Classic: Daily Show’s John Oliver on Australia’s Total Gun Control “Failure”
It’s pointless for America to study the Australian gun control experience; the situations are just too similar
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:14:53pm |
if we didn’t keep politicians employed in keeping government from functioning, we’d only end up having to support them on welfare
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Walking Spanish Down the Hall Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:18:11pm |
I almost felt sorry for that gun guy.
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:23:15pm |
Very good.
Right up there with the Onion masterpiece: ‘Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over’ (in response to the election of GW Bush in 2000)
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:52:54pm |
Finally discovered how to delete individual cookies with Safari. They moved it into the Web Inspector.
With Safari’s Preferences, you can only delete ALL the cookies for a site. But if you enable the Developer Tools (in Prefs), you can use Web Inspector -> Storage -> Cookies to view and delete individual cookies.
I had been using an app called “Cookie” (from the App Store) that has gotten increasingly buggy and slow. Now I can toss it. This makes me happy.
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wrenchwench Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:54:39pm |
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Tossing your cookie tosser? Meta, man.
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:55:52pm |
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Thanks for the tip. I usually hit Safari Reset at the end of every internet session.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:57:05pm |
re: #5 wrenchwench
Well, when I’m testing a feature that uses cookies, it’s very helpful to be able to delete them, especially if it’s some kind of timeout — better than waiting around for the timeout to expire!
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:03:07pm |
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Finally discovered how to delete individual cookies with Safari. They moved it into the Web Inspector.
With Safari’s Preferences, you can only delete ALL the cookies for a site. But if you enable the Developer Tools (in Prefs), you can use Web Inspector -> Storage -> Cookies to view and delete individual cookies.
I had been using an app called “Cookie” (from the App Store) that has gotten increasingly buggy and slow. Now I can toss it. This makes me happy.
I wonder if they deliberately made it harder for you to remove cookies so sites would be more easily able to track you.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:03:42pm |
[ Homer simpson]
mmmm….cookies….
[/ Homer Simpson]
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Targetpractice Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:04:23pm |
re: #8 wrenchwench
Now I want some unexpired cookies.
*Hides new package of Oreos* Back off, they’re mine!!
//
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:04:50pm |
grumble grumble “it’s easy! it should only take you an hour!” grumble grumble rodrammit bloddy hell grumble grumble
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:05:12pm |
re: #12 Targetpractice
*Hides new package of Oreos* Back off, they’re mine!!
//
Why do they even make non-Double Stuff Oreos anymore? Does anyone eat them?
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:05:24pm |
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t know, I think it was a design decision. You can still delete all the cookies set at any website very easily, from the Preferences menu. Deleting individual cookies is more suited for developers - makes sense for it to be there.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:05:56pm |
re: #14 klys
Why do they even make non-Double Stuff Oreos anymore? Does anyone eat them?
I will admit I prefer the regular to the double stuff. I just don’t like that much icing in my cookies.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:06:20pm |
re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg
I will admit I prefer the regular to the double stuff. I just don’t like that much icing in my cookies.
You could scrape off the extra and give it to me…
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:06:21pm |
The real difference, besides Australia’s lack of anything resembling the 2nd Amendment, is that they also don’t have anything resembling the kind of strong prohibition against ex post facto law that’s built into Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:07:27pm |
re: #18 goddamnedfrank
The real difference, besides Australia’s lack of anything resembling the 2nd Amendment, is that they also don’t have anything resembling the kind of strong prohibition against ex post facto law that’s built into Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution.
Could it be that Australia also has a someone different cultural attitude toward guns than America does?
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wrenchwench Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:08:25pm |
re: #12 Targetpractice
*Hides new package of Oreos* Back off, they’re mine!!
//
I settled for an expired Clif Bar, of an expired flavor: Gary’s Panforte. It was a limited edition, and they expired in March, but it’s still the best that Clif Bar ever made.
Now, 20 years later, Erickson wanted to create GARY’s PANFORTE, embodying the flavors of a traditional Italian Panforte, which is full of fruits, nuts, spices and citrus notes, and has been a staple in Italy for hundreds of years. The bar delights taste buds with a flavorful blend of 23 ingredients, including many new to CLIF Bar but typical in Italian Panforte, including crunchy hazelnuts and pistachios, sweet figs and pears, citrus peel and hints of cinnamon, ginger and coriander.
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:09:51pm |
::: hides Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies from Targetpractice, klys, and wrench- wench :::
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:10:09pm |
traditional Italian Panforte
these are really great, i wish we could get them here, but the only problem is that every single location in italy makes the only true and original version of it
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Renaissance_Man Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:11:37pm |
I’ve been here 11 years and I have never wanted to go home as strongly as I do after watching those.
“What the fuck are you talking about?” Classic Aussie reaction. And that farmer candidly admitting to feeling a duty to society. I’d almost forgotten.
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Targetpractice Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:11:59pm |
re: #20 wrenchwench
I settled for an expired Clif Bar, of an expired flavor: Gary’s Panforte. It was a limited edition, and they expired in March, but it’s still the best that Clif Bar ever made.
Expiration dates for most things are a best guess most of the time. So long as its been packaged properly, sealed tight, and stored in a favorable environment, it can lasts weeks to months past the date stamped on it.
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:12:01pm |
re: #18 goddamnedfrank
The real difference, besides Australia’s lack of anything resembling the 2nd Amendment, is that they also don’t have anything resembling the kind of strong prohibition against ex post facto law that’s built into Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution.
To illustrate how deep the prohibition against ex post facto criminal law goes in the US, even during Prohibition under the 18th Amendment it was legal (had to be legal) to continue private possession of alcohol purchased and owned prior to the law going into effect. And that situation was pretty much the exact opposite of the gun debate, inasmuch as an amendment specifically banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of a product.
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blueraven Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:18:51pm |
re: #22 engineer cat
traditional Italian Panforte
these are really great, i wish we could get them here, but the only problem is that every single location in italy makes the only true and original version of it
Make it your own
Image: gino-de-acampo-panforte-534x356.jpg
Thanks y’all, now I really need to make this and I will most likely have to eat it all! //
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:21:46pm |
re: #26 blueraven
Make it your own
Image: gino-de-acampo-panforte-534x356.jpg
Thanks y’all, now I really need to make this and I will most likely have to eat it all! //
i bought some panforte at lake como - it wasn’t chocolate like the one in your picture - it was so packed with nuts and fruit that i kept it in my pocket for three days, nibbling on it for dessert after every meal and for the odd snack
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:22:15pm |
re: #26 blueraven
Make it your own
Image: gino-de-acampo-panforte-534x356.jpg
Thanks y’all, now I really need to make this and I will most likely have to eat it all! //
It’s Friday afternoon on LGF. And there are no manhunts today. We’re in for an afternoon of productive discussions about food!
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:25:18pm |
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
Could it be that Australia also has a someone different cultural attitude toward guns than America does?
Of course, they didn’t. They didn’t fight a war to win independence from the British crown, weren’t reinvaded in anything resembling the war of 1812, never fought a Civil War, never faced anything resembling a real rebellion from any of their aborigines (they just slaughtered them), and never fought a war on their own territory with a foreign state (Mexico.)
However the legal structural differences are what really matters, the 2nd Amendment and other various constitutional protections limiting legislative and executive power are fundamental elements of the documents we ostensibly live and demand our government officials swear by. We can change them, there’s a procedure for that, but we can’t pretend they don’t exist or hold sway.
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blueraven Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:25:57pm |
re: #27 engineer cat
i bought some panforte at lake como - it wasn’t chocolate like the one in your picture - it was so packed with nuts and fruit that i kept it in my pocket for three days, nibbling on it for dessert after every meal and for the odd snack
I do that with homemade trail mix…like it is really healthy or something just because it has dried fruit and nuts in it. Who I am kidding, it’s all about the chocolate!
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:32:24pm |
Here is the menu for this Friday night.
Homemade challah
Baked gefilte fish
Broiled rainbow trout
Romaine/avocado/arugula salad with pecans and raspberry vinaigrette
Redskin Potato salad
Chicken noodle soup
Dessert: Blueberry pie!
Wine: Baron Herzog White Zinfandel
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:34:32pm |
re: #31 Vicious Babushka
Have a good Shabbos. That menu sounds great.
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:35:52pm |
I also made a burnt sugar noodle kugle for Shabbos lunch, and there’s cold chicken and salad and MOAR PIE!
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StephenMeansMe Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:52:59pm |
Playing semi-devil’s advocate here, but…
Shootings and mass shootings would certainly decrease with an Aussie-style gun ban. What about violence and violent crime more generally? I think it’s sort of an open question whether stricter gun control (that is, stricter than background checks or whatever) should precede or follow a general decrease in violence below a certain threshold.
