Almost 7 million people are now watching the live YouTube feed for Felix Baumgartner’s attempt at a record-breaking freefall jump, in which he will break the sound barrier.
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dragonath Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:06:44am |
Wonder how much solar wind there is up there?
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:07:20am |
This would be the point at which I totally lost control of my bowels.
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researchok Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:08:13am |
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dragonath Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:08:40am |
From the capsule, the guy disappeared in a sec
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researchok Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:09:51am |
That famous line from Rocky comesw to mind:
No rematch
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:10:18am |
Crap!! Lost my connection for a minute!!
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blueraven Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:10:51am |
An error for me on the video (not surprising w/7m viewers), but watching live on TV. Discovery channel.
Amazing!
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:12:03am |
I would think he goes to the hospital right after landing.
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researchok Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:13:01am |
re: #18 Blackity Black Black!
Right after he kisses the ground
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:13:13am |
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Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:13:29am |
Deployed the chute before he broke the longest freefall record. :(
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makeitstop Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:13:56am |
re: #24 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You
Deployed the chute before he broke the longest freefall record. :(
Do-over!
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William of Orange Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:13:58am |
Great of him to let Joe Kittinger retain his free-fall lenght record.
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:14:59am |
re: #23 Blackity Black Black!
Sorry I am not watching that. I am upset because a very important person just passed. Researchok beat me to the story of Arlen Specter
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nines09 Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:15:31am |
My second transmission to earth after the initial screaming like a baby would be a statement that I have successfully evacuated all my bowels and facilities.
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Decatur Deb Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:18:28am |
Sun's still up. He can repack and make a couple more.
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Daniel Ballard Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:18:48am |
If he drinks a Red Bull on camera I'm gonna laugh my ass off. Who could possibly be in less need of one now?
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dragonath Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:19:07am |
So this is what the future Martian Invasions are gonna look like?
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Decatur Deb Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:21:53am |
So our grandkids will do recreational de-orbit, but they'll be a bunch of long haired punks.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:23:19am |
Now, back to live video of your regularly scheduled Space Shuttle driving through Los Angeles streets: scpr.org/blogs/news/201…
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) October 14, 2012
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makeitstop Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:23:46am |
Well, that was amazing to watch. Must go finish sealing the deck now.
BBL
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blueraven Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:24:03am |
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Varek Raith Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:26:26am |
re: #24 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You
Deployed the chute before he broke the longest freefall record. :(
I wouldn't be surprised to find he did that on purpose.
;)
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efuseakay Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:26:29am |
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Shiplord Kirel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:27:24am |
Next step?
This was the most minimal of several orbital bail-out systems researched in the early days of spaceflight.
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Reverend Mother Ramallo Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:28:25am |
Now that it's over, I can joke.
I heard he packed a Red Bull with him in case his parachute didn't open...
It gives you wings.
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Varek Raith Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:28:53am |
re: #46 Shiplord Kirel
Next step?
This was the most minimal of several orbital bail-out systems researched in the early days of spaceflight.
Lawn chair.
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:29:05am |
That leap was huge, but still not as big as the leap of faith required to believe in Paul Ryan's budget.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2012
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efuseakay Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:29:56am |
So how long did this take from the moment he jumped to when he landed?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:30:55am |
re: #50 efuseakay
So how long did this take from the moment he jumped to when he landed?
6 or 7 minutes, I think. I lost internet connection.
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efuseakay Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:32:09am |
Yah I missed the elapsed time. Vid kept buffering.
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Aligarr Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:34:43am |
FANTASTIC !!!! And I agree with previous poster William of Orange , I believe he let the longest free fall record stand for Kittner - class man , that's REAL class !
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Reverend Mother Ramallo Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:34:53am |
Time to put out signs around the neighborhoods.
BBL
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:36:27am |
Afternoon Lizardim. How go things?
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Interesting Times Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:40:49am |
Breaking: Conservatives doubt Felix Baumgartner's space jump, demand to see proof. Darrell Issa threatens to begin an investigation.— Zirgar (@Zirgar) October 14, 2012
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Varek Raith Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:41:39am |
re: #58 Interesting Times
[Embedded content]
In an unrelated story, an unmanned capsule mysteriously landed on Issa's new car.
More a 11.
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Interesting Times Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:42:53am |
heh. RT @antheabutler: Paul Ryan will say tomorrow he jumped from 34 miles up #spacejump #stopfrontin— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) October 14, 2012
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Varek Raith Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:44:09am |
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blueraven Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:45:25am |
re: #59 Varek Raith
In an unrelated story, an unmanned capsule mysteriously landed on Issa's new car.
