when I was just being normal.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 05:39 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:40 AM (tqkKb)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 23, 2025 05:41 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 05:43 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:44 AM (HFfF4)
A cool Thor's Day morning in Da Swamp: 64 F., 66% humidity. Utterly amazin'. Today is a workout day, so as soon as I get completely awake with coffee, I can change, stretch, and zip out to the walking trail a few minutes' walk/trot away.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:46 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025 05:48 AM (7NHGZ)
With security systems rather cheap now, the French government couldn't afford to put cameras outside the windows of their crown jewels, or at least sensors on the doors. France is in worse shape than I thought. Got to be Specter, and the man with the white cat who is involved. Just ask MI6 or James.
Posted by: Colin at October 23, 2025 05:49 AM (wlQdF)
I gotta say, SS may be slow, but they do what they need to do without me prompting them (or even knowing I should prompt them). Good thing. It's horrible to spend an hour on hold waiting to talk to one of their staffers -- who, to be fair, are pretty helpful once you get one on the line. I know; I've done it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 05:53 AM (xatjc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025
***
I took more COBOL classes than I wanted to in night school, '89 to '94. The weird thing was, I never worked with it. First job in the field was working with FoxPro and SQL, and so was my last, in '01.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)
Ooopsie!
The prosecution needs more time to sort through them
This happened Friday. On Saturday, Proctor withdrew his appeal to get beck on the force. On Monday, Proctor's lawyer noped out and asked to withdraw as his lawyer.
LMFAO.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:55 AM (HFfF4)
Don't waste your time submitting anything to a Reedsy livestream. They received over a thousand "first lines" to examine and ended up doing only twenty seven.
And the reviewer was just AWFL. Had to keep yapping about stuff that didn't matter. One hour and eight minutes wasted.*
*I knew they wouldn't use mine, anyway.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 05:56 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (I8Tp0)
He was in charge of a legacy whole life program for a big old insurance company that had to figure out payments as people carked it.
He was the only guy that knew how it ran.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (HFfF4)
Our normal is not the same as every other culture's normal.
There are youtube stories of the meanest stuff going on in famililes and it seems "too Asian."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (W7XSX)
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Glenn Beck claims that Sam Altman is pursing an an ASI (Artificial SuperIntelligence) that he's calling "Sam-God."
Grok tells me that this isn't true and actually refers to a single comment from a Sean Spicer podcast in which Spicer made reference to the former pursing a "Sam God" and calls it hyperbole.
HEY, that's MY schtick ... but as a former software developer: I'm with Pixy -- these are nothing but Data + Algorithms, not real human-like intelligence, and will possess the biases and imperfections of their algorithmic and (garbage-in garbage-out data) collections.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 23, 2025 05:59 AM (KsUM/)
I'm still proud of the simple report I created listing graduate students assigned to each faculty, and then -- using the same data, just a different group and sort -- a list of students and their faculty assignments. Not to mention a much bigger list, of undergrad majors assigned to each faculty adviser. I don't think anybody in that job had done that before. At least not without a lot of labor. Which is what the computer is supposed to save us.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:59 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 06:01 AM (xatjc)
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 06:01 AM (xatjc)
Would you pick up a shipment of Coors in Texarkana and deliver it to me in Atlanta?
Posted by: Big Enos Burdette at October 23, 2025 06:03 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025 06:04 AM (7NHGZ)
https://tinyurl.com/4emudmkr
Must be fun to work at the "Babylon Bee"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 06:04 AM (lQ+/f)
Maybe hit em with "It was a dark and stormy night, and yet, it was quiet. Too quiet" right out of the gate.
Toss in a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch," a little ways in.
Posted by: TeeJ at October 23, 2025 06:05 AM (Sq4+7)
He was in charge of a legacy whole life program for a big old insurance company that had to figure out payments as people carked it.
He was the only guy that knew how it ran.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025
***
Programmers would have all been better off if we hadn't let the code get so transparent that ordinary people could fix it. We should have kept it all quiet and mysterious: an arcane kabbalah that only we the adepts understood, and only after many years of training. "We'll see to it. You wouldn't understand."
Once the bosses understood that programmers could be replaced easily, they got replaced easily.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)
He was in charge of a legacy whole life program for a big old insurance company that had to figure out payments as people carked it.
He was the only guy that knew how it ran.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (HFfF4)
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Was trained to be a scientific programmer (Assembly, FORTRAN, and Pascal primarily).
Out of desperation, accepted a job at Ford Aerospace to do (snobbishly looking down upon) COBOL and SQL development.
On proprietary Tandem Computers and -- after having read ALL of their many manuals -- became quite an expert with subsequent highly lucrative contract gigs. Eventually migrated into Oracle DBA, Design, and Development (and despite getting interviews with both Tandem and Oracle back in the 90's, was NOT hired -- to my everlasting shame).
Yeah ... it wasn't sexy, but it got the bills paid and provided lots of travel to various cities for contracting gigs.
But these days? It feels like the software development world has passed me by big time ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 23, 2025 06:08 AM (KsUM/)
Toss in a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch," a little ways in.
Posted by: TeeJ at October 23, 2025 06:05 AM (Sq4+7)
It wouldn't surprise me if the reviewer wouldn't know the source of those. Fat, white, apologetic, youngish.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 06:08 AM (uQesX)
"We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped a girl off the bridge."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 23, 2025 06:12 AM (kHop/)
How about being happy developing new stuff?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 23, 2025 06:13 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)
There were a few punchy ones like that, but a lot of turgid, overlong ones. The fat broad almost went into hysterics over a longer opening line that was set in an obviously LA plantation in the past. Tried to inject her political views. Hey tubby, it's a historical fiction piece, keep your signaling out of it. Just explain why the line is good and engaging, or not.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 06:14 AM (uQesX)
"On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window."
