1 | Rev_Arthur_Belling Fri, Jan 17, 2014 4:51:18pm |
Recently I was discussing Bonnie Raitt with a friend, and how she can make a cover song her own. My perfect example is her cover of Richard Thompson’s “When the Spell is Broken.”
Here’s Raitt’s version:
and here’s Thompson’s version:
3 | GeneJockey Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:00:16pm |
re: #2 klys
My weekend is being spent sans Mrs. Jockey, which makes me ambivalent.
On the plus side, I can eat, drink, and watch whatever I want. I can do nothing but fix watches tomorrow if I want.
On the minus side, I’ll miss her. And I’ll have to deal with the aging Eskie and her incessant whining for things she then decides she doesn’t really want.
4 | GeneJockey Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:10:14pm |
Amazing. I’ve simultaneously killed two threads!
5 | klys Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:11:04pm |
re: #4 GeneJockey
Amazing. I’ve simultaneously killed two threads!
Haha.
First run yielded a core dump.
Two fixes later and it runs, but there’s a bug in how I laid out the overlap code.
I *think* I have just tracked it down.
6 | GeneJockey Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:14:30pm |
re: #5 klys
Haha.
First run yielded a core dump.
Two fixes later and it runs, but there’s a bug in how I laid out the overlap code.
I *think* I have just tracked it down.
This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.
Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.
“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.
Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!
7 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:16:10pm |
re: #4 GeneJockey
Amazing. I’ve simultaneously killed two threads!
Was skimming over French Indochina and mah teeth hurt.
8 | klys Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:17:56pm |
re: #6 GeneJockey
This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.
Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.
“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.
Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!
Fix typo. make clean. make. Run program.
Goddammit, I just fixed that typo. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.
DAMMIT I FIXED THAT. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.
Finally realize typo is in that other spot where I’m calling newline.
9 | b_sharp Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:25:23pm |
re: #8 klys
Fix typo. make clean. make. Run program.
Goddammit, I just fixed that typo. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.
DAMMIT I FIXED THAT. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.
Finally realize typo is in that other spot where I’m calling newline.
You are bringing back memories.
Frustrating memories.
11 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:26:18pm |
If terrorists poisoned the W Va water supply the right wing would be ready for war. But it was a company, so what the hey. #inners— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) January 18, 2014
12 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:29:22pm |
re: #1 Rev_Arthur_Belling
Recently I was discussing Bonnie Raitt with a friend, and how she can make a cover song her own. My perfect example is her cover of Richard Thompson’s “When the Spell is Broken.”
Here’s Raitt’s version:
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I was going to compose another example, with a John Hiatt song, but in every version I found of him doing it, he introduces it by thanking Bonnie for recording it. So here’s both of ‘em:
13 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:29:30pm |
The Jedi clapper. pic.twitter.com/Qyv7HyERPB— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 18, 2014
14 | dog philosopher Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:30:19pm |
15 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:32:36pm |
I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.
I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.
Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.
RBS
16 | ObserverArt Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:34:14pm |
in the other thread (where I was still lingering) Curious Lurker was talking about her browser connection being slow. I had posted this and then realized everyone had moved up. So, I shall quote myself…
I think the NSA installed a new policy today. Instead of capturing your data and storing it, they now need to come in to your phone/pad/pc/laptop to all emails, comments, conversations, browsing and posts and read them all in real time. The only way that can be achieved is if they slow everything down to allow reading and saving the meta data by hand on a notepad.
That and the pens run dry real quick and the pencil tips break. This will not go well. /
17 | GeneJockey Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:34:37pm |
re: #11 FemNaziBitch
If terrorists poisoned the W Va water supply the right wing would be ready for war. But it was a company, so what the hey.
THIS! THIS! A THOUSAND TIME THIS!!!
18 | GeneJockey Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:35:09pm |
19 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:35:27pm |
re: #6 GeneJockey
This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.
Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.
“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.
Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!
I remember that. I did fortran w/ cards. I remember we were supposed to write a program to take grades, compute a GPA, format and print the results. Each student was to print on a separate sheet.
Many many Fatal Error messages later, I came back and there was a HUGE stack of the good old green fanfold in my bin. Turns out I had put a “New Page” INSIDE the loop that was printing the results, not outside.
RBS
20 | William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:35:56pm |
re: #8 klys
Fix typo. make clean. make. Run program.
Goddammit, I just fixed that typo. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.
DAMMIT I FIXED THAT. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.
Finally realize typo is in that other spot where I’m calling newline.
These days the most I usually have to do is compile sources downloaded off the web. There the problems are usually the idiotic assumptions that the world is x86, linux and compiling under GCC are usually what bites me. That and compiler flags that turn warnings into errors that compound the idiocies that GCC inflicts on code.
21 | klys Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:36:13pm |
That moment where you thank the gods that the initial file you tried to run triggered one of the nasty edge case bugs in how you coded shit.
Now if I could just figure out how to *fix* it…
23 | b_sharp Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:36:45pm |
re: #15 RealityBasedSteve
I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.
I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.
Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.
RBS
Where’s the duct tape?
24 | klys Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:37:34pm |
re: #15 RealityBasedSteve
I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.
I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.
Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.
RBS
I totally misread ‘car’ as ‘cat’ (and I’m even wearing my glasses, so this is bad) and was trying to figure out how a cat could have a head gasket leak.
25 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:37:41pm |
26 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:37:54pm |
re: #23 b_sharp
Where’s the duct tape?
well, the stuff is silvery like duct tape, and it seems a bit sticky too. maybe it’s some type of liquid heat / pressure activated duct tape
RBS
27 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:39:01pm |
re: #22 FemNaziBitch
She didn’t really say that, though, but this….
Thanks for 92 years of wisdom, Betty White. pic.twitter.com/uigeJPDl3H— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) January 18, 2014
28 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:39:03pm |
re: #24 klys
I totally misread ‘car’ as ‘cat’ (and I’m even wearing my glasses, so this is bad) and was trying to figure out how a cat could have a head gasket leak.
Cat would be easy, just wrap it in duct tape. :)
RBS
30 | b_sharp Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:39:52pm |
re: #26 RealityBasedSteve
well, the stuff is silvery like duct tape, and it seems a bit sticky too. maybe it’s some type of liquid heat / pressure activated duct tape
RBS
In the good old days replacing a head gasket on an inline 6 was a two hour job.
31 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:42:18pm |
re: #30 b_sharp
In the good old days replacing a head gasket on an inline 6 was a two hour job.
yep… first engine I ever rebuilt was the slant 6 in my Dads Dodge Dart. We did it at the base hobby shop (Lots of tools you could borrow). Didn’t have any parts left over, it started, and I think we got another 100.000 miles out of it before he finally got rid of it. (Think the body was rusting out by then).
On my Impala, I’m not even sure where to begin to get TO the engine, and I don’t have the time or place to do it any more. :(
RBS
32 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:42:49pm |
33 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:43:30pm |
34 | Lidane Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:44:46pm |
Bill Murray Does A Reddit AMA, And It's As Awesome As You'd Hope It Would Be http://t.co/yFrZ6s3kYc— Kirsty Piper (@kpiper) January 18, 2014
35 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:45:07pm |
re: #16 ObserverArt
I think the NSA installed a new policy today. Instead of capturing your data and storing it, they now need to come in to your phone/pad/pc/laptop to all emails, comments, conversations, browsing and posts and read them all in real time. The only way that can be achieved is if they slow everything down to allow reading and saving the meta data by hand on a notepad.
That and the pens run dry real quick and the pencil tips break. This will not go well. /
in the other thread (where I was still lingering) Curious Lurker was talking about her browser connection being slow. I had posted this and then realized everyone had moved up. So, I shall quote myself…
Hum… maybe I can get a gig making pens for the NSA? Something in a Red White and Blue with stars? Or perhaps a stealth black in carbon fiber.
RBS
36 | b_sharp Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:45:47pm |
re: #31 RealityBasedSteve
yep… first engine I ever rebuilt was the slant 6 in my Dads Dodge Dart. We did it at the base hobby shop (Lots of tools you could borrow). Didn’t have any parts left over, it started, and I think we got another 100.000 miles out of it before he finally got rid of it. (Think the body was rusting out by then).
On my Impala, I’m not even sure where to begin to get TO the engine, and I don’t have the time or place to do it any more. :(
RBS
Now it takes longer to move all the cables, hoses and unknown boxes than it does to remove the head.
37 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:46:37pm |
re: #34 Lidane
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Bill Murray Does A Reddit AMA. What Happened Next Will Surprise You.
39 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:47:42pm |
re: #35 RealityBasedSteve
Hum… maybe I can get a gig making pens for the NSA? Something in a Red White and Blue with stars? Or perhaps a stealth black in carbon fiber.
RBS
It’s been marked as a set-aside. You’re not a woman, so you could only get that gig if you are a minority or a service-disabled veteran.
/semi-kidding
40 | prairiefire Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:48:20pm |
Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.
42 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:48:54pm |
One of the biggest changes the President said he was ordering in NSA practices today: only two “hops” are allowed when investigating connections instead of three. That may not sound like much but that third hop potentially involves a lot more people in the search.
43 | klys Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:49:11pm |
re: #40 prairiefire
Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.
Glad to hear it’s gone well! Had both of you in my thoughts today. I had mine removed in the middle of grad school applications - not fun!
44 | Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:49:36pm |
re: #40 prairiefire
Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.
Everything went well? I responded to your (daughter’s) trauma in a really dead thread.
45 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:50:09pm |
re: #36 b_sharp
Now it takes longer to move all the cables, hoses and unknown boxes than it does to remove the head.
and since it’s a cross mounted V6, I’m willing to bet big bucks that it would take undoing the engine mounts and at least tipping it forward to get at the back one.
Worst car I ever saw in that regard was a friend when I was in the Army, Buick Regal Turbo. (their muscle car). Since it was all pre-electronic control, the entire engine was totally hidden under a maze of vacuum hoses, wires, tubes and brackets for it all. I think you could see 1/2 of one of the valve covers.
We decided to palm that one off on a real shop.
RBS
46 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:50:10pm |
And speaking of Richard Thompson, this is freaking awesome…
47 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:50:21pm |
re: #40 prairiefire
Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.