More a 11.
Karma is a bitch.
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b_sharp Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:47:21am |
re: #61 Varek Raith
I jumped from Alpha Centauri.
Yah, but you quantum tunnelled all of the way so you had no energy to dissipate.
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Interesting Times Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:52:02am |
BREAKING: Jack Welch calls Felix Baumgartner's #spacejump jumbers 'fixed by the guys in Chicago'. #p2 #redbull— Black Canseco (@BlackCanseco) October 14, 2012
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Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:52:27am |
Lol, I have a new twitter follower, Daedalus. Hope he enjoys being bored to tears.
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:54:39am |
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William Barnett-Lewis Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:54:40am |
re: #40 Decatur Deb
So our grandkids will do recreational de-orbit, but they'll be a bunch of long haired punks.
Brin's "Existence" has rich young punks building and racing technically illegal (they're rich enough that doesn't much matter) sub-orbital rockets ala street races.
I always liked the idea of the one use re-entry suit from Traveller - basically on the back side of your normal pressure suit, a huge bell bottom like curve of foam that would ablate away with a single central stalk sticking out above you with re-entry engine & rcs. Once you're far enough down, separate from the remains of the shield and parachute down. I imagine that there would be contests over who could wait the longest without going all "Blood upon the Risers"...
For you non-army types, that's one of the most popular jody calls, the las verse of which says:
There was blood upon the risers, there were brains up his chute,
Intestines were dangling from his paratrooper boots.
They're looking for the WAC that tied a love knot in his chute
And he ain't gonna jump no more...
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:55:54am |
re: #65 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You
"dolphincatcher" is also a stalker.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:56:03am |
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SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:59:53am |
re: #19 makeitstop
That's one brave/crazy dude right there.
It's a pathology. But how far would the human race have made it if we didn't have a few like that?
(Thinkin' of Chuck Yeager here.)
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Shiplord Kirel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:01:44pm |
We won't see the usual conspira-liars claiming the Baumgartner jump didn't happen. The reason is that Baumgartner is a private citizen and Red Bull is a private company. Unlike NASA and the Apollo astronauts they can readily sue for defamation.
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b_sharp Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:02:22pm |
re: #70 SanFranciscoZionist
It's a pathology. But how far would the human race have made it if we didn't have a few like that?
(Thinkin' of Chuck Yeager here.)
We'd still be chasing neanderthals.
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:02:55pm |
Breaking: right winger attempts joke about space jump:
@green_footballs -- Barack Obama to Baumgartner: "You didn't make that jump that. Somebody else made that jump happen." #tcot— Kerfuffles (@kefuffles) October 14, 2012
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:03:38pm |
re: #71 Shiplord Kirel
We won't see the usual conspira-liars claiming the Baumgartner jump didn't happen. The reason is that Baumgartner is a private citizen and Red Bull is a private company. Unlike NASA and the Apollo astronauts they can readily sue for defamation.
Oh, no, someone will be stupid enough to say it. Doesn't matter too much if they have legitimate evidence or not.
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JamesWI Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:03:45pm |
The kind of people who insist they haven't evolved from monkeys are, in a sense, right.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 14, 2012
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JamesWI Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:05:23pm |
re: #73 Charles Johnson
Breaking: right winger attempts joke about space jump:
[Embedded content]
Surprise: She's a Breitbot. This was posted 4 minutes before she tweeted that at you:
Obama admin to Baumgartner: You didn't jump that. Somebody else made that jump happen.
— benshapiro (@benshapiro) October 14, 2012
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SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:05:26pm |
re: #73 Charles Johnson
Breaking: right winger attempts joke about space jump:
[Embedded content]
Hells yeah someone else made that jump happen. A lot of someone elses. One does not simply do this in the backyard by oneself.
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A Mom Anon Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:05:58pm |
Oh,LOL. The Atlanta paper has a story this morning titled "Romney tops Obama in Georgia as Economy Dominates Campaign". FFS. Like Romney just suddenly jumped up in the polls,just now. If this isn't a prime example of the media needing a horse race to sell papers or tv time I don't know what would be.
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Varek Raith Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:06:42pm |
re: #78 A Mom Anon
Oh,LOL. The Atlanta paper has a story this morning titled "Romney tops Obama in Georgia as Economy Dominates Campaign". FFS. Like Romney just suddenly jumped up in the polls,just now. If this isn't a prime example of the media needing a horse race to sell papers or tv time I don't know what would be.