And I don’t really like guns.
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:58:29pm |
re: #37 StephenMeansMe
Playing semi-devil’s advocate here, but…
Shootings and mass shootings would certainly decrease with an Aussie-style gun ban. What about violence and violent crime more generally? I think it’s sort of an open question whether stricter gun control (that is, stricter than background checks or whatever) should precede or follow a general decrease in violence below a certain threshold.
And I don’t really like guns.
Here’s some comparative stats. It’s hard to argue against the US policy resulting in a lot more dead people. More than 80% of that though is handguns, which have always been the vast, vast majority of the problem at every level of gun crime. The best medium term answer for the US would be to try and move handguns into the NFA category that governs machineguns, SBRs and SBSs - require a $200 tax stamp and several months of ATF background check for every single transfer.
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:58:30pm |
shabbos
i always like to hear the good old ashkenazi hebrew forms. ‘shabbat’ sounds too up-to-date for an alte pischkudnik like me
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:59:44pm |
re: #37 StephenMeansMe
I’m not sure what you’re really asking. Crime and violence in the US has been decreasing for about twenty years now. If you do think that gun restrictions should be when violence has sunk below a threshold, then you’re saying we should be enacting some new restrictions, right?
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:04:33pm |
re: #40 engineer cat
I usually spell it shabbat but I know VB has used shabbos in the past.
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:12:01pm |
re: #43 PhillyPretzel
I usually spell it shabbat but I know VB has used shabbos in the past.
‘shabbat’ is the sephardic form, and it is considered more correct and up to date since when israel was founded they decided to use sephardic hebrew instead of ashkenazi
at least that’s what i heard but i haven’t checked it out on the google…
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:22:20pm |
I have now tossed Cookie. Cookie had a daemon. I had to terminate it first.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:22:46pm |
re: #29 goddamnedfrank
Of course, they didn’t. They didn’t fight a war to win independence from the British crown, weren’t reinvaded in anything resembling the war of 1812, never fought a Civil War, never faced anything resembling a real rebellion from any of their aborigines (they just slaughtered them), and never fought a war on their own territory with a foreign state (Mexico.)
However the legal structural differences are what really matters, the 2nd Amendment and other various constitutional protections limiting legislative and executive power are fundamental elements of the documents we ostensibly live and demand our government officials swear by. We can change them, there’s a procedure for that, but we can’t pretend they don’t exist or hold sway.
Quoted for Truth.
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:24:09pm |
re: #45 Charles Johnson
I have now tossed Cookie. Cookie had a daemon. I had to terminate it first.
How did you know Cookie had a daemon? Did Cookie’s head turn around 360 degrees, or was it the projectile puking?
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jaunte Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:24:11pm |
Look at that, Congress fixed FAA Sequester in 24 hrs….that probably makes the poor, elderly, & cancer patents feel real special… #inners
— Simple Serf (@Undertheman) April 27, 2013
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:25:20pm |
re: #45 Charles Johnson
I have now tossed Cookie. Cookie had a daemon. I had to terminate it first.
Sounds dirty.
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GeneJockey Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:26:27pm |
re: #45 Charles Johnson
I have now tossed Cookie. Cookie had a daemon. I had to terminate it first.
Must have been Devil’s Food.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:27:16pm |
I discovered the daemon by going into Activity Monitor and searching for “cookie.”
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:28:06pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:31:33pm |
Checked out Django Unchained last night - great movie. I don’t think it was one of Tarantino’s best, but there were plenty of off the wall moments and some surprising emotional resonance. Definitely not a waste of time, but not on the same level as his best films.
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wrenchwench Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:31:34pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:32:47pm |
And wouldn’t you know it … I check for updates, and there’s a new version of … COOKIE.
IT BEGINS.
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Kragar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:36:56pm |
How Matt Drudge Serves As Alex Jones’ Web Traffic Pipeline
Matt Drudge has long been conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ biggest ally. According to a Media Matters review, the heavily-trafficked Drudge Report has promoted at least 50 separate articles at Jones’ Infowars website in 2013, and has linked to at least 244 different articles on the site in the past two years.
Drudge announced this week that he had privately told friends that 2013 would be the “year of Alex Jones.” Considering Drudge’s penchant for promoting Jones and his Infowars website, those comments are more of a promise than a prediction.
Alex Jones is a radio host famous for pushing absurd conspiracy theories about a host of issues, including that the U.S. government perpetrated or was otherwise involved in the 9-11 attacks, the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Space Shuttle Colombia disaster, and the Aurora movie theater shooting.
Jones has lately made headlines for his most recent conspiracy that the Boston Marathon bombings were a “false flag” attack staged by the government. Drudge has provided several links to Jones’ site in the days since Jones started floating Boston conspiracies, including an article highlighting the father of the bombing suspects claiming his sons had been set up.
The links to Jones’ site in the wake of the Boston bombings are not surprising; he has sent a steady stream of traffic there in 2013.
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:41:15pm |
re: #55 Charles Johnson
I think the biggest problem with the movie is the pacing. It could have been tighter paced and better editing could have made a compelling movie even more so. I figure 15-20 minutes in the middle third could have been condensed without losing any of the story.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:43:44pm |
I just finished transferring all the spices into the new spice rack (part of my crusade to organize the kitchen better which has been put off for 2+ years but I am finally getting around to it) and it looks fabulous.
Now I have to clean out the rest of that cabinet. But hey. PROGRESS.
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Kragar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:45:54pm |
South Carolina House Passes Insidious New Form Of Obamacare Nullification
“26 U.S.C. Section 5000A” refers to the so-called individual mandate that was the primary subject of a losing attempt to convince the Supreme Court to repeal Obamacare last year. That provision works by requiring people who are not insured to pay slightly more income taxes in order to give them an incentive to buy insurance. Such an incentive is necessary because the Affordable Care Act also prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. So if people did not have a financial incentive to buy insurance before they get sick, they would wait until they got sick to buy insurance, and would eventually drain all the money out of an insurance plan that they paid virtually nothing into.
The South Carolina bill would erase this incentive by effectively having the state refund taxpayers hit with additional taxes because they did not purchase insurance. What the federal government takes, the state of South Carolina would give back. As a result, smart South Carolina residents would soon figure out that they can drop their insurance plans, save the cost of paying premiums, and then pick those plans back up the minute they are about to be hit with an expensive medical bill. Beginning in the 1990s, seven different states passed laws allowing health care consumers to behave this way, and it ended in disaster every single time. Some consumers saw their premiums rise over 350 percent. Others lost access to individual insurance plans entirely.
Beyond the fact that this bill could literally collapse the individual health insurance market in South Carolina, it is also a tribute to fiscal irresponsibility. By giving a tax deduction to South Carolinians who do not carry insurance, the state is essentially paying people to free ride. That’s money, by the way, that will not go to hiring teachers or putting cops on the streets or building schools because it is being diverted to this crusade against Obamacare.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:49:48pm |
@ggindc I agree - right wing blog comments these days are very disturbing. It’s gone to the next level. Crazy ass hatred.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 27, 2013
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:51:31pm |
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:51:35pm |
re: #61 Kragar
Showing my age, but I remember when one of the GOP’s claims was that they were ‘the adults in the room’.
Not any more.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:52:36pm |
Ban slams Falk for tying Boston attack to US policy
The United States mission to the United Nations on Tuesday rejected Falk’s comments on the Boston marathon bombings as “provocative and offensive.”
“The United States has previously called for Mr. Falk’s resignation for his numerous outrageous statements, and these comments underscore once more the absurdity of his service as a UN special rapporteur,” Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for US mission to the United Nations, said in a statement.
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Iwouldprefernotto Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:54:14pm |
From Downstairs. On the topic of abortion and discussion.
We can have reasonable discussion about abortion when you stop calling me a baby killer for supporting a woman’s right to choose.
/rant
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Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:54:54pm |
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Political Atheist Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:56:19pm |
re: #65 Killgore Trout
Good catch KT.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:56:38pm |
re: #65 Killgore Trout
Amazing what can happen if you don’t treat the UN as an enemy.
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kirkspencer Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:00:57pm |
re: #64 EPR-radar
Showing my age, but I remember when one of the GOP’s claims was that they were ‘the adults in the room’.
Not any more.
They are. They’re just into senescence.
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:03:27pm |
Alex Jones Has His Day In Congress: House Republicans Hold Conspiracy Theory Hearing
Oversight Committee Investigates InfoWars Theory About Government Ammunition Stockpile
But, hey, some guy at the UN is more important!
;)
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:04:22pm |
Hmmm… just got back from vacation and already contemplating the next one. Methinks Crater Lake, Redwoods, and Portland will be on the agenda.