(((((prairiefire and daughter)))))))
49 | Lidane Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:51:19pm |
Just a bunny wearing bunny slippers. pic.twitter.com/iX5EXEpVSP— Dressed up Animals (@DressedAnimaIs) January 16, 2014
50 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:51:24pm |
re: #42 Charles Johnson
One of the biggest changes the President said he was ordering in NSA practices today: only two “hops” are allowed when investigating connections instead of three. That may not sound like much but that third hop potentially involves a lot more people in the search.
Although the NSA testified it very rarely made a third hop. It’s still a good limit, but I don’t think its a big as you might think.
51 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:51:35pm |
re: #39 Dark_Falcon
It’s been marked as a set-aside. You’re not a woman, so you could only get that gig if you are a minority or a service-disabled veteran.
/semi-kidding
well, I do get a bit twitchy around stupid 2LT’s, does that count?
RBS
52 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:52:18pm |
re: #40 prairiefire
Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.
DIBS!!!!!
How is she doing?
RBS
53 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:54:01pm |
re: #42 Charles Johnson
One of the biggest changes the President said he was ordering in NSA practices today: only two “hops” are allowed when investigating connections instead of three. That may not sound like much but that third hop potentially involves a lot more people in the search.
Yea. it’s that whole geometric progression thing kicking in.
RBS
54 | Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:54:31pm |
Evidently, there were signs that were pretty much ignored.
Arapahoe High security guard says officials stifled threat concerns
“Cameron Rust, who has been placed on paid administrative leave, said Friday he worries about future violence and danger at the school because administrators refuse to acknowledge problems as they are brewing.
“Arapahoe is still a very unstable environment,” Rust told The Denver Post, a day after he posted a lengthy message on Facebook accusing administrators of ignoring warning signs before the Dec. 13 attack. “Something bad is going to happen, and they aren’t doing anything about this.”
“Rust said school officials knew Karl Pierson was a threat well before he entered the school armed with a shotgun, a machete, Molotov cocktails and 125 rounds of ammunition and fatally shot Claire Davis. Claire, 17, died eight days later. Pierson also killed himself.”
Read more: Arapahoe High security guard says officials stifled threat concerns - The Denver Post denverpost.com
55 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:55:18pm |
Lambchop came along later.
56 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:55:38pm |
57 | b_sharp Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:56:11pm |
re: #45 RealityBasedSteve
and since it’s a cross mounted V6, I’m willing to bet big bucks that it would take undoing the engine mounts and at least tipping it forward to get at the back one.
Worst car I ever saw in that regard was a friend when I was in the Army, Buick Regal Turbo. (their muscle car). Since it was all pre-electronic control, the entire engine was totally hidden under a maze of vacuum hoses, wires, tubes and brackets for it all. I think you could see 1/2 of one of the valve covers.
We decided to palm that one off on a real shop.
RBS
I have a 98 Grand Cherokee and an ‘07 Subaru, both have easily accessible engines. I’ve gotten back into repairing my own vehicles in a small way.
I changed both diffs in the Cherokee a couple of years ago.
58 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:56:14pm |
re: #32 FemNaziBitch
59 More Slang Phrases From The 1920s We Should Start Using Again
#7
#16
#21
#5 “Banana oil!” I have heard once or twice in China. Apparently, it’s in some dictionary of American idioms. One of my students introduced it to the class one time, as part of a speaking assignment. I had never heard it before, so I figured it was a literal English translation of a Chinese expression.
Now I know.
59 | GeneJockey Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:56:32pm |
60 | GlutenFreeJesus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:58:45pm |
Did I hear it right? On ABC Nightly News, the WV chemical company that’s caused all that mess has declared bankruptcy? Assholes.
61 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:59:10pm |
It’s gotta be from Easter.
“@WhiteHouse: Someone's turning 50 today. Happy birthday, @FLOTUS! pic.twitter.com/NJ0kIXTaSI” too cute for words :)— christa (@mimi_ck) January 18, 2014
Later, lizards.
62 | GlutenFreeJesus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:59:30pm |
63 | Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:00:03pm |
re: #61 wrenchwench
It’s gotta be from Easter.
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Later, lizards.
She was an adorable child, too. : )
64 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:01:08pm |
Yes, Please:
When will the Republicans who don't think it's appropriate to take a wife at 15 and rape her at will her whole life speak up? #WarOnWomen— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 18, 2014
65 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:01:21pm |
66 | ObserverArt Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:01:39pm |
67 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:02:05pm |
re: #17 GeneJockey
THIS! THIS! A THOUSAND TIME >THIS!!!
How do we know they didn’t? Wouldn’t the greatest cover corporation name ever be “Freedom”?
And they declare bankruptcy right after the plot unfolds. How convenient.
68 | Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:04:04pm |
Oh, for fuck’s sake, Slate.
Here Are the Unretouched Photos of Obama’s Big NSA Speech
Jeremy Stahl is an unmitigated asshole. Fucking “social media editor” indeed.
69 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:04:40pm |
re: #10 klys
Here to serve!
I’d like a one way ticket to Maui and a year in a furished, pre-paid hut on the beach.
70 | EPR-radar Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:05:51pm |
re: #68 Justanotherhuman
This pinhead Stahl should know that his promotion of stupidity gives aid and comfort to the most regressive elements in US politics.
71 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:06:00pm |
re: #64 FemNaziBitch
Yes, Please:
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@TheDailyEdge I don't approve of that, and I'm a Republican. And I don't get the “rape her at will” part. #tcot #WarOnWomen
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) January 18, 2014
72 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:07:02pm |
The part of the President's NSA proposals I'm least enthusiastic about: moving data storage to the private sector.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2014
Seriously - Target just exposed more than 100 million people's private data to criminal hackers and identity thieves.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2014
Why are we supposed to believe private contractors will do a better job of safeguarding the data? The record doesn't support it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2014
And if the point is just to make it more difficult for the NSA to quickly access the data - how does that make any sense either?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2014
73 | EPR-radar Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:08:02pm |
re: #72 Charles Johnson
Sensible points. The impression I have is that this idea is meant to die in Congress in due course.
74 | Lidane Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:08:25pm |
re: #71 Dark_Falcon
“Rape her at will” refers to the misogynist abusers who don’t think spousal rape is a crime. She married him, so she said a blanket yes to everything.
75 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:08:46pm |
re: #72 Charles Johnson
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Edward Snowden proves that private contractors are the obvious way for the NSA to protect their data.
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77 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:11:14pm |
78 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:11:15pm |
re: #72 Charles Johnson
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This is where, at least to me, the idea of homomorphic encryption starts to look good. (At least as well as I understand it, which is at the big picture concept level).
You can do analysis on the encrypted data while it’s encrypted, and only if a match or item interest is found, then you decrypt only the required data to see the raw values.
It sounds about a close to magic as computing gets.
RBS
79 | EPR-radar Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:11:50pm |
re: #60 GlutenFreeJesus
Did I hear it right? On ABC Nightly News, the WV chemical company that’s caused all that mess has declared bankruptcy? Assholes.
That is correct.
In the Book of Mammon (see Propserity Gospel Bible) it is said that blessed are the socializers of their losses, for theirs will be the un-earned profits.
80 | ObserverArt Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:12:06pm |
So, watching some C’bus Blue Jackets hockey and they just have taken a 5-1 lead with 15 minutes left in the third period against the Washington Capitals. Good stuff. If they hold on (hey this is the Blue Jackets) this could be 5 games in a row they’ve won. This franchise so needs to get into the playoffs this year. They have a nice competitive young team going and some confidence for the youngsters, the fans and the whole organization is much needed.
81 | Usually refered to as anyways Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:14:02pm |
re: #5 klys
Haha.
First run yielded a core dump.
Two fixes later and it runs, but there’s a bug in how I laid out the overlap code.
I *think* I have just tracked it down.
Do you use make -d
82 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:14:58pm |
RT @CoachMeFree: “A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” ~Mark Twain— Kevin Green (@FixedOpsGenius) January 18, 2014
I didn’t check the source-I like the idea.
83 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:15:03pm |
Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’
Windows 8 does stink.
85 | Political Atheist Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:17:41pm |
Okay this looks awful whatever is really going on. Many have said this union has too much power and influence, way beyond looking out for the employees.
DWP Union Boss to Fight Controller’s Subpoena for Financial Records
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com
Is this an aberration?
DWP chief Ron Nichols resigns as controversies mount
latimes.com,0,6149808.story#ixzz2qiDkC2GE
Judge not inclined to let DWP keep salaries and names secret
latimes.com
Full tab for troubled billing system was $162 million, DWP confirms
latimes.com,0,5290943.story#ixzz2qiEad6LN
86 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:18:17pm |
re: #83 Killgore Trout
Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’
Windows 8 does stink.
It could have been worse, they could have called it “Microsoft Bob”.
Or even worse, “Packard Bell Navigator”
RBS
87 | klys Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:19:53pm |
re: #85 Political Atheist
Ah, the Department of Water and Power.
The people who wrote the book on arrogance and the screw you, we got ours.
88 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:19:54pm |
89 | Political Atheist Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:19:56pm |
re: #83 Killgore Trout
Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’
Windows 8 does stink.
They just did not learn the lesson DOS 4.0 gave then. And us poor users that had to roll back to DOS 3.22
For you kids out there that’s before you or windows was born. :-)
90 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:20:38pm |
Taliban got a big score
IMF and UN officials killed in Kabul restaurant attack
A senior IMF official and three UN employees were among 14 people killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on a restaurant in Kabul, officials say.
Wabel Abdallah, the head of the IMF’s Afghanistan office, and the UN civilian staff died in the capital’s popular Taverna du Liban, in what UN chief Ban Ki-moon said was a “horrific attack”.
The other victims were Afghans, a Briton and another Lebanese national.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack late on Friday.
91 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:20:50pm |
re: #74 Lidane
“Rape her at will” refers to the misogynist abusers who don’t think spousal rape is a crime. She married him, so she said a blanket yes to everything.
I see that now. It seems to conflate statements made by two different men and that kind of threw me. Thanks for the clarification.
92 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:22:07pm |
93 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:22:53pm |
re: #88 RealityBasedSteve
don’t have a clue, but I’m sure I should.
RBS
It’s Armistad Maupin.
A blast from the past.