Georgia, that swing state of swing states.
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:09:28pm |
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A Mom Anon Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:10:45pm |
re: #79 Varek Raith
No kidding. I'm half scared to go to the paper's website and read the comments. It's a cesspool on a good day.
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darthstar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:17:19pm |
Me...I stayed at sea level today.
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:17:44pm |
Father of slain ambassador: Don't exploit my son's death trib.al/K3Zyqs— Salon Politics (@Salon_Politics) October 14, 2012
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:18:49pm |
re: #76 JamesWI
Surprise: She's a Breitbot. This was posted 4 minutes before she tweeted that at you:
[Embedded content]
OCD
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:19:20pm |
re: #84 Gus
[Embedded content]
“I’m not sure exactly what he’s been saying and not saying, but our position is it would be a real shame if this were politicized,” Stevens said, referring to Romney. “Our concern now is memorializing Chris and remembering his contribution to the country.”
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Shiplord Kirel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:20:59pm |
re: #74 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too
Oh, no, someone will be stupid enough to say it. Doesn't matter too much if they have legitimate evidence or not.
By "usual conspira-liars," I mean the professionals like Alex Jones and the noted punching bag Bart Sibrel. The anonymous doofi who post on dumbass sites like Yahoo will say literally anything, but they aren't making money from it.
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:21:13pm |
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darthstar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:22:42pm |
re: #90 Gus
Looks you're at about 1.67' ASL there.
//
38' at my house. That's the upper end of Half Moon Bay, about a mile from my home. Mavericks (the big surf waves) are just off that point in the background.
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A Mom Anon Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:22:44pm |
re: #83 darthstar
I haz a jealous. Approx where is that?(edited to add,Half Moon Bay? Damnit,now I REALLY haz a jealous)
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darthstar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:23:32pm |
re: #86 PhillyPretzel
That is a beautiful picture.
Thanks. There were four women taking pictures of each other in threes, so I stopped to take a pic for them together, and got one of my bike while I was at it.
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:23:41pm |
re: #91 darthstar
38' at my house. That's the upper end of Half Moon Bay, about a mile from my home. Mavericks (the big surf waves) are just off that point in the background.
Just don't take pictures of the surfers. They'll get angry!
//
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b_sharp Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:24:38pm |
re: #93 darthstar
Thanks. There were four women taking pictures of each other in threes, so I stopped to take a pic for them together, and got one of my bike while I was at it.
Bicycle porn. That bike is naked.
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darthstar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:24:39pm |
re: #94 Gus
Just don't take pictures of the surfers. They'll get angry!
//
I was thinking about going out for an hour and surfing, but I still need to take the dogs down and run them on the beach, then drive up to the city for Game 1 of the NLCS between the Giants and the squab.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:25:34pm |
re: #89 Shiplord Kirel
By "usual conspira-liars," I mean the professionals like Alex Jones and the noted punching bag Bart Sibrel. The anonymous doofi who post on dumbass sites like Yahoo will say literally anything, but they aren't making money from it.
Well, they'll probably find a way to phrase it such that they have deniability in the case of a slander/libel lawsuit. I have no doubt that they'll at least try.
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darthstar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:26:03pm |
re: #92 A Mom Anon
I haz a jealous. Approx where is that?
Half Moon Bay, CA. Yeah, I live in heaven.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:29:03pm |
re: #91 darthstar
38' at my house. That's the upper end of Half Moon Bay, about a mile from my home. Mavericks (the big surf waves) are just off that point in the background.
Oh, and it's a gorgeous day for it, at least on my stretch of Contra Costa County. Do you have sun, or gray?
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b_sharp Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:32:33pm |
re: #99 SanFranciscoZionist
Oh, and it's a gorgeous day for it, at least on my stretch of Contra Costa County. Do you have sun, or gray?
I just got a postcard from my son in SF. Have you seen him?
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:32:41pm |
Live video just came back on - looks like the press conference is getting close.
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Someone Please Beam Me Up! Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:34:01pm |
re: #99 SanFranciscoZionist
Oh, and it's a gorgeous day for it, at least on my stretch of Contra Costa County. Do you have sun, or gray?
The sun has come out in the east bay. Not very warm, though.