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:05:04pm |
Then again, I might be making a return trip to Grand Canyon before that… ooooh, choices choices…
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:07:49pm |
re: #74 lawhawk
Hmmm… just got back from vacation and already contemplating the next one. Methinks Crater Lake, Redwoods, and Portland will be on the agenda.
*cough* Napa Valley…
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:09:19pm |
re: #76 HoosierHoops
That was the honeymoon and 1st anniversary. Stopped in Lodi last week.
Napa makes sense if I’m heading back to SF, but not sure when.
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prairiefire Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:15:59pm |
re: #74 lawhawk
Hmmm… just got back from vacation and already contemplating the next one. Methinks Crater Lake, Redwoods, and Portland will be on the agenda.
Cayman Islands, go snorkeling.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:19:44pm |
re: #77 lawhawk
That was the honeymoon and 1st anniversary. Stopped in Lodi last week.
Napa makes sense if I’m heading back to SF, but not sure when.
Awesome! I grew up in Yountville. I love the Valley.
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Iwouldprefernotto Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:20:19pm |
re: #78 prairiefire
Cayman Islands, go snorkeling.
I can’t decide if I want to spend my next vacation searching for Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, or Moderate Republicans. Perhaps a week at a unicorn ranch.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:21:20pm |
re: #60 klys
I just finished transferring all the spices into the new spice rack (part of my crusade to organize the kitchen better which has been put off for 2+ years but I am finally getting around to it) and it looks fabulous.
Now I have to clean out the rest of that cabinet. But hey. PROGRESS.
Crusade, did you just say CRUSADE??
*reaches for scimitar…*
Oh, spices. Never mind. //
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sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:27:12pm |
re: #81 CuriousLurker
Crusade, did you just say CRUSADE??
*reaches for scimitar…*
Oh, spices. Never mind. //
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:30:33pm |
The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee
This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that’s when the magic happened.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:31:50pm |
re: #81 CuriousLurker
Crusade, did you just say CRUSADE??
*reaches for scimitar…*
Oh, spices. Never mind. //
BEHOLD! My beautiful new spice racks with the spice names handwritten on the lids. I had to go to the bookstore to find silver permanent markers today, because apparently I didn’t have anything in the house that would work despite collecting rainbow pen sets for years.
Yes, they came with labels, but not for all the spices I needed and my OCD wouldn’t allow mismatches.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:33:00pm |
re: #85 klys
As an added bonus, below the cabinet you can see a prime example of why “call electricians for home rewiring estimates” is high on next week’s to do list.
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efuseakay Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:35:23pm |
Single-shot muzzle loaders for everyone. That’s what the founders had intended. Seriously.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:36:45pm |
re: #85 klys
For the (non-existent) curious, the spice rack can be found here and is quite good quality. I like that the stainless steel encloses the glass jars, which keeps the spices out of the light even if they weren’t in the cabinet. It worked out that they were exactly the right height for the cabinet, but they come with wall mount slots (and hardware) as well. Stable enough that I don’t worry about them falling over (except, perhaps during an earthquake, at which point I expect everything to come out of those cabinets because they don’t latch worth a damn).
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:38:03pm |
re: #84 Charles Johnson
LOL! Did you check out the reviews for the unicorn t-shirt? Every tree-hugging liberal should have one. //
I should probably preface this review by stating the obvious: This shirt is clearly meant for people who aren’t serious about our one-horned magic friends. I mean, the shirt’s fabric construction and lavender color base are terrific, and as a casual-Friday garment, hey, it’s better than a stupid Polo shirt. But the devil, as they say, is in the details, so caveat emptor!
First, the grass pictured is quite clearly Italian Ryegrass, and as everyone knows, unicorns prefer to frolic in Dog’s Tooth Grass. Second…
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freetoken Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:38:50pm |
re: #81 CuriousLurker
Crusade, did you just say CRUSADE??
*reaches for scimitar…*
Oh, spices.
Spices and Crusades - there’s a link:
The importance of the Crusades (at least the first four) in European history cannot be understated. The Crusades helped to re-link Western Europe to the Silk and Spice roads. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire that part of the world remained largely isolated and outside of various trade routes (too unstable). Crusaders returning home often brought with them “exotic” eastern goods and Western Europeans were willing to trade for them. The desire for silks and spices encouraged the Western Europeans to try and find ways to cut out the middlemen and trade directly with China and India, […]
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:39:24pm |
re: #88 efuseakay
Single-shot muzzle loaders for everyone. That’s what the founders had intended. Seriously.
This line of argument doesn’t work so well. Is the first amendment limited only to printing presses as they were at the time of the founding?
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:40:30pm |
re: #78 prairiefire
Not a beach person. The mrs isn’t much into swimming/snorkeling either. Though, the USVI could do the trick (national park).
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:41:10pm |
re: #91 freetoken
Spices and Crusades - there’s a link:
Well, in that case… *glares menacingly at klys*
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:41:12pm |
re: #15 Charles Johnson
I don’t know, I think it was a design decision. You can still delete all the cookies set at any website very easily, from the Preferences menu. Deleting individual cookies is more suited for developers - makes sense for it to be there.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:42:00pm |
re: #93 lawhawk
Not a beach person. The mrs isn’t much into swimming/snorkeling either. Though, the USVI could do the trick (national park).
Have you been to Dry Tortugas National Park?
The husband and I are slowly working our way through the list and we did that one on the unofficial honeymoon (e.g., the only one we’ve gotten to do so far). Went snorkelling, toured the fort, and I got stung by a jellyfish! Fortunately they let me go after I signed liability forms because the seaplane had to take off.
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:42:20pm |
re: #91 freetoken
Spices and Crusades - there’s a link:
a giant case of the law of unintended consequences
this should piss off islamophobes since if the pope had never called for the first crusade, the scary islams would have remained isolated longer than they did
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:42:50pm |
re: #94 CuriousLurker
Well, in that case… *glares menacingly at klys*
But I’m only crusading to make my kitchen cleaner! Really! And maybe get rid of the plates from the ex-girlfriend.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:43:21pm |
Good evening lizards.. I’m multitasking on this fine Friday night.
Running around the net..
Switching channels between the NFL draft, The Kicks-Celtics game, The NASCAR race and the Neanderthal Code on NatGeo..
Oh and eating dinner on the side..
Hope today finds everyone well..Especially PT Barnum.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:43:57pm |
re: #99 HoosierHoops
Good evening lizards.. I’m multitasking on this fine Friday night.
Running around the net..
Switching channels between the NFL draft, The Kicks-Celtics game, The NASCAR race and the Neanderthal Code on NatGeo..
Oh and eating dinner on the side..
Hope today finds everyone well..Especially PT Barnum.
Clearly, what you need is 4 TVs.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:44:20pm |
re: #99 HoosierHoops
Good evening lizards.. I’m multitasking on this fine Friday night.
Running around the net..
Switching channels between the NFL draft, The Kicks-Celtics game, The NASCAR race and the Neanderthal Code on NatGeo..
Oh and eating dinner on the side..
Hope today finds everyone well..Especially PT Barnum.
Hiya, Hoops. Good to see you. ;)
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sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:45:23pm |
re: #100 klys
Clearly, what you need is 4 TVs.
or he can pull up a seat in the control room here at work
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:45:50pm |
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:45:57pm |
re: #102 sattv4u2
or he can pull up a seat in the control room here at work
Yeah, but do you actually get to *watch* any of the TVs?
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:46:25pm |
re: #96 klys
Haven’t done Dry Tortugas - time constraints kept me from doing it when we went to the Keys and Everglades (and visited the land part of Biscayne - have to check out the snorkeling/scuba for that).
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dragonath Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:46:32pm |
re: #58 Kragar
Their message doesn’t even make sense anymore. In a sane world, entertaining the guy behind “9/11 Was An Inside Job” should undercut their decade long hatred of muslims, but that’s the only consistent thing they’ve got going.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:48:05pm |
re: #105 lawhawk
Haven’t done Dry Tortugas - time constraints kept me from doing it when we went to the Keys and Everglades (and visited the land part of Biscayne - have to check out the snorkeling/scuba for that).
It was definitely worth it.
I haven’t gotten to do the Everglades - what we would really love to do is take the teardrop cross-country - but finding the time to do a trip of that magnitude is hard.
The trip out to pick it up and bring it home was over 6,000 miles and I hit 7 national parks. In two weeks. That was maybe just a little rushed.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:48:33pm |
re: #102 sattv4u2
or he can pull up a seat in the control room here at work
Nice! That looks like our support center..But your center is more awesome.
I have picture in picture on a 73” Samsung. You like apples? How do you like those apples? *wink*
You working?
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sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:48:37pm |
re: #104 klys
Yeah, but do you actually get to *watch* any of the TVs?