94 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:23:03pm |
re: #89 Political Atheist
They just did not learn the lesson DOS 4.0 gave then. And us poor users that had to roll back to DOS 3.22
For you kids out there that’s before you or windows was born. :-)
Yeah, I think I’m going to have to buy a second computer as a backup. I’ll just get a cheap laptop with windows 7. I don’t think 8 is going to be around very long.
95 | Lidane Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:23:41pm |
I’m sure the bigots are having a cow over this:
Houston's lesbian mayor ties the knot http://t.co/YPOUDjeL88— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) January 18, 2014
96 | thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:24:16pm |
re: #94 Killgore Trout
Yeah, I think I’m going to have to buy a second computer as a backup. I’ll just get a cheap laptop with windows 7. I don’t think 6 is going to be around very long.
The fun part: In order to develop for Windows Phone 8, you must have a Windows 8 development environment.
97 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:24:47pm |
re: #91 Dark_Falcon
I see that now. It seems to conflate statements made by two different men and that kind of threw me. Thanks for the clarification.
It also means that “certain” women are available for sex at the man’s perogative.
What qualifies as “certain” women varies according to the man wanting sex.
98 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:26:18pm |
re: #92 FemNaziBitch
Healthcare.gov website faces massive security breach - its name is Congressman Darrell Issa
WTF??
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access this server.
Something is seriously wrong with you link FNB.
99 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:28:36pm |
re: #97 FemNaziBitch
It also means that “certain” women are available for sex at the man’s perogative.
What qualifies as “certain” women varies according to the man wanting sex.
Wingnut Foreplay; Brace yourself Martha…
Dudebro Foreplay: Hey, You Awake?
RBS
100 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:29:17pm |
Precursor to future cigarette smoking and drug use - although there is no addictive piece to Smarties, the concern is this behavior may lead to cigarette smoking or snorting of drugs.
kids are snorting and smoking Smarties?
Are we going to have to require a driver’s license to purchase candy?
101 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:30:26pm |
re: #98 Bubblehead II
WTF??
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access this server.
Something is seriously wrong with you link FNB.
looks like there is a comma in the url… Right after /weblog/however
[code]littlegreenfootballs.com,%20Rep.%20Issa%20prefers%20to%20believe%20a%20private%20security%20consultant,%20David%20Kennedy%20of%20TrustedSec%20LLC,%20who%20has%20no%20relationship%20with%20the%20Department%20of%20Health%20and%20Human%20Services%20or%20any%20access%20to%20the%20website%20that%20the%20average%20citizen%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20have.%20He%20told%20the%20panel,%20%E2%80%9CHealthCare.gov%20is%20not%20secure%20today%E2%80%A6It%20is%20insecure%20%E2%80%93%20100%20percent.%E2%80%9D[/code]
102 | dog philosopher Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:30:43pm |
re: #93 FemNaziBitch
It’s Armistad Maupin.
A blast from the past.
and here i thought it was captain kangaroo
103 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:30:59pm |
104 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:32:29pm |
ARGH!!!! stupid page is trying to parse the URL. How do you do a code tag?
105 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:37:39pm |
@randyprine @MrP_TheDJ For same reason as this? pic.twitter.com/zGBETm7J26— L1 (@_L1vY_) January 18, 2014
106 | thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:37:50pm |
re: #99 RealityBasedSteve
Wingnut Foreplay; Brace yourself Martha…
Dudebro Foreplay: Hey, You Awake?
RBS
I don’t think the word “foreplay” is even in their dictionaries. Remember, women don’t have sex for fun.
107 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:39:44pm |
re: #106 thedopefishlives
I don’t think the word “foreplay” is even in their dictionaries. Remember, women don’t have sex for fun.
Being married to or even knowing the woman isn’t required. Usually, these women have or display some attribute that labels them as “whore” and therefore not protected by a more powerful man and objects of fair game.
109 | thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:43:27pm |
re: #107 FemNaziBitch
Being married to or even knowing the woman isn’t required. Usually, these women have or display some attribute that labels them as “whore” and therefore not protected by a more powerful man and objects of fair game.
My newest sister-in-law linked the following picture.
110 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:43:46pm |
111 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:46:04pm |
112 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:47:30pm |
re: #111 RealityBasedSteve
Thank you Gus. When I saw the original with VINDICATED across it, I kept waiting for you to pop up and say “Gotcha”.
RBS
113 | Political Atheist Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:48:12pm |
re: #94 Killgore Trout
Yeah, I think I’m going to have to buy a second computer as a backup. I’ll just get a cheap laptop with windows 7. I don’t think 8 is going to be around very long.
I’m starting to regret not learning Linux. Windows 8 is ok as an emerging OS on touch screen machines. Of course it can’t hold a candle to Android or IOS but hey it’s Microsoft after all. What gets me is the upgrade old computers to 8 pitch. Total scam. And they know it.
115 | thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:51:19pm |
re: #113 Political Atheist
I’m starting to regret not learning Linux. Windows 8 is ok as an emerging OS on touch screen machines. Of course it can’t hold a candle to Android or IOS but hey it’s Microsoft after all. What gets me is the upgrade old computers to 8 pitch. Total scam. And they know it.
Windows 8 is not that great either as a desktop OS or as a touchscreen OS. Microsoft tried to accomplish a hybrid OS and botched it miserably.
116 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:51:35pm |
117 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:52:27pm |
re: #116 RealityBasedSteve
Is it me, or does Snowden look like a ferret?
Ferret (weasel with a press agent)
RBS
I think weasels and ferrets have more use in the environment than Snowdens.
/
118 | The War TARDIS Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:52:39pm |
re: #115 thedopefishlives
Probably because they should be two different things.
119 | thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:54:53pm |
120 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:55:06pm |
from my part of the world
Aurora investigators honored for arrests in catalytic converter theft ring http://t.co/pAlXO6T7VZ— BeaconNews (@BeaconNews) January 18, 2014
121 | The War TARDIS Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:55:39pm |
122 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:55:41pm |
re: #116 RealityBasedSteve
Is it me, or does Snowden look like a ferret?
Ferret (weasel with a press agent)
RBS
you are doing a disservice to the ferret.
123 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:56:33pm |
125 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:57:21pm |
I’m sure that Snowden is missing some of the comforts of the US. Maybe we should all pitch in a buck or two, get him a nice big bag of sugar-free Gummy Bears. Probably have to wrap them in regular GB wrappers, otherwise Russian Customs might take ‘em since they are so special.
RBS
evil grin
126 | Single-handed sailor Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:57:33pm |
re: #121 The War TARDIS
Huh.
That’s an oddly specific target for a theft ring.
Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.
127 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:58:12pm |
re: #120 FemNaziBitch
from my part of the world
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In Illinois, we have to have our cars tested for emissions violations. I think this may have something to do with it.
128 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:59:00pm |
re: #126 Single-handed sailor
Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.
I did not know about the platinum.
I do know it can be expensive if your car doesn’t pass testing.
129 | William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:59:01pm |
re: #89 Political Atheist
They just did not learn the lesson DOS 4.0 gave then. And us poor users that had to roll back to DOS 3.22
For you kids out there that’s before you or windows was born. :-)
I remember when for each release it was “DOS isn’t done til Lotus won’t run.”
130 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:59:14pm |
re: #126 Single-handed sailor
Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.
yep, i’ve seen the vids of how fast they can pop under a car, cut it loose with a battery operated grinder w/ metal cutting disk, and be gone again.
RBS
131 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:02:58pm |
re: #129 William Barnett-Lewis
I remember when for each release it was “DOS isn’t done til Lotus won’t run.”
I almost flunked a computer class when I was stationed in Alaska. I had already started programming macros and scripts, and the class was an Intro to Data Processing. (it was actually an intro to Lotus 123). The first week of the class I did all the labs / exercises and challenges with my copy of “As Easy As” (shareware clone of Lotus 123), and turned in my floppy disk. The instructor wasn’t impressed.
Now I’m in the instructors shoes. Life goes around with a vengeance.
RBS
132 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:03:10pm |
re: #121 The War TARDIS
Huh.
That’s an oddly specific target for a theft ring.
Theft[edit]
Because of the external location and the use of valuable precious metals including platinum, palladium, rhodium, and gold, converters are a target for thieves. The problem is especially common among late-model trucks and SUVs, because of their high ground clearance and easily removed bolt-on catalytic converters. Welded-in converters are also at risk of theft, as they can be easily cut off.[31][32][33] Thieves’ techniques for fast removal of a converter, for instance using a portable reciprocating saw, can often damage other components of the car. Damage to components like wiring, or a fuel line, can have dangerous consequences. Rises in metal costs in the U.S. during recent years have led to a large increase in converter theft.[34] A catalytic converter can cost well over $1,000 to replace
134 | William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:04:00pm |
re: #113 Political Atheist
I’m starting to regret not learning Linux. Windows 8 is ok as an emerging OS on touch screen machines. Of course it can’t hold a candle to Android or IOS but hey it’s Microsoft after all. What gets me is the upgrade old computers to 8 pitch. Total scam. And they know it.
Linux is ok. The 64bit version of Xubuntu I’m using is almost as good as a real Unixen but those have all gone away… :( I miss Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris, Irix, DG/UX, heck even SCO Xenix/Unix because having a solid system with a real support is worth the money over searching for weeks in Google to make a commodity laser printer play nice with a new version of CUPS (common unix printing system).
135 | Political Atheist Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:04:01pm |
re: #126 Single-handed sailor
Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.
No that much surely….
136 | Mattand Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:04:16pm |
137 | Romantic Heretic Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:08:24pm |
re: #6 GeneJockey
This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.
Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.
“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.
Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!
I took a half a semester of computer programming. I was going to go into immunology but I knew computer were going to be really important and I figured I should understand them, a little.
About that time the first home/hobby computers started to come out. I remember reading a Scientific American that had ads for IMSAI, Commodore PET, Compucolor and Apple II. I was very excited. I hadn’t known we were so close to the possibility of having your own computer.
I asked my computer prof what he thought of these new machines.
His answer, and I quote, “Eh. They’re just toys. They’ll never amount to anything.”
I left shortly thereafter. Any one that cloistered has nothing to offer me.
138 | Rev_Arthur_Belling Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:09:14pm |
re: #46 Charles Johnson
Any time RT plays that song is awesome!