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darthstar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:34:03pm |
re: #99 SanFranciscoZionist
Oh, and it's a gorgeous day for it, at least on my stretch of Contra Costa County. Do you have sun, or gray?
Gray this morning...sunny now. Headed out to run the boys...see you all in a bit.
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:34:09pm |
@mittromney @kidrock @paulryanvp Is that a Korean or Chinese made Epiphone SG copy? #p2 #tlot— Gus (@Gus_802) October 14, 2012
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harlequinade Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:35:23pm |
Um...have we seen that Arlen Specter died?
Ah, yes. We have.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:37:05pm |
Off to enjoy a slice of the beautiful weather for now. Bbl.
re: #105 harlequinade
Um...have we seen that Arlen Specter died?
That's sad. Like him or no, he was dedicated to the service of the country.
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Decatur Deb Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:39:58pm |
re: #105 harlequinade
Um...have we seen that Arlen Specter died?
Ah, yes. We have.
Sane for a Republican. RIP.
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Shiplord Kirel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:40:43pm |
It's beautiful in Lubbock today. We should have been able to see the Red Bull balloon from here, but there was a patch of haze in the way.
It is very quiet on the streets for a Sunday. A large part of the population is sleeping off the hangovers they incurred celebrating Texas Tech's 49-14 win over West Virginia. Church attendance was probably down as well.
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Shiplord Kirel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:44:39pm |
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harlequinade Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:47:15pm |
re: #109 Shiplord Kirel
As a Brit, my relationship is more to the name and history. But looking at google news's front page, that was a lot of a shock.
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JamesWI Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:47:58pm |
Bull-horn:
Sigh.. RT @rawstory Mark Sanford: Obama will ‘throw a lot of spears’ at next debate goo.gl/WgPNL
— Ken (@Kennymack1971) October 14, 2012
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efuseakay Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:48:08pm |
re: #108 Shiplord Kirel
It's beautiful in Lubbock today. We should have been able to see the Red Bull balloon from here, but there was a patch of haze in the way.
It is very quiet on the streets for a Sunday. A large part of the population is sleeping off the hangovers they incurred celebrating Texas Tech's 49-14 win over West Virginia. Church attendance was probably down as well.
Blasphemers!
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:53:58pm |
I'm still finding little things I need to fix or adjust on the DB server - moving this much data to a new box is no small task.
There's no doubt that the new server made a huge improvement in LGF's responsiveness. I've been doing some simple stress testing today and the thresholds are much further out there than they were on the old server. Because MySQL can process connections and queries a LOT faster, more connections are possible in a shorter period of time. I'd love to see if we'd handle a Reddit front page link without getting knocked offline - I think the new server would probably be able to keep up.
Our web server was swapped out in December 2008 -- starting to think it might be a good idea to ask for a new web server too. 2008 state of the art was nothing like 2012 state of the art.
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:55:40pm |
@mittromney @kidrock @paulryanvp Is that a Korean or Chinese made Epiphone SG copy? #p2 #tlot— Gus (@Gus_802) October 14, 2012
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Targetpractice Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:57:23pm |
re: #113 Charles Johnson
I'm still finding little things I need to fix or adjust on the DB server - moving this much data to a new box is no small task.
There's no doubt that the new server made a huge improvement in LGF's responsiveness. I've been doing some simple stress testing today and the thresholds are much further out there than they were on the old server. Because MySQL can process connections and queries a LOT faster, more connections are possible in a shorter period of time. I'd love to see if we'd handle a Reddit front page link without getting knocked offline - I think the new server would probably be able to keep up.
Our web server was swapped out in December 2008 -- starting to think it might be a good idea to ask for a new web server too. 2008 state of the art was nothing like 2012 state of the art.
'08 state of the art these days is a glorified paperweight.
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JamesWI Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:57:48pm |
re: #115 Gus
A rare case of a guitar made less valuable by adding autographs to it.
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dragonath Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:58:06pm |
re: #115 Gus
I remember Kid Rock was at the Jon Stewart rally in '10. The crowd really didn't know what to make of that.
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freetoken Sun, Oct 14, 2012 12:58:34pm |
They won't have Arlen to kick around anymore:
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:01:20pm |
When felix jumped, young hilarious guys in #ksa did this: twitter.com/jo0ojo04/statu… via: @jo0ojo04 looool
— Bassam Kaddour (@BassamKaddour) October 14, 2012
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JamesWI Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:02:12pm |
re: #119 freetoken
They won't have Arlen to kick around anymore:
Yahoo comment section on the story is filled with "conservatives" trashing him. Good Christians, these people. If you don't agree with them on everything, you're a fucking piece of garbage who will burn in hell.