Every single one of them. Right now i have 4 MLB games up, the Celts/ Knicks, 4 different NFL draft channels, 2 NHL games ,, various news feeds ,,, etc
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:49:22pm |
re: #109 sattv4u2
Every single one of them. Right now i have 4 MLB games up, the Celts/ Knicks, 4 different NFL draft channels, 2 NHL games ,, various news feeds ,,, etc
So really, two channels worth watching and a whole lotta junk?
/ducks
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sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:49:22pm |
re: #108 HoosierHoops
Nice! That looks like our support center..But your center is more awesome.
I have picture in picture on a 73” Samsung. You like apples? How do you like those apples? *wink*
You working?
Yup,, till midnight,, and back again in the morning 11 a.m. till midnight ,, THEN ,,, 3 WHOLE DAYS OFF !!
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sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:50:04pm |
re: #110 klys
So really, two channels worth watching and a whole lotta junk?
/ducks
just like home ,,, only without the commercials ,,, and in more than just Spanish and English
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:52:10pm |
The gun control advocates should be pleased to learn that I was wrong. I’ve found a Supreme Court decision that defends making continuing possession of a once legal product a criminal offense. I disagree with the Court’s reasoning at the time, but the precedent is undeniable.
Basically, even though the 18th Amendment said nothing about preventing continued possession of alcohol purchased before it or any laws banning it went into effect, the Supremes defended a Georgia statute that made continued possession a crime.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:54:31pm |
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
Wasn’t there a gold grab, too?
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:54:37pm |
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
I wasn’t following whatever debate you were having, but have an up-ding for honesty.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:56:38pm |
re: #111 sattv4u2
Yup,, till midnight,, and back again in the morning 11 a.m. till midnight ,, THEN ,,, 3 WHOLE DAYS OFF !!
Great..Starting my weekend..Have a few Heinekens in the fridge.
I talked to my daughter back in Napa..She got engaged! My Girl
is getting Married and I’m giving her away!
My heart is full of joy..My little girl…
( I want grandkids!)
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:56:49pm |
Yeah.
Executive Order 6102, which Roosevelt passed that said everyone had to turn in their gold by X date. Legislated as The Gold Reserve Act of 1934.
Arguably different because it related to currency.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:57:28pm |
re: #116 HoosierHoops
Congratulations!
(I continue to disappoint my parents and in-laws on that front. BUT I HAVE BEEN HONEST FROM THE GET-GO.)
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:58:42pm |
re: #116 HoosierHoops
Great..Starting my weekend..Have a few Heinekens in the fridge.
I talked to my daughter back in Napa..She got engaged! My Girl
is getting Married and I’m giving her away!
My heart is full of joy..My little girl…
( I want grandkids!)
Congrats!
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:01:09pm |
re: #114 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Wasn’t there a gold grab, too?
Yes, but those cases rested in the inherent Constitutional authority (plenary power) of the government to regulate money. In the thinking of the time that was why a whole constitutional amendment was needed to enact alcohol prohibition, because that power was outside the scope. A ban prior to the 18th probably would’ve been ruled a violation of the 9th Amendment, rights not specifically enumerated still being held by the people.
Nowadays we just regulate everything under crazy broad interpretations of interstate commerce.
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:03:55pm |
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
Thanks for the link. It was amusing how the court in this case brushed aside the issue of taking property without compensation with ‘alcohol is of the debbil’.
In legalese, the argument ended up being a lot longer, but that is all the reasoning I could see there. The same kind of thinking no doubt permeates the case law relating to the war on drugs.
In contrast, the reasoning in the opinion on ex post facto seemed respectable to me.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:06:52pm |
re: #119 CuriousLurker
Congrats!
I’m so proud of Nikki. She went to UC Davis and started a career in Administration.. Went through the tough times ( Dad sent her money so she could continue her journey ) She is a runner and golfer and beautiful. ( Athletics is in our genes ) Never had a kid.
She called and said she found the guy.. He is the guy.
I’m beaming with pride.. She done it right
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:06:53pm |
re: #120 goddamnedfrank
Yes, but those cases rested in the inherent Constitutional authority (plenary power) of the government to regulate money.
Well, they might not be able to make the ownership of them illegal, though they could probably make the conditions of ownership change so much that it amounted to the same thing.
They could also make the use of the gun illegal, even if the ownership wasn’t, in one of those delightful “Legal but nonsensical so I bet it happens at some point” things you get in the law.
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:09:00pm |
re: #123 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Well, they might not be able to make the ownership of them illegal, though they could probably make the conditions of ownership change so much that it amounted to the same thing.
They could also make the use of the gun illegal, even if the ownership wasn’t, in one of those delightful “Legal but nonsensical so I bet it happens at some point” things you get in the law.
That last possibility has probably been ruled out. “keep and bear arms” in the second would seem to explicitly protect both ownership and use.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:10:52pm |
re: #122 HoosierHoops
I’m so proud of Nikki. She went to UC Davis and started a career in Administration.. Went through the tough times ( Dad sent her money so she could continue her journey ) She is a runner and golfer and beautiful. ( Athletics is in our genes ) Never had a kid.
She called and said she found the guy.. He is the guy.
I’m beaming with pride.. She done it right
And you should be proud! Give her a hug & a big thumbs-up for me.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:11:58pm |
re: #126 CuriousLurker
And you should be proud! Give her a hug & a big thumbs-up for me.
And on that happy note, I’m off to go read & watch videos.
G’nite, scaly ones. ;)
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:12:51pm |
re: #124 EPR-radar
That last possibility has probably been ruled out. “keep and bear arms” in the second would seem to explicitly protect both ownership and use.
As far as I know, legislation about actually using a weapon has been pretty much universally upheld.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:16:57pm |
re: #122 HoosierHoops
I’m so proud of Nikki. She went to UC Davis and started a career in Administration.. Went through the tough times ( Dad sent her money so she continue her journey ) She is a runner and golfer and beautiful. ( Athletics in our genes ) Never had a kid.
She called and said she found the guy.. He is the guy.
I’m beaming with pride.. She done it right
She’ll still be daddy’s girl. :)
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:21:26pm |
re: #128 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
As far as I know, legislation about actually using a weapon has been pretty much universally upheld.
?! We may have some confusion here. In #123, you seem to say that use of guns could be broadly banned, even if ownership remained legal. “bear arms” in the 2nd amendment would seem to rule that kind of legal move out.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:33:02pm |
re: #130 EPR-radar
?! We may have some confusion here. In #123, you seem to say that use of guns could be broadly banned, even if ownership remained legal. “bear arms” in the 2nd amendment would seem to rule that kind of legal move out.
Bearing them isn’t using them, as far as I know, legally. And there’s tons of legislation about when you’re allowed to fire— viz the difference between states with Castle Doctrine (and it’s even stupider cousin, Stand Your Ground) and states without it.
I dunno. I’m not a lawyer. It’s not going to happen that there will be some torturous route to gun confiscation, anyway.
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:36:04pm |
re: #124 EPR-radar
That last possibility has probably been ruled out. “keep and bear arms” in the second would seem to explicitly protect both ownership and use.
At least in as much as such use doesn’t blatantly conflict with public safety, for hunting, plinking on large swaths of private property and official firing ranges.
re: #128 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
As far as I know, legislation about actually using a weapon has been pretty much universally upheld.
Heller specifies self-defense as a protected use however:
3. The handgun ban and the trigger-lock requirement (as applied to self-defense) violate the Second Amendment . The District’s total ban on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of “arms” that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense.
I know it’s a 5 to 4 decision by the usual suspects, but it is current binding precedent and none of that majority has left the court.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:36:13pm |
re: #131 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Bearing them isn’t using them, as far as I know, legally. And there’s tons of legislation about when you’re allowed to fire— viz the difference between states with Castle Doctrine (and it’s even stupider cousin, Stand Your Ground) and states without it.
I dunno. I’m not a lawyer. It’s not going to happen that there will be some torturous route to gun confiscation, anyway.
Oklahoma has an open carry law.. I can strap on my 9mm and walk the streets and nobody can do a damn thing about it..
How crazy is that Obdi?
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:38:22pm |
Ooo… “The Professional” is on. Time to watch Gary Oldman chew scenery.
Not to mention very good performances by Jean Reno and Natalie Portman.
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Kaessa Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:40:28pm |
re: #133 HoosierHoops
Oklahoma has an open carry law.. I can strap on my 9mm and walk the streets and nobody can do a damn thing about it..
How crazy is that Obdi?
We have an open carry law here in Colorado as well. It still feels weird to just take my gun out of the house at all, let alone strap it on my hip and go shopping.