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 06:16 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025
*
There were a few punchy ones like that, but a lot of turgid, overlong ones. The fat broad almost went into hysterics over a longer opening line that was set in an obviously LA plantation in the past. Tried to inject her political views. Hey tubby, it's a historical fiction piece, keep your signaling out of it. Just explain why the line is good and engaging, or not.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025
***
That's the problem, I guess, that those reviewers (and, higher up, editors in general now) don't know "engaging," or a good solid story, when they see it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)
(More of an opening paragraph than just one line, admittedly)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:20 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 23, 2025 06:21 AM (cHNrw)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 23, 2025
***
Wasn't Paradox another of the family of relational databases spawned by DBase? FoxPro was. Most programs written in DBase's language would run on FoxPro without much modification, or sometimes any. I think, though I am not sure, that Clipper was another cousin.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:25 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 23, 2025 06:27 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:20 AM (omVj0)
One line was twenty words long. She screeched: "Too many words!" rawk "Shorter is better!" rawk
I understand: "He was dead when I got there." is punchier than: "The lilacs bloomed, the smell tickled my nose as I walked through the sun-dappled garden, when I beheld a body on the ground in front of me, covered in lavender." But, you have to do some setting up as well.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 06:27 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2025 06:29 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2025 06:29 AM (tgvbd)
(sound of snapping glove)
"Good morning!"
Posted by: Hadrian's Doctor at October 23, 2025 06:30 AM (uQesX)
Without DDG ing that line, I can tell you one of the Travis Mcgee novels starts out like that. Perhaps there are many crime novels that start out like that.
Posted by: Fenderbender at October 23, 2025 06:31 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Just Wondering at October 23, 2025 06:32 AM (WV0oi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2025 06:36 AM (I8Tp0)
Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 06:37 AM (tqkKb)
Posted by: Eromero at October 23, 2025 06:43 AM (jgmnb)
Without DDG ing that line, I can tell you one of the Travis Mcgee novels starts out like that. Perhaps there are many crime novels that start out like that.
Posted by: Fenderbender at October 23, 2025
***
That's it exactly, Darker Than Amber, the seventh McGee. Made into a decent film in 1970 with Rod Taylor as Travis.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 23, 2025 06:50 AM (XmFj4)
A statement on superintelligence.
Oh, noes! Did Barky throw out his shoulder again patting himself on his back while bragging how wise he knows himself to be? The guy reads Niebuhr, you know.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 23, 2025 06:55 AM (xG4kz)
"first full time job was creating a database of buildings and their vacancies on a PC database called Paradox"
I used Paradox to create a program to store and retrieve birth certificates for the county. Birth certs were scanned in and the data (DOB, Name, location, etc) were entered by clerks. They could find a birth certificate and print it to make a certified copy. I eventually sold the the program to a couple of other counties that got grants to implement it. I moved on though and never pursued it further. I don't really like programming anymore.
Posted by: fd at October 23, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)
We choose not to do these things because they are hard, but because we are lazy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 23, 2025 07:01 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: fd at October 23, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2025 06:29 AM (tgvbd)
Moon River.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 23, 2025 07:04 AM (svvCi)
When Harold arose that morning, he decided to hold off on urinating until he got to the office. At least, then, he'd have something useful to do while at work.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 23, 2025 07:05 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 23, 2025 07:06 AM (2NHgQ)
They should just shut down the AWS servers for two weeks during the summer and everyone takes a vacation like the Europeons.
Posted by: fd at October 23, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)
A two-week vacation in Europe would be considered modern slavery.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2025 07:07 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd at October 23, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)
It's seven AM -- do you know where the construction crews are?
Behind my property. Pounding with hammers and running heavy equipment in reverse nearly constantly just to groove on the "meep, meep, meep" warning signals.
This has been going on for months now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 23, 2025 07:10 AM (xG4kz)
Had that problem a while back. They left the dog out all night and I bet their logic was "But he's so noisy in the house and we want to sleep!"
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 07:12 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 23, 2025 07:14 AM (kHop/)
Posted by: Don Black at October 23, 2025 07:15 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)
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I didn't know of this movie. As a McGee fan I'll give it a try.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2025 07:18 AM (uzGmU)
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Anxiety
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 23, 2025 07:18 AM (WL2lA)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Yes indeed. I've had the pleasure of meeting him twice and he's a very nice person.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 07:20 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: The little nagging voice at October 23, 2025 07:21 AM (WV0oi)
Anxiety
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Annoying as hell. I've learned to once in a while send emails to my work address telling me "Yes, you did x."
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 07:21 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 23, 2025 07:21 AM (kHop/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2025 07:21 AM (uzGmU)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2025 07:23 AM (uzGmU)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 23, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)
I have a regular walkthrough I do whenever I leave the house, checking everything I think should be turned off, locked, etc.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 23, 2025 07:23 AM (kHop/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2025
***
Good casting -- Taylor as Travis, Theodore Bikel as Meyer, and I think they actually filmed at some FL locations.
MacDonald viewed the audition tapes of the actors for McGee, and thought Taylor was the best. For some reason he did not like Robert Culp, whom I've thought for years would have been a great choice back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Hate it when that happens at October 23, 2025 07:27 AM (WV0oi)
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 07:45 AM (xatjc)
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