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:02:35pm |
re: #104 Gus
Kid Rock sucks. Musically, personally, in every way.
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Charles Johnson Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:03:26pm |
In fact, I don't even like to use the word "music" in the same sentence as "Kid Rock."
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:04:22pm |
re: #26 William of Orange
Great of him to let Joe Kittinger retain his free-fall lenght record.
Just found out Joe is a Gator. Whoop.
[Link: magazine.ufl.edu...]
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dragonath Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:04:39pm |
re: #121 JamesWI
Yahoo comment section on the story is filled with "conservatives" trashing him. Good Christians, these people. If you don't agree with them on everything, you're a fucking piece of garbage who will burn in hell.
Not just conservatives. The commenters over at Balloon Juice aren't letting bygones be bygones. It's like taking a time machine back to 2010.
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b_sharp Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:08:27pm |
re: #117 JamesWI
A rare case of a guitar made less valuable by adding autographs to it.
It's an Epiphone. If it was a Gibson, then we'd have something to talk about.
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danarchy Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:10:14pm |
re: #122 Charles Johnson
Kid Rock sucks. Musically, personally, in every way.
That seems a little harsh. His music certainly isn't any great shakes, but I know he does a ton of work for charities for disadvantaged kids and veterans.
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MittDoesNotCompute Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:10:30pm |
re: #111 JamesWI
Bull-horn:
[Embedded content]
President Barack "Spearchucker" Obama...sigh.
/paging Dr. Oliver Harmon Jones
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:12:48pm |
re: #121 JamesWI
Yahoo comment section on the story is filled with "conservatives" trashing him. Good Christians, these people. If you don't agree with them on everything, you're a fucking piece of garbage who will burn in hell.
Figured that would be happening already.
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freetoken Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:17:17pm |
Local outlet dishes it out:
Video Picks of the Week: The Avenging Uterus, Hellfire with Deer Heads, and the Science Guy
And includes a link to this, someday to be classic, bit of animated sarcasm:
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Shiplord Kirel Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:18:08pm |
re: #111 JamesWI
Bull-horn:
[Embedded content]
Isn't that the Appalachian Trail guy? Is being a national laughingstock enough in and of itself to land a Fox News gig?
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MittDoesNotCompute Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:19:28pm |
re: #113 Charles Johnson
I'm still finding little things I need to fix or adjust on the DB server - moving this much data to a new box is no small task.
There's no doubt that the new server made a huge improvement in LGF's responsiveness. I've been doing some simple stress testing today and the thresholds are much further out there than they were on the old server. Because MySQL can process connections and queries a LOT faster, more connections are possible in a shorter period of time. I'd love to see if we'd handle a Reddit front page link without getting knocked offline - I think the new server would probably be able to keep up.
Our web server was swapped out in December 2008 -- starting to think it might be a good idea to ask for a new web server too. 2008 state of the art was nothing like 2012 state of the art.
That's why I mentioned something like that yesterday; it'd be bad juju for the web server to also melt down closer to the election.
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MittDoesNotCompute Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:20:41pm |
re: #126 Gangnam Style
It's an Epiphone. If it was a Gibson, then we'd have something to talk about.
Uhh, Epiphone is the (typically) foreign-made "value" brand of Gibson.
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:21:57pm |
re: #135 MittDoesNotCompute
Uhh, Epiphone is the (typically) foreign-made "value" brand of Gibson.
[Link: www2.epiphone.com...]
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engineer cat Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:23:37pm |
Why Conservatives Don't Really Want the U.S. to Run Like a Business
Jordan Weissmann | 8:58 AM ET
Earlier this week, Florida timeshare mogul David Siegel sent an email to his company's 7,000 employees imploring them to vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't quite threaten their jobs; instead, Siegel argued that if Obama raised taxes on the wealthy any time in the next four years, it would be so devastating that'd he'd be forced to start laying people off. The letter was published on Gawker, and now Siegel, never a bashful sort -- he and his wife are building a 90,000-square-foo house they've nicknamed Versailles, after all -- has explained himself to Bloomberg Businessweek.
"If only businessmen voted in the election, Romney would win 99 to 1," he told the magazine. "The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it."