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Kragar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:42:42pm |
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:42:57pm |
re: #132 goddamnedfrank
It’s only lawful to the extent self-defense is lawful, though. Really, this is a not-gonna-happen theoretical aside and I don’t care enough about it. It’s the definition of moot. I’m going to go to bed.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:44:19pm |
re: #135 Kaessa
We have an open carry law here in Colorado as well. It still feels weird to just take my gun out of the house at all, let alone strap it on my hip and go shopping.
It’s weird for sure..I wonder why you can’t walk into a bank with a gun here?
Crazy law.
/
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:44:31pm |
re: #133 HoosierHoops
Oklahoma has an open carry law.. I can strap on my 9mm and walk the streets and nobody can do a damn thing about it..
How crazy is that Obdi?
Even in cities where something can be done about it, there are scary-ass types, too. In San Francisco, there was a retired fed of some variety who kept his gun on him while he got liquored up. What an asshole he was. He eventually got it taken away from him but it took awhile.
I like reminding the wanna-be cowboys that in the Wild West you generally had to check your guns in with the Marshall.
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:51:55pm |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:54:38pm |
re: #65 Killgore Trout
Not an incredible surprise, really. Ban Ki-moon is from South Korea and the threat posed by North Korea has given him a better understanding of reality than some within the UN.
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EPR-radar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:56:26pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:57:04pm |
#BREAKING A 3.2 quake struck moments ago in the Marina del Rey area. Story developing.— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) April 27, 2013
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:57:39pm |
re: #131 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Bearing them isn’t using them, as far as I know, legally. And there’s tons of legislation about when you’re allowed to fire— viz the difference between states with Castle Doctrine (and it’s even stupider cousin, Stand Your Ground) and states without it.
I dunno. I’m not a lawyer. It’s not going to happen that there will be some torturous route to gun confiscation, anyway.
The Castle Doctrine isn’t stupid. It is absurd for one to have to retreat in one’s own home.
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PT Barnum Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:59:01pm |
re: #116 HoosierHoops
Congrats! Grandbabies are a lot of fun. For one thing they aren’t old enough to know when Grandpa is telling a whopper. My youngest is starting to get wise. Although he did fall for it when I told him I was putting a parking meter on the computer and that he was going to have to start putting in money to be able to use the computer.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:00:00pm |
I am reminded, once again, that the CA real estate market is fucking insane.
That is all.
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:01:01pm |
re: #148 klys
I am reminded, once again, that the CA real estate market is fucking insane.
That is all.
we all move here in order to be insane
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:01:12pm |
re: #139 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Even in cities where something can be done about it, there are scary-ass types, too. In San Francisco, there was a retired fed of some variety who kept his gun on him while he got liquored up. What an asshole he was. He eventually got it taken away from him but it took awhile.
There was a cop down here in Riverside who just executed some random dude in a bar because the dude was sass mouthing him during a game of darts.
An altercation allegedly broke out after the police officer told one of the friends ‘I’m better at darts than you are’, Chris Hull, 39, told Patch.com.
‘My buddy says, “Aw, you suck at darts”. (The man) says, “That’s why I’m a cop, I can do whatever I want to do”.’
Hull said his friend asked; ‘Really, you can do anything?’
The police officer then pulled out his gun, Hull claimed and after the group repeatedly asked him to put it away he ‘pops three rounds into my friend Sam’.
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PT Barnum Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:02:20pm |
Spent the afternoon listening to old B-52s songs. The one thing that stood out immediately, that if it wasn’t for Cindy Wilson and Kate Piersen’s sublime harmonies they would have been unlistenable.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:02:48pm |
re: #149 engineer cat
we all move here in order to be insane
There’s insane, and then there’s insane.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:06:17pm |
re: #148 klys
I am reminded, once again, that the CA real estate market is fucking insane.
That is all.
Not as insane, perhaps, as some of those who seek profit in its rebound. Not home building workers or developers, mind you, but here, read for your self:
Alas, years of zero-interest-rate policy by the Federal Reserve has yet again triggered a chase for yield, and in response the banks are gingerly dipping their toes back into the private mortgage-securitization pool. History won’t repeat itself, right?
Well, not so fast. As with all things related to Wall Street, it’s all about the incentives. And the individuals behind the securitization machine before the crisis made a lot of money. Like buy-your-own-island type of money. And when everything collapsed, they largely kept that money. No indictments, no handcuffs, no jail time and no significant financial penalties for the architects of a crisis built on a foundation of fraud (they were called liar loans for a reason).
Although the government has brought some civil cases, they have been settled on terms that can only be compared to the proverbial slap on the wrist, and we are reminded almost daily that there remain banks that are both too big to fail and too big to jail.
The one silver lining to this very dark cloud is that the banks haven’t yet proved to be too big to nail, as the wronged purchasers and insurers of their toxic bonds have been waging an occasionally successful multiyear legal battle against the banks and, indirectly, actually punishing them financially for their misconduct. It, therefore, shouldn’t be surprising that, as the banks re-enter the securitization market, their biggest concern seemingly isn’t to ensure that they aren’t once again peddling fraudulent products that might bring government scrutiny, but rather to deal with private civil litigation.
So, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, they have proposed stripping away investors’ ability to later sue them by putting an expiration date on the representations and warranties in the bonds and altering some of the presumptions when a borrower defaults.
Put simply, the old bonds contained legal clauses in the contracts that essentially said: “Hey, we promise that what we say are in these bonds are actually in the bonds. And if not, you can sue us.” The new bonds? “Good luck with that.”
Read the rest. (Links in original. Edited only to correct a minor spacing mistake.)
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:07:25pm |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:08:22pm |
re: #150 goddamnedfrank
There was a cop down here in Riverside who just executed some random dude in a bar because the dude was sass mouthing him during a game of darts.
That’s a man who should not have been a cop at the time of the incident, if ever.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:09:47pm |
re: #150 goddamnedfrank
Drunks like loaded guns. As an ex-bartender, goddamn I hated to have to deal with armed customers. I had one guy in Chicago who was just so proud of his carry license, it creeped me the fuck out. Told it to everyone, showed it to everyone. Thought he was going to get ‘recruited’ by the mob. I could never quite tell if he was serious or just a gigantic weirdo playing a role.
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klys Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:12:38pm |
re: #153 Dark_Falcon
Not as insane, perhaps, as some of those who seek profit in its rebound. Not home building workers or developers, mind you, but here, read for your self:
Read the rest. (Links in original. Edited only to correct a minor spacing mistake.)
What gets me about the CA market is they recommend you spend 3x your annual income on a house, right? If you want to be financially sensible about it.
Yeah, good luck with that. The main reason we own a home is because my husband bought it in ‘96.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:13:48pm |
A more pleasant link than my previous one. If you’re a fan of aircraft, World War Two history, strong women, or just Kodachrome, you’re in for a treat. Here are a couple samples:
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:14:15pm |
re: #157 klys
What gets me about the CA market is they recommend you spend 3x your annual income on a house, right? If you want to be financially sensible about it.
Yeah, good luck with that. The main reason we own a home is because my husband bought it in ‘96.
when i lived back in manhattan people used to ask me how to get a good deal on an apartment
i told them ‘move here thirty years ago’
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Charles Johnson Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:15:48pm |
How to Avoid Huge Ships (9780870334337): John W. Trimmer: Books
As the father of two teenagers, I found this book invaluable. I’m sure other parents here can empathize when I say I shudder at the thought of the increasing influence and presence of huge ships in the lives my children. I certainly remember the strain I caused so long ago for my own parents when I began experimenting with huge ships. The long inter-continental voyages that kept my mom and dad up all night with worry. Don’t even get me started on the international protocols when transporting perishable cargo. To think, I was even younger than my kids are now! huge ships are everywhere and it doesn’t help that the tv and movies make huge ships seem glamorous and cool. This book helped me really approach the subject of huge ships with my kids in an honest, open and non judgmental way. Because of the insights this book provided, I can sleep a little better and cope with the reality that I can’t always be there to protect my kids from huge ships, especially as they become adults. I’m confident that my teens, when confronted by a huge ship, are much better prepared to make wiser decisions than I did. At the very least my children certainly know that they can always come to me if they have any concerns, questions or just need my support when it comes to the topic of huge ships.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:24:14pm |
re: #160 Charles Johnson
According to a friend of mine who sails out of San Francisco, that’s actually a must-have.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:24:38pm |
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jaunte Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:25:39pm |
re: #164 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Mimes with digestive issues love David Hasselhof.
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sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:26:54pm |
re: #165 jaunte
Mimes with digestive issues love David Hasselhof.
I was thinking it was a John Wayne Gacy starter set!!