139 | Romantic Heretic Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:10:45pm |
re: #33 FemNaziBitch
MOAR DUCT TAPE!
Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together.
140 | thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:11:59pm |
re: #139 Romantic Heretic
Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together.
Redneck engineering: If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape.
141 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:12:05pm |
re: #132 Bubblehead II
Theft[edit]
Because of the external location and the use of valuable precious metals including platinum, palladium, rhodium, and gold, converters are a target for thieves. The problem is especially common among late-model trucks and SUVs, because of their high ground clearance and easily removed bolt-on catalytic converters. Welded-in converters are also at risk of theft, as they can be easily cut off.[31][32][33] Thieves’ techniques for fast removal of a converter, for instance using a portable reciprocating saw, can often damage other components of the car. Damage to components like wiring, or a fuel line, can have dangerous consequences. Rises in metal costs in the U.S. during recent years have led to a large increase in converter theft.[34] A catalytic converter can cost well over $1,000 to replace
So if a photo of President Obama firing a shotgun means that both he and Joe Biden want to use shotgun-armed drones on Edward Snowden, does that mean we can blame Glenn Back for the theft of catalytic converters because Beck shills for gold-selling companies?
/Turning wingnut/dudebro logic against itself.
142 | sagehen Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:12:06pm |
re: #61 wrenchwench
It’s gotta be from Easter.
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Later, lizards.
I bet I even would have recognized her, she looks exactly the same. (Sasha looks a lot like her too… Malia takes more after her dad.)
143 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:13:30pm |
re: #138 Rev_Arthur_Belling
Any time RT plays that song is awesome!
That’s just freaking unreal. He’s gotta have a couple of extra invisible fingers on each hand.
RBS
144 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:17:42pm |
pic.twitter.com/XkXnAAzgsu— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2014
145 | bratwurst Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:18:49pm |
Bill Maher didn’t totally softball Greenwald just now, pointed out that a sizable percentage of what Snowden says is “fucking nuts”.
146 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:20:37pm |
pic.twitter.com/KRo9QI4XTF— Gus (@Gus_802) January 18, 2014
147 | prairiefire Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:22:36pm |
re: #44 Stanley Sea
Thanks, folks! She is doing well. Not sure when we get to go home as her surgery was late in the day. Just the usual hayride at my house.
148 | prairiefire Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:25:49pm |
re: #136 Mattand
Bill Murray seems like he’d be an awesome guy to party with.
He also strikes me as someone who’d push you down a flight of stairs if he thought it’d amuse him.
Bill Murray was my old boss’s brother’s roommate at college in CO for a short time. Bill sold a lot of weed, story goes.
149 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:26:04pm |
I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.
I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.
RBS
150 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:32:08pm |
A story about WWI in the Alps and the human cost of the Great War:
Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers
In 1914 both Trentino - the province in which Peio lies - and the neighbouring South Tyrol were Hapsburg domains. Italy, recently unified and eager to settle her frontiers permanently, looked on the two provinces, along with Trieste, as ‘unredeemed lands’. In May 1915, with the aim of reclaiming them, she entered the war on the side of the Allies. Conflict was already raging on the western and eastern fronts; now a third front opened up. It stretched from the Julian Alps, which Italy now shares with Slovenia in the east, to the Ortler massif near the Swiss border further west - some 250 miles.
As much of the front was at altitudes of over 6,500ft, a new kind of war had to be developed. The Italians already had specialist mountain troops - the Alpini with their famous feathered caps - but the Austrians had to create the equivalent: the Kaiserschützen. They were supported by artillery and engineers who constructed an entire infrastructure of war at altitude, including trenches carved out of the ice and rudimentary cableways for transporting men and munitions to the peaks.
In the decades that followed the armistice, the world warmed up and the glaciers began to retreat, revealing the debris of the White War. The material that, beginning in the 1990s, began to flood out of the mountains was remarkably well preserved. It included a love letter, addressed to Maria and never sent, and an ode to a louse, ‘friend of my long days’, scribbled on a page of an Austrian soldier’s diary.
152 | prairiefire Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:34:09pm |
re: #149 RealityBasedSteve
Yeah, that was very disappointing.
153 | Rev_Arthur_Belling Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:36:08pm |
re: #143 RealityBasedSteve
That’s just freaking unreal. He’s gotta have a couple of extra invisible fingers on each hand.
RBS
I have an iPad app where he teaches how to play that song and three others. (The Musicians Path, IIRC) At the beginning of his section on 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, he mentions that there were only like 23 ever made, and they’re (obviously) very rare, and “if you ever come across one for sale, let me know.” :)
154 | thedopefishlives Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:36:59pm |
re: #151 Gus
At this point, it’s a toss-up whether A-Rod or Snowden is a bigger media circus.
155 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:37:40pm |
156 | GeneJockey Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:38:33pm |
re: #149 RealityBasedSteve
I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.
I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.
RBS
Yeah, talk about celebrity implosion. He had been one of those guys the PBS stations use to get money during Pledge Week, and they’d give away his books and aprons and shit. All of a sudden he just VANISHED.
157 | Rev_Arthur_Belling Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:38:40pm |
re: #149 RealityBasedSteve
I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.
I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.
RBS
The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”
Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?
158 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:42:07pm |
re: #157 Rev_Arthur_Belling
The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”
Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?
Wiki page
en.wikipedia.org
Looks like sexual abuse charges in 1998 - settled out of court. He died in 2004, so this coming up now seems a little odd and dated.
159 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:42:46pm |
re: #157 Rev_Arthur_Belling
The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”
Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?
Accused of at least seven counts of sexual abuse, settled out of court. en.wikipedia.org(TV_personality)
Beat me to the punch, FFL!
160 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:43:16pm |
re: #157 Rev_Arthur_Belling
The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”
Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?
A lot of reports that he was pretty much a jerk on the set, but on the other hand usually did his shows in one take. The more serious allegation:
In 1997 seven men filed a civil lawsuit against Smith, charging him with sexual abuse. Six alleged that they were molested as teenagers in the 1970s while working at Smith’s deli and catering service in Tacoma; the seventh claimed that he was assaulted in 1992, at age 14, after Smith picked him up as a hitchhiker.[12][13] Smith denied the accusations, but settled the suits for an undisclosed amount in 1998.[14] The litigation ended his television career, though he continued his writing and charitable work.[15] (Wikipedia)
RBS
161 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:43:22pm |
This for one. From July 27, 1998.
Cooking star pays plaintiffs in sexual abuse suits
Four days before he was to face trial in Tacoma, Wash., Jeff Smith, host of the popular PBS cooking show, agreed July 1 [1998] to pay an undisclosed sum to seven young men who had accused him variously of groping, kissing and raping them when they were teenagers.
162 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:44:47pm |
re: #158 Feline Fearless Leader
Wiki page
en.wikipedia.orgLooks like sexual abuse charges in 1998 - settled out of court. He died in 2004, so this coming up now seems a little odd and dated.
No, nothing is coming up, I had just learned this, and like I said, he was kind of a somebody that I admired. It just makes me feel bad.
RBS
163 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:45:59pm |
pic.twitter.com/SrxpQ7JsDx— Gus (@Gus_802) January 18, 2014
165 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:46:44pm |
re: #162 RealityBasedSteve
No, nothing is coming up, I had just learned this, and like I said, he was kind of a somebody that I admired. It just makes me feel bad.
RBS
Ah. I recall him being on PBS and since I wasn’t cooking as serious as I do now I don’t think I watched cooking shows. I think I do have a copy of “Three Ancient Cuisines” around here somewhere that I got as a gift, but I don’t recall if I ever cooked any of the recipes.
166 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:47:11pm |
167 | Lidane Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:52:43pm |
Here's The Latest GOP Assault On Food Stamps: Requiring a Photo ID to Buy Food http://t.co/jtDpxa3EYJ— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 17, 2014
168 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:00:25pm |
re: #165 Feline Fearless Leader
Ah. I recall him being on PBS and since I wasn’t cooking as serious as I do now I don’t think I watched cooking shows. I think I do have a copy of “Three Ancient Cuisines” around here somewhere that I got as a gift, but I don’t recall if I ever cooked any of the recipes.
The first cooking show I remember was “The Galloping Gourmet” with Graham Kerr. I was only 11 or 12 at the time, but I do recall it.
RBS
Who might have gone into culinary arts if his life had taken a different twist or two. Who knows?
169 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:01:37pm |
170 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:08:05pm |
re: #168 RealityBasedSteve
I remember watching his show, too. I remember he was quite fond of clarified butter, and of drinking wine while he cooked on stage. I just googled him, and he’s still with us, living in Washington State somewhere.
171 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:12:15pm |
re: #170 wheat-dogghazi
I remember watching his show, too. I remember he was quite fond of clarified butter, and of drinking wine while he cooked on stage. I just googled him, and he’s still with us, living in Washington State somewhere.
Your Google Fu has failed you.
Jeff Smith, 1939 - 2004: “Frugal Gourmet” was popular on PBS
172 | sagehen Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:12:26pm |
re: #149 RealityBasedSteve
I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.
I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.
RBS
Do I want to know what he did (or said) that was so awful?
173 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:12:42pm |
re: #170 wheat-dogghazi
I remember watching his show, too. I remember he was quite fond of clarified butter, and of drinking wine while he cooked on stage. I just googled him, and he’s still with us, living in Washington State somewhere.
yea, he always came across as being about half sloshed. But he made cooking fun.
RBS
174 | prairiefire Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:13:56pm |
175 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:16:42pm |
re: #164 Charles Johnson
Mmkay. Mary Matalin. Drunk enough?
I don’t know, if she’s still with James Carville, I don’t think there is drunk enough.
RBS
176 | blueraven Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:19:45pm |
re: #174 prairiefire
Where?
She was on “Real Time” with Bill Maher. I think she is heavily medicated.
177 | jaunte Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:21:52pm |
“@CuteEmergency: Just a baby reindeer pic.twitter.com/XsMSoivxkN”
— The AdversaryTM (@AdversAerial) January 18, 2014
178 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:21:57pm |
re: #176 blueraven
She was on “Real Time” with Bill Maher. I think she is heavily medicated.
ah… thanks. I’ll have to check it out later.
RBS
179 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:22:49pm |
re: #177 jaunte
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Calf with snow on the ground?