This is a curious metaphor that's worth pondering for a bit. Republicans are fond of saying government should run more like a business, which presumably means it should keep an eye on costs and strive to balance its budget, even if that means cutting services we all like. They repeat this nostrum often enough that "The Daily Show" dedicated a whole segment to skewering the idea.
But running the whole country as a business? That's a different notion altogether, and one that would probably require abandoning some very dear conservative principles.
Think, for a moment, about what corporations are. They exist to make a return for shareholders and are generally managed from the top down. Every few months, a CEO has to ask themselves: "Are my investors richer than they were four quarters ago?" If the answer is yes, chances are they've done their job. If the answer is no, it's their obligation to cut costs and boost revenue. Once the boss comes up with a strategy for making it happen, it's everybody else's task to implement it.
Upshot: They're dictatorships that turn a profit.
This is not how most people envision the United States, thankfully, and especially not conservatives. We're a messy democracy that leaves much in our economy up to chance (or, if you prefer, the market). There's no official growth target for the economy. The Federal Reserve can set all the employment benchmarks it wants, and nobody else is required to play along. Congress can tell the president to take his jobs plan and shove it. Corporations can take tax cuts designed to spur hiring and spend them on fat dividend checks for shareholders instead.
Tim Cook, by contrast, doesn't have to worry about Apple's R&D department using its design budget on catering.
There are countries out there that do run themselves more like businesses. We just don't emulate them. They have heavy-handed industrial policies geared at cultivating individual sectors of the economy while keeping employment and trade surpluses high. China sets explicit targets on everything from GDP to education to the number of movie screens around the country, then helps make it happen by directing banks to hand out low interest loans to state-owned enterprises. Once upon a time, Japan's powerful government bureaucrats helped transform their country into the world's most fearsome exporter. We started calling their corporate giants "Japan, Inc."
This all may sound vaguely familiar to you. With his clean energy programs and proposals to subsidize manufacturing, President Obama has pursued a diet version of these industrial policies. But even those relatively modest stabs at industrial policy have gotten push-back, most of all from Republicans. The majority Americans, for better or worse, don't really seem to want the Untied States to run like a business. Nor, I imagine, does David Siegel.
[Link: m.theatlantic.com...]
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:25:47pm |
re: #132 freetoken
Local outlet dishes it out:
Video Picks of the Week: The Avenging Uterus, Hellfire with Deer Heads, and the Science Guy
And includes a link to this, someday to be classic, bit of animated sarcasm:
[Embedded content]
I just changed my twitter avatar!
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darthstar Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:29:22pm |
re: #105 harlequinade
Um...have we seen that Arlen Specter died?
Ah, yes. We have.
Aw fuck...I liked him. They don't make republicans like him anymore.
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Daniel Ballard Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:32:27pm |
The presser for Stratos seems to be close...
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AK-47% Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:33:35pm |
re: #126 Gangnam Style
It's an Epiphone. If it was a Gibson, then we'd have something to talk about.
And lookk closely at the epiphone logo...looks like a communist hammer and sickle!
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b_sharp Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:33:40pm |
re: #132 freetoken
Local outlet dishes it out:
Video Picks of the Week: The Avenging Uterus, Hellfire with Deer Heads, and the Science Guy
And includes a link to this, someday to be classic, bit of animated sarcasm:
[Embedded content]
Produced by penis havers.
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Gus Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:37:26pm |
re: #126 Gangnam Style
It's an Epiphone. If it was a Gibson, then we'd have something to talk about.
Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
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b_sharp Sun, Oct 14, 2012 1:39:24pm |
re: #135 MittDoesNotCompute
Uhh, Epiphone is the (typically) foreign-made "value" brand of Gibson.
That was my point. Gibsons are the high end made in the US versions, Epiphone was bought by Gibson a few years ago.
I used to have guitars as a hobby, I still have somewhere around twenty of them.
[Link: www.rebootcomputers.ca...]
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makeitstop Sun, Oct 14, 2012 2:32:06pm |
re: #144 Gangnam Style
That was my point. Gibsons are the high end made in the US versions, Epiphone was bought by Gibson a few years ago.
I used to have guitars as a hobby, I still have somewhere around twenty of them.
[Link: www.rebootcomputers.ca...]
I like your Dano baritone.
I still play quite a bit, and I own a few Epiphones - mostly older Korean ones. Those were much better guitars than the Chinese ones they're selling nowadays.
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William of Orange Sun, Oct 14, 2012 3:23:18pm |
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