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jaunte Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:28:17pm |
I ordered this product last Tuesday, and after it was delivered to me by the usual delivery falcons, I immediately began applying it to my face and neck. However, something was wrong. No matter how much I applied, or no matter where I applied it, I just wasn’t as happy as the gentleman on the box. I bought several more packages of it, just in case I’d received a defective batch, but alas, I couldn’t recreate the male model’s sheer sense of happiness and general well being. Then I began to think “What if it’s not a problem with the product? What if it’s a problem with ME?!”I realized that it was indeed my own problems that prevented me from achieving inner peace and true joy, so I began selling all my possessions. In fact, the only thing I didn’t sell was the face paint, because I keep the packaging so I can look at that man’s face every day and swear that one day, I will be as content with life as he is.
But I must cut this review short, as the manager of this internet cafe doesn’t take kindly to people sitting naked in their seats and attempting to pay with positive thoughts. I’ll just wrap up with this: Thank you, AMSCAN. Thank you. When I bought your product, I didn’t just receive one ounce of white face paint. I received one ounce of truth.
amazon.com
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:28:21pm |
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dragonath Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:43:48pm |
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:55:56pm |
i am testing and finalizing these application wide changes i made
it’s a little bit like driving a car until you crash into something, then getting out and fixing what made you crash, then getting back in and driving until you crash into something else
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:03:14pm |
re: #170 engineer cat
i am testing and finalizing these application wide changes i made
it’s a little bit like driving a car until you crash into something, then getting out and fixing what made you crash, then getting back in and driving until you crash into something else
Heh. I can dig it. I’m trying to bring up an old free LISP that was distributed on the 4.2 & 4.3 BSD tapes _WAY_ back in the day. On my modern Ubuntu 12.10 Linux box. Let’s just say there are a whole lot of different assumptions between Berkeley and Linus that make the differences between 4.3 & SYSV look trivial. “But they’re all UNIX, right???” Yeesh.
(Franz Lisp Opus 38.92. Someone else did the dirtiest work back around NetBSD 0.8 when they wrote the x86 code generator or I’d not be trying this game.)
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engineer cat Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:04:19pm |
re: #171 William Barnett-Lewis
Heh. I can dig it. I’m trying to bring up an old free LISP that was distributed on the 4.2 & 4.3 BSD tapes _WAY_ back in the day. On my modern Ubuntu 12.10 Linux box. Let’s just say there are a whole lot of different assumptions between Berkeley and Linus that make the differences between 4.3 & SYSV look trivial. “But they’re all UNIX, right???” Yeesh.
(Franz Lisp Opus 38.92. Someone else did the dirtiest work back around NetBSD 0.8 when they wrote the x86 code generator or I’d not be trying this game.)
unixes are like the balkans or so i’ve heard
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:09:19pm |
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ProBosniaLiberal Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:28:38pm |
Well, I am now at the end of Old World Blues.
What should I do regarding the brain?
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:31:03pm |
Regarding SC precedents on the right to self-defense here’s part of a decision from an old but interesting case from 1894, Starr v. United States.
This Cherokee, when riding across the country, was entitled to protect his life, although he may have forfeited a bail bond, and been seeking to avoid arrest on that account, of which there was some slight evidence incidentally given. But, if such were the fact, he could not be considered as doing exactly what he had a right to do, or as having an especially pure heart and clean hands. In a subsequent part of the charge the learned judge said, referring to the defendant: ‘He was a fugitive from justice, if he had jumped the bond he had in this court, as they say. If he had forfeited his bond, and was up in that country, hiding out from his usual place of abode, to avoid arrest, he was then a fugitive from justice; and you have a right to take that condition into consideration. And in passing upon the question as to what was the probable action of these parties at that time,—as to what would be the rights of the officer and of this defendant,—you have a right to see this transaction in the condition that surrounded it, and as it was characterized by the position of the parties towards it. You have a right to look at that condition, and see if he was expecting officers to pursue him. If he was hiding away from them, he was then a fugitive from justice; and, if that was true, it is a fact that becomes pertinent for you to take into consideration, and the question whether he had reasonable ground, from what transpired, to know that Floyd Wilson was an officer, and was seeking to arrest him.’ This was duly excepted to, but apart from the exception, and assuming that the circumstance that he may have anticipated arrest for the reason suggested tended to show that he knew or believed that such was the mission of Wilson, these comments put it beyond question that the defendant was not doing what he had a right to do; and if the jury understood that the scope of what had previously been said embraced the rightfulness of his conduct generally, rather than his conduct in respect of the immediate transaction, they could not but have been materially influenced to his prejudice.
In Selfridge’s Case, the defendant was walking up State street, in Boston, on an errand to the bank, and undoubtedly was in the lawful pursuit of his business when he was attacked, and it was in reference to that fact that the first proposition in the charge in that case was laid down; but here the particular words were inapplicable, and their use calculated to create an erroneous impression.
The motive of the accused in being where he was had nothing to do with the question of his right of self-defense, in itself; and the unlawfulness of his previous conduct formed, in itself, no element in the solution of that question, but was to be considered only in so far as it threw light on his belief that his arrest was sought by the officer.
In this case a man was convicted of murder for shooting and killing a deputy attempting to serve an arrest warrant. The decision actually revolves around judicial misconduct in terms of statements the presiding Judge made to the jury, which the SC deemed prejudicial. In the section quoted the Court is saying that the Judge’s reasoning and interpretations of self defense law was flawed, that the previous bad conduct by Mr. Starr was irrelevant to dismissing his attempted legal defense on the grounds of self-defense, that if the Deputy never identified himself and Starr honestly didn’t know he was a law enforcement officer, even if only because evasive posturing from Starr motivated the deputy to immediately start shooting. According to all witnesses, including a surviving marshall, the deputy shot first four times without identifying himself, Starr then ran up to the deputy and shot him a point blank range, killing him.
The Court ordered a retrial.
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Amory Blaine Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:35:23pm |
Richard Collins who played Phil Collins on Trailer Park Boys passed away 4/15/13.
RIP Mustard Tiger.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:54:39pm |
Well, well beyond a usual dead thread for me so good night, god bless & we’ll see you all soon enough.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:58:01pm |
re: #177 William Barnett-Lewis
Well, well beyond a usual dead thread for me so good night, god bless & we’ll see you all soon enough.
Good Night and be well..
Winston is sleeping and I’m watching Sportscenter..
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:11:09pm |
re: #78 prairiefire
St. Martins! Sailing & snorkeling & sea turtles!
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:14:09pm |
re: #179 Dancing along the light of day
St. Martins! Sailing & snorkeling & sea turtles!
Hi you! Nikki got engaged! Pops is happy and full of joy
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:18:51pm |
re: #181 HoosierHoops
Just don’t be pushing on the Grandkids. Let them have some time!
So happy for her!
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Targetpractice Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:27:35pm |
There’s something immensely amusing about watching my sister, who loves hack and slash games like Fable, trying to get the hang of Mass Effect.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:29:49pm |
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prairiefire Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:36:06pm |
re: #185 HoosierHoops
Hi you! how is life?
It’s great and mysterious. I discovered through Ancestry that I share a grandfather with President Barack Obama. Johan Wolfley, born 1728 in Germany and an immigrant to America. On his mother’s Kansas side. I am honored, and I always pegged him for a Kansas man. Kansas values, pragmatic mid-west logic.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:44:23pm |
re: #186 prairiefire
It’s great and mysterious. I discovered through Ancestry that I share a grandfather with President Barack Obama. Johan Wolfley, born 1728 in Germany and an immigrant to America. On his mother’s Kansas side. I am honored, and I always pegged him for a Kansas man. Kansas values, pragmatic mid-west logic.
That is amazing!
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Cheechako Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:46:42pm |
re: #188 HoosierHoops
Did you ever retire and move to the Lake? I spent most of the winter in the Arizona desert and missed a lot of the happenings on LGF.
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Kragar Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:57:41pm |
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HoosierHoops Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:57:43pm |
re: #189 Cheechako
Did you ever retire and move to the Lake? I spent most of the winter in the Arizona desert and missed a lot of the happenings on LGF.
not yet..I have dealt with tax issues and retirement package issues.
things will work out soon
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Kragar Sat, Apr 27, 2013 12:05:51am |
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EdDantes Sat, Apr 27, 2013 2:12:29am |
re: #197 Kragar
Elf - Stay With Me (1972)
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Nice version, but that is a Rod Stewart song.
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Kragar Sat, Apr 27, 2013 2:54:18am |
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Kragar Sat, Apr 27, 2013 2:55:46am |
Ronnie Dio & The Prophets - Gonna Make It Alone - 1963
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Kragar Sat, Apr 27, 2013 3:01:33am |
The Electric Elves - Hey, Look Me Over {feat. RONNIE JAMES DIO} -1967
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boredtechindenver Sat, Apr 27, 2013 4:51:10am |
re: #85 klys
Yes, they came with labels, but not for all the spices I needed and my OCD wouldn’t allow mismatches.