Aren’t they usually born in the Spring and by winter are a little bigger?
180 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:24:32pm |
re: #179 FemNaziBitch
Calf with snow on the ground?
Aren’t they usually born in the Spring and by winter are a little bigger?
Maybe it was born early.
184 | austin_blue Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:26:50pm |
186 | austin_blue Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:30:38pm |
187 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:30:46pm |
re: #184 austin_blue
Didn’t Snowden work for a third party contractor?
Yes, he did, though Booze Allen Hamilton never would have hired him if another contractor hadn’t fudged his background check.
188 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:30:55pm |
Please tell me this is a parody
We're tired of the “leadership” in Washington. It's time to #FireTheSpeaker. RT if you agree http://t.co/LqAIH4q8FZ pic.twitter.com/mWcfRn0cLK— Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) January 17, 2014
189 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:02pm |
re: #185 jaunte
Though antlered mongeese are quite rare.
Rare, yes, but not unheard of. Ones that have been released into the US southwest have also been know to crossbreed with jackalopes, producing jackageese.
/possibly true fact awaiting verification.
190 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:25pm |
Chechen warlord Doku Umarov who threatened Sochi Olympics is ‘killed by Russian special forces’
His head will look nice mounted over Putin’s fireplace.
191 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:40pm |
In 2013, you'll be able to reuse calendars from the years 2002, 1991, 1985, 1974, 1963, 1957,1946, 1935, 1929 and 1918.— Leeland Artra (@LArtra) January 18, 2014
Think Green!
192 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:56pm |
re: #188 FemNaziBitch
Please tell me this is a parody
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I’m afraid not. Boehner stopped letting them grind the government to halt and slammed the budget compromise through the House. The House is also about to vote out a farm bill that doesn’t cut SNAP as much as the TPP wants. So the supposed “patriots” are banging their spoons on their hi-chairs.
194 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:36:30pm |
re: #187 Dark_Falcon
Yes, he did, though Booze Allen Hamilton never would have hired him if another contractor hadn’t fudged his background check.
Yep, from what I’ve seen there were some SERIOUS shortcuts and paper-whipping of his clearance check. I never had to go through it, but I’ve had friends who have for Top Secret / SCI clearance (they were network admins at Ft. Campbell)
The form is pretty basic, list everything you’ve done, everywhere you’ve been, everybody you’ve ever know for the last 10 years. Include details. Use extra sheets if needed. /only_slight_truth_stretching
196 | jaunte Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:38:49pm |
Grist:
California is now really, truly, officially screwed by drought
Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is at a perilously low
17 percent of its usual level this time of year.
197 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:39:08pm |
re: #190 Killgore Trout
Chechen warlord Doku Umarov who threatened Sochi Olympics is ‘killed by Russian special forces’
His head will look nice mounted over Putin’s fireplace.
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.
198 | austin_blue Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:39:09pm |
re: #188 FemNaziBitch
Please tell me this is a parody
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Maybe not? They certainly have turned up the tannage factor to a tangerine orange, haven’t they?
RINO, obviously. Real Republicans get their skin cancer honestly, by sitting in duck stands.
200 | austin_blue Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:41:45pm |
re: #196 jaunte
Grist:
California is now really, truly, officially screwed by drought
If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.
201 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:43:32pm |
re: #171 Bubblehead II
I was referring to RBS’ comment about Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet.
205 | bratwurst Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:44:43pm |
re: #198 austin_blue
Maybe not? They certainly have turned up the tannage factor to a tangerine orange, haven’t they?
We’ll know they are serious when they start using this:
207 | RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:49:26pm |
re: #205 bratwurst
We’ll know they are serious when they start using this:
Well, they have already gone Wonka on him…
208 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:50:25pm |
re: #204 Gus
Caribous and momma grizzlies. Sergey Gorshkov takes photos you might otherwise expect to find associated with Sarah Palin. Though I’m sure he’s smarter and more honest than she is. He’s clearly a better photographer.
209 | austin_blue Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:50:43pm |
re: #205 bratwurst
We’ll know they are serious when they start using this:
Chelsea/Man U on Sunday. No Van Persie or The Thug, though, for Big Red. Should be interesting.
210 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:51:45pm |
Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?
211 | austin_blue Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:53:53pm |
re: #210 Dark_Falcon
Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?
You mean if he hadn’t been a complete load of pecker snot since he became Speaker?
213 | Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:54:43pm |
re: #210 Dark_Falcon
Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?
You HAD to laugh at the orange M&M
215 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:56:16pm |
re: #212 Gus
John Boehner is the Annoying Orange!
218 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:02:57pm |
re: #210 Dark_Falcon
Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?
Your party is a goddawful, dysfunctional mess, and praising Boehner for finally doing his job is setting the bar awfully low.
I keep waiting for the establishment GOP to stop playing nice, to stop pretending that they aren’t at war with the Tea People for future control of the party. I also keep waiting for y’all to stop supporting bigots, stop thinking in the most cynical, dickish terms, and actually care about the citizens of this country.
It’s some seriously tragic and pathetic shit going on in the modern GOP, and for the life of me, beyond an iron clad gang mentality, I can’t figure out why people like you continue to support those assholes.
219 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:08:02pm |
220 | austin_blue Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:11:16pm |
re: #218 goddamnedfrank
Your party is a goddawful, dysfunctional mess, and praising Boehner for finally doing his job is setting the bar awfully low.
I keep waiting for the establishment GOP to stop playing nice, to stop pretending that they aren’t at war with the Tea People for future control of the party. I also keep waiting for y’all to stop supporting bigots, stop thinking in the most cynical, dickish terms, and actually care about the citizens of this country.
It’s some seriously tragic and pathetic shit going on in the modern GOP, and for the life of me, beyond an iron clad gang mentality, I can’t figure out why people like you continue to support those assholes.
But, but, it’s the Party Of Saint Ronnie! And Abraham Lincoln! The Democrats were the Segregationists! Obviously, you have no grasp of history.
222 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:23:41pm |
Photos: Remembering the Northridge earthquake of 1994 http://t.co/kLmeZ9Jg3t pic.twitter.com/wlPl3E9pDw— LA Times Photography (@latimesphotos) January 18, 2014
223 | BeenHereAwhile Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:25:48pm |
re: #15 RealityBasedSteve
I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.
I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.
Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.
RBS
If the BarSeal doesn’t fix the leak:
CRC 401232 - Permanent Head Gasket & Block Repair w/Nanotechnology, 32 Fl Oz
It’s more labor intensive, (RTFM) but it fixed a leaking head gasket on a friend’s Diesel engine 40,000+ miles ago.
225 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:31:31pm |
229 | BeenHereAwhile Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:43:50pm |
re: #32 FemNaziBitch
59 More Slang Phrases From The 1920s We Should Start Using Again
#7
#16
#21
Surprised “Viper” wasn’t included.
My mother’s oldest sister was a viper in NYC in the late 1920s.
en.m.wikipedia.org‘re_a_Viper
230 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:59:02pm |
re: #229 BeenHereAwhile
Surprised “Viper” wasn’t included.
My mother’s oldest sister was a viper in NYC in the late 1920s.
en.m.wikipedia.org‘re_a_Viper
Mangled link, there.
231 | Lidane Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:19:53pm |
re: #210 Dark_Falcon
Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?
Not when his budget deal sucks.
232 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:35:14pm |
UPDATE: Death toll in Kabul restaurant attack hits 21, including Germans, Canadians, Russians, Lebanese http://t.co/IbPbJ60FGQ @jamiesonnbc— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 18, 2014
233 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:38:04pm |
Pakistani Taliban kills TV station staff http://t.co/HqVaSRwFRa via @AJEnglish— Gus (@Gus_802) January 18, 2014
234 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:41:41pm |
Car bomb kills seven in northeast Nigeria: witness http://t.co/48MsZM4Kr5— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 14, 2014
235 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:50:24pm |
This is Wabel Abdallah, IMF resident rep killed in #Kabul attacks who helped us tremendously in Da #Afghanistan Bank. pic.twitter.com/GE0JlBAmfu— Shuja Rabbani (@ShujaRabbani) January 18, 2014
236 | Gus Fri, Jan 17, 2014 11:03:07pm |
BBC News - Uganda President Yoweri Museveni blocks anti-gay law http://t.co/A39F8BtnCo Good.— Gus (@Gus_802) January 18, 2014
237 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Sat, Jan 18, 2014 1:46:56am |
re: #236 Gus
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Can we arrange to send the Westboro Baptist folks there to protest there, perhaps indefinitely?
238 | simoom Sat, Jan 18, 2014 3:49:56am |
Has anyone noticed that most of the time, when the actual documentation is posted for Snowden-leak derived stories, that those docs all have a very similar style? They mostly look like bad power-point presentation slides, with goofy smiley faces in the diagrams, and very generalized, conversational language.
The other day, I was reading through that Guardian story on foreign SMS collection. That article had the same goofy slides we’ve seen going back to the PRISM stories, with the same smiley faces & conversational writing style. But what was different about this story is that it explicitly said where the slides came from:
The documents seen by the Guardian were from an internal Wikipedia-style guide to the NSA program provided for GCHQ analysts, and noted the Dishfire program was “operational” at the time the site was accessed, in 2012.
This wiki has been mentioned in past stories, more generally, as something the British gov’t thinks Snowden essentially scraped a copy of:
Information about the project was contained in 50,000 GCHQ documents that Mr Snowden downloaded during 2012. Many of them came from an internal Wikipedia-style information site called GC-Wiki. Unlike the public Wikipedia, GCHQ’s wiki was generally classified Top Secret or above.
Just speculating, but perhaps many of the more salacious stories have been derived from copied pages of this British wiki and maybe these are their own second hand summaries and diagrams?
239 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 3:54:45am |
What was the US involvement in Iraq about, again?
Islamist militants strengthen grip on Iraq’s Falluja
“In an embarrassing setback for a state that has around a million men under arms, the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its tribal allies overran Falluja and parts of the nearby city Ramadi on January 1.
“Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seeking a third term in a parliamentary election in April, deployed troops and tanks around the city of 300,000 and funneled weapons to anti-Qaeda tribesmen, but has ruled out a full-scale military assault.