Your labels aren’t lined up properly enough for my OCD.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Sat, Apr 27, 2013 6:11:04am |
Professor Solomon has a helmet.
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Four More Tears Sat, Apr 27, 2013 7:49:03am |
Bangladesh Factory Owners Arrested thebea.st/12PvRVO #cheatsheet
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 27, 2013
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Four More Tears Sat, Apr 27, 2013 7:49:52am |
BREAKING: Federal agents arrest Mississippi martial arts instructor in ricin letters investigation. More soon from @reuters
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) April 27, 2013
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 7:53:38am |
re: #207 Four More Tears
Well, ain’t that just a kick in the head. :)
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Four More Tears Sat, Apr 27, 2013 7:58:49am |
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:07:45am |
re: #210 Four More Tears
Don’t encourage him!
Sorry. I’ve been trying to up my game in humor in order to be a better engaged co-worker. Sometimes the jokes are a bit lame, since its still new territory for me. But it is largely working and it helps me appear in a better light to my colleagues at work.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:13:26am |
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Iwouldprefernotto Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:13:46am |
re: #211 Dark_Falcon
Sorry. I’ve been trying to up my game in humor in order to be a better engaged co-worker. Sometimes the jokes are a bit lame, since its still new territory for me. But it is largely working and it helps me appear in a better light to my colleagues at work.
I gave you an upding for effort. My sense of humor has gotten me into my trouble than it has helped, but someday it will pay off.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:14:26am |
re: #211 Dark_Falcon
You have a genuinely good sense of humor combined with an incredibly lame and yet somehow sweet sense of humor, and the overall combination is charming enough over the interwebs. no clue how it goes in person.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:17:46am |
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Four More Tears Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:19:28am |
re: #211 Dark_Falcon
Sorry. I’ve been trying to up my game in humor in order to be a better engaged co-worker. Sometimes the jokes are a bit lame, since its still new territory for me. But it is largely working and it helps me appear in a better light to my colleagues at work.
Work on recognizing humor. More times than I can count, one of us on this blog have made a joke and you’ve replied with a straight-faced, serious answer. You need to see the joke, grasshopper. Just a piece of unsolicited advice.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:21:48am |
It got weird in the London Underground today with Hartlepool fans on the way to a match twitter.com/pourmecoffee/s…
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 27, 2013
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Walking Spanish Down the Hall Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:28:20am |
re: #217 jaunte
Are those penguins?
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:30:27am |
re: #216 Four More Tears
Work on recognizing humor. More times than I can count, one of us on this blog have made a joke and you’ve replied with a straight-faced, serious answer. You need to see the joke, grasshopper. Just a piece of unsolicited advice.
About 40% of the time when I do that, I do see the joke. But I like using “straight man” answers in situations like that. Is is my way.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:31:36am |
re: #218 Walking Spanish Down the Hall
Looks like it; apparently the same group dressed as smurfs last year.
metro.co.uk
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:36:01am |
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Amory Blaine Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:37:13am |
re: #206 Four More Tears
Huh. Can’t help but think if the factory were here they’d vilify some lower level employee(s) in the media then give the owners a tax break and a platform to spew bullshit about unions. Good for them.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:44:33am |
re: #222 Amory Blaine
Huh. Can’t help but think if the factory were here they’d vilify some lower level employee(s) in the media then give the owners a tax break and a platform to spew bullshit about unions. Good for them.
No, too similar to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire for that. More fines and lawsuits. Probably no prison time here though, at least not for the people at the top. Some low-level flunkies would do some time, but that would be it.
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Four More Tears Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:45:38am |
1) 100 Muslims at Gitmo on hunger strike. Pro-choice civil libertarians should defend their right… fxn.ws/11sfoUz
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) April 27, 2013
2) to starve themselves to death if they want to.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) April 27, 2013
Exactly what Jesus would have said.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:51:37am |
re: #224 Four More Tears
I wonder if Fischer would argue that he’s not a true representative of Christian thought.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 27, 2013 8:52:39am |
I sometimes wonder if Fischer isn’t like really some kind of satanist trying to damage christianity with his idiotic unchristian blatherings. Sort of a half sarc kind of pondering.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:06:14am |
Amanda Marcotte:
There Are No Trolls, Only Bigots
“…I’d like to offer a revised theory of trolling: Mean-spirited people who run around saying bigoted things in an obvious bid for attention aren’t just doing it for the lulz. They really mean those horrible things.”
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efuseakay Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:18:07am |
re: #92 EPR-radar
This line of argument doesn’t work so well. Is the first amendment limited only to printing presses as they were at the time of the founding?
Let’s see… printing presses, or weapons. Uh…
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Gus Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:21:04am |
re: #227 jaunte
Amanda Marcotte:
There Are No Trolls, Only Bigots
She’s responding to one douche bag who made some public display. He also happens to have all of 265 followers on dumb Twitter. The future of civilization is at stake here.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:23:27am |
re: #224 Four More Tears
Exactly what Jesus would have said.
I do defend their right to starve—Bobby Sands, H-Block, consistency.
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Gus Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:24:32am |
re: #230 jaunte
He looks nice.
thinkprogress.org
I quit Twitter. Tired of all of this tiny news crap and then the subsequent outrage. One asshole in redneck, backwards, Arizona.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:26:28am |
re: #232 Gus
I think it’s news because he’s representative of a wider mindset. He’s just acting it out in the open.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:28:41am |
“You made me feel x, therefore you are bad and at fault for my reaction.”
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Four More Tears Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:29:05am |
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Gus Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:29:10am |
re: #233 jaunte
I think it’s news because he’s representative of a wider mindset. He’s just acting it out in the open.
There’s a lot of creeps out there. Thinking about them every day makes for a bad existence.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:30:00am |
re: #236 Gus
I also think about groups of people dressed like penguins.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:33:50am |
re: #158 Dark_Falcon
A more pleasant link than my previous one. If you’re a fan of aircraft, World War Two history, strong women, or just Kodachrome, you’re in for a treat. Here are a couple samples:
Those are great photos, with amazing preservation. One of my 90 yr old friends was a riveter at the Boeing plant in Wichita.
(The total lack of eye protection really makes me hope they were all posed re-enactments.)
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Romantic Heretic Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:34:21am |
re: #172 engineer cat
unixes are like the balkans or so i’ve heard
I always regarded UNIX as being like an F-15. It’s big and fast. It will get you to the target, paste the target and get you back in jig time.
But…
You need a shit hot pilot sitting in the cockpit, and for every hour in the air you need several man hours, at least, of maintenance. Otherwise you end up with a big hole in the ground.
Unix is one of the reasons I stopped being a computer programmer. I believe, and still do, it’s the wrong way to go. It’s like Latin is in the Catholic Church: a way to keep the peasants away from understanding so they must go to priests (programmers) to have a relationship with God (computers).
Also at some point you must make the transition from programmer to manager and there are few people less suited to being a manager than I. Plus I went insane.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:40:24am |
1.Euro guy boarding plane 2.Long curly hair 3.Denim jacket w/sheepskin fringe. DON’T SAY YOU DIDN’T SEE HIS FRENCH HORN COMING.
— hodgman (@hodgman) April 27, 2013
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:41:48am |
re: #239 Decatur Deb
Those are great photos, with amazing preservation. One of my 90 yr old friends was a riveter at the Boeing plant in Wichita.
(The total lack of eye protection really makes me hope they were all posed re-enactments.)
Most were, as Kodachrome wasn’t as fast then as it later became. The only sour note of the gallery was this one:
Image: Wingwomen-1a35326u1_0.jpg
The brown object pinned to the young lady’s vest is a hyper-stereotyped charactercher of an African-American woman. While that sort of thing did start its decline during WWII, racism was still common. The aircraft plants in Texas at the time still had a good number of men and even women who were openly and apologetically racist.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:45:09am |
re: #240 Romantic Heretic
I always regarded UNIX as being like an F-15. It’s big and fast. It will get you to the target, paste the target and get you back in jig time.
But…
You need a shit hot pilot sitting in the cockpit, and for every hour in the air you need several man hours, at least, of maintenance. Otherwise you end up with a big hole in the ground.
Unix is one of the reasons I stopped being a computer programmer. I believe, and still do, it’s the wrong way to go. It’s like Latin is in the Catholic Church: a way to keep the peasants away from understanding so they must go to priests (programmers) to have a relationship with God (computers).
Also at some point you must make the transition from programmer to manager and there are few people less suited to being a manager than I. Plus I went insane.
Any project over 100,000 lines of code should be written in C++.
C is normally used for device drivers anymore.
UNIX certainly has it’s strong points
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:50:03am |
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
Most were, as Kodachrome wasn’t as fast then as it later became. The only sour note of the gallery was this one:
Image: Wingwomen-1a35326u1_0.jpg
The brown object pinned to the young lady’s vest is a hyper-stereotyped charactercher of an African-American woman. While that sort of thing did start its decline during WWII, racism was still common. The aircraft plants in Texas at the time still had a good number of men and even women who were openly and apologetically racist.
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
Most were, as Kodachrome wasn’t as fast then as it later became. The only sour note of the gallery was this one:
Image: Wingwomen-1a35326u1_0.jpg
The brown object pinned to the young lady’s vest is a hyper-stereotyped charactercher of an African-American woman. While that sort of thing did start its decline during WWII, racism was still common. The aircraft plants in Texas at the time still had a good number of men and even women who were openly and apologetically racist.
Are you sure about the pin? I saw it as a paratroop with a camo-mesh helmet cover. (Had my second laser eye surgery yesterday—everything is a bit blurred.) At any rate, it’s no shock—I grew up reading Uncle Remus and Little Black Sambo. It’s ridiculous to get bent out of shape because our forebears were not more advanced than their times. That applies to TR’s, Lincoln’s, Wilson’s and Margaret Sanger’s racism.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:53:13am |
re: #244 Decatur Deb
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
Are you sure about the pin? I saw it as a paratroop with a camo-mesh helmet cover. (Had my second laser eye surgery yesterday—everything is a bit blurred.) At any rate, it’s no shock—I grew up reading Uncle Remus and Little Black Sambo. It’s ridiculous to get bent out of shape because our forebears were not more advanced than their times. That applies to TR’s, Lincoln’s, Wilson’s and Margaret Sanger’s racism.
I’m not bent out of shape, but it is a sour note in my eyes.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:55:31am |
re: #245 Dark_Falcon
I’m not bent out of shape, but it is a sour note in my eyes.
S’OK—it was sort of a sour century.
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Four More Tears Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:55:33am |
re: #244 Decatur Deb
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
Are you sure about the pin? I saw it as a paratroop with a camo-mesh helmet cover. (Had my second laser eye surgery yesterday—everything is a bit blurred.) At any rate, it’s no shock—I grew up reading Uncle Remus and Little Black Sambo. It’s ridiculous to get bent out of shape because our forebears were not more advanced than their times. That applies to TR’s, Lincoln’s, Wilson’s and Margaret Sanger’s racism.
Pretty sure I see two big, fat red lips there.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:59:06am |
re: #247 Four More Tears
Pretty sure I see two big, fat red lips there.
Wouldn’t argue at the moment—can only hang online for a an hour at a time for then next few days. Doc knocked holes through my irises to prevent further sneaky optic nerve damage.
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wrenchwench Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:01:56am |
re: #248 Decatur Deb
Wouldn’t argue at the moment—can only hang online for a an hour at a time for then next few days. Doc knocked holes through my irises to prevent further sneaky optic nerve damage.
And you’re concerned about eye protection for the riveters??!??!
/
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:02:18am |
re: #246 Decatur Deb
S’OK—it was sort of a sour century.
In many ways, yes. But still, those Kodachromes and the stories behind them have endured in the memory of the United States, and have continued to influence popular cultures in ways great and small. An example from over 25 years ago, a music video I immediately though of when viewing the photo gallery:
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Backwoods_Sleuth Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:04:14am |
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:04:16am |
re: #249 wrenchwench
And you’re concerned about eye protection for the riveters??!??!
/
They were young—and I’m probably more sensitive to it than usual this week. My numbers have fallen back into the ‘amber’ zone and the doc says any number of things will probably kill me before I’d go blind.
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klys Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:06:29am |
re: #204 boredtechindenver
Your labels aren’t lined up properly enough for my OCD.
Hehe.
My husband came home, looked at them, and told me once again that my handwriting is freakish. And inhuman.
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wrenchwench Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:07:07am |
re: #252 Decatur Deb
They were young—and I’m probably more sensitive to it than usual this week. My numbers have fallen back into the ‘amber’ zone and the doc says any number of things will probably kill me before I’d go blind.
I hope it’s extreme old age.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:09:11am |
re: #254 wrenchwench
I hope it’s extreme old age.
Careful what you wish. “Jealous husband” is the proper offering.
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klys Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:09:47am |
re: #252 Decatur Deb
They were young—and I’m probably more sensitive to it than usual this week. My numbers have fallen back into the ‘amber’ zone and the doc says any number of things will probably kill me before I’d go blind.
Eye protection is genuinely important. I have a pair of safety glasses at the house and like 6 pairs at the office. Doesn’t take much to do damage.
I hope stuff heals up quickly.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:12:01am |
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
That might be, as Decatur Deb suggested, a crudely carved soldier face.
I googled “wooden soldier brooch” and found this, which looks somewhat similar:
Image: Screen_Shot_2013-04-27_at_12.09.17_PM.png
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:12:58am |
re: #256 klys
Eye protection is genuinely important. I have a pair of safety glasses at the house and like 6 pairs at the office. Doesn’t take much to do damage.
I hope stuff heals up quickly.
True that. There is a reason your saw so many of the police and feds engaged in hunting the Boston bombers wearing eye protection. Gunfire often creates fragments of concrete and stone and splinters of wood, any of which can ruin an eye.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:13:19am |
re: #257 jaunte
That might be, as Decatur Deb suggested, a crudely carved soldier face.
I googled “wooden soldier brooch” and found this, which looks somewhat similar:
Image: Screen_Shot_2013-04-27_at_12.09.17_PM.png
“Mein Fuhrer—I’m cured!!”
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:13:32am |
re: #240 Romantic Heretic
I always regarded UNIX as being like an F-15. It’s big and fast. It will get you to the target, paste the target and get you back in jig time.
But…
You need a shit hot pilot sitting in the cockpit, and for every hour in the air you need several man hours, at least, of maintenance. Otherwise you end up with a big hole in the ground.
Unix is one of the reasons I stopped being a computer programmer. I believe, and still do, it’s the wrong way to go. It’s like Latin is in the Catholic Church: a way to keep the peasants away from understanding so they must go to priests (programmers) to have a relationship with God (computers).
Also at some point you must make the transition from programmer to manager and there are few people less suited to being a manager than I. Plus I went insane.
Perhaps it’s because it was the first real (non-PC that is) environment I ever worked with, but I’ve come to love Unix. The earlier versions were lean and mean - you could (and still can ;) run 2.11BSD on a PDP-11 with 4mb of ram and support 32 users simultaneously. Nothing else of that generation could come close unless you spent a much bigger pile of money.
The problem does come from the balkanization that was discussed last night and the fact that most of the proprietary unixen, where most of the really interesting things relating to filesystems & graphics were being done, have gone away leaving us with a gazillion linuxen & the BSDs.
OTOH, it can’t be too hard to manage when you can get boxes with uptimes of 3.737 days :) littlegreenfootballs.com
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:16:38am |
re: #257 jaunte
That might be, as Decatur Deb suggested, a crudely carved soldier face.
I googled “wooden soldier brooch” and found this, which looks somewhat similar:
Image: Screen_Shot_2013-04-27_at_12.09.17_PM.png
Possible. I admit I try to make sure I spot racism in pages I post links to, mostly because I don’t want to be an insensitive asshole. I also want to set an example of how conservatives can act better on matters of race, and that might mean I on rare occasions see something as problematic that really isn’t.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:17:49am |
re: #259 Decatur Deb
“Mein Fuhrer—I’m cured!!”
“Children’s ice cream, Mandrake!”
/One good riff deserves another.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:25:29am |
re: #211 Dark_Falcon
Sorry. I’ve been trying to up my game in humor in order to be a better engaged co-worker. Sometimes the jokes are a bit lame, since its still new territory for me. But it is largely working and it helps me appear in a better light to my colleagues at work.
Sad to say, this post of mine has been fixated on by “Daedalus” AKA Rodan AKA Dorkus, who have gotten on early start today, hating on LGF in general and me in specific. To Dorkus, I offer the following reply:
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:40:11am |
re: #264 Dark_Falcon
I always forget they exist and expect that they’ve found something better to do. It’s like being told that some guy who got dumped by a girl ten years ago still drunk-dials her.
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stabby Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:47:12am |
“Lifestyle” headline and I think “Popular Page” on PJ Media last night:
No Matter How Evil a Soul Becomes, Can It Still Find A Way to Return to The Creator?
It consists, entirely, of a picture of a mean looking middle aged woman in a Hijab and a photograph of a page of some Christian text on the topic, but the top 2/3rds is too blurry to read.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Apr 27, 2013 11:06:13am |
re: #269 Dark_Falcon
It’s not a problem.
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