(snip)
“Ramadi, the provincial capital of the vast western province of Anbar, is mostly back under state control, but Maliki’s calls on local tribesmen to evict the militants from Falluja, just 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, have so far come to nought.”
(I found that variant spelling of “naught”, as well as its usage, a bit odd until I realized that the reporter’s first language may not be English.)
240 | Dr Lizardo Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:15:12am |
re: #239 Justanotherhuman
What was the US involvement in Iraq about, again?
Islamist militants strengthen grip on Iraq’s Falluja
“In an embarrassing setback for a state that has around a million men under arms, the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its tribal allies overran Falluja and parts of the nearby city Ramadi on January 1.
“Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seeking a third term in a parliamentary election in April, deployed troops and tanks around the city of 300,000 and funneled weapons to anti-Qaeda tribesmen, but has ruled out a full-scale military assault.
(snip)
“Ramadi, the provincial capital of the vast western province of Anbar, is mostly back under state control, but Maliki’s calls on local tribesmen to evict the militants from Falluja, just 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, have so far come to nought.”
(I found that variant spelling of “naught”, as well as its usage, a bit odd until I realized that the reporter’s first language may not be English.)
Heh…..you’re right. grammarist.com
241 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:35:07am |
re: #238 simoom
I’m just wondering if there are any more “Snowdens” working at the NSA that might have been overlooked.
While the NSA needs some tweaking, the fact that operational secrets have been revealed is unsettling to me because it gives an advantage to those who want plans for their terroristic actions or bad deeds against the US to go undetected.
When “profiling” is an unacceptable practice, it means everyone is suspect.
Yet, personally, I try to avoid anyone who sports a confederate flag or insipid RW bumper stick on their vehicle and I don’t cultivate relationships with those who hold such reactionary viewpoints like racism and sexism; it’s hard enough to deal with in your own family. Personal charm and bonhomie is certainly no draw for me when that person may wish me harm for my own views. “Evil” really can have charisma.
242 | Dr Lizardo Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:45:05am |
Looks like Freedom Industries, the company behind the West Virginia chemical spill, has gone belly-up.
243 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:49:33am |
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Freedom Industries, the company behind the West Virginia chemical spill, has gone belly-up.
My surprise, etc.
244 | ObserverArt Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:56:16am |
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Freedom Industries, the company behind the West Virginia chemical spill, has gone belly-up.
Corporate responsibility in action.
This Saturday morning in Ohio is cold…and it looks like we have a cold week coming. Single digit low temps are in the forecast. Yuk.
246 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:04:13am |
re: #244 ObserverArt
Corporate responsibility in action.
This Saturday morning in Ohio is cold…and it looks like we have a cold week coming. Single digit low temps are in the forecast. Yuk.
A balmy 26 here in NC, rising to 41. I’m so tired of being housebound; other than forays to the store, appts and such, it’s not healthy, but playing outside in the cold isn’t much of an option either, not at my age. : )
247 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:13:01am |
Mali is cracking down.
Mali arrests Islamist judge who ordered amputations and stonings
BAMAKO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Mali’s army has arrested a hardline Islamist judge who ordered floggings, amputations and the stoning of women for adultery during a 10-month occupation by rebels linked to al Qaeda.
“Houka Houka Ag Alfousseyni, who held court in the Timbuktu region, was detained on Friday as part of a military operation against armed Islamist groups that are plaguing local communities, the government said in a statement.
“Alfousseyni was one of the rebel movement’s most influential and well-known figures, and his arrest is part of a government campaign to bring to justice radical Islamist leaders like him.”
Stopping sharia law in its tracks.
249 | Uncle Obdicut Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:38:56am |
re: #248 Shiplord Kirel
Why, pacifically, is this funny?
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There’s no grammatical mistakes.
250 | BongCrodny Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:45:32am |
Dear Google:
I like your Google Chrome browser — I really do. It’s easy to navigate, has functionality even a moron like me can understand and, for whatever reason, does not seem to be susceptible to that stupid “funmoods” plague that both my Internet Explorer and Firefox are stuck with.
But whichever of your dorky engineers came up with the idea of removing the top and bottom arrows from the right side scroll bar should be given a one-way ticket to some remote desert island so they can no longer spring their *wonderful* technological advancements upon us.
I hope you won’t consider this a threat, but I’m about to go all Opera on your ass.
Regards,
Bong
251 | Flounder Sat, Jan 18, 2014 6:34:30am |
252 | BongCrodny Sat, Jan 18, 2014 6:43:09am |
re: #251 Flounder
It’s okay, here’s my shoulder, their, they’re, there.
As it stands right now, your shoulder would make a better browser than Google Chrome.
253 | Varek Raith Sat, Jan 18, 2014 6:43:50am |
re: #252 BongCrodny
As it stands right now, your shoulder would make a better browser than Google Chrome.
Yeah, they seem to be going the stupid route like FF did.
254 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:10:44am |
It’s time Britain got rid of the monarchy.
William and Kate set up firms ‘to protect their brand’
The British public support these people; it’s about time they cut it out the privilege. Ungrateful, greedy wretches, these royals.
256 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:23:17am |
257 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:27:28am |
My twitters are blasting about this:
EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Dawn Zimmer says 2 Christie cabinet officials told her Hoboken Sandy aid would not come unless she approved a redevelopment
— Up w/ Steve Kornacki (@upwithsteve) January 18, 2014
258 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:28:54am |
Btw Mayor of Hoboken says she will testify under oath, take a lie detector test. Whatever she needs to do. @upwithsteve
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) January 18, 2014
259 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:29:40am |
Hoboken mayor alleges Sandy relief aid was held hostage over a development plan favored by @GovChristie. Must read: http://t.co/O0MWIGGLqJ
— msnbc (@msnbc) January 18, 2014
260 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:32:12am |
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Christie is sounding more and more like a waste mgmt owner.
261 | Ryan King Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:34:59am |
WTF LOL OMG:
Talking politics? These 8 stories perfectly illustrate just how bad a week Democrats really had. http://t.co/1aU7Fo0Gn9
— NRCC (@NRCC) January 18, 2014
263 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:37:50am |
re: #261 Ryan King
WTF LOL OMG:
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Whaddaya expect? They’re still selling “Bush Cheney ‘00” t-shirts.
264 | Varek Raith Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:38:59am |
265 | Lidane Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:57:19am |
Top Romney fundraiser on Chris Christie: “The guy, as a person, is horrific.” http://t.co/6TVTICDKq7— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) January 18, 2014
267 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:01:05am |
WTF? Yeah, you’ve got no privacy. None at all.
OfficeMax Sends Letter to “Daughter Killed in Car Crash”
Source: nbcchicago.com
Office Max blamed it on “third party mailing lists”.
268 | Ryan King Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:03:20am |
Preibus has a madz at O’Donnell:
This fires me up. http://t.co/Xy3yPNJPi2 You’ll never see the #MSM making ads like these against Dems
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) January 18, 2014
269 | Targetpractice Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:13:43am |
270 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:14:41am |
re: #268 Ryan King
Preibus has a madz at O’Donnell:
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@Reince True, but he's right about how easy it is to create attack ads. The Dems will be using ads like that this year, we must be ready.
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) January 18, 2014
271 | Lidane Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:15:57am |
re: #268 Ryan King
It’s nice to see that Reince has priorities. All the allegations against Christie? A-OK. Negative things being said about Christie? Bad.
272 | Lidane Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:16:31am |
Mental health break from all the GOP failure:
Make-A-Wish Debuts Full Video of Batkid’s Adventure http://t.co/Wb5mxHoZHJ— SuperHeroHype (@SuperHeroHype) January 18, 2014
273 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:17:25am |
Looks like Gellman has thrown in his lot with Greensnow, but I’d like for him or them to point out where any ordinary person has been harmed by the collection of metadata? Do they have any evidence it does harm of any sort to the random person? More people have been harmed by these kinds of hackers through commercial sites than ever by the NSA, I would venture to guess. Where is their protection?
This is the sort of hysteria that starts when someone has their hands and eyes where they don’t belong, people who steal information based on their own judgment, and who think they know much more than those who have studied and worked on a system that is governed by laws and oversight, like a govt agency.
Here's @BartonGellman on how Obama's speech ignored many of the key NSA questions, while endorsing bulk spying http://t.co/RaTAc2FVVa— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 18, 2014
274 | Ryan King Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:26:33am |
re: #271 Lidane
It’s nice to see that Reince has priorities. All the allegations against Christie? A-OK. Negative things being said about Christie? Bad.
Of course. The real problem is the MSM helping to create attack ads (cue POOR UNFAIRNESS WHINY WHINE). Not the bully thug politician.
275 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:26:41am |
re: #273 Justanotherhuman
Looks like Gellman has thrown in his lot with Greensnow, but I’d like for him or them to point out where any ordinary person has been harmed by the collection of metadata? Do they have any evidence it does harm of any sort to the random person? More people have been harmed by these kinds of hackers through commercial sites than ever by the NSA, I would venture to guess. Where is their protection?
This is the sort of hysteria that starts when someone has their hands and eyes where they don’t belong, people who steal information based on their own judgment, and who think they know much more than those who have studied and worked on a system that is governed by laws and oversight, like a govt agency.
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He’s not going to do that, because that’s not the main point of latching on to Greenwald’s bandwagon. The point is to ‘view with alarm’ and scare people enough to get them to buy newspapers or web subscriptions. it’s about popularity and money, not truth.
276 | Amory Blaine Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:33:04am |
277 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:35:33am |
re: #276 Amory Blaine
China starts televising the sunrise on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog
The Sunburn Games!
278 | Targetpractice Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:40:10am |
And on the same day that the mayor of Hoboken’s story gets press notice, Wildstein’s lawyer again begs for immunity for his client from NJ, NY, and US charges. Why? He says his client has a “story” to tell.
Considering the story out of Hoboken, I’m beginning to wonder if the “story” his client has to tell is one of widespread corruption.
279 | thedopefishlives Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:40:16am |
My alma mater on Cracked. Entry #8; while it’s not nearly as crazy as the rest of the list, I can certainly see how others might think so.
280 | piratedan Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:43:05am |
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
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wonder if this has a connection to the land development issue with the parcels right off the Ft. Lee bridge access that were discussed on TRMS last week. One of those situations where you get more bang bang for your buck,
some kickback and cash from developers… check, with the added benefit of screwing over your political opponents by “sending a message”.
As always, follow the money.
281 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:44:01am |
re: #275 Dark_Falcon
He’s not going to do that, because that’s not the main point of latching on to Greenwald’s bandwagon. The point is to ‘view with alarm’ and scare people enough to get them to buy newspapers or web subscriptions. it’s about popularity and money, not truth.
Well, just get really tired of those people who gin up fear and mistrust of govt by calling every single thing govt does as “fascist” or “communist”, no matter what ideology they embrace. They seem to forget that we have checks and balances, ways to draw attention to wrongs, instead of resorting to criminal activity which is a kind of blackmail on the very govt which protects our rights. It’s the kind of govt we have in which we participate to make things better for all, not to line the pockets of those who would try to bring it down or destroy it.
They can call me naive all day long, but I’ve never made a dime from any of my political activities over the years in trying to right some of society’s wrongs—in fact, it’s cost me, but I was happy to help lay the groundwork for those who came after me. And I never would profit from those activities today, either.
I have nothing but contempt for the Greensnows of the world.
282 | Ryan King Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:44:21am |
Looking forward to Christie handling this well to improve his Presidential aspirations.
283 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:52:25am |
This is really, really fucked up, TV Guide.
First of all, they call him the “first person of color” to star in the franchise. Then it goes downhill from there.
Juan Pablo Galavis Says Gay People Shouldn’t Be Allowed on The Bachelor
Does anyone really watch this shit?
284 | Lidane Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:54:39am |
re: #279 thedopefishlives
My alma mater on Cracked. Entry #8; while it’s not nearly as crazy as the rest of the list, I can certainly see how others might think so.
I am amused at all the hockey entries. I know a guy who does the whole playoff beard thing every damn year and he doesn’t play hockey. He’s just a fan.
285 | Mattand Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:54:46am |
re: #270 Dark_Falcon
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Republicans have a 24 hour, 7 day a week public relations machine that comes with every basic cable TV subscription in America.
Please. Fox News is main stream media. Spare me the effing vapors over “We must be ready”.
286 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:57:30am |
re: #283 Justanotherhuman
My guess. It’s a “plant” interview to gin up ratings for the coming season.
Like American Idol, or Dancing With The Stars, these shows have (basically) run their courses. Thats why you see “NEW” judges on Idol and DWTS tries to have at least one current controversial “star” as a “contestant
287 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:58:57am |
re: #286 sattv4u2
My guess. It’s a “plant” interview to gin up ratings for the coming season.
Like American Idol, or Dancing With The Stars, these shows have (basically) run their courses. Thats why you see “NEW” judges on Idol and DWTS tries to have at least one current controversial “star” as a “contestant
Haha, I don’t see them because I don’t watch Trash TV.
288 | Ryan King Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:59:39am |
re: #283 Justanotherhuman
I watch it with my wife while I’m on the laptop posting on FB and LGF or reading news.
I would never watch it otherwise.
289 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:00:28am |
re: #284 Lidane
I am amused at all the hockey entries. I know a guy who does the whole playoff beard thing every damn year and he doesn’t play hockey. He’s just a fan.
I can remember doing the beard thing as a hockey player as far back as my high school days (albeit,,,, most of us could only muster peach fuzz at the time)
290 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:01:31am |
re: #287 Justanotherhuman
Haha, I don’t see them because I don’t watch Trash TV.
I’ve never seen an entire episode of either, but being in the broadcast business for over 35 years as I have been, you hear things
291 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:04:43am |
Egypt: 98.1 Percent of Voters Approve Constitution
Egypt’s High Election Commission said 38.6 percent of the country’s more than 53 million eligible voters took part in the two-day poll Tuesday and Wednesday. Judge Nabil Salib, who heads the commission, said 20.6 million voters cast ballots, with some 20.3 million votes counted after eliminating those voided.
Salib called the vote an “unrivalled success” and “an unprecedented turnout.” However, a similar referendum in 2012 supported by Morsi’s government saw a 32.9 percent turnout.
292 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:05:19am |
re: #288 Ryan King
I watch it with my wife while I’m on the laptop posting on FB and LGF or reading news.
I would never watch it otherwise.
“That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it!!!”
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293 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:06:57am |
re: #291 Killgore Trout
I’m surprised the turnout wasn’t much higher. With all the changes and recent events I expected upwards of 50 percent
294 | Lidane Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:12:22am |
Haha. The newly adopted Younger Feline Overlord is enraptured by the show Too Cute on Animal Planet. She’d been running around playing when I put the show on to see how she’d react. She immediately stopped playing and is sitting quietly in front of the TV, even through the commercials.
I know her off switch. Heh.
295 | Targetpractice Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:12:30am |
Three mayors now saying they did something contrary to the desires of the Christie admin and found themselves suddenly out in the cold. Once is happenstance, twice a coincidence, but three times? I get the feeling that whoever wins immunity from state and federal charges is gonna be the lucky one.
296 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:21:23am |
re: #293 sattv4u2
I’m surprised the turnout wasn’t much higher. With all the changes and recent events I expected upwards of 50 percent
Me too but even the last election only got 32% turnout. I don’t know why turnout in these elections is so low but maybe it’s the boycotts and public skepticism of the parties (military/Muslim Bros).
297 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:24:59am |
298 | Varek Raith Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:25:30am |
re: #267 Justanotherhuman
WTF? Yeah, you’ve got no privacy. None at all.
OfficeMax Sends Letter to “Daughter Killed in Car Crash”
Source: nbcchicago.com
Office Max blamed it on “third party mailing lists”.
What in the fuck.
299 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:25:56am |
re: #296 Killgore Trout
Me too but even the last election only got 32% turnout. I don’t know why turnout in these elections is so low but maybe it’s the boycotts and public skepticism of the parties (military/Muslim Bros).
But thats the point! The MB was “boycotting” this one, so you would think those pro-military would come out in huge numbers
300 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:30:37am |
re: #297 Killgore Trout
Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords
Hence the spike in Verizons, Comcast (et al) stock the next day(s)
301 | BeenHereAwhile Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:32:03am |
302 | Lidane Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:33:16am |
re: #300 sattv4u2
Hence the spike in Verizons, Comcast (et al) stock the next day(s)
And the corresponding loss in Netflix stock.
303 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:35:20am |
re: #300 sattv4u2
Hence the spike in Verizons, Comcast (et al) stock the next day(s)
I’ve also noticed a severe slowdown in some of the streaming video sites for me recently. Some of them are almost useless now.
304 | Lidane Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:36:36am |
re: #303 Killgore Trout
I’ve also noticed a severe slowdown in some of the streaming video sites for me recently. Some of them are almost useless now.
No shit. What did you think a ruling pushing back against Net Neutrality would do?
305 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:38:46am |
re: #303 Killgore Trout
I’ve also noticed a severe slowdown in some of the streaming video sites for me recently. Some of them are almost useless now.
Capacity issues
My company is constantly upgrading equipment out in the field to handle higher and higher demands for both capacity and speed. As soon as all the “old” stuff is replaced by the “new” equipment , THAT stuff is almost obsolete for the demand and has to be re-replaced
306 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:38:49am |
The box stops here. pic.twitter.com/MDDG42iBsn
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 18, 2014
307 | Uncle Obdicut Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:40:29am |
re: #297 Killgore Trout
Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords
The ruling affirmed the FCC’s right to determine net neutrality, and even offered a number of paths for them to do it. People are freaking out way too early.
308 | ObserverArt Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:48:00am |
re: #270 Dark_Falcon
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You know why it is so easy Dark? Christie is writing the ads on his own. His type of character and the bluster that goes with it will continue to write them.
I think many in the GOP realize it, which is why you are seeing even the latest Presidential loser group distancing themselves from him. Chris Christie seems to not be liked by his own party. The Tea Party types do not like him. So, where the heck is he going to draw support, they already seem to be cutting him at the knees?
Right now RNC PRBS is trying to let the GOP hopeful down easy because only a month ago he was seen as the man of the future. Pretty hard to see that future while the present is in flames. If he is doing anything at all, Priebus is just trying to mitigate the bleeding by applying lipstick.
309 | Uncle Obdicut Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:51:11am |
Here’s from the DC courts ruling:
the Commission, we further hold, has reasonably interpreted section 706 to empower it to promulgate rules governing broadband providers treatment of Internet traffic
In other words: The FCC can enforce net neutrality.
Because the Commission has failed to establish that the anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules do not impose per se common carrier obligations, we vacate those portions of the Open Internet Order.
However, since ISPs are not common carriers, that order isn’t valid.
At oral argument, however, Commission counsel asserted that ‘it’s not common carriage to simply have a basic level of required service if you can negotiate different levels with different people.’ … Viewed this way, the relevant “carriage” broadband providers furnish might be access to end users more generally, not the minimum required service. In delivering this service, so defined, the anti-blocking rules would permit broadband providers to distinguish somewhat among edge providers, just as Commission counsel contended at oral argument. … Whatever the merits of this view, the Commission advanced nothing like it either in the underlying Order or in its briefs before this court.
And the court says “This is a better argument, so use it next time and we’ll rule in favor of you.”
They even cite other cases (cell phones) where they already accepted this argument.
Edit: That original hyperbolic article notes this in one sentence:
The court did leave it up to the FCC or Congress to refashion a net neutrality regime.
310 | Romantic Heretic Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:55:28am |
re: #297 Killgore Trout
Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords
What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.
311 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:57:47am |
re: #310 Romantic Heretic
What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.
Yeah, that looks like the business model the companies are working towards.
312 | Uncle Obdicut Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:58:24am |
re: #310 Romantic Heretic
What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.
Please read my post above. The hysterical freakout about this is incredibly premature.
313 | Ryan King Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:59:37am |
re: #312 Uncle Obdicut
Please read my post above. The hysterical freakout about this is incredibly premature.
Hysterical Freakouts are very Merican.
314 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:59:53am |
re: #310 Romantic Heretic
What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.
prOn,,,,,, where’s the prOn !?!!?!
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315 | Eclectic Cyborg Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:02:04am |
re: #297 Killgore Trout
Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords
Does this mean Republican and right leaning websites are going to load faster than left leaning sites? Will LGF be crippled?
Half /
317 | jaunte Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:04:44am |
Hysterical Freakouts (also available for $5 additional to your monthly access fee).
318 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:05:46am |
re: #317 jaunte
Hysterical Freakouts (also available for $5 additional to your monthly access fee).
PREMIUM NAKED Hysterical Freakouts for $10 more !!!
319 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:06:53am |
320 | thedopefishlives Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:07:02am |
I’ve returned from snowblowing out our driveway. Apparently, fish country received a surprise snowstorm overnight. Seems we’re in the clear for now, but we’re due to receive some extreme cold (again) this week. Seems we can’t buy a break around these parts.
321 | Justanotherhuman Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:09:04am |
re: #307 Uncle Obdicut
First world problems. Some of the following is, because it affects the west, too, but it could get much, much worse and make “net neutrality” look like a stroll in the park.
Extreme Weather Wreaking Havoc on Food as Farmers Suffer
We seldom eat beef anymore, because it’s gotten so expensive, even ground beef. I look for pkgs marked down (usually expires the next day) and throw it in the freezer. Instead, we use ground pork for tacos (I eat bean burritos), and ground turkey burgers, ground turkey in chili, and so on. Meat loaf, formerly a frugal dish made w/beef, is now a luxury, and I combine it w/ground pork when I find beef on sale. I don’t eat mammals of any sort, but others do, they don’t mind if it’s not on the menu, though. What I don’t want to do without are vegetables and fruits and even those are getting pretty dear, as well, so most non-salad veggies are bought frozen or dried beans are used with leftovers thrown into chili or a casserole. I’m not a “purist” cook by any means; canned tomatoes are fine for most cooked dishes and I use a lot of canned tomato products to make red sauces.
There’s a lot of math involved in menu planning, considering nutrition and prices and keeping within your food budget, yet having variety. Not much room for experimenting with unknown dishes or exotic herbs and spices, or buying something people aren’t going to eat and it winding up in the trash.
Or I could just buy bags of Cheetos, I suppose, which really is expensive junk. ///
322 | Uncle Obdicut Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:09:20am |
A subsidiary effect of this ruling is that, if the providers did go to the lengths of carving up some ridiculous palette of ‘channels’ that you could buy, when the FCC offers the new formal argument it previously only offered in oral argument, those plans will be unenforceable junk.
323 | ObserverArt Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:09:25am |
re: #312 Uncle Obdicut
Please read my post above. The hysterical freakout about this is incredibly premature.
Hysterical freakout is all the rage these days.
Two things still control all things in entertainment. Customers and technology. If Comcast and Verizon are seen as getting too big for their britches, both the public and new technology can bring change.
Big things fall hard too.
By the way, a few years ago there was a fear that Facebook would take a big part of the ‘net as far as social meeting places and how they could be the place you’d have to go to get to other places on the ‘net. Now it is known that the younger demo is moving away and the older folks are their big market. How is a future built on that?
Kodak dominated a market in America for many a year. Where are they now?
324 | thedopefishlives Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:10:07am |
re: #309 Uncle Obdicut
Here’s from the DC courts ruling:
In other words: The FCC can enforce net neutrality.
However, since ISPs are not common carriers, that order isn’t valid.
And the court says “This is a better argument, so use it next time and we’ll rule in favor of you.”
They even cite other cases (cell phones) where they already accepted this argument.
Edit: That original hyperbolic article notes this in one sentence:
I love net neutrality as much as the next guy, but hyperventilating about every little perceived “setback” in the process is not helping our cause any. It’s one thing I don’t like about the EFF, Stallman, and their ilk. Keep the arguments sane and logical, and people might just take them seriously.
325 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:13:49am |
re: #323 ObserverArt
Kodak dominated a market in America for many a year. Where are they now?
They’re doing okay. True, they don’t dominate the way they once did, but they (unlike some others) have evolved. From scanners/ printers to photo kiosks, their still a market player
326 | PhillyPretzel Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:15:52am |
Net Neutrality clarified from The Wall Street Journal. blogs.wsj.com
327 | ObserverArt Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:20:05am |
re: #325 sattv4u2
Kodak dominated a market in America for many a year. Where are they now?
They’re doing okay. True, they don’t dominate the way they once did, but they (unlike some others) have evolved. From scanners/ printers to photo kiosks, their still a market player
But you must admit, they were forced to make changes by the market (customers) and the technology (they no longer make film and all the things like chemicals and photo paper) which is the point.
328 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:21:56am |
re: #326 PhillyPretzel
Net Neutrality clarified from The Wall Street Journal. blogs.wsj.com
Excellent link, much thanks.
329 | Uncle Obdicut Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:24:40am |
re: #326 PhillyPretzel
Net Neutrality clarified from The Wall Street Journal. blogs.wsj.com
Yeah, that’s basically what I said. Surprised to see the WSJ actually having a solid article. Must be a full moon.
330 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:25:17am |
re: #327 ObserverArt
But you must admit, they were forced to make changes by the market (customers) and the technology (they no longer make film and all the things like chemicals and photo paper) which is the point.
But that goes with just about everything
My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that made buggy whips
Not too many of either around nowadways
331 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:28:43am |
re: #330 sattv4u2
But that goes with just about everything
My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that mad buggy whipsNot too many of either around nowadways
That’s just because the Cobble-Buggy Industrial Complex was defeated!
332 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:29:16am |
re: #331 Killgore Trout
That’s just because the Cobble-Buggy Industrial Complex was defeated!
I’m sure the Koch brothers are behind it
333 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:30:22am |
334 | Decatur Deb Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:31:52am |
re: #330 sattv4u2
But that goes with just about everything
My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that made buggy whipsNot too many of either around nowadways
Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?
335 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:32:12am |
re: #333 sattv4u2
Or was that OSB
(Occupy Shoes and Barns)I’m so confussled !!!
The only thing we can be certain of is people powered grass roots activism always wins.
336 | thedopefishlives Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:32:41am |
re: #334 Decatur Deb
Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?
…Maybe…
337 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:34:13am |
re: #334 Decatur Deb
Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?
Gimp Suits R Us has some good deals.
338 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:39:45am |
re: #334 Decatur Deb
Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?
HEY ,,,,, what I do in the privacy of my own bedroom ,,,,,,,,,,,,
339 | thedopefishlives Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:40:51am |
re: #338 sattv4u2
HEY ,,,,, what I do in the privacy of my own bedroom ,,,,,,,,,,,,
Fun fact: Being raised in a right-wing religious bubble can sometimes bring out some … interesting sexual fetishes. Just sayin’.
340 | blueraven Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:41:40am |
re: #335 Killgore Trout
The only thing we can be certain of is people powered grass roots activism always wins.
Speaking of activism…Mark Levin is calling for the GOP to boycott the State of The Union.
341 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:42:00am |
And on that note,,,,,
from scratch sauce is simmering on the stove
meatballs made and added
Too cold to golf,,, SO,,,, off on a Honey Do errand
342 | sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:44:21am |
re: #339 thedopefishlives
Fun fact: Being raised in a right-wing religious bubble can sometimes bring out some … interesting sexual fetishes. Just sayin’.
I have found in my decades on this planet that is not limited in any way shape or form to right-wing religious bubble-ists
343 | piratedan Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:45:24am |
re: #340 blueraven
Speaking of activism…Mark Levin is calling for the GOP to boycott the State of The Union.
works for me, they’ve already pretty much abdicated any responsibility for doing their jobs as Congressmen and Senators….
344 | Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:46:50am |
re: #340 blueraven
Speaking of activism…Mark Levin is calling for the GOP to boycott the State of The Union.
I’ll just add that to the pile of “things that ain’t gonna happen”.
345 | thedopefishlives Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:48:49am |
re: #342 sattv4u2
I have found in my decades on this planet that is not limited in any way shape or form to right-wing religious bubble-ists
Oh, of course not. Not that I was trying to say as much.
346 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:50:53am |
re: #341 sattv4u2
And on that note,,,,,
from scratch sauce is simmering on the stove
meatballs made and added
Too cold to golf,,, SO,,,, off on a Honey Do errand
Fixing salmon with kiwi and homemade mandarin orange/cranberry sauce, baked in parchment. Wild and long grain rice along with seasoned green beans for sides.
House should start smelling really good in a short while…
347 | blueraven Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:54:42am |
re: #344 Killgore Trout
I’ll just add that to the pile of “things that ain’t gonna happen”.
Probably not wholesale, but I wouldn’t doubt there are some tea party types who would gladly follow his plan. Or perhaps one of them could just shout out “You Lie”, or something equally as embarrassing to the party.
348 | Joanne Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:05:05am |
re: #283 Justanotherhuman
Does anyone really watch this shit?
Too many people. People who apparently believe that true love and eternal devotion comes from a 16 week reality competition. And we thought Princess fantasies were bad.
349 | Joanne Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:06:35am |
re: #286 sattv4u2
My guess. It’s a “plant” interview to gin up ratings for the coming season.
Like American Idol, or Dancing With The Stars, these shows have (basically) run their courses. Thats why you see “NEW” judges on Idol and DWTS tries to have at least one current controversial “star” as a “contestant
I love American Idol. That talented kids have a chance to change their lives by having a platform they never would have otherwise…well, it makes me smile.
And Harry Connick Jr. is HOTHOTHOT!
350 | Joanne Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:07:36am |
re: #294 Lidane
Haha. The newly adopted Younger Feline Overlord is enraptured by the show Too Cute on Animal Planet. She’d been running around playing when I put the show on to see how she’d react. She immediately stopped playing and is sitting quietly in front of the TV, even through the commercials.
I know her off switch. Heh.
I used to have a dog who loved Animal Planet. She would watch it during the shows and then ignore the commercials. She cracked me up.
351 | ObserverArt Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:15:18am |
re: #330 sattv4u2
But that goes with just about everything
My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that made buggy whipsNot too many of either around nowadways
Oh, I agree. By the way…got any dogs in this hunt?
352 | Single-handed sailor Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:17:14am |
re: #350 Joanne
I used to have a dog who loved Animal Planet. She would watch it during the shows and then ignore the commercials. She cracked me up.
My previous dog chased animals on our rear projection TV. He seemed to have a particularly violent reaction to sharks and attacked the TV so hard it cracked the screen. That poor TV screen had scratches all over it. I had to block animal planet because just flipping across the channel would cause the dog to attack the